Language Acquisition Made Practical: Field Methods for Language LearnersIt can be done! You can successfully learn a new language if three conditions are met: 1. You live where the new language is spoken. 2. You are motivated to learn the new language. 3. You know how to proceed with language learning, step-by-step and day-by-day. This manual assumes that the first and second conditions are met. It is a simple guide planned to help you, the learner, proceed without boredom or frustration, through manageable steps, so that you can become proficient in your new language. The objective of this manual is to help guide you in your daily activities of language learning. - Preface. |
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Accuracy Practice activities affixes alveopalatal ask Kino basic begin bilabial called chart column communication Comprehension drill consonant clusters consonants culture Develop a text Differential drills English Evaluation example explore feel Fluency Practice focus fricative friends function words give glide glottal stop Glottalized Consonants glottis guage helper Implosive Consonants instructions intonation Kikamba kinds Kino says language learning learner Level lips listening manner of articulation meaning mimic Mimicry Drill morphemes nasal non-simple sentences noun noun classes objects Pause person phonetically phrase Preparation procedures Production Drill pronounce pronunciation questions rearticulated vowels record relationships respond sentence patterns simple sentences someone sounds speak speech spelled Structure Substitution Drill syllabic consonants syllables symbols talk tape tell tence things tion tone tongue topics types understand values velar velar nasal verb vocabulary voiced voiceless vowels want to learn words write