Category: Language Ideas
Dive into the Deep End
Studying English for an hour once a week isn’t usually enough to make any real progress. The best way to quickly improve your English is to spend at least a few minutes practicing every day. Immerse yourself as much as possible every time you study, and challenge yourself to listen to, read and even say things in English that you think might be too difficult for you. If you want to speak English fluently, you need to make it an essential part of your everyday life.
Learn a new word every day
Choose a word you would like to work on and use practice it in different sentences. Use the word until you have learnt it and keep using it regularly.
Speak, speak
Be confident and speak as often as possible to as many people as you possibly can! Do not be shy to make mistakes! The more you practice the better and more confident you will become in your pronunciation and vocabulary. Remember, speaking is a skill like learning a musical instrument or new sport – the only way you can get good is to actually do it!
Language and culture are different things
Language acts only as a medium for exchanging culture. Change in language will not affect ones culture. Which language he uses becomes the medium for exchanging his parents and other traditional culture and things
~BABA ALEXANDER NEW DELHI
No language can continue with specific written grammar rules
Because of the changes in technology, inventions, styles, fashion etc. of the people, new words, usages, styles will emerge & that will becomes a part of that language. Which languages seems flexible to that changes, that languages survives more than other languages.
~BABA ALEXANDER NEW DELHI
There is no ‘mother-tongue’
By birth, nobody gets any particular language. In that sense, there is no ‘mother-tongue’. Childhood onward which language hears and talks more, he gets more attachment with that language and feels more comfort and gains speed in using that language. The language fundamentalists and particular language beneficiaries exploit and misuse this attachment (mother-tongue mania) for attaining their narrow political, religious and economical interests. Since, almost languages are connected with particular region, religion, cast, culture, country etc. It creates language fundamentalism in a person and one gets angry with other languages and sometimes may leads to attack on those who using other languages.
~BABA ALEXANDER NEW DELHI
No need to teach meaning, spelling and pronunciation
If we teach the writing, only after learning to speak, there is no need to teach meaning, spelling and pronunciation. These process automatically one acquires from others speech. Which way one hears a word regularly that same way he pronounces that word.
~BABA ALEXANDER NEW DELHI
Creating and maintaining a standard pronunciation is not practical for any language
Language or talks in a language is not a one man’s invention. So many people have contributed and are still contributing for the development of language. Climate, geography and many factors of the place will influence the vocal cords in the matter of sound modulation & sound pattern in a person. More than that, which way one hears the sound, that same way, he develops his talking. Through the advancement in technology, communication devices and globalization, it is getting automatically reduced, up to an extent.
~BABA ALEXANDER NEW DELHI
Correcting create fear and conflicts in the learner
Correcting automatically happens by hearing others talk continuously. Through different stages only one can reach in the fluency stage. Language is developed not for correcting and governing others but for making communication.
~BABA ALEXANDER NEW DELHI