It’s easy to learn a foreign language. In learning a foreign language, there are basically 3 major methods:

The FIRST METHOD is the Mnemonics linking method. This method of learning a foreign language calls for you to link words. A perfect example of this method would be the linking of images to particular words. Here you are using images to link a word in your own language with a word in a foreign language. For example,

In learning English/French vocabulary:

* English: rug/carpet – French: tapis – Just imagine an ornate oriental carpet with a tap as the central design woven in it’s chrome threads.

* English: grumpy – French: grognon – That old grumpy man is groaning due to being irritated.

* English: to tease – French: taquiner – Why is that woman teasing her husband while washing her laundry.

The SECOND METHOD is the Mnemonic Town Language speaking method. This method is actually quite an elegant and effective mnemonic that manages to fuse sophisticated variants of the Roman Room system with the system I’ve described above.

This method in particular relies solely on whether or not the basic vocabulary of the language can relate directly to everyday things. What I mean by everyday things is, things that you can usually find in a city, town, or village. To utilize this technique, choose a town that you are very familiar with and use objects within that place as the cues to recall the images that link to foreign words.

The Nouns should be associated to the most relevant locations: for example, the image coding the foreign word for book could be associated with a book on a shelf in the library. You could associate the word for bread with an image of a loaf in a baker’s shop. Words for vegetables could be associated with parts of a display outside a greengrocer’s. Perhaps there is a farm just outside the town that allows all the animal name associations to be made.

The Adjectives can be associated with a garden or park within the town: words such as green, smelly, bright, small, cold, etc. can be easily related to objects in a park. Perhaps there is a pond there, or a small wood, or perhaps people with different characteristics are walking around.

The Verbs can most easily be associated with a sports center or playing field. This allows us all the associations of lifting, running, walking, hitting, eating, swimming, driving, etc.

In a language where gender plays of high importance, a very good method of remembering this is to divide your town into two main zones. In one zone you code information on masculine gender nouns, while in the other zone you code information on feminine nouns. Where the language has a neutral gender, then use three zones. You can separate these areas with busy roads, rivers, etc. To fix the gender of a noun, simply associate its image with a place in the correct part of town.

The THIRD METHOD consists of learning the 100 words which comprise of basically 50% of all the words used in a conversation, no matter what the language. Learning this core 100 words will allow you to go long way towards being able to speak in ANY language [http://www.squidoo.com/LearnAnotherLanguage] at a minimum of the basic level. The 100 basic words used in conversation are shown below:

1. A, an

2. After

3. Again

4. All

5. Almost

6. Also

7. Always

8. And

9. Because

10. Before

11. Big

12. But

13. (I) can

14. (I) come

15. Either/or

16. (I) find

17. First

18. For

19. Friend

20. From

21. (I) go

22. Good

23. Good-bye

24. Happy

25. (I) have

26. He

27. Hello

28. Here

29. How

30. I

31. (I) am

32. If

33. In

34. (I) know

35. Last

36. (I) like

37. Little

38. (I) love

39. (I) make

40. Many

41. One

42. More

43. Most

44. Much

45. My

46. New

47. No

48. Not

49. Now

50. Of

51. Often

52. On

53. One

54. Only

55. Or

56. Other

57. Our

58. Out

59. Over

60. People

61. Place

62. Please

63. Same

64. (I) see

65. She

66. So

67. Some

68. Sometimes

69. Still

70. Such

71. (I) tell

72. Thank you

73. That

74. The

75. Their

76. Them

77. Then

78. There is

79. They

80. Thing

81. (I) think

82. This

83. Time

84. To

85. Under

86. Up

87. Us

88. (I) use

89. Very

90. We

91. What

92. When

93. Where

94. Which

95. Who

96. Why

97. With

98. Yes

99. You

100. Your

And of course the FOURTH METHOD, EASIEST method would be to learn with a combination of thus said above. That being, imagery (relating words to their images), repetition, games, test, etc. as seen at places like Learn-Another-Language-101 [http://www.squidoo.com/LearnAnotherLanguage] which offers free lessons, etc.

All that said and done, to actually learn a foreign language in a timely manner, one should go with the FOURTH method, but to understand and thus further enhance their learning ability and know the hows and whys of actually learning these languages… Then ONE, TWO, and THREE should be studied, but only after the FOURTH has been incorporated, or at the same time.