Friday, May 8, 2009

Simulated environment : in praise of the poster

I like the idea of creating a simulated environment to enhance the will to learn, fighting procrastination. It could have an even bigger reach in terms of efficiency and why not marketing. In fact, lots of goods and services play on simulation in a "poseur" manner to create a fiction. That's why an Italian restaurant with a jazz BGM has all it wrong, although I like jazz. The majority of simulated environments are for selling entertainment. Disney could come up as provider of perfectly fake and faked environments for language schools, the French classroom, the Japanese one, although I would reek at the mere idea of going there. All the more that the best simulation must be personal. No entity should force upon what you instill in your ears when listening to native content, or the posters you may put on the wall, granted you are the master of the wall sanctity and are free to use them. Grown-ups are grown-ups when they scrap the Rolling Stone poster on the wall for nothing, or something of a farther past.

Thinking about it, buying a poster as a flat personal shrine dedicated to ones efforts toward knowledge acquisition, a visual motivator and dispenser of silent encouragement, would benefit to be tackled with enhance strategy. I remember having bought in London, in that largest bookstore in town, a poster featuring hiragana and katakana, a few weeks or months before starting learning Japanese in a Paris university. It was a sign of commitment to oneself, and also a talisman from which to get and sustain the fire that was my enthusiasm at learning Japanese, at a time when it was still an oddity.

I would benefit for a few posters on solar cell technology or nutraceuticals, but walls are scarce and a source of conflict is used in unmoderated fashion.

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