There are many ways to learn a new language. The video summarizes the 7 most powerful ways we know to do that. 
  • “Drown Yourself to Swimming” Leave the comfort of your home and go to the place where they speak nothing but the language that you want to learn. 
  • Immersion “Perhaps easier and also effective is immersion or when you learn a new language through exposure and context.
  • Mnemonics Mnemonics, is a method to learn new vocabulary by creating an association that makes it easy to remember.
  • Scriptorium Scriptorium is an exercise in writing. Students write the language while simultaneously speaking it out loud.
  • Shadowing Shadowing is used to learn vocabulary. You listen to new words through headphones and try to repeat, to shadow them out loud as quickly as you can.
  • Tech and Apps If you want to learn a new language , but you don’t have anybody who can help, check out whats available online.
  • Get a Studybuddy 

Why Foreign Language

There are multiple reasons for learning other languages.  At the most basic level, you learn a secondary language to speak, read, write, and understand the language.  Perhaps more importantly you learn other languages, and cultures, to understand and communicate with others.  Language is the portal to other ways of seeing our world and the people that live in it. Only 20% of the world speaks English.  Learning about others cultures and speaking, reading, and writing in other languages will allow you to interact with the other 80% of the world. ​

Language & Culture

Culture is inextricably linked to language; that is to say, without language, culture cannot be completely acquired nor can it be effectively expressed and transmitted. And without culture, language cannot exist.
 Language and culture are so interconnected that it is difficult to define the parameters of language and culture, and whether language impacts culture or vice-versa. 

Language Families

Nearly everybody can communicate, and most do so through some form of language, and yet the question of where language came from is one of the most difficult questions in science. Psychologist and author, Michael Corballis explores the many theories of language's origins, including his own, and details how language and communication have continued to evolve, from primates' use of gestures, to the advent of communicative technologies.​