Levantine Arabic practice: language learning updates, experimenting with spaced repetition

It’s been forever since I’ve last uploaded a video but today I felt like chatting with you guys about what I’ve been up to lately language learning-wise. In this video I talk a bit about my experience using Anki (a spaced repetition program) to learn Chinese characters and my failed attempt at learning Japanese.
As always, I would be more than happy to receive corrections/suggestions from native speakers.
I really hope I can start uploading more consistently but... we'll see what happens🤣

[@thelanguagelife7962]

So who knows when I'll actually get around to making another video haha, but would you guys also be interested in videos of me speaking English?

[@lowe166]

Sure

[@moomee5647]

Why not try it ...

[@KunnampallilGejo]

Sure, we are intrested in your lessons, please conside your beloved viewers...

[@ICanSpeakArabic]

当然啦 😊

[@Brigister]

make more with arabic captions like this one and i'll watch every single one of them! :)

[@Syed-u6x]

Keep these Arabic speaking videos coming for sure, they are great! How did you get so good at speaking? I finding dialect really hard as there aren't many resources out there as good as Fusha

[@ohood4863]

Sei bravissima :) E grazie mille per i sottotitoli arabi: nessuno li mette mai in un dialetto arabo. È *utilissimo* per chi impara il levantino.

[@thelanguagelife7962]

Grazie! Sono contena che ti siano utili :)

[@KunnampallilGejo]

WOW, REALLY I AM SO MUCH HAPPY TO SEE YOU , SINCE LONG TIME LOOKING FOR YOUR VIDEOS, YOU DISAPPERED ... YOU ARE GOOD TUTOR IN ARABIC ... GREAT WORK,

[@erik-emil73]

Good to see you back 🤗

[@Abdallh.S]

Bro your Arabic is so good I can’t believe it, umm r u sure you are not Arabic ? Lmao 😂

[@obscurus1344]

You should look into the concept "ease hell" and a few add-ons, most importantly Morphman and Chinese support. Good luck.

[@thelanguagelife7962]

Omg that looks like something I really need lol my reviews situation is currently a bit out of control.

[@obscurus1344]

@@thelanguagelife7962 I feel you, just push through. Check out www.reddit.com/r/Anki/ if you run into any problems.

[@AysarAburrub]

i commend your patience to type closed captions with all the diacritics ... but then again you're someone who had the patience to learn Arabic to begin with, and now Chinese, so yeah lol ... Great work! Keep it up!

[@thelanguagelife7962]

Haha it is indeed quite a pain! :)

[@AysarAburrub]

@@thelanguagelife7962 if you need help with anything, dont hesitate to ask

[@moomee5647]

Omg ! I start to learn Chinese too , it's very hard I just knew ' Ni hao ' hahaha We missed you ..💖

[@ICanSpeakArabic]

You should continue dont give up

[@thelanguagelife7962]

Missed you guys too! :)

[@riadalsharif]

Happy to see you again

[@jojobaoil8736]

Which dialect of Arabic is this? I love that i can understand it a little bit lol

[@IaM-kv4fl]

your arabic is very well .. it's make me feel i can do it i can speak English very well

[@nazimelhadi4700]

It sounds awesome, I thought you were from the middle East at beginning

[@vanguard7361]

ماشاءالله تبارك الله كيف تعلمتي عربي 😍؟ وليش اخترتي اللهجة الشامية بالذات؟

[@mohanadhayder5230]

Okay look. It's hard for me to believe that you don't speak Arabic as a first language or you have Arabic or Isreali origins otherwise you have really really really worked hard to reach to this level because this fluency requires many years. You give me the feeling that you are a CIA agent by your fluency 😂😂 great job👏👏👏 greetings from Egypt.

[@lowe166]

I'm learning spanish, any advice could you give to accelerate learning the language besides flashcards?? Thank you :D

[@thelanguagelife7962]

Just the usual advice. Exposing yourself to the language as much as possible by reading and listening to content of interest to you in your target language (it has to be content that isn't too hard for your level but still challenges you somewhat; also, look up the shadowing technique), practicing speaking by finding language partners or using a tutor for lessons. You can try translating texts from your native language into Spanish, keeping a journal in Spanish, changing your phone and social media to Spanish, talking to yourself in Spanish, etc. You have to figure out what works for you and what keeps you motivated to keep learning the language. Good luck! :)

[@sabinenaass2772]

Really, you should dedicate your brain to science after your worldly life. I am positive they will find something extraordinary in there. Greetings from Berlin Blessings and a long happy life for you.

