{"id":11892,"date":"2022-02-06T23:02:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-06T15:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/?p=11892"},"modified":"2022-03-23T00:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T16:17:18","slug":"foreignlanguage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/en\/foreignlanguage\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Learning Goals to Learn a Foreign Language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/goals2a.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><b>Set Learning Goals to Learn a Foreign Language<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Language-learning goals are best if they are short, simple and easily measurable. Many of us embark on studying a language by saying, \u201cI want to be fluent in <em><strong>English\/Mandarin\/Cantonese<\/strong> <\/em>in six months!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, what is fluency? Fluent in what way? Casual conversation? Reading and writing? Discussing legal issues for your business?<\/p>\n<p>Instead, it\u2019s better to <strong><em>set<\/em> clearly defined goals<\/strong>. Start with something like, \u201cBy the end of today, I will know how to greet someone and introduce myself. In two days, I will learn how to ask someone what they do for a living and explain to them what I do. By the end of the week, I will know how to procure food and avoid starvation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And to get you started, I\u2019ll give you the goal of all goals, the milestone that will take you furthest on the path to fluency: \u201cMaster the 100 most common words in X weeks\/months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Set clearly defined goals<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How Goal Setting Can Help You<\/li>\n<li>How Goal Setting Can Harm You<\/li>\n<li>How to Pursue Goals Intelligently<\/li>\n<li>When Failing Is More Valuable Than Succeeding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: markmanson.net<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set Learning Goals to Learn a Foreign Language Language-learning goals are best if they are short, simple and easily measurable. Many of us embark on studying a language by saying, \u201cI want to be fluent in English\/Mandarin\/Cantonese in six months!\u201d The problem is, what is fluency? Fluent in what way? Casual conversation? Reading and writing?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":12738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-language","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernlanguage.com.hk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}