Posts Tagged ‘memory’
Feb
Feb
Fun ways to remember numbers
It’s so common for people to learn counting to ten when they start learning a new language, but as I’ve already discussed, this type of learning by memorization is actually bad.
Mar
Mar
Connect with the language in order to learn it better
I often insist that I’m not any more gifted than anyone else. It’s easy to excuse away my success by just saying I’m gifted, because it takes the responsibility off of yourself when you fail. But it’s self-delusion.
The ease with which I learn a language is a direct result of my curiosity. I don’t have a better memory than anyone else. But what I do have is a genuine curiosity about how language works — I am fascinated with how people communicate.
Jul
Jul
Word pattern recognition
Have you ever thought about what’s actually going on in your mind when you listen to someone talking? If so, you may have already noticed that your brain is guessing at the words to come next before you even hear them!
It works with reading too. If I write “six of one…“, I
Feb
Feb
The triune brain
In the 1960′s, a neuroscientist named Paul MacLean formulated an idea called the Triune Brain…. To tell it in over-simplified terms, the idea describes how the human brain has formed as a result of evolution. Triune Brain Theory describes the brain in three parts: the reptilian brain, the mammal brain, and the human brain.
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