Author Archives: zyying
Third Ear Pages 18-19 Writing My Opinions
The author wrote about two quite different reactions of people when they were told about the ability to learn a foreign language easily and quickly. Some thought that it was not possible. Others rose the idea in their mind that those people who can learn a foreign language quickly and easily must […]
My article on Third Ear Pages 17-18
The author speaks many languages, Including English, Mandarin, Cantonese, French, Japanese and Tagalog. He speaks the most fluent of fluent English. English is his native language. But during a period of time when he was 24 year-old, he found his english had deteriorated to the level of 15 year-old. It is […]
My Article on Third Ear Page 16-17
When the author was riding a train from Beidaihe to Beijing, he did not have the normal seat but settled in the dining car. There he met a man or in another words, a man approached to him. The man was wearing an official look cap and a white jacket. The […]
My Article on Third Ear Pages 15-16
In the two pages, the author told us his experience when he came to China for the first time. Although he had attended Chinese lessons before, he could not speak a word of Mandarin Chinese. He was totally blank about Chinese at all. In the second day, he met his first friend […]
Third Ear Pages 14-15 My Thoughts on The Third Ear Pages 14-15
After graduated from high school, the author studied at university with the major in psychology. One of his topics of interest was psycho-linguistics. A theory of learning language at the time in vogue was that only children could learn a foreign language really well. Even though many people accepted this theory, the […]
Third Ear Page 13-14 My written Piece
“Challenging the myth”, the myth is that, foreign languages are too difficult for adults to learn. So they can’t learn any foreign languages easily or effectively. those who can speak foreign languages must have gifted at languages. In the two pages, the author used his own experiance to chalenge the myth. The author thought that […]
Third Ear Page 12-13 My Written Piece
Mention to misunderstanding, I remember one thing that happened just a few days before. It was between my sister and me. We were watching TV. It was on a documentary film. When there were one man and one woman answering a journalist’s question we got into a little argument. My sister said […]
Third Ear Page 11-12 My Third Written Piece
Why I want to learn English? My first foreign language at middle school was Japanese. My scores at Japanese was prerry good though, my availability to listen to and speak in Japanese was quite bad. I found out that too many Japanese words are from English. So I had a thought arised that in order […]
Third ear pages 10-11 my second written piece
The author often traveled around asia. He had seen everywhere that the westerners were struggling to learn asian languages and in the meanwhile asians were strugglng to learn western languages. Although there were a few seccessful languages learners, most felt it was really difficult to learn a foreign language, some even gave up before they […]
The Third Ear Page 9 my written pieces
In this page, the author first tells us why did he decide to write this book. He met a young western woman at a seminar. This woman complained that Mandarin Chinese was very difficult to learn. Her idea was the same as many westerners. The author told her that mandarin could be mastered very quickly […]
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