100 hours.
Yep, I hit that mark today. Over the past week I have constantly heard Tagalog for 100 hours and counting.
Those hours make a difference. I've noticed that I can pick out more words, regardless of whether I know what they mean. But many of them I do know.
So what have I been hearing for the past 100 hours? Mainly the same songs looped over Spotify, lots of sentences that I have found from learning material, and shows on TFC (The Filipino Channel) via the app.
I started listening to sentences over and over and over, but then slowly music edged itself in there. I find myself catching more words and phrases in the songs, often singing right along with them. The blocks of words/phrases I'm picking up are getting longer, both as to what I can hear and what I sing along with. I am also picking up many words in songs that are new to me.
At my place of worship are a lot of Filipinos. When I was at church tonight I noticed that I understood a whole lot more of what they were saying. It was almost like their speech was slowing down without their needing to slow it down for me.
I would almost say that this is an accomplishment. But really it's not. I actually didn't do anything to improve my hearing of the language. I simply just surrounded my ears with the language and let the audio do the work.
Hear, hear, hear...always be hearing.
Yep, I hit that mark today. Over the past week I have constantly heard Tagalog for 100 hours and counting.
Those hours make a difference. I've noticed that I can pick out more words, regardless of whether I know what they mean. But many of them I do know.
So what have I been hearing for the past 100 hours? Mainly the same songs looped over Spotify, lots of sentences that I have found from learning material, and shows on TFC (The Filipino Channel) via the app.
I started listening to sentences over and over and over, but then slowly music edged itself in there. I find myself catching more words and phrases in the songs, often singing right along with them. The blocks of words/phrases I'm picking up are getting longer, both as to what I can hear and what I sing along with. I am also picking up many words in songs that are new to me.
At my place of worship are a lot of Filipinos. When I was at church tonight I noticed that I understood a whole lot more of what they were saying. It was almost like their speech was slowing down without their needing to slow it down for me.
I would almost say that this is an accomplishment. But really it's not. I actually didn't do anything to improve my hearing of the language. I simply just surrounded my ears with the language and let the audio do the work.
Hear, hear, hear...always be hearing.
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