It may have been spelled ekorn, but it was pronounced acorn. It started for me when I learned that the Norwegian word for “squirrel” was acorn. You and the method laid out in this book, working together, will erase reason 2. It’s a fact, a shameful, culturally impoverishing, economically dangerous, self defeating fact! Modern commerce and communications have erased reason 1. “I took two years of high school French and four more years in college and I couldn’t even order orange juice in Marseilles” is more than a self effacing exaggeration. Almost all foreign language instruction available to the average American has been until now (one hates to be cruel) worthless. We’ve never really had to learn other peoples’ languages before, and 2. The reason Americans have been such notoriously poor language learners up to now is twofold: 1.
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How to Learn Any Language Introduction This may be the most frequently told joke in the world – it’s repeated every day in almost every language: “What do you call a person who speaks two languages?” “Bilingual.” “What do you call a person who speaks three languages?” “Trilingual.” “What do you call a person who speaks four languages?” “Quadrilingual.” “What do you call a person who speaks only one language?” “An American!” With your help this book can wipe that smile off the world’s face. I further wish to thank all my fellow language lovers from around the world who interrupted their conversations at practice parties of the Language Club to serve as willing guinea pigs for my questions and experimentations in their native languages.
Hans Weber, was supremely helpful in safeguarding against error. Henry Urbanski, Founder and Head of the New Paltz Language Immersion Institute, was good enough to review key portions of the manuscript and offer toweringly helpful amendments. I further thank my publisher, Steven Schragis, for venturing into publishing territory heretofore officially listed as “uninteresting”.
How to Learn Any Language Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and On Your Own by Barry Farber Founder of the Language Club/Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host To Bibi and Celia, for the pleasure of helping teach them their first language, followed by the pleasure of having them then teach me their second! Contents Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: My Story A Life of Language Learning Part II: The System Do As I Now Say, Not As I Then Did Psych Up French or Tagalog: Choosing a Language Gathering Your Tools The Multiple Track Attack Hidden Moments Harry Lorayne’s Magic Memory Aid The Plunge Motivations Language Power to the People Back to Basics Last Words Before the Wedding Part III: Appendices The Language Club The Principal Languages of the World Farber’s Language Reviews Acknowledgements I want to thank my editor, Bruce Shostak, without whose skill and patience much of this book would have been intelligible only to others who’ve had a blinding passion for foreign languages since 1944.
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