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Originally Posted by Obadiah Loombucket  It's not a must if your first language is English, but it's certainly desirable to be able to speak another language or two reasonably fluently. I wish I did - I've got a smattering of French, but that's all. I'd love to speak other languages, including the classical ones - Latin and Greek - , but learning them is such a pain. The trouble is that language-learning inevitably involves a lot of rote-learning. I'm afraid that foreign languages are a mental black hole as far as I'm concerned - which is odd, considering that English is my forte: my degree is in Eng. Lit.
Is there a relatively painless way of learning, or improving one's knowledge of, a foreign language? |
Yes, there is. I have been learning and teaching English for more than forty years. It's a great pleasure for me to study any foreign language. The main reason of my success is that I can't imagine my life without learning a few foreign words each day of my life. Of course I don't keep them in my mind. whenever I come across them while reading I remember them. There are a lot of pleasurable ways of learning languages.
