How To Learn A Language By Using Social Media Networking Like Facebook And Twitter

Social media networking sites have literally changed the way people today communicate and conduct business. Everybody likes to chat and keep in touch with friends and family with social media. Social media has made possible the impossible. Although most use it to receive general updates from friends and family, this cool social platform could also be used to learn a language. How?

Facebook and Twitter share many commonalities:

1) Language settings
2) Like and following capability
3) Online chatting functions

Let talk first about the language settings and how these can help you to learn a language. When you first set your pages, you had the option of setting your language preference. This will deliver all updates in that language. Now, you can change this setting to that language that you want to learn. By doing this, you will now receive updates in that language which will expose now to new words and expressions. The more you see them, the more you will remember them and commit them to memory.

The Like and Following Functions: 
With these of course, when you like someone's page (FB) or follow them (Twitter), you will now receive automatically updates or news this person posts online. Now, the thing that you want to do to learn a language is search for people, groups, or programs to like or follow. You can then receive their updates.

The cool thing is that if you like or follow let's say for example "Digitaldialects" this page will send language learning tips that will help you. You can do the same for any other language learning programs that have pages. The idea is to follow and get updates from people that speak and teach the language that you are targeting.

Some of these very programs with pages offer free lessons in those languages that you get to your feeds. This means you learn on the go. Now, the frequency of the updates and how diligent you are in practicing what you learn will determine of course your progress.

The Chatting Functions:
These are great to help you to learn a language. You can chat live with native speakers of your targeted language and teach each other. You can give the person free lessons in English in exchange for free lessons in their language. This way you both benefit. You can practically log on anytime the others are online and teach each other.  You can answers to questions you might instantly with these chatting features.

I personally like Skype because it's free and you can also chat with others and see them as you communicate.  You can use in addition to Twitter and Facebook. Although it isn't the fastest way to learn a language, it is another very effective means to learn. The point is that social media networking platforms have benefits that many have already capitalized on. Why not take advantage of these also and use them to your advantage to help you learn a language?