Profeza

  Now, taking   classes   in   sequence   may   sound   like   the   automatic   thing   to do, but   I   have   seen   students   taking   college   level   classes   who   did   the   exact   opposite. I   never   got   to   know   what   led   them   to   make   that   choice, but   I   highly   advise   against   it. The   students   I   encountered   had   taken   higher   course   levels   before   completing   the   preceding   level. One   had   enrolled   in   Spanish   102   ahead   of   101   and   the   other   student   had   taken   Spanish   202   ahead   of   201. The   two   reached   out   to   me   when   they   realized   that   they   were   completely   lost   in   their   courses. Like   I   have   previously   said   in   earlier   posts, a   language   course   is   like   a   building   block, the   success   of   the   next   phase   will   depend   on   the   foundation   laid   in   the   previous   class/course.      This   is   the   danger   in  

     From   my   interaction   with   various   people, I   have   come   to   learn   that   the   biggest   culprit   that   hinders   them   from   pursuing   a   foreign   language   are   the   grammar   rules. And, by   grammar, I   don’t   mean   a   shortcoming   on   their   part, what   I   mean   is   that   they   let   the   rules   of   grammar   discourage   them   before   they   even   start. What   is   interesting   is   that   the   same   grammar   rules   exist   for   example, in   Swahili   and   English   and   they   never   deterred   us   from   learning   these   languages. Perhaps   it   had   to   do   with   the   fact   that   most   us   learnt   those   languages   during   our   formative   years   and   therefore   we   had   no   choice   that   involved   dropping   out   if   things   got   tough. We   were   only   presented   with   two   viable   choices. Choice   A, you   had   to   make   it. Choice   B, you   had   to   make   it.