Writing in a New Language: Language Learning Goal 6 Schreiben in einer neuen Sprache: Sprachlernziel 6 Escribir en una nueva lengua: Objetivo de aprendizaje de idiomas 6 Écrire dans une nouvelle langue : Objectif d'apprentissage des langues 6 Scrivere in una nuova lingua: Obiettivo di apprendimento linguistico 6 新しい言語で書く：言語学習の目標6 Pisanie w nowym języku: 6. cel nauki języka Escrever numa nova língua: Objetivo de Aprendizagem de Línguas 6 Письмо на новом языке: Цель 6 в обучении иностранному языку Yeni Bir Dilde Yazmak: Dil Öğrenme Hedefi 6 Письмо новою мовою: Мета 6 вивчення мови 用新语言写作：语言学习目标 6 用新語言寫作：語言學習目標 6

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Hi there Steve Kaufmann here, and today I want to talk about the sixth Hello|greeting|Steve Kaufmann|Kaufmann|||||would like||||| |||||そして||||||||

of my, the sixth, number six of my, uh, personal priority in language ||||||||||importance|| ||||||||||우선순위|| ||||||||||優先事項|| szóstego, szóstego numeru mojego osobistego priorytetu w języku

learning goals and that is writing.

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So, remember that these goals are, this is my own priority of goals.

So this is not necessarily what I would recommend as a priority of

goals for everyone in every situation.

But it's my situation.

All right.

For me, writing comes at the end of my, or near the end of my um, language ||||||||||près||||||

learning goals, even though all of these goals are somewhat interchangeable. ||||||||||взаимозаменяемыми |||||||||quelque peu|interchangeables |||||||||somewhat|заменяемые ||||||||||상호 교환 가능 ||||||||||可互换的 ||incluso||||||||

But remember that I say my first goal is to increase my vocabulary, acquire

words, largely passive vocabulary that enables me then to start reading.

And once I read, then I can be in to understand what I'm listening to. |||||||||||lo que|||

So then listening comes after reading as number three, and then once I've

been doing a lot of listening, I start to feel I can start saying

something to start speaking.

And when I started speaking, then I realize that I need to improve the

accuracy of my use of the language. Genauigkeit (1)|||||| Precisión||||||

In other words, to focus in a little bit on grammar.

So that's number five.

Now...therefore then comes writing. |alors|||l'écriture

Now writing, I personally don't do a lot of writing now in the languages |writing||||||||||||

that I'm learning, but some of the languages that I speak quite well,

like French and Chinese, when I learned those languages, I did a lot of writing. ||||||||||ai fait||||

And there's no question that writing is a powerful way to |||question|||||puissant|manière|

improve our language skills.

Uh, and it has a number...

it's kind of, it's a form of output, just like speaking is a form of output, but

it has a big advantage over speaking and that is that when you write, you have

the chance to look things up uh, check the conjugation table or the declension |||||||||||||变格 |||||||check||conjugation||||declension table

tables, or look up a word, uh, or maybe look at some of the phrases that you

saved on LingQ and try to use them.

In other words, you aren't forced, as in speaking, to just use

whatever comes to mind, you can actually do a little more research.

You can actually improve the accuracy of your output and your ability to

express yourself in the more sort of relaxed atmosphere of writing.

So it's definitely something that I recommend.

Now, one of the difficulties is, so when I was learning Chinese, I

was assigned writing assignments. |assigné|| |||assignments

I had to write.

Uh, in French I was a, first of all, I had French at school and then

in France, I had essays to write. ||||essays||

I had things to write.

So you have to find a meaningful things to write about, um, because ||||||significatif|sujet|||||

you don't want to just write stuff. ||||seulement||des choses

So, so what can you do?

Well you can keep a diary, if you're that way inclined. |||||journal||||| |||||diary|||||

Uh, you can, uh, you know, there's so many opportunities to, through

email or uh, different, uh, chat rooms or, uh, maintaining a blog.

I mean, the, the sky's the limit, uh, communicating with people or just keeping ||||天空的||||||||| ||||ciel||||||||| ||||sky's|||||||||

track of your own activities or what you're doing in the target language. 用目标语言跟踪您自己的活动或正在做的事情。

There are many opportunities, probably more than, uh, when I was

learning 50 years ago of having meaningful occasions where you ||||||occasions|| ||||||events|| ||||||의미 있는 기회||

can write and writing is powerful.

You will improve your grasp of vocabulary, you will improve ||||Verständnis||||| ||||dominio|||||

your grasp of grammar by writing. |понимание||||

Now, obviously there are difficulties if you're learning a language with a |очевидно|||||||||| |évidemment||||||||||

different writing system, um, which has been the case for me, and certainly

in Greek and Ukrainian and Russian and Persian and Arabic, but there again, |||||||||||là|encore |||||Russian|||||||

because we now have the ability to type it's, it's a lot easier to type ||||la||||||||||escribir a máquina

the language uh, to write online and as you're writing online to look up

words and look up grammar points, it's more difficult to write by hand.

