NLP and Lazy Language Learning by Diana Beaver As an Irishwoman,
I like doing things the easy way, so here are some thoughts that
I hope will make life simpler for language learners. What is
language for? It is one of the many forms of communication; one
of the ways in which we inform people about what is going on
inside us - from 'I am hungry' to 'our joint account is empty,
and I want to know how and why.' Language expresses at the
deepest level how we are experiencing the world at a given
moment; and how we experience the world depends, to a large
extent, upon our culture, and upbringing. Cultures have been
evolving over hundreds of thousands of years, and languages are
rich with the differences: the sounds, the rhythms, and the
phraseology - to name but a few. Try an experiment (you might
like to try this with music first, if you haven't got any
foreign language speakers available): close your eyes, relax
deeply and just allow yourself to drop into the sound - letting
go of everything else, so that your e