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@GeorgeDeCarlo

7 ай бұрын

I joined LingQ and my 12.5 year failure in learning then acquiring Tagalog continues. You never address those such as myself with extreme problems. I write and tell the staff and they point to words I learned. But I have no idea what people are saying and I am incapable of speaking. I feel you and all other polyglots are keeping the secret way from others.

@PimsleurTurkishLessons

7 ай бұрын

By the way, recent researches do not accept learning styles. These learming styles were old theory that are not accepted today

@PhysicsGuy1000

Ай бұрын

@@GeorgeDeCarloHe gives all the secrets.

@GeorgeDeCarlo

Ай бұрын

@@PimsleurTurkishLessons before LingQ failed me for Tagalog as promised, several years ago I used Pimsleur with a tutor. It was awful. Speakers were too fast and there were mistakes.

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I agree with you, although I do think we all learn at different speed rates and rhythms, and since we enjoy different activities and find different things interesting we can greatly benefit from customizing our learning experience according to our own wants and needs, keeping it fun and relevant is key and that's different to all of us

@joepiekl

7 ай бұрын

Absolutely. Learning styles are a myth, but learning preferences aren't. The same way that we all basically get fit in the same way, but some people will only exercise in group settings, whereas others prefer to do it alone, and some get bored if they're not playing some sort of competitive sport.

@petercerro

7 ай бұрын

@@joepiekl couldn't agree more💯

Learning Japanese here. My native language is PT-BR, I learned English almost out of nowhere, but Japanese hits different! Verbs are specially very pleasant, I can't explain how good it feels to understand things that I once thought was impossible 😂 Obrigado pelo vídeo ❤

@goigbi

6 ай бұрын

I reach fluency in Japanese using Steve as a model haha. I got my JLPT N1 in 2018. 日本語は素晴らしい言語ですね。

@lorrainegatanianhits8331

Ай бұрын

Q legal!

Thank you very much Steve for your years of effort to teach us more about languages, I think there is lots of people like me who have been watching you for several years. Best wishes and stay healthy

You keep sharing valuable insights from your experience and theory. This is wonderful and I am trying to adjust it with my previous know-how regarding linguistics and language learning.

Agree with last comment, best teacher ever, your Friday morning videos always inspire me 😊

Thank you very much, Steve, I love your stuff

I'm not quite sure about understanding this learning question, but I remember the NLP method as a serie of techniques which takes the way you use the senses, whether as an input or a inner construction.

Thank you so much for your wisdom and advice, Steve. Keep it up! Greetings from Argentina

@bilingualsecrets

7 ай бұрын

Che se dice "advice" y no "advices".

@imanolsarnago838

7 ай бұрын

Un pequeño error de tipeo. Gracias@@bilingualsecrets

BTW our digestive systems can get somewhat different so do our brains 🧠 😊

Learning-style theory, as with all fads, overpromised and swung the pendulum too far. BUT(!!!) the more recent "learning styles have been debunked" fad conversely (yet unsurprisingly) tends to throw the baby out with the bathwater. A skim of the abstract of the linked 2008 paper itself concedes, "There is also plentiful evidence arguing that people differ in the degree to which they have some fairly specific aptitudes for different kinds of thinking and for processing different types of information." Many learning-style advocates would say that such an observation was all they wanted to point out. Anecdotally, I would testify to comfort and ease with which I taught myself to read the Bible in Greek and Hebrew; but ask me to mimic a single spoken sentence in those languages and I struggle greatly both to articulate and retain it. Should ALL of my learning thereby be SOLELY catered to written texts? No! But it also seems imprudent to fail to take advantage of the fact that I clearly seem have a *specific aptitude* for mentally processing written text.

Please also add back Hebrew subtitles. I did the same as the Danish learner, below. Listen in English, read in Hebrew--and then put into LingQ! (BTW, Hebrew seems to be enable for some of your older KZread videos) Thanks/Todah!

Thanks sir I believe what you say you are very informative

I definitely find a combination of reading and hearing, together, works best for me.

I agree, of course. Personally I detest memorization. It was true my whole life. I can do it when I must. But it means I steered away from ANKI and other memorization-based language learning systems. The methods you recommend have helped a lot.

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Wouldn't it be best if we, read, listen, speak, visualize and act it out at the same time?

I agree 100%

Thank you so much.

That was an excellent video.

@Thelinguist

7 ай бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

i had a question for steve but anybody else can respond: i'm currently learning spanish and have been doing that for around 3.5 weeks. i have 600 words on lingq right now and i was curious if that's a good stat or not? should i have more words or am i just on a fast pace?

Off course four skills are important for everyone to speak english but for me i cannot read because i’m blind and that take me more time and effort to build and remember vocabularies

I didn't like to read, but to learn you HAVE to read.. so I've learned to enjoy reading and now I even read in English as well as my target language (Portuguese)

@tedc9682

7 ай бұрын

To learn the written language, you have to read. You don't have to read to learn the spoken language. But there are probably a lot more written resources, especially at an advanced level. So doing both definitely helps.

