How I Learn Multiple Languages At The Same Time

[@jamesmccloud7535]

R.I.P Moses. Thank you for inspiring me to learn languages and put myself out there. You will always be a legend in my mind.

[@musingepitaphy]

Зачем ты это пишешь? Ты думаешь он это прочитает? Надо было сделать это раньше.

[@Vuden13]

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[@heihade7991]

"If you're not growing, you're not doing something right" - Amen

[@Manuel-rl6um]

"If you're not getting better, you're getting worse"

[@Someone-qj4np]

@Framework333 y'all are so funny ! Haha!!

[@0TurnAround0]

who is amen

[@WhatIFWonders-F]

@@0TurnAround0 he means Amen for like Yessir

[@bunnycatch3r]

You remind me of Morpheus... with two doors. This is your last chance. After this, there is no turning back. You take the door on the left-the story ends, you wake up in your bed and you're monolingual. You take the right door-you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep this linguistic rabbit hole goes. Remember: all I'm offering is the truth. Nothing more.

[@danielnoriegagarcia4756]

+bunnycatch3r akhajahjajhahahah!

[@melanphilia]

is it just me or apartment is round :O

[@iloveowls8748]

haha :D epic !

[@bradenrodriguez5183]

@@melanphilia it's his camera lens. hahhaa

[@bonbonpony]

@bunnycatch3r: And the door on the right is already open, inviting you to enter ;)

[@_sparrowhawk]

Love you dude - your life was an absolute joy to watch, and we miss you like crazy in 2022. KZbin is full of polyglots but you started everything

[@Disciplina-k1y]

Guys like him are very rare ... hugs from Portugal 🇵🇹

[@MisterM2402]

14:40 I liked how you struggled to think of a language you hadn't already studied; you've done so many! :D

[@sallylauper8222]

Hindi!- like what? Which polyglot hasn't studied Hindi?

[@anasbedraoui3520]

@@sallylauper8222 it has been almost 6 years , but now he can speak Hindi

[@Jowyerv]

my mother tongue language is mandarin, but my parents speak hokkien, n my grandma speak cantonese, that's how i consumed 3 languages at a v young age. and my mom always put the vcr tape of sesame street, barneys... etc american kids show to learn english. when ive went to elementary school, our edu' system stricted for all chinese student to learn Malay and British English. then when in middle school i was a total anime nerd dude, therefore ive learned japanese. after graduated from highschool, ive met my ex bf who's from Bangladesh, and at the same time i'm into clubbing n met a lot of Thai people, thus ive learned Thai, Bangladesh, Hindi and focus on Japanese at the same time. til now, so far ive learned a lil bit of Korean, Arabic, Tamil and Javanese (an Indonesian dialect). it is possible to learn multiple language at the same time. the key point that i learn multiple languages at the same time is, to learn the languages that are having similar grammar structures, that make it easier to memorizing it.

[@WhatACoolArrow]

@BatJoker lots of apps and websites out there to connect with people and Skype chat. Also if you're open to learning any language almost every city in the world has at least some immigrants or immigrant community. Try connecting at markets and restaurants like laoshu does. Find some books with grammar and vocab, download music and shows. There is always a way if you want it bad enough.

[@lilmanjp]

Hot Damn

[@FabiusStephanus]

Jovak Art - Javanese is a seperated language from Indonesian which is not a dialect from Indonesian, just pointing that out.

[@mik-bu1fd]

You should be a teacher, your voice is clear and easy to remember

[@jakubsebek]

he is a teacher

[@NikSpringer]

I based my trust in this video off of the fact that you didn’t have a pushy/clickbait thumbnail, which doesn’t have any key words like “multiple languages” or things like that to entice people into watching. I feel that you are truly giving real advice, which so few on KZbin do. thank you, inspired

[@chrisbarnhill8944]

6:20 When Laoshu can't remember a word, the word doesn't exist. Rest in peace, Moses.

[@Shammer1]

Man everytime I see this content i feel a little sad just started watching this guy about 2 and half years ago and it was awesome

[@infraredplayer]

What kind of microphone do you use? You could read me a bedtime story.

