{"id":107,"date":"2009-06-04T18:16:20","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T16:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/?p=107"},"modified":"2016-01-26T02:12:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T00:12:19","slug":"two-things-in-language-learning-i-used-to-take-for-granted-which-i-am-now-not-sure-about","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/two-things-in-language-learning-i-used-to-take-for-granted-which-i-am-now-not-sure-about\/","title":{"rendered":"Two things in language learning I used to take for granted I am now unsure about"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have had some conceptions about language learning but lately as I have been reading some more blogs and resources about that topic, I have come across some confronting ideas which brought these issues to my attention and now I am not sure which one to believe. I think it is important for everybody to think about these things and not take them for granted so, in this post, I\u2019m going to mention both the controversial issues in language learning that I have been thinking of lately.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Speaking early \/ Not beginning to speak until you are good in the language<\/strong><br \/>\nI always took it for granted that if you are learning a language, you should begin speaking it as soon as possible. However, I have heard the argument that if you do that, you\u2019ll learn to pronounce things incorrectly and this pronunciation is going to carry on as a habit, where the more you do it, the more you reinforce it and you\u2019ll ruin your pronunciation forever like this (I have read a post by some guy how he has ruined his Japanese for his whole life because before he began speaking it correctly, he used to read it like an English speaker would and reinforced this incorrect pronunciation for himself). While if you wait for a few months, you get to know how the language really sounds and you get to learn some words as well, so the sounds you make are more natural (because you have heard a lot) and also you can make more of your speech (because you have more content thus you are more fluent). This argument looks quite sound to me even though I\u2019m still not sure which path to choose.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Getting corrected when you are speaking \/ Not getting corrected at all<\/strong><br \/>\nFor me it was no-brainer: ask for corrections and get corrected. It\u2019s for your own sake. However, lately I have found some people saying that you shouldn\u2019t do that because 1) It interferes with your fluency &#8211; you won\u2019t be able to make long sentences because you won\u2019t have practice in it because you\u2019ll always be used to being interrupted 2) You won\u2019t remember the mistake and you\u2019ll just keep making it &#8211; I have read some teachers\u2019 experience where they have been correcting their students for years and years and still seeing the same people make the same mistakes. 3) It annoys you and decreases your motivation to speak and to learn the language generally and motivation is one of the most important factors determining how fast and how well you\u2019ll learn the language. Also, supposedly, you could just learn by listening to other people speak and (sub)consciously adopting their patterns of speech and thus avoid being corrected. Now, I still doubt what to do about corrections.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Although I\u2019m not providing any answer because, I believe, research needs to be done to give them, I\u2019m just bringing your attention to both of these issues now because I think a lot of people, just like I used to do, take this for granted and perhaps it shouldn\u2019t be so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have had some conceptions about language learning, but lately, as I have been reading some resources about it, I have come across conflicting ideas. They brought these issues to my attention and now I am not sure which side to believe. The debates will probably persist, but I share with you what they are.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[28,26,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1039,"href":"https:\/\/ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/1039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ikindalikelanguages.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}