mother tongue Learning a foreign language is

mother tongue

Learning a foreign language is different from learning one’s mother tongue.

Learning a foreign language is slow and difficult. However, we actually learn a foreign language much _______ than we do our mother tongue. We spent ____ years learning our native language while we only spend a few hours a week and in a few’s years’ time we can speak a foreign language.

Then why are some people better at learning a foreign language than others ?

learners do share quite a few characteristics have in common among other things understanding their own thinking curious _______ about the world

Willing to take chances and ______________ confident in their ability. ___________ plan their studies in order to __________ deal with academic challenges. _____

plan evaluate with a strong sense , of achievement acquire put to better use

Self-confident, secure take risks

experiment with contribut e to

Not all of us It takes patience to learn a language. If we want to become successful language learners, we should try to adopt some of the study habits and characteristics described

above. If we develop our study skills, we many find that learning a foreign language does not have to be twice as hard as learning our mother tongue, but can in fact be twice as easy and a lot of fun.

(certain) ( free from anxiety)