Highly Strung

So Long and Thanks for all the Pescado..

3 Comments to “So Long and Thanks for all the Pescado..”

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   Anonymous
   January 18, 2007 at 1:08 pm

   with language learning it’s very individual. Some people don’t learn well in classrooms. I knew one girl in china who spent hours and hours learning chinese but wasn’t very good in class compared to others who spent less time than her. Then she took up a hobby and bang, her chinese began to improve; and then it got better in the classroom too. It’s like some internal switch has to be turned on. maybe you should try learning in a different environment, eg.,
   on the net, chatrooms, or as part of a sport…?

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   Kirses
   January 18, 2007 at 1:44 pm

   i really need to attend the class to learn in an efficient way, but i missed a few before xmas and have had trouble ever since. I also haven’t grasped the way the verb tenses work and am possibly slower than others because I’ve never learnt a language before. we have a german and a french guy in the class who are picking it up a lot faster. I could probably sit down and work it out but i’m too unmotivated.

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   Anonymous
   January 18, 2007 at 4:18 pm

   yeh this is a problem for all NZers with our basic ignorance of other languages.

   another option is to get up and spend like a month in an isolated part of spain or wherever. you would have no choice then but to learn. believe me, there’s nothing like immersion to give you ‘motivation’.

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