can a beginner learn a language through books? | so you wanna learn a language?

[@jenn6490]

Thank you for this video! I definitely wish someone would have told me to not rush and try to read books for children because I also thought it would be easy. Now I use the Du Chinese app since I'm still a beginner . I find it very useful because you can choose the difficulty level and the chapters are not very long.

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

Completely agree!! Although after a bit I kinda got bored with du chinese and the chairman’s bao HAHA

[@jasonrunsabout77777]

I can feel the enthusiasm that you learn new language，so do it better！（translation：我感受到了愿意学新语言的热情，那就好好学吧！）

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

thank youu!!

[@markusklyver6277]

I tried reading La Eta Princo (The Little Prince in Esperanto) and I struggle with the last chapters, they are quite hard and I feel I don't know enough words.

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

Same!! If you feel like you don’t know enough words, it’s totally okay to put it down and pick it up at a later point! Learn some more things and then try it again :)

[@karlriina6950]

sleep is clearly part of memory consolidation, the transfer of memory from short term / working memory to long term memories.

[@gireesh2665]

🌷

[@karlriina6950]

@@gireesh2665 hehe she's really beautiful yeah , but i know for a fact she's paired up they seem truly happy. amor vincit omnia

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

although cognitive scientists don't know exactly why sleep is important, there's clear evidence that sleep is required for memory consolidation!

[@gireesh2665]

@@karlriina6950 👍

[@kimanh781]

Do you have hsk5 deck in anki . Could be share with us

[@chadbailey7038]

So glad u said this I’m the video. I tried to start Little Prince in Russian and ran into the same problem. Lol. I thought it was me! Graded Readers definitely help. Took me forever to find A1 level 😅But I like what u said about focusing more on time spent reading than understanding and translating every word. 🙏🏾

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

that feeling when children's books are still meant to be read by native speakers, aka, not us beginner/intermediate language learners hahahah

[@JuanGabrielOyolaCardona]

Great. Thanks for sharing :).

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

hopefully it was helpful!!

[@jinqima1420]

你的学习方法真的很积极向上！非常有用！

[@Braveplantt]

的確，的確

[@lin7916]

I’m late but I’m here! Watching the ads! Love u

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

Awww thank you so much :) really appreciate it!!

[@karlriina6950]

You really should talk to Olly Richards and turn this into an ad for his books lol.

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

l o l that would be a dream HA maybe after I get more subscribers!

[@karlriina6950]

@@bianca.phdinprogress just post your links on his channel, hes done at least a couple videos on Chinese his viewers will notice. I mean, at some point you will do a NEUROSCIENTISTS INSIGHTS ON LANGUAGE LEARNING video which will get noticed by other academics AND be pretty charming well done and get a zillion views. But this is just your hobby, really. Science first!

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

hopefully!

[@karlriina6950]

@@bianca.phdinprogress later in life i will introduce you to some german colleagues working on AI and language AFTER THIS STUPID WAR ENDS. After, by the way is german for butthole. Really! Make of it wot you will!

[@karlriina6950]

kids mostly have fluent native speakers who care about them variously called mama dad evil stepmother etc. this is a big part of why they can acquire language faster and better, bigger than neuroplasticity in my opionion.

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

I would say it's more due to the critical period of language development! children have a higher ability to acquire languages than adults, who have to rely on neuroplasticity of already developed neural networks. children are still forming their networks, which haven't been pruned yet to increase efficiency!

[@karlriina6950]

@@bianca.phdinprogress Nope! This critical period garbage is nonsense. Half my langauges I learned as an adult. The reason you think there is a critical period is because you have two intensive care givers (as opposed to the abusive neglectful ones...) and also because children having no preconceptions or identity will literally say everything back exactly as they hear it (oh that niece's fuckbomb was so precious my relatives btw are horrible) meanwhile children ALSO have much more acute senses than adults, but the dulling of sensate perception isn't a direct hindrance to language learning, just turn up the volume. Critical period is increasingly correctly recognized as a myth.

[@AAa-ff1jb]

​@@bianca.phdinprogress Isn't the critical period about developing a native accent? I know people who've learned my native language (French) in 2 years to a native level whereas 6 year old children (though they have better accents) still make a ton of mistakes when speaking and have a smaller vocabulary.

[@ksshon7807]

你好。

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

你好！

[@Braveplantt]

​@@bianca.phdinprogress你地好，我叫Aden，我教你一個詞語，曱甴, meaning cochroach in cantonese, also a dialect of chinese

[@karlriina6950]

You speak in iambic pentameter all the time. It's the natural rhythm of english. Every language has a natural rhythm. Greek's is dactylic hexameter. Finnish is trochaic tetramater. "Song of Hiawatha" is however an example of trochaic tetrameter in English. And let me tell you, one day, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but soon, and for the rest of your life, I am gonna figure out what the natural rhythm of Chinese is...

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

iambic pentameter actually refers to the way in which tradition english poetry or drama is spoken. intonation + rhythm may more closely match what you describe for english!

[@karlriina6950]

@@bianca.phdinprogress an iamb or foot is two parts. Stressed, then unstressed. It's split by rhythm, not by syllable. "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" /. /. /. /. /.

[@jasonschuchardt7624]

@@karlriina6950 I mean there are ten syllables in that line, but it's definitely not stressed/unstressed alternating. It should be unstressed/stressed alternating. And that's not the natural stress pattern for that sentence in my dialect of English either, which would stress "Shall" rather than "I".

[@jasonschuchardt7624]

I think at least for the first kind of reading, which you describe as translating, it's better to call it intensive reading, because you can do intensive reading without translating.

[@bianca.phdinprogress]

Yepp definitely!! I’m actually talking about the difference between extensive and intensive reading in the next few weeks!