Kick Start Your Language Learning

"Kick Start Your Language Learning : Becoming a basic speaker through fun and games inside a secure nest " Is a book written by Greg Thomson that is online and talks about language learning. In Chapter one Greg talks about what the goals of a beginner language learner are and where to start. The second Chapter talks about finding a Language resource person and how you should start your first lesson. Greg lists different activities or games you can do with your language resource person such as: role play, using pictures to communicate, listening to the language resource person and responding correctly, speaking in sentences with adjectives and nouns in the language you are trying to learn. Greg also suggest that if you want to start talking in your first session with your language resource person start with Hello and Goodbye. Later in the Chapter Greg suggests that after your session is over to journal it, record during the session, plan for the next session. Chapter 3 talks about speaking the language you are trying to learn by starting slowly , learning survival phrases and talking about a topic in the language you are trying to learn. In Chapter 4 Greg writes about vocabulary and sentence structures and gives general examples to follow. The final Chapter is Greg's conclusion and a plan for learning a language in 9 weeks.