Tips To Learn A New Language
Tips to learn a new language
The 75 most common words make up 40% of occurrences The 200 most common words make up 50% of occurrences The 524 most common words make up 60% of occurrences The 1257 most common words make up 70% of occurrences The 2925 most common words make up 80% of occurrences The 7444 most common words make up 90% of occurrences The 13374 most common words make up 95% of occurrences The 25508 most common words make up 99% of occurrences
(Sources: 5 Steps to Speak a New Language by Hung Quang Pham)
This article has an excellent summary on how to rapidly learn a new language within 90 days.
We can begin with studying the first 600 words. Of course chucking is an effective way to memorize words readily. Here’s a list to translate into the language you desire to learn that I grabbed from here! :)
EXPRESSIONS OF POLITENESS (about 50 expressions)
‘Yes’ and ‘no’: yes, no, absolutely, no way, exactly.
Question words: when? where? how? how much? how many? why? what? who? which? whose?
Apologizing: excuse me, sorry to interrupt, well now, I’m afraid so, I’m afraid not.
Meeting and parting: good morning, good afternoon, good evening, hello, goodbye, cheers, see you later, pleased to meet you, nice to have met.
Interjections: please, thank you, don’t mention it, sorry, it’ll be done, I agree, congratulations, thank heavens, nonsense.
NOUNS (about 120 words)
Time: morning, afternoon, evening, night; Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday; spring, summer, autumn, winter; time, occasion, minute, half-hour, hour, day, week, month, year.
People: family, relative, mother, father, son, daughter, sister, brother, husband, wife; colleague, friend, boyfriend, girlfriend; people, person, human being, man, woman, lady, gentleman, boy, girl, child.
Objects: address, bag, book, car, clothes, key, letter (=to post), light (=lamp), money, name, newspaper, pen, pencil, picture, suitcase, thing, ticket.
Places: place, world, country, town, street, road, school, shop, house, apartment, room, ground; Britain, name of the foreign country, British town-names, foreign town-names.
Abstract: accident, beginning, change, color, damage, fun, half, help, joke, journey, language, English, name of the foreign language, letter (of alphabet), life, love, mistake, news, page, pain, part, question, reason, sort, surprise, way (=method), weather, work.
Other: hand, foot, head, eye, mouth, voice; the left, the right; the top, the bottom, the side; air, water, sun, bread, food, paper, noise.
PREPOSITIONS (about 40 words)
General: of, to, at, for, from, in, on.
Logical: about, according-to, except, like, against, with, without, by, despite, instead of.
Space: into, out of, outside, towards, away from, behind, in front of, beside, next to, between, above, on top of, below, under, underneath, near to, a long way from, through.
Time: after, ago, before, during, since, until.
DETERMINERS (about 80 words)
Articles and numbers: a, the; nos. 0–20; nos. 30–100; nos. 200–1000; last, next, 1st–12th.
Demonstrative: this, that.
Possessive: my, your, his, her, its, our, their.
Quantifiers: all, some, no, any, many, much, more, less, a few, several, whole, a little, a lot of.
Comparators: both, neither, each, every, other, another, same, different, such.
ADJECTIVES (about 80 words)
Color: black, blue, green, red, white, yellow.
Evaluative: bad, good, terrible; important, urgent, necessary; possible, impossible; right, wrong, true.
General: big, little, small, heavy; high, low; hot, cold, warm; easy, difficult; cheap, expensive; clean, dirty; beautiful, funny (=comical), funny (=odd), usual, common (=shared), nice, pretty, wonderful; boring, interesting, dangerous, safe; short, tall, long; new, old; calm, clear, dry; fast, slow; finished, free, full, light (=not dark), open, quiet, ready, strong.
Personal: afraid, alone, angry, certain, cheerful, dead, famous, glad, happy, ill, kind, married, pleased, sorry, stupid, surprised, tired, well, worried, young.
VERBS (about 100 words)
arrive, ask, be, be able to, become, begin, believe, borrow, bring, buy, can, change, check, collect, come, continue, cry, do, drop, eat, fall, feel, find, finish, forget, give, going to, have, have to, hear, help, hold, hope, hurt (oneself), hurt (someone else), keep, know, laugh, learn, leave, lend, let (=allow), lie down, like, listen, live (=be alive), live (=reside), look (at), look for, lose, love, make, may (=permission), may (=possibility), mean, meet, must, need, obtain, open, ought to, pay, play, put, read, remember, say, see, sell, send, should, show, shut, sing, sleep, speak, stand, stay, stop, suggest, take, talk, teach, think, travel, try, understand, use, used to, wait for, walk, want, watch, will, work (=operate), work (=toil), worry, would, write.
