Comments on: How To Learn To Speak Tourist Before Your Next Vacation

By: Anil Polat

Anil Polat — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 21:25:41 +0000

In reply to Ryan. People appreciate a commitment to the details and perfection, especially when it's their language you apply those attributes to ;)

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 14:39:56 +0000

I think you hit on the head when you said lose perfection and just get your idea across. Also loved that you added swear words and the local lisp or accent because these move you from tourist to that “Nationality” guy here.

By: Anil Polat

Anil Polat — Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:01:55 +0000

In reply to Connie. Thank you Connie :) Great advice and absolutely true, it can be quite a discouraging cycle if we mumble our way through a few sentences...

By: Anil Polat

Anil Polat — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 10:50:51 +0000

In reply to Debbie Beardsley @ European Travelista.

That’s probably the biggest hindrance for us adults and what gives children an advantage. They go on with their mistakes, which helps highlight where they need to focus improvements on (when they’re corrected).

Many of us have the problem where we fall back on only what we’re sure of – maybe a good trick is to practice with a child native speaker 🙂

By: Connie

Connie — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:22:14 +0000

Hi Anil, great post as usual, I agree with what Debbie said, that it’s easy to be a little shy. I think it’s important to speak firmly and not quietly. If we speak in a quiet, muffled, under confident way (as we all often do when learning and unsure) it results in puzzled faces and requests to say it again, further knocking confidence because we then think what we said was wrong! So head up, make good eye contact and speak firmly and confidently!