How To Make The Most Of Extensive Reading & Graded Readers | Activities & Tips w/ Jared Turner (4/4) 

Hi Christina! Thanks for all your lovely and supportive comments on my videos in general! Sorry I'm behind on responses but I read all the comments and I wanted to get back to this one ASAP since you're unhappy here. I'm glad you enjoyed the series but very sorry that you felt it didn't fully cover how to do extensive reading and a wider range of activities. I tried my best to make the series quite comprehensive but it's quite difficult to control exactly how the conversation will play out and what ends up fitting into each episode (since each one of these 4 conversations could have gone on for much longer but I had to try my best to keep them at a reasonable length). I'm happy that you brought this to my attention and I'm thinking that I could review all the content and then make my own sort of "Extensive Reading: An Overview & Conclusion" where I can both try to synthesize everything I knew before and what I learned from my conversations with Jared, and also share my own conclusions after doing the series on how I feel about extensive reading and how I'll be using it going forward. I think that would actually be a really good thing to do! Would that be helpful for you?

Oh I also wanted to say that I’ll definitely take this as a learning experience for future interviews and improving how I do control the flow of conversation, and will try to do a better job! I have some really awesome guests that I’m planning on bringing on and I really want to do a great job! 😊🙏🏼

@@RobinMacPhersonFilms Thank you Robin for your response! I totally understand the video length issue and that the conversation took that turn naturally so no worries! It would definitely be helpful to have a wrap up video with specific Extensive reading techniques. Thanks again and keep up the great work! I recently bought the Mandarin Companion ebook (the Sherlock story) to try and brush up my Mandarin and I’m so excited to get into it ^^

@@RobinMacPhersonFilms Thank you!

@@Myautumnpages Thank you too :)

Jamie, qué 'graded readers' estás usando? Buscando por algunos :)

@@deannab3290 encontré un libro en kindle que se adapta a mi habilidad, ‘101 conversations in simple Spanish’. También hay lo mismo pero para intermediate, al cual me moveré una vez que haya terminado el libro primero :) buena suerte 👍

I’m reading the same book in Italian. I haven’t made quite the leap you have, but I can see the difference it’s making!

Yep, same clothing and background. What a way to extend content to assure weekly uploads for a month. Good info though.

Haha yes @D T, there's a moment in the original recording where I tell Jared, "By the way, it's Friday in all of these videos" and we both chuckled. I'm glad you've been enjoying the series! @Sammy Ytube I'm glad you have found the info to be helpful, too. I'm not exactly sure what tone you intended when you said "What a way to extend content to assure weekly uploads for a month" so please don't take this the wrong way, but just to be clear, I have made 105 videos this year so far and the majority of those were filmed around 5:30am on weekdays so that I could manage to edit and upload them before starting my day job and then hopefully have time after work to keep working on journaly.io desperately trying to get it into public beta testing (hopefully just 1 or 2 weeks away now). Also, many people aren't necessarily going to watch a 1 hour long video on RU-vid if it were just one long interview. But yes it is certainly true that part of filming a nice series in this way gave me four weeks where I only had to film 2 videos and was able to have a less frantic Friday morning. I'd certainly like to hope that I've earned that 😊

@@RobinMacPhersonFilms I really enjoyed the fact that this was broken into smaller videos because I think if it was one long interview it would be harder to absorb that amount of information all in one go and then if you want to refer back to a specific part of the interview it is easier to find the section you want to watch again when it's broken up into these specific topics. I really don't mind when people film multiple videos in one sitting and upload them at different times. Filming and editing for RU-vid takes a lot longer than many people realize and we all need time management strategies in our lives to maximize the amount we can do in the time available to us.

@Em at A Better You See my comment on Turkish readers if you'd like. 😀

Ahh I'm honestly so glad to read this Em! That's really impressive that you're already reading fiction books in Turkish. Please keep me posted on how things are going with your reading as you're making do with these new materials! 😄☀️

Some graded readers are quite long, too. He also said a chapter a day, and I think it depends on your reading speed/comfort. Jared said 100 words a minute is a good target. A novel is usually 40,000 to 100,000 words. So that would be 400-1,000 minutes or 6.5-16.5 hours of reading. I think he is just suggesting to read daily for a comfortable length of time with "comprehensible input" (i.e. 98% known words). The chunks could be limited by scenes, chapters, books, or just your energy or attention span.

Estoy haciendo lo mismo pero para aprender Inglés jaja

You two should be language buddies! Here’s something I do with my language partners. If you read something, share a picture with the native speaker and have them read the page for you at a speed you’re comfortable with when listening, that will help you have the correct pronunciation.

@@nicolastrigo9097 tú puedes! Sigue leyendo )

I'm almost at 4 months with learning Spanish. I found a nice A1 graded reader bundle pack by Ana Martin on Kindle app store. I read it with Kindle and i highlight conversational phrases and you can even make flashcards in Kindle app. Also, I' ve been watching Dreaming Spanish Superbeginner Videos,. Trying to follow Robin's advice and get in as much input as i can. Keep up the work. Hope this helps:)

@@fromread2read Yes I also read on kindle it's very helpful. I find that A1 stories are too easy/boring to me. Dreaming Spanish superbeginner it's also too easy. I like to challenge myself with proper novels, I hope I won't get burned out

That's actually a very good idea.