A Great Deal Of Practice Is Necessary For Individuals Who Want To Learn A New Language

Posted by Matthew Kidman on July 28, 2010

They say practice makes perfect, but this can lead to total success in all that you set your heart on to do be it in the area of studies, career, and even sport. The same is very applicable when you want to learn a new language even as a hobby or so that you can know and understand different cultures of the world.

Learning a new language opens new horizons and broadens your view of people of diverse cultural backgrounds and nationalities all over the world. It also helps to unite people as humanity. In India, the Hindi word for world is “dunia,” which is also used in some major languages in other parts of the world.

Latin for example, has brought forth many other widely used languages in the world like Spanish, Portuguese and Italian; which makes all these language to sound somehow similar. Spanish in turn is used in many Latin American countries except for Brazil where the main language that is used is Portuguese.

Learning these major languages of the world is easy for a start but as you go further with your quest to master these languages, and excel in them, more skills are required. This is the toughest part.

To practice your Spanish well, you need to do proper practice each and every month. Make a proper timetable and practice routine that can enable you to improve your language skills as often as possible. If you are willing to set aside time for constant practice and put it down on a time table, it will mean you are quite serious about the whole thing.

The easiest way to do this is to get a native-speaking person you are familiar with to get you to keep practicing your Spanish. Practicing language speaking with a native speaker is the best way to learn some language skills.

Beginners usually become shy and feel awkward while trying to make their maiden sentences to a native speaker. Mark you, the minute you succeed in making any constructive phrases, you will be well on your way to becoming a great Spanish speaker. Thereafter you can continue to boldly converse and enjoy using the language with no issues at all.

Start by making very simple and short sentences dwelling on things like the weather, time, climate, farm vocabulary and such like daily topics. Keep sharing in conversation with other native speakers. Keep doing this every month and before long you will be a master of the language. You will learn the basic language application that cannot be found in books or tutorials.

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Posted by Dr. Tom V. Morris, PhD on September 12, 2009

Unless one has been asleep or living on the moon, they know of Twitter. It has evolved into the world’s greatest cocktail party, and no one has to clean up afterwards, or even pay the tab. It’s the new electronic campfire we sit around to talk and laugh and even sing. It’s an endless conversation like no other, and it’s just starting to pick up steam. We’ve all heard about how news breaks on Twitter before it hits any of the traditional journalistic outlets, and how it’s being used by emergency responders in difficult situations around the world. But the potential overall cultural impact of Twitter is just beginning to be evaluated and processed. Twitter is the new water cooler for the creative class — the social break room for people who don’t work in an office. And for those who do, it’s the ultimate coffee break. With five or ten minutes of total immersion, you can be socializing with people all over the country and around the globe, sharing quick tales of weal and woe that range from the mundane to the supernatural There’s instant advice, encouragement, and information to be had any time you stick your toes into the Twitter stream – if you’ve found a good spot on the bank of this wild new river to perch. I’ve been using and enjoying this novel social medium and “micro-blog” website under the carefully devised codename, TomVMorris, for about six months. And I’ve briefly mentioned it in a couple of previous blogs. Given all this, as a philosopher I admit I have a keen eye for something that surprised me at first given the millions of tweets that run down the Twitter stream….wisdom, or what I have coined “Twisdom, my term for Twitter wisdom.

This social network we call “Twitter” is not about an international announcment or your less than 100 followers how you slept last night or what your dog ate for breakfast, though that is certainly permitted. And it’s not just about high profile persons, or who can attract the most followers the quickest. It’s about building a new form of community. It’s about learning. It offers support, inspiration, and daily motivation. And it’s also about fun. But the most important aspect of Twitter may be that, if you do things right, you begin to surround yourself with an incredible group of people eager to share their best questions and insights about life. They’re all seeking new wisdom and hope. Twisdom is has evolved from it. There’s collaborative thinking on Twitter at a level and in a form I’ve never seen before. Almost every day, and often many times a day, a topic comes up that causes me, as a philosopher and simply a curious individual, to ponder a bit, and then share the results of that pondering in the Twitter-allowed one hundred and forty characters or less.

