TED：6个月学会1门外语
How can you help a normal adult learn a new language quickly, easily and effectively?
怎样才能帮助成年人快速、轻松且高效地学会一门外语？
There are four words, attention, meaning, relevance and memory, and these interconnect in very important ways, especially when you’re talking about learning。
当我们谈论学习的时候，有4个词很重要——注意力、意思、和自己相关、记忆力，而且ta们之间还会相互作用。
5 principles
学外语的5个原则
1. Focus on language content that is relevant to you.
专注在和你自己相关的语言上。
2. Use your new language as a tool to communicate from day one.
从学习的第一天起，就把这门外语当作沟通的工具。
3. When you first understand the message, you will unconsciously acquire the language.
先试着去理解意思，你会在无形中学习到语言。
4. Language is about physiological training.
语言是生理上的训练。
5. Psychological state matters.
心理状态很重要。
7 actions
学外语的7个行动
1. Listen a lot.
多听。
2. Get the meaning first before you learn the words.
先试着去理解意思，然后再学单词。
3. Start mixing.
(If you‘ve got ten verbs, ten nouns and ten adjectives you can say one thousand different things.)
排列组合单词。
（如果你学会了10个动词、10个名词、10个形容词，理论上你就有1000个表达了。）
4. Focus on the core.
(3000 English words gives you 98% of anything you‘re going to say in daily conversation.)
掌握核心单词。
（3000个英语单词足以覆盖日常用语的98%。）
5. Get a language parent.
找一位语言父母。
6. Copy the face.
模仿母语者发音时的面部肌肉运动。
7. Direct connect to mental images.
把外语单词直接和图像建立联系，而不是和你的母语单词建立联系。
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