Credentials

I have watched a couple o videos recorded by Mr. Steve Kaufman, the canadian Linguist, at his youtube channel on the subject of language learning. In this case about the criticism of some lin guists that consider that Mr. Kaufman hasn't the credentials to speak about language learning. In response to that Kaufman defends his approach by saying that the experience is much more imortant than the amount of statements of scholars on the subject of language learning. 

Mr. Kaufman desagree with the theory of Chomsky about the universal grammar. As often happen with the majority of (most of) theories, the Chomsky's universal grammar theory cannot be supported by the experience. Sometimes, scientists complicates the understanding of a social and cultural phenomena, such as the human language. I'm completely persuaded and convinced thanks to my own experience, that Kaufman is right.

Spanish Workshop

1. No Grammar. You have to discover (turn up) the rules. This is a heuristic approach.
2. I am gonna speak crystal clear and slowly in order you can understand pretty well.
3. Look at my gestures (body language) and the movement of my leaps.
4. Don't try to translate into your mother language. The meaning comes from the context.
5. At the beginning, your mother tongue is your worst enemy. You are not gonna find up in your mother language, what you need to speak spanish.
6. Catch the general ideas, you don't need understand  100 % of the speech. Focus on the chunks of meaning or as I prefer to say: quantums of meaning.
7. Language is not about performance. Language do is about communication.
8. Making a lot of mistakes is not forbidden. You are going learn through your own errors. This is a trial and error process. Laughing about this ones is good.
9. Try to expand your vocabulary as much as you can. Reading and listening is the best way to garner lots of words and expressions.
10. Use the MP3 version of the videos to listen on and on. Repetition is the key.
11. Read the PDF files to understand the confusing words.
12. Listen in a passive and active way(manner). When you listen passively you are getting familiar with the sounds of the language and picking some words up. Besides you are learning unconsciously. When you listen actively you have to concentrate on meaning. Instead og concentrating on grammar structures.

IELTS Writing Task 1 - What to write!

How to drop a line?

How to write something about my language learning process. How to organize all my ideas about it. I even have thought to write a book on the subject of language learning. Starting by asking some crucial(important) questions such as:

Why normally the people that want to learn a foreign language have to face(to deal with) a lot of difficulties to reach(to achieve)  all their goals of apprenticeship ?. it seems to be that all of those issues have to do with  a method that doesn't work . Indeed, this issue involves all the educational system. As a result, of all this stuff, we could ask  as follows:

Why the educational system doesn't teach what It should teach? Why this one cannot guarantee the apprenticeship?