Proof You Can Do Hard Things

Re:Proof You Can Do Hard Things by roel_v on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @08:07AM (#36693342)

I've never taught mathematics but I think it's much harder to teach the intuition, and I also think that more people are capable of learning the mechanics than the intuition. So from the point of view of someone designing a methodology and curriculum - you have to design for scale.

I have the same thing with learning languages: I despise focusing on the rules of conjugation and word order and rote memorizing rules, exceptions to them and exceptions to exceptions. I much prefer to bootstrap with some vocab and then acquire by immersion, even if that means I get the conjugations wrong in the beginning. But I also find myself in the minority by far, to the extent that pretty much all language teachers I ever had (except my high school French teacher - she was awesome letting me translate MC Solaar lyrics for grades) didn't even really seem to believe that there are other ways of learning other than studying rules.

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Re:Proof You Can Do Hard Things by SnowdustDev on Wednesday July 12, 2023 @09:10AM (#36694013)

Wholeheartedly agree about bootstrapping with vocab and learning through immersion. Eventually all the nuances with grammar and rules get understood implicitly with enough practice (at least to the extent I'm satisfied with). For me, it makes language learning a lot more fun and palatable

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