jueves, 19 de marzo de 2015

The writers.

There is a lot to expect when it comes to writing, as you can find there a lot of yourself, and maybe a little bit of the others too. Writing is further putting words on a paper or a screen, as it is for me, the process that takes you to the deep of yourself, and start making it tangible while it catches sight.Words also, can always change our way of being, thinking or acting, as they're suposed to have the power of ten gods, because what is said, cannot be changed. Books are a great example, as if you find the correct one, it might make of your life totally different and thanks to the tangible expression of anything trought words. All of this in orden to explain kind of the importance, not only as something that can transform, but as the set of many qualities that make of it, the immortality of language. Just a few days ago, I found myself writing, not only one story but many at the same time,It sounds kind of impressive, and maybe people would believe I'm exagerated but it really happened as I point. The master that leads the class, gave us one simple thing to do, mention a noun and an adjective, after this we had to pick two of each category and try to build a question that answers this other: Where are you going later? Maybe it sounded too simple, but what came after this, was just the amazing representation of each different imagination present in the classroom, all conveyd in many different papers. All of us where continuing those endless answers, that developed every kind of unimagined stories, because they were really unimagined as they were the complex ensemble that promoted us to work together, without taking in account the possible strange plots of each, it had us there as a lovely remind of us enjoying the great thing we have been given, writing. I think that we actually didn't mind about the order of ideas, promoting the free sharing of our ways to be, not being ashamed nor scary about it. I really loved the exercise, as it got me closer to my classmates trought writing, which is something I really like feeding, because it makes me feel certainly released from quotidian things, and also makes of quotidian life more enjoyable helping you to get new points of view. I must say my peers have a great imagination and they can manage to fix it with fun and get out of yourself a laugh while reading the text. After we all read and fixed mistakes, we picked two of them on different groups and posted it at classroom, so people could read them and either feel amazed or confused, because for understanding those lines, I believe you must be able to go further than normal. This kind of exercise encourage people if they feel identified, to keep on writing, to develop this lovely skill and to use it to conquer the world, that inner world we all have, and would like to discover. I may say I would repeat, to have a laugh or to work with my mates without wondering about what to write, but to let it flow being coherent of course yet letting imagination, go as far as it wants. There's a word on spanish for what we did: "Cadaver exquisito" and we all are now an important part of all of those corpses, that now rest in the paper that makes of them, immortal.

viernes, 6 de marzo de 2015

When small details are the most important.

This is not another text about why people wonder small details are the most important, and they just can't find out what other people mean by that, but in our context small details live and hide everywhere among the letters, those letters togheter are words, and words make a language. All of this is structured and managed by a very important social convention on languages that is Grammar. Something we can not pass by when about learning and making propper a language, from school to home, this must be evangelized like if it was a religion, and this kind of exageration is maybe the accurate aim for expressing the importance of such a thing. Grammar from my point of view, make us focus into the importance of the small details, in this case of languages. Because by making us stare at things as such the importance of a noun or and adjective, grammar goes further even wanting to express the manage of rhythm by  simple signs as comas (,) or even points (.) things as simple as those have a lot of meaning when we consider the grammar, and that must be consider a social rule, and also the non-use must be fight with education. People who usually don't care that would say that even what I write is not important, but as a language teacher student, I'm making on my mind a really active user of grammar just by checking it, learning from it, and always going further by understanding it, which take us to be almost experts when talking about speech structure, and that also would be really worth for us as person, as individuals because the correct use of the language may bring eloquence, synthesis capacity, better than average skill writting, of course an amount of things that might be supported by surveys. This all is gotten by practice, and practice take us just to understand a little bit of our cotidian life, as grammar is present everywhere; In the supermarket list, the agenda, the newspaper, the announcements, the tv, and even in the morning conversation with our parents or friends. Grammar has a lot of meaning and we should encourage ourselves to understand that and share it, because we are owners of it.

1. From your point of view, why you care about grammar?
2. How you think grammar influences  learning different languages?
3. Do you think you apply correctly grammar? How you develop those skills?

I must thank my readers, leave also your opinions or comments.