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Reading May Be the Secret of My Success in Language Learning

hi there Steve Kaufmann here today I want

to talk about a subject reading and

language learning it's kind of like like

breaking news oh by the way you want to

I know many of you who watch my videos

do it to improve your English

you'll be able to click through to a

lesson and link to study this initially

it'll have the captions from the YouTube

video and this will be replaced from you

have the proper transcript so all of

these videos that I make can be an

opportunity for you to work on your

English but breaking news today special

report a new way of recording

information has been discovered which is

one step you know more advanced than mp3

players or mp3 technology or recording

and voice and listening and stuff it's

actually writing things down and reading

it like it's called reading it can be

present or written and then you read it

and it's a phenomenally efficient way of

acquiring information really you know

and renewable like the paper is made of

you know chips from sawmills from trees

that are harvested in and then burned

another way so reading is good reading

is really good and the reason I'm

talking about that today is is several

reasons and I'm gonna get into several

aspects of it first of all there was

someone who commented here in Japanese

to my Japanese video where I said that

Japanese people who are learning English

might want to consider learning Chinese

as a way of making their brains more

flexible and that will eventually make

their English learning more efficient

because they won't be sort of fighting

the same difficulties they'll be

expanded their minds will be expanded

and so one of the commenters here

commented in Japanese saying that's all

well and good but English is very useful

I can communicate with so many people if

I learn other languages like I use

Chinese

as an example it doesn't have to be

Chinese it can be any language learning

a third language makes the brain more

flexible and this person said well

that's fine and then the but English

enables me to communicate with the whole

world why would I learn another language

so that was one comment and there was

also this debate we've had I did my

video about Arabic and should we learn

modern Standard Arabic or similar in the

various regional variations or variants

of Arabic so hitting those two things

you know why would I I'm a speaker being

respected if we go back to this the

japanese commenter who was saying you

know all we really need is English right

with other in any other language well

following that logic then Amos Peters

needn't learn any language and and all

and so and the Japanese commentary

commenter also said you know I have

nobody to speak to in these other

languages why would I learn lips in

Tokyo he probably has trouble finding

anyone to speak to an English let alone

these other languages so why do I learn

languages why am i working on Persian

Arabic and Turkish a big part of it is

reading I like to read in the language I

like to learn about those cultures I'd

like to learn about their history their

language it's all part of us being human

beings and and track I have this almost

giddy sense of power when I'm reading

about these other cultures and histories

in their language so I don't have to

find an Arabic speaker in Vancouver to

enjoy reading about Arabic history or

and of course even in English because

once I get into the language now I'm

reading a book on on the Middle East and

stuff like this it gets you ink it bras

your overall perspective again reading

okay so I can read and if you're reading

in Arabic by large you're reading in

Standard Arabic so my view there is if

you're gonna learn Arabic I say learn

standard our

learn to resend Arabic every hour Arabic

speaking native speaker of Arabic reads

standard Arabic once you have that as a

base it's not difficult to learn the

other variants to be government least

able to understand them and then and I

mentioned that we're going to have

content here that's going to make that

even easier then it's easy enough to do

if you have that base in standard Arabic

so reading is a big reason why I focus

on standard Arabic reading it's a big

reason why English speakers should

should might find it interesting to

learn other languages and people say in

Japan or another non-english speaking

countries who learn English may find it

rewarding to learn other languages other

than English because they they'll be

able to read in those languages and

reading is a great way to acquire

knowledge it's also a great way to

acquire words and I find that my

listening which is 70 percent of my

learning activity because it's so easy

to do that's where I become familiar

with the language comfortable with the

language understand it better start to

feel confident that I can use it but I

think the words I acquire them more

through reading so reading is powerful

reading is not only powerful for

language learning reading is powerful in

life there are so many examples you can

find stories on the internet about

reading ability is the best predictor of

professional success of academic success

it's the fastest way to acquire

information that's not to say that

people who don't read well can't do well

in life they do I know people I've

