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Steve's Language Learning Tips, My 7 Goals of Language Learning

My 7 Goals of Language Learning

Goals in this inverted pyramid of sort of a hierarchy.

Hi, there Steve Kaufmann here today and I'm going to talk today about

goals, goals in language learning.

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because then you can listen, especially if you're using my videos to improve

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you're doing, but to do leave a review.

I do appreciate it.

So why do I want to talk about goals?

Uh, um, personally, I have the sort of general interest in learning

languages which motivates me.

So I don't really focus on any particular goals, but I, I sort of

gave the subject some thought, you know, so much of the time when we're

learning a language, we have the feeling that we're not progressing.

We're not getting anywhere.

And so I thought it, it, it is useful.

I kind of looked at what I do and, and what are the goals that

I focus on at different stages?

In my language learning, what are, what sort of is the hierarchy of goals?

And so that's what I want to talk about a bit today.

At least my hierarchy of goals, uh, what I kind of consider to be more

important at what stage in my learning.

Uh, and, uh, there are seven of them and I'm gonna talk about the

seven a day, and then I've been giving some thought to doing one uh

video on each of these seven goals.

In other words, how do we, you know, achieve those goals?

How do we use those goals to improve our, our, uh, ability in

the language that we're learning?

So, first of all, I see these seven goals as sort of an inverted pyramid,

uh, where the first one, which I will start to discuss shortly is

at the top as a broad sort of line.

Uh, and then the next one comes below it.

And so they get sort of narrower and yet they're expanding sort of

horizontally, uh, all the time.

Uh, so let me tell you what I mean.

So the first goal in language learning uh, the one that's easiest to sort

of measure and which stays with you all the time is acquiring words.

All right.

That's why we have at LingQ, we measure the words you know, uh, we also measure

phrases or we at least let you save phrases, but the key measurement is

the words you know, and, um, certainly that's what I focus on at the beginning.

Uh, and I will get into detail when I do my video on words.

But that's kind of like the initial, I often refer to the mechanical rabbit

that you're chasing this thing to try and, you know, you're running this

race and you're pursuing the rabbit.

To me the mechanical rabbit is words.

That's the number one goal.

And when you start in the language, that's what you're trying to do.

You're...

one word at a time you're learning how this language works.

So number one goal is words, acquiring words.

The second goal on this inverted pyramid, one level down is

reading, reading comprehension.

It's a lot easier to understand what you read than to understand

what you're listening to.

So as you are acquiring words, uh, you're also developing the ability

to make sense of what you read, not a hundred percent, but you're starting

to make sense of what you read.

If you're using LingQ, you're looking words up, you're adding these words

to your known words total, or to your words that you have looked

up that are in your database.

So the next sort of goal is to increase the number of words that you are reading,

something that we also measure at LingQ.

Then the third goal is listening comprehension.

Uh, it it's, I find it difficult to understand what I

listen to if I don't read it.

So that's why in my hierarchy of goals, I start with acquiring words

and I wanna see that number go up: LingQs created, you know, known words

uh, reading, number of words read.

I wanna see that go up, but at the same time, I wanna work

on my listening comprehension.

Now to some extent, the listening comprehension, the learning words, the

reading is all happening at the same time.

But in terms of a goal that I set for myself initially, I

want that word count to go up.

Second of all, I wanna read more words and I'll get into more detail

when I do a video on reading.

The third thing is to improve my listening comprehension.

So those are the first three goals, the next goal then, and you'll, you'll

sort of realize now that, because I always talk about input, acquiring

words, reading, listening, those are the top three then comes speaking.

So, uh, as a goal, you know, ultimately at the end, of course, I wanna able to speak

well, but initially, that's not my goal.

Initially my goal is comprehension: words, reading comprehension,

listening comprehension.

And if I have those, a good base in those, the speaking will be easier for me.

Then of course I wanna speak as much as I can, but if I have that solid base in

the earlier goals, the words, the reading comprehension, listening comprehension,

then the speaking is gonna come.

