So as you may have picked up already, I'm not a huge fan of this arbitrary beginner, intermediate advanced level of language learning. I'm more of a believer in looking at subtle nuances between different genres of language. So I'll give you an example of going from general to specific. So when you're starting off as a beginner, you want to be looking at material that's more general. And it's easier and it's more for the layman, the terms that are going to use aren't going to be so highly specialized, they're going to be broken out in the most simplest manner possible. So my general recommendation would be to look at something like the news.

In general, I'm not a huge fan of the news. There's a lot of negativity there that you can pick up on. But when it comes to the news, they do explain things in layman's terms, so they're not going to use highly specialized words too often. They're not going to use a lot of slides. So it's going to be easier for you as a beginner to start listening to something like that than it is for you to look at film. When it comes to films that's on the other end of the spectrum that's highly specialized, highly specific.

In films, you can get a lot of slang, you can get a lot of specialized words. And it's gonna be very difficult as a learner of a new language to understand the subtle nuances, the different words and dialogue. In a movie, it's a lot easier to understand the news, it's more general, it's more for the layman, it's more for the average everyday person. You're also going to pick up on frequently used words in the general population true, something like the news, which is for everybody. So you'll start developing patterns in your head about what words are used frequently. what's actually going on in the country right now that I can talk to the average person the road.

So it gives you conversations, the actors, it gives you the words that you need to learn. It gives you some key words to learn and it's generally easier to do that than to dive into a specific film. So I found with this approach of looking at the subtle nuances in the language to begin with, it's more motivating for me to do it that way than to start off with beginner books. I found when I started when with that mindset of beginner, intermediate advanced, I felt like from beginner to about opera intermediate felt like it was a subject I was learning, rather than a communication tool. It was only towards advanced level that I felt that this is actually a communication tool I'm using to communicate with people, I think that started around intermediate level when I was reading French people. But up until that point, when I was approaching from beginner book, intermediate book, advanced book, it was like a subject and it was really boring, wasn't engaged with it.

And it felt like I would never get there to the fluency level and I always had this idea of fluency being a perfect person who speaks perfect French, and that wasn't true. So when I learned Spanish in Italian, I found Much more beneficial to look at the language itself and look at areas where I can begin with. And so I'm not, I'm not actually delaying way my progress in the language of going straight into the language. But I'm looking at the areas that are easier for beginner system wait more than advanced speakers. So with Spanish and Italian for me, it was actually watching interviews of footballers, I was very interested in sports, I still am. And it was an easy way for me to start understanding vocabulary, I would know whatever words will come up and learn from there.

So that's my advice on general to specific, I've got a document which outlines general topics, specific topics, and where to begin as a beginner and where you want to move towards when you're trying to test your level and get better at language. So I hope this has been insightful. I hope you've taken away something and I'll see you on the next module we're going to talk about simple brain science. We'll see you then.