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How To Learn Unfamiliar Subject
3 things that help our brain become a sponge in learning new and unfamiliar subjects again.
As we grow older, our abilities to learn begin to waive. “Why couldn’t I memorize this like before?”, you might ask. Around you, your friends experience the same phenomenon — it is not that you do not want to learn, but your brain seems to be on strike every time you try.
If you have ever felt that way, me too. For years, I have tried to find a way to battle against my inability in learning new subjects. “New memory is easier to store if it relates to your experience” — science says; so I tried to make every new information related to my previous experience. The downside of that method is, ironically, that I do not have that much experience to connect with, especially in learning a completely unfamiliar subject. The Great Wall of Old Memories proves itself to be overly powerful and effectively blocks any new information I try to encode. It starts to be more desperate for me.
That is until I start to learn Chinese.
Chinese has long been branded as one of the hardest languages to learn. Upon learning it, I instantly understand why. The monstrous complexity of Chinese grammar and its memory-based writing system — weaved in with an ocean of irregularities developed for thousands of years, are great obstacles for those who want…
