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.
@musingepitaphy2 жыл бұрын
Зачем ты это пишешь? Ты думаешь он это прочитает? Надо было сделать это раньше.
@Vuden132 жыл бұрын
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@heihade79915 жыл бұрын
"If you're not growing, you're not doing something right" - Amen
@Manuel-rl6um5 жыл бұрын
"If you're not getting better, you're getting worse"
@Someone-qj4np4 жыл бұрын
@Framework333 y'all are so funny ! Haha!!
@0TurnAround04 жыл бұрын
who is amen
@WhatIFWonders-F3 жыл бұрын
@@0TurnAround0 he means Amen for like Yessir
@bunnycatch3r9 жыл бұрын
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.
@danielnoriegagarcia47569 жыл бұрын
+bunnycatch3r akhajahjajhahahah!
@melanphilia8 жыл бұрын
is it just me or apartment is round :O
@iloveowls87487 жыл бұрын
haha :D epic !
@bradenrodriguez51835 жыл бұрын
@@melanphilia it's his camera lens. hahhaa
@bonbonpony5 жыл бұрын
@bunnycatch3r: And the door on the right is already open, inviting you to enter ;)
@_sparrowhawk2 жыл бұрын
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-k1y8 күн бұрын
Guys like him are very rare ... hugs from Portugal 🇵🇹
@MisterM24029 жыл бұрын
14:40 I liked how you struggled to think of a language you hadn't already studied; you've done so many! :D
@sallylauper82224 жыл бұрын
Hindi!- like what? Which polyglot hasn't studied Hindi?
@anasbedraoui35204 жыл бұрын
@@sallylauper8222 it has been almost 6 years , but now he can speak Hindi
@Jowyerv5 жыл бұрын
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.
@WhatACoolArrow4 жыл бұрын
@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.
@lilmanjp4 жыл бұрын
Hot Damn
@FabiusStephanus4 жыл бұрын
Jovak Art - Javanese is a seperated language from Indonesian which is not a dialect from Indonesian, just pointing that out.
@mik-bu1fd9 жыл бұрын
You should be a teacher, your voice is clear and easy to remember
@jakubsebek5 жыл бұрын
he is a teacher
@NikSpringer5 жыл бұрын
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
@chrisbarnhill89443 жыл бұрын
6:20 When Laoshu can't remember a word, the word doesn't exist. Rest in peace, Moses.
@Shammer13 жыл бұрын
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
@infraredplayer9 жыл бұрын
What kind of microphone do you use? You could read me a bedtime story.
@patrickdepardieufodjo78197 жыл бұрын
Lol
@markchavez7387 жыл бұрын
nrg Haha this comment is great! Luv it
@roddyguzful6 жыл бұрын
jajajaja
@KaneODriscoll2 жыл бұрын
Watching this in 2022. Your work continues on Moses 👏🏽
@alexholt57395 жыл бұрын
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❤
@GoSuMonSteR9 жыл бұрын
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_ever9 жыл бұрын
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.
@kozumexee5 жыл бұрын
Same
@lovenessisojick21394 жыл бұрын
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.
@shark245016 жыл бұрын
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.
@dsnightcore42088 жыл бұрын
I love your voice! It's very soothing and relaxing to listen to... I love it. Also, great video!
@locked30099 жыл бұрын
Man I love this video,subscribed! Definitively want to learn multiple languages after meeting people from all over the planet. Aussie subscriber here
@sargothi6 жыл бұрын
I'm fluent in 3. brain is full. no more hard drive space.
@laoshu5050006 жыл бұрын
hahahahha
@sargothi6 жыл бұрын
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.
@roddyguzful6 жыл бұрын
jajajaja
@hendrikvisser25403 жыл бұрын
Human brain has roughly 2500000 gigabytes of storage
@jenny-ro6gm6 жыл бұрын
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
@tonytone13782 жыл бұрын
How did you do that?
@TheIamtheoneandonly15 жыл бұрын
You sir, are both amazing and so inspiring. Thank you.
@jaysonemile66333 жыл бұрын
R. I . P laoshu
@richardmossy55402 жыл бұрын
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.
@haydenbond34499 жыл бұрын
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-bc6zd9 жыл бұрын
"Xenophobia", fear of the outside world. Or perhaps "isolationism". Good breakdown on your methods.
