3 Of The Best Language Learning Books (Fluent Forever, Becoming Fluent, Fluency Made Achievable)

[@dariastartseva9802]

Kerstin, it was magnificent, thanks a lot!! Unfortunately, I was not able to find your notes about this book((

[@javieruriel]

KERSTIN HAMMES thanks a lot for your advices.

[@tarcisioenglishlearner5143]

Excellent tips. Kerstin, you are a fantastic English teacher. You speak very clearly and you are so talented. Thank you for this video and books.

[@fluentlanguage]

Thank you for the comment, very much appreciated :)

[@albertoolpimo3150]

the 3 books are Fluency Made Achievable: The Fluent Guide to Core Language Skills author: Kerstin Hammes Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Becoming Fluent: How Cognitive Science Can Help Adults Learn a Foreign authors: Richard Roberts, Roger J. Kreuz Publisher: MIT Press Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It author: Gabriel Wyner Publisher: Harmony

[@fluentlanguage]

It's true!

[@hayesdabney]

Thanks!

[@cylt5113]

Point 2 is interesting. I do agree with it on the whole. Children and adults go through pretty much the same stages of language learning and it is possible for an adult to naturally acquire a language but more likely and probably more efficient to use adult strategies. Point 3 won't hold up in Wales, but apparently, neither does Grimm's Law or Universal Grammar. The book is right though. Your first language is a great tool for helping you learn your next.

[@saberliberta]

I highly recommend THE LOOM OF LANGUAGE

[@cylt5113]

Hardest language to learn. It either depends on the individual or it it one's first language.

[@femmeNikita27]

Well it also depends on the structure of the language. I would say Finnish and Turkish objectively speaking are amongst the world's hardest for sure. Finnish due to many conjungations. Turkish due to it's aglutative specific (even some native speakers of it admit that they cannot imagine themselves learning turkish as adults as L2). some languages have dificult prononuciation, some different logic from Western languages- like Chinese, some are tonal so adult Europeans do not hear them properly etc. Sure Your native language matters since for an English speaker Japanese might seems easier than Chinese but for a native speaker of Korean from the North of Korea actually Chinese will be easier than Japanese. However none of this doesn't change the fact that objectively speaking Chinese is difficult since one will have to master at least 6000 sings to learn this language while to learn any European foreign language people usually have to learn merely 1500- 3000 words. So the workload from the start for a learner of chinese is really significantly larger in terms of its volume than in any other European second language someone could choose to learn instead of tryning to learn chinese.

[@andrewjgrimm]

You commented on Gabe's reasons for learning languages, and you said they weren't your reasons for learning languages - if it's ok to ask, what are yours?

[@fluentlanguage]

Thanks for your comment. The reasons change with the language, for Welsh (I've been learning for 2.5 years) it started with the beautiful words and sounds, and evolved to wanting to connect with the UK more as my chosen resident country, and right now it's also becoming about keeping going with a long project. I might a little more nerdy about language/words/etymology, and a little less focused on what I can do with the language. But then, Gabe and I have plenty in common! By the way I've recently spoken to Gabe again, you can find the interview at www.fluentlanguage.co.uk/blog/gabriel-wyner-is-not-a-robot-a-conversation-with-gabriel-wyner