I didn't really know what title to give this video, but it's the new year and I want to talk about language learning.

我真的不知道該給這段視頻取什麼名字，但新年到了，我想談談語言學習。

So, language learning in 2025.

所以，2025 年的語言學習。

I want to talk a little bit about my past year, 2024, in terms of language learning and things that happened in that process and things I learned along the way.

我想談談我過去的一年（2024 年）在語言學習方面的情況，以及在這一過程中發生的事情和我一路上學到的東西。

And I want to talk about what my plan is, let's say, for 2025.

我想談談我的計劃，比方說，2025 年的計劃。

I don't have extremely specific goals, but there's something really interesting that I want to do this year for my language learning process.

我沒有非常具體的目標，但在今年的語言學習過程中，我想做一件非常有趣的事情。

So, I'm going to talk about all that.

所以，我要談談這一切。

I'm sure that this will be helpful for you and that you'll be able to kind of take some lessons from what I'm saying, or maybe you just want to hear about my language learning successes and failures, because I'll talk about those.

我相信這對你會有幫助，你會從我所說的內容中吸取一些教訓，或者你只是想聽聽我在語言學習上的成功和失敗，因為我會談論這些。

And before we continue, please click on the little bell to activate the notifications so that every time I upload a new video, you'll get notified so you don't miss these videos.

在我們繼續之前，請點擊小鈴鐺激活通知功能，這樣每次我上傳新視頻時，你都會收到通知，以免錯過這些視頻。

I know you all love them.

我知道你們都喜歡它們。

You like this format.

你喜歡這種形式。

For some reason, you like seeing my face.

出於某種原因，你喜歡看我的臉。

I don't know why, but I'm glad you like these videos.

我不知道為什麼，但我很高興你喜歡這些視頻。

Okay, let me talk about 2024 and how that year was for me as a language learner.

好吧，讓我來談談 2024 年，以及那一年對我這個語言學習者的影響。

Well, the beginning of the year, the first five months or so, were crazy for me just in terms of my life.

今年年初，也就是前五個月左右，我的生活非常瘋狂。

It was a very turbulent time.

那是一個非常動盪的年代。

It was like this.

是這樣的

The circumstances were very unique.

當時的情況非常特殊。

I'm probably not going to have another time period like that in my life again, or maybe I will.

我這輩子可能再也不會有這樣的時光了，或許會有的。

I don't know.

我不知道。

But the circumstances were pretty unique, and so it wasn't like I had all the time in the world for language learning.

但當時的情況非常特殊，所以我並沒有那麼多時間來學習語言。

However, I did do my Italian challenge at the beginning of that year.

不過，我還是在那年年初挑戰了意大利語。

I actually started it in December of 2023, but I did most of the challenge at the beginning of that year.

實際上，我是在 2023 年 12 月開始挑戰的，但大部分挑戰都是在那年年初完成的。

If you don't know what I'm talking about, I did a challenge where I started learning Italian, and I learned it for 100 days.

如果你不知道我在說什麼，我做過一個挑戰，我開始學習意大利語，學了 100 天。

And the reason why I did this was to help other English speakers who want to learn other languages, specifically Spanish.

我之所以這樣做，是為了幫助其他想學習其他語言（尤其是西班牙語）的英語使用者。

I have friends and people I know that want to learn other languages.

我有朋友和認識的人想學習其他語言。

So I kind of did this challenge to show what I would do to start learning a language during the first 100 days or 90 days or 120 days or whatever, right?

所以，我做這個挑戰，是想告訴大家，在開始學習一門語言的前 100 天、90 天、120 天或其他時間裡，我會怎麼做，對嗎？

So the problem with this challenge was that I didn't really want to learn Italian.

是以，這次挑戰的問題在於，我並不是真的想學意大利語。

I don't mean to offend you if you're Italian.

如果你是意大利人，我無意冒犯。

Your language is beautiful.

你的語言很美。

Your country is amazing.

貴國真了不起

It's the most terms of languages that we want to learn.

這是我們最想學習的語言。

I'm sure most of you want to learn English.

我相信你們大多數人都想學習英語。

That's why you're watching this video right here.

