5 Tips to Kickstart your Language Learning

Learning a language can be lots of fun — here is how

I bet there is at least one foreign language that you wanted to lear at some point in your life.

Be it at school, be it to impress a romantic interest or to facilitate travel in a foreign country.

The left pigeon learned French to get laid in front of the Eiffel tower. Photo by Fabrizio Verrecchia on Unsplash

I am also pretty sure that learning that language didn’t work out too well. If it did — kudos to you. If it didn’t, welcome to the club. You’re probably stuck with millions and millions on a somewhat unsatisfactory level that doesn’t get you much farther than saying “gracias” or “merci” or “danke” when eating out at a foreign restaurant.

I don’t care to count how many people I have talked to that told me they had learned a language in school for years and forgotten everything besides the first ten numbers and one or two funny insults they got from other travellers.

I had a very similar experience in my “career” as a French learner.

I studied it in school for five years, but dropped it the second I could because the lessons were bad and I felt that I had learned almost nothing. Which, coincidentally, really seemed true whenever I found myself in a situation in which I needed to speak French.