they run into this a lot when they try to teach deaf students using only oral...they can say the words over and over- but could not tell you over a long span of time what the words mean.
That is so disappointing about RS though...I heard so many positive things about their program.
PS- Allison Davis from OU (she lived at the end of the hall in that corner room) moved to Chicago! She facebooked me the other day...it's like a reunion. lol
I think RS must be working off the logic that children learn to speak before they learn to read, and so adults must be able to do this too. However, kids also have adults constantly teaching them works (can you say Ma-ma? Maaaaahh Maaaah?) And adult brains can double the learning speed by using their fully developed faculties (reading/logic/grammar). Unfortunately, I think there have been studies showing adults don't pick up on language as quickly as kids either, so RS might work great... if you're under the age of 5.
RS uses a "natural" learning system and they do NOT do the traditional system of language learning that we are all used to doing. It causes cognitive dissonance in folks who learned the traditional way at first but the system works. And it works very well.
Hope that however you end up doing it that you get a good handle on Korean ASAP.
That is encouraging to hear. Thanks, Ian. I drew up flashcards for the alphabet yesterday and it wasn't too hard. It's not firmly in my brain yet but close enough to try RS again later today, I think.
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That is so disappointing about RS though...I heard so many positive things about their program.
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Hope that however you end up doing it that you get a good handle on Korean ASAP.
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Have you used RS to learn a language?
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