Thank you, bro!

I'm thankful for being born in a country that speaks English

In my opinion, learning grammar or words explicitly can be helpful and make your progress faster, but just learning explicitly without exposing the language or immersing yourself in the language is useless. My notion stems from the deliberate learning method that says instead of doing the tasks perpetually that you can do already perfectly, focus on the new tasks and do them until becoming good enough at those things. As for grammar, you can recognize the grammar structure that is hard for you and practice and use it to become second nature to you, or as for vocabulary, if that word is valuable enough to learn you can find the meaning in the dictionary and see different usage of it on Youglish and use in your speakings until be comfortable with it.

@magenta_3d

19 күн бұрын

I agree, learning grammar explicitly do gonna make your progress. I believe more in the self-improvement approach: that instead of just spending more time on learning a language, you can spend that time learning something new (whatever you're interested) in the target language, and then by doing that you're no longer a language learner, you just use the language as a tool to get information as well as to communicate (main purpose of the language) That's why I only teach about how to learn English, not languages in general. The most amount of information is in English, (Books, Videos, Podcasts etc.) so I'm focused on helping people acquire this awesome tool called English. I think grammar is more useful for polyglots, who are trying to learn multiple languages fast.

@ChagoVill

18 күн бұрын

I agree as well , but in reality learning grammar is too boring (for me) and that's my own reason not to continue the language learning and stops me on progressing my language journey but I've noticed when I exposed my self in english like watching english clips, movies, yt vids , I've been able to pick up grammar naturally but i tried to watched grammar lessons, just a bit of time hahaha

That's good, however can you explain to me 4th step in the video? I've been thinking that you mean if you for example watching a video on YT about game or almost in this area, you aren't improving cause you're just watching content without listening to the words

@magenta_3d

19 күн бұрын

You certainly do improve English by watching game content. But the problem arises when you understand everything in these game videos. You understand every word, it becomes easy, and guess what? You stop making progress. As long as it is hard to watch game content, you make progress. Don't worry, if you're only starting out, it's completely fine to watch gaming videos. But at the higher level, you need to watch something more difficult, like a science podcast, to learn words that these gaming KZreadrs never say.

5:42 I did that too, but with Russian

@magenta_3d

19 күн бұрын

Did you end up learning it to C1? 😁

@yazansallam661

19 күн бұрын

@magenta_3d No, honestly, I stopped at the a2 level

@magenta_3d

18 күн бұрын

Still good progress though, especially considering how hard Russian is