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| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4081 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes  Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 1 of 61 27 April 2014 at 12:02am | IP Logged |
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Do you introverts find sound/audio taxing? I find learning from books requires less
energy that concentrating on assimil etc audio. And here is an article on introversion that I liked http://themattwalshblog.com/2013/09/11/im-an-i ntrovert-and-i-dont-need-to- come-out-of-my-shell/ Edited by Gemuse on 27 April 2014 at 12:03am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4664 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 2 of 61 27 April 2014 at 12:09am | IP Logged |
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Not at all; I really like audio and base most of my learning on listening. I find it hard to interact in large groups, though -- I actually enjoyed my French meetup more when there were fewer people, for example.
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| diffuse Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3866 days ago 12 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German | Message 3 of 61 27 April 2014 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
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I recently listened to an interesting podcast that talked about how language learning (and language teaching) might feel different for introverts vs. for extroverts:
http://fluentlanguage.co.uk/creative-language-learning-podca st/episode3 I agree with tastyonions, I prefer language meetups in small groups or one-to-one: for me it's harder to parse things in a TL when there's more background noise/more people to interact with. But then again, I dislike large parties generally, even in my native language, so... Edited by diffuse on 27 April 2014 at 12:16am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5765 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 4 of 61 27 April 2014 at 12:34am | IP Logged |
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The differences you can notice in audio vs. written text is less of an extraversion thing, and more of what you are used to in combination with the properties of the medium. Reading means you can speed up, slow down and reread at will, while when listening you have to pace your attention to the content, and not your to comprehension of it. That's why I listen to a lot of audio. Edited by Bao on 27 April 2014 at 2:12am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 5 of 61 27 April 2014 at 12:50am | IP Logged |
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I'm an introvert and an aural learner. I love the techniques I use to learn to speak and listen without excessive human interaction.
I feel much more pressured by written communication, at least if my skills aren't good enough. I suppose that's because I write very well in my native language, and also in English and Finnish, and I loathe it when people write without rereading their text. So it's very difficult for me to just "practise" writing without worrying about mistakes. And I think the written word is very powerful and writing things that are both incorrect and boring is a waste of time. Edited by Serpent on 27 April 2014 at 12:56am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Fuenf_Katzen Diglot Senior Member United States notjustajd.wordpress Joined 4368 days ago 337 posts - 476 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Polish, Ukrainian, Afrikaans | Message 6 of 61 27 April 2014 at 7:29pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know that it's so much of an introversion/extraversion thing, but audio is one of the things I tend to put off very easily (in addition to writing, which is too easy to do because I just don't have many natural opportunities). I tend to learn new words from reading and then am able to recognize them in audio; not so much the other way around.
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| day1 Groupie Latvia Joined 3891 days ago 93 posts - 158 votes Speaks: English | Message 7 of 61 27 April 2014 at 8:03pm | IP Logged |
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I am introvert with a good visual memory, a very fast reader at that. When in school, I had no problem memorizing huge amounts of vocab for next day's test by reading it. But it never used to stick, I would find it gone from my mind soon after.
Now I prefer to do my language learning by ear only. I need to hear same thing over and over and over again (short attention spans, mind drifting away from lesson, etc.), but when it finally sticks, it stays. The other reason I prefer audio is simple - pronunciation. I have learned most of my English (especially the less common words) through reading, so I am never sure is my idea of how these words are supposed to sound correct. It often isn't - couple of times a month someone on BBC radio says a words and I go like: Oh, so that's how you say it! My point: I don't think it's an introvert/extrovert thing. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| beano Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4621 days ago 1049 posts - 2152 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Serbian, Hungarian | Message 8 of 61 27 April 2014 at 8:36pm | IP Logged |
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I guess very few people are true extroverts or introverts. It is a vast spectrum and most folk occupy the
middle ground. Moreover, it is perfectly possible to be introverted in some situations but not in others. I am naturally introverted and enjoy spending large amounts of time reading quietly on my own. Socialising in general doesn't give me much of a kick. But I love speaking sessions in my target language and I feel totally energised and pumped up after a long conversation which is held for the purposes of language learning. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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