Clearing The Flow State of Spanish Language Conversation

Hello Language hackers,

In today’s blogpost, I’m going to talk about clearing the Feeling Block or put another way how to feel THE FLOW STATE of Spanich conversation, instead of blocking the Flow with an endless inner-translation-monologue.

Trying to progress in Spanish by focusing on activities outside of conversation with stuffs like: studying grammar texts, memorizing vocabulary texts, hand-Translating sentences between Spanish and English and listening to Spanish Radio, TV and Movies

I'm convinced that much of the learning of a language isn't just acquiring new vocabulary and grammatical patterns. You will get better at the specific individual activities, but you will not feel the skills you learnt transferring into conversational abilities. Talking of learning… is what you were told at school about language learning which is the wrong approach?

Now clearing the feeling block is all about being in the flow state where you don’t want to translate in your head, you want to get out of your own head, to feel the Flow of mumbling up all the vocabs you've learnt to form short meaningful sentences in French language.

Instead it's training words and phrases you already know until they reach automaticity. This failure of automaticity is why many people can spend months or years studying a language and still feel, frustratingly, unable to speak it. In other words, the more you speak a new language, the more quickly you'll reach a stage where you can find the word or phrase you need automatically - without even thinking about it.

“The Flow state is truly an interesting concept” because it is the force that will lead you to ever more understanding, expressing, connecting and growing in the Spanish language more on the conversational level.

Presently am studying the art and science of teaching and learning languages, one of the most important things I’ve discovered is this: Negativity kills learning anything you want to learn.

So therefore my two secret tips for language learners is perhaps unsurprisingly to :
~ "commit to not speaking English for a certain period of time but rather concentrate on speaking the target language".
~ "start having conversations earlier than it feels comfortable".
My reasoning behind this advice is that - this is a key mindset shift that will make you a much more effective language learner.

My question to you today is this,  could you go six months without speaking your native/source language? Leave a comment below saying why you can or why you cannot.

To your exponential
learning of languages,

Frenchladydisi
Your language tutor.

Languages, Do They Shape The Way We Think?

Hello language enthusiast,

There are over 7,000 languages spoken around the world today. They all have different sounds, vocabularies, spellings and structures but do they shape the way we think? Cognitive scientist Lera Boroditsky shares examples of language - from an Aboriginal community in Australia that uses cardinal directions instead of left and right to the multiple words for blue in Russian that suggest the answer is a resounding yes.

A specific kind of language gives you an indept of how people in that culture or community think, behave and communicate amongs themself. It helps give you an idea of their background and their way of life, as well as understanding their culture and heritage. l personally think that languages are portals to a group of people and how they reason about the things of life. Languages are all about Understanding the expression of another man's internal world expressed through words.

Thinking about something start with thoughts, then words, concept and Imagery. Then it forms images and triggers emotion which then leads to taking action by responding or reacting. To me as a language enthusiast I find it fascinating that language learning can make one think in different ways or dimension, thereby expanding your own mind to assimilate much more you could ever withstand. Boroditsky says. "Human minds have invented not one cognitive universe, but 7,000.  The beauty of linguistic diversity is that it reveals to us just how ingenious and how flexible the human mind is." This process is a very heighten state for a polyglot.

If languages shape the way we think then the advantages are something to be reckon with like; being able to multitask at work and home, to assimilate things faster, the brains neural pathway are more increased and functional. The risk of getting dementia Is very very low at old age. Like I said in one of my previous blog post, come and be Disified in my language school (VILA institute). Where we teach you foreign and local languages, offline and online.

Kindly leave a comment below by stating you opinion about this topic.

To your exponential
learning of languages,

Frenchladydisi
Your language tutor.

Machine Translation Versus Human Translation.

Hello language enthusiast,

With the advancement in technology and translation softwares, it has become easier for individuals to communicate, despite having differing languages. But does that mean that the need for Professional Human Translators have become obsolete? To me I don't think so, below are some benefits to consider having a Professional Human Translator.

Point 1: In certain languages , there are differing levels of formality when communicating with someone we know well versus someone we've never met. Machine TranslatIon cannot account for such differences. Because it is an automated computerized machine.

Point 2 : Obviously machine translation those not currently gaurantee confidentiality, due to the fact that it is accessable and open to all at any time, any place as long as you have data.

Point 3 : Machine translation can determine whether it is a phrase that is not supposed to be translated or not. Compared with professional human translation, the translator knows when to translate a phrase or let it be in its original statement.

