Love the reminder to just pick ONE resource and actually do it. There's a million approaches out there so it's easy to get distracted looking for the next "most efficient learning method"
Another good one. Your tips remind me of 3 things (I'm writing this to avoid starting today's Spanish class). First, another youtube video called "Fail Faster." About just starting a hard job, and not worrying about it being perfect. I learned this working in a factory as a young man. There was pressure to get a lot done efficiently. It was good to have a plan, but when in doubt, just start! Finally, the best self-help book ever, Psycho-Cybernetics talks about what the author calls the unconscious success mechanism. The conscious mind directs you to what you want to get done, but the heavy lifting of thinking and processing information is done unconsciously. Hence, you work hard at language and then find you know it. The expression of sleeping on a problem relates to this. Anyway, time for me to fail faster. I'm old. Took Spanish for years in school, just completed Pimsleur, and I still don't know squat. But I'm not quitting.
Sounds like you have the right mindset -- if you keep plugging along and learning in a focused way, eventually pieces of Spanish start to click. Keep it up
There's a paradox involved when people like us are infected with the need to self-isolate for learning versus our genetically enforced need to socialize. I'm a novel writer, oil painter, network engineer and Spanish learner, all of which require private, intense focus on themes. These are the activities I love, as for so many others. The conflicts come when our need for socialization forces us to seek companionship. There are integration issues related to opinion, experience and self-asurrance. I wonder IF it's a simple matter of our American model just doesn't work. For eons, men or woman, not men and woman, would segregate into workshops to paint together, speak languages together, write together with the strongest cultural models being Italy and France. I am of the pursasion a return to those Atilier days must occur or, we're destined to go the way of "modern art", where everything becomes popular opinion crap and as useless as DuoLingo.
The point about the information coming in, finding its place, and eventually being available to us in conversation was helpful.
Love the reminder to just pick ONE resource and actually do it. There's a million approaches out there so it's easy to get distracted looking for the next "most efficient learning method"
Another good one. Your tips remind me of 3 things (I'm writing this to avoid starting today's Spanish class). First, another youtube video called "Fail Faster." About just starting a hard job, and not worrying about it being perfect. I learned this working in a factory as a young man. There was pressure to get a lot done efficiently. It was good to have a plan, but when in doubt, just start! Finally, the best self-help book ever, Psycho-Cybernetics talks about what the author calls the unconscious success mechanism. The conscious mind directs you to what you want to get done, but the heavy lifting of thinking and processing information is done unconsciously. Hence, you work hard at language and then find you know it. The expression of sleeping on a problem relates to this. Anyway, time for me to fail faster. I'm old. Took Spanish for years in school, just completed Pimsleur, and I still don't know squat. But I'm not quitting.
Sounds like you have the right mindset -- if you keep plugging along and learning in a focused way, eventually pieces of Spanish start to click. Keep it up
Great advice
glad it was helpful!
Thank you so much for your effort i have no idea how this video didn’t reach 100k at least but I’m glad that i found your channel
thank you! I'm glad you found it too, happy to have you here. Bring 99.9k of your friends and i'll get there 🤣
😂😂😂😂 I’ll try to have this many for a noble cause
Great advice! Thank you! 👍
thanks! glad you liked it
Good advice, totally agree.
thanks Phil!
Wise words
Thanks Paul! Hope your learning is going well.
So true, thank you!
Adelente...por favor Gracias de Pakistan...
There's a paradox involved when people like us are infected with the need to self-isolate for learning versus our genetically enforced need to socialize. I'm a novel writer, oil painter, network engineer and Spanish learner, all of which require private, intense focus on themes. These are the activities I love, as for so many others. The conflicts come when our need for socialization forces us to seek companionship. There are integration issues related to opinion, experience and self-asurrance. I wonder IF it's a simple matter of our American model just doesn't work. For eons, men or woman, not men and woman, would segregate into workshops to paint together, speak languages together, write together with the strongest cultural models being Italy and France. I am of the pursasion a return to those Atilier days must occur or, we're destined to go the way of "modern art", where everything becomes popular opinion crap and as useless as DuoLingo.