Can you please put videos in playlists This makes it easier for us to reach the video even after years. You're such a hero for us, man Keep up the good work ❤
Astonnishing video as always i learned a lot for my language learning, my goal is to learn japanese. The strat that im using is thag i downloaded a couple of anki decks with the n3 n4 and n5 most used words (around 5000 most common words). I do various sessions (by the way i already knew katakana and hiragana, the sillabires that allows to writte anything but do not indicate the pronunciation since they do not signal to which objects we are refering as pitch accent is not deducible from it) of "drills" through the day when i have free time, doing certain activites, in the first 3 days i was raw memorizing, for that i utilized mnemotechniques that involved the pronunciagion or writing of the word, for example "kaku" means writte, therefore i imagine a makaku (that is a name of a chimp, i speak spanish as well so deoending on if the japanese word is similar to a spanish or english word i would do the assosiation in anh of the languages) writting. And as i dont like to waste time, instead of creating new cards i was simply memorizing and using only the deck of the n5 with the most used 1000 words. In a week i would say that i know around 500-1000 words. Therefore each time i read (in furigana, utilizing text that sows the reading on hiragana of eaxh kanji) i recognize a couple of works, however i noticed that there is usually a big change between the word because of grammatical issues. Now im now going to immerse doing "drills" of this kind; take a text on furigana, a page, go paragraph by paragraph and ask an ia to divide the paragraphs by words, then i memorize all words, and then i read the whole page, then i read it again but sentence by sentence searching the meaning of the words that i forget (as the mnemoteque is effective but not perfect i just read, search the meaning, emphasise a little bit on the mnemotechnique but i do not writte nothing and just keep reading until the orations make sense). Another drill is with videos, i simply use an extension called bilingual subtitles and another that if im not wrong is iago (furigana reading for kanjis) and download the subtitles, then i reproduce sections of the video multiple times trying to make sense of it. Im 10 days in and i know some basic stuff, however, another drill would be to make various phrases that would be in a conversation in which i may find my self and use mnemotechniques again to remember the words and try to make sense out of the video. My idea of lear ing is that as these 1000 words are common, with doing the mnemotecnique once is more than enough, because as they are so common they would be present in any piece of information of the language and therefore i would be doing actuve recalling. By the moment i do not do passive immersion by the fact that i do not understand absolutely nothing unless it was a daily conversation (hello, how are you, what a good thing, etcetera). In other times i just watch common phrases that you would us in a daily basis. As i speak spanish as my native language i have absoluteky no problem with hearing, even hearing the pitch tone (as in spanish we use a lot uf accent marks) and i train my hear day by day, however, if you ae interesed on it you can acquire pitch by simply paying attention in which parts the speakers make emphasis, you can start by searching auduios in dictionarys and try to figure out each promuntiation. For kanji i do not know nothing, besides the pronuntiation of a couple of characters and the meaning of hundreds, however my plan is to copy hanzihero (a guy that has a page in wich he teaches hanzi, the chinese writting system) through obsidian, spaced repetiton and a lot of reading (which is as well spaced repetition, since you are using the kanjis that you may have studied and then repeat if you rememeber them correctly and if not try to remembering them again).I would use the book "remembering the kanji" by Janes heisig to remember the meanings. For instance the kanji of black is 黒 and is pronuncied "kuro" the mnemotechnique that Heisig proposes is a pen and the four point are ink (and the oen is the kanji of a rice camp with a cross on the cmground), however, he doesnt give a mnemotechnique for the pronunciations so i associate kuro with some drawing and i do a story just as in the case of memorizing vocabulary (if someone is interesed on this can try the page of hanzihero to learn how to learn any hanzi). The problem with kanji is that they have multiple pronuntiations and therefore, theyr pronuntation will deoend on context and with which kanjis are combined or if they are alone, however this is not hard to know since the knowing of the meaning allows for a try of prediction of the kanjis. Obviously the mnemotechniques should be as vivid and bizarre as possible, that mnemotechnique is usually used to memorize chains of words (for ezample, dog-oranges, you would instantly memorize it if you image your dog or anyone dog juggking the oranges). And obviously is necessary to learn kanji and vocab in context and in various cases. In the case of kanji an emohazis on watching common combations with ither kanjis is as well important.
