5 techniques to speak any language

5 techniques to speak any language | Sid Efromovich | TEDxUpperEastSide
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WLHr1_EVtQ&list=PLAFSNxQmb4jEoAFiM0zLIK_Zx3pAqfGKr&index=8

• How can you be a polyglot?

1. The language acquisition process should be fun, enjoyable, and exciting.
2. Love every single moment of learning.
   I. Take a very deep breath and relax.
3. Your entire life is about doing things right.
4. But in language acquisition, the first rule is: to make things wrong, make mistakes.
5. Sounds + Structures = Language Database
6. If you feel bad, that is the sign which indicates you are in something beyond your language database.
   II. Scrap the foreign alphabet.
   III. Find a stickler.
   IV. Have shower conversations with yourself in the language you want to acquire.
   V. Find a conversation buddy.
7. Speak in your foreign language in public with your buddy, and you will be glad you have a private conversation.
8. Any hike of 1000 miles begins with only one step.