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Steve's YouTube Videos, Staying Focused & Avoiding FOMO in Language Learning

Staying Focused & Avoiding FOMO in Language Learning

hi there Steve Kaufman here today I want

to talk about staying focused in our

language learning and it's particularly

relevant right now because I think to

some extent we're all concerned about

the coronavirus kovat 19 pandemic and in

our behavior we're doing things that

hopefully will you know slow it down but

language learning is something that we

can do right now I'm certainly sitting

here with my wife or sort of in Palm

Springs more or less you know isolated

that we don't go out much I will

eventually go back to Vancouver but I

didn't want to fly back with all the you

know people all descending on the

airport's at the same time we have a

small second-hand car which we could we

can drive back depending on how things

develop but so meantime I'm here so I am

deriving great enjoyment from learning

my Persian and Arabic and I noticed that

you know it's very important when I'm

say reading in Arabic or Persian or

listening to our bigger Persian that I

don't sort of constantly want to check

the Twitter feed to see what is

happening with the coronavirus and stuff

like this because there's nothing I can

do about it we wash our hands we keep

our distance we do the things that were

told to do and so then the rest of the

time I enjoy you know studying languages

and so I came across this term on

Twitter called formal fear of missing

out now typically that refers to fear of

missing out light other people are

having fun and I'm not having fun but

obviously if you're engaged in something

like the language learning which is

tremendously rewarding and where the

more effort we put in the better we get

then it's important to stay focused on

that and I find the more I focus the

more I stay focused on you know whatever

it is I'm reading or listening to the

more I'm able to stay with it and enjoy

it so I think we just have to resist the

temptation to sort of dash off and do

something else we kind of have to stay

with what we're doing

and then I also sort of thought about

how much of a of an international

cooperative venture language-learning

has become so in the case of my Persian

I have a collaborator and Aram Safra who

not only is creating stories where she

talks about herself and has other

friends talking about themselves and we

call this the Iranians and then she has

created circling questions for each of

these little episodes and they're

proving quite popular for people and

linked to our learning Persian but also

she obtained permission from a Persian

podcaster who goes into mostly English

language self-help books and provides a

synopsis of them in Persian and Sahar is

going in and divided them into five six

minute segments and then creating

circling questions for each segment so

there I have a collaborator in Iran who

is helping me learn Persian I have a

similar connection with an Arab speak

Arabic speaker in Morocco who is doing

the same for Arabic podcasts dividing

them into shorter segments creating

these circular questions by the way I

touch my notes I've gotta stop doing

that so and of course on my youtube

channel you'll soon see that I'm having

conversations with people in Germany and

Spain in Japan and so there's this

global effort and of course there's any

number of people online creating content

creating learning systems are creating

YouTube content in different languages

so it's really quite an international

community where we are connecting not

only to learn languages but we're

learning about each other and so the

world continues to get smaller now some

people may look at the current you know

Koba 19 pandemic as an example of the

sort of negative side of globalization

and there will undoubtedly be

adjustments in terms of how much people

fly and in terms of supply chains and

so forth but we remain global globalized

we will continue to be connected it

might be more remote work more virtual

connection more online learning but we

will remain very very connected and this

is a good thing and you know the fact

that the kovat 19 emanated from Wuhan

China there have always been pandemics

from the Black Plague in Europe you know

Spanish flu which by the way didn't

originate in Spain it was first reported

on in Spain but it originated people are

uncertain as to whether it was in Europe

or Kansas or in North China where this

thing originated in h1n1 and all of

these others have originated in

different places so we are always

vulnerable to pandemics what I think is

unique this time is the degree to which

the world is coming together the

resources are being put into you know

there is a four-hour testing system

developed in Singapore another for our

testing system in by a company in

Switzerland you know I saw that at the

University University of Saskatchewan in

Canada which is relatively small they're

developing a vaccine I saw there was a

bit of a news report that a company in

Germany is developing a vaccine and

there was an effort by US interest to

buy that and take it back to the US so

that it would only be for the benefit of

the US I I don't I haven't seen that

story verified although it was reported

in some fairly reputable newspapers

