Jimmie Said:

What are the best steps to follow when learning a new language?

We Answered:

1. learn words and what their means
2. Speak words
3. Gramatic , how to write learn
4. Speak with german
5. look at Deutch TV

Jessie Said:

What's the first thing you should do when learning a new language?

We Answered:

What really helps (and I'm sure you've already taken this step) is to spend a while with a Tagalog-speaking Filipino. That way, (if you listen carefully enough, and are eager to learn it) you'll know a few basics. Tell them to speak it to you all the time, as if you knew it fluently as well, whether it be your Mom, Dad, Brother, Sister, Aunt, or Uncle.

Next, you want to start taking notes on it. You can find Tagalog dictionaries online or at book stores. Look up important words and phrases you want to learn. Then practice them each day, and try to make them a part of your life.

After that, you want to get deeper into the language. Once you're comfortable with the basics, and you can form many different simple phrases, then you can move on to the rest of the language. Ask Tagalog speakers "How do you say ________?" Keep filling your mind with the language, and make it the main language you speak (not to English speakers though, of course.) It might take months, or it might take years. But, if you're willing enough, and interested enough, I'm sure you will catch on quickly.

Also, if possible, you should visit the Philippines, and go to areas where Tagalog is most common, so your brain is surrounded with it.

Good luck! I'm fourteen years old, and I picked up on the Palauan language, and now I'm trying to learn Japanese.

Diane Said:

How can you make learning new words of a foreign language fun?

We Answered:

Hi,

You can turn it into a game. Flash cards work well. Write the target language word on one card and draw a picture on another. Pictures, not English, because if you write the English, that's what you'll think of. Place the cards blank side up and play "memory" (turn over 2 cards at a time and try to make pairs). Or practice matching the pictures with the words and turn it into a competition against the clock. Once you start you'll come up with games of your own.

You can also just look at the foreign word cards and quiz yourself into English. Make 2 piles (the ones you know and the ones you don't) - it becomes a competition against yourself, and helps you focus on the words you don't know.
Finally look at just the pictures and try to translate into the foreign language. Same thing again: separate the ones you know from the ones you don't. You can see your own progress. Once you can translate INTO the foreign language, you're set!

Then you can have fun making the sentences, reading relatively simple books, stuff like that.
It also REALLY helps to find people who speak the language and hang out with them. There are a lot of groups that meet up in coffee shops for foreign language conversation. Immersion is really the best teacher and makes it much more fun.

It's great that you're able to work on this alone - it takes a lot of self-motivation and discipline. Good luck!

Nicole Said:

is learning new language means you are not loyal to your country?

We Answered:

WTF!!! :S
Either you grew up among a bonch of absurd nationalistics or you are too young adn watch too much TV.

I don't know where you are from, but I am sure there are other native languages in the place you live. If you are from Oklahoma, for example, would you fel not loyal for learning Wichita? (http://www.phrasebase.com/blog/tribal-la… )
If you live in Oklahoma, you are using a language that was brought by people from other country!

Loyalty to your country is a weird concept.

Olga Said:

How to get excited and motivated again about learning a new language?

We Answered:

I think you need to find a new language that relates to a culture you're particularly interested in and wouldn't mind moving to if you had to. There needs to be an underlying motive other than meeting new people or making money; something that binds you to that language and makes you really want to learn/speak it.