Ask HN: How to learn language?

Post by exelib » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 10:59 AM UTC

b6 wrote: post #5

First of all, your English seems quite good. And English is a difficult language, especially the grammar. I wish I could express myself in Mandarin as well as you just did in English. Please don't be too hard on yourself. We're not language monks. The point is to communicate, and if anyone gives you a hard time about your ability while you're making a good effort, I think they probably need to get some perspective. I…

> You say you can't learn from audio/video courses. I hope that's not true.

Audio/video courses are to passive. After 5 minutes I can't remember me any more on rules or how to pronounce. I learn best if I participate actively.

Post by exelib » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 1:08 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #4

I used to teach English. You need to talk to a native speaker who can answer questions or explain the pattern of mistakes. And I do mean talk - doing it in writing is going to be much, much slower. On the positive side, your English is not great but it's not 'very bad' - I had no trouble understanding your sentence construction. I fyou don't have access to a native speaker, the next best thing is to practice with mov…

I watch "Peppa Pig", "Hello Kitty" and so on in English with my daughter :D But also watch conference talks (like Google.io) in English. I understand most of written text (except of Harvard Business Review - authors select not common used words) and a little bit worse talks in videos.

But it's opposite if I want to speak or write.

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