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• Language is a system that has sounds, grammar rules and vocabulary.

• Learners who use learning strategies effectively are more successful.

• If you learn in the way you feel better, you learn more.

• If you expect to succeed, you will be more likely to succeed.

• Fear of making mistakes does not facilitate my learning progress.

• Too much correction or criticism does not facilitate your learning.

• Differences between two languages interfere when you try to learn them.

• You learn a language progressively.

• You can improve your sound discrimination, memory, and grammatical sensitivity skills.

• The sooner you can acquire the grammatical system of a language, the sooner you can use the language creatively.

• You cannot rely on memorization alone.

• The more meaningful exposure, the more you learn.