這就是你觀看這段視頻的原因。

I have certain languages that I'm really interested in learning and others that I'm not as interested in.

我對某些語言非常感興趣，而對其他語言則不太感興趣。

I'm somewhat interested in Italian because it's really beautiful.

我對意大利語有點興趣，因為它真的很美。

It's got a lot of history.

它有很多歷史。

It's a language that is very interesting, just in general.

總的來說，這是一種非常有趣的語言。

But for me personally, Italian just isn't the language that I really want to learn.

但就我個人而言，意大利語並不是我真正想學的語言。

I just chose it because it's the closest I could get to another English speaker learning Spanish, for example, because I wanted to replicate that process.

我之所以選擇它，是因為它最接近於另一個講英語的人學習西班牙語的過程，比如說，我想複製那個過程。

And I already speak Spanish.

而且我已經會說西班牙語了。

I'm learning French.

我在學法語。

I've learned a lot of Portuguese.

我學會了很多葡萄牙語。

So I was trying to find a language that was similar to Spanish, but that I didn't know yet.

是以，我試圖找到一種與西班牙語相似，但我還不會的語言。

So that's why I chose Italian.

這就是我選擇意大利語的原因。

And the challenge went pretty well in the sense that I had pretty good results after 100 days.

挑戰進行得相當順利，100 天后我取得了不錯的成績。

I was happy with my results, despite the fact that halfway through the challenge, I completely lost my motivation.

我對自己的成績很滿意，儘管挑戰進行到一半時，我完全失去了動力。

And I did like the final 50 days, just because I had to, not because I wanted to.

我喜歡最後的 50 天，只是因為我不得不這樣做，而不是因為我想這樣做。

And despite that, I had decent results.

儘管如此，我還是取得了不錯的成績。

But I learned through that process how important motivation is.

但在這個過程中，我瞭解到動力是多麼重要。

People often downplay motivation in favor of discipline.

人們往往輕視動機，而偏愛紀律。

You know, that's what all the personal development self-help people will tell you.

你知道，所有的個人發展自助者都會這樣告訴你。

Discipline, discipline, discipline.

紀律、紀律、紀律

You're not always motivated, but you have to be disciplined.

你並不總是有動力，但你必須嚴於律己。

And obviously, there's a lot of truth to that.

顯然，這也有很多道理。

But in general, if you're learning a language, you better be motivated to learn it.

但總的來說，如果你要學習一門語言，你最好有學習的動力。

If not, I'm sorry, but it's not going to be a fun process.

如果沒有，我很抱歉，但這不會是一個有趣的過程。

You're not going to progress quickly.

你的進步不會很快。

It's going to be a chore.

這將是一件苦差事。

So motivation is extremely important.

是以，激勵是極其重要的。

In some cases, in my opinion, it's even more important.

在某些情況下，我認為這甚至更為重要。

Because I've seen this for myself in that Italian challenge, I was really, really disciplined with that for 100 days or whatever it was.

因為我在意大利挑戰賽中親眼目睹了這一點，我真的非常非常自律，堅持了 100 天或更長。

But the lack of motivation in the second part of that challenge just really hindered me from progressing more.

但在挑戰的第二部分，我缺乏動力，這確實阻礙了我取得更大的進步。

I progressed a lot the first 50 days and a lot less the second 50 days.

前 50 天，我的進步很大，後 50 天，我的進步就小了很多。

Because the first 50 days were cool.

因為前 50 天很酷。

I was inspired and motivated.

我受到了鼓舞和激勵。

And the second 50 days, I wasn't.

而第二個 50 天，我沒有。

If you look at that whole period, the one difference between the first 50 days and the second 50 days was my motivation level.

如果你回顧一下整個這段時間，前 50 天和後 50 天的區別在於我的動力水準。

So I learned that from that challenge.

是以，我從那次挑戰中學到了這一點。

But I was happy that my methods worked.

但我很高興，因為我的方法奏效了。

And I could say that, yeah, I can help people that want to learn Spanish from scratch.

我可以說，是的，我可以幫助那些想從零開始學習西班牙語的人。

I have kind of a process that they could copy.

