How to Learn a Language (and Why You Should)

[@stanorange]

I am a language teacher. I use the communicative method as much as possible (songs, movies, sports, memes - find out what the students are interested in and give them options to explore these things through the target language), because I agree with everything you say in this video. Grammar should come second to the ability to understand and express. The right methods are known to instructors; the problem is that the education system in the US and their obsession with neat grading makes it very difficult for us to do what we would want to do in the classroom. I've always believed that a genuine interest and a willingness to work and push yourself are key to learning a language, but students often get bored and frustrated because of the assessments. I grew up speaking Spanish and Basque, and started studying English when I was 6. I studied French and Latin at school and German at university. I have explored many languages (Gaelic, Slovenian, Finnish, Maori, Arabic...) by myself, but only learned a few expressions of each. I am now properly studying Hindi, and the buzz Johnny was talking about is real! You can feel your brain restructuring, moving pieces around, to accommodate the new structures of this new language! It is incredibly fun, but definitely hard!

[@BrightTripTravel]

This is so cool!!!! The buzz is reallllll

[@user-ym9mt3mj4l]

Arrazoi

[@N0N4M30]

I learned 7 languages this way so it does really work

[@JosellClark]

Learning French in Duolingo: Je suis un chat. Merci, et toi?

[@BrightTripTravel]

😂😂😂😂

[@FocusedonChange]

I had to learn Spanish, because every time I wanted to go to a warm place 60% of the time was Spain or even Miami :) So I started with the Linguitive App which was the base for my further linguistic journey.

[@GarrettWease]

Y'all really trying to get me to break down and buy this course.

[@BrightTripTravel]

We would never 😱 You should, though 😉

[@TarasKaduk]

I speak three languages fluently, and find language learning intrinsically fascinating, but still, learning every new language, especially in a new language group, is really, REALLY hard…

[@BrightTripTravel]

Not an easy process! But we feel like this process makes it easier 🙂

[@xjy13]

at 0:34 wow!! you came to Longshan temple in Taiwan. I learn English from your channel. After pandemic , I 'd like to trip to NYC again

[@arlingtonguy54]

I am starting Spanish 1 at the local college but plan on your method when complete. At my age I need to ramp it up.

[@BrightTripTravel]

We'd love to know what you think!

[@artugert]

The video didn't deliver on the title. It didn't tell us how or why to learn a language. It's just an introduction to a course.

[@jaymeez]

So 1 guy learned Spanish after living in Mexico for 6 months and the other guy learned French when he was a exchange student in France. I would have to agree then that immersion is the absolute best way to learn a language.

[@DadoBre]

i'm from serbia/ - ex-yugoslavia also half hungarian, so i speak 5 different languages right away . my wife is chinese i'm leaning mandarin chinese from her. learned English when I was a kid and I self learned german by watching cartoons when I was a kid.

[@BrightTripTravel]

WOW, that's impressive!!

[@BugHwi]

I learned Hebrew from kindergarten to 9th grade, and all I remember is how to introduce myself (kinda), how to count (but there's essentially 2 number systems based on your gender and the gender of who/what you're talking about so I get confused), items like books and chairs have "genders" and that dictates your sentence cuz there's basically like 4-5 different ways to say ____ likes to read/reading.............................

[@BrightTripTravel]

wow!

[@queeny5613]

I've allways struggled with learning in school, but I knkw I can because when I was little we had our babysitter who spoke a mash up of georgian, Russian, English and Armenian. We never had any problems understanding her so I knwo its the school system

[@BrightTripTravel]

Oh wow!

[@KrisHesselmark]

I think this will be my first course I have ever bought oO

[@BrightTripTravel]

Wow, we're honored!

[@OniPutItOn]

same lol

[@dannysze8183]

I like learning languages. french and German are my targets.

[@BrightTripTravel]

Great! 🙌

[@celinaduguay6484]

I'm trying to learn Polish.

[@BrightTripTravel]

Powodzenia!

[@celinaduguay6484]

@@BrightTripTravel Dziękuję :)

[@rawa1618]

Learning turkish and spanish atm

[@BrightTripTravel]

Wow! How is it going?

[@heroicIV]

Sounds like there's no way to fix the traditional language school system, unless they find a way to cater to each learner's particular needs and pace.

[@autumndent1768]

I’m extremely interested in your course, but I’ve never paid for a course before so I’m a little nervous. I want to learn Spanish so I have a few questions about this course. I will be starting from scratch with Spanish, meaning I don’t know anything about the language. Is this course outlined for daily learning, as in does it have list of daily assignments or suggestions to make myself more proficient in the language? I’ve seen so many online learning programs just give an outline on what to do, but are so vague that you never actually understand how to start or how to choose the materials to learn. Can you guarantee an in depth approach to proficiency in a language? What I need is someone to thoroughly guide my hand on how to start, where to start, what to start learning, and every single thing in between. Does this course cater to that specific need?

[@BrightTripTravel]

The course covers the following topics: - The major psychological elements to language learning - How to prioritize what to learn first - How to create a custom language list and plan - How to memorize using three different methods - How to set up an effective language learning practice - What tools you can implement into your practice We also offer a 30 day money back guarantee 😊

[@oscarchim3619]

Hi! I’m interested in this course because I may want to start a brand new language (am fluent in English, Arabic, Cantonese, Mandarin and know some French and Russian; also explored Turkish and Azerbaijani). My question is: how do I know which words to prioritize? Is there a magical list I can find for each language? Seems like this course might be more catered towards Romance languages?

[@ivankabak6595]

You might have found the answer already, but the 1000-2000 most common words is a good place to start with.

[@NitishKumar-mh4nj]

Is this course only for travel??

[@BrightTripTravel]

This course provides a method to learn any language no matter if you're traveling. But, our audience travels a lot of course :)

[@potatoland5905]

Nice!

[@BrightTripTravel]

Thanks!

[@nevreiha]

めっちゃ面白いですね

[@bluepearl_22]

95% of Americans watching this: "...okay but why though."

[@pavelow235]

Yes and no, which is more useful understanding a language to properly express yourself completely, or having a rudimentary understanding of 25 languages so you can ask directions and order food from street carts around the world???

[@Jay-ho9io]

Not really. A significant and growing number of Americans are bilingual at home. Miami is a functioning trilingual City. Much of the Southwest and west coast is bilingual. And while the majority of Black Americans only speak english, it is important to remember that English has multiple dialects some of which are quite differentiated from each other, and Black Americans generally have to code switch in between at least two.

[@pavelow235]

I mostly agree, but I wish humans would get more engrossed in learning frontier knowledge topics, like advanced mathematics. Learning 100 different spoken languages is quickly turning into typewriting and morse code. A fun hobby skill, but not useful to the advancement of humanity. Everyday, voice recognition and instant language translation is becoming more sophisticated. I guess my point is you only have so much brain capacity, learn a obscure topic like multivariable calculus and connect to humans around the world [that may speak 250 different languages] and let the computer translator translate basic language, but focus on the unknown.

[@BrightTripTravel]

Wow, this is actually a super interesting point!

[@ladonnawashington1643]

Yeah, thats one approach.

[@shafayat1676]

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[@Alpine913]

Why is there soooo much commentary on their background experience? Easily takes up more than half the video before they answer the question in the title of the video. 😪