4 Rules that will Help overcome the Language Barrier

Keep in mind foreign words – does not mean being able to retrieve them at the right moment. If we turn to psychology, our memory is divided into implicit and explicit, to put it simply, the unconscious and conscious. It is the second type of memory you use during exam, on a tour – wherever you want to remember a particular fact (value). You force yourself to remember. If you frequently refer to one and the same “cell” that stores information about everything: words, addresses, bus schedules, then our consciousness translates them into another section of memory – the unconscious. The time that it requires such action may be called psychological (language) barrier.

Implicit memory – here’s a surprise – can not start works without some effort. Why, if everything is so simple, we still do not talk foreign languages? The fact is, that in memorizing similar expressions at one time you used a mechanical memory. It was important to give answer to the teacher… and forget? So, your brain performed this task. Now think about this. In point of fact you’re not all doing mechanically. You memorized the words and build sentences out of them. The ones that you can explain to yourself, you remember, because your logical memory was helped you to memorize them.

It is easier just to activate the “bilingual” cell, representing not the word, but image. And in the case of the proposal, the action. Agree, when you really need to get something from people and convey to them your idea, representing the final act, the term word exactly as you need. The language barrier – the fear that haunts you all the time that you are using any other type of memory, except for the unconscious. How can make it work?

#1 Overcome internal fears and unnecessary diffidence.

It often happens that a man is just shy, and the language barrier is more psychological. A person by their nature is shy in unfamiliar situations. Try to be natural and behave naturally, the first time you start trying to speak English in England or German in Germany. You need to know that for everybody around you it is clear, that you have just begun to study language. Native speakers always help you and understand in any way.
First of all you need to start to change your behavior stereotype with friends and strangers. Try to speak more, no matter how you do it.

#2 Pick a simple verbal constructions and phrases and use them.

From the beginning, it is important to master the skills of pronouncing simple expressions with simple tense of the verb. Build simple sentences. This golden rule will help you to communicate with people in a simple way. If a person knows how sounds, for example, words like “mother” or “love”, then to pronounce them will be not difficult. But if it turns out that all the words and structures have already parsed and understood, but pronounce them correctly still does not work. It means that practice in the pronunciation is not enough yet.

#3 Training and exercises – the keys to success.

To start talking, not enough to parse and understand how and what to say, you need to learn and to do it physically. Language – is like sports – to do something successfully, you need to master the skills physically.
Exercise should be as long as written in the notebook does not move to the memory and will not emerge by itself at the right moment.

#4 Learn to listen and to learn.

Speaking and communication – are different concepts. In addition to the ability to correctly pronounce the phrases you need also the ability to listen and understand what our conversation partner says. Many people wrongly believe that learning how to correctly pronounce the phrase, it is most important in learning foreign languages. However, listening skills and the ability to understand foreign speech is much more valuable and hard to reach. It is the absence of this skill often causes fear when you need to start communicating. Fear of being not quick-witted and slow-witted, fear of saying something out of place. Exactly this is an important part of the language barrier. Very effectively, for example, in addition to the classes watch foreign language television or try to communicate in the foreign language chat rooms.

Thus, we can say that immersion is the most effective way of learning foreign languages. By immersing we understand not necessarily living abroad. In any situation you should be able to use different speech patterns and phrases as soon as you have learned.
Following these four simple rules you may easily mastering any foreign language without troubles.

Good luck with learning!