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Learn a foreign language… easily, confidently, and enjoyably! Don’t embark on your adventure in language learning without first consulting Graham Fuller’s Secrets of Learning a Foreign Language. This program will greatly enhance your language learning experience, making it more effective and truly enjoyable. Discover the best study techniques – whether in a foreign language class or learning on your own. Graham Fuller shares his proven methods of language learning garnered from years of experience. His humorous anecdotes and cultural insights will motivate even the most reticent student.This tutorial is designed to ease the apprehensions surrounding language learning and eliminate the mystery of learning a foreign language, while also giving information on how to organize and simplify the language learning process along with motivational tactics that will keep you involved. Here are some of the topics discussed: the advantages of learning a foreign language; how to tap into the new sounds in a foreign language; coming to know the mapping of sounds to letters; learning to think in a new language; the similarities between languages from the same language families; word roots and how they organize the language; vocabulary and the ways to memorize it; grammar and how it helps us understand language; verb and noun endings; gender categories; how to keep your language learning progressing; how far you can go in learning a language; and what’s involved in learning through self-study.An acknowledged expert in languages, Graham Fuller has studied sixteen of them! From his experience as both language studentand teacher, he is particularly aware of the problems beginners face. His seventeen years with the Foreign Service have made him especially sensitive to the practical aspects of using a foreign language in everyday life. He appears regularly on Nightline and the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour, and contributes to the LA Times, NY Times, and Washington Post on international affairs.