Small Pleasures in Language Learning

[Larry Language Lover]

I got a nice little language learner's surprise today. Carrefour Shopping Center was giving away free Bluetooth earphones today if your purchase is over a certain amount. Normally Bluetooth earphones have little voice messages in english that tell you when you turn off, turn on, or connect to your phone correctly. This pair of earphones has all the audio messages in CHINESE! I understood "device on", "connection successful", and "device off" in Chinese. I sheepishly admit connecting and disconnecting a few times just to hear these three messages because I enjoyed it so much. It was kind of like an immersion experience..... hearing the same message that Chinese people hear. : ) : )

Now I'll hear it any time I connect to listen to my podcasts. Guess what my new favorite earphones are?

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"Mini-immersion" -- recommended! I used to set the GPS in my car to give me navigation instructions in Chinese even though I was in the US. It was a built in feature that just needed to be enabled. I got language practice while driving. The vocabulary was repetitious enough that most of it eventually sunk in. 

[Dawei3]

5 hours ago, Larry Language Lover said:

connecting and disconnecting a few times just to hear these three messages because I enjoyed it

Some of my friends leave wechat verbal messages.  I often listen to them again & again for the same reason.