Today we will talk about the learning pyramid
and we also have a special guest
who will talk about his secret way
to learn Serbian.
Let's go.
When I was a student in high school
and uni too
I was so bored listening to classes.
That thing where you sit... listen... and sometimes...
Sleep.
I believed there was a better way to learn
so I discovered the learning pyramid.
Wait. Not that one.
This one.
Learning in class, especially this kind of class
is the least efficient way to learn, ever.
You actually learn only 5% of what you studied.
During uni we would sit in classroom at lectures
for about 1-2 hours a day.
So much time was wasted...
But learning a language is different, classes are more interactive
During class we read texts
we hear and see how professors speak Serbian
we use new words live with one another
Not only that, people who have partners, professors, parents
or live in Serbia use language in realistic context.
And we learn from our real and sometimes unpleasant misteq--
Mistakes.
But there's another layer which is the best of all
that our guest today, you may recognize him, discovered on his own.
Thiago?
My dear Liz and my dear people who decided to
learn the Serbian language:
Every respect! A round of applause for starters
This is no easy language
My name is Thiago Ferreira, I come from Brazil,
I've been living in Serbia already for 9 years
and I'm here to reveal a secret of mine
how I learned this very, very difficult language
Look guys, Serbian has 7 cases (padeža),
3 genders,
so are we going to use in a sentence
accusative, genitive, vocative, instrumental
who's gonna know!
What really helped me
When I knew only very little about grammar,
about rules of the language
I already, straight away, started teaching others Serbian.
How? Here it goes...
I was already starting to learn all these cases
I knew when to use accusative, when to use locative, genitive
I had to repeat it several times so I would memorise them
and I was repeating most often when I was explaining it to others
when each case is used
I recorded myself explaining how I would explain
when should each case be used.
At first, through YouTube and later I started holding classes, yes, yes!
even though I didn't have a solid understanding of Serbian
I had friends, also from Brazil who were married to Serbians
an needed help to conquer this language.
So, to help them and myself
we agreed on the time, agreed on the class,
Let's sit and learn, I grab a textbook
read briefly the rules, and say, "Look..."
These will be used, here, here and here..."
From the textbook, it's not a problem. They know that I don't
know everything perfectly but you surely know more than them,
then the other person, then your student and that is what
I want to tell you today, how ever little you know
Know that you know more than somone else!
Yes! Teaching someone else to to learn a language
but if you don't have anyone...
Oh... you can teach your toys!
The purpose is to process your understanding and explain
in your own words
Exercise for this week...
Choose some grammatical topic which you learnt recently
form a class about it and teach it to your partner or toys
and that is all for today. Next week we will talk about films,
podcasts and some media to learn language and to better
understand Serbian, so see you next week and bye!