Posts Tagged ‘how to learn’
Dec
Dec
Not a total bust
As I mentioned in my last post, it’s clear that I will not be speaking fluent Turkish by the end of this year – even if I were to be amazingly productive for the rest of this month. But it’s still not a total bust. I did learn a lot this year!…
First, obviously, I
Jan
Jan
The haphazard construction of the human mind
I recently finished reading Kluge: The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind… by Gary Marcus. It’s an entire book written just about the brain and how it works, so as you can imagine there’s a lot of information in there to help learners. The book even contains an entire chapter about language.
Marcus repeatedly uses
May
May
Solving the real problem of language learning
It is my firm belief that one of the main reasons why so many people do not learn foreign languages, or why so many people fail at learning foreign languages, is that they simply do not know how to do it. This is the worst kind of problem, because it is a problem whose existence…
May
May
Why good advice is so hard to follow
When I was young and wanted to know how to get a girl’s attention, people always told me “just be yourself”. I remember how frustrated I was with this line! I used to complain, “obviously ‘being myself’ doesn’t work, because I am myself and it’s not working!…” Later on, though, Eventually, I realized I