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[idyoma]

The 7 Ultimate Language Learning Tips and Tricks

Ultimate Language Learning Tips and Tricks

The right language learning tips and tricks can be the difference between giving up and achieving your fluency goals. Traditional learning methods don’t necessarily work for everyone, and you might be finding it difficult to dig in and get learning. 

In truth, there are lots of different ways you can approach language learning, whatever the language. You might have found a way of learning that you really enjoy, but you’re not quite seeing the results you wanted to. Have no fear - our best language learning tips are here!

Given that many people struggle with learning a new language, we’ve assembled a top 7 list encompassing efficient tips and tricks on how to improve and grow as fast as possible.

Know Your Motivations For Learning

This is vital for everyone who wants to learn a foreign language. Knowing why you are learning something is essential for the long-run and keeps you going.

On many occasions people start studying without knowing why and slack off after a few weeks because they lost the motivation. Always looking for the best way to learn Spanish - or whatever language they're learning. Therefore it’s of high importance to have a good reason to which you can stick!

Set Realistic Goals

If you want to get the results in a short amount of time, setting goals is absolutely indispensable. Try not to set the bar too high, reachable goals make you want to continue and ensure improvement. 

Studying a bit every day is way more effective than toiling over it all weekend. Make a list of the things that you want to practise and try to stick to it as much as possible. And remember, small steps make a big difference!

Immerse Yourself In The Language

Combining your daily activities with the language that you want to learn is highly effective and a fun way to learn. Try to read a book or to watch a movie in the language that you want to master. 

Even though this can seem difficult at first, it will get better so try to keep up! Also remember that you can make it as easy as you want. You can start with a book that you already read in your native language or with a children’s book, when you feel more confident you can move forward with something more difficult. Speaking with natives is highly encouraged to enhance speaking and listening skills. 

In many places language exchange events are organised in order to realise mutual language improvement. If this isn’t the case, or you prefer one-on-one conversations, you can try out our application and find a suitable partner to practise with.

Have Fun Learning

Having fun while learning is probably the most essential part when learning a language. Undoubtedly you will encounter moments where you think that you aren’t improving anymore and maybe even think that it’s getting worse, but that’s normal. 

Try to combine your language improvement with things that you love as much as possible. That way learning the language will remain fun and something you can keep up.

Think In Your Target Language

This might be more challenging if you’re at the beginning of your language learning journey. If you only have a few grammar rules memorised so far, this might feel kind of impossible. But it is possible to start adjusting your way of thinking to include the language you’re learning.

The best example of this language learning tip is when you can string even a few sentences together. When thinking about what food you’ll order, try and remember the words for each menu option in your head. It can be jarring to start with, as you’re so used to thinking in English fluently.

Doing this kind of exercise regularly will vastly improve your general comprehension and the speed with which you can switch between languages. Before you know it, you’ll be thinking in your target language just like a native.

Be Sure Of The Language You’re Learning

OK, this may sound like a kind of obvious language learning tip, but consider this…

You decide you want to learn a language, you dedicate hours of learning to it, understanding the grammar, memorising key phrases and practising that all-important pronunciation. Then you realise it won’t be of any use to you.

Now, fair enough, it’s incredible to learn a language for the fun and enjoyment of it. But by choosing a language carefully, you can open up a world of possibilities. Here are some things to consider when selecting the language you’ll be throwing yourself into for the next several months or years:

Are you excited by this language and the culture surrounding it?

Is this a widely spoken language you’ll be able to use professionally too?

How often will you get the chance to talk to others in this language?

Where will you talk to native speakers of this language?

Why are you drawn to this language in particular?

Asking yourself these questions will help you decide if you’re choosing the right language for you, as there’s nothing more disappointing than starting off with a new language and losing steam halfway through.

Consistency Always Pays Off

Whether you’ve been learning a language for 3 years or 3 days, you’ve likely noticed you see the best results when you stay consistent. It’s amazing how much you can pick up after keeping your learning consistent for just a few weeks! 

You don’t even need a strict or in-depth lesson plan. Simply dedicate the time and space to studying your language in some way for a specific amount of time every day, every week, every month- whatever works for your schedule. 