[@patrickdepardieufodjo7819]

Lol

[@markchavez738]

nrg Haha this comment is great! Luv it

[@roddyguzful]

jajajaja

[@KaneODriscoll]

Watching this in 2022. Your work continues on Moses 👏🏽

[@alexholt5739]

This has helped me immensely. I'm going on an exchange trip to France for a year in 2020 and so I only have a few months to learn French, but I need to continue Japanese (the language our school teaches) in order to finish the year. Thank you for helping me in my very specific situation❤

[@GoSuMonSteR]

Yeah, listening to you make me realize I'm just not working hard enough at times. I kind of have ADD so I have an issue with jumping all over the place and not being able to focus for very long.

[@not_ever]

I'm like that too. I couldn't even watch this video all the way through in one go, even though it's something that I wanted to watch and it's in my native language. This is what I would advise people like me to try, maybe it'll help you: Put the language on in the background, like music/TV/podcasts ALL THE TIME, (if it's going to piss off other people use headphones). It is best if it's the same music/TV/podcast that you put on each time, or rather a small playlist of a few things on repeat, (If it starts to really annoy you move onto something else, otherwise you will just focus on how irritated you are.) You'd be surprised how much that can help you, even when you think you're not listening, you're at least picking up on the rhythm of the language (great for your accent). You still need to study, so do it in regular ten minute intensive bursts, because that is better than nothing, and for some people it's better than studying solidly for hours. I used to force myself to study in the way they teach you to at school. Man that sucked! I learnt absolutely nothing, except for the reason why I had hated school so much.

[@kozumexee]

Same

[@lovenessisojick2139]

Why Somali for you what is your motivation, because IAM planing to start learning Somali because it is very close to my vanacular language Iraqw from Tanzania.The plan is to understand how Somali is taught and use the same methods to teach my vanacular language. Currenty IAM learning French full time and Russian at the same time...For Russian and French I learn online through duo lingo I listen to music and KZbin lessons and practice speaking it by making videos and send to my friends for corrections.I can say that IAM in a good stage with French but IAM still mumbling with Russian.

[@shark24501]

Great advice. Thank you. I started with Chinese maybe a little over a year ago. My strategy was terrible lol. Since watching your videos over the past few months I'm making much progress. My friend who is from southern China, she finds it hilarious that my Chinese is progressing so fast. I will also attempt to become fluent in Spanish. Keep up the great work. Blessings to you.

[@dsnightcore4208]

I love your voice! It's very soothing and relaxing to listen to... I love it. Also, great video!

[@locked3009]

Man I love this video,subscribed! Definitively want to learn multiple languages after meeting people from all over the planet. Aussie subscriber here

[@sargothi]

I'm fluent in 3. brain is full. no more hard drive space.

[@laoshu505000]

hahahahha

[@sargothi]

I can ask basic questions in a lot of languages if anyone can speak English but my russian french and English are 100% perfect. Nin hui jiang yin yu ma? and for Japanese all I have is koko niego o hanaseru wa imasu ka? I'm probably butchering these when I type them but I say them clearly.

[@roddyguzful]

jajajaja

[@hendrikvisser2540]

Human brain has roughly 2500000 gigabytes of storage

[@jenny-ro6gm]

I am already fluent in polish,german,english and twi (my mother tounge) and there are many other languages I want to learn 💞: Europe: Russian,french,portuguese Asia: Chinese (mandarin),Korean,Japanese,Kazakh,Thai

[@tonytone1378]

How did you do that?

[@TheIamtheoneandonly1]

You sir, are both amazing and so inspiring. Thank you.

[@jaysonemile6633]

R. I . P laoshu

[@richardmossy5540]

I took a year off of languages after you passed away Moses, it was just too hard. I'm back at it again learning Spanish and loving every minute of it. I miss you. I always dreamt of meeting you someday and how unfair is it that now the dream will never come true! Rest in peace, Moses.

