Learning the Culture: Language Learning Goal 7 Die Kultur lernen: Sprachen lernen Ziel 7 Aprender la cultura: Aprendizaje de idiomas Objetivo 7 Apprendre la culture : Objectif 7 de l'apprentissage des langues Imparare la cultura: Apprendimento della lingua Obiettivo 7 文化を学ぶ言語学習の目標7 Poznawanie kultury: Nauka języka Cel 7 Aprender a cultura: Objetivo de aprendizagem de línguas 7 Изучение культуры: Изучение языка Цель 7 Kültürü Öğrenmek: Dil Öğrenimi Hedef 7 学习文化：语言学习目标 7 學習文化：語言學習目標 7

It's very enjoyable to be able to participate in the culture to that ||愉快|||||参与|||文化|| |||||||engage with||||| It's very enjoyable to be able to participate in the culture to that

extent in the target language. 程度|||目标| degree|||| Extensión||||

Hi there Steve Kaufmann here again, and today I want to talk to you about culture. ||史蒂夫|||||||||||||文化

This is the seventh and last of my personal goals in language learning. |||第七|||||||||

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So I've been going through the sort of seven personal goals when ||||||||||goals|

it comes to language learning as in sort of a hierarchical order. ||||||||||层级的| ||||||||||hiérarchique| ||||||||||иерархический| ||||||||||jerárquico|

Uh, my first goal is to learn as many words as I can, and that remains |||||||||||||||stays the same

a goal: increasing my vocabulary.

Then I want to have that vocabulary so that I can start reading.

It's kind of the easiest thing to do once I can read, then I can make ||||easiest|||||||||||

more sense out of what I listened to.

So then I increase my listening.

Um, with the sort of listening, I develop some momentum, which gets me to speaking. |||||||||élan||||| |||||||||progress or flow|||||

When I speak, I realize the gaps in my grammar and my usage.

So then I focus in on grammar sort of in that order.

I don't start with grammar, for example.

Then in my last video, I talked about writing, which can be a powerful way of

improving our skills in the language.

Um, but it's not something that I've been doing a lot of recently, but I ||||||||fait||beaucoup||||

still recommend it, it's an important way of improving in the language.

And then this all brings us to the culture, which is an important

motivator for me, because I want... motivateur||||| inspiration||||| モチベーター|||||

the reason I learned these languages is to get closer to the culture of those

languages, to learn more about them, for those countries and people and cultures

to come alive for me, which they do when I have an understanding, even an imperfect

understanding, of those languages.

Ideally, I want to approach those cultures in the language that I'm learning.

So sometimes if at an early stage in learning the language I get too much

explanation ofthe culture, of festivals, of special names for relatives or any |的|||||||||| |de la|||||||||| cultural context|of the|||||||||| 文化、お祭り、親戚の特別な名前などの説明

of this kind of detail, uh, in English or a language that I speak well,

uh, I find it difficult to absorb. ||||||understand it

Uh, it's not so meaningful to me. ||||significatif|| ||||significativo||

That's why I resist it because once I've had enough exposure to the language c'est||||||||||||| |||withstand||||||||||

where I've been in situations, or I've watched movies where people refer to their

um, mother's brother in certain ways. |mother's||||

So these names for different family members, or even references to, uh, you

know, culture, you know, like festivals or, you know, in, in terms of Persian, |||||||||||||Persian culture

uh, uh, how they eat on Nowruz and all of this kind of thing is more meaningful when ||||||Nowruz||||||||||significatif| ||||||Nowruz celebration|||||||||||

I can access it in the target language.

But of course we are dealing with the culture from the beginning.

Okay.

When we're learning another language, we're imitating that language. ||||||模仿|| ||||||mimicking||

We're imitating a portion of the culture because the |||part of|||||

language is part of the culture.

So the language is in itself, part of the culture that we're learning, but |||||en sí misma||||||||

the fine points of the culture, the sort of, how people interact with each |||||||||||互动||

other, uh, this comes alive better when we have a better understanding of the |||is|alive|||||||||

language and, uh, it might be through watching a movie or a series on Netflix

that we come closer to a Turkish family or Arabic, uh, you know, problems in ||||||Turkish family||||||||

Egypt having to do with the role of women and these subjects that are very |||||||||||sujets||| Egyptian women||||||||||||||

often treated in, in movies or series. |traité||||| |depicted|||||

And if we can access them in the target language, we sympathize |||||||||||understand them

more, uh, with, with the people.

So, uh, and that's very enjoyable.

It's very enjoyable to be able to participate in the culture to that

extent in the target language. extent||||

Similarly, when we have enough of the language that we can be with those ||||||||||can|||

people and communicate in the target language, understand what they're saying,

participate in how they react with each other, uh, participate ourselves in particip|in|||||||||| ||||||||||nosotros mismos|

the target language, that in a sense is sort of the, the final achievement. |||||||||||||logro final

That's in a way the ultimate goal.

We want to be able to do that, but the reason I make it my seventh goal

is that I feel a lot of other things have to fall into place in order to be ||||||||choses|||tomber|||||| |||||||||||fall||||||

able to enjoy the culture in that way.

That's not to say you can't, you know, watch movies with subtitles.