I'm now learning my third language so what I like to do is start in the land of graded readers before graded readers were cool - the multilingual racks in the children's section of my local library system. Kids' books have always been graded. So if I'm a total beginner, I'll start with books for preschoolers in my target language and then work my way up to being able to read at the same level as a high school graduate. I realize that depending on the language this approach is hit and miss but the concept is sound so it can easily apply to books available on the internet.
Funny story. I was reading a funny story I think it was author Tim Farriss. When he was an exchange student in Japan years ago he lived with a Japanese family. One night when he went to bed he thought he asked the mother of the family to please wake him in the morning. What he really said was Please r-ape me in the morning. It happens to all of us at times.
I also find that the tools change depending on one's level. I used anki off and on for years but since becoming more advanced, I switched to limited extensive reading for my vocab acquisition focusing not so much on what I don't know through input but what I can't remember when I output. Great video. Flashcards are indispensable for getting the most common words and phrases in procedural memory.
Not learning words is the biggest failing of academic language learning. The students will learn a lot of grammar rules, but still barely remember a couple hundred words at most so they feel very limited with the grammar they know. Knowing lots of words first makes the grammar rules make so much more sense. When I started focusing on learning words for my Japanese studies, my ability in the language quickly outpaced my knowledge of German I had learned in college.
Well, it's also not the best method for learning. In Asian countries, they learn by heart hundreds and thousands of words, but it doesn't mean they can speak, or even write. Input will never work if there is no output.
@@PoussinNoNeko That's not entirely true. Input and output are two different skills. People who have problems with their speech or writing still can understand their native language even though they can't output very well. There are a lot of people who can understand the languages their families speak, but can't output back. My point is that schools traditionally emphasize grammar because it's easy to grade. Most students don't get enough pressure to learn vocabulary or get input consistently. Asian students almost never have any consistent English input outside of class time. They learn a lot of words, with no context for how to use them.
Astonnishing video as always i learned a lot for my language learning, my goal is to learn japanese. The strat that im using is thag i downloaded a couple of anki decks with the n3 n4 and n5 most used words (around 5000 most common words). I do various sessions (by the way i already knew katakana and hiragana, the sillabires that allows to writte anything but do not indicate the pronunciation since they do not signal to which objects we are refering as pitch accent is not deducible from it) of "drills" through the day when i have free time, doing certain activites, in the first 3 days i was raw memorizing, for that i utilized mnemotechniques that involved the pronunciagion or writing of the word, for example "kaku" means writte, therefore i imagine a makaku (that is a name of a chimp, i speak spanish as well so deoending on if the japanese word is similar to a spanish or english word i would do the assosiation in anh of the languages) writting. And as i dont like to waste time, instead of creating new cards i was simply memorizing and using only the deck of the n5 with the most used 1000 words. In a week i would say that i know around 500-1000 words. Therefore each time i read (in furigana, utilizing text that sows the reading on hiragana of eaxh kanji) i recognize a couple of works, however i noticed that there is usually a big change between the word because of grammatical issues. Now im now going to immerse doing "drills" of this kind; take a text on furigana, a page, go paragraph by paragraph and ask an ia to divide the paragraphs by words, then i memorize all words, and then i read the whole page, then i read it again but sentence by sentence searching the meaning of the words that i forget (as the mnemoteque is effective