I don't think you need to speak a lot at the beginning when you have few words. When you have enough of the language that you can understand that you can have meaningful conversations with people, then you should have lots of conversations. But so yeah, if you have a lot of time, sure, do drills, whatever. I've never found the specific drilling of particular grammar points, all that helpful because by the next day, I've forgotten. It just will click in at some point. And yeah. So when does actually speaking come in for you? If we start with taking, you know, learning a language from scratch, you start reading,. okay, let's, let's
Steve Kaufmann is a very prolific language learner. He has learned at least 20 languages to varying degrees during his life. Some of them he learned during his career as an international diplomat and businessman, and others he has learned during his (semi) retirement. In this interview Steve talks about his language learning experiences, methods and motivations. We talk about various metaphors and similes for language learning including ocean voyages ๐ข, cows ๐ฎ, skiing โท and cutting grass๐ก and and I ask Steve about cross-cultural experiences he has had during his career.
There is a video version on YouTube but only the audio version contains my intro and ending rambles about getting my hair cut and how you need to remember that you're a baby cow-shark on skis ๐๐ฆ๐ฟ๐
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