10 Years of Language Learning Tips in ONE Video

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🤯 📆 It just occurred to me that I’ve been sharing language advice online for 10 years. I gathered up my best language learning tips into one video. If I were to start learning a language this year, these are the tips I would use to become fluent fast. Let me know which tips were the most helpful, and what advice you still need!
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⏱ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 - It’s been 10 years!
0:34 - Too many resources!
2:23 - Can I take a break?
3:59 - Learning a new alphabet
5:05 - Speaking practise with friends?
6:29 - Why shouldn’t I slow down the audio?
8:08 - Can I study two languages at once?
9:27 - When should I study grammar?
10:57 - Why stories?
11:30 - Phrases or words?
13:24 - Quality over quantity?
14:29 - I get tired when I speak!
15:17 - Get a haircut
18:31 - Why review?
21:09 - How do I stay motivated?
22:30 - Do I have to make mistakes?
24:22 - But I’m too busy!
25:34 - Final thoughts

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@storylearning 2 ай бұрын

How does all this language learning affect your brain? kzbin.info/www/bejne/pKHZnmdjd5qXZ68

@unclepoop1280 2 ай бұрын

10 years of hair styles in one video

@storylearning 2 ай бұрын

😂

@EFeffie 2 ай бұрын

😂 I noticed that too! Great vid, great hair.

@lunalui 2 ай бұрын

I was about to make the same comment. Also 15:20 explains it all...

@alphonsoelm5652 2 ай бұрын

The collab we didn't know we needed

@LucasHenrique-vu9yj 2 ай бұрын

Understanding more than 95% of this video and being able to type this comment feels magically satisfying to me

@binbinky78 2 ай бұрын

Congratulations 🎉

@N0k4hara 2 ай бұрын

I hope I’m like this with my target language :D

@LucasHenrique-vu9yj 2 ай бұрын

@@N0k4hara Trust the process and don't stop

@meridanikole 2 ай бұрын

why on earth did this make me emotional 😭 congratz man

@christianwhisenant9305 29 күн бұрын

Congrats! What’s your native language?

@olgad5928 2 ай бұрын

I'm always get a bit discourages in these types of videos when there's a talk of "your special reason/motivation", so you should adjust your learing style to meet them. My whole reason is simply "fun". When I stop having fun, I take a break or stop altogether.

@storylearning 2 ай бұрын

I think that’s a great reason!

@lawrence675a 2 ай бұрын

I'm not overhyping you or anything just being genuine this is for sure oje of the most useful channels I've found for learning languages other than Steve Kaufman and Matt vs Japan. I became fluent in spanish in 5 months. Yeah I get it spanish isn't that hard. But the journey was insane and it holds truth that no one can just get duolingo and be fluent in whatever they want😭 so much listening and vocab

@storylearning 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! And keep up the great work with your Spanish.

@naquanwashington3030 2 ай бұрын

What was your routine for learning Spanish

@lawrence675a 2 ай бұрын

@naquanwashington3030 since spanish is easy to read. I used chat gpt so much. Because I don't need help knowing if I say it right. But to make sure you get the accent down. Me personally I'm learning the spanish dialect of spain (castellano) so I listen to a podcast called "Tengo Un Plan" it's fantastic. I listened every day for about 4 months and nothing made sense. All gibberish. But I kept going and now the percentage of how much i can understand of it increases daily. But words you get from chat gpt write them down. And get comprehensive input. You need only a few hours a day. I used 10 hours a day to learn all the tenses at first but that was it. Took me a few days to learn all the conjugations it's not hard but I understand not everyone has 10 hours a day😭

@lisaharriman8560 2 ай бұрын

I'm going to try the review tip for my French and Italian and I'm also going to add Greek as I think that it's probably sufficiently different that I won't confuse it with the other 2. Thank you for creating an engaging way to progress beyond intermediate.

@lazstan 2 ай бұрын

I've been with you for the last 4 years. Thanks Olly. I have many of your books. Did 3 years of Spanish and now 130+ days into french.. then farsi (wife's language) ,then Brazilian Portuguese and that's 6 with my Hungarian... Good enough as I started at age 50

@nerd26373 2 ай бұрын

We appreciate your dedication and hard work. You'll always have our support.

@storylearning 2 ай бұрын

Thanks so much

@seeyoulater2493 2 ай бұрын

Hello how are you Are you okay I want to learn english with you thank you 🌷🥀

@rodolfotroncosofaesch3907 2 ай бұрын

Gracias!! Tus concejos siempre me han ayudado!! Gracias por tus videos, Estoy aprendido ingles! Saludos desde Chile!

@JamesWhite-cr5ys Ай бұрын

Great assistance. Thank you very much.

@agathachristie8064 2 ай бұрын

Yes! To many learning materials make focus/decision in ways of learning - a paralysis - a kind of situation that one having everything can end up with expertise in nothing( it happened to me when I wanted to learn too many language skills at the same time🤓).

