Engage your subconscious - stop paying attention May 16, 2007
Posted by Niels in : How to, Personal , trackback
It’s easier for me to learn a new language if I’m doing something else at the same time. I realized this strange fact while on the road in Italy. I was listening to the Pimsleur Italian
By engaging my conscious mind with, say, packing my bags, or sorting my email, it falls upon my subconscious to pay attention to the language lessons. I don’t learn as quickly - I make more mistakes and occasionally I’ll have to listen to a lesson twice. But I recall the words and phrases much much faster. To the point where I think sometimes, “Where did that come from?” When I learn the language consciously, I have to sit for five or ten seconds to remember a word, or God forbid, some sort of mnemonic mechanism. But when I apply my subconscious to the language learning, words pop into my head automatically, just like when I’m speaking English. And the fact that my laundry is getting folded while I’m learning French
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It’s true! It’s like when you study in the morning as you dose off, the material actually gets splattered into your subconscious.
I love it when I have dreams where I’m speaking in my third language.
hummm…i should try that! =]
Interesting - I have dreams sometimes in which I’m speaking German perfectly and effortlessly - I wonder if you can listen to the language lessons while sleeping and get the same effect.
I wouldn’t use as supporting evidence anything that also explains the Amadou Diallo incident.
Whoops wrng post for the comment