How to Learn Vocabulary

[@Thelinguist]

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[@EasyFinnish]

Kiitos Steve! Thanks for your video.

[@briban65]

I read read and read.

[@suatcangeyik4714]

I've seen this video , it's quite for the leveraging the vocabulary that your learning language . Yet I'd like to write my own learning phrase that I've been using so far , it maybe help you out to increase your vocabs. In my daily life , I read and listen english resources during the day . I check the vocabs if I couldn't comprehend the meaning of the sentence otherwise it is redundant to check and you will feel lost after return to context. As if , I can infer the meaning to vocab even though not know about it , I would highlight but I wouldn't stop the reading until end of to paragraph after that , I look the dictionary in English not my mother tongue firstly. If I could not understand even , I'd check the mother tongue as well . Most likely , I would forget it the meaning precisely after a while . Probably I'd see that words some other resources either within the next paragraphs therefore , I get used the word after see couple of time . Instead of writing tons of words to paper, you could grasp the words easily by this technique which I've been using it. So this encountered couple of times world could have been familiar or known words. I wish , you would understand what I mentioned in this paragraph because I'm not to much good with the writing and I don't feel free while I write some context in English. :D

[@zenozoldic3043]

You have to read the Qur'an , the best book on the surface of the earth .

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

Thank you Steve! You are the best

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

My memory is really bad, so I really can't memorize vocabulary by writing them down in a notebook and trying to memorize them. Rather, I memorize whole sentences in contexes and situations. My body can remember so much more than my brain. Weird, but true.

[@valeriemcdonald440]

I can relate.

[@pseudonomous]

I think this is actually true for most people. Memory works by linking knowledge together, the more you link a word to context, the easier it is to recall. It's much easier for me to memorize all the words in a sentence from a story than a single word, or an out-of-context vocabulary sentence. However, the downside is that sometimes I can't recall the meaning of word, or the reading of kanji out of the original context I learned it in. I think, optimally, you learn the words in one context, one sentence first, then you learn another 2 or 3 sentences and, eventually, you become pretty good at recognizing the word in any context.

[@HollyDollyTakahani]

Study harder.

[@Dark-vg7iz]

Well, it's not your body it is still your brain 😂😂😂 You just use it better

[@violawang724]

yee,me too .when my teacher tell us to dictate words in our notebook that i always feel hard for that because of my weak memory.when try to dicate,i need to read them for many many times but cant remember them permenantly but i will forget them quickly when finish the dicatation. But if I go through many books and the words come up again and again, i'll remember them unconsciously.

[@alonsocastaneda9936]

It is impressive how we can learn any language by just doing simple things like reading books, listening to podcasts, and writing things in that language. When I first started to learn English, I didn't take it very seriously because I thought that if I went to school and studied English there, I would learn English as time went by, but then I realized that if I really want to learn and speak English fluently, I will have to study English everyday and make English learning a habit.

[@laurentpicard3963]

Parfait comme toujours. J'ai 40 ans et bientôt 41 et moi qui ne suis jamais aller à l'école ( vie très particulière suite à différentes circonstances) ait commencé l'anglais il y a quelques mois ( je ne me l'étais jamais autorisée auparavant). J'avançais très lentement puis il y a environ un mois et demi je vous ai découvert ainsi que toutes vos précieuses méthodes et depuis je suis bien plus confiant. En faite, je suis en train de lire votre livre actuellement et bien qu'il existe en français je l'ai acheté en Anglais et je suis en train de le lire en Anglais ... À ma grande surprise je m'aperçois que je comprends à plus de 90% ... Parler, surtout en circonstances réel est bien plus délicat... Mais je sais que ça viendra en continuant à prendre du plaisir. Merci 🙏

[@H33HDS]

I learn vocabulary through listening and I'm getting better and better

[@mostafathunder4921]

از این ویدیو استفاده کردم و برام مفید بود. چقدر خوب که در حال یادگیری فارسی هستید. براتون آرزوی موفقیت دارم. بترکونید.

[@BryanAJParry]

As a language teacher, I independently came to Steve's conclusions myself. This Man has it bang on!

