I created the PERFECT space for LANGUAGE LEARNING!

[@daysandwords]

Check out the new and improved SPEAKLY for Android or iOS and if you do decide to go premium, get a nice discount and help out the channel by using the following codes: ENGLISH: FNS1 SPANISH: FNS2 FRENCH: FNS3 GERMAN: FNS4 ITALIAN: FNS5 RUSSIAN: FNS6 ESTONIAN: FNS7 FINNISH: FNS8 (NOTE: All plans longer than 3 months actually include ALL languages but the app needs to match the code to the language you're currently set to, so you can use any code but just have the language set to that when you do.)

[@flyinggoat2581]

I tried using the code for Estonian, but it says that the coupon is expired? I want to get you credit for the referral!

[@daysandwords]

@@flyinggoat2581 Thanks for your patience and for trying to get the credit for me... I have emailed my contact there. It's normally a matter of the code having an expiry date that they can't bypass and they just need to renew it again.

[@daysandwords]

So according to them, the codes don't expire until 2023. They're saying they're active. Did you have the app set to the language that you used the code for? That's an annoying bug it is... even though the longer plans give you access to all the languages, the app must be set to Spanish at the time that you use the code FNS2, or set to Russian when you use FNS6 etc.

[@SS-wi4tm]

For me, a very pretty french themed notebook made a big difference. I wanted to take notes on the fancy paper! Also wearing the around the neck dinky headphones everywhere I go, so I can always learn on the go. My google home plays a learn french book when I'm showering and cooking- and the shower is the perfect place to work on accents.

[@carmencampeanu7810]

So happy your back!! It's my dream to have something like this one day, a little language learning space to hide out from the world 💙

[@LanguageExplorer]

This is so relevant. What you say is just so true -- one time, I'm trying to focus studying but then I'd suddenly think of the dishes... Or that I need to sweep the floor, or cook for lunch, or remove stuff on my table -- and then dust it off completely 😂 I have to learn how to work even with much stuff around because tbh, with work and Uni, Idon't have time to freakin' clean everyday 🥲 thanks... For the good reminder of working amidst chaos. 🤣 Also, they say most genius people work well even with too much around them, so I guess you're one 😎

[@daysandwords]

Yeah I definitely can work amidst chaos, but I find it easier if it's CREATIVE work. If it's like learning/study stuff, I find it MUCH easier if the place is clean.

[@filipino437]

Sana ol

[@Flauschbally]

🤣🤣 cool video. Thx Lamont. My learning and study space is the train when traveling to work and back home (3 hours per day). ✨

[@nagiii159]

the production value for this channel is insane keep up the great work!

[@daysandwords]

Thank you! You should see my short film haha. kzbin.info/www/bejne/kJ22Z5qfm9WtsJo

[@aell.e]

glad to hear from you! thank you for the tips, looking forward to an update on your language journey 😊

[@alicedelarge]

Just today I was thinking my man Lamont hasn't posted in a while, good to see you!

[@laudermarauder]

Välkommen tillbaka och tack för att du släppte in oss i ditt perfekta arbetsutrymme.

[@jaredlash5002]

What an absolutely ace idea for the reading light!

[@daysandwords]

One day I didn't have any good light in the room and I just turned on the light I use for filming and was like "Hey that's nice, I should make a permanent and warmer temperature version of that". Didn't do it for another year haha.

[@DustinSchermaul]

Good to hear from you again :). Thanks for all those tips and tricks to smooth learning and life ;).

[@ntatenarin]

These are really great tips! And that tip you gave with the box really does help a lot as my place is cleaner and I still know I can retrieve my stuff whenever I want. Also, for me, I have a weird "study space" thing I do where I actually put on my favorite movie/tv show in the background, in the language I'm learning, while studying new words. Yes, it makes things slower, but it's more motivating for me. Usually I'm lazy to pull out my word lists and study them (and I get sleepy), but once I put on a movie in the background, it makes me want to study for some odd reason. And yes, instead of studying your word lists for 30 minutes, it may take an hour or more instead, but I'm enjoying it more. LOL, this probably doesn't make sense.

[@daysandwords]

Nah I get exactly what you mean. Like I don't like exercising (well, I do, but it's complicated... certain forms of it I don't like), and I don't really like watching the news, in any language. But I DO like exercising and watching the Swedish news at the same time.

[@sicko_the_ew]

Cardboard box is a brilliant idea. I'm going to try it myself, starting tomorrow.

[@EasyFinnish]

Moi! Hey, ur back! It's tidy up time! I wish that some day I have something like you have there. I need a bigger house, haha! I make all my videos with my phone and also editing...

[@eeeee323]

Awww, ¡te quedó muy bonito!

[@daysandwords]

I don't know what "te quedo" means but I assume I've done something right with "muy bonito!" haha.

[@NGabriel88]

Could you please do an interview on language learning routines (and other things related to language learning with Dr. Alexander Arguelles? 😊 Det hadde vært spennende og veldig hjelpsomt!

[@Christopher_Stead]

Lamont you just solved my reading light problems, I just wasted two weeks researching floor lamps 😢

[@daysandwords]

Well floor lamps are a little bit more portable but yeah I am VERY happy with this one for this space. It also makes for good ambient light when I'm just working during the day or even at night, because it's behind me and to the right so it doesn't reflect too much off the screen.

[@Christopher_Stead]

Just got the reading light set up today! Unfortunately even with a 9W warm white bulb, it's nowhere near bright enough, so I'll need to hunt around for something better. It also still casts a slight shadow, but it's much, much, much better than my failed attempt at using a desk lamp. Super stoked about this!

