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A little reflection daily about my language acquisition

Wednesday 14 July 2021

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 Out of the blue, someone asked me yesterday whether I had ever tried learning te reo. "As it happens, I started 22 days ago. I'm doing it right-brain style."

The same person then proceeded to tell my wife and me how she went about it. These are some points:

  • Subscribes to Kupu o te Ra (1 Maori word per day online)
  • Spends a lot of time on correct pronunciation
  • Prefers to have a teacher
  • Memorization of words
  • Avoids whole sentences
  • Repeats a new word aloud 7 times to 'learn' it
  • Avoids material outside of the word list
This to me seems totally left-brain. What I do is more or less the opposite.

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