[@DrJustininJapan]

100% agree!!

[@Davide-cb1nr]

How do you imorove in speaking without actively recalling vocabulary? Passive vocabulary is not enough in order to produce (a decent) language.

[@fahadhussain66]

2:08 this is why you're a gem, somebody who has been through all of this, and is now sharing is knowledge in simple 10 minute videos is truly a treasure to be found. Thanks!

[@Eduardo-gi8ex]

YEA

[@davidsthoughts60]

I signed up for LingQ a few weeks ago, after seeing several of your videos over a couple of years. My Russian learning has moved from ‘stagnation’ to ‘making process’ since then. I watch a few polyglots telling how they learn languages, but as you say, it comes down to spending time with the language and having comprehensible input. Thanks much for LingQ and for your continued motivation.

[@roseeemetiche6895]

Is it that helpful ??

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

I am learning Russian like you. I hope we can do it

[@yuliyak3481]

Я могу поговорить с вами по-русски))

[@sonjak8265]

I learn Russian by listening audio books, such as Anna Karenina, found on KZbin, and reading a bilingual edition of the same book, which I bought on Amazon. Tolstoy's book Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth --is easy.

[@yuliyak3481]

@@sonjak8265 I love Tolstoy too) Some people prefer Dostoevskij, not me😁

[@paland1979]

A have my own experience in studying foreign language words - when I started to study Chinese, studying characters and tones was very hard, therefore I wrote a short application in Python with random appearing of words. It helped me much to get initial Chinese vocabulary.

[@Heidelbuam]

The idea that passive vocabulary is your main indicator of how far you“ve progressed in a language is very appealing to me. I think though it depends on your communicative (or for that matter non-communicative goals) you are trying to achieve in a certain language. If your aim is to be able to understand reading and listening material passively, it would help you a great deal. Once you want to communicate or write something in a language, you“d eventually have to turn your acquired passive vocabulary into an active one. Thus, being aware of the contexts (syntactical,lexical and pragmatical) in which you can actively use certain words is quite essential, I think. I would love to see comments on that.Being a linguist and polyglotte myself, I“ ve always enjoyed learning vocabulary, even out of a dictionary:)

[@zosiapotok1226]

I completely agree!

[@HollyDollyTakahani]

Thank you for your comment! Excellent!

[@lucie442]

Totally on the same page! I just have a hard time finding listening material to what phrases I’m reading here and there (in Japanese, I don’t really know the pitch etc) did you study linguistics?

[@Heidelbuam]

nu@@lucie442 Thank you for your comment. Wow, Japanese would be a hard nut for me :) Not that I havent thought about learning asian languages, I‘d be struggling with Kanji and the pitch accent as well. Yes, I studied German as a second language, linguistics and language acquisition in particular. Hence,my passion for language learning.

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

Thank you so much for this nice advice. You are wonderful

[@youssefelmrabet7033]

I'm really grateful that I know you. every time you upload a video I learn something new. thank you for your time.

[@genuinolegitimo5625]

Claramente um sábio profissional, nota-se o domínio que você tem do que está falando, parabéns pelo trabalho

[@AndreSantos-qv1kd]

Hi! My name is André, I’m from Brazil, I’m learning English and I have a dream to speak many languages and to be a linguist. Thanks for this video👏🏾

[@CouchPolyglot]

I really agree to learning vocabulary naturally :). I am now learning a lot of Swedish words by listening to an "easy Swedish podcasts", it is like "Assimil" but in a podcast format, I love it!

[@CouchPolyglot]

@rm monster just by listening to input that we can understand, have you heard about the "natural approach"? I am a big fan :)

[@starlightphoenix2030]

I can definitely get behind this! I'm relearning Japanese after not speaking it for about 10 years. I remember a lot more about the grammar than I do actual vocabulary... which leaves me in an awkward position when trying to have a discussion 😅. I'm doing my best to relearn as much vocab as possible so that I can actually start speaking it again, lol.

