Description

Fluent Forever (Revised Edition): How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It by Gabriel Wyner is a comprehensive guide to language acquisition, drawing on neuroscience and linguistics to create an efficient and enjoyable learning process. Wyner, who speaks six languages fluently, shares his discovered techniques, emphasizing pronunciation, avoiding translation, and utilizing spaced repetition systems. The book aims to help readers build a foreign language from the ground up, starting with pronunciation and progressing to vocabulary and grammar, all while making the words stick and enabling readers to think in a foreign language.

The ultimate rapid language-learning guide!
For those who’ve despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick.
At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently.
In Fluent Forever Wyner reveals what he’s discovered.
The greatest challenge to learning a foreign language is the challenge of memory; there are just too many words and too many rules.
Fluent Forever tackles this challenge head-on.
With empathy for the language-challenged and abundant humor, Wyner deconstructs the learning process, revealing how to build a foreign language in your mind from the ground up.
Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds.
You'll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors.
Next, you'll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery, rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language.
And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you'll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day.
Soon, you'll gain the ability to learn grammar and more difficult abstract words--without the tedious drills and exercises of language classes and grammar books.
This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.

Specifications:

print_length: 387 pages
language: English
publisher: Harmony
publication_date: August 5, 2014
file_size: 41.6 MB
enhanced_typesetting: Enabled
x_ray: Enabled
word_wise: Enabled
page_flip: Enabled
asin: B00IBZ405W
isbn_10: 0385348105
isbn_13: 978-0385348102

Description

The ultimate rapid language-learning guide!
For those who’ve despaired of ever learning a foreign language, here, finally, is a book that will make the words stick.
At thirty years old, Gabriel Wyner speaks six languages fluently.
In Fluent Forever Wyner reveals what he’s discovered.
The greatest challenge to learning a foreign language is the challenge of memory; there are just too many words and too many rules.
Fluent Forever tackles this challenge head-on.
With empathy for the language-challenged and abundant humor, Wyner deconstructs the learning process, revealing how to build a foreign language in your mind from the ground up.
Starting with pronunciation, you’ll learn how to rewire your ears and turn foreign sounds into familiar sounds.
You'll retrain your tongue to produce those sounds accurately, using tricks from opera singers and actors.
Next, you'll begin to tackle words, and connect sounds and spellings to imagery, rather than translations, which will enable you to think in a foreign language.
And with the help of sophisticated spaced-repetition techniques, you'll be able to memorize hundreds of words a month in minutes every day.
Soon, you'll gain the ability to learn grammar and more difficult abstract words--without the tedious drills and exercises of language classes and grammar books.
This is brain hacking at its most exciting, taking what we know about neuroscience and linguistics and using it to create the most efficient and enjoyable way to learn a foreign language in the spare minutes of your day.