[Vision2020] Ques. For you: What is Most Important in aRelationship?

[Sue Hovey]

I’m not at all sure what this post has to do with the subject line, but then I haven’t read the thread.  I found it interesting that the only group responding to the question was men.  I guess we women just, “go with the flow.”  After all, we’re going to attempt to remake you anyway, unless, of course, we go to Christ Church.  

Sue H. 

From: Kenneth Marcy 
Sent: Friday, July 20, 2012 10:39 AM
To: Moscow Vision2020 
Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Ques. For you: What is Most Important in aRelationship?

On 7/20/2012 6:42 AM, Donovan Arnold wrote:
<[snip]>

  PS. Learning another language is an excellent idea, but has to be done at a very young age. Otherwise it is just memorization and the words don't have the emotionial conncetion they are intented to, they are simply functionial. I can learn Spanish written but not spoken because I cannot hear certain sounds used in the Spanish language that are not in the English language. After a certain age, your brain reassignes the portions of the brain that were dedeicated to hearing and speaking certain sounds for other functions if not used in childhood. 

Language learning can be done at any age. It's true that younger people may have more facile learning abilities because of less-developed language centers in their brains and more energy to do everything, language learning included. But that does not imply that adults can not, especially via well-developed methods, learn languages to as effective and as satisfactory levels of communicative ability as are desired.

Methods used may vary somewhat depending on personal preferences, but generally a method that follows natural language acquisition patterns will work best if followed consistently. The natural method consists of listening to hear all of the sounds used within a language, whether or not those sounds have been previously learned for another or native tongue, and then reproducing those sounds through speaking words, phrases, sentences, and conversations with those sounds as a part of the speech. After a learner can reproduce all of a language's sounds, and can converse at a elementary level with a modest vocabulary, then vocabulary building can be emphasized through readings and more advanced conversations. After some reasonable level of oral and verbal fluency has been achieved, then the student can start learning more about the language by beginning and practicing writing in that language.

There is an active, and growing, natural language learning community on the Internet, especially YouTube, comprised of individuals who are actively pursuing multilingual capabilities for themselves. By way of introduction, I will mention just a couple of web sites for people interested in learning languages, multilingualism, polyglottery, and polyliteracy:

The How to Learn Any Language site, including various language forums:

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html 

The Foreign Language Expertise site, created and maintained by Dr. Alexander Arguelles:

http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/  


Ken



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