The Secret Behind Learning Foreign Languages

Many people start to learn a foreign language only to spend years and years with a pointless struggle, or to give up almost instantly. In Hungary, it is compulsory for elementary and high school students to learn a foreign language, and many students have language classes every day of the week.


However, despite the efforts of the Hungarian education system, few students learn to speak a foreign language by the time they finish high school. Adults have a similar tendency of not being able to progress, causing most of them to give up.



Indeed, learning a foreign language can be a frustrating task. Most people know the feeling when you sit over your homework and cannot make sense of the sentence in front of you. But remember, it takes time to learn a new language and you need to persist. This is a very important point often neglected by language learners. Time and persistence.



Another important aspect is that learning a new language is hard work. There are those few derive pleasure out of the process but most will simply want to get to a level where they can start using the language. In any case, you absolutely must learn vocabulary. Grammar is something you can gradually put together yourself from sentences you have memorized (although some people prefer to memorize grammar too), but you absolutely have to learn the words of the new language. There is simply no way around this. There are no shortcuts here.



Therefore the secret rules of learning foreign languages is time, persistence and hard work. Motivation is perhaps the best trick to get you going but you will simply need to bite the bullet and keep going once your motivation runs out.

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Behind the scene's with Beyonce's New Spanish hit

Producer/songwriter Rudy Perez has helped everyone from Christina Aguilera to Il Divo record in Spanish. His latest crossover project is the one and only Beyonce, he has adapted a few of her songs for a re-release of her "B'Day" album.

A Spanish version of her current Red Hot 100 chart topping "Irreplaceable" has propelled the tune to No. 13 on Billboard's latest Hot Latin chart's. He recently talked with Billboard about taking that challenge.

IT WOULD SEEM THAT "IRREPLACEABLE" BECOME "IMPRESCINDIBLE?"

I have it all written out in phonetics. We read the lyrics together, and I tell her exactly what she's saying. Even if you don't explain it, she'll ask you because she's very meticulous. So she knows that if the phrase is largate, it means "get the hell out of my face." She says it with that same emotion.

I worked hard in trying to find the least amount of troubling words. For example, "to the left." How the hell do you say "to the left" in Spanish? A la izquierda, a la izquierda? That doesn't fit the music. It's an awkward word, and it didn't make sense. So I wrote, "Ya lo ves, ya lo ves." It's not exactly the same as the English, but it has the emotion and it has the concept of the whole English lyric, but perfectly done in Spanish where a Latin person from Argentina or Costa Rica can understand the story and identify with it. And yet I took some risk. Imprescindible, sustituirse . . . these are hard words, but she pulled it off.

I'm a singer myself. I'll sit there and sing it to her and give her a bunch of little tricks. Like, "Don't think of it as four words separated. Think of this as one word up to here."

DID YOU HAVE TO PRACTICE ROLLING R'S WITH BEYONCE?

I did this exercise with her, "Erre con erre cigarro, erre con erre barril, rapido corren los carros." She'd be laughing, and I'm like, "Beyonce, trust me, do this." She stands there literally sometimes six hours nonstop in front of the microphone trying to get this right. That's why she's a superstar.

HAVE YOU EVER MET AN ARTIST THAT YOU THINK JUST ISN'T

QUALIFIED TO MAKE THE CROSSOVER?

I still haven't gotten somebody that I say, "This guy just can't sing in Spanish." (The key is) getting the superstar to take the time and not come in and say, "I'm only going to give you 15 minutes." Well, you know what? You can't do it like that. You've got to take the time. And Beyonce gave me all the time.

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