What an encouraging perspective! It gives me the motivation to keep going, focusing not on when I will succeed, but on what I can control-specifically, as you mentioned the other day, the amount of time I dedicate to learning English.
Super. When I was a kid, I was interested in the ancient philosophers, but did not understand much. The Stoics seemed rather negative and depressive at the time so I did not pay much attention to Stoic thought. Now, as an adult I find a lot of useful thought in the works of Zeno, Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. Their writings are not cult or religion, rather a way of seeing the world in a very adaptive way. Today, will will work on the things which I can control... Thanks for writing. Your support is always appreciated.
Yes, concentration has a big impact, especially if you are tired, it is better to choose how much time you are comfortable with and practice constantly. Recently, I noticed a difference, I watched videos with 50-70% comprehension, but when I watched tired, my efficiency dropped to 30-40%.
You point out an important detail. One of the ways we make our learning efficient is to get enough sleep. Learning does not occur in a classroom or in a video. It occurs in the brain and if we are tired, stress or preoccupied, the learning will suffer. What a great point. I wish that I had mentioned that. Thank you.
Thanks sir. Love episodes like this one too, are plenty of practical advice to improve our learning process. I've found out myself that sit-com TV shows such as 'Friends', 'How I Met your Mother' or even 'The Big Bang Theory' are all high centered in language, I mean they are based in coversation, talking, discusing, arguing, jokes etc and this might be because they are in esence comedy shows. They all have tons of cultural references about American and even Canadian culture, and they are so much fun. So, I think this kind of content can be better to learn English than most featured films. But what do you guys think?
... learning a new language is like living a new life in an accelerated and compressed manner and it cannot be done in a linear fashion but rather in a spiral, where you go back and approach what you already know using new words or seeing things from another angle. Language learning is as old as civilization and what is certain is that you need a teacher or guide to help you systematize and highlight what is important. There are no perfect methods or better ones than others but they all complement each other and success largely depends on the capacities or skills that the student has and the degree of difficulty of the target language. Joseph, I know that what you do is important but it only works for advanced students. Anyone who comes to understand you will do so because they have previously had good teachers and methods that have raised them to the level of your course.
Thank you. There is a lot of insight in your paragraph. When I started the channel, the need appeared to be for intermediate learners. There are other resources for absolute beginners. I see many different levels in the listeners but no rank beginners. Or course, you are right about the spiral. Also, not much mention is made of the forgetting process which is part of the learning. Thank you for your support.
In childhood, people will get more knowledge of a language under the guidance of a teacher by adding to watching content and reading books in that language. The same is true in our native language. When a person gets older, he starts to lose his knowledge of unused things. Rebuilding a language for an aging person is hard, and it doesn't work as it would in a childhood. My English is from movies when I was at the age of 16, and I have rebuilt it, starting it at the age of 30+ from the point where it didn't make sense to me. After 18 years, I rebuilt it. What the plateau I don't know, but it isn't connected with rebuilding.
@@vogditis Well analyzed. When we learn a language, it stays in memory, however, the retrieval strength for that language decreases with time. People get frustrated by this desirable difficulty. Relearning the information is quicker and makes stronger memories. This is the work of Robert Bjork at UCLA. I don't focus on the issue of one's age because it is not something which we can change. It is what it is. The connection of a plateau is only that it is an opinion or impression which stresses the learner and may interfere with progress. Thank you.
I personally think that sometimes it's really helpful to use some elements of traditional learning but it will be mistake to rely on them too much and it is depends on the person their cognitive features and a level. it mayby slows you bown or maybe helps to spead up i think. and both the sensation can be a bit delusional also sometimes people do the same thing but they did it really differently and has completely different result I'm sure that without massive exposure into the compelling content in your target language it is hard to reach the level you happy with. if it not a part of your life and a part of your personality you still have some affective filter i think.
I am with you on this. My primary push is CI. However, salting in a little targeted curiosity is fine. When I look at a pattern in Spanish which is bugging me, I will seek to very specifically target that detail and clarify it. It usually take little time and pays off with greater understanding. I agree that if I just added 500 hours of input, I could probably skip my mini-investigation. We need to be flexible. I am CI all the way, but one can celebrate a little targeted curiosity. Thank you for writing. Your contributions are always great.
