Write More to Improve Your Language Accuracy
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- Writing is sometimes not a necessary skill in our language learning, but it is always a great learning activity. When we write we take more care, we review what we have written, and we improve ourselves by ourselves. If you have patience, writing is a great way to improve all of your language skills.
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Listening is #1. Do it enough, and things will just “sound” correct in your head. That’s the best feeling!
I've only recently realised this. how blind of me. I was watching language learning videos and people (esp. Lindie Botes) were writing diaries in whatever language, and i though only 1) how frustrating to not be able to express yourself and 2)what banal everyday things they are writing- but now I see the value in that exact thing. i guess i'll have to do it.
I'm now of the opinion that, ideally, a learner should do a lot of writing before doing lots of speaking. Because there's less time-pressure and more of an opportunity to do self-monitoring. A person who can write well can definitely speak well (if a bit formal), but a person who chats well will not necessarily write well. The language learning module is smart but lazy. If you say something that's technically wrong but gets your point across, you strengthen that pathway and then you'll say it the same way the next time you're in that situation. If you're not careful, you can end up saying it that way for the next 20 years. We all know people who do this. Incorrect output trains you to produce more incorrect output.
Hello dear,
Unfortunately i don't agree with all what did you write, because the first ability that we need to improve is our listening and followed by speaking.... i mean we have to do alot of input works before we'll reach output aspects such as speaking as well as writing....
Best luck
Yes I must disagree also Poleag. Writing is of course a beneficial language activity and can help improve the grammar of your speaking overtime because you can correct yourself as you write.
But in Ireland for example, many people can write in the minority language 'Irish' but their speaking of the language is very bad because they pay no attention to the phonetics of Irish and instead they allow the phonology of their first language, English, to dictate how they pronounce the Irish words. (It is so bad that even teachers of the language and University graduates speak terribly without following the rules of the languages phonetics).
If you can write it, you can say it.
Yes writing does make your speaking better but it takes time people don’t have. Writing is important, but it’s not as important as listening, reading, or (most of the time) speaking.
Poleaf i agree with you.
I think the optimal learning journey is a lot of listening followed or combined with lots of reading, then writing and speaking. Actually my active English greatly improved when I started to write on some forums, then I joined chat and then even did some calls:) I think that writing before speaking is quite reasonable approach, you can appreciate the nuances of the language much more while writing and you have more time to think about what you want to convey.
And in forums you can correct yourself by editing your message if you spot a mistake:)
Writing consolidates what we have learned in the English 🎉 dictation ,reading a lot, a way of structure.(business academic formate )
Neutral way in speaking
I can totally agree I've recently come to realize this. good topic choices. Have a good year Steve and good luck on your Arabic learning! You're such a role model. following you from Egypt
@@miaumiau8918 what languages are you learning at present?
@@miaumiau8918 pretty cool. Good luck!
I've just started working on my writing, wow. I've noticed that my writing skills were a bit meh compared to what I'm capable of and now I want to improve my writing. I write using paper cause I've also noticed that I don't feel as grounded in my target language compared to my native one and the one thing that I haven't had as much experience with when it comes to my target language is writing a whole lot on paper(the vast majority of public schools in Russia mostly use paper so you have to write everything down except for very long reports). It especially helps my ADHD haha I've noticed such a big difference with writing things down, I'm actually able to remember things I want to remember and the language feels tangible vs just floating in the air with me trying to grasp it. it's crazy how our brains work haha
Steve, I've passed B2 Dutch listenning and my writing exam is coming up next, so this is particularly good advice for me. I've practiced writing lots of words and sentences, but have only a little direct practice with paragraphs and longer pieces so far. I imagine a lot of that skill can be generalised between different languages though, so when I do write it doesn't feel difficult. I just hope they don't expect prescribed formats with words like "Firstly, furthermore, finally" that seem to be suggested in some writing tutorials I've seen.
Good advice as always Steve, but easier in some languages than others (I'm looking at you Japanese)
Thank you so much! You have a great channel!
