By providing a license to have fun, move and involve the other senses, Finally Learning That Language brings languages to life. Corrective red ink and dusty textbooks begone! This guide empowers language learners to teach themselves or to get more mileage out of a class. After mastering crucial information about learning processes, embracing vibrant culture and mixing in beloved hobbies, learning momentum will flow naturally. The author’s twenty years in the language learning and teaching game have revealed learners’ common pitfalls. The best approach is to use a variety of simpler materials, but to understand the utility of embracing new grammar. The most important ingredient is a jolly, curious attitude. After setting a schedule with a better ratio of fun-to-grammar-boxes, readers can learn as a hobby or race toward bilingual status.
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Broken Bootstraps is the tale of how Americans became fiercely productive and independent loners and underscores the urgent need to return to interdependence. Beginning with an examination of how the most cooperative Homo sapiens were selected for thousands of years, Broken Bootstraps shows how humans persisted because we were sociable. The neuroanatamy proves it. In the relative abundance of the New World, liberation from previously restricting social and government fetters allowed the seeds for individualism to take firm root. Over the centuries, Americans have shaken off too many ties. The fallout from materialism, greed and obsessive productivity shortens and worsens lives. By highlighting the peculiar tendency to glorify cutting off ties for progress, many key insights into the prevalence of mental health issues, suicide, addiction and family trials become clear. If American Culture isn’t refocused soon, the American dream will become the American nightmare. ▩