Why do we need a learning mindset?

When we are learning something new, everything will depend on how we see things.

For example: when draftsmen, before making details, they make geometric shapes that compose the drawing, giving shape and a base to the whole composition. I mean: instead of drawing from the outside, they draw from the inside out, a more useful way of seeing it.

When you learn to play a harmonic instrument, it becomes annoying to memorize or understand the chords by themselves. But by seeing major chords as happy and minor chords as sad, and a harmony is like telling a story with them, it becomes easier to memorize.

Learning with the right way of seeing, makes you easier and more comfortable in the learning process... This applies to everything, including languages.

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The mindset in language learning.

Language being a way of being able to communicate and express our thoughts to other people, the difference between how we speak and how other cultures speak and therefore, their languages works (our goal to overcome by learning it), is how they saw things, their mindset.

If you understand the idea of what they mean, it will be much easier to learn vocabulary, pronunciation and more... (which we will talk about in a bit) because they start from how they see the world and you will make sense of the connection between words.

Let's start with the most common and used (which in fact, makes up a good part of the language we will see: English). Whether it is Spanish, English, or any other language (the vast majority)... it is made up of ideas or thoughts, we can use them in the form of sounds (when speaking or listening) or symbols (either with words or ideograms) and by putting together several ideas we can express a thought. The moment you see the word "stone", you will imagine a stone. The moment I say the word "run", you will imagine that action.

That way, now you can see it as more of an "understanding of what they mean" and you won't be confused or intimidated by how it sounds or looks, but the "hard" part will be trying to think the way they order those words.

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A tip.

Remember: Every language has a culture behind it, and every culture has a different way of looking at things. For example, Spanish speakers say that they have years when they talk about their age, as if they possess them, but for an English speaker, we don't see it that way: we see how old we are (I am 22 years old = Yo soy/estoy 22 años viejo). You just need to open your mind and not see it through your native language... But there are certain things that almost every language has and it will be very easy for you, since we also have them.

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it is clear the difference between the word-idea “strawberry" compared to the word-idea "I"... There are several forms of those ideas, being 5 of them the most used: The great majority of words (not to say almost all in a specific language) fulfill each one a specific purpose: others declare in what form that action will be present and so on.

Estas piezas básicas forman el habla, de hecho, así se llaman en inglés (Parts of speech)

Some examples of these pieces would be Nouns (me, mary, sternocleidomastoid, aurora). Actions (also called Verbs). (to walk, to search, to write...) Prepositions or prepositions (in, on, to...) (in, on, to...) Qualifiers (also called adjectives and adverbs): (big, small, slowly, late...). Conjunctives/conjunctives. (with, without, and...). These are our pieces, we can change them, modify them, add or remove them; and that's where language learning development comes in. The more you use those pieces, the greater your ability to communicate in it. Now, things give you some meaning, relating them to something you've seen before. But how do we learn language? There are many study techniques and practices, each with their various purposes, which I'll tell you about another time <3. But, you have to choose what suits you best since there is not a perfect one for everyone: your way of learning, your taste in reading, what things you like to do and more. But if there is one rule: You have to anchor the language in your life..... Will you write your thoughts in it, enjoy listening to music or reading books in that language, watch series or listen to podcasts where its culture is showcased? Whatever it is, it has to be something you keep doing from here on out, it's like training!!!! If you stop doing it, you're losing progress.... That's why you have to make it more enjoyable ;)

This would be a part of these basics.... In language classes they are often avoided, because they are thought to be too complex for people. But I think they are the most fundamental things, which allow us to see our learning more clearly and more useful.

I see you in another part hiver, byee <3