2025-01-30
16 分钟Hi, I often get the question, how do I maintain all my languages?
I can't possibly maintain them all at the same level.
So today I want to talk about reviving or rediscovering or picking up where you left off on languages that you have previously studied.
Um, I don't know how many of you have read or are aware of the book In Search of Lost Time,
À la Recherche du Temps Perdu by Marcel Proust.
Uh, but he talks about memory and involuntary memory and how different sensations or smells,
or when he was, for example, he suddenly remembered, I can't remember the circumstances.
Uh, he was either offered a madeleine and dipped it in his tea.
And that reminded him of a number of other related pleasant.
experiences from earlier in his life.
And we have a lot of involuntary memories or memories or things in our memory reserve,
which we can always find ways to retrieve and bring back.
And this includes languages that we have studied before.
So that's what I want to get into today.
First of all, You know, I consider that, you know,
we have the European framework, which attempts to define where you are in a language.
Uh, there are other, uh, benchmarks like in Canada, where they try to define where you are.
And I always find these somewhat questionable
because they try to define who you are in the language,
uh, so that you can show it to other people.