Roba English Podcast Ep. 5: My Method for Learning Languages

英語の後に日本語が続きます！

Are you an English learner? I'm glad you landed on my channel!

My name is Roba and I'm from the UK.

This podcast is perfect for those who want to learn British English and who want to do it the natural way - by listening to natural, native speakers!

This episode is about my method for learning languages.

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みなさん、こんにちは！自然な英語を聞きながら英語を勉強したいですか。私のチャンネルへようこそ！ イギリス出身のロバです。

英語圏の自然な英語で、異文化や僕の経験など、面白い内容を楽しみながら英語力を身につけたいという方にとって、このポッドキャストはぴったりの内容になっています。

僕は日本語を勉強し始めた時に僕と違う背景の人に会いながら楽しく話すというモチベーションで勉強し、日本語のポッドキャストをよく聞き、人生が変わった実感があったので、僕と同じような道を歩んでいる人の役に立ちたいと思い、このチャンネルを始めるようになりました。

今回のエピソードでは、僕の言語学習法です。

リスナーのみなさんと繋がれるのを楽しみにしています！　コメントでもメールでもご連絡をお待ちしております。ご意見や感想を共有してもらえれば一緒にこのチャンネルをより良いものにしていきましょう！ 宜しくお願いします

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Find the transcript for this episode here!

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英語の後に日本語が続きます！

Episode Summary

My method has changed recently because I felt I was getting lazy and I wasn't improving. I've highlighted the steps below that I follow to make my speaking/output better:

French

50% speaking (2hrs)

• free talking and reviewing what I want to say. Record myself speaking -1hr
• Structured talking - reviewing what I wanted to say and reading when lost for words. Also, using sentence flashcards with audio and repeating pronunciation-1hr

50% listening (2hrs)

• Listening to Comprehensible Input in French - 1hr
• Watching French cartoon which I have seen in English - 1hr

Japanese

50% speaking (2hrs)

• free talking - recording myself speaking and correcting pronunciation or unnatural sentences-1hr
• Structured talking - watching video for 30mins and taking notes. Summarise and comment on it. record myself explaining what the video was about - 1hr

50% listening (2hrs)

• Intensive listening - listen to a podcast that I like (doing nothing else) -1hr
• Passive listening - listen to the same podcast whilst doing something else (cooking, house work etc).

If you have any comments about my routine, then please let me know.

エピソード概要

最近、僕の言語学習法を変更しました。その理由は、怠けてしまうことが多く、前の学習法であまり日本語とフランス語を上達させていないと感じたからです。以下では、これからの学習法についてお話したいと思っております。

フランス語

50% スピーキング (2時間)

• 自由に話すー　メモ無しで近況報告録画し、それを校正します。直した部分はフラッシュカードにまとめて活用します。ー　1時間
• 構造的に話す -言葉を出せないとき何を言えばいいのかを調べ、もう一度録音し直してみます。それに、録音フラッシュカードを駆使し、発音を繰り返して練習しますー　1時間

50% リスニング (2時間)

• Comprehensible Input（理解可能なインプット）を聞く - 1時間
• 英語で見たことのあるフランス語のアニメを見てみる- 1時間

日本語

50% スピーキング (2時間)

• 自由に話すー　メモ無しで近況報告録画し、それを校正します。直した部分はフラッシュカードにまとめて活用します。ー　1時間
• 構造的に話す - 30分の動画を見ながらメモを取、その内容を要約し、自分の感想を書き出す。そのメモを使い、その動画はどんな内容ですかというのを説明する形で録画します　ー　1時間

50% リスニング (2時間)

• 集中リスニングー　好きなポッドキャストを聞く（他のことをせずに）ー1時間
• 受動リスニングー　集中して聞いたポッドキャストを繰り返し聞きながら他のことをする（例えば、料理づくりや家事などを）

以上の学習法についてのご意見やアドバイスがあれば、お聞きしたいです。

Episode Transcript

(00:00):
Hi guys and welcome to another episode of Roba English and the date is... it's

(00:22):
Wednesday, the 6th of August and the time is 1:43. Thank you again if you're
tuning in and thank you for all the support recently. I see we're getting a lot
more viewers especially those on YouTube, so thank you very much to all the

