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Here is another LANGUAGE LEARNING GUIDE video from The Reykjavik Review, with three clear steps for making your language learning a more tangible process.
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Whether you are learning something 'easy' like the French language, the Norwegian language and the Swedish language... or something difficult like the Arabic language or the Chinese language, language learning can be tough because we don't have very clear feedback on how we are going, and there are not agreed upon steps as to how to go beyond the beginner level.
This video is all about how to make that process more tangible and to be sure that what you are doing is effective. I guarantee that if you haven't been doing any of these things and you implement everything I suggest in this video, your language learning will improve by about double (100%).
The first tip is:
Spend time thinking about what you need at your stage of language learning. If you spend an hour thinking about how to be more efficient in your language learning, and writing your thoughts and your proposed changes down, and even if you do it once a month for the upcoming month, then you spend the next 30 hours being twice as efficient. 1 hour put into thinking about better methodology, 30 hours of learning efficiency gained.
The 2nd tip is:
Making videos in your target language is a damn good idea. It gives you a specific goal, a specific goal is always a good thing - basically every learning guru out there, Josh Kaufman, Tim Ferriss recommend having almost strangely specific goals.
And the last piece of advice: make for yourself a task based goal. Aim to have a certain number of conversations, write a blog, an article, film a video a week for 10 weeks - make it something umcomfortably difficult. Duolingo and Babbel do not count for this.
Although I like Benny Lewis and generally agree with him, one small issue I have with his methodology is that he doesn't advocate for enough time spent on efficiency. He says to just speak and speak as much as possible; and although that will make you quite confident with speaking a language, it isn't a particularly efficient way of doing it. I have spent somewhere around 400-500 hours speaking Swedish; so I can speak confidently, but my vocabulary and accent are not as good as they should be after that long, because 250-300 hours of that conversation time has only been spent developing my conversation skills. It has not been what Cal Newport would call 'Deep Work'. This video explains more about how we can get the best of both worlds in order to learn a language fast rather than just sitting on Duolingo. There are resources and apps better than Duolingo!
Thank you for watching! Enjoy!