近來想同時學好波斯文和法文，但就覺得不同語言互相干擾，很難找到要用的字。現在可以講廣東話、英文、普通話、埃及話、標準阿拉伯文，以前學的其他語言很難保留。溫習後法文有回來一點，其實理解能力有B1， 但講是很差，想不起來；波斯文靠基本文法和阿拉伯文詞彙其實能看懂不少，但要講就也是很差。德文全盛時期應該有B2，現在冬眠中。
看了一些關於語言學習的書，以下討論其中的建議，歡迎分享心得。
匈牙利翻譯Kato Lomb在《Polyglot: How I Learn Languages》提倡的方法是將一個文本反覆研究，不查字典地理解，讀到滾瓜爛熟，就能很快地學到一個語言，她覺得最合適的文本是通俗小說，因為內容簡單可預測，詞彙量不大，就算程度很低也可以理解。我也覺得讀合適的簡單文本很有用，因為讀小說本身是enjoyable的，不會覺得是用功學習，但會明顯進步。
她在書中列出一些學每個語言應該先要掌握的重要生字和語句（見圖），這部分也是我覺得比較痛苦的地方，例如數字、季節，明顯有用但數量不少，概念上又比較枯燥的字，很難流暢地背出來。
Robert Coppola的《You Too Can Become a Polyglot》第五章有一個想法比較有用：簡化語句。他舉一堆例子如何用基本句式代替比較複雜的句型。這樣做會感覺受限制，但總比講不出來好，當然這應當是暫時的做法，程度高了就不用如此。這個方法可以解決一部分難以對話的困擾。
“The aforementioned linguist Tullio De Mauro, provides us with an enlightening and fun example. These phrases have the same meaning:
1) The bed is in disarray. But I'm tired and seeing it makes me want to sleep the same.
2) In spite of its disorder, the bed inspires me to sleep only to see it because of fatigue.
3) A hypnotic aura emanates anyway from the thalamus towards me only in the act of visual perception catalyzed from the asthenia.
4) The asthenia of mine in the view of the thalamic disarray which is hypnotic by aura or, rather, hypnotically auratic in my psychic introjection of the optical perception.
The purpose of De Mauro is to show that there is no limit to the possibilities of making oneself incomprehensible.”
“The imperative then is: think short, simple and linear sentences. With the progressive enrichment of your lexicon you will be able to add elements to your sentences to make them more concise and precise. It’s better to give a few examples.
We begin with a very simple sentence that we can formulate very early in our learning process:
I am hungry.
Soon we will be able to add very. So we will say
I am very hungry.
Shortly after we will add other commonly used words:
I have a lot of hunger and thirst.
After a few weeks we will know the full conjugation of the verb to have and we will be able to say:
I was very hungry and thirsty.”
“We must get used to "think" in the simplest way possible:
- If it wasn’t so late, I would like to go to the cinema
will become: I would like to go to the cinema but it is too late (avoiding the more difficult it was).
- I never imagined it would be so easy
will become: it's easy, I did not know! (Avoiding never imagined it would).
- I read both newspapers and novels
will become: I read newspapers and novels (avoiding the correlative...both).
It is very useful to learn perfectly the conjugation of the verbs "want", "have" and "be able to" because they allow us to avoid combining other verbs that we know less. Ex .:
- I would go to the restaurant if it was not too expensive
can become: I would like to go to the restaurant but it is expensive (using the infinite go instead of the conditional would go, and avoiding the if clause and the adverb too)”
【阿拉伯文初班（由學完字母開始）】
2023年4月3日起逢星期一晚6:45-8:15，油麻地上課，$2400八堂。
可以選擇zoom。
有興趣請電郵orioleami@gmail.com
看了一些關於語言學習的書，以下討論其中的建議，歡迎分享心得。
匈牙利翻譯Kato Lomb在《Polyglot: How I Learn Languages》提倡的方法是將一個文本反覆研究，不查字典地理解，讀到滾瓜爛熟，就能很快地學到一個語言，她覺得最合適的文本是通俗小說，因為內容簡單可預測，詞彙量不大，就算程度很低也可以理解。我也覺得讀合適的簡單文本很有用，因為讀小說本身是enjoyable的，不會覺得是用功學習，但會明顯進步。
她在書中列出一些學每個語言應該先要掌握的重要生字和語句（見圖），這部分也是我覺得比較痛苦的地方，例如數字、季節，明顯有用但數量不少，概念上又比較枯燥的字，很難流暢地背出來。
Robert Coppola的《You Too Can Become a Polyglot》第五章有一個想法比較有用：簡化語句。他舉一堆例子如何用基本句式代替比較複雜的句型。這樣做會感覺受限制，但總比講不出來好，當然這應當是暫時的做法，程度高了就不用如此。這個方法可以解決一部分難以對話的困擾。
“The aforementioned linguist Tullio De Mauro, provides us with an enlightening and fun example. These phrases have the same meaning:
1) The bed is in disarray. But I'm tired and seeing it makes me want to sleep the same.
2) In spite of its disorder, the bed inspires me to sleep only to see it because of fatigue.
3) A hypnotic aura emanates anyway from the thalamus towards me only in the act of visual perception catalyzed from the asthenia.
4) The asthenia of mine in the view of the thalamic disarray which is hypnotic by aura or, rather, hypnotically auratic in my psychic introjection of the optical perception.
The purpose of De Mauro is to show that there is no limit to the possibilities of making oneself incomprehensible.”
“The imperative then is: think short, simple and linear sentences. With the progressive enrichment of your lexicon you will be able to add elements to your sentences to make them more concise and precise. It’s better to give a few examples.
We begin with a very simple sentence that we can formulate very early in our learning process:
I am hungry.
Soon we will be able to add very. So we will say
I am very hungry.
Shortly after we will add other commonly used words:
I have a lot of hunger and thirst.
After a few weeks we will know the full conjugation of the verb to have and we will be able to say:
I was very hungry and thirsty.”
“We must get used to "think" in the simplest way possible:
- If it wasn’t so late, I would like to go to the cinema
will become: I would like to go to the cinema but it is too late (avoiding the more difficult it was).
- I never imagined it would be so easy
will become: it's easy, I did not know! (Avoiding never imagined it would).
- I read both newspapers and novels
will become: I read newspapers and novels (avoiding the correlative...both).
It is very useful to learn perfectly the conjugation of the verbs "want", "have" and "be able to" because they allow us to avoid combining other verbs that we know less. Ex .:
- I would go to the restaurant if it was not too expensive
can become: I would like to go to the restaurant but it is expensive (using the infinite go instead of the conditional would go, and avoiding the if clause and the adverb too)”
【阿拉伯文初班（由學完字母開始）】
2023年4月3日起逢星期一晚6:45-8:15，油麻地上課，$2400八堂。
可以選擇zoom。
有興趣請電郵orioleami@gmail.com
