TO ALL MY ESL STUDENTS and TODAY, to YOU, someone NEW! !

You are all invited to join in and be pro-active! This blog also belongs to you.

Here are some of the ways you can participate:

* COMMENT (even if you make mistakes) C'est pas grave!
You will get better and better! You cannot GO BACK!
PLEASE leave a COMMENT (click on comment at the bottom of post and follow instructions)

* SHARE INFORMATION with your classmates, they will surely appreciate your findings:
New ESL sites, stories, anecdotes, jokes, games ...
* WRITE what's on your mind! How you feel about your learning process.
You are not alone! Group 'therapy'!!!

HAVE a dose of FUN!!!
* LET me KNOW that you are there to encourage... ME TOO (inside joke)!

LISTEN to this INTRODUCTION VIDEO:

NOTE TO THE READER:
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- anything UNDERLINED ia a link to click on



Friday, February 18, 2011

THE LINGUISTIC GENIUS OF BABIES



TODAY a fascinating video on HOW WE LEARN LANGUAGE
at the beginning of our lives, as babies.
CLICK on title :
The Linguistic Genius of Babies 
for the link, It is embedded > (hidden there)

At the beginning, the speaker, Patricia Kuhl,
uses the expression : ROCKET SCIENCE.
It is a term used for something that is 
very complicated to learn 
and implies a very HIGH level of studies
often associated with GENIUS + es 
(students in the field of science).
We often use this term in the negative form:
It's not rocket science!
It's not that complicated to understand!




If I could talk to you I would say ...

SEND ME A COMMENT !
Suzanne



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