May 31, 2010

lurning

i feel like i have finally learned how to learn. i don't really have a better way to explain it. i feel like in high school and university i never really learned anything. that's not the best thing to say but really, i learned enough to pass an exam or do a project or write an essay and then it was gone. but something happened during my practicum and into this french program. all of a sudden i can just be like "hmm, i better learn that" or "hmm, i'd like to learn that" and there it is. i taught romeo and juliet like i'd been studying it all my life. i just taught myself conditionnel passe because i missed that day in class and had to puzzle it out. no big deal. anyway. it feels good.

and french is awesome, ps.
writing in english is a super weird experience. none of this makes sense to me.

1 comment:

RJ said...

I'd like to learn how to learn. Maybe you can teach me how to learn? All I've ever really done is learn for an exam. Whatever stays with me after that has either been hammered into me over a period of 4 years or is the result of pure luck. My knowledge is a combination of current exposure, conditioning for lack of a better word, and the forgetting curve.