How To Learn A Language: Be Comfortable With Making Mistakes — Transcript

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1. 0:00hey guys so today I want to talk about
2. 0:01what I think is probably the most
3. 0:03important aspect of learning a new
4. 0:04language and that is feeling comfortable
5. 0:06with making mistakes and making many
6. 0:09many many mistakes so I've seen a lot of
7. 0:12people who are perfectly capable of
8. 0:14reading and writing but their ability to
9. 0:16speak is subpar it's not so good um
10. 0:20primarily because they were always
11. 0:22hesitant and they're always afraid of
12. 0:25saying things and making mistakes so
13. 0:27they always had to wait until they
14. 0:28perfected something before they could
15. 0:29use it
16. 0:30and they didn't know how to fluidly
17. 0:32connect things because their the way
18. 0:34their mind works everything had to be
19. 0:35perfect before it could be vocalized all
20. 0:39babies do in the first few years of
21. 0:40their lives are make mistakes they just
22. 0:42make sounds like GLE garle blah blah
23. 0:45blah you know all they do is is just
24. 0:47this and then
25. 0:48eventually they say ma or Mama right and
26. 0:52everyone says oh my God this so amazing
27. 0:54this is a he said his first word right
28. 0:56and the baby at that point made this
29. 0:58connection that oh this sound gets this
30. 1:01reaction this is the correct sound to
31. 1:03incite this reaction all the baby has
32. 1:05been doing up to that point has been
33. 1:07making attempts thousands of not
34. 1:10millions of attempts at trying to
35. 1:12communicate this is the complete
36. 1:13opposite of how a lot of people approach
37. 1:16speaking when they learn a new language
38. 1:18academically they don't feel like it's
39. 1:21worthwhile to make an attempt at at
40. 1:25communicating uh until they perfected a
41. 1:27particular sentence or phrase um and
42. 1:30then and even even if that's the case
43. 1:32they just have this one phrase that
44. 1:34they're able to say and they can't
45. 1:36connect it fluidly in a conversation
46. 1:38because they have you know they've
47. 1:40invested everything into that one phrase
48. 1:42so when you want to learn a language the
49. 1:45most important thing is to just start
50. 1:48speaking it's just just you know even if
51. 1:5190% of what you're saying is incorrect
52. 1:53um they're they're probably going to
53. 1:55understand anyways because it's not just
54. 1:57what what's coming out of your mouth but
55. 1:58it's also body Lang and context so with
56. 2:01all of these combined the other person
57. 2:03is probably going to understand what
58. 2:05you're saying anyways so if you're
59. 2:07hesitating because you think the other
60. 2:08person's not going to understand trust
61. 2:10me they understand at least a little bit
62. 2:12if not all of what you're trying to say
63. 2:14if you're hesitating to use your
64. 2:16language because you think that the
65. 2:18other person is going to look down upon
66. 2:20you um well think of it this way if
67. 2:23someone's trying to communicate to you
68. 2:24in your language uh and they're they're
69. 2:27still obviously a student or they're in
70. 2:28the process of learning how do you judge
71. 2:31them right I mean you're probably not
72. 2:33overanalyzing and thinking oh this
73. 2:34person's not very intelligent no you're
74. 2:36just kind of you're maybe perhaps you're
75. 2:37even appreciative that they're learning
76. 2:39the language so chances are first of all
77. 2:41they're not looking down upon you and
78. 2:42they're probably appreciative so it
79. 2:45doesn't doesn't harm the situation at
80. 2:47all and we always have something to
81. 2:48laugh about or we have an additional
82. 2:50topic to talk about so really attempting
83. 2:53to use the language has no downside even
84. 2:56if you're making mistakes um and if
85. 2:58anything it's the most important aspect
86. 3:00this is the only time where you get to
87. 3:01use the language in a natural situation
88. 3:04how many minutes of the day are you
89. 3:06actually saying something that isn't
90. 3:07just memorized right I mean if you
91. 3:10actually try to calculate it probably
92. 3:11not too much so you really have to use
93. 3:13all the time that you can in with a a
94. 3:16partner that would be able to that you'd
95. 3:17be able to communicate with in that
96. 3:18language uh to your benefit uh so that's
97. 3:21it I mean you know all I have to really
98. 3:23say conclusion is use the language uh
99. 3:27even if you're making mistakes just use
100. 3:28it keep making mistakes that's the way
101. 3:30you should learn a language that's the
102. 3:31way everyone has learned their first
103. 3:33language that's the way you learned your
104. 3:34first language so please just keep
105. 3:36making mistakes and eventually you'll be
106. 3:37able to converse and that's it that's
107. 3:39all it takes to really start learning a
108. 3:41language is just feel comfortable with
109. 3:42making mistakes and you'll get there all
110. 3:44right okay good luck everyone I'll see
111. 3:46you guys in the next video ciao