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Expats hang out with other English speaking expats and complain about how hard the local language is, or talk about life in general in English. They chat to their boyfriend/girlfriend/friends in English. All of the local friends they have also talk to them in English. They only actually use the local language when they have to; English is actually the language they socialise and relax in most of the time.I have met some English speakers who have lived abroad for up to TEN years, and after just a few weeks I already spoke the local language better than them!! This does NOT make me feel smart; it makes me feel sad and frustrated for them! And I will meet more people like this in other travels who will look at me like I just have some special gene for languages or something. (Let me say again, that I did horrible in languages in school, and when I was 20 years old, the only language that I spoke was English; up until this crucial decision I was the Average Frustrated Learner).
Frankly, it was horrible.I couldn't ask for simple items (always refusing to just say the word in English when the other person would likely know), I couldn't have a discussion about anything important, so I was as good as a 5 year old for conversations (actually worse), and I couldn't share my feelings.It was also frustrating for those who kept insisting that I just say what I wanted to say in English. Most of all, it was exhausting. At the end of the day I'd come home so tired and frustrated. Anyone learning a language in the country knows what this feels like, but imagine not being able to rely on those English-speaking hours for support and to relax! There were many times when I just considered abandoning the plan and be able to express myself properly, but I didn't give in.The end of the month came, and you know what? I wasn't speaking fluently. I still had horrible grammar and a strong accent etc., but eventually over that month something clicked in my mind: I didn't really need English. It was indeed possible to communicate in the language, even if you don't speak it well.
This has greatly expanded my cultural horizons and really given me a much better feel for the places that I have lived in. If this includes the price-tag of missing out on having English speaking friends, then so be it. Of course, there are plenty of people who speak fluently in the local language and socialise in English.You could also adapt a less extreme version of my idea and decide to speak at least 3 hours daily (for example) just in the language in question. There are plenty of ways to reach fluency, and I can already tell that mine are quite disagreeable for some! Like all my posts, this is just a suggestion. ?And of course, please stumble this post and share it on twitter or facebook!
A good teacher makes you comfortable to use your Japanese more. To do this, they have to make you feel less bad about messing up. If they can do this, you'll use your Japanese a lot more, get better, and be fluent in Japanese faster. This is the biggest difference between a quantity and quality focused teacher.
The more time you give yourself to learn the language, the better you'll be and the more skills and confidence you'll have. The pricing is competitive as it reflects the amount of time you'll have to experience the benefits of the plans and become fluent.
Makes You Fluent is a learning platform equipped with features, tools and resources to help users reach their goal of becoming fluent in a new language. The app uses the AI tutor for the daily lessons and creates a personalised plan for users to guide them through learning how to read, write and speak in a new language.
FluentU is a good language learning platform with some major advantages. It teaches a foreign language with real-world videos on just about every topic and makes the language learning process enjoyable.
Although FluentU offers much value, it uses a passive learning style that cannot elevate you to native fluency. To become fluent in a target language, you need to surround yourself with language resources (movies, books, news, podcasts), communicate with native speakers, and do language courses online or offline. No language learning app can ever make you fluent on its own.
I mean, you can do a FluentU quiz haphazardly and learn some words mechanically; yet starting a new language journey without some grammar aid, pronunciation practice, and writing exercises makes no sense.
The aim of this work was to test the hypothesis that motor fluency should help the integration of the components of the trace and therefore its re-construction. In the encoding phase of each of the three experiments we conducted, a word to be remembered appeared colored in blue or purple. Participants had to read these words aloud and, at the same time, execute a gesture in their ipsilateral (fluent gesture) or contralateral space (non-fluent gesture), according to the color of the word. The aim of the first experiment was to show that the words associated with a fluent gesture during the encoding phase were more easily recognized than those associated with a non-fluent gesture. The results obtained supported the hypothesis. In the second experiment, our objective was to show that the fluency of a gesture performed during encoding in order to associate a word with a color can facilitate the integration of the word with its color. Here again, the results obtained supported the hypothesis. While in Experiment 2 we tested the effect of motor fluency during encoding on word-color integration, the objective of Experiment 3 was to show that motor fluency was integrated in the word-color trace and contributed to the re-construction of the trace. The results obtained supported the hypothesis. Taken together, these findings lead us to believe that traces are not only traces of the processes that gave rise to them, but also traces of the way in which the processes took place.
Damage to the temporal lobe of the brain may result in Wernicke's aphasia (see figure), the most common type of fluent aphasia. People with Wernicke's aphasia may speak in long, complete sentences that have no meaning, adding unnecessary words and even creating made-up words.
The most common type of nonfluent aphasia is Broca's aphasia (see figure). People with Broca's aphasia have damage that primarily affects the frontal lobe of the brain. They often have right-sided weakness or paralysis of the arm and leg because the frontal lobe is also important for motor movements. People with Broca's aphasia may understand speech and know what they want to say, but they frequently speak in short phrases that are produced with great effort. They often omit small words, such as "is," "and" and "the."
There are other types of aphasia, each of which results from damage to different language areas in the brain. Some people may have difficulty repeating words and sentences even though they understand them and can speak fluently (conduction aphasia). Others may have difficulty naming objects even though they know what the object is and what it may be used for (anomic aphasia).
Kevin Kruse: Imagine if you could become fluent in any language, even think in a new language faster than ever before. Hello, everyone. I'm Kevin Kruse and welcome to The LEADx Leadership Show. I'm delighted to have you. We try to make you just a little bit better every single day. Well, actually, you've got to make yourself better. We're just here to help.
Our guest today invented a whole new way of learning foreign languages. He reached fluency in French in five months. Russian took him 10 months. Today, he speaks a total of six languages fluently. He thinks in foreign languages and he's still learning more. He's currently got a Kickstarter campaign for a new app and has become the most successful app in campaign history for Kickstarter. His book is called Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It. Our guest is Gabriel Wyner. Gabe, welcome to the show
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A few months ago I attended a workshop with Eric Evans, and hetalked about a certain style of interface which we decided to name afluent interface. It's not a common style, but one we think shouldbe better known. Probably the best way to describe it is by example.
Probably the most important thing to notice about this style isthat the intent is to do something along the lines of an internalDomainSpecificLanguage. Indeed this is why we chose theterm 'fluent' to describe it, in many ways the two terms are synonyms.The API is primarily designed to be readable and to flow. The price ofthis fluency is more effort, both in thinking and in the APIconstruction itself. The simple API of constructor, setter, andaddition methods is much easier to write. Coming up with a nice fluentAPI requires a good bit of thought.
Indeed one of the problems of this little example is that I justknocked it up in a Calgary coffee shop over breakfast. Good fluentAPIs take a while to build. If you want a much more thought outexample of a fluent API take a look at JMock. JMock, like any mockinglibrary, needs to create complex specifications of behavior. Therehave been many mocking libraries built over the last few years,JMock's contains a very nice fluent API which flows verynicely. Here's an example expectation:
So far we've mostly seen fluent APIs to create configurations ofobjects, often involving value objects. I'm not sure if this is adefining characteristic, although I suspect there is something aboutthem appearing in a declarative context. The key test of fluency,for us, is the Domain Specific Language quality. The more the use ofthe API has that language like flow, the more fluent it is.
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