Learning a Language

[awakomation]

This is some great infomation I have learnt.
Imagine that your whole brain is like a giant spider’s web and that each thread represents a topic, a piece of information or piece of knowledge that you possess. Imagine that this web is about 22.5 kilometres (14 miles) squared. Every time you learn something new you are linking it to your web of knowledge. Somewhere in your web there will be a link to tie information to information.

When it comes to learning new information you will not have any threads or at least not many to which you can link new information. So how is it that you can be considered stupid for not understanding something which is new? How can a subject be considered hard if you have never learnt about it before? How can you say to someone ‘you are stupid, don’t you understand this’ if they have never learnt about it, or have never been introduced to it? Knowing this you can now understand how smart you really are and that any new information is a bonus, an extra to what’s already there!
Now that you know this every time you learn something new, you will have to construct a new thread in your memory web! But before you construct it you must first decide if you even want it. If you don’t want the information then you can simply say “I don’t want it” and continue on. However on the other hand, if you want the information then you can begin to construct and create new threads in your web. You want to begin associating new information with old information. As you do this you will begin to learn more and more. The more you can learn about one subject the more you will learn… this means go to the library get out picture books of Japan and learn about Japan in pictures, then as you are learning Japanese you will have more and more links to link new information to!

Learning anything new is not hard it just takes time and effort.
Real Japanese