[@haydenbond3449]

i love your level up videos , they really inspire me to learn more , im learning french atm , but along with japanese . ive been learning japanese for about 3 to 4 years now and i started french about 5 months ago but in the first 2 months i could'nt study much due to time but now im really starting to progress with it. i want my japanese to be the most fluent of the languages that i learn.

[@DReyna-bc6zd]

"Xenophobia", fear of the outside world. Or perhaps "isolationism". Good breakdown on your methods.

[@laoshu505000]

D. Reyna It came to mind right after I made the video. I was thinking ''Ethnocentrism'' lolol

[@DReyna-bc6zd]

laoshu505000 well now I know what "ethnocentrism" is:) I was curious how you learn by reading. I found a program by another polyglot to learn languages by way of reading. Can you show us how you learn by reading? Do you just take out a notebook and create your own dictionary of new vocab? Thanks again, gonna study now.

[@crushone1]

laoshu505000 Nationalists is a closer definition.

[@crushone1]

@gobboshark __ idk I wrote that so long ago..lol

[@zabaanshenaas]

These are most of the languages that are on my list: Navaho, Hopi, Sioux, Ojibwe, Salish, Eskimo, Carib, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Tibetan, Burmese, Thai, Malay, Tagalog, Samoan, Tongan, Rotuman, Fijian, Marshallese, Asmat, Dani, Melpa, Enga, Kiwai, Motu, Kuanua, Djambarrpuyngu, Warlpiri, Pitjantjatjara, Tigrinya, Kunama, Somali, Luo, Kikuyu, Luganda, Shona, Lingala, Herero, Zulu, Nama, Ewe, Twi, Igbo, Yoruba, Ewondo, Ngbandi, Fula, Wolof, Temne, Mende, Susu, Welsh, Irish, French, Spanish, Romanian, Greek, Albanian, German, Dutch, Swedish, Polish, Russian, Hungarian, Finnish, Latvian, Basque, Chukchi, Arabic, Farsi, Turkish, Hindi, Tamil.

[@fivantvcs9055]

Wow, this is a very varieted list, very interesting!

[@fivantvcs9055]

I'm interested in many languages but I would say if I did my 'list à la Prévert' (my mother language is French and I use often English) : -Europe: German, Spanish, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, Occitan dialects, Romanian, Swedish, Icelandic, Croatian, Serbian, Greek -Asia: Persian, Arabic, Turkish, Armenian, Hebrew, Hindi and Urdu, Indonesian, Romaji Japanese, Khalkha (Mongolian) -Oceania: Nyungar, Bislama, Tahitian -Africa: Algerian Arabic, Egyptian Arabic, Lingala, Capverdian Creole, Amharic, Swahili, Afrikaans -America: Ojibwe, Cree, Nahualt, Yucatec (Mayan), Cuzco Quetcha, Guadeloupean Creole

[@fivantvcs9055]

I do love Chinese culture and ideograms. These are marvellous but I have to admit I have lost motivation to learn them. I find it too tough, this is not impossible but for keeping it in mind, I think that you have to focus only (or almost) on the learning of hanzi/kanji (for Japanese).

[@zabaanshenaas]

fi vantvcs You also have an interesting list. It's good to see Nyungar, Tahitian, Ojibwe, and some other indigenous languages. It's true that we have to concentrate on those languages that we have more chance of studying properly due to having good resources, but there is no harm in exploring other fields. Obviously we can't learn all the languages of the world but we can try our best with the resources available. These days there is so much that can be found online for free, unlike before when we had to rely on the few bookshops that sold resources for so-called rare languages.

[@asmara956]

zabaanshenaas What about Tigrinya! ከመይ ከመይ! :)

[@Chorith77]

Hey I am from Cambodia. Thank for learning our language ( Khmer ). All the best to you. Currently I am learning Thai and Chinese, and I am focusing on Thai in hope I can use it after a year of learning. I am doing the same as you are doing. I am actually learn Thai full time, and just learn some stuff about Chinese as well as practice it with my friend. Then when I can use Thai, I'll go for Chinese full time, and will choose between Japanese or Korean for the next target language. This is really helpful. Thank for sharing. By the way, if you want to practice your Khmer sometimes in the future, I am happy to help you. Good luck :) Rith

[@nehemiahuriel]

Note to self (TLDW): learning Somali (full time) while maintaining conversations in 6-7 different languages. He has his FLR method and reads a lot of books, watches news, immerses himself into Somali. I wonder for how long he would study this language before moving to another language. Rip Laoshu

[@MarcosCaminante]

Well done. I have spent the last four years reaching a level where I can now live my life in Spanish. This process of learning the first L2 has been invaluable. For my next two languages I will do it differently than I did with Spanish. Thanks for your efforts. You motivate me.