worked with people who didn't read well

he didn't ready dyslexic or they maybe

have knowledge he teaches at school or

for whatever reason they don't read well

and yet they were extremely successful

managers they got interested in things

maybe mechanical or some other aspect of

things they learned that are in through

experience so

if you can't read well that doesn't

exclude you from being successful I mean

the President of the United States

doesn't read well now probably if he

hadn't been born into a lot of money his

lack of reading wouldn't have taken I'm

very far but that's another subject so

reading and and it's a big equalizer you

don't have to go to Yale or Harvard to

become a good reader you begin by being

a good reader early and I've often

complained that that where they teach

reading they focus so much on details

they're gonna try to teach the kids to

think critically they ask some questions

before reading and after reading and to

me that is all nonsense it just takes

away the funnel reading the way you get

people to read is to somehow enable them

to enjoy reading if they Jory they

already bored and the more they read the

better they get therefore don't decide

for kids what they're gonna read it's

like what I'm learning a language and

I'm told you're gonna do this story on

you know festivals and customs are the

names of all the different members of

the family or whatever it might be

not interested give me something that

I'm interested in and typically that'll

be something that I'm familiar with so I

think in language right we should begin

with things that we're familiar with how

people live hello good morning I've got

to go to the store but don't take it too

far away from things that were familiar

with and that we enjoy the same with

reading getting young people to read or

even older people to read give them

things they're interested in don't ask

them a bunch of questions comprehension

questions pre reading questions post

reading pretzels it doesn't matter if

they understand everything they read

what matters is that they continue

reading so if they're interested in

machines or if they're interested in

sports or music let them read about that

and they'll be more and more and the

more they read the better they get I've

often felt that link would be an ideal

tool to improve literacy where people

are struggling because they have a limit

vocabulary for a variety of reasons or

they might be dyslexic and gets sort of

to function in this sort of linked

environment of sound combined with

reading combined with saving words to a

database all the things we do at Linc I

think would be helpful for struggling

readers I'd be happy to make it

available free of charge

for any kind of a literacy program

because literacy is such a big part of

our success in life as I said not for

everyone but statistically if you go to

prisons it's overwhelmingly people with

low literacy you know people at the

upper end of the income not everyone but

overwhelmingly statistically on average

are people who read better so reading is

super powerful and I think in terms of

education educating our populations in

every country there's a good twenty

thirty percent of the population that

doesn't mean very well more should be

done at an early age or later in a

remedial way to help those people but

getting back to the first point I study

Standard Arabic because I want to read

Arabic I think people whose Mike

retirement is English should learn other

languages even if they don't have a lot

of people that can speak to but that's

their choice of course I shouldn't say

people should I think it's rewarding and

similarly for speakers of languages

other than English as a native language

there are many good reasons for them to

still go and learn 3rd 4th 5th languages

a because it broadens their there's sort

of linguistic flexibility but also

because there's this tremendous reward

of learning about these other cultures

and a lot of that is required acquired

through reading so remember you can

listen to this

rent late and learn any vocabulary you

might want to learn and also if you want

my emails on 10 tips to language

learning you can click through for that

as well thank you for listening when a

little bit longer today bye for now

Oh last thing I've heard complaints

about my microphone I don't know what

the best thing to do is right now using

the lapel mic

I did try them other mic but don't sin

to my iphone didn't work very well when

I get back to my Cooper we're gonna look

at this and see what we can come up with

if there are any suggestions I would be

very open to hearing about them thank

you

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Reading May Be the Secret of My Success in Language Learning Lesen kann das Geheimnis meines Erfolgs beim Sprachenlernen sein Reading May Be the Secret of My Success in Language Learning La lecture est peut-être le secret de ma réussite dans l'apprentissage des langues 読書が私の語学学習成功の秘訣かもしれない 독서가 언어 학습 성공의 비결일 수 있습니다. A leitura pode ser o segredo do meu sucesso na aprendizagem de línguas Чтение может быть секретом моего успеха в изучении языка Читання може бути секретом мого успіху у вивченні мови 阅读可能是我语言学习成功的秘诀

hi there Steve Kaufmann here today I want

to talk about a subject reading and

language learning it's kind of like like aprendizado de idiomas é como gostar вивчення мови це щось на зразок

