Learning A New Language

September 8, 2008 by Jeff · 1 Comment 

Obviously one of the concerns before traveling anywhere is knowing the language. Here's a great tip and how we're learning how to speak a little, emphasis on little, prior to leaving.

YouTube.com

YouTube is an amazing resource for learning almost any language. Before leaving on your trip you can simply go to YouTube and type in "Learn YYY" or "Beginner Learn YYY". You will probably get a ton of different video options. For example "Learn Japanese" results in 5350 videos and "beginner learn Japenese" gets 106 videos.

The other great thing about this is you can get an 'ear' for the langauge prior to leaving. If you've never heard the language spoken correctly this is a great way to get your ear to adapt to the sound quicker.

Here are a couple videos that we've been using. The first is how to say "Good Morning" in Japanese and the second is a conversation in Japanese.


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