Learning by doing | Omniglot blog

Today is the last day I focus on Irish after doing so for a whole month. That may not sound like much, but for me it is ? I tend to flit from language to language and rarely spend very long on any one of them. Every day, with only a few exceptions, I?ve written something in Irish on my other blog and recorded it. There were a few days last week when I didn?t find time to write something, but I caught up later. I?ve also been listening to Raidi? na Gaeltachta (Irish language radio) every day, and spent last week in Ireland speaking a lot of Irish. My ability to speak and write Irish has improved, and I think that the practice of writing in it every day made a big contribution to that. My listening has also improved. From tomorrow I will be focusing on Scottish Gaelic, and might continue writing in Irish, as well as Scottish Gaelic and English, on my blog, so that I keep it ticking over.

I know other people have probably had these thoughts, but I have come to the conclusion that regular use of a language you?re learning in writing and speech is possibly the best way to improve. When learning languages I tend to spend a lot of time listening to and reading, so I am usually a lot better at those skills than at speaking and writing. The way I?ve done it also gives me chances to practise speaking, or at least reading aloud.

Do you try to actively use languages you?re learning as you learn them? Does this help?

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