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my fluent podcast website: https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/e61-a-corona-overkill-language-learning-failures-and-how-to-cope-with-them/ Podcast episode as video: https://youtu.be/pad01Shktww Daniel Goodson: I had a plan, a great plan. The Corona virus has ruined that plan, in which I wanted to learn vocabulary in a specific way. I tried to find another approach to learn English. More on this episode... Ep. 61 has two sections, the first one is about the actual topic in which I talk about a huge mistake. This is for everyone to listen, weather you are an English learner or a native English speaker. In section 2 (it's on Ep. 61 B), I will go about some English expressions and give additional English tips. That bonus episode is tailored for our English learners.  This episode is connected to another episode which was released on the 25th of January.  It's the episode between episode "49 book review, virtual native", and episode "48 What is the Quora series?" On that bonus episode, I explained how I wanted to learn vocabulary through news, to be more precise, through Corona news.  Further information:  You may watch this episode (61) on video, too: https://youtu.be/pad01Shktww. That way, you can read along to the subtitles while listening to the podcast.  Show notes: You'll find the show notes (you may download subtitles) on www.myfluentpocast.com or you can read along the subtitles/transcript right here: Right? And then I see the disinfectant, but knocks it out in a minute. One minute. And is there a way we can do something like that? Social distancing will be with us through the summer. Don't worry, guys. This episode of my  fluent podcast is whether about the president Donald Trump, nor about social distancing. This time I totally screwed up though I've set myself an unreachable goal and this is a setback for me and had a negative influence on my language learning motivation. You will learn about the details soon. Welcome,  dear language learners for the first time, I will do this episode in two parts. First, I will explain the current topic. After that, there will be a section for our English learners in which I go about some expressions and definitions, and by the way, the whole transcript - this applies to the audio as well as what I say - is available on our show notes or on the website, myfluentpodcast.com let's get started. So what are the takeaways for this episode? I will give them to you beforehand. At the end, I will repeat them again and give additional explanations. So number one, always set yourself SMART goals. Number two, don't stick to your methods by any cost and the focus here lies on the words "by any cost". Number three is more of a general advice. Don't beat yourself up and just be aware that learning a language is a long term process. There are ups and downs, that is normal. And number four is enjoy your language journey. Never forget that: it should be a pleasure. We should see the positive things. And this is something I need to bear in mind always. And to be honest, this is more of a personal episode this time in which I reflect my own decisions or learning approach, and this is a subject  (topic)  that I am a bit uncomfortable to talk about in a way. Well, this is partly because I have set myself a goal, an unreachable goal. I have totally screwed up. Anyway, I will pull myself together now. And just talk about it. Hey buddy, you need to pull yourself together. Pull yourself together. While on Saturday, it was the 25th of January, I published an episode about a topic, vocabulary, retention. Well in my opinion, this is one of the most important topics. When it comes to learning a language, and the name of that episode is Corona virus vocab through news, it seems like as if I already knew it, I did not number the episode back then, and the idea was to number the newer episode when I have followed all my own suggestions. And reached my goal. I wanted to make like a review of that approach, that good things and the bad things. So in a nutshell, back then I wanted to learn new vocabulary by reading compelling content in the news to retain information for good. You need to come across the vocabulary again and again, and then why? Chances are you will remember them for good. Meaning it will go to your long term memory. And that should be our goal. I mean, we want to learn in order to being able  to using the vocabulary and I decided to focus on the information about the coroner virus. That way I would come across similar word combinations and learn more. Of course, I would use flashcards and other tools to support my endeavor. Of course, all turned out in a slightly different way. All right. If you want, you can go back. It's the episode between episode "49 book review, virtual native", and I episode "48 What is the Quora series?" On that episode I explained how I wanted to go about that idea in more detail. So what happened? You'll may already have a guess. I couldn't foresee that this virus would have such an immense impact on our world. It seems to me, today the news are focusing only on that matter. It's always the Corona virus. I can understand that. And actually for my project, it would be perfect because that's what I wanted, right? Come across similar word combinations again and again, sort them out and learn them with different tools. The problem was. I got fed up about it. I couldn't stand it anymore. The matterer is very, very negative and I did not want to focus only on such