I would suggest watching anime without the subtitles, listening to japanese music, and getting your wife to talk to you in japanese after which she can repeat in english.
The hard part of language is not ranslating one word to another, low powered computers can do that. What is important is becoming familiar with the flow of he language, learning to distinguish word boundaries from sylable boundaries and letting your brain figure out patterns in the language. Music lets you hear the language more pure in tone, slower with more distinct boundaries as well as with numerous repetition. Movies and tv are better than anime because they let you focus on the emotional connections of the words, focusing on translations here will mess you up by activating all your english processing machinery.
Having your wife speak to you in japanese first would probably be the most beneficial because she should be most likely the person you could easily understand without her using any words whatsoever. It would be important that you don't ask her to translate specific words, this is tedious for the person and would make them less likely to continue. Just japanese first, and then in english.
Your brain is a pattern finding machine, don't get in it's way and let it do it's job. Once you pick up on a pattern, such as declensions or particles, then you look it up. This way you've created a 'space' for the explanation to reside in and you're on your way to building a structure for language recognition based on actual recognition of the language.
It might seem odd to you if you don't actually read the research. Doing so will answer the questions you have quite nicely.
hint: pay less attention to th news article and slashdot submissions and you might notice the researchers don't claim or prove halve the things that are claimed.
The study linked to is a response to a critique of a prior study, which really has nothing o do with the current study except self-justifying their belief that theeir method for functionally localizing regions of interest(fROI) is specific enough and repeatable enough on individual subjects to be of use.
The study the article talks about has not been accepted for publication yet. So this seems to be more of a puff piece to generate interest, really it bugs me when scientists do this. Without the study it's i/possible to tell whether there are any problems with their metfhodology.
One thing I've always though was that it has less to do with language per se and more to do with organization of expresion. What specific types of math or music tests were they using. Is it possible that areas that light up duri.g sentence construction also light up during composition of music and not just listening tasks? Would the same areas light up during algebra not when the person is solving a simple question but when a person is transforming an expression fromone form to another. What about during arrangement of pbrases in music in contrast to melody construction?
While you linked to the paper that was critiqued and then responded to by this team, neither has anything to do with the study mentionned in the article.
No, prob, I wasn't clear but thought it was implied given the discussion was about materials.
Aas for bathrooms, I think it's the tiles. Every house here is pretty much tile and concrete and I have to admit even my Paracho plywood top sounds good in these houses.
I was refering to materials not craftmanship. I know some luthiers here and while they have some nice guitars they can be less than 100% honest with their materials. Mexico has some nice wood that can pass dor same type from other parts of the world but not exactly the same species.
Maybe you should jave read my other post. There is western tech that western doctors cancan use to detect accupressure points. They exist and are detectable by science. You really think they randomly discovered all those points? that science can detect? Metal having an effect on electrical impulses? Do you know anything about science?
You are making the wrong assumption that they randomly came up with the idea.
It's understandable coming from someone and a culture that are so out of touch with their bodies that they can't feel accupressure points with their hands.
So you're saying there's no such things as electrical flows in the human body? Do you have absolutely no idea how nerve conduction, muscular contractions, lymph and blood flow work? Are you unaware that there are devices invented by western science that detects accupressure points?
The interesting part of accupressure is that westerners need tech to detect these things while asian cultures were able to do it with their hands. That's the real thing to take away, that most westerners are so out of touch with their bodies that they need doctors to tell them what's happening with it.
Laws don't accomplish anything in this regard. As long as the citizens of rich countries crave resources and drugs from poor countries there will always be people in those poor countries ready and eager to destroy their environment to put food in their mouth.
Here in Mexico we have rtraffic lights at the roundabouts. Yes, doesn't make sense, and i's more like driving in a demolition derby. I have to say that learning how to drive in mexico makes it a breeze to drive in Canada or th US... once you adapt to the realization that people are generally following the rules and speed limit . Driving speed here is frequently 2-3 times the posted limit.
Very bad advice! You do know a lot of cars lock up the steering if the engine is cut, don't you? If you have a modern car you might have to get it altered to be able to do.this.
Personally I've gotten.really good at not accelerating when i see a red and reaching the light just as it turns green. It's fun to zip past everybody who previously raced to the red.
Unless of course you're looking for sex and not a relationship. Here the generalizer wins with a good photo and aa stupid one loner. Arguably the problem is usint this technique on the wrong website, i.e., one geared towards relationships.
,fter it's all beautiful an working properly you can throw in all your declarations to get performance on par or greater than C. I think most ppeople just don't learn that part, somethings still slower though. I'd rather the tradeoff of elegance with.the ability to get performance than having to write it ugly to begin with.Actually
What's the problem. You start a new project, state the hardware requirements and program your app using the common api. Only people with the hardware capabilities to run your app see it. Simple. People who buy devices without certain types of hardware aren't going to be looking for apps that depend on those things. Apple forces you to buy hardware even if you never plan on using ir.
But is your wife a geek in the women arts? How is she at colour combining and discrimination? Or just finding and listing all the tiny little details of what you've done wrong?;)
Stress is a factor in ulcers. It's idiotic to say h.pylori is the cause when everybody has h.pylori, so why doesn't everybody have ulcers. The problem with allopathic medicine is that the frequently confuse the mechanism of a disease with the cause of a disease. This is the appropraite time for the mantra icorrelation !=causation.
Regardless of their fields, what are their respective focuses like? Do you see many people who obsess over details with people who can only see the bigger picture? Are they specialists in their respective fields or generalists? Granted women are usually more detail oriented, for certain things.