but not perfect i just read, search the meaning, emphasise a little bit on the mnemotechnique but i do not writte nothing and just keep reading until the orations make sense). Another drill is with videos, i simply use an extension called bilingual subtitles and another that if im not wrong is iago (furigana reading for kanjis) and download the subtitles, then i reproduce sections of the video multiple times trying to make sense of it. Im 10 days in and i know some basic stuff, however, another drill would be to make various phrases that would be in a conversation in which i may find my self and use mnemotechniques again to remember the words and try to make sense out of the video. My idea of lear ing is that as these 1000 words are common, with doing the mnemotecnique once is more than enough, because as they are so common they would be present in any piece of information of the language and therefore i would be doing actuve recalling. By the moment i do not do passive immersion by the fact that i do not understand absolutely nothing unless it was a daily conversation (hello, how are you, what a good thing, etcetera). In other times i just watch common phrases that you would us in a daily basis. As i speak spanish as my native language i have absoluteky no problem with hearing, even hearing the pitch tone (as in spanish we use a lot uf accent marks) and i train my hear day by day, however, if you ae interesed on it you can acquire pitch by simply paying attention in which parts the speakers make emphasis, you can start by searching auduios in dictionarys and try to figure out each promuntiation. For kanji i do not know nothing, besides the pronuntiation of a couple of characters and the meaning of hundreds, however my plan is to copy hanzihero (a guy that has a page in wich he teaches hanzi, the chinese writting system) through obsidian, spaced repetiton and a lot of reading (which is as well spaced repetition, since you are using the kanjis that you may have studied and then repeat if you rememeber them correctly and if not try to remembering them again).I would use the book "remembering the kanji" by Janes heisig to remember the meanings. For instance the kanji of black is 黒 and is pronuncied "kuro" the mnemotechnique that Heisig proposes is a pen and the four point are ink (and the oen is the kanji of a rice camp with a cross on the cmground), however, he doesnt give a mnemotechnique for the pronunciations so i associate kuro with some drawing and i do a story just as in the case of memorizing vocabulary (if someone is interesed on this can try the page of hanzihero to learn how to learn any hanzi). The problem with kanji is that they have multiple pronuntiations and therefore, theyr pronuntation will deoend on context and with which kanjis are combined or if they are alone, however this is not hard to know since the knowing of the meaning allows for a try of prediction of the kanjis. Obviously the mnemotechniques should be as vivid and bizarre as possible, that mnemotechnique is usually used to memorize chains of words (for ezample, dog-oranges, you would instantly memorize it if you image your dog or anyone dog juggking the oranges). And obviously is necessary to learn kanji and vocab in context and in various cases. In the case of kanji an emohazis on watching common combations with ither kanjis is as well important.
Excuse me mr. Scott....can you also make a video on learning games like basketball or football,badminton etc like one of your miit challenges... Actually I wasn't in any game in my school life but I want to pursue my masters in ivy league college and for that I want to take challenge I have maximum 6 months to learn any of these games but I want to do it in as much short period as a human body can ...will you please guide on this
I've tried a bunch of graded readers in Mandarin and they've almost all let me down. Their trick is to start with a pool of 2000 or so characters, grab 500 or so characters from anywhere in that set, then advertise "only 500 characters!" Thus you need to know 2000 characters before you can read the book with 500 characters
You don’t need to read a book to new vocabulary though. A short story, a page , a paragraph. Especially now with AI you can give them 20 vocab words and tell them to write you a short story at your level. I agree that you probably couldn’t grab a graded reader In CM and learn that way.
