ABOUT LANGUAGE, AND RELATED MATTERS
Karl Hofsö – inventor of The Hofsö MethodTM – shares his thoughts on language and related topics.
Natural Intelligence (NI)
Can children really be smarter than us adults? Well, maybe. It has been observed that children who are placed into a new linguistic environment only start speaking the new and unfamiliar language tentatively and little by little. They listen and observe for quite a long time, saying nothing. Then, after some weeks, or even months,…
Keep your speed up (on new neural pathways to long-term contentment)
It is easy to be distracted from doing The Right Thing. People are in a hurry. They will want to teach you how to say where you are from and how to ask back where they are from… and so on. You might even yourself want to learn right away how to order a meal…
Don’t read the lyrics, just listen to the song
From the song Ol’ Man River: “He don’t plant taterHe don’t plant cottonAn’ them that plants ’em is soon forgotten.” In my previous post I said it might not be as hard to learn new languages as everybody thinks. Well, if that is a fact why doesn’t everybody just go out and do it? I’ll…
It ain’t necessarily so
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;…
The Hofsö Method 