![]() My own disappointment with passive listening ![]() It's just noise unless you are actively listening to it. Having thousands of hours of audio in the background will do you no good if you aren't actively giving it your attention. Passive listening is a way to escape doing something useful, since you are doing something else at the same time. Sorry to break it to you but you have to do some work to make progress in a language. It requires your attention to understand and your ability to produce to actually converse. When you already understand the language, it's different – but to learn the language? The problem with embracing a passive means of learning a language is that a language is active. permanentnomad After two years of studying Japanese with it, I think my time would have been better spent speaking with natives.yearlyglot I think passive listening can only be done when you already know the language.First understand actively, then listen passively & let it sink hpp23 I tried passive listening but it didn't help me in my learning. ![]() I asked some people on twitter and on Facebook what their opinion of the actual results of this was and (among others) I got the following replies: In the same way as just studying will never help you speak, passive listening will never help you speak and even understand a language. I want to destroy this myth and finally help these frustrated people do something useful. I meet dozens of disappointed language learners every week, no matter where I am in the world, and I have declared war on the reasons holding them back from reaching fluency in their target language, and relying on passive learning (playing audio in the background while you are focused on something else) is high up on my hit list. This is something that really touches a nerve for me because I have met the results of this approach – people who have put thousands of hours into passive learning and they are barely any better off because of it. Learn a language while you sleep? Dramatically improve your ability to converse by having the radio/TV on in the background for thousands of hours? Master a language while you work or do your taxes with your shiny iPod blaring noise you aren't paying attention to? What's even worse is that it won't even help your ability to understand. The shocking truth is that passive listening is never going to get you to fluency in a language. Some people swear by it, and yet it rarely ever produces any useful results. A whole industry of language learning products is based on something that I have to frankly say that I think is absolute rubbish.
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