I highly recommend Duolingo but agree there are of other the choices. I also agree it can be repetitive, but doesn't that apply to anything in life. Repetition, and making mistakes is the only way to learn. I am closing in on a 2000-day streak so know how Duo works, and the tricks it uses. Anyone struggling with Spanish on Duo. feel free to message me - I can help unblock your mental block. Use the FREE version of Duo and save some money. I first started on the Michel Thomas Method -he was amazing in many European languages.

what part of WI are you from

I’ve found extensive reading to be super effective. However, when you’re a total beginner, it may be best to do a combination of both methods. Particularly if the new language uses a different and difficult script (Hebrew, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese etc.), it may take some time before you can even attempt to read extensively.

VS ? for me personally massive immersion and comprehensible input are two parts of one process.

I’m doing 3 years of Duolingo then going to a local college to get a minor in Spanish

Man! Your teaching is good as fuck! I've been preparing for my structure exam, and your video really helps me a lot!

Do you know how to import a ebook from Kindle to LinqQ?

6:44 here should it really be "Mi ankaŭ ŝatus legi 'La Hobito'" or "Mi ankaŭ ŝatus legi 'La Hobiton'", in the accusative case?

Thank you so much. I'm from Uzbekistan, and study linguistics. I always watch videos related to my major, but this one has been the best.

Well, at least it's better than playing Call of duty mobile for 5 hrs😆.

1:10 What are the videos he mentioned here about linguistics, phonetics, phonology, etc.? Couldn't find them.

1:10 What are the videos he mentioned here about linguistics, phonetics, phonology, etc.? Couldn't find them.

Duolingo is amazing , it taught me French !!!! How can you talk like that about this amazing app shame on u

Unless you really apply, take notes and practice without the app (ellaverbs was invaluable), it's BARELY useful without wasting money I went in with realistic expectations, I didn't expect to learn an entire language in say a month. However, My experience going all the way to level 15 Spanish language level (section 2, unit 10 or so) is where I stopped. Why I did came down to a few reasons and it's absolutely not a rage quit moment as video gamers would call it at the moment. This is my experience with it. It's quite the read but you'll know what to expect. Firstly I found it's very poorly structured. The easiest point to get across is that they very early on they are doing these stupid games where you've got to help a character do something. it's a TON of words never mentioned in the current unit. Some are not even in the second section! Sure you can tap the words and understand what is going on or learn some that way but the easiest solution is to not add them so early on. If all the words were learned. Fine, add the mini games, Some are recycled in later lessons such as the father who is watching soccer and the boy thinks the father is listening to him and asks for a new video game and not to go to school so don't worry we're not missing out! conjugation of words they struggle with in the Spanish lessons and Spanish can be very infuriating. You can know the word. Say it's trabajar (to work), however "yo" versus "ellas: you need the right FORM of trabajar otherwise they scold you. There's yo, tu, el, ellos, nostros, vosotros and so forth which most if not all have different endings to the words. The solution is to either Make the animators and voice actors explain tips and tricks or better yet make a workout session on this new word. Nope, let's make some workouts what you learned 20 or so units ago in the workout activities. I seriously had better luck finding out the conjugations of words on ellaverbs and writing them on a piece of paper to make sense of the word(s). Without any help from dulingo. they give you a dictionary of new words but it's badly designed. If it's a word like quiero (to want). Why not give a big tree of all the different ways you're using it? Instead of looking, hoping and praying the other forms of the word are there. Without it set up properly and no google you're slogging through mud blind. We're here to learn not remember answers! The fact that they do such a bad job with conjugations and how to apply them is a huge reason I found myself tapping to reassure myself of answers before submitting them besides all the ads. Practicing to gain a hearts, sometimes two if you can endure up to a 30 second ad and they are ruthless with the ads. The issue with the practice is that the practice has NOTHING to do with the current section. I was learning about how to give directions and some idiot thinks it's a good idea for us to be practicing creating sentences about wanting more bread, about someone wanting a green purse or asking why someones father is sad and matching words that are more than likely not to be used. Why is the practice not specifically tailored to the current section! Even a lesson or two before it as I don't feel there was enough time to really master certain words or terms such as when to use estoy, estas to something like los or las. I usually took 2-3 days to do a unit. In fact the workout and practice could even be on the questions you made mistakes on. Without the need for that "premium" feature I refuse to pay for. The 3 weeks I used the app they even scold you for not spelling the words properly they only taught you a lesson or two ago. Some lessons go by quick (2-5 minutes) and some words like correo electrónico, Emocionada, izquierda and so forth you're not going to learn how to properly spell in that unrealistic amount of time. You're just learning the damn words. How about a spelling test 10 minutes after you teach some kids? That teacher would get fired. They speak lines with hit or miss voice acting like the mid life crisis brown guy trying to sound sexy and they expect you to know them. I'm not expecting to get everything right my first attempts either but say the word izquierda, you hear it, you can't see the spelling on some questions and you can't tap the word. I feel I'm cheating when I press that I can't listen at the moment but the amount of ads makes it justifiable. The microphone parts where you to say the lines are very hit and miss. There were times I honestly gave up on it for the day as I was about to lose hearts. So you get to the end of the unit. You're STILL allowed to tap to get reassured of words or grammar for that entire unit! Sorry you're not learning. Give a few chances to use it but that's it. I found from the 14th level of Spanish to the 15th level of it the difficulty really spiked (increased) more than it should have. Last but not least, say you're sick of the ads and think it's a good idea to get the "premium" unlimited hearts option. Well, I got a 3 day free trial for doing something. I don't feel it helped. You can get as many questions wrong as you want. Sure you're going to have to get them right eventually to pass but I feel if you get more than 2 questions wrong in a lesson you should be kicked out as clearly you aren't learning and are just going to remember the answers which isn't learning. Maybe this can create a foundation to learn a language, to see if it's right for you to pursue it in but by itself, you've got a very small chance of learning the desired language fluently.

