Some languages are also very similar to one another. Spanish and Italian, for example, share over 80 percent of basic vocabulary with only slight variation. Some good news is, once you learn one foreign language, it becomes much easier to learn more of them. This a result of being able to apply your new pattern recognition skills across contexts and reawakening the language center of your brain. But first things first. By the time you get through these essential steps you will have acquainted yourself with the native pronunciation of your target language, imitated and practiced the way it sounds, and built a house of vocabulary words. You will have your arsenal of survival phrases ready, and you are happily having short exchanges in the target language out there, in the real world.
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