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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Sue Hovey wondered why this material
was presented under another subject, and I responded to that
question separately. However, if for no other reason than being
able to more easily find these ideas as a responses to a future
search, I have replaced the prior subject line with another one,
out of the original context, which reflects the content of this
material.<br>
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I have added at the end a third link to a video by Professor
Alexander Arguelles within which he issues a language learning
challenge and offers suggestions concerning how the challenge
might be well-met.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid:500997E6.3080801@frontier.com" type="cite"> <font
size="2"><span style="RIGHT: auto"></span><span style="RIGHT:
auto"></span></font> Language learning can be done at any age.
It's true that younger people may have more facile learning
abilities because of less-developed language centers in their
brains and more energy to do everything, language learning
included. But that does not imply that adults can not, especially
via well-developed methods, learn languages to as effective and as
satisfactory levels of communicative ability as are desired.<br>
<br>
Methods used may vary somewhat depending on personal preferences,
but generally a method that follows natural language acquisition
patterns will work best if followed consistently. The natural
method consists of listening to hear all of the sounds used within
a language, whether or not those sounds have been previously
learned for another or native tongue, and then reproducing those
sounds through speaking words, phrases, sentences, and
conversations with those sounds as a part of the speech. After a
learner can reproduce all of a language's sounds, and can converse
at a elementary level with a modest vocabulary, then vocabulary
building can be emphasized through readings and more advanced
conversations. After some reasonable level of oral and verbal
fluency has been achieved, then the student can start learning
more about the language by beginning and practicing writing in
that language.<br>
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There is an active, and growing, natural language learning
community on the Internet, especially YouTube, comprised of
individuals who are actively pursuing multilingual capabilities
for themselves. By way of introduction, I will mention just a
couple of web sites for people interested in learning languages,
multilingualism, polyglottery, and polyliteracy:<br>
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The How to Learn Any Language site, including various language
forums:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html">http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html</a>
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The Foreign Language Expertise site, created and maintained by Dr.
Alexander Arguelles:<br>
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<a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/">http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/</a>
</blockquote>
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Spanish French Italian German<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbVdrw43QZU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbVdrw43QZU</a> <br>
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<br>
Ken<br>
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