@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157

7 ай бұрын

@@tedc9682 reading is easy. It's the spoken that's hard to learn 😞

Could you please re-enable Danish subtitles on your videos? i like turning off the sound and following along in Danish and then exporting it to LingQ

@Thelinguist

7 ай бұрын

Sorry about that. Added Danish to this video and will continue to do so moving forward. Thanks for watching!

@tomasmills8258

7 ай бұрын

@@Thelinguist thanks Steve really appreciate it :)

@testingsomething5280

7 ай бұрын

@@Thelinguist not a learner of Danish, but that's very kind of you

The caveat is the availability of resources such as internet access, free time, books, library, quiet space, tutors ect . If you have disturbance-free time on hand , then by all means, listen, read , speak and write dive deep into all of these activities. Most of the time we have to make the best of our situation and make do with whatever at hand.

We can all paint pictures, but we can't all paint well. The ranger of painting abilities is vast and so it is with learning a language ability I posit from common sense. I'd guess some people can paint a picture at least one hundred times better than others and the best of us can paint at least ten time better than an average painter. So it is with leaning languages. Even assuming we are motivated and put the work in, it could still be that Steven learns a language ten times better than the average person. So, the point is, that Steve could probably learn another language *no* matter what method he used and obviously, he chooses a method that appeals to him and give *him* results. A method that we mere mortals might struggle to make progress in the language with. For the rest of us, "Es ist wie es ist" and we have to live with that and keep trying different methods of acquiring and learning a language until we find one that suits us and accept that although Steve might learn to master a language in a year, it might takes us ten years to master the same language.

Thank you, Steve! This huge myth needs to be debunked. I am a teacher, and am constantly pushing back against students who insist they are "an x learner."

Steve, not sure if you’ve addressed this, but are there simply people who can not learn a new language? Or people who can’t learn a particular language? Cognitive ability or general wiring? And how would they know? Thx.

@tedc9682

7 ай бұрын

Personally, I don't think there are such people. Certainly motivation is a big factor. And some methods are just a waste of time. There is a huge difference between acquiring a language and doing well in a school class.

@shutterchick79

7 ай бұрын

Well, I've worked in special needs, and even for people who's IQ's are in the 40's will still be pretty verbal if there's not another condition like autism or something. And there's people of presumably normal IQ with severe language impairments due to stroke, injury, or abuse as a child. Back in the 1970's, a severly abused girl named Genie was rescued from her parents. The father had kept her tied to a potty chair much of her life, and would allow nobody to speak to her. She was rescued at 13 years old, and never fully learned a first language. It's unknown if she had any cognitive issues in addition to the abuse, but she did get to the point to two or three word sentences fairly quickly. She just didn't achieve that "language explosion" that comes after that. I think the human brain is resilient, and language is a priority for it. Like sexual instincts, language is something that nature protects.

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Hey Steve, I guess this is the first time I do not agree a 100%. There is a bunch of research mainly by Neil Fleming out there that supports the assumption of different learning styles. And once I applied it, it made all the difference in my learning. E.g. I am not an auditory guy, not a bit. But I used audio courses while running with zero success. Once I understood I need to read the text first and then listen to it (and seeing the text image in my mind) my language success increased a lot. So, yes, I used audio material but only benefited from it after adjusting the learning process to my learning style. _cR

@Thelinguist

7 ай бұрын

I don't rely on just listening. I prefer to read first, or after listening and not understanding a lot, I am motivated to read the same content in order to understand. All quite normal. Our brains are structured the same way altho we do have preferences, in my view.

@rothchris

7 ай бұрын

@@Thelinguist thanks for your fast feedback. I totally agree that an input mix is vital to learning a new language. The point I was trying to make is that one's digestive system, to use your image here, can digest some foods better than others. Imho it is the same for the brain, some neuro pathways are simply better paved than others resulting in some input ways can be "digested" better. Anyway, happily, Lingq uses several input methods, so all is good here ;-) Greets cR

@jessicat2519

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. I had a student who says the same thing.

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I hate reading, however I could spend hours and hours watching a video or a movie and reading the subtitles and it's not a pain in the ass like would be if I would have to read a book or an article for example.

How does this principle work in terms of somebody dyslexic, and difference in learning capabilities? In my experience the student that struggle with learning a second language, struggle with written language in general.

@Thelinguist

6 ай бұрын

Use lots of audio, listen to words, to phrases and sentences to match that with reading. This is what I do in languages where the writing system is different, like Arabic and Persian. I'm sure it would help dyslexic readers in their own language too.

