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iButterfree
11 years agoSeasoned Veteran
@linesa- I really have to contribute a lot of my skills to my professor. She really had such a great way of teaching. We rarely ever sat down and just memorized words and verbs. It was more often we were playing games and listening to her telling us stories with props :lol: I remember when we were learning about fruits and vegetables how she brought in plastic fruits and vegetables. We stood in a circle with each of us holding an object and played a modified version of Hot Potato. She would call out a fruit/vegetable, and whoever was holding it would have to hold it up within two seconds or so or else they would get penalized. It was that, or she would point to someone and he or she would have those two seconds to say the name of whatever he or she was holding.
I've come to figure out that reading is the easiest because generally (in both of our cases) we've got the well-written foreign language in front of us to visualize. Creating perfect grammar and sentence structure is much harder than mere comprehension, which is why it is so difficult. That's why I'm the same way with Japanese, although it's oral comprehension rather than reading comprehension that I'm good at.
I relied a bit too much on an online translator :sweat: Most of the time I would write what I had to write, and then use the translator to compare the results. I had enough knowledge to determine what the translator had done right and what it had messed up completely. However, I would rarely ever actually look up what I had done wrong with my work and why the correction was the right way to form my sentence.
I think that's a really great idea with your rainbowcy ^^ Perhaps I'll have to try something similar.
@AEventyr- So, it turns out I won't be able to see Maze Runner for a good while. I was going to go see it...until I remember my mom's birthday is coming up :lol: I don't have a lot of money, so I gotta save it for her present instead of a me going to see a movie.
I've come to figure out that reading is the easiest because generally (in both of our cases) we've got the well-written foreign language in front of us to visualize. Creating perfect grammar and sentence structure is much harder than mere comprehension, which is why it is so difficult. That's why I'm the same way with Japanese, although it's oral comprehension rather than reading comprehension that I'm good at.
I relied a bit too much on an online translator :sweat: Most of the time I would write what I had to write, and then use the translator to compare the results. I had enough knowledge to determine what the translator had done right and what it had messed up completely. However, I would rarely ever actually look up what I had done wrong with my work and why the correction was the right way to form my sentence.
I think that's a really great idea with your rainbowcy ^^ Perhaps I'll have to try something similar.
@AEventyr- So, it turns out I won't be able to see Maze Runner for a good while. I was going to go see it...until I remember my mom's birthday is coming up :lol: I don't have a lot of money, so I gotta save it for her present instead of a me going to see a movie.