Author Archives: 林明凱 林明凱
Inventing Words
There are many words invented in China, which represent one concepts, images, or thing. When we have to explain something to the other from an event, most of time it will spend us a lot of time to speak that. However, we use invent new word instead of whole things or concept, that will […]
Language is a tool
This is the core idea about the “The Third Ear”. Being a language learner over twenty years from school, I had been learnt English as a subject not as a tool. So that I always felt this is hard, even impossible to get this language fluency. I felt it was boring and couldn’t find […]
The Third Ear- page 40~41
How do they do that? The ideas of “possible” and “impossible” There are lots of thing are thought to be impossible toady, but maybe realize in the future. This may be accomplished by new technologies and new methods. However, some are possible today but be considered impossible. Why? Is it really impossible to do […]
The Third Ear- Chapter 3
The Third Ear- Chapter 3 Barrier Busting – re-examining “common sense” In this chapter, it talked about 3 major barriers that commonly emerge in our language learning process. The author listed them here and discussed why people can’t learn language well by those barriers. Those are: The bad belief The school subject mistake The cultural […]
The Third Ear-Page 37~39 –The cultural mythology mistake
The cultural mythology mistake I remembered for my first time seeing Mr. Lonsdale who talked on TED with almost accentless Chinese, I was surprised and realized from that moment on the truth for a foreigner to get Chinese totally fluent. It also let me have a compulsion on finding the reason behind the […]
The Third Ear—Page 36~37-Make wrong order for food
Make wrong order for food In this passage, the author talked about his experience when ordering food in a Chinese restaurant. They misunderstood the measurement of the food, and use their original concepts to make an order. The result let them start to think if the languages only relate to the words, or the […]
The school subject mistake_page 35~36
The school subject mistake I believe this is the most frequently mistake that all the language learners would make when they would like to learn a new language. It’s true even you get a good grade in English class, that doesn’t mean you can talk well with others in English. Recall the scene […]
The Third Ear – Page 33-34
Different signal used in languages When learning a new language, there are many different type of signals that we can use to help us get the meaning in a conversation. Such as intonation, facial expression, the grammar, body language, and the most important is the context. In my observation with my children for their language […]
Essay about reading book
The Secret- Law of attraction OPA principle -Outcome, Propose, Action Recently, I read a book. The theme is about “How to achieve your life freedom with finance”. This book is very popular in the market, and also be the best sell book in many bookstores. It shows that most of the people want […]
Washing clothes
Words: detergent, iron, washing machine, clothes hanger After dinner, I collect some dirty clothes and put those in the basket. I went to the laundry, and would like to wash my clothes. When I enter into the laundry, I saw one washing machine and one dryer in the laundry. Firstly, I open the door of […]
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