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Steve, there is a movie called The other side of Heaven. It is about a missionary (John H. Groeburg) serving in the Tongan islands. He is trying to learn the language and has a huge struggle. Because of the struggle he ends up reading the Bible in Tongan. He would read a verse in English then Tongan. It shows him reading for days with out stop. Then it shows him waking up and basically fluent in the Language. This movie is based on a true story. So he used this reading method you are talking about.
Thankyou, Steve. I find that I need to read without listening at first, otherwise the brain seems to be overpowered by performing the two skills simultaneously and both comprehension and concentration soon fail. In contrast, when I am reasonably secure with the reading, then listening seems to become much more intelligible and useful. I would be interested in what other people experience in this regard.
@Alejandro Torres Thanks, Alejandro. All I can say is that this is my own experience. I am learning French at present, and find that listening seems dependent on my having already gained intelligibility via another means. The same seems to be true of my Dutch, though that is far more advanced than my French. If you can handle both skills simultaneously when you are beginning a language, then I'm impressed and just a little envious. Best wishes to you.
I'm the opposite. If I don't hear the words first, reading them are just scribbles. Even if they are intelligible (using latin alphabet). Once I've listened, and said it a bunch, then when I see the written form it puts a stamp on that experience. Listening & speaking, for me, is much more immersive experience than reading.
Unless of course, it's in a language that I'm already conversational in. Than reading is enough, because I already know how it will sound. But in the beginning stages, I prefer listening and repeating.
@@thomaspruchinski385 Thank you for your response, Thomas. It may interest you to know that for several years I have lived in a part of rural South Africa in a care centre where the local language is Sepedi. There are no 'Teach Yourself' books for this, and no formal instruction is available. Even though I am surrounded by the language, I can't begin to understand a word unless I first see it written down and then placed in a simple sentence; otherwise, I hear only 'auditory scribbles' so to speak. Best regards to you, Thomas, and good luck!
Thank you Steve for those videos, they are a great source of motivation. For me as a intermidiate English learner, I find sometimes myself questioning if i am progressing and your videos reminds me that i am following the right path.
That's so important. I startet in 2020 with LingQ and even my english skyrocketed (I grew up with some native speakers as friends, so it was more or less good). But the improvements in swedish were absolutely crazy. I love this tool and have to appreciate your and your family and friends for this great idea. Everyone who's asking me I'm all in for LingQ. Best language learning tool ever.
I find it difficult to navigate and also as a beginner, it can be too much. I'm best or trying to learn words then I will next read a small text with voice over and re read and listen to this...would this work? My target language, Polish.
@@wild4fp I do it exactly this way. I read and review the words while reading. It's overwhelming in the first place but it's worth it. Just pick out the beginner 1 and maybe the beginner 2 materials (depends on the language and content). With only beginner materials you shouldn't have any problems to find the right things to read. The mini-stories are great to read and listen to them over and over again. I hope this helps.
Yes you're right, I really focused a lot on listening in the biggening but later when I started to read english my english improved a lot and very fast.When I read english that's when I literally feel the language, yo know it's like ,as if I can tuoch english.
Reading is an advanced use of a language. Listening and speaking are our most natural language skills, which is why we learn our native language using only listening and speaking before we enter school and start learning to read and write. If you are already experienced with a language, it is very effective and recommended to use reading to acquire vocabulary and progress in the language. But I wouldn't start learning a language just by reading and writing.
For a small child, who has lots of years ahead of them, just listening to a language is fine. But that can take many years, and it may be 10 or more before they have a substantial vocabulary. Most adults have the ability to both listen, speak, read, and write in their native language. As Steve points out, accumulating vocabulary and being exposed to grammatical structures is key to acquiring "non-native" languages. Adults have skills that children do not and, by which, we can shorten the window to fluency. Using the reading skill gets us to a higher level of fluency faster.
