Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5677 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin
| Message 1 of 57 22 March 2010 at 7:40pm | IP Logged |
I have created a Youtube channel, where I will be discussing both how to increase your fluency in Czech, and my language learning approach in general. Today I put the first few videos on there, and hopefully I will keep up the enthusiasm to keep doing so.
Even though it is very much slanted towards learning Czech, I think there are ideas in there that should be relevant no matter what language you are learning. At the very least, you will get to see what I look like and how I sound :-)
Edited by Splog on 22 March 2010 at 7:41pm
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Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5855 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 57 22 March 2010 at 8:53pm | IP Logged |
Splog wrote:
I have created a Youtube channel, where I will be discussing both how to increase your fluency in Czech, and my language learning approach in general. Today I put the first few videos on there, and hopefully I will keep up the enthusiasm to keep doing so.
Even though it is very much slanted towards learning Czech, I think there are ideas in there that should be relevant no matter what language you are learning. At the very least, you will get to see what I look like and how I sound :-) |
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Thanks for posting your videos, Splog! I would like to listen to you speaking Czech, because I have never heard the language spoken. Russian and Polish, yes, but never Czech.
Fasulye
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Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5677 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin
| Message 3 of 57 22 March 2010 at 10:53pm | IP Logged |
Fasulye wrote:
I would like to listen to you speaking Czech, because I have never heard the language spoken. Russian and Polish, yes, but never Czech.
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It will come! In each video I will likely be introducing more and more Czech, and slowly, less and less English. I am hoping that the videos will lead naturally from very basic concepts all the way up to a flowing conversation. Ideally, it won't just sound like a monologue of foreign babble but, rather, people who followed the earlier videos will have at least some idea of what I am saying.
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Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5677 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin
| Message 4 of 57 26 March 2010 at 4:17pm | IP Logged |
I have added four new videos to my channel, teaching people how to improve their ability to listen to a language so that it doesn't sound like babble. It is all based on ideas I learned from great people on this forum:
1 : The Problem - it all sounds like babble
2: Intensive Listening - learning how to hear the words
3: Shadowing - Copying what you hear
4: Extensive Listening - the Listening-Reading method
I hope I have done these approaches justice. At the very least I have been honest about how I have used the methods, and I apologise wholeheartedly if I have misrepresented them or misquoted anybody.
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6917 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 5 of 57 26 March 2010 at 6:45pm | IP Logged |
I enjoyed watching your videos as the ideas apply to any language. Well done.
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ushrark Bilingual Diglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 5607 days ago 20 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Russian
| Message 6 of 57 28 March 2010 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
Wish i had sound.
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ushrark Bilingual Diglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 5607 days ago 20 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Russian
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YES ! SOUND !!
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Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5677 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin
| Message 8 of 57 29 March 2010 at 5:37pm | IP Logged |
I added a new video today describing a technique I use for remembering new things as I learn them.
It is a technique I call "Remembering Living Stories" and the idea is that you continually evolve a set of stories that you find compelling, so that they grow with your experience. As your fluency increases, the stories become richer.
I have been using this technique for about three years now, and at least in my experience the stories have provided a rich and helpful context for remembering and recalling new things.
Here is the video
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