HOW TO LEARN A NEW LANGUAGE

Have you ever felt scared? Everybody has. It doesn't matter how old we are, we are afraid to do something. I felt the same way when I was trying to write this entry. Why? Because, as you noticed, English is not my native tongue. But why do I want to write in another language? Sometime ago I heard a phrase: "If you want to get something new, you have to do something new", and that's why I'm doing this. I want to learn how to learn a language in a faster way.
Some months ago I saw some videos to improve the way to learn a language, my writing, my speaking, my listening was too bad, but I tried to do some things I heard could help me to learn a language faster, and I feel better, I think my English has been improved. I'm happy for that reason, and now I want to share with others what helped me. I'm not a teacher, I'm a student, but I decided to learn from people who learn languages in an amazing way. They are called polyglots.

I remember the day I saw the following video, It was so amazing, and I understood that if learn a language could be easy, they (polyglots), could have the key to learn any language you would like to learn.

After that, I began to look for more about polyglots, because I wanted to know the secret to learn a language faster than I was doing. I found another video about it. That video helped me a lot, because I understood that if someone want to learn a language, it is necessary to practice a lot, it is not an issue to study, it is an issue to live every single day.

I found that it is necessary to feel the language, because when you speak in your own language, it is an automatic process that occur in your mind, and for that reason it is necesary to convert a conscious process in an unconscious process, the same way we had to do when we were learning to read. An amazing example: a young man who speaks over 20 languages.

There are a lot of keys to learn to achieve our goal: "learn a new language". This is the purpose of this blog: "Learn from the giants", I mean polyglots.
Also you can find more information about polyglots on internet. I want to show you some links to learn more about them.
http://www.fluentin3months.com/how-to-become-a-polyglot/

http://www.babbel.com/magazine/polyglot-game

http://www.thepolyglotdream.com/

I hope this entry would be helpful to you. 

TECNICAS PARA APRENDER UN IDIOMA

Aprender un idioma requiere cierto esfuerzo, para algunos un esfuerzo extremo, para otros no tanto asi, pero el caso es que introducir en nuestra mente palabras completamente ajenas a nuestro entendimiento no es una tarea facil. ¿Que hacer a fin de convertir una labor sumamente importante en un trabajo mas facil y placentero?
Una ejemplo que nos ayudara es hacer una comparacion, colocar un ejemplo que nos ayude a comprender que podría ayudarnos a agilizar el aprendizaje de un nuevo idioma. El ejemplo es el siguiente:
Si necesitaramos realizar una excavacion, puede ser pequeña o grande: ¿lo hariamos solo con nuestras manos? obviamente no, buscariamos una herramienta, este seria un instrumento muy apropiado para agilizar nuestro trabajo. De hecho buscando por internet una definición para esta palabra pude encontrar:

"Del latín ferramenta, una herramienta es un instrumento que permite realizar ciertos trabajos. Estos objetos fueron diseñados para facilitar la realización de una tarea mecánica que requiere del uso de una cierta fuerza"

Y partiendo de esta idea en mente podemos decir que tambien existen herramientas para el aprendizaje de un idioma. Uno de ellos es lo que conocemos como mnemotecnia. Citando de Wikipedia tenemos su definicion:

"La mnemotecnia o nemotecnia es una técnica de memorización basada en la asociación mental de la información a memorizar con datos que ya sean parte de nuestra memoria. Esta técnica aprovecha la capacidad natural que tiene nuestro cerebro para recordar imágenes y para prestarle más atención a los sucesos poco comunes o extraordinarios." 
Obviamente no es el unico metodo, tambien existen otros parecidos y relacionados:

• Metodo de Loci
• Palacio de la memoria
• Mapas mentales
• Aprendizaje por medio de canciones
• Asociacion de imagenes

Agrego un video que trata de mostrar como funciona estas herramientas

Espero esta informacion te haya sido de utilidad estimado lector, posteriormente realizare mas modificaciones a esta entrada a fin de que sea mas completa y util para el aprendizaje de idiomas.
No olvides que estas cordialmente invitado a expresar tus comentarios.