(00:46):
YouTube watchers out there. I'm really enjoying watching the channel grow just
a little bit. It's not growing super fast, but we're just at the start of this
journey and so I want to help you guys on your language learning journey too. So

(01:10):
today I would like to talk a little bit about the way I learn languages and
the way that I have changed that recently. I'm on my summer holiday so I'm
really bored and I'm getting a bit lazy and also my language learning is

(01:33):
becoming a little bit lazy. I'm kind of just not really concentrating when I'm
doing it and so I felt like I needed to change it a little bit. For you guys
I'm going to put in the description below I'm going to put the inspiration for

(01:56):
this podcast because I like to look at how other people learn languages too. I
can't create original ways myself and I need to take inspiration from others
and so I'll put the link in the description below. I think if this is YouTube I'm

(02:17):
sorry I don't think I can put things in descriptions yet. For some reason I can't
and if anybody can help me with that then that would be great but I can't do that
yet so you'll have to go to and find us on where you get your podcasts.

(02:39):
Sorry about that but it's just the way it is. So I'm going to talk a little bit
about my way of learning languages but if you... I would recommend you take notes
maybe? but if you have any special way that you learn, then please let me know in

(03:06):
comments or use my email. Thank you very much guys and let's get into it.
So, as some of you may know I'm studying both Japanese and French. I'm an

(03:32):
experienced learner I'm fluent in Japanese and also I'm a beginner in French and
so it's hard to find a good way of studying both of these because I'm at
different levels in them both. So I'm trying a new method which was inspired

(03:57):
by a video and that I watched about this student learning French. His method was
more about output of course he was very good and did lots of input, but he was
very focused on becoming a fluent speaker and so he had a very output focused

(04:24):
routine. So I wanted also to make my routine output focused, because I want to be
fluent in French. I want to be a fluent speaker. I don't necessarily want to be
a French... good at French writing or grammar or I just want to be

(04:48):
conversational good at French. But I'm a beginner in French. Output is very hard. I
think I've only been speaking for one, two days and I can't say very much. I
can read a bit more but I can't say very much so the start is very difficult.

(05:17):
But overall I'm aiming for 50% speaking and 50% comprehensible input. Now I'll

explain what they are. My speaking routine is (05:28):
I have a freer session and I have a
more structured session. For French free speech is very difficult. Often I

(05:49):
stand... for this I record myself speaking. I stand in front of the camera on my
computer and I record myself speaking and often I cannot find the words to speak
and so I have to I stand there for maybe 30 seconds and I can't say very much. So

(06:18):
after I have recorded myself, I go to Google translate or DeepL if you don't know
or haven't used them I'll link them also and I use them to translate what I
want to say into French and then I start the process again. I start recording

(06:46):
myself. I read a little bit of what I've translated and so it's very difficult.
Output for me in French as a beginner but I'm learning a lot because I have to
use it. I have to remember words. Now remember I said I was getting lazy. Yeah, I'm

(07:12):
getting lazy and so standing in front of a camera makes you learn the language
faster. You have to remember the words; you have to struggle to speak. Before, I
would listen I would write down... it was lazy learning. Very relaxed; but actually

(07:40):
I needed to stand in front of a camera and have a little bit of pressure to speak.
So this has been very good for me. I feel like even in two days I've learnt lots
from recording my speech and translating what I want to say from English into

(08:01):
French and then repeating again. The second part of my speaking practice is
structured. Now, this I have some flashcards in French and they produce audio

(08:24):
and I listen to a sentence and I repeat the sentence. Sometimes I add on my own
story or I talk to myself. Sounds strange, but sometimes I talk to myself even in French as a
beginner. Now this is structured. You don't necessarily have to make the

(08:48):
sentences yourself. If you have some flashcards, then audio is the best way. Listen to
the audio, repeat. Very good for your speaking. For those who know what
shadowing is, I think I mentioned it in a previous podcast, but podcasting

(09:12):
sorry, shadowing is when you copy, you listen, and you you try to copy what
somebody else is saying. I tried this in French, but it's too high level for me.
I'm not very good at it and so I took it out of my routine. I think when I'm a

