Getting Languages Easier to Learn. The Least Efforts & Best Wishes. Artyom Chelpachenko

to printed materials are helpful in this. Those Soviet times have passed when people managed to learn a language without audio materials. Lingaphone courses were not available to everyone, foreigners were impossible to meet, and it was almost impossible to hear live foreign speech. Today, thankfully, there are no borders of communication and traveling around the world, which makes mastering a live foreign language a simpler and more exciting experience.

      Let’s dive back into our childhood and remember how we learned to speak. After all, at the age of five, not everyone can read and write, but they can speak! It appears that you can learn to speak faster than to read and write! Take a 5-year-old child as an example and think about how he or she managed to learn to speak. It’s very simple. The child copied words and intonations from the parents’ speech – «mom», «dad», «can», «cannot», of course, perceiving these words by hearing. The child learned not only new sounds, and words, but also intonations, thanks to which, even without knowing the meaning of words, he could understand whether his parents asked him a question, whether they condemned his behavior, etc. You should not forget about such a God-given gift as hearing, especially when learning a language because it can be of great benefit to you! Let’s take an example from children just for once! Let’s try to repeat after the presenter, as if we were children, repeating everything after our parents, copying intonation, and melody, and of course, respecting the peculiarities of foreign language pronunciation.

      Summarizing this section, I would like to recall the Russian proverb «No pains no gains». No matter how much you would like to follow the path of less resistance, even if you «learn» the language by grammar, you will still have to «learn» vocabulary and words. Especially if your goal is to master speaking, try to learn as many lexical units as possible, be it words, common phrases and clichés, dialogues and thematic texts, and even boring examples of grammar rules. The main thing is not to be lazy, to treat the lessons with ease and relaxation, and not to forget to use sound materials in lessons. We will talk about the main techniques of language learning in the second chapter. I hope I have answered the question of why they say «study math» or «study physics» BUT «learn a language