Tips Kato Lomb - professional translator, with an impressive 16 languages.
Kato Lomb - Hungarian translator, writer, one of the first interpreters in the world.Among the languages that she had: English, Bulgarian, Danish, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Latin, German, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Ukrainian, French, Japanese.
for all mastering one or another foreign language Lomb has formulated 10 commandments.It draws attention the fact that most of the languages that had Kathy she mastered independently, working solely with textbooks and fiction in the target language.His method of learning the language, she outlined in the book "How I learn languages."At the heart of its approach is the principle of "total immersion in the language": Grammar in parallel with the development of reading original texts and memorizing set phrases, the most commonly used in speech.In the book "How I learn languages," she formulated ten rules for language learning:
1. study the language on a daily basis.If absolutely no time, at least ten minutes.Especially good to engage in the morning.
2. If you desire to engage in too quickly weakened, not "boost", but do not drop out.Think of some other form: put down the book and listen to the radio, leave the tutorial exercises and look through a dictionary, etc.
3. Never bison does not learn anything alone, out of context.
4. Write out the queue and memorize all the "ready-made phrases" that can be used to the greatest possible number of cases.
5. Try to mentally translate all that is possible: advertising board flashed the inscription on the poster, scraps of overheard conversations.It's always a rest, even for a tired head.
6. learns stands firmly only that the teacher corrected.Not read their own uncorrected exercises: with repeated reading of the text is stored unconsciously with all possible errors.If you are doing one, you learn only known right.
7. Ready phrases, idioms write out and remember in the first person singular.For example: «I am only pulling your leg» (I'll just tease).
8. Foreign Language - a fortress, which is necessary to attack from all sides at the same time: reading newspapers, listening to radio, watching dubbed movies, visiting lectures in a foreign language, study of the textbook, correspondence, meetings and conversations with friends - native speakers.
9. Do not be afraid to say, do not be afraid of possible mistakes, and ask to be corrected.And most importantly, do not worry and do not be offended if you really start to correct.
10. Be absolutely sure that in whatever was reach the goal that you have a strong will and extraordinary aptitude for languages.
Kato Lomb offered a simple formula that determines the result in the development of language:
elapsed time + interest = result or if it is a little to clarify (the elapsed time + interest) / tightness (fear of making a mistake) = result
And finally... when 86 -year-old Kato Lomb met her 54-year-old friend, she said crucial to his life sentence: "Steve, you're so young!So many years to come, so many languages to learn more! ".
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