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visit teacherloop.co.uk.uk.uk.uk. UK. Okay. podcast. It's sort of I thought that it would be time to do another language learning focused episode

Apparently it's a sort of an ongoing mystery the whole subject of language learning and exactly how to do it, the best way to do it.

Different people have got different approaches.

And it's always an interesting subject to talk about.

I think this episode is going to be called

the best way to learn a language according to research. Okay, so you get an idea of what's

going to be included. The best way to learn a language. I mean, I'll say right at the beginning,

I think the best way to learn a language is the way that works for you as an individual.

And it's a question of trying different things,

stepping out of your comfort zone

until you've experienced a variety

of different ways to learn a language or improve the language that you're trying to get to grips with.

You know, try all the different ways and sort of analyze the effects of trying those ways and the way that they make you feel.

And then when you found something that kind of works for you, you stick with it and you keep doing it. And when I say the thing that works for you,

what I really mean is the thing that you enjoy doing, because I've said lots of times in the past that learning a language is really

about time and practice. It's a question of putting in as much as practice as possible over you know a long

period of time now maybe the right kind of practice you know you've got to sort of

work out what type of practice works best for you but then ultimately when you've got that it's just a question of spending time working with the language and

finding a way that's enjoyable that you actually are happy to do

will make a huge difference because then you're probably much more likely to actually do it.

So that's an initial thought I've got right at the beginning just

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