You may think your toddler is just playing in the sand box, but she may really be conducting a sophisticated scientific experiment and making inferences every time she pours out another scoop of sand.
Kim Chae-young crams five evenings a week, toiling deep into the night. But unlike most young South Koreans who spend hours at special schools to polish their English and math, she studies slide steps and bubbly lyrics.
I hardly notice the sound outside any more. I've learned to block it out and focus on other things. Closing the windows helps of course!
1. Prepare your material in advance so you have time to learn it really well.
I am a fast learner. I like taking on new responsibilities and am quick to acquire new skills.
My professor is very knowledgeable. If I had an hour with him to pick his brain I would learn so much!
Today our teacher quizzed us on what we had learned in class.
Nan worked with a supervisor for the first two weeks so that he could learn the ropes.
It took me a couple of weeks to learn the ropes at my new job.
Learning to play an instrument is hard work, but you'll eventually get better if you stick with it.
Although you may have learned English very thoroughly, it is possible that the regional accents you discover when you arrive in the UK make the language harder to understand than you thought.
I lived with a host family in South India for a while. I got to meet many new people and learn their ways.
It includes the shock of a new environment, meeting lots of new people and learning the ways of a different country.
Last Tuesday I learned how to make bread at the bakery.
It was a big day for Bandar and Sukacita. The two tiger cubs learned to swim the hard way—by getting dropped in the water!
It was a big day for Bandar and Sukacita. The two Sumatran tiger cubs learned to swim the hard way—by getting dropped in the deep end!
"POLICE ARREST SHOPLIFTER FOR TENTH TIME"Ten times! When are they going to learn their lesson?
CJ had learned to read late, had an average IQ, and had always been a mediocre student. However, on the Modern Language Aptitude Test, he scored extremely high.
Others say that exceptional brains play a more significant role. In the 1980s, neurolinguist Loraine Obler of the City University of New York found a talented language learner she called 'CJ', who could speak five languages.
According to Krashen, Lomb was an ordinary person with no special qualities, apart from a desire to learn languages and an effective way of achieving this aim.
Stephen Krashen, from the University of California, maintains that exceptional language learners simply work harder, and have a better understanding of how they learn.
But if Flynn and Pinker are correct, and an ability to learn many languages is the norm, why are so few people able to exploit it?
Asked if there was any reason someone couldn't learn dozens of languages, Pinker replied: "No theoretical reason I can think of, except, eventually, interference; Similar kinds of knowledge can interfere with one another."
Herinda argues that maintaining this ability would take resources from other activities. But others see no reason why people should not be able to learn a huge number of languages.
Assuming that each language has 20,000 words and that Mezzofanti could remember a word after encountering it once, he would have to learn one word a minute, twelve hours a day for five and a half years!
In the discussion that followed Hudson's publication of N's claims, a reader disputed the Mezzofanti story, saying he found it absolutely preposterous, and pointing out how long it would take to learn 72 languages.
The writer, 'N', described how his grandfather, who was Sicilian and had never gone to school, could learn languages with such remarkable ease that by the end of his life he could speak 70, and read and write 56.
Scientists are now satisfied they know about the universe's birth, and about its childhood. But they still need to learn about its early infancy thirteen billion years ago.
Today in class we learned about ways that agriculture and farm animals affect the climate.
Our class is taking a field trip to a museum today to learn about art.
The teacher begins her lesson. I wonder what we'll learn about today!