Name: Smart People Learn Languages Differently. And You Can Too.
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Because these are the four habits of intelligent people.

And you might say, what does this have to do with language learning?

Well, funny enough, the best language learners use these four habits, and

I'm going to go over them today with you and also give you some hints on how you can actually enhance your learning or make your learning better, faster, deeper, and

So the first one, it says here is, you have to do active listening, because it's about listening.

And right now some of you are going, that's so obvious.

And of course it is, because when you learn a language, I know there's reading, but

most of it is done verbally, which is someone speaks, someone listens.

And you'll notice here, I have to learn to do active listening, right?

And active listening is not just being passive.

A lot of people think that when they learn languages, they want to speak, not realizing that when they learned their first language, you learned it by listening.

Remember, you didn't come out of your mummy saying, mama, dad, a car, I want some money.

No, you just listened for like six months.

And then eventually you said, ma, ma, da da, and you would repeat and they would go, yay.

So active listening, which is paying attention, participating, not just sitting there looking, but

trying to take the information in, right?

This is an important part of being an intelligent person, but also an important part of language learning.

You will learn more from listening than any other way.

You'll also notice it says here to learn.

And this I changed because they just said, intelligent people listen actively, they participate more, they speak less in conversation, and

And that's why they can get more information from people.

Now, what I say here is not only do you have to do that to get your vocabulary, okay, but

we learn syntax, where, when, how grammar is structured, how the words should go together, accent reduction.

How many students have I heard that said, my accent is terrible, blah, blah, blah.

A lot of the times that they listen and I say, now make fun of me.

They go, okay, man, this is what you sound like.

You don't have to go to some special course.

On the sides of your ears, your head, and you hear the sounds properly and perfectly.

And if you mimic you will reproduce those sounds.

And that's active listening, not passive.

I want to say intonation, but they listen to the tone, listen to the breaks.

We learn language, we learn syntax, how we should say what we should say.

We reduce the accent naturally, and we pick up new words, new vocabulary.

Because almost every time you hear someone speak, whether you're a beginner, intermediate or advanced student, or a native speaker, someone, if you're speaking to someone of interest, is going to give you new vocabulary that you can learn from and thus continue the conversation.

Because when you say, well, what does that mean?

Okay, the next one we're going to do is this.

Now, I had the wrong book because Superman has a fortress of solitude.

He has a cave, but still he stays by himself.

And you might say, why is solitude so important?

Think of solo meaning by yourself after doing all of this active listening.

Okay, so solitude means to be by yourself.

And you notice I put here, you take time to study alone, to go deep and see language parallels.

Well, parallels are where things kind of are in the same way.

When something's not parallel, one might be here and one goes here.

They'll go on forever this way in many languages.

It doesn't matter what the languages are.

There are parallels in repeated patterns or ideas or way of thinking.

Okay, but you need time to do that by yourself.

All right, so intelligent people take time to themselves when they learn new things, to take time in trying to understand or digest.

Well, when you language learn, you go to school, right?

You study alone and you look at your language, the other language, and

sometimes you, oh, this is similar to my language.

But afterwards, as much as solitude, being alone is important to learning.

They take the time away from others to truly go deep and understand something.

But then they go back into the world to make sure they've got the understanding right by communicating with other people.

So they take that alone time to really learn and master Something.

And then they socialize to make sure they've understood what they had learned.

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