Modified language acquisition technique based on creating custom sentences with a tutor.
Source: On Hacking Fluent Forever – How to learn languages even faster
an appendix to pearlofcivilization.net
Modified language acquisition technique based on creating custom sentences with a tutor.
Source: On Hacking Fluent Forever – How to learn languages even faster
The proper model for foreign-language teaching should really have been not first-language acquisition but rather the natural acquisition of a second language. Numerous studies of children growing up with two languages in the family have shown that they employ both languages in such a way that the one is used as a help for the other. If, for instance, the child wants to phone its grandparents in France to tell them about something which it has not yet processed in French, it will first get help by asking “Comment dit-on, I cut my finger?” The lack of vocabulary is solved in the most easily conceivable way (Kielhöfer & Jonekeit, 1983). Requests for linguistic assistance take different forms, they are the rule, not the exception. Also, bilingual speakers often feel the need to reassure themselves in their stronger language. I find those examples most convincing where the children provide for themselves translations which have been deliberately withheld from them.
Source: We only learn language once. The role of the mother tongue in FL classrooms: death of a dogma.
http://www.sk.com.br/sk-krash-english.html
Input theory, comprehensive input, etc
http://www.hackingchinese.com/a-language-learners-guide-to-wuxia-novels/
This was originally published in a newspaper, and Wang Dulu wrote it so that new readers could jump into the story without reading the first few chapters. How does he do this? About once ever chapter or two, there is a brief recap, which usually goes like this:
Character A: What is going on?
Character B: It all started when… [recap]
This is excellent for Chinese learners. If there is something the reader didn’t quite understand, and it’s important, it will get mentioned in a recap.
http://www.sfintranslation.com/?page_id=3659
Interested in learning more about popular Chinese fantasy in translation? Below are definitions and resources to get you started reading wuxia and xianxia.
Includes a translation site and a resource list for language learners.
Source: Is there a more efficient way to learn vocabulary?
related words (frog, pond, slimy, green) are 10% better than
random words (frog, office, risky, taxi), which are 35% better than
similar words (frog, lizard, fish, toad)
http://lithub.com/how-a-german-writer-made-peace-with-the-imprecision-of-english/
This means that Germans read and speak differently; we scan to the end of the sentence, then we go back and parse it. Understanding this, in my view, is crucial to understanding how English speakers and German speakers think differently. English speakers make it up as they go along; German speakers have to know where they’re going.