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Some people think that young people (children and teenagers) can learn a foreign language more easily. Others believe that adults are better at learning a foreign language. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
12:41 ~ 13:11
It is well known that people at different ages have different abilities to learn a new language. From my personal experience, I am convinced that young, especially those who are under age of 15 have more advantages in learning a new language than adults.
Firstly, we are born with abilities to learn anything, this instinct is a nature of human being, and it is undoubting that young can accept new things faster. Static shows that children can learn one word per minute at the highest speed of all their lifetime. Another reason is, children are almost free from any burden, which leaves them all day along to do anything they want. Mind of children are almost empty, they are so eager to get information, knowledge and skills from the world around. They even can not sense the difference of a second language and their mother language, but they really get all the convenient to learn it in a quick and easy way.
On the contrary, adults master at least one language, and they always tend to use the experience of their mother language to explain things they meet in new language. If fact, this process is almost meaningless, but they can stop doing this since they are so used to understand things in a logical way. As their memory abilities decline down after age of 25, it becomes even harder. However, adults can control themselves very well comparing with kids, thus, they can concentrate attention when learning, make good learning plans, and understand and act as language learning guides required, which makes it possible for them to learn a new language.
Overall, the best time for us to learn a second language is when we are young. It is always not too late to do so, but the older we start, the more we have to pay on it.
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002
Listening to the radio is more enjoyable and practical than watching television. Do you agree or disagree with this statement?
With the development of technologies, we have various ways to receive information and to relax ourselves. Among these methods, radios and televisions are the most important and widely accepted ones. And, comparing with televisions, I prefer radios more since I can listen to it almost any time I want to.
Listening to the radio can relax me better. I used to listening radios while I am taking a bus or driving. I can listen to it while doing others things like reading a newspaper or a book. In fact, I always turn to my favorite radios when driving along; this makes me comfortable and contributes much of my relaxation in day time. In contrast, watching televisions makes me tired quickly, since the screen always catches my attention. This is true for many people as visual screens carry much more information than a stereo audio stream.
Besides, radios provide all my interesting things, such as news and music. There are a number of local radio stations in my city; they bring up all stories that television channels could cover everyday, which is quite enough for me. And, maybe it is because of copyright reasons, I can listen more music on radio than through televisions. Therefore, radio has always been the first media where I listen to new songs in recent years. More importantly, I can listen to radio to get to know the current traffic situation when driving, I can not image there is another method can do this better than a radio.
Overall, radio is relatively much more entertaining and accessible for me, and it is an excellent helper for driving; while televisions could present me abundant visual information, which serves me as a supplement to radios.
[ 本帖最后由 leia 于 13-5-2010 00:23 编辑 ] |
发表于 12-5-2010 16:25:39
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