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| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5594 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes  Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 1 of 15 25 October 2014 at 11:31pm | IP Logged |
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To encourage others about what to look forward to as they progress in their studies,what is/was an "ah ha" moment for you in your studying? That is, what made you think "ah ha, finally I am getting it" ? For me, one ah ha moment came when, without conscious thought or effort,a sentence in my target language came to me in a situation when I was not trying to study or practice. Something had happened and my first reaction was to respond in one of my target languages. Please share some of your ah ha moments.
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| jamesleecoleman Newbie United States Joined 4490 days ago 38 posts - 52 votes Studies: Russian, Persian | Message 2 of 15 26 October 2014 at 2:18am | IP Logged |
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For me it'll have to be Russian. Every time I went to take a course, my questions were answered and then I had many many many "ah ha" moments. For example, prepositions and where to apply them. Sometimes the rules can be tricky just because of history.
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| Lakeseayesno Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico thepolyglotist.com Joined 4337 days ago 280 posts - 488 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, Japanese, Italian Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 3 of 15 26 October 2014 at 3:38am | IP Logged |
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My first "ah-ha" moment with Japanese was very similar to psy88's: a sentence came to me in an incredibly natural way, in an unexpected, non-study related environment, and I realized that for the first time I wasn't having to think actively about the rules of sentence making.
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| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7159 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 4 of 15 26 October 2014 at 4:27am | IP Logged |
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Despite my groaning over the title (I now hear the voices of Oprah and management consultants repeating this cliché), it did feel really good when I realized that I had put down a caption for one of my photos in idiomatic Slovak without looking anything up. I saw that I had at last assimilated a certain syntactic pattern involving clitics and personal pronouns.
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| eyðimörk Triglot Senior Member France goo.gl/aT4FY7 Joined 4102 days ago 490 posts - 1158 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French Studies: Breton, Italian | Message 5 of 15 26 October 2014 at 8:59am | IP Logged |
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I don't think I've ever had an aha moment that is so profound that I remember it two days later.
I did have a moment yesterday, though, while mowing the lawn. I was thinking about something else when a French phrase popped into my head. It wasn't a phrase I've actively learnt, nor one that I've thought about when I've encountered it, but I knew perfectly well that it was grammatically correct even if I couldn't necessarily tell you why and it is certainly not the way I would express myself naturally. That's when I realised that, despite feeling immune to progress for a long time now, extensive reading and listening is actually doing something more than simply making it easier for me to read and listen extensively. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 6 of 15 26 October 2014 at 2:06pm | IP Logged |
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Nowadays mine are mostly about etymology.
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4447 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 7 of 15 26 October 2014 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
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The Ah ha moment in language learning is a personal thing. A lot of people go to language classes
expecting the best but do next to nothing outside class to maintain their exposure to the language (TV & radio broadcasts, reading books & newspapers, etc). These people would never find get to their Ah ha moments. The Ah ha moment came when I found a systematic way of learning that would work for me and figured out the basic sounds of a language and can pick up new words & phrases easily. I may not be able to pick up everything in a news broadcast or a newspaper but can get the context of what is said. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6600 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 8 of 15 26 October 2014 at 8:14pm | IP Logged |
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I agree that most classes are very inefficient, but why would they prevent people from having aha moments?
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