Let the words overflow

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On learning words, the key to language learning.

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[shearoberts]

I've already weighed in my thoughts on the blog, but I'd just like to comment that I haven't found any うに that I like yet. Now give me some うなぎ and we're in business. The 酒 sounds about right too. Steve do you prefer cold or warm 酒？

[lingosteve]

cold, definitely. Stop making me thirsty!

[lingosteve]

I have vague recollections of having come across the term in high school French. However, from the time I got interested in languages as a 17 year old, to this day, it is not a term that I have dealt with. I must confess I do not know what it means.

[TheNonsubscribable]

I think if you memorize the words then read something with them in it you have a better chance of learning, because you already know the meaning, then all you have to do is figure out how they fit together.

the material becomes more and more comprehensible

[TheNonsubscribable]

I think you could memorize the words in a list just as easily as you could from looking at them from different contexts again and again. it's pretty much the same activity the difference is when you look at them in context you get a better grip at how they fit together. but you're still looking them over again and again getting them in grained in your head.

[lukebarnes3585]

The grammar guys make me laugh actually, I have a two year old brother who is learning his first language, and he knows nothing about grammar and his pronunciation is terrible at the moment.

But we keep overflowing him with words and he keeps picking the odd one up.

[Chezrocksall]

Steve great video!

[Chezrocksall]

@phonicsquest Stop thinking that you are better than anybody else and go get a life

[phonicsquest]

In the 1950s and 1960s, Chomsky developed the idea that each sentence in a language has two levels of representation - a Deep Structure and a Surface Structure. The deep structure was a direct representation of the semantics of a sentence, and was mapped onto the surface structure (which followed the phonological form of the sentence very

[phonicsquest]

closely) via transformations. There is a common misunderstanding that Deep Structure was supposed to be identical across all languages (thus creating a Universal Grammar), but Chomsky did not in fact suggest this in so many words. However, Chomsky did believe that there would be considerable similarities between the Deep Structures of different languages, and that these structures would reveal properties common to all

[phonicsquest]

languages which were concealed by their Surface Structures. It is arguable that the overriding motivation for the introduction of transformations was simply to make grammars more (mathematically) powerful, rather than to explain the origin of syntactic variations between languages. Though the ability of a grammatical theory to generalize across languages is fundamental to its worth in Chomsky's view, some of the definitive

[phonicsquest]

literature on early transformational grammar (e.g. Chomsky's Aspects of the Theory of Syntax, 1965) emphasizes the role of transformations in obtaining the necessary level of mathematical power in the syntactic component of a grammar, which, in his opinion, the structuralist grammars popular at the time did not have. Chomsky also emphasizes the importance of modern formal mathematical devices in the development of grammatical theory.

[Wakako77]

I think she must have been talking about "particles" rather than "participles". Those are the really challenging things to learn in Japanese. Ex. ha, ga, no, ni, wo, and etc.