How does your brain learn languages?
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WOW, you really hit the nail MY head. That is exactly what happens to me. I always say Portugues is my "default" second language. It's obviously the dominant language in my "other Language" file. Your whole post made absolute sense and I really want to thank you for responding. I will check out the site as well.When you are learning multiple lanugages, at first, the non-native ones are sort of thrown into a "Other Language" file that maybe a dominant one sort of takes over, like "German and other languages." So when one comes to an idea or a thing in a foreign language that we don't know, we search for a "Non-English" word first in our "Other Language" file.
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Vc sabe que nos nao temos guarana em Texas? We do have a new Brazilian restaurant in my city...but...once you've been to a REAL churrascaria, American imitations (or in this case, a Mexican imitation) can't compare. I'll be back in Brazil in July. Don't freak out if I show up on your doorstep with an ANTARTICA !
Have to go to Thailand first, though - in April. I'm trying to learn a little Thai before I go...but since I can't write it, it seems impossible. Seems I AM a visual learner when it comes to lanuguages. I wonder how difficult it would be to learn to write Thai...
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Have to go to Thailand first, though - in April. I'm trying to learn a little Thai before I go...but since I can't write it, it seems impossible. Seems I AM a visual learner when it comes to lanuguages. I wonder how difficult it would be to learn to write Thai...
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I did it, a few years ago now. I already knew Sanskrit script, which made it easier because the two work on the same principle and Sanskrit (devanagari) is more logical, but you can manage it without! I would say a few days of very hard work, after which it will seem easy.I wonder how difficult it would be to learn to write Thai...
It is useful to be able to read where the buses are going, if nothing else!
And it is a beautiful script ...
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Sorry to have taken so long to reply. I was trying to remember what guides to Thai script I had used myself -- now that I come to calculate, it wasn't a few years ago but 22 years ago -- and, naturally enough, I can't remember. It wasn't the Web, anyway! But I just fed
thai script learn
into Google and got some interesting answers, including websites that give you some help and a CD-ROM that someone wants to sell you, as well as mention of a textbook by Gordon H. Allison (published by Tuttle) and this Allison has been around a long time ...
I hope some of this helps. Enjoy it
Andrew
thai script learn
into Google and got some interesting answers, including websites that give you some help and a CD-ROM that someone wants to sell you, as well as mention of a textbook by Gordon H. Allison (published by Tuttle) and this Allison has been around a long time ...
I hope some of this helps. Enjoy it
Andrew
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