When learning your mother tongue you are set in one way with the people around you fully immersed in the language, a new language on top of your mother tongue will cause conflicts in listening because you are already programmed one way, so eg. reading The word "hay" is pronounced "I" not "hey" in Spanish helps, otherwise you auto associate that word with oneself/me when you just listen
I subscribed, liked almost all videos I watched on your channel, and now I have LingQ for one month as a test, but because it is fantastic tool I will register gor one year. Thank you dear Steve, learning German from Iraq was not easy for me! 🎉🎉 I hope there is something in the app for speaking too.
I am the opposite in Portuguese. Reading helps my audio. I don't understand audio without text (very well) however I'm trying really hard to work on this with lingQ. But I just read and write a lot in Portuguese. Finished 9 mini stories (about 6-12 real book pages per story) and wrote down vocabulary and tons of notes. And also reading and texting friends in a game and in a group chat. But I don't get to hear much.. where as my best friend is Brazilian so we write in Portuguese but I don't hear much stuff. So hopefully lingQ will help
I'm such a big fan of your process, but what might you modify for languages with a very different alphabet (e.g. Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, etc.)?? After lots of listening (while making breakfast, doing the dishes, running, etc.) and separate reading, I'm still a little frustrated at my inability to read as quickly in Hebrew as I can in, say, Spanish (which I haven't studied for year.) I'm now experimenting with more reading WHILE listening to intermediate or harder content. This video sort of had me thinking more about this. Steve, what's your thought on how much more "combination" reading-listening one should do for languages with different alphabets?
There different the writing system, the more work it is, the longer it takes. It's just hard to get used to a new writing system. If I had the discipline I would probably write in Arabic and Persian. I did so for Mandarin and I think it helped my brain get used to the new, and to me strange, writing system.
Hi Steve, when you read, Do you do it directly in English, or do you do it from the target language? I mean, do you get used to the vocabulary from the target language taking into account just that language, or is the translation exercise necessary?
On LingQ, blue words are completely new words that you've never encountered on the app. Yellow words are words that you're learning while known words aren't highlighted at all.
Hi steve, I really agree with you on the importance of reading for word acquisition and getting familiar with structures of the language. I am encountering this obstacle, that I am sure you have come across, which is that I'm learning a language which has a large gap between the written/formal variant and the spoken variant. It's the South Indian language Tamil. My goal in the language is to be able to have conversations with people rather than read texts. Do you have any advice for my situation? Currently I've been learning a lot of words from movies, the few textbooks that I have, and chatting with people online. On a related note, I was so happy for you when you said you found written literature in Egyptian Arabic, because I assumed you'd run into the same problem - that you'd only encounter text in Fus7a. If there were no written sources for Egyptian arabic, (e.g. only in fus7a), what would you have done yourself and recommended?
I think there is no easy answer. I just read Fusha and glean what I can from videos and movies, in some cases there are subtitles in vernacular. Also we have content in Egyptian and Levantine at LingQ which I used.
Do you think that reading in native language has any bad effect on learing second languages process? I am learing English. I always read books in Enlish. I also want to enjoy some books in my native language but I don't do that beacause I am afraid of reading in my native language will slow down the process of acquiring English words in my brain. How do you think about that?
I think our native language is so engraved in our brain that there’s basically 0 chance it would Have a negative impact. I think it’s almost impossible to mix up words with our native language bc it’s our native language. But that’s just my opinion.
I think there is actually some synergy these. Learning a language makes me interested in the culture and history and I end up reading in English about the area. IN any case we should do what we want. time is the biggest limiting factor.
I understand you, I avoid reading and watching content in my native languages. If I read - only English, if I watch smth - only in English. In my opinion, doing all of this in you native language can really slow you down in your target language.
Should we read aloud or sub vocalize or lips ING while reading? Reading aloud is so difficult for doing it long time.Lipsing also same.Sub vocalization sometimes slow down reading but it helps to understand meaning.Which is best preference to you Steve?
@@Thelinguist That's great.There are lots of reading techniques such as skimming or scanning words,or using pointer while reading through the text to increase speed.All of these methods are used to reduce sub vocalization during reading.These are known as speed reading.As you mention that you sub vocalize sub-consciously but my question is do you support to sub vocalize word by word? Somtimes boring text/lines/paragraphs need to be skipped (I am very confused on that whether I read word by word or just skip it).To sum up-Do you think that speed reading is a good reading habits or not?
