Emotion, culture and language

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Steve talks about our emotional connection to a language and culture is a more powerful motivator than critical thinking.

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[lingosteve]

I will reply to Glossika in English for the benefit of most of the readers here. Your Chinese is awesome, pure Taiwanese Mandarin to my ears. As to your questions, I confess that I am not sure what to sayy. I respect every speaker of another language, regardless of how they sound. I also find that Taiwanese speakers do not distinguish suo and shuo as clearly as Northerners, but it does not matter , we get the meaning from the context.

[Esoparagon]

My god... That is just unbelievable, my friend. I'm appalled by this super sensitive moderation. It seems you can't call a duck a duck these days for fear that ducks will be offended. What an absolute crock of shit.

[lingosteve]

I emailed them to ask why I should take out the reference to hot-headed officers and got this reply.

Thanks for changing your post-it is appreciated. Individuals of Japanese descent may not appreciate their Japanese military officials being called hot-headed (even if they were insubordinate).

[qzchris]

I was going to suggest starting a topic on that listserv and posting a link to this video. That was until you mentioned the moronic censorship restrictions...

[lingosteve]

Chris, have you gone on that Listserv? Have you read what they say? Can you understand what they are talking about?

[17mathieu]

Glad to see you post a video Steve, it was starting to feel like a while since your last one. I agree with Berta, in that I also enjoy watching your videos because you always have some new insights to share and are a very entertaining speaker. Please feel free to "rant", as you put it, whenever you want!

[Soalarus]

Wow thanks for sharing that story, Steve. As a 16 year old high school student, I can tell you I completely agree with your comments on teachers and their role in motivating students. In every class, there are countless occasions when all of us just don't care at all, especially in language classes. For example, my Spanish teachers, who were both Mexican themselves, would make us recite Spanish poetry in front of the class and things of that nature, and I just wasn't interested...

[oeppevnvpeb]

i hate teachers. they are such assholes!

[robertogan]

As for the listserve monitors, that's just another form of political correctness, which most of us despise. I dread the world that political correctness has in store for us, I think it would be Orwellian in nature.

As for independent thought and higher order learning, it has to do with whether or not you have an interest. I teach high school kids, and they find very few things interesting. They generally enjoy video games, mobile phones, the television show "Family Guy", and dating.

[polishenglish4u]

I want to write something about teachers and their ways of teaching. Why do they teach languages with bad methods? I think they do that because they were told how to do it when they studied. Teachers study how to explain grammar, how to introduce exercises and other things which are not connected with teaching languages in a natural way. I know it because I am a teacher. I wouldn't have changed my way of teaching if I had not done my own researches.

[soyberta]

Yes we all missed them. See??

cheers! ;)

[qzchris]

Could you post the link? I'd be interested to read through it, actually. I was mainly just curious to know what they think of your videos and blog-posts on this matter, that is, if you were able to post them there without having the forces-that-be censor them.

[Soalarus]

We would all wait until 5 minutes before class until we even started trying to memorize the poems! LOL There were just so many other things that I personally would have rather been learning about Hispanic culture and Spanish in general so...