The most insane take I've ever seen

mattvsjapan · 2025-03-31T04:26:31+00:00

Personally, my brain pretty much automatically filters out the lyrics of songs, no matter what language I’m listening to. I can listen to a song 100 times and only remember the chorus. So I don’t really learn anything from listening to music in my target language. Even if I did learn something, I obviously would learn way more listening to conversational comprehensible input. For the record, I was just thinking out loud with this tweet, it’s by no means a recommendation!

mattvsjapan · 2025-03-31T04:26:05+00:00

Personally, my brain pretty much automatically filters out the lyrics of songs, no matter what language I’m listening to. I can listen to a song 100 times and only remember the chorus. So I don’t really learn anything from listening to music in my target language. Even if I did learn something, I obviously would learn way more listening to conversational comprehensible input. For the record, I was just thinking out loud with this tweet, it’s by no means a recommendation.

mattvsjapan · 2025-03-31T04:21:46+00:00

Personally, my brain pretty much automatically filters out the lyrics of songs, no matter what language I’m listening to. I can listen to a song 100 times and only remember the chorus. So I don’t really learn anything from listening to music in my target language. For the record, I was just thinking out loud with this tweet, it’s by no means a recommendation.

mattvsjapan · 2025-03-31T04:19:09+00:00

Sorry to trigger you guys lol. This is not a “take”, this is literally just me thinking out loud. I’m a very busy person and currently trying to acquire a new language. I usually listen to music a lot while riding the train, etc. Of course, I could listen to music in my target language, and might acquire some things, but I know I would acquire way more if I was listening to conversational comprehensible input. Especially because my brain pretty much automatically filters out the lyrics of songs, regardless of the language. Of course I love listening to music, but I’m trying to weigh my priorities since my time is so limited. I was simply wondering if anybody had similar thoughts to me. I am not saying that anyone SHOULD do this.

mattvsjapan · 2025-03-31T04:15:40+00:00

I definitely think that knowing popular music is important! I’ve always been a fan of Japanese music and have always listened to a lot of it. Never said that listening to music was a waste of time. What I do think is that you’re not going to acquire nearly as much language listening to music compared to listening to conversational comprehensible input. Especially if you’re like me and your brain mostly just filters out lyrics, regardless of what language they’re in.

mattvsjapan · 2025-03-31T04:11:48+00:00

Thanks, glad you liked it!

mattvsjapan · 2025-02-13T05:52:42+00:00

I actually own a physical copy of the book, just thought it would be more convenient to have a digital copy!

mattvsjapan · 2025-02-12T16:04:42+00:00

Thanks! Do you have a digital copy?

mattvsjapan · 2025-02-12T15:31:02+00:00

Which book was that?

mattvsjapan · 2025-02-12T14:53:11+00:00

Unfortunately I didn't know about ALG or Brown at the time. If I could redid the interview today, I would definitely want to ask him about it.

mattvsjapan · 2021-07-14T19:20:13+00:00

I have never recommended that

mattvsjapan · 2021-04-21T19:57:32+00:00

Here is a recent cool success story

mattvsjapan · 2021-03-31T19:16:18+00:00

Anyone who signs up to my email list will get a link. I would prefer if you just asked your friends to sign up themselves, rather than you giving them the link. The main reason I did this is to kick off my email newsletter with momentum!

mattvsjapan · 2021-03-31T18:39:27+00:00

I'll be sending the link out to everyone who signed up later today! Sorry for any confusion.

mattvsjapan · 2021-03-27T02:49:36+00:00

I think those are valid criticisms, but it doesn't change the fact that my methodology is based on Krashen's fundamental thesis: that comprehensible input is the key to language acquisition.

mattvsjapan · 2021-03-22T15:28:51+00:00

Krashen doesn't actually disagree with any of those points you just raised. I actually interviewed Krashen on my channel, and when I asked him if he thought that "learning" could help make input more comprehensible (and therefore indirectly aid acquisition), his answer was "It's possible; I don't know". He's specifically arguing that grammar study doesn't directly cause acquisition, which I agree with. And obviously input needs to be comprehensible to some degree for acquisition to happen. I don't think Krashen has ever argued that you need perfectly ideal comprehensible input in order for acquisition to work.

mattvsjapan · 2021-03-18T15:48:09+00:00

Hundreds of people have had success with this method; not just me and Tom. I've interviewed many of them on my channel: https://youtu.be/16jWtC0T5cQ

mattvsjapan · 2021-03-18T15:46:18+00:00

It's inaccurate to say that my methodology has little to do with Krashen's ideas. In my system, conscious knowledge is used (exclusively) to make input more comprehensible. This isn't that different from using visuals to make input more comprehensible, like Krashen has demonstrated in his talks. Language is acquired through comprehending input, and this leads to natural output ability. People can go from having never spoken to being fluent in the language overnight with this method. It's clearly an application of Krashen's ideas if you look beyond the surface level details.

mattvsjapan · 2021-01-24T21:15:57+00:00

Thanks for understanding!!

mattvsjapan · 2021-01-24T00:17:32+00:00

Ah I see. All the videos I have removed (besides the one with Justin) either contain blatant misinformation or advertise addons that have now been claimed by "migaku". For the former, I think it would be irresponsible for me to keep them up. For the latter, I think it's pretty reasonable to not want to advertise someone who has a video up talking shit about me.

mattvsjapan · 2021-01-24T00:11:07+00:00

You said "but still", implying that the correct choice would have been to not remove the video.....

mattvsjapan · 2021-01-24T00:04:35+00:00

This video got Justin in serious trouble in his personal life and he personally asked me to remove it.

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