Hello everyone, This is Steve Kaufmann
Today I am going to talk about Goal of learning languages
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So when you learn a language
Everybody have their own goals
Everybody wants to speak fluently
And you should set a goal for each step
From my experience, you can continue study if you have a goal
And there’s a steps to achieve goals
I am going to explain about 7 goals
In my imagination This 7 goals are in the shape of an upside-down pyramid
The most important Goal is
Vocabulary, You must remember many of them
In real life, For you to understand
To express yourself, You need enormous vocabularies
That’s why increase your vocabulary is the most important Goal
When you begin to study You need to learn many vocabularies
And while you are studying
You constantly need to get new vocabularies
And you need to keep working on it
So this is the main Goal
And next is The reading
Listening is important
In my experience, I can’t understand when I listen to it if I can’t read
So you learn words using LingQ
And…
You should search and save new vocabularies
And reread what you saved on LingQ
And when you start to remember many vocabularies
Then it’s important to start reading short sentences
This is the 2nd goal
On LingQ you can count how many vocabularies you read
It’s important to increase the number of vocabularies you read
Read new words
Study new vocabularies
And then read back again That’s the 2nd Goal
The 3rd goal is Listening
Reading is easier than listening
You can take your time to check vocabularies you don’t know
When you listen to it It’s not clear
But when you read it It’s clear
So after while you read
You need to spend more time to listen
But when you listen, You might find something You don’t understand
Then you reread and get to know more vocabularies
So all of these goals are connected to each other
But
I believe you should go through these steps
First, increase your vocabularies
And Reading, Increase number of words you read
And listening, Listen and increase the ability of understanding
So…
Vocabulary, Reading, Listening
All these are related to learning
And 4th, 4th goal is
Speaking
Speak what you want to say
Of course, Most of people have speaking as a goal
They want to be able to speak, Able to talk
But
You need skill of Vocabulary,Reading, Listening as 1.2.3 goals
Reading, Read and able to understand
And Listening, Ability to understand what you are listening
Without them, Speaking is very difficult
But if you have these as a base
Speaking would become much easier
And if you can understand what they are trying to say
You’ll be confident
If you focus on what is the most important thing
The first thing comes to you might be “speaking”
But to achieve this goal
You’ll need to go through 1.2.3 goals
So that is 4th goal
Next is 5th
When you speak You want to speak with accurate grammar
In the process of learning
Which is increasing vocabularies
or reading and listening
Grammar is not important
If you have any idea
like ability to read, listen and knowing of vocabularies
Then Grammar is not so important
But when you speak
You will feel somewhere your are speaking incorrect way
And you are not talking like native
Little by little you will feel it
Then you will want to speak accurate way
You will get motivated
So in this step
After having lots of experience of vocabularies, listening and reading
Then you should focus on grammar That is the key
But remember this is No.5th Not 1st
Grammar is the thing to focus after You get to know vocabularies
Having ability of reading and listening
And able to speak little bit but
It’s not accurate
Then you move on to Grammar
This is my 5th goal
6th is writing
In my case
Writing was necessary to study French and Chinese
But even I can speak 20 languages
I don’t write
To write…
I use computer to write
Each sentences are the same as talking
I don’t try to…
Fix my grammar because I am writing down
But occasionally you have to write down with accurate grammar
In this case you have to focus
I am willing to create more videos to explain more about each goals
There I will explain how to write
Much better, accurate and persuasive to people who read what you write
I will create a video for that
But through my experience writing is not important as others
Like understanding and speaking
It’s up to the reason of why you need to study
And for me, in the end It’s about culture
Each languages has different cultures And I am interested to them
That is why
I keep studying
And I want to know their culture by using their language
In my case my mother language is English
Then I explain every details of my culture to you
To study language It’s not important
So when you reached to the level
Then You would want to study their culture
Then, This would be the 7th 7th goal
So I have same videos that is explaining 7 goals in English
Please watch English version from my channel
I am going to create more videos to explain more about each goals in Japanese
Good bye, Everyone