Astonnishing video as always i learned a lot for my language learning, my goal is to learn japanese. The strat that im using is thag i downloaded a couple of anki decks with the n3 n4 and n5 most used words (around 5000 most common words). I do various sessions (by the way i already knew katakana and hiragana, the sillabires that allows to writte anything but do not indicate the pronunciation since they do not signal to which objects we are refering as pitch accent is not deducible from it) of "drills" through the day when i have free time, doing certain activites, in the first 3 days i was raw memorizing, for that i utilized mnemotechniques that involved the pronunciagion or writing of the word, for example "kaku" means writte, therefore i imagine a makaku (that is a name of a chimp, i speak spanish as well so deoending on if the japanese word is similar to a spanish or english word i would do the assosiation in anh of the languages) writting. And as i dont like to waste time, instead of creating new cards i was simply memorizing and using only the deck of the n5 with the most used 1000 words. In a week i would say that i know around 500-1000 words. Therefore each time i read (in furigana, utilizing text that sows the reading on hiragana of eaxh kanji) i recognize a couple of works, however i noticed that there is usually a big change between the word because of grammatical issues. Now im now going to immerse doing "drills" of this kind; take a text on furigana, a page, go paragraph by paragraph and ask an ia to divide the paragraphs by words, then i memorize all words, and then i read the whole page, then i read it again but sentence by sentence searching the meaning of the words that i forget (as the mnemoteque is effective but not perfect i just read, search the meaning, emphasise a little bit on the mnemotechnique but i do not writte nothing and just keep reading until the orations make sense). Another drill is with videos, i simply use an extension called bilingual subtitles and another that if im not wrong is iago (furigana reading for kanjis) and download the subtitles, then i reproduce sections of the video multiple times trying to make sense of it. Im 10 days in and i know some basic stuff, however, another drill would be to make various phrases that would be in a conversation in which i may find my self and use mnemotechniques again to remember the words and try to make sense out of the video. My idea of lear ing is that as these 1000 words are common, with doing the mnemotecnique once is more than enough, because as they are so common they would be present in any piece of information of the language and therefore i would be doing actuve recalling. By the moment i do not do passive immersion by the fact that i do not understand absolutely nothing unless it was a daily conversation (hello, how are you, what a good thing, etcetera). In other times i just watch common phrases that you would us in a daily basis. As i speak spanish as my native language i have absoluteky no problem with hearing, even hearing the pitch tone (as in spanish we use a lot uf accent marks) and i train my hear day by day, however, if you ae interesed on it you can acquire pitch by simply paying attention in which parts the speakers make emphasis, you can start by searching auduios in dictionarys and try to figure out each promuntiation. For kanji i do not know nothing, besides the pronuntiation of a couple of characters and the meaning of hundreds, however my plan is to copy hanzihero (a guy that has a page in wich he teaches hanzi, the chinese writting system) through obsidian, spaced repetiton and a lot of reading (which is as well spaced repetition, since you are using the kanjis that you may have studied and then repeat if you rememeber them correctly and if not try to remembering them again).I would use the book "remembering the kanji" by Janes heisig to remember the meanings. For instance the kanji of black is 黒 and is pronuncied "kuro" the mnemotechnique that Heisig proposes is a pen and the four point are ink (and the oen is the kanji of a rice camp with a cross on the cmground), however, he doesnt give a mnemotechnique for the pronunciations so i associate kuro with some drawing and i do a story just as in the case of memorizing vocabulary (if someone is interesed on this can try the page of hanzihero to learn how to learn any hanzi). The problem with kanji is that they have multiple pronuntiations and therefore, theyr pronuntation will deoend on context and with which kanjis are combined or if they are alone, however this is not hard to know since the knowing of the meaning allows for a try of prediction of the kanjis. Obviously the mnemotechniques should be as vivid and bizarre as possible, that mnemotechnique is usually used to memorize chains of words (for ezample, dog-oranges, you would instantly memorize it if you image your dog or anyone dog juggking the oranges). And obviously is necessary to learn kanji and vocab in context and in various cases. In the case of kanji an emohazis on watching common combations with ither kanjis is as well important.
If i was on your place i would use hanzi hero and reading with dictionaries all the time (solely for reading hanzk). If you want to learn reading, start today by kearning oinyin and reading with ñinyin (you can ask for chat gpt for a transcription, is always or usually natural.
-Comprensible input -Daily reading and listening (so called immersion) -And in the start learn through anki and by repetitive and constant exposure the basic words of the language to learn the language.
Can you please put videos in playlists
This makes it easier for us to reach the video even after years.
You're such a hero for us, man
Keep up the good work ❤
Articulate, well-organized, interesting. Excellent presentation.
