Famous quotes, sayings and one liners

Every language has a treasure of wise sayings, quotes and one liners.

What is your favorite? You can write the original text in your native language and its translation.

 

Let's start with the famous Persian Sufi Mystic Rumi (source: wikipedia)

 

عشق را خود صد زبان دیگر است

[Ishq ra khod sad zuban e deegar ast]

Love will find its way through all(100) languages on its own.

Techniques to improve Listening and Understanding the "conversation between natives"

Hi,

 

If you're a student of any foriegn, you might be having trouble with understanding the conversation of "Native Speakers".

It is common that non native people use "subtitles" when they're watching a movie. This is because they can't understand the dialogs.

 

Some people might have suggested you to watch more movies and documentaries to practice and improve the listening skill. But this is not very effective if you don't exactly know what is wrong with your listening.

 

The problem with most non-native English students is, they don't pay attention on the sounds when natives are talking. Rather, their mind is busy interpreting, looking for words and trying to find meaning. If you're watching a movie with subtitles, you're not listening, you're mostly reading. This practice will improve your speed reading skill but will not improve your listening much.

 

The natural flow of learning a language is:

Listening ---> Speaking ---> Reading ---> Writing

This process is what everyone follows as a child. You acquire "Listening" and "Speaking" skills before you can even read and write. This is why a 4 year old kid can understand conversations and speak fluently without the knowledge of words, sentence structre and grammar.

 

If you learn "Reading" before you learn to "Speak", you'll have a listening problem.

 

If you've alrady learned to read and you got the listening problem, you need to focus on these three important components of the language:

1. Speech Music

2. Word Connections

3. Pronunciation

 

I hope this will help every language learner. This applies to all languages. So it doesn't matter what language you're learning or want to learn.

 

If you have any further questions, feel free to ask.

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