That's true, actually this is the recommendation in most of the cases, first try to learn the language immersed in context, so after some time when you are quite comfortable with the language, you try to delve into grammar ...
Exactly. I never learn grammar before being a little further in the language. Moreover, you understand grammar better when you use it regularly e.g in writing.
In their book "Becoming Fluent- How Cognitive Science can help adults learn a foreign language." Dr.s Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz explain that re-learning is easier than learning. I cannot recommend this book enough. It is by far the best I've ever read on language learning strategies.
I think that going back to the basics is not only good for language learning but for the most of subjects ... I have 20 years of experience in the IT field, but I've the necessity to go back to the basics again, and it has been an pleasant experience so far ... so refreshing ...
Honestly, I'm gonna have to try this. I'm horrible at review, and I've been feeling like I've been in a rut. Perhaps going back to basics will be a good reset to my learning 😎
I went through a long confidence valley over the last year or two with Klingon. Some might call it a product of an intermediate plateau, but it also had to do with a real lack of intermediate reading materials. Now a friend of mine (whose channel is jatlhDeSDu!) has translated and written a few things that are at my level and that is helping A LOT to get out of this rut. Right now I'm reading The Wizard of Oz in Klingon and I'm definitely having that experience of "wait I DO know how to do this! I just read two chapters in this silly language!" I was avoiding certain people so that I wouldn't have to speak Klingon with them (and feel very rusty); now I feel like I'm back in the saddle through reading (and a little intentional vocab gap filling), and I'm happily chatting away again. Very good. Good luck everybody with your languages!
Thanks to your videos I started revisiting the German basics by doing Babbel from scratch.. I just finished the newcomer courses and it’s a great way to refresh the fundamentals of a language. I look at all sentences in a new light after starting from scratch, and I’ve gained a lot of CONFIDENCE too!
How on point! I was just telling my pre-intermediate students this morning how important it is to sometimes go back to the basics. :) A lot of people feel ashamed to do this but it is so helpful to consolidate your knowledge and build further progress.
Thanks to you making this point about how you circle back to review basics, in earlier videos, I started doing this last night, co-incidentally (it must be in the air)! My method of studying Greek is to write short stories/accounts/reports - little descriptions or vignettes to explore language patterns and I then learn the story by heart. At the beginning I would write 6 sentence stories and it would take me a week to learn them. I now write 12 sentence stories and learn them in a day. When I went back to the very first one last night I was amazed how easy it was, as I remember how hard it had been to learn it. I’m also learning Italian from the beginning again, having not studied it for 15 years when I did a few months. It’s a delight!
I studied Hindi a lot, albeit pretty inefficiently, as a teenager, and I'm now really enjoying going through the Duolingo, partly to remind myself on some grammatical points but also because it just feels good to ease back with content I'm comfortable with to prepare myself for the new stuff. I agree with you that going back to basics can be super helpful! (Actually I think that's the best way to use Duolingo - to identify weak points when you already know a language reasonably well.)
I am ( in my fourties, living in Germany), fluent in arabic, french and German, i'm looking for people to chat with, from mid-thirties upwards, i would like to improve my speaking skills in english, in return if you want to improve your level in those languages mentioned above, i' would be pleased to help.
I'm studying Chinese as well and I was wondering if you've ever had the idea of doing a video on your favorite idioms (not necessarily Chinese ones). I just recently learned 偷鸡摸狗
thank you for this video and especially for the example of how you do it. I'm trying to build this habit of adjusting sentences, personalizing them and I have a lot of trouble doing it, maybe fear of doing it wrong or not knowing how to do it.
I think it would be really interesting for me to review my chinese textbook from when I started learning chinese. I think it would be an eye opener. I feel like it will be like watching a movie or show you watched before and understanding it better.
I learned German in high school and university, but now I'm reviewing with Deutsche Welle, and it's great! It's been about 5 years since I've studied and I forgot a lot. I'm hoping to increase my fluency and go to a language school in Germany (hopefully later this year 🤞🏽)
Deutsche Welle is really great for learning German. You should also try out "Top-Thema"(It is a subsection of Deutsch Welle). It is helpful as well. I used it when learning German.
@@AfroLinguo I have a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…Having friends from other cultures makes me more creative. In fresh ways about space and how people create their own world and environment. It is best way to connect between creative thinking and cross-cultural relationships.
It is very nice to know about your experience with chinese..... He tenido que hacerlo un par de veces este mes con algunos idiomas pero ya estoy mejorando :)
I find that grammatical explanations make a lot more sense once you have had some exposure to the language. Especially reading.
This is so true!
That's true, actually this is the recommendation in most of the cases, first try to learn the language immersed in context, so after some time when you are quite comfortable with the language, you try to delve into grammar ...
Exactly. I never learn grammar before being a little further in the language. Moreover, you understand grammar better when you use it regularly e.g in writing.
In their book "Becoming Fluent- How Cognitive Science can help adults learn a foreign language." Dr.s Richard Roberts and Roger Kreuz explain that re-learning is easier than learning. I cannot recommend this book enough. It is by far the best I've ever read on language learning strategies.
I think that going back to the basics is not only good for language learning but for the most of subjects ... I have 20 years of experience in the IT field, but I've the necessity to go back to the basics again, and it has been an pleasant experience so far ... so refreshing ...
