The best way to learn a foreign language

In my opinion, the best way to learn a foreign language is travelling to other countries. Going to other countries allows us to know new people and their cultures.
Through chatrooms, we can communicate with people from other countries in their language.
I think that it is also essencial to watch films. Sometimes times we don´t understand some words but in the context of the film we should be able to guess their meanings, and this way we enlarge our vocabulary.
Correspondence with foreign people can also be interesting because we can practise the language. Travelling to foreign countries also helps us to learn a foreign language.
Learning a second language is very important because if some day we decide to study abroad, then we will not have so many problems.

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I think that we can learn a foreign language everywhere it is spoken no matter the place or the time. Of course there are places where we can learn foreign languages more easily. For me the best place is the classroom, because it is there we have a teacher to help us to write and express ourselves more fluently. We only know something if we keep practising it daily. With teachers of foreign languages we can communicate, tell them about our difficulties and correct them. But to be more specific, the classroom and teachers of foreign laguages are our best source of knowledge.

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The Best Way to Learn a Foreign Language

There are many languages, and nowadays it's almost mandatory to speak, at least, one foreign language. To know a foreign language means to have a contact with a different culture and different people. That's why it's important to find a way to learn a foreign language.

In my opinion, films and songs can help us learn another language. When we watch a film, we associate the speech to subtitles, or we can guess the meaning of words that we don't know by associating them to actions we see. When we listen to a song, if we are really interested in it, we try to understand the meaning of the song and we read its lyrics.
The classroom can be a good place to learn a language. However, it can be limited, because it is better to interact with people whose mother tongue is the one that we want to learn. That's why that attending a chatroom or having pen pals are two of the best ways to understand another language. Nevertheless, I think that the best way to learn a foreign language is studying abroad (or living in another country), because in this case, we must use another language for everything we do, to talk with someone and to be understood and to understand people, that "forces" us to know the foreign language well.

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The Best Way to Learn a Foreign Language

In my opinion, the best way to learn a foreign language is going (to study or to work) to a country where that language is spoken. However, this is not an easy thing to do, so I choose chatrooms as the easiest way to learn a language.
I think it's essencial to communicate with speakers of the language in order to learn it. In a chatroom, we are able to practise our language skills and are also learning with the other participants. We can see how they usually talk to each other, which will enable us to have a normal conversation with them. This point leads us back to the first thing I mentioned (that the best way to learn a language is to go and live where it is spoken), so all things considered... it's definitely better to go abroad if we want to learn it properly!

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The best way to learn foreign languages

The best way to learn foreign languages is to study abroad because that way we can learn first hand the language, the culture and we get to know the differences between that country and our own country.
I would like to study in the United States of America because there there are so many career opportunities, and much more than here in Portugal. I think it would also be nice to go there because I would gain autonomy, responsibility and I would be living by miself... or not.
Although, for now I just have to study. And when the time comes I'm gonna think about it and decide if I want to go.

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The best way to learn a foreign language

One of the best places to learn a foreing language is the classroom, because there we can communicate and write with other people that are in our level.
The movies are very important for us and they can be very helpful. We can learn new words, we can listen to the pronunciation and we can guess the meaning of words that we don´t understand by watching the movements and the action.
But for me the best way to learn a foreign language is by visiting the country where the first language is the language we are learning.

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