Learning a new language beyond grammar

“The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.”– Ludwig Wittgenstein

Acquiring second or more languages shouldn't be just memorizing grammar, but you'd have to start living on it. For example, being interactive with real natives of the particular language that you're learning is imperative. This is how you will be introduced to the culture, idioms, expressions, and so much more.

Many of us dream of being able to effortlessly converse in many languages. Let’s face it — multilingualism is a widely desired trait. It’s a key that unlocks new cultures and ways of thinking. The benefits are numerous: speaking a second language increases cognitive abilities like problem-solving, creativity, and memory. Quite frankly, becoming and being bilingual actually makes you smarter! You will also become deeply connected with the rest of the world.

Normally, when we’re learning second language; we often do grammatical drills and practices. However, scientific researches have found effective ways to naturally acquire new language as a second or more languages. According to Dr. Pimsleur, “children learn language the way we were meant to—by listening, that’s because we are hardwired to remember sounds and store then in our memory automatically.” Through Dr. Pimsleur’s research, traditional teaching pedagogies might slow our ability to acquire any language effectively and become self-sufficient.

As a matter of fact, it is essential to breathe in the language by watching, listening, and being around native people to practice with them. This makes the language more to become fun and naturally flow than picking up textbooks and spending countless hours of studying grammars, vocabulary, and so on. Of course, we need to study certain functions of the language such as the alphabets and semantics, but going into deeper isn’t useful at all to become conversational proficient.

Becoming proficient or fluent in another language is combination of two things, effort and immersing yourself with the language almost everyday. For example, plan out how you’ll study on your own with the natives, rather than studying on your own. Perhaps, you live somewhere that particular language doesn’t exist anyone to practice with. Don’t worry, there are best venues; remember we live in a global village era. For instance, social media such as Facebook or YouTube platforms are super useful to utilize as social media.

Whenever you’ve the time and money, plan to live abroad for at least three months. Adapting to another way of life will help you to persuade since we are social beings. This will force you to get out your comfort zone to communicate with people around you who might not speak your native language. Language learning is about compromise and developing yourself inner peace to understand how will this change your way of life.

Putting in effort doesn’t mean only studying 24/7, but building rapport and lasting relationship with the language, it's cultural roots, and more. Whenever we experience how to live peacefully with something; we’ll tend to remember when we get frustrated or down because we’ve built that relationship from the get go. Everything has methods of doing, and acquiring a new skill is just like that

More than ever, speaking a second language or being a multilingual person is just a valuable source, and no one cannot take this power from you. I and millions of bilinguals can elucidate the significance of communicating and thinking creatively in different languages will place you in another level of a critical thinker is. Please don’t take a moment to learn another language even before it’s too late, but wait it is never too late to learn anything. We are lifelong beings and that’s what makes this world heaven for mankind.