Listen to Youtubers | Random language learning tip #7

Listening to someone speak in first person about where they've been, what they are doing and what they are thinking about this and that is (not) surprisingly a great way to improve your speaking. When it comes to your options, KZbinrs are a great source of hours of first person monologues. Listen to someone for an hour daily and you will learn much more than sitting in a language class for the same amount of time.
KZbinrs I watch:
English:
Fun for Louis
/ @louis
Kalel
/ @kalelsumisu
Russian:
Шамов Дмитрий
/ @shamovdmitry
Касё Гасанов
/ @channelmadeinchina
French:
Anil
/ @anilb
Italian:
Ernesto Cinquenove
/ @ernestocinquenove
German:
Valentastisch
/ @valentastisch
Language Blog: www.foreverastudent.com

[@shaolin89]

Yeah, its almost as if KZbin alone is the ultimate tool for learning a language basically haha.

[@illmakeuhowell]

даже не посмотрев видео: 100% СОГЛАСНА

[@loot6]

That's a good tip although I wouldn't recommend it for beginners. If you watch a tv show or movie you have a lot of visual clues to help you understand what might be being said. But with a guy just talking right at the screen there's just nothing to help at all. Having said that, this method is very good indeed once you reach a slightly higher level and can basically understand what is being said since its 100% input. There's no time wasted watching a car chase like in a movie, it just 100% language input.

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+loot6 Exactly. Movies and TV shows are full of empty segments. I think I did mention that this method works only if you're not a beginner too.

[@loot6]

+Vladimir Skultety Yeah, another thing is watching youtubers will REALLY help your pronunciation since seeing the mouth of a speaker while listening is way better than just audio alone. You can't learn how to pronounce a language properly without actually seeing the mouth of a speaker forming the words. That must be why your pronunciation is so good in the languages you've learned.

[@david_oliveira71]

Wow thanks for these 2 video recommodations to russian, love your videos

[@sheodox]

I like watching let's plays in the language I'm learning (Japanese). They usually have good microphones and watching the game gives a lot of context to help when you don't know a word they're saying. My favorite Japanese LPers are PockySweets, アブ, and みやゆう. If they're playing a game that doesn't have audio for the dialog, they often read what's being said (like アブ playing 妖怪ウォッチ) which is pretty close to a subtitled video, just backwards. As far as more normal videos go, there's people like Megwin (lots overly-macho sounding dialog and weird stuff), はじめしゃちょー (talks really fast), Seikin (speaks more politely (closer to textbook conversations) and is easier to understand), Dekakin (does lots of weird silly things and I like his low quality parody of Hikakin), MAHOTO (always doing something silly and ill-advised).

[@MinotaurvsCyclops]

+sheodox +nickerchen

[@FruityHachi]

i listen to youtubers every day, mostly in english, like - banana tv, jake eames, li-san loves...but i watch more research-based videos than vlogs in 1st person

[@valtersen559]

Thanks for the Video, it is really helpful :)

[@schwien]

Hi Vladimir. danke für all deine Videos, die sind wirklich saunützlich. Ich teile deine Liebe für Fremdsprachen, auch wenn ich lange nicht so viele spreche wie du. Der Tipp mit den KZbinbloggern wird gleich ausprobiert! Grüsse aus Bayern

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Danke sehr:) Grüsse aus Taiwan.

[@shewolf1102]

this is %100 true. Last year I was good at write and read English but I was pretty weak at speaking and listening. Today, I barely have an accent

[@RadioLightning]

That's a thing I was already doing before this video :) I'm glad to see someone else doing the same. Could you recommend me some german youtubers?

[@eddietheblue25]

Good Spanish/ Portuguese/ Italian youtubers I should listen to?

[@kon6768]

How much time a day would you recommend to spend learning a language, including all kinds of stuff: textbooks, audio/video courses, watching youtubers and so on? Is it good 2 hours a day? How much time a day did you normally spend to learn a new not so difficult (not asian) language?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+Kon You know it's very difficult to say. When I really wanted to learn a new language and I was in good conditions (when I lived in Italy for instance) I was learning Italian all day every day for weeks and didn't feel any stress. But this included conversations with my friends, reading books, listening to radio etc. If you're not in country, probably 2 hours a day if you have a busy schedule are pretty good.

[@shinlee6917]

Hey! I'm thinking of studying Chinese or Japanese at uni and after some time study either social work or international relations too, do you think they work well together? as you have already studied Chinese at uni, do you think it's worth it? I'd love it if you'd make a video about your experience as an interpreter, the advantages etc! xx

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+Shin Lee Hello. I'm not sure how Chinese/Japanese is treated in universities around the world but we went into incredible detail with history and literature, so in this case I would recommend doing it if you'd like to do research in the field or teach the languages later. If you just want to learn the language then I'd leave to China/Japan, teach English there and learn the language on my own.

[@shinlee6917]

Vladimir Skultety That makes sense, thanks for the input Vladimir!

[@Slaweniskadela]

Ahoj Vladimir :) Môžeš mi poradit' nejake dobre slovenske youtuberi ? :)

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+Davis Light Actually I find difficult finding German youtubers I can listen to. I used listen to Sami Slimani, but not too much anymore.

[@valtersen559]

A good KZbinr is LeFloid haha

[@danielkiss9633]

+Vladimir Skultety I like to listen Lamiya Slimani's vlogs too and AnKat, because they upload pretty frequently.

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+Dániel Kiss Maybe I should start listening to Lamiya too, Sami is for a different audience.