@laoshu5050009 жыл бұрын
D. Reyna It came to mind right after I made the video. I was thinking ''Ethnocentrism'' lolol
@DReyna-bc6zd9 жыл бұрын
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.
@crushone16 жыл бұрын
laoshu505000 Nationalists is a closer definition.
@crushone15 жыл бұрын
@gobboshark __ idk I wrote that so long ago..lol
@zabaanshenaas9 жыл бұрын
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.
@fivantvcs90559 жыл бұрын
Wow, this is a very varieted list, very interesting!
@fivantvcs90559 жыл бұрын
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
@fivantvcs90559 жыл бұрын
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).
@zabaanshenaas9 жыл бұрын
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.
@asmara9569 жыл бұрын
zabaanshenaas What about Tigrinya! ከመይ ከመይ! :)
@Chorith779 жыл бұрын
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
@nehemiahuriel3 жыл бұрын
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
@MarcosCaminante4 жыл бұрын
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.
@bornwithclothes9 жыл бұрын
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.
@WhatACoolArrow4 жыл бұрын
I believe Nahuatl and Mayan were both on his list he released a few years ago of his goals
@FabiusStephanus4 жыл бұрын
He would achieve by speaking around 200 languages by the age of 60.
@poopbutt62413 жыл бұрын
@@FabiusStephanus 😭so sad
@FabiusStephanus3 жыл бұрын
@@poopbutt6241 Yes I know 😞 RIP the legend.
@jeygee37362 жыл бұрын
He passed away. So won't be able to anymore sadly..RIP
@marinamaccagni52533 жыл бұрын
What a pity! I've found this treasure when he has just passed away. I'm so so badly sad.
@Nollafgaming9 жыл бұрын
You should write a book if you haven't already.
@vernoncyrus19233 жыл бұрын
Rest in Paradise King
@nikoletacude87214 жыл бұрын
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
@benia19084 жыл бұрын
now learn japanese
@NickTheSwordsman5 жыл бұрын
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!
@lovenessisojick21394 жыл бұрын
I'm learning Russian too
@poginglamig239 жыл бұрын
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 !
@kkestrel1509 жыл бұрын
Found you from an old post on Benny Lewis' fluent in 3 months. Subscribed! Loving your video's so far =D
@marinakarlovska78575 жыл бұрын
Very motivating, thank you! Your voice is hypnotizing.
@simondalling74897 жыл бұрын
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.
@raufmamedov82553 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace Moses .You encouraged a lot
@prince2236815 жыл бұрын
How many hours per day when you're doing a language full time?
@WhatACoolArrow4 жыл бұрын
He's said 5 hours a day per language for intensive study when he is focusing on one or two
@jacobwillow0505 жыл бұрын
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!
@marluxia88325 жыл бұрын
@Jacow Willow It's actually 73 languages, but whatever. )))
@trommelbiel8 жыл бұрын
Rest Bro. You really inspired me to continue with Mandarin Chinese. I wish I saw your channel earlier. Just subscribed.
@SolidSycoJapanese9 жыл бұрын
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.
@Odd295 жыл бұрын
I speak 3 languages including english and currently learning Danish rn jut finished A1.
@fivantvcs90556 жыл бұрын
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
@levananoir81752 жыл бұрын
I just came here and I saw all the comments. What happened???
@matthewlake1822 жыл бұрын
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-rr5cw4 жыл бұрын
Watch many of you videos....love them inspiring
@nik36014 жыл бұрын
Even if you learn multiple languages you have to focus on ONE language I got it !
@mickymickymike41056 жыл бұрын
Can you read and write in other languages? For instance: Pinyin, Chinese characters, Kanji etc.
@laoshu5050006 жыл бұрын
yes
@mickymickymike41056 жыл бұрын
that's impressive. keep doing your thing, bro.
@azman65682 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
He died? When?
@Bane3919 жыл бұрын
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.
@danielbedoni48448 жыл бұрын
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...
@laoshu5050008 жыл бұрын
+Daniel Bedoni Wish you the best
@louisdillon84439 жыл бұрын
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
@serainaburge69286 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
RIP the legend, the king
@MarcelEdalgoАй бұрын
You are king of languages like 2Pac for Rap, passed too young... R.I.P. Sensei
@minhanhhuynhthi39975 жыл бұрын
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.
