2013年5月4日 星期六

Lesson Six——How to learn speaking

Language is a culture, so-called culture, is feasible in one place, but often does not work in another place, if you don't realize others culture you will cause trouble everywhere. In language, not only different places have different words, there styles of handling there words are not the same also. When peaking in English the concept of "everyone" have to say "everybody", but by French they talk about "tout le monde", the literal translation is "the whole world". In English we say "Never mind!" But in German the same idea have to be said as "Das macht nichts!" literally "that make nothing." The concept to express is the same, but the way of expression are is different. If translate "Let's call it a day" by way of word by word in Chinese it would be ridiculous.









2013年5月3日 星期五

Lesson Five——How to learn to Listen

Do you have such experience? No matter how much effort you have made to listen, you won't be able to understand what the hell someone is talking about, but once written down, you found that every words of it you are familiar with. How is it that there is such phenomenon? 
 

2013年5月1日 星期三

Lesson Four——Listening and Speaking

Even through within the same language, there is a strange phenomenon, some people can speak well but they can't listen, some are just the opposite. Generally speaking, people who mother tong is Cantonese can understand Mandarin, but whenever they have to express themselves they stuttered, some people can participate an English Speech Competition, or sing an English song, but once turn the television or radio to English channel, they often can't make neither head or tail of it.

Many people claimed that diligent is a remedy, remember that when the method doesn't work, no matter how diligent you are, it is futile. Some methods are suitable for learning listening, some method are suitable for learning speaking.


Lesson Three——How to Mastering Vocabulary

Although there are many so-called Memory Technique Courses, but learning a language can not depended merely on memory, knowing the meaning in your language doesn't mean you have learn that word. Now we talk about the advantages and disadvantages of the approach we usually used:


2013年4月29日 星期一

Lesson Two——Strategies for Language Learning

Most people learning a language often give up too early, problems are usually in there methods, getting poor result with high price, wasting much effort and time. Some people said that learning a foreign language is a very time-consuming and go against what we called "Cost-Effectiveness".
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Just consider , there are many people proficient in 7 to 8 languages, some people can handle even more than 10, on the contrary, have you ever seen someone who is both a doctor, lawyer, and even an architect at the same time? Generally speaking, getting a bachelor degree require 3 to 4 years, but learning a language, if very diligent, you can accomplish within a few months, the key is a series of effective strategies.
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Here are a few important principles we often overlooked :

Lesson One——Several Key Factors for Language Learning

In the process of learning a language, many people give up before achieving their goal. And those who giving up hardly not keen on discussing about which institute teach batter, which textbook highly recommended.  These factors are important, without argue, but during the discussion the most important factor are often ignored. In fact, what you ignored is exactly the most important.