Want to learn English? Start it “listen more”

For several weeks now I have been learning English using the method that hooked me. The essence of the method More to listen and read the material that you are interested in the target language.

This technique is used by many. I grabbed it after seeing a link to Lingq.com a couple of times here on Habrahabr (ref.) And watching a video with startup author Steve Kaufman.

Steve himself has mastered 11 languages, including Russian.

In this video, he briefly explains how to learn the language:
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I registered on his website about a year ago, but during this time my word count has not increased significantly. Why did it happen?

I neglected the main part of the “ Listen More ” method, I just read the articles I threw on the site. (By the way, there is a great way to highlight unfamiliar words , and a count of learned words )

Once I signed up for a voice lesson with Steve, after which I received recommendations to build up my vocabulary and read his book .

The book was useful, it chewed on the technique. Here are some of its subtleties:

• The most important A) Listen to more B) Listen to the material interesting to you.
  Point A - helps build vocabulary, Point B - stimulates learning.
  
  
• Forget the “school” method, where you are immediately “hammered” with grammar. Grammar is a barrier to learning a language. You lose interest. You will need it, but later.
  
  
• The language needs an intensive study period. First stage: listen to material every day for 60-90 minutes for 3 months.
  
  
• Try to listen to material that contains no more than 20% of unknown words.
  
  
• In video content, the picture distracts from the text. At the initial stage, listen to better podcasts.
  
  
• Write your own phrases from the listened material.
  You can easily remember them later.
  
  
• Learning texts / words - yes, there is an effect. But it pushes away from the language, just listen more, often repeated words will be remembered.
  
  
• Passive dictionary that allows you to freely communicate in English: 8000-12000 words.

For the second week I have been listening to podcasts, and the words are, indeed, memorable.

But my example is not yet indicative, here is a more advanced result, according to the method “Listen to more” gasc.livejournal.com/1386.html
here is the experience of a few more people engle.ru/forum/4
translation of an article from Steve gasc.livejournal.com/634.html
and this is Steve's blog www.thelinguist.blogs.com

Good luck in learning the language!