How I Immerse Myself in a Language

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Language immersion doesn’t depend so much on where you are, although it can. It depends more on your attitude towards the language you are learning, and your actions as a learner.
00:00 The different forms of language immersion.
01:46 My recent trip to Poland and speaking Polish.
05:25 Being interviewed in Polish.
06:10 Language immersion through books.
09:07 Language immersion is getting involved with everything connected to the language.
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[@Thelinguist]

The app I use to learn languages -> shorturl.at/dkstz My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com How do you try to immerse yourself in the language you are learning?

[@marysmith733]

Hi steve, i have been using Lingq for a few years, recently i noticed that when I try to create a lesson in russian with accent marks, once it got created, all of them are gone, not showing any more. before it was no problem at all. i don't know if this is a new feature or you guys can take a look and fix it. it's really painful to learn russian without accent marks.

[@Jen444-ct7hj]

@@marysmith733 i agree. i have the same issue with accent mark not showing in the lesson after it was created.

[@Sam-sv3fn]

i thought it was only me having this problem. it is painful without accent mark. yeah, the lessons i created last year all still have accent mark, but the new ones i added recently are all gone.

[@nicholasmeinhart5993]

I've been mostly listening to youtube, along with having watched a lot of television shows in the language before i decided to learn

[@lucasmozart9292]

you're my inspiration, speaking from Brazil💪🏻🙏🏻

[@JasperSynth]

Ele é ótimo

[@mateusmontini797]

Com você amigo

[@mateuscosta5465]

Tamo junto

[@alberthenrique3175]

Isso ae !! Tmj

[@thi1822]

Tmj 🎉

[@MarcinR]

Its nice to hear such a more positive words about Poland. I hope your journey with polish language will be successful. Pozdrawiam z Polski!

[@danubiodeoliveira6108]

Thank you, Steve, for sharing your experiences with us. They are inspiring to keep us pushing our limits.

[@agnieszkastachowiak8636]

Thank you so much for so kind words about Poland.

[@adiboena123]

Thank you for speaking so well about Poland . Blessing for you and your wife !

[@hibaabooun3992]

Deep and awesome thinking way to involved in a language, thanks alot 🤗

[@danielmidura774]

Nice to hear that You’ve been in Marcin Wieczorek podcast :)). I cant wait to hear it. …every day i listen your movies, such as power of reading, listening or many more…find the goal, motovation in my opinion are crucial, and of course to be obsessed about language! have a nice weekend! 😊

[@ronaldgamboa6594]

thank you so much for your tips!!

[@NoName-qu3tw]

Greetings from Poland Steve! You inspire us!

[@papaxsmurf7678]

Genau! Sie sprechen wie ein wahrer Sprachmeister. Dieses Video hat mich inspiriert, meine Sprachen regelmäßig zu üben und in sie einzutauchen. Vielen Dank!

[@user-ic4ce8xb5v]

Er hat mich auch inspiriert, deshalb konnte ich dein Kommentar verstanden. Viel Glück!

[@girigiri2167]

Excellent teaching 💐❤

[@JenKim22_]

thanks for your guide! I think I should broaden my way of learning English. You inspire me a lot.

[@gladisglz8176]

Totalmente de acuerdo con sus comentarios. Gracias !

[@simaoferrazferraz5295]

Thank Mr Steve.

[@ticona24ccoccosani]

hi from Peru, I like languages, I like to listen to your insights about language learning

[@notoelegancko89]

Cześć Steve, really appreciate all your effort put into all the inspiring content. I maintain my motivation to keep working on my Vietnamese partially because of your youtube channel and your learning attitude. I'm Polish, speak English fluently and I've been working on my Vietnamese on and off for the last 10 years. I lived in Vietnam for a few years and my wife is Vietnamese. Now living in Poland so it's particularly difficult to maintain/make progress with the language. Out of curiosity, have you ever considered learning tiếng Việt (Vietnamese)? I bet you'd have a good time considering your knowledge of Chinese, another tonal language.

