Learn Australian English in this episode of the Aussie English podcast where I discuss the question, what do fishing and language learning have in common? Subscribe to the podcast: iTunes | Android | RSS Download the PDF + MP3 AE 365 – WWP: What Do Language Learning & Fishing Have In Common? G’day, guys. Welcome to this episode of Walking With Pete. Today, we’re going to be talking about what fishing and language learning have in common. So, what fishing and language learning have in common. If you guys don’t know what “fishing” is, “fishing” is the activity of catching fish. You might use a hook on a line, you know, with a sinker, with bait on the hook. You’ve got a fishing rod. You might be on a pier. You might be at the beach, at a lake, at a river. You throw the the line in, or you cast the line in, and you try and catch fish. You might use a net to catch fish. Some crazy people might decide to use dynamite to catch fish. I think I saw that on the second Crocodile Dundee movie where he’s throwing dynamite over his boat and it’s exploding in the water and then he just collects up all of the fish that float to the surface dead. Anyway. I’m sure you guys know what fishing is. If you go out there probably don’t use dynamite as your first option. Stick with a net or stick with a hook. So, what to fishing and language learning have in common? So, I just recorded an episode called The Brute Force Method to learning grammar, and a small part of what I went over was the importance of using English learning materials as a filter or as a sieve to catch, to pick up, to find to identify, mistakes that you are making. Your weak points. Your weak spots. The things in your English, your personal English, the English that you know, that you could improve upon, that you could fix, that you could make better, that you could improve. That’s where I feel like fishing and language learning cross over. I sort of changed my whole view of reading books and watching movies with subtitles when I started learning French, because I suddenly saw all of these resources from two different angles. They’re there because they’re a a resource for entertainment or for study, if it’s a grammar, as opposed to if it’s watching Game of Thrones or TV shows like Vikings. But they’re also there is a form of, yeah, grammar and entertainment. So, they can be there for entertainment, and at the same time they can be there to help you study and learn and improve. The point that I want to make though is that these resources can be used as a way of fishing for your mistakes, of I have a way of finding your mistakes. And so, it becomes one of those things where I started making a game of reading as much as possible, of listening to as many podcasts with transcripts that I could read as possible, and as… of watching as many movies and TV shows as possible.