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Now we have the question from Sumo Slam that I hinted at.

And this is, should you focus on reading or listening more?

This is in reference to Matt's newsletter that he sent out a while ago.

I don't actually know exactly when.

But the writer was very intrigued by what he was talking about essentially.

It's a very long question i'll try to summarize it just to make it go quicker

but um oh no this is actually the whole ah this is the whole email that's why it's

so long it's a very long question they copied it here for reference it's basically about it says

that if you focus a lot more on reading

or just reading and listening at the same time

because reading is easier you will get a lot better at

that a lot faster and then you'll build everything on top of that model of the language

rather than a more listening sound focused one

which is how native speakers tend to do it is sort of the idea here um

and so skipping out at the bottom

and like the the statement here at the end is never

let your reading ability get better than your spoken ability right

and then a lot of people talk about having their reading

ability be not too far ahead of their listening ability

but to get the best possible results that's not enough you need to have your reading view worse

then you'll be saying abilities for the spoken language to become

like your full base model of the language sure um

and i those questions started looking at our thoughts on it why do we have reading pretty high up there

and our reasoning for

that sort of thing yeah yeah sumo asked this in um one of the servers

and i wrote a pretty long um written response to it

so i think uh we should probably publish

that as a blog post afterwards so we'll add

that to the to-do list but the short answer here is

that we don't really have enough data to definitively say whether a primary reading focus is more

or less effective than a primary listening focus.

The number of people who achieve really high levels in language learning are few, so it's very anecdotal,

and it's not like those people treated their language learning as an experiment by trying to control all the confounding factors.

So it's really hard to draw conclusions there.

Matt in particular, he and I discussed this a lot when we were writing the roadmap

because his approach to Japanese was very reading focused and then it caused a whole bunch of problems later on.

He basically ignored listening, he ignored pitch accent, he ignored like studying the sounds of the language until he was already reading the fluid.

And then he had to undo a lot of stuff later and had to deliberately study and practice.

So I definitely agree with Matt that you should not allow your reading to completely and totally outstruck your listening.

That does seem to cause problems later on.

People do develop sort of bad habits and bad fossilization of pronunciations and the way things

sound to them that then cause problems later on.

So we agree on that.

His approach at this point has been to take the exact opposite of perspective.

It's like, okay, well, if that doesn't work, then we should completely switch to listening as the primary focus.

That's what natives do, that's what babies do, so we should try and emulate that.

I'm less convinced about that argument.

I think that there are positive examples in both a reading-focused paradigm in terms of learning

and there are positive examples in a listening-focused paradigm, and there are negative examples in both of those as well.

So I don't think we can draw significant conclusions across

either one to say it has to be this one or it has to be this one.

From our perspective, our focus as a company is to increase the success rate of learners.

And when we say success rate, we mean the number of people who achieve their goal of functional fluency,

meaning they can like comfortably integrate into a culture and use the language in their day-to-day life.

They don't just start learning for 10 minutes a day and then burn out in a couple weeks and just to say, oh, I guess I'm not cut out for Spanish or whatever.

Right.

So we're really, really focused on that success rate, meaning

that they can stick with it they can be sustainable with

it uh we're not going for speed we're not even going

for like native level we are just going for how many

people can we get to this high level of fluency

and then if they want to go beyond that that's great um

and if they want to like try

and get there as quickly as possible that's great too but we're really focused on just that success rate

And from our perspective, reading is so much easier than listening

that the fastest way that you can get to a point where you enjoy yourself, and we believe that enjoyment is key to being able to do it sustainably,

the fastest way to enjoy yourself is to use the written language just because it makes the process so much easier.

You don't have to deal with the ambiguity of listening.

However, we do completely respect the fact that reading alone, pure reading without any listening at all can cause serious problems later on,

which is why we promote listening and reading together through as much of the early process as possible,

which is why subtitles and TV shows are sort of a great mix or podcasts with transcripts are a great mix.

And we call this multi-channel input or dual channel input.

So we've tried to weigh the pros and cons of all these different configurations to optimize for a success rate, for a higher success rate in language learning.

So from our perspective, totally fine to be reading, totally fine to have reading be the

paradigm that you base things on as long as you are consistently integrating listening throughout the process.

That being said, definitely more research to be done.

People are completely free to pursue whichever paradigm they think is best.

I cannot say, given the data that I've seen and given the examples that I've seen, that one of them is definitively better or worse than others.

But if your focus is, I just want to make sure that I'm successful in the long term, I want to make sure that this is sustainable, a reading paradigm is going to be easier for you.

If your focus is, I really, really want that high level of listening ability, I really, really want to be sounding super native, then perhaps a listening focus paradigm would be more suitable for you.

Though again, data is still out, jury's still out on whether that really matters in the long term or not.

It's almost like it's a really big question and problem to solve.

Yeah, language learning is weird like that.

It's pretty hard to create these very,

very targeted studies that actually can remove the confounding factors and really focus in on what is causal and what is correlation.

So it's a big field of study

and I'm definitely excited to continue to engage with that and continue to do our own research on it.

