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 Battle of the Sexes  - Women Winning  War of Words

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It's official women are better than men when it comes to language learning.

Studies show men score higher in maths but women win in language because women are simply more interested in human beings than men ...read on...>>>>

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They genuinely mean it when they ask “how are you?” Being wives and mothers  they are conditioned by society to be carers and nurturers. Men, on the other hand, are conditioned to be less interested in people and more interested in objects, notably, cars, computers, gadgets, etc.

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• Decide that it’s going to be fun! Tell people what a great time you are having. Believe it and enjoy. 

• Be positive. Remarks like “I’m hopeless, I’ll never learn this” tend to be self fulfilling prophesies. 

Better to say something like “ I am getting better and better at learning words”. Stop yourself when you hear yourself saying, “ I can’t “ about anything. Change it to a positive affirmation in the present tense. “I am becoming more and more confident at speaking”.

• Try out some of these activities:

  • Use colour when writing words i.e. one colour for masculine words and another for feminine words, another colour for verbs, another for adjectives etc. This helps them to stand out and stay in your memory.

  • Start drawing and don’t say, “I can’t draw”. Everybody can in some form or other and “practice makes perfect”. Make the drawings funny, make them silly, laugh, have fun, show them to your friends. Be inventive. The act of drawing and thinking what to draw will help you recall these words later. And you never know you may discover hidden talents! 

  • Plan what you are going to do. How much time can you spend? Five minutes a day is better than 30 minutes before your next class. How many words are you going to learn? Be reasonable. Make it possible. One word a day learnt thoroughly is better than aiming for 10 a day and never achieving it. Set yourself up for success.

  • Word association can help too i.e. el gato is cat in Spanish. Think of a cat sitting in the middle of a cream gateau. M

  • Music is an aid to learning. Baroque music is particularly helpful. Or dance round the room chanting sentences or verbs (close the curtains and make sure that you’re alone in the house maybe!).

• Last but not least. find ways of listening to the language even if you cannot understand all or much of what is said. Speaking another language means that you can talk to people more easily. You will find it opens doors in many ways and helps you learn about other people. 

It’s exciting. It’s fun. Enjoy!

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Battle of the Sexes  - Women Winning  War of Words

Women have fewer complexes about committing errors, because the important thing for them is to discover things about their interlocutors. We all learn by making mistakes, it’s a natural part of the process. Learning a language is not a competition – men sometimes see their limitations as a “defeat” so they prefer not to speak at all.

Winston Churchill once said, “jaw jaw is better than war war.” Learning to understand how other people think and what motivates them is the key to good communication, which can be even more difficult in a foreign language. So you guys, take a leaf out the girls’ book, and be more interested in the people around you!

Jonathan Lewis has lived and worked in the south of France for four years. As a language teacher, he offers invaluable advice to anyone wishing to learn a new language. Visit his site on learning languages and on his blog, learning English.

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