English Vocabulary and Etymology(week3)

• How languages evolve-Alex Gendler

• Tower of Babel

A story told in the Book of Genesis of the Tanakh (also referred to as the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament) meant to explain the origin of different languages.
According to the story, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar
There they agreed to build a city and tower; seeing this, God confounded their speech so that they could no longer understand each other and scattered them around the world.

• After Babel

After Babel: Aspects of Language and Translation is a comprehensive study of the subject of language and translation. It is both a controversial and seminal work  that covers a great deal of new ground and has remained the most thorough book on this topic since its publication.

• How to learn any language in six months

 

 

* 4 important words

1. Memory
2. Attention
3. Meaning
4. Relevance

* 5 principles

1.  focus on language content that is relevant to you
2. use your new language as a tool to communicate from day 1
3. when you first UNDERSTAND the MESSAGE, you will unconsiously ACQUIRE the Language
4.  learning language is not about knowledge, but Physiological Training
5.  psycho-physiological STATE Matters

 * 7 actions 

1.  Listen A LOT = Brain Soaking
2.  Focus on getting the meaning FIRST (before the words)
3.  start mixing
4. focus on the core
5.  get a language parent
6. copy the face
7. DIRECT CONNECT to Mental Images

• Prefix/Root/Suffix

di-:two ; twice ; doudle

divorce (v.) the couple end their marriage
example:Tom and Helen divorced last month.

divide (v.) ​separate into ​parts or ​groups
example: After the Second World War Germany was divided into two ​separate ​countries.

-gen-/-gene-:birth ; begining

generation (n.) all the ​people of about the same ​age within a ​society or within a ​particular ​family
example: My parents and I have generation gap.

photogenic (adj.) having a face that looks attractive in photographs
example: Pony is photogenic in this photo.

eu-/euph-:good ; well

euphoric (adj.) extremely happy and excited
example: I have a euphoric mood when I win the game.

sub-:under

subsidize (v.) to pay part of the cost of something
example: The ​refugees ​live in subsidized ​housing ​provided by the ​authorities.