Chinese Teacher shares PRICELESS Language Learning Advice -

[@adriandroopyi7505]

Hello Alvaro,muchas gracias por esta muy buena entrevista a comprensiblechinesse.Muy buenao todo.Abrazo grande

[@naturalanguages]

Thank you Adrian, I'm glad you enjoyed it ☺

[@paulwalther5237]

For a while I could output Japanese better than I could input (understand) it. You might not think such a thing is possible but Japanese is a weird language. I didn't learn it using comprehensible input of course. I mean, I eventually did but I relied on brute force to learn using mostly flash cards and textbooks until I was able to finally understand simple novels and anime for native speakers.

[@naturalanguages]

Very interesting experience, thank you ☺ I've noticed a different scenario in which learners seem to be better at output than input. It's people that learn English by mostly communicating with non-native speakers. They get decent at output from all the exposure, but have a lot of trouble understanding the language when having to communicate with native speakers, because they got used to the easier, non-native way of communicating.

[@paulwalther5237]

You should do a video of yourself speaking German to someone so we can get a feel for what your German out put sounds like. I wouldn't be too surprised if many people are like.. that's not so bad...

[@naturalanguages]

That's actually a good idea! And yeah I personally might think it's not so bad after listening to it 😂 Because we're in our head, we know that it doesn't come natural yet, but the actual output might be decent. So it's mainly the feeling that we'd struggle if the conversation went on for a while, and also the gap between how much we can understand and how much we can say.

[@hotcrossbunion]

Very good video and debate I have studied russian for over 2 years and the question of input to output is the 64 thousand dollar issue thank you

[@naturalanguages]

Absolutely! I also feel like this is the missing piece and the most important part we need to understand! Thanks for your comment, I'm glad you liked it ☺

[@paulwalther5237]

A lot of "input learning" assumes people who self study and so when they say they only do input they mean they only do input. No speaking or writing at all and some of them don't even read out loud. But she's a Chinese teacher using input learning/teaching so I assume she talks to her students in Chinese and they reply in Chinese so it's both input and output. It would seem like a horrible missed opportunity to have a Chinese teacher and not speak Chinese with them after all.

[@naturalanguages]

Yeah I think so! And absolutely, that's the advantage of having a teacher, they can help you start the output process earlier in a safe way ☺