Welcome back. Good to see you pop up in my notification list. I kind of miss you. It's been a while. A 10-minute drill every day is not a bad idea. 😊 I really don't know what you mean by improving communication skills. You sound totally fine to my non-native ears, though. Can Trump be a good example of effective communication? I definitely enjoy listening to you more than to him. If Trump could win you over, I guess there wouldn't be many people in the world that you wouldn't like. 😏 No pressure. See you every day. 😄
@@65Lightskin I've been exploring effective approaches to learning languages and thinking about how to build a channel around it effectively. Russian really frustrates me, but it has also shed light on my blind spots and subjective speculations about what works. I keep delaying turning some ideas into reality. I assumed you were working on something of your own behind the scenes, too, and I thought a lack of motivation might have played a role in your hiatus. I might find myself in a similar situation. I can still learn from you, even beyond what you actually share. If I'm not overstaying my welcome, I’d like to stick with you for a long time. 😉
@@65Lightskin🤔 I really want to avoid claiming proficiency in languages until I can truly speak them like my own. That would mean achieving C1+. But since you asked, I'll share where I'm at for now and leave a bit of mystery for future revelation. The journey is full of unexpected turns and twists that you could never have imagined. Up to now,😎 I've touched upon 9 foreign languages. The only one I’m sure passes C1 is English, which I don’t even consider as good as I expect. I still find it hard to articulate my thoughts, especially when I want to express intuitive and abstract ideas. The next language I can consider good enough is Japanese. I started teaching myself Japanese in junior high school, which was shortly after I began learning English. Later, I majored in Japanese in college. Before that, I attended a high school that taught both English and French. It sounds cool, right? But the reality is that, like everywhere else in the world, the academic language education system is lacking. I literally learned them all by myself. However, I wasn't consistent. After the first three years of self-learning English, I quit due to achieving straight A's on English tests without having to learn anything new. After the first year of learning French, I quit because of my teacher's poor accent; she couldn't even read properly like I did by mimicking the recordings. After a year of learning Japanese, I quit because the slow curriculum only completed one of four textbooks in a year, while I had finished all four on my own. This time, I left college. I didn’t continue with language studies but shifted my interest to digital painting and 3D art. Only after a few years did I realize I should finish my language studies. Instead of picking up where I left off, I wanted to challenge myself to learn Spanish in three months. I did it and reached approximately the same level as my English at that time, but I didn’t consider it good. Then I quit due to exhaustion. Later that year, I felt the urge to explore more efficient learning approaches. I subsequently tried German and pushed my French to the same level as my Spanish, all within 3-4 months for each. However, I got lost, asking myself, "What am I doing?" As fun as it felt due to the rapid growth and exposure to various cultures, leaving everything at a mediocre level was stressful and shameful. The urge for speed learning raised many questions about the psychology and mechanisms of language acquisition. I tested some new ideas in Korean, Italian, and Portuguese, but due to their similarities with the languages I already knew, I realized that efficiency didn't reflect the effectiveness of the methods I used. I then gave them up due to a lack of valid data for my research on efficiency. At this point, I started doubting my life choices and began consuming spiritual content, contemplating life and thinking about healing my inner child. It took a while, but something interesting happened gradually in the process. I started having internal verbal thoughts in English naturally. I also noticed I could understand Japanese anime better after years without exposure to Japanese. Even with a low vocabulary in French and Spanish, I began to understand them with more clarity than before. One thing led to another, and I ended up here, trying to use all I have accumulated so far to build something that could be meaningful and profitable for me. I realize what I can think of is also thought of by many. It makes me feel less alone but also highlights that this market is saturated. So I have to be clear about what I'm doing rather than initiating something that might backfire due to a misalignment between my assumptions and reality, ultimately dragging me forward by self-imposed obligation. Therefore, two months ago, I started learning Russian as a way to explore the process of learning a language that is very different from everything I've known so far. At the moment, my progress is slower than I expected but faster than any language I’ve ever learned before. After that, I’ll test the optimized approach in those languages I didn’t do well in and find solutions to specific problems, forming theories and corresponding methodologies, building a system to cover topics that I can keep creating content from. There are many other things in between, but the language learning part is the most life-changing and rewarding. It really has shifted my personality and perceptions. I used to have an ego of superiority during my school years. You can imagine someone like me surrounded by people who do what they are told and fail, making me feel like a genius. But now, having explored from within and without, my way of looking at the world and life is liberating, yet sometimes lonely. I really don’t know how to be brief. I could have simply listed my levels (C1+:E; C1:J; B2:S, F; B1:G; A1:Ko, It, Po; ?:Ru). I hope the story helps you fill in the blanks with your imagination and inference. I almost had the impulse to write my biography! 😂 I haven't told you what my native language is yet, but I think you can guess it, or I'll reveal it another time.😉
Welcome back. Good to see you pop up in my notification list. I kind of miss you. It's been a while. A 10-minute drill every day is not a bad idea. 😊
I really don't know what you mean by improving communication skills. You sound totally fine to my non-native ears, though. Can Trump be a good example of effective communication? I definitely enjoy listening to you more than to him. If Trump could win you over, I guess there wouldn't be many people in the world that you wouldn't like. 😏 No pressure. See you every day. 😄
Good to hear from you again, wasn’t sure if you’d still be around but it’s good to be back in touch lol - we’ll see how long we can keep it up for
@@65Lightskin I've been exploring effective approaches to learning languages and thinking about how to build a channel around it effectively. Russian really frustrates me, but it has also shed light on my blind spots and subjective speculations about what works. I keep delaying turning some ideas into reality. I assumed you were working on something of your own behind the scenes, too, and I thought a lack of motivation might have played a role in your hiatus. I might find myself in a similar situation. I can still learn from you, even beyond what you actually share. If I'm not overstaying my welcome, I’d like to stick with you for a long time. 😉
@@Leo-54lycould you tell me more about the languages you can speak - you mentioned it many times and I’d like to know more about it?
