Topic: Chap 3~4& extra resources
- resources in T. Sara Sun's blog
2.Where do words come from-Tower of Babel-
a story told in the Book of Genesis of the Tanakh (also referred to as the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament) meant to explain the origin of different languages.
a story told in the Book of Genesis of the Tanakh (also referred to as the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament) meant to explain the origin of different languages.
According to the story, a united humanity of the generations following the Great Flood, speaking a single language and migrating from the east, came to the land of Shinar (Hebrew: שנער). There they agreed to build a city and tower; seeing this, God confounded their speech so that they could no longer understand each other and scattered them around the world.
＂When people tried to build this tower to reach heaven, God punished them by making it impossible for them to understand each other’s languages.＂
Everyone on earth spoke the same language. As people migrated from the east, they settled in the land of Shinar.People there sought to make bricks and build a city and a tower with its top in the sky, to make a name for themselves, so that they not be scattered over the world. God came down to look at the city and tower, and remarked that as one people with one language, nothing that they sought would be out of their reach. God went down and confounded their speech, so that they could not understand each other, and scattered them over the face of8 the earth, and they stopped building the city. Thus the city was called Babel.
*Bable-
a.According to the Bible, the city received the name "Babel" from the Hebrew word balal, meaning to jumble/confused.
b.the noise of a lot of voices all talking at the same time
*"Babel Problem"→Multiple language
3.After babel:Aspects of Language and Translation , a comprehensive study of the subject of language and translation. It is both a controversial and seminal work[3] that covers a great deal of new ground and has remained the most thorough book on this topic since its publication.
4.Language learning-How to learn English in 6 months
Expanding our limits with 5 principles and 7 actions
a. 5 principles
1.Focus on language content that is relevant to you
2.Use your new language as a tool to communicate from day 1 as a kid does
→＂English is a tool we employ to get access to information in learning literature itself in this class.＂quoted from T. Sara Sun (in Western literature class)
3.When you first understand the message, you will unconsciously acquire the language.
→it's called comprehensible input
4.Language is about physiological training
5.Psycho-physiological state matters
b. 7 actions
1.Listen a lot→it's called brain soaking
2.Get the meaning first before you learn the words
3.Start mixing→ 10 nouns x 10 verbs x 10 adjectives= 1000 words
4.Focus on the core:tool box→simple nouns&verbs&adjectives→glue words
5.Get a language parent
6.Copy the face
7.Direct connect to the mental images
c.two things that really don't matter: talent,immersion per se
- syllables
retrospect (re-:again -spect: to look)-thinking now about something in the past
→in retrospect
→ex, In retrospect, I think my marriage was doomed from the beginning.
retrospection(n.)
→a time/mood of retrospection 追憶過去之時／懷舊的心情
罵的程度有差異:blame→scold→berate
zenith/ˈzen.ɪθ/-the best or most successful point or time
→In the 1860s, Tolstoy was at the zenith of his achievement.
VS
nadir/ˈneɪ.dɪər/- the worst moment, or the moment of least hope and least achievement
→The defeat was the nadir of her career.
sub-:under
subsidize-to pay part of the cost of something
→The refugees live in subsidized housing provided by the authorities.
subway
submit-to give or offer something for a decision to be made by others
→The developers submitted building plans to the council for approval.
- to suggest
→In conclusion, I submit that the proposal will not work without some major changes.
eu-/euph-: good
eulogy悼詞，悼文；頌詞，頌文-a speech, piece of writing, poem, etc. containing great praise, especially for someone who recently died or stopped working
euphony-pleasing or sweet sound
euphemism-a word or phrase used to avoid saying an unpleasant or offensive word
→'Senior citizen' is a euphemism for 'old person'.
ubi-: every
ubiquitous
ubiquinone-any of a group of lipid-soluble quinones that are found especially in mitochondria, have an isoprenoid side chain, and function in oxidative phosphorylation as electron-carrying coenzymes in electron transport
gene-:birth;beginning
Genesis- the beginning of something(創世紀)
generate
generation
cap-:head
capital/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/-
1.the uppermost member of a column or pilaster crowning the shaft and taking the weight of the entablature
2.money and possessions, especially a large amount of money used for producing more wealth or for starting a new business
3.a letter of the alphabet in the form and larger size that is used at the beginning of sentences and names
4.the most important place for a particular business or activity
capitol/ˈkæp.ɪ.təl/-the building in which the US Congress/state government meets
caption-a short piece of text under a picture in a book, magazine or newspaper which describes the picture or explains what the people in it are doing or saying
*scatter(擬聲字)
*photogenic上相的-having a face that looks attractive in photographs
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