farsi learner here, listening is a problem i have, there are some consonant combinations that i couldn’t even imagine before, much of which i’m sure comes from arabic, thank you for the tips!
Interestingly, even though I'm more fluent in Spanish and have much wider knowledge of the words and grammar constructs since I took it from grades 7 through 12, from the several hundred hours I put in playing the Yakuza games which are in Japanese and watching Japanese anime I feel like it is much easier to separate words in Japanese for me than it is for Spanish.
In my Spanish classes we did much more talking than listening and all the listening we did do was slowed down or simplified Spanish.
I'm usually fine with things like youtube videos or a phone call when there is a single voice (or a few ones) being the focus of attention without much background noise (there can be noise but you almost always can ignore it). But for something like movies I still can't stop using subtitles. It would probably be better to just turn them off to be forced to learn but I just can't. And music lyrics is the whole another level.
6:18 my spanish teacher was one discussing our class vacation to puerto rico & she said something like "then we'll do some /koken/", I was very startled at the notion that we were going to puerto rico to do cocaine & thankfully it was cooking instead
Wow, this really broke down the problem to bring out actionable advice from it that goes beyond the whatever generic high-level advice you'd usually get. I'll definitely be trying some of these techniques.
That video you said you might do, the one about ranking types of media for language learning, sounds really interesting
farsi learner here, listening is a problem i have, there are some consonant combinations that i couldn’t even imagine before, much of which i’m sure comes from arabic, thank you for the tips!
nice video
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Interestingly, even though I'm more fluent in Spanish and have much wider knowledge of the words and grammar constructs since I took it from grades 7 through 12, from the several hundred hours I put in playing the Yakuza games which are in Japanese and watching Japanese anime I feel like it is much easier to separate words in Japanese for me than it is for Spanish.
In my Spanish classes we did much more talking than listening and all the listening we did do was slowed down or simplified Spanish.
Once the language starts to sound less exotic and more boring thats how i know i'm getting better at listening
I'm usually fine with things like youtube videos or a phone call when there is a single voice (or a few ones) being the focus of attention without much background noise (there can be noise but you almost always can ignore it). But for something like movies I still can't stop using subtitles. It would probably be better to just turn them off to be forced to learn but I just can't. And music lyrics is the whole another level.
Off topic but ur voice is so aesthetic sounding 😀 epic channel
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6:18 my
spanish teacher was one discussing our class vacation to puerto rico & she said something like "then we'll do some /koken/", I was very startled at the notion that we were going to puerto rico to do cocaine & thankfully it was cooking instead
Most underrated video I've ever seen on YouTube and I'm not over exaggerating
stress: exists
japanese: nah i'm good
i think in japanese the best way is to listen for the pitch increases to separate words
Hilarious that on a video where you talk about native speakers sounding extremely fast to learners, you speak about 100 miles a second
3 quarters to x, which is exactly what you think it is, x:45
This video is really good! It gives a lot of specific and novel advice, instead of something generic unlike other videos, and it's really concise.
Cleek exists in British English – that’s how we pronounce “clique”
I wanna go for some chihuahua racing
Wow, this really broke down the problem to bring out actionable advice from it that goes beyond the whatever generic high-level advice you'd usually get. I'll definitely be trying some of these techniques.
i thought i’d heard every concept and comprehensible input and language acquisition in general… this was so simple yet insightful
4:23 this is a word u just spelt it wrong (clique)
6:06 once my aunty (native spanish speaker) heard my grandma call someone the c-word & said "can't? can't what?"
To help with listening comprehension in Russian, i watch gaming videos in the language. (Sorry if i worded that badly lol)