Kato Lomb Polyglot How I Learn Languages Summary

They said that grammar is the backbone of one’s language and it provides the structure needed in order to organize thoughts and to send out ideas and messages across that is why it is important for second language learners to study basic grammar rules but, I digress.

In “Polyglot: How I learn languages” by Kató Lomb, she talks about how she learned her first foreign language. She said that she isn’t really a fan of foreign language and passionately hates it when she was young. She discovered her love for languages when she was already on her twenties and what the scientist claims that it will be hard for people older than twelve years old to study language wasn’t true because she learned a lot of language when she was in her thirties and now she could speak of 16 languages with additional of 6 languages used only for translating so overall she knows about 22 languages.

She didn’t study the structures but what she did was buy a dictionary and a novel written in a language she is about to learn and that’s where she tried to decipher the messages. I also have a friend who learned Japanese just by watching Japanese

Whenever he asked us to write essays he put comments on it – not just pertaining to errors but he comments on the content of our essays. Although he underlined and checks our grammar use he didn’t used it as a criteria in our grade. Yes, he made sure to point us our errors but we still get high grades from that. He is my ideal professor because he doesn’t put us down just by noticing our mistakes and he always made sure that what we write is important and it is still valid even though it’s not perfect. I love that he accepts creative and technical answers and I think that is what all professors should be because every student have their own strengths and weaknesses. I’m always motivated to attend his class because he is a good teacher and I know my works on that class