What a language and how to use it.

These days, I started to learn English and Japanese vocabulary, maybe Chinese too in the future.

When learning words, I felt it is not right just to remember the meaning of a word. I felt it is so mechanical. Same as drawing, I have to translate reality into paper, I have to translate life into words and sentences. Every word I speak or use have life in it and feeling in it.

Kimon Nicolaides put it.

We tend to be mechanical in language when we are so used to use it.
However, I think it is interesting to make that unconscious conscious again by learning a new language or relearning language I thought I have learned.