Results of my arduous at-home language immersion experiment

[@jonpaul70]

I totally agree with what you're saying, but when people speak about having conversations to get better nobody ever addresses the fundamental question. How do you get enough vocabulary to even start to have these conversations for five hours? What do you do to get to a point where you can start having conversations. If you have no words to speak, your language exchange is going to be a lot of dead air. So my question is, what do you do to get to a point where you can start having these conversations? If you're not learning grammar or words, how do you get to that point?

[@jonpaul70]

I'm missing something I guess

[@bratzlover501]

I guess you should get a basic understanding of the language first

[@nicolasespindola2852]

You have to start progressively. Read simple texts, translate what you don't know, ask a native or a person that speaks the language very well, listen more, and trust me, you will eventually get to the point you're talking about

[@paijwa]

If someone points at a rock and says rock in their language, you can guess that they're saying rock. Say then, that they pick up a hammer and gesture that they're hitting the rock while now saying 2 words, one of them being the word you heard them say prior. You can then assume they're saying something along the lines of 'smash rock' And even if you don't have examples as clear as this when learning. If you hear enough of a language, and you notice some words showing up in similar contexts. You would then start slowly unraveling what things mean, but it would obviously take a lot longer with that approach. Since it can take a long time for your brain to start picking out words it's heard before, depending on how often they appear in speech.

[@elishevabarenbaum5319]

This is an excellent video! I have some questions: How do you get to an even minimal level in the language to be able to start a conversation if you're just at home? In country I can understand, as much of communication is body language, but without that, where would you start? How many hours of conversation practice did it take you to feel comfortable in the language? What do you think of the Dreaming Spanish approach? Tons of comprehensible input only (i.e. no grammar or vocabulary learning) and you start speaking when it is natural to do so? Thanks in advance!

[@ibarix]

Man, this is awesome. Subscribed.

[@renaissanceman419]

Discord could be a good and free solution

[@РомаСурков-р7т]

Ты молодец! Все правильно делаешь. Я студент, будущий учитель английского, полностью с тобой согласен по твоему методу обучения.

[@tullochgorum6323]

Makes sense, but a pretty major financial investment - this is going to cost a minimum of $4,000 a year for tutors in industrialised countries - perhaps less if the tutor has a lower cost of living. So not for everyone, even if you have the time and motivation.

[@LeftToWrite006]

Tullochgorum I completely agree with you. Financially, this would be crippling for a lot of people. I wish he had touched on this issue since the cost to do this is so large.

[@SchumannBert]

What is the political end of Esperento?

[@sagesweeney246]

It is mainly leftist.

[@Yusuf1187]

+Sage That comment alone neither makes any sense or explains anything.

[@nakughost]

Zionism

[@felicvik9456]

Мен окудмун колдоном тандемде (I study using tandem)