我有一套流程，他們可以模仿。

And it will help them progress a lot in 100 days or whatever.

這將幫助他們在 100 天或更短時間內取得長足進步。

So I'm happy about that.

所以我很高興。

But from here on out, I'm only going to do challenges with languages that I actually want to learn.

但從現在起，我只挑戰我真正想學的語言。

I'm not going to do something like that again, unless it's a language I want to learn.

我不會再做這樣的事情了，除非是我想學的語言。

So that was kind of a lesson for me from that.

是以，這對我來說是一個教訓。

But currently, this is what I wanted to talk about, you know, mostly in this video, is that currently, I'm more interested in developing my language learning methods and my philosophy when it comes to the intermediate level, not the beginner level, the intermediate level of language learning, and specifically, the act of speaking.

但目前，這是我想談的，你知道，主要是在這個視頻中，目前，我更感興趣的是發展我的語言學習方法和我的哲學，當它涉及到中級水準，而不是初級水準，中級水準的語言學習，特別是說話的行為。

Okay?

好嗎？

I'm the listening guy.

我是傾聽者。

I'm sure that there are few people online that have made more content for listening than I have.

我相信，網上很少有人比我製作了更多的收聽內容。

If you know someone who does what I do and has done it for longer, who has released more videos or episodes or whatever, I'm interested to know.

如果你知道有誰和我做一樣的工作，而且做得更久，發行了更多的視頻或劇集，我很想知道。

Please leave that down in a comment below.

請在下方留言。

But I think that there are few people online that have produced more listening content in terms of podcast episodes and videos than I have.

但我認為，在播客劇集和視頻方面，網上很少有人能比我製作出更多的聆聽內容。

So I'm the listening guy.

所以我就是那個傾聽者。

My podcast, my YouTube channel, they're called Listening Time.

我的播客和我的 YouTube 頻道都叫做 "聆聽時間"。

And I hope, and I don't just hope, I know that my content is really useful for people that are training their listening.

我希望，我不只是希望，我知道我的內容對正在訓練聽力的人非常有用。

This is kind of like my mission with my career, to help people with their listening and be able to understand native speakers better.

這也是我的職業使命，幫助人們提高聽力，更好地理解母語人士的語言。

Right?

對不對？

And that's great.

這很好。

And I'm sticking with that.

我堅持這一點。

I'm not going to suddenly change my content, of course.

當然，我不會突然改變我的內容。

But for myself, I really feel the need to further develop my own philosophy, my own theories, my own beliefs about the intermediate level of language learning and specifically speaking.

但就我自己而言，我真的覺得有必要進一步發展我自己的哲學、理論，以及我自己對中級語言學習，特別是口語學習的信念。

Okay.

好的

Why?

為什麼？

Why do I want that?

我為什麼要這樣做？

Well, because in 2024, I stagnated with my French.

嗯，因為在 2024 年，我的法語水準停滯不前。

I did not achieve the goal that I had set for myself.

我沒有實現為自己設定的目標。

I lost motivation for several months, probably like, I don't know, maybe three months or something like that.

我有幾個月失去了動力，大概有三個月吧，我也不知道。

It wasn't that I had no motivation, but my motivation definitely wasn't where I thought it would be.

我不是沒有動力，但我的動力絕對不是我想象的那樣。

And I think it is mostly because I wasn't seeing the progress that I wanted to see with my speaking.

我認為這主要是因為我在演講方面沒有看到我想要看到的進步。

I progressed for sure.

我肯定進步了。

Don't get me wrong.

別誤會我的意思。

My speaking definitely improved.

我的口語明顯提高了。

I'm still taking classes multiple times a week.

我仍然每週多次上課。

I'm seeing improvement.

我看到了進步。

That's great.

好極了

But I want it to be faster.

但我希望速度更快。

I want the improvement to be more noticeable in a shorter period of time.

我希望能在更短的時間內得到更明顯的改善。

And I think that the improvement that I have had has been slow and steady, right?

我認為我的進步是緩慢而穩定的，對嗎？

Which is good.

這很好。

But my career is languages.

但我的職業是語言。

It's helping people with their English.