@jessicat2519

6 ай бұрын

@@Thelinguist Thank you very much for replying to me personally. I do make them read with the finger, and they also copy the tape. I could do this more though. Otherwise the latest method I am trying out is to force them to do mini memorisations, as the ones that struggle seem to remember differently than the ones that have it easy. I have also started to make my students copy me more (these are one-to-one Swedish lessons) and forcing small conversations much more (twice as much). I know forcing sounds hard, but when they struggle to make new sounds and they hesistate to create sentences/stringing together new words in new ways (at least the one at a1 level), I kind of have to force them until they get over the uncomfortableness of creating new sounds in the mouth and of putting themselves in this vulnerable postion of being out of their depth

The 4 learning styles is BS, but I don't think the concept of different people having varying ideal ways to learn is unreasonable at all. The 4 method framework is ultimately so horrifically simple that it would never work out, maybe it was just an attempt to translate these four common ways of teaching to learning?

Of course there are plenty of people, those that may be illiterate or blind spring to mind, who have not read or do not 'read' but speak perfectly fine, so whilst I agree with what you're saying there are some caveats to it. Indeed, a large number of the world's languages are unscripted and their native speakers do just fine. It is interesting though how many people cling to the idea that they have a set learning style based on nothing more than superstition or intuition. Hopefully this video helps some people to let go of those beliefs.

@KnightOfEternity13

7 ай бұрын

Fortunately I have zero interest into these "unscripted languages". I'm a visual learner, so I have to pass on the chance to know their great "culture".😂

@gee8883

6 ай бұрын

I had a visually-impaired (totally blind ) Turkish friend who've learned English to a native-like level. I was shocked that she spoke so naturally. She's studied at istanbul university and now works at tax office. Her Arabic pronunciation was perfect also. She uses computer programs to aid her studies. She also reads braille books using fingers. She is the most well-read person I've ever met at a young age of 22.

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Steve is speaking far outside his field of expertise. There are indeed different learning styles resulting in different approaches to learning. Just ask people how they study languages and they will give you a wide variety of answers based on what works best for them.

@allis5870

7 ай бұрын

You're talking about the method of learning..not the process. If you want to learn a language you need input in different forms. Of course it's up to you how to learn it. But the idea of kinetic auditory etc learning styles in that you must learn in your "style" is false.

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I know a psychologist who never stops talking about learning styles. He once told me he can't get better at listening to English because he's a visual learner. His belief is really limiting him.

@adamP0023

7 ай бұрын

It's usually just a way to explain their weaknesses without actually confronting them. If someone is bad at listening and hearing, instead of just listening more to improve at it, they just say "I don't learn like that" and only do more reading.

@brendon2462

7 ай бұрын

Tell him that's not true because how do you think you squired the listening ability you have in your native language? listening constantly there's no other way around it. We all did growing up we just don't really remember being 2,3,4,5 so on listening all day everyday fully immersed.

@benverret7968

7 ай бұрын

@@brendon2462 I tried but he wouldn't listen to me.

I think learning styles were meant for a school pupil to find the best way they can study so that they can get good grades in exams. They were never meant for learning in any other situation.

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Honestly as someone who has learned a second language during childhood, language learning depends on your motivation and determination.

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I do not agree at all. There are people, who learn things in class by listening to the teacher, whereas others get easily distracted or are ADHD and they have to find other ways to learn things. I am not talking about languages here, but about learning in general. Some people learn best by talking about it in groups, others are lone wolfs. I do not argue that there is a paper claiming otherwise, but one paper does not prove or disprove anything. Take it with a grain of salt.

@bentrayford6132

7 ай бұрын

I can guarantee you there is more than 1 paper on this. There are even many meta-analyses on this topic.

@jamesmccloud7535

7 ай бұрын

For cases of ADHD and other complications then of course they need to be accommodated to what's more convenient. But I think what Steve says still stands in general. People have preferences to how they want to learn. But I think that is based more on their personalities rather than an objective fact that their brain just learns best one way. Can somebody who claims to learn best by hearing learn swimming effectively without getting hands on? I don't think so.

@KnightOfEternity13

7 ай бұрын

@@jamesmccloud7535 so what if it's all just preferences? We are interested in how to put it into practice, not into some theory how brains works in general.

@jamesmccloud7535

7 ай бұрын

@@KnightOfEternity13 What are you trying to get at? Steve in the video already talks about the practical application when it comes to language learning. If you're talking about learning in general, then learn the way you like to learn if that's what motivates you. Just don't fool yourself into thinking that you learn best one way, it might lead you to think you are deficient in some way and are limiting yourself to other modes of instruction.

@KnightOfEternity13

7 ай бұрын

@@jamesmccloud7535 You've just repeated what was said in the video. I can't get any useful advice from it. If something motivates you more, you do it more, have more experience in that area and probably indeed learn better this way in the end. It's a totally useless discussion. It's as if I would say: "Don't let yourself believe, that your brains can grasp history better than math or music, in fact all our brains are similar and totally possible to grasp all of these if you made effort. It's nothing but your preferences, you just limit yourself". Yeah... but kinda no, at least it's irrelevant.