How to Learn Any Language
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How to Learn Any Language
Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and On Your Own
by Barry Farber Founder of the Language Club/Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host
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To Bibi and Celia, for the pleasure of helping teach them their first language, followed by the pleasure of having them then teach me their second!
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Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: My Story A Life of Language Learning Part II: The System Do As I Now Say, Not As I Then Did Psych Up French or Tagalog: Choosing a Language Gathering Your Tools The Multiple Track Attack Hidden Moments Harry Lorayne’s Magic Memory Aid The Plunge Motivations Language Power to the People Back to Basics Last Words Before the Wedding Part III: Appendices The Language Club The Principal Languages of the World Farber’s Language Reviews
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Acknowledgements
I want to thank my editor, Bruce Shostak, without whose skill and patience much of this book would have been intelligible only to others who’ve had a blinding passion for foreign languages since 1944. I further thank my publisher, Steven Schragis, for venturing into publishing territory heretofore officially listed as “uninteresting”. Dr. Henry Urbanski, Founder and Head of the New Paltz Language Immersion Institute, was good enough to review key portions of the manuscript and offer toweringly helpful amendments. Dr. Urbanski’s associate, Dr. Hans Weber, was supremely helpful in safeguarding against error. I further wish to thank all my fellow language lovers from around the world who interrupted their conversations at practice parties of the Language Club to serve as willing guinea pigs for my questions and experimentations in their native languages.
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How to Learn Any Language
Introduction
This may be the most frequently told joke in the world – it’s repeated every day in almost every language: “What do you call a person who speaks two languages?”
How to Learn Any Language
Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and On Your Own
by Barry Farber Founder of the Language Club/Nationally Syndicated Talk Show Host
www.IrPDF.com
To Bibi and Celia, for the pleasure of helping teach them their first language, followed by the pleasure of having them then teach me their second!
www.IrPDF.com
Contents
Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: My Story A Life of Language Learning Part II: The System Do As I Now Say, Not As I Then Did Psych Up French or Tagalog: Choosing a Language Gathering Your Tools The Multiple Track Attack Hidden Moments Harry Lorayne’s Magic Memory Aid The Plunge Motivations Language Power to the People Back to Basics Last Words Before the Wedding Part III: Appendices The Language Club The Principal Languages of the World Farber’s Language Reviews
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Acknowledgements
I want to thank my editor, Bruce Shostak, without whose skill and patience much of this book would have been intelligible only to others who’ve had a blinding passion for foreign languages since 1944. I further thank my publisher, Steven Schragis, for venturing into publishing territory heretofore officially listed as “uninteresting”. Dr. Henry Urbanski, Founder and Head of the New Paltz Language Immersion Institute, was good enough to review key portions of the manuscript and offer toweringly helpful amendments. Dr. Urbanski’s associate, Dr. Hans Weber, was supremely helpful in safeguarding against error. I further wish to thank all my fellow language lovers from around the world who interrupted their conversations at practice parties of the Language Club to serve as willing guinea pigs for my questions and experimentations in their native languages.
www.IrPDF.com
How to Learn Any Language
Introduction
This may be the most frequently told joke in the world – it’s repeated every day in almost every language: “What do you call a person who speaks two languages?”