Now, after speaking comes grammar or usage or speaking correctly.

So in other words, I don't worry at all about how correctly I speak

at an early stage in the language.

My goals initially are input related.

Then I'm speaking, speaking with mistakes.

It doesn't matter.

Then comes a point where I want to focus in on speaking more correctly.

And this comes after struggling to speak and throwing out the words

and the phrases that I've acquired.

And now I want to work towards speaking more correctly.

And when I do my video on how to learn grammar, I will talk in more detail

about how we learn grammar and speak more correctly or more like native speakers.

So the goals so far have been first goal, biggest goal, which stays with us, all

of these, stay with us the whole time:

acquiring words.

Reading second goal: reading comprehension.

Third is listening comprehension.

Fourth is speaking.

Fifth is, uh, grammar learning to, uh, use the language more correctly.

Then the sixth one is writing.

And again, we can start writing at any time, but, and I, I

just look at my own experience.

I tend not to write a lot, except when I was in a situation where I needed

to write when I was learning Chinese.

I was on a program.

I was working for the Canadian government.

I had to learn to read, excuse me, to write and to write correctly.

Similarly, when I was a student in France, I had, I had to write correctly.

So there are many situations where we need to write and write correctly.

And I will do a video on how we improve our ability to write and to write uh, you

know, effectively and, uh, persuasively and accurately and all these things.

So that then is the sixth goal is the writing goal, at least in my hierarchy.

And the final goal is the culture.

And, uh, I think at least in my learning, when I learn a language,

I learn the language in order to connect with the culture.

However, as a goal, It's further down the list because until I have the reading

comprehension, the listing comprehension, the words, um, you know, a better sense

of the language, it's difficult to get into the details of the culture.

So again, like so many of these goals, we can introduce them at any time, but I find

that I'm much more interested in things that relate to the grammar of the lang...

or excuse me, that relate to the, uh, to the culture of

the language that I'm learning.

If I have a better ability to read about these things comfortably in the language,

rather than having different aspects of the culture, uh, festivals or different

family relationships, having all of this explained to me, say in English, uh,

at a point where I don't have a good understanding of the language, I prefer

to save that until I can go out and discover it for myself in the language.

And so I will do another video specifically on this seventh goal.

So all I wanted to do today was to sort of warn you, let you know that

I'm going to be doing these seven videos on the seven goals uh, in

so far as my learning is concerned.

Which are these, uh, goals in this inverted pyramid of

sort of a hierarchy of goals.

The top one is, uh, words, get getting as many words as you can.

The second one is developing your, uh, reading comprehension.

The second one.

The third one is developing your listing comprehension.

The fourth one is speaking.

Uh, the fifth one is working on your correct usage.

The sixth one is writing and the seventh and final one is really

gaining an appreciation of the culture.

So there you have it.

Of course, there's a lot of overlap and many of these things, it can

be happening at different stages, but that is my hierarchy of goals.

So I hope that was used useful.

Thank you for listening.

Bye for now.

My 7 Goals of Language Learning Meine 7 Ziele beim Sprachenlernen My 7 Goals of Language Learning Mis 7 objetivos en el aprendizaje de idiomas Mes 7 objectifs d'apprentissage des langues I miei 7 obiettivi nell'apprendimento delle lingue 私の語学学習の7つの目標 나의 7가지 언어 학습 목표 Moje 7 celów nauki języka Os meus 7 objectivos na aprendizagem de línguas Мои 7 целей изучения языка Dil Öğreniminde 7 Hedefim Мої 7 цілей вивчення мови 我的 7 个语言学习目标 我學習語言的 7 個目標

Goals in this inverted pyramid of sort of a hierarchy. Cele w tej odwróconej piramidzie w rodzaju hierarchii. Objectivos nesta pirâmide invertida de uma espécie de hierarquia. Цілі в цій перевернутій піраміді є свого роду ієрархією. 这个倒金字塔结构中的目标。

Hi, there Steve Kaufmann here today and I'm going to talk today about Cześć, tu dziś Steve Kaufmann i zamierzam dziś porozmawiać o 大家好,史蒂夫·考夫曼今天在这里,我今天要谈的是

goals, goals in language learning. cele, cele w nauce języka.

