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Don’t fear mistakes
When I started learning English, I always ensured that I must speak English perfect, and the faults were not allowed.If I make a mistake in English, I will feel so embarrassed. Whenever I make a mistake, my English teacher or my classmates will recorrect me.Later, I created chances to communicate with foreigners, strangely, they didn’t […]
Language is a tool
In case, you are hungry and want to eat some bread. You could, of course, go into the fields, collect some wheat, separate the grain from the grass, take it home, grind it, find some other things with it, and make a loaf of bread.Alternatively, you go to the corner store and use a few […]
Thinking affects learning
My son is a 7-year-old boy, and is attending 2 grade of primary this year.When he was 6 years old, I was quite worried about his learning, and often asked him to hurry up, which didn’t work. This year, I want to change my methods. Instead of criticizing and blaming, I’m going to encourage him. […]
Self-talk and performance
Sebastian is about fifty years old and plays in amateur golf competitions.On some days, he’d do great.On other days he had a terrible score. He was plagued by inconsistency.He asked the author of The Third Ear to coach him with his mental games, and they started by analyzing what was going on.It turned out that […]
Can talent be learned?
Do you believe that talent is something that we are born with or talent can be learned?If you told me this before half a year,I wouldn’t agree.After all, the evidence seems all around me.Whenever I feel that it is hard for me to learn something, my mother will say that ‘the knowledge has been created […]
All about copying
Before I started to learn Kungfu English,about 7 months ago,I was used to learn English through the way of analyzing which would take so much more time than it really needed to be.Remember when I learned English for the first time, 3 grade in primary, just to copy the pronunciation from my English teacher, which […]
Challenging the Impossible
Some time ago,I thought that it is impossible for me to master another language.And there are so much more things that I cannot do.Because there is a view in my mind all alone that people can do some particular thing because they are born with some natural talent for it. Later,I read an English article […]
The link between genes and language
I don’t know where it comes from, but many people seem to believe that the ability to speak any particular language is somehow linked to genetics.It seems to be quite a pervasive way of thinking. You can imagine that there is a little voice in people’s heads that says:’This cannot be possible, because those people […]
Getting a Food Order Wrong
Once the author of The Third Ear with his classmate headed over to a Chinese local restaurant, and make an order for dumplings, and yet the food that arrived was very different to what he thought he was ordering.Because they misunderstood the weight that actually referred to the dry measure of the flour, not the […]
Different Signals in a language
Many westerners who are learning Mandarin Chinese believed that themselves are tone-deaf,Maybe because Mandarin Chinese is a tonal language and English is not a tonal language.In fact, all languages make use of tones to different degrees, at different times.And tones cannot be the only thing that a person uses to understand a language.No matter […]
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