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Die tomorrow

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

― Mahatma Gandhi

Door along the way.

One language sets you in a corridor for life. Two languages open every door along the way.

‒Frank Smith

Learning Behavior

              Have you ever experienced awkward  moments when you meet  someone for the first time but you don't know their language and they don't speak yours. How sad and scary this could be?

When learning a new language and practicing it with a native speaker for the first time you will feel like your world is ending and you will rather run from that situation before making a mistake or saying something stupid.

            This is how our brain works; our brain is lazy. It's a coward and it doesn't like changes. Now that we have grew we're no longer really open to new things. We don't usually train our brains to improve our memory, ability, or to adapt to challenges. Is not that we are old, NO even if is true, is not our body or age, but mentality.

             In order to learn, we most learn how to learn, and focus, but more important change our laziness to an active learner. It is a hard work not one said is easy, is simple but not easy, is a daily work, that's why children are really good at this because they have all they time they want.

Wise

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. 

~Chinese Proverb

Q&A

Own failure

You are responsible for your own failure.

Henry Ford

(July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947)

Was an American industrialist, the founder of the Ford Motor Company, and sponsor of the development of the assembly line technique of mass production.

Although Ford did not invent the automobile or the assembly line, he developed and manufactured the first automobile that many middle class Americans could afford. In doing so, Ford converted the automobile from an expensive curiosity into a practical conveyance that would profoundly impact the landscape of the twentieth century. His introduction of the Model Tautomobile revolutionized transportation and American industry. As owner of the Ford Motor Company, he became one of the richest and best-known people in the world. He is credited with "Fordism": mass production of inexpensive goods coupled with high wages for workers. Ford had a global vision, with consumerism as the key to peace. His intense commitment to systematically lowering costs resulted in many technical and business innovations, including a franchise system that put dealerships throughout most of North America and in major cities on six continents. Ford left most of his vast wealth to the Ford Foundation and arranged for his family to control the company permanently.

His father gave him a pocket watch in his early teens. At 15, Ford dismantled and reassembled the timepieces of friends and neighbors dozens of times, gaining the reputation of a watch repairman. At twenty, Ford walked four miles to their Episcopal church every Sunday.

Ford was devastated when his mother died in 1876. His father expected him to eventually take over the family farm, but he despised farm work. He later wrote, "I never had any particular love for the farm—it was the mother on the farm I loved."

From:  Wiki

Sense of learning

"Self-study, in a sense of learning by yourself without anybody teaching you anything, has an enormous value".

Robert Kraft (astronomer)

Challenges in self-study.

One of the most difficult thing in my life it has been learning self discipline, keeping on work or in the same  task for more than 5 mins, by brain who is extremely lazy, will tell me 1000 reasons why I should do something easier and go to leisure instead of learning or any significant work.

Because I normally will study by myself, I have encountered  many challenges in self-study.

Difficult task

"If you have a difficult task to do, give it to a lazy man, and he will find a easier way to do it".

Henry Ford 

Wise people ask foolish things.

"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer".

Bruce Lee

Learn forever

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever".
Mahatma Gandhi

Be a Famous Failure

Have you ever feel like your dreams will never come true?

Or

You were't able to do it?

Or

People says you are a failure? 

Or 

No one believes in your dreams?

They also did however...

Failure: Wikipedia says: 

Is the state or condition of not meeting a desirable or intended objective, and may be viewed as the opposite of success.

fail: According to Google:

verb

1. be unsuccessful in achieving one's goal.

   "he failed in his attempt to secure election"
2. neglect to do something.

   "the firm failed to give adequate risk warnings"

noun

1. a mark which is not high enough to pass an examination or test.

   "a fail grade"
2. informal

   a mistake, failure, or instance of poor performance.

   "their customer service is a massive fail"

Like a baby

"No matter how one may think him-self accomplished, when he sets out to learn a new language, science, or the bicycle, he has entered a new realm as truly as if he were a child born into the new world".
Frances Williard.

Why learning a new language?

Speak, Speak, Speak... 

