Learning languages
By Hayat Adelli
@life85 (464)
Casablanca, Morocco
July 15, 2020 5:49am CST
Hi mylot,
I have suggestion for you, if you are interested in learning New things, each one who is strong in a language or any other field Can help others learn if they are interested for sure.
For me I Can help you in learning Arabic and French languages. So if you have any question or you want to learn words in those languages, you Can askîi me?
Does is it sound interesting for you?
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@MALUSE (69388)
• Germany
15 Jul 20
I don't know you and how well you can explain things. Are you a teacher of languages? You must learn how to teach a language. Just knowing a language doesn't mean that you can explain it well. I was a teacher of foreign languages for 40 years. Believe me, I know what I'm talking about.
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@MALUSE (69388)
• Germany
15 Jul 20
@life85 It's not necessarily a bad idea. It depends on your educational faculties. Have you got any? Are they good?
I can tell you why I'd be wary if you offered me your services. Once I wanted to learn Turkish.
In Germany, there is an institution called 'People's University' which is run by the cities councils. Adults can go there and participate in courses which are mostly offered in the evenings. They range from arts, sports, lectures on history, literature, foreign languages and so on.
Anyways, I went to a course 'Turkish for beginners'. The course leader was a Turkish woman who has lived in Germany for many years. She used to be a teacher for elementary schools in Turkey.
That means she had learnt to teach children whose native language is Turkish but not Turkish as a foreign language to German adults. She is a nice woman and I like her privately, but I hardly learnt anything in her course. She couldn't explain grammar problems because she seldom realised that there were any. She used to say that 'things are like this' and we should just learn them by heart.
Admittedly, there are cases for which this is an answer which one has to accept, but most grammar peculiarities follow rules and can be explained.
As I was a teacher of foreign languages for 40 years, I knew which questions to ask so that we would be able to understand how to use grammar correctly, but she couldn't answer them.
Btw, I did try a course in Arabic as well. I don't remember what the day job of the person was who gave the course. I didn't stay for more than three lessons. I could teach Arabic if I knew the language. I could also teach Chinese! Teaching foreign languages is something one can learn and should have learned before offering to teach foreigners a certain language.
I hope I haven't demotivated and/or bored you. But this is a topic I have to say a lot on.
This is the longest comment I've ever written!
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@life85 (464)
• Casablanca, Morocco
15 Jul 20
@MALUSE thank you so much for sharing with me your experience and giving me such precious advices. You convinced me. But I was thinking of just helping others if they are already interested and learning it and if they have question I can help them if for sure I know the response. But for sure I am not a teacher.
@life85 (464)
• Casablanca, Morocco
15 Jul 20
No I am not a teacher, I am native speaker of Arabic, and I am fluent in French. So you see that it is Bad Idea?
@life85 (464)
• Casablanca, Morocco
15 Jul 20
No I am not a teacher, I meant just if they want to know wome words or if they have questions concerning those languages, but to give lesson, I am not able for sure as I am note a teacher. Thé aim was to exchange our knowledge not to teach you
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@Fa_Maverick (9476)
• Australia
15 Jul 20
Arabic would be cool. I speak English (native), German, Italian, Japanese and French ^_^
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@Fa_Maverick (9476)
• Australia
15 Jul 20
@life85 People are often surprised when I say I am polylingual
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@life85 (464)
• Casablanca, Morocco
15 Jul 20
@Fa_Maverick yes because it is hard to master all those languages at thé same Time.
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@piyushbhatia1 (11698)
• India
15 Jul 20
Is arabic an official language of dubai?
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@piyushbhatia1 (11698)
• India
15 Jul 20
@life85 why is it read from right to left?
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@life85 (464)
• Casablanca, Morocco
15 Jul 20
@piyushbhatia1 Arabic is like this, it is written from right to left, so it is obvious that will be read from right to left
@aureategloom (8344)
• Bosnia And Herzegovina
15 Jul 20
it does sound interesting, but i think that apps can help us with learning too. it could help to people who already know basics or more and then to talk to them using that language and make them use it while talking to you too. it's a sweet idea tho
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