Polyglots Anonymous

Language Learning Tip #1—Start Off With The Right Attitude

Since this blog has just started, why not start these tips at the beginning of the language learning process? Before opening your first book, before listening to your first cassette or CD, before uttering your first word, you’ve got to start out with the right attitude.

Granted, if you’ve already opened, listened, or uttered, it’s still not too late to improve your attitude. That is, if it’s holding you back.

I won’t lie: learning a language is a lot of work. And it can be challenging at times, even for those of us who take immense pleasure in learning foreign languages. But it can be done.

Language Learning Tips—Intro

Over the next 17 years,* I’ll be posting various tips on how to learn foreign languages. Please note that these tips are mostly based on personal experience, although I might throw in something that might have helped others more than it has me. And although these tips will be numbered, they’re not meant to be followed in numerical order. And not all of them need to be followed.