Learning a new language

zhan — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 00:45:38 +0800

Greetings all. Recently, I'm gradually understand the importance of language in our life which I previously did not take note of this before.

Especially to people who are in sales or marketing line that requires a lot of communication on language with clients and customers.

With an extra proficiency in language would definitely bring no harm but extra benefit to us.

What is language?

Language is defined as the communication of thoughts and feelings through a system of arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols. (Adopted from: http://www.answers.com/topic/language)

Without language, we can hardly can get others to understand us or our thoughts. However, many people (including myself) thinks that learning a new language is not easy and find it very easy to give up on picking up the new language.

For instance, one who is interested to learn Korean language would eventually purchase some Korean for beginners self-study texts to have a look or sign up for short courses aiming to learn about the language. However, we live in a country that do not have korean-speaking culture. Consequently, it will not have actual practice using Korean language except in the say 2 miserable hours Korean classes only.

I created a new topic & hoping to hear from the gurus to share some tips and essentials steps to take note of when learning a language.

Also, feel free to share what language do you think is important for today's world? For example: Japanese.

Thank you.

P/S: I'm not sure if I'm posting a new topic at the right section. Moderators, please moved the topic if this is not the correct section.

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