Previously on my blog …
El primer artículo – My first article.
éste es mi primer artículo en español.
This is my first article in spanish.
Si deseas aprendir español, podrías seguir este blog
If you like to learn Spanish, you could follow this blog.
Amarías esta lengua.
You would love this language.
i Hola ! – This means “Hello!”.
[ The inverse exclamation before the word “Hola!” looking like the English alphabet ‘i’ is used to abide by a simple rule in español (Spanish). The punctuation mark that we use at the end of a statement in English is also put inversely at the beginning of the sentence in Spanish. I wish I had a tool to flip the text so that I could give a better example easily – An interrogative sentence, like this one – “how are you ?” written as ¿Cómo estás? I had to go to Wikipedia and copy this ]
I am beginning to realize that learning a language is difficult as I have been trying to learn a lengua (language) . Spanish.
Most of the people never even think about how we have learnt a language or a couple of them. If you ever thought about it, you might be of my kind. In fact, we were instructed to discuss about this while I was taking a course on Cognitive Sciences. To be honest, I am undeniably not among those inquisitive people for whom such ideas occur as-a-matter-of-factly.
It has been a continuous learning process for twenty years (short of three months approx). Now I know Telugu, English and Hindi (I just can comprehend most of it but cannot speak fluently). When I say “I know” I mean that I can write, communicate with people or use a desktop comfortably in those lenguaje (languages).Not that I can write a dictionary of course. And before my last breath, I wish to put a few more into my basket. I just initiated the process or may be I am laying the foundations for it or I have just started digging to lay the foundations or I might still be searching for tools to dig and then lay the foundations. I don’t know until I go a little further in this journey. The ambiguities are due to past experiences from my futile effort to learn another language. You don’t know what I did last summer. I probado (tried) to learn “日本語”.
[ 日本語 means Japanese in Japanese ]
My fruitless endeavours included learning Russian and Greek from “The Chambers Dictionary” during my school days. The alphabet set for both the languages were at the back of the dictionary along with the pronunciation.
By know you must be thinking that I belong to the species of freakus languageious. Who knows, may be you would also mutate into a freakus languageious once you start learning.
[ You don’t have to do a course on Taxonomy or search for it in Google or Wikipedia to know what ‘freakus languageious’ means ]
I learnt all the Japanese alphabet ( the script and the pronunciation ). Japanese is not as difficult as it appears. The pronunciation is not at all complicated. Indeed, it has got lesser number of sounds than Hindi/Telugu. Then came a long break. I never wrote a character for more or less three months. One fine day, I stumbled upon a Japanese advertisement and when I tried to read it, I came to know that I did not even sail through the diminutive waves of the ocean.
[ Lesson one : You will never be comfortable with a language if you don’t bring it into play regularly ]
The way I tried to learn Japanese was baffling. Most of the material online goes like this.
Chapter 1: Getting into a Taxi.
Chapter 2: Go to a Hotel.
Chapter 3: Meet new people.
Chapter 4: Regularly used words
. . .
. . .
. . .
After 30 days, you can speak the language. This is how the content typically goes. But can you speak the language well? If you are involved in a confrontation with a native speaker, can you understand it ? I guess not.
This is when I backtracked my path. We all learnt English etc. over years of time. First, learning alphabet and sounds. Small words, framing sentences, grammar, rules etc. I think this is the best way to learn any language. Teaching evolved over centuries and adopting the traditional method would be a good idea. And I got this idea to blog what ever I learn. It might help people like me. But still can’t promise if I would be successful.
I shall begin with the Spanish alphabet. Soon.
eagerly awaiting for your next post.
i wanna mutate into freakus languageious..
-pramodh
Mama
keep rocking
keep blogging
keep us happy
btw did you watch the movie “Motorcycle Diaries” ?
That changed my outlook towards Spanish
It now sounds more beautiful
@pramodh … lol. I am glad that you want to be a freakus languageous
@sleeper … i did not watch the movie. Is it a spanish movie ? I want to
watch it with out subtitles
btw how does podolski play in fifa manager 2k7 ?
did not check out …
I changed almost 5 teams .. Inter,Arsenal,leeds,new castle,liverpool
And fianlly stopped playing
Two new studies show why some people are more attractive for members of the opposite sex than others.
The University of Florida, Florida State University found that physically attractive people almost instantly attract the attention of the interlocutor, sobesednitsy with them, literally, it is difficult to make eye. This conclusion was reached by a series of psychological experiments, which were determined by the people who believe in sending the first seconds after the acquaintance. Here, a curious feature: single, unmarried experimental preferred to look at the guys, beauty opposite sex, and family, people most often by representatives of their sex.
The authors believe that this feature developed a behavior as a result of the evolution: a man trying to find a decent pair to acquire offspring. If this is resolved, he wondered potential rivals. Detailed information about this magazine will be published Journal of Personality and Social Psychology.
In turn, a joint study of the Rockefeller University, Rockefeller University and Duke University, Duke University in North Carolina revealed that women are perceived differently by men smell. During experiments studied the perception of women one of the ingredients of male pheromone-androstenona smell, which is contained in urine or sweat.
The results were startling: women are part of this repugnant odor, and the other part is very attractive, resembling the smell of vanilla, and the third group have not felt any smell. The authors argue that the reason is that the differences in the receptor responsible for the olfactory system, from different people are different.
It has long been proven that mammals (including human) odor is one way of attracting the attention of representatives of the opposite sex. A detailed article about the journal Nature will publish.