What an encouraging perspective! It gives me the motivation to keep going, focusing not on when I will succeed, but on what I can control-specifically, as you mentioned the other day, the amount of time I dedicate to learning English.
Super. When I was a kid, I was interested in the ancient philosophers, but did not understand much. The Stoics seemed rather negative and depressive at the time so I did not pay much attention to Stoic thought. Now, as an adult I find a lot of useful thought in the works of Zeno, Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. Their writings are not cult or religion, rather a way of seeing the world in a very adaptive way. Today, will will work on the things which I can control... Thanks for writing. Your support is always appreciated.
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You are welcome. Thank you for your support.
Yes, concentration has a big impact, especially if you are tired, it is better to choose how much time you are comfortable with and practice constantly. Recently, I noticed a difference, I watched videos with 50-70% comprehension, but when I watched tired, my efficiency dropped to 30-40%.
You point out an important detail. One of the ways we make our learning efficient is to get enough sleep. Learning does not occur in a classroom or in a video. It occurs in the brain and if we are tired, stress or preoccupied, the learning will suffer. What a great point. I wish that I had mentioned that. Thank you.
Thanks sir. Love episodes like this one too, are plenty of practical advice to improve our learning process.
I've found out myself that sit-com TV shows such as 'Friends', 'How I Met your Mother' or even 'The Big Bang Theory' are all high centered in language, I mean they are based in coversation, talking, discusing, arguing, jokes etc and this might be because they are in esence comedy shows. They all have tons of cultural references about American and even Canadian culture, and they are so much fun. So, I think this kind of content can be better to learn English than most featured films.
But what do you guys think?
Well said. Thank you for writing.
... learning a new language is like living a new life in an accelerated and compressed manner and it cannot be done in a linear fashion but rather in a spiral, where you go back and approach what you already know using new words or seeing things from another angle. Language learning is as old as civilization and what is certain is that you need a teacher or guide to help you systematize and highlight what is important. There are no perfect methods or better ones than others but they all complement each other and success largely depends on the capacities or skills that the student has and the degree of difficulty of the target language. Joseph, I know that what you do is important but it only works for advanced students. Anyone who comes to understand you will do so because they have previously had good teachers and methods that have raised them to the level of your course.
Thank you. There is a lot of insight in your paragraph. When I started the channel, the need appeared to be for intermediate learners. There are other resources for absolute beginners. I see many different levels in the listeners but no rank beginners. Or course, you are right about the spiral. Also, not much mention is made of the forgetting process which is part of the learning. Thank you for your support.
In childhood, people will get more knowledge of a language under the guidance of a teacher by adding to watching content and reading books in that language. The same is true in our native language.
When a person gets older, he starts to lose his knowledge of unused things. Rebuilding a language for an aging person is hard, and it doesn't work as it would in a childhood.
My English is from movies when I was at the age of 16, and I have rebuilt it, starting it at the age of 30+ from the point where it didn't make sense to me. After 18 years, I rebuilt it.
What the plateau I don't know, but it isn't connected with rebuilding.
@@vogditis Well analyzed. When we learn a language, it stays in memory, however, the retrieval strength for that language decreases with time. People get frustrated by this desirable difficulty. Relearning the information is quicker and makes stronger memories. This is the work of Robert Bjork at UCLA. I don't focus on the issue of one's age because it is not something which we can change. It is what it is.
The connection of a plateau is only that it is an opinion or impression which stresses the learner and may interfere with progress. Thank you.
I personally think that sometimes it's really helpful to use some elements of traditional learning but it will be mistake to rely on them too much and it is depends on the person their cognitive features and a level. it mayby slows you bown or maybe helps to spead up i think. and both the sensation can be a bit delusional
also sometimes people do the same thing but they did it really differently and has completely different result
I'm sure that without massive exposure into the compelling content in your target language it is hard to reach the level you happy with. if it not a part of your life and a part of your personality you still have some affective filter i think.
I am with you on this. My primary push is CI. However, salting in a little targeted curiosity is fine. When I look at a pattern in Spanish which is bugging me, I will seek to very specifically target that detail and clarify it. It usually take little time and pays off with greater understanding. I agree that if I just added 500 hours of input, I could probably skip my mini-investigation. We need to be flexible. I am CI all the way, but one can celebrate a little targeted curiosity. Thank you for writing. Your contributions are always great.
@@comprehendeng thank you for interesting and thought provoking videos!