how I'm learning 3 languages in 2023 | Q1 language update

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In this video I'm sharing a little progress update and talking about the languages I've been focusing on so far in 2023 (Greek, Italian and Spanish).
📌 MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO:
My Greek tutor: www.italki.com/en/teacher/640...
Free Italian graded readers:
1. italianoperstranieri.loescher...
2. italianoperstranieri.loescher...
3. italianoperstranieri.loescher...
TIME STAMPS:
0:00 intro
0:41 buy $10 get $5 off on italki:
2:15 greek progress update
8:15 italian progress update
16:37 spanish progress update
19:43 outro
💜 MY FAVORITE APPS AND WEBSITES:
Speakly (1-month free trial): www.speakly.me/share/-TQz4Rt2...
LingQ: www.lingq.com/?referral=Botan...
✨ LINKS
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Twitter: / botanechka
💜 ABOUT ME:
Hi and welcome! I'm Tanya and the only thing I like more than learning languages is probably talking about learning languages (well, that and hoarding language books).
My native language is Russian and I'm currently in different stages of learning English, Spanish, Polish, Italian, Korean, and Japanese.
This video is sponsored by italki.

[@tbenavente]

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[@AldonaAnna89]

At the beginning on January I decided on a whim to take CAE exam in mid February. For 7 weeks I focused solely on preparation. I passed with grade B, C1, 199 points 💪 I took a long break from studying. All together around 5 weeks. Now, I’m going strong on my Brazilian Portuguese:) I feel like I’m ready to simply maintain my level on English with a clean conscious, and focus on Portuguese. I live in New Zealand currently with my Brazilian husband, and I’m Polish ;)

[@tbenavente]

Congrats on passing the exam, must feel like such a weight off your shoulders! So you guys are learning each other's languages then? Cuute!

[@AldonaAnna89]

@@tbenavente Yes, we do :) We use mostly English between us, but our goal is Polish-Portuguese household:) We’ll stay in NZ for another year, and then we move to another country. After reaching strong B1 level in Portuguese, I plan to start Russian.

[@vanderleymassinga5346]

​@@AldonaAnna89 olá como vão os estudos?

[@niceasta]

I really want to study Japanese and Chinese, but since I'm already studying Spanish (and maintaining my English - I'm Brazilian), I chose to just study Spanish this year. I've improved a lot; consuming content in Spanish is not hard for me, so I spent around 60 hours watching KZbin videos and listening to podcasts. My goal now is to start reading and writing more - I already speak while watching videos or randomly during the day.

[@tbenavente]

Thanks for sharing and best of luck with your Spanish goals!

[@binthebuilding]

I watched you for around 2 years (from your Russian channel) and your video motivates me so much to learn English even if I'm not good at languages. You're channel help me learn English and find something new.

[@languagelearningdabbler]

Impressive 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[@randomcrapface]

I struggled for so long to find an Italian grammar book that felt suitable for self studying. I tried both the ones you mentioned too. Last year I found “Nuova Grammatica pratica della lingua italiana” by Susanna Nocchi. And it’s perfect for me. It covers A1 - B2 (There is a more advanced book as well), is structured really nicely and has a good mix of exercise types. (Perfect for solo learners as there are no group activities like many text books.) I use this book to guide my studies, and the McGraw Hill books for extra exercises on the more difficult topics if i feel I need more practice.

[@tbenavente]

That's really good to know! I actually have the "“Nuova Grammatica..." but unfortunately I left it back in Russia and at this point it would be cheaper to buy a new one than to send mine here to the US. But your comment makes it sound like continuing with the book might actually be worth it, so I guess I'll try to figure out how to get hold of it!

[@randomcrapface]

@@tbenavente I never noticed your reply, but was catching up on your videos and noticed you featured my comment. Haha. Thank you. I'm glad I could be helpful and hopefully help your viewers too. Thanks for all your hard work youtubing. I fell off the language learning train but your videos have remind me to keep going. Xx

[@ktoslubcos2600]

You're so inspiring, and your recourses are game changers in language learning, thank you so much for what you're doing on this channel

[@tbenavente]

Thank youuu 💜

[@daniellysilva6175]

I want to learn italian and these types of videos helps me a looot, thank you for your videos ❤️

[@IavoidReality]

I am going to start writing down lyrics too! Good tip!

[@tbenavente]

Go for it! I don't do it with other types of texts because I never go back to revise my notes after, but songs are an exception because if I like a song I will listen to it for years

[@heather3389]

I LOVE Language Transfer and I’m so glad you tried it! I had the same experience with the French course and it actually motivated me to learn French again! I’ve been way more consistent in learning French! I wasn’t even really learning it before 😅 I was also skeptical of it at first, but I’m so glad I gave it a try! Haha

[@basmastory2023]

thanks for sharing your ressources in italian, i hope you will doing more and more for this Q

[@tbenavente]

That's the plan! Already working on a video about Italian resources

[@polyglotsjourney]

Language Transfer is really awesome! Falling in love with your videos. 😍 I really consider buying an iPad when I see your videos 😂

[@tbenavente]

Haha, I might have influenced more than a couple of people to get an iPad for language learning or studying in general 😅 No one has complained yet, and the best thing is that even the cheapest model will work great!

[@kimmyevans2364]

Hi Tanya, love your videos! You've given me a lot of ideas for my own language studies 😄 I just wanted to ask about the novel you've started in Italian, you said you're reading it with LingQ and wondered how you imported it? Thanks in advance!

