Tuesday's Tip for Language Learning #24: Tactics and Strategies - Deepening Your Knowledge
Excerpt from Think Yourself into Becoming a Language Learning Super Star Tactics and Strategies Deepening Your Knowledge No matter how you look at it, if you are going to get better at your language, you will need to broaden and deepen your knowledge. More words, more sophisticated words, more complex sentences, greater grammatical control, and a growing understanding of the culture are all important. This is not what we call proficiency, and someone with less knowledge but more skill at using what he or she knows can actually be more proficient in a language than someone who actually knows less. However, a broad vocabulary, a deep understanding of grammar, and a wide acceptance of cultural differences (and the knowledge of those differences) can set you up to become highly proficient once you develop the language skills you will need (reading, writing, listening, and speaking). Strategies So, how do you go about getting this broad vocabulary, deep understanding of g...