breaking news oh by the way you want to останні новини, до речі, ти хочеш

I know many of you who watch my videos

do it to improve your English

you'll be able to click through to a

lesson and link to study this initially 最初学习这个的课程和链接

it'll have the captions from the YouTube 它会有来自 YouTube 的字幕

video and this will be replaced from you 视频,这将由您替换

have the proper transcript so all of 有正确的成绩单所以所有

these videos that I make can be an

opportunity for you to work on your

English but breaking news today special

report a new way of recording 报告一种新的记录方式

information has been discovered which is 已发现的信息是

one step you know more advanced than mp3

players or mp3 technology or recording 播放器或 mp3 技术或录音

and voice and listening and stuff it's

actually writing things down and reading

it like it's called reading it can be

present or written and then you read it

and it's a phenomenally efficient way of і це феноменально ефективний спосіб

acquiring information really you know

and renewable like the paper is made of

you know chips from sawmills from trees

that are harvested in and then burned que se cosechan en y luego se queman ktoré sa zozbierajú a potom spália

another way so reading is good reading otra forma para que leer sea una buena lectura

is really good and the reason I'm es realmente bueno y la razón por la que estoy

talking about that today is is several hablar de eso hoy es es varios

reasons and I'm gonna get into several razones y voy a entrar en varias

aspects of it first of all there was aspectos de la misma en primer lugar había aspekty toho v prvom rade tam bolo

someone who commented here in Japanese alguien que comentó aquí en japonés niekto, kto to tu komentoval v japončine

to my Japanese video where I said that a mi video japonés donde dije que

Japanese people who are learning English Japoneses que aprenden inglés

might want to consider learning Chinese podría considerar la posibilidad de aprender chino

as a way of making their brains more como una forma de hacer que sus cerebros sean más

flexible and that will eventually make flexible y que con el tiempo hará

their English learning more efficient que su aprendizaje del inglés sea más eficaz

because they won't be sort of fighting porque no van a ser una especie de lucha

the same difficulties they'll be las mismas dificultades serán

expanded their minds will be expanded sus mentes se expandirán

and so one of the commenters here y por lo que uno de los comentaristas aquí

commented in Japanese saying that's all comentó en japonés diciendo que eso es todo

well and good but English is very useful bien y bueno pero el inglés es muy útil

I can communicate with so many people if Puedo comunicarme con mucha gente si

I learn other languages like I use Aprendo otros idiomas como uso

Chinese

as an example it doesn't have to be como ejemplo no tiene que ser

Chinese it can be any language learning Chino puede ser cualquier idioma

a third language makes the brain more una tercera lengua hace que el cerebro sea más

flexible and this person said well flexible y esta persona dijo bien

that's fine and then the but English eso está bien y luego el pero inglés

enables me to communicate with the whole me permite comunicarme con todo el

world why would I learn another language mundo por qué iba a aprender otro idioma

so that was one comment and there was así que ese fue un comentario y hubo

also this debate we've had I did my también este debate que hemos tenido hice mi

video about Arabic and should we learn vídeo sobre el árabe y si debemos aprender

modern Standard Arabic or similar in the árabe estándar moderno o similar en el 现代标准阿拉伯语或类似语言

various regional variations or variants diversas variaciones o variantes regionales

of Arabic so hitting those two things de árabe para golpear esas dos cosas

you know why would I I'm a speaker being ya sabes por qué lo haría soy un ser orador 你知道为什么我会成为演讲者

respected if we go back to this the respetado si volvemos a esto el 尊重如果我们回到这个

japanese commenter who was saying you comentarista japonés que decía que

know all we really need is English right sabemos que lo único que necesitamos es el inglés correcto 知道我们真正需要的是英语吧

with other in any other language well con otro en cualquier otro idioma bien 与其他任何其他语言

following that logic then Amos Peters siguiendo esa lógica entonces Amos Peters 按照这个逻辑然后阿莫斯彼得斯

needn't learn any language and and all no necesita aprender ningún idioma y y todo

and so and the Japanese commentary

commenter also said you know I have

nobody to speak to in these other

languages why would I learn lips in idiomas por qué iba a aprender labios en

Tokyo he probably has trouble finding Tokio probablemente tiene problemas para encontrar

