How To Improve Your Communication Skills In A Foreign Language And Taste Something Extraordinary
Is it traveling that you’ve thought this title is about? Perhaps sometimes there is more than just one meaning. Unlike discovering a new language in the country where it’s spoken, doing the same at home seems too complicated. So, before we move to the list of tips that can actually help you improve your communication skills in a foreign language, we should teach you how to measure the unmeasurable.
Willingness and interest are too abstract, but they are the key factors when it comes to learning a new language. The best way to measure those things is to count how many hours a day you’ve spent learning without noticing the time. If you almost push yourself to learn something, then you should change your studying ways. One of the most effective methods is a speaking process itself. Practicing each day tunes your mind to thinking in the targeted language. Here is how you can accelerate your communication skills not even leaving your house.
1. Find A Group Where You Can Share Your Viewpoints
You can seek for some groups of similar interests that generate long discussions. It can be simply a group of dog owners who ask for or give recommendations about training and feeding of their pets. Sometimes there are groups that can be even open to view before you join them. Use this chance to study their chat history. Check the discussed issues, topics, the involvement of participants, and the tone of a current dispute. Ascertain that the group you join can capture your interest and even teach you how to stand your ground.
2. Get To The Cooking Classes From A Native Speaker
Let’s say you are currently attending lessons of an Spanish tutor online, and you start working on the food topic. Note that this example can be applicable to any language. Normally, a tutor should encourage you to study eating habits of Italians and their national cuisine.
However, it will be better if you cook one of the national meals yourself. It can be a simple salad but it will become a good prompt to begin talking in the targeted language in your kitchen. It’s a widespread fact when people comment all the preparation processes when they cook. Yet, if you aren’t one of them you’d better get used to a new habit because it will be beneficial for your speaking skills.
You can start with watching a video and spending some time on the translation of ingredients. Then name them quietly when you select them at the market. At home, you can repeat aloud all the step-wise processes mentioning the same ingredients. Eventually, you may notice how enthusiastic you have become about cooking and national food of a particular country. In this case, you may follow video channels of famous chefs like Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsey, and others. However, it will be more useful if you have online or in-class cooking lessons with a native speaker. Thus, you will have a live communication not actually focused on the intentional language learning. Also, it will be a good chance to taste something extraordinary.
For those who prefer to eat cooked meals by someone else, I recommend the next point.
3. Encourage Your Partner, Sibling, Or Friend To Join Your Practice
Not everyone can use this option because sometimes you are the only one in the family who devotes all the free time to Japanese. Yet, if you are that lucky learner, use a chance to practice at home. Make an agreement with a close person and have language evenings or mornings first. Then allocate the whole day for practicing your language. Even when you text the person or ask about some urgent issue on the phone, or exchange a few phrases in a taxi, do not switch to your mother tongue under any circumstances.
In conclusion, try to use any opportunity you have to speak and use the words you are trying to memorize. Creative learning of a language optimizes the whole process and boosts speaking skills of a person.
