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1. Introduction: The FM dish Brahe and nist Kent. I sniffed from Sinai, even the one who speaks no foreign languages knows
nothing of his own subset. The famous German philosopher
Johann Wolfgang from Gerta. Now let's keep philosophy
aside for a while. And let's think we're living in a globalized world where we can travel from a to
B with an hours. But we can connect
with people all around the world within seconds, where we are creating content
for the global audience. And mark my words. English, not spoken everywhere. So in order to stay
connected with the world, which will open those
of opportunities, one has to keep on
learning new languages. The process of language learning has been made very
difficult by the schools. It takes months and
months and even years before one starts to
communicate in a new language. My name is Hamza, and I'll be learning several languages
since my childhood. I speak seven
different languages and most of them fluently. Or they use. I came across certain
methodologies which helped me to learn a new language
in a short period of time. And then a very
productive manner. To put this in context. Fight off the languages
that I learned. I started communicating in it
from the very first month. So if you're a
language enthusiast or a businessman with
contacts around the world, or a traveler who is
of will be traveling around and wishes to learn a new language in a
short span of time. Then I'll show you that
in the next 20 minutes, you'll learn exactly
how to achieve this. And this will
incredibly speed up your language learning process. So if you're ready,
see you in the class.
2. Learning Mindset : Hello and welcome back. So to begin with, it's very
important that we talk about the mindset and
the prerequisites that one needs to
learn a new language. It's the very first
principles of learning a new language is that you fall in love with the
process, language learning. Without the right kind of
motivation and passion, you can just forget about
learning something new. No teacher in the world
would be able to teach you a new language until you yourself are not
ready to learn it. Now this love cannot
be a 24, 7 love. It's not practical. So you have to set
aside time for that. You cannot even say that I
will do it when I find time. There is nothing
like finding time. This is one of the greatest
myth that you will find time. You'll never find time. You have to set aside
some time for that. And at least 90 minutes a day doesn't have
to be every day. But at least 90 minutes
once you sit and moving on. The third principle
is that you set realistic goals by keeping the practical reasons
into account. For example, how much time
you investing and by honoring your biology that Do you accept that we are
no super humans? That I'll not be able to
memorize the entire vocabulary, or would that not be able to read Schiller after seven
days of learning German. And I said goals
which are achievable. For example, that
I'll be able to converse with my Spanish friends after seven days
while sitting on a coffee table in
a cafe in Spain. I'll be able to book a
hotel room in Germany after traveling there
eight days or nine days. And these are the goals
which we want to achieve, which we want to set and
step by step, move further. And this brings
me to the fourth, one of the most
important principles or the mindset of
language learning. And that is never stop before reaching the target or the
milestone of 20 hours. This is what Josh
Kaufman in his book, the first 20 hours say that
the very first five hours, or the first five
as a very easy, once you have the enough
motivation and passion, love that we spoke about, it will bring you onto
the first 50 hours. But the sixth hour
would be very boring. Everything will seem
to be redundant. And there comes in the
20 hours milestone. And there you have to tell
yourself that you will not stop until you reach
the milestone, the target of the 20th
of the first 20 hours. And you'll continue with
the same 90 minute session. You can take breaks in between, but you will not
stop or you would not put the scalar side or put this language aside and
start something new until you have reached the
milestone of 20 hours. And this is the mindset and
this is the prerequisite, one of the most important
prerequisite that you need to start
learning a new language. Furthermore, the
fourth principle is that you research
about the language that you're learning and try to
identify certain tips and tricks which will add up to the pace of the whole
language learning process. For example, deconstruct the language learning
process into smaller goals. Think of this, for example, that are less educated, native German uses
lesser than 100 words to communicate on a daily basis. Now if you deconstruct
the process and firstly focus on these $1000 and then try to identify the grammatical
structures behind. This will make the whole
process quite easier. This brings me to
the fifth principle, and that is memorization. It sounds bad, but there is
no way out of memorization. You have to memorize certain birds and certain
grammatical structures. Memorization is the key. I'm sorry to say this, but there is no way
out of memorization. You have to, once you're beginning to learn
a new language, memorize some birds and some
grammatical structures. You can do this by
using apps like Anki. Flashcards are all kind of sort of stuff that is
available on the internet. But there is no running
away can memorizing. Memorizing is as important as any other principle
of language learning. This brings me to
the next principle, and that is eliminate
environmental distractions. So according to Mr. Kaufmann, there are two kinds of
environmental destruction. One is electronic and
the other is biological. Electronic includes Internet,
telephones, laptops. It's important that you remove all these electronic
devices from your knees once you're
sitting to learn. So you shut them
down, put them away. And the second is biological. And that includes your
family, your friends, your pet, your pets,
your dogs or cats, whatever you have that
exist that lifts, ask them to not to
disturb you for the next 90 minutes or 60 minutes that he
was sitting to learn. And now the last principle of, the last principle is more of
a common sense principles, more of an advice that you get. And that is, that talk to practitioners once you're
learning a new language, talk to people who already
learned this language. Not just the natives,
but the people who, who in the past went through the whole process of
learning this language. And at the same
time, stay open to criticism and open to new ideas. If somebody tells
you that varies. A great app which
you can download, just download it
and check it out. Check it if it works. So stay open to ideas, still open to criticism, and talk to practitioners once you're learning
a new language. So that would be
the last advice, the last principle
that an important before we embark on the
journey of language learning.