we'll see if that's true or not if that

is true that course goes against the

whole spirit of sharing of information

sharing of research information sharing

of experience so that this threat which

is our global threat can be you know

mitigated in a global way and I think we

will get the vaccine and we'll get you

know home testing kits and we'll get you

know perhaps some drugs that can

mitigate the effects of the disease

we'll get them quicker than ever because

people are so connected and of course

computing power and all this stuff now

I have to admit that I am by nature an

optimist and in that regard one of the

episodes in the B+ podcast is a synopsis

by Ali of a book written by a Swede

whose name I can't remember was it Hans

Rosling I'm not sure and it's called

fact fulness and he points out how

people tend to interpret facts or with a

lack of facts always assume that the

situation is worse than it is and he has

a number of examples I haven't come to

them yet because I've only started into

this podcast and of course it's in

Persian so I'm progressing somewhat

slowly although I take it with me when I

run and then I come back and I read it

again but you know the current pandemic

which will undoubtedly create a lot of

hardship death suffering we have to

remember that the vast majority of

people will not have serious symptoms

although a lot of people will so there

will be a tremendous burden on our

hospitals and huh it's conceivable that

hundreds of thousands of people will die

or more we don't know we don't know

however you know every year if I look at

statistics from the United States

millions of people die of cancer 40,000

or so I'm roughly going from memory here

about 40,000 people die from automobile accidents four million people are

accidents four million people are

hospitalized for automobile accidents

not that that's a good thing and not

that not that that makes this suffering

worse

Orsini it makes itself the suffering

less of these people nor does it mean

that we don't have to do everything

possible to increase you know intensive

care unit beds and ventilators and all

of this other stuff but it is in the

pandemic is adding to these other you

know the heroin overdoses or suicides

which you're 17 or 20 thousand people in

the US and I'm not picking on the u.s.

it just so happens that those statistics

are readily available

you google so it's a net addition of a

significant significant number of people

who will die but it still needs to be

looked in looked at in the context of

yeah we do face risk in our lives and

but I think this global cooperation in

finding solutions to cancer solutions to

other diseases that afflict us that this

is a very positive sign so the kind of

small scale cooperation that we're

seeing in sort of language learning

community is being replicated in many

other fields including medicine so the

current pandemic is a bit of a gut punch

no doubt and it'll have significant

economic consequences but in the longer

term I think that this increasing

international cooperation globalization

perhaps with less flying with less face

to face is a good thing and I think we

will come out of this stronger with a

new new way of operating a globalized

economy and so you know I can't

influence these things I can follow them

but I don't want to follow them too much

because I want to stay focused on my

language learning and I recommend that

you do the same don't have formal fear

of missing out and make sure that you

wash your hands for a good twenty

seconds which is longer than you think

and there's all kinds of videos on the

internet showing you how to wash your

hands and stay away from people you

don't know and crowds and that kind of thing

thing

and I think the best thing is I mean I

operate on the assumption that I have

Corbin Nike and I don't want to spread

it to other people therefore I don't

touch anyone I don't shake hands I stay

away from other people and we will see

how these things of all but I don't see

that

there is it going to be a dramatic

short-term improvement and therefore we

have to you know continue to do

everything we can to mitigate spread in

order to you know prevent the worst

possible outcome for vulnerable people

and therefore you know undo strains on

our hospital systems in in different

countries so I just wanted to share that

with you thank you

bye for now

Staying Focused & Avoiding FOMO in Language Learning Konzentriert bleiben und FOMO beim Sprachenlernen vermeiden Παραμονή εστιασμένη & αποφυγή FOMO στην εκμάθηση γλωσσών Staying Focused & Avoiding FOMO in Language Learning Mantener la concentración y evitar el FOMO en el aprendizaje de idiomas Rester concentré et éviter le FOMO dans l'apprentissage des langues Rimanere concentrati ed evitare la FOMO nell'apprendimento delle lingue 語学学習における集中力の維持とFOMOの回避 언어 학습에서 집중력 유지 및 FOMO 예방하기 Gefocust blijven en FOMO vermijden bij het leren van een taal Zachowanie koncentracji i unikanie FOMO w nauce języków obcych Manter-se concentrado e evitar o FOMO na aprendizagem de línguas Сосредоточиться и избежать FOMO при изучении иностранных языков Att hålla fokus och undvika FOMO vid språkinlärning Dil Öğreniminde Odaklanmayı Sürdürmek ve FOMO'dan Kaçınmak Зосередженість та уникнення FOMO у вивченні мови 在语言学习中保持专注并避免 FOMO 在語言學習中保持專注並避免 FOMO

