How to Teach a Foreign Language

Series Summary

Learning a foreign language can seem difficult at times. Many people of varying ages and lingual backgrounds struggle when learning a new language, but there are a number of teaching techniques and mental exercises that can make the process easier. As information and commerce continue to bring the world closer together, developing multilingual skills is essential. Expert Village offers this free online video tutorial to help those teaching or learning a foreign language.

In this series of free videos, expert Hakeem Lavelle offers advice to teachers of foreign languages, those learning their first foreign language and multilingual speakers who want to expand their ability. Hakeem dismisses misconceptions about the difficulties of learning a new language, and offers tips on finding a tutor and how best to deal with the frustrations you might experience in the learning process. He also offers advice to those teaching a foreign language, including how to prepare someone to learn a new language, what teaching techniques work best for children and adults, and some of the differences in teaching languages to speakers of African, Asian, and Middle Eastern dialects. Hakeem finishes with foreign language success stories, including his own, and what motivates him to teach the world to communicate and better understand one another.

Video Transcript

" Hello my name is Hakeem Lavelle I am here on behalf of Expert Village to do a how to video on teaching a foreign language. Teaching a foreign language like teaching anything requires creativity, requires skill, and it requires patience. It requires for you to be able to convey to the person that you are trying to teach that you can learn this language it is not impossible and I can teach it to you. You have to cooperate and I have to bear with you. Now I've been teaching foreign languages for 7 years actually. Actually four language the language of Arabic. This was not my native language I have to inquire like any body else. I grew up in a bilingual family which made it slightly easier for me but, because the language that was mine was different. Even in symbol and character and punctuation. In my language it was something that was very challenging. Hopefully I can convey to you and it won't be challenging for you. Thank you for watching."