As a point of debate Steve, what is your impression of say immigrants to a foreign country with no prior experience of their "host" language but who manage to pick up the language in quick time without perhaps recourse to an extensive library of reading material? Surely the key to their success is comprehensible input in the form of massive exposure to listening. I agree with you reading is important in developing vocabulary, in particular less frequently occurring words as we progress in our language acquisition process, but would not the ideal scenario be to listen and read at the same time? I see you touched on this point as something you like to get towards, but if we're talking about what is the most efficient use of time, surely combining the two activities trumps solely one of them on its own? If I use the mini stories as an example of my own experience, going once or twice through a lesson whilst reading and listening is sufficient before listening becomes the primary activity. Outside of LingQ, RUclips channels like Dreaming Spanish/Naturlich German offer plenty of listening opportunity without requiring you to read in order to understand. I guess I'm just saying that other approaches, equally successful in and of themselves, are available. Thank you for your video.
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Asalam o alakium! Hi sir i am from pakistan sir our national language is urdu.i have a burning desire to read english books but it defecult for me so what i do? To make readig well.
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I read in English every day
I try to read almost everyday in Korean as well
Steve, there is a movie called The other side of Heaven. It is about a missionary (John H. Groeburg) serving in the Tongan islands. He is trying to learn the language and has a huge struggle. Because of the struggle he ends up reading the Bible in Tongan. He would read a verse in English then Tongan. It shows him reading for days with out stop. Then it shows him waking up and basically fluent in the Language. This movie is based on a true story. So he used this reading method you are talking about.
Thankyou, Steve. I find that I need to read without listening at first, otherwise the brain seems to be overpowered by performing the two skills simultaneously and both comprehension and concentration soon fail. In contrast, when I am reasonably secure with the reading, then listening seems to become much more intelligible and useful. I would be interested in what other people experience in this regard.
@Alejandro Torres Thanks, Alejandro. All I can say is that this is my own experience. I am learning French at present, and find that listening seems dependent on my having already gained intelligibility via another means. The same seems to be true of my Dutch, though that is far more advanced than my French. If you can handle both skills simultaneously when you are beginning a language, then I'm impressed and just a little envious. Best wishes to you.
I'm the opposite. If I don't hear the words first, reading them are just scribbles. Even if they are intelligible (using latin alphabet). Once I've listened, and said it a bunch, then when I see the written form it puts a stamp on that experience. Listening & speaking, for me, is much more immersive experience than reading.
Unless of course, it's in a language that I'm already conversational in. Than reading is enough, because I already know how it will sound. But in the beginning stages, I prefer listening and repeating.
@@thomaspruchinski385 Thank you for your response, Thomas. It may interest you to know that for several years I have lived in a part of rural South Africa in a care centre where the local language is Sepedi. There are no 'Teach Yourself' books for this, and no formal instruction is available. Even though I am surrounded by the language, I can't begin to understand a word unless I first see it written down and then placed in a simple sentence; otherwise, I hear only 'auditory scribbles' so to speak. Best regards to you, Thomas, and good luck!
Thank you Steve for those videos, they are a great source of motivation. For me as a intermidiate English learner, I find sometimes myself questioning if i am progressing and your videos reminds me that i am following the right path.
That's so important. I startet in 2020 with LingQ and even my english skyrocketed (I grew up with some native speakers as friends, so it was more or less good). But the improvements in swedish were absolutely crazy. I love this tool and have to appreciate your and your family and friends for this great idea.
Everyone who's asking me I'm all in for LingQ. Best language learning tool ever.
Great way to put it. I feel the same way.
I find it difficult to navigate and also as a beginner, it can be too much. I'm best or trying to learn words then I will next read a small text with voice over and re read and listen to this...would this work? My target language, Polish.
