{"id":606,"date":"2008-02-11T18:52:11","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/elusive-catalyst\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T18:52:11","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:52:11","slug":"elusive-catalyst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=606","title":{"rendered":"Language learning \u2013 finding that elusive catalyst"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Guest post by Rajul Chande<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Having found it so tough to learn languages myself, I\u2019ve always been fascinated by how others manage to do it.  So I decided to interview people who have learned languages to find those seductive but elusive \u201cshort cuts\u201d, if they exist at all!<\/p>\n<p>This project is now taking shape as a book which I\u2019m co-authoring, aiming to \u201cmodel\u201d useful language learning habits and methods from real case studies.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re hoping that the tips from these \u201clanguage learner biographies\u201d will inspire more people to take on the challenge of learning languages, a challenge supported in such encyclopaedic depth by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/\">Omniglot<\/a> website.<\/p>\n<p>I remember at school how my motivation was driven by a passion for French cinema.<br \/>\nThis taught me about finding deep-seated motivation through something you love doing anyway, where the language offers a gateway to further your enjoyment.<\/p>\n<p>And as I currently scramble along trying to improve my Italian (love of the country), Spanish (love of Latin music) and German (love of my girlfriend!), I\u2019m doing my best to keep this in mind, though progress is nowhere near as smooth as I\u2019d like.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m in awe of people like Simon who traverse the boundaries of different language families so courageously.<\/p>\n<p>I hope that as a fellow languages enthusiast reading this you might be tempted to contribute your own \u201clinguistic biography\u201d to the book.  Please email me via the contact form at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.getfluentfast.com\">www.getfluentfast.com<\/a> to receive a short questionnaire.<\/p>\n<p>You might even see your language learning exploits in print when the book is published later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest post by Rajul Chande Having found it so tough to learn languages myself, I\u2019ve always been fascinated by how others manage to do it. So I decided to interview people who have learned languages to find those seductive but elusive \u201cshort cuts\u201d, if they exist at all! This project is now taking shape as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}