[@danielkiss9633]

+Vladimir Skultety Unfortunately I couldn't find any german vlogger neither whose content is suitable for my personal interest, but I learned english from KZbin. Great advice, Vlad. Üdv Magyarországról :)

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Dániel Kiss Minden jot:)

[@23patrocinio]

Vlad, I like to watch a lot of media, but I don't watch many vlogs o youtube, I prefer to watch tv shows or movies. Do you think it's better, for example, to watch more vlogs or tv shows?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

I think vlogs are better because you are listening to monologues, which can help you much more.

[@23patrocinio]

Yeah, I should probably spend more time watching vlogs then. I spend like 2,3 hours/day watching tv shows and just 20/30 minutes with vlogs.

[@Ybantyarik]

Vlad, can you tell me the Russian vlogger you subscribed to? Thanks a lot for the video

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+MahmutNS “Mahmut Akay” Akay I like Dmitri Shamov kzbin.info/door/DNXL3G7Mz594L1CVFp3CMQ (based in Japan) and Kase Gasanov kzbin.info/door/istUowRXw5Nb_OXgVRPP3w (based in China).

[@Ybantyarik]

+Vladimir Skultety You re the best :)

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+MahmutNS “Mahmut Akay” Akay Good studies:)

[@awertag]

anyone have either hebrew or arabic vloggers they could direct me to? i'm studying both and would really like to add this dimension to my studying! great tip, i did this with italian when i was learning and now i'm fluent--it helps!

[@christiandeprovence]

Hi! I am Christian de Provence, à youtubber and Just à beginner at the moment. Your vids are great and give loads of tips and hacks for us polyglots. Just a pièce of advice : Please, fond out à solution with your microphone! It's pretty hard at Times to hear something ... and occasionly it's OK. I' LL try to solve this similar problème on my videos. Yes, KZbin helps fantastically when it Côme to listening compréhension.

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Thank you Christian. More people have been telling me this, but I can hear everything clearly and loudly. I tried to speak louder in my newest videos, but even in the older ones, there was only one where the sound was really not that good.

[@brainchild2197]

Could you recommend some Mandarin speaking youtubers? I only know EmmaXue TV.

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Unfortunately I haven't found any that I like. There is an app called 17 which is quite popular in Taiwan. Young people stream videos of themselves just talking about nothing. It's very good for learning Mandarin.

[@brainchild2197]

Thanks man, I'll check it out.

Hi, Vladimir! :) could you recommend some spanish channels? From Brazil

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Hi Estevão, unfortunately I can't. I'm also looking for something I could watch but I couldn't find anything so far.

Vladimir Skultety oh i undestand, but don't worry, I just did found some french channels, I've created a youtube account just to french channels, so only french channels will be suggest to me :) I'm a beginner in french, I'm learning mainly on Duolingo.

[@josephjasper3324]

Hey Vladimir, You mentioned you like Anil in French. Is he a smart guy to listen to? Is his French perfect? Whats his bio Thanks man!

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+Joseph Jasper Hi Joseph. I watched about 100 French youtubers and have to say he is the smartest and the politest one. If I remember correctly he has a degree in chemistry or math or something like that. He is Swiss, I don't see any problems with his French, but native speakers would have to assess that.

[@josephjasper3324]

+Vladimir Skultety Thanks! I'll have to check him out. One last thing- when you say he is the smartest, what do you mean? Just by the way he talks or what?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Joseph Jasper It's like, the overall impression he gives. He's a smart guy. (when compared to other French youtubers I saw at least).

[@josephjasper3324]

Cool! What languages does he speak? List of them Thanks again Vlad

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Joseph Jasper In the videos he only speaks French. He speaks English, and I think he knows some Italian too.

[@FruityHachi]

if someone has found some youtubers speaking in dutch and korean i´d appreciate it

[@shinlee6917]

Lil Marvel is a Korean one and there's also some channels with Koreans reacting to stuff, you might wanna look em up

[@jurtrypik]

Ahoj Vladimir, vedel by si mi prosim ta odporucit nejakeho nemeckeho youtubera?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Ahoj. Neorientujem sa v nich az tak velmi, ale ja zvyknem pozerat Valentina Moellera. Teraz robi hlavne tech review videa, ale ma este jeden kanal, ktory sa vola Valentastisch, kde hovori o roznych temach od toho, co je nekonecno, preco spime, ake je rozlisenie oka atd. a ten sa mi paci viac.

[@jurtrypik]

@@VladimirSkultetyOfficial Dakujem :)

[@laurakar5859]

Hi Vladimir and anyone else! Do you know a romanian youtuber? I'd be happy to find one :-)

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+Laura Kar Hi Laura. Unfortunately I don't :/ If you find one, please let me know!:)

[@laurakar5859]

+Vladimir Skultety I will :-) thanks for answering :-)

[@gingisek]

any youtuber recommendations for learning french?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+gingisek I like Anil very much: kzbin.info/door/yOphwnua5w-ugqL9Rdownw

[@gingisek]

Thanks a lot! I'll check Anil out :))

[@shinlee6917]

+gingisek check Antastesia out, she has quite a few in French

[@liannepost9530]

ik wou dat ik al die talen sprak :( haha

[@BoeserOverlord]

Are there any Japanese people on youtube doing that? I only find ones talking in english.

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+Nickerchen I didn't look for any yet, but I would love to know too.

[@MinotaurvsCyclops]

+Nickerchen There's some Japanese people on twitch, if you're interested in that.

[@Neomalthusiano]

I tried doing that for Spanish, but I soon gave up. One of the languages with most speakers... but it seems people in Spain/Latin America are about minecraft.

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+Alexander Hamilton I also had difficulties finding Spanish speaking youtubers.

[@thomasn06]

Anyone in Slovak? I'd love to practice like this!

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

+Tom Grey I know only two or three Slovak youtubers but don't like them very much, soI don't know if I should recommend:)