The RIGHT way (brain) to Learn Foreign Languages, Christophe Clugston
Posted: May 25, 2011 Filed under: Extensive Listening, Second Language Acquisition | Tags: extensive listening, second language acquisition 6 Comments »Here is a video from Christophe Clugston about right-left brain methods. I tried to write about that many times but I could never explain it as good as Christophe. Have a look at it. He explains some very important things that you won’t find at many places on the internet.
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Igor, he does not explain it at all. He didn’t say why it’s better, or what is bad about the other. He only touched upon the subject.
Keith, I believe he expressly said in a comment this was on purpose – he wants you to go and find yourself what these methods are all about so that it imprint better on you.
sinetek, I think you’re right! I saw the comments later. Anyway, I was not complaining or anything. I was just letting Igor know that what sounds like a good explanation really wasn’t much of an explanation at all. It’s just more of an opinion or idea being proposed in the video, without a whole lot of substance and I think Igor can explain it just as well or even better than Christophe. What did you think of the video, sinetek?
Heya.
I wasn’t getting at you or anything. To be honest it piqued my curiosity. Now I know I just have to find out what Christophe meant by right-brained ways to learn.
He is certainly right in that we tend to forget about other, perhaps legit, ways of acquiring and using information. Take for example the huge thread at some undisclosed internet forum on the awkwardness of sinographs. When you think about it, it might be our way of serializing language into a stream of 26 symbols that is quite primitive. In reality, both achieve the same end result of encoding human experience, they just go about it in different manners.
Anyway, food for thought.
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