[@avivdror9567]

נודר אנקי זה מדהים להכל

[@thelanguagelife7962]

מסכימה לחלוטין!

[@jjp5619]

What languages do you speak? Also, do you use your language skills for work or is it just a hobby?

[@thelanguagelife7962]

Hebrew, Arabic, Italian, Mandarin, French, Spanish (all at very different levels) :)

[@jjp5619]

@@thelanguagelife7962 Wow, thats awesome! Good job on all of your hard work!

[@thelanguagelife7962]

And I use Hebrew for work (translation) :)

[@joech.7775]

أحسنت! ع فكرة، منحكي "الرموز" الصينية بدلا من الحروف. رمز يعني character. بالتوفيق والنجاح.

[@thelanguagelife7962]

Ah okay very useful to know! Thank you!

[@joech.7775]

@@thelanguagelife7962 不客氣

[@superlinux]

ديري بالك على حالك. في هالأزمة موفقة. سلام من لينان.

[@5Gazto]

日本語はそんなに難しいくないんです。友達とか知り合いと一緒に喋るあとで言語の能力を必ず増えられます。

[@deljeane2204]

Will someone be my practice buddy!!

[@IbrahimAhmed-ci7zy]

You should learn URDU Pakistani language which around 1.4 billion people in Pakistan India Bangladesh and Nepal speak.

[@samv5511]

من تتكلمي استعملي الفصحة لخاطر الكعبة

[@bouzidkamal5891]

انا من المغرب اريد الزواج منك

[@Sage-lq6lu]

I’ve lived my entire life in Kuwait and you speak better arabic than I do lol

[@bronwynbarthus5605]

I'm using Mango Languages to learn levantine arabic and really love it. It also uses spaced repetition.

[@fatihakhan4381]

did you find any other sources or youtube channels for this dialect. it is really hard to find resources for this

[@Elena-pl1de]

@@fatihakhan4381 Arabic clearly

[@ahmedjabie2211]

Omg 2000 حرف

[@ahmedjabie2211]

العربي أرحم

[@dalal8903]

ماشاءالله تتكلمي عربي بطلاقة واللهجة الشامية جميلة ، برنامج هالو توك تجربتي معه سيئة للاسف

[@Alsunni666]

Hi.... 0:14 Motivated= متحفزة You've got a Subscriber 🤗

[@ginismoja2459]

انا حاليا بركز على اللهجة الفلسطينية واللغة المجرية... ياريت شي يوم اصير احكي زيك بالعربي 😌

[@amn1437]

انا حاليا اتعلم الانجليزي ياريت شي يوم احكي انجليزي زيك

[@moomee5647]

Your Arabic is perfect don't worry at all ...

[@ICanSpeakArabic]

Its my dream to reach this level !

[@amerali6888]

Hi where are you now?

[@moomee5647]

U use hello talk I use speaky ...

[@ICanSpeakArabic]

اقدر عملك كثير. 谢谢分享

[@danielsalloum3006]

Any chance you can go through your typical language routines? Daily breakdown and whatnot... awesome content. You can tell you dedicate lots of time to language acquisition. Very encouraging.

[@traveleverywhere7000]

I am learning Levantine Arabic and I have many of your videos in playlists so I can watch them over and over. They are extremely helpful for verb conjugation and vocab. I really like it when you use the phonetic script (like the Elijay series) and the Arabic script as well. Anyway, excellent work and it is much appreciated. Also learning Mandarin and French. I already speak Spanish and Engish is my native language.

[@TheAk8888]

اشتقنا لك... موفقة في اي لغة تختارينها او حابة تتعلمها 😁💙💙💙🌹

[@Brigister]

i sottotitoli in arabo mi sono stati utilissimi! non c'è NESSUNO oltre a te che metta i sottotitoli in 3ammiye su KZbin :( per quelli come me che stanno imparando il dialetto levantino può diventare molto frustrante guardare video senza sottotitoli. grazie infinite!! spero ne farai altri così in futuro

[@thelanguagelife7962]

Sono contenta che ti siano utili!

[@Brigister]

@@thelanguagelife7962 sì, moltissimo :) e credo che molti altri come me li apprezzino un sacco

[@amaddu8201]

al tekrar bel kasra بالكسر انت رائعه في تعليم اللغة العربية لقد رشحت قناتك لاصدقائي الاجانب استمري

[@bebetter7006]

Wow , I'm shocked how much your accent sounds native 👍👍👍👍💪💪💐

[@elieli1423]

hi. please write links to sites where you can watch movies and TV series in literary Arabic that you like.

