126 reading Reading is super important because you make a mental connection between how words appear and how they sound. If you can listen to an audiobook and read it at the same time or read a radio transcription and listen to it simultaneously, you are speeding up your processing of what you are reading. MOST EFFECTIVE LEARNING LANGUAGES METHOD IS: Learning with music! METHOD THAT I DO NOT RECOMMEND: Only reading grammar books are super boring. Some people do excel this way but I find it tedious and far removed from the fun parts of the language: the culture! RECOMMENDED LANGUAGE LEARNING TOOLS: Media, apps, online courses: I don’t recommend any specific courses. You have to find media that you like! Books, magazines: Language is Music. Blogs, youtube channels, portals: Find Sesame Street programs in various languages online and learn a new language like a kid with songs! Radio, tv, music: Directory of Radio Stations by Regions of the World: dir.yahoo.com/News_and_Media/Radio/By_Region, radiostationworld.com Directory of Radio Stations by Language/Ethnic Group: worldtvradio.com/php/radio_channel_language_lineup.php Directory of Radio Stations by Country: worldtvradio.com/php/radio_channel_country_lineup.php MY LANGUAGE „NIGHTMARE”… The guttural sounds in Arabic. Make sure you are having fun otherwise it gets boring and you may give up! More at Susanna’s blog >>>
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