But know we're probably gonna be researching this for the next you know two decades only or longer

good all right well thank you for the question to muslim and i already actually put it on our

to-do list for to post the blog post about this that goes into a little bit more depth about it

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このB2レベルのスピーキングレッスンは、動画「Is it better to focus on READING or LISTENING? - Ask Ethan」を教材にしています。繰り返し出てくる語は次のとおりです：reading, listening, language, learning, focus。この動画には、シャドーイング用の文が109文、単語が1609語あります。音声の長さは8:41です。話す速さは速く、1分あたり約185語です。音のつながりや弱く発音される音が多くなります。単語の89%は英語の頻出3,000語に含まれるため、語彙は分かりやすいです。

この動画の重要語彙

動画の中で特に難しい単語15語を、発音と意味つきで紹介します。

単語	発音	意味
paradigm 名詞	/ˈpæɹ.ə.daɪm/	模範
fluency 名詞	/ˈfluːənsi/	流暢
learner 名詞	/ˈlɜɹnəɹ/	学習者
sumo 名詞	/ˈsuːməʊ/	相撲
sustainable 形容詞	/səˈsteɪnəbəl/	持続可能
causal 形容詞	/ˈkɔːzəl/	因果の
intrigue 名詞	/ˈɪntɹiːɡ/	陰謀
overwhelm 動詞	/ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/	圧倒する
subtitle 名詞	/ˈsʌbtaɪtəl/	字幕
summarize 動詞	/ˈsʌməˌɹaɪz/	要約する
pronunciation 名詞	/pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/	発音, 読み
undo 動詞	/ʌnˈduː/	戻す, 取り消す
circumstance 名詞	/ˈsɝ.kəmˌstæns/	状況, 事情
transcript 名詞	/ˈtɹæn.skɹɪpt/	写し, トランスクリプト
newsletter 名詞	/ˈn(j)uzˌlɛtɚ/	ニュースレター

動画に出てくる句動詞

単語	意味
check out 動詞	試験する, 検査する
come up 動詞	上がる, 登る

この動画の文法

話し手がよく使っている文型を、動画の実際の表現とともに紹介します。

文型	動画での表現
現在完了形 have/has + 過去分詞 — 過去の出来事が今も関係している	has been · we've tried · I've seen
関係詞節 who / which + 節 — 人や物について情報を加える	people who achieve

注意したい発音

話し手はdon't, we're, I'mなど、短縮形や弱形を29回使っています。聞こえたとおりの短い形で発音しましょう。

「sh」と「zh」の音: pronunciation /pɹəˌnʌn.siˈeɪ.ʃən/, correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, configuration /kənˌfɪɡ.əˈɹeɪ̯.ʃən/, publish /ˈpʌblɪʃ/, confusion /kənˈfjuːʒən/
長い単語（アクセントの位置に注意）: definitively /dɪˈfɪnɪtɪvli/, sustainable /səˈsteɪnəbəl/, ambiguity /æm.bɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/, personalize /ˈpɜː.sə.nə.laɪz/, sustainably /səˈsteɪ.nə.bli/

日本語話者が苦手な音：

/r/ と /l/ の区別 — /l/ は舌先を歯茎につけ、/r/ はどこにもつけない: learner /ˈlɜɹnəɹ/, correlation /ˌkɔɹ.əˈleɪ.ʃən/, deliberately /dɪˈlɪb.(ə.)ɹət.li/
/v/ — /b/ にならないように、上の歯を下唇に当てる: definitively /dɪˈfɪnɪtɪvli/, overwhelm /ˌoʊ.vɚˈwɛlm/, whichever /wɪt͡ʃˈɛvɚ/
/f/ — 「フ」ではなく、上の歯と下唇で出す: confound /kənˈfaʊnd/, definitively /dɪˈfɪnɪtɪvli/, fluency /ˈfluːənsi/, comfortably /ˈkʌmftɚbli/, straightforward /ˌstɹeɪtˈfɔː(ɹ)wə(ɹ)d/

この動画での練習方法

まず声を出さずに動画を最後まで聞き、知らない単語をメモします。
まず0.75倍速で一文ずつシャドーイングし、慣れてきたら通常の速度に戻します。
自分の声を録音して元の音声と比べます。paradigm, fluency, learnerなどの単語に特に注意しましょう。

シャドーイングとは？英語上達に効果的な理由

シャドーイング（Shadowing）は、もともとプロの通訳者養成プログラムで開発された言語学習法で、多言語習得者として知られるDr. Alexander Arguelles によって広く普及されました。方法はシンプルですが非常に効果的：ネイティブスピーカーの英語を聞きながら、1〜2秒の遅延で声に出してすぐに繰り返す——まるで「影（shadow）」のように話者を追いかけます。文法ドリルや受動的なリスニングと異なり、シャドーイングは脳と口の筋肉が同時にリアルタイムで英語を処理・再現することを強制します。研究により、発音精度、抑揚、リズム、連音、リスニング力、そして会話の流暢さが大幅に向上することが確認されています。IELTSスピーキング対策や自然な英語コミュニケーションを目指す方に特におすすめです。

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