The real reason you still can't speak your target language

You've studied for years but you can't speak when you want? Here's why, and what to do about it.
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[@patrickhodson8715]

Algorithm leave a comment followers numbers engagement viewership analytics channel growth statistics, if I’m being completely honest

[@dgpi504]

Obviously not the main point of the video, but that throwaway line about refusing to endorse BetterHelp made me love you even more.

[@DominoPivot]

I think it's important to keep in mind that speaking a language is a skill, not just knowledge. The brain does not learn how to do something if we don't practice it, no matter the amount of theory we know about it.

[@baronmeduse]

When people say to 'just engage' there is another very useful dimension to this, providing you can tolerate the pain for a while. One of the worst hurdles is worrying about how other people perceive your efforts, what you 'sound like'. If you start and people actually reply to you that hurdle can be surmounted. Also, when you interact those people feed you both words and patterns for speech. Language at its most basic and everyday is not greatly creative, it is made up of interchangeable blocks and by speaking with people you learn which blocks to use and how to arrange them.

[@Otochiro1]

If you train your writing, you will be good at writing. If you train your speaking, you will be good at speaking. Learning lists of words is necessary but does not by itself allow speaking.

[@sniffrat3646]

Brilliant. And all in less than 15 mins. "Beer goggles for your mouth" cannot be improved upon

[@JemRochelle]

I went to Brussels a few months ago, and I was feeling fairly good about my French, until I actually tried to talk to someone, and then I felt like the only word I knew was "quoi?" because I said it about a thousand times

[@JohnnyLynnLee]

ANYONE is better off with Krashen's approach. I NEVER encountered someone who says that can understand one of the languages I know well but "can't speak" that passed the following test. So you can understand, right? I send the person a random video with a native speaking that language. They are speaking fast, with slangs, partially in dialect, very relaxed. Then I say., "transcribe to me, please, the first 30 seconds of this vide in English (or Portuguese, since I'm Brazilian). They never can do that. If they CAN, they also can speak the language. The fact is that you can easily be DELUED in believing you understand more of the language than you actually can. Specially if you are basing your judgement in understanding material made for students, not by natives for natives. It all really comes down to: YOU DON'T UNDERTAND ENOUGH of the language to speak the way you are expecting yourself to speak. You cannot say what you cannot understand.

[@MisterAHouse]

Respect the hell out of rejecting a sponsorship segment from better help

[@SusanaXpeace2u]

This is like me 40 years of learning spanish, i can understand, i can write, i can follow Spanish youtubers, read spanish articles, pass c2 exams but i cannot really get words out of my mouth quickly nough that my verbal spanish matches what's in my head

[@samposlinski8079]

The hind brain stressing makes sense.

[@MM-jm6do]

I learned how to speak Spanish by trying to translate random every sentence I thought and then immediately looking up any word or construction I couldn’t produce.

[@pianoneko9279]

Japanese learner of ~8 years here, love reading/writing, HATE speaking.

[@violet_broregarde]

I love watching Twitch streamers in lieu of a language tutor or language exchange partner. The streamer is Doing Something, and that something provides you context for what they're saying. They're constantly using those little "ums" and stuff. They're probably very online, so their speech is probably more Englishy than average. And there's already an existing community of people talking about what's happening on screen in your target language. They're typing conversationally, reading their typos kind of forces you to imagine the voice speaking the words.

[@camelbro]

I've been doing a mix of pimsleur, clozemaster, italki, and harassing my friends who are native speakers every chance I get and it's worked very well in my target languages in the past.

[@tomfoolery-4444]

My earbuds were having connective issues when I first clicked on this and I thought the silence was on purpose

[@matt92hun]

There's also the part where irl people don't speak with pauses between every word, but the end of one word flows together with the beginning of the next one.

[@jeremiahreilly9739]

Spot on excellent advice. I think too many KZbin influencers forget that learning a foreign language often requires a bit of work. When I moved to German speaking Switzerland-already knowing German at the B2 level-I still worked hard. When planning an errand or preparing for a meeting, I would look up vocab and write out some scripts to memorize. The planning and prep is essential. I remember when natives stopped switching to English-when I stopped uh-ing and ah-ing. I still prepare. For instance, I just joined an archery club. What did I do? I watched a boat-load of archery videos in German.

[@zackreagin8384]

I find that writing things in my target language is helpful for getting better at speaking it. One thing that I've found works well for both expanding my vocabulary and getting better at expressing myself in another language is subscribing to a "word a day" email and then writing at least a sentence in the given language. There are a lot of websites that send out free "word a day" vocabulary emails. You can even keep track of words that you're having trouble remembering and try to incorporate them into your writing on other days. I also think that a big trick to getting better at speaking and listening to a new language is interacting with it as frequently as you can without another language as an intermediary. Use flash cards with only images rather than the translation in your own language, and watch movies and TV shows in the language that you're trying to learn, using subtitles in that language if you need a little extra help, but not using your native language as a crutch. Also, when you encounter a new word, look up the definition in that language rather than the translation in your own language. Some of these things may need to wait until you have a solid foundation, but don't be afraid to leave your comfort zone.

[@cardenuovo]

Glad I found you. Love your channel and takes on basically everything I’ve seen so far. Keep up the good work!