Abuse procedures... Reality Checks

michael.dillon at bt.com michael.dillon at bt.com
Wed Apr 11 23:11:32 UTC 2007


> As for documentation on this... There is PLENTY of it. Why should
> I write another document no one would follow. 

Because you might be a better writer than those other folks. You might
be able to present the right balance of technical detail and policy
goals to be understood by a larger number of people.

People often ask me to advise them which book they should buy to learn
language X fast. X being French or Russian or German etc. I always give
the same advice. Go to a good bookstore that stocks a large choice of
books in your chosen language. In some cities that means the local
university bookshop, in others there may even be a specialist bookshop
that sells just language books. The important thing is that you go and
look at several different books, compare them to one another and FIND
THE ONE WHOSE AUTHOR SPEAKS TO YOU. Find the writer whose writing
matches your way of thinking. Other than that, buy one dictionary that
you can carry with you all day long, one beginners book, and one graded
reader to start. Every 6 months, go back to this (or another) shop and
look over the selection again because you may have advanced to the point
where additional books/CDs will help. And always avoid beginners books
which do not use the native alphabet of the language you are learning, a
particular problem with Japanese.

In the masses of content that is indexed by Google, we need MORE
variety, not less. Please do try to write something if you can.

--Michael Dillon



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