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Good review on this podcast recently:
The Podcast is rather a motiviation for learning English than an English course. The suggested technique to hearing English lessons during running works great for me. Listening to the podcast places a lot of thoughts and ideas about learning techniques into your brain. I like it, although some of Julians opinions are hard to accept, like that there is no tatent, but phobias are genetic. Also the pronounciation is not as good as I would prefer. Therefore I give only 4 of 5 stars.
Thank you!
I appreciate the kind words. And the honestly with some points.
Thing is though, the part about talent and genetic innateness?
Is not my opinion.
There is plenty of research that suggest phobia are genetic.
Google it.
And I never said there is NO talent. What I said was:
"The idea of talent as this innate gift, something special that we were born with that other people don't have…that idea of talent doesn't exist."
I said there is no talent in the way most people talk about it. Most people say talent is like some special, magical gift from god (which I don't believe in, either). Something amazing that you're born with. Frankly, this is rather silly.
Wolfgang Mozart is a good example.
Mozart composed his first piece when he was five. An amazing feat. Must be a talented genius, right?
Well, no. If you look and really find out what his life was like… it's not really surprising. His father was a master violinist, composer and...wait for it.... TEACHER. he literally wrote the textbook on music at the time. Meaning Wolfgang was exposed to music from a very, very young age. Not only for that, he was surrounded by people passionate about music - so learning about and practising music was a totally natural thing to do, even as a small child. Put simply, although Mozart achieved great things as a child, actually he'd done more practise as a child than most people do in their entire lives.
So yes, Mozart was talented.
But he was talented because his environment made him like that… not because he was born with some magical skill.
Another, really obvious example of talent physical traits (which yes, is genetic - this stuff is decided before we're born). I don't think I need to tell you that a midget won't get very far in professional basketball. No matter how much they practise.
… but when it comes to learning English, physical traits are irrelevant for normal people. If you speak one language... you can learn another. Simple as that.
Anyway, good review.
Even if part of it is misplaced (which is also good - because now I've got something to talk about in a future podcast).
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Good review on this podcast recently:
The Podcast is rather a motiviation for learning English than an English course. The suggested technique to hearing English lessons during running works great for me. Listening to the podcast places a lot of thoughts and ideas about learning techniques into your brain. I like it, although some of Julians opinions are hard to accept, like that there is no tatent, but phobias are genetic. Also the pronounciation is not as good as I would prefer. Therefore I give only 4 of 5 stars.
Thank you!
I appreciate the kind words. And the honestly with some points.
Thing is though, the part about talent and genetic innateness?
Is not my opinion.
There is plenty of research that suggest phobia are genetic.
Google it.
And I never said there is NO talent. What I said was:
"The idea of talent as this innate gift, something special that we were born with that other people don't have…that idea of talent doesn't exist."
I said there is no talent in the way most people talk about it. Most people say talent is like some special, magical gift from god (which I don't believe in, either). Something amazing that you're born with. Frankly, this is rather silly.
Wolfgang Mozart is a good example.
Mozart composed his first piece when he was five. An amazing feat. Must be a talented genius, right?
Well, no. If you look and really find out what his life was like… it's not really surprising. His father was a master violinist, composer and...wait for it.... TEACHER. he literally wrote the textbook on music at the time. Meaning Wolfgang was exposed to music from a very, very young age. Not only for that, he was surrounded by people passionate about music - so learning about and practising music was a totally natural thing to do, even as a small child. Put simply, although Mozart achieved great things as a child, actually he'd done more practise as a child than most people do in their entire lives.
So yes, Mozart was talented.
But he was talented because his environment made him like that… not because he was born with some magical skill.
Another, really obvious example of talent physical traits (which yes, is genetic - this stuff is decided before we're born). I don't think I need to tell you that a midget won't get very far in professional basketball. No matter how much they practise.
… but when it comes to learning English, physical traits are irrelevant for normal people. If you speak one language... you can learn another. Simple as that.
Anyway, good review.
Even if part of it is misplaced (which is also good - because now I've got something to talk about in a future podcast).
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