anyone to speak to an English let alone hablar con un inglés y mucho menos

these other languages so why do I learn estos otros idiomas, así que ¿por qué voy a aprender

languages why am i working on Persian idiomas por qué trabajo en persa

Arabic and Turkish a big part of it is árabe y turco una gran parte es

reading I like to read in the language I lectura me gusta leer en la lengua que

like to learn about those cultures I'd aprender sobre esas culturas que

like to learn about their history their les gusta conocer su historia

language it's all part of us being human el lenguaje forma parte de nuestro ser humano

beings and and track I have this almost Wesen und und Spur habe ich das fast seres y y pista tengo esta casi

giddy sense of power when I'm reading vertiginosa sensación de poder cuando leo 阅读时头晕目眩的力量感

about these other cultures and histories

in their language so I don't have to en su idioma para no tener que

find an Arabic speaker in Vancouver to encontrar un hablante de árabe en Vancouver para

enjoy reading about Arabic history or disfrutar leyendo sobre historia árabe o

and of course even in English because y por supuesto incluso en inglés porque

once I get into the language now I'm una vez que me meto en el idioma ahora estoy

reading a book on on the Middle East and leyendo un libro sobre Oriente Medio y

stuff like this it gets you ink it bras Sachen wie diese, es bringt dich dazu, BHs zu färben cosas como estas te hacen tinta sujetadores

your overall perspective again reading su perspectiva general leyendo de nuevo 你的整体观点再次阅读

okay so I can read and if you're reading ok así que puedo leer y si estás leyendo

in Arabic by large you're reading in en árabe por grande que seas leyendo en

Standard Arabic so my view there is if Árabe estándar así que mi opinión es que si

you're gonna learn Arabic I say learn vas a aprender árabe digo aprender

standard our estándar nuestro

learn to resend Arabic every hour Arabic aprender a reenviar árabe cada hora árabe

speaking native speaker of Arabic reads hablante nativo de árabe lee

standard Arabic once you have that as a árabe estándar una vez que lo tienes como

base it's not difficult to learn the base no es difícil aprender el

other variants to be government least otras variantes para ser gobierno menos

able to understand them and then and I capaz de entenderlos y entonces y yo

mentioned that we're going to have mencionó que vamos a tener

content here that's going to make that contenido aquí que va a hacer que

even easier then it's easy enough to do aún más fácil entonces es bastante fácil de hacer

if you have that base in standard Arabic si tiene esa base en árabe estándar

so reading is a big reason why I focus así que la lectura es una gran razón por la que me centro

on standard Arabic reading it's a big en lectura árabe estándar es un gran

reason why English speakers should razón por la que los angloparlantes deberían

should might find it interesting to puede que le interese

learn other languages and people say in aprender otros idiomas y la gente dice en

Japan or another non-english speaking Japón u otro país de habla no inglesa

countries who learn English may find it países que aprenden inglés pueden

rewarding to learn other languages other gratificante aprender otros idiomas 有益于学习其他语言 other

than English because they they'll be que el inglés porque serán

able to read in those languages and capaces de leer en esas lenguas y

reading is a great way to acquire la lectura es una buena forma de adquirir

knowledge it's also a great way to conocimiento también es una buena forma de

acquire words and I find that my adquirir palabras y descubro que mi

listening which is 70 percent of my escuchar que es el 70 por ciento de mi

learning activity because it's so easy actividad de aprendizaje porque es muy fácil

to do that's where I become familiar hacer eso es donde me familiarizo

with the language comfortable with the con el lenguaje cómodo con el

language understand it better start to idioma entenderlo mejor empezar a

feel confident that I can use it but I confío en poder utilizarlo, pero

think the words I acquire them more pienso las palabras las adquiero más

through reading so reading is powerful a través de la lectura, así que la lectura es poderosa

reading is not only powerful for la lectura no sólo es poderosa para

language learning reading is powerful in aprendizaje de idiomas la lectura es poderosa en

life there are so many examples you can vida hay tantos ejemplos que puedes

find stories on the internet about encontrar historias en internet sobre

reading ability is the best predictor of la capacidad de lectura es el mejor indicador de 阅读能力是最好的预测指标

