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.

How to learn a Language

How to learn a language according to wikipedia

Here are some of the things the article recommends to help you start your language learning process: Study the pronunciation of the language first,Practice the native intonation, stress, and rhythm of common, short social sentences and social questions, e.g.: "Hi, How are you?" "Where is the museum?",Purchase audio books in the language you wish to learn, Purchase a quality dictionary of the language you wish to learn,Buy a quality translation dictionary which translates from your native language to the one you wish to learn,A picture dictionary is helpful for learning common nouns,Buy or loan several classic, well-known literary works in the language you wish to learn; such as plays, short stories, or novels,Buy popular magazines or newspapers in the language you wish to learn, Review the grammar and essential parts of speech of your native language,Buy a book of idioms, proverbs, and expressions used in the language you wish to learn,Pay an educated native speaker to tutor you through one-on-one conversation practice,Listen to news broadcasts in your chosen language,Work on your vocabulary, Attach labels to everything in your house/ at your desk/ etc in the language you are learning, picture/ word associations help best,Study the grammar,Educate yourself in the cultural aspect of the language, and practice speaking,reading and writing in the language you want to learn.


How to learn a language according to" how to learn any language"

The above websites contains useful information on specific language such as Japanese, however it does not have a general overview of language learning.

Methods of learning English as a Second Language

Correcting mistakes
this web site talks about having students in advanced classes correct their own errors in grammar and spelling.
Second life
This is becoming a more popular way to learn English online as you are put into a virtual world and classroom and taught English. However this may be more confusing for some people because they may not be very good with using technology.

Reading
Reading English is an easy way to learn English the following are more articles to help people with reading English and what and how hey should read.

To get the most out of reading, it's important to know the difference between different types of reading which include: scanning, skimming, intensive and extensive reading.

Reading Tips to Improve Your Pronunciation

This article talks about starting with simple reading nursery rhymes or parts of sentences in a new paper and look up the pronunciation of new vocabulary words at Babylon dictionary or other online pronunciation resource to help you learn the correct pronunciation of these words.
Reading Tips to Improve Your Vocabulary

This article talks about how to constructive vocabulary trees and mind maps.
Reading Tips to Improve Your Conversational Skills

this article talks about reading short stories in groups and discussing them.
Reading Tips to Improve Your Grammar

this article talks about using a tenses and reading word in that tense
Reading Tips to Improve Your Listening Skills

read a book as you listen to it on a audio book.