Let’s take a journey back to my
childhood. The reason I chose this video is because it reminds me of the time
I was struggling with grammar (which I still do). In fact, my next blog, I may post a video on
adverbs. I find that learning by song is the easiest way for me remember concepts. This video is related to language because adjectives are used
in many grammatical situations. At 20 seconds into the video, it says that adjectives are
used to describe people, places, and things, which are nouns. What I find
interesting is the information from the clip between 2:10 and 2:25. It's about how adjectives can derive from different parts of speech. The video used the example of how the noun boy
can become an adjective by adding an ending of ish to make it boyish.
I definitely agree with the
context of this video. I mean, I survived through school and made it to
community college with this mindset of what an adjective is. I really do want
to learn more about adjectives and how a sentence structure changes from
culture to culture. For instance, an adjective in an English sentence is
typically before a noun where an adjective in a Spanish sentence is typically
after.
My topic definitely
affects the world. We use adjectives every day to describe things in our lives.
I feel like without adjectives, life would be so boring. So, get out there and use those creative adjectives!
To end this with a quote:
“My pet peeve and my goal in
life is to somehow get an adjective for ‘integrity’ in the dictionary. ‘Truthful’
doesn’t really cover it, or ‘genuine.’ It should be like ‘integritus.’”
-Rashida
Jones
Have you ever heard of Schoolhouse Rock? It was on TV Saturday mornings and first aired on TV in 1973 (while I was in high school!!) and I used some of the episodes when I was homeschooling my daughter. There are several about grammar; nouns, vers, conjunctions, adverbs, ADJECTIVES, etc. Check them out on YouTube. I too remember things better when they are put to song and I swear that's how my daughter taught herself to read before she was 3 years old! We used songs for learning a lot when she was young; the shortest one, and by far the most useful, was having her sing the "address" song. My husband was in the Army and we moved every 2 years, but within one week or less, even at age 2, she was able to recite not only her name, but her street address, city, and state as well.
ReplyDeleteSchoolhouse Rock is amazing! They never fail to teach you something. My favorite is "I'm Just a Bill."
ReplyDeleteFor me personally I think the easiest way for me to remember things is when it's in music form. Like for example I will never forget what a bufanda is because of the song Guio showed us in class. Plus it's all so easier to remember things when it's in a song because it's not just list or reciting things.
ReplyDeleteFor me, musical aspects really help me with learning a language. If I listen to a song in another language, even if I don't know what they are saying, I can still remember the sounds, and when I hear those groups of sounds together again somewhere else, I am able to figure out new words and find out what they mean. For example, before I started taking japanese classes, I had heard a lot of japanese music. Due to that, I already knew a lot of words that we don't learn in class, and I can make more complicated conversation. The same has worked for me with some other languages too.
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