PRONOUNS (about 40 words)
Personal: I, you, he, she, it, we, they, one; myself, yourself, himself, herself, itself, ourselves, yourselves, themselves.
Possessive: mine, yours, his, hers, its, ours, theirs.
Demonstrative: this, that.
Universal: everyone, everybody, everything, each, both, all, one, another.
Indefinite: someone, somebody, something, some, a few, a little, more, less; anyone, anybody, anything, any, either, much, many.
Negative: no-one, nobody, nothing, none, neither.
ADVERBS (about 60 words)
Place: here, there, above, over, below, in front, behind, nearby, a long way away, inside, outside, to the right, to the left, somewhere, anywhere, everywhere, nowhere, home, upstairs, downstairs.
Time: now, soon, immediately, quickly, finally, again, once, for a long time, today, generally, sometimes, always, often, before, after, early, late, never, not yet, still, already, then (=at that time), then (=next), yesterday, tomorrow, tonight.
Quantifiers: a little, about (=approximately), almost, at least, completely, very, enough, exactly, just, not, too much, more, less.
Manner: also, especially, gradually, of course, only, otherwise, perhaps, probably, quite, so, then (=therefore), too (=also), unfortunately, very much, well.
CONJUNCTIONS (about 30 words)
Coordinating: and, but, or; as, than, like.
Time & Place: when, while, before, after, since (=time), until; where.
Manner & Logic: how, why, because, since (=because), although, if; what, who, whom, whose, which, that.
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We’ve all been there: You have stuff you need to get done, you know you need to get it done, but no matter what you do you just cant get yourself to take out your stuff and do your work.
I have this problem quite a lot, so here’s a post to help some of you out!
Articles
Read this to get some quick motivation (tw: curse words) It’s sure to get your blood pumping and give you the vigor you’re lacking!
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7 helpful study tips
8 helpful study tips
Manage your time studying
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Detailed article on how to get motivated to study
10 study motivation quotes for all types of students
3 scientific backed study motivators
Videos
Unbroken
Dream (EXTREMELY INSPIRING)
Be Phenomenal
Why Do We Fall
Mindshift
Be Hungry
Stop Killing Time
Destiny
Vision
You Will Win
Study Spotify Playlists
Deep Focus
Peaceful Piano
Intense Studying
Productive Morning
Electronic Study Music
Study Time Starts Now
White Noise
Epic All Nighter
Focus Now
Late Night Focus
Genius Time
Nice and Easy Workflow
Motivating Study Blogs
@elkstudies, @getstudyblr, @minimaliststudies, @nehrdist, @tbhstudying, @highschoolering, @saturdaystudying, @stxdybug, @dangostudy, @raavenclaw, @academla
There are so many more studyblr’s, but those are just some I can think of off the top of my head!
I hope this helps motivate some of you guys, and good luck with all of your studies! (੭*ˊᵕˋ)੭*:･ﾟ✧
Something I want back for Christmas 😂
ho ho ho where did my motivation go
知识好像地下的泉水，掘得越深，水就越清。
Knowledge is like the spring underground — the deeper you dig, the clearer the water is.
10 Mistakes When Studying
1. “I Don’t Know where to Begin.”
Make a list of all the things you have to do. Break your workload down ito manageable chunks. Prioritize. Schedule your time realistically. Begin studying early, with an hour or two per day, and slowly build as the exam approaches.
2. ‘I’ve Got So Much to Study…And so Little Time"
Preview. Survey your syllabus, reading material, and notes. Identify the most important topics emphasized, and areas still not understood. Previewing saves time, by helping you organize and focus in on the main topics.
3. “This Stuff is so Dry, I can’t Even Stay Awake Reading It”
Get actively involved with the text as you read. Ask yourself, “What is important to remember about this section?” Take notes or underline key concepts. Discuss the material with others in your class. Stay on the offensive.
4. “I Read It. I Understand It. But I Just Can’t Get it To Sink In”
Elaborate. We remember best the things that are most meaningful to us. As you are reading, try to elaborate upon new information with your own examples. Try to integrate what you’re studying with what you already know. You will be able to remember new material better if you can link it to something that’s already meaningful to you.
Chunking: Example: to remember the colors in the visible spectrum, Rog G.Biv –> reduce the information the three “chunks”.
Mnemonics: Associate new information with something familiar.
5. “I Guess I Understand It”
Test yourself. Make up questions about key sections in notes or reading. Examine the relationships between concepts and sections. Often, imply by changing section headings you can generate many effective questions.