Of course, the more often you practise, the faster you’ll pick up the language, gaining fluency quicker than if you spent an hour here and there studying.

Feel like you’re ready to put these language learning tips to the test? Get started by talking with native speakers with Idyoma’s language exchange video chat feature here.

#language exchange #language learning #languages #tips and tricks #motivation #language partners #mobile app #tandem app

[deafilia]

Qualcuno dei miei amici qui parla italiano? Devo migliorare le mie capacità per il mio lavoro e sarebbe molto più divertente avere qualcuno con cui parlare 😁🥰

#language partners #italian practice #learning Italian

[humming-fly]

Transcending platonic or romantic affection is the camaraderie of sneaking food during boring meetings or state dinners

#sneaking food is my favorite love language #it's both caring and rogueish fits them perfectly #lan fan #ling yao #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #my art #doodles #comic #romantic or platonic their relationship is Important to me #partners in crime and now partners in law #anyways here's another comic idea i've had thumbnailed for a loong time

[mickilljoy]

Boyfriends sharing clothes it's my favorite thing ever as you can see

Small thingy I drew a couple weeks ago between commissions (also thank you everyone who commissioned me🫶)

#using your partners clothes its my love language #eddie probably uses all Steve's clean clothes and books it #laundry? dont know her #steddie

[bloodpen-to-paper]

I've seen a lot of posts about Ambrosius fully believing that Ballister killed the Queen despite it being something Bal would never do, yet knew it wasn't him at the subway because of the hating freestyle jazz thing and... it kinda makes sense?

I can't put this super eloquently but its something about how the small details that you know about a person can be just as solidifying in how sure you are that you truly know them as the big actions. And while the Queen issue WAS unbelievable to Ambrosius, there's so many missing factors that could lead to Bal doing what he did, that might not necessarily say anything about him as a person (ex. he was coerced, he was threatened, etc). But to be unable to recognize Bal based on the small things he does would be to not have ever known him at all, because there's no reason to fake those small things unless you're trying to trick the person in front of you into thinking they know you. Ballister killing the Queen doesn't necessarily mean that their entire relationship was fake, or that Ambrosius never truly knew him. But to find out that all the small things Ambrosius knows about Bal, learned about him because he loves those small things, were faked... now THAT would be devastating.

#basically recognizing that your partner hates free-style jazz is a love language #nimona #nimona movie #nimona spoilers #ambrosius goldenloin #ballister blackheart #goldenheart

[fanvoidkeith]

sometimes being aroacespec is confusing. what do you mean, most people can tell the difference between platonic and romantic and sexual attraction? what do you mean people don't "choose" crushes? what do you mean that people can imagine themselves in a physical situation with someone else?? isn't dating just Friendship Plus??? hell, isn't marriage just Friendship Plus?????????

what do they mean??????????? what are feelings???? why am i so confused????????

*edit: changed "aroace" to "aroacespec", since several aromantic people felt that this was not an Aromantic Feeling. i see you, i hear you, and so i changed it to be more accurate to me personally, since i am Confused About Feelings Always

#void keith talks #aroace #aromantic #asexual #aro #ace #aromantic asexual #i'm so confused as an autistic aroace person #about every emotion i have about another person ever #and i also read a lot of romance so like. i know what romance is *supposed* to look like #i know the ideal and the not ideal #but i have no idea about any sort of romantic social cues irl #because i'm bad with social cues. i miss them a lot or i misinterpret them #i'm good with body language because i was taught a lot of it early #but social cues are different and some change over time which is INCREDIBLY confusing #and also like? i don't feel stable enough or mentally healthy enough to be in a relationship #i feel like it would be unfair for a potential partner(s) for them to be in a relationship with me #because i just Don't Have My Shit Together. like at all #i Only Like Fictional People That Way #fictoromantic #lgbt #lgbtq #lgbt+ #lgbtq+ #lgbtqia #lgbtqia+ #arospec #aromantic spectrum #aroacespec

