When you feel that you don't know... Sometimes it seems that I do not know anything in English. Okay, it's almost true. No, I do not want to be a complainer. Also, I need to admit that I practically d

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When you feel that you don't know... Sometimes it seems that I do not know anything in English. Okay, it's almost true. No, I do not want to be a complainer. Also, I need to admit that I practically do not study English. Rarely I try a phone call to improve my listening or do something else to get some new words to my vocabulary. My listening is horrible! -- I am not complaining; okay, I am, but that's the true. -- I can understand some basic sentences, and some random words while I listen to it, but nothing really significant. I know that to increase my capacity to understand audios I need practice and vocabulary. Everyday I find new words in English, during reading a description of a book or DVD, for example, and rarely I memorize it, because I don't study the new word, I just look for it in the dictionary or on Google Translate, and "puft!": there is the meaning, and the technology in support to an easier life put us in a comfort zone. Maybe the feeling that you're not learning anything is a part of the learning process. It's relatively good, because when we think that our knowledge is enough, for a language, for example, then we reach the comfort zone, again. But when we feel that our knowledge isn't, so we can keep trying to reach a better result. Yeah, Socrates was right: I do not know anything!

Jul 12, 2014 10:02 PM

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When you feel that you don't know...

Sometimes it seems that I do not know anything about English. Okay, it's almost true. No, I do not want to be a complainer. Also, I need to admit that I practically do not study practically no English. Rarely, I try a phone call to improve my listening or do something else to get some new words in my vocabulary.

My listening is horrible! -- I am not complaining; okay, I am, but that's the true. -- I can understand some basic sentences, and some random words whe I listen to it, but nothing really significant. I know that to increase my capacity to understand audios, I need practice and work on vocabulary. Everyday I find new words in English, during reading a description of a book or DVD, for example, and rarely I rarely memorize it, because I don't study the new word, I just look for it in the dictionary or on Google Translate, and "puft!": there is the meaning, and the technology in support of an easier life put us in a comfort zone.

Maybe the feeling that you're not learning anything is a part of the learning process. It's relatively good, because when we think that our knowledge is enough, for a language, for example, then we reach the comfort zone, again. But when we feel that our knowledge isn't enough, so we can keep trying to reach a better result. Yeah, Socrates was right: I do not know anything!