Signed, still wishes she had the knack for retaining languages not her native ones, will some day see about this immersion thing.
Are you a visual learner? In an immersion situation, there are a lot more visual cues.
No denying that everyone learns differently, etc., but it's the acceptabilty of the "can't" argument for certain things that drives me batty. Yes, people have innate abilities/talents for certain things (sports, art, whatever), but it also helps if you are taught the relevant skill set.
I can't draw to save my life, but, guess what, I was never taught. In elementary school and beyond, people were either "good" at art or not, no one thought to actually teach the others about drawing, etc.
When I started to really adapt my teaching to individual students it was amazing what people who thought they "couldn't do" language could actually do. Unfortunately, the time and effort that takes is a luxury that I couldn't always afford.
But I don't know how I'd make it stick in my brain.
Avec de la colle?
But I don't know how I'd make it stick in my brain.
Avec de la colle?
With Lassie?!?
t /dork
Glue. Although if you're "glued to the TV" in French you are "nailed" to it, so maybe you have something there.
I put two veggie lasagnes in the oven 25 minutes ago and I can smell them from my upstairs office. We're taking one to a neighbor who just had a baby (with bread, salad, etc) and saving one to eat here. yum. now I can't focus on my work.
It's tough. Sometimes we're able to deal with the individual learning styles, and sometimes we're just not. We have one student who is a significantly second language student, who has some learning disabilities, including dyslexia. Which we didn't really twig to at first, because she's so talented musically. But once we worked it out, we were able to move almost completely off of the reading music portions that were hanging her up. We'll still work on those skills, but we no longer make them the sticking point for being able to work on the other stuff.
But with her, we have the luxury of doing it, because she's one of our few private (read individual, not group) students. So we have the one-on-one time to work it out with her. Often we have much much larger groups, and it's hard to do in that context.
For me personally, I've finally realized that I learn best aurally. Which is why I have the crazy song memorization skill, as well as being able to work out harmonies by ear easier than on paper. It means I retain books on tape lectures and such, too. But it would have helped if I'd realized that during school or college.
Scrappy, it wasn't Natter and it wasn't you. So never mind. I am the addled one.
I'm not a visual learner, something that's given me all kinds of problems when trying to learn dance steps and the like. I struggle terribly whenever I have to watch a sequence of motions and try to replicate it. Tell me what to do, and, even better, tell me what it should *feel* like, and I can do it.
But the thing about writing, at least the sort of stories my muse keeps handing to me, is I keep having to fake being good at things I actually suck at--at least faking it well enough to enter the POV of people whose brains do things mine can't. Like for my WIP, it's not just little things like pretending I can play chess or speak French or know what it feels like to have my nose broken. I'm having to invent my own battles and hopefully make them sound like they're the product of sound strategy and tactics by intelligent, visually gifted generals, f'rex.
Since last I posted, I went to the comic shop, and the weather couldn't decide whether it wanted to rain or snow, but no matter, because it still got me completely wet.
Then I got back to the office and noticed the fax machine had a paper jam. We had to basically disassemble the stupid, hulking machine and get covered in toner to clear the jam, and of course, all it wanted to print was some fax spam.
