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| | | | How to Learn Any Language 53 English The mere fact that you’re reading these words right now calls for self congratulations. It means you’re fluent in the winner, the international language, the number one language of all time! When a Soviet plane approaches the airport in China, the pilot and the control tower don’t speak Russian to each other. They don’t speak Chinese. They …… How to Learn Any Language 52 Indonesian Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim nation. Consisting of hundreds of islands spread out over a South Pacific area the size of the United States, Indonesia is easily the largest country in the world about which the most other people in the world know the least. With enough mineral wealth in the ground to make it an economic superpower, Indonesi…… How to Learn Any Language 51 Swedish, Danish, Norwegian The Scandinavian languages are lumped together because of their similarity and the reliability with which natives of one Scandinavian country can deal with the languages of the others. That similarity is something for you to know and enjoy, not something for you to mention to the Scandinavians themselves. They’re horrified when outsiders…… How to Learn Any Language 50 Japanese Like Chinese, Japanese conversation is fairly easy, but the written language is complicated. In wartime, America turned out interpreters in Japanese and Chinese at a satisfa ctory rate by going straight for the spoken language and ignoring the written language completely. You may be tempted to do the same. Certainly you can prioritise the ability to speak and unde…… How to Learn Any Language 49 Chinese Chinese is actually more of a life involvement than a language you choose to study. When you’re in your easy chair studying, Chinese has more power to make you forget it’s dinner time than any other language. It has more power to draw you out of bed earlier than necessary to sneak in a few more moments of study. There’s simply more there. More pe…… How to Learn Any Language 48 German Germany didn’t leave us a world of colonies where people still speak German, but they may as well have. In addition to being the principal language of Germany, Austria, and one of the three main languages of Switzerland, German is, surprisingly, the language most natives will try first on foreigners when they come visiting in Hungary, Yugoslavia, Czechoslova…… How to Learn Any Language 47 Spanish Spanish seems to be the “natural” second language for Americans, owing to our proximity to the Spanish-speaking centres of North, Central, and South America and the growing prevalence of Spanish in our country. It’s easier for Americans to speak good Spanish than good French. It’s a more phonetic language and you don’t have the prob…… How to Learn Any Language 46 Farber’s Language Reviews We have such things as theatre reviews, movie reviews, books reviews, and restaurant reviews to help trusting readers decide which plays, movies, books, and restaurants are worth their time and money. So here’s a series of language reviews – thumbnail sketches of some of the major languages of the world with comments on th…… How to Learn Any Language 45 The Principal Languages of the World Source: Sidney S. Culbert, University of Washington, Seattle, Wash. 98195 Total number of speakers (native plus nonnative) of languages spoken by at least one million persons (midyear 1989) Language &…… How to Learn Any Language 44 The Language Club In 1984 some of us language lovers decided that, although there were plenty of places in New York to learn foreign languages, there were no places to go to practice foreign languages. Sure, you can let fly a greeting in Italian and a request for red pepper at the pizzaria and practice similar performances at even the busiest French restaurant, but there …… How to Learn Any Language 43 To Speak or Not to Speak Be neither too boorish nor too reticent with your new knowledge. Don’t go barrelling in with scant command of a language if doing so causes ungainly delays in a busy restaurant. Neither should you let shyness deny you a good opportunity to send a few volleys of conversation across the net. Don’t be like the beginner who took his party…… How to Learn Any Language 43 To Speak or Not to Speak Be neither too boorish nor too reticent with your new knowledge. Don’t go barrelling in with scant command of a language if doing so causes ungainly delays in a busy restaurant. Neither should you let shyness deny you a good opportunity to send a few volleys of conversation across the net. Don’t be like the beginner who took his party…… How to Learn Any Language 42 Reward-and-Denial Games There is a clever way to speed learning. Impose little discipline games on yourself geared to bringing you back to the language often throughout the day for short periods that can’t possibly get in your way. Don’t let yourself have the first cup of coffee until you review ten of the words you learned yesterday. Permit yourself dessert …… How to Learn Any Language 41 Last Words Before the Wedding It is my hope that this volume will help those who’ve never yet dared to make the commitment, march to the altar, and “marry” another language. If you’ve already studied other languages, perhaps tried for years with di SAPpointing results, let’s look at your next effort as a second marriage, fortified, thi…… How to Learn Any Language 40 FORMS OF ADDRESS English is deceptively easy in forms of address. Everybody in second person singular and plural is you. Your spouse is you. Your four year old child is you. Your interior decorator is you. The President of the United States is you. Your cocker spaniel is you. In almost every other language, speakers differentiate, sometimes sharply, between the FAMILIAR……
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