Make this One Change to your Language Learning Mindset

[@directionofease]

“The world is jazz”. This. Thanks.

[@LanguageMatrix]

My pleasure, thank you very much

[@wei.h5689]

yes, otherwise everything is boring, we should transform and root them in our minds, thank for inspiration

[@LanguageMatrix]

My pleasure, thank you very much

[@aguy3082]

Latin really has that issue where the online space and the approach in classes is so grammar oriented that it suffocates production and usage of the language; so you get literally millions of people with fairly solid Latin that have never and will never actually write in it or speak it, and when people do, they are barraged with commentors going over every sentence with a fine brush to debate if every word has the perfect choice of cases to convey the idea being communicated. If it does, they criticize the style and claim that it is too medieval, not ciceronean enough, too ciceronean, etc. But very few people just relax and use the language, and a 2500 year corpus is largely ignored to focus on a narrow body of work written from 100B.C.-100A.D.

[@Milon68BD]

thank for sharing

[@LanguageMatrix]

My pleasure, thank you

[@MisterGames]

Cue the Wugs. Used by researchers to discover up until a certain age a child will be one wug two wug, because they have never heard the Wugs version, indicating they repeat what they hear. But after that age when introduced to the Wug they assume the adding of an S for the plural.

[@PSTDj]

“Forget about grammar, just communicate.” But you still need to remember the words and sentences. Do you have some techniques on how to remember sentences? I am using anki software and adding new words and sentences but reviewing sentences takes more time than reviewing single words. When you know sentences you can communicate faster.

[@AbdarRahmanChignell]

Yes. Use 123 charts and the matrix to have conversations with yourself. Even better with a real language partner. As he said play the piano with verb starting points and some vocab in a notebook. Use physical flash cards with questions and answers. Tony's more of a paper and pen guy than anki type. I've gone this way too. Part of the way to remember in my experience with his method is to make sure that your sentences relate to your life and so they become instinctual. Less working to memorise (anki). More play (123 instant conversation / matrix). Regular play ingrains them. If anki works for you then go for it.

[@craigs3007]

Lingopie is great for understanding what you hear and building up a library of real phrases.

[@LanguageMatrix]

Thanks AbdarRahman, well said

[@Lexie810-b5r]

You can get great language audio input here on youtube with bilingual stories, they will read a sentence of a story in English then read the same sentence in target language. Polyglot Beats on youtube does that well for multiple languages and there other channels for specific languages... its been helping me get passive listening and learning when going on walks... time is by FAR hardest obstacle in language learning - anything that can get us some passive learning is a plus 😊