English learning - Quaint motorcars

(Modern motorcar)

(Vintage motorcar)

I tend to be fascinated all the way by words like 'motorcar'. Those words seem quaint and suggest certain historically technological or scientific progresses. For instance, the 'motor' in 'motorcar' tends to hint that motor for vehicles was a fancy thing, when the word was coined. 'Motorist' is also interesting in that sense. Some other English words approximate to "motorcar". One nice example would be 'motorbike'.

Don't you think the current word 'car' to be a little curt, comparing with 'motorcar'? :-)

On a different note, in American English, people don't regard the word 'car' coolly in their minds. They have certain emotional attachment to it. It indicates 'liberty', 'freedom', 'mobility' and so on, to my knowledge.

Applicable to English learning too - 日本语达人之道 - 豆瓣

Certain ideas on the web page 日本语达人之道 - 含MP3光盘 - 豆瓣 can be applied to English learning too, I suppose. And those are:

文化是日语的基本精神——少了它，处处不对味

虽然知道不少单词句型，却抓不住日本人的精神，只能表面沟通，达不到深层沟通。