Americans are terrible at learning foreign languages.
Except…
There’s one small group of religious people who walked across America about 150 years ago. They settled in the desert. The men married many women. And now their great-grand children can learn any foreign language in just a few months.
Interested?
Then keep reading…
Meet The Mormons
Most Mormons live in the state of Utah.
I used to live in Utah.
I used to have a few Mormon friends.
Nice people.
And when they turn 19, they go live in a foreign country for two years.
They walk around all day, talk to strangers, and try to get them to become Mormons.
And when you become a Mormon, it’s goodbye to beer, coffee and sex (if you’re not married); and it’s hello to three hours of church every Sunday.
Tough job.
And… they do this in the local language….
Which they learned in just a few months!
As no Morman would ever say, Holy Shit!
The Secret of the Mormons
My Mormon friends told me their success with languages was because of God.
Some videos and articles you can find on the internet say it’s because of their method.
I say it’s just a ton of motivation.
The Mormon language students wake up early, they focus on their new language all day and every day, they stop using English, and if they fail… well, they can’t fail.
I call this type of motivation “Push Motivation.”
You’re being pushed to learn, pushed to get up early, pushed to get results.
It works.
But is it the best for you?
Let’s talk about that….
Tomorrow.
Interested , but I dont like to like them.
I’ve met Mormons. It’s impressive how fluently they speak local language, but their motivation is not my. To each his own!
Very strange îs this story of Mormons! Which other languages they want to learn ?or îs enough to know English?
All the world’s languages!
I think that not just Mormons are going around in Europe from the USA trying to propagate their religion, because some years ago I met young religious guys in Hungary in our village at my place offering to meet them the next time in Győr, the nearest town, where we could have a chat about their mission and service of their God. To be honest, I was not interested in conversations about any religious matters and missed out on that kind of meeting but it might have been useful to meet them because they were seemingly not ordinary sort of youngsters being moderately dressed, very polite, talkative, purposeful and determined not accepting the invitation into my place. That is why I can also imagine the Mormons because they showed me that kind of strong consciousness and responsibility likewise the Mormons expressed in some of the Mormon films I saw about them. Believing in God can certainly be a strong inner power to learn everything which fits the accepted religious beliefs.
And how was their Hungarian?
Their Hungarian did not turn out because they were a bit surprised and uplifted to meet an Englis-speaker Hungarian who asked questions about their business and gave information about the villagers and who was a bit more fluent at the time.
Interesting,I liked
I think push motivation can works…..but what I know is, that the engine of all successes is decision. If you really decide to know/do something, you reach it!