professional success of academic success éxito profesional de éxito académico 学术成功的专业成功

it's the fastest way to acquire

information that's not to say that

people who don't read well can't do well

in life they do I know people I've en la vida lo hacen conozco gente que he

worked with people who didn't read well trabajaba con personas que no leían bien

he didn't ready dyslexic or they maybe no preparó disléxico o ellos tal vez

have knowledge he teaches at school or tener conocimientos que enseña en la escuela o

for whatever reason they don't read well por la razón que sea no leen bien

and yet they were extremely successful y sin embargo tuvieron mucho éxito

managers they got interested in things directivos se interesaron por las cosas

maybe mechanical or some other aspect of tal vez mecánico o algún otro aspecto de

things they learned that are in through cosas que aprendieron y que están en

experience so

if you can't read well that doesn't

exclude you from being successful I mean

the President of the United States

doesn't read well now probably if he

hadn't been born into a lot of money his 没有出生在很多钱他的

lack of reading wouldn't have taken I'm falta de lectura no habría tomado estoy 缺乏阅读不会采取我

very far but that's another subject so muy lejos pero eso es otro tema así que

reading and and it's a big equalizer you lectura y y es un gran ecualizador usted

don't have to go to Yale or Harvard to no hace falta ir a Yale o Harvard para

become a good reader you begin by being para ser un buen lector hay que empezar por ser 成为一个好的读者,你首先要成为

a good reader early and I've often un buen lector precoz y a menudo he 一个很好的读者,我经常

complained that that where they teach se quejó de que donde enseñan

reading they focus so much on details lectura se centran tanto en los detalles

they're gonna try to teach the kids to van a tratar de enseñar a los niños a

think critically they ask some questions piensan críticamente hacen algunas preguntas

before reading and after reading and to antes de leer y después de leer y para

me that is all nonsense it just takes yo eso son tonterias solo hace falta

away the funnel reading the way you get weg den Trichter lesen, wie Sie bekommen lejos el embudo leyendo la forma en que se

people to read is to somehow enable them gente a leer es permitirles de algún modo

to enjoy reading if they Jory they disfrutar de la lectura si Jory

already bored and the more they read the ya aburridos y cuanto más leen más

better they get therefore don't decide mejor se ponen por lo tanto no deciden

for kids what they're gonna read it's para los niños lo que van a leer es

like what I'm learning a language and como lo que estoy aprendiendo un idioma y

I'm told you're gonna do this story on Me han dicho que vas a hacer esta historia sobre

you know festivals and customs are the sabes que los festivales y las costumbres son

names of all the different members of nombres de los distintos miembros de

the family or whatever it might be la familia o lo que sea

not interested give me something that no me interesa dame algo que

I'm interested in and typically that'll que me interesan y que normalmente

be something that I'm familiar with so I ser algo con lo que estoy familiarizado así que

think in language right we should begin creo que en derecho lingüístico deberíamos empezar

with things that we're familiar with how con cosas con las que estamos familiarizados como

people live hello good morning I've got la gente vive hola buenos dias tengo

to go to the store but don't take it too ir a la tienda pero no lo tomes demasiado

far away from things that were familiar lejos de las cosas que me eran familiares 远离熟悉的事物

with and that we enjoy the same with con y que disfrutamos lo mismo con

reading getting young people to read or lectura conseguir que los jóvenes lean o

even older people to read give them incluso a las personas mayores a leer darles

things they're interested in don't ask cosas que les interesan no preguntes

them a bunch of questions comprehension un montón de preguntas de comprensión

questions pre reading questions post preguntas pre lectura preguntas post

reading pretzels it doesn't matter if leyendo pretzels no importa si

they understand everything they read entienden todo lo que leen

what matters is that they continue lo que importa es que sigan

reading so if they're interested in lectura por lo que si están interesados en

machines or if they're interested in máquinas o si están interesados en

sports or music let them read about that deportes o música, que lean sobre ello

and they'll be more and more and the y serán cada vez más y el

more they read the better they get I've Cuanto más leen, mejor se vuelven.

