Introduction to Language Learning Blog

 Hello again,    Glad that you are still following my weekly (well, almost) journal about linguistic. In this entry, I would like to talk about something that happened last weekend, my first ever experience as an English tutor.    So ever since I got into college, earning some extra cash has been one of my goals as my spending are way too much for my wallet to cover most of the time. And earning money with the language which I am somewhat good at is my top priority for the goal. And in my freshman year I hadn't had the opportunity much aside from one time when I helped a professor drew some comics for her English teaching project. And at the end of August this year (just before entering my Sophomore year), I applied for a tutor website which you can pretty much advertise for anything you think that you are good at and can be a tutor of. So, without any doubts, I confidently put in English as my subject and hoped to find an opportunity right on.    And ...

Journal Entry 2-10/15   This week, I would like to talk about my English learning journey outside of school. If you have seen my last post, you would know that I have developed my English abilities significantly through my school learning (Hess). But another important aspect that I didn't mention enough is my learning outside of the English classroom, which helped me grew a lot too.   Back when I was in the 4th grade, my dad introduced me to the world of video games. And the games he got me in were not the games that what typical 4th graders would play. They were violent (slightly bit too violent), actioned packed, and most importantly, they were foreign and in English. These games were developed by companies in the US. Aside from that, the games (like my very first game Crysis) were  not that popular in the Taiwan market, so there weren't any translated subtitles or dialogues in the games. Everything is in English.   Despite not having any knowledge of the games I w...

  Hello! Welcome to my blog where I document my language learning journey throughout the semester of the course "Introduction to Language Learning." Well this documentary is part of the project of the course, I hope that you will enjoy what I put out. And if you are reading this, I assume that you are somewhat enthusiastic in language learning, so why not follow along what a fellow aspiring language learner's journey!   1.  My Journey Learning Foreign Language -ENGLISH     From what I notice growing up in Taiwan, English is a subject /skill that many parents hope that their kids are good at. And the same goes with my parents. So since I was 4, my parents sent me to Hess kindergarten, where I got my first ever English lesson. And it was also in this school that gradually I became decent and began to have a grasp at the language, which benefitted me greatly to this day.    And my decent understanding of the English language should very much be credi...