How fond am I of talking? Well, I guess I do have more than fondness for it. I have a deep intimacy for it. In my age usually, talking means everything. It triggers us to communicate more and be expressive. And since, to reveal wholly of what we feel, all of us needs and has to want to learn how to communicate not only to where we reside but also to the world. But how?
Samuel Johnson once quoted, "language is the dress of our thoughts." And indeed, he was truly right.
Language gives us the pass to portals of other people's minds. No one really knows when we had had the language we have been using since the beginning of time and human race. We are so crafty and crazy about things that usuably, we tend to not notice the evolution of our words and so, we talk not prior to what we want to say.
Why? If then that language is the dress of our thoughts, the choice of words then also matter that much.
They do, yes, worth much and cost little. So how do we then contemplate the language as a whole and the words, a part of it?
First, we need to be wary when somebody is talking to us. It's after all, a twig that connects us to the roots. Their choice of words would somehow give us some cue of how they feel and what they perceive. It would also show us a hint of how we would be using and what kind of words would we be stating. Our listening skills in this point is used. Therefore, to listen is significant into becoming a good language learner.
Second, after listening so to the things the second person of the conversation has been saying, our response or opinion to the subject would count. It definitely would especially when we could clearly say what it is in our mind. For what a person cannot clearly state, he does not know. Thus, as Quintillian quoted, "clearness is the most important matter in the use of words." Then another important detail we must not forget into molding ourselves as a good language learner is to practice communication.
Lastly, to whatever cost it may be, an enthusiastic language learner must be open to feedbacks when they are corrected by the others. It is not to give them a chance to be dominant but by giving yourselves an opportunity to be humbled and be more determined to learn communication not just through writing but also to speaking more importantly.
There are a lot of reason why we should be proactive into learning communication by taming it down to language mastery.
Do you have your ways, too?
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