I really love Lingq. Too bad it wasn't around when I was younger... I might not have dropped out of my college German courses if I'd had it. But that's OK, I have it now and I'm making up for lost time!

The tedium isn't the biggest problem... It forces woke stuff upon one. It's a good app for learning how to construct sentences in Mandarin and learn hanzi...

So which app you recommend for Indonesian?

I recommend audiobooks. I listen to or read mostly thrillers. Wanting to know who is the bad guy keeps me motivated. In my case quantinty is more important than quality. I don't mind forgetting what was this book about in a month. The time spent with a foreign language is more important. I don't hilight nor do I write down words or phrases. For me it is a waste of time (I have tried this). I know that I will never look at those notes again. I prefer to spend this time reading another paragraph. English is an exeption. I understand english enough to read books that are really interesting (non fiction). For me a method to listen or read a book that I already know doesn't work, because, my brain is turning off the system which cracks "the code" on the unconscious level.

Me: listening to you in English as second language

Ew why do I always need to pronounce knife "kuh niffy"?

Are these apps free? Because I don't like spending money.If not ill be using Duolingo

youtube.com/@learnnepali-f8q a channel I started for Nepali language learning. Thank you for your suggestions. Will apply them.

Bro, my method is the same, bur I am learning speaking the lenguage, you talk to me in Spanish and I talk to you in English, I am native speaker Spanish, I correct you and you to me

Any books and methods to learn turkish ?

Thanks sir, I've been using this app for a long time, but I got the premium version only now so i didn't know how to use it correctly.

wow, this was really explained very well! cant stop laughing with the PPs though 10:05 😂

As someone who lives in a country where Linguistics basically isn't a thing, I appreciate you. I'd appreciate more material.

I am acquiring French right now, but I'm still a beginner.

Terrific video, good job. Maybe time to replace thee dead plant in the background!

As someone who is moderately into linguistics/phonetics, this video is excellent. The onky majir issue thus far is that you called the letter eth, thorn. Eth is lowercase ð (capital Ð), thorn is þ (Þ). Thorn is moreso associated with the voiceless 'th' which in IPA is theta, eth is moreso the voiced 'th' as in the word "that."

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Just came to say thank you for breaking down in a very simple to understand way the practical side of a field that always appear cryptic. Your videos contain no smoke whatsoever, just right-to-the-point information conveyed in a very nice way. Thank you!

we all have that one friend that help us that way ,,,,bro u r legendary

Is reading texts then translation some words that i dont know then read the whole text again as it become full comprehensible is considered comprehensible input?

Excellent video. 🙏👏👏👏👏

You are truthful man

People often say that a large amount of Comprehensible Input is essential for language acquisition, but rarely does anyone specify how much time it truly takes to learn a language from scratch using this method. It requires at least 1,500 to 2,000 hours. Can anyone confirm that?

I had 2 drives that encouraged me to learn English, one was cause I wanted to know what the tunes in Nokia 3310 meant and two was so I can insult the english while gaming

As an English teacher, I always tell students to learn the word in context. When I'm learning languages and find myself reading a book and encountering words I don't know, I highlight the phrase or sentence where the word I don't know is, and then in Anki, I just translate the new word. It's like magic :)

Thank you so much this was very helpful.

Not in China😂😂you can’t get by using English unless you live in a big city😂😂

I have 2 close friends 🧡 from Most Northern Illinois and Southern Wisconsin...I hear more nasal with Ya'lls annunciation...Say Nice.

5:55 "2 people learning esperanto is a lot easier than 1 person learning other language" what does he mean? Isn't there something missing?

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I have mixed reviews, it can help to a certain extent, but eventually lessons start with a quiz, in which you must guess the answers, that defies logic.... I would expect an explanation of the goals given with examples, leading to several exercises and a quiz at the end .This absurd configuration turned me off. I do speak Spanish which is a very close language to French in terms of grammar and lexicon, so I was able to answer correctly many things using Spanish as a reference, but i wonder how frustrating it is for others who only know English. Guessing should have no place in a learning system, but rather methodical growth through the understanding of what is being learned

Inconvenient truth but it is true albeit inconvenient

I need to learn a foreign language because I want to leave the country I come from

I know some people in Britain pronounce "water" as "wau uh". It's a glottal stop. "Butter" = "boo uh". I guess I (non native speaker) would pronounce those as "wad err", "bud err" etc. owing to American English influence from films and media.