這是在幫助人們學習英語。

And not only that, I feel like I talk a lot about language learning in my videos, in my podcast episodes.

不僅如此，我覺得我在我的視頻和播客節目中談了很多關於語言學習的話題。

And so I'm not only giving people content for their listening.

是以，我不僅要為人們的收聽提供內容。

I'm also giving them advice about language learning.

我還向他們提供語言學習方面的建議。

I'm talking about my own language learning progress.

我說的是我自己的語言學習進度。

And this is my career.

這就是我的職業生涯。

And so for me, it's not acceptable to just say, OK, well, I think my process is OK.

是以，對我來說，只說 "好吧，我覺得我的流程沒問題 "是不可接受的。

I'm improving a little bit.

我在一點點進步。

Great.

好極了

No, I want to get better.

不，我想變得更好。

I want to develop a process, a method, a philosophy that will actually help people become even better in their language learning, improve faster, reach a higher level of speaking in a shorter amount of time.

我想開發一種流程、一種方法、一種理念，切實幫助人們更好地學習語言，更快地提高語言水準，在更短的時間內達到更高的口語水準。

Right.

對

I am searching for that.

我正在尋找。

That's part of what I want to do with my career.

這也是我想從事的職業之一。

I want to just better develop my ideas about language learning.

我只是想更好地發展我的語言學習理念。

And specifically right now, speaking at that intermediate level is what I'm focused on, because that is what has caused me to lose motivation in my own language learning.

特別是現在，中級水準的口語是我關注的重點，因為這正是導致我失去語言學習動力的原因。

And I think that's one of the number one things that causes you, all you listeners, well, you're on YouTube.

我認為這是導致你們，所有聽眾，以及你們在 YouTube 上的首要原因之一。

So what is that?

那是什麼？

You're a watcher, whatever.

你是個觀察者，管它呢

I can't think of the word right now.

我現在想不出這個詞。

But all of you who are watching right now, I'm sure that you can identify with that, that feeling of just wanting to be able to speak That's what my focus is right now.

但是，現在正在收看的各位，我相信你們都能體會到這種感覺，那種只想發言的感覺 這就是我現在的重點。

And, again, I'm super happy with all the content that I've created.

再說一次，我對自己創作的所有內容都非常滿意。

I know that it's helped hundreds of thousands of people with their listening and their speaking as well.

我知道，它對成千上萬人的聽力和口語都有幫助。

But I want to address this frustration, this frustration with not being able to speak, even though you have a decent level of listening.

但我想談談這種挫敗感，這種無法開口說話的挫敗感，儘管你的聽力水準還不錯。

Right.

對

I get that comment, that message all the time.

我經常收到這樣的評論和資訊。

I feel like I can understand pretty well, but I just can't speak the way I want to speak.

我覺得自己聽得懂，但就是不能按照自己的方式說話。

My speaking is just so much worse than my listening.

我的口語比聽力差太多了。

That is the frustration that I'm obsessed with right now.

這就是我現在所迷戀的挫敗感。

And just recently, a light bulb went off in my head.

就在最近，我腦子裡突然靈光一閃。

We use that phrase like a light bulb went off.

我們用這句話就像燈泡熄滅了一樣。

It just means like you had this idea all of a sudden.

就是說你突然有了這個想法。

So a light bulb went off for me.

於是，我眼前一亮。

And I have been able to reflect a lot over the past couple of days in terms of my language learning process, my past language learning experiences.

在過去的幾天裡，我對自己的語言學習過程和過去的語言學習經歷進行了很多反思。

And I think I'm on to something, meaning I think I have found what has been missing for me, that missing link.

我覺得我找到了一些東西，也就是說，我覺得我找到了我一直缺少的東西，那個缺失的環節。

I'm really excited about this.

我真的很興奮。

It's nothing revolutionary.

這不是什麼革命性的東西。

It's not some really interesting new method or technique.

這並不是什麼非常有趣的新方法或新技術。

No, it's just something that I've been missing, something that I have been overlooking up until this point.

不，這只是我一直缺少的東西，是我到現在為止一直忽略的東西。

And now I feel like my eyes are opened to it.

