Articles Tagged with foreign language

Tilting at windmills

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The vanishing knight

Where did Don Quixote go?

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The language of philosophy

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Words and ideas

Does the language you speak determine the way you think?

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Not the way it sounds

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Spelling reform

Written and spoken languages are different.  Should they be made more similar?

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Language technology

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Materials for learning

We notice that some things have gotten much easier with advances in technology.

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On learning languages

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Spanish, Russian, Java, Python

We use “language” for a misleading variety of things.

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Greek tragedy

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Retained in translation

What comes across, and doesn’t, when we change languages.

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How much memory?

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Knowing vs. looking it up

Memorization is not the same as learning.  Still, it has its uses.

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Make mistakes. And then-

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Next steps

You have to start and also continue.

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Only a test

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Asking the questions

Making a test can be harder than taking it.

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Learning for yourself

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textbooks (gravitation, thermodynamics) and papers with equationsIn class and out of class

Our tutoring consultant remarks on different ways of learning.

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