[@bornwithclothes]

Hey Moses. You're insane, man. But incase you ever decide to visit Mexico, somewhere in the future it'd be awesome to see you try to dabble in Nahuatl, the ancient language of the aztecs that's still spoken in some parts of the country. Or if you go to the state of michoacan, you could try to speak purepecha (known as tarasco by the spanish speaking mexicans) amongst all the other languages you speak. Also, language wise what do you plan to achieve by age 60? That'd be an interesting answer.

[@WhatACoolArrow]

I believe Nahuatl and Mayan were both on his list he released a few years ago of his goals

[@FabiusStephanus]

He would achieve by speaking around 200 languages by the age of 60.

[@poopbutt6241]

@@FabiusStephanus 😭so sad

[@FabiusStephanus]

@@poopbutt6241 Yes I know 😞 RIP the legend.

[@jeygee3736]

He passed away. So won't be able to anymore sadly..RIP

[@marinamaccagni5253]

What a pity! I've found this treasure when he has just passed away. I'm so so badly sad.

[@Nollafgaming]

You should write a book if you haven't already.

[@vernoncyrus1923]

Rest in Paradise King

[@nikoletacude8721]

I only speak two languages and understand three But I learned it on unique way At age of 11 I could only speak Serbian, I studied English in school but would study it just enough to pass the test but then I founded anime (I watched Naruto as kid but I didn't know that Naruto Shippuden existed) I founded Naruto Shippuden on Japanese with Serbian subtitles and I got addicted to animes but as time passed I could understand Japanese and since I watched every single anime that I could find with Serbian subtitles I decided to try watching it with English subtitles but honestly I didn't understand anything on English but I could understand Japanese a little As time passed I learned English a little and I got hooked up on KZbin and books (for English) and dramas and videos on KZbin I could find for Japanese

[@benia1908]

now learn japanese

[@NickTheSwordsman]

I learn Spanish full time but dabble in Russian, Korean & Greek (in that order of proficiency) LOL can’t get enough of these writing systems :) thank you for keeping me inspired/motivated Moses!

[@lovenessisojick2139]

I'm learning Russian too

[@poginglamig23]

Thanks for the tips Moses. This is very timely for me right now as I have started doing my Chinese and Portuguese targets, Chinese is my number priority. I am also revising on my Spanish. FYI, you were the one that inspired me to study Chinese. You are the culprit man. hahaha. Mabuhay ka !

[@kkestrel150]

Found you from an old post on Benny Lewis' fluent in 3 months. Subscribed! Loving your video's so far =D

[@marinakarlovska7857]

Very motivating, thank you! Your voice is hypnotizing.

[@simondalling7489]

To be able to speak so many languages and to be able to engage with people is a true gift. We have a savant here in the UK, Daniel Tammet who could speak conversational Icelandic in a week. You should see if the Icelanders would be interested in you doing something similar, perhaps translating Icelandic to one of you favourite non-mother tongues? Great show you will have world wide appeal once multinational subtitles have been invented.

[@raufmamedov8255]

Rest in peace Moses .You encouraged a lot

[@prince223681]

How many hours per day when you're doing a language full time?

[@WhatACoolArrow]

He's said 5 hours a day per language for intensive study when he is focusing on one or two

[@jacobwillow050]

Hey Moses, I didn't think your still around... when did you got back from Mount Sinai? Oh I see... that's when you got the "stone tablets of the 20 languages". Welcome back!

[@marluxia8832]

@Jacow Willow It's actually 73 languages, but whatever. )))

[@trommelbiel]

Rest Bro. You really inspired me to continue with Mandarin Chinese. I wish I saw your channel earlier. Just subscribed.

