The Word Brain: A Short Guide to Fast Language Learning by Bernd Sebastian Kamps

Author:Bernd Sebastian Kamps [Kamps, Bernd Sebastian]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Short Guide to Fast Language Learning
ISBN: 9783924774677
Publisher: Flying Publisher
Published: 2011-01-09T05:00:00+00:00

The Word Brain

Other languages are more complicated. The Italian equivalent, volere, needs 6 different forms... just for the present tense: I want

voglio

you want

vuoi

he/she/it wants

vuole

we want

vogliamo

you want

volete

they want

vogliono

And this is only the beginning. Dig deeper into volere, and you rapidly discover a whole nest of descendants: volevo, volevi, voleva, volevamo, volevate, volevano, volli, volesti, volle, volemmo, voleste, vollero, vorrò, vorrai, vorra, vorremo, vorrete, vorranno, vorrei, vorresti, vorrebbe, vorremmo, vorreste, vorrebbero, voglia, vogliano, volessi, volesse, volessimo, voleste, volessero. Surprise: verbs are icebergs, and what you see in dictionaries, for example ‘baciare – to kiss’, ‘volere – to want’,

‘fare’ – to do’, ‘andare – to go’, are just the tips. Fortunately, there are

strict rules which govern verbs (a discipline which grammarians call

‘conjugation’); and with the exception of some irregular verbs, all variations of a verb can be easily deduced. Unfortunately, easily does not mean fast, and lack of speed is disastrous for fluent understanding and fluent speaking. The solution? The same repetitive training as in word training: repeated exposure, and heavy nailing. With an additional

‘word load’ of generally below 1,000, this will not demand more than 50 hours of extra training. Search the Internet for free software. Free verb training for German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, and French is available at http://poliglottus.com/verbs.htm.

Now that you have outsourced the study of verb forms to autonomous learning, grammar per se shrinks to a set of about 30 problems to settle.

If you followed my prescriptions in the first chapters – 1) Learn 20 or more new words per day; 2) Listen to human speech for at least one hour per day – all I would ask you at this point is to rapidly assemble the knowledge that is needed to recognise the most frequent 40

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