Output and language learning

Here is the podcast.

Here is a video as well as an audio file on this subject. I have not created a text file here. I talk about my own experience learning Russian, and what I consider the appropriate role of input and output activities in language learning.

Comments

[Edwin]

Steve,
Instead of recording the video and audio at the same time, you can just record the video and extract the audio from it.

There are different ways to do it. One simple way is to upload your video to YouTube as usual, then use a tool to extract the audio from it. There are both online and offline tools available to do that.

[Irene]

Hi Steve,
Very nice to see you during speaking only you don't see in the eyes for me :-)
Please can you show which micro you use? I see you haven't headset/micro.

[Art]

I agree with you that input is more importan then output.

I like how Stu Jay Raj puts it: "You've become proficient already? Great, now SHUT UP!", because communication isn't only about speaking, in fact speaking is only a small part of communication. And to be a good communcator means to be a good listener, not an unstopable speaker. :)

See Stu's videos at his blog: http://stujay.blogspot.com/
The part I was referring to is "Show 2 Segment 1".

[Stewart]

I enjoyed your latest video/podcast. On a somewhat unrelated note, would you be able to discuss language learning and the older learner in a future blog or podcast or video? I mean, just talking about how people 30+, 40+, or older may go about learning their first foreign language.

Thank you for your time.

[Edwin]

Some quotes from the podcast which amuse me a lot and are certainly very true:

"It is very difficult to have a conversation just for the sake of having a conversation with someone that you aren't necessarily interested in having a conversation with."

"... sitting in a classroom with 20 people, all of them speak the language that you are studying very poorly, so that what you are immersed in is not the language as spoken by native speakers with real meaning and content, but a lot of people stumbling like you ..."

"... initially 1-on-1 because you don't speak well enough to sit in a group. You would just annoy them and embarrass youself."

[Diana]

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