This is one of the best presentations I have ever seen in my life – on any subject. If you have a spare 15 minutes, do yourself a favour and watch this video.
https://www.ted.com/talks/steve_silberman_the_forgotten_history_of_autism?language=en
Cheers,
Ziggy
I’ve tried to adopt a scientific approach to my experiment to see if it’s possible to learn a language by memorising a phrasebook, so I took a standardised test to evaluate my results.
And the results are in! Continue reading
I always enjoy reading Nick’s blog Rise of the Polyglot. He’s a clever, creative guy and learning Danish has paid off for him big-time. I am also a big fan of spaced-repetition memory systems like Anki.
As I’ve progressed through the duolingo Danish course, I’ve found some sentences that actually make some sort of sense within the context of an actual conversation.
The problem is that it can be so easy to forget these phrases, so I’ve started to use anki flashcards to help me.
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Things have been pretty hectic in the last month or so, and I didn’t review my Anki decks every day. In fact I had two long runs, five days and then seven consecutive days without reviewing my Chinese deck. Continue reading
This lengthy article in the Guardian provides some interesting food for thought about languages used on the internet.
http://labs.theguardian.com/digital-language-divide/
My first thoughts on reading it are:
(1) Learning another language can dramatically open up the amount of information available to you.
(2) If you speak another language, writing Wikipedia articles in it can help fill in some of the knowledge gaps that exist in other languages.
Cheers,
Ziggy
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