One comment will spark another, and before long, people of different ages and walks of life from around the world are engaged with me and each other in an extended conversation of brief bursts that add up to new realizations for everyone involved. I’ve gone from two followers to several thousand without doing anything to “build a following” on Twitter. It’s just happened. This means that, when I send a tweet, that many people in principle could read it right away. And if they like it, they can retweet it, or copy and send it on to their followers, many of whom might then, if they also resonate with what I’ve said, send it on again, and then maybe even become my direct Twitter followers as well. In turn, seeing their use of my own little thought, I might join their circle. It’s almost unimaginable how far a single tweet can go in its effort to do a little good in the world. The new connectivity of Twitter is immensely and surprisingly powerful.

At first it was mostly my younger friends almost demanding that I try out this new social network while my peers and same-age contemporaries, others were warning me to stay away. Now understand both perspectives. As an experiment, I once clicked on the universal Twitter stream named “Everyone” that was available for a while on the basic Twitter web page. This immersed me in the main current of tweets from all over the world. I refreshed the page every four seconds, scanning and reading everything I could as fast as I was able, and I did this for a stretch of less than fifteen minutes — a seeming eternity in TwitterTime. It was quite an experience.I didn’t see any quotes from the deep thinkers. There were no deeper musings on life. There didn’t seem to be much real social interaction. There were just lots of soliloquies on the painfully trivial. There were several outbursts of obscenity. There was a full stream of complaining and venting. There was also some high-pressure marketing. But there was almost nothing like what I see in my own little Twitter stream every time I log into my favorite social network.

As is the case of most that we do in the world, Twitter is what we make of it.I have met many people who utilize it to think, touch lives, work together, and support each other. My little community there is an amazing circle of novelists, cartoonists, comic book writers and illustrators, editors, consultants, corporate and personal coaches, journalists, executives, marketing experts, moms, dads, and various celebrities who sometimes appear on Twitter as just real people with a strong interest in ideas, and in being helpful with their time, rarely if ever Twittering about their work. It’s a self-selected collection of vibrant and generous personalities thinking and playing together, using an unspoken set of netiquette rules, making the dynamics of Twitter quite an unexpected, but surprisingly nice journey for me.

In the short bursts of thought and commentary that Twitter allows, we can all turn into philosophical aphorists. Critics may be tempted to dismiss what results as nothing more than fortune cookie wisdom, without the cookie. But the nuggets of insight, or twisdom, that Twitter allows can in principle be much more than that. What we find in Twitter exchanges won’t typically replicate the results of a Yale philosophy seminar, or a colloquium at Notre Dame. It’s a place not for abstruse theory but for practical insight. And yet the insights can run quite deep. As Steven Johnson recently said in a Time Magazine cover story on the whole phenomenon, “Twitter turns out to have surprising depth.” One tweet can change your life, or on a much smaller scale, make your day. If you don’t use Twitter already, you may find it at times unexpectedly helpful for a contemplation of the wonder and mystery of your life. I’m not saying that you’ll always find world-historical profundity on Twitter. Twisdom is often more down to earth and humble than that. It’s frequently just a reminder of something we know and need to live. Or it’s a slightly new angle on an old realization.

Perspective may be the key. Or it’s a call to action, and an inspiration take the initiative. I believe Twitter has taught me to think more lucidly. I’ve experienced new insights there that have arisen in a genuinely novel way, out of the collective thinking that occurs in short bursts, and on the run. But that’s how we do most things these days — in short bursts, and on the run. So perhaps the twisdom that has come about in the same way may be well suited to the situations we confront, and the insights we need, at precisely this moment in time.If the idea of Twisdom interests you, one way to explore it is to find me on Twitter, as TomVMorris. I will be more than happy to introduce you around to the sages there that I already know, the people who inspire and touch my life on a daily basis. And, who knows, you may even end up pondering some of the mysteries of life with Oprah — or at least find out what she had for dinner.

Dr. Tom V. Morris founder of the Morris Institute Of Human Values is a philosopher and author. “Twisdom is his 20th book, available at Amazon as are his others. Morris taught philosophy at Notre Dame for many years and has even trademarked the word “Twisdom”.

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