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Thanks so much for making this video! Watching it almost single-handedly changed the way that I approach language acquisition, and I'm enjoying the process so much more than I used to.
Great video! I've been thinking about that concept a lot. I'm currently learning Amharic, my parents' native language. I've been exposed to it a lot but was never taught so I only knew a few basic words. When I was younger it stressed me out a lot but right now, I realize that it's fairly easy for me to listen to content for hours I barely understand at all. I think that's mainly due to the habit of it. It's like meditation, it's such a valuable skill, for language learning and many other challenges in life.
I love your post! Also I love how you're reframing my innate laziness as a skill. How bout a hybrid/ balanced approach...for a given time take notes of things you'd like to look up or which interest you... Later on...maybe in a week... Whether scheduled or ' just when you feel like it". Go through your notebook and Pick some of them and look them up. As a separate activity from developing ambiguity tolerance. When you do this, the lookup period will be an activity unconnected to the text or video/audio you were mining or collecting or noting or extracting things from. Now go back and reread or rewatch something ( not everything! Just half an hour of omething). Enjoy or just notice the increased comprehension that comes with the newly increased background knowledge.
Allow my two cents if you will, I'd say look up words ONLY at the beginning to get your first few words, hopefully some common useful verbs that you can use to help you get your start, the rest is Krashen, that is all! 😉
Language learning gives me an excuse to listen to Disney songs on repeat 😂 and feel like im doing something useful. Ive got the ambiguity tolerance covered lol.
Hey, man.. thanks for this video.. as part of my spanish learning process, I’m gonna start american series (unnaturally dubbed in spanish). I chose it since I already watched it before and familiar with the story. Even so, I tried the ep1 of HIMYM and only about 1% of what they say I understood. Is that OK? Also I set the subtitle on which by the way, can be a bit different to what the audio says. But after 5 mis of watching, even though I know the story, I felt really lost. I just wanna know if this is OK? Thank you!
What is your litmus test for "reading level"? I heard you say it and I was thinking does it feel like I'm hearing the language in my head when I read or not so much. But now I'm wondering if you have a different idea like maybe the ability to understand well enough to guess the meaning of unknown words from context which would probably mean I'm not at a reading level in Korean yet. I usually need the dictionary or I could just skip it and move on.
I made the first mistake he spoke about, I started reading from the start, big mistake? No, but not the most optimal way to learn a language and my listening was and probably still is a ways behind my reading level. I'd say get to a certain level maybe in listening, maybe b1 or so, then you can start reading, starting at a1 if you need to. The thing is you really need to hear alot before you read I'd say, first of all that's how a baby does it, as a baby can't read, a baby can't listen either (think about the difference between hearing and listening), but a baby will hear by default, which, believe it or not is important because you need to hear how the vowels are pronounced in the language so when you read to yourself or even out loud, you know how to pronounce the words.
@ My approach to foreign languages was always to read first and listen and speak second but when I studied Japanese that did not work (I kept trying anyway). I think the problem with Japanese was a combination of the different word order, lack of cognates, and the kanji. Definitely the kanji was a big problem. Studying Japanese really opened my eyes to how many different ways there are to go about studying a language. It was really difficult 😂. Korean had been hard for me to but no harder than Japanese. Some people study Korean after learning Japanese or vice versa and find it relatively easy but that’s not been the case for me. But I’m getting there.
Can you go 3 straight months without looking up a word in your target language?
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Thanks so much for making this video! Watching it almost single-handedly changed the way that I approach language acquisition, and I'm enjoying the process so much more than I used to.
this is awesome thanks for the synthetization of the idea !
Great video! I've been thinking about that concept a lot. I'm currently learning Amharic, my parents' native language. I've been exposed to it a lot but was never taught so I only knew a few basic words. When I was younger it stressed me out a lot but right now, I realize that it's fairly easy for me to listen to content for hours I barely understand at all. I think that's mainly due to the habit of it. It's like meditation, it's such a valuable skill, for language learning and many other challenges in life.
I love your post! Also I love how you're reframing my innate laziness as a skill. How bout a hybrid/ balanced approach...for a given time take notes of things you'd like to look up or which interest you... Later on...maybe in a week... Whether scheduled or ' just when you feel like it". Go through your notebook and Pick some of them and look them up. As a separate activity from developing ambiguity tolerance. When you do this, the lookup period will be an activity unconnected to the text or video/audio you were mining or collecting or noting or extracting things from.
Now go back and reread or rewatch something ( not everything! Just half an hour of omething). Enjoy or just notice the increased comprehension that comes with the newly increased background knowledge.
I love this. I love your methods, your advice, your study mindset. I completely agree and I’m thankful for your TH-cam channels! 💙
Allow my two cents if you will, I'd say look up words ONLY at the beginning to get your first few words, hopefully some common useful verbs that you can use to help you get your start, the rest is Krashen, that is all! 😉
Watching Korean without subtitles gives me a headache. If I keep going anyway does that mean I have good tolerance or I'm just a masochist?
Language learning gives me an excuse to listen to Disney songs on repeat 😂 and feel like im doing something useful. Ive got the ambiguity tolerance covered lol.
Hahah this is amazing : )
Hey, man.. thanks for this video.. as part of my spanish learning process, I’m gonna start american series (unnaturally dubbed in spanish). I chose it since I already watched it before and familiar with the story. Even so, I tried the ep1 of HIMYM and only about 1% of what they say I understood. Is that OK? Also I set the subtitle on which by the way, can be a bit different to what the audio says. But after 5 mis of watching, even though I know the story, I felt really lost. I just wanna know if this is OK? Thank you!
What is your litmus test for "reading level"? I heard you say it and I was thinking does it feel like I'm hearing the language in my head when I read or not so much. But now I'm wondering if you have a different idea like maybe the ability to understand well enough to guess the meaning of unknown words from context which would probably mean I'm not at a reading level in Korean yet. I usually need the dictionary or I could just skip it and move on.
I made the first mistake he spoke about, I started reading from the start, big mistake? No, but not the most optimal way to learn a language and my listening was and probably still is a ways behind my reading level. I'd say get to a certain level maybe in listening, maybe b1 or so, then you can start reading, starting at a1 if you need to. The thing is you really need to hear alot before you read I'd say, first of all that's how a baby does it, as a baby can't read, a baby can't listen either (think about the difference between hearing and listening), but a baby will hear by default, which, believe it or not is important because you need to hear how the vowels are pronounced in the language so when you read to yourself or even out loud, you know how to pronounce the words.
@ My approach to foreign languages was always to read first and listen and speak second but when I studied Japanese that did not work (I kept trying anyway). I think the problem with Japanese was a combination of the different word order, lack of cognates, and the kanji. Definitely the kanji was a big problem. Studying Japanese really opened my eyes to how many different ways there are to go about studying a language. It was really difficult 😂. Korean had been hard for me to but no harder than Japanese. Some people study Korean after learning Japanese or vice versa and find it relatively easy but that’s not been the case for me. But I’m getting there.
I love language learning. This seems to be a good approach for me.
That’s wonderful!!