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The desire to learn Hard to learn what you don’t really want to know. Learning a foreign language is a long difficult journey. It really takes a lifetime.
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Pimsleur Recordings These are great < 30 minute daily practices that you can do on your daily commute. (If you don’t mind talking to yourself in a foreign language) Also gives you a taste, comfort, and feel for a language.
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Immersion Nothing is better than living in a place where you have to use a language to live life.
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Apps Lots of great apps out there. I’ve used Du Chinese, Memrise, Pleco, and Drops. Use whatever works for you.
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Human Dictionary My Dad always said to find a “long haired dictionary”. Find a friend (any hair style) native in the language you want to speak. It’s always great when there is a specific activity. (Board game, sport, etc.) That way the vocabulary is more focused.
