Steveer Robbins here.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Listeners recently posted a question to my Facebook page asking for tips on how to learn a foreign language.

Now, I have enough trouble with my own language.

So, tips on a foreign language, don't make me laugh.

Fortunately, John Fotheringham of Languagenessory.com came bounding to the rescue and sent in all of the following tips on how to learn a

language quickly. I used to think you should learn a language the same way a five-year-old does,

starting from that special, innocent, young frame of mind. The quickest way to get back into a five-year-old does, starting from that special, innocent, young

frame of mind. The quickest way to get back into a five-year-old state of mind is with tequila

shots. Just as I was about to start, I read John's tips and learned that adults can learn

language faster than children. Our existing vocabulary and our advanced thinking abilities

gives us a head start, except in the case

of politicians, but that should be obvious. We adults can seek resources for learning languages,

blogs, podcasts, language learning meetup groups, and obscure R-rated foreign movies about mysterious

women with unidentifiable accents, speaking in riddles in shadowy smoke-filled rooms.

Infants just can't compete. They just lie there and gurgle. In the 1981 film Private Lessons,

America was treated to private language lessons between a 15-year-old boy and a 30-something

French teacher. The lessons were clothing optional.

Sadly, some viewers didn't realize it was fiction and have gone on to try to recreate the situation in real life.

This is not good.

Fortunately, study after study, or should I say,

etude a prez etude,

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