[@DrJustininJapan]

that's awesome!! i just moved back to Japan and am in the same situation!! amazing 😂 lived here about 8 years ago and need to catch up AND learn things i was too lazy to do before like reading and writing properly. GOOD LUCK!! i just made a video about how i will do this actually

[@ruhstill1399]

@@DrJustininJapan 👍

[@IBRAHIMMOHAMED-ek6ew]

🥲🥲

[@davidgarcia-rv3fs]

I’m there too lmao

[@davidgarcia-rv3fs]

Eto eto eto Choto ……. Back to beginning eto eto

[@PikRabbit]

I completely agree with you, and I also see language imput as a form of review because everything we consume in the language is only going to have repetitive words so you dont have to worry about ever seeing it again plus it'll still give you context (90% of the time) compared to if you only stuck with language programs.

[@Kender591]

Very Interesting video! There are a lot vocabularies that I've learned long time ago and i never use them,I don't forget them,but thanks to them I can understand more complex ideas.

[@NoahSteckley]

I have been language learning at various levels for years and I have fully converged more and more over time to this exact perspective. Context, mass input, *passive vocabulary*

[@So_-sk2wb]

Could you maybe explain what you mean with passive vocabulary 😅? Because I don’t really know what it’s supposed to mean

[@samizin911]

wow almost hitting the 500k mark, thanks a lot for all these videos Steve! we much appreciate it!

[@evarkf]

He’s on over 1M now 😂

[@pourad1039]

با درود و احترام . از مطالب آموزنده شما سپاسگذارم .

[@sparksoflight5022]

Just found this channel and loved it at first sight!!!!Big thanks!!! Greetings from Germany from a fan of linguistics:)

[@Please_teach_me_English]

Thank you for sharing your ideas. There are alot of things to learn. I am English learner, so this video is really helpful not only language but also knowing knowleage. thankyou

[@redmed10]

People who say they have problems learning new vocabulary should bear in mind We are learning new words every day in our first language. We change our vocabulary all the time depending on the social situation we are in. It's just not as obvious as when you are learning a new foreign language when it seems like hard work. These things take time and because so many people present this as an easy task to sell their products or to show they are special one can become rather negative about our own abilities.

[@BaackTheBaptist]

What I have found helpful is using a frequency dictionary and making Anki cards out of the words.

[@ariohandoyo5973]

I want to say that my weakness is learn new words in english, i'm still struggling with vocabulary i agree with you mr. Steve learn new words by memorsing 500 words it won't affective at all we should do more input learning ya you're right good luck on your languange learning guys.

[@vunguyentr5561]

This is fantastic, I love binge learning new words but felt guilty not using any of them. This gives me perfect excuse to indulge in this hobby

[@vhxb-gq5dt]

Have a try for it.

[@_Username__]

I will be forever thankful and grateful for you Steve for sharing your invaluable wisdom and experience, I actually totally agree with your statements but I never were able to summarize it for my self and output it elegantly and clearly as you just did, Thank you so much.

[@isaachester8475]

As a complete beginner, I’ve been supplementing Anki flashcards with podcasts, TV shows, and movies. So far, the flashcards have actually been helpful because words I would never even have parsed out in spoken language are specifically drawn out to me repeatedly by Anki. Then when I consume the media it’s like it just “clicks” and from this I’m able to learn even more words because I can guess based on the context of the words I just learned. I’m learning like 20 new words per day from flashcards and reviewing others recommended by Anki, and so far I’m pretty satisfied with my progress. Goal right now is to learn like 5K words in under a year.

[@teamjipper2495]

Thanks for this video. From my own limited, but intensive experience I find that there is a 'scale' of knowing a word. In the early going it is exposure, exposure, exposure in context for non-cognates. True cognates are a gift. My biggest current challenge is recognizing known words in speech. Early on I might recognize a word, but slowly. So slowly that I loose the context - the world passes me by. A weird, long delay until my brain accepts it knows this word. This delay shortens the more times I hear a given word. So in this context I wouldn't say I fully know a word (or phrase) until I can understand it in speech at a normal listening rate. Repetition matters a lot. Reading is different, the delay in recognition doesn't matter because the rate I read at is not important. Great stuff!

[@Behold-the-Florist]

This comment should have more likes! Great observation! I couldn't agree more!

