Name: Am I Fluent?
Uploaded: 2020-05-19T02:06:49.000Z
Duration: 13 min 37 s
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Gerund

So I thought I would take advantage of that

to hear how she became fluent in Japanese.

I'm going to talk today about Language Acquisition

and the idea of speaking, more than anything,

Because that's obviously one of the hardest things

speaking is particularly difficult most of the time.

So, when I first started studying Japanese

and one of the most common questions I got

now that I was publically speaking Japanese was:

this idea that:"I want to become fluent."

I don't know what "being fluent" really meant.

I came to the point where I can speak conversationally

I didn't even know what "being fluent" is.

But I think it's important for all of us to think of:

To think of the goal of what we're studing.

the main topics that people tend to focus on are:

that get's in the way of becoming fluent.

We all have these common hurdles that we face.

but still, what is the small bit that is correct?

And how do we keep using the correct ones

What this is called is "Native Selection"

But this is something that we want to acquire.

"I know it sounds wrong but I don't know why."

Another interesting one is this idea of Phonology

what we hear and know what's right and wrong.

but you know its possibly, it could be a word.

BNICK is not a sound that would be made in English.

it definitely can't be a word in Japanese

and it just doesn't even sound like one at all.

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Am I Fluent?

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