[@SolidSycoJapanese]

I've been learning Japanese for almost three years now and feel that w's the time that I can pick up Korean as a side language. I'd love to master both but will focus all my effort on Japanese as that is my main love.

[@Odd29]

I speak 3 languages including english and currently learning Danish rn jut finished A1.

[@fivantvcs9055]

Moses met le paquet pendant 1,5 an et ensuite il passe à une autre langue à plein temps. Sa technique FLR est fondée sur l'écoute et sur une série de phrases d'accroche qui complètent peu à peu le vocabulaire. Moses dans l'Ohio a à portée de main des locuteurs avec une soixantaine de nationalités, avec lesquelles il pratique régulièrement. Sa premiere langue qu'il a étudiée à la fac est le chinois mandarin pour lequel il a une énorme passion (d'où son surnom "Laoshu", le rat, animal intelligent qui emmagasine de l'expérience). Moses parle mandarin et minnan, la langue chinoise principale de Taïwan, avec son epouse taïwanaise. Il a fait de sa passion des langues, un métier (il est professeur particulier-concepteur de méthodes). Technique intéressante pour ceux qui sont passionnés par les langues. Un parcours singulier mais passionnant. Cc +Marathon des Langues , +L'atout des langues

[@levananoir8175]

I just came here and I saw all the comments. What happened???

[@matthewlake182]

Cardiac arrest from a blocked artery and uncontrolled hypertension. Unfortunately, he didn't take medications and didn't like going to hospitals. If he had used medications and diet to control his health problems, he'd still be here today. Moses didn't need to die so young.

[@Kirkkirk-rr5cw]

Watch many of you videos....love them inspiring

[@nik3601]

Even if you learn multiple languages you have to focus on ONE language I got it !

[@mickymickymike4105]

Can you read and write in other languages? For instance: Pinyin, Chinese characters, Kanji etc.

[@laoshu505000]

yes

[@mickymickymike4105]

that's impressive. keep doing your thing, bro.

[@azman6568]

Thankyou, 5 months ago I started learning languages after watching one of your videos. I did not know Moses had passed away at the time. Just Thank you 🙏 🕊

[@kateramckay4317]

He died? When?

[@Bane391]

I currently speak fluent English and can converse in Bengali (which is my parent's native language). I'd like to become fluent in Bengali in the next year and hopefully learn a completely new language whenever I have free time. However it's difficult to find time to dedicate to language learning especially if you're a student.

[@danielbedoni4844]

Thanks for the good advice, dude. I don't like to learn languages at all, but now I have to learn Latin, German and French for my master and I'm gonna try focusing on Latin and random on the other ones... maybe it works better than what I've been doing...

[@laoshu505000]

+Daniel Bedoni Wish you the best

[@louisdillon8443]

I like your approach to language learning and have been doing some of what you have suggest we do. Right now, like you I am, doing several languages and I plan to incorporate some of what you said in this video. I might concentrate on two though - Spanish and Mandarin. And in the back ground learn the other just to get the feel of them - French, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, German, Japanese. Alot of the language is similar so it does not take a lot to remember things in a language. For example Italian is like a cross between Spanish and French with it own twist. So I find myself able to remember more of the languages when I can cross reference them. But what I want to know is have you every thought about use another language other than English when you are learning a new language? For example say you weren't fluent in Japanese and since you know Chinese why not learn Japanese through Chinese.That what I am planning to do when I become fluent in Spanish and if I can find Chinese books and audio that can do it. Assimil has titles through with is can be done. I know that the Chinese will have a lot of resources for learning other language through which many of their citizens learn other languages. I just want to get an idea what are your thoughts on this process as it would seem to be self re-enforcing. The reason I say this is because I remember watching a youtube video in Spanish teaching Japanese, this was after trying doing some Japanese on my own for sometime, and I got some insight that I didn't get learning it through English (granted I could not make out everything he was saying, since I am still not fluent and anyway I don't quit remember what it know now). I am living in Jamaica and there is not a lot of opportunity to practise all these language that I am learning (maybe the 2 that I will be concentrating on) but my aim is not for the present. I will be utilizing many of the suggest that you have given us though to accomplish becoming fluent in several different language. Your activities have been a motivation factor in my learning languages. P.S. I too love your level up videos

[@serainaburge6928]

I also found it useful to use one of your acquired languages to learn a new one. I am for example not an English native speaker but because I want to maintain my English while learning Korean I am just using English resources on the internet. Obviously you have to be sufficiently confident in your language abilities in the language you use.

