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> Seems like all the current research is that "immersion" in the target language is critical This, a hundred times this. Immersion is not only effective in get
by kouteiheika 5y ago
> Seems like all the current research is that "immersion" in the target language is critical
This, a hundred times this. Immersion is not only effective in getting you used to the language, but also really helps you solidify what you've learned, and is extremely motivating.
Virtually all of the people that I know in the Japanese learning community who learned the language really fast heavily immersed in a lot of content.
In my own language learning app that I'm making I'm explicitly targeting a feedback loop which looks something like this:
1) You pick an easy show/book/etc. to consume. (I have a list ranked according to difficulty, generated through machine learning.)
2) You prelearn the vocabulary used within using an SRS.
3) You consume it.
4) You continue maintaining your vocabulary through SRS, so the app knows which words you're supposed to know.
5) The app recommends you the next show/book/etc. to consume based on what you've already learned.
6) Rinse and repeat. Gradually the whole thing snowballs and you have to learn less and less for each new work you consume.
I personally believe this to be the most effective way of learning a language, and I'm already seeing some of my users having a lot of success with it.
- dorchadas 5y agoIf you could do step one that wasn't based entirely on anime I'd love it. That's always been my biggest hurdle with the Japanese learning community -- almost all recommendations seem to be anime, and I'm just not that interested.
- kouteiheika 5y agoI also have Japanese dramas, light novels, a few normal novels, visual novels and I recently started adding YouTube videos, so it's definitely not only anime.
- dorchadas 5y agoPerfect, thank you! Please let me know when you release, I'd definitely be interested in it.
- kouteiheika 5y agoWell, it's already publicly available. (: Here's the link in case you want to take a look: https://jpdb.io https://jpdb.io Just a fair bit of warning: it still has ways go to, so don't expect a perfectly polished experienced. That said, in spite of its rough edges I do already have users who use it do hundreds of cards per week and successfully immerse, so it is usable.
- dorchadas 5y agoThanks, looks interesting!
- k__ 5y agoI had a somewhat similar idea once. You share Twitter accounts with a service, and it would use the tweets of that account to generate a language course. I was hoping that this would lead to learning something that I could use right away.
- davidzweig 5y agoWe are moving 'Language Learning with Netflix' in this direction. There's some stuff to see already: https://www.languagereactor.com/ https://www.languagereactor.com/ (my email is in my profile, I'd be happy to hear from you :)