During Winter break, I’ve been studying with a teacher 4 days a week during January. Additionally, I’ve been watching some movies in Chinese, generally in the evening before going to bed. My theory is that if I hear a lot of Chinese and go to bed with that the last thing I do (rather than interact in English on the web, chatting, etc), I will have a greater tendency to think in Chinese while dreaming, etc.
I’ve been having more dreams where I will be using Chinese, etc. I can feel the difference in my thinking (even in dreaming) when switching to Chinese, etc. It’s rather interesting.
One movie I watched recently was an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie about cloning. They had something (I forget the exact name) called something like “c-Pet”, etc. which stood for a cloned pet. The idea was that you could take a sample from your pet, and with their “patented” brain scan and transfer technology, have a “new” version of the pet within a couple hours.
Today, I noticed this picture about a real cloned puppy (cost $155,000) (yes, US Dollars), here: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/popup?id=2165602 .
Boca Raton, Fla., couple are the proud owners of a cloned puppy, The Associated Press reports. Nina and Edgar Otto paid $155,000 to have a San Francisco biotech firm create a clone from the DNA of their dog, Lancelot, who died last year. The new dog has been named Lancelot Encore.
(ABC)
I hope someone i nthe news follows the story a few years. I’ll be interested to see if they’ve gotten past the problem with premature aging in clones (since you often start with a mature source, already aged). Of course, I don’t actually know what I’m talking about, so feel free to tell me that in the comments!
What other movie strategies can people suggest for language study?