What shall we NOT do for learning a foreign language online?

We all dream of fluent speaking a foreign language. But what can we do to make our learning a foreign language online easy, pleasant and more effective? Here are some advices of what we have NOT to do to learn a foreign language.

1. Don’t trust advertising. If you are eager to learn a foreign language you shouldn’t look for prestigious and expensive language courses at once. Try to find something that you really need. Think about the method of learning which best suits you and your needs. Would you like to communicate with a native speaker? What can be an appropriate schedule for your study? What language school do you want to study at? So, you should pay special attention to these things.

2. Go beyond standard methods. Language school is not the only and not the best way for language learning. There are also professional developed and effective learning a foreign language online courses – you can use them by yourself and at any time and speed you want. These methods are based on that diligence and large amount of independent work are more important than a teacher and a language school. If you understand that namely you learn a foreign language in any case and are ready to control your learning, such methods are more apt to you than any standard ones.

3. Don’t neglect language homework and exercises. The most important thing in any case is training. We should regularly repeat the material which has been learnt before. No matter whether you study at a language school or learn a foreign language by yourself – it’s necessary to do language exercises on grammar and spoken language testing yourself and correcting mistakes. Eventually you’ll have fewer and fewer mistakes and you’ll make no doubt in your language experience.  

4. Don’t forget about spoken language. Many of those who start learning a foreign language online concentrate all their efforts on grammar rules. But is grammar the goal of language learning? If you want to be able to speak a foreign language you should pay appropriate attention to this issue. Train pronunciation – there are many movies and audio files that can help you. Besides, try to train foreign speech and vocabulary – it’s rather useful to talk to native speakers via skype, etc. and note their way of speech features. So, one day you’ll start talking. It’s much better than just to know all grammar rules in theory but not to be able to speak.

5. Don’t hesitate to make language mistakes and feel free to use your pronunciation. Keep in mind that this is not your language and it’s normally to make mistakes sometimes. Instead of thinking about your language learning failure you’d better talk to native speakers, express your thoughts and learn to understand and to be understood. Feel sure of yourself and everything will be OK.

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