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I like videos like these where you just answer one question thoroughly

you know sht gets real when Matt is not in his chair but in front of the camera

Damn... Bradley Cooper ran all the way through the "why you still can't understand your target language" video into this one.

+20 for passive immersion on the basis of Bradley Cooper's graceful running aesthetic.

Exactly. Thanks for explaining it in such specific terms (and shout out to the editor who put that diagram of French in there!)
I read a book called 80/20 Running, which explains the basic idea that it is best to run slowly a lot more often than you run quickly (even if your goal is to get faster) and it basically says the the one big advantage of slow running is that you can do a LOT more of it, and it also explains that even if you only run fast 10% of the time, your slow running is then much more beneficial. So slow running = passive immersion, fast = active. I found that when I did a lot of active immersion in Swedish, and then went for a run with my headphones, I could follow the book that I was listening to basically word for word, and I'd never been able to for two years before that.

Glad to see this channel is getting more attention.  Your hard work is paying off.   In no time this channel will absolutely have over 100k subs

This is a pretty important aspect of immersion. It’s very misunderstood because too many people think that they can just passive immerse their way to fluency. I fell into this trap a couple years ago when I was working 50+ hours at a farm. I had the chance to have headphones in while I worked but because of school I had a little time to do active study or listening. After several months I made a tiny bit of progress but not as much as I was hoping. Passive -background listening is important but it would take a truck load to replace active immersion plus Anki.

Makes sense.

Can you guys please make CC for MIA videos?
I'm a non-native English speaker, I understand about 80% of your videos, but sometimes it's hard to follow.
I think it will help us, non-native speakers a lot if you guys have CC. I believe there are many who are like me (or even understand less than me) watching these videos.
Thanks a lot.

This question has literally been on my mind all week. Man, you don’t know how great it is to see this video right now.

I like to think like this in any skill you want to improve and it's the next:
"Do as much as you can do in an active manner and the rest in passive"

Same hand gesture over the years for active and passive immersion 10/10

During my process of learning English, one of the periods during which my skills improved the most was when I basically only passively listened. I simply couldn't sit down and pay full attention to things, but I managed to fit in a few hours of podcasts/audiobooks/described movies every day and it did pay off. My listening, most of all, improved a lot. My vocabulary not as much, since I made few flashcards and only occasionally looked a word up in a dictionary  or something.

Matt hired an editor, but there is not a single cut in the video... LOL.
Every word in here is gold.
The lights and colors worth the new editor!
:)

I love the editing. It seriously helps my brain absorb the information.

Simple and sensible.

I think Active and Passive input isn't just a difference in return on investment; I would say it trains inherently different things, for example active input is normally done with subtitles, the ability to rewind, see whats going on to maximize comprehension, whereas passive input is pure listening ability, which when I realized this it helped a lot.

This is a topic I keep coming back to again and again. I cannot wait until I have become "fluent" in my TL, so that I will know how it actually worked out for me. I feel that this works and would work because you and others that have gone "through" says it is so. It is why I keep chugging forward because you KEEP reiterating it. Thank you!

Straight to the point. No waffle. Traits of a good video.