(09:35):
better learner, a better speaker sorry, then I will try shadowing again. So that's
speaking. The next part of my routine is comprehensible input. Maybe some of you
have heard of comprehensible input before, but basically this is you don't listen

(10:06):
to material, you don't listen to music or podcasts which are above your level.
You listen to comprehensible input which is at your level. Now I am a complete

(10:27):
beginner and so I need baby language. Somebody needs to speak to me in baby
language like a baby. There are multiple YouTube videos especially in
English which teach comprehensible input. They are very effective. You don't really

(10:55):
need to know any of the words to understand what is said. So I would recommend
that if you are a beginner, comprehensible input is definitely the best way but I
guess if you're listening to this podcast you probably don't need

(11:18):
comprehensible input. Anyway if you're going to start another language, start with
comprehensible input. It's very useful. You'll learn very quickly, but I guess even
if you're an experienced learner comprehensible input is important because even

(11:43):
when you are an advanced learner even when you listen to topics which are
you're not familiar with or they are outside of your ability you won't learn
very much and so you need to find content which is at your level and I have been

(12:07):
doing that in French. There's a very good podcaster and YouTuber called French
Comprehensible Input. Great stuff. And really helping me along with my French.
So if you're listening French comprehensible input thank you very much for all

(12:27):
that. Now, on to Japanese. My Japanese is much better than my French. I'm fluent and
free speech is much easier and structured is a little different to French. Now when

(12:48):
I'm speaking Japanese, free speech is easier but I'm very bad at explaining
things. Even in my first language English I'm bad at explaining and in Japanese I'm
even worse and so most of my Japanese speaking practice is just basically

(13:15):
practicing explaining things to people who may not know the topic. That's
actually really helping me. Now the structured part of my speaking is a little
bit different to my French obviously because the levels are very different. But

(13:38):
basically my structured speech is I watch a YouTube video about a topic I'm
interested in and I take notes, and then I try to explain what the video was
about and I record myself whilst I'm doing this. I then take note of new words

(14:06):
and new sentences and I make flashcards from them. It's a little different; it
basically forces me to explain difficult concepts easily in Japanese, in my
second language. Because it doesn't matter if you can speak quickly the main

(14:30):
goal of language learning and speaking a language is to communicate in an
understandable way to your partner or your audience. Even though I might
be able to speak fast I'm not good at explaining. So that's what my Japanese

(14:53):
learning is about and basically listening for me is very different because I
can pretty much understand anything. If it's a news program or a podcast or... maybe
there's some slang I might not get, but I can get the overall picture and I think

(15:18):
podcasts are great because there's no pictures for this and if there's no
pictures, then your brain has to figure out what is happening. So if there's
some new word I don't know I write it down and then I put it into flashcards.

(15:39):
Flashcards are my way of reviewing what I have just learnt even when you're
fluent you can't just listen to words and remember them I think you still have
to be very high level for that I'm not there yet maybe I'll never get there

(16:00):
but for me flashcards are perfect for remembering and I recommend you guys to
make flashcards so you can review your language. I hope this has been at least
a little bit helpful. It's hard to explain and to understand things. Yes, on a

(16:27):
podcast I feel like, you know, the best is showing you how to do them but I'm not
quite at that level yet and so... Please if you have any questions please let me
know. If you want me to make any new content or show you flashcards then please

(16:50):
let me know email me or leave them in the comments, leave a mention in the
comments below. So guys that's my new method for learning languages I hope it's
been helpful and thanks for listening.
OK guys, that was just another short episode about how to learn languages. I'm

(17:29):
trying to keep these videos short because... well, I don't want you to get bored
and I tend to talk a lot during these videos and so I'm trying to keep them short. If
you want them shorter please let me know if you want them longer, please let me
know. If you need more detail also, please get in touch. If there are any

(17:57):
topics you want me to talk about, then please let me know too I can help you a lot
with your language learning, if you get in touch. I'm trying to make some
material, free material for you guys and some guide maybe on how to learn
languages the way I do and if you'd like to see any of that, then please let me know.

(18:26):
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