Vocabulary Sci-Fi

                                                              “You live a new life for every new language you speak.  If you know only one language, you live only once.”

Czech proverb

My dear peers,
I would like to tell you about opportunities which I have today to learn English.

People always were curious about our world. They wanted to discover it, to get knowledge,to communicate with people from other tribes and then from other countries.  Unfortunately, they could speak only their mother tongue. Moreover, some people even didn't know how to write or read on their first language. Despite this fact humanity found a solution to language problem.  Someone thought that people were in need of education. Government began to open schools for common people where they could speak their mind and study.  The world got new geniuses who set one of the most important facts in our society. I will write it according to Flora Lewis' words: “Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.”  That's why people started to learn official languages of other countries.  Progress didn't stand still.

The generation of modern people have a lot of opportunities for development. Frankly speaking, even 20-30 years ago you didn't have so vast diversity of methods and means of learning languages ​​as we have (generation of technologies). You were out of touch with new information or new inventions. 

It's 2014 now. I'm a student and I study Romance and Germanic languages. Nowadays it is easier to do it because I have accessing to the Internet. I can chat to people from different countries and I shouldn't make real effort to do it. It's easier than to write a letter to your friend, send it and have been waiting the answer for weeks. There are a lot of interesting sites in the Internet which can help you to learn new language. I would like to provide you with information about them. It will help us to talk non-stop foreign language.

It is important to use all kind of your memory as you know. For instance, you can remember the meaning of words and collocations with them when you make a word map. 

Firstly, when I knew about this opportunity I had been glaring at picture for a few minutes. I couldn't even say a word! I was so excited! When I had a meeting with my friends we talked about benefits and disadvantages of it and we made the conclusion that we would like to use that option. Of course, I need to practice a lot in order to speak like a native speaker, but if I will use this way of learning and the next one, I will remember better. So, I would like to tell you about the next option. Here I can create a word cloud. What is it? I have to write any word (for example, yawn, clap, weep, whisper) and I will get different word combinations. 

Also if I'm not aware of using a particular word or collocation, I can look at it in the context. For instance, I will take the collocation "tell the difference between" with help of   fraze.it I'll find a text with this phrase. For example, "I'll give Booker the benefit of the doubt and assume he is aware that energy is neither created nor destroyed. If so, this must mean he is talking about useful energy, and that "produces" means converting energy we cannot use into energy we can use. A wind turbine turns the energy of wind into electricity. But a boiler does not produce energy, even in the sense that Booker appears to mean. It uses energy. The energy is contained in the oil it burns, which it converts into heat. Booker, it seems, cannot tell the difference between production and consumption." 

Although I can bump into a foreigner in a street, smile at him or her, ask excuses and start to speak. Also I can go abroad and come into contact with native speakers. As I said, I have a lot of opportunities for learning another language. So, modern people only need to have a desire to do it.

Always keep in mind words of Frank Smith:"Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift.  Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club - the community of speakers of that language.”