On learning of language

How stupid I am. It is easy to find that listening usually is the easiest part of a language for learners. We note that there are many illiterates who can never give speech, reading books, and write papers but are able to understand what they hear from dictators. There is no doubt about that listening is the most basic ability of language. However, I now meet the biggest problem in this part of English learning. Here I will make some summaries concerning skills of learning language.

I can read and write well enough but am not able to catch up on people's utterances and not able to put my mind into oral words probably. The problem,I think, derives from the lack of enough practice of listening and speaking. My ears are not familiar to sounds of words that I am actually very familiar with in reading and writing. My mouth are not good at pronouncing verbs that I can write down very easily in writing. So, what is in urge for me is to do as much practice as much I can. I will listen to oral English everyday and imitate their pronunciation style which is alien to my mouth muscles. Additionally, I will keep on using them in daily life again and again till they become one part of my language.

One big difference between human being and animals is that animals just have abilities born with birth while we mankind have the ability to learn abilities that are not born with birth. We can learn how to count number by practicing the rule of counting system. We have ability of remembering which allow us to memorize what we learn. But it is different from the ability of counting because memorization does not have a coherent rule system that you can follow. Mathematics is a pure formal system while memory seem more to be empirical. Generally, we think redoing what we are learning is the best way of memorizing. However, admittedly redoing the same thing is very boring and therefore inefficient. What I wanna introduce is to memorize by reviewing in mind. We may pretend to be redoing but can not deceive to reviewing in mind. So, any reviewing in mind will be an efficient practice and the impress will be deeper than other ways.

Another ability I admire is the ability to reflect on what we learned. This ability is require more skills like analyzing, criticizing and so on.

The thing I most concern here is the method of reviewing in mind. It will be very useful in English study.

Language is the boundary of our world. You may be free for your richness in language or limited by the poorness of your language. Free yourself from language by put it under your control.