[klausbens]

the thing about season two’s ending is that they broke each other’s heart. they were speaking two different languages, as they often do, and saying the same thing—as they often do. so there’s no right or wrong. there’s no blame to be put on either. they just broke each other’s heart while trying to secure an eternity together

#ineffable husbands #ineffable partners #good omens #aziracrow #good omens 2 #good omens spoilers #good omens meta #): oof. #i see a lot of people blaming zira and getting mad at him but i well and truly get him they were trying to do the exact #same thing crowley was trying to do they just see through completely different perspectives and they never quite manage to #communicate effectively they speak different languages but they are so in love this is so beautiful and so sad

[willowworkswithwords]

Steve receives love the way he gives it and doesn’t know what to do with himself.

so i was going through my drafts folder because i'm thinking it's time to dip my foot back into the fic writing pool, and I found this collection of snippets and ideas that all stemmed from this post from @rogueddie. I thought about maybe elaborating on some of these, but I also wanted to share because I really enjoyed this idea. I also think I may have posted about this a long while back, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't the whole thing.

-Future -> uses a pen like a sorta-stylus to hit each of his computer keys sometimes. Eddie figures out it’s because the keys don’t have enough physical separation between them (they’re so shallow) and it sometimes messes with his eyes [is this a feasible vision issue he might have??] so Eddie buys him an “old fashioned” keyboard with the big keys, one of the big colorful trendy ones.

-Eddie and Wayne keep the foods he like, foods he’ll always eat no matter what. Eddie notices that he’ll never ask for any special foods when Wayne makes the grocery list (when he moves in with them) so he starts being sneaky and goes on a recon mission a.k.a. asking Robin, Nancy, and the kids what he likes. Since Steve also loves to cook, Eddie looks through his cookbooks and recipe box and finds the ones with notes on them and him and Wayne practice how to make them

“Hey Wayne?”

“Yeah?” Wayne calls from the couch, beer in hand and the game on.

Steve steps out from the kitchen, box of tea in hand.

“Where’d this come from?”

Wayne doesn’t turn around.

“What is it?”

“Uh, the tea?”

“Picked that up for you the other day, since you were saying you like it better than coffee sometimes.”

“Yeah but… you and Eddie don’t like tea?”

He doesn’t know why he says it like a question.

Wayne tilts his head against the back of the couch, craning it to look at Steve in a way that’s so reminiscent of Eddie it makes Steve smile a little.

“You do, though.”

-Right before Steve moves in, when he’s an anxious mess because his parents are coming back but he doesn’t realize he’s anxious for that reason, he starts hiding little bits of his stuff in the trailer, mostly in Eddie’s room and around the kitchen. This puzzles Eddie but Wayne thinks it’s like Steve’s trying to expel his energy in a not-so-productive way, though there are worse ways. So, Wayne starts asking Steve to help more around the house, but especially with repairs bc they found out that Steve knew a lot about repair.

Steve’s been around a lot. Wayne sees his pile of folded bedding tucked behind the couch, and sometimes he sees the Beemer leaving the trailer park as he comes up the road from the plant. During daylight hours, when Steve comes by to help Eddie or brings the kids over or stays for dinner, he shows almost no signs of anything being wrong.

But Wayne is a combat veteran. It’s been a long time for him, but he hasn’t forgotten, and he never will. He knows his nephew went through war, and that Steve was right alongside him. From what Wayne has gathered, Steve had been in that war for a few years, and had been dealing with the ups-and-downs for two years before Eddie ever knew about it.

It hurts Wayne deeply, to see the children (because that’s what they are—as he and all his comrades had been) endure the aftermath. So he sees when Steve flinches, when he clenches his fists, when he holds his breath and makes himself breathe evenly.

Tonight is the least in-control he’s ever seen Steve.

He’s over for dinner again. All three of them are in the living room, a baseball game on, much to Eddie’s long-suffering sighs.

-Steve will make his opinion known about arbitrary stuff like movies and music, but if it’s been a Bad Day or a Bad Time, and he does, and Eddie reacts to it in a way Steve sees as criticism, he will then defer everything to Eddie to a frustrating degree. Eddie finds out that when it comes to their relationship, not any other relationship Steve has, Steve is extremely afraid of screwing it up so he thinks that means he should let Eddie call all the shots.

