ENHANCE YOUR LINGUISTIC ABILITIES: Learn the French language
This discussion will revolve around learning languages in tandem with memory techniques.
Learning foreign languages can be ideal for employing memory techniques. Vocabulary learning often involves associating a meaningless collection of syllables with a word in your mother tongue. The traditional method employed repetition i.e., saying the word in your mother tongue and the foreign language again, again and again. This is no doubt a tedious method. An improvement to this approach will be:-
- Associating the word with an object – for instance, the French equivalent of rug/carpet is tapis – if you imagine a beautiful carpet and then associate the word tapis with it, the learning process is hastened. Similarly, the French equivalent for teasing is taquiner. Associate this with your friend teasing you.
- List out the most important words to learn.
In most languages, once you have a mastery over a few hundred words, it can cater to a majority of your basic needs in that language. However, if your objective is professional standards in the chosen language, you will need to put in greater efforts.
- Structuring your recalls:
By coding the words with objects, you can create a comfortable structure for your recalls. The foreign word for a book can be associated with a book on the bookshelf and a shirt with a tailor or a horse with the race course etc.
We have thus seen some of the techniques that can be employed gainfully to help you learn not only the French language, but also several other languages.
Learning French language has been rendered easy by various internet platforms. You can choose between various offerings like audio, video, CD, mp3 or even virtual class room formats to enter the learning mode. But, in self learning, you set your schedules, you allot the time, and you decide the pace of learning too. During the process of learning, unlike in physical classes, you will never be taunted nor would you be goaded. The distinctions you achieve, or the grades that you can reach also will remain within the portal, unless you opt to print them out.
Once you master the French language, it can not only take you places, but also glitter to your resume. Recruiters would always keep an eye open for the languages column and when they find that you have a couple of foreign languages under your collar, you will certainly be reckoned as a cut above the rest. Languages once learned must be practiced at frequent intervals, if not on a daily basis. Languages also offer a number of career options which can be explored even when other engagements become difficult or unavailable. Translation, Travel & Tourism are some of the areas where your knowledge of languages can come in handy. |
