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absolutely crazy like I can actually
speak a Cantonese now how why did Gaea
well if there's one trick to learning
languages it's this sentence mining
otherwise known as the most efficient
and systematic way to learn language
Bar None so forget your fancy to a lingo
forget your rosetta stone throw out your
textbooks because sentence mining it is
right to the basic idea here is that
learning grammar and vocabulary has to
be done in the context of real live
sentences right babies don't learn
languages by reading textbooks and you
know studying grammar they learn by
hearing the same freakin thing over over
again it's pattern recognition right ok
so here's an example let's say your
toddler and one that you hear a parent
saying I put a little food on the table
right then the next day you didn't say I
squeezed a little lemon on my avocado
toast right and then that kind of stood
in your mind and the next day you say
something like I pooped a little on the
carpet and now your parents are freaking
out Oh baby's first sentence but where
did that come from
right it came from the first two
examples it's the same freaking grammar
pattern just with different vocab it's
that simple
and so at its core that's what sentence
mining is all about just drilling the
same frequent pattern over over again
and then moving on to another pattern
and another pattern and just memorizing
the basically you required with grammar
vocabulary actually just a kid now you
know we kind of tend to forget this
because it's been a while since we're
all kids but newsflash kids don't spend
years taking courses in there and
reading textbooks in their native
languages right they learn by listening
and repeating listening or repeating
over over again and that's kind of what
you have to do to get good at another
language okay so it's easy enough to
talk about sentence mining but how do
you actually go about it efficiently so
the first thing is you're going to want
to go and install program called Anki
and ki and it generates flashcards for
you
and you know schedules or reviews in the
most efficient and time maximizing way
basically ensuring that you won't forget
your sentences now there are versions
for vormax for Windows for Linux also
iPhone and Android so you can you know
memorize your sentences on the go and so
so once you've got that installed you
can you can download existing sentence
decks so this little button here gets
shared you can you can pick among a wide
variety of languages and also other
topics but for now we're going to look
at languages so take Chinese for example
right you know we've got a ton of
existing decks here and so let's check
this one out for example right it's got
eight thousand sentences with audio so
basically you can see over here you know
you have English you know if your
opinion you've got your your Hunza and
also audio right and so so what you can
do is uh you know you can just download
that deck and put in your on key and
literally start memorizing like 20
sentences a day right now now for
candies unfortunately there aren't too
many good learning tutorials available
so I basically went ahead and just did
as much googling as I possibly could and
found all the example sentences I could
find on the internet with audio and I
compiled the deck of about 400 sentences
so if you'd like that feel free to leave
a comment and I'll shoot the deck over
to you know if this whole on key thing
is too complicated for you or you don't
want to have to go and build your own
deck for whatever obscure and bizarre
language you're studying I really like
this product called gloss oka which you
know it's a little pricey it's about 80
bucks for the the mp3s and the example
sentences but what it does is gives you
3000 sentences to work with that you
sort of you review in succession over
the course of a few months um and I
found it really really amazing for
Cantonese and they haven't been huge
variety of languages including some
really fight Chinese ones like haka and
and when Joanie is that you can't really
find
anywhere else on the Internet also by
the way I thank all of you for
subscribing and keeping me accountable
for my own language learning goals I
find it super helpful to actually post
these videos on YouTube because you know
otherwise I wouldn't be studying
Cantonese with the intensity that I
actually am um you know I feel like if
I'm not speaking well but yeah these two
months um it will really be a you know
face on Theo Lian or whatever the
Cantonese equivalent haven't learned it
yet but so that's my spiel hopefully all
of you have learned something useful
from that I've posted links to
everything I've talked about in the
description as well as some other useful
resources and oxygen and I'll see you
next time and I'm going to Hong Kong in
like a month so stay tuned for that