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Spanish From Nothing

Welcome to Spanish From Nothing at languagefromnothing.com! My name is Justin Ryan and I am excited to announce that the enitre point of my blog has finally arrived! Woohoo!

I will be learning another language – in this case Spanish – starting from nothing. Hence Spanish From Nothing. Yay!

What is Language From Nothing?

It is an experiment to test out a specific strategy designed to simplify the language learning process. Language learning can be confusing, time consuming, energy draining, and overwhelming. But I don’t believe it has to be – if you approach it in the right way. Continue reading Spanish From Nothing Intro!→

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Create Your Own Interaction Pattern

Overview:

6 Easy Steps
Step 1 – Find a phrase
Step 2 – Comprehend the phrase
Step 3 – Choose a pattern type
Step 4 – Create variations
Step 5 – Set up an interaction
Step 6 – Engage the interaction Continue reading The Interaction Pattern (Part 2- Create Your Own)→

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The main purpose of my blog is to test out a specific language learning strategy. The crux of this approach is using “Interaction Patterns.”

Basically this is taking pieces of the language you are learning and intentionally creating patterns in ways that prompt you for a response – using the new the language. In other words purposely creating and engaging in an interaction between you and the new language.

When we speak in our native language it’s usually to take part in Continue reading The Interaction Pattern (Part 1- Introduction)→

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My name is Justin Ryan. No, Ryan is not my last name. Take another guess 🙂

This video gives a small introduction to who I am, where I’m from, and why I’ve started a language learning blog.  You can also find details on my About LFN page.

What if I put it in the middle?

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