hi there Steve Kaufman here today I want こんにちは、スティーブ・カウフマンです。 Ahoj tu je Steve Kaufman dnes by som chcel

to talk about staying focused in our Hovoriť o tom ako zostať sústredený v našom Hovoriť o tom ako z

language learning and it's particularly Učení jazyka a to obzvlášť

relevant right now because I think to Práve teraz pretože si myslím というのも

some extent we're all concerned about some extent we're all concerned about

the coronavirus kovat 19 pandemic and in

our behavior we're doing things that

hopefully will you know slow it down but

language learning is something that we

can do right now I'm certainly sitting

here with my wife or sort of in Palm

Springs more or less you know isolated

that we don't go out much I will

eventually go back to Vancouver but I

didn't want to fly back with all the you

know people all descending on the می دانم که همه در حال فرود در

airport's at the same time we have a

small second-hand car which we could we

can drive back depending on how things

develop but so meantime I'm here so I am

deriving great enjoyment from learning

my Persian and Arabic and I noticed that

you know it's very important when I'm

say reading in Arabic or Persian or

listening to our bigger Persian that I

don't sort of constantly want to check

the Twitter feed to see what is

happening with the coronavirus and stuff

like this because there's nothing I can

do about it we wash our hands we keep

our distance we do the things that were

told to do and so then the rest of the

time I enjoy you know studying languages

and so I came across this term on

Twitter called formal fear of missing ツイッターは正式な欠落の恐れと呼ばれる

out now typically that refers to fear of

missing out light other people are

having fun and I'm not having fun but

obviously if you're engaged in something

like the language learning which is

tremendously rewarding and where the

more effort we put in the better we get

then it's important to stay focused on

that and I find the more I focus the

more I stay focused on you know whatever

it is I'm reading or listening to the

more I'm able to stay with it and enjoy

it so I think we just have to resist the

temptation to sort of dash off and do وسوسه نوعی خاموش کردن و انجام دادن

something else we kind of have to stay 还有一些我们必须留下来的东西

with what we're doing 与我们正在做的事情

and then I also sort of thought about و سپس من نیز به نوعی در مورد فکر کردم

how much of a of an international چه مقدار از یک بین المللی است

cooperative venture language-learning همکاری یادگیری زبان 協同組合ベンチャー語学学習

has become so in the case of my Persian

I have a collaborator and Aram Safra who من یک همکار و آرام صفرا دارم که

not only is creating stories where she

talks about herself and has other

friends talking about themselves and we دوستان در مورد خود و ما صحبت می کنند

call this the Iranians and then she has

created circling questions for each of

these little episodes and they're

proving quite popular for people and

linked to our learning Persian but also

she obtained permission from a Persian 彼女はペルシャ人の許可を得た。

podcaster who goes into mostly English

language self-help books and provides a

synopsis of them in Persian and Sahar is

going in and divided them into five six

minute segments and then creating

circling questions for each segment so

there I have a collaborator in Iran who

is helping me learn Persian I have a

similar connection with an Arab speak

Arabic speaker in Morocco who is doing

the same for Arabic podcasts dividing

them into shorter segments creating

these circular questions by the way I

touch my notes I've gotta stop doing

that so and of course on my youtube

channel you'll soon see that I'm having

conversations with people in Germany and

Spain in Japan and so there's this

global effort and of course there's any

number of people online creating content

creating learning systems are creating

YouTube content in different languages

so it's really quite an international

community where we are connecting not

only to learn languages but we're

learning about each other and so the

world continues to get smaller now some

people may look at the current you know

Koba 19 pandemic as an example of the

sort of negative side of globalization

and there will undoubtedly be

adjustments in terms of how much people

fly and in terms of supply chains and

so forth but we remain global globalized

we will continue to be connected it

might be more remote work more virtual

connection more online learning but we

will remain very very connected and this

is a good thing and you know the fact

that the kovat 19 emanated from Wuhan

China there have always been pandemics

from the Black Plague in Europe you know

Spanish flu which by the way didn't

originate in Spain it was first reported

on in Spain but it originated people are

uncertain as to whether it was in Europe неясно, было ли это в Европе

or Kansas or in North China where this или Канзасе, или в Северном Китае, где это

