Let’s take flight this week with language hacks, simple and beautiful tricks of the trade that will grant you greater returns in less time.
For example, did you consider that you can learn one of your target languages using another one of your target languages as the learning medium? To put it in another way, one could learn French using only Spanish (assuming one’s Spanish is good enough). By taking this approach, you will start learning a new language while at the same time fortifying another of your non-native languages.
Conceivably, you could watch French language lessons online that are taught in Spanish, read French textbooks that are written in Spanish, or communicate in Spanish with a native Spanish speaking teacher, as that teacher endeavors to teach you French, a language they also know.
In my case, I relished the chance to try this language hack for the first time when I moved to Guangdong. I already had considerable experience with Mandarin, but Guangdong is the Cantonese home-world. Many of the people here speak Cantonese as their mother tongue. They were only too happy to teach me Cantonese through Mandarin.
An added bonus of this language hack, is that it can open the door for you to access other teachers and language partners who don’t speak your native language! Case in point: I have learned some Cantonese with native Cantonese speakers, who could speak Mandarin, but not English, precisely because my Mandarin was solid. Without my Mandarin ability, it would have been extremely hard to learn from them. It would have been more like being thrown in the deep end of a total immersion experience.
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Simple Hacks To Accelerate Your Language Learning In Less Time