@@wild4fp I do it exactly this way. I read and review the words while reading. It's overwhelming in the first place but it's worth it. Just pick out the beginner 1 and maybe the beginner 2 materials (depends on the language and content). With only beginner materials you shouldn't have any problems to find the right things to read. The mini-stories are great to read and listen to them over and over again.
I hope this helps.
Yes you're right, I really focused a lot on listening in the biggening but later when I started to read english my english improved a lot and very fast.When I read english that's when I literally feel the language, yo know it's like ,as if I can tuoch english.
I love this topic! It’s so true how effective reading is, and this is coming from a guy who’s not even a big reader of his native language
Reading is an advanced use of a language. Listening and speaking are our most natural language skills, which is why we learn our native language using only listening and speaking before we enter school and start learning to read and write. If you are already experienced with a language, it is very effective and recommended to use reading to acquire vocabulary and progress in the language. But I wouldn't start learning a language just by reading and writing.
For a small child, who has lots of years ahead of them, just listening to a language is fine. But that can take many years, and it may be 10 or more before they have a substantial vocabulary. Most adults have the ability to both listen, speak, read, and write in their native language. As Steve points out, accumulating vocabulary and being exposed to grammatical structures is key to acquiring "non-native" languages. Adults have skills that children do not and, by which, we can shorten the window to fluency. Using the reading skill gets us to a higher level of fluency faster.
@@tedgilmore9657 Agreed
When learning your mother tongue you are set in one way with the people around you fully immersed in the language, a new language on top of your mother tongue will cause conflicts in listening because you are already programmed one way, so eg. reading The word "hay" is pronounced "I" not "hey" in Spanish helps, otherwise you auto associate that word with oneself/me when you just listen
this is the best response:)
I subscribed, liked almost all videos I watched on your channel, and now I have LingQ for one month as a test, but because it is fantastic tool I will register gor one year.
Thank you dear Steve, learning German from Iraq was not easy for me! 🎉🎉
I hope there is something in the app for speaking too.
Стив, спасибо за ваше видео, я смотрю их одно за другим. Скажите, учили ли Вы древние языки, древнегреческий и латынь? Что об этом думаете?
Thanks Steve
Thank you so much Steve
Thank you very much Steve good video , Because I like see your explanation about languages learning and many topic, Keep it up
Thanks steve penetrative style of teaching language
I'm trying to read something daily even if it's little.
I am the opposite in Portuguese. Reading helps my audio. I don't understand audio without text (very well) however I'm trying really hard to work on this with lingQ. But I just read and write a lot in Portuguese. Finished 9 mini stories (about 6-12 real book pages per story) and wrote down vocabulary and tons of notes. And also reading and texting friends in a game and in a group chat. But I don't get to hear much.. where as my best friend is Brazilian so we write in Portuguese but I don't hear much stuff. So hopefully lingQ will help
I'm such a big fan of your process, but what might you modify for languages with a very different alphabet (e.g. Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew, etc.)?? After lots of listening (while making breakfast, doing the dishes, running, etc.) and separate reading, I'm still a little frustrated at my inability to read as quickly in Hebrew as I can in, say, Spanish (which I haven't studied for year.) I'm now experimenting with more reading WHILE listening to intermediate or harder content. This video sort of had me thinking more about this. Steve, what's your thought on how much more "combination" reading-listening one should do for languages with different alphabets?
There different the writing system, the more work it is, the longer it takes. It's just hard to get used to a new writing system. If I had the discipline I would probably write in Arabic and Persian. I did so for Mandarin and I think it helped my brain get used to the new, and to me strange, writing system.
Hi Steve, when you read, Do you do it directly in English, or do you do it from the target language? I mean, do you get used to the vocabulary from the target language taking into account just that language, or is the translation exercise necessary?
I read in the target language looking up words I need on LingQ.
Hi, I'm Tanveer,watching from India
What is the meaning of "blue word"
You used it many times in the video.
On LingQ, blue words are completely new words that you've never encountered on the app. Yellow words are words that you're learning while known words aren't highlighted at all.