@@65Lightskin🤔 I really want to avoid claiming proficiency in languages until I can truly speak them like my own. That would mean achieving C1+. But since you asked, I'll share where I'm at for now and leave a bit of mystery for future revelation. The journey is full of unexpected turns and twists that you could never have imagined.
Up to now,😎 I've touched upon 9 foreign languages. The only one I’m sure passes C1 is English, which I don’t even consider as good as I expect. I still find it hard to articulate my thoughts, especially when I want to express intuitive and abstract ideas. The next language I can consider good enough is Japanese. I started teaching myself Japanese in junior high school, which was shortly after I began learning English. Later, I majored in Japanese in college. Before that, I attended a high school that taught both English and French. It sounds cool, right? But the reality is that, like everywhere else in the world, the academic language education system is lacking. I literally learned them all by myself. However, I wasn't consistent. After the first three years of self-learning English, I quit due to achieving straight A's on English tests without having to learn anything new. After the first year of learning French, I quit because of my teacher's poor accent; she couldn't even read properly like I did by mimicking the recordings. After a year of learning Japanese, I quit because the slow curriculum only completed one of four textbooks in a year, while I had finished all four on my own. This time, I left college. I didn’t continue with language studies but shifted my interest to digital painting and 3D art. Only after a few years did I realize I should finish my language studies. Instead of picking up where I left off, I wanted to challenge myself to learn Spanish in three months. I did it and reached approximately the same level as my English at that time, but I didn’t consider it good. Then I quit due to exhaustion. Later that year, I felt the urge to explore more efficient learning approaches. I subsequently tried German and pushed my French to the same level as my Spanish, all within 3-4 months for each. However, I got lost, asking myself, "What am I doing?" As fun as it felt due to the rapid growth and exposure to various cultures, leaving everything at a mediocre level was stressful and shameful. The urge for speed learning raised many questions about the psychology and mechanisms of language acquisition. I tested some new ideas in Korean, Italian, and Portuguese, but due to their similarities with the languages I already knew, I realized that efficiency didn't reflect the effectiveness of the methods I used. I then gave them up due to a lack of valid data for my research on efficiency. At this point, I started doubting my life choices and began consuming spiritual content, contemplating life and thinking about healing my inner child. It took a while, but something interesting happened gradually in the process. I started having internal verbal thoughts in English naturally. I also noticed I could understand Japanese anime better after years without exposure to Japanese. Even with a low vocabulary in French and Spanish, I began to understand them with more clarity than before. One thing led to another, and I ended up here, trying to use all I have accumulated so far to build something that could be meaningful and profitable for me. I realize what I can think of is also thought of by many. It makes me feel less alone but also highlights that this market is saturated. So I have to be clear about what I'm doing rather than initiating something that might backfire due to a misalignment between my assumptions and reality, ultimately dragging me forward by self-imposed obligation.
Therefore, two months ago, I started learning Russian as a way to explore the process of learning a language that is very different from everything I've known so far. At the moment, my progress is slower than I expected but faster than any language I’ve ever learned before. After that, I’ll test the optimized approach in those languages I didn’t do well in and find solutions to specific problems, forming theories and corresponding methodologies, building a system to cover topics that I can keep creating content from.
There are many other things in between, but the language learning part is the most life-changing and rewarding. It really has shifted my personality and perceptions. I used to have an ego of superiority during my school years. You can imagine someone like me surrounded by people who do what they are told and fail, making me feel like a genius. But now, having explored from within and without, my way of looking at the world and life is liberating, yet sometimes lonely.
I really don’t know how to be brief. I could have simply listed my levels (C1+:E; C1:J; B2:S, F; B1:G; A1:Ko, It, Po; ?:Ru). I hope the story helps you fill in the blanks with your imagination and inference. I almost had the impulse to write my biography! 😂 I haven't told you what my native language is yet, but I think you can guess it, or I'll reveal it another time.😉