Thank you for the video. I've been watching a lot of language related content and your video popped up in my feed. It's so cool you mentioned the importance of listening. This is because I just decided from tomorrow onward, I will concentrate on listening at least for one month for the languages I'm currently learning :)
@@史安达 I've been learning for a while but never really concentrated solely on pure listening for an extended period of time. A year or two makes sense. It creates focus. I never heard of this process for this amount of time before but it makes total sense now that I think about it. Thanks again for this. Look forward to watching your other videos.
@@lorenzovonmatta8278 lol I didn’t make the video, but there’s another guy who doesn’t make videos anymore but I still feel like his old library is the best language learning content on UA-cam if you want to learn how to get to the near native level the guy who made this video is talking about and yeah he advocates to put off reading as long as possible. He explains it in a more in depth way than just because reading doesn’t allow your ears to “bloom” but I can’t be bothered to explain it how he does. The bloom metaphor is relatively sufficient , if you want to know more I say watch matts videos starting with “why you still cant understand your target language” and “consciousness and language acquisition” (more of a nerdy, rambly video but still very informative in my opinion)
acquisition first develops the unconscious relationship, then additional learning is the conscious refinement of your overall understanding of the language.
Makes a ton of sense to me. I’m kind of at the point where I have developed that near native like accent and can understand probably 95%+ of what I’m listening to depending on how focused I am and the specific content but I’m finding it somewhat hard to progress but I guess reading is now the way to go. I think I’ve put off extensive reading long enough and my accent is finally at a point where I’m like yeah I cab start reading. But to expand on what you go over in the first half of the video, I think a good way to speed up this process of allowing your ears to “bloom” is shadowing the language in a way where you can hear yourself and get that immediate feedback starting maybe 1 year into the process or so
You have an incredible accent in English, but I wouldn't say it's "perfect" compared to a native speaker from the US. Is your native language Arabic? You're like 85-90% there. I'm guessing French and Japanese is the same. Maybe saying your accent is 1:1 to a native speaker or "perfect" isn't quite accurate. That being said, this HAS to be the absolute best technique that would get you as close as possible to a native speaker. Listening HAS to be the answer. I'm glad that you're spreading the message!
will this work on Chinese as well?, im already at an intermediate level and still struggling to think in the language and produce native level sentences
Yes it will. Did you put off reading like he said or what’s your specific situation? I’m a mandarin learner so I can give you specific tips/my experience
This is also interesting because I realized like about 1.5 yrs into my study process with this thing was that my actual accent was better than my “internal monologue “ voice when reading
Thank you for the video. I've been watching a lot of language related content and your video popped up in my feed. It's so cool you mentioned the importance of listening. This is because I just decided from tomorrow onward, I will concentrate on listening at least for one month for the languages I'm currently learning :)
Try a year
@@史安达 I've been learning for a while but never really concentrated solely on pure listening for an extended period of time. A year or two makes sense. It creates focus. I never heard of this process for this amount of time before but it makes total sense now that I think about it. Thanks again for this. Look forward to watching your other videos.
@@lorenzovonmatta8278 lol I didn’t make the video, but there’s another guy who doesn’t make videos anymore but I still feel like his old library is the best language learning content on UA-cam if you want to learn how to get to the near native level the guy who made this video is talking about and yeah he advocates to put off reading as long as possible. He explains it in a more in depth way than just because reading doesn’t allow your ears to “bloom” but I can’t be bothered to explain it how he does. The bloom metaphor is relatively sufficient , if you want to know more I say watch matts videos starting with “why you still cant understand your target language” and “consciousness and language acquisition” (more of a nerdy, rambly video but still very informative in my opinion)
@@史安达 Haha I blame waking up too early. Yikes! But thanks for the information. I will check it out for sure. Greatly appreciated!
Thanks this was really helpful I started off with more reading than listening and you saying this has really helped me
My native languages are English and French and I'm trying to learn Japanese!! 😂
Here I thought it was a rarer combo 🙈.
acquisition first develops the unconscious relationship, then additional learning is the conscious refinement of your overall understanding of the language.
True but I would say it develops the “subconscious model” but I think we’re referring to the same concept
Makes a ton of sense to me. I’m kind of at the point where I have developed that near native like accent and can understand probably 95%+ of what I’m listening to depending on how focused I am and the specific content but I’m finding it somewhat hard to progress but I guess reading is now the way to go. I think I’ve put off extensive reading long enough and my accent is finally at a point where I’m like yeah I cab start reading. But to expand on what you go over in the first half of the video, I think a good way to speed up this process of allowing your ears to “bloom” is shadowing the language in a way where you can hear yourself and get that immediate feedback starting maybe 1 year into the process or so
You have an incredible accent in English, but I wouldn't say it's "perfect" compared to a native speaker from the US. Is your native language Arabic?
You're like 85-90% there. I'm guessing French and Japanese is the same. Maybe saying your accent is 1:1 to a native speaker or "perfect" isn't quite accurate.
That being said, this HAS to be the absolute best technique that would get you as close as possible to a native speaker.
Listening HAS to be the answer. I'm glad that you're spreading the message!
will this work on Chinese as well?, im already at an intermediate level and still struggling to think in the language and produce native level sentences
Yes it will. Did you put off reading like he said or what’s your specific situation? I’m a mandarin learner so I can give you specific tips/my experience
@@史安达 give advice
@@Inyayo on what specifically?
This is also interesting because I realized like about 1.5 yrs into my study process with this thing was that my actual accent was better than my “internal monologue “ voice when reading
i love listening to you yap
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