 

"Why learning a new language?" Having asked my friends and myself this question I found that learning a new language was part of our life's routine. Even when the answers did not come, or just were simply "because I wanted to" or "I need to", there is not doubt, as human been we have need of communication which is  big enough to spend hours, days, months and even years learning the new language.

Learning a foreign language is more than just a boost to your CV or handy for traveling. It will make you smarter, more decisive and even better at English, says Anne Merritt.

Some of the reason could be:

-Studying abroad
If you plan to study at a foreign university, college or school, you'll need a good knowledge of the local language, unless the course you want to study is taught through the medium of your L1. Your institution will probably provide preparatory courses to improve your language skills and continuing support throughout your main course.
  
-Required course
You may be required to study a particular language at school, college or university.

-Getting in touch with your roots
If your family spoke a particular language in the past you might want to learn it and possibly teach it to your children. It could also be useful if you are research your family tree and some of the documents you find are written in a language foreign to you.

-Revitalizing or reviving your language
If you speak an endangered language, or your parents or grandparents do/did, learning that language and passing it on to your children could help to revitalize or revive it.

-Culture
Maybe you're interested in the literature, poetry, films, TV programs, music or some other aspect of the culture of people who speak a particular language and want to learn their language in order to gain a better understanding of their culture.

According  to St.University some of the reasons might be:

• helps you to expand your view of the world.
• encourages critical reflection on the relation between language and culture, language and thought.
• expands your opportunities for meaningful leisure activities (such as travel, viewing foreign language films, watching foreign TV programs).
• develops your intellect (encouraging good learning habits, memorization, combining course content and skills in a meaningful way).
• improves knowledge of the native language (through comparison and contrast with the foreign language).
• exposes you to modes of thought and viewpoints that are available only in the foreign language and its culture.
• helps to build practical skills that may be used in other disciplines.
• fosters your understanding of the interrelation between language and human nature.
• teaches and encourages respect for other ethnic groups.
• contributes to the development of your personality.
• contributes to the achievement of national goals, such as economic development or national security.

And so forth, this list could go for ever; so why not learning a new language?




L1: First language
CV: Curriculum vitae 


References :
http://www.omniglot.com/language/why.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationopinion/10126883/Why-learn-a-foreign-language-Benefits-of-bilingualism.html
http://www.stjohns.edu/academics/schools-and-colleges/st-johns-college-liberal-arts-and-sciences/languages-and-literature/why-learn-foreign-language
http://thenextweb.com/lifehacks/2015/03/21/money-dream-jobs-a-better-brain-why-everyone-should-learn-a-second-language/

Why you should "Never give up"

No opportunities

No matter how good you are doing something there's always a reason why we feel nothing is going to work. There is not possibility of success. This might be true, perhaps because we don't have talent, we don't have money, we don't have materials or just because we don't have legs...

Everyone who hasn't meet Nick Vujicic would think in that way until you realize the true, why we can't gain what we fight for...

Nicholas James Vujicic known as Nick Vujicic is an Australian Christian evangelist and motivational speaker born with tetra-amelia syndrome, a rare disorder characterized by the absence of all four limbs. As a child, he struggled mentally and emotionally as well as physically, but eventually came to terms with his disability and, at the age of seventeen, started his own non-profit organization, Life Without Limbs. Vujicic presents motivational speeches worldwide which focus on life with a disability, hope and finding meaning in life. He also speaks about his belief that God can use any willing heart to do his work and that God is big enough to overcome any disability.

To know more about him (click here).

Just do it

“Forget past mistakes and forget failures. Forget everything except what you are going to do now and do it.” ~William J. Durant

Language barrier

 Breaking the language barrier

One person that I admire is Tim Doner, who is a senior at the Dalton School in New York City. He has studied around 20 languages. The reason of my admiration is because not only he had taught himself languages but he also broke the barrier of languages, knowing people from all languages, backgrounds and cultures and experimenting on how does people learn.


Polyglot: is a person who uses multiple languages. A polyglot may also be called a multilingual person; the label "multilingual" is used for communities as well as individual speakers.

Check Tim Doner speech in TED talks.