How I make the most of my reading material for language learning

How I make the most of my reading material for language learning | 🇰🇷

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Күн бұрын

If you're anything like me, you probably also want to reap the benefits of repetition without having to go through the monotony of pure, hard repetition.
My overarching approach to language learning, which you'll probably find throughout this channel, is to use the same piece of learning material, in a couple of different ways, and practice a slightly different skill each round, so that I get that good good repetition in, while keeping myself fairly entertained :))
Enjoy!
Emma
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⌛Timestamps
0:00 Intro
0:44 Overarching approach: Repetition, but in slightly different ways.
1:22 Step 1. Pick your reading material
2:04 Step 2. Read it aloud
3:54 Step 3. Write it out word-for-word
6:55 Step 4. Type it out word-for-word
8:30 Bonus step. Translate it
9:07 Recap
9:54 How often do you do this?
10:17 Do you revise the vocab lists?
11:34 Outro
My target language: Korean
Current level: Lower-intermediate
🗒️Note-taking app: Notion
📚Books I'm currently using:
- Korean folktale for language learners:
- www.tuttlepublishing.com/kore...
- www.amazon.com/Korean-Folktal...
- Reading Korean with Culture: www.amazon.com/READING-KOREAN...
This video is not sponsored. All opinions are my own :)

Пікірлер: 20

@mattieandme5269 24 күн бұрын

These are super good ideas! I always read for the practice of reading, but having all these other uses is so good! Thank you!!

@caddberrie 24 күн бұрын

I was trying my best to avoid having to memorize vocab lists by heart and this was the next best thing that worked for me 😆 Hope you have fun with it too!

@paulwalther5237 19 күн бұрын

You’re so disciplined. I just read books the latter way you mentioned at the end. IE I just read them and don’t study them. I’ve tried and will probably continue to try to retain vocabulary I look up through SRS but I completely agree with you that it feels like an exercise in futility. If those words aren’t coming up in your books or conversations then your brain wants to forget them and fighting that seems hopeless.

@caddberrie 19 күн бұрын

Yeah I think the brain's pretty smart for letting go of stuff it doesn't need, so I guess through all these little exercises, I'm 'making' it more appealing for my brain to 'need' all these words and concepts I'm learning (which is to present everything in context, otherwise you're just left with vocab that sits there, lonely in your brain, not part of any other bigger neural connection gang that gets created via context). Also each time I study with the same reading material again, I understand a bit more, which feels encouraging, and motivates me to keep doing it :)

@mohammed4857 20 күн бұрын

wow amazing ❤

@caddberrie 19 күн бұрын

Thank you! 😊

@hanniejoy1633 22 күн бұрын

Can't wait to try this method out! Thanks so much for the tips!

@caddberrie 21 күн бұрын

Thanks for watching and I hope you have fun with the process!!

@KORHOUSE 24 күн бұрын

This is fantastic! Made me think about how I improved my English. I’d grab books with audiobooks and listen to them loads, repeating each sentence to get the pronunciation right (listen-pause-repeat). By the way, big respect for being so humble about your level (you're higher than lower intermediate haha) - your Korean pronunciation? Seriously impressive!🎉

@caddberrie 24 күн бұрын

Repeating really is the way to go 💪Growing up I watched a decent amount of Disney classics, not too frequently, but afterwards my mom would give me the audio version of those movies to listen to, which I would play over and over again, just for fun. That prolly helped loads. Yaw also thanks for the support. I'm currently working my way through more 'formal' study material (textbooks, graded readers, etc.) and they're all currently at lower-intermediate level. I think I just really got away with the pronunciation and mimicking parts :))

@HnHn1991 20 күн бұрын

Mình mới tìm ra kênh của bạn, content của bạn hay lắm mình cũng đang tự học ngôn ngữ và hơi hoang mang về cách học, cảm ơn video của bạn 🥰

@caddberrie 20 күн бұрын

Hì em cảm ơn chị ạ 😊 em cũng là đứa ham học ngoại ngữ, và cũng đi dạy ngoại ngữ nên có được nhiều cơ hội áp dụng thử cách này cách nọ với mấy em học sinh, rồi rút ra được phương pháp nào cảm thấy dễ ứng dụng thì up vid chia sẻ với mng ạ. Chúc chị học ngoại ngữ thật vui và hiệu quả ạ ^^ (mà vui thì chắc chắn sẽ hiệu quả)

@quochungtran4651 24 күн бұрын

Great ideas Emma. Though, I’m genuinely curious, how challenging was it for you to learn a non-latin alphabet? Moving away from ABCs is super hard for me 😂

@caddberrie 23 күн бұрын

I think Korean is arguably one of the easiest alphabets to learn to read (?) But the grammar and contextual nuance is the trickier part. Also when I don't have enough brain juice I look at non-latin alphabets and they genuinely just look like shapes 😆

@gygox3816 23 күн бұрын

발음이 완전 좋은데요!!! I'm curious how come your pronunciation is this good?is It just reading aloud?😊

@caddberrie 23 күн бұрын

고마워요 🙏 I just practice by shadowing podcasts! I don't have a speaking partner either so using podcast shadowing is basically all the speaking/pronunciation practice I get :)) I go into detail about that process in this video if you're interested: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gLCTirmQxKnDg4k.html

@gygox3816 22 күн бұрын

@@caddberrie 오 방금 영상 보고 왔는데 진짜 한국어 소름돋게 잘하시네요!!처음엔 교포인줄,,ㅎ 근데 저도 섀도잉을 좀 해보긴 해봤는데 이렇게까지 결과가 좋은줄은 몰랐어요. 알려주신 꿀팁들 하나하나 꼭 따라해도록 노력하겠습니다 감사합니다용!!🥰💕

@caddberrie 21 күн бұрын

@@gygox3816 어머 격려해줘서 고마워요 🫶 공부할 것이 아직 많아요. 이영상에는 제가 그냥 책을 큰소리로 읽기 때문에 발음을 그렇게 할 수 있는데 실제에는 제 말하기 반응과 속도도 아직 느려서 앞으로 연습을 많이 해야겠다. 아무튼, 그 꿀팁들 재밌게 적용했으면 좋겠습니다!

@gygox3816 20 күн бұрын

@@caddberrie 그래도 너무 잘하세요!!; 언어공부 힘들어도 우리 꾸존히 정진해요 화이팅!!🙌🏻🥰

@caddberrie 19 күн бұрын

좋아용! 우리 함께 언어를 열공합시다 💪