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Steve,i was wondering:do you speak italian?
If so,i would like to listen this video in my native language in order to check my progresses in learning english.
Thank you very much,regards
Alberto
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I recall the day I first noticed a dramatic improvement in my second language, Japanese. I found myself having a high-level conversation about Economics.
How? I'd spent the last few months repeating about 4 times each, the same five economics essays. Reviewing essays helped my _speaking_ tremendously.
Read an essay once, and you might be able to use a few of the new words in converation. Read the same essay five times though and you'll find yourself using the new words without even trying.
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Well I joined LingQ when I'd barely started German and since absolutely everything was in German I couldn't understand anything! It was very labourious to look every word up and I found it very off putting. I'd rather there were at least some English at the beginning or some pictures or something to guide me! I found myself looking up random words in the hope that they would guide me to the meaning of the sentence, which is a very inefficient way to start a language.
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I completely agree with you Steve, otherwise how can that be that so many babies´ first word is "mom"? Probably because they hear this word in a natural way, many times a day and since their first day of life. In that way it wouldn´t take them long time before being able to repeit it.
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It's no wonder that we can understand different languages. English itself could almost be split into several. We have so many synonyms and ways of phrasing sentences, that English alone seems like more than just one language.
Another interesting thought - I wonder when language developed in our ancestry. I know bonobo chimpanzees give each other names in the wild, but I don't know if they have their own language per se. They can use human languages to a degree by signing, typing, or writing.
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Sounds like a great idea (and name) to me.
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Felix,
There are three parallel beginner sets which appear in all libraries at LingQ, including English; "Who is She" 26 episodes, "Eating Out" 10 episodes and "Gretings and Goodbyes", 8 episodes. This should keep you busy for a month, listening over and over. That is what I used for Russian. I listened to "Who is She" 30 - 40 times until I got a feel. Thereafter things get easier. There is a wealth of beginner and easy content in German. Please try again!
lingosteve 3 years ago
Hey Steve!
I was just wondering what you meant exactly by "natural learning"? I'm an aspiring bilingual person (learning German) and I understand that you advocate your LingQ method of lots of input and allowing the brain to absorb the new language. I personally found it very hard as a beginner to do that! So if LingQ is what you mean as a natural language learning method, I can't see it working for everyone without adaptation...
Felixelus 3 years ago
Hi Felix. Natural learning is as you explained, lots of language input, allowing the brain to absorb it, without getting frustrated, and with a little help in terms of translations, dictionaries, tutor help and vocab learning systems, such as what we have at LingQ.
Of course it will not work for everyone. I would be very interested to hear what exactly you found hard, and why, if you have the time to comment here. Thanks.
lingosteve 3 years ago