good evening! Today I would like to talk about fluency
in a language and my
point of view in regards to fluency is that
people just need to calm down about fluency already
Ok? it's like people are just like
first how long how long? How long is it going to take me to become fluent?
in, in whatever language. That's
like, a lot of people's main concert. It just reminds me as well
of a story that
about my, the days of my youth
I think I was three years old and my mother loves telling and retelling the
story just to show
people how impatient I was as a child.
I started judo
okay? When I was three years old and
my mother's right, I was never a patient child
Never. Um... So
You know, I went to like three, three lessons I think
and then I was already like well
was thinking when... When do I get this black belt?
You know, I've come three times
I want the black belt! And
so apparently I actually asked the "Sensei"
I went to the Sensei and I asked: "When do I get the black belt?"
You know, this is taking too long already! And
in... in my eyes (in my eyes)
I think that that's what a lot of people are
like in terms of learning languages: "When do I get the black belt?"
You know, when do I get fluent in the language? Two months? Three months? Five
months? A year?
A decade from now? First, there's so many factors
so many factors that are gonna
influence how long it's gonna take. Whether or not you already
know a language similar to the one that you're learning
because that's obviously going to help. For instance if you know Portuguese really
well
learning Spanish
will be, will take a lot less time than learning Chinese
it has a lot of similar vocabulary
Second how much effort you put into it
in the end if you're using really efficient methods
of course you may speed up the process
in terms of months and years, weeks, whatever
if you... it's also gonna depend on
how much... how many hours you put in
like every day or every week or whatever. If you're...
if you can only spend 15 minutes a day learning the language
well, it might take a while to get fluent in it
the if you have eight hours a day to
spend learning a language then hey
you may language in record time and become fluent. In the end, I think that the most
important is for people
to just enjoy the process, you know?
to relax a bit really and really be more zen
in terms of learning a language
and accept that it's not gonna happen overnight
it's going to take effort, it's going to take dedication and
but hey the most important thing is that it can be an enjoyable process and you
should make it
should make it an enjoyable process. That way you can learn faster anyway. You can become
fluent faster
if you enjoy the process than
if you hate it. If you don't like it and you think it's painful and you think: "I can't wait to
get done with this
finally learn this language". Then, you're not going to be learning as quickly.
That's.. That's the thing