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I do appreciate it. Doceniam to. Я ціную це. 我很感激。

So why do I want to talk about goals? Dlaczego więc chcę rozmawiać o celach? Чому я хочу говорити про цілі? 那么我为什么要谈论目标呢?

Uh, um, personally, I have the sort of general interest in learning Osobiście jestem ogólnie zainteresowany nauką. Pessoalmente, tenho um interesse geral em aprender Гм, особисто я маю певний інтерес до навчання 呃,嗯,就我个人而言,我对学习有一般的兴趣

languages which motivates me. języki, które mnie motywują. línguas que me motivam. мови, які мене мотивують. 激励我的语言。

So I don't really focus on any particular goals, but I, I sort of Więc tak naprawdę nie skupiam się na żadnych konkretnych celach, ale w pewnym sensie Por isso, não me concentro em nenhum objectivo em particular, mas Тому я насправді не зосереджуюсь на якихось конкретних цілях, але я, я начебто 所以我并不真正关注任何特定的目标,但我,我有点

gave the subject some thought, you know, so much of the time when we're zastanowiłem się nad tym tematem, wiesz, tak wiele czasu, kiedy jesteśmy pensei um pouco sobre o assunto, sabe, a maior parte do tempo quando estamos задумався над цією темою, ви знаєте, стільки часу, коли ми 你知道,我们很多时候都对这个主题进行了一些思考

learning a language, we have the feeling that we're not progressing. ucząc się języka, mamy poczucie, że nie robimy postępów. Вивчаючи мову, ми маємо відчуття, що не прогресуємо. 学习语言时,我们感觉自己没有进步。

We're not getting anywhere. Nigdzie nie dojdziemy. Ми нікуди не дінемося. 我们一事无成。

And so I thought it, it, it is useful. Pomyślałem więc, że jest to przydatne. 所以我认为它很有用。

I kind of looked at what I do and, and what are the goals that Przyjrzałem się temu, co robię i jakie są moje cele. Я дивився на те, що я роблю, і які цілі ставлю перед собою 我审视了自己所做的事情以及目标是什么

I focus on at different stages? Na czym skupiam się na różnych etapach? Я зосереджуюсь на різних етапах? 我在不同阶段侧重什么?

In my language learning, what are, what sort of is the hierarchy of goals? Jaka jest hierarchia celów w mojej nauce języka? Що таке ієрархія цілей у моєму вивченні мови? 在我的语言学习中,目标的层次结构是什么?

And so that's what I want to talk about a bit today. I właśnie o tym chcę dziś trochę porozmawiać. Ось про що я хочу сьогодні трохи поговорити. 这就是我今天想谈的内容。

At least my hierarchy of goals, uh, what I kind of consider to be more Przynajmniej moja hierarchia celów, które uważam za bardziej istotne. Принаймні моя ієрархія цілей, я вважаю щось більше 至少我的目标层次,呃,我认为更多的是

important at what stage in my learning. ważne na jakim etapie nauki jestem. важливо, на якому етапі мого навчання. 在我学习的哪个阶段很重要。

Uh, and, uh, there are seven of them and I'm gonna talk about the Jest ich siedem i zamierzam porozmawiać o 呃,呃,有七个,我要谈谈

seven a day, and then I've been giving some thought to doing one uh siedem dziennie, a potem zastanawiałem się nad zrobieniem jednego uh сім на день, а потім я трохи подумав, щоб зробити один 一天七个,然后我一直在考虑做一个呃

video on each of these seven goals. wideo na temat każdego z tych siedmiu celów. відео про кожну з цих семи цілей. 关于这七个目标的视频。

In other words, how do we, you know, achieve those goals? Innymi słowy, jak osiągnąć te cele? Іншими словами, як ми, знаєте, досягаємо цих цілей?

