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How to Learn Language More Efficiently
Advice From Your American Older Brother: a Multilingual World Traveler,
Veteran Court Interpreter, and Professional Language Teacher
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Daniel Steve VillarrealPh.D., 11A5SLA
Your American Older Brother
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Daniel Steve Villarreal, Ph.D.
• Ph.D., Foreign Language Education, University of Texas at Austin
• Licensed Court Interpreter # 315 (Spanish/English), Texas
• US Army veteran, 11A5SLA• Instructor, El Salvador Project, Ranger Department, Fort
Benning, GA• Liaison officer with Honduran military in La Ceiba• BA in Modern Languages, The Citadel• Part-time Mandarin student, Mandarin Training Center
and International Chinese Language Program, Taipei, Taiwan
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Tricks of the trade for learning language
Based on my personal experience and professional training; use what works best for you and “store” the rest for
later!
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Actionable steps!
• I’ll present about 5 of them at a time
• Discuss with a friend: which have you already tried &/or what do you plan to try?
• Which will you take action on and how will you do it?
• Then the next 5
• OK, so here they are!
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Have moral courage
• Mifanbaobao? (I made this word up when trying to order my first Asian riceburger!)
• Don’t be afraid to speak or to try
• Errors are part of learning!
• BE A RISK-TAKER!
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Hit the hua4 often!
• Get out there and use the language
• Native speakers are realia
• Find an activity (church, hobby, etc.) that’s done in the other language
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Q: How do you eat an elephant? A: One bite at a time!
• Which is the section you need to eat first?
• For me, it’s Mandarin vocabulary
• For you: grammar, vocabulary, verb conjugations?
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Prioritize--Eat One Section of the Elephant at a Time
• Use The Swiss Cheese Method
• “Eat” your most important piece of cheese: grammar, vocabulary, etc.
• When one hole gets big enough, start on another hole
• Eventually, there will be no more cheese!
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"Sir, use ALL your resources!"
• A quotation from a great US Army Sergeant!
• I made great use of Pimsleur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pimsleur_language_learning_system
• Pimsleur for Mandarin-speakers who want to learn English: http://www.pimsleur-language.com/Merchant2/merchant.mvc
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A huge list of possible resources!• http://effortlessenglishclub.com/• http://www.icrt.com.tw/en/ivy_newTOEIC.php• http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2007/06/sat_prep_course.html • http://www.princetonreview.com.tw/ • http://www.princetonreview.com/default.aspx?uidbadge=%07 • www.ets.org/• http://translate.miis.edu/prospective/top_10.html advice to
interpreting students from the Monterey Institute of International Studies
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_psychology How learning takes place;
• http://www.manythings.org/wbg/ Games for ESL students;• http://www.southampton.liunet.edu/academic/pau/course/
webword.htm High-frequency TOEFL words• http://www.english-test.net/toefl/• http://www.englishdaily626.com/tfvocab.php • http://www.grammar-monster.com/index.html
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Your turn!
Which step will you implement? How will you do it?
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Study how language learning and language teaching work.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_psychology
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_acquisition
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_language_learning
• http://www.mindtools.com/memory.html
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Imitate successful people: don’t reinvent the wheel
• Can your fluent friend recommend a book, teacher, school?
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Make your learning active, rather than passive
• Mister Lazy: just sits there in class and wants the instructor to pour the language into his cranium
• Mister Diligent: takes notes, asks questions, tries things
• Nothing stops Mister Diligent!
• Which are you?
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2,500 repetitions = automaticity!
• A response for those who want a Magic Pill
• More is better• Use the language as
often as possible: read, speak, listen, etc.
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Multimodality: use all of your senses!
• Writing Chinese characters: I see, write the strokes, repeat the word
• Connect vision, speaking, feeling, listening
• Connect different parts of the brain
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Your turn!
Which step will you implement? How will you do it?
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Don’t be scared of the big words!
• A + B + C = D • Divide the parts of the
word, then add them back up
• Syllables• Prefixes• Suffixes• Multiple words in one
word
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Etymology
• What’s the history of the word?
• Did you bolo on the rifle range (“bolo” = US Army slang = you failed; you are more dangerous to the enemy with a bolo machete than with the Army’s rifle!)?
• http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
• See the dictionary entry
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Vocabulary flash cards
• Make them• Buy them• Online• iPod versions• You can study while
you’re in line, on the bus, etc.
• Build or select them according to METT-T
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METT-T?
• “Mission—Enemy—Terrain, weather, Troops and Time available.”
• Mission: what are you trying to do? What are your goals?
• Enemy: time conflicts?
• Time available?
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Monitor yourself and self-correct
• Relax; have fun with this
• Are you bringing patterns from your first language into your second language: “I have an appointment with my friend…”
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Think long term, not short term!
• What are your long-term purposes?
• Good enough to survive on a trip overseas = OK!
• Scholarly work?• Business?• Again, consider
METT-T
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Your turn!
Which step will you implement? How will you do it?
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Find a great study partner or study group!
• Example--Language exchange ad: 7th floor of Mandarin Training Center, Taipei, Taiwan, building bulletin board
• Great for test prep• 2 heads > 1 head
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Don't be a "this way" learner, be a "many ways" learner!
• Pimsleur• Rosetta Stone• Flash cards• Reading• TV • Movies• Classes• Most important: get
started now!
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Find an activity you like that's done in the other language.
• Spanish-speaking churches gave me advanced language skills
• Movies• Hobbies
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Do you have any English-speaking friends or colleagues?
• They don’t necessarily have to be from English-speaking countries!
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Exercise your initiative to find ways to speak the language.
• Create your own English-speaking foreign country wherever you live
• I created a Spanish-speaking country in the US for about a year: UNAM Spanish classes, Hispanic church, Spanish movies, Spanish-speaking work
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Your turn!
Which step will you implement? How will you do it?
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You probably have LOTS of English, etc. in your head;
• Now make it come out of your pen and mouth.
• Force yourself to use what you learned in your studying.
• Again: be a risk-taker!
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Don’t wait for the teacher to teach you.
• No teacher, book, course, can achieve your goals
• Exercise initiative• Preread the lessons• Use the stuff outside
of class
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Translations of books in both languages
• Vicarious learning: you can experience a LOT via reading!
• Dynamic equivalence: “hello” = “you good”
• Read!• Read!• Read!• Read!
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Create mini-lessons for yourself to use during spare time.
• Use those 24 hours wisely!
• Flash cards• Reading• DVD movies• Recordings• METT-T• Swiss Cheese
Method
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Find or create foreign language-speaking environments.
• US has Chinatown• Taipei has Tian Mu• Foreign-based clubs,
churches, schools, activities
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Your turn!
Which step will you implement? How will you do it?
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How do I say this in the other language?
• Do this continually• Learn tons of
vocabulary• Learn native speech
and writing
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Go take more language courses! • All are good• They all connect• Action beats inaction
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Connect your foreign language to your other subjects, academic courses, and to your
work!• Encounter situations
or vocabulary• Research it in the
other context
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Consider studying Spanish to help your English and your career!
• For you English-learning Mandarin-speakers
• Spanish = Latin connections to English
• English + Mandarin + Spanish = communicate with a LOT of people!
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Look for patterns across languages
• Some languages share grammar (Chinese languages)
• Some share vocabulary (European languages)
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Never give up!
• A lesson from the United States Army Rangers and from the world of dance!
• One step in front of the other, whether road-marching or learning to dance!
• Keep showing up• Eventually, you’ll get
there
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Your turn!
Which step will you implement? How will you do it?
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