Theory and Practice: junio 2016

domingo, 19 de junio de 2016

A strategy for language learning

I have my blutooth speakers on, because as I was setting up here, and wherever I'm doing anything I'm listening to my romanian because I'm into romanian right now. Today I'm gonna talk about strategy what I consider be the essential stratigic consideration in language learning. I'm keeping this sound because I'm gonna turn on my romanian shortly just for ...here....but... I said before that language learning really amounts to the attitude of the learner, the time you spend with the language, and developing the ability to notice. And this ability to notice is key; because your brain is gonna learn but the brain has to notice the language. ...patterns of the language, pronuntation or whatever. So, what's is the strategy for learning to notice, and If you develop the strategy for learning to notice that then becomes a strategy for learning the language. And to me the strategy to notice and to learn the language is to have a two prong* attack on the language. One is a top down, and the other is a bottom up or buttoms up. In others words, one is the big picture (top down) and the other is the bits and pieces, which is buttom up. Now what does that mean spercifically , It means the top down, the big picture is the input, which is where I spend most of my time, and the bits and piecesç, bottom up, is abi attention you pay to flascards worslists, grammar rules, grammar tables, even in the early stages of speaking and being be corrected, those kinds of things. Most of my effort, with Romanian, has been with the big picture. I'd been add Romanian for about three weeks . I've discovered radio Romenia, where they have: history programms, news casts, unfortunely, they don't have trasncripts, but I have gone to i lands* ....If i can to find the trascriber so that I can transcibe some of these very intresting history discussions. Also in terms of the big picture, I've gone after wikipidia there is all kind of stuff on romanian histoty, which I've imported to linq, so I cramped out * my linking, my new words ...

Language Learning is a Subconscious Process

viernes, 17 de junio de 2016

L'apprentissage des langues et le talent

Why We Need A Lot Of Words

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Today I wanna talk about words, the importance of words, and how many words we need, It's a subject that comes out regularly . I came across a very interesting article, and in fact, I'm gonna write a blog post about it. .....next week ...writing it. We need lots of words. Essentially in order to learn a language, beyond this sort of very superficial social level, we need a large vocabulary. The best way to aquire that vocabulary in my opinion is through a lot of reading, and reading things that are meaningful, and in fact historically, that's how people learn languages and, when we discover ..we star rading things that are interesting to us, not just text book material. In facft you need a lot of words, and the vast majority of language courses don't enable the learner to aquire suffcient vocabulary to go out to read a book. and I belive that in any of the languages that I have learned, I wanna get to .. I can read books of interesting to me:history, litterature, whatever might be, that I can without difficulty and enjoy *..read things that interesting to me*. To do that you need a lot of words, and there is this myth about that if you have a thousand words you can cover just* any context in the language. It's simply not truth, apparantly according to research, one hundred to* fifthy words will probably cover in most languages, fifthy percent, of the words in any given context. However, once you get beyond that the words are less and less frequent *..less and less frequent words appear very much less frequently * the example is given in james Joyces l* for example has a total words *fifhty thousand, but uses thirty thousand diffrent words so you will in order to understand every word in Ulyses, You have to know twentty thousand words