3. The Two-Step Method: So most of the world's languages consists of more than
a 100 thousand words. So that every
possible situation in scenario can be
explained easily. In Brad's. Now an
eloquent native speaker understands around
20000 words and uses a bit more than 1000 words to converse and daily basis. Now, these 1000 words and a couple of grammatical
structures which these, which bring these 1000
words together are the most valuable
asset of a language. Once you learn or memorize these 1000 words and the grammatical
structures behind them, the grammatical structures
which bring them together. You've learned 75
percent of the language. Now the question is, how to google these 1000 words and to memorize them
as a very bad idea. Human brains tend to
learn things in context. So now this brings me
to the method that I've been using in the recent years
to learn a new language. And that is learning by doing, and I do it by a simple method, which I named it as visualizing scenarios and
prioritizing vocabulary. Visualizing scenarios
and privatizing vocabulary is the fastest way to start speaking
a new language. It takes you away
from the book and Ash's you to the middle
of the communicator word. Now the first part,
visualizing scenarios, requires pre-thinking that
you try to imagine or visualize all
possible situations in which you'll be using the language that
you're learning. For example, you learning German and now plan
to visit Germany. Now visualize all
possible scenarios or situations in which you'd be conversing with
people in German. Starting from the
border control. Think about the greetings,
that conversation, the questions to
answers that you'll be given at the bottom at
the boiler controller. And then write them down
in German as sentences. Now while writing them down, you can obviously take help from dictionaries
or applications. Similarly, like a timeline. Think about the scenarios
after the border controller. For example, by
looking for a taxi, a while ordering food
in a restaurant, a while talking to the
receptionist in a hotel, or indulging in small talk
with some random person. Now divide these events
into shots, scenes, scenarios, and write down the conversations
separately for each scene, which you think might happen. And this process will gather
an active vert poorly packed with all sorts of grammatical structures ready for you to dive in and explore. Now this is self evident, that you'll be visualizing scenarios in the language
that you speak and then translated to the target language
using different tools. But the goal is to
collect the vocabulary which is used on daily basis
of it is used more often. And this is how
the method works, that you visualize
scenarios based on daily, daily life and then prioritize the vocabulary or you
filter out the words that are used more often
and then start learning those words before concentrating on
to something else. Now this active word pool or prioritize
vocabulary or sentences that you collected
yourself will be the starting point of
learning a new language. And you'll notice
that there will be sentences which will
repeat themselves. You will find
questions like who, when, where, how, when. And then you'll, you'll
find out that how these words are used
within sentences. You'll find within
sentences nouns, pronouns, adjectives,
different genders for nouns. And then most importantly, that you will find all this in the sentences that
you wrote yourself, that you'd be writing them, that you collected yourself, and then you understand all these sentences
within a context. And that's the most beautiful
part of this method. And similarly to
understand grandma, you can use the same
collection of vocabulary or, or sentences that you have and then kind of decode a sentence to understand that where exactly the noun
is placed on case, a pronoun is placed, or a verb or an adjective, and then try to understand
that how they come together with each other in this new language
that you are learning. All this will be done in an active form of sentences
and active vocabulary, which is used on daily basis. And in this whole context
which you made yourself. This is how a
simple method learn from experience
called visualizing scenarios and
prioritizing vocabulary can immensely speed up the
language learning process.
4. Project Explanation: Hello and welcome back. So this is the thing about
learning a new language. You will never learn a new
language until you yourself, but sit down and start
learning, you know, reduce or no teacher in the world would be
able to teach you a new language until you yourself are not sitting
down and practicing. So the project, which we'll be discussing now is the most important part of
the whole course. So to start with the project, I will ask every one
of you to kind of visualize three scenarios
from a daily routine. It can a conversational
scenarios. So our conversation
with a friend, with your boss for the
professor to crash. But in a new language, in a language that
you would like to learn and think about three, or visualize about these three different
scenarios and then write them down in the target language
you can start with. On the visualizing party can start with
your own language, but then using the hub. So you can use the dictionaries or anything on the internet to kind of translate them
and to write them down. Write these three
conversations separately down in the language
that you'd be learning. So once you have
finished writing these three different
conversation, it has to be in a single day, so has to make sense. Conversations which
happens on daily basis. And one tip that I would
like to give you about this visualizing part is that once you write
down the conversation, tried to be as simple
as possible and try, and try to write direct
sentences and small sentences. And once you've
written the sentences, then sit down and filter out the word which
repeat themselves, then filter out the
filling words in between. So in the new language
that you wrote, then try to find
out and separate the question words like
who we are, how much? And then write all
these words separately. And once, once, once you
have collected the soul, questions, write the
word separately as well. Write the objective
separately, right? The pronoun separately. Try to understand
if there is agenda. If, if the gender, some nouns changed or the pronouns how the
chain themselves, if there is a different gender, gender, then between
the structure of the sentence changes with
the gender in the sentence. And write these out of
these three conversations, bind these words separately and then using this
collection of words, now remove the dictionaries and Internet and everything away. And using this collection
that you have right now, try to make a new sentence. It doesn't have to
be a long sentence are simple new sentence. And if you are able
to do this using the words that you already
collected, the neuron, the right part, you've already started to learn a new language, and you've already started
to speak a new language.
5. Conclusion: Abraham Lincoln once said, give me six hours to
chop a tree and I will spend for us
to sharp the x. What he meant was
that the tools, that the method is very
vital to achieve something. So once we have the right
tools and the right method, you're on the right path. And then it comes to the FREC do frequency that
how much time you invest and the investment of time is directly
proportional to happen. Is that how much or
enjoyment that how much you enjoy doing something, the more you enjoy
them, more time will be invested in it, and the better you learn once
you have the right method. So the secret formula of alchemy is that you have the right
tools and the right method, and that you enjoy the process and the
new invest the time. So once you investing time, it means you are
enjoying the process. The only thing that remains
is the right method, and that's why you
meet this course. Thank you very much.
Muhammad Hamza Tariq, Student der Philosophie
