Speaking of Reinventing The Wheels

I really had the impulse to have a good vent about the joy and pain of reinventing the wheels the other day, but didn't get the time to do so any earlier. Wish I could do it now, but I still don't have enough time to.

One kind of the pain of such wheel reinventing adventure is that we are not able to tell the good materials from the bad, or the bad from the good, when we are at a relatively low level. Oh, by the word "adventure", I am obviously referring to the self accent correction process. Among the sources that I have spent serious amount of time studying, there are two I wish I had not known or hadn't known at such an early stage of my experiment.

I had thought this, http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/, were a good place to learn the right articulation, and had believed I was lucky to have found it for a long time. But I realized it is kind of a wasting of time in the end. As for the other source, it really takes courage for me to admit it publicly that I have finally learned that it has done more harm than good to me. This one is the Ann Cook "Bible". I had felt it were good in the begining, bad years later, then good for a while. Right now, imagining my going back to redo the learning, the least thing I wish to happen would be to get Cook's book as my first guide.

The joy of using the wrong meterial, is that it makes me laugh, at myself of course, when I finally reach the point of realizing it. Isn't it like a girl marrying the first guy she runs into, thinking he were like a god, while living a struggling life but believing that is what life is all about? :-)

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• Can you elaborate on it a little bit, not quite get your meening -nitebynite- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/12/2013 postreply 04:49:09

• you'd have some very valuable experiance to share, more detail p -niteBynite- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/12/2013 postreply 05:00:00

• There are two kinds of teachers. -北京二号- ♀ (418 bytes) () 08/12/2013 postreply 12:39:03

• Long time no see! -Lucidus- ♂ (0 bytes) () 08/12/2013 postreply 04:52:42

• quiz :零活,責任? -走马读人- ♂ (37 bytes) () 08/12/2013 postreply 07:43:29

• 最后的比喻生动形象,谢北京二号分享纠音心历路程。 -祤湫霖- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/12/2013 postreply 09:16:56

• 问好各位！等有空了一定再来展开唠叨。：-） -北京二号- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/12/2013 postreply 23:38:02

• 好呀，有空再叙。 -祤湫霖- ♀ (0 bytes) () 08/13/2013 postreply 09:04:14

• Thanks for sharing your experiences. -ntotl- ♂ (858 bytes) () 08/13/2013 postreply 00:11:52

• I agree with you. -北京二号- ♀ (308 bytes) () 08/13/2013 postreply 23:38:28