Book of the Day: "How to Stop Learning a Foreign Language and Start Living in It" - for those who are tired of cramming the rules

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

It will help you get pleasure and results from classes, and not a headache.

At the end of April, a presentation of the book by Anastasia Ivanova, a teacher with eleven years of experience, took place in Moscow. The author shared her observations and concepts of learning a foreign language. The book debunks popular and unfounded myths about why it is not possible to learn a language, and contains an answer to the most important question - why is it necessary at all.

The creator of the popular blog and host of online courses Anastasia Ivanova has been closely associated with the English language for 25 years. Faced with him for the first time in kindergarten, she made teaching her profession. Anastasia herself developed programs for learning to use only those that work, and not follow standard methods, which often not only are not useful, but also discourage any desire to learn.

The main idea of the book is that it is impossible to learn a foreign language once and for all and “stay” in this state.

Any language is a living organism. He is constantly changing, but this does not mean that you need to say goodbye to the hopes of conquering him. This is a reason to approach its study from a new angle.

The first section lists common misconceptions and refutes them. The author explains why it is not necessary to learn foreign words from childhood and that there is no concept of "language ability". Many years of experience break down the misconceptions about the high cost and endless duration of training. The second part of the book will tell you how to enjoy the process, how the environment affects us, why you shouldn't scold yourself and where to get the time.

The third section is practical. In it, the reader is invited to draw up his personal life plan in English. Template methods, which are used, for example, in schools, cannot suit everyone, because everyone is different. The book will teach you how to independently determine an acceptable level of workload, find modern language learning tools, divide big scary tasks into several small and feasible ones, and also adequately assess your results.

The author will tell you how the brain and memory work, why it is important to keep a diary of results and emotions, and teach you to treat learning as a pleasant endless process.

Examples of plans that Anastasia Ivanova gives are feasible and realistic: choose a book to read, download a dictionary to your phone, read a certain number of pages per week. The uniqueness of the methodology is that the student himself determines the level of workload that is comfortable for himself, depending on his own schedule. There are no exercises or rules here. There are tons of other resources for those looking to find them. But there is a roadmap that is easy to follow and from which you must and can deviate in order to find your own path. The author's recommendations will help you develop the habit of learning a language through enjoying the process.

The book will serve as a salvation for those who have been struggling with a foreign language for many years and cannot win this battle in any way. It is also for those who are just about to start an exciting journey of learning new things. And those who cannot understand why a foreign language is needed at all will find a lot of advantages, because language is the door to a completely new and wonderful world, and it is important to know how to open it correctly.