Starting Burmese

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First, here’s some background: I started learning Burmese in February 2018 and learned the script slowly. It took me about a month to get through it and I unfortunately stopped after shortly that.

This is mostly a side hobby that I have so I don’t plan on spending hours on it every day but I do have the incentive that I may be going there this year on holidays and that my brother’s girlfriend is from Myanmar.

Having learned a few languages and dabbled in a lot more, I know how I prefer learning languages and it usually goes as below:

1. Learn the script quickly
2. Cement the knowledge of the script with reading and analyzing as many words as possible
3. Start listening to some of the target language’s music to get my ear used to the sound
4. Start writing words I wish to know in the script to begin creating a knowledge base
5. Expand to grammar points I want to know/like to use
6. Write short and simple articles on Lang-8
7. Write down corrections and start watching a few videos regularly to get the rhythm and flow of the language down.
8. Spread my learning through years to get good

Obviously this is rather general and the 8th point is extremely vague but this is usually the process…