-Eddie memorizes Steve’s orders at restaurants

-Eddie sews Steve’s clothes without Steve ever realizing

The sun is just peaking through the windows of the trailer on a Thursday morning when Eddie gets to work. Steve, when exhausted, will sleep through just about anything, and the week had been a long one. Eddie had the opposite problem, finding little respite even curled around Steve. So, the early morning found him gathering up Steve’s clothes and taking them out to the front porch of the trailer.

Already out there on the side table was his sewing kit, spools of thread and thimbles neat and ready. Already out there on the couch was Wayne, sipping his morning post-work coffee and looking out over the misty park.

Without a word, Eddie settled onto his end of the couch, knees pulled up, and grabbed one of Steve’s jeans. There was a rip along the inseam, and Eddie took to it with steady persistence. After the jeans were shirts and three sweatshirts. Stitch after stitch after stitch, and soon Steve wasn’t left with a single hole in all his wardrobe.

“He still hasn’t figured it out yet?” Wayne asks, grinning into his coffee.

“Nope. I’ve almost convinced him of the existence of brownies.”

Wayne barks a laugh and Eddie smiles down at the last rip he’s fixing, laughing with his uncle. Steve has been with them for a month and is just now finally easing up, finally letting them both in—for the big and small. Noticing Steve get frustrated with all the holes in his clothes was the least Eddie could do for him, and if it warms him from the inside out when Steve excitedly rustles through his pile of clothes and realizes they’re all perfectly wearable, well. That was just a plus.

-Eddie compliments Steve on his personality and who he is more than what he does, because especially in the first couple years after Vecna, while both of their bodies are still healing, Steve feels a lot of guilt about not being able to do all the things he used to be able to do to the same degree. Even once he’s healed and starts being able to be physical like he used to, Eddie knows Steve equates his value with his service, and tries to help him realize that he is so much more.

#steddie #steve harrington #eddie munson #wayne munson #wayne munson is a good uncle #wayne munson cares very much about eddie and about steve #wayne munson is an excellent ally #and excellent uncle #eddie loves steve so much #and he tries so hard to help steve see that #acts of service #speaking in your partner's love language #speaking other people's love languages as the secret sixth love language #willow writes #my fic #willow talks

[ssaraexposs]

This sskk moment is really something else:

Fed up with his rudeness , Atsushi talks back to Akutagawa, hitting THAT sensitive topic for him

Atsushi just now realises he hit a sensitive nerve and he's clearly expecting a violent reaction from Akutagawa

Akutagawa doesn't lash out at Atsushi and proceeds to keep walking

Atsushi is surprised by the lack of reaction towards him and proceeds to reach for Akutagawa

Akutagawa really doesn't like to be touched, especially after being insulted

#this was both hilarious and intense #like poor aku #atsushi really hit a nerve #akutagawa though is trying to keep his composure and being mature #character development? #atsushi is just done #atsushi just wants a partner #aku really needs time to warm up #atsushi is still studying his partner #aku sometimes is so mysterious #partnership in progress #aku's love language is violence #sskk #shin soukoku #bsd manga #bsd #bungo stray dogs #sskk manga #atsushi nakajima #akutagawa ryuunosuke

[birdsong-warriors]

Brick may seem to have a bit of a double standard here when it comes to labels, but they don't consider "halfhouser" (half housecat) to be a bad thing, much less an insult. But "half-cat" is too far into icky and demeaning and invalidating territory; they are very much not cool with that, and they're eager to call it out.

On another note: the escaped prisoner is Stonefur.

