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language learning

I have just arrived at a revelation: the key in learning a language is to "pretend" you have never had any experience in any language. By putting yourself into a "newborn baby" state, you will absorb things like sponge. By doing this, You can avoid the common missteps of translating back forward between languages to [...]

More meta thoughts

Call me silly, but I am surprised that project management is basically the same thing as software engineering which I learned back in college. It is so far the most boring course I've ever taken. It's all about methodology to gradually achieve a massive software development project. You can take either the spiral or waterfall [...]

learning: a meta analysis

I am a click-and-get-it person, meaning that I only need to get the big picture and key concept to understand a huge complicated matter. But I always feel that I have never got my learning methodology quite right. Something, some key point is lacking here. It holds me back all these years as a student [...]

A comment

my feeling is, for language, similar to other things, say
research projects,

you have to really get into it, and eventually be at ease
with it. for

reading, i read a lot of english fictions in china very
quickly and probably

very carelessly; it helped for sure but my writing stank
straight way all the

time. it was a few years later that [...]