{"id":166,"date":"2009-06-03T16:18:37","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T16:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/?p=166"},"modified":"2009-05-29T16:27:01","modified_gmt":"2009-05-29T16:27:01","slug":"how-to-learn-which-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/03\/how-to-learn-which-method\/","title":{"rendered":"How to learn: which method?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few posts I&#8217;ll be taking a look at different ways of learning a language &#8211; from a classroom setting to using modern technology such as <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Podcasting\">podcasts <\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Whilst by no means a definitive list of pros and cons of each method, it&#8217;s a good starting point for those considering committing to a new language. <\/p>\n<p>Before considering each method, it&#8217;s worthwhile putting some thought into what you want to get out of the course &#8211; conversational skills to be able to converse with family members? A few words to take you through a foreign holiday? An understanding of business speak to aid in work transactions? <\/p>\n<p>Your reason for learning will of course impact on which method(s) you choose and how much you can commit.<\/p>\n<p>First up &#8211; the class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the next few posts I&#8217;ll be taking a look at different ways of learning a language &#8211; from a classroom setting to using modern technology such as podcasts . Whilst by no means a definitive list of pros and cons of each method, it&#8217;s a good starting point for those considering committing to a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,40],"tags":[25,78,79],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hints-and-tips","category-language-acquisition","tag-languages","tag-learning","tag-reasons-for-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.language-museum.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}