Proud New Zealander here - shocked that UA-cam’s AI calls Dr Paul Nation an “American” linguist! Excellent content and advice Lois. This Spanish learner (me) is very much in agreement with the methods you espouse.
Thank you! I’d like to know if you have any video where you explain in detail how you study with Anki. I want to know how you work with vocabulary-do you create sentences with each word, or how do you do it?
Good advice for people like me, who are trying to learn English. Furthermore, your pronunciation and intonation are very clear. Thanks Lois!!! If you take my suggestion, I'd like to see a conversation between you and Stephanie from The English Coach. I normally follow both and it would be very interesting to cross-reference your knowledge.
These are very helpful tips!. I've used the top 2-5k word list for Spanish and studied Spanish Input's verb list. It lists the verbs in the top 5k words. He uses highlights for the most frequent usages of the verb so you learn the indicative, past, present, subjunctive, etc based on frequency. You focus on most frequent then move down the list. I also thought about what I'd say to someone in a conversation using those words and practiced them. I'd consider all those things targeted practice. I agree that it is better to focus on targeted areas. Less overwhelming.
Funny you should mention that you are not interested in the Japanese writing system (wording might have been different though) because as a japanese native speaker, I often find myself wondering how it’s written in kanji when I hear a new word for the first time. I’m not trying to say you should learn kanji or you’re missing out on something, but I just can’t imagine using Japanese without knowing the writing system. It just maybe because I’m a native speaker. By the way, I’m a big fan of our channel. And I’m learning French and Arabic! J’adore votre canal !
You are absolutely right. People who skip kanji are absolutely underestimating the benefits of kanji because it only becomes clear when you have learned a lot of them. Now obviously it requires a serious time investment but it is absolutely a gain in the longer term, not only for reading ability as Lois describe but for a pure conversational aim as well in my opinion. As a Japanese learner I do this thinking process you describe more and more. At the point of advanced vocabulary (say N2/n1) it becomes literally all the time. when I hear an unknown word by guessing the kanji I can often understand it without any prior knowledge of it, and memorizing will be almost automatic. Also the Japanese language being full of homonyms, kanji is almost a necessity in my opinion. I have never heard of someone who went through kanji learning for a serious amount have this skip kanji for casual conversation position, only people who skipped this experience and can't therefore measure its actual benefits. Kanji is not a mere writing system it goes way beyond that.
I'm a software engineer trying to learn French, thanks, really inspired.
Glad to hear it!
This rehearsed speech activity seems to be similar to the Language Islands method, kind of a heavier version of it.
Proud New Zealander here - shocked that UA-cam’s AI calls Dr Paul Nation an “American” linguist!
Excellent content and advice Lois. This Spanish learner (me) is very much in agreement with the methods you espouse.
Great to hear you are finding the content helpful!
Thank you! I’d like to know if you have any video where you explain in detail how you study with Anki. I want to know how you work with vocabulary-do you create sentences with each word, or how do you do it?
Good advice for people like me, who are trying to learn English. Furthermore, your pronunciation and intonation are very clear. Thanks Lois!!!
If you take my suggestion, I'd like to see a conversation between you and Stephanie from The English Coach. I normally follow both and it would be very interesting to cross-reference your knowledge.
Glad it was helpful!
These are very helpful tips!. I've used the top 2-5k word list for Spanish and studied Spanish Input's verb list. It lists the verbs in the top 5k words. He uses highlights for the most frequent usages of the verb so you learn the indicative, past, present, subjunctive, etc based on frequency. You focus on most frequent then move down the list. I also thought about what I'd say to someone in a conversation using those words and practiced them. I'd consider all those things targeted practice. I agree that it is better to focus on targeted areas. Less overwhelming.
Funny you should mention that you are not interested in the Japanese writing system (wording might have been different though) because as a japanese native speaker, I often find myself wondering how it’s written in kanji when I hear a new word for the first time.
I’m not trying to say you should learn kanji or you’re missing out on something, but I just can’t imagine using Japanese without knowing the writing system. It just maybe because I’m a native speaker.
By the way, I’m a big fan of our channel. And I’m learning French and Arabic!
J’adore votre canal !
Thanks for watching! I'm glad you enjoy the channel!
You are absolutely right. People who skip kanji are absolutely underestimating the benefits of kanji because it only becomes clear when you have learned a lot of them. Now obviously it requires a serious time investment but it is absolutely a gain in the longer term, not only for reading ability as Lois describe but for a pure conversational aim as well in my opinion.
As a Japanese learner I do this thinking process you describe more and more. At the point of advanced vocabulary (say N2/n1) it becomes literally all the time.
when I hear an unknown word by guessing the kanji I can often understand it without any prior knowledge of it, and memorizing will be almost automatic. Also the Japanese language being full of homonyms, kanji is almost a necessity in my opinion.
I have never heard of someone who went through kanji learning for a serious amount have this skip kanji for casual conversation position, only people who skipped this experience and can't therefore measure its actual benefits.
Kanji is not a mere writing system it goes way beyond that.
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