you bring up a really great point! i wanna be different than the other comments and say it this way, i half agree. drills, in language its vocab, and grammar structures in its purest form. exposure, thats 🔡watching, reading, listening 🏀watching, seeing how others play. you see how your drills play out in context, take in examples, put it in your head. application. ultimately, the goal isnt to be correct, its to communicate. you use your broken language, with the limited vocab to order food, to ask a clerk, small talk. take it further, to tell a story. take it even further, poetry. yet these things you start doing since you were a wee child, with broken grammar, and limited vocab. yet also, renowned poets and authors regularly break these rules intetionally. the difference is in the intent, and how creatively they string words to evoke a feeling, to be understood, to score a point, to flow in the court. start speaking your target language early, start going to your local basketball park
im gonna be honest, im still a basketball beginner. i was searching for videos to start drilling, and this video just clicked something in my mind. ill also admit that in me saying this is also a confession that i intended to drill myself until i wont burden whatever made up team ill be in when i play at the park, yet its not possible, its never 100% possible, just like you wont master a language 100%. ultimately, advice varies case by case, from person to person, and this video was the advice i needed
So true. Learning German right now as a class, and it is very boring. I already know from basketball and the points you made that none of it will really be beneficial if I really want to learn the language. Honestly, I don’t know how the heck “learning” became so much about a progressive build up rather than just being exposed to the topic, then fixing the mistakes afterward. Also, most classes are geared towards these counter-productive ways of “teaching” students boring topics that discourage creativity and that students will never use.
EXACTLY, most kids don’t learn shit in these classes the way they teach, better off throwing on an interesting show in that language in the class and just letting it go 😂
Make it fun is the biggest thing, gotta meet people where they are, get them the most development while still ensuring it’s enjoyable enough FOR THEM to want to keep coming back
I disagree bro. How will you speak Italian and improve if you dont have the right vocabulary or dont have vocabulary at all. Just by going there and talking random stuff to people wont do the Trick, because in real life situations people arent patient with you when they notice that you dont speak the language and will switch to English. Same thing with ball: you go to a park and dont know how to shoot. You make 5 airballs, getting blocked, whatever and your teammates wont pass you the ball anymore. So, of course you got to put yourself in situations that challenge you, but first of all you have to learn the basics, like vocabulary, tenses, dribbling, shooting. Best way to improve is learning the skill and applying it directly shortly after in real life, meaning doing both things at the same time over a long period of time. Just my 2 cents
I get what you are saying but again getting the wrong point. You are taking the absolute extreme of the example. Going to the park could be by yourself, or a player of similar skill. The best players in the world didn’t start with perfect ideal training in an isolated environment. Most of them spent years at the park before they did any of these formal “drills”
Same way you learned to speak English… did you not grow up hearing people speak the language for years before you were even taught the ABCs?? You learned how to speak by trying and messing up words and piecing them together mostly from exposure, then slowly overtime you learned to improve it… think about it like that
I half disagree. They can't learn a skill just by playing. They need to be taught how to do it then they can take it to the court and grow. But they need the skill first.
you bring up a really great point! i wanna be different than the other comments and say it this way, i half agree.
drills, in language its vocab, and grammar structures in its purest form.
exposure, thats 🔡watching, reading, listening 🏀watching, seeing how others play. you see how your drills play out in context, take in examples, put it in your head.
application. ultimately, the goal isnt to be correct, its to communicate. you use your broken language, with the limited vocab to order food, to ask a clerk, small talk. take it further, to tell a story. take it even further, poetry. yet these things you start doing since you were a wee child, with broken grammar, and limited vocab. yet also, renowned poets and authors regularly break these rules intetionally. the difference is in the intent, and how creatively they string words to evoke a feeling, to be understood, to score a point, to flow in the court.
start speaking your target language early, start going to your local basketball park
im gonna be honest, im still a basketball beginner. i was searching for videos to start drilling, and this video just clicked something in my mind. ill also admit that in me saying this is also a confession that i intended to drill myself until i wont burden whatever made up team ill be in when i play at the park, yet its not possible, its never 100% possible, just like you wont master a language 100%. ultimately, advice varies case by case, from person to person, and this video was the advice i needed
So true. Learning German right now as a class, and it is very boring. I already know from basketball and the points you made that none of it will really be beneficial if I really want to learn the language. Honestly, I don’t know how the heck “learning” became so much about a progressive build up rather than just being exposed to the topic, then fixing the mistakes afterward.
Also, most classes are geared towards these counter-productive ways of “teaching” students boring topics that discourage creativity and that students will never use.
EXACTLY, most kids don’t learn shit in these classes the way they teach, better off throwing on an interesting show in that language in the class and just letting it go 😂
Fred Van Fleet out here trynna learn Italian 😂 love it, man
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Agree
How would you go about approaching kids that are just lackadaisical when it comes to working out, or going through the motions the whole time?
Make it fun is the biggest thing, gotta meet people where they are, get them the most development while still ensuring it’s enjoyable enough FOR THEM to want to keep coming back
I see these child prodigies doing crazy drills with dad. Have any one of them made it in team sports?
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I disagree bro. How will you speak Italian and improve if you dont have the right vocabulary or dont have vocabulary at all. Just by going there and talking random stuff to people wont do the Trick, because in real life situations people arent patient with you when they notice that you dont speak the language and will switch to English. Same thing with ball: you go to a park and dont know how to shoot. You make 5 airballs, getting blocked, whatever and your teammates wont pass you the ball anymore.
So, of course you got to put yourself in situations that challenge you, but first of all you have to learn the basics, like vocabulary, tenses, dribbling, shooting.
Best way to improve is learning the skill and applying it directly shortly after in real life, meaning doing both things at the same time over a long period of time. Just my 2 cents
I get what you are saying but again getting the wrong point. You are taking the absolute extreme of the example. Going to the park could be by yourself, or a player of similar skill. The best players in the world didn’t start with perfect ideal training in an isolated environment. Most of them spent years at the park before they did any of these formal “drills”
Same way you learned to speak English… did you not grow up hearing people speak the language for years before you were even taught the ABCs?? You learned how to speak by trying and messing up words and piecing them together mostly from exposure, then slowly overtime you learned to improve it… think about it like that
I half disagree. They can't learn a skill just by playing. They need to be taught how to do it then they can take it to the court and grow. But they need the skill first.
They definitely don’t need the skill to go play, almost everyone starts by playing, acquiring some skill and then go train and fine tune