Sunday, March 26, 2006

The Biggest Myth in the Language Learning Process . . .

is that you will learn the language just by being in that country. This is so wrong!!! I will say the best way to learn a language is by living in that particular country, but by no means does that mean it will just come. No my friend, please do not fall into the trap of believing that. It takes work, a lot of work!!!I could live in this country with minimal language skills and never speak the language fluently. So, here is my advice . . . if you are going to be living overseas, learning a new language, be prepared to STUDY and be humbled beyond what you ever thought possible.

3 comments:

MathenyFamily said...

preach it sister! when are you coming to see your family in moscow? it is now up to a balmy 20 degrees. we miss you.

Tim said...

quit yo' complainin'.

timmy

Tim said...

CONGRATS!!!

it has now been a full month since you last blog post! i have been counting down the days for a week now in eager anticipation of telling you how lame this is! wow... you're an inspiration sister. i was thinking about doing that with my blog... how do you do it? do you just pretend it doesn't exist or do you purposefully and willingly ignore it... or is it that you really did forget that you have a blog?

answer this comment with a... oh i dunno... a blog post perhaps?

har har,
timmy