Point 4 : In situations where by a word Is not found in the target language and the translator has to look for alternative to compliment the word, in such cases the machine will translate rubbish because it will not know what to alternate or when to alternate.
Point 5 : Lastly, proximity of translation will not be found in the job due to the fact that it's a machine, it is most likely to touch the surface not and indept translation.

If you agree with everything point leave a comment below.

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of languages

Frenchladydisi
Your language tutor

Added Advantage of Learning a Foreign Language Irrespective of Your Discipline

Hello Language learners,

Learning is a circle of life that never ends. If you are not learning in your profession or updating In your field of endeavor, then you will be outdated in your career. Meaning you will be passed on for promotions, bonuses, incentives and Periodic training from your company.

As an individual in this present technological era, where change is a constant and ever increasing trend in every sphere of life. One most try by all means to keep up with the ever evolving transformation taking place on a daily basis by renewing your mind in different ways such as acquiring new skill set that are relevant to your profession.

For the purpose of language learning in this blog post, I will be concentrating on language acquisition for career advancement. Some of the added advantage of this Undertaking is numerous and encompassing.

First and famous in an job interview is you specifie that you are bilingual or multilingual polyglot, it is definitely an advantage for you to be shortlisted for further follow up to get the job.

In a structured organization where they is periodic review for promotion for their staff, you would also be included in the list of those to be considered for the position due to the fact that you can speak a foreign language.

A big company with branches all over the world, will never waste time to transfer a person to a country in which you understand the language considerable well, to go and establish a branch of that company, there by making you the branch manager or may be the director.

Also in situations where the organization is invited by a foreign body to bring it's representatives for a world event, your name will must likely pop up on the list of selected candidates to go and represent the company there by giving you exposure.

Lastly when there is a special need or project,  you will obviously be among the people that will be selected because of your exposure, experience and probably your language skill, which may bring some bonuses at the end of the project.

Comments below if you have any points to add or conter on the added advantage of learning a foreign language.

To your learning
of languages,

Frenchladydisi
Your Language Tutor.

Those Gender Have Anything To Do With Language Learning?

Hello Language lovers,

If I was to sectionalize this topic into small bits, it would be; that those geographical location, educational level, cultural background, spiritual beliefs, age, career, financial status and finally Personal interest have anything to do with language learning?  All the above listed, do there really matter when it comes to language learning and the gender involved?

In Africa due to the hardship and continues husling. I use to think that women are more prone to learn a new language than men, because an African girl child is brought up to always multi-task unlike the boy child who is always given preferencial treatment there by lesser task.

And also women in Africa are the ones to embrace new ventures, new ideas and work with them with an open heart. But I think the reverse is the case with women in the Western world, although I think that both the men and women are prone to learning a new language or venture into anything new.

I admit that I stand corrected because presently in my language online academy program the majority of my students are males. This is very ironic to me because I wasn't expecting males to indicate interest more than the females. Also I noticed a trend in their reason for learning a new language.

All the males in my online program don't have an extrinsic motivational reason for learning this new language. They are self driven and I admire their zest for language learning. Their reason is for acquiring sake, for increasing their knowledge data base,  just in case they need it in the future, like may be, they get an opportunity to travel out of the country and they need to know a foreign language. By then, they will be very fluent  and proficient in speaking that needed foreign language.

On the other hand, the ladies in my program all have an intrinsic motivational reason for their language acquisition. One of them is currently preparing for an international exam that if she passes will enable her stay in a foreign country with permit. While the other went to France and couldn't communicate properly so she was restricted and thus because of that, she decided to learn under the tutelage of an expert which is me.

Truly speaking, I can't conclude my findings on these facts I have been able to gather from my VILA institute. So I need more proofs and facts to back up these theory of mine which states that :
 « In Africa men are more likely to learn a new language than women, while in the western both men and women are likely to learn a new language »

Leave a comment below indicating whether you are for or against this theory and give your facts.

To your learning
of languages,

Frenchladydisi
Your Language Tutor.

Possible Reasons Most Africans Don't Learn Their Local Languages and Why There Are Going Extinct.

 
Hello language learners,

Today I would like to write about the issue of present Africans not learning or speaking their local native languages.
Your language is your identity no matter who you are, where your from or what you do. Your language is your present day hash tag, It classify's you in your immediate environment.

Knowing your language In Africa is a thing of pride and joy. Speaking it is a thing of dignity and respect. It is well known that Africans are very diversify in their language. In an African country you could probably have an estimate of about 112+ languages in that country.