Astonnishing video as always i learned a lot for my language learning, my goal is to learn japanese. The strat that im using is thag i downloaded a couple of anki decks with the n3 n4 and n5 most used words (around 5000 most common words). I do various sessions (by the way i already knew katakana and hiragana, the sillabires that allows to writte anything but do not indicate the pronunciation since they do not signal to which objects we are refering as pitch accent is not deducible from it) of "drills" through the day when i have free time, doing certain activites, in the first 3 days i was raw memorizing, for that i utilized mnemotechniques that involved the pronunciagion or writing of the word, for example "kaku" means writte, therefore i imagine a makaku (that is a name of a chimp, i speak spanish as well so deoending on if the japanese word is similar to a spanish or english word i would do the assosiation in anh of the languages) writting. And as i dont like to waste time, instead of creating new cards i was simply memorizing and using only the deck of the n5 with the most used 1000 words. In a week i would say that i know around 500-1000 words. Therefore each time i read (in furigana, utilizing text that sows the reading on hiragana of eaxh kanji) i recognize a couple of works, however i noticed that there is usually a big change between the word because of grammatical issues. Now im now going to immerse doing "drills" of this kind; take a text on furigana, a page, go paragraph by paragraph and ask an ia to divide the paragraphs by words, then i memorize all words, and then i read the whole page, then i read it again but sentence by sentence searching the meaning of the words that i forget (as the mnemoteque is effective but not perfect i just read, search the meaning, emphasise a little bit on the mnemotechnique but i do not writte nothing and just keep reading until the orations make sense). Another drill is with videos, i simply use an extension called bilingual subtitles and another that if im not wrong is iago (furigana reading for kanjis) and download the subtitles, then i reproduce sections of the video multiple times trying to make sense of it. Im 10 days in and i know some basic stuff, however, another drill would be to make various phrases that would be in a conversation in which i may find my self and use mnemotechniques again to remember the words and try to make sense out of the video. My idea of lear ing is that as these 1000 words are common, with doing the mnemotecnique once is more than enough, because as they are so common they would be present in any piece of information of the language and therefore i would be doing actuve recalling. By the moment i do not do passive immersion by the fact that i do not understand absolutely nothing unless it was a daily conversation (hello, how are you, what a good thing, etcetera). In other times i just watch common phrases that you would us in a daily basis. As i speak spanish as my native language i have absoluteky no problem with hearing, even hearing the pitch tone (as in spanish we use a lot uf accent marks) and i train my hear day by day, however, if you ae interesed on it you can acquire pitch by simply paying attention in which parts the speakers make emphasis, you can start by searching auduios in dictionarys and try to figure out each promuntiation. For kanji i do not know nothing, besides the pronuntiation of a couple of characters and the meaning of hundreds, however my plan is to copy hanzihero (a guy that has a page in wich he teaches hanzi, the chinese writting system) through obsidian, spaced repetiton and a lot of reading (which is as well spaced repetition, since you are using the kanjis that you may have studied and then repeat if you rememeber them correctly and if not try to remembering them again).I would use the book "remembering the kanji" by Janes heisig to remember the meanings. For instance the kanji of black is 黒 and is pronuncied "kuro" the mnemotechnique that Heisig proposes is a pen and the four point are ink (and the oen is the kanji of a rice camp with a cross on the cmground), however, he doesnt give a mnemotechnique for the pronunciations so i associate kuro with some drawing and i do a story just as in the case of memorizing vocabulary (if someone is interesed on this can try the page of hanzihero to learn how to learn any hanzi). The problem with kanji is that they have multiple pronuntiations and therefore, theyr pronuntation will deoend on context and with which kanjis are combined or if they are alone, however this is not hard to know since the knowing of the meaning allows for a try of prediction of the kanjis.
Obviously the mnemotechniques should be as vivid and bizarre as possible, that mnemotechnique is usually used to memorize chains of words (for ezample, dog-oranges, you would instantly memorize it if you image your dog or anyone dog juggking the oranges).
And obviously is necessary to learn kanji and vocab in context and in various cases. In the case of kanji an emohazis on watching common combations with ither kanjis is as well important.
