Walkabout Language Learning Action Guide

Discover Your Language Learning Dreams and
Make them Come True

Do you want to learn a second language? Maybe you have already started, but are unsure of how to move forward. Perhaps you’ve gotten to a plateau in your language learning journey and need new ideas to move you to the next level. Keep reading to learn how to discover your language learning dreams and make them come true.

Get the benefits of a second language

Have you ever wished you could understand when someone was talking in another language? You're not alone. Knowing a second language offers many benefits, including:

• A new perspective or way of thinking about things.
• The ability to laugh at jokes in a second language.
• Eyes to see new sights.
• Greater ease of getting around in your new country.
• The ability to handle day-to-day business abroad.
• Deeper friendships across cultures.
• Improved employability.
• Improvements in your international business.
• The ability to speak to your other language employees.

Learn Exactly What you Need When you Need It

You know what language skills you want, Walkabout Language Learning Action Guide by Leslie Woodford and Terry Marshall shows you step by step how to create your own language learning program. The Action Guide shows you how to put it all into practice.

• You control the vocabulary you learn.
• You practice the skills you need.
• You decide how much time to spend.
• Tailor your study to meet your needs.
• Learn at your own speed—whether that is fast or slow.
• You decide how to use this guide.
• You assess your progress.
• You decide when you’ve reached your level of mastery.
• You get an in your ear guide to direct your study.
• Follow step by step instructions to create your own language lesson.

You learn exactly what you need when you need it, not a bunch of verb conjugations that will trip you up every time you open your mouth.

With the Action Guide, your language study:

• Is immediately useful.
• Is easy to remember.
• Motivates you to learn because you know you’ll use it right away.
• Stays in your mind the next day because you used in a real situation.

The Action Guide gives you:

• Tools to avoid embarrassing mistakes.
• Tools to move ahead in your language learning journey.
• Access to us to answer your questions along the way.
• Methods to insert yourself into native speaker situations to get the practice you need to succeed.

Learn practical language

Have you ever wondered how "useful" the phases and vocabulary from your foreign language textbook would be in a real life situation? While it might be nice to know how to say "pencil" "blackboard" "chalk" and "eraser" the Walkabout Language Learning Action Guide walks you through the steps to create practical language, including:

• Going to a party,
• Visiting local sites,
• Dating,
• Giving directions,
• Doing anything you need to do in your new language.

Use it Abroad

You can use the Action Guide anywhere. If you are planning to go abroad, or if you already live overseas, the Action Guide helps you use the language opportunities all around you. You can use it as part of formal classroom instruction, or to take your language practice outside of the classroom, or in your own self directed program. It is that flexible.

Use it at Home in your Own Country

Learn how to use foreign language speakers in your own community to start your language learning before you go abroad, or if you can’t travel right now, prepare for future travel. Get ideas about how to practice at home in your own country.

If You're a Language Teacher: Use It with Your Students

If you’re a professional language teacher, learn the tools to help your students extend their learning beyond the classroom. They will progress faster and farther.

Discover your Language Learning Dreams

Learn the specific activities to discover your language learning dreams.

Benefit from a comprehensive self-rating checklist

Use the goals listed or define your own then test your knowledge based on the "self test" lists.

• Learn 7 easy tricks to help you study better
• Learn the vocabulary, sentences that you need to know.
• Learn how to measure your cultural understanding.
• Use the tools provided to create your own goals and measure your own progress.
• Use a self test that is made for learners not for instructors.

Your Language Learning Mentor

Learn why a mentor is more than a translator and how to get the most out of your relationship.

• Learn what characteristics are most important in a language learning mentor.
• Learn how to find and use “instant mentors” when you travel as a tourist or visit a country for a short time only.
• Learn how to find a mentor—in your own country or a foreign country.

Use Our Sample Dialogs or Create Your Own

Benefit from several sample dialogs to get you started, including:

• Basic beginner intro
• Ordering at a restaurant
• Making an international phone call
• Asking directions
• Buy batteries, fix camera
• Or create your own dialog

Learn Smart Study Tricks

• Six self-study techniques to help you memorize your dialog
• Plus one tip you’ve probably never thought of to make your study stick.
• Learn about the “otro camino” to help you get your ideas across and be understood by people, even if you don’t know the exact word.
• Learn how to use past experiences to further your learning
• Learn keys to identify cultural cues and differences
• Find out how to expand your study with self-talk
• Get creative ideas for leveraging connection that you may already have

Help Other Learners

Help other people learn (and enrich your own experiences) by publishing your successes.

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