Language learning - The Most Effective Method Of All
There is lots of research and discussion on the most effective way to learn languages. The answer is, whatever you enjoy doing with the language.
Transcript:
Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here. First of all, I want to say that I did a webcam interview with Luca, the wonderful Italian polyglot. We are going to put it up here at my YouTube channel, but I’m waiting until I’m away because while I’m away I can’t do any videos. I’m going to be in Australia and New Zealand and so Alex is going to put up some pictures. I think Luca and I went at it for about 40 minutes or so, so it’s going to be at least four sessions. So that’s when you’ll be seeing those interviews that I did with Luca, just so there’s not a blank for a whole month.
I want to talk today, in the subject of language learning, about something that’s kind of been running around in my mind. I come up with all these things that are the key to language learning and I may have used this before, I don’t know, but it suddenly dawned on me that the most important thing is, is it fun. Do you enjoy doing it? I mentioned this in my 7 Secrets to Language Learning, I think the first one was spend the time and the second was to do things that you enjoy doing.
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Timelines:
0:04 web-cam interview with Luca Lampariello.
0:42 The most important thing is fun.
1:22 The gold-list method by David James review.
4:05 My experience with the gold-list method.
4:49 It works if you enjoy it.
5:42 Time is the most important criteria.
6:09 Does the gold list method work for me?
7:00 Is listening worth spending time?
7:56 You have to find what you actually like doing.
8:19 My way of doing flashcards.
9:10 Creating Lists VS Reading & Listening.
10:46 Passive vocabulary will activate when it’s necessary.
12:46 Finding the content you enjoy is crucial.
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