Comments on: my own experiences learning: part 1 — Germany. http://nagle.blogs.thesprouts.org/2008/11/17/my-own-experiences-learning-part-1-germany/ learning about learning Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:13:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: jay http://nagle.blogs.thesprouts.org/2008/11/17/my-own-experiences-learning-part-1-germany/comment-page-1/#comment-20 jay Sat, 22 Nov 2008 18:03:00 +0000 http://nagle.thesprouts.org/2008/11/17/my-own-experiences-learning-part-1-germany/#comment-20 My favorite part about this post is that you give folk wisdom at the end. You tell a story about your experience, then you try to give advice for how to do good learning that comes in pithy statements followed up by discussion. It's also interesting how valuable the right learning partner can be. My favorite part about this post is that you give folk wisdom at the end. You tell a story about your experience, then you try to give advice for how to do good learning that comes in pithy statements followed up by discussion. It’s also interesting how valuable the right learning partner can be.

]]> By: Chris http://nagle.blogs.thesprouts.org/2008/11/17/my-own-experiences-learning-part-1-germany/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Chris Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:24:00 +0000 http://nagle.thesprouts.org/2008/11/17/my-own-experiences-learning-part-1-germany/#comment-19 Great post! I strongly agree with a lot of your points. It was very interesting to compare/contrast my own experiences learning Japanese (I didn't have a language partner and had to learn a lot more information by rote since I was studying the 2000+ Japanese characters which are necessary for reading). I think that my experience was vastly less pleasurable than your own, but there might have been other reasons for this (e.g. I had to learn while at work, which meant that I didn't have the freedom to seek out diverse resources, talk, etc. Mostly I just sat in my chair and tried to read Wikipedia.)<br/><br/>What are your thoughts on "meta-learning?" E.g. learning how to learn languages? How does having an easy/good experience vs. having a difficult/annoying experience influence meta-learning? Do you agree with the use of the term meta-learning? Great post! I strongly agree with a lot of your points. It was very interesting to compare/contrast my own experiences learning Japanese (I didn’t have a language partner and had to learn a lot more information by rote since I was studying the 2000+ Japanese characters which are necessary for reading). I think that my experience was vastly less pleasurable than your own, but there might have been other reasons for this (e.g. I had to learn while at work, which meant that I didn’t have the freedom to seek out diverse resources, talk, etc. Mostly I just sat in my chair and tried to read Wikipedia.)

What are your thoughts on “meta-learning?” E.g. learning how to learn languages? How does having an easy/good experience vs. having a difficult/annoying experience influence meta-learning? Do you agree with the use of the term meta-learning?

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