Структура

0. Частина життя
1. Conditions of learning
   1. Goal
   2. Time
   3. Money, and personal moments…
      
2. What makes language a language
3. Resources for learning, which ones to choose
4. Activities: beginner and intermediate
5. How to progress with routine
6. Summary
7. Sources that were used and sources that are helpful

Частина життя

Вивчення мови є різним для всіх людей. Це цінний навик, який відкриває багато можливостей у світовій комунікації. Деякі люди мають хороший досвід занурення в нову мову, а інші — ні. Деякі мають ресурси та умови, а інші, на жаль, їх не мають. Ця стаття присвячена обговоренню питань вивчення мови в цілому та самостійного вивчення. Вона стосується того, що необхідно знати або що може бути корисно знати.

Вивичення мови це частина відкриття світу нової інформації та можливостей. Різні шляхи і вибір. Але перед початком навчання повинні бути фактори, які впливають на вас.

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Which factors to consider before learning language?

1. Your goal to learn!
2. Time you are ready to spent
3. Money you are ready to spent
4. Personal moments

What is your goal to learn?

Sadly, many people from Ukraine learn foreign languages to flee the war.

You should consider your goal to know language when staying at other country

• Just to talk to authorities or ask questions for basic needs, if it is temporary like a tourist or refugee
• To talk about simple topics with others, to talk working simple job, pass language exam, just to comfortably live for prolonged period
• To master advanced level to enroll in university Consider what would be would be best for you, and what would be enough for you.

How much time would you sacrifice to learn it? What is your time to learn?

Do you have a lot of time to learn it?

• There is a specific deadline to learn it
• There is a lot of time to do it, and it doesn’t have specific end date

Regularly, spontaneously, long hours, short periods… Your schedule should allow you to be comfortable or you should rearrange your priorities.

How much money are you ready to spend?

Is your budget tight or it covers your needs freely?

• Budget is tight
• Budget can cover some things
• Budget that is unlimited, covers everything you wish

Personal moments

About personal moments, that may sound indifferent. Personal moments that only you can know, it means to consider method you respond best to. You can have interests in consuming media, or you can have interest in meeting people with immersion. You should choose your choice based on what you know will benefit explicitly you.

Now, let’s see reasons for self-learning, since all factors were presented

Reasons to learn language by yourself or implement elements of self-learning into routine:

1. You want to do it! if you find pleasure in learning skills yourself, then why not?
2. It cuts money, you can really spend less money if you use only free resources and sometimes paid ones. You can also choose any resources.
3. You can learn it however you want. You have absolute freedom on how to learn it.

Reasons to stick with learning with tutor or at language courses:

1. You prefer traditional way, you want assistance.
2. You want already established environment and rules, you don’t want to create them.
3. You have serious goals that should be adressed in specific period of time. You don’t have time to create ways to learn and test them.

Please compare the advantages and disadvantages for your situation!

No matter your choice, this article can be useful for implementing ways to learn on top of your lessons and be informative.

What makes language a language?

“Language — a system of communication used by a particular country or community.” Oxford Languages Dictionary

This short definition is provided by big Oxford English Dictionary, that Google uses Let’s dive into more practical way to describe language

Language core consists of:

1. Vocabulary
2. Grammar

You can’t learn only words and phrases to talk freely, you need grammar to arrange your thoughts to be understood correctly.

Language can be expressed and consumed with these four skills:

1. Reading
2. Listening
3. Writing
4. Speaking

All of these are active activities to learn language including listening. To learn language means you are able to process it and express it.

Processing: reading, listening.
Expressing: writing, speaking.

It means, listening to a radio or podcast in your preferred language and not understanding any word won’t be helpful at all.

It means input and grammar are your best friends. But where to get resources to have input and learn grammar?

Input, Output and Resources for them:

For input you have various sources. Important part is to like what you work with. You improve yourself into 4 skills of processing and expressing language. Input is what you process and output is what you express. This table provides input sources.

Input
Videos, films, short videos
Books, articles, easy texts
Immersion abroad, foreign friends, course partners
Podcasts, music, easy audios
Anything on internet

This table provides output ideas

Output
Writing exercises
Rewriting text in own words, from memory
Writing a diary, poem, any text
Repeating phrases
Reading outloud
Speaking with someone or on your own

Input and output are essential parts of language.

There are so many ways to learn and it may come into a problem, when you just don’t know what to choose. You try to seek the best, calculate what would be better before you start. The thing is you just need to start. Through the process you will understand what you like and what you don’t like.

Review videos of self-teaching books and workbooks can help you choose. Don’t try to choose best and not choose at all, if this a respected creator on this topic the review already has notable materials. If creator will be generous you can have a link to books, otherwise seek them online. Before going piracy route please read an article about being safe online.

After you have dedicated hours to learning you can try to integrate your preferred language in indirect learning. It is called immersion.

How to progress with routine

Level of language can be achieved with certain number of hours spent. More time you spend, the more progress will be faster.

The more time with the language regularly is best way to do so. There should be a period of time when you can focus only on learning and using only one material to not distract yourself.

Try to build a habits that will make everything be in a place. With a scheduled lessons ad hours you will get to a level anyway.

Activities for beginning and for intermediate stage

For a total beginner your main goal is to learn 1000 most used words in vocabulary as they are 80% of total spoken language. Your focus should also be on simple most used grammatical rules.

This goal can be achieved with free beginner course of language. It can be found on YouTube, educational platforms, Websites, Self-teaching books. Entry into language is not required to be with a teacher, all basic information can be found on internet. Stick with a course for a time when you learn basics and then add even more input to get your vocabulary growing.

Summary

Just be a good boy and give yourself an hour a day writing exercises and regularly watch what you are interested in, after finishing beginner course.

Sources used and sources that will help you:

• The language Learner’s handbook
  This book has comprehensive and extended knowledge on the topic. If you want to read the most accurate information from experienced author — this is best match.

• /int/ guide for learning any language
• r/languagelearning