Archive for March, 2008

How to Learn a Foreign Language: Self Hypnosis Will Help You Learn

You can learn a foreign language with the help of self-hypnosis. This learning approach is effective whether you want to learn French, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Spanish, or any other dialect. You have the ability to peel away your dependency on the English language, allowing you to learn new words and phrases naturally as if you were taking a tutorial overseas.

Your international understanding of languages can be helpful in your travels and encounters with people from other countries. You can become fluent in translation and communicate without using a translating diary. The lessons you learn with the support of hypnosis are carried with you.

Learning Self Help

This self-help approach is very effective because it works past your normal patterns of thought to reach your subconscious. There, you are able to acquire languages naturally without the interference of your conscious mind. Consider the nature of learning a new dialect as you explore this option.

Young children are apt to pick up a second or third language effortlessly because they do not have the inner doubt and mental blocks that adults do. As you get older, the learning process becomes more difficult because your thought patterns are already set in place. You also lose the neurological pathways necessary for the acquisition of new dialects.

Learn Foreign Language

Self-hypnosis is a viable approach because it helps you work through your subconscious mind. You can make the appropriate connections between the words and phrases without struggling with your preset notions and patterns of thought. This process takes you back to a less restricted frame of mind.

Rote memorization is a low form or cognitive learning. The basic approach of stark memorization can be tiring and you are less likely to recall as much information. You can recite words and phrases through your conscious efforts but this is exhausting and very time consuming.

Hypnosis Guides

Hypnosis serves as a wonderful guide to help you relax. This opens your subconscious mind, allowing it to absorb the new language as naturally and effortlessly as a young child does. You have the ability to learn any foreign dialect with the support and guidance of self-hypnosis.

This approach is effective in exams stress help, improved memory and other forms of learning as well. There are many benefits to using this form of guidance in your efforts to acquire new information without painful memorization drills and without anxiety.

Steve G Jones, M.Ed. offers his valuable educational insight in the recording found here – Learn Foreign Language. Another helpful composition found here – Exams Stress Help – by legendary hpnotherapist Duncan McColl offers guidance and support to help you retain the new information. Other excellent selections can be found here – Learning Self Help. Just click on the links for more information.



By: J Seymour

About the Author:

J Seymour writes for a number of hypnosis and NLP related websites such as http://www.selfhelprecordings.com – an online self hypnosis shop based in the USA, http://www.justbewell.com – a site in the UK which both offers one to one hypnotherapy sessions and hosts a self hypnosis recordings shop, and http://www.hypnotherapy-nlp-treatments.com – a hypnotherapy and NLP site based in Ireland.



What Does Age Have To Do With Learning A Foreign Language?

I learned Spanish when I was 22. I had graduated from college as a Math teacher and had no plans of ever being bilingual. I had taken 4 years of French in high school and hated it.

When I made the decision to study Spanish, no one believed me. (Just for reference, this was in 1982, a time when learning foreign languages wasn’t a big deal in the US). Their reaction was along the lines of, “Your time has already come and gone.” In other words, for others, age was a factor.

To make a long story short, I became fluent, got certified as a Spanish teacher and had a chance to quiet the naysayers.

What did I think back when people told me I had “missed the boat” as far as learning a foreign language was concerned? I usually got depressed and anxious. After all, I didn’t know anyone else who had learned Spanish after graduating college.

I was influenced by what people said. I’m sure others in the same position ended up quitting. Luckily for me, I didn’t.

A lot of time has passed since I learned Spanish. Nowadays, there are more and more people studying languages in Adult Ed. classes and online. Yet, I still hear a lot of comments from people who would love to speak another language but feel it’s too late.

When I ask them what they mean by “it’s too late,” they usually come up with things like:

- your brain doesn’t capture language after a certain age.

- your brain can’t hear the language.

- your brain can’t process as quickly, etc.

The list could go on and on. Unfortunately, when I ask them where they got their information, they don’t have an answer. They don’t know where they heard it but they are convinced it’s true.

Perhaps if they knew of a study in 2001 by the Foreign Service Institute which found that adults have an advantage in becoming bilingual, they would change their minds. The reason is simple: Adults have already “learned how to learn.”

According to the study, “A motivated adult with reasonably good language- learning skills in a good instructional program will develop a set of core grammatical structures and a range of useful vocabulary faster and more firmly than children will.”

I don’t know if I’d go so far as to say that adults have an advantage but it is definitely not the disadvantage that so many believe it is.

Naturally, children have a more carefree attitude towards making mistakes and that helps them progress quicker. But any adult can adopt the same attitude a child has. After all, you ARE learning a second language! You’re the one that is stretching yourself to learn something new. That should be a point of pride. And mistakes are part of the learning process.

In conclusion, if you are interested in learning a foreign language, make sure that you take into consideration the time you have, the interest level and the resources.

And don’t think for a minute about your age!



By: Jim Sarris

About the Author:

Jim Sarris is a veteran Spanish teacher and the author of a new ebook/audio series “The Secret to Learning Any Language.” Visit his blog to obtain free information and learn about other resources to help you learn faster and easier than ever.Language learning made easy.