@storylearning 2 ай бұрын

So true!

@katem5077 2 ай бұрын

Really good video. I am great at planning, rubbish at doing. Also I am a lang course hoarder. That's hard advice. I am going to watch this one more than once. Thanks Olly

@giovannisantos5996 7 күн бұрын

Really good. Thanks

@ArachnidFactsReactions 2 ай бұрын

The language I'm learning doesn't use difficult grammar, this is why it's my favorite language

@javierfernandoagudelogomez1794 2 ай бұрын

I wish that one day you´ll have one million subscribers

@chrisevans7119 2 ай бұрын

Interesting point on learning similar languages at the same time being difficult. I was under the impression from hearing other channels say that it’s a bonus and should speed up acquiring the next language. I’m right at that point now, I’ve been learning Spanish for about 2 years and would like to move onto Italian. Thought provoking 🤔

@tairi07 2 ай бұрын

Thanks Olly. Valuable tips esp #1, focus on one thing.

@storylearning 2 ай бұрын

Absolutely!

@user-tr3qf4pg4d 2 ай бұрын

So I think that really good advice for me because I gonna achieve all my goals in these all languages which I'm learning to currently and also as I noticed you have the same hair cut in each video that's looks so good continue make a great content.

@storylearning 2 ай бұрын

You got this!

@themetalfox3725 2 ай бұрын

Thank you! I especially liked how you spoke about taking breaks and finding specific reasons to learn languages. I’m learning Spanish to communicate with friends and people on Tandem, and because I don’t want to be monolingual 😅

@storylearning 2 ай бұрын

Wonderful!

@UnaGranCantidadDePanes 2 ай бұрын

to be honest your story learning method changed how i learn languages completely and is the reason i now speak spanish as a second language, but weirdly i dont even do the story learning method (at least not mainly). i mostly use the section in the beginning of your story learning books where you say how to read in a foreign language, i think it was just the philosophy of how to interact with content in your target langauge. i remember once you actually said you dont believe watching TV shows is an effective way to learn a language, that its only affective with proper study on the side, but i disagree entirely, because thats exactly what i do with spanish, french and am starting to do with japanese. i have a memory disorder which makes it so that im physically unable to learn through formal study so immersion changed my life to be honest. its funny because i think we do the exact same thing with the same mindset just through different mediums, so it kind of baffled me when you said you dont think its effective because, to me, its the most effective thing ive ever done, and i would say it is actually story learning, just through audio and visuals instead of text. i think where the confusion comes from about why people think it doesnt work is that people generally think of it as watching adult television shows, but i start with essentially hundreds and hundreds of hours of mainly shows and films (without subtitles) made for young children (the younger the better) and then work my way up the target audience. this way its kind of like how with your story learning method you start with your books that are designed to help you grasp the story even if you dont understand all the words, childrens media works the exact same, especially with very young audiences they are designed so that the children native to the language can follow whats happening even if they dont understand whats being said, which makes it practically perfect immersion material for anyone learning the language even if your not a toddler. i also do this with story books, starting with childrens picture books then eventually moving up to novels, but i do it through shows and films a lot more. i remember once you said the drawback of using childrens media is that it makes you sound like a child in the language, but to be honest i find this only really happens in the beginning? as someone who has been doing this for years now with multiple languages, once you move onto media for older and older audiences, the way you you speak and write moulds to it. and either way, i actually dont mind speaking like a child when i first start a language, it can actually be quite fun and an enjoyable way to use the langauge without stressing about saying or writing everything perfectly, which ultimately i think leads to much better speech and writing in the long term. así q muchas gracias por crear tus videos de aprender los idiomas, me han ayudado después de años y años de intentar aprender varios idiomas y fallar mucho. Ahora q me has mostrado esta manera única de aprender con historias por fin puedo hablar otro idioma y aprender cualquier otro en una forma que mi trastorno de amnesia no me pueda detener :) además, gracias por inventar los libros de story learning, he comprado unos y me han ayudado muchísimo, incluso si ya no los uso tanto. el libro de español para principates era justo lo q necesitaba para empezar aprender un nuevo idioma en una manera q funciona con mi trastorno. cuando voy a las tiendas locals de libros (normalmente waterstones, vivo en inglaterra también) me molesta tantísimo q en los secciones de idiomas solo hay libros del estudio formal, no historias en los idiomas. salvo que tus libros de story learning. así que muchas gracias por arreglar eses secciones de waterstones en este país jajsjaj. espero q en el futuro tengan libros hecho para habladores nativos, me gusta mucho aprender con eses pero son difíciles de encontrar si no puedes comprar libros en línea. hoy donde vivo en el sur, vi un doble arcoíris. espero q tengas un día muy bonito y q ves algo hermoso también :)

@tupacmasteralg1247 2 ай бұрын

شكرا، gracias, thanks , danke ❤

@skateforfun4224 2 ай бұрын

The haircut tip was something I had never thought of, great tip!

@storylearning 2 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it!!

