I know I have tentative plans this weekend to maybe go to Boston. I know Aya's been longing to go and quite frankly I haven't been since early Summer and would like to visit a day.
I had not mentioned this to the family yet, but I am sure most would be willing to go. Aside from all the fairs Aya may attend and Boston a possibility, I would like to have her spend at least 2 hours practicing reading cursive and writing cursive. I found this website that talked handwriting being a dying practice amongst all the technology we have today. Honestly I haven't written in so long I nearly forgot how to properly do a Capital "Q".
My feeling on the ability to learn quick, is that as an adult she can absorb much more and quicker (say 3 days) as opposed to a 3RD grader who in maybe a 3 weeks period will learn to write the whole alphabet.
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That's actually a myth. The part that an adult can learn faster than a child for some things. Language, it has been shown, is more easily learned by a 4 year old or even younger than by an adult. Lanaguage is probably not the only thing that children can learn faster than us. Their brains are radically different and their brains are capabale of absorbing huge amounts of imformation. They can do that at high speed rates than adults.
While i love working in Japan teaching English, my main complaint is that language is not taught from a younger age. The amount of money Japan is spending on English would be better spent if they started at a young age.
Often, it is the case that people from Okinawa are better at English than other people from across Japan because of the number of American soldiers in Okinawa. If you are from Okinawa and you are near a Naval Base your English is generally flawless. I knew a girl from Okinawa who had never been to American before but her English was that of a native speaker.
Aya probably given the problems she was having is not from a Naval area.
But remember to give her time cause her brain is already less capable of absorbing language than it was say 10 years ago.
I guess there is much to say about teaching an old dog new tricks.
There goes the idea of learning a new language for me.
I don't think that it should discourage you! My japanese is decent and i started learning when i was about 19. It is perhaps not possible for me to become perfect at japanese, like if i were a kid born here. But still, i can develope languages skills. But it won't be as fast.
Adults learn languages by relating them to the language they already know. For example, when i learn a new word in Japanese I have to think about how i would use the translated version of that word in English.
Children learn by a process called conflation. This is when they experience something, hear a word describing what that is and it becomes forever linked with that. Its why people think of love and compassion as being warm. They theorize that the concept of love and affection is linked with the warm a child feels when being held by a parent. So since birth, we think of our mothers warmth as love. Its how metaphors work.
After a certain age, the conflation stops and leaves you learning a language like I am... direct word for word assimilation without understanding all the nuance. Its not impossible for me to pick the nuance up, but it takes longer.
I would say learn a new language! You learn so much about the way you think when you are picking up a new language.
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