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Mary: Hey, everyone, welcome back. We're so excited to talk to you about this new unit, all about listening. So, this is Mary, and this is Seth, and we are going to share two different perspectives and experiences that we had learning another language. So, Seth, why don't you tell us first about your experience?
Seth: My experience was learning Portuguese, and, for me, it was I could understand people pretty quickly, but it took a while for me to get the grammar and to be able to communicate my thoughts and feelings to other people.
And so I think that I needed to learn to listen better so that I could hear how people put phrases together and how they communicated and the pronunciation of words.
Mary: Yeah. So my experience was exactly opposite. I picked up Italian really quickly. I could understand the grammar. It was really easy for me to fit it together. And the accent was easy for me to start to master. And so people thought, because I knew how to say it well, that I could understand everything when in reality I was really, really struggling with understanding anyone.
It took me like five months of speaking Italian every single day in hearing Italian every single day to finally where I had that switch where I was starting to understand it. But I definitely felt leg. I was speaking well, but I couldn't understand well. But I think you're right that they you still have to learn to listen because even though I knew the grammar and I could hear the the pronunciation, I did need to listen so that I could maybe understand the cadence of speed and understand being able to divide or to decipher what was being said and the meaning behind it.
So listening definitely plays a strong role in your ability to speak. Well, I would agree, but I did want to bring up. One other point is that even in your own native language, just because you speak well, it doesn't automatically make you a good listener. And so it's thinking of those two experiences that you and I had learning the language but then also recognizing that in your own native language that there really are two separate skills that need to be practiced.
Seth: I agree.
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Mary: Hey, everyone, welcome back. We're so excited to talk to you about this new unit, all about listening. So, this is Mary, and this is Seth, and we are going to share two different perspectives and experiences that we had learning another language. So, Seth, why don't you tell us first about your experience?
Seth: My experience was learning Portuguese, and, for me, it was I could understand people pretty quickly, but it took a while for me to get the grammar and to be able to communicate my thoughts and feelings to other people.
And so I think that I needed to learn to listen better so that I could hear how people put phrases together and how they communicated and the pronunciation of words.
Mary: Yeah. So my experience was exactly opposite. I picked up Italian really quickly. I could understand the grammar. It was really easy for me to fit it together. And the accent was easy for me to start to master. And so people thought, because I knew how to say it well, that I could understand everything when in reality I was really, really struggling with understanding anyone.
It took me like five months of speaking Italian every single day in hearing Italian every single day to finally where I had that switch where I was starting to understand it. But I definitely felt leg. I was speaking well, but I couldn't understand well. But I think you're right that they you still have to learn to listen because even though I knew the grammar and I could hear the the pronunciation, I did need to listen so that I could maybe understand the cadence of speed and understand being able to divide or to decipher what was being said and the meaning behind it.
So listening definitely plays a strong role in your ability to speak. Well, I would agree, but I did want to bring up. One other point is that even in your own native language, just because you speak well, it doesn't automatically make you a good listener. And so it's thinking of those two experiences that you and I had learning the language but then also recognizing that in your own native language that there really are two separate skills that need to be practiced.
Seth: I agree.