 But alas! Statistics shows that some of these languages have gone extinct because the younger generations of now speak less and less of their local native language, so it is not been passed down to the next generation, while some are about to go extinct, therefore should be preserved. Here are some possible reasons why these peculiar languages are not been spoken and are going extinct.

i) It certainly will be out of place of I shouldn't start with mordernisation. This phenomenon has eaten deep into our very core as a nation and as a people. Our quest for acceptance has made us reject, shy away and unfortunately turn our backs from our very own languages. All because we want to be accepted into the big league of western culture. We want to roll and flow with the developped countries at the detriment of our language and heritage. Disregarding our language which is our identity, which makes us who we are and what we are.

ii) The perplexity of a language is another factor to be considered, because each African language has its own uniqueness and variance in nature. Some are quit easy while others are just down right difficult to assimilate. Nevertheless, if an individual from a particular tribe has been exposed to his or her language right from birth, that person should be able to comprehend and speak the language fluently as he or she grows up.

iii) The mannerism in which a person is thought the language is also a contributing factor to why most Africans don't learn to speak their local language. The manner could be very discouraging.

iv)  The written form of most of them are lost to our ancestors and so no way of verifying if the source is correct or wrong. Due to this fact, some of this languages are wrongly written and thought to the next generation. Which goes on and on in circles or most at times are not even thought but lost.

v)  In some cases it could be that the parent of the child don't know how to speak the language, therefore his stuck in the I-don't-know-how zone of his or her language. This is a deplorable state for such an individual.

vi) Between the parent of the child It is a well known fact that in Africa the child answers to the side of the father as in claims the fathers side and not the mothers. Due to this it sometimes causes issues in the home as to who's language will the child learn first and use predominantly. The father would prefer the child to learn his language but when the father does not know his native language the mother would teach them her language if she knows her own language. But since the father will want then to learn his own may stop them base on the fact that he doesn't want them to learn the mother's language.

Leave a comment below if you are in agreement with this reasons, if not please why.

To your learning
of languages,

Frenchladydisi
Your language Tutor.

Continuation of 15+ Reasons Why You Should Raise Your Kids as Multilingual

Hi language Learners,

The follow up on reason why you should raise your kids as multilingual.
8) Your child will have more opportunities to make new friends.
Not only will your child be able to connect with others who speak different languages, but they will also be able to make friends during their language learning studies. There are hundreds of after school language programs in which kids can meet new friends, stimulate their minds, and, more importantly, have fun!

9)Sets your child up for future job success.
Today’s companies are seeking job candidates who know how to speak more than one language. In fact, research from Korn/Ferry International found that nearly 9 out of 10 headhunters in Europe, Latin America, and Asia say that being bilingual is important for success in today’s job market.

10) Your child will develop into a more well - rounded individual.
“If you have the chance to give your children the gift of an additional language, please do so – it is a gift that keeps giving for many years to come. It will enable your children to expand their horizons cognitively, socially, geographically and financially,” says Rita Rosenback of Multilingual Parenting.

11) Greatly increases your child's cognitive ability.
Research has found that bilingual children score higher than monolinguals in cognitive performance. In particular, children who speak multiple languages have more cognitive control and attention, according to research from Psychological Science in the Public Interest.

12) Helps to reduce dementia in life.
According to a study published by the American Academy of Neurology, bilingual adults developed dementia 4.5 years later than their monolingual counterparts. The study also claims that bilingualism benefits individuals with frontotemporal and vascular dementia.

13) Your child will become better at multi tasking.
Research from the National Institutes of Health found that bilingual children are better at switching between tasks than children who only speak one language. This is because bilinguals have to constantly switch back and forth between languages, helping them become better multi taskers.

14) Helps to improve your child's memory.
Your child’s brain is like a big muscle; the more it functions the stronger it gets. Learning a second language exercises your child’s brain, as he or she must memorize new vocabulary words and grammar rules. In turn, your child is able to boost over all memory and retention.

15) Boost Your child's tolerance of the world.
Bilingualism doesn’t just have academic benefits, but it also has societal advantages. Bilingual children have a greater understanding of other cultures and communities, causing them to be more tolerant a characteristic that is very difficult to instill in a child.

16) Your child will get a head start in school.
Typically, children do not start learning a language until around middle or high school. Teaching your child a foreign language early in life will better prepare them for school not to mention give them a competitive advantage when applying to colleges.

Which point do you dishes with, leave a comment below saying why.

To your learning
of languages,

Frenchladydisi
Your language Tutor.