Understanding how to learn foreign language
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As I mentioned in my profile, I'm studying computer science and I'm makwriting a thesis, focused onin Natural Language Processing. Don't get bored, I won't explain the entire area,. I just realised this subject is deeply related onto understanding a language (in a general way). I've readed a lot of articles about making lexicons, stopwords lists, counting words, all of them computer approaches, but another is the "human approach" related withinvolving concepts, context, and mind maps.How does the brain think to express an idea?
I found out that during all my ELS classes that I never learnt differences and likenesses between two to languages and I considerer it important because we always use examples to learn and when something new appears brain transforms and fits it to our previous knowledgeknowlegde. When we are beginners we always try identifying grammar structures which is good, but not enough,. I'll memorized several of them and approvedafter my exams then I forget them. One day I had a dream where I was talking English (first time) and I was happy because, despitedespicting I was speaking basic English, any Spanish word that crossed my mind was just concepts and ideas, like if I was a native speaker. (It appeared to me strange by the way). Since then I try to make connections with events and objects, not only words, but the whole sentence. It's always possible to mix up languages, and it's good sign, your brain is linking concepts that before were instrinsically linked with one language.
Every time I want to know a little about a specific language I do a research: firstly history (origins), then writting (characters), speaking (how does every symbol and group of symbols sound like). At least I'll have a backgrounds for further learning.