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#swifthawk's chance #blood and bone #implied racism #language warning #lots of thanks to both my partner and zeestitch for help on these pages!!! #stonefur managed to escape and has been helping silverstream get the others out #but they werent able to get featherpaw #i think so.e of these updates dont make as much sense when read alone but hopefully when reading the whole comic?? #they make more sense in context #for instance stonefur previously talking about hetting mistyfoot and stormpaw out #featgerpaw is not aware of this and thus assumes both are dead #ITS BEEN KIND OF A PAIN TO TRY AND WRITE AS ITS NOT SWIFT'S FOCUS AND THUS IS KIND OF A BACKGROUND THING #but hopefully it makes sense?? #also ive got a lot of messages to respond to and im sorry for the late updates #comic pages #swiftpaw lives au #swiftpaw #swifthawk #tigerclaw #tigerstar #brick #bloodclan #featherpaw #feathertail #scourge #scorch

[sincerely-sofie]

Been slowly learning ASL over the years for my niece and I might still struggle to introduce myself or express basic emotions, but oh boy do I ever have the sign for every animal she's ever laid eyes on memorized better than my own name.

#there's no study partner quite like a toddler who loves playing pretend #I'll be watching a video where Bill Vicars is finger-spelling at the pace of molasses and I'll be completely lost #but with my niece though? #she'll sign “DINOSAUR!!!!” and I'll say “ON IT CHIEF” and bolt to pull up an animation i made of Twig + Kip that she's obsessed with #You haven't lived until you ask a small child what animal she's pretending to be while she's racing around the room #and she freezes in place #turns to you with the most solemn expression #and gravely puts up her chubby little hands to inform you that she's a monkey #then goes back to laughing her head off as she runs laps around the couch #american sign language #sign language #asl #sofie says stuff

[useless-catalanfacts]

Btw if you come on holidays and stay at an AirBnb instead of an actual registered hotel I hate you personally. Not "I hate the gentrification and touristic massification and the way we can't live in our homes and are forced to move away because of tourism" in an abstract way- No, not just that. I hate you.

#I'm from a seaside town that has become popular with tourists who come for the beach and the mediterranean climate #and the typical whitewashed walls of mediterranean coastal towns #in just a few years the average rent has gone up so much that now the average rent id #*is over 1000€ per month #one thousand! #that's a whole salary! #in the past 2 years they've been building a new neighbourhood. they've destroyed the vinyeards to make a new neighbourhood that will make #the town 1/3 bigger than it is. that's a lot. but all those houses are luxury houses with private swimming pools for rich foreigners (we #already have 2 private British schools high schools and college(in the british sense)/baccalaureate where their kids go and never have to #interact with locals. I teach some of those kids and they're very prejudiced against locals and very bigoted against the catalan language #(which ofc they never bother to learn) #there's a law in catalonia that says that for every certain amount of houses you build you are obligated to build a certain percentage of #affordable housing. so in this new neighborhood they built the bare minumum affordable housing which is still too expensive for us #and since there's so few of them everyone is competing to get them. the city hall and the bank have had to make an official competition for #them but you only classify if the renr would not be more than 1/3rd of your salary which is impossible. my cousins who are in their mid 30s #and have been working a good qualified job for 15 years (and their partners too) are considered too poor to be considered for the #affordable housing #everyone is having to move out to other cities away from their friends and family and current jobs. the only jobs left here soon will be #mostly directed at tourists #and the only way to continue living here if you're a normal person and not rich is if you're an only child who one day might inherit the #parents' house #but we look around at what's happening in nearby cities and we see the next step which will be airbnb taking the houses that are left #in many places (I've posted about thia before) there aren't any flats for rent or sell anymore that isn't an airbnb #I'm still lucky in my town when compared to other places like Barcelona which are already full of the airbnb plague #actualitat #airbnb #tourism #touristic massification #gentrification

[bonebabbles]

I keep starting and abandoning posts that go into my drafts, as I try to stay tasteful about how fucking revolted this part makes me. Like, I'm legitimately unsure if the very relevant trauma I have is making me see things that aren't here

But first we see that Star Flower is trying to ingratiate herself to the group, just after she reappears from chapter 5. Chapter 5 is about how Clear Sky is still abusive towards his son, and she comes in after stroking his ego, stressing how alone she is, and appealing to how she'll be loyal unlike his child. (She glances over at Thunder, directly implying this.)

