1) How often does Lýdia learn a new language? a) Every 2 years. b) Every year. c) Every 8 years. 2) What is a polyglot? a) A person who spends many years learning a language never achieving fluency. b) A person who loves languages. c) A person who speaks a lot of languages. d) A person with quite a rare desease. 3) TRUE OR FALSE? "One of the main problems to learn a new language is that it is necessary to travel a lot" a) True b) False 4) What approach did Lucas use to learn Russian? a) He started by imitating the sounds of the language. b) He used a very ingenious method with skype to figure out how a usual conversation in Russian goes. c) He first learned the 500 most frequent Russian words. d) He started reading about the Russian grammar. 5) How did Lýdia learn Spanish? a) She made some flashcards. b) She created some colorful handmade grammar charts. c) She read the Spanish version of her favorite book as a child. d) Since she loves cooking, she followed some recipes in Spanish. 6) What coud be a good method for an introverted person to start learning a language according to what Lýdia says? a) Self-talk: take a random picture and describe it, describe your plans for the weekend, tell yourself how your day has been. etc. b) Writing words down on paper and listening to a lot of textbook material. 7) Enjoyment is the one and only principle of learning a second language. a) True. b) False, there are 3 more principles. c) False, there are 2 more principles. 8) Space repetition is: a) A method where you try to memorize a list of words for a test even though new words are stored in your short-term memory.  b) A method where you revise new words repeatedly in the course of a few days so they stay long-term. 9) The third principle to learn a language is TO CREATE A SYSTEM which implies: a) planning your time ahead so practicing the language becomes a part of your everyday life. b) finding a lot of extra time in your daily life to practice the language by changing some important things of your routine. 10) For Lýdia, learning German with the sitcom "friends" was: a) almost a miracle, she made some visible improvement after only 2 episodes of it. b) very motivating, she could understand simple jokes at the beginning but step by step and after many many episodes, she was able to express her ideas fluently. c) extremely frustrating, she wanted to be able to use the language after 2 months of watching it, but since she saw no improvement, she quitted. 11) can everybody learn a foreign language? a) yes b) no

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