学习一门语言不需要很复杂，也不需要一个漫长的过程。在线教育是未来的趋势，在线的方式更多的适用语言学习。
在线学习的好处
While there are endless benefits to learning online, the top three are: convenience, productivity, and quality.
在线学习有很多的好处，最主要的三个优势是：方便、有效率和高学习质量。
1. Convenience (Learn Anywhere)
方便性（在任何地方学习）
Most of us don’t have the luxury of traveling across the world to a foreign country to learn how to speak Spanish, French, or German.
我们大多数人没有富足到去世界各地旅行来学习外语，在旅行中学习如何讲西班牙语、法语或德语。
If you’re an introverted learner, or just simply someone who’s busy with work, having the ability to learn at the comforts of your own home, or at an environment where you feel safe is undervalued. While real-life immersion is powerful, you can reap the same benefits without sacrificing your lifestyle.
如果你是一个内向的学习者，或者只是忙于工作，有条件在舒适的家里学习，或者在一个你感到安全的环境里。虽然在现实中专注学习是强大的，你不牺牲生活方式也可以收获语言学习的成果。
2. Productivity (Save Time)
有效率（节省时间）
An average American wastes over 15 full days per year commuting. While we can’t change our work environment overnight, we can change our learning environment.
美国人平均每年浪费超过15天在上下班路上。虽然我们不可能在一夜之间改变工作环境，但可以改变我们的学习环境。
For most of us learning languages in-person, the time wasted commuting to meet your teacher at a Starbucks or to your language school can often be worse. Since time is the most important commodity we have, learning online helps us win back more time.
对于大多数独立说学习语言的来说，为了到星巴克见老师或去语言学校学习而浪费时间在上下班路上都是非常糟糕的。因为时间是我们最重要的商品，网络学习可以帮助我们赢回更多的时间。
3. Quality
学习质量
The best teachers are everywhere, not just in your local city. As remote working becomes more prevalent in today’s workplace, so is the saying, “the best talents are everywhere.”
最好的老师无处不在，不仅在你所在的城市。随着远程工作变得越来越流行，也印证了“最好的人才无处不在”的说法。
When it comes to language learning, this is especially true. For one, language learning is as much of a cultural experience as it is an educational experience.
在学习语言时，尤其如此。首先，语言学习是文化经验，也是一个教育经验。
Yet, the chances of you finding the right teacher that matches your learning style, personality, and needs, who also originates from your desired location is pretty slim.
然而，很难找到适合你的学习风格、个性和需求也同样在你当地的老师。
By leveraging learning languages online, we have the power to work with the best teachers (and talent), not just the ones that we find on Craigslist in our local city.
通过利用网络学习语言，我们可以找到最好的老师，而不仅仅是那些在当地城市的老师。
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如何充分利用网络学习语言
如果你决定在线学习语言，可以按照下面几个方法进行：
1. Work With The Best
和顶尖人士学习
Price shopping is the most common form of human behavior before we investing in anything. But when you study the top performers in business, athletics, learning, they only work with the best.
比价在购物时非常常见。但是当你向商业、体育、学习领域的顶级人士学习时，他们只和最强的人共事。
What these high performers understand is that by working with the best, you can actually save more time and money in the end. When you’re starting a business, hiring the cheapest developer can cost your business 5x more time and money to fix the bugs and mistakes the developer made.
这些高水平人士认为，通过和最优秀的人学习，你可以节省更多的时间和金钱。当你创业的时候，招聘成本最便宜的开发人员可能会花费超过5倍的时间和金钱来解决开发人员犯的错误。
When you’re learning a language, working with the cheapest teacher can be the difference between knowing a foreign language or nothing at all. This is because learning something new is often more about self-motivation and persistence, then strategy, especially when you’re just getting started. It’s not always about the what, but the why and how.
当你学习一门语言时，你希望了解一门外语，但是请报价最便宜的老师可能会使你掌握很少的知识。这是因为学习新的事物更多和自我激励和毅力相关，尤其是当你刚刚开始学习时，不仅仅是学是什么，更重要的是为什么学和如何学。
2. Avoid Burnout
避免过度疲劳
Through our experience in high school, and college, we’ve become accustomed to sitting in two hour long lecture halls, trying to retain as much information as our brain allowed.
有高中和大学的经验，我们已经习惯了在课堂上坐两个小时，大脑试图保留尽可能多的信息。
Given by how little most of us actually remember from college or university, it’s safe to say that learning over long periods of time doesn’t work, especially if you risk burning out too early. Language learning is a marathon, just like learning anything.
考虑到我们在大学里能记住的知识很有限，可以说，长时间的学习并不有效，特别是在你感到疲惫的时候。像其他学习一样，语言学习是一场马拉松。
Our most successful students are those who have managed to consistently learn in shorter periods of time over months, versus binge learning one week, and skipping out on the next week.
最成功的学生是那些能够在较短的时间内持续学习几个月，与那些学习一周、休息一周的学员相比，效果更好。
Instead of learning for ten hours a week, try to break it down into 30 minute periods a couple of times a week. It will help you retain more information and ultimately learn more in less time.
与每周学习十小时相比，将把它分成几次30分钟的学习更好。它将帮助你记住更多的信息，最终在较短的时间内掌握更多。
3. Schedule Lessons Ahead of Time
提前安排课程
One of the easiest and most powerful ways to build new habits (and avoid decision fatigue) is to systematize your process.
建立新的习惯最简单和最有效的方法之一(避免决策疲劳)是系统化的安排。
When you’re learning languages online with your teacher, the most important thing you can systematize is scheduling your lessons. It’s often overlooked because we’re already so distracted by everything else in our lives.
当你在线与你的老师学习语言，最重要的事情是系统化安排功课。这点常常因为我们生活中的其他事情而被忽视。
One way to overcome this barrier if you want to book lessons ahead of time with your teacher is to set up repeat events on your calendar (i.e. Google Calendar), and invite your teacher to each event.
克服这一障碍的一个方法是，如果你想提前与你的老师预定课程，可以在日历上标记事件，并邀请你的老师参与每个事件。
4. Use Free Language Tools
使用免费的语言工具
Just like you would want to leverage fitness tools like Fitbit or calorie trackers, even when you’re working with a personal trainer, you should be doing the same when learning languages online.
即使您正在使用一个私人教练，你也可以利用健身工具如Fitbit或热量追踪器，你在网上学习语言也可以做同样的事。
There’s great memorization tools like Memrise or vocabulary learning tools like Duolingo that you can use while you’re working with your language teacher.
有极好的的记忆工具如Memrise或词汇学习工具Duolingo，当你跟着你的语言老师学习时可以使用。
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