[@germancasallas3506]

Muchas gracias como siempre señor steve Kaufman

[@SoN_vfx]

I'm Persian and be glad to hear that and thanks for your videos ❤️👑

[@nojanshambayati9370]

Dear Mr. Kaufmann This Nojan, I am an IELTS cours student and very interested in learning English, my mother language is Persian and since I saw your videos I become your loyal fan. As I understand you are studying Persian currently and I want to tell you I will be more than happy if I can help you in this wau evem by simple talk in persian and practice English with you too in a two way conversation. Thanks for your brilliant videos. Sincerely yours.

[@chadbailey7038]

My favorite sub-topic in the genre! Great assessment 👏🏾

[@DiegoMorales-iz8lg]

Great video... I'm a native Spanish speaker

[@m17434]

We LOVE you, Steve! Keep up the good work; you are an inspirational teacher. I am learning Arabic with Arabe Facil, which means I am learning that language through Spanish. It makes sense to me because I am learning to improve both languages ...

[@samaval9920]

Arabic & Portuguese both borrow Arabic words. See videos by Paul Jorgensen of Langfocus Bahador Alast of ? both discuss both languages words that are borrowed from Arabic.

[@charliesomoza5918]

Stunning! As usual! Thanks Steve.

[@rafaelribeiro8675]

Obrigado Steve por trazer mais um desses video e Por coincidência estava pensando exatamente sobre isso.

Is this Italian or Spanish? Sorry for disturbing...

[@kaynansilva6998]

@ it is portuguese from brazil.

@@kaynansilva6998 Oh, thanks. Are there big differences bitween Brazil and Portugal Portuguese? How did you understand it's from Brazil?

[@henriquesnowing8762]

just a few words, but the most biggest difference is from the accent.​@

@@henriquesnowing8762 I understand it. It's like saying garbage and rubbish different in USA and UK English...

[@jackbombay1423]

The editing in this channel has improved tremendously.

[@marielaward8434]

I know when I have learned a word because I noticed myself identitying it in several contexts. Most of the time it happens naturally, first with reading it and later in listening content. It is a nice feeling, it makes me feel I am learning. When I become advance and my base knowledge of the language is large, I start learning less unless it is specialist language, at that point I know I am fluent in that language. I am a Spanish native, fluent in English, advance in Italian and French begginer. I use lingQ, duolingo, linkpie, helloTalk, preplay, Netflix, audible, podcast and any other form of content that I can access. I enjoyed learning and teaching languages. And I like to listen Steve talking about language acquisition.😊

[@Mingsbuddy]

I love this guy! He makes learning interesting and accessible. Yay!

[@alexanderjamesl4868]

The setting and lighting on this video feels good 👍

[@vrmartin202]

Thank you so much for sharing your thoughts and experience! My past experience with German come to mind as you share this.

[@АлександрЯкимов-к3о]

I found out that a passive vocabulary much bigger than active one. That's why we can understand more when listening than we are able to say in conversation. So when someone is listening or writing, he likely uses both of them, but when saying a person mostly applies an active vocabulary.

[@Davide-cb1nr]

But how do we improve in learning how to speak the target language? I like this idea of passive vocabulary and I've always found it very useful, but the goal is learning how to speak, to produce that language. I really can't understand how you're supposed to improve your speaking without mastering, though active recall, a big vocabulary (and phonology of course).

[@christophwerder6090]

Thank you, Steve! That was very refreshing!

[@АндрейДушейко-н4я]

Ingenious! Thanks a lot for your video! Very interesting it is!)

[@davidzhang8764]

“You see behind me I have all these books” lol I thought it was a curtain with books on it at first

[@LanguageTeacher]

Well done, Steve. An excellent summary of this topic.

[@ronyrony6086]

Thank you so much for this lesson, I'm an English learner and I'll practice your advice,of course I'll download your app too.

[@practicewithjc]

As a second language teacher who only speaks two languages fluenty, I agree 100% with everything you say. I am still a beginner in Spanish, my third language, but it is my laziness that prevents me from going further. Thank you for your insight Steve!

