You may have read my earlier post on how I've learnt my Spanish. This is the continuation of that.
So I have told you I learnt Spanish by watching youtube videos by native speakers. Now i will tell you my learning strategy.
When I found stuff that I either find interesting (which might be quite above my level) or something I manage to understand from the context, I share it to my facebook group (which i created especially for this).
So after I have shared that video, I might go straight to work, or I might just continue watching another video. It depends on how much I really want to know what is being said, or I might have another video in my suggested list which I wanted to watch. I would because I know that good (for learning Spanish too) video will still be there in my fb group page. And I wouldn't lose it or forget about it. This is important because my interest in that new video might not be there the next time I see it again.
When I am in the mood to start studying, I will then use key words in the video (like acquisicion vs aprendimento, autodidacta) or any phrases I think are interesting concepts, and search them on google.
I usually search in three categories. Blogs or articles, videos, and/or news. (I ordered this according to the order of tabs in the google search page.)
Voila! Now i have what was on Youtube in writing! These i "file" up by pasting their links in the comments in the Fb post of that youtube page. (Ingenius right?!)
The next step is copying the text, and pasting it in the subcomment of that blog/article/news. And I look up the words and also append it to the paragraph. That way, I don't have to look them up again the next time I read it.
I call this method "Thematic Comprehensible Input". And I have two fb pages for this. "Italian with Thematic Comprehensible Input" and "Spanish with Thematic Comprehensible Input".
(If you have created a new page in this concept, please name it with this convention too! I will join your group and I promise I will help with your work. More hands make easy work.)
I will write another post (Part 3) about what the principles are behind this strategy of mine. Stay tuned!
This is indeed a great idea! I have been using a personnal Trello or the playlist feature on Youtube, and these have been serving me quite well so I don't think that I will start a new filing system though.
What I like about I the playlists on YT or the checklists on Trello is that I can rearrange the order of the vids really easily to make it more comprehensive and to gather videos on related subjects together.
I am also intested in the app/site that Robin had been introducing to on his channel. I forgot the name.
In my idealised setting, i would have many people working on this. (though I have not figured out how the logistics will be). Besides, my spanish is not good enough to understand most speech without looking up words, and I can throw the whole blog or article into google translate, and it allows me to see senses which i would otherwise miss, and work through long texts without tiring myself out. I can also work in instalments too if the article is too dry or too long.
Anyways, I want to thank you for your time reading and correcting this post. And also your system which I think I can work into mine to complement it.
Cheers!
I wish you to find a lot of users to join you! I think your idea is really cool and the community feeling is definitely a plus to drive people into continuing their language studying. Learning can be difficult at times, but we sometimes forget it. Studying it with friends definitely helps. See you around!