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 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5754 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 1 of 98 01 June 2010 at 5:57am | IP Logged |
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Can you tell your language learning story in six words?
Maybe it would be the reason you enjoy languages, or some learning difficulty you’ve experienced, or even a description of your ultimate language goal. Just be sure to express it in six words, no more, no less. Six Word Memoirs is a a creative writing experiment that’s become popular lately. I’ve seen examples and contests based on this minimalist memoir idea in several magazines. Here’s a description of it from the site smithmag.net Six Word Memoirs Legend has it that Hemingway was once challenged to write a story in only six words. His response? “For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” Starting in 2006, SMITH Magazine re-ignited the recountre by asking our readers for their own six-word memoirs. They sent in short life stories in droves, from the bittersweet (“Cursed with cancer, blessed with friends”) and poignant (“I still make coffee for two”) to the inspirational (“Business school? Bah! Pop music? Hurrah”) and hilarious (“I like big butts, can’t lie”). You can see some examples on the page link above. I tried to apply the Six Word Memoir idea to language learning. Here are three about vocabulary learning and one about linguistic wanderlust: 1. What does this word mean? What! 2. New word: repeat, repeat, repeat . . . forget. 3. Can’t remember the word for vocabulary. 4. Languages: You always need one more! So what can you come up with? This exercise is in English, but you can try in in your target languages, too. And if you are especially ambitious, can you think of way to adapt it to a language with very different morphology, syntax or writing system? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5122 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 3 of 98 01 June 2010 at 7:44am | IP Logged |
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My language learning:
Immersion, exposure, more immersion, more exposure Messed is sentence order completely up Rewind, Rewatch, Repeat, Remember, Forget, Rewind Word: vagin. Article: masculine. Wait, huh? Do not ever break the chain! Frequently flabbergasted, flustered, furious, frustrated, fatigued. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5268 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 4 of 98 01 June 2010 at 8:09am | IP Logged |
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This looks like fun :)
1. Too much material strewn across room. 2. No more money, spent on books. 3. Awkward silence, they realize I understand. 4. Talk in target language, funny looks. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| furrykef Senior Member United States furrykef.com/ Joined 6259 days ago 681 posts - 862 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, Latin, Italian | Message 5 of 98 01 June 2010 at 10:49am | IP Logged |
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Finnish: will I ever have time?
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 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6490 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 98 01 June 2010 at 12:44pm | IP Logged |
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My personal study history:
Go, go, stop (long time), go Always room for one more Criterion for successful learning: monolingual travelling Methodological considerations: Think before you talk Use dictionary wordlists for bulk learning Bulk learning makes more texts comprehensible Learn chunks, not complete sentences Riddle solving is worthless Grammar should be understood, not memorized Beginners: listen for structure, not content Basic fluency is OK Excellence comes by itself or not The internet is there to be used English is not the only language Read something interesting Literal translations are good, hyperliteral better Courses are a supplement to selfstudy Language learning doesn't require a purpose and Concise writing is actually quite fun Edited by Iversen on 01 June 2010 at 5:52pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Wise owl chick Senior Member Ecuador Joined 5105 days ago 122 posts - 137 votes Studies: English | Message 7 of 98 01 June 2010 at 2:15pm | IP Logged |
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Melkchocolade, Milchschokolade, Milk Chocolate, Chocolate con leche
(The most important vocabs of my foreign languages). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5160 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 8 of 98 01 June 2010 at 2:40pm | IP Logged |
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Youtube and here are revision ... right?
My grammar's good, vocubulary's slacking behind Maybe I should bulk learn, Iversen-style Does it count if I hyphenate? 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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