How To Train Your Brain To Learn A Language

Simple steps to help you achieve conversational fluency.

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How often have you tried to learn a new language, and then quit because you found it to be difficult?

For the longest time, I often stopped learning a language because nothing seemed to be working, and I couldn’t remember anything apart from the French translations for “Hello” and “Thank You.”

I was stuck. No matter how hard I tried, my attempts to learn a foreign language always failed. But while reading Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl, I came across the following quote, which forever changed the direction of my language learning journey:

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms — to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

I realized that I could give up on my dream of being able to speak another language, or I could alternatively find techniques that train my brain to learn more efficiently.

So below are a collection of methods that I’ve used to learn several languages and achieve conversational fluency within a matter of weeks. Apply these to…