[@MediumDSpeaks]

RIP the legend, the king

[@MarcelEdalgo]

You are king of languages like 2Pac for Rap, passed too young... R.I.P. Sensei

[@minhanhhuynhthi3997]

im learning Spanish and French at the same time ( Spanish is the priority though) , and Im might be pairing them with Hebrew and Sankrit. However, my most fear is Procrastination. This side of myself has caused too much destruction upon everything. Still fixing it for years now, but it comes mostly when I fall into neutral mood, no passion no habit, no motivation.

[@MsAshleyCulp]

Same! Some days im focused, some days im not..

[@norjop]

I like to watch "Hogan's Heroes" dubbed in german and French. I already knew some french and german before the internet years ago and with the internet and KZbin, it's great to practice listening to these languages.

[@soggycastella]

norjop that sounds great, where can I find the show in German? :)

[@Alaedious]

What would be some of the best videos you've made so that we could see how well you actually do in the languages you practice?

[@IV-ru2rm]

LONG LIVE SENSEI LAOSHU

[@techwizissa7247]

Waalalka Muse qataar aah tahy, hada luqad Somali baarano siid. Haweenka maa raabta inaad ka xadiid.lol You're video's have motivated me, to learn other languages, and to perfect my native Af Somali which is not as good as yours. Many Thanks :)

[@fivantvcs9055]

I know this is possible to learn two or three languages at the same time (if possible not too linked languages for preventing from confusion) but it does need lot of time and motivation necessarily. Personnaly I prefer learning one after one but I do like to make a linguistic bath a long time ago before the studying of one language= to read grammars, to have a look in dictionnaries, to hear some broadcasts even if you don't know the language. With the time, this becomes passive memory and when you're activating it, things are clear and you're somehow surprised that you have yet a few basis in the studied language in question.

[@hollya.g.86]

Do you do anything to suppliment your mental health? If I read take in media constantly I end up stressing my brain out and get pains in my occipital or temporal lobes, my eyes start shaking, etc. Do you take any herbs or suppliments, like nervines such as skullcap or lemonbalm, gotu kola and eleuthero, brain vitamins and aminos like GABA, CoQ10, Omega 3s and 6s, B vitamins, etc.?

[@akivalazar5904]

I dont know, but I like your question

[@danstobbart4406]

Moses ... Don't let languages take over your life ! You may like 'Learn 50 languages' app .. go via the phrasebook to find 'Did you know'. 50 plus short language articles (each translated into 50 languages) .. read an article per day in several languages... as maintenance exercise ? The articles are informative and interesting. By the way I loved your vid !

[@akebaahnkrahhotep8336]

I appreciate this video my brother!!! Peace!!!

[@laoshu505000]

+AkebaAhnkRah Hotep No problem, thanks for viewing.

[@VitneOfficial]

You mention Somali is your primary focus, and the others are basically review. But did you build up those others first one by one? Or do you add languages while maintaining your Somali focus, doing them every other day or something?