thing originated in h1n1 and all of все возникло в h1n1 и все

these others have originated in другие возникли в

different places so we are always в разных местах, поэтому мы всегда

vulnerable to pandemics what I think is パンデミックに対して脆弱なのは、次のようなことだと思う。 уязвимы перед пандемиями, что, на мой взгляд, является

unique this time is the degree to which Уникальным на этот раз является то, насколько

the world is coming together the мир объединяется

resources are being put into you know リソースが投入されている ресурсы направлены на то, чтобы вы знали.

there is a four-hour testing system существует четырехчасовая система тестирования

developed in Singapore another for our разработанный в Сингапуре, еще один для нашего

testing system in by a company in система тестирования, разработанная компанией в

Switzerland you know I saw that at the Швейцария, вы знаете, я видел это в

University University of Saskatchewan in Университет Саскачевана в

Canada which is relatively small they're Канада, которая относительно невелика, они

developing a vaccine I saw there was a Разрабатывая вакцину, я увидел, что есть

bit of a news report that a company in немного новостей о том, что компания в

Germany is developing a vaccine and Германия разрабатывает вакцину и

there was an effort by US interest to американский интерес был направлен на то, чтобы

buy that and take it back to the US so купить его и перевезти в США, чтобы

that it would only be for the benefit of что это будет только на пользу

the US I I don't I haven't seen that США, я не знаю, я не видел.

story verified although it was reported история проверена, хотя сообщалось, что

in some fairly reputable newspapers в некоторых довольно авторитетных газетах

we'll see if that's true or not if that Посмотрим, правда это или нет, если это

is true that course goes against the правда, что курс идет вразрез с

whole spirit of sharing of information весь дух обмена информацией

sharing of research information sharing обмен исследовательской информацией обмен информацией

of experience so that this threat which опыта, чтобы эта угроза, которая

is our global threat can be you know наша глобальная угроза может быть, вы знаете.

mitigated in a global way and I think we 世界的な方法で緩和された。

will get the vaccine and we'll get you получит вакцину, и мы обеспечим вас

know home testing kits and we'll get you знают наборы для домашнего тестирования, и мы доставим вам

know perhaps some drugs that can

mitigate the effects of the disease

we'll get them quicker than ever because

people are so connected and of course люди так связаны друг с другом и, конечно же.

computing power and all this stuff now вычислительная мощность и все эти вещи теперь

I have to admit that I am by nature an Должен признаться, что по своей природе я

optimist and in that regard one of the

episodes in the B+ podcast is a synopsis Эпизоды в подкасте B+ - это синопсис

by Ali of a book written by a Swede

whose name I can't remember was it Hans اسمش یادم نیست هانس بود

Rosling I'm not sure and it's called

fact fulness and he points out how

people tend to interpret facts or with a

lack of facts always assume that the

situation is worse than it is and he has

a number of examples I haven't come to

them yet because I've only started into

this podcast and of course it's in

Persian so I'm progressing somewhat

slowly although I take it with me when I

run and then I come back and I read it

again but you know the current pandemic

which will undoubtedly create a lot of

hardship death suffering we have to

remember that the vast majority of

people will not have serious symptoms

although a lot of people will so there

will be a tremendous burden on our

hospitals and huh it's conceivable that

hundreds of thousands of people will die

or more we don't know we don't know

however you know every year if I look at

statistics from the United States

millions of people die of cancer 40,000

or so I'm roughly going from memory here

about 40,000 people die from automobile accidents four million people are

accidents four million people are

hospitalized for automobile accidents

not that that's a good thing and not

that not that that makes this suffering что не это делает эти страдания

worse хуже

Orsini it makes itself the suffering اورسینی باعث رنج خود می شود Orsini maakt van zichzelf het lijden Орсини делает себя страдальцем.

