I feel like any learning strategy you decide works best for you should be implemented into anything you learn. It would greatly help you retain and use information if you are learning how you learn best.

I feel like this way of thinking combines the pros from reflective and strategic as well as expanding upon them. this is a good way to think not just about learning but anything you want to achieve.

Is this suggesting a heirarchy in these thinking strategies or are strategic and reflective both tied at better than aware and tacit. I feel like there are pros and cons to each for the "top 2", like strategic could be better for learning in a classroom and reflective could be better for implicit learning.

I feel like noticing what is and inst going well has the opportunity to course correct. like this chapter said its not really a linear progress and often I find i dont have the chance to reflect until ive tried and erred a few times to get the thing finally right.

I appreciate this definition, I have seen a couple differing definitions of culture across my life and I have recently wondered if there was a "best" definition in this class. I suppose it will always be an ever changing and growing definition that will differ across different places and ideals. I think its cool.

I didnt even realize we had a section of other languages in our library. that is really cool! I am wondering if the books are all retellings of commonly covered english books or origionally wrote (in their respective languages) new and not know novels to english readers. that raises the question- how much new literature are people who only read and understand english missing out on?

In my personal experience K with a period is upset. in my lingo periods are used formally or to indicate you are done with the conversation, I am unsure if this is just a my region thing or universal. okay is a neutral term and no worries is a cheerful reassurance to me.

I like that this textbook isnt bashing the idea that sometimes when encountering new things you are annoyed or off-put. but i also like that there is an encouragement to embrace it. that is how you avoid the stereotypical close-minded American mindset, is to acknowledge and be weirded out and then let go and accept that the word is big and things are different in different places.

I suppose I have never given thought to when culture comes, just that I seem to lack it. My family is quite diverse and they didnt really share from their culture- a deliberate choice so I wouldn't be bullied as i grew up. But it has left me feeling very devoid and disconnected from who I am. Culture can be given and taken, no matter how privileged you were born i suppose.

I remember Proffessor Spike mentioning this in the beginning of class. Maybe its because I am from a kind-of rural town in texas where all kinds of accents are in a boiling pot- I have never been aware of being looked down upon for your accent. It never occurred to me that people would pick you apart because you talk a little different, because people talk all kinds of ways where I am from. I am grateful that I am aware now because i will continue to not discriminate because of accents. its so surprising how terrible people can be sometimes.

I remember in devastating detail that the guest speaker, professor Robert Elliott, described this is how native culture and lives were stolen and replaced with white/ eurocentric standards. This is a brutal and terrorist like approach to make your preferred language the dominant/majority one- and it is terrifyingly eye opening how often this has happened.

English is a language of power. Because the us is stereotypically not wanting or willing to learn another language this just dramatically smushes all of our diverse native languages and immigrated toungues. this also promotes the silent eradication of culture in general, which is a devastating thing.

I feel like i have heard and even tried learning languages to "gain" and "open doors". I am from an immigrant family and nothing can be done without a forwarding pourpus in my life and I kind-of didnt realize that learning a language could be not mainstream, not helping me "open doors" per say. I could learn a dying language and be content that I am just learning a language and not worrying about economic power i could get from it. I feel like that takes a lot of stress off of my mind and will hopefully make future learning easier.

I feel like this section in the textbook brings to mind habitat loss and that goes hand in hand with human and language and connections loss. its like the biodiversity of the world is dindling not just for everything else. humans are not above or escaping this massive problem. it just so happens that the language biodiversity loss is to less dominant languages and therefor not hear of or known- so things just keep progressing. it makes me so upset that i didnt know this sooner and that there is very little knowledge of this shared and even less being comprehended bu the public.

This makes me curious what other languages there are- perhaps this is the superior languages dominating but i dont think i know any others off the top of my head. what are the other languages if there is close to 1000? are there kinda polished learning systems for them?

I have personally experienced this. my French and Russian grandparents taught me informal/kind of americanized versions of phrases i was expected to say at home. If i were to piece these together for a conversation, it would be very hard to distinguish what i was saying. I really got a taste of this when my same french grandparent tried to formally teach me french and it was a stark contrast between my learned french and the textbook french.