I'm now learning my third language so what I like to do is start in the land of graded readers before graded readers were cool - the multilingual racks in the children's section of my local library system. Kids' books have always been graded. So if I'm a total beginner, I'll start with books for preschoolers in my target language and then work my way up to being able to read at the same level as a high school graduate. I realize that depending on the language this approach is hit and miss but the concept is sound so it can easily apply to books available on the internet.
Funny story. I was reading a funny story I think it was author Tim Farriss. When he was an exchange student in Japan years ago he lived with a Japanese family. One night when he went to bed he thought he asked the mother of the family to please wake him in the morning. What he really said was Please r-ape me in the morning. It happens to all of us at times.
He's an awesome author.
Lmfao
I also find that the tools change depending on one's level. I used anki off and on for years but since becoming more advanced, I switched to limited extensive reading for my vocab acquisition focusing not so much on what I don't know through input but what I can't remember when I output.
Great video. Flashcards are indispensable for getting the most common words and phrases in procedural memory.
You are my role model person
Thanks
I WISH AT THE END you had summarized I got a bit lost in the data results!
Me too.... Short say 2 or 3 minute series would be more beneficial
Not learning words is the biggest failing of academic language learning. The students will learn a lot of grammar rules, but still barely remember a couple hundred words at most so they feel very limited with the grammar they know.
Knowing lots of words first makes the grammar rules make so much more sense.
When I started focusing on learning words for my Japanese studies, my ability in the language quickly outpaced my knowledge of German I had learned in college.
Well, it's also not the best method for learning. In Asian countries, they learn by heart hundreds and thousands of words, but it doesn't mean they can speak, or even write.
Input will never work if there is no output.
@@PoussinNoNeko That's not entirely true. Input and output are two different skills. People who have problems with their speech or writing still can understand their native language even though they can't output very well. There are a lot of people who can understand the languages their families speak, but can't output back. My point is that schools traditionally emphasize grammar because it's easy to grade. Most students don't get enough pressure to learn vocabulary or get input consistently. Asian students almost never have any consistent English input outside of class time. They learn a lot of words, with no context for how to use them.
Amen
Astonnishing video as always i learned a lot for my language learning, my goal is to learn japanese. The strat that im using is thag i downloaded a couple of anki decks with the n3 n4 and n5 most used words (around 5000 most common words). I do various sessions (by the way i already knew katakana and hiragana, the sillabires that allows to writte anything but do not indicate the pronunciation since they do not signal to which objects we are refering as pitch accent is not deducible from it) of "drills" through the day when i have free time, doing certain activites, in the first 3 days i was raw memorizing, for that i utilized mnemotechniques that involved the pronunciagion or writing of the word, for example "kaku" means writte, therefore i imagine a makaku (that is a name of a chimp, i speak spanish as well so deoending on if the japanese word is similar to a spanish or english word i would do the assosiation in anh of the languages) writting. And as i dont like to waste time, instead of creating new cards i was simply memorizing and using only the deck of the n5 with the most used 1000 words. In a week i would say that i know around 500-1000 words. Therefore each time i read (in furigana, utilizing text that sows the reading on hiragana of eaxh kanji) i recognize a couple of works, however i noticed that there is usually a big change between the word because of grammatical issues. Now im now going to immerse doing "drills" of this kind; take a text on furigana, a page, go paragraph by paragraph and ask an ia to divide the paragraphs by words, then i memorize all words, and then i read the whole page, then i read it again but sentence by sentence searching the meaning of the words that i forget (as the mnemoteque is effective but not perfect