less of these people nor does it mean меньше этих людей, и это не значит, что

that we don't have to do everything что мы не обязаны делать все.

possible to increase you know intensive можно увеличить интенсивность

care unit beds and ventilators and all койки и аппараты искусственной вентиляции легких и все

of this other stuff but it is in the все эти вещи, но они находятся в

pandemic is adding to these other you

know the heroin overdoses or suicides

which you're 17 or 20 thousand people in

the US and I'm not picking on the u.s. США, и я не придираюсь к США.

it just so happens that those statistics так уж получилось, что эта статистика

are readily available легкодоступны

you google so it's a net addition of a を追加したことになる。 вы гуглите, так что это чистое добавление

significant significant number of people

who will die but it still needs to be кто умрет, но это все равно должно быть

looked in looked at in the context of рассматривается в контексте

yeah we do face risk in our lives and Да, мы сталкиваемся с риском в своей жизни, и

but I think this global cooperation in

finding solutions to cancer solutions to поиск решений проблемы рака решения проблемы

other diseases that afflict us that this другие болезни, которые нас поражают, что это

is a very positive sign so the kind of это очень позитивный знак, так что вид

small scale cooperation that we're сотрудничество в малых масштабах, которое мы

seeing in sort of language learning видеть в изучении языка

community is being replicated in many コミュニティは多くの地域で再現されている。 сообщество воспроизводится во многих

other fields including medicine so the других областях, включая медицину, поэтому

current pandemic is a bit of a gut punch Нынешняя пандемия - это своего рода удар по нутру.

no doubt and it'll have significant несомненно, и это будет иметь значительные

economic consequences but in the longer экономические последствия, но в долгосрочной перспективе

term I think that this increasing Я думаю, что этот растущий

international cooperation globalization международное сотрудничество глобализация

perhaps with less flying with less face возможно, с меньшим количеством полетов и меньшим количеством лиц

to face is a good thing and I think we лицом к лицу - это хорошо, и я думаю, что мы

will come out of this stronger with a выйдут из этого состояния более сильными и

new new way of operating a globalized

economy and so you know I can't экономику, и поэтому вы знаете, что я не могу

influence these things I can follow them влияют на эти вещи, я могу следовать им

but I don't want to follow them too much но я не хочу слишком сильно следить за ними.

because I want to stay focused on my потому что я хочу сосредоточиться на своей

language learning and I recommend that изучение языка, и я рекомендую

you do the same don't have formal fear Вы делаете то же самое, не бойтесь.

of missing out and make sure that you чтобы не прогадать и убедиться, что вы

wash your hands for a good twenty мойте руки в течение двадцати

seconds which is longer than you think

and there's all kinds of videos on the

internet showing you how to wash your

hands and stay away from people you

don't know and crowds and that kind of thing не знаю, толпы и тому подобное.

thing вещь

and I think the best thing is I mean I

operate on the assumption that I have исхожу из того, что у меня

Corbin Nike and I don't want to spread

it to other people therefore I don't

touch anyone I don't shake hands I stay

away from other people and we will see

how these things of all but I don't see как все эти вещи, но я не вижу.

that что

there is it going to be a dramatic будет ли это драматично.

short-term improvement and therefore we краткосрочное улучшение, и поэтому мы

have to you know continue to do これからも должны, вы знаете, продолжать делать

everything we can to mitigate spread in 我々は、このような事態を緩和するためにできることは何でもする。 все возможное, чтобы смягчить распространение в

order to you know prevent the worst 最悪の事態を防ぐために чтобы предотвратить худшее.

possible outcome for vulnerable people 脆弱な人々にとって可能な結果 возможный результат для уязвимых людей

and therefore you know undo strains on y por lo tanto sabes deshacer tensiones en したがって и поэтому вы знаете, как отменить деформацию на

our hospital systems in in different 私たちの病院システムは

countries so I just wanted to share that だから、私はそれを共有したかった

with you thank you

bye for now