Episode 133 - Reframing the concept of effort
Anglais - The easy way

Episode 133 - Reframing the concept of effort

B1IntermediateOctober 20, 20266 min
  • Language learning

Dans cet épisode, Richard Watson de speakingchess.fr, propose une nouvelle approche de l’apprentissage de l’anglais : ne pas forcément faire plus d’efforts, mais pratiquer plus souvent. Il explique comment la répétition et la régularité permettent de transformer des connaissances en automatismes, sans avoir à réfléchir constamment. À travers des exemples concrets, il montre pourquoi il vaut mieux multiplier les petites tentatives plutôt que de s’imposer de longues séances intensives. Un épisode motivant pour progresser naturellement, sans pression et à son rythme. Cliquez ici pour lire le transcript Hosted by Aud...

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Hello everybody, this is Richard Watson and Anglais the Easy Way. And today I'd like to talk about reframing effort. Now if you didn't understand that word it's because I didn't say effort because that's not how you pronounce it. We call it effort. Now the idea is don't try harder, try more. So here's the question. Do you need to

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make a lot of effort to learn English. And obviously the answer is yes. Work harder, concentrate harder, revise harder, force yourself to remember things. But maybe we're actually mixing up two different things. Maybe we're mixing up making an effort and trying. Now I'm not saying that learning happens by magic. I'm saying that the mechanism may be less

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about straining and struggling and more about repetition and trying things. If it is very useful, but it costs a lot, maximum concentration is not something you can do all day. You may remember a podcast where I talked about a book called Thinking Fast and Thinking

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