@MsAshleyCulp5 жыл бұрын
Same! Some days im focused, some days im not..
@norjop7 жыл бұрын
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.
@soggycastella7 жыл бұрын
norjop that sounds great, where can I find the show in German? :)
@Alaedious5 жыл бұрын
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-ru2rm2 жыл бұрын
LONG LIVE SENSEI LAOSHU
@techwizissa72478 жыл бұрын
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 :)
@fivantvcs90559 жыл бұрын
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.869 жыл бұрын
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.?
@akivalazar59044 жыл бұрын
I dont know, but I like your question
@danstobbart44064 жыл бұрын
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 !
@akebaahnkrahhotep83368 жыл бұрын
I appreciate this video my brother!!! Peace!!!
@laoshu5050008 жыл бұрын
+AkebaAhnkRah Hotep No problem, thanks for viewing.
@VitneOfficial8 жыл бұрын
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?
@bonbonpony5 жыл бұрын
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.
@jailtonjr175 жыл бұрын
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 Жыл бұрын
thank you for your advice! I will try to follow what you said to whether it works for me!❤
@lokinomonloki14737 жыл бұрын
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
@adamclark1972uk4 жыл бұрын
Your friend is right, but don't let that put you off
@Champaey259 жыл бұрын
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?
@garrettevans91936 жыл бұрын
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?
@vafon34535 жыл бұрын
Wow! Are you wearing a Chinese style jade? That looks so cool on you!
@telmamancilla6728 жыл бұрын
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
@fespyanko8 жыл бұрын
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 😌.
@WPwholesomeENT8 жыл бұрын
watch lisa ann learns spanish goggle it
@jedhatfield424 жыл бұрын
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.
@kjlovescoffee9 жыл бұрын
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!
@___Saint9 жыл бұрын
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?
@scarcity60165 жыл бұрын
Greetings from the future, how much have you progressed?
@moofarmblam97419 жыл бұрын
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?
@ashr7abbsata4 жыл бұрын
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
@omegaman56635 жыл бұрын
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! :)
@hanna334447 жыл бұрын
Its really nice that you can't even think of the word "ignorant" :)
@xLoloz9 жыл бұрын
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
@laoshu5050009 жыл бұрын
xLoloz Some other languages that I have in mind that won't be full-time are German, Swedish, Cherokee and a few others.
@mousabat3 жыл бұрын
We should all follow in his example
@langueagelover6125 жыл бұрын
There's a bunch of good materials of a different language wrrien in English,so English native speakers take advantage of it.
@worldtravel1019 жыл бұрын
oh, this is gonna be good!
@simonmhamdi29557 жыл бұрын
how about ARABIC?
@EnzoZordan9 жыл бұрын
Hola laoshu505000 ¿Qué micrófono usas en este video? Me gusta como se escucha.
@budgets1234 жыл бұрын
Thank you 👍
@sbkamara20034 жыл бұрын
It looks like I might have to get your for book asap
@sebna139 жыл бұрын
hi laoshu, how often do you learning a language a week beside somali?
@STEFAN94849 жыл бұрын
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 :-
@kabbalahable4 жыл бұрын
I live in New York City which has the most diverse language speakers on the planet I simply must learn multiple languages.
@Aethelbeorn5 жыл бұрын
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?
@Ferinoification9 жыл бұрын
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!!!
@ScorpionsOfHome9 жыл бұрын
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!
@laoshu5050009 жыл бұрын
ScorpionsOfHome You can find a lot of Russians online at places like Sharedtalk and through an app called Hellotalk. Check them out!
@송영규-q6c8 жыл бұрын
+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!!
@Alaedious5 жыл бұрын
Was the word you were looking for 'chauvanistic'?
@Ms.Francis7 жыл бұрын
Some fab advice here.
@bris.e5 жыл бұрын
Eres increíble Moses!
@lauraaxelsen61287 жыл бұрын
Thanks! Unfortunately FLR doesn't have my languages. Love the immersion!
@MrTruerythmn5 жыл бұрын
Ok. Thank you. Do u have any videos up if the FLR?
@STEFAN94849 жыл бұрын
can you tell me where to find people to practice on skype in future?is a special site?
@markchavez_19188 жыл бұрын
+Journey With Jensen Agreed.
@pavanashking8 жыл бұрын
+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 ~~