[@tbenavente]

Hi! When you open LingQ on your computer, there's a plus icon in the top right corner. Click it and choose "import ebook" and then choose an ebook that is one of the supported formats. LingQ will break it down into smaller chunks ("lessons") and create a "course" based on the book.

[@user-vx9vs6qu3k]

Боже ваш английский идеален,спасибо за видео!!!😊❤

[@tbenavente]

Ох, до идеала еще очень далеко, но спасибо 💜

[@e-genieclimatique]

How do you manage to measure the time for all your activities? I've tried it myself, but I always give up because it takes too much time and becomes too burdensome

[@tbenavente]

I had the same problem as you, but then I’ve learned how to set up my phone and tablet to track things automatically. I talk about it in this video: How I track my study time as a language learner kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2Tce3ljhLaXiqs

[@sholyha0324]

Thank you so much for your video!! What is the app that you used to track the time for each language learning?🤓🤓🤓

[@tbenavente]

I use an app called TogglTrack and iOS automations to track time automatically when I open certain apps on my phone/tablet. I made a video about it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2Tce3ljhLaXiqs

[@sonjah.6209]

I know taste in music is highly personal, but I would be interested in a video of you talking about the Italian artists and songs that you like.

[@tbenavente]

I listen to pop music 99% of the time and I have two playlist for Italian 1. 70-80s music (which is what made me fall in love with Italian in the first place): open.spotify.com/playlist/1VyVL0dGgJfr8kpFPEQZ2O?si=d5cf99937f234e06 2. contemporary pop music (plus I also rely on Sanremo to help me discover artists): open.spotify.com/playlist/7KRqlldYHOzkywhnu2rmMn?si=066f33ac855c4b65

[@nonigamez]

I started studying Greek this year by accident because of Language Transfer. I just tried the method and I liked it that much that now I'm learning Greek! Good video Tanya! By the way, how do you track your learning process? Do you use an app? Do you do it manually? Thanks!

[@tbenavente]

I use an app called TogglTrack + iOS automations so that whenever I open a language learning app time gets tracked automatically. I made a video all about it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2Tce3ljhLaXiqs

[@TheMarinettes]

Same happened to me ;)

[@athinaboumpoureka9400]

Καλησπέρα Τανυα ! Χαίρομαι πολύ που μαθαίνεις την μητρική μου γλώσσα τα ελληνικά ! Θα σου πρότεινα να ακούσεις ελληνική μουσική βλέποντας τους στίχους ! ❤❤❤🎉🎉 ( btw the word sceptical is Greek . Sceptical = σκεπτικός !)

[@tbenavente]

Ναι, το κάνω ήδη αυτό! Ο Σάκης Ρουβάς είναι ο αγαπημένος μου 🥰

[@athinaboumpoureka9400]

@@tbenavente ω τέλεια χαίρομαι πολύ ! 🥹❤️🙏

[@mellowasahorse]

Well put together video. Out of interest, what’s the Greek textbook you’ve purchased? I’m in a similar predicament with Greek myself.

[@tbenavente]

I got the digital version of Ελληνικά για σας A1 (both textbook and workbook). I like it so far, although their e-learning platform is very glitchy.

[@mellowasahorse]

@@tbenavente Thanks for the reply! I’ll check it out :) Appreciate it.

[@IowaLanguages]

How did you make those beautiful pie charts? Is it Excel? I’m inspired by you! I’m only learning two languages at a time. ❤

[@tbenavente]

So I use TogglTrack to track my studies and they present your data as graphs/pie charts, so you don't even have to do anything extra besides tracking your study time. But, for more customization, I exported my data from Toggl as a .csv file, put it in Google Spreadsheets and just tweaked some settings like colors/fonts a little bit to create the pie charts you see in the video

[@IowaLanguages]

@@tbenavente I set up all my projects and am tracking my time! Thank you so much!! 🙏💕🇫🇷🇪🇸

[@eugeniokl]

pensieri e parole очень хороший подкаст!

[@tbenavente]

Спасибо, послушаю!

[@yegorgulido]

What tool do you use to track time?

[@tbenavente]

TogglTrack, I have a video about it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g2Tce3ljhLaXiqs

[@ken.the.person]

How do you make those charts?

[@tbenavente]

using TogglTrack

[@lse123polis]

I can help with Greek to get help in Russian... are you available for a 10 minutes talk in Skype on Sunday morning, 13:00 Cyprus time?

[@tbenavente]

That sounds like a good idea! What level of Russian do you have? (I’m still very much a beginner in Greek). Cyprus is 10 hours ahead of Arizona, so 13:00 is not doable for me, but you can email me at [e-mail] and we can choose another time?

[@lse123polis]

@@tbenavente I sent email, did you get it?

[@anaveronicafloresbatres5251]

Este reto lo empiezo el 09/04/2023 voy a regresar el 16/04/2023 para comentarles como me fue

[@tbenavente]

¡Suerte!

[@annikam8147]

Do you still want to learn Polish?

[@tbenavente]

Yes, but I prefer not to focus on more than 3 languages at a time. Once I get a little more comfortable with Italian, I will put it on hold and go back to Polish, probably some time later this year.

[@annikam8147]

@@tbenavente absolutely understandable!!! I really want to learn Polish myself, so I find it super interesting to follow your way with Polish 🥰