How I Teach Foreign Languages To Beginning Foreign Language Students

I introduce a foreign language to a student by giving him or her audio sectons in the language to listen to so that the student can learn the strange sounds and how to pronounce or make the different sounds themselves. The listening and repeating allows the student to confidently develop the language in its native sounds before continuing. As the student begins to hear and say the new strange sounds, he or she begins to hear repeated groups of sounds and starts to understand the meanings of those sounds. Learning a language is turning sounds into meanings. After repeated listening to reinforce the learning, the student learns how to spell the vocabulary words as well as begins to pick up the words by reading, again reinforcing the knowledge and meanings of the words, so they don't forget. When the student learns the meaning of a word, the student also learns sayings which use those words as repetitioin and added reinforcement of the word's meaning. Then the student learns the different forms of the same words, showing for example the different times or tenses or of the same words such as singular or plural of things, or the present, past or future expressions of the same words which show action (present, past or future times), or even the version of the word that shows wishing, or politeness in expressing the same base, word sounds. The student learns how to express the idea of if someone would or could do something. After the student begins to form a habit of communicating in the language, the student begins to understand the pattern of why the word changes as it does when the native speaker changes the words the way they do. Once a student learns the language the student hears the sounds frequently repeated to secure his or her memory of what he or she is learing, and then begins to learn about new ares of conversation and subject matter interests-