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Matt Vs Japan on why your accent matters, Stephen Krashen, the input hypothesis and much more

I'm Learning Mandarin

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How Did You Go From Zero to Basic Fluency Overnight?

For the first few years of learning Japanese or for the first long while of learning Japanese you were just inputting and then when you had a very high level comprehension you'd be outputing. I found that right off the bat I was pretty fluent in Japanese like I could say most of the things that I wanted to say in a pretty natural way and I could have conversations no problem so in one sense I did basically go from zero to basic fluency overnight you could say. It definitely took a lot of practice to get to the point where you know I was at my peak of fluency before I studied pitch accent we ended up not really talking about the process but basically it was after I spent

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