Hi Rob, thanks so much for your comment! I’m a language teacher and instructor and have even written a few books telling people about language learning, but I always maintain this: There is no single one HOW. Here’s how I learnt my languages: I went to the classes in school, paid attention, wrote many many vocab lists, made an idiot out of myself in conversations with native speakers and listened to a lot of music from my target culture. I speak any time I get the chance.

My English sounds native-like and that’s only because I’ve learnt it for 22 years.

My French comes to me easily – 19 years.

My Spanish and Italian – well…I’m not as good and that’s because I didn’t stick with them in the same way. The best tip I have for you is not about the HOW, it’s about the DO IT. That’s why it’s so difficult to share a “how”.

I really love your question and your feedback. Hope you can pop by on the blog and check out my much more detailed articles.

Thanks for the comment.

I appreciate the feedback.

No, there’s no how-to information in these interviews. They’re about something else.

There’s already so much info on how to learn languages on this and other sites that I wanted to do something different.

I agree with you that there’s no method to be learned from these interviews, but I disagree that they’re not inspiring. Almost every interviewee talks about how their life improved massively because of speaking other languages.

And that’s the idea behind the series: to show you the incredible benefits of learning another language.

If you have any specific idea how I can better accomplish that, then I’m always open to suggestions.

Anyway, there’s more how to information coming soon. Just as you like it. 🙂

Thanks
Noel

HOW did she accomplish learning languages? What methods were useful? What were not?

These questions have some meat on them. They help the reader.