![]() It’s all done in the one studio and it’s always the same place and it’s very comfortable and familiarity and comfort also helps us in language learning.īut how do you then take these and make them valuable language learning opportunities? First of all, if it’s a movie on YouTube we do have at LingQ a browser extension (available for Chrome, Firefox, Safari and Edge) that allows us to import that as a lesson. You’re getting together with your friends and with your family, and you’re seeing them in different situations and always in somewhat familiar situations, because typically many of these series are very low budgets. ![]() It’s as if you’re getting together with your family, your Turkish family, or whatever language you’re learning. The good thing about a series is that you meet the same people every time in every episode. However, movies and series are extremely attractive and because so much of the language journey is connected with our emotions, I have found that say watching a series on Netflix, even when I don’t understand very well, it could be a series in Turkish or a series in Arabic, or a YouTube video in Persian. You’re becoming more and more used to these words. I find that is very powerful in terms of learning because you’re having to conjure up meaning based on these words that you hear. You’re just watching people move or cars drive or people shoot or whatever they do, so it’s less language-intense, word-intense than say a book or even an audio where you are relying on what you read and what you hear to learn. There can be long periods of time in any video, any series on Netflix or movie, where there’s not much dialogue. I have in the past expressed some reservation about videos because of course the problem with the video is you’re obliged to sit there and watch it. Now increasingly on the internet we have all kinds of resources that we can bring in to our sort of language learning world to learn from, and videos are quite powerful. ![]() Then I went through a period where I was buying audio books and CDs to match. When I first started learning say Chinese and French back 50/60 years ago, it was overwhelmingly books and then came along more and more tape recordings and cassette recordings. Content that you like, content that has resonance for you. Content, which feeds that curiosity and those interests, is extremely important. That’s the smart plug that triggers your interest, your curiosity. Language learning as we know is about motivation. ![]() Studying English? Here’s the transcript as a lesson to study on LingQ. This post is a transcript of a video on my YouTube channel. ![]()
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