negative things. So besides that, the goal I've set to myself became very difficult. Once the news wrote only about that matter. It was just too much for me to handle, but why did I not change my goal into some things similar? I don't have an answer to that. I guess I got just a bit depressed about it and left it alone. So let's have a look at our giveaways. Which I mentioned in the beginning. Let's come back to number one, set yourself smart goals. Okay. Perhaps the goal might have been smart at the beginning, but once it became the topic number one of the whole world, it definitely became a very bad goal. Maybe another person would have pulled together and just stick to this plan. For me, I just, I couldn't, because in this situation I had not the right mindset to it and not enough time, not the energy. Poor baby. Oh, you poor thing. So the second takeaway was don't stick to our methods by any cost. We must stick to the plan on welfare as well. Usually it's the other way round. It is set yourself a goal and then stick to your plan. But in this particular situation, I would say it doesn't serve Next up, number three, don't beat yourself up. Be aware that learning a language is a long term process. Even though I said in the beginning of this show that it is a setback for me and I had a negative influence on my language learning motivation. While that was true, but now I'm again on my wife, I am back on track. So there is no worry about that, but I tend to beat myself up a bit. The problem is also that comparing yourself to others who are far better speakers, for example, is not a doll. Good idea. And that's the case with me. I compare too much. No, no. Good idea. Number four, race. Enjoy your language journey. Don't take it too seriously. In the end, it should make fun to learn and once your gut tells you that you absolutely don't, enjoy it, you should change something up. I mean, it's a great hobby and should bring us joy. And actually that's what I am doing. I started out with my podcast back in 2016 and to be honest, I had a huge gap in between, and this was a period in which I couldn't publish due to personal reasons, but the most important thing is that. I didn't give up. There's a little pain going on. Okay. Don't give up. Hang on. This is a test. If you have a mantra called, please don't give up on it, and I'm still podcasting with even more power and more motivation so that I can share all of my tips with you. Dear listeners. And this must have first section of this episode. I'll head over to the second in a minute, but before, a few words to those who are not learning English. Thanks for listening to this rather personal story about my failure. If you have any suggestions for future episodes. If you have a language learning question, please feel free to send me an email to [email protected]. I am Daniel Goodson, the host of my fluent podcast, learn from and with a language learner. So let's have to the English learning part. And for that I ask you kindly to go to episode 61 B. 61 B. Thanks The song you are listening to right now is called road trip by Scott Holmes. The other one you could hear was indie rock by Scott Holmes as well. Oh, and please don't forget to subscribe. I am on Spotify, iTunes, Stitcher, and all the well known podcast services. If you want to reach out to me, you can also go and find me on Instagram. My nickname oi Instagram is myfluentpodcast, or just send me an email to [email protected]. . Bye. Your Daniel Goodson. [email protected] music: https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/coronavirus-words-guide/social-distance Obama: Screw up: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4424&v=E8SFpzWzC2M&feature=emb_logo  

The complete transcript is on my website or directly on my show notes below. It's all for free but Please subcribe and share! https://www.myfluentpodcast.com/e60-slow-down Full Transcript: 0 00:00:00.360 --> 00:00:05.360 Hello friends this episode is all about slowing down 1 00:00:06.340 --> 00:00:10.740 So please relax and enjoy the ride on our language story. 2 00:00:11.560 --> 00:00:13.860 I'm Daniel Goodson, the Language learner. 3 00:00:14.560 --> 00:00:16.060 This is my fluent podcast. (Itunes, Stitcher, spotify) 4 00:00:18.140 --> 00:00:22.140 I thought I'd do something a little different this weekend and record. 5 00:00:22.300 --> 00:00:27.900 an episode on the go about a topic which is not directly something to do with learning languages. 6 00:00:28.340 --> 00:00:30.340 Well, at least not 100% 7 00:00:30.800 --> 00:00:34.000 What I will still intecrate some language learning elements, of course. 8 00:00:35.300 --> 00:00:37.600 It's more of a self-awareness thing. 9 00:00:38.000 --> 00:00:38.600 nist time 10 00:00:39.180 --> 00:00:41.480 Don't forget those who are not into this. 11 00:00:42.140 --> 00:00:45.840 There will be normal episodes in the future. Don't worry about that. 12 00:00:46.500 --> 00:00:53.300 Well, actually I went for a walk in the forest. Fortunately, I live about four minutes on foot. 13 00:00:53.860 --> 00:00:54.860 by the forest 14 00:00:55.020 --> 00:00:57.220 And several thoughts came to mind... 15 00:00:57.700 --> 00:00:58.700 ...while I was walking... 16 00:00:59.280 --> 00:01:03.480 The audio quality was not very good. So I recorded afterwards. 17 00:01:04.060 --> 00:01:07.160 Although I must say the ambience noise... 18 00:01:07.580 --> 00:01:08.180 ..in the background.. 19 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:10.480 ...are from my recordings. 