Picture Dictionary & Books : Free for English Learner!

And finally, if you want to learn a language fluently, you need also a bit of patience.

It's not possible to learn a language within two months, but it's definitely possible to make a visible improvement in two months, if you learn in small chunks every day in a way that you enjoy.

And there is nothing that motivates us more than our own success.

I vividly remember the moment when I understood the first joke in German when watching "Friends."

I was so happy and motivated that I just kept on watching that day two more episodes, and as I kept watching, I had more and more of those moments of understanding, these little victories, and step by step, I got to a level where I could use the language freely and fluently to express anything.

This is a wonderful feeling.

I can't get enough of that feeling, and that's why I learn a language every two years.

So this is the whole polyglot secret.

Find effective methods which you can use systematically over the period of some time in a way which you enjoy, and this is how polyglots learn languages within months, not years.

Now, some of you may be thinking, "That's all very nice to enjoy language learning, but isn't the real secret that you polyglots are just super talented and most of us aren't?"

Well, there's one thing I haven't told you about Benny and Lucas.

Benny had 11 years of Irish Gaelic and five years of German at school.

He couldn't speak them at all when graduating.

Up to the age of 21, he thought he didn't have the language gene and he could not speak another language.

Then he started to look for his way of learning languages, which was speaking to native speakers and getting feedback from them, and today Benny can easily have a conversation in 10 languages.

Lucas tried to learn English at school for 10 years.

He was one of the worst students in class.

His friends even made fun of him and gave him a Russian textbook as a joke because they thought he would never learn that language, or any language.

And then Lucas started to experiment with methods, looking for his own way to learn, for example, by having Skype chat conversations with strangers.

And after just 10 years, Lucas is able to speak 11 languages fluently.

Does that sound like a miracle? Well, I see such miracles every single day.

Table of Contents