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Love, Joy, and Languages

Episode 60: Celebrating Your Wins!

Oct 30, 2023
Listeners share their language learning wins, including overcoming pronunciation challenges and advancing beyond the beginner stage. The importance of patience and traditional methods in language learning is highlighted. The speaker encourages celebrating language learning wins and shares their own accomplishments in Italian and German.
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Quick takeaways

  • Cracking the pronunciation of German vowels with oom-lows can greatly enhance language learning by helping learners imagine how words are spelled when they hear them.
  • Perseverance, determination, and focusing on the basics, even through traditional methods, can lead to leaving the beginner zone and progressing in language proficiency.

Deep dives

Lucy's win: Cracking the pronunciation of German vowels with oom-lows

Lucy shared her win of cracking the pronunciation of German vowels with oom-lows. This breakthrough has made it easier for her to imagine how words are spelled when she hears them. She explained her method of starting with words she already knew how to pronounce and applying the oom-low sound to other words. This accomplishment is significant as it is a difficult sound for many German learners to master, and it will greatly enhance Lucy's learning journey with the language.

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