Author Archives: maggies
Challenging the Impossible (Lesson 403)
Challenging the Impossible (Lesson 403) In 40-41 pages, the author talk about the impossible thing can changed the possible thing. For example, the climbing height about the top of the peak of Mount Everest, and the record of the every four years the Olympic Games. As the author’s point, If you break the viewpoint of […]
Chapter 3 Summary (L398)
Chapter 3 Summary (L398)In the third Chapter of The Third Ear, the author stated some mistakes on the learning a foreign language. There are “the bad belifes and logical traps”, “the school subject mistake”, “the cultural mythology mistake”. That’s why people general find second language learning diffcult. Firstly, the bad belifes and logical traps. Be […]
The link between genes and language (Lesson 389)
The link between genes and language (Lesson 389) As the author says, a lot of people have “The cultural mythology mistake”. It means whether a person can learn a language depends on genes. In other words, this idea thinks Chinese born to speaking Chinese, Japanese born to speaking Japanese, American born to speaking English. That […]
Getting a food order wrong (Lesson 384)
Getting a food order wrong (Lesson 384)In 36-37 pages, the author misunderstand “er liang” about the food measurement. Question is simple. In this chinese reataurant, er liang is used of means dry flour measure. The author is a Australian. Firstly, he don’t know what is the measure of er liang, secondly, he think the er […]
An Experience Using Classroom English (Lesson 380)
An Experience Using Classroom English (Lesson 380) It’s a pity. I don’t remember some experience about using classroom English. As I mentioned above, I barely remember the grammar and many words in the classroom. So if I meet a foreigner, I will greet them, and then talk with them in words or some phrases. In […]
Different signals in a language (Lesson 376)
Different signals in a language (Lesson 376) In 33-34 pages, the author talked about at least three types of signal are uesd in a language. There are the tones, the context and the facial expressions of a language. Firstly, as the author said, every language must use the tones to convey the information. […]
My close call
My close call (lesson 368) actually just last week, i experienced it. sunday is my family day. so i would like to go to countryside to see my grandmother. usually, i would like to do exercise in the gym in the sunday afternoon. but that day, my coach had some personal matters so he […]
chapter 2 summary
chapter 2 summary in this chapter, the author talk about three subheadings :”ghost an unknown language”, “just can’t stop learning”, “the adult advantage”. through the example of michael learning Mandarin, we know about the unconsciousness of the language you lived. in fact, people no way to stop theirself to learning a language, whatever a […]
chapter 2 “the adult advantage”
chapter 2“the adult advantage”1,what is the adult advantage?2,is second language learning easier for adults or for children? why? 1,as the author says, in an ideal world, after scientific experiment, there are two stuies about the learning a new language progress. this process controls time so that the adults exposed to language to the same foreign […]
page23-25 “the ability to learn language is built in to the human brain”
in these pages, the author tells us people’s brain can hear speech content is sounds,because phonetic perception is like a sixth sense. everyone were born with the ability to recognise the sounds to the words. that’s amazing. this even happens in the situation where a adult in a foreign language environment, you perhaps didn’t know […]
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