[@daysandwords]

I think I do actually use a 9W globe... I just found the 6W packet so I thought it was that but after I made the video I realised that was wrong. You must have it a bit higher than mine then... because mine is bright enough to read in (and it would also explain why you have a bit of a shadow). Unless your globe isn't Philips... some of the cheap ones claim wattage that they're not actually reaching. But yeah Philips ones goes up to 14W and those things are freakin' bright. My videos are made with 4 of them behind an 80cm softbox. You can even get 19W and 24W ones but they are specialty and expensive.

[@anna7276]

Good to see you back!

[@DanClapp]

Nice to see you again!

[@thisisbgm]

Uh oh... I may have to figure out how I can light EVERYTHING with diffuse light now

[@donna-lisa8328]

Can you do a video on your language routine? And how we should learn a language properly in your opinion cuz for me I'm not sure if I'm doing it right.

[@87advil]

That's what the whole channel is about!

[@daysandwords]

I haven't really done one on my language routine because these days it's like "Wake up, speak to my kid in Swedish, watch Swedish stuff, maybe read something in Swedish, put on a Swedish cartoon for my kid... go to sleep". That doesn't really help people trying to get from A2 to B1. I try to mix helpful videos in with views videos, I'll see what I can do.

[@sagaronyoutube]

Hi lamont! Do you have a piece somewhere where you talk about how you would set about learning swedish if you knew what you knew now (it’s my next language so thinking about experimenting with learning paths)

[@daysandwords]

DO I!? kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5_Udo16eMZ_iNU

[@twilightera-t4b]

Love the captain sinbad section

[@daysandwords]

He's a legend, but I'm also surprised by how much Thomas has come into his own to be a really important part of the channel. What he said there definitely gets missed a lot - KZbinrs who can earn $20K a month making one video can essentially do whatever they want (eg. trying meditation for 2 hours a day for a month) and they often act like that's an option for everyone.

[@matildawolfram4687]

Good video! The most important thing in life is knowledge of foreign languages! Thanks to foreign languages you can realize all your dreams and realize your grandiose ambitions! I would like to recommend all the practices of Yuriy Ivantsiv ''Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign language". This book will be an indispensable helper, a handbook for every person who studies a foreign language! This book contains invaluable tips, questions and answers, and solutions to problems faced by anyone who studies a foreign language! Knowledge is power! And knowledge of foreign languages is your power multiplied by many times! Success to all in self-development!

[@matt_brooks-green]

My life is a mess - I need a bigger box...

[@daysandwords]

Haha, we just had ordered a couch from Ikea and it came in literally the biggest cardboard box I've ever seen. I'm already planning a video involving that box haha.

[@matt_brooks-green]

@@daysandwords That genuinely sounds great! 🤣

[@jonande]

Me, a carpenter listening to you claiming a cardboard box is better than drawers: *"How dare you"-meme*

[@daysandwords]

Haha. For the record that's not quite what I said but thanks in any case.

[@AnnaKaunitz]

Next video; how to dust and clean every cm of your language crib. På svenska 🇸🇪 Du står framför en bokhylla med prydliga rader av böcker och påstår att du är lite slarvig/har det rörigt….va? va? 🤣 Kul att du är tillbaka, L ❤️

[@daysandwords]

Det är bara hyllan som visas i mina videor! TRO mig, om du skulle se andra delar av mitt hus skulle du veta exakt hurdan jag är. Om du kollar intervjuen med Klaudia hör du att hon sa nåt om böckerna på golvet. Det dröjde typ 7 veckor innan jag flyttade dem. 😅

[@russelsmithard7566]

2:30 is literally the first day of any university class

[@daysandwords]

Haha. It certainly wasn't for my university classes.

[@ml3609]

This is so good. I am going to get a box!! Muahaha ha ha hahaha look out world!!! I am going to get a box!!

[@daysandwords]

It's seriously amazing. I rearranged the room again two days ago and after I'd finished setting up the main part that I was changing, there was this ridiculous mess on the floor, and I just threw it all in the box. The cool thing is, in a few weeks when I clear it out, I'll realise how little I use the stuff in there and can just throw most of it out or give it away or whatever.

[@stevencarr4002]

You read a lot of Swedish. Can you read Swedish handwriting? Do you need to? Russian handwriting is very different from typed Cyrillic. Is that the same in Swedish? Obviously yes. I know Swedish handwriting is very different from typed Cyrillic. I mean is it different from typed Swedish.

[@daysandwords]

I haven't tried very much but I did have to read hand written Danish once and I managed OK so I guess I can. One difference in hand written Swedish is that Ö and Ä are lazy written with a stroke over the top rather than two dots, and I actually write this way myself because... well, it's easier, hence it being a thing in the first place. Å often just has a sort of mark that isn't exactly a stroke but isn't really a circle either. I think reading KZbin comments is probably just as difficult, with shortenings like "iaf" (i alla fall = anyway, in any case), pga (på grund av = due to, for the reason of), hsh (hur som helst = anyway, but it's a different kind of anyway to the first one)... there's a heap more that don't come to mind right now. MVH is extremely famous and sometimes even non-Swedes know that one (med värma hälsningar = warm regards, a warm sign off).

[@julbombning4204]

The days of French and Swedish community should make our very own constructed language!

[@daysandwords]

Most important word? Basketballer.

[@julbombning4204]

@@daysandwords Yes cool! I’ve also thought of one!: A verb for when the eyes goes all shimmery and water-filled when you experience an uncomfortable situation and people look at you

[@julbombning4204]

@@daysandwords Or a word for when you are in the state between sleep and being awaken and you get super creative and can experience art 10x more profoundly!

[@DanBanan69]

This is $349 lol. It made me laugh out silently. I losed.

[@davidackroyd5918]

first!