Name: 为了提高英文理解力，不要试图去理解（To Improve Comprehension DON'T Try to Understand）
Uploaded: 2023-02-22T21:35:41.000Z
Duration: 5 min 32 s

Experienced language learners accept uncertainty, except that they don't

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fully understand and yet they keep going.

Hi there Steve Kaufmann here today, and today I wanna talk about comprehension.

To understand more don't try to understand too much and I'll explain,

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I mean, listening comprehension, reading comprehension, comprehension to me is the

most important goal in language learning.

If we understand well, we will eventually speak well, eventually,

If we don't understand very well, we can't have meaningful conversations, we can't

enjoy movies, we can't enjoy books, we can't do all of the things that are going

Of course, we all wanna speak well, but we need to speak a lot in order to speak

And I know a lot of people struggle with comprehension.

So, um, I want to give you a hint, a tip about comprehension, and that

In other words, accept the fact that as you are progressing in the

language, there are a lot of times when you are not going to understand,

And don't try to nail down what it is you're studying, say a lesson.

Accept The fact that it's 60%, 40% comprehension and move on to the next.

Uh, and I, I often mention Manfred Spitzer, the German neuroscientist,

who said the brain needs repetition, but the brain needs novelty.

And I was talking to my brother who I gave an iPad to and who's working on

LingQ and he, he says, I always forget, I study this sentence and I keep on

forgetting and I thought to myself, yeah, you're not supposed to try to totally

You're supposed to just allow the language to kinda enter your brain

And so my brother said, it's a bit like mowing a lawn.

If the grass is high, then you have to set the lawn mower at a higher

level in order to have an easier first pass through mowing the lawn.

The second time through, you can set the blades a little lower.

If you try to force yourself to push that lawnmower into very high grass,

It's gonna be very hard work and you won't, you won't be able to,

to get the job done depending on how long the grass is.

Now, in theory, if you have to mow the lawn twice, you would think

But if in fact there's just too much resistance and you can't mold the lawn,

So it's far easier and I've had this experience and I'll show you the picture

of my lawn and my lawn mower and how I adjust it and it's much easier for me,

particularly, we've had a lot of rain I haven't been able to mold the lawn.

And so when I go in there, I have a first pass at a higher level, and then

It's the same with the content that I learn from, listen to, read.

First time I go through, I don't fully understand it.

I may move on to other lessons and then I come back and even on something

as basic as the mini stories, I always pick up something the

I'm, I'm flowing through it, I'm pushing the mower through it easily, but I'm

in that way, we will gradually enable our brains to get used to the language.

Don't force yourself to try to understand.

If you can't understand, move on to new material, bringing in new words,

bringing in new context, some of which again, which you will understand

And I think it's very important that we have that sort of an attitude I've

said in other videos, uh, experienced language learners accept uncertainty,

accept that they don't fully understand and yet they keep going.

And then you can come back again for a second pass with the lawn mower.

But I think very often the, the attempt to nail things down to fully

understand is a major obstacle to comprehension, whether it be listening

comprehension or reading comprehension, and the two do reinforce each other

The goal of course is to understand everything or as much as possible, but

before we get to that perfectly mown lawn, uh, we have to make quite a few passes.

And so we should be easy on ourselves and not be too demanding, you know,

And if we keep moving forward, we will eventually have better

And if we have good comprehension, we will eventually have good speaking skills.

And I have spoken before about comprehension.

So I'm gonna leave a couple of videos here that I did earlier on the same subject.