This handbook teaches you how to learn any language on your own, in the language’s home turf, by teaching a native speaker to be your teacher.<\/p>\n
The trick is to instruct your local agent to teach you something he\/she is hardly aware of — the structure of their language. You will supply the plan and so are teaching yourself through them. Comprende? It’s done slowly, naturally, and playfully – the way you learned English. Your assistant doesn’t even have to speak your language.<\/p>\n
You begin using a few easy words, trying to make as many mistakes as you possibly can, entertaining the folks in the marketplace or anywhere else they’ll put up with your blabberings. Then you systematically add additional words in steady daily use, guiding your guide in what you want to learn next. This well-tested method was devised by missionaries trying to learn languages lacking scripts, courses, or guidebooks, and works great for dialects, or indeed any language you want to learn.<\/p>\n
The text of this workbook shows you how to construct your own exercises that fit the language you are after and later how to discover its grammar by yourself. The goal is multiculturalism, inseparable from multilingualism. Like realizing that you don’t need a degree in anything to build your own house, learning that you can become fluent in another language without a course or classroom is deliciously radical.<\/p>\n
If you like this approach check out other online texts by missionary linguists which take the same approach of enabling an intermediate to become your language teacher.<\/p>\n
This DIY process works best on location, rather than before you arrive.<\/p>\n
— KK<\/p>\n
Language Acquisition Made Practical
\nE. Thomas Brewster and Elizabeth Brewster
\n1976 (1998 printing); 384 pp.<\/p>\n
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