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It's even more interesting from the perspective of a non-native english speaker who learned reading and speaking (english) in a mixed fashion. From my personal
by dumb1224 6y ago
It's even more interesting from the perspective of a non-native english speaker who learned reading and speaking (english) in a mixed fashion. From my personal experience my quickest progress was not made during the systematic learning from school/univ etc, where grammar / structures were taught, but rather from watching movies/conversation/gaming etc. In those scenarios I didn't "need" to have a concrete understanding of the precise meaning. A very vague and abstract idea is more than enough to complete my correct task, may it be gaming/understanding plots/clue-finding etc. In the next occurrence, I simply "interpolate", or more like filling blanks with equally vague words. As time goes by it just gets more accurate, even without understanding the concept precisely.
- jkhdigital 6y agoI really like this progressive interpolation idea... it fits well with my mental model of learning to read Japanese (as a native English speaker). I used a mnemonic technique to quickly learn the general meaning and proper writing of all ~2000 common use kanji. It’s like a medical student memorizing anatomy—no real understanding of the practical significance, just associating a name with something. However, as it turns out this process creates something like a mental scaffolding which makes it much faster to learn new words and their nuances of meaning because that information can “attach” to an existing knowledge structure.
- tasogare 6y agoYep, you always attach new knowledge to old one, and refining old one. That’s why learning Chinese after Japanese is not confusing but quite easy: you can reuse a lot of previous knowledge. In the same way, learning kanji is learning morphemes so the more you know, the more easier it is to learn new words.