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Here is a good way to communicate.

With us at STS, but above all: between yourselves.

Communicating is all we do. We all know the “why”, but we want to show you the “how”. Perfecting your best tool, which is actually your own language

And a lot of other languages too.

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  1. Karl

    The melody of language is often overlooked.

    1. Eric

      (…or at least overheard! )

  2. Eric

    First, we all learn the sounds of voices, words. THEN we learn to say the sounds…the words. And then we learn what they mean and can use them.
    Grammar is fine. But hardly the first, nor the best way to learn a language. Your OWN language, or any other.
    Its not really an academic struggle. its just nice to hear the difference between “Bread” and “head”
    Otherwise can be some funny situations…

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  4. Karl

    There is something new brewing in the language kettle, a new soup, so to speak.

    In the age of artificial intelligence, old wisdom has come of age. The engineers of AI have made tremendous progress in mimicking the workings of the brain. We are not into that.
    We observed small children who learn to speak; how they do it without being aware of it.
    That’s natural intelligence.

    In school new languages are not taught like that, as we know. Toddlers know nothing about verbs and nouns. They soon know how to handle them easily anyway.
    We threw out the old soup.

    We applied children’s sort of input to adult brains and got fluent output in return – by way of natural intelligence. A new soup is brewing in the kettle of language acquistition.

    In my next address I’ll show you a way to break free from the grammar of your mother tongue.

    Till then, have a nice day.

    Karl

  5. Karl

    In language class in school, it is hard to let go of your native grammar. In school we are taught to translate, which sets a trap before us. We are led to presuppose that things are said in similar ways in other languages. Some things are. Many are not.

    If we do not get the new and unfamiliar way of saying things right, from the very start, odds are that it will not get better over time. Rather on the contrary, it will freeze and stay wrong forever.

    There is a trick, however, to avoid that.
    Learn a full sentence with the new structure by heart, before you find out what it means. Resist the temptation to check the meaning for a while. Then the new structure might soon become second nature. And the new words will stick.

    That was one of a few short cuts into fast and good language learning, that I thought I’d deal with you.

    Have a nice day.

    Karl

  6. Karl

    Tripwire

    Back in the day, pronouncing foreign sounds right was deemed impossible. The word difficult was often synonymous with impossible. It has stayed that way for a surprisingly long time. In the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary many still think it is.
    It has been shown scientifically that it is indeed possible. We shall not go into those details.

    Over the years, though, this false belief has held untold numbers of people back from trying.

    All we need to know is that it normally takes three months to master a new sound system. No more. No less.

    I’ll tell you more about it in my next note.

    Best regards
    Karl

    PS: We use machine translations for the time being, so if you are not entirely happy with what you read in other languages, please double check with the English version to see what we really mean.
    Sorry for the inconvenience.

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