On Mon, Jul 11, 2011 at 12:46 PM, Chris, UK t...@chrisjj.com wrote:
Never met those Spanish evening class students who know an incredible
number of words but still cannot hold a conversation with a native
speaker??
Have you ever met a person who spoke a language fluently who DIDN'T
have a
I started to learn Spanish in 2004, on my own. I am now fluent in the
sense that I can talk at the same speed I talk in English, without
translating from one language to another. My approach: 1) first start
leaning verbs, conjugation and prepositions, on the ground that they
form the
I must say that on this count, Chris was correct, although he could not
have known for the reasons you stated. I started speaking in Mexico.
Even in Florida, all my friends (including my spanish-speaking friends)
spoke English, so I did not speak much with them. But my study of tango
(mostly
Removing music from the movement removes the swing
On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:31 PM, Secondary Yahoo johnc...@yahoo.com wrote:
From a learning transfer perspective, the further away the design of a
learning experience is from the real life context in which one is expect to
perform, the slower
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From: Secondary Yahoo johnc...@yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Tango-L] why music
To: Trini y Sean (PATangoS) patan...@yahoo.com
Cc: Tango-L Tango-L@mit.edu
Date: Sunday, July 10, 2011, 5:50 PM
Well... Now multiplication tables and dancing tango are one of the same.
Learning styles asides
I understand your position, Michael, but I respectfully disagree with
your conclusion. The music helps one understand the figure. The human
brain is a marvelous mechanism that has the evolved the ability to use
multiple references to anchor a memory, including the visual details of
where the
I was told by a teacher in France one day, a teacher dancing classical
tango, that his advice to me, to improve my musicality, was to get tango
music into my blood, under my skin. I took the advice to heart and for
the next 1-2 years, I listened to tango 24/7 until I could whisle
Milongas,
I am really shocked when I read comments like Michael's who said he
doesnt understand why music is played in class, for the alleged reason
that it intereferes with his ability to learn the figure. This suggests
that he believes executing the figure itself is more important than
placing it in the
I find that in any class, about HALF of the couples can't immediately execute
the figure. The instructors move around the room helping them. Confused couples
not being helped watch the couples being helped to try to figure out what to
do. This is NOT necessarily an issue of technique. It can be
