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HOW TO LEARN A LANGUAGE 
 
Nabiyeva J.R. , Khaitmatova N. 
Foreign languages , pedagogy and psychology department . 
 
Some people learn faster than others. Some people pronounce better than 
others. Why is this? I am more and more convinced that it is a matter of attitude 
rather than talent. There is something that good language learners have in 
common. They can let themselves go. They are not afraid. They achieve that
independence from their mother tongue. They do not ask questions about 
why the new language is this way or that way.
Start with Pronunciation 
The greatest challenge in learning a foreign language is the challenge of 
memory. With thousands of words and grammar rules to remember, you need all 
the help you can get to retain what you learn. This is where an early focus on 
pronunciation comes in: if you look into the science of memory, you‘ll discover 
that it‘s much harder to remember words you can‘t pronounce well. And one of the 
reasons that foreign languages can be tricky is that they‘re full of hard-to-
pronounce, hard-to-memorize words. You can eliminate that by training your ears 
from the very beginning. You‘ll also get a number of side-benefits: better listening 
comprehension, better speech, faster vocabulary acquisition, and native speakers 
who will continue to speak to you in their language instead of switching to 
English. 
Choose your Vocabulary Efficiently 
Computational linguistics has given us new tools to study languages, and 
what we‘ve found is that learning the first thousand most frequent words in a 
language will enable you to read 70% of every text you‘ll ever encounter, but 
learning the next thousand will only give you 10% more (and the next thousand, 
4%). Use this to your advantage! Learn the first one or two thousand most 
common words, and then customize to your own needs. Why learn academic 
language if you just want to travel? Why learn business language if you just want 
to read academic papers? Choosing your vocabulary to suit your needs makes 
your study time much more efficient.