A korrentour readingWhat is a korrent?
Drawn from what Steve Kaufmann said
language learning How an adult picks up a second language: input against speaking practice, immersion against slow habit, and whether a teacher can do it for you.
Word for word, with the source under each one. They did not write this page.
Canadian former diplomat and lumber trader who speaks twenty languages
If you are starting a language completely from scratch, authentic media is just noise. You’ll absorb very little. You need highly repetitive, simple input.
Where this was said
↗Comprehensible Input: How It Helps Language Learningblog.thelinguist.com
All 5 korrents from this piecethis one is 4th
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In tension with
Kaufmann says authentic material is noise to a beginner, so the start has to be graded input. Lewis says there is no threshold to cross before speaking begins and that the change is a decision rather than a level reached. Both are about the very first weeks, and only one of them has a stage that must be got through first.
Our reading — they may agree, disagree or merely touch the same thing. Closest first: a shared subject counts for most, then how near the wording is.