[@bonbonpony]

15:03 How about Inuktikut? :D But yeah, learning several languages at the same time (and I mean, _really_ at the same time, not carrouseling through them one by one) has some serious advantages, especially if they have any common ancestors (like, for example, many European languages have their roots in Latin), when you're doing it the right way. And by "right way", I mean exploiting those similarities so that by learning one of them, you're automatically learning several of them at the same time. For example, I once took a French dictionary and started reading it, page by page, and putting little dots of different colours next to each word: green ones for those that were spelled the same way as in English, but pronounced differently; blue dots for those that were similar to Polish (borrowed either way); orange dots for those that were based on Latin; and red dots for those that were unique to French. I also marked all common prefixes and suffixes with yellow. And quickly it turned out, that I pretty much know roughly 50% of the vocabulary because it's based on Latin or similar to English or Polish. Another roughly 30% were the same words as in other places of the dictionary, just with those prefixes attached to them. So I only had to know what the prefix means and the non-prefixed word in order to know the rest. In the end, there remained roughly 20% of the dictionary with the words that I would have to actually learn ;) Too bad that dictionaries are not organized that way. Although I understand the idea of organizing them alphabetically, for quick lookup of words you already know how to spell but you don't know the meaning of, it's also a very bad way of organizing it for someone who learns the language. It would be better to have those words grouped by topics and parts of speech (that's how I organize them myself when I learn new vocabulary), and keeping words based on the same root together, without any affixes. The affixes should be listed elsewhere, just once and for all, so that you could mix & match them yourself (which usually works fine, and even if it turns out that there's no such word yet, your interlocutor will most likely understand what you meant anyway). Grammar rules are often very similar too, because there are some universal patterns of speech that are present in most languages in one form or another. They just differ in the set of tricks they use to express those ideas. For example, every language I've seen so far has some idea of adjectives and combining them with nouns into a noun phrase, and adverbs to describe either adjectives or verbs. They differ just in what comes first in such a phrase, or what aspects of those words have to match (gender agreement etc.) So when I'm learning grammar, I usually just go through my checklist of things I have to find out: How do they express plurality of nouns? Do they distinguish genders? Do they distinguish specific from general things? If they do, how do they do it? Do they have any articles/determiners for that? Do they have any case system? What are the rules for word formation? How do they combine ideas into complex words? How do they convert verbs into adjectives (participles), or verbs into nouns (gerunds)? What trick do they use to distinguish the present from the past and the future? How do they distinguish continuous actions from completed actions or repeated vs. one-shot? What are their words for "and", "or", "not", "but", "because", "therefore" etc.? (useful for combining simple sentences into complex ones) If I know how grammar works in general, I can try to find those patterns in every new language I'm trying to learn, because grammar structures are quite generic.

[@jailtonjr17]

Man, you should learn the Quechua language! Thanks for your content I really like it and congratulations for this mindset is not about been an American and speak English is about been a human been and live in this diverse world.

[@soyaisland2411]

thank you for your advice! I will try to follow what you said to whether it works for me!❤

[@lokinomonloki1473]

I'm surrounded by ignorance of the language learning starting from home and school, and today I heard from a friend, why to learn languages is the place you visit might have learn English already

[@adamclark1972uk]

Your friend is right, but don't let that put you off

[@Champaey25]

Which books do you use for language learning? Because I want to learn Russian, Polish, Croatian, Bosnian and Czech? Is 'Teach Yourself' good or do you recommend other books?

[@garrettevans9193]

18:00 So what is your background? How did you get started? Also, what do you learn in FLR? If i wanted to learn Spanish, what would the method do to teach me Spanish?

[@vafon3453]

Wow! Are you wearing a Chinese style jade? That looks so cool on you!

[@telmamancilla672]

now that I found your videos I am more determined to learn French and Brazilian Portuguese. my first lenguage is Spanish I am learning English but download mosalingua that is great. thanks for sharing this video

[@fespyanko]

I can help you out homie, I speak both BR Portuguese and French :) off course if y' don't mind lend me a hand in Spanish it would be more than welcome 😌.

[@WPwholesomeENT]

watch lisa ann learns spanish goggle it

[@jedhatfield42]

i agree I learned a lot of different cutlers by learning languages and martial arts karate you learn a lot about Okinawan cutler from japan I learned little bit of Japanese I do like that language and the art of karate. I am focused on Spanish though because I am going to Mexico so it would be helpful in Mexico family trip.

[@kjlovescoffee]

Hi Moses, next time you make one of these "How I do..." videos, could you talk a bit about how you work in improving comprehension? Particularly listening comprehension, but reading comprehension too. Looking at my peers, this seems to be a common difficulty. Thanks!

