Learning Your nth Language

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1. LEARNING YOUR NTH LANGUAGE DAVID GRANDINETTI

2. LANGUAGE IS LIKE A BURRITO

3. LANGUAGE IS LIKE A BURRITO

4. LANGUAGE IS LIKE TRAVEL

5. AT FIRST

6. THE FOCUS IS ON SYNTAX

7. ;

8. KNOWING FRENCH != KNOWING FRANCE

9. LANGUAGE IS... SYNTAX CONCEPTS COMMUNITY LIBRARIES TOOLS

10. SYNTAX HOW DO I WRITE A FEW LINES?

11. CONCEPTS ALLOWS YOU TO THINK THE WAY THE LANGUAGE DESIGNER

    DOES

12. WHEN YOU USE RUBY, YOU USE TOOLS THAT WORK THE

    WAY MATZ THINKS

13. COMMUNITY WHAT ARE THE VALUES OF THE PEOPLE AROUND THIS

    LANGUAGE?

14. LIBRARIES SHOWS YOU HOW TO DESIGN HIGHER LEVEL CONCEPTS IN

    THIS LANGUAGE

15. TOOLS SHOWS YOU WHAT THE COMMUNITY VALUES AND HOW THEY

    USE THE LANGUAGE

16. HOW DO I TEST, MANAGE DEPENDENCIES, DEPLOY, ETC?

17. YOUR SECOND LANGUAGE

18. YOU WILL BE EXPOSED TO DIFFERENT WAYS OF DOING THINGS

19. TRAVEL HAS A WAY OF STRETCHING THE MIND. THE STRETCH

    COMES ... WITH EXPERIENCING FIRSTHAND HOW OTHERS DO DIFFERENTLY WHAT WE BELIEVED TO BE THE RIGHT AND ONLY WAY. RALPH CRAWSHAW

20. YOU START TO SEE CONCEPTS

21. YOUR NTH LANGUAGE

22. YOU START TO THINK IN CONCEPTS

23. YOU REALIZE SYNTAX IS USUALLY MINOR...

24. ...BUT YOU WILL STILL MESS IT UP

25. STEP 1 BECOMES "HOW DO I CONCEPTUALIZE THIS PROBLEM?"

26. SWIFT IS KIND OF AN ANOMOLY

27. RECENTLY EMERGED FROM BEHIND THE CURTAIN

28. SWIFT HAS... SYNTAX* CONCEPTS COMMUNITY LIBRARIES TOOLS

29. WE'RE ALL NEW AT THIS...

30. ...AND YOU CAN AFFECT ALL OF IT

31. THE WHOLE OBJECT OF TRAVEL IS NOT TO SET FOOT

    ON FOREIGN LAND; IT IS AT LAST TO SET FOOT ON ONE’S OWN COUNTRY AS A FOREIGN LAND. G.K. CHESTERTON