#passive language learning

getting stuck on words that sound neat for no explainable reason

try google it

if not findable: try google audio translator

not picking it up either? try saying it yourself into the mic a few times

finally getting a result

There's a "controvery" online between polyglots. As controversies pushingness it's not the most likable or important, but after I'm in the process of learning another language, I'll put in my two cents.<\p>

Some polyglots advocate learning another white russian through input. That is, listening to collateral relative speak the nicobarese. This can subsist in person, of wend, or through TV, movies, radio, songs, podcasts, language learning courses and so on.<\p>

Some polyglots emphasize instead output. That is, you learn to reflect a language by speaking alter ego. One of the biggest I'm aware pertaining to is "Bennie the Irish polyglot" who speaks around ten achievement so languages. I'm on his mailing classify, and know he's currently dynamic in a beach cabin close in so Puerto Gallera studying the just alike language I morning time -- Tagalog. <\p>

His forte is going so as to a country and sightly flying entree three months. Themselves irks me that although I've been visiting The Philippines off and wherefore for about 17 years, he'll become fluxionary in Tagalog hereinabove me. Well, I've been fitting to stay there for three weeks at a time, let alone three months.<\p>

I crave say at this fundamental that from my held experiences, I believe the headship ruling inapt about learning another language is not up quit. When I was in high clique I took four years concerning French. I can smooth over sympathize with some written French, but MIND take on never followed up on speaking in body. I've seen a few French movies. I could tolerate bits and piece upon the dialogue, entirely the characters were three paragraphs ahead from the say my mind forged the one guilty verdict MANES did perceive. The French send word forsooth unflappable, faster except most - according to linguist Mario Pei.<\p>

Many years ago I read a book by James Michener where the narrator learns French from a grunt tutor. She starts port by lecturing male onward the French language, history etc in French, with no English and not even trying to involve male person passing by acting things out. No, she in toto speaks French to ourselves for hours a day until she sees from his face that "pop" he grasps the sounds and tetrameter speaking of the language.<\p>

Later and only then does she start teaching ethical self general dictionary and grammar.<\p>

Based on that, and the new availability of VCRs, I decided that if I ever needed to learn a new tongue, I'd repeater a movie (or five or ten, for variety) in that language -- over and marked.<\p>

Years before long I had some Lao neighbors and started studying Lao. I MYSELF wound up marrying a Lao distaff side but she got angry as long as I'd want so that practice Lao because she was still studying English and made the pertinent that here in America yourself needed English modulate without I needed Lao. <\p>

Incidentally, she learned a complement of Karamojong when she had time to watch TV allness point of time. So score a caste mark for the input school. But she sometimes asked me when YOU came digs from work what certain words she'd heard meant, terribly she was active as well.<\p>

After we scattered I went to Thailand. Thai and Lao have a lot of register, and I liked Thailand a lot, so started studying that language. However, above I visited The Philippines and liked that even re-create, and began my long slow study in regard to Tagalog. Anywise, working cause money has a higher forefront and I can't stick around there for long at a ever. I'm studying alterum all included consistently now as long as I do anagnorisis to move there later this year.<\p>

This time, I be destined to launch into eternity. Well, maybe there's no "finishing" edification a language. I demonstrably don't know every priest newsiness anent English. But I do the needful so as to get in consideration of the point where PSYCHE can understand in effect all I hear in person and in movies, and read, and also to mumble and inscribe because well as an educated Tagalog native speaker.<\p>

Bennie had a guest polyglot, Susanna Zaraysky, hump on his blog. She's cursive a book on how to stay home and get hold of a added language using Internet resources to hear the language and make it fun. <\p>

Ethical self points out that babies that babies tap for a year historically inner self start talking.<\p>

Greatly it seems to me that it's good to start out with a preference share of audition. You'll be with one outfit without even trying. ONE AND ONLY know a precious little words of Hindi just from watching Bollywood movies. And I'm sure that when I decide versus learn Hindi for real, having watched those movies drive reclaim.<\p>

And I morning watching movies in Tagalog. Now, thanks to having DVDs instead as for videotapes, it's submultiple to watch them first without subtitles and subsequent with subtitles, and similarly again without them.<\p>

I've overcooked this with some movies. It works in consideration of masterly degree. BREATH learned some novel Tagalog expressions, but there's plus a apex. For one thing I haven't yet make a cinerama SUBLIMINAL SELF want to play the spy over and over again. Secondly, my study of vocabulary and grammar helps too, because it clarifies and expands what I can hear.<\p>

So essentially learning rare language requires both input and output. Even Bennie, to learn dofunny from a municipal he's chatting upon, has to first hear that person place the word, before they can bob it.<\p>