現在我覺得我的眼睛睜開了。

And I'm excited about that.

我對此感到非常興奮。

So this idea that I just had, that I've been I've already started actually, I think two or three days ago.

所以，我剛剛有了這個想法，實際上我已經開始做了，我想是兩三天前吧。

I'm starting to do it little by little.

我開始一點一點地做。

And I'm not going to share what it is with you right now.

我現在不想和你們分享它是什麼。

I know that's going to frustrate a lot of you.

我知道這會讓很多人感到沮喪。

The reason why I'm not going to do it yet, why I'm not going to share my idea with you is because I need to put it into action first.

我之所以還不打算這麼做，不打算與你們分享我的想法，是因為我需要先付諸行動。

And I need to test it first.

我需要先測試一下。

I'm not going to share something with you.

我不會和你分享什麼。

And then I realize it doesn't work.

然後我意識到這行不通。

And then I have to come back and say, Oh, sorry, everybody, don't do that.

然後我不得不回來說，哦，對不起，各位，別這樣。

Right?

對不對？

I want to test this out.

我想測試一下。

I want to give it some months.

我想再等幾個月。

And specifically, I plan on doing it for the next four to six months.

具體來說，我計劃在接下來的四到六個月裡這樣做。

I think that's enough time to really kind of see the effect that it has had.

我認為這段時間足以讓我們真正看到它所產生的影響。

And then I'm going to share the results after that, if they're worth sharing, but I think they will be.

之後，如果結果值得分享，我將與大家分享。

I'm excited about this.

我對此感到非常興奮。

Again, I'm sorry for the mystery that I'm not going to say it yet.

我再次為我還沒打算說出來的神祕感感到抱歉。

But just know that Connor here, he's thinking about you and your language learning process and your frustration with speaking.

但你要知道，康納在這裡，他是在為你著想，為你的語言學習過程著想，為你在口語方面遇到的挫折著想。

And he's trying to discover ways to help you with that.

他正在努力尋找幫助你的方法。

That's what I'm doing.

這就是我正在做的。

It's for me to obviously, I want to get better at the languages that I learn, I want to solve my own frustration with speaking.

很明顯，這是為我自己準備的，我想在我所學的語言方面取得更好的成績，我想解決我自己在口語方面遇到的挫折。

And in that process, I want to help you solve your frustration with speaking one of the worst frustrations that we have, when we are learning a language.

在這個過程中，我想幫你解決我們在學習語言時遇到的最糟糕的挫折之一--說話的挫折。

And what's interesting about this is that I've already achieved a high level of fluency in Spanish.

有趣的是，我的西班牙語已經非常流利了。

It's not like this is the first time I'm discovering how to speak at a pretty high level.

這又不是我第一次發現如何以相當高的水準說話。

No, I've already done this with Spanish.

不，我已經用西班牙語做過了。

And I've said this many times, I know that my motivation level, my level of motivation, when I was learning Spanish was insane.

我已經說過很多次了，我知道我學習西班牙語時的動力水準，我的動力水準，簡直是瘋了。

It was like the highest it could ever be.

這簡直是有史以來最高的一次。

Because of my circumstances, right?

因為我的情況，對嗎？

I was trying to marry a Spanish speaker and move to her country and live my life in that country.

我想和一個會說西班牙語的人結婚，然後搬到她的國家，在那裡生活。

You can't really get more, you can't find a better reason than that, let's say.

你真的找不到比這更好的理由了。

So I know that my motivation was insane.

所以我知道，我的動機是瘋狂的。

But that doesn't negate the fact that I did achieve that level.

但這並不能否認我確實達到了那個水準。

And there are things that I have noticed that are different about my learning process now, and the way I learned Spanish, things that are different, that I think might be holding me back from reaching a higher level of speaking in a shorter amount of time.

我注意到，我現在的學習過程和我學習西班牙語的方式有一些不同之處，我認為這些不同之處可能會阻礙我在更短的時間內達到更高的口語水準。

I think that if I continue what I'm doing now with French, and I don't change anything, I think that over time, I'll reach a pretty high level of speaking, but it's going to take a long time.