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The Ten Commandments of Kato Lomb who knew 16 languages ​​for those who teach foreign languages ​​



Kato Lomb - professional translator from Hungary,
multilingual. For all the mastering
or another foreign language, she has formulated 10 commandments

Attention attracted by the fact that most of the languages ​​that had Lomb, she has mastered independently, working solely with textbooks and fiction in the target language. His method of learning the language, she outlined in the book "How I learn languages." At the heart of its approach based on the principle of "full immersion in the language": Grammar in parallel with the development of reading original texts and memorizing set phrases, the most commonly used in speech.


In the book "How I learn languages" she formulated ten rules for language learning:

Study the language on a daily basis. If absolutely no time, at least ten minutes. Especially good to engage in the morning.
If you desire to engage in too quickly weakens, not "boost", but did not drop out. Think of some other form: put down the book and listen to the radio, leave the tutorial exercises and look through a dictionary, etc.
Never bison does not learn anything alone, out of context.
Write out the queue and memorize all the "ready-made phrases" that can be used to the greatest possible number of cases.
Try to mentally translate all that is possible: advertising board flashed the inscription on the poster, scraps of overheard conversations. It's always a rest, even for a tired head.
Learns stands firmly only that the teacher corrected. Not read their own uncorrected exercises: with repeated reading of the text is stored unconsciously with all possible errors. If you are doing one then learns only known right.
Ready-made phrases, idioms write out and remember in the first person singular. For example: «I am only pulling your leg» (I'll just tease).
Foreign Language - a fortress, which is necessary to attack from all sides at the same time: reading newspapers, listening to radio, watching dubbed movies, visiting lectures in a foreign language, study of the textbook, correspondence, meetings and conversations with friends - native speakers.
Do not be afraid to say, do not be afraid of possible mistakes, and ask to be corrected. And most importantly, do not worry and do not be offended if you really start to correct.
I am firmly convinced that in no matter what was reach the goal that you have strong will and extraordinary aptitude for languages.
Formula Kato
Kato Lomb offered a simple formula that determines the result in the development of language:
elapsed time = + interest result
or if it is a little update:
(The elapsed time + interest) / tightness (fear of making a mistake) = result

And finally, when the 86 year-old Kato Lomb met her 54-year-old friend, she said crucial to his life sentence: "Steve, you're so young! So many years to come, so you can still learn the language! ".