i just read, search the meaning, emphasise a little bit on the mnemotechnique but i do not writte nothing and just keep reading until the orations make sense). Another drill is with videos, i simply use an extension called bilingual subtitles and another that if im not wrong is iago (furigana reading for kanjis) and download the subtitles, then i reproduce sections of the video multiple times trying to make sense of it. Im 10 days in and i know some basic stuff, however, another drill would be to make various phrases that would be in a conversation in which i may find my self and use mnemotechniques again to remember the words and try to make sense out of the video. My idea of lear ing is that as these 1000 words are common, with doing the mnemotecnique once is more than enough, because as they are so common they would be present in any piece of information of the language and therefore i would be doing actuve recalling. By the moment i do not do passive immersion by the fact that i do not understand absolutely nothing unless it was a daily conversation (hello, how are you, what a good thing, etcetera). In other times i just watch common phrases that you would us in a daily basis. As i speak spanish as my native language i have absoluteky no problem with hearing, even hearing the pitch tone (as in spanish we use a lot uf accent marks) and i train my hear day by day, however, if you ae interesed on it you can acquire pitch by simply paying attention in which parts the speakers make emphasis, you can start by searching auduios in dictionarys and try to figure out each promuntiation. For kanji i do not know nothing, besides the pronuntiation of a couple of characters and the meaning of hundreds, however my plan is to copy hanzihero (a guy that has a page in wich he teaches hanzi, the chinese writting system) through obsidian, spaced repetiton and a lot of reading (which is as well spaced repetition, since you are using the kanjis that you may have studied and then repeat if you rememeber them correctly and if not try to remembering them again).I would use the book "remembering the kanji" by Janes heisig to remember the meanings. For instance the kanji of black is 黒 and is pronuncied "kuro" the mnemotechnique that Heisig proposes is a pen and the four point are ink (and the oen is the kanji of a rice camp with a cross on the cmground), however, he doesnt give a mnemotechnique for the pronunciations so i associate kuro with some drawing and i do a story just as in the case of memorizing vocabulary (if someone is interesed on this can try the page of hanzihero to learn how to learn any hanzi). The problem with kanji is that they have multiple pronuntiations and therefore, theyr pronuntation will deoend on context and with which kanjis are combined or if they are alone, however this is not hard to know since the knowing of the meaning allows for a try of prediction of the kanjis.
Obviously the mnemotechniques should be as vivid and bizarre as possible, that mnemotechnique is usually used to memorize chains of words (for ezample, dog-oranges, you would instantly memorize it if you image your dog or anyone dog juggking the oranges).
And obviously is necessary to learn kanji and vocab in context and in various cases. In the case of kanji an emohazis on watching common combations with ither kanjis is as well important.
Gracias
Excuse me mr. Scott....can you also make a video on learning games like basketball or football,badminton etc like one of your miit challenges...
Actually I wasn't in any game in my school life but I want to pursue my masters in ivy league college and for that I want to take challenge I have maximum 6 months to learn any of these games but I want to do it in as much short period as a human body can ...will you please guide on this
I recommend looking into ecological dynamics, constraints led, and non linear skill acquisition
Search for paretto principle and Anders Ericson books on annas archuve.
It depends on what topics one will reading
Major system+input
I've tried a bunch of graded readers in Mandarin and they've almost all let me down. Their trick is to start with a pool of 2000 or so characters, grab 500 or so characters from anywhere in that set, then advertise "only 500 characters!" Thus you need to know 2000 characters before you can read the book with 500 characters
You don’t need to read a book to new vocabulary though. A short story, a page , a paragraph. Especially now with AI you can give them 20 vocab words and tell them to write you a short story at your level.
I agree that you probably couldn’t grab a graded reader In CM and learn that way.