[@alexandermartinez1113]

l started to learn English when l was 17 and l've never been abroad l manage to bring English into my daily life it's all in english read books in english l listen to podcasts l watch tv shows l even have my phone and latop in English also l sometimes get to speak with American people because where l live there are a lot of them

[@shunhuazhu761]

thank you! I think about this idea a lot: I am only starting to learn spanish besides my mother tongue and English, and attempting to create a language bubble for myself so as to spend as little energy to force memorization as possible. yay it's fun and low energy-cost and sustainable. Sometimes i can feel the language very briefly and it shocks me. Most of the time I am lost. it's a little hard to calculate the progress this way but i am sure it's all for something. HOPEFULLLY! thank you so much steve i really really appreciate your presence.

[@blekberg]

Great stuff

[@sbkamara2003]

I love mr. Stephen videos 😊

[@juhaheino9482]

🤗 kiitos steve ja terveiset minun maastani suomesta,✍👉muchos gracias steve por esta video y saludos desde finlandia,

[@stewste4316]

superb

[@inderpatel6559]

Immersion is the best way to learn any language

[@pawerz.8712]

Hi Steve. Hope you enjoyed staying in Poland. I'm Pole, let me know whether you want some language exchange. I'm learning spanish at the moment and really enjoy listening to your podcasts. Greetings from Warsaw

[@VolodymyrSukhomud]

Dear Steve, I somehow just found your channel and started listening and watching your lessons. I'm from Ukraine. I am Volodymyr. I really like your presentation of the material. I plan to study your lessons and listen to your instructions as much as possible. There has been a war in Ukraine for more than a year. When the war started and the situation got worse, I sent my daughter and wife to Canada. I volunteered for almost a year, collecting food from people in villages and taking it to centers where refugees from the war zone gathered. When the war started, I lost my job. Later, my car broke down and there was no money for repairs, so I was forced to sell it. Then my wife's father had a stroke. And now I have been living with my wife's parents for a year and I help them, because they are elderly and it is very difficult for them. My wife didn't study English at school and she also has a hard time in Canada, they live in Edmonton now. But we are strong people and we don't give up. My wife Ludmila has been working and providing for her daughter and their life in Canada since the first days. She is a professional accountant and financial manager, but works as a cleaner in a hotel. Now at the Fantasyland Hotel in the West Edmonton Mall, maybe you've been there, dear Steve. Previously, she worked in another hotel, but in both positions she is the best in the team, she is highly valued, but the work is extremely difficult. My daughter Yuliya studies very well, she attends high school. We invested a lot in her development, so now she is not as difficult as it could be. But my heart is breaking, I haven't hugged or touched my girls, my dearest people in the world, for a year. I have been studying English for almost a year now, because in the future I hope to go to my family and provide for them, just live with them and love them, just cook breakfast in the morning on weekends. If, of course, I still have such an opportunity, but we will not give up. Dear Steve, I wanted to ask you if you would agree to do an English lesson with me, even for 10 minutes, so that I can feel if I am making progress? I am learning the language by myself. It would be incredible and wonderful. I bow to you for your work and creativity, it helps people a lot. Thank you very much and I wish you good health! You can write to me on Instagram under the nickname - volodymyr_sukhomud

[@RainerSchulz449]

I am deeply impressed by your accounts of your war-torn life. I wish you all the best, peace and God’s blessing for your future as a family.

[@FeralMina]

All my best to you and your family. ᎣᏏᏳ ᎢᏳᎾᎵᏍᏓᏁᎰᎢ ᎤᏲ ᎢᎨᎬᎾᏕᎩ ᏚᏳᎪᏛ ᎨᏒ ᎤᏂᏍᏛᏗᏍᎩ Let them be blessed who were persecuted for righteousness’ sake. ᏕᏣᏓᎦᏎᏍᏕᏍᏗᏭ ᏕᏣᏓᏟᏴᏎᏍᏗᏃ. Let you all be watching over each other and clinging to one another. ᎤᏚᎩ ᎠᏅᎭ ᏂᎦᏓ ᎪᎱᏍᏗ ᎣᏍᏓᏊ ᎨᎮᏍᏗ. I hope everything will be alright.

