The 8020 principle was a law introduced by a man called vilified purrito. In Italy, he, I think he was studying his garden peas. And he started to notice that 80% of his people producing 20% of the output and 20% of his peas were producing 80% of the output. It sounds kind of funny that it started there. But it's had huge ramifications for the world since then. Because people's are the seeing how that plays out in a macro level when it comes to economics and other different areas.

So this principle also applies to language learning. So with 8020 principle, you start questioning how effective you are in your approach. So when I started coming across this and started realizing how ineffective I was, I was a lot of times pulling in 80% of the effort and getting 20% of the output. An example of this would have been when I started when I started with French, that was my first language. One of my goals was to speak and communicate. I think looking back in the day was my actual real goal.

All this just wasn't clear enough. What I was doing at the time was I was studying books I was studying out of France studying the grammar, learning more words, but I wasn't practicing speaking the language. So as long as I was holding to that strategy, what was happening was that I was getting 20%, not even probably 20% of the output, which would have been in the form of me communicating effectively with French people for 80% of the input, which was a lot of hours studying in books, but with no practice in the real world. So once I started seeing that I started shifting my approach when it came to Spanish and Italian so my goal was very clear from the start my goals indicate I want to speak Spanish and Italian. I think this really this is really cool. I want to speak a few different languages in my 20s That was my goal.

Then I started asking questions based with the 8020 principle. So I was like word 20% of inputs that will give me 80% of the outputs. These are looking like okay, let's start speaking from day one, speaking from week one, that the intention was the need to do so instead of learning words that I would use my day to day Language and English. I started learning about topics that I would talk about in my day to day. So at the time, soccer was a prevalent thing that I would talk about. So in soccer, just to give you an insight into how you would go about approaching this and hacking this, within soccer, if you watch interviews with soccer players, you can see how restricted they are and what they can and can't say.

So generally, they'll use words like Performance Team, happy or unhappy, offside goal. These are the type of keywords that come up time and time again. So if you're going to want to speak about soccer to real people in the real world, I would advise to start creating a list of keywords that come up in that conversation. I'll actually do an example of support. I'll put a document underneath this video, which will give you a template, an idea of how you go about doing this. So it's basically identifying the key words within it.

Because there's patterns that play out in all different topics, the same patterns play out over and over again, the same kind of words. Come up, so that you leveraging the 8020 principle, you're realizing that there's about 20% of the words that crop up 80% of the time, that's a rough estimation to give you a freeloader. So with 8020 principle, you tend to notice that you'll ask yourself different questions. Whenever you come across something new, you're always asking yourself, what's the output for the input here, so you're just optimizing your time better. That's how you accelerate your language learning quicker. That's how I started speaking Spanish and Italian within three months that laid the foundation for me to have a better understanding of Spanish in Italian.

The thing about it too, is that when you optimize for words, you appear more fluent than you actually are. So with Spanish and Italian, I can hold a conversation better or I can hold a conversation better in French and Spanish in Italian, but sometimes you might realize that in Spanish for me, because I've learned the words for general conversation, but if you start delving into deeper topics are more specific topics. I'll tend to struggle more in Spanish and Italian than I will in French simply because I know a lot more words in French I spent a lot more years studying French than I did Spanish in Italian. But our goal for this course is to get you speaking to get a firm foundation. That's why I do Spanish in Italian. Once I got the firm foundation around the clarity of my purpose was to speak.

So I got that within three months, I got conversational fluency. Then I went back and I did some qualification to get the written part of the scratch and making myself a better, more well rounded language learner when it came to Spanish and Italian speaker, the language and writer the language. So that's 8020 principle. That's how you can use it to start speaking quicker and accelerate your learning give you a firm foundation to grow with. So on the next video, we're going to talk about spaced repetition, the beauty of debt and we're going to talk about Anki how you can leverage Anki with that. Thanks for listening and I'll see you in the next video.