[@___Saint]

Great video, apologies if this has previously been asked... I will be studying spanish (latin) this year, from there brazilian portuguese then maybe french or Italian..Id like to take it step by step and focus on spanish first, I have never learned another language. From your video would you suggest the FLR, method, pimsleur? I would like to create a process, so i can tackle head on? What would be your advice for resources pertaining to learning spanish?

[@scarcity6016]

Greetings from the future, how much have you progressed?

[@moofarmblam9741]

Right now I'm reading the polyglot project, and after I read your story it was interesting how each person approaches languages. Each language has a flavor, could you make a video for what languages you think are the best for certian things?

[@ashr7abbsata]

hallo my namy is ramy essam i am native in arabic and if you want we can practice arabic and and german and if something go rong we can correct it by english and my egyptian dialect any country in Middle east understand and i can speak also classic arabic سلام making friends and know a new culture

[@omegaman5663]

Just wanted to add "Chris Rock Bad Company method" as well as if possible find video game like simulations which military use for anyone else interested. Comics, cartoons, movies, song also hold attention. Laoshu is like modern day Mezzofanti! :)

[@hanna33444]

Its really nice that you can't even think of the word "ignorant" :)

[@xLoloz]

Laoshu, in the near or far future, what are some languages you would like to pick up? I think it would be cool if you learned Norwegian or Swedish. :D

[@laoshu505000]

xLoloz Some other languages that I have in mind that won't be full-time are German, Swedish, Cherokee and a few others.

[@mousabat]

We should all follow in his example

[@langueagelover612]

There's a bunch of good materials of a different language wrrien in English,so English native speakers take advantage of it.

[@worldtravel101]

oh, this is gonna be good!

[@simonmhamdi2955]

how about ARABIC?

[@EnzoZordan]

Hola laoshu505000 ¿Qué micrófono usas en este video? Me gusta como se escucha.

[@budgets123]

Thank you 👍

[@sbkamara2003]

It looks like I might have to get your for book asap

[@sebna13]

hi laoshu, how often do you learning a language a week beside somali?

[@STEFAN9484]

i only know english,but i have in plan to learn german and russian (to be able to talk and speak very good),but it looks hard :-

[@kabbalahable]

I live in New York City which has the most diverse language speakers on the planet I simply must learn multiple languages.

[@Aethelbeorn]

I would love to learn Lao. I grew up with a Lao family and love their culture. I never caught on to a single word though. It's been 15 years since then and now I'm working in a manufacturing plant surrounded from Lao natives. It's difficult to find effective sources of English to Lao and vice versa. Do you have a plan to release a FLR Method approach to teaching Lao in the near future?

[@Ferinoification]

I am sorry if I am too curious, but you became a famous personality in the poligloty community, and I wonder what´s your job,because you got so much time to learn them? I envy you!!!

[@ScorpionsOfHome]

How do you find natives to practice talk with? Because I've been having trouble finding people to chat with in russian! I really want to practice!

[@laoshu505000]

ScorpionsOfHome You can find a lot of Russians online at places like Sharedtalk and through an app called Hellotalk. Check them out!

[@송영규-q6c]

+ScorpionsOfHome And also for me PENPAl which is site was the best place to meet and talk with my target lang's natives. Online and you can talk first then talk on skype or other ways!!

[@Alaedious]

Was the word you were looking for 'chauvanistic'?

[@Ms.Francis]

Some fab advice here.

[@bris.e]

Eres increíble Moses!

[@lauraaxelsen6128]

Thanks! Unfortunately FLR doesn't have my languages. Love the immersion!

[@MrTruerythmn]

Ok. Thank you. Do u have any videos up if the FLR?

[@STEFAN9484]

can you tell me where to find people to practice on skype in future?is a special site?

[@markchavez_1918]

+Journey With Jensen Agreed.

[@pavanashking]

+STEFAN9484 if u are a more mobile user then i recommend HELLOTALK app , the best app in the word~~ i learnt so~~much from hellotalk... but when making friends tell them u want skype conversations in your introduction page ~~