The art of learning languages - talkday1

Is learning Pinyin from the scratch efficient?   Do you want to understand how Chinese sounds form? Or do you want to communicate with Chinese people? If you really want to understand how we talk and talk in Chinese, please watch this video WE CHINESE DON’T LEARN PINYIN TO UNDERSTAND OR SPEAK CHINESE (Intro video) 1.       Native Chinese never use Pinyin to learn Chinese speaking 2.       We learn Mandarin by hearing from our parents 3.       We start to learn Pinyin after we are already fluent in Chinese. We hear and speak Chinese to learn Pinyin, not the other way around None of us learned Pinyin before we could understand and speak Chinese Learning Pinyin first makes foreign students to feel very hard to learn Chinese and they find themselves to be stuck in troubles of understanding or making a good pronunciation themselves even after a long period of time Besides of that, Pinyin is NOT the Chinese langua...

  Let’s think about this first How badly do you really want to learn the words? Is it enough to read the book or do you want to use the words in your real life? You could read more than 10,000words per hour if you are a competent reader. So, it means you could encounter many unknown words during the reading and learn a lot of words per day. If you look up the unknown words, you would say that you could learn more than hundreds of words a day. On the contrary, if you really focus on learning the new words to be able to achieve mastery level so that you use them in your real life, you should read articles to see how those words are applied in a real sentence and connect the meaning to your previous knowledge and experiences or image in your mind including finding the definition of the words. The development of language is a byproduct produced by the process of understanding the usage in a real life. If you try to do this, that could be 5 ~ 10 words with contextualized pra...

¿Qué es lo más importante para aprender un idioma extranjero? ¿Memorizar palabras? ¿Gramática? Vamos a señalar lo más esencial. Para aprender un idioma extranjero, si te adhieres a los siguientes tres principios; cualquiera puede hablar al menos un idioma extranjero con fluidez: Ser divertido Ser significativo Ser comprensible Este concepto se aplica diferente según el nivel de idioma extranjero que tenga el aprendiz. Tomemos un ejemplo concreto. (A) Películas Las películas son divertidas tanto para principiantes como para niveles avanzados. Entonces, si te diviertes, puedes encontrar una película que te dé un 40% de diversión. Pero, el significado aplicado a principiantes y avanzados difiere en términos de significado. Para los principiantes, es poco probable que aprendan expresiones que sean muy relevantes para ellos, pero para los de nivel avanzado, hay muchas expresiones en la película que tienen que aprender. Y las expresiones en la película son un medio difícil de entender para l...