tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 06 07:19:23 1995
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qechmeywIj on learning a language
In teaching the language, has anyone ever used the technique of
introducing ideas/phrases as a way of instructing? (Rather than learning
straight vocabulary, then grammar, then putting the two together)
I've noticed (in my own education also) that grammar is rather sticky.
Many student problems in translation come from trying to take an idea in
their native language, looking at the words, translating the words, then
failing in communicating the idea fully.
The tapes use this method of phrasing. But I was wondering if there was
more out there. I seem to do better with ideas, rather than words, and
it helps ever-so-much with basic grammar, and exceptions to the rule.
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