@heyitsshadz 2 ай бұрын

About learning two languages at the same time, I've been doing that with Japanese and Spanish. However, in my head, the vowel sounds are the same, and sometimes I would mix the words up, for example "demo" means "but" in Japanese, but one time I tried talking to a Mexican who barely spoke English and I said demo instead of "pero."

@tommynaclerio 2 ай бұрын

Make a Greek book!

@Darth_Sepharious 2 ай бұрын

I don’t make mistakes. I take a learn swerve lol

@valala2987 27 күн бұрын

You know, I think learning two or three languages at once is absolutely possible. I was kind of forced to do that with the school system I went through and it worked well. I"m very mediocre in one of the three languages but that's mainly because that was the only language I was not using to read books or watch television (I'm fluent in the other two). However, one thing that could MAYBE cause some confusion is starting multiple languages at once. I think it is much easier to learn multiple languages if you start the second language after you have already learned the basics in the first language. I find that getting the basics down is usually the most boring and also most difficult part. After you get to a point where you can interact with books, tv shows and people, language learning becomes a lot easier. Having to learn a substantial amount of new vocabulary and new grammar system for two languages at once would definitely slow you down.

@phgillon2614 Ай бұрын

Bravo! Quelle illumination point de vue apprendre une ou des autres langue(s) Si tu t'en souviens, je suis français et parle américain anglais à un haut niveau, car j'ai vécu plus de 12 ans aux États-Unis et plus de 25 ans au Royaume-Uni (ma femme, mes filles et mon petit-fils sont anglais). ...but have an accent: for English, as a non native language, the truth is if you did not have a parent that was anglophone or did not go to an English speaking school when from a very young age, you will have a foreign accent. En ce qui concerne les accents anglais, il y en a beaucoup qui peuvent être forts dans certaines parties du Royaume-Uni, et dans des pays qui parlent l'anglais de manière en partie officielle, comme en partie l'Inde et autant la Jamaïque par exemple, et ils ont des accents forts. Je suis également en train de de réviser du dialecte espagnol Costa Ricain (aux États-Unis, nous vivions dans le sud-ouest, en Californie en fait, où le mexicain en tant que langue était fort et souvent utilisé aussi MAIS à Long Island , NY, j'ai appris autant d'espagnol (Costa Ricain) en 1 an avec une femme qui s'occupait de nos filles ). J'aime l'esprit "paisible" intéressant des Costariciens ainsi que leur espagnol unique qui a aussi des tons doux). Je voulais refaire de l'allemand, mais finalement, je me reconnecte également avec la langue grecque (même du Koine) et joue avec du kréole de l'île Maurice 👍💜 Et j'en reste là. Thank you for having hugely inspired me to re-learn the power and usefulness of languages 🙏💛

@James-hs3tu 2 ай бұрын

Interesting Imo. Example. A person who studying to be a Doctor can't just take a break. For a week Constant studying They have to get a concept down. And than move to the next

@hamimhashan8537 2 ай бұрын

Pleased make one video about how to longin storylearning korean course

@dalilsty 2 ай бұрын

too many resources was what made me give a long break to japanese. after i had passed the beginning stage, i got paralyzed because there was still so much to learn, too many resources, and i had no one to guide me

@AmilcarJavier 28 күн бұрын

in pieso with the drama book or the story book?

@ArachnidFactsReactions 2 ай бұрын

All my language learning stuff are online

@ArachnidFactsReactions 2 ай бұрын

I learned the Cyrillic alphabet without even trying to learn it... and could read Russian like it was nothing (I still didn't know what I was reading lol)

@James-hs3tu 2 ай бұрын

Saw on other yt videos. A person a studying multiple languages at one

@Deutsch-um6rt 22 күн бұрын

Not from two different language families, but rather groups. I don’t think you can confuse English and Armenian despite their being Indo-European languages

@Fabala827 2 ай бұрын

Does anyone (Olly included!) have any recommendations for language learning with auditory processing disorders? I can read, write, and speak French to a reasonable degree, but even when I was at my absolute most fluent and was writing term papers, etc in French, I can only ever reliably understand French in someone I speak to often in that language, like my particular teachers/professors. I’m from New England in the US, and I honestly can’t even reliably process a lot of Southern accents from this country. I can usually understand “the queen’s english,” but even something like cockney or Scottish accents get too much for me. Like I said, it’s a processing disorder, and I think I’ve learned to deal with it by relying heavily on anticipating where emphasis falls & what cadence a person uses. When another language, another dialect, or even another accent comes into play, that all changes, and it’s so incredibly frustrating! Not to mention embarrassing, when I literally could understand whatever was being said to me if it was written down, even if it was written in French. Do I just need to go to some kind of auditory processing specialist to learn overall strategies before I can get this to work in a foreign language as well, or are there any tricks people could recommend?

@barrybookmaker7433 2 ай бұрын

don't look for excuses , everyone has problem to understand the Scottish