How To Learn A Language By Reading | A METHOD Combining Active & Passive Techniques | Polyglot tips 

FINALLY someone who can explain how I choose sentences to study/keep. I’ve tried explaining it to people but I never could, you put it perfectly! It’s not that I don’t understand the sentence, I just want to KEEP it and want to know how to express it the way they did. Another great video! I also recently (from your recommendation) went and picked up one of the MandarinCompanion Ebooks, gonna Check it out later this week. I got the Level2 Sherlock story ^_^

I tried a method similar to this when I first started learning French but I found that I was burning myself out because of how poorly I was taking notes, even though I did notice a remarkable increase in my vocabulary acquisition. I really enjoyed your fresh look on the method and I think it's time to try to retry it in order to break out of the intermediate plateau! Great video!

Today you look like a language guru.

I went through a similar process! I was amazed by the amount of knowledge you get when you start writing down phrases, texts conversations... 10/10

Your enthusiasm is infectious :D Thank you so much for sharing your notes. Super helpful!

I looked at your notes and I have to say that you have such beautiful handwriting!!

With your example about the pattern you noticed with reading in Chinese, and how reading can stitch knowledge together. I had the exact same experience with German, such as "um... zu". I knew what it meant in a grammatical sense. But it didn't truly connect with the rest of my language knowledge until I started reading in German.

Diggin' the hair.

Wow! I effing love your hair like that. Who says language geeks can't be sexy too?

Great hair! I love the naturally calm look you have in this video. Good for you for letting the hair down today. Have a great week Robin.

Thank you Robin! I’m currently reading graded readers in thai and I’ve been thinking about how I can develop an approach to make sure my learning is the most effective it can be! Your systematic approach will help me be much more consistent and get the most out of the content 🙂

Are you reading out loud when you're reading this book?

Your hair looks so awesome!!

Interesting you are doing the writing also. Not just the recognition.

9:52 great advice

Man, I am always so warmed and happy to see your content! I’ll have to check out Skritter for 日本語！ I haven’t heard of it. Keep up the fabulous work in both your pursuit of Mandarin and creating great content! Quick question, do you think you will learn Korean eventually? As you have said in other videos, related languages reinforce and slow deterioration of one’s level in them. With Korean, many Grammar points are word for word in both Japanese and Korean and they share the same SOV structure. Further, Korean have even more use of Chinese origin words. So it’s quite cool because I am able to recognize words in Korean because many Chinese loan words, Just like Kanji, correspond and line up with the Japanese words. All without 漢字！I was thinking of possibly learning Korean in the future and was wondering about your perspective!

i never forget your podcast Robin, great heart great dedication till the end to learn lenguages, tres tres bien mon ami, molto bene mio caro, sehr gut mein freud, muy bien mi amigo Robin

Salutes from Alvorada/Brasil!

Great video! I was actually thinking of doing something similar to this just the other day 🤯 I love how that works! 😆 It's like we're on the same language acquisition frequency 😁 Currently I'm learning Japanese and my character/ vocab look up resources are good with the app I use (Kanji Study) which has the ability to send the vocab to anki (and the card also has a hyper link that goes back to the app.) I'm learning kanji at the moment. Although, I've spent 3 yrs in college learning it and got excellent grades, my understanding is still low because I stuck to what's taught and not much else. Therefore I can't read native content very well so that's why it's my priority at the moment. But I still immerse. Currently, it's mostly shows and various audio sources. But when I immerse, or even when I read a sample sentence of the vocab I just learned, I'll occasionally find those little gems you speak of. I usually write them down or if it's from an online source (like in a chat group etc) I'll copy it to my digital notes. However, I usually never look at them again unless I think "oh I've seen/ heard it before but where?" And then look at my notes. How often do you reread your notes? Do you ever? Or do you eventually put them in a SRS app? I also enjoy the act of taking notes and writing in Japanese. I'm currently learning kanji, and although learning kanji is a bit of a chore, I do enjoy the process especially when writing them down. In any event, I realized I want to consume content, like reading graded readers but not spend much more time "studying." My active study time is already at capacity especially with being a mom of 2 during these times. But, not doing anything with books I've read and vocabulary I learned seemed like such a waste. And so I decided, once I figure out what part of my day I can fit it in, I would like to try the Gold List method. Have you heard of it? I sounds like it would be great for something just like this, and in a way it's kinda what you're doing. Just writing down those little nuggets of interesting phrases and useful vocabulary found in context. But then you review your "notes" and filter out what's known and unknown every 2 wks and repeat. It seems simple enough. Plus it sounds like a comfortable way to enjoy the language without too much effort. Especially if it's done while drinking a cup of coffee or tea. ^_^

I hear you need to already know 80-90% of the words to begin with to be affective. How did you get to that stage to begin with?

Hi, How often do you revise those notes? Thanks! :)

Good morning everyone

So would you recommend transcribing and episode of easy French and continually listening and speaking that episode until you can speak listen and understand it easily?

parce te ves como un científico loco cool jajaj

Does anybody have tips for books like this in other languages? I'd be particularly interested in English, Portuguese and Dutch.

Boy, do graded readers make you happy!

thanks for the tips Robin, I moved to Germany, and i am learning German, B1. i am using books specifically for this level. My problem is this: for each unknown word i create a sentence, in a way that i would use the word in my everyday life, then i add it to my flashcards and i repeat them daily while i am on the go from home to work. (100-150 new words/week).I am doing this a year and a half now, since A2 level and although it is effective into learning the words, i feel so tired of the same and same way of learning and repeating, of the same sentences that are popping out again and again, my motivation is going down slowly and steady.. And i was wondering regarding the Flash card App, how could i make my cards more interesting, which parameters should i adjust, in order to make it joyful, how could i create them better but not time consuming.

Where can you find a graded reader?, I'm learning spanish

I spend more time reading out loud than listening. Has it some problem? Can it slow down my progress?

Hi Robin, may I ask you the title of your book? My daughter attends a language school, they study English, French, German and Chinese and I'd like to help her in improving his Chinese. Thanks for your interesting and useful tips. Greetings from Italy

Reading in german are mostly in prataeritum. Could this creates confusion?

haha damn man. How can i get a hair like that xD nice vid

I feel like "pondering the meaning of things" is the only thing I've been doing of late... 😪

How can I find graded readers in other languages?

Why the way you speak in English is very easy to understand but when i watch a movie it's more difficult to understand???