This is quite interesting, especially in the personal knowledge of how one can learn a language - or rather lay the basics of such language- through exposure and not so much active learning involving grammar and rules. In my first few years of learning English, I unintentionally went with the same method of implicit learning and acquired a certain understanding of the language -like a baby learns it's first tongue - on which I would further expand afterwards with tidbits of active-grammar learning. I have been interested in movies, games, books and similar media for nearly all my life and this constant enthusiastic indulgence in foreign objects of art gradually elevated the status of my knowledge of English before I decided to actively start expanding.
I guess the same method could be used in learning other languages such as Latin, though, I should point out that the relative smoothness of the English language when It comes to lack of some grammar rules other languages posses also faciliates learning it to an extent.
thanks for your sharing. I agree with your idea. Although I learned so many rules, but if I dare not to speak out or doing some engaged language-learning activities, I can not master English.
If someone has their brain removed they still have their learning center in their cerebellum. It is mostly meant for simple motor learning, though, such as drawing that star you've mentioned. I'm not saying that there isn't implicit and explicit learning in language, but the cerebellum is good at controlling movement planning and correction, but the speech centers are still in the brain.
This is quite interesting, especially in the personal knowledge of how one can learn a language - or rather lay the basics of such language- through exposure and not so much active learning involving grammar and rules. In my first few years of learning English, I unintentionally went with the same method of implicit learning and acquired a certain understanding of the language -like a baby learns it's first tongue - on which I would further expand afterwards with tidbits of active-grammar learning. I have been interested in movies, games, books and similar media for nearly all my life and this constant enthusiastic indulgence in foreign objects of art gradually elevated the status of my knowledge of English before I decided to actively start expanding.
I guess the same method could be used in learning other languages such as Latin, though, I should point out that the relative smoothness of the English language when It comes to lack of some grammar rules other languages posses also faciliates learning it to an extent.
thanks for your sharing. I agree with your idea. Although I learned so many rules, but if I dare not to speak out or doing some engaged language-learning activities, I can not master English.
If someone has their brain removed they still have their learning center in their cerebellum. It is mostly meant for simple motor learning, though, such as drawing that star you've mentioned. I'm not saying that there isn't implicit and explicit learning in language, but the cerebellum is good at controlling movement planning and correction, but the speech centers are still in the brain.
Hi Evan, seems like you gave a long break. Sabbatical? :)