[@wimalism]

उत्तमम्।

[@accelerat0r747]

I totally agree with this ! learning a language is more like a cultural thing in witch the language itself is one component.

[@rafalkaminski6389]

That book of Grzesiuk ("Barefoot, yet with Spurs") - great choice! ITs about a Polish guy from Warsaw during WW2 how he coped with living under the german occupation :)

[@rafacosta_x_]

I've been improving my English recently and could perceive a great evolution. Now I'm trying to immerse myself in German, but it's hard at the beginning. My German is a little basic yet, so all the time I miss part of the content that I'm watching to. But that's how the things are and with the time you start to get every time more all the sentences and it becomes something natural to you. It takes time, but it's satisfying at the end

[@aliceiankovsky]

Are you Brazilian?

[@rafacosta_x_]

@@aliceiankovsky yeah

[@olafharoldsonnii4713]

Das ist gut!

[@rafacosta_x_]

@@olafharoldsonnii4713 are you Dutch?

[@olafharoldsonnii4713]

@@rafacosta_x_ Nein

[@rafalkaminski6389]

IT is interesting: i have looking for immersion and now i see Kaufman on that topic in my native Polish. Well, interlocuters may suffer, but there is no way around. I appreciate that.

[@antekp2965]

interesting choice. Stanislaw Grzesiuk is an absolutely legendary figure known mainly for his memoirs about his 5-year stay in German concentration camps (recently book translated into German) and performances of street ballads of pre-war Warsaw. Btw : in his '"Boso ale w ostrogach" there is a bit about the dialect diversity of pre-war Warsaw (so-called 'gwara warszawska'), which almost completely disappeared after the war. Funny fact : my parents claim that the first songs I sang as a child come from Grzesiuk's repertoire (we had an LP)

[@stuartlong6217]

Immersion to me is taking notice of all the things around you whilst you are away. On the metro my eyes always wander to the adverts and trying to understand them, or the signs in shop windows. Little things that require no effort just curiosity. (and google translate).

[@RockChampEnglish]

It’s about the mindset and the attitude when u speak. Hv to think ur from that place when u speak tht language

[@damontreyr8128]

Hey Steve! Will LingQ be adding Thai language content? I currently use it for Portuguese and love it.

[@YoungSheley]

Thanking you for your useful material. Speaking from Pakistan.

[@nathanwanjau4090]

Great video as always Steve! Quick question: you said that you read a whole book on the flight back from Poland - do you work through new vocabulary with a dictionary as you’re reading or anything similar?

[@Thelinguist]

No, I rarely look words up when reading a book. I need to be at a certain level to do that. There are, however, nagging words that I sometimes to look up if they keep appearing.

[@jamesklieve4620]

Here's a question to maybe think about: if you were a teacher who gives language classes to people at different levels, what activities would be involved? Content like this has taught me well about principles for my language learning. Even so, there is little content that outlines the specific steps to actively help/motivate other people in a classroom. Soon I will start teaching English to refugees in a church-- and the classroom plan is a blank slate, I could do anything.

[@Thelinguist]

The most important thing you can give them is the motivation to work hard on their English away from the classroom. If they rely on you to teach them they won't improve. The classroom is a social context, a place where they have friends and support from you and classmates. The learning takes place wherever they are. They need to do a lot of listening and reading, without worrying about what they continue to not understand, continue to forget. They need to speak when they have the opportunity, without worrying about how they do, nor even about their lack of opportunity or desire to speak. Just keep reading and listening and things will work out. It's up to them.

[@ggrey5990]

@@Thelinguist great response Steve, your application and method are superb. Thanks.

[@waedjradi]

Hey Steve, I hope you can see this, but any learning tips for the language Swiss German? It's a bit like German, but slightly different in pronunciation and it seems difficult to find a translator online for it or even books. Thanks

[@macbump]

I’m working on Punjabi/Hindi. I listen to kids shows. They’re often easier to understand. I read things like the medical pamphlets in the doctor’s offices. Or even the deposit envelope for the ATM machine has Punjabi on it at a certain bank in B.C.! You can pick up a new word anywhere.

