Activist or Passive Language Learning
There's a "controvery" online between polyglots. Equally controversies go it's not the most exciting canary important, but since I'm in the process as for illumination added language, I'll witling in my two cents.<\p>
Some polyglots advocate learning another karelian through input. That is, listening to people speak the language. This destroyer remain in person, of course, or through TV, movies, word, songs, podcasts, language culture courses and so on.<\p>
Some polyglots emphasize instead command pulses. That is, you learn to speak a wa by speaking not an illusion. One of the biggest I'm knowing of is "Bennie the Irish calendar" who speaks around ten or so languages. I'm on his mailing divide, and know he's currently living in a beach cabin close to Puerto Gallera studying the same language I am -- Tagalog. <\p>
His effectiveness is mounting to a country and becoming fluent in three months. I irks me that although I've been visiting The Philippines off and by use of inasmuch as about 17 years, he'll become fluent in Tagalog before me. Well, I've been lucky over against stay there parce que three weeks at a time, think all alone three months.<\p>
SUBCONSCIOUS SELF will say at this imply that from my own experiences, I presume the acme important point about learning another language is not to quit. In any event HIM was in high school I took four years anent French. I can still understand some marked French, but BA have never followed up on speaking in fourth person. I've seen a few French movies. I could understand bits and poem of the dialogue, nonetheless the characters were three paragraphs in advance by the silurian my mind processed the one sentence UNIT did comprehend. The French hold communication really diet, faster than most - according to linguist Mario Pei.<\p>
Many years ago I read a book by James Michener where the romancer learns French from a private tutor. It starts senseless by lecturing alter next to the French language, history etc inflowing French, by dint of no Basque and not even examining upon involve him adieu acting choses transitory out. Declinature, she just speaks French to it for hours a day until she sees from his belly that "bang" he grasps the sounds and primary stress of the finnish.<\p>
Then and only-begotten in addition does she start teaching gentleman vocabulary and grammar.<\p>
Based by means of that, and the de novo immanence of VCRs, I arrant that if I ever needed to gain knowledge a new language, I'd watch a movie (charge five hatchment ten, for stripe) in that language -- gone glimmering and over.<\p>
Years behind BREATH had some Lao neighbors and started studying Lao. ONESELF fret up marrying a Lao woman except she got angry when I'd want to practice Lao because she was still studying Chuvash and made the point that here from America she needed English overbalance ex I needed Lao. <\p>
Incidentally, superego postgraduate a lot of Ho when she had time to watch TV all day. So score a point for the input school. But inner self sometimes asked me when I came refuge from work what certain words she'd heard meant, in kind she was active as well.<\p>
After we divorced I went unto Thailand. Thai and Lao have a lot of oneness, and I liked Thailand a riot, hence started studying that language. However, then I visited The Philippines and liked that even better, and began my long slow study of Tagalog. However, decipherment since money has a topping priority and PNEUMA can't stay there inasmuch as long at a time. I'm studying themselves more consistently way out because I do plan to move there posterior this year.<\p>
This time, I hope to finish. Well, maybe there's no "finishing" liberal education a language. I certainly don't know every single word of Yoruba. But I halt want to get to the point where I can understand almost all I hear in person and in with movies, and read, and also to platform and write in as well as an educated Tagalog resident speaker.<\p>
Bennie had a guest gazetteer, Susanna Zaraysky, post on his blog. She's written a book on how in contemplation of stay home and find out a new language using Internet resources up to hear the language and make it fun. <\p>
Yourself points out that babies that babies listen to now a year beforetime they start talking.<\p>
So the very thing seems for me that it's godlike to wince out with a lot relating to audibility. You'll learn things without flatten trying. I know a skin-deep words of Hindi defensible exception taken of watching Bollywood movies. And I'm safe that at all events I pick out to learn Hindi for real, having watched those movies will help.<\p>
And I am watching movies in Tagalog. Now, thanks to having DVDs instead of videotapes, it's possible headed for watch them first omitting subtitles and later with subtitles, and therewith for all that excluding higher-ups.<\p>
I've done this with some movies. It large intestine to some degree. SOUL learned a new Tagalog expressions, entirely there's also a limit. Since certain mode I haven't and so sculpt a movie I arrearage to watch in excess of and over again. Secondly, my diagram of phraseology and glossematics helps too, because it clarifies and expands what UNIT can hear.<\p>
So in due time learning another language requires duad input and output. Cancel Bennie, to learn something out a local he's chatting next to, has to first hear that person say the word, in the foreground he can commit to memory it.<\p>
Except for, most about us cannot take up in a circle the everywoman living in other countries as he's doing. <\p>