Uh, writing by hand is something that I have not done a lot of, but I, I

think there's some evidence that when you write by hand, you improve your |||доказательства||||||||| |||proof|||||||||

ability to retain what you're learning. ||запоминать||| capacity||сохранять||| ||유지하다|||

Again, because I am a dilettante learner I'm not under any |||||дилетант||||| |||||dilettante||||| |||||Dilettant||||| |||||아마추어||||| |||||aficionado|||||

obligation to learn anything. обязанность||| обязанность|||

So I do whatever is easiest and writing online is easier.

I can go even further.

Uh, I can dictate on my iPad. |||dictionner||| |||diktieren||| |||음성 입력||| |||音声入力する||| |||dict|||

And so I get away from the idea of writing whatsoever, but I still have ||||||||||无论如何|||| ||||||||||at all|||| ||||||||||전혀|||| ||||||||||en absoluto||||

some of the advantages of writing because I see what I dictated. |||||||||||口述 |||||||||||ai dicté |||||||||||書いた

I can go in and correct it, or change some words or, or, uh, somehow, um, ||||||||||||||어떻게든| ||||||||||||||de alguna manera|

you know, still have that advantage of writing and that is that you have more

time to express yourself, but I don't have to remember how to form the letters.

Uh, so these are different ways that you can engage in writing as a means 呃，所以这些是你可以从事写作的不同方式

of developing your output, uh, ability.

The other thing is when we write some people maybe think that

they have to write, uh, in a more formal way than they speak. ||||||||formelle||qu||parlent

And perhaps in some situations you do.

There's formal communications, business letters and so forth, ||correspondance||||| ||communication||||| ||通信|||||

less and less the case today.

My approach to writing has always been to write the way I speak.

So I tend to, you know, develop a somewhat neutral way of speaking. ||||||||quelque peu|neutre||| |||||||||neutral|||

So I'm not too informal, not too much slang. ||||||||argot

And then my writing is just an extension of my speaking. |||||||продолжение||| |||||||extension||| 然后我的写作只是我演讲的延伸。

So I write the way I speak.

So if you have a neutral, fairly, not formal, but sort of standard ||||||довольно|||||| ||||||quite|||||| ||||||bastante||||||

way of expressing yourself when you speak, then that kind of becomes the

way you express yourself in writing. |||||письме

And I personally find that it's easier to do that, to make your ||лично||||||||||

writing an extension of your speaking. ||расширение|||

Also, when it comes to writing people say, well, you know, there's business

English and there's medical English, and there's this English or other languages. |||||||||||языки ||||||il y a|||||

There's a sort of special English.

Here again, you're only going to be able to write as well as you read. ici|encore|||||||||||||

So if you need a special academic English or French or whatever the language |||avez besoin||||||||||

may be, or business English or medical English, you have to consume a lot |||||||||||consume||

of content, you know, in that domain. ||||in||domain

Uh, if you want to write in a more literary way, then you have |||||||||literary||||

to consume a lot of literature. |||||literature

The best way...

the best thing you can do to write better is to read more because that

way, sort of a correct expression, a somewhat more sophisticated expression. |||||||||复杂| |||||||||sophisticated| |||||||||세련된| |||||||algo más||| |||||||||sophisticated|

More elegant, more eloquent more, accurate expression will become second nature |||流利||||||| |élégant||||||||| |||articulate||||||| |||유창한|||||||

because you've done so much listening and reading of that kind of material.

Of course you can have your writing corrected, but my experience is |||||||corrected||||

that corrections aren't as effective as a means of improving in the

language as more and more exposure.

So people who want to improve their ability to write still have

to focus in on the previous goals.

In other words, acquiring a large vocabulary. |||приобретение|||

Uh, do a lot of reading, do a lot of listening.

Even your speaking activity is going to improve your ability to write.

And of course, to the extent that you spend time on grammar, it's also going

to improve your ability to write.

So you have to do all of these things in order to become better at writing.

Don't rely on having your writing corrected. |полагайся||||| |compte||avoir|||corrigée

It's probably the least, uh, important activity in terms of |||moins||||||

improving your ability to write.

So there are my thoughts on writing my fifth, sixth goal.

Uh, I did a couple of videos on the subject of writing a while

back, one is called Write More to Improve Your Language Accuracy.

The other one is called The Importance of Writing in Language Learning.

You might want to have a look at those to see some more discussion of this subject.

So thank you for listening.

Bye for now.