I learned my first language by just listening to people around me.
I have not read a single book in my native language. I have also not written very much in my native language except taking notes from a blackboard.Still I am a fluent speaker of the language, I listen and I speak.
my question is that just listening to a target language and looking up unknown words from listening sessions would make me a fluent speaker of a language. I dont understand why people and tutors emphasize so much on "Reading" and "Writing". Effective communication takes the front seat at the end of the day.
so I believe stehphen krashen's theory for extensive reading or pleasure reading is not a surefire approach for acheiving fluency in the target language.
What are your thoughts on this? This website is based on his principles. And authors of the site advocate for accumulating a lot of inputs through reading (which is easy to do) before speaking and writing.
For next six months, I am going to apply my own technique which was suggested above. I'll stop reading, writing and speaking. I'll just listen 2-for 3 hours daily and maybe one hour self talking. Then I'll post my results. Has anyone tried my approach before? pls lemme know.
I have not read a single book in my native language. I have also not written very much in my native language except taking notes from a blackboard.Still I am a fluent speaker of the language, I listen and I speak.
my question is that just listening to a target language and looking up unknown words from listening sessions would make me a fluent speaker of a language. I dont understand why people and tutors emphasize so much on "Reading" and "Writing". Effective communication takes the front seat at the end of the day.
so I believe stehphen krashen's theory for extensive reading or pleasure reading is not a surefire approach for acheiving fluency in the target language.
What are your thoughts on this? This website is based on his principles. And authors of the site advocate for accumulating a lot of inputs through reading (which is easy to do) before speaking and writing.
For next six months, I am going to apply my own technique which was suggested above. I'll stop reading, writing and speaking. I'll just listen 2-for 3 hours daily and maybe one hour self talking. Then I'll post my results. Has anyone tried my approach before? pls lemme know.