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Audiobooks are great for learning the spoken part of a language but I would guess that most of us "technical people" need and want to learn things from the bott
by krelian 15y ago
Audiobooks are great for learning the spoken part of a language but I would guess that most of us "technical people" need and want to learn things from the bottom up. That's the only way we feel that we really know something.
It's true that grammar can be very complicated and will be easily forgotten without practice. A good practice is reading a book and trying to see not only if you can understand what is happening but also analyze each sentence and see if you can understand which grammar rules are used in its construction and why.
- jakobe 15y agoThat may be why technical people might have a hard time learning languages.
- pooriaazimi 15y agoThat's right. But you don't necessarily need to know what a word means (its exact meaning) in order to understand a sentence. You only have to feel what it means. For example, for a long time I didn't bother to look up the exact meaning of words like 'ruminate', 'agitated', 'incredulity', 'ilk', 'perpetual', 'stagnant' and dozens of other words. I could feel what they meant, and that was enough. Just like when a 4-year old knows what 'tomorrow' means without understanding the complexities of life and time. He doesn't need to know about Earth orbiting around the Sun; tomorrow means 'sleep once, and when you wake up, that's tomorrow'. I think you can learn a new language just like children learn their mother tongue.