How do we use those goals to improve our, our, uh, ability in Jak możemy wykorzystać te cele, aby poprawić nasze umiejętności w zakresie

the language that we're learning? język, którego się uczymy? мова, яку ми вивчаємо?

So, first of all, I see these seven goals as sort of an inverted pyramid, Po pierwsze, widzę te siedem celów jako coś w rodzaju odwróconej piramidy,

uh, where the first one, which I will start to discuss shortly is gdzie pierwszy, który zacznę wkrótce omawiać, to ну, де перший, який я незабаром почну обговорювати

at the top as a broad sort of line. u góry jako szeroki rodzaj linii. угорі у вигляді широкої лінії.

Uh, and then the next one comes below it. Uh, a potem następny pojawia się pod nim. E depois a seguinte vem por baixo. А потім наступний з’являється під ним.

And so they get sort of narrower and yet they're expanding sort of I tak stają się w pewnym sensie węższe, a mimo to rozszerzają się. І тому вони стають начебто вужчими, але все ж вони начебто розширюються

horizontally, uh, all the time. poziomo, cały czas.

Uh, so let me tell you what I mean. Pozwól, że powiem ci, co mam na myśli. Ну, дозвольте мені сказати вам, що я маю на увазі.

So the first goal in language learning uh, the one that's easiest to sort Tak więc pierwszy cel w nauce języka, ten, który jest najłatwiejszy do uporządkowania. Итак, первая цель в изучении языка та, которую легче всего решить.

of measure and which stays with you all the time is acquiring words. miarą, która pozostaje z tobą przez cały czas, jest zdobywanie słów. de medida e que permanece sempre connosco é a aquisição de palavras. меры и который остается с вами все время приобретает слова. міри і який залишається з вами весь час набуває слів.

All right. W porządku.

That's why we have at LingQ, we measure the words you know, uh, we also measure Dlatego w LingQ mierzymy słowa, które znasz, uh, mierzymy również

phrases or we at least let you save phrases, but the key measurement is fraz lub przynajmniej umożliwiamy zapisywanie fraz, ale kluczowym pomiarem jest

the words you know, and, um, certainly that's what I focus on at the beginning.

Uh, and I will get into detail when I do my video on words.

But that's kind of like the initial, I often refer to the mechanical rabbit Mas isso é um pouco como o inicial, refiro-me muitas vezes ao coelho mecânico

that you're chasing this thing to try and, you know, you're running this що ви гонитеся за цією справою, щоб спробувати, і, знаєте, ви запускаєте це

race and you're pursuing the rabbit. перегони, а ти переслідуєш кролика.

To me the mechanical rabbit is words. Для мене механічний кролик – це слова.

That's the number one goal. Це мета номер один.

And when you start in the language, that's what you're trying to do. І коли ви починаєте з мови, це те, що ви намагаєтеся зробити.

You're... Ви...

one word at a time you're learning how this language works. по одному слову ви вивчаєте, як працює ця мова.

So number one goal is words, acquiring words.

The second goal on this inverted pyramid, one level down is

reading, reading comprehension. читання, розуміння прочитаного.

It's a lot easier to understand what you read than to understand É muito mais fácil compreender o que se lê do que compreender Набагато легше зрозуміти прочитане, ніж зрозуміти

what you're listening to. что вы слушаете. що ти слухаєш.

So as you are acquiring words, uh, you're also developing the ability

to make sense of what you read, not a hundred percent, but you're starting осмислити прочитане не на сто відсотків, але починаєш

to make sense of what you read. щоб зрозуміти прочитане.

If you're using LingQ, you're looking words up, you're adding these words

to your known words total, or to your words that you have looked до ваших відомих слів, або до ваших слів, які ви дивилися

up that are in your database.

So the next sort of goal is to increase the number of words that you are reading, Отже, наступна ціль — збільшити кількість слів, які ви читаєте,

something that we also measure at LingQ. те, що ми також вимірюємо в LingQ.

Then the third goal is listening comprehension. Тоді третя мета – це розуміння на слух.

Uh, it it's, I find it difficult to understand what I

listen to if I don't read it.

