Whenever we learn something new, using the foundation learning skills in childhood is always the most effective. We must approach it without fear, apprehension and worries. Unleash your speech potentials, irregardless of what language you are pursuing.

Here are 5 simple steps to slash your time and money to get started:

Use simple tools like pen and notebook, you do not need the computer or books for this one. These steps are proven effective irregardless of what kind of alien language you are learning and which alien planet you are in. Still doubtful, still hesitant? Then you will be set to waste a lot of time and money on courses, books and hours of independent study to express your first few sentences in foreign language. You can always buy many books, but with language, it is all about getting intimate with the subject of your own expression. Know what you want to say first, not howto say it. Still here? Good, let’s carry on.

Step 1: See 5 Things From Your Head

Morning is the best time of the day; your head is clear (unless you are having a hangover) and your mind is ready to absorb images and thoughts the world presents. Just look at a child; they do not anticipate the world, they have no plans or schedule done the day or week before to wake up to. Children have no chores.

The best chef and most creative people in the world -painters, singers, stuntman, designers of fashion and buildings, writers – do not have a step by step guide in front of them. My mum cooks without a recipe and she is now 80 years, still strong. The term we use these days is passion. I just call it Childhood recipe.

Question: What are the first 5 things you see in the morning? Pillows, blue sky, your spouse, your child, your television. These are incorrect answers.

The worst mistake that a new language learner always make is to say what they see.

The 5 things you see in the morning are not the materials things around you but they are the 5 words that come to your head when you open your eyes: sore – hello – boy – dream – late! FOR Work – lottery ticket – shop – shoes – truck – butter – kiss – drink – sweep – party. Remember how your bad tummy feels when you wake and you instanly think of the dinner you had the night before? The strongest words you would utter when you first wake up.

Step 2: Write The 5 Words You See

Write those 5 words down immediately.

This is your memory bank coming to surface in your brain. Write it down. You will discover the words are random without structure. But it tells you what have gone in your head the day before or what matters most to you today, yesterday and the rest of the day.

Step 3: Match 5 Words With 5 Concrete Objects.

The next thing is to see the words in your head.

Since you have written down the words, it is of course easy. But do you see the words around you in the form of action, material things and in other written form? (Do not use the computer for this. That is just the easy way out.)

Now start matching the 5 words with things around you. These things are concrete materials. What you have done is to make concrete the words your have just written down. (If you can’t find the things, like the bottle of soda you just thrown out last night, you can draw it out.)

Step 4: Say it in your native language.

Now instead of remembering the words on the list, look at the concrete objects and say it in your native tongue. Now throw the paper away. Use this sentence to teach yourself the words: “This is ………..” Do not add any article ‘a’, ‘the’ or ‘and ‘d’ before the word” You do not want the structure, just the word.

Step 5: Say it in your favourite language.

Next use the translator to replace the word with the non-native word. Write it down like so.

This is spoon (native) becomes This is ’sudu’ (non-native equivalent). This is politics (native) becomes This is ‘politik’ (non-native equivalent).

Do not worry about making up a sentence.

These step by step method takes all but the bank of words already in your brains to translate into any language you want. You got it, just use images that are already stored in your head, turn into words, find the concrete image, translate it into the foreign word. No dictionary, no translator, simple easy beginning steps. Go ahead try it out today and practise, practise, practise.

I do not type when I learn languages. I use a tablet which helps me with writing. "The hands are the intelligence of the mind" - Montessori.

How do you know if you are sensitive towards learning a language? How would you know if you are not cheating time by faking your own interest? “I love this guy but he is a foreigner. So I should learn his language to get to know him better?” It does not work that way. This post shall help you see something from a different light.

* The person who is passing through a period of sensitivity can be compared to the shopping frenzy of the bargain hunter in a warehouse sale. As the doors open, the bargain hunter rushes in, scours through every isle to find the best discounts on the bargain shelves; as she stands in queue at the cashier’s, she glances apprehensively at what other have in their hands, scrutinizing and at the same time safeguarding her finds triumphantly. An avid bargain hunter often also returns and scours through repetitiously, studying every possible combination of item which optimizes her purchasing power.

* It is not an addiction, it is a period of full focus and concentration which kindle and stimulate the mind to absorb every single images and sounds through the senses. It is also not passion, because passion can die off. Sensitive periods will astonish you when it happens and emerges; we can call it sparks of our own genius.

