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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5178 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes  Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 1 of 12 17 February 2011 at 4:24am | IP Logged | |||||
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Seems no one has yet referenced this video about babies learning to discriminate (or not)
sounds, from TED. http://w ww.ted.com/talks/patricia_kuhl_the_linguistic_genius_of_babi es.html 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 5917 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 2 of 12 17 February 2011 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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too many people beleive in this.
theories like this, which are too often stated as fact, are detrimental to language learners. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5178 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 12 17 February 2011 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Scientists are not in the business of encouraging learners.
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| Dragonsheep Groupie United States Joined 5067 days ago 46 posts - 63 votes Studies: Tagalog, English* Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 4 of 12 17 February 2011 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'm not comfortable with determining the truth based on how encouraging or discouraging it is to . More often than not, the truth can be discouraging. Of course, this won't stop me from my language studies. Edited by Dragonsheep on 17 February 2011 at 6:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5178 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 5 of 12 17 February 2011 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
And that is both true AND discouraging. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tritone Senior Member United States reflectionsinpo Joined 5917 days ago 246 posts - 385 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Portuguese, French | Message 6 of 12 17 February 2011 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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grown adults have been duped into beleiving that they lack the intelligence of 2 and 3 year olds.
it's pretty sad. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5922 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 7 of 12 17 February 2011 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm intrigued by the idea that babies learn sounds coming from a human, but do not learn to recognize sounds coming from electronics. I wonder if this applies to adults also? There's something interesting going on here.
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| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5178 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 8 of 12 17 February 2011 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
I've always thought that I'm a lot more likely to learn and remember a word if it came up in a real live situation than if I just read it. Babies may have their natural, millenia-old ways to learn their first language, but I'm convinced adults also have such millenia-old ways to learn their second language. Since written language is a fairly recent innovation, the natural way for adults to learn must have been from actual interactions with other human beings. I think this is still the best way to learn. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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