I mentioned, for example, that uh watching Russian movies, like ... at

an early stage in my learning, you relying on the English subtitles. |||||apprentissage||compte|||| |||||||dependiendo de||||

It was nevertheless, a great motivator for me, but watching that same ||cependant|||motivation|||||| ||nonetheless||||||||| ||No obstante|||||||||

movie and understanding what they're saying is a much richer experience.

So as with many of the sort of hierarchy of goals, my greater

emphasis at a particular stage might be on reading or listening or, or

whatever, but there's still elements of all of these goals at every stage. |||||||||||every|

Uh, it's just a matter of how much emphasis. ||||||||d'accentuation

So at an early stage, I may resist a great emphasis on festivals |||||||oppose|||||

or these kinds of things. |ces|||

But if I'm now at a stage, say in Persian, where I can read like Sahra |||||||||||||||Sahra (1)

did for me on LingQ, she created a course on Iranian history, a a fait|||||||||||| ||||||||||Iranian history||

course on Iranian food, a course on different minorities, Iran in Iran. ||||||||minorités||| ||||||||ethnic groups||| ||||||||少数民族||| ||||||||minoranze||| курс по иранской еде, курс по различным меньшинствам, Иран в Иране.

If I can access all of this information in the target language, to me, Если я смогу получить доступ ко всей этой информации на целевом языке, для меня

that's, that's the time to do it. то есть самое время это сделать.

So I tend to want to save it. Поэтому я, как правило, хочу сохранить его.

Similarly, you know, reading novels, um, in translation is not as attractive |||||||||||appealing option Точно так же, знаете ли, чтение романов, гм, в переводе не так привлекательно

to me as waiting until I can read those novels in the target language. |||attendre|||||||||cible| ||||||||||||desired| для меня как ожидание, когда я смогу прочитать эти романы на целевом языке.

Uh, so I kind of save the cultural thing, the bulk of it until I have enough of the ||||||||||大部分|||||||| |||kind||||cultural aspect||the|majority|||||||| ||||||||||la mayor parte|||||||| ええと、私は文化的なものを保存します。十分な量になるまでその大部分を保存します。 Ну, так что я как бы сохраняю культурные вещи, большую их часть, пока у меня не будет достаточно

language, but I don't deny myself some peaks at the culture at an early stage. ||||me refuse|||||||||| |||||||glimpses||||||| ||||否定する|||||||||| |||||||vistazos||||||| Sprache, aber ich verweigere mir nicht, in einem frühen Stadium ein paar Einblicke in die Kultur zu bekommen. язык, но я не отказываю себе в каких-то пиках в культуре на раннем этапе.

You know, there's so many more opportunities for us to access different

aspects of the culture today then was the case before I've mentioned several times. ||||||||||||several|

The Jordanian cartoon series, which is very much aimed at, at a ||||||||destinée||| |cartoon series|||||||targeted towards|||a

Jordanian audience with cartoons.

It's a bit like the Simpsons, but with sort of little morals in every |||||辛普森一家||||||道德|| |||||||||||morales|| |||||Simpsons||||||lessons|| |||||||||||教訓|| |||||||||||morali||

episode, uh family life it's called.

I can access that using LingQ, granted sentence by sentence, ||||||admittedly|||

going through the words.

Netflix enables us to access, you know, series where we kind of

find the same family every series.

And they're speaking in that language.

We're trying as much as we can to understand what they're saying.

And so there's just so many more ways we can access the culture then was the case

before, and we can access that aspect of the culture that's of interest to us far

too often, uh, in textbooks, the textbook writer wants to introduce to you those

aspects of the culture that they think are interesting or that you should know.

Whereas I think where it's more satisfying to access those aspects of while||||||||||| Considerando que|||||||||||

the culture that are of interest to us.

And that could be anime in the case of Japanese. ||||动画||||| ||||animation||||| И это может быть аниме в случае с японцами.

It could be a K-pop in the case of Korean.

And I think as is the case with all aspects of language learning, where it's

meaningful, where you are, you are doing things of interest to you, things that you

find enjoyable you're going to do better.

And so this final goal then the seventh goal of accessing the culture is best

done when we take the initiative, we choose things of interest to us. |||||action|||||||

If we're able to access it in part or wholly in the target language. |||||||||完全|||| |||||||||entièrement|||langue cible| |||||||||entirely|||| |||||||||完全に||||

It makes the whole exercise more meaningful.

So there you have it.

This is the seventh and final video on this subject of my language

learning goals, my hierarchy of language learning goals. |||层次|||| |||top level||||

So it started with accumulating vocabulary, which remains a goal then ||||building up||||||

uh, reading leads me onto listening. ||||à|

Listening leads me on to speaking. l'écoute|||||parler |conduce||||

Speaking makes me aware of my shortcomings and usage. ||||||lacunes|| ||||||limitations|| ||||||mancanze|| ||||||deficiencias|| Разговор заставляет меня осознать свои недостатки и использование.

Uh, from there, I want to work on my writing in order to improve my usage. |||||||||||||||usage

And when I have all the pieces of the puzzle put together, then |||||||||puzzle|||

I'm able to access the culture.

Now I did a couple of videos...

I have done some videos on this subject before, and you might

want to have a look at them.

One was called Culture and Language Learning, and the other one is First ||llamado||||||||||

Learn the Language then the Culture. |||luego||

So thank you for listening.

And that's the end of this series.

Bye for now.