How to Learn a New Language 1 Week Before Your Trip [Flashback]

Posted by Mike Richard on November 14, 2008
Filed under: Flashback, Sidelines, Tips

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One year ago today, Amanda Kendle showed us How to Learn a New Language 1 Week Before Your Trip:

Speaking a bit of the local language is a skill that will improve your travel experience immeasurably. The problem is that learning languages is really, really difficult, even when you have plenty of time. Here are my tips on taking a crash course in the basics of a language when your departure date looms very near. You just need ten or fifteen minutes a day to give yourself a bit of an advantage in the traveling stakes.

Okay, so you won’t be fluent in seven days. But at least you won’t wet yourself in the lobby of a Holiday Inn while struggling in vain to enunciate “Where’s the toilet?” in Mandarin.

Check out the full post and share your rapid language learning techniques with us in the comments section.

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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.



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