Gentleman thiefApollo Robbins will take the phone from your pocket and the ring off your finger, then hand them back to you and (maybe) show you how he did it. Full bio
Learning a language is a field or discipline plagued with distractors, some come from interference via our native language, some come exclusively from what part of language we pay attention to. Vocabulary is one of those aspects that is overrated but under-considered. To build a strong vocabulary we need to focus on meaning as much as and with the same intensity as on form (use in context) and pron (pronunciation -stress -quality and prolongation of sound).
FOCUS ON ... MEANING, FORM & PRON:
The following text is a snippet of a news article about the aftermath of the landslide in Salgar, more specifically about an 11-month-old who managed to survive. Read then try to repeat mentally what you've learned from the article.
Visit Cloze Maker and play taking every other n-word out of text. First paste the text of the first 2 paragraphs of the above article, then play eliminating every 5, 6, 7, etc., and wonder how this exercise continues to be a challenge regardless of how well you understand the idea and vocabulary. This is a challenge to you understanding of the form or use of the specific language in the article. This proves sometimes we can be overly confident about the language we encounter in text or speech. As an extra challenge, next try taking the prepositions out of the text. After this exercise, you may wonder why use is so difficult, maybe even unpredictable. Well, there's a factor in knowing / not knowing the definition of a specific word, or having / not having used the word. Most of the time it might be that there are blind spots in the practice of decoding 'new language'. Something interesting is that a typical sign that we are not too sure about the meaning or use of a word is not knowing how to pronounce the word.
Watch / listen to the conversation on the video and make notes. Report on your notes. Try to make notes of interesting ideas, try not to change the language that expresses these ideas. Use your notes to put together your own ideas about the topic at hand.
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Apollo Robbins
Gentleman thiefApollo Robbins will take the phone from your pocket and the ring off your finger, then hand them back to you and (maybe) show you how he did it. Full bioLearning a language is a field or discipline plagued with distractors, some come from interference via our native language, some come exclusively from what part of language we pay attention to. Vocabulary is one of those aspects that is overrated but under-considered. To build a strong vocabulary we need to focus on meaning as much as and with the same intensity as on form (use in context) and pron (pronunciation -stress -quality and prolongation of sound).
FOCUS ON ...
MEANING, FORM & PRON:
The following text is a snippet of a news article about the aftermath of the landslide in Salgar, more specifically about an 11-month-old who managed to survive. Read then try to repeat mentally what you've learned from the article.
Baby survives Colombia landslide that killed his mother and 11 relatives
PURE FORM -exercise and discussion:
Visit Cloze Maker and play taking every other n-word out of text. First paste the text of the first 2 paragraphs of the above article, then play eliminating every 5, 6, 7, etc., and wonder how this exercise continues to be a challenge regardless of how well you understand the idea and vocabulary. This is a challenge to you understanding of the form or use of the specific language in the article. This proves sometimes we can be overly confident about the language we encounter in text or speech. As an extra challenge, next try taking the prepositions out of the text. After this exercise, you may wonder why use is so difficult, maybe even unpredictable. Well, there's a factor in knowing / not knowing the definition of a specific word, or having / not having used the word. Most of the time it might be that there are blind spots in the practice of decoding 'new language'. Something interesting is that a typical sign that we are not too sure about the meaning or use of a word is not knowing how to pronounce the word.
PRACTICE THE MEANING, THE FORM AND THE PRONUNCIATION OF THE WORD cholesterol
LISTEN AND LEARN
Watch / listen to the conversation on the video and make notes. Report on your notes. Try to make notes of interesting ideas, try not to change the language that expresses these ideas. Use your notes to put together your own ideas about the topic at hand.
Apollo Robbins will take the phone from your pocket and the ring off your finger, then hand them back to you and (maybe) show you how he did it. Full bioApollo RobbinsGentleman thiefApollo Robbins will take the phone from your pocket and the ring off your finger, then hand them back to you and (maybe) show you how he did it. Full bioApollo Robbins will take the phone from your pocket and the ring off your finger, then hand them back to you and (maybe) show you how he did it. Full bio
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- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktABbmy6IgQ
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktABbmy6IgQ