April 10, 2007at 6:46 am
· Filed under Brain and language learning, How to learn a language
Verbs
Real action in understanding language by Dawn Wiseman from Universite Concorde Journal-De Almeida’s Psycholinguistic and Cognition Lab focuses largely on understanding how information gleaned from verbs, and verbs in sentences, structures our overall comprehension of meaning.
“Verbs are the key elements in sentences,” he explained. “They tell us who did what to whom.”
De Almeida and his […]
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April 9, 2007at 9:42 am
· Filed under Being bilingual, General language learning
new language and your native language
Science of language-Bilingual brain by Nigel Praitis sciencefirst-Too many words? The brains of bilingual children are able to distinguish between the two languages.
Yet the brain is remarkable in being able to distinguish between two languages. Bilingual children may take slightly longer to utter their first word but they quickly learn […]
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April 8, 2007at 10:51 am
· Filed under How to learn a language
Love and languages
This may see rather cliché, but I have never, meet someone in a relationship with someone who did not start picking up the language though osmosis. My girlfriend could barely speak English when I met her. After two years in our relationship she teaches English and my Polish is pretty good. It is […]
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April 7, 2007at 1:08 am
· Filed under How to learn a language, Technology and language learning
Computer game to learn a language
Although not the most straightforward way of learning, I pay chess and computer games on foreign servers. For me example, I play chess on the Polish server “Kurnik” . It is a large game international server but most of the chatting is in Polish and I choose the Polish interface […]
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April 6, 2007at 2:13 pm
· Filed under How to learn a language
Learn abstract words
Language is first and foremost an abstraction. Why did humans invent language? To convey things that could not be shown to others concretely. Many learning aids and traditional method lessons are ineffective because they emphasis concrete things during the first year of learning. That is nouns about such as “dog”, “cat”, “grandfather”, “Fireman”, […]
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April 5, 2007at 5:33 am
· Filed under General language learning, Learn Chinese
Chinese
Chinese language is on the rise by Pauline Vu from Stater online-American students have been learning to say “hola” and “bonjour” for years now, but lately, more and more of them are learning to say “ni hao.” An interest to learn Chinese has surged in the United States as China has risen as a global […]
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April 4, 2007at 5:39 am
· Filed under How to learn a language, Music and language learning
Music and language learning
Music is the key to learning English as a second language from Asbury Park Press- Rose Powers, 44, of Metechun teaches English and uses creative ways to make learning a language easy and fun. Powers uses Pod-Casts on a video I-Pod in addition to books and worksheets. She also incorporates music […]
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April 3, 2007at 6:02 am
· Filed under General language learning
How to learn a language
I have taught languages for several years. Initially my lessons were quite traditional. Grammar and typical structured lessons. Latter I developed many techniques. At this point even with beginners I have changed my method. It’s the way I learned English.
Reading, Writing and conversation.
Since most of the people I teach are adults […]
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April 2, 2007at 5:31 am
· Filed under Brain and language learning, General language learning, Motivation and language learning
Brain plasticiy
‘Plastic’ brain transforms itself by Lynda Hurst-For centuries, science regarded the human brain as a machine, with every component in its place, every task assigned. If a part was broken or worn out, that was that. It couldn’t be replaced: its function was permanently lost. That was also wrong. Injured or dysfunctional cells and […]
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April 1, 2007at 10:56 am
· Filed under General language learning, Off the topic of languages
Ancient languages
Classics ‘harm language learning‘ by Julie Henry Sunday Telegraph-Lessons in Latin and Ancient Greek have been deemed detrimental to the learning of foreign languages in schools. A secret document sent to Government officials by the Dearing Languages Review, an influential inquiry into language teaching, reveals that Latin and Greek were excluded from the list […]
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