{"id":4046,"date":"2023-11-27T09:56:39","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T09:56:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.annika-zang.com\/?p=4046"},"modified":"2024-02-26T10:32:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T10:32:35","slug":"how-to-get-unstuck-in-language-learning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annika-zang.com\/en\/how-to-get-unstuck-in-language-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Unstuck In Language Learning With This Zoom-In-Zoom-Out-System"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Get Unstuck in Language Learning With This Zoom-in-Zoom-out-System<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Summary: Being stuck in language learning might be a sign that you\u2019ve been focusing on the same thing for too long. In this article, you will learn tools that help you shift your perspective to unlock new energy. We will talk about explicit and implicit learning and how switching back and forth between different tasks can be the key to get you flowing.<\/span><\/i><\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This is me at an art class some weeks ago.<\/p>

The background I was painting turned out nothing like I had imagined. Instead of a bright, nostalgic blue sky, it looked like a spilled beverage. The more I tried to fix it, the worse it got.<\/p>

When I asked the teacher for advise, I expected her to tell me to try harder, add some color or do some blending. But instead, she told me this:<\/p>

Just leave it<\/em>. Shift your focus to the mountains and come back to the sky later.<\/p>

So, I proceeded to paint some mountains, and while I was doing that, I completely forgot about the sky next to them. And only when I felt like that my mountains weren\u2019t getting better anymore, I eventually revisited the sky. By then, its color had dried \u2013 and not only that: I felt that something in my mind had also changed. Shifting my focus for a while allowed me to suddenly see the sky from a new perspective, and that gave me a completely new sense of what I had to do next.\u00a0<\/p>

In the end, this was the process I repeated along the whole experience: Paint something until it\u2019s not getting better, switch to another part. Paint some more details, switch. Paint, switch, paint, switch, paint, switch.<\/p>

And you know what? After three hours, the picture really turned out to be fairly okay!<\/p>

I was fascinated by how something as simple as shifting perspective can really lead to a decent \u00a0overall result. And then I realized: Wow, this is actually also what\u2019s been helping me when I\u2019m stuck in language learning.<\/p>

Let me tell you how.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Shifting Focus in Language Learning<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Before talking about shifting focus, let’s first clarify 2 different kinds of learning: Explicit and implicit learning.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Explicit Learning<\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Explicit learning is what we do in school. It\u2019s a conscious, attentive type of learning: It\u2019s carefully reading texts, memorizing vocabulary, studying grammar and learning that subjuntivo imperfecto is built with 3rd person plural indefinido plus its corresponding endings.<\/p>

Explicit learning is important, because it helps you understand how a language functions.<\/p>

However, if you only learn explicitly, you will hit a wall at a point. You will notice that you might express yourself grammatically correct or have a great specialized vocabulary, but struggle to:<\/p>