Over the past weeks, we’ve explored Matt’s incredible fluency and learned why avoiding early speaking practice can prevent bad speech patterns (see here).
Today, let’s dive into the core concept in Matt’s learning techniques that helped him achieve native-like fluency: Comprehensible Input.
In the following interview, Matt sits down with renowned linguist Prof. Dr. Stephen Krashen to discuss how understanding language first—through listening and reading—leads to confident, natural speaking.
In the interview, you’ll learn:
- Why we do NOT acquire language when we speak, study it, memorise or get corrections
- Why speaking fluency, grammar and vocabulary are the result of getting Comprehensible Input and not its cause
- How „learning“ a language and „acquiring“ a language is different
- Why “acquisition“ happens subconsciously without even noticing it and how the brain is optimised for it
- Why „learning“ a language is just „theoretical“ knowledge about the language and does not lead to fluency
- Why most time spent in traditional classes focuses on „learning“ and why it often feels torturous
Click here to watch their conversation!
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Whenever you’re ready, in our program “Double Your Confidence in Speaking” we’ll use exactly this learning aproach to go from “I feel nervous when speaking and afraid of making mistakes or being put on the spot.” to becoming fluent and confident in speaking in your day-to-day life by applying a learning system you can easily integrate into your busy life.
Click here to get on the waiting list so you don’t miss out.
Talk to you soon. Bis bald.
Gruß
Manuel