If anyone has trouble staying on LingQ, loses focus and ends up watching one million YouTube videos, and if you are on Chrome, better yet Chromebook, you can add a great free app from Crhomestore called StayFocused which allows you to block the internet or certain websites or block everything under the sun except for LingQ for any amount of time you want. I think this is a very good tool for all of the Challenge people! My own internet is disabled until Sunday evening, except for email and LingQ! I think I will disable the Forum page next time too though.
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I am constantly in a state of procrastination and distraction-- here I am reading comments (when i got up early to do reading).
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I suppose those apps work for some people.
The problem is that itās as easy (or easier!) to uninstall an app as to install one. Within a minute of an urge to look up something, somewhere, the application will be long gone from my browser!
But I say that this is all for the better! I generally go to things in my target language when Iām distracted. Even If I find myself doing things in English, itās usually to do something worthwhile, like watching a documentary on youtube, or reading something on Wikipedia. Iām convinced that half of my relatively developed conversational ability comes from my tendance to read about diverse subjects, in diverse languages, at times when these subjects present the most interest to myself and to others.
āIf anyone has trouble staying on LingQ, loses focus and ends up watching one million YouTube videosā¦ā
Why not watch a million youtube videos in your target language?^^
Paule, what a great idea! If only I could stay away from the LingQ forum!
That is what I do. I watch French and German letās plays on youtube. They are interesting to me, because I am a gamer. But you can watch whatever you want like anime, a TV show, News, or even a movie, if it is available.
To be honest, I have not found so much great stuff on YouTube in German. Mosty there are long videos of people playing Call of Duty and some great instructional guitar videos, but none of these things interest me much.
(By the way, I could not remember the name of Call of Duty so I tried searching for āmost popular war gameā in Google, but accidently left my computer set to the Russian keyboard, so instead, I typed āŃŃŃŠµ Š·ŃŠ·Š³Š“ŃŠŗ ŃŃŠŗ ŠæŃŃŃā. Amazingly, Google changed it to English for me automatically.)
Here is a guy whoāve played The Last of Us and also Bioshock Infinite.
I hope I could help you with the lack of variety.
The great thing about letĀ“s plays is that itĀ“s a mix of different āinput methodsāā¦
Listening and reading subtitles in your target language.
Reading the menuĀ“s and whatnot.
Listening to the commentator.
I think IĀ“ve learned 80% of my French from videogames and letĀ“s plays^^
IĀ“d recommend āBeyond: two soulsā (itĀ“s almost like an interactive movie) and āEdna bricht ausā (one of the funniest games ever^^) The Last of us and Bioshock Infinite have incredible stories too, the gameplay is a little bit āPow!Pow!Pow! 'Murica!ā though.^^
Iāve heard a little bit of Beyond Two Souls that it is good. I watched some of pewdiepieās english walkthrough, but Iāll maybe fully watch it in French or German for a level up. ( Sorry for usinf this term. I canāt stop using it, ever since Iāve discoverd Laoshu)