2026-06-19
6 分钟Language learning or Sudoku.
So why am I putting those two things together?
I'm going to explain.
I have an excellent tutor for Persian and every session for say the last 30 minutes of our class she prepares questions.
Interesting questions.
Questions about life, questions about philosophy, questions about current events.
And so it forces me to try and organize my thoughts
and express thoughts in Persian on subjects that are usually quite interesting.
I don't have to think them up myself.
I have to answer her questions.
So she asked me, is it a good thing that we are in the information age?
So I can't remember what I said,
but of course one of the results of the information age is that I'm learning Persian
and that I'm connecting with a native speaker of Persian via the internet.
And I can source podcasts and other material which I can learn the language
from and this is true not only of Persian obviously it's true of all the many languages
that people might want to learn so to that extent obviously the information
age is a good thing if we use it and take advantage of the good things
that are there we also hear of people
who are lonely because of the information age because they spend so much time scanning through their Instagram account