how i can learn languages

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1、POLYGLOTHOWILEARNLANGUAGESKATÓLOMBPOLYGLOTHowILearnLanguagesKATÓLOMBTRANSLATEDFROMTHEHUNGARIANBYÁDÁMSZEGIKORNELIADEKORNEEDITEDBYSCOTTALKIRETESL-EJhttp://tesl-ej.orgBerkeleyKyotoThankyoutoElizabethCollisonElenaSmolinskáSylviaRuckerProfessorThomHuebnerfortheirhelpwiththisproject.T

2、hereviewcommentsofDr.LarissaChiriaeva,MariaÇomsa,MA,andDr.StefanFrazierwereinvaluableinthepreparationofthemanuscript.—ScottAlkireTranslatedbyÁdámSzegiThefirsttwoForewords,Introduction,andChapter20weretranslatedbyKorneliaDeKorne.Publisher’sCataloging-in-PublicationDataLomb,Kató,1

3、909–2003.Polyglot:howIlearnlanguages/KatóLomb.—1stEnglished.p.cm.LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2008907032ISBN978-1-60643-706-3Copyright©2008byScottAlkire.Allrightsreserved.1.Languagelearning.I.TitleCover:TheTowerofBabelPieterBruegeltheElder(1563)TESL-EJhttp://tesl-ej.orgBerkele

4、yKyoto1098765432Contents≈PrefaceviiForewordtotheFirstEditionxviiForewordtotheSecondEditionxixForewordtotheFourthEditionxxiIntroduction23WhatIsLanguage?35WhyDoWeandWhyShouldWeStudyLanguages?37TheTypeofLanguagetoStudy39“Easy”and“Difficult”Languages41HowtoStudyLanguages49WhoThisBoo

5、kIsandIsn’tFor51Let’sRead!67WhyandWhatWeShouldRead73HowWeShouldRead85ReadingandPronunciation89WhatSortofLanguagesDoPeopleStudy?97LanguageandVocabulary103VocabularyandContext107HowtoLearnWords113AgeandLanguageLearning121Dictionaries:CrutchesorHelpfulTools?127Textbooks131HowWeConv

6、erseinaForeignLanguage133HowWeShouldConverseinaForeignLanguage139HowILearnLanguages147GradingOurLinguisticMastery165TheLinguisticGift173LanguageCareers183TheInterpretingCareer187ReminiscencesfromMyTravels199What’sAroundtheLinguisticCorner?209Epilogue215Preface≈IFmultilingualismi

7、sindeedoneofthe“greatachieve-mentsofthehumanmind,”asVildomec(1963,p.240)claims,itisregrettablethatfewlinguistshavestudiedpoly-glotsandwhatitistheyknowaboutlanguagelearning.1Fortheirpart,polyglotshavenotprovideduswithmuchinformationeither;inthe20thcentury,textsbypolyglotsonlangua

8、gelearning,inparticulartextsthatrelatehowtheyac