Fluent in 3 Months: How Anyone at Any Age Can Learn to Speak Any Language from Anywhere in the World

Live a New Life for Every Language
You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only
one language, you live only once.
—C
ZECH PROVERB
As you have seen in this chapter, I highly recommend you focus on just one
language at a time. You may have a goal to take on multiple specific
languages, but take your time and make sure you know one very well before
you go on to the next one, and you’ll be on the road to multilingualism.
Some of the people I mentioned in this chapter and elsewhere in the
book have written or made videos extensively about their own learning
approaches. In many particular cases they agree with me, and in some cases
they branch off and offer alternative advice. This is a good thing! There is
no one true way to learn one or many languages, so I would encourage you
to investigate other polyglots’ language learning advice and see what jives
best with you and your goals.
For a list of interesting polyglots and hyperpolyglots, videos of them,
and links to their work, and to discover more about their learning
approaches and their advice for picking up languages, check out the follow-
up to this chapter online at fi3m.com/ch–9.

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CHAPTER 10

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Free and Cheap Language Learning 2.0
Study a new language beyond spoken practice sessions with
invaluable—and mostly free—resources.
I
t’s time to discuss the final piece of the puzzle missing from your
language learning artillery—the tools you need to study and learn with.
One of the first things people ask when learning a language is what
courses they should buy. The good news is that you can actually start
learning your language today, right now, for free or at very little cost. As
you have seen in most of this book, language courses are greatly
overshadowed by my advice to use the language, ideally with another
human being—and conversational practice can be found in many instances
for free. Even in this final chapter, I don’t want to present some particular
course as able to solve all your problems, but I will discuss other resources
for learning a language and improving your skills in that language.
You can get started right away by creating your language learning logs,
learning conversational connectors, using good free online dictionaries,
finding interesting examinations to take in order to motivate you to push
toward a particular level, and implementing spaced repetition learning. And,
finally, you can expose yourself to genuine native content in that language.