Astonnishing video as always i learned a lot for my language learning, my goal is to learn japanese. The strat that im using is thag i downloaded a couple of anki decks with the n3 n4 and n5 most used words (around 5000 most common words). I do various sessions (by the way i already knew katakana and hiragana, the sillabires that allows to writte anything but do not indicate the pronunciation since they do not signal to which objects we are refering as pitch accent is not deducible from it) of "drills" through the day when i have free time, doing certain activites, in the first 3 days i was raw memorizing, for that i utilized mnemotechniques that involved the pronunciagion or writing of the word, for example "kaku" means writte, therefore i imagine a makaku (that is a name of a chimp, i speak spanish as well so deoending on if the japanese word is similar to a spanish or english word i would do the assosiation in anh of the languages) writting. And as i dont like to waste time, instead of creating new cards i was simply memorizing and using only the deck of the n5 with the most used 1000 words. In a week i would say that i know around 500-1000 words. Therefore each time i read (in furigana, utilizing text that sows the reading on hiragana of eaxh kanji) i recognize a couple of works, however i noticed that there is usually a big change between the word because of grammatical issues. Now im now going to immerse doing "drills" of this kind; take a text on furigana, a page, go paragraph by paragraph and ask an ia to divide the paragraphs by words, then i memorize all words, and then i read the whole page, then i read it again but sentence by sentence searching the meaning of the words that i forget (as the mnemoteque is effective but not perfect i just read, search the meaning, emphasise a little bit on the mnemotechnique but i do not writte nothing and just keep reading until the orations make sense). Another drill is with videos, i simply use an extension called bilingual subtitles and another that if im not wrong is iago (furigana reading for kanjis) and download the subtitles, then i reproduce sections of the video multiple times trying to make sense of it. Im 10 days in and i know some basic stuff, however, another drill would be to make various phrases that would be in a conversation in which i may find my self and use mnemotechniques again to remember the words and try to make sense out of the video. My idea of lear ing is that as these 1000 words are common, with doing the mnemotecnique once is more than enough, because as they are so common they would be present in any piece of information of the language and therefore i would be doing actuve recalling. By the moment i do not do passive immersion by the fact that i do not understand absolutely nothing unless it was a daily conversation (hello, how are you, what a good thing, etcetera). In other times i just watch common phrases that you would us in a daily basis. As i speak spanish as my native language i have absoluteky no problem with hearing, even hearing the pitch tone (as in spanish we use a lot uf accent marks) and i train my hear day by day, however, if you ae interesed on it you can acquire pitch by simply paying attention in which parts the speakers make emphasis, you can start by searching auduios in dictionarys and try to figure out each promuntiation. For kanji i do not know nothing, besides the pronuntiation of a couple of characters and the meaning of hundreds, however my plan is to copy hanzihero (a guy that has a page in wich he teaches hanzi, the chinese writting system) through obsidian, spaced repetiton and a lot of reading (which is as well spaced repetition, since you are using the kanjis that you may have studied and then repeat if you rememeber them correctly and if not try to remembering them again).I would use the book "remembering the kanji" by Janes heisig to remember the meanings. For instance the kanji of black is 黒 and is pronuncied "kuro" the mnemotechnique that Heisig proposes is a pen and the four point are ink (and the oen is the kanji of a rice camp with a cross on the cmground), however, he doesnt give a mnemotechnique for the pronunciations so i associate kuro with some drawing and i do a story just as in the case of memorizing vocabulary (if someone is interesed on this can try the page of hanzihero to learn how to learn any hanzi). The problem with kanji is that they have multiple pronuntiations and therefore, theyr pronuntation will deoend on context and with which kanjis are combined or if they are alone, however this is not hard to know since the knowing of the meaning allows for a try of prediction of the kanjis.
Obviously the mnemotechniques should be as vivid and bizarre as possible, that mnemotechnique is usually used to memorize chains of words (for ezample, dog-oranges, you would instantly memorize it if you image your dog or anyone dog juggking the oranges).
And obviously is necessary to learn kanji and vocab in context and in various cases. In the case of kanji an emohazis on watching common combations with ither kanjis is as well important.
If i was on your place i would use hanzi hero and reading with dictionaries all the time (solely for reading hanzk). If you want to learn reading, start today by kearning oinyin and reading with ñinyin (you can ask for chat gpt for a transcription, is always or usually natural.
WOW! THIS GUY JUST WASTED 20 MINUTES OF MY TIME! He did NOT tell me “how to learn vocabulary in a new language!!!
Did you even watch the video?
You watched the video 2.5 times?
-Comprensible input
-Daily reading and listening (so called immersion)
-And in the start learn through anki and by repetitive and constant exposure the basic words of the language to learn the language.