Yes, thank you so much for your lovely videos
The same thing applies also to one's mother language(s). But nowadays people write too little, for we can type and send short messages.
As usual great video, Thank you
Yes, thank you so much for your lovely videos
I learn with Peppa Pig.. I hear and write, over and over again. 30 seconds today, 30 tomorrow and so on. .. but before to hear more 30 seconds, I always read everything from the beginning. Sometimes, I go to the grammar to understand better something. but it's not my priority. The number 1 is vocabulary. After 20 episodes, I speak enough the language to have a conversation :-)
Peppa Pig is great, but I wish there were other, not so infantile cartoons made especially for language learning.
I learn chinese because I want to read but handwriting helps me to remember better the carachters.
When you wrote chinese did you write single carachters or did you write whole sentences? I found chinese 练字本 to repeatedly write single carachters, but isn't it more effective to repeat whole sentences?
At my first , like in other scripts , I write and writing is best form for learning a language .
You were at Science Po??? That’s incredible! We’re you studying or working?
How do you feel about the idea of "speaking how you write in Chinese"? It feels like Mandarin really has a much sharper contrast between the two than European language. A lot of grammar and words like 與 該 於 as they're used in writing can even be confusing to hear for native speakers
The thing with Chinese is, what if I just write in pinyin? Is this as effective to help with things like noticing the grammar?
This is why Duolingo works for writing. You have to pay attention to accents, spelling and grammar
Help! I want to write more, but using my computer keyboard...how do I type the French accent grave/aigu/circonflexe...cedilla...using my american keyboard. The only advice i find involves a special code for each character, or stop-and-insert, which will be super slow...
What kind of computer do you have. Most allow you to select different language keyboards.
I cannot make heads or tails of Linq. It is difficult to understand where to start with it.
Sorry to hear that. We are trying to make everything more intuitive. Meantime I suggest you tap on your profile, where your icon or picture is, and you will see lots of help, in the Academy and in the various videos and explanations that are there. Good luck.
what's the 40% discount for lingq?
It's in the video description
I don’t how to learning with LingQ you mean reading and listening or other way to learn!
Do you consider typing the same as well? Does it do the same benefit because technically you’re writing the words but just on a device lol
Soo i think i should start comment on your videos kkk
J'aimerais bien m'inscrire pour un an mais là je suis sur d'autres projets coûteux en temps et en énergie : langue non dispo sur lingq, philosophie, et enfin mathématiques. Donc peut être l'année prochaine. ^^
Quelle langue, si ce n'est pas indiscret ?
@@alexfg2178 ɓasaa, une langue bantoue du cameroun. Je parle déjà couramment mais je suis largement perfectible.
Contrairement à M. Kauffman très compliqué pour moi d'apprendre plus de 40 mots/phrases par jour. Surtout dans une langue tonale
@@m.neuville5389 Super! Si vous connaissez quelqu'un qui parle parfaitement cette langue et qui peut traduire et faire des enregistrements des mini-stories de LingQ, y a possibilité que cette langue soit ajoutée à l'application. Ce serait un beau projet.
@@alexfg2178 J'en connais plein, et heureusement. ^^ Mais bon faire du matériel d'apprentissage est un gros travail. Surtout dans une langue tonale à l'orthographe qui n'est pas entièrement fixée.
J'en sais quelque chose : j'ai créé pour moi même déjà près de 10 000 fiches anki classées en une cinquantaine de catégories grammaticales (classes, dérivés verbaux, dérivés nominaux). Il y a 4 lettres non existantes dans l'alphabet latin (programées sur mon ordi) et les tons à rajouter : c'est du boulot.
@@m.neuville5389 ah oui en effet, je comprends la difficulté. Bonne continuation dans votre apprentissage, cela doit être passionnant.
I enjoy your videos Steve but, this is not a criticism but why don't you number your videos so we can find particular videos ? It's not just you, lots of TH-cam video makers don't do it.