So that's why in my hierarchy of goals, I start with acquiring words

and I wanna see that number go up: LingQs created, you know, known words

uh, reading, number of words read.

I wanna see that go up, but at the same time, I wanna work

on my listening comprehension.

Now to some extent, the listening comprehension, the learning words, the

reading is all happening at the same time.

But in terms of a goal that I set for myself initially, I

want that word count to go up.

Second of all, I wanna read more words and I'll get into more detail

when I do a video on reading.

The third thing is to improve my listening comprehension.

So those are the first three goals, the next goal then, and you'll, you'll

sort of realize now that, because I always talk about input, acquiring

words, reading, listening, those are the top three then comes speaking.

So, uh, as a goal, you know, ultimately at the end, of course, I wanna able to speak

well, but initially, that's not my goal.

Initially my goal is comprehension: words, reading comprehension, Изначально моя цель - понимание: слова, понимание прочитанного,

listening comprehension.

And if I have those, a good base in those, the speaking will be easier for me. A jeśli będę miał dobrą bazę w tym zakresie, mówienie będzie dla mnie łatwiejsze.

Then of course I wanna speak as much as I can, but if I have that solid base in Wtedy oczywiście chcę mówić jak najwięcej, ale jeśli mam solidną bazę w

the earlier goals, the words, the reading comprehension, listening comprehension, wcześniejsze cele, słowa, czytanie ze zrozumieniem, rozumienie ze słuchu,

then the speaking is gonna come. wtedy nadejdzie przemówienie.

Now, after speaking comes grammar or usage or speaking correctly. Teraz, po mówieniu przychodzi czas na gramatykę lub użycie lub poprawne mówienie.

So in other words, I don't worry at all about how correctly I speak Innymi słowy, w ogóle nie martwię się o to, jak poprawnie mówię

at an early stage in the language. na wczesnym etapie nauki języka.

My goals initially are input related. Początkowo moje cele są związane z danymi wejściowymi.

Then I'm speaking, speaking with mistakes.

It doesn't matter.

Then comes a point where I want to focus in on speaking more correctly.

And this comes after struggling to speak and throwing out the words I to po tym, jak z trudem mówiłem i wyrzucałem z siebie słowa

and the phrases that I've acquired.

And now I want to work towards speaking more correctly.

And when I do my video on how to learn grammar, I will talk in more detail

about how we learn grammar and speak more correctly or more like native speakers. o tym, jak uczymy się gramatyki i mówimy bardziej poprawnie lub jak native speakerzy.

So the goals so far have been first goal, biggest goal, which stays with us, all Tak więc cele do tej pory były pierwszym celem, największym celem, który pozostaje z nami, wszystkie

of these, stay with us the whole time: pozostań z nami przez cały czas:

acquiring words.

Reading second goal: reading comprehension. Drugi cel: czytanie ze zrozumieniem.

Third is listening comprehension. Trzeci to rozumienie ze słuchu.

Fourth is speaking. Czwarty mówi.

Fifth is, uh, grammar learning to, uh, use the language more correctly.

Then the sixth one is writing. Szóstym jest pisanie.

And again, we can start writing at any time, but, and I, I

just look at my own experience. Wystarczy spojrzeć na moje własne doświadczenia.

I tend not to write a lot, except when I was in a situation where I needed Zwykle nie piszę dużo, chyba że jestem w sytuacji, w której tego potrzebuję.

to write when I was learning Chinese. pisać, kiedy uczyłem się chińskiego.

I was on a program. Brałem udział w programie.

I was working for the Canadian government. Pracowałem dla rządu kanadyjskiego.

I had to learn to read, excuse me, to write and to write correctly. Пришлось учиться читать, извините, писать и писать правильно.

Similarly, when I was a student in France, I had, I had to write correctly. Точно так же, когда я был студентом во Франции, я должен был писать правильно.

So there are many situations where we need to write and write correctly.