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

I am learning Spanish and I love this language. Muchas gracias ❤️❤️❤️

[@Justusosaa]

I started learning French: I bought three French books and a dictionary. I started to translate word by word with my dictionary. I underscored every word in my dictionary. After using it, I noticed, that I have underscored this word already. To translate took time. Next book was easier, because my vocabulary has increased already. After translating three books, I did not need to underscore much. I continued this way and after reading 1500 French books, I understand many new words from the context. I listened to the French songs, watched movies and travelled in France and Belgium. I cannot say, that I know French, but I have a tiny idea about it. Later I made blogs in three languages and I learnt more.

[@grunntalll]

wait what. youve read 1500 french books but you only have a tiny idea bout the language?

[@Speaker_Dilbar]

How did it translate? French to english? You mean, translation helps to improve, yeah?😊

[@tahall5646]

Un hombre con consejos excelentes.

[@margaretfan5]

Totally agreed what you have said. Thanks for sharing. Steve.

[@elllllllle939]

Completely spot on! So sad that I have only realized this in my late 20s. I wish I knew this earlier. Had wasted so much time using the wrong method learning English before.

[@Angel-lz3fe]

I so like your video! That's really usefull information!!!

[@MatrixCoder01]

Real bookshelf this time lol :) awesome as always

[@helensimeoni8433]

Thank you for sharing this amazing knowledge with us, your channel is wonderful!

[@rafaelzv99]

I love your naturalness…gonna take the tips

[@L.Jaylicious]

Thank you very very much! I love it, I love the Energy of it!!

[@driesverhaag8955]

That 500k is so close, congrats in advance

[@annettemcnabb3033]

Great information! Love when you share your book collection-makes me feel normal! :)))

[@dennisenglishjournal498]

Thank you Steve, your tips are always useful and interesting to hear! 👍🙋‍♂️ I strongly believe that we all should learn vocabulary *through listening and reading THE CONTENT THAT IS INTERESTING FOR US* 😊 It's the most natural way to aquisite vocabulary and finally get our language goals 💪 *Reading, listening, review* - all three components are very important! 👏 Let's boost our English confidency in 2022, guys! 🤩🙌

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

True 👍👍👍

[@Jayinjapanese]

I’m recommending everyone to you.I hope you hit 1Million subscribers

[@bluefairy9683]

Just perfect ❤ this is what I finally learned English vocabularies

[@alinecardoso9668]

I've been learning English for a couple of years, one thing that I'm not doing anymore is studying in traditional courses in my country, because you go to school, study lots of grammar only, and we usually pay lots of money to have poor conversation, the classes tend to have lots of people and you have no enough time to get to practice what you have learned. I have a friend leaving in Japan, she has being there since 3 years ago, and it turns out that she doesn't speak the language because she's just have Brazilian friends.

[@hajji384]

5:22 The best idea that I always had in mind, a large passive vocabularies. With massive listening and reading to create familiarity with the language and increase our comprehensive, increase our passive vocabularies

[@carloforziati2624]

Learning a word in a context (in a phrase) is much better than learning it and trying to memorize it singularly! Bear it in mind to everyone!

[@deutschmitpurple2918]

Thank you 🤗🤗🤗

[@tra.nsgood3930]

Thank you...very useful...not only the content....I hear you...as comprehensive lesson also .

[@Adam-fy4wc]

