example of 3 for learning a language—Chinese (I don’t know much about Chinese) to a fluency level of being able to function while on holidays in china for a month:
Make a list of what you think that X is. Break it down. Followed by what you know about X, and if possible what you think you are missing about X.
Characters are words
there are a million or so characters
Characters are sometimes made up of other characters
the sounds for characters are unrelated to the noises for speaking those characters where noises do not build from other noises
I don’t know
directions
toliets
medical
food related words
(I am going to stop because I feel like this is a good start of demonstrating this concept)
for 4 in this specific example—confirming how many characters there are, and the general map of characters to each other, and verbal language to each other. (I assume the difficulty in 4 was in not having 3 completed)
For 9 specifically—Don’t buy a book about Chinese language history if you are looking to be fluent in Chinese for a month.
Does this help? Or are your difficulties elsewhere?
I was thinking that now I need a step of “define X” earlier on. The problem with “learn a language” is its very broad; like people saying they want to learn programming. Or exercise more. Or lose weight. Its a not an SMART goal in not being specific.
I find 3, 4 and 9 difficult to implement in teaching oneself a language.
example of 3 for learning a language—Chinese (I don’t know much about Chinese) to a fluency level of being able to function while on holidays in china for a month:
Characters are words
there are a million or so characters
Characters are sometimes made up of other characters
the sounds for characters are unrelated to the noises for speaking those characters where noises do not build from other noises I don’t know
directions
toliets
medical
food related words (I am going to stop because I feel like this is a good start of demonstrating this concept)
for 4 in this specific example—confirming how many characters there are, and the general map of characters to each other, and verbal language to each other. (I assume the difficulty in 4 was in not having 3 completed)
For 9 specifically—Don’t buy a book about Chinese language history if you are looking to be fluent in Chinese for a month.
Does this help? Or are your difficulties elsewhere?
Yes, this helps.
I was thinking that now I need a step of “define X” earlier on. The problem with “learn a language” is its very broad; like people saying they want to learn programming. Or exercise more. Or lose weight. Its a not an SMART goal in not being specific.
Thoughts?