Honestly, I'm gonna have to try this. I'm horrible at review, and I've been feeling like I've been in a rut.
Perhaps going back to basics will be a good reset to my learning 😎
I went through a long confidence valley over the last year or two with Klingon. Some might call it a product of an intermediate plateau, but it also had to do with a real lack of intermediate reading materials. Now a friend of mine (whose channel is jatlhDeSDu!) has translated and written a few things that are at my level and that is helping A LOT to get out of this rut. Right now I'm reading The Wizard of Oz in Klingon and I'm definitely having that experience of "wait I DO know how to do this! I just read two chapters in this silly language!" I was avoiding certain people so that I wouldn't have to speak Klingon with them (and feel very rusty); now I feel like I'm back in the saddle through reading (and a little intentional vocab gap filling), and I'm happily chatting away again. Very good. Good luck everybody with your languages!
Thanks to your videos I started revisiting the German basics by doing Babbel from scratch.. I just finished the newcomer courses and it’s a great way to refresh the fundamentals of a language.
I look at all sentences in a new light after starting from scratch, and I’ve gained a lot of CONFIDENCE too!
Geil!! Du lernst Deutsch!!! Viel Glück damit.
Oh, so important as you say towards the end and relevant to all learning: you have to make it your own. 😌👍
I adore these videos over any storytime videos...💞
How on point! I was just telling my pre-intermediate students this morning how important it is to sometimes go back to the basics. :)
A lot of people feel ashamed to do this but it is so helpful to consolidate your knowledge and build further progress.
Thanks to you making this point about how you circle back to review basics, in earlier videos, I started doing this last night, co-incidentally (it must be in the air)! My method of studying Greek is to write short stories/accounts/reports - little descriptions or vignettes to explore language patterns and I then learn the story by heart. At the beginning I would write 6 sentence stories and it would take me a week to learn them. I now write 12 sentence stories and learn them in a day. When I went back to the very first one last night I was amazed how easy it was, as I remember how hard it had been to learn it.
I’m also learning Italian from the beginning again, having not studied it for 15 years when I did a few months. It’s a delight!
Nice to hear that it all came back to you when starting learning it again
:)
We don't really lose what we learn, it just gets rusty without practice
I studied Hindi a lot, albeit pretty inefficiently, as a teenager, and I'm now really enjoying going through the Duolingo, partly to remind myself on some grammatical points but also because it just feels good to ease back with content I'm comfortable with to prepare myself for the new stuff. I agree with you that going back to basics can be super helpful! (Actually I think that's the best way to use Duolingo - to identify weak points when you already know a language reasonably well.)
Wow!!! That demonstration was impressive! Great video! 💕❤️
I am ( in my fourties, living in Germany), fluent in arabic, french and German, i'm looking for people to chat with, from mid-thirties upwards, i would like to improve my speaking skills in english, in return if you want to improve your level in those languages mentioned above, i' would be pleased to help.
download a app called hellotalk. super easy to find language partners there. both written form and you can go on and use skype and talk.
@@Sosui2 thank you Alex for your hint, i appreciate it.
@@leonmiguel459 no worries ! :) good luck finding someone to talk to !
@@Sosui2 i'll give it a go, and let's see what happend, no pain no gain :)
I'm studying Chinese as well and I was wondering if you've ever had the idea of doing a video on your favorite idioms (not necessarily Chinese ones). I just recently learned 偷鸡摸狗
A very good advice, i do this often and I suppose it's very useful for me.
thank you for this video and especially for the example of how you do it. I'm trying to build this habit of adjusting sentences, personalizing them and I have a lot of trouble doing it, maybe fear of doing it wrong or not knowing how to do it.
I think it would be really interesting for me to review my chinese textbook from when I started learning chinese. I think it would be an eye opener. I feel like it will be like watching a movie or show you watched before and understanding it better.
i need to do this too, go back and rewatch my old lessons. great idea.
your pronunciation and tones really improves so much! 加油！
I learned German in high school and university, but now I'm reviewing with Deutsche Welle, and it's great! It's been about 5 years since I've studied and I forgot a lot. I'm hoping to increase my fluency and go to a language school in Germany (hopefully later this year 🤞🏽)
Deutsche Welle is really great for learning German. You should also try out "Top-Thema"(It is a subsection of Deutsch Welle). It is helpful as well. I used it when learning German.
@@AfroLinguo I have a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…Having friends from other cultures makes me more creative. In fresh ways about space and how people create their own world and environment. It is best way to connect between creative thinking and cross-cultural relationships.
@@Sakura-zu4rz true. I feel like I am at a plateau now with chinese, but my chinese friends give me the strength to continue
Love your videos, keeps me motivated to study German
It is very nice to know about your experience with chinese..... He tenido que hacerlo un par de veces este mes con algunos idiomas pero ya estoy mejorando :)
Thanks!
Hey Robin, any updates on Journaly?
Did you also do Assimil Chinese? How did you like that book?
Nice!
What happened to Catalan and the Spanish book?
You need a discord.
你说中文好可爱呀😂
真的嗎～～? 😂 謝謝～ 🙏🏼✨
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
What happened to learning catalan ?