[B-Greek] what does "internalizing" mean?
Mark Lightman
lightmanmark at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 2 19:15:12 EDT 2009
Internalizing Ancient Greek is what does not happen to you if
you spend fifty years just reading Ancient Greek and will presumably
happen to you if you spend fifty years reading, listening to,
writing, and speaking Ancient Greek.
Whenever my wife gets a back ache she always asks
me to rub her back to make it feel better. It took me many
years to realize it doesn't actually make her back feel any
better, she just likes back rubs. I don't think internalizing Ancient Greek
exists, but I like the Living Language tools that help me not get there.
Mark L
FWSFOROS MARKOS
--- On Sun, 8/2/09, Jeffrey T. Requadt <jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com> wrote:
From: Jeffrey T. Requadt <jeffreyrequadt_list at hotmail.com>
Subject: [B-Greek] what does "internalizing" mean?
To: "B-Greek Mailing List" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 3:56 PM
I'm confused with regards to a few of the recent posts. Someone mentioned
that they had a hard enough time internalizing their own native language,
English.
What I'm confused about is that I thought "internalizing" a language means
that you can understand it and communicate in it proficiently. I.e., it's
impossible to NOT internalize a language if you are already fluent in it.
You have internalized it by becoming fluent. I don't feel like I need to
internalize English anymore, because I can talk (a lot) in it. My French, on
the other hand, is not at the same level of fluency, although I can speak
and understood when I am spoken to with a large degree of success. So I
would say that I have internalized English to a greater degree than French,
but I have internalized both of them to some degree.
But since I don't have much education in linguistics or SLA (although I do
have to help children learn English while teaching them math), perhaps I am
misunderstanding the technical aspects of the term. Thanks to those of you
who can clear it up for me.
Jeffrey T. Requadt
Dietz Elementary
(520) 731-4000
"I like to talk. I also like to think. Sometimes they go together." ~ Jeff
Requadt
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