Quotes About Comprehension

Enhancing the input

when learners focus primarily on meaning, they may not be able to also pay attention to the sounds that make up the words.

learners sometimes fail to notice certain language forms—grammatical morphemes, vocabulary words, syntactic patterns, pragmatic features—when their focus is on understanding meaning.

I may not know what is in your mind, but I know how your mind works.

It's not enough to know what all the words mean," he continued. "A good reader starts to see what an entire book is trying to say. And then a good reader will have something to say in return.

When you try to learn everything about something, you end up learning something about everything.

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It's just that we shared a certain language, and when she talked to me about her past, I understood her without having to ask for explanations.

the idea that you can't truly understand something without having experienced it yourself.

A cat probably doesn't say to himself, 'Where did I go wrong? Why wasn't I able to get my idea across?' More likely, Leo's brain reacted very much like the human brain in such a situation, and he thought, 'That damned stupid human. He's too dumb to understand what I was trying to say.

Examples of passive-aggressive behavior in relationships include repeated instances of: • Lateness • Procrastination • Forgetfulness • Sullenness • Stubbornness • Refusal to comprehend • Resistance to suggestions • Intentional withholding of needed information • Talking behind someone's back • Hostile sarcasm*

If one reads too quickly or too slowly, one understands nothing.

Mathematics is only a tool and one should learn to hold the physical ideas in one's mind without reference to the mathematical form.

St. Thomas Aquinas said it neatly and powerfully centuries ago: "Things known are in the knower according to the mode of the knower.

What you mean? Whaih you think Gawd is?' Joe remained sullenly silent. His mother's faith was too stalwart for his comprehension. There was nothing like it in his own soul to interpret it.

You already speak German; you just don't know it yet.

You will learn most things by looking, but reading gives understanding. Reading will make you free.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

Meeting a Zen master on the road, Face him neither with words nor silence. Give him an uppercut And you will be called one who understands Zen.

Plotinus had been born in Alexandria at the beginning of the third century A.D. Like many brilliant critics, he thought he understood what he had read better than the author himself.

Heldmann suggests paraphrasing, or repeating, the key points of the speaker's statements to show that you want to understand what the person is saying. Develop your own style of doing this so it comes across naturally.

La plupart sont aveugles dans cet univers du langage; sourds aux mots qu'ils emploient. Leurs paroles ne sont qu'expédients; et l'expression pour eux n'est qu'un plus court chemin : ce minimum définit l'usage purement pratique du langage. Être compris, ---comprendre, --- sont les bornes entre lesquelles se resserre de plus en plus ce langage pratique, c'est-à-dire, abstrait.

Maybe no one can know how it is for anyone else.

They are mentally not very fast. They are every one of them one brick short of a load.