And I will do a video on how we improve our ability to write and to write uh, you

know, effectively and, uh, persuasively and accurately and all these things. efektywnie, przekonująco, dokładnie i tak dalej.

So that then is the sixth goal is the writing goal, at least in my hierarchy.

And the final goal is the culture. Ostatecznym celem jest kultura.

And, uh, I think at least in my learning, when I learn a language, I, uh, myślę, że przynajmniej w mojej nauce, kiedy uczę się języka,

I learn the language in order to connect with the culture. Uczę się języka, aby połączyć się z kulturą.

However, as a goal, It's further down the list because until I have the reading Jednak jako cel, jest dalej na liście, ponieważ dopóki nie przeczytam Однак, як мета, це далі в списку, тому що поки я не прочитаю

comprehension, the listing comprehension, the words, um, you know, a better sense rozumienie, rozumienie listy, słowa, um, wiesz, lepsze wyczucie розуміння, розуміння списку, слова, гм, знаєте, кращий сенс

of the language, it's difficult to get into the details of the culture. мови, важко вникнути в деталі культури.

So again, like so many of these goals, we can introduce them at any time, but I find

that I'm much more interested in things that relate to the grammar of the lang... що мене набагато більше цікавлять речі, пов’язані з граматикою мови...

or excuse me, that relate to the, uh, to the culture of lub przepraszam, które odnoszą się do, uh, do kultury

the language that I'm learning. język, którego się uczę. мова, яку я вивчаю.

If I have a better ability to read about these things comfortably in the language, Jeśli mam lepszą zdolność do wygodnego czytania o tych rzeczach w języku, Якби я міг краще читати про ці речі мовою,

rather than having different aspects of the culture, uh, festivals or different niż posiadanie różnych aspektów kultury, festiwali lub różnych

family relationships, having all of this explained to me, say in English, uh, relacje rodzinne, mając to wszystko wyjaśnione, powiedzmy po angielsku, uh,

at a point where I don't have a good understanding of the language, I prefer w punkcie, w którym nie mam dobrego zrozumienia języka, wolę

to save that until I can go out and discover it for myself in the language. ale zachowam to do czasu, aż będę mógł sam odkryć ten język.

And so I will do another video specifically on this seventh goal.

So all I wanted to do today was to sort of warn you, let you know that Więc wszystko, co chciałem dzisiaj zrobić, to ostrzec cię, dać ci znać, że

I'm going to be doing these seven videos on the seven goals uh, in Zamierzam zrobić te siedem filmów na temat siedmiu celów w

so far as my learning is concerned. jeśli chodzi o moją naukę. що стосується мого навчання.

Which are these, uh, goals in this inverted pyramid of Jakie są te, uh, cele w tej odwróconej piramidzie Які це, ну, цілі в цій перевернутій піраміді

sort of a hierarchy of goals. свого роду ієрархія цілей.

The top one is, uh, words, get getting as many words as you can. Najważniejszym z nich są słowa, zdobycie jak największej liczby słów. Верхній - це слова, наберіть якомога більше слів.

The second one is developing your, uh, reading comprehension. Drugi to rozwijanie umiejętności czytania ze zrozumieniem.

The second one. Drugi.

The third one is developing your listing comprehension. Trzecim z nich jest rozwijanie umiejętności czytania ze zrozumieniem.

The fourth one is speaking. Czwarty z nich mówi.

Uh, the fifth one is working on your correct usage. Uh, piąty pracuje nad poprawnym użyciem.

The sixth one is writing and the seventh and final one is really Szósty to pisanie, a siódmy i ostatni to naprawdę

gaining an appreciation of the culture. zdobycie uznania dla kultury.

So there you have it. Więc masz to. Отже, ось і все.

Of course, there's a lot of overlap and many of these things, it can Oczywiście, wiele z tych rzeczy może się pokrywać i wiele z tych rzeczy może

be happening at different stages, but that is my hierarchy of goals. na różnych etapach, ale taka jest moja hierarchia celów.

So I hope that was used useful. Mam nadzieję, że było to przydatne.

Thank you for listening.

Bye for now.