关于学习方式，我认可主播很多说法和指引。“指引”？对，指导，推荐。说起词汇，“指引”词语是我比较新的词语。我在这里引用某种程度是探测性的尝试。就是故意使用尚未十分掌握的词语。目的是透过接触，使得尚未掌握好的词语变得更加熟悉，操作起来更加顺手。这是我我学习词汇的策略。当然，在没有老师的陪同下，这么做未必解决掉什么。需要收到反馈。有知道者纠正，让你体会到你哪里出了错。我缺乏这一环。但是，我认为这是我学习汉语的基本面。都还是自己摸索。本频道的主播也是提倡多接触。我也一样。只是，当你始终依靠自己，你需要很多的接触才能拍出错误的理解。没有关系。我可以接受这个情景。我只是表述一下我的情况和对于事物表达我的人知。回到主题，词汇学习，我也要表达一下我的看法。并不一定是应付主播而陈述的。只是空谈一下自己的见解。哎呀，我有点不谨慎做表述。可能让读者感到混乱不清。请别介意。我首先是来练习练习中文阐述。随笔阐述。我有点忘了要说什么。主播说词汇学习重要。掌握词汇多寡是衡量一个人的外语能力最好的指标。这一点我听进去了。另外，他好像说了理解词汇的质量也重要。硬背词汇不一定好，但是他不反对。他只是提倡透过阅读和聆听顺其自然学习词汇。这些我都不反对。就是我与人的认知高度契合了。我赞成Steve老师的input策略。就是获得讯息的策略和实际做法。但是，我发现我自己所使用的接触，再接触，却不分析或者反思自己的学习方略。。。这个局面，一定也有不足之处。我认为我的学习方法缺乏创新。也没有必要排出人家发明的技术和方法。就是app的应用什么的。但是先不说这些了。因为我也年纪比较大了。我还是要为比较老套的学习工具说两句。那就是看辞典。不是查词典喽。我说的是随机性翻阅辞典的动作。我记得在中国的时候，两位比较闲的办公室女管理员常常阅读词典。我总觉得奇怪。多么无聊啊。我为做过。直到今天也很少那么做。但是，我最近对此态度提出质疑。我汉语学习事业里不怎么接触英语。结果，有些概念一直很模糊。还有，我查字典是针对性的。结果，我好像缺乏梳理一些基本道理。就是针对性的查字典往往是个别词义的接触，而汉字的意思很多。假若很想搞定汉语，不排除阅读字典的积极作用。就是主动阅读词典区分每个字不同意思。哎呀，这是天大的工程。我赞成这么做。我只是说可能是可行的学习方法。还有，因为我不看英语，或者少看英语，我的一些基本东西的名称不知晓。我家里有一本带图的词典。大家可能看过类似的词典。一个主题一个主题分别排列。看图学习汉语词汇。我觉得我就缺乏这方面的知识。普通物品的名称。但是我从未阅读过那本词典。这或许是我本人的疏忽。或许阅读那本店铺词典可以高度集中学到至今缺乏认知的词汇。那种学习方法苦闷，无聊。但是，我不应该自动的去否认它了。也许当年阅读词典那几位有了自己的一套学习方法。或许我需要借鉴。好，写了那么多。先不修改错别字。直接发布。回头整理整理。

[@misterchamstandupcomedy5560]

steve, I can't agree with you more. Passive vocabulary is the first step to learning a language, it's like some people can understand the language but can't speak it fluently. The next step is to turn the passive things into active vocabularies.... and this process could be much longer. coz... now, it's about memory and instinct, but not just basic understanding.

[@muskyoxes]

Word count isn't about if you can use it, but it _is_ about if you don't forget it. I fail at language learning because i'm on a treadmill - the words i "learn" fall away, come back, fall away, come back, and i'm treading water, never reaching the point where i can use regular material as input

[@EasyFinnish]

Congratulations 500k!

[@fernandocortes1187]

7:00 listening and comprensión reading ti learn words

[@jamestays8416]

I wish I could have used lingq more for my japanese lessons. Unfortunately the system used to identify and separate words doesn't do japanese well. I plan on coming back to it when I'm more advanced. 😁

[@mehrab7fm]

I agree with learning naturally, meanwhile it's a good idea to use spaced repetition technique. Because we 'naturally' tend to forget.

[@alanguages]

Steve, Do you ever do vocabulary augmentation by learning the roots and affixes of a language? I continue to do that and cannot see myself ever doing the one word at a time with the dictionary ever again. Aside from the most frequent words study of in a case of one word at a time, which is necessary, the passive knowledge of learning word roots and affixes has changed my outlook entirely. The Ancient Greek and Latin roots, suffixes and prefixes have expanded my passive understanding of English my mother tongue. Now I know many of that can be transferred to other Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages. Also modern Greek of which I can think of.

[@faezehfirouzabadi8323]

خیلی ممنون و موفق باشید.

[@TheLibraryOfEmotions]

A great video, very informative, I feel inspired by the concept of passive vocabulary, thank you for the sincere advices.

