語言學導論 Entries

This week, I have watched a video about a talk given by Jim Kwik. The talk is named "Unleash Your Super Brain to Learn Faster". The speaker mentioned problems nowadays like digital overload in order to emphasize to importance of learning faster. He started the talk with doing a test with the audience and there were some more exercises along the way. These exercises helped the audience to understand his teaching vividly. His teaching involved six main elements, which is called "be fast". B is for "belief". E is for "exercise". F is for "forget". A is for "active". S is for "state" while T is for "teach". Among the whole talk, there were three main points impressing me the most.    The first one was all learning being state-dependent. Information combining with emotion can become long-term memory so having passion in what you are learning is crucial. You had to show up and play full out at the same time....

Last week, I was offered an opportunity to listen to a talk. The speaker of that talk was Terry Hsieh and the topic was "Language Acquisition and East Asia Culture Sphere". During the talk, Mr. Hsieh introduced several events and their represented ideas. For examples, polyglot conference, polyglot cafe and flying to other countries for a few days or more for the purpose of polyglot-immersion. Most of the events were new to me and I was really interested in trying some of them.   Through the events, learners can understand that learning language was a lifelong pursuit which was also mentioned by Mr. Hsieh. People cannot just take an examination regarding the language and declare themselves as knowing every details of the language. This was different from what I had known since elementary school. I once considered taking some standard language proficiency tests as a proof of I using the language fluently. After listening to what Mr. Hsieh said, I realized that having high ...