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All right, today's topic is over learning.

First, we have a short little comment from Jeremy Simpson. He is learning Japanese and then I will talk about my ideas of over learning English. how to do it, why to do it. Here we go. First Jeremy Simpson,

this is from Jeremy Simpson. Over learning is hard, but it is the best way to learn a foreign language.

I didn't realize just how hard over learning is.

Maybe not so hard for a European language, but with Japanese, I repeat and listen to a sentence a hundred times

and sometimes I still don't understand or I mess it up.

However, it works. I am now convinced this is the best way to learn a foreign

language. The downside, the disadvantage, is that it takes a lot of time.

After repeating just a few phrases a few hundred times

with a system I created myself from cutting up Pimsler lessons, I've had an unbelievable grammar

comprehension improvement. The basic grammar of these phrases seems natural now. I no longer think of the English equivalent

and now I just think of how to communicate thoughts in the Japanese way.

I'm not translating.

The fluidity of my grammar learning

is amazing to me and almost cancels out,

almost eliminates, the boredom of repeating the same words hundreds of times.

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