20 00:01:11.140 --> 00:01:11.940 This is incredible! 21 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:14.940 The sound of the birds 22 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:16.380 the chirping (frogs and toads, grasshoppers and many more animals and insects) 23 00:01:17.060 --> 00:01:19.460 And just the sound of of my foot. 24 00:01:20.860 --> 00:01:24.560 Walking on on the Leafs. They look just great. 25 00:01:25.460 --> 00:01:32.660 time is of the coronavirus in general I notice how quiet it got without the airplane noises and so on 26 00:01:33.580 --> 00:01:40.380 so often times when I go for a walk I put my noise canceling headphones on and it's a Pity it. Really 27 00:01:41.100 --> 00:01:44.200 Why don't you just listen to your surroundings? 28 00:01:44.680 --> 00:01:45.380 ...of the nature... 29 00:01:45.940 --> 00:01:46.840 Go to the forest. 30 00:01:47.460 --> 00:01:50.760 Recharge your batteries to regain your energy. 31 00:01:51.820 --> 00:01:54.820 And it's even more important in the age of the internet. 32 00:01:55.560 --> 00:01:59.360 I mean I find myself watching all these YouTube videos. 33 00:02:00.580 --> 00:02:03.980 And when I finished I don't even remember. 34 00:02:04.640 --> 00:02:05.840 the first video so 35 00:02:06.780 --> 00:02:09.480 The question is, how can I learn from? 36 00:02:10.240 --> 00:02:10.540 all... 37 00:02:11.140 --> 00:02:12.640 from all of this information 38 00:02:13.720 --> 00:02:16.020 It's no good for me. I can see that. (It's not good for my health.) 39 00:02:16.520 --> 00:02:18.620 I'm not focused anymore. So.. 40 00:02:19.220 --> 00:02:21.720 ...I want you to make aware of the importance of being... 41 00:02:22.200 --> 00:02:28.000 ...balanced and (not to be) rushing into things especially when it comes to learning languages. 42 00:02:28.520 --> 00:02:31.820 I mean all these promises out there in the internet. 43 00:02:32.140 --> 00:02:35.740 learning English in 3 months or in 1 month or 44 00:02:36.420 --> 00:02:37.020 in a year 45 00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:41.020 Why do we need to learn in such a short period of time? (Better: in such a rush) 46 00:02:41.720 --> 00:02:42.520 cured of time 47 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:44.920 normally it is not necessary so (under normal circumstances) 48 00:02:45.460 --> 00:02:47.160 I try to not. 49 00:02:47.640 --> 00:02:51.140 Get overwhelmed by charging too much pressure... 50 00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:51.920 on myself. (Sorry, this sentence is probably useless - I'm stilly learning) 51 00:02:52.640 --> 00:02:54.740 If you are balanced you will also be able to.. 52 00:02:55.280 --> 00:03:02.674 ...learn better. I'm not saying I'm the most balanced person, but I'm working on getting closer to that goal. I have set 53 00:03:02.737 --> 00:03:03.180 myself. 54 00:03:03.700 --> 00:03:05.700 All right. Let's go back to the forest. 55 00:03:06.260 --> 00:03:15.060 Why don't you go to the forest or another place which is quiet and maybe bring your sticky notes or flashcards with you. 56 00:03:15.400 --> 00:03:19.000 And then just sit on the bench or on the stone. 57 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:22.480 and learn the English vocabulary 58 00:03:23.480 --> 00:03:25.480 and just take a breath and 59 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:27.020 Take your time. 60 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:28.500 because 61 00:03:29.000 --> 00:03:32.600 Life has become too too fast too quick. So 62 00:03:33.220 --> 00:03:34.820 time to time we should just 63 00:03:35.400 --> 00:03:36.200 slow down 64 00:03:37.340 --> 00:03:38.140 relax 65 00:03:38.540 --> 00:03:39.340 just 66 00:03:39.760 --> 00:03:40.560 Focus 67 00:03:40.980 --> 00:03:43.980 Trying to do to become a more focused person. 68 00:03:44.780 --> 00:03:49.180 the thing is I strongly believe if you are balanced if you 69 00:03:49.860 --> 00:03:56.560 If you're balanced, you'll be able to be more focused and subsequently you will reach your goal earlier. 70 00:03:57.000 --> 00:03:58.800 So this just a tip. (in the sense: this is meant to be an advice) 71 00:03:59.500 --> 00:04:00.700 Self-awareness tip... 72 00:04:01.700 --> 00:04:02.600 from me and 73 00:04:05.720 --> 00:04:07.820 you will think about this and 74 00:04:08.880 --> 00:04:09.780 Thanks for tuning in. 75 00:04:11.000 --> 00:04:12.500 This was my fluent podcast. Bye, your Daniel Goodson (by WEBVTT) music: https://www.freemusicarchive.org/music/Scott_Holmes/Colossal_Stillness/Breathe_New_Life Breathe New Life by Scott Holmes is licensed under a Attribution License. If you have any suggestions for the podcast, contact me: [email protected]

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India is a very enthusiastic learner of German from Ireland. She tells us about her language journey in which she mainly used the immersion approach to become fluent in German. The most important part of this whole method of immersion learning is obviosly your immersion. You absolutely need to have fun! India watched a lot of TV series, movies, listened to podcasts, read books and in general had a lot of fun in the process! ➡️Video Version of The Interview (with full shownotes: https://youtu.be/PZFnwsVkYo8?si=8AQd8KIR84fI7O-j  Learn from her experience and become a better language learner! India even kept track of her journey in form of different stats she wrote down and through recording herself in her lovely YouTube Channel:  https://www.youtube.com/@indih.244