7 reasons to listen before you read

listen first before we read.

Now, I often talk about the importance of input, and I think many people

recognize the importance of input, but they sometimes wonder, is it

better to read first or listen first?

I believe everyone should do what they enjoy doing, because if you enjoy doing

it, you're likely to continue doing it.

So I will tell you what I do, and I will tell you the reasons why I do it.

I listen first.

And there are seven principal reasons, which I've.

Jawed it down.

Before I get into that, by the way, I looked up the perennial question of which

comes first, the chicken or the egg.

And there is an explanation online that the egg comes first because the egg

evolved from a reptile's egg, which then became a chicken at some point

in the evolutionary process, which to me doesn't really answer the question

because then all you're doing is Pushing back to the reptile, which comes first,

the reptile's egg or the reptile.

But anyway, leaving that aside to me, the first reason why listening comes first

is because it's the easiest thing to do.

It's the first thing I do in the morning.

I don't wake up and start reading and say Persian, which I'm learning now.

I get up and I get some audio, something that I'm listening to.

It might be something out of Radio Fardo.

It might be something from Link.

I start listening.

So it's the first thing I do.

It's the easiest thing to do.

You can do it wherever you are.

I can do it while preparing breakfast.

I do it in the car.

I do it if I'm going to clean up the garage.

It's just so easy to pick up some audio, put the AirPods in and listen.

And I do make an effort to listen in LingQ cause then at least I get

credit for those listening hours.

Whereas if I'm listening on some other app.

I'm usually too lazy to manually add those listening hours to my statistics.

Now, somewhat related to that is the idea that listening is something

you can do while doing other chores.

It's the same idea, but the benefit is different.