The language is a b*tch, but I figure it's like field-stripping a weapon.
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I speak the language fluently.
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The Front Office staff's efficiency and personality are of great importance to the realization of the hotel's aim. To fulfill these tasks, the staff must have a neat and smart appearance, good manners, adaptability, good knowledge of languages and a head for figures.
>> 7.The Front Office

Furthermore, people that are bilingual earn fifteen to twenty percent higher salaries than people who speaks one language.
>> To begin with

Let me now try to summarize everything I've said in the last 10-15 minutes or so. And I'll summarize it in one sentence. And we'll wounder why it took me that long. We acquire language in one way and only one way. When we get comprehensible input in a low anxiety environment.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

If the student isn't motivated, if self-esteem is low, if anxiety is high , if the student is on the defensive, if the student thinks the language class is a place where his weaknesses will be revealed. he may understand the input, but it won't penetrate. It won't reach those parts of the brain that do language acquisition. A block keeps it out. We call this block the affective filter.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

For language acquisition succeed anxiety has to be directed somewhere else, not at the language. The child has to assume that she's going to be successful.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

The amount of drive or anxiety necessary to accomplish a task depends on the task. Sometimes what we call facilitative anxiety is okay.I don't believe in torture,but sometimes a little anxiety is okay.Language acquisition though, is different.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

But what counts in speaking is not what you say, but what the other person says to you.In other words when you get involved in conversation, what counts is the input that you can stimulate from other people.So I'm in favor of students speaking but we have to understand it makes an indirect: a helpful, but indirect contribution to language acquisition.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

When she started to speak, it was not the beginning of her language acquisition. It was the result of all the comprehensible input she had gotten over those five months.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

The question is this: what was going on during those five months? She was listening. She was picking out comprehensible input. When she started to speak. It was not the beginning of her language acquisition.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

Let's work on initial consonants. 'Say bah.look at my lips!'Again, no response.There was a theory going around then, that a a lot of people still believe that children don't really want to acquire language , you have to kind of force it out of them.So I tried that: I won't give you the ball until you say ball.That didn't work either. No matter what i said , Itomi wouldn't speak.She didn't say anything the first week, she didn't say anything the second week, the first month, the second month, five months until she started to speak.Actually, that's not entirely true.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

So I remember going up to the little girl next door.she was four years old. her name was Itomi. And I didn't know about this material on language acquisition. Nobody did.And I thought that the way you get people to acquire language is you get them to practice talking. So I tried to get her to talk. so I'd say: 'Itomi, talk to me!' 'Say good morning','say hi', No response.Well, clearly, I've decided , I've got to make this more concrete."Itomi, say ball", No response.Well obviously, I've got to break it down into its component parts.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

My experience took place in 1974, when I was briefly living in exile from California, working at the City University of New York at Queens Collage as director of English as a second language. And like everyone else in New York we lived in a big apartment building. And the apartment next door to use was owned by a Japanese company. And every year there would be a new family in the apartment.And every year there were the children who couldn't speak English.And there I was: director of English as a second language.I will teach English to these children and brag about it to my friends.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

Comprehensible input, in my opinion has been the last resort of the language teaching profession. We've tried everything else. We've tried grammar teaching, drills and exercise, computers, etc. But the only thing that seems to count is getting messages you understand: comprehensible input.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

We acquire language when we understand what people tell us. Not how they say it, but what they say. Or when we understand what we read.
>> comprehensible input - One way only one way to acquire a language

So you're imitating the rhythm of the language, the melody of the language, pronunciation.
>> 如何提升口语 how to speak english fluently without tranlsating in the mind

Now here’s a language whose syntax evades all attempts at understanding
>> 96-The Dead Return

You can start living in the language by learning about the culture around that language. Music is a big part of every culture.
>> 2024-10 The metamorphosis from anxious wife

It's not what you say, it's how you say it! It's not about whether the examiner finds the candidate attractive or not.Examiners are only interested in your language and your ability to communicate. That is all they are assessing and judging.
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If English is a skill , You just need to master daily language first ,and then use them as possible as you can. Improve your skill like rolling a snowball.
>> Experience in learning English