Hi.
In this blog I’d like to speak to you about language and related topics.
I’ll begin with language.
Everybody has an opinion on language. Everybody speaks at least one. Some speak two or even more.
It is generally assumed that learning a second language well is very hard.
But as the song title suggests; It ain’t necessarily so.
It is all about doing the right thing as opposed to doing things right. And about starting at the right end, which is at the beginning!
The beginning is sound. Language is sound. So are songs. Both can be written down, but writing is not the beginning.
Sounds fly through the air and must be caught before they are gone, in the space of milliseconds.
That requires practice, a lot of practice.
Strangely, most language learning methods skip the beginning and rush into reading and speaking from the very start. We did not do that as toddlers. Neither should we as adolescents or adults.
Artificial intelligence is all the rage nowadays. It can help you do miraculous things.
So can natural intelligence.
If you’re interested, I will show you a quicker and better path into new languages and thereby into new cultures and alternative ways of thinking. I can even show you how to build your own language course in my next blog post.
Until then…
/Karl Hofsö
The Hofsö Method 