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Skill Not Concept (Lesson 438)
Skill Not Concept (Lesson 438) Obviously, language is a skill. As the author says, we do language. It’s easy to understand why learning English through communicate with some person more easier and effective. Because people comunicate to each other in English, they talk anything that they interested in. As I mentioned above, people do not […]
Language Communities (Lesson 435)
Language Communities (Lesson 435) On these pages, the author stressed the importance of the language community. On the one hand, a language learning need to communicate with real person. On the other hand, the communicating would help to person learn the language the other way around. Language is a compositive tool, include sounds, feelings, rhythms, textures, […]
Why words matter more than grammar (Lesson 432)
Why words matter more than grammar (Lesson 432) On these pages, the author put forward the viewpoint that words matter more than grammar. A language learning include some aspects. There are words, grammar, facial expression and so on. I agress with this viewpoint. But acutually, It’s my big problem is how to remember the words. […]
Inventing Words (Lesson 429)
Inventing Words (Lesson 429)There is a naturally thing about a word is invention in China as outside China, I think. The reason is simple. The morden society is becoming more and more global and changable. There is no denying that the world today is very different from what is was before 20-years. We prefer to […]
Don’t Fear Mistakes (Lesson 426)
Don’t Fear Mistakes (Lesson 426)In fact, I rarely make English mistakes in my memory. But it’s not that I’m fluent in English. Because a simple reason that I would blank when I talked the other person in English everytime. You know? Before that time, I remember some words, but I can’t used them in a […]
Language is a tool (Lesson 423)
Language is a tool (Lesson 423) On the two pages, the author introduces a very important idea, that language is a tool. It’s a core idea for a foreign language learner. As we all know, human beings are social animals. We connect with other person everyday. So how do we connect? We are communicate […]
Thinking affects learning (Lesson 419)
Thinking affects learning (Lesson 419) Let me talk about the swimming again. As I said above, I practiced many times the swimming actions that the caoch taught me at first. But I have a most important problem that I would be affaid fear of the pool water. Exactly, I just afraid of the feeling that […]
Self-talk and performance (Lesson 415)
Self-talk and performance (Lesson 415)The literal meaning of Self-talk is talk to myself, of course, you can talk about positive or negative. As I said above, I think self-talk has two types affect performance. In short, there are good or bad talking. For example, here are the good ones, “I’m good at it”, “I like […]
Can talent be learned? (Lesson411)
Can talent be learned? (Lesson411) There’s no denying that very few people really have the true talent. But I think the most people in the world are ordinary people. They just have some skill, like a foreign language, or baseball. There are so-called talent can be learned. As the author says, the TALENT not only […]
All about copying (Lesson 407)
All about copying (Lesson 407) I think when we learning a second language, we should focus on copying. As the author says, copying is a most effective method for learning the language or any new skill. I agree with this viewpoint. Even through the principle of every language is same. But the language forms are […]
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