<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479110234886248312</id><updated>2012-01-02T21:17:22.789-08:00</updated><category term='English language'/><category term='Language acquisition'/><category term='ForeignLanguage'/><category term='Second language'/><category term='Language'/><category term='First language'/><title type='text'>Learn Second Languages</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://learnsecondlanguages.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/479110234886248312/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://learnsecondlanguages.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Robert Leon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13792915064480166501</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>2</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479110234886248312.post-8590249868113588559</id><published>2008-11-10T22:53:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-07-22T17:46:05.534-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Language acquisition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ForeignLanguage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Second language'/><title type='text'>Contents of this Blog</title><content type='html'>I am planning to include the following contents on this blog. I am giving the contents in advance so that you can have a birdview of what's coming up. This way, you can also have a perspective that you may want to come back later for something that may interest you in the time to come.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;1. Reasons why people want to learn one or two languages as second languages. You might have had or be having a good or bad experience when it comes to second language learning. You also might have your unique reasons to learn a foreign language. However, we will include here some common as well as personal reasons for an exploring purpose.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;2. Reasons why people fail to learn a foreign language. You might just dislike the languages that you have learned before. Some languages might just not fall in your cup. Some languages might be quite different when it come to grammar or words, which makes it impossible to make any degree of success. We will have a general as well as detailed look at these factors.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;3. Language reviews. We will review the major languages that are relatively popular among language learners including their degree of difficulty, gramatical features, and so on. This will hopefully give you an evaluation in your mind before getting to work.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;4. Tips for language learning. I will involve my personal experience with the languages that I have learned into these. Lessons that I have learned through trial and error shall benefit you and avoid you detours in your language learning experience.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Pretty much, right? Anyway, we will take it step by step. Stay tuned!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sources:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.learnforeignlanguages.e-about.net/"&gt;Learn Foreign Languages&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.stepstonative.e-about.net/"&gt;Steps To Native Language Plan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.goarticles.com/cgi-bin/showa.cgi?C=1332969"&gt;Language Lesson Plans on goarticles.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.squidoo.com/Steps-to-Native"&gt;Foreign Language Benefits lens&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://ezinearticles.com/?Language-Lesson-Plans---Improve-Your-Foreign-Language-Skills-to-Native-Level&amp;amp;id=1767397"&gt;Language Lesson Plans on ezinearticles.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/ab5cd591-9db1-4049-8fb8-a14ddbd9d550/" title="Zemified by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=ab5cd591-9db1-4049-8fb8-a14ddbd9d550" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/479110234886248312-8590249868113588559?l=learnsecondlanguages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://learnsecondlanguages.blogspot.com/feeds/8590249868113588559/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=479110234886248312&amp;postID=8590249868113588559' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/479110234886248312/posts/default/8590249868113588559'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/479110234886248312/posts/default/8590249868113588559'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://learnsecondlanguages.blogspot.com/2008/11/contents-of-this-blog.html' title='Contents of this Blog'/><author><name>Robert Leon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13792915064480166501</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-479110234886248312.post-8740383253288790707</id><published>2008-11-09T23:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-09T23:22:54.686-08:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Language acquisition'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='English language'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Language'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ForeignLanguage'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='First language'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Second language'/><title type='text'>Learn Foreign Languages</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="zemanta-img" style="margin: 1em; float: left; display: block;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Secret-language-of-birds.jpg"&gt;&lt;img src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/Secret-language-of-birds.jpg/202px-Secret-language-of-birds.jpg" alt="The Secret Language Of Birds album cover" style="border: medium none ; display: block;" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="zemanta-img-attribution"&gt;Image via &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Secret-language-of-birds.jpg"&gt;Wikipedia&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Just like everything you do in your life, to learn foreign languages is no diffirent.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You need to have a goal first including choosing the language you are drawn to.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Second, you need to make a plan, a path, to that goal.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Third, you need to get to work according the plan. Don't look around and do this and that for a few minutes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;That's the theory you need to have to do if you want to learn foreign languages.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The language learning experience will be fascinating as well as frustrating. We'll go through this on this blog.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Let's embark on our path. &lt;a href="http://www.learnforeignlanguages.e-about.net/"&gt;Join me here and today&lt;/a&gt;.   &lt;div style="margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;" class="zemanta-pixie"&gt;&lt;a class="zemanta-pixie-a" href="http://reblog.zemanta.com/zemified/7dfc4c26-65e7-4790-81a8-3ab36674cf0f/" title="Zemified by Zemanta"&gt;&lt;img style="border: medium none ; float: right;" class="zemanta-pixie-img" src="http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=7dfc4c26-65e7-4790-81a8-3ab36674cf0f" alt="Reblog this post [with Zemanta]" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/479110234886248312-8740383253288790707?l=learnsecondlanguages.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://learnsecondlanguages.blogspot.com/feeds/8740383253288790707/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=479110234886248312&amp;postID=8740383253288790707' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/479110234886248312/posts/default/8740383253288790707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/479110234886248312/posts/default/8740383253288790707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://learnsecondlanguages.blogspot.com/2008/11/learn-foreign-languages.html' title='Learn Foreign Languages'/><author><name>Robert Leon</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/13792915064480166501</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
