Tweeting in foreign language to learn

I have restarted tweeting in English since May.
I had used twitter long time ago, but my English at that time was worse than current my level, so it was hard to continue.
Besides, I didn't have enough motivation to continue tweeting in English.
Soon I stopped tweeting.
It took long time until I restarted tweeting again.

From my experience, I can say tweeting in foreign language makes improvement in the language.
Unfortunately I stopped my tweeting for lack of motivation, but if I have continued tweeting in these past years, my English must have improved so much.
I regret a little that I stopped that.

So I suggest you to tweet in your learning language even if you are still at beginner level.
You don't need to worry about making mistakes, because your first purpose for tweeting in foreign language is, to get used to the language.
Let's tweet about things in your mind without hesitation.
Do you care if some native speakers points out your grammatical errors?
In case like that, just appreciate them and fix your errors.
No need to be ashamed.
If your errors will be pointed out, that is lucky for you.
If no one does, well, someday somebody will, or you will notice by yourself.
Don't worry to start new things, just have fun.

Let's find what you want to do with the foreign language

We can do anything we want.
We don't need any patience or effort for doing something we like.
So if we need patience or effort on to do something, maybe it is not the thing we want to do very much.

On learning foreign languages, many people are suffering to keep their study.
They say they "have to study" the foreign language.
If you are forced to learn or study foreign languages by someone or situation, you feel it is like a torture.
Sometimes we have to learn something we don't want to, because our school or job require that.
However most of time language learning which we are forced to do doesn't produce a good result.
Because we need much patience or effort to continue such unwilling learning.
We want to finish such learning as soon as we can.
That's not good to improve.
As long as we continue, we will improve the language.

When we do things we want, we can continue forever.
Then, if we want to learn language, we can continue it without patience nor effort.
Because we like that.
To come to like to learn, let's focus on what you want to do with the language.
Is it for speaking with foreign people, reading a foreign books or something another fun?
Keep what in your mind clearly, it will help your learning a lot.
If you want to learn speaking, you will improve better on speaking.
If you want to learn reading, you will improve better on reading.
You can do it without patience or effort.

In case you are being forced to learn language, I'd give you an advice.
Let's find a fun in your purpose of the language learning.
Even you are learning because your job require that, there are benefits for you in the learning.
If you improve, you may get promotion or new job.
Maybe you will get attractive foreign friends in business if you will be fully fluent with the language.
Imagine your future benefits, then you can continue your learning more enjoyable.

How to build vocabulary in foreign languages

Have you learned foreign languages before?

If you have, I am sure you struggled to memorize words in the languages.

Every languages consists of words.

The more you memorize them, your language skills will be improved. 

However sometimes we can't be sure what we should do to memorize.

I am not a specialist of languages but just a learner, so I'd introduce how I memorize vocabularies to you.

At the beginning of language learning, I try to get a very basic wordbook or two.

I read it cover to cover, over and over again.

After I have read it over ten times, I became to know most of words in the word book.

If I want more improvement on the reading, I will read the same book more often.

How can't we memorize the words of a book after we have read the book over twenty to thirty times in a short period of time?

Maybe you may be bored to read the same book over and over again. 

If so, I suggest you to read many books or articles on the internet in languages you are learning.

Read them as many as you can.

You will meet same words in different contexts and memorize them gradually.

Just to read the same book is sometimes very hard, but if you use many books or articles to learn, you can keep your motivation to reading.

I read books in both ways depending on my mood.

Please try to keep the fact that you can memorize words you have met many times in your mind.

I hope you will be fully fluent in the language soon.

Reading books aloud

Often I read books aloud.
I do it because I want to improve my speaking skill.
For reading material, I choose very easy English books, like texts for junior high school students.

Mr. Masao Kunihiro, a famous interpreter and translator, has spread the idea of reading aloud to English learners.
He claimed he read same books aloud over and over again, and it amounted to several hundred times.
His English speaking skill was splendid.

I am not sure reading aloud works for me to improve my speaking or doesn't, but I am trying it.
I hope I will be fully fluent like Mr. Masao Kunihiro near future.