[@ticona24ccoccosani]

I am trying to get the sounds that english speakers make , whether is unnecesary or not, and it is a bad strategy to start from zero, it is good to start from our first language because it is already closer than any rules we may aply separatedly, because like you said , rules cannot be applied on the fly, I think it is because of synchronicity of many rules that we already apply subconciously for our first language

[@Irina-jm9rp]

You absolutely right! I'm Russian. I've been living in Kazakhstan for 47 years but I don't speak any Kazakh (I know it's a shame). However, I speak Italian and English in advanced level 😊😊

[@kasiakrasucka]

Bardzo się cieszę, że tak podobało Ci się w Polsce. Powodzenia z nauką polskiego! 😊

[@mcmerry2846]

Zczczczysksky

[@vivaespana5013]

Start at 7:46

[@ayeshachouhan3251]

Immersion, interaction is mutually decided to be necessary for language learning, same is with other learnings but what is the best Immersion method ,the ideal technique of interaction for best quick results? technique

[@HolaEspanyol]

😮

[@Charlotte-ti2yk]

This is very inspiring. I've been learning Turkish since January (still input only; I haven't yet started trying to output, and don't expect to for a while), and I hope to visit in September. I don't for one second expect to be able to get there and suddenly be conpletely fluent, but it'll be fun trying to have little conversations here and there!

[@mohamedaminegwada8986]

Immersion in language need a hard efforts but if we individe some organic tasks allowed to get languge and i am sorry for my writing

[@margett__]

Nice video, Steve! I'd love to hear more about your approach to reading on paper vs. on screen. Do you just skip unfamiliar vocabulary when you read a paper copy of the book if it doesn't interfere whit the overall understanding of the paragraph? Do you then try and revisit these new words to get a better understanding of the content? Would love to hear more about your reading habits when learning a new language. Thanks!

[@thiagoxaviersoutricolor8260]

Hello Stive how's it going? Good weekend

[@olafharoldsonnii4713]

Hoi Steve! Jij zijn mijn taal mentor. Ich fing an, Lingq-Geschichten zu lesen. (My German sentence had help from google translate) My reading is better than my speaking or writing. How do I improve that from using Lingq, Netflix, and Busuu?

[@Thelinguist]

Just keep going, and look for interesting content to import.

[@LanguageswithErman]

👍👍👍

[@Stella_Del_Mattino]

Hey, cool pep speech on motivation. Takes lots of useless stress off one's back. My take on motivation for learning rankes number one. My target is to speak like a native. P.S. looking up to you as a polyglot. Love from Italy

[@elviragarrido1413]

Krakow is beatiful

[@troyshifflett1517]

I'm still having trouble importing e-books to Lingq. Where do you purchase your e-books from?

[@Thelinguist]

Which language?

[@troyshifflett1517]

@@Thelinguist Spanish

[@troyshifflett1517]

@@Thelinguist I normally get my books fun kindle, but unfortunately I'm not able to import them to Lingq. Do you have any suggestions where I should buy books so that I can import them?

[@smspelomundo]

Sometimes i feel that words and the meaning of them are not really grounded, "crystalized" has you said. how to overcome this? Using words more frequently?

[@Thelinguist]

It all takes time. Be patient.

[@chileumadit6588]

Eu sou tentando para aprender e fala portugues.

[@artvisual6307]

Extremely important thing for language learning. Greetings from Ukraine!:)

[@portuguesplease]

The readers for the auido books in LInkQ lack enthusiasm big time.. It really takes away from the learning experience. For the price, this should be something of high priority...

[@RockChampEnglish]

I listen to the same person every single day… u don’t need many many people to be in the state of immersion

[@ducksareanimalstoo]

Uważam, że język polski jest dość trudny

[@mike-lx8tp]

How the heck did you read that whole book on the plane if your Polish isn’t that strong?

[@RRRazzzaRRR]

These words are still bothering me despite your lesson.