2019年5月30日 星期四

Week 1: Reflection of the Secret of Learning a New Language



英語學習的項目和有效的學習技巧
Reflection of the Secret of Learning a New Language
by Lydia Machová
Doris Wu, 2019.06.

      This is a TED talk video presented by Dr. Lydia Machova from Slovenia.  Currently Lydia works as a language mentor and famous speech deliver.  Most of her speeches address the know-how suggestions to learn a new language or how to overcome the difficulties of learning the language you used to think hard to break through.  One of the convincing reasons is because of her outstanding talent for mastering 9 different languages, known as one member of polyglots (people who speaks a lot of languages).  
The topic is entitled as “The secret of learning a new language”, where Lydia shares her thoughts on how an ordinary people like you and me to master a foreign language in many creative ways. She shared some personal short but impressive cases from her polyglot society, such as Benny’s online speaking-up strategy with the target-language native speakers without being bothered by making mistakes, the typing-chat on FB with Russian native speakers of Lucas from Brazil, or her own language experiences of picking up her favorite book in Spanish version or watch her favorite TV show in German. 
Lydia comes to a conclusion that they all found their own unique way to enjoy the process, turn language learning from a boring school subject into a pleasant activity which you don’t mind doing every day.  She stresses, “it is really crucial to find enjoyment in the process of learning language, but also that the joy in itself is not enough…”
So, what is the change of your mindset on language learning after watching this Ted video?

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