[@sascha8460]

Hey, im learning Japanese :) and it goes quiet well, but i also have to memorize a lot of Characters, but have you heard of the Heisig-Method , it‘s really useful for learning Characters. By the way, i am still learning arabic, but could you maybe make a video on your language learning strategies for arabic? That would be so helpful. Especially for a dialect is there any good translator etc. and how did you become so fluent? I‘m really happy that you are back!! Greetings from Germany

[@tammamalkatan685]

Hi! I'm Tammam from Syria. I'm currently learning german. I've discovered this site www.mangolanguages.com/ They now offer free language courses in many languages inculding Levantine Arabic until 30th June I've checked the course and the quality is really good. If you have hello talk we can do a language exchange. I'll help you gladly.

[@5Gazto]

The best kept secret in learning a foreign language is NOT speaking or writing in English. LOL. Make your target language memorable, actionable, practical.

[@MissShining4]

@@tammamalkatan685 Mar7ba ya Tammam. So I know this is an old comment but I am learning Levantine Arabic and my native language is German. If you are still interested in a language exchange, feel free to reply :)

[@tammamalkatan685]

@@MissShining4 Yeah sure. How can I communicate with you?

[@jjp5619]

Do you have any good resources for learning modern hebrew? I would like to start learning.

[@ayadmohammed349]

I want someone speak English with me and he will learn Arabic 😐

[@abeerm2042]

أوصل لهدفي و ليس اتقرب من هدفي You’re amazing 🙏🏻

[@thelanguagelife7962]

Thanks for the correction!

[@moomee5647]

اقترب من هدفي

[@films5471]

May I ask you a question, who taught you Arabic?

[@jazzmanem9119]

How are you dealing with this strange pandemic?

[@christophbugel]

I'm also using Anki! for learning Arabic words

[@B52Nature1]

Hello your voice is down

[@Kebbab.213]

Indeed very effective

[@marksteve8373]

OMG, no Oh My God! Well donnnnne😲

[@mallika96p]

louder please!

[@faisalalenzi194]

Welcome back😍👏

[@avivdror9567]

גם hello talk זה חזק

[@springtime2988]

Hi teacher

[@johandaum2720]

Nice to see you ;) I'm also into Mandarin Chinese, but using Skritter as SRS system (which teach how to write the characters, it's pretty incredible), I've managed to learn the HSK 5 vocabulary from scratch in about 1.5 year but I'm going to take a pause in order to "digest" it and ease the burden of the daily reviews. (PS: In order to be able to read newspaper it's more about 3000 characters than 2000). When I get some spare time I also try to improve my Arabic by watching Netflix TV shows with transliteration + translation at the same time (chrome extension) + reading Aljazeera. For the others 3 learned language I "mastered" it's pretty passive learning these days (newspaper/netflix). Keep on learning!

[@thelanguagelife7962]

Wow that's awesome! I'll have to check out that app.

[@johandaum2720]

@@thelanguagelife7962 It does cost 100$ a year but for me it was definitely worth the price, and especially since i spent a lot of time using it in public transportation each day.

[@Elena-pl1de]

Ci sei mancata!

[@eidlebanon5245]

انا حاليًا عم بتعلم ألماني. يعني لغة صعبة وغريبة شوي بتركيبة جملتها وبحس فيها قواعد معقدة وما الها نفع كتير. والى جانب اللغة الالمانية اتعلمت الاسباني لكن بعدني عم اتعلم كلمات ومفردات وتعابير حتى اوصل لمرحلة متقدمة. وعلى فكرة انا كمان بستخدم تطبيق انكي (Anki) لحفظ مفردات انكليزية ولحد هلا حصلت اكثر من 1500 كلمة جديدة بظرف اشهر. وكمان بتعلم عليه مفردات فرنسي وعربية فصحى. وما بقى تطولي الغيبة علينا ❤️

[@thelanguagelife7962]

I love that you use it for Arabic! I was thinking about starting some decks for English :)

[@eidlebanon5245]

@@thelanguagelife7962 Go ahead I highly recommend it bcz one thing I found is that mastering your own mother tongue comes in quite handy when learning a foreign one.

[@mu3addz594]

your Jordanian accent is perfect