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How to Learn a Language by Ear
In this lesson you will learn…
• The 3 steps to building Conversational fluency
• The 3 steps to build Command over the language
• How you actually “learn the language” in The Mimic Method.
Review
The Conventional Approach to Language Learning
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📚✍Reading &
Writing
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😐😮Understanding &
Speaking
3
👂👄Hearing &
Pronunciation
The Conventional Approach to Language Learning
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😐😮
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👂👄Reading &
WritingUnderstanding &
SpeakingHearing &
Pronunciation
Stuck Point
Language is a tool for Human Connection
Humans connect most through spoken conversation
The Conventional Approach Fails to Help us Connect
The Conventional Approach to Language Learning
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😐😮
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📚✍Reading &
WritingUnderstanding &
Speaking
👂👄Hearing &
Pronunciation
Stuck Point
The Un-Conventional Approach to Language Learning
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😊😆
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📚✍Reading &
WritingUnderstanding &
Speaking
👂👄Hearing &
Pronunciation
The Mimic Method
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😊😆
3
📚✍CommandConversation
👂👄Capacity
😊😆Conversation
Learning How to Converse is like Learning How to Dance
😊😆Conversation
👯Dancing
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The 3 Steps to Conversation
Simple Scripted Spontaneous
😊😆Conversation
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Simple Conversation
Simple Scripted Spontaneous
😊😆Conversation
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Simple Conversation• Dance Analogy: The “2-step”
• Description: Can have basic interactions with basic words/phrases and bad grammar.
• Why: Need to break the communication barrier asap - the only goal is to be understood.
• How: Use “Learn by Ear” programs like Pimsleur, Michel Thomas. Then learn how to ask these Key Questions:
• “How do you say (1st language word/2nd language description/body language) in (2nd language)?”
• “What does (2nd language word) mean?”
• “Can you say that again slowly please?”
Thing🍎
Sound
👄Movement
How do you actually learn the language?
😐 🍎 😐
Identify
😮👉 🍎
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Ask
😐
😐👉 🍎 😮
Listen
😮👉 🍎 😐
Mimic
👄Thing Movement
Sound
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😐 Link (Weak)
sound
😐 😐
Next time…
sound
😐 😐🍎👈
sound
🤔 😐🍎👈
Recall…
sound
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Recall (Fail)
sound
😐 😐
Next time…
sound
😐 😠🍎👈
sound
🤔 😠🍎👈
Recall…
sound
😃 😯🍎👈
Recall (Slow)
👄Thing Movement
Sound
🍎
😃 Link (Strong)
sound
😐 😐
Next time…
sound
😃 😮🍎👈
Recall (Fast)
👄Thing Movement
Sound
🍎
😎 Know
👄Thing Movement
Sound
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👀
No Eyes Needed
Scripted Conversation
Simple Scripted Spontaneous
😊😆Conversation
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Scripted Conversation• Dance Analogy: Your Go-to moves
• Description: Speaking perfect grammar and accent in memorized routines.
• Why: Make a good first impression with perfect grammar and accent; Strong start gives momentum to rest of conversation; Builds your grammar intuition without burdening you with grammar knowledge.
• How: Write English scripts for the most common scenarios, have translated by native, then memorize line by line.
Scripted Conversation
The 3 Steps to Conversation
Simple Scripted Spontaneous
😊😆Conversation
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Spontaneous Conversation• Dance Analogy: Can freestyle steps and move combos.
• Description: Can speak freely about any subject without relying on a script.
• Why: To freely connect, you need to be able to feel like you can speak freely and understand most of what’s being said.
• How: Just gotta clock in that “Mat Time” until you reach “The Shift”.
The Shift
Sprint to The Shift asFast as Possible
The Mimic Method
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😊😆
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📚✍CommandConversation
👂👄Capacity
📚✍Command
Command
• At end of Conversation, you should speak as well as a 10 year old native speaker.
• “Command” is about speaking the language like an educated person.
• Need to have a foundation in conversation before you can build command (even though conventional approach starts here).
The 3 Steps to Command
Standard Scholastic Stylistic
📚✍Command
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The 3 Steps to Command• Standard Command: Go back and fix “awkward” grammar and
word choice, starting with the most awkward (use voice recordings and native speaker, can start building “Grammar Knowledge”).
• Scholastic Command: Read lots of text to rapidly build vocabulary and familiarity with more complex grammar structures.
• Stylistic Command: Practice writing with feedback, focus on explaining same concept in variety of ways to build eloquence.
The Mimic Method
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📚✍CommandConversation
👂👄Capacity
Next Lesson…
👂👄Capacity