Hi steve, I really agree with you on the importance of reading for word acquisition and getting familiar with structures of the language. I am encountering this obstacle, that I am sure you have come across, which is that I'm learning a language which has a large gap between the written/formal variant and the spoken variant. It's the South Indian language Tamil. My goal in the language is to be able to have conversations with people rather than read texts. Do you have any advice for my situation? Currently I've been learning a lot of words from movies, the few textbooks that I have, and chatting with people online.
On a related note, I was so happy for you when you said you found written literature in Egyptian Arabic, because I assumed you'd run into the same problem - that you'd only encounter text in Fus7a.
If there were no written sources for Egyptian arabic, (e.g. only in fus7a), what would you have done yourself and recommended?
I think there is no easy answer. I just read Fusha and glean what I can from videos and movies, in some cases there are subtitles in vernacular. Also we have content in Egyptian and Levantine at LingQ which I used.
@@Thelinguist I do the same. Always feels like hitting the jackpot when we find subtitles in the vernacular! Haha
Thank you!
Do you think that reading in native language has any bad effect on learing second languages process? I am learing English. I always read books in Enlish. I also want to enjoy some books in my native language but I don't do that beacause I am afraid of reading in my native language will slow down the process of acquiring English words in my brain. How do you think about that?
I think our native language is so engraved in our brain that there’s basically 0 chance it would Have a negative impact. I think it’s almost impossible to mix up words with our native language bc it’s our native language. But that’s just my opinion.
I think there is actually some synergy these. Learning a language makes me interested in the culture and history and I end up reading in English about the area. IN any case we should do what we want. time is the biggest limiting factor.
I understand you, I avoid reading and watching content in my native languages. If I read - only English, if I watch smth - only in English. In my opinion, doing all of this in you native language can really slow you down in your target language.
I want to fllow different reading method and you help me everyday
Eu gostei muito. Gratidão. Elvis Gomes By Brasil
My dream is to hear this man speak fluently in Arabic.
It may take a while. I'm continuing my Arabic learning while also learning Persian. It all takes time.
Thanks Stev! As wise as always 🤓🥰
Should we read aloud or sub vocalize or lips ING while reading? Reading aloud is so difficult for doing it long time.Lipsing also same.Sub vocalization sometimes slow down reading but it helps to understand meaning.Which is best preference to you Steve?
I just sub-vocalize, whether I want to or not, subconsciously.
@@Thelinguist That's great.There are lots of reading techniques such as skimming or scanning words,or using pointer while reading through the text to increase speed.All of these methods are used to reduce sub vocalization during reading.These are known as speed reading.As you mention that you sub vocalize sub-consciously but my question is do you support to sub vocalize word by word? Somtimes boring text/lines/paragraphs need to be skipped (I am very confused on that whether I read word by word or just skip it).To sum up-Do you think that speed reading is a good reading habits or not?
Try 'Sanskrit' mother of all languages
Amazing!
As a point of debate Steve, what is your impression of say immigrants to a foreign country with no prior experience of their "host" language but who manage to pick up the language in quick time without perhaps recourse to an extensive library of reading material? Surely the key to their success is comprehensible input in the form of massive exposure to listening.
I agree with you reading is important in developing vocabulary, in particular less frequently occurring words as we progress in our language acquisition process, but would not the ideal scenario be to listen and read at the same time? I see you touched on this point as something you like to get towards, but if we're talking about what is the most efficient use of time, surely combining the two activities trumps solely one of them on its own?
If I use the mini stories as an example of my own experience, going once or twice through a lesson whilst reading and listening is sufficient before listening becomes the primary activity. Outside of LingQ, RUclips channels like Dreaming Spanish/Naturlich German offer plenty of listening opportunity without requiring you to read in order to understand. I guess I'm just saying that other approaches, equally successful in and of themselves, are available.
Thank you for your video.
Of course all meaningful input is important. Reading is a big help, though.
Dose read comic books also will be considered "reading"
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Asalam o alakium! Hi sir i am from pakistan sir our national language is urdu.i have a burning desire to read english books but it defecult for me so what i do? To make readig well.
"Read much not many"
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