Monday, December 03, 2001, 10:10 GMT
The Antimoon article:
http://www.antimoon.com/other/writingdamage.htm
provoked many readers to write to us and many of them wrote:
YOU CANNOT LEARN WITHOUT MAKING MISTAKES.
They think that they have to make mistakes if they want to learn English.
This phrase sounds almost like a proverb.
I want to discuss it further because I believe that it is false and misleading.
I started learning another foreign language in order to see if I could learn without mistakes. I wanted to show people that it is possible to learn a language without making mistakes.
I have learned Norwegian for about half a year now. And I believe that I haven't made a single mistake. You can read about my Norwegian experiment:
http://www.antimoon.com/norsk
http://www.antimoon.com/other/writingdamage.htm
provoked many readers to write to us and many of them wrote:
YOU CANNOT LEARN WITHOUT MAKING MISTAKES.
They think that they have to make mistakes if they want to learn English.
This phrase sounds almost like a proverb.
I want to discuss it further because I believe that it is false and misleading.
I started learning another foreign language in order to see if I could learn without mistakes. I wanted to show people that it is possible to learn a language without making mistakes.
I have learned Norwegian for about half a year now. And I believe that I haven't made a single mistake. You can read about my Norwegian experiment:
http://www.antimoon.com/norsk