A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, and learning a language is quite a trip!
You have obviously made the most important decision of all in this journey – the commitment to learn, but where you go from here depends on so many factors.
I've gone through the process several times over the last decade, and made some good decisions(and some really bad ones) in terms of speaking languages. I've learned from all of these, and continue to learn from them.
In this guide, I'll be outlining precisely what has enabled me to learn a new language and achieve
fluency in that language in a very short amount of time.
I'm writing the guide as if I were talking to me as a 21-year-old; uncomfortable with strangers,
not confident in my abilities in many things, and above all – convinced I would never speak a foreign language.
My journey over the last seven years has been an amazing one (and it continues) and I wouldn't change what I experienced for anything. But it would have been a lot easier and more fun if I had access to the information in this guide. I'd have wasted less time too.
Being open to learning how to speak a language fluently in a short period of time is not just a matter of which study materials you use or how much you learn, but is largely influenced by your attitude and motivation.
To prepare yourself to make huge strides in a language, you absolutely must have the right
mentality. The best learning techniques in the world and most expensive courses would and have
been wasted on people with the wrong mentality.
