![]() ![]() In other words, you can be a world-famous author while still writing in plain English, indeed some authors are famous at least partly because they do this (Ernest Hemingway and Graham Greene come to mind). This makes listening to an audio book considerably harder than reading it, given roughly equal listening and reading competence.Īnother factor is that in English, there are many authors who write in a very simple style. There are many words that are only used in writing, abbreviations or contractions that make more sense if you see the characters and a very large number of near-homonyms. This isn’t because my listening ability is bad, but because written Chinese is much more distant from colloquial Chinese than written English is from spoken English. To start with, I don’t feel that there is a big difference between reading and listening to a novel in English, whereas in Chinese, the difference is huge. ![]() It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that I found it much more difficult to apply this kind of massive input method to learning Chinese. You can read the entire article here.Īs promised, I will now talk about using audio books to learn in particular. Variety is good, but it also requires more effort to cope with. This is actually easier than it sounds, since by keeping to the same resource, many factors remain constant (such as speaker and style) or at least similar (e.g. To summarise, it’s very hard to listen to enough audio if you only listen to snippets, you need longer programs or audio books to increase the amount of listening at an advanced level. In last week’s article, I talked about the importance of using long-form over bite-sized content when it comes to building volume. In order to listen to enough Chinese, you need long-form content It took a while to get used to it, but once I had established the proper habits, I consumed a few novels a week, adding up to as much as 100 books per year. When I was around 20, I figured that I would never be able to read all the books I wanted to read, so I started listening to audio books as a complement to reading normally. I attribute this mostly to very large amounts of input, mostly in the form of books. I have learnt English to my current level without ever having lived in an English-speaking country. ![]()
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