Hello Language hackers,
In today’s blogpost, I’m going to talk about clearing the Feeling Block or put another way how to feel THE FLOW STATE of Spanich conversation, instead of blocking the Flow with an endless inner-translation-monologue.
Trying to progress in Spanish by focusing on activities outside of conversation with stuffs like: studying grammar texts, memorizing vocabulary texts, hand-Translating sentences between Spanish and English and listening to Spanish Radio, TV and Movies
I'm convinced that much of the learning of a language isn't just acquiring new vocabulary and grammatical patterns. You will get better at the specific individual activities, but you will not feel the skills you learnt transferring into conversational abilities. Talking of learning… is what you were told at school about language learning which is the wrong approach?
Now clearing the feeling block is all about being in the flow state where you don’t want to translate in your head, you want to get out of your own head, to feel the Flow of mumbling up all the vocabs you've learnt to form short meaningful sentences in French language.
Instead it's training words and phrases you already know until they reach automaticity. This failure of automaticity is why many people can spend months or years studying a language and still feel, frustratingly, unable to speak it. In other words, the more you speak a new language, the more quickly you'll reach a stage where you can find the word or phrase you need automatically - without even thinking about it.
“The Flow state is truly an interesting concept” because it is the force that will lead you to ever more understanding, expressing, connecting and growing in the Spanish language more on the conversational level.
Presently am studying the art and science of teaching and learning languages, one of the most important things I’ve discovered is this: Negativity kills learning anything you want to learn.
So therefore my two secret tips for language learners is perhaps unsurprisingly to :
~ "commit to not speaking English for a certain period of time but rather concentrate on speaking the target language".
~ "start having conversations earlier than it feels comfortable".
My reasoning behind this advice is that - this is a key mindset shift that will make you a much more effective language learner.
My question to you today is this, could you go six months without speaking your native/source language? Leave a comment below saying why you can or why you cannot.
To your exponential
learning of languages,
Frenchladydisi
Your language tutor.
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