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A friend who is amazingly good at languages made the analogy, you can't read about how to play a musical instrument and get better at playing it. You actually h
by gernb 4y ago
A friend who is amazingly good at languages made the analogy, you can't read about how to play a musical instrument and get better at playing it. You actually have to play it.
Anki might help some, maybe reading, but speaking and listening require actually speaking and actually listening.
- karatinversion 4y agoThe analogy can be taken too far; if you can recognise a note by sight on sheet music, you’ve learnt everything there is to directly memorise in paying an instrument. All the rest is practice. This is not the case in language learning. A language which is not closely related to one you already know has tens of thousands of words, the meanings of which can’t be deduced from other things. There is no use to doing listening practice if you do not understand almost all the words being used; you will be stuck looking them up one at a time in a dictionary. It is also very difficult to correctly pick out words you don’t know in a language you are new to.