Is INPUT ENOUGH to Learn a Foreign LANGUAGE? with @deutsch_mit_lari

From her experience with multiple languages living abroad to whether input is actually enough or not in order to learn a language and much more, today I welcome Lari to the show❗ And here you have ALL the INTERVIEWS so far 👇👇

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[deutsch_mit_lari]

Hallo Álvaro! Thank you so much for me. I really enjoyed this exchange of thoughts, ideas, and experiences. I was able to take a lot away from it. Grüße, Lari

[vlv]

Hi Álvaro,

What a great interview—so many words of wisdom from both of you! I have been doing comprehensible input for 2.5 years and have been talking on Italki for 12 months. I still have problems constructing sentences when speaking, but I am getting better.

Six months ago, I started introducing some Spanish grammar into my learning process, and it has helped me a lot. The language is starting to make much more sense. I am still doing lots of comprehensible input (videos, reading), but with the addition of some grammar, I feel that my learning is more well-rounded. This is totally against what I originally believed, but it's working for me.

Thanks again, Álvaro and Lari.

John (Melbourne)

[adriandroopyi]

Hola Alvaro, como estas?.Muy buena e interesante, esta entrevista con Lari.Y muchas gracias por tus palabras para conmigo y lo que me sucedio.Muchas gracias por todo lo que haces por los amantes de los idiomas.Abrazo grande, genio

[paulwalther]

This is going to sound weird but Lari’s husband might do better learning grammar with a tutor using a different language to explain it (I think he’s trilingual so take your pick). Sometimes translation can make a grammar point that doesn’t want to stick finally stick. For German when we he sees something in the dative just think “to …” for example. I do that and it works for me. However he might also do better yo self learn German for a while and then when he has a lot of the language in him go take classes. Things may start clicking better then. They did got me. I failed German two out of four years in high school and then just stopped going to class when I signed up for a summer course at the German institut in Berlin which made my dad very angry. But I self studied reading the Hobbit in German (no English translation just a dictionary and a small grammar reference book). I learned more German than the students who stuck with the class. I was also spending ALL my time reading this book though 😂. Later when I took grammar classes at Goethe again it went much better having already some books.

[paulwalther]

So what level should this comprehensible input for learners get you to? How large of a vocabulary? I’m thinking if I should go back to comprehensible input for my Korean or if I am too far along and need to do the next step anyway.

I’m thinking of trying a new language with comprehensible input only (Mandarin). It seems big enough to have content and I’d love to be able to speak it.

[alanshuhimeabdulmajid]

I am learning french, but confused what to focus on. Compréhensible input or grammaire? 😬