Of course we have to realize sometimes you're qirh someone because they complement you and/or you're to lazy to be a complete person on your own, some people are so specialized rhey can only tolerate others who are like them, and then there's the rare few who are complete and are with the other person because it's enjoyable:)
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The hard part of language is not ranslating one word to another, low powered computers can do that. What is important is becoming familiar with the flow of he language, learning to distinguish word boundaries from sylable boundaries and letting your brain figure out patterns in the language. Music lets you hear the language more pure in tone, slower with more distinct boundaries as well as with numerous repetition. Movies and tv are better than anime because they let you focus on the emotional connections of the words, focusing on translations here will mess you up by activating all your english processing machinery.
Having your wife speak to you in japanese first would probably be the most beneficial because she should be most likely the person you could easily understand without her using any words whatsoever. It would be important that you don't ask her to translate specific words, this is tedious for the person and would make them less likely to continue. Just japanese first, and then in english.
Your brain is a pattern finding machine, don't get in it's way and let it do it's job. Once you pick up on a pattern, such as declensions or particles, then you look it up. This way you've created a 'space' for the explanation to reside in and you're on your way to building a structure for language recognition based on actual recognition of the language.
patent pending ;)
hint: pay less attention to th news article and slashdot submissions and you might notice the researchers don't claim or prove halve the things that are claimed.
The study the article talks about has not been accepted for publication yet. So this seems to be more of a puff piece to generate interest, really it bugs me when scientists do this. Without the study it's i/possible to tell whether there are any problems with their metfhodology.
One thing I've always though was that it has less to do with language per se and more to do with organization of expresion. What specific types of math or music tests were they using. Is it possible that areas that light up duri.g sentence construction also light up during composition of music and not just listening tasks? Would the same areas light up during algebra not when the person is solving a simple question but when a person is transforming an expression fromone form to another. What about during arrangement of pbrases in music in contrast to melody construction?
While you linked to the paper that was critiqued and then responded to by this team, neither has anything to do with the study mentionned in the article.
Aas for bathrooms, I think it's the tiles. Every house here is pretty much tile and concrete and I have to admit even my Paracho plywood top sounds good in these houses.
I was refering to materials not craftmanship. I know some luthiers here and while they have some nice guitars they can be less than 100% honest with their materials. Mexico has some nice wood that can pass dor same type from other parts of the world but not exactly the same species.
Maybe you should jave read my other post. There is western tech that western doctors cancan use to detect accupressure points. They exist and are detectable by science. You really think they randomly discovered all those points? that science can detect? Metal having an effect on electrical impulses? Do you know anything about science?
It's understandable coming from someone and a culture that are so out of touch with their bodies that they can't feel accupressure points with their hands.
The interesting part of accupressure is that westerners need tech to detect these things while asian cultures were able to do it with their hands. That's the real thing to take away, that most westerners are so out of touch with their bodies that they need doctors to tell them what's happening with it.
I'm pretty sure if you ask the prepared foods industry they would tell you. Ok, they probably won't tell you, but fat, sugar, salt, is where to start.
Laws don't accomplish anything in this regard. As long as the citizens of rich countries crave resources and drugs from poor countries there will always be people in those poor countries ready and eager to destroy their environment to put food in their mouth.
Are you seriously tring to compare mexican guitars to gibsons? You obviously know nothing of guitar construction in mexico.
Lights don't automatically turn green when the crossroad turns red. That and you have these two things called/eyes.
Here in Mexico we have rtraffic lights at the roundabouts. Yes, doesn't make sense, and i's more like driving in a demolition derby. I have to say that learning how to drive in mexico makes it a breeze to drive in Canada or th US... once you adapt to the realization that people are generally following the rules and speed limit . Driving speed here is frequently 2-3 times the posted limit.
Personally I've gotten.really good at not accelerating when i see a red and reaching the light just as it turns green. It's fun to zip past everybody who previously raced to the red.
Are you going for women that are taller than you?
Unless of course you're looking for sex and not a relationship. Here the generalizer wins with a good photo and aa stupid one loner. Arguably the problem is usint this technique on the wrong website, i.e., one geared towards relationships.
,fter it's all beautiful an working properly you can throw in all your declarations to get performance on par or greater than C. I think most ppeople just don't learn that part, somethings still slower though. I'd rather the tradeoff of elegance with.the ability to get performance than having to write it ugly to begin with.Actually
Maybe king of the popularity hill. A lot of us still think that lisp is the king of elegance, and look, wow, java got some more lisp features.
Wow, so it's almost like lisp?
Don't miss the part where apples market.share has dropped 30%, apple is dropping and all other tablets are increasing.
What's the problem. You start a new project, state the hardware requirements and program your app using the common api. Only people with the hardware capabilities to run your app see it. Simple. People who buy devices without certain types of hardware aren't going to be looking for apps that depend on those things. Apple forces you to buy hardware even if you never plan on using ir.
But is your wife a geek in the women arts? How is she at colour combining and discrimination? Or just finding and listing all the tiny little details of what you've done wrong? ;)
Stress is a factor in ulcers. It's idiotic to say h.pylori is the cause when everybody has h.pylori, so why doesn't everybody have ulcers. The problem with allopathic medicine is that the frequently confuse the mechanism of a disease with the cause of a disease. This is the appropraite time for the mantra icorrelation !=causation.
Of course we have to realize sometimes you're qirh someone because they complement you and/or you're to lazy to be a complete person on your own, some people are so specialized rhey can only tolerate others who are like them, and then there's the rare few who are complete and are with the other person because it's enjoyable :)