6. “There’s Too Much to Remember”
Organize. Information is recalled better if it is represented in an organized framework that will make retrieval more systematic.
Write chapter outlines of summaries; emphasize relationships between sections.
Group information into categories or hierarchies, where possible.
Information Mapping. Draw up a matrix to organize and interrelate material.
7. “I Knew It A Minute Ago”
Review. After reading a section, try to recall the information contained in it. Try answering the questions you made up for that section. If you cannot recall enough, re-read portions you had trouble remembering. The more time you spend studying, the more you tend to recall. Even after the point where information can be perfectly recalled, further study makes the material less likely to be forgotten entirely. How you organize and integrate new information is still more important than how much time you spend studying.
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如果你不花时间去创造你想要的生活，你终究得被迫花更多时间去应付你不想要的生活。 If you don’t make the time to work on creating the life you want, you’re eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don’t want.
别让那些不懂珍惜你的人来衡量你的价值。
Don’t let someone who doesn’t know your value tell you how much you’re worth.
Free Online Language Courses
Here is a masterpost of MOOCs (massive open online courses) that are available, archived, or starting soon. I think they will help those that like to learn with a teacher or with videos. You can always check the audit course or no certificate option so that you can learn for free.
American Sign Language
ASL University
Sign Language Structure, Learning, and Change
Arabic
Arabic Without Walls
Madinah Arabic
Moroccan Arabic
Armenian
Depi Hayk
Bengali
Learn Bangla (Register to see course)
Catalan
Parla.Cat
Speak Cat
Chinese (Mandarin)
Beginner
Chinese for Beginners
Chinese Characters for Beginners
Chinese for HSK 1
Chinese for HSK 2
Chinese for HSK 3 I & II
Chinese for HSK 4
Chinese for HSK 5
Mandarin Chinese Level I
Mandarin Chinese Essentials
Mandarin Chinese for Business
More Chinese for Beginners
Start Talking Mandarin Chinese
UT Gateway to Chinese
Intermediate
Intermediate Business Chinese
Intermediate Chinese Grammar
Mandarin for Intermediate Learners I
Dutch
Introduction to Dutch
English
Online Courses here
Resources Here
Faroese
Faroese Course
Finnish
A Taste of Finnish
French
Beginner
AP French Language and Culture
Elementary French I & II
Français Interactif
Vivre en France - A1
Vivre en France- A2
Intermediate & Advanced
French Intermediate course B1-B2
Passe-Partout
Travailler en France A2-B1
Vivre en France - B1
German
Beginner
Deutsch im Blick
German Project
German at Work
Goethe Institute
Gwich’in
Introduction to Gwich’in Language
Hebrew
Biblical Hebrew
UT Austin
Hindi
A Door into Hindi
Virtual Hindi
Icelandic
Icelandic 1-5
Indonesian
Learn Indonesian
Irish
Irish 101, 102, 103, 104, 105, 106, 107
Italian
Beginner
Beginner’s Italian I
Introduction to Italian
Intermediate & Advanced
AP Italian Language and Culture
Intermediate Italian I
Advanced Italian I
Japanese
Genki
Japanese JOSHU
Japanese Pronunciation
Marugoto Courses
Tufs JpLang
Korean
Beginner
First Step Korean
How to Study Korean
Introduction to Korean
Learn to Speak Korean
Pathway to Spoken Korean
Intermediate
Intermediate Korean
Norwegian
Introduction to Norwegian I, Norwegian II
Norwegian on the Web
Persian
Easy Persian
PersianDee
Polish
Online Course
Portuguese
Pluralidades em Português Brasileiro
Russian
Beginner
A1 Course
I speak Russian
Intermediate
B1 Course
B1+ Course
B2.1 Course
B2.2 Course
Spanish
Beginner
AP Spanish Language & Culture
Basic Spanish I, Spanish II
Spanish for beginners
Spanish for Beginners 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Spanish Vocabulary
Advanced
Corrección, Estilo y Variaciones
Leer a Macondo
Swahili
Online Course
Turkish
Online Course
Ukrainian
Read Ukrainian
Speak Ukrainian
Welsh
Beginner’s Welsh
Discovering Wales
Yoruba
Yorùbá Yé Mi
Multiple Languages
Ancient Languages
More Language Learning Resources & Websites!
Last updated: May 2019
不要以所得的收获，而是所撒的种子来评断每一天。
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.
罗伯特‧路易斯，史蒂文生 Robert Louis Stevenson
人们需要知道他们的行为会影响其他人。所以谨言慎行，不只是为了你自己。
People need to learn that their actions do affect other people. So be careful what you say and do, its not always just about you.
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