Using foreign language in the classroom

Manipulate your brain’s rewards center
With fun methods, your brain’s pleasure system is triggered constantly. It’s why we can scroll through dozens of funny cat pictures without getting bored, even though we’re doing nothing beneficial for our brain or body (except for absorbing cuteness).
Now, your brain will start to connect that positive feedback and pleasure with language learning.
Remove roadblocks
Sometimes you study so much that you actually start getting worse. Has this happened to you? This is a major complaint from near-fluent learners living abroad and encountering their target language in the real world for the first time.
They get paralyzed and don’t know what the heck they should even study.
How do you study things like understanding fast-talkers, low-talkers, mumblers, obscure colloquial expressions, little-known dialects and slang that became popular last month? You can’t learn that stuff by studying in the traditional sense.
Train your brain to live using your target language
Right now, your brain knows that it should be using your target language in specific situations, like when reading a textbook, watching a subtitled movie or chatting with a conversation partner. Now it’s time to train your brain to use that target language constantly in everyday life. That’s the next big step from student to fluent speaker.
Keep language fresh and current in your mind
Language is always evolving, along with popular culture, current events and more. Cultural references are constantly embedded in people’s language.
It’s not a guilty pleasure anymore—to be fluent you need to know about modern entertainment, leisure activities and humor found in your target language’s country. Any language learner knows: It royally sucks to miss out on jokes and references.
Transform everyday activities into language learning opportunities
Don’t just wait for designated study time to roll around. Some fun learning methods are based on things you already do regularly, like cooking and browsing the internet. Other methods help you redirect spare time to fun language practice time. By using these fun activities, you’ll be able to inject a little language learning into normal, everyday activities.