Welcome to Module Two, module two is all about the strategy and functional language learning. So the first video is on questions. So when it comes to questions, I generally grouped them into unconscious questions and conscious questions. So when it comes to the unconscious questions, they're more of the top patterns that are going on inside your, your head when you're in an interaction, what are your default thought patterns? So to give a practical tangible example of this, somebody goes to a language exchange group. They're a beginner, they don't have a lot of knowledge yet.
They go there. They don't have a great experience. They feel insecure about themselves, they feel judged. They feel like you're not good enough type of questions that will be coming off or something like that will be volume and not good enough yet. Why do those people judge me? Why do I always fail these type of patterns that are negative, very self conscious, very self centered and they just don't give a good experience for the person and it won't be encouraging them to move forward.
While you want to start doing if you're a person like that, at the moment where you feel like you're asking those type of questions, you want to start shifting more towards a growth mindset, like I mentioned in the first module. With a growth mindset, you're more inclined to ask questions like, what went well here? What went wrong here? How can I improve for next time? What did I learn from this? It's more of a winner learn mentality.
So we just mentality this fosters improvement quicker. When it comes to the conscious questions, these are more around strategy. So if you're somebody who's looking to hack a language and speak from day one, you're going to be asking yourself a whole bunch of different questions as somebody who's just set the goal of learning French one day. So with the more conscious strategic approach, you're going to ask questions like what sort of words to start learning what sort of phrases what sort of interactions Do I need to be having in my first day first week to start building some momentum here. You'll also start questioning that beginner intermediate advanced route to learning a language. When I learned Spanish I dove straight to the deep end I said I'm watching interview the Christiana We're now doing Spanish.
I did this for two reasons that number one, I already knew what he was like speaking English before. So I could go by his body language, the general kind of things he would say. I could learn words around that then. And number two, I found them interesting and engaging. And it was already at the advanced level. So I didn't have this uphill, from beginner to advanced, which can be quite, can be quite demotivating when you see the long road ahead, but when you jump straight in there, it gives you that confidence.
You might be understanding anything, but you're building that comfortability with not understanding anything, and you're gonna be more focused on the meaning rather than the words and you're going to be enjoying it more because you're choosing stuff you would actually watch in your native language, if you had to. So that's the questions that matter when it comes to language learning. So as you've seen, it's been unconscious questions and conscious questions, how you can start using these and leveraging these to your advantage and accelerate your learning as a language learner. So in the next video, we're going to talk about word usage frequency and how to hack a language that way