Generative grammar is the idea that although our brains are limited; and our experience with a language is always limited, as we have not herd all possible combinations of native or secondary language. However, we have an innate ability to generate and understand an infinite number of combinations of sentences. This mean although I have [...]
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Watch films and movies to learn languages
How to make every film, even English language films a foreign language film in your target language.
Watching films for language gives you four basic options: First, subtitles, second, lecture, third, dubbing. And fourth you can watch the film in its original language.
For language learning the best is subtitles with [...]
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Koko the gorilla
Koko learned to sign about 1000 words and understand about 2,000 words. If Koko can, so can you. You do not have to be a genuis to learn a language, however, learning on will improve your intellect.
Koko used signs to convey thoughts. Although some ‘experts’ refute the level of understanding she had with [...]
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Language certificates
Every language has a certificate program. For example in English there is something called “first certificate” In all languages there are equivalent tests, in Spanish, French, Polish, Russian, Italian, German and Ukrainian you can get something such as this test certificate. There is also intermediate level advanced and proficiency. Proceiency means you [...]
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How a baby learns languages
Want to help your infant’s communication skills - which ultimately lead to those precious first words?
Babies’ brains are hardwired to learn any language; they learn early on to mimic (i.e. babble) the language they hear spoken most frequently. Also, around the age of two months, your infant’s vocal chords are capable [...]
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How to get married in Poland and have a Polish wedding
How to marry a Polish citizen
There are two types of Polish marriages, Polish civil marriage and Church marriage. If you have a Polish church wedding this is legal. I will explain the Church wedding, as this is more common in Poland.
As with any official or [...]
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Here is a technique that may not increase your IQ, as it claims, but will certainly increase your visual perceptiveness of details and might stimulate creativity by bringing more of your intelligence online. It does this by connecting your language centers with your visual/imaginative centers in your brain. It is a type of Socratic method [...]
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Dating and language
Dating someone from another country and language learning. When I first moved to Poland many girls wanted to meet me, usually for coffee. At first I thought this was the ‘Hollywood effect’ from beginning from the states. Foreigners are always interested in exotic people from other countries and they are treat a little [...]
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Listeners versus speakers. I am a talker more than a listener. Consequently I speak better in foreign languages than I can comprehend. Generally I would say listeners are better with languages because they hear language patterns over and over. I used to think that it’s easier to speak than understand as you can speak [...]
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Going to church and praying in a foreign language. Some things are meant to be holy and not a language learning technique. However if you are a going to church and praying and want to learn a language then try to go to not English services. You will get a lot out of it from [...]
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