Insight from Chapter Three of the third ear

Summary of Chapter Three

The three main ideas that the author explores in this chapter are:

The bad belief barrier,

The school subject mistake

The cultural mythology mistake.

The author believes that when you’ve understood these barriers, you will already be well on your way to effectively learning a new language.

The first point is your bad belief in language learning. The author said as you look around, you’ll find some people who can speak at least two languages. In addition to the one they Learned as a child. And you will find many who speak only one. You will also find people who have tried to speak a foreign language and who haven’t yet succeeded, and maybe even given up, if you explore how these different groups think, you will find important differences in what they believe. The people who have mastered more than one language simply believe they can and refuse to accept any excuses because they know that the myths about difficulty or impossibility are just that. And these myths can make it seem harder to learn than it’s really the case.

What you believe about learning a language will either help you or hinder you.

Bad braves can create an important barrier to your learning

Most beliefs about language learning are based on myths.

Question the Muse and don’t accept them as a reason for failure.

The second point is the school subject mistake

The author was speaking to a friend the other day, a few years previously, Doris had opportunity to live in Japan with her young son. Both were learning Japanese at the same time her son was doing it by immersing himself in an environment of peers, friends and social challenges. Doris was going to class one day. The two were out and about. And mom had an opportunity to embarrass herself and her young son at the same time. Not to be missed opportunities like those and young and you remember them for a lifetime. So, it’s best to make use of them. They were in a store and the mom asked for something using the words and the language structure she had been taught in class, she did it perfectly based on what she had been taught with a horror look. Her son blurted out; you don’t say it that way. Nobody says it that way. And so, the horrible truth became clear. She had been busy learning earn Japanese all along. Doris had accurately and patently used what she had Learned. Only real Japanese people didn’t talk that way, at least not in modern day Japan.

From the above example, the author realized the importance of language environment. After he arrived in China in 1981, he’d been trying to communicate with people and picking up some words here and there, he realized that the grammar was from the school is not the real world. You should speak the language in the real world.

The third point is the cultural mythology mistake

The author doesn’t know where it comes from, but many people seem to believe that the ability to speak any language is somehow linked to genetics. It’s not conscious, of course, but it seems to be quite a pervasive way of thinking. You can imagine that there is a little voice in people’s heads that, let’s say, this cannot be possible because those people don’t have the nerve system for our language almost gets to a point where the culture is a whole life. That individuals coming from another country cannot possibly learn their language. The author want to stress here is that the ability to learn any particular language is not genetic, so there is no valid reason in the world why any person of any race cannot learn any language on the planet.

The approach that many people take to learn a foreign language can prevent success. There are three major types of mistakes that tend to happen, to summarize.

First, bad Belief. The bad Brief problem happens when a person thinks that a language is difficult and then creates a logical reason to support the belief on the surface, the logical reason makes sense. So, the belief gets strengthened and the person tends to give up if you explore how real dis briefs are, you begin to see new windows of opportunity.

Second, the school subject mistake. The idea that language can best be Learned in school is another important move that needs to be carefully examined. Once you have realized that you are learning your first language long before you went to school. You might begin to wonder whether it makes sense to approach a new language in the same way.

Third, the cultural mythology mistake,

You need to examine the idea that the ability to learn a given language is driven by genetics, if this were true, then people of different races born into a new country would never learn the language of that country. This is patently untrue, as you will know from meeting someone of one race who unexpectedly speaks a language perfectly.

From the above point. I realize that everyone can learn a second language in an easy and effective way, and you should try to use the language in the real world. Besides, I’ve already talked with my spoken English coach, that one sentence impressed my so much is that not only for the language learning, but for all the things, we should not have bad belief. We should have a positive attitude.