often felt that link would be an ideal a menudo pensaba que ese vínculo sería un

tool to improve literacy where people herramienta para mejorar la alfabetización

are struggling because they have a limit tienen dificultades porque tienen un límite 挣扎是因为他们有极限

vocabulary for a variety of reasons or vocabulario por diversas razones o

they might be dyslexic and gets sort of puede que sean disléxicos y se les

to function in this sort of linked para funcionar en este tipo de

environment of sound combined with entorno sonoro combinado con

reading combined with saving words to a lectura combinada con guardar palabras en un

database all the things we do at Linc I base de datos todas las cosas que hacemos en Linc I

think would be helpful for struggling Creo que sería útil para

readers I'd be happy to make it lectores me encantaría hacerlo

available free of charge disponible gratuitamente

for any kind of a literacy program para cualquier tipo de programa de alfabetización

because literacy is such a big part of porque la alfabetización es una parte muy importante

our success in life as I said not for nuestro éxito en la vida como he dicho no por

everyone but statistically if you go to todo el mundo pero estadísticamente si vas a

prisons it's overwhelmingly people with prisiones es abrumadoramente gente con

low literacy you know people at the geringe Lese- und Schreibfähigkeit Sie kennen Menschen an der bajo nivel de alfabetización conoce a la gente en el

upper end of the income not everyone but Obergrenze des Einkommens aber nicht jeder extremo superior de la renta no todo el mundo, sino

overwhelmingly statistically on average abrumadoramente estadístico por término medio

are people who read better so reading is son personas que leen mejor por lo que la lectura es

super powerful and I think in terms of super potente y creo que en términos de

education educating our populations in educación educar a nuestras poblaciones en

every country there's a good twenty en cada país hay una buena veintena

thirty percent of the population that treinta por ciento de la población que

doesn't mean very well more should be no significa muy bien más debe ser

done at an early age or later in a a una edad temprana o más tarde en

remedial way to help those people but manera de ayudar a esas personas, pero

getting back to the first point I study volviendo al primer punto que estudio

Standard Arabic because I want to read Árabe estándar porque quiero leer

Arabic I think people whose Mike árabe creo que las personas cuyo Mike

retirement is English should learn other jubilación es el inglés debería aprender otros

languages even if they don't have a lot idiomas aunque no tengan mucho

of people that can speak to but that's de personas con las que se puede hablar pero eso es

their choice of course I shouldn't say su elección, por supuesto, no debería decir

people should I think it's rewarding and gente debería creo que es gratificante y

similarly for speakers of languages

other than English as a native language

there are many good reasons for them to hay muchas buenas razones para que

still go and learn 3rd 4th 5th languages seguir aprendiendo 3ª 4ª 5ª lenguas

a because it broadens their there's sort a porque amplía su hay una especie de

of linguistic flexibility but also de flexibilidad lingüística, sino también

because there's this tremendous reward porque hay una tremenda recompensa

of learning about these other cultures de aprender sobre estas otras culturas

and a lot of that is required acquired y mucho de eso se requiere adquirió

through reading so remember you can a través de la lectura, así que recuerde que puede

listen to this escucha esto

rent late and learn any vocabulary you alquilar tarde y aprender cualquier vocabulario que

might want to learn and also if you want quiera aprender y también si quiere

my emails on 10 tips to language mis correos electrónicos sobre 10 consejos para el lenguaje

learning you can click through for that aprender puede hacer clic a través de para que

as well thank you for listening when a también gracias por escuchar cuando un

little bit longer today bye for now un poco más hoy adiós por ahora

Oh last thing I've heard complaints Oh última cosa que he oído quejas

about my microphone I don't know what sobre mi micrófono no sé qué

the best thing to do is right now using lo mejor que puede hacer ahora mismo es utilizar

the lapel mic el micrófono de solapa

I did try them other mic but don't sin He probado otros micrófonos pero no me gustan.

to my iphone didn't work very well when a mi iphone no funcionaba muy bien cuando

I get back to my Cooper we're gonna look Vuelvo a mi Cooper vamos a mirar

at this and see what we can come up with a ver qué se nos ocurre

if there are any suggestions I would be si hay alguna sugerencia seria

very open to hearing about them thank muy abierto a oír hablar de ellos gracias

you

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