[@Rif-1921]

Hola Steve este canal te viene muy bien para aprender arabe porque tiene subtítulos.. gracias

[@Thelinguist]

Gracias/

[@astemastem]

500k! Congratulations 🎉👏

[@APlusRussian]

Certainly need words to... wordsmith (e.g., apply grammatical rules, etc.) 😉

[@mariosergio7537]

I've been learning English for two years, and now I'm able to understand at least 90 percent of any content I hear. I never went well in learning words separately, instead I only did well watching series with subtitles and rewatching the same series without subtitles again and after that listening over again.

[@garyhull6689]

Your written English is superb.! Well done!

[@mariosergio7537]

@@garyhull6689 Thank you! I appreciate that, it makes me feel confident to keep on track

[@grunntalll]

oh interesting! so you watched shows with your native subtitles and then again without subtitles or you meant you watched show with english subtitles and then without?

[@mariosergio7537]

@@grunntalll hi , how are you? So I always use to watch with English subtitles and never my native subtitles. This the way I've been improving my progress, I have a long road to run yet, but eve making some mistakes I noticed a lot of progress

[@grunntalll]

@@mariosergio7537 okay cool, and how did you get to the point where you could watch english shows with english subtitles and understand enough to keep going? what did you do to get to that point?. thanks im fine = )

[@danisarteaga6475]

Thanks again for your support 😘

[@hananabed1866]

I love learn language very much, it's very interesting to me even my tongue language I interested it from the Holy quran

[@russellfreestone8580]

You give very good advice.

[@muhammadahsenkhan832]

Thanks for the help, Steve.

[@gabibaldeon9456]

What would be the strategy to acquire the vocabulary we want? Making lists, flashcards, what else?

[@Dumm11111]

I have a friend,very talented. He study many languages by himself. And he read dictionaries. Only about English,he read 4 dictionaries. The last language he studied is Hebrew. Mostly he cannot speak,but can read. He died years ago. As a friend of him,l also read dictionaries when I study German,and I have 35 German dictionaries . Now I study Japanese.

[@Dumm11111]

我不認為記生字或讀字典有啥不對的 記不住 忘記 記錯 說錯 寫錯 都不是事兒 重點是 就是去「認得」 不是「熟悉」甚至敢說是「了解」 這世上 咱們不可能去 了解 任何東西的

[@veritevraie4433]

As a french, I do exactly what you suggest : I'm currently learning Chinese Mandarin, and most ressources are in English and sometimes I have to look for the translation of an English word in my mother tongue so I incidentelly improve my english too. I would add that I learn mostly from native speakers, but from non native speakers too, because for a certain part, they will point things that native won't, in a way which is more understandable : so among the infinity of ressources, maybe those non natives are but 10 percent of those I listen to, but I think it remains appreciable for the reasons I just mentionned.

[@Samson-v5v10]

I'm chinese, and I'm learning French now. Translation between French and Chinese are not natural like English and Chinese, so I also had to check the English meaning sometimes.

[@MDobri-sy1ce]

Too me, it’s all about context in which the words are used.

[@farshadshiri1600]

Hi, thanks a lot for fantastic teaching. I have a question an appritiate if answer. The input is better to be different or is better to repeat an input so that i learn it compleatly and then start another content? Thank you so much

[@damasceno39]

Thank you Steve! Thank you so much!

[@whatMezLearn]

come back again for this advice!!

[@SpreadingWisdom06]

Very informative video.

[@LiuMichael-o4n]

thanks teacher, you are excellent!

[@magdaelmougi4159]

It’s really informative video thanks 🙏

[@masakolopez3859]

I like your way to learn language❤

[@alphonsuswalker1101]

Therefore, to learn a new language should we use text with audio, spaced repetition and vocabulary?

[@malakmimika9824]

He's a Legend ✨

[@MCyagli]

Hi Steve, I did not understand why you find the following statement irrelevant: "you must read content that only has a small percentage of new words in it, or that you have to meet a word so many times" and how it contradicts with what you later describe how we should acquire words. To me, they complement each other perfectly.