Language Courses

Mastering a foreign language is usually marked by an ability to utter words and sentences the way a normal speaker would. Even when you’re not a native speaker, you can learn to speak it in a way that comes close to it.

While books, lessons and language learning software offer the best platform for learning a new language, mastering its pronunciation is usually best accomplished by tuning in to those who speak it well. As such, listening to native speakers on a regular basis will be the best activity you can take part in.

If you have access to them, try to converse with native speakers regularly. While it’s fine to practice with your peers on the same level as you, you’ll just end up acquiring each others mistakes, most of the time. Native speakers, can easily correct any pronunciation mistakes that you make, apart from being a treasure trove to listen to.

Listening to media in the foreign language – songs, movies, audiobooks and TV shows – are a great way to learn proper pronunciation. However, they usually work best when you already understand what the context behind the material is, so that you can focus on pronunciation. As such, it is recommended that you choose those materials with which you already have context, such as foreign dubs of movies you’ve already seen or English songs translated into another language.

Does that sound hard? Well, it is. Nobody said mastering a new language is going to be easy, right?

By: Laurianne Sumerset

About the Guest Author:

Welkomen! Or welcome to the foreign language courses in town. You may wish to learn a foreign language simply for the thrill of mastering a new tongue or for career enhancement. Learning a foreign language has a distinct advantage these days, especially when it comes to professional success. With the world becoming smaller, several jobs in the IT sector actually give preference to someone with basic knowledge of a foreign language, say German or Mandarin. Some institutes even offer a crash course, making you proficient enough to hail a taxi or exchange pleasantries with your business counterparts. We give you a list of some institutes across Bangalore where you can learn a foreign language.
Max Muller Bhavan

If you wish to learn German, the Goethe Institut at Max Mueller Bhavan offers several options, for beginners to advanced levels, from extensive to intensive and even super intensive courses. The regular extensive course for beginners extends to 10 weeks from Monday to Friday. Fees are Rs. 8,000 plus extra for books and CDs. If you wish to take part in international examinations after your course the charges are separate. They also have weekend courses available (Rs. 9,000) that continue for 15 weeks. If you want to learn your German fast enough, then opt for an intensive or semi intensive course. The material is the same. It’s just the length of the course that differs. It’s always fun to learn a language at an official institute like this as its varied range of programs and cultural activities exposes you to the language even more.

Alliance Fran

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