Have all your prior efforts to learn a foreign language gone in vain? Are you looking for a unique approach to learning a new language? Perhaps, what's missing is learning a foreign language through brilliant and effective memory tricks. Fluent Forever offers fun and engaging memorization techniques to help you remember new words and recall them with better accuracy.
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (2014) by Gabriel Wyner reveals secrets of how to learn a foreign language swiftly and effectively. Gabriel integrates concepts of neuroscience and linguistics to get the most out of your memory. The book offers fun and engaging techniques to improve your memory and attain language fluency in no time.
Fluent Forever presents step-by-step tips to navigate through different elements of language learning - sound, pronunciation, vocab and grammar! Gabriel Wyner is a polyglot and has mastered the techniques of language learning - being a proficient academician with multiple degrees in engineering, opera and vocal arts.
Using these tips Gabriel learnt German in 14 weeks! And you can as well. Let’s find out how.
Summary
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It (2014) by Gabriel Wyner is a unique and effective guide to language learning. The book deconstructs the foreign language learning process and equips a learner with effective techniques for quick memorization: correlating a word with an image, personalisation of words and sentences, listening attentively to the rhythms and sounds of a new language, and so on. The book comes up with fun, engaging and neuroscience-backed techniques to improve your memory and quicken the pace of language fluency for the learner.
Connections to images and personal anecdotes will make new word learning a breeze.
Learning a new language is fun at first. But if too many words come into play the chaos sets in. The main problem in learning a new language is memorising new words. You might remember a word briefly and soon forget it. Fortunately, we have tips to make the new words stick to the memory for a long time. A new word will only stick to the memory if one creates a relevant connection in the brain while learning it....
Memory works better with the act of recalling.
Cramming all the facts and theories just before an exam is common. We all have done it and have even aced our tests sometimes! While crammed rote learning is valuable to score well on a test, it does not guarantee long-term learning of the facts and new vocabulary. You must have noticed this when you learn a list of difficult new words but fail to recall it by next week. Most foreign language learners face this issue. Hermann Ebbinghaus, a...
Master sounds and pronunciation of a new language by attentive listening.
Notice how easily a child picks up and learns new foreign language words as compared to an adult. What's the difference? The difference lies in the manner in which both approach the learning process. A child remembers a new word by listening carefully while an adult will focus on studying. Listening carefully helps in learning new words and even grammatical structures. It is also more engaging and fun than going over boring grammar rule books. A study was conducted at...
Learn like a kid does!
A human's language learning ability is one of a kind across the animal kingdom. Our juggernaut of a brain comes with an inbuilt and intelligent software- a Language Machine. Just reminisce about how you learnt your native language as a kid - picking up a few words from here and a few phrases from there. As kids, we learn by observation and imitation. In fact, we learn a second language as an adult just as we learn our native language...
Increase your long-term vocab by playing word games.
Learning sounds do make memorization easier. But you'll need to retain the memory of sounds after you perfect the sound system.Playing word games can help with the same. A good pick is the Spot the Difference game. All you require is Google images and you can start enhancing your vocab. Just write any word and you find associated pictures on Google. A picture on Google might point out one or two meanings of a word. Often, it shows all the...
Don’t use translations
Do you know that word-to-word translation is never a good idea when you wish to learn a new language? While it is tempting to translate every word into one's first language, it is not the correct approach if you want to fasten your language acquisitionThe use of monolingual dictionaries is a better way to learn a new language. If you're learning French, look for the French word meaning in a French language dictionary only. While you are looking for the...
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About the Author
Gabe Wyner, founder and CEO of Fluent Forever, is a best-selling author, opera singer and polyglot based in Chicago, IL.
Five years of high-school language classes taught Gabe one thing: he would never master another language. But he was determined to change his fate in a remarkable way.
Born in Los Angeles, Gabe graduated summa cum laude in 2007 from the University of Southern California with dual degrees in Mechanical Engineering and Vocal Arts Performance. After he was awarded the Renaissance Scholar’s prize for excellence in unrelated disciplines, he moved to Vienna to pursue triple Master’s degrees in Opera, Lieder, and Voice at the Konservatorium Wien, graduating with honors in 2011.
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