Sustaining Commitment

Learning any language takes commitment. But what is commitment, and how can you develop commitment to the language you want to learn? Aaron Meyers of The Everyday Language Learner in his book Sustaining Commitment gives some hints of answers.

I found this book quite by chance this evening and have already almost finished it. He has some great quotes in the book. One of my favorite:

In order to learn a
language, you’re going to
make a million mistakes.
So get started!
-Dwight Gradi

So, get started by reading Sustaining Commitment! And then start the Growing Participator Approach today. 🙂

Learning in Italy

What about language learning in Italy? In her post, Rebecca Smith writes about some of the cool key principles of the Growing Participator Approach:

Anyways, the program, as I understand it, is unique in that it equips you to sit down with a native speaker of any language, even if they don’t speak English, and be able to learn their language through miming, acting things out with toys, or reading stories together. Pretty cool, eh?

She also names one key challenge she has come across — finding good nurturers. For a nurturer you don’t want usually want a language teacher or tutor, but just a regular guy (or girl) who doesn’t mind playing rather childish games with you over and over again.

Azeri Numbers

Some language learners post some video of them learning Azerbaijani with the Growing Participator Approach.

Learning Chinese with props

We just found another cool post where another learner (this time of Chinese) shows pictures of her language learning tools. And these are not the normal learning language tools you would expect to find on a students desk. Instead the look somewhat like. . . what shall we say? . . . children’s toys?

And that’s what the Growing Participator Approach is all about — learning as a child would learn, learning from the basics outward. Like a child the growing participator has to learn the whole world anew and afresh.

Curious about the first phase?

Curious about the first phase of the Growing Participator Approach to language learning? Have you read about the first hundred hours but unsure still exactly how these learning sessions are done?

A couple of enthusiastic language learners share a video of one of their first language lessons in Urdu.

 

 

Bit by bit

Bit by bit we plan to put on this site discussion and information on the Growing Participator Approach to language learning.

Check back often, because we’ll continue to put up interesting posts and articles.