Hiya guys ^^ hope everyone had a good weekend and a lovely start to this week :3 it’s a new week and I have a new book on-hand ; as you know as a language learner I want to have a wider knowledge of the way language works and a better understanding of it all. It’s a dream everyday I work toward achieving 😀
Basis established. I stumbled across this book early this morning sifting through emails while I was half-asleep wow it seems the best things for me are found when I’m not even paying attention ^^;; – the book is called The Language Instinct (How The Mind Creates Languages) _by Steven Pinker
No nothing about this author however, it seems like he’s a bestselling author on books about language, etc so I am optimistic about how I’ll get along with the book. Although having been a bestseller doesn’t really equal to me enjoying the book, some books are super amazing review laden, New York Times #1, and still I find them CRAP! and impossible to read.
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The book is basically about language, and how we acquire it through the instinct that we know how to speak, and several other things I will get to as I read more ㅋㅋㅋ it’s so exciting reading something, and knowing that your knowledge of a subject you enjoy will increase with each turning page (:
I’m actually on page 18 ; and so far all I’ve gotten is theory excerpts from Charles Darwin and some guy names Chomsky (?) and so far its really kind of interesting :3 when I’m done I’ll give a review on the book.
Have a good day, and happy Korean studies!! 좋은 하루 보내세요 :3
‘Know’ nothing. I can’t spell, I publish blog entries without rereading them and they are strewn with grammatical errors, so please take no offense if I point out that small error. I am just getting into reading about Linguistics myself. This book looks interesting. Google Chomsky. He is important enough to know if you are going to read a book about language.
Steve Pinker has been on TED. You might want to watch him talk about language too.
Really? Oh then I must have a look at that 😀 I’m not even familiar with what TED is I’ve heard about it :p thanks 🙂