[B-Greek] Self-taught in Greek

Jack Kilmon jkilmon at historian.net
Thu Nov 18 16:17:52 EST 2010


It is also true that we lose some of our facility for learning language as 
adults.  Languages were a lot easier when I was a kid but now that I am 
slightly over 30...er...40...uh..60...ok, 70, it is much harder. I am 
attempting Mandarin and it is much harder now.

Jack Kilmon

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From: "Kevin Riley" <klriley at alphalink.com.au>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2010 2:05 PM
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Self-taught in Greek

> The majority of people who set out to learn any foreign language do not 
> succeed.  I suspect that is more true today where you can sign up online 
> to learn languages that in the past most of us would not know even 
> existed.  I believe someone could make more than a comfortable living 
> simply collecting and re-selling language courses that have been bought - 
> sometimes at great expense - and used little if at all.  As Andrew says, 
> motivation is the key.  Without that there will be no success no matter 
> what media are used.  You not only have to want to be able to speak (or 
> read) the foreign language, you have to want to learn it.  Reminds me of a 
> talk from a piano teacher :)
>
> Kevin Riley
>
> On 18/11/2010 6:04 AM, Andrew Suttles wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Mark 
>> Lightman<lightmanmark at yahoo.com>wrote:
>>
>>> The fact is, the overwhelming majority of people who try to teach
>>> themselves Greek
>>> do not stick with it and fail.
>>>
>> Yes, but the majority of people who take Greek classes do not stick with 
>> it
>> either.  Everyone who succeeds does so due to self motivation.  So, 
>> Michael,
>> take a course if you can, but courses will not make/break you - your
>> diligence and motivation will.
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