Now in Chapter 9, she's babysitting and trying to care for Milkweed's kits (in spite of discomfort from Milkweed), taking a wet sleeping space away from the others, and pulling more than her own weight "without complaint." Putting herself through harsh sitations to prove her worth.

All while trying to appear extra attractive to Thunder, and later Clear Sky. Basically every man in power who can "protect her"

Like, am I going fucking crazy? With how we later find out that Star Flower was "promised as a mate" to One Eye's subordinate Slash, is... is that hypersexualization? One of the extremely stigmatized symptoms of sexual abuse?

She goes to find Clear Sky alone to throw herself at his paws, and he's very quickly attracted to how she promises to perfectly obey him, have no needs of her own, and finally be the perfect servant that he desires

"I don't deserve your trust because I am dirt. I understand you because I also regret something. I'd die for you. I'll never betray you unlike those who have."

This isn't manipulation. She means this. The story is playing their romance sincerely. She's comparing "betraying" Thunder by telling her own father about an assassination ambush to Clear Sky's history of child abuse, physical assault, and murder

She believes she's on the same level as this; a monster who murdered a childhood friend in a fit of entitled rage. She was a victim of One Eye who really believes that the way her father used her means she "understands" this monster, deserves this treatment.

And Clear Sky LIKES that.

He likes that she will have COMPLETE FAITH in him. That she will follow him WITHOUT QUESTION. That she will OBEY his orders. That's fucking verbatim, that's THE TEXT!!!

WHILE HE'S STILL CRYING ABOUT "ive tried to atone every day" FOLLOWING THE LAST TWO BOOKS WHERE THE ONLY SHITTY THING HE DOESN'T DO IS MURDER INNOCENT WOMEN

Am I insane?? Am I wrong??? Am I missing something here???? Why the fuck is the fandom takeaway "haha sexy girl steals his dad." Did I read the same book

#Csa mention #Did they once again do a misogyny so hard they accidentally gave their woman character trauma #My tip to anyone in a draining relationship. If your partner fetishizes that YOU would never leave or betray them unlike ''all the others'' #RUN. #There may be a reason their exes cut ties with them and they're praising you for ignoring red flags #Especially when your partner is significantly older and more experienced #Theres nothing noble about constantly suffering for the sake of 'loyalty' #Star Flower PLEASE get out of here you dont fucking deserve this you did nothing wrong #Bones reads dotc #Dotc hate #I thought i was just remembering things wrong when i was adding the subtheme of thunder having a connection to star via abusive dads- #-in my dotc rewrite. But no it's right there. It's in the text and it's something clear is attracted to #I abuse the shit out of my son and he left me once over it #But i can abuse this girl his same age and she won't run. Finally! A victim who won't leave! #And then they become mates and she births at least two litters #Cw abuse #sa mention #EDIT: I've changed the language just slightly #because the timeline COULD work out that starf was an adult when she was promised to slash for a very brief window of time #and hypersexualization is a symptom of trauma resulting from many types of sex abuse. Even that done when the victim was an adult. #it's just more common in CSA

[adhd-languages]

Languages that developed in warmer regions tend to be louder than languages from colder regions!

Here's a short article on it, worth a read: https://phys.org/news/2023-12-linguistics-languages-louder-tropics.html

#my partner sent me this and i felt the need to share #langblr #language #quinn posts #Science #100

[pegging-satan]

Kunikida and Chuuya both shooting Dazai for funsies, the agency and mafia members looking extremely disappointed with their shenanigans

#how has no one pointed out that Dazai has been shot by both of his partners #aka they are both incapable/unwilling to harm him with bullets like that’s so funny #Kunikida shooting Dazai with a gun made from his notebook at any inconvenience #chuuya shooting Dazai just for fun #shooting him is their love language #bungou stray dogs #bsd chuuya #bsd kunikida #bsd dazai #kunichuuzai

[goatsandgangsters]

my all-time favorite etymological discovery is that brunch dates to the 1890s

my second-favorite etymological discovery is that they also had "blunch," which, despite their pleas, we have Forgotten

#blunch. please don't forget this. #my partner's least favorite bit is that I will call it blunch and go Please Don't Forget This when they object #1890s #language