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Monday, March 2nd, 2009

Some rules you must abide by: You must never ponder and delay if you want to attend foreign language courses as they are not like any other courses. Any postponement is deemed as a failure in a foreign language course where you need to devote a minimum of 15 minutes a day for a minimum of 3 hours a week. Devote any additional time in pursuing your language lessons but not more than 45 minutes per session.

Foreign Language

Distribute your whole study into small units. Class Attendance is mandatory and necessary in order to pass the course particularly if you are serious about learning the language. Recapitulate your previous learning on a regular basis as this is good for you, for instance the vocabulary. Below are some suggestions to make the different parts of learning a foreign language easier and more successful.

Check out only such words which can not be guessed even by your widest imagination. Glance through the text book chapters every day taking one small section at a time.

Start expressing: Do not feel shy of mistakes, simply listen to others and start to communicate yourself. Practice the foreign language by talking loudly to yourself, or communicating with your friends in the same class or even with your own dog or cat at home.

Putting it down on paper: Practice your writing skills every day until they become more natural.

Take a dictation of a small portion of the language from a friend and then check it for correctness.

Some Miscellaneous Helps: View the foreign language learning positively and set achievable goals. Know what you are going to get from your studies and how to get them.
1.If you need help get it and do not be afraid to ask questions or ask for help for fear of sounding stupid, or being embarrassed.Do not feel shy or embarrassed to seek help when you want it.
2.Get audio tapes of the language and listen to them or make you own tapes and listened to yourself in order to perfect your pronunciation.
3.Make colored flash cards which help you to grow vocabulary where different colors are used to convey genders and words like nouns, verbs and adjectives, etc.
4.If you practice studying in groups, you can make good friends with your classmates which would be eager to help you out.