Tonight I am too tired to wrap my mind around this topic but to prevent it to disappear
from my “radar screen” I post it here.

The first article I found was here

Sure it sounded to me as a marketing come on, attention grabber catch phrase but
when I found it on Wiki ,http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_teaching_methods

I figured I better read up on it. Also to share it with my ESL community, someone bound to

have luck with it. If you do, please let me know.

After reviewing the Steve Kaufmann on learning languages

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZNYyR7-jUM&feature=youtu.be

video that I got from reading  Nafis on April 27, 2011 at 11:30am post titled: My Guest Blogger: Mr. Steve Kaufmann

I did two things:

1: I updated my language learning map to include HUMOR. It made sense and while I was aware of it, it is now solidified in my road map as a milestone.

2: I started to think: what is better, knowing many languages or know a few or perhaps only one but to the high level?

By circumstance I know two languages, one is Hungarian that I would not recommend anyone to learn unless there is a special reason since it is the hardest language after the Chinese (reportedly, but I would not know as I grew up with it). And English of course that I am writing with and use on the daily basis.

Presently I am involved in a higher level learning of the English language and I am enjoying the benefit of higher level communication with people. The moral of my short essay here is the conscious  choice one can make between learning many languages and communicate at the level of his/her proficiency of it, or invest into one or two languages but learn them at higher levels that enables the person to engage in higher level topics and communicate with more cultivated people. The old duality of quantity and quality dynamics at work ;-)

Since I am learning the English language (1986) my world has expanded.  Recently I started an adventure voyage into the “TERRA INCOGNITA“. Let’s see if there are others in this cyber portal who are also on a similar voyage.