StoryLearning Podcast

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 Today we answer a question from John M who asks : how do I start speaking even when I'm a complete beginner?

In your very early days of learning a language, you cannot have a meaningful conversation. You've got to build up to it.

The big mistake that people make is to think that, in order to speak, they need to be heads down studying for two years, and then one day they will emerge out of a cocoon and be able to magically speak.

It doesn't work like that. You've got to approach speaking as a hands-on task that you learn by actually doing, not that you simply prepare for.

Mentioned in this episode:

🇮🇹 Italian project: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQJscr8iS4eEuHPHQerHMBxZ68O8jiq12

🇹🇭 Thai in two weeks: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQJscr8iS4eEA0CRSgEhNJ6sM0p-Y2Im2

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I've had quite a few questions coming in on how you know when it's the right time to start reading:

❓How do you know when you're not a total beginner anymore and you should maybe start reading or using your new StoryLearning app?

❓What level of understanding do you need to be at to actually get something from content?

❓I purchased your short stories in French and I can get a little bit of the plot, but not much. And rereading doesn't seem to help. I'm looking up words, but a week later it's all gone.

I'll show you how to read the right way in this episode of the podcast.

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In this episode, I talk to Pedro from the Languages Pedro YouTube channel, a 23 year old polyglot who speaks 9 languages. What's his secret? And how well does he really speak all these languages?

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📺 Languages Pedro YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@languagespedro

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 In this episode, I'm going to go rapid fire through questions on speaking your new language, because a lot of people are asking me about freezing up, people switching to English or being shy and anxious.

These are real problems. What's interesting is that most of them aren't linguistic problems. They're not about learning the language. They're about use of the language. And the thing about using a foreign language is that it involves people.

When it comes to people, we all have all different kinds of struggles, from social anxiety to shyness, to self-imposed pressure. So we're going to get into how to fix that in this episode.

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 How do you read  in a foreign language if you cannot read the alphabet or the script yet?  How can you read if you can't actually read, if you see what I mean?

If you've spent more than 10 seconds in my world, you will have heard me drone on and on and on about the power of reading for language learning.

But how do you actually do that if you are learning a language where the script is different? I'm going to talk you through how to deal with different alphabets and scripts this in this video.

Because the short answer here is, yes, we still want to read from the beginning, but you do have to make a few adaptations depending on the language that you are learning.

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