rtyhgn85 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5010 days ago 18 posts - 23 votes
| Message 1 of 8 31 March 2011 at 10:42am | IP Logged |
Sometimes someone uses a bad method of language learning and succeeds anyway, while someone else uses a great method and fails. Why?
How can some people use very ineffective methods (and still make them work) while others can take great methods and fail miserably.
Your Emotional Response to Your Learning Method Determines if You Will Succeed or Fail
When I looked at the emotional responses of language students to their language learning opportunities, I think I found the answer.
Did the student get excited about learning grammar with only a dry textbook? If so, she probably went on to succeed.
If she felt neutral, bored, or stressed with great learning software like this web site, she probably failed.
Good Emotions Lead to Success
Do your emotions really affect how much you learn? Absolutely. But you still have to be using a method that really works. A lot of so called “learning” games are a lot of fun, but there isn’t much learning.
Once you have a method that really works, anything that you can do that helps you feel better will make it 10 times more effective.
Stressful Emotions Lead to Failure
Everyone who stresses out or worries about learning will either eventually get over their stress or fail. It’s that simple. There are no exceptions.
That’s why we put so much emphasis on feeling good whether you get the answer right or wrong.
If today’s study didn’t make you feel good, you probably won’t come back again and do it tomorrow!
So relax, take a deep breath, and learn to enjoy your mistakes.
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6380 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 8 31 March 2011 at 12:35pm | IP Logged |
You seem to like cutting and pasting stuff from other websites. It gives off a very spammish impression.
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canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5496 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese
| Message 3 of 8 31 March 2011 at 1:22pm | IP Logged |
You should also consider citing your sources.
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schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5561 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch
| Message 4 of 8 31 March 2011 at 3:42pm | IP Logged |
I think we are entering the era of Spam 2.0. Post a couple of bland general messages on a forum first, rather than launching straight into the spam. What I find surprising, is that even after all these years of practice, they still never seem to quite manage to write like normal posters.
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mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5758 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 5 of 8 01 April 2011 at 12:49am | IP Logged |
newyorkeric wrote:
You seem to like cutting and pasting stuff from other websites. It
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Ooooh which sites? I'd like to read more about this!
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iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5263 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French)
| Message 6 of 8 01 April 2011 at 1:14am | IP Logged |
Let's bin this thread- it's rubbish! American translation- this thread needs to go into the round file
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jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5419 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian
| Message 7 of 8 01 April 2011 at 2:58am | IP Logged |
The Copied Web Article
You could also at least copy less blatantly obvious advice. This could be summed up in one sentence: If the content you are learning is interesting to you, you will learn far more easily and have more success.
Edited by jazzboy.bebop on 01 April 2011 at 2:59am
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6380 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 8 of 8 01 April 2011 at 3:22am | IP Logged |
OK it's closed.
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