Introduction to Language Learning Blog

  In both weeks of our teaching, my job in this group is to take photos and videos for the video project. And in this journal, I would like to give my reflections on others and our activities in week 1.   The first language that we learned is German, and it was pretty fun! We learned numbers and other daily life words. Like the ones you would use in a baker store. The second language that we learned is Korean, and this was really fun as well. I think that one thing that the group did really well is teaching with repetition, and even though we learned relatively small categories of words, but with repetition, I felt like we really grasped the words that were taught to us, like directional words and words and sentences that help with introducing ourselves.   For our own group, we taught conversations that would happen in everyday life. To be particular, we essentially taught a dialogue that included self-introduction and buying things. And after teaching, we let s...

   Hello, today, I am going to give some impressions and review to the speech that our language learning class heard last class. So the speaker is someone who knew tons of language, including Spanish, Russian, French, Chinese, English, lots of European language etc. And he first talked about how he was able to learn English super well through playing an online multiplayer game. I agreed on what he said deeply, but still have some doubts on my own. As for why I agree with him, from my previous entries, I'm sure that you know that I am also someone who learned a whole lot from playing video games when I was small, and he explaining how he got good with the language was somewhat understandable. However, he also claimed that he "mastered" the language and the language thus became easy for him. That's the part I felt like it's a bit hard to believe. Sure, a video game can possibly provide a decent English environment for its player, but it can be severely not enough fo...