"Langfocus" approach of learning languages

[Kraut]

"Langfocus" has produced excellent videos on languages and their characteristics. Here he explains his own approach of learning them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUojCUTKYlc
How I study languages (My current self study approach)

[DaveAgain]

"Langfocus" has produced excellent videos on languages and their characteristics. Here he explains his own approach of learning them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUojCUTKYlc
How I study languages (My current self study approach)

It's interesting to hear the approaches others are taking, but it always leaves me worrying that I'm doing everything wrong, and that I should start over with the New Improved Learning Method.

[devilyoudont]

It's interesting to hear the approaches others are taking, but it always leaves me worrying that I'm doing everything wrong, and that I should start over with the New Improved Learning Method.

Nothing wrong with learning a little from what others are doing, but if what you're doing allows you to keep engaged every day, you will get there one way or the other eventually

[zjones]

"Langfocus" has produced excellent videos on languages and their characteristics. Here he explains his own approach of learning them:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUojCUTKYlc
How I study languages (My current self study approach)

This seems like an intensive self-study approach that would be great for people who don't have a lot of time to work on their language(s). To me it looks like a lot of boring hard work (I disliked Anki and shadowing), but other people might find this approach useful.

[Kraut]

This is from the Kaufmann blog. He talks about the meeting of a handful of "polyglots" and their preferred method.

https://blog.thelinguist.com/motivation ... learning-3

We were asked several questions by David about the different methods we use and what we’ve found useful, not useful and so forth. There was one question about what techniques other people use do you not find useful, something to that effect, and a number of people said that they don’t find it useful to do shadowing. They don’t find Anki, spaced repetition or flashcards useful and yet there are people who find those things useful.

[David1917]

Langfocus Paul's videos are really, really fun. I liked hearing that he used shadowing - did he ever post on HTLAL? Or just a good lurker?

The Anki work he does seems exhausting. I couldn't keep motivated with making and working through small single-word decks so I stopped altogether. Each sentence in a Linguaphone course? Nope.

But - based on the videos of him speaking Japanese, he must be doing something right.