* For example, are you repeating foreign words after each native word you read? Are you craving for more foreign food with different tastes? Are you watching lots of foreign movies and listening to foreign music? Are you learning and teaching to new learners or speaking to other people about your new language interest?

The senses are gateways to the intelligence. There is nothing in the intelligence that did not pass first through the senses. – Aristotle

* Whenever, I see a spark of sensitiveness towards language, I will not hesitate to follow it and produce a new style that keeps me interested on learning. You will notice, I have started writing to write my foreign words at the end of each post. This is my regular activity. I post and I write. You have just to grab the opportunity.

* I do not type when I learn languages. I use a tablet which helps me with writing Mandarin on the computer. I also use the usual traditional pen and paper method. Every effort should be made to enrich the development of sensibilities, because once this sensitive period passes, it cannot come back to the same primitive intensity.You can find yourself saying, “What was it I was saying just now? Now I have forgotten.”

* Take notice of your personal sensitive inclinations towards learning. It is neither addiction nor passion, it is passing period which when given full observation from a scientific mind, you will rope in the right tools and methods to augment its development and growth.

I was a childhood star; I have been indeed blessed.

I was probably 13 or 14 years old when this was published.

I was a child star. the headline read:

Hanifa

A Malay Student Child Actress Who Speaks Mandarin

My father was very proud and had kept this in a photo frame. I have been keeping it in a folder eversince. He died when I was 23 years old. Mum was born in 1929; she is now 80 years old. Both of my parents can speak only 1 language, Malay. All of us, the children, are trilingual. We had not joined any gifted programmes; we were just a bunch of kids enjoying growth as it unfolded. How my parents had to put up with us when we spoke foreign languages around the house, I had no idea.

When I started Childhoodspeech, I wanted to tell the world how to enjoy speaking different languages. Now you can tell from many success stories: Louis Hamilton, Jesse Cook, Tiger Woods, Michael Jackson, Andrew Lloyd Weber, and thousands others, that childhood has everything to do with the man we have become.

I stared hard at the newspaper cutting and it felt really good inside that I wanted to share with more people than just my family. I hesitated at first because I am shy; but my husband insists that I post it on the site.

I hope Childhoodspeech will motivate, inspire and encourage many parents, loved ones and language learners to understand and believe that childhood methods work.

I have taught children and adults different subjects. The only way knowledge can ever be retained is when it is given presented simply in a step by step programme. It does not matter if you are doing internet marketing or writing a recipe book; simplicity, precision and childlike approaches are more effective than we think.

The Absorbent Mind is one of the best books ever written by any childhood pedagogist (educator) or philosopher. Maria Montessori literally knocked on the stubborn recesses of your mind to think about who we are as children from the time of our birth to adolescence.

This book will give you an insight to what you were as a child, not what you might have been. There are no disguises, no fantasies and imaginations, just insights of a dedicated teacher who had immense passion for learning.

“The man is what the child has become.”

I have read several books which are inspired by the Absorbent Mind, applied over and over again in many different aspects of development of the child, at home and in school. For the parents who are struggling to adjust to routines at home with children or simply want to help yourself and your child work together, this book is certainly for you. It is not a recipe book where you can find a note on how to control your child’s behaviour; it is a book that leads you to discover the how-to’s and let’s you use the knowledge in your best interest.

The opening chapters zoom in to the system of relationship between functions of the human senses and areas which directly bring to your attention to growth from the mind out. You might have heard of the phrase, ‘tear your brains out’? The book will save you from venting out against the world and bring you back to the child inside. No matter how poor or rich your environment was when you grew up, childhood experiences will be the most wonderful and memorable in your lifetime.

I travel with it literally because it has helped me recognize my own failings as a parent and teacher, and then empower me to give better for my environment, including writing this weblog. Let’s face it, if we rely on our instincts and intuition to deal with areas of life which we have little to no experience about, we may be able to get optimum results from any decisions or directions we take but only on a per chance basis.

Get your personal copy. The Absorbent Mind.

Many books have been written to explain how to succeed, and why we can succeed if we follow their logical patterns of thought processes, but not many books are able to draw out from within the dormant recesses of our intuitive and instinctive potentials, explain in such detail such as to make you want to use those potentials over and over again.