Language = understanding + speech

There are few times that we're starting a foreign language, "submersible" in the vocabulary, and by practicing small texts, which often don't make much sense in the beginning.

So, spend weeks, months, or time, still, and the only thing we have learned is to say standard phrases like "Hello!", "How old are you?" and related phrases that we have obtained from the courses that we attended.

Why it is proposed that the monitoring of short video?

Absorbed by the daily routine, we ignore how the languages were created to understand each other between us. If you try to remember what was our first contact with our native language, we will realize how "exposed" to Greek, without understanding anything. When we were babies, we listened to the adults sounds, which, we started, slowly, to identify with specific things or situations, with the power of the image. Also, learning words is mainly for things that made us pleased, as in the context of monitoring of an episode of the cartoon.

It is important to say that the report in the language that was everyday and on the first level, verbal/acoustic. After several years of daily exposure, we began to study English with books of vocabulary and grammar. The same applies to foreign languages. The problem, however, is that we do not use it every day, and come the weekend, we've forgotten almost everything.

When you happen to come in contact with an oral conversation, then we get the first big shock, as we realise that after a year of systematic - in our study, we do not understand almost nothing!

This is, quite simply, why don't we were exposed to never really be in that language!

The solution proposed by many of those who are actively engaged in language learning with one way or another is the "immersion" in the language, both in texts and in the hearing. Gradually, as we improve vocabulary and grammar through systematic study, you will begin to identify words, phrases or the whole point of a video, which, to keep us interest, should be short and tells something of interest.

Listen to the video the advice of the Tao for fitness and gymnastics, a subject of interest to many young people, who, however, usually are informed in English (the title is in traditional characters, as it is from Taiwan).

With the understanding, initially, the meaning within the image, such as, for example, in the video of the Tao that deals with gymnastics and commercial activities for sports clothing, we will be able to enrich our vocabulary in topics that are of interest to us.

Recording the content from short segments and listening to it again and again in our everyday movements on a portable device, you will be able to familiarize ourselves with the language on a daily basis.

• of K. Mpalanos, teacher of Chinese