One of my students, Nicholas, asked me some questions that others might be also wondering about, so I made this video. Here are Nicholas' original questions, copy/pasted from the mail he sent me:
Do you learn how to read and write characters first? Or do you look up
the most popular phrases and common everyday speech to learn first?
Do you listen to various foreign music to expand your vocabulary?
How would you practise speaking and oral communication if no partner /
people fluent in those languages are accessible.
Do you at times feel like no matter how much more you do, words won't
stay memorised in your brain?
When you are practising the "la musique de la langue" do you attempt
to mimic the words or simply just the way the words flow?
All music and sound effects were sourced from the YouTube Audio Library.
Music attributions (Songs and Creators' names used in this video):
Good Morning (Reed Mathis); Mr_Sunny_Face (Wayne Jones Music);
Campfire Song (Chris Haugen); Fantasyland (Quincas Moreira);
Rolling_Heads (Unicorn Heads); Bomba_Pa_Siempre (Jimmy FontanezMedia
Right Productions); Out_For_Blood (Jingle Punks); Double_Down (Silent
Partner); Ella_Vater(The Mini Vandals); Majesty (Spaz Cardigan);
Harpsichord Fugue; 7th_Floor_Tango (Silent Partner); Carmelized
(Craaig MacArthur); The_Easy_Winners (E's Jammy Jams); The_Entertainer
(E's Jammy Jams); Snack_Time (The Green Orbs)
All photographs sourced from @ and @.
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