New ways of learning

I remember starting with English as my first foreign language with 11, but not at school, where they taught Latin and later on English and ancient Greek but with the "Nature Method".

The "Nature Method" implied no vocabulary lists or grammar, this came naturally by reading (aloud) and writing my lessons dayly. New words were explained with words that I had learned already or with pictures representing the new meaning. So later on, when English was a subject at my school two years after starting with the "Nature Method", I never had to learn vocabulary or grammar, because I had already learned the language just like a child, by talking to its peers.

Maybe I would not have made a grade, that enabled me to study medicine later on, because English was one of my main examination subjects which pushed the summary results.

So read the article above, that proposes a similar way for children in the Netherlands.

And to those, who are not so eager to learn a new language: every new language you learn is a lot easier than the last one, because our brain connects, "grows", makes new pathways.

Studies support the thesis, that every new language skill you learn will help prevent or slow down mental decline later on in life.

Learning about brain mechanisms will be the key to understand mental disorders better and to develop new ways of treatment.

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