One of the errors that schools or tutorial centers make is they think language can be learned through reading and writing.
What this doesn't recognise is that our ideas of sound and how we respond to sound came before reading and writing - by millions of years. Our evolutionary ancestors had ears millions of years ago. (1)
What learning language through reading and writing also does not recognise is that speaking began somewhere in the region of 100,000 to 50,000 years ago (2) and our genes for learning language through speaking and listening were perfect before writing first appeared.
At best estimate writing was first invented some 5,500 years ago in Mesopotamia.(3)
If you want to be fluent, your primary learning should be listening skills because that is your genetic adaptation for learning language. As Geary states this is a biologically primary form of learning.(4)
Listening is the first step to fluency.
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Also consider that as a language learner you will have challenges if you think getting the broad meaning in a talk or conversation is the right thing to do. It isn’t.
Unless you can hear all the sounds precisely, you make up a false language model that you use for speaking.
If you want to use language with complete fluency you need to be able to identify precisely what it is you hear.
If you are learning language and you want to have high level fluency then decoded listening (as in phonology-based listening) is the primary and most important step.
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All accessed September 7th 2023
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