2025-06-06
8 分钟Hi,
Steve Kaufmann here again to talk about language learning and to talk about something really quite exciting that I just discovered.
Many of you may already be aware of it.
Notebook LM,
which I think is a really exciting tool to power up our language learning and in particular to make our listening more effective.
Listening is a key element of language learning.
We need good listening comprehension.
Listening has resonance in a way that reading doesn't.
Listening gets us going towards speaking.
And it's always been that way throughout history.
A lot of the great works of literature in the world,
going back to the legend of Gilgamesh in ancient Sumeria,
which was an oral story told in two languages,
Sumerian and Akkadian or Akkadian, however that's pronounced.
The Iliad and the Odyssey from Homer was oral in its tradition.
The famous Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Chinese, the Ramayana cycle in...
in Sanskrit and other Indian languages and Thai and Southeast Asian languages.
The Bible, the gospel according to St. Mark,
St. Luke, John were originally spoken either in Aramaic or Greek,
eventually in Latin and later on in the vernacular languages of Europe long before they were written down.