Teach Yourself a Foreign Language

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Welcome to Teach Yourself a Foreign Language, a practical guide containing the skills and strategies you need to learn any language as effectively and quickly as possible. Whether this is your first time or you’ve already started, this guide will provide you with the essential tools to take you from an absolute beginner through to the upper-intermediate stages.

This guide does not contain the perfect technique to learn a language (such a thing doesn’t exist). Nor will I focus on what I do personally. Instead, I’ve distilled the best insights and strategies from language learners around the world and packaged them in a way that is practical, insightful, and easy to follow.

The approach is simple: start with the essentials. You don’t need to read the full guide before you begin learning. If you are new to language learning, the main chapter is Resources, but I recommend you read at least until the end of Activities—that’s just a few pages. However, if you’d like a more solid foundation, I recommend you read on after that. You don’t need to read the chapters in order, and you can skip around based on your preference.

Becoming Conversational in Lots of Languages—Some people like to learn lots of languages less deeply, and this section shows you how it’s done