Comments on: Immersion Strategy: Your Ears Are Sacred /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 By: Kimura Alaska /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000560373 Sun, 25 Mar 2018 06:36:49 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000560373 Well… I’m the first comment in years in this post, so… Your method sounds good, but it’s a lot of information to read and in my country is too late, so I’ll save this page to read it soon.

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By: Kenny /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000078015 Thu, 08 May 2014 20:31:23 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000078015 @kyub I’d like to know what a “typical” day was like for you. I’m trying to increase my listening in my L2. I’m trying to learn Spanish.

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By: Nathan /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000072468 Thu, 01 May 2014 23:28:27 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000072468 Hi Kyub, did you do anything else apart from your constant immersion and repetition? Also, which do you find yourself doing more – listening to L2 audio or watching L2 videos?

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By: kyub /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000072010 Tue, 29 Apr 2014 21:19:36 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000072010 I have a little theory on this…When it comes to new sounds, especially in a new language, our brain has an initial threshold based on sounds we are used to. But ONLY through constant exposure both active and passive (probably more the ladder) can the threshold for sound expand.

Its like you asking someone how to say hello in Spanish. The simple “Hola” is short, 2 syllables, and if English is your native language or something close to the romance languages, its not hard to comprehend. But now if you asked how to say “Hello how are you” (Hola, como esta usted?), that’s where it becomes a little difficult. The threshold for new sounds are low so when hearing a sentence in L2 that’s longer than what you’re used to hearing, a lot of times you’ll hear the response “they speak too fast”. No, that’s normal for them. YOU just haven’t increased your threshold for sounds in that language.

I believe this because that’s what I experienced. Im learning Spanish without textbooks and classes. Just immersion. And of course in the beginning I couldn’t understand anything because I thought they spoke too fast. But Through constant immersion and REPETITION mixed with exposure to new audio, I can comprehend about 70-80% of a news broadcast or telenovela (Spanish soap opera). And even in Spanish, you might have a few dialects in which the seem to speak REALLY fast (example, Caribbean Spanish compared to Spanish in mexico. Very fast and broken.) but the thing is those people are used to it.

Just like Khatzu said, you have to get used to it and in doing that you increase the threshold for the new language sounds.

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By: Pingfa /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000059258 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 14:25:27 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000059258 I don’t know, some days I can’t distinguish sounds very well. Seeing does feel more concrete, but I suppose that’s because it is persistent (a written sentence doesn’t disappear once you’ve read it). Sound is definitely easier to immerse oneself in, though, as you’ll always be passively hearing something wether you want to or not, whereas seeing something is a much more active process (I can choose to skim a written sentence, I can’t skim a sound).

“I have great vision, but yeah, my eyes tire”
I have this problem too. I’m curious, does anyone here find their eyes tire more when reading kanji or hanzi? I do.

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By: Livonor /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000059238 Sun, 29 Sep 2013 04:05:19 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000059238 That’s was my salvation, I started learning back in 2011, december, discovered AJATT, went right through heisig, but quit several times, but when in 2012 december when I put all that L1/L2 sh## that was in my PC in the trash and went full 日本語環境, started listening all the time, I found myself much more motivated to learn the kanji and never loked back since then

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By: jeffbbern /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000059175 Fri, 27 Sep 2013 08:16:45 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000059175 Immersion Strategy: Your Ears Are Sacred | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time t.co/wv3SFShoen

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By: Ragnar /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000059139 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 19:23:33 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000059139 I read Idahosa’s post, very interesting. Listening is definitely important, I find that listening while doing repetitious s##t like reading kanji helps me stay motivated and focused.. even though it might be a bit of a focus tug of war at times.

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By: Agent J /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000059126 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 08:48:39 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000059126 The cute AJATT graphics are back.

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By: Lionelltd /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000059130 Thu, 26 Sep 2013 06:54:13 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000059130 Immersion Strategy: Your Ears Are Sacred – t.co/OOvve9FCBH t.co/OOvve9FCBH

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By: roman_druzyagin /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000059101 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 18:44:28 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000059101 Immersion Strategy: Your Ears Are Sacred – t.co/0Xcgcu4gWX

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By: Landorien /immersion-strategy-your-ears-are-sacred/#comment-1000059102 Wed, 25 Sep 2013 16:00:19 +0000 /?p=26940#comment-1000059102 Immersion Strategy: Your Ears Are Sacred via @ajatt t.co/jVX0wNGYRK

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