# Stop obsessing over language learning

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fpz4dr1gyo
- **Источник:** https://ekstraktznaniy.ru/video/40900

## Транскрипт

### Segment 1 (00:00 - 01:00) []

four reasons why changing your focus from the language you're learning to some other subject of interest is essential to staying the course and therefore eventually achieving fluency. So point number one apparently when you engage with a subject of interest there are all kinds of effects in your brain it opens the door there's sort of a dopamine effect which makes you better at learning better at remembering. Now, the second reason why it's important to change focus and to focus on a subject of interest, it's the fact that if I have a subject of interest, if I have, say, a podcast on history, I'm interested in getting to the next episode. It it's something that attracts me back to the language. I'm not just fighting to improve in the language. My focus is not how quickly can I learn this language. Am I learning? The focus is rather, you know, on something else. The third point, if I'm engaging with something of interest to me, I'm less impatient. I'm not questioning myself. Am I learning right now? Am I improving in my Arabic as I sit here and I save words or I listen or I read. And finally, point number four, which I have experienced, if you stay with the same subject for a while, first of all, you become increasingly familiar with that subject. And comprehension is based on two things. Vocabulary and familiarity with the subject. And second of all, of course, if you're staying with the same subject or a limited range of subject matter, you know, a lot of the same low frequency vocabulary is going to appear more often than if you had a scattered approach. So in other words, you will increase your ability to learn low frequency vocabulary.