Learning instead of studying a language makes a big difference

[@nohzazu3395]

I totally agree with you, Luca. I have a degree in English, and currently I am an English teacher. I remember when I was learning English. I got stuck with grammar rules, but I found something that changed my way of learning the language; which is: If you want to speak, don't study grammar but speak and allow yourself to make mistakes. It helped me a lot.

[@nikkijubilant]

Yes, speaking kamikaze-fashion, me-Tarzan, just saying it and being willing to make mistakes, which I am starting to do in Italian and Spanish my third and fourth language respectively.

[@neonights979]

@@nikkijubilant excelentemente bien hecho señorita

[@MsBonsai2010]

I agree; there is a difference between studying & learning. Scientists study viruses, animal behavior, & volcanology. They are separate from their subjects. When you learn you are integrating something; that something - language in this case - becomes part of who you are. We didn't study our native language as children. We learned it & it became a part of us. Same thing goes for drawing, painting, skiing, surfing or whatever else you can think of that requires time & a lot of practice. Great video.

[@nikkijubilant]

Very well said :) I wanted to live in French, my mother's language so I just kept watching tv and listening to radio and reading till it clicked. Now I can take a university course taught in French about other subjects. Reading about finances and philosophy , art history and theology en français!

[@terugi]

This kind of "eureka" moment occured to me envolving inglish. One day I was watching a video with a friend and when the video ended i stopped and talk to myself "did i understand it 90% or most of the video or it was fantasy?" And then i said to my friend to replay the video and then i realized "omg, i have listening fluency". But as you can see, I don't have this fluency in writing YET.

[@syannasylwiaanna7468]

I know what you mean. I went to Germany, where, despite having "studied" German for 5 years at school, I could barely communicate. And we spent 2 weeks watching an American TV show - Supernatural. First I watched it with my German friend, so we had German dialogues and English subtitles, but then he kinda quit (didn't have that much time, got bored and so on), so I turned American dialogues too. At some point, I realized I was able to understand about 90% of dialogues (reading subtitles and listening at the same time) and another 10% were unknown words and cultural context (like referring to movies I hadn't watched). And at that moment, I realized I do understand spoken English without subtitles in my mother tongue. It was amazing experience and helped me a lot while preparing to my oral final exam in English, that took place 3 months later. Because it gave me this "I can do this" self-confidence. BTW Back then in Germany, I watched about 75 hours of TV show in like 12 days, so it was indeed really intensive experience. :)

[@learninggreek501]

your writing is pretty good, the only mispelling is the word english. i didn't even notice until you pointed it out, bravo!!

[@rateeightx]

Your Writing Is More Intelligible Than Scots, Good Job.

[@brendon2462]

How about today any better?

[@terugi]

​@@brendon2462 Wow, I didn't even remember commenting on this video, it's been 6 years now, damn haha Things are much better now, I am actually a professional translator and interpreter of English, Japanese, Spanish and Portuguese :D And I am currently learning Russian! How are y'all's language goals going? :)

[@koda1082]

I wish I found this video much sooner to improve my French. I may not be a language learning expert, but I am constantly improving my French on my own. Thanks to you and all the other polyglots on KZbin, all of you helped me enjoy language learning. Merci beaucoup ! Bonne chance !

[@dwbush777]

So glad to hear this analogy to learning a language, instead of studying. Thank you. I’m learning Russian now and go through my textbook and workbook with my teacher, chapter after chapter focusing on grammar but with a focus on speaking and learning by making mistakes. I am still reluctant to speak to native speakers in my area for fear of looking and sounding foolish.

[@nikkijubilant]

Hello Luca, Buongiorno, I had this eureka moment about 6-8 weeks ago when I was binge watching a series of Italian songs with English lyrics on KZbin and suddenly I went from feeling like a beginner to an upper beginner, I started to understand every third word, the songs started to make sense. It was magical.

[@spookytheblackcat7416]

This was 11 months ago, hows your italian now? Im currently learning german.

[@annaleeblysse]

We acquire our native language before school. Schools are designed to teach literacy.

[@nikkijubilant]

Annalee Blysse, yes, true, all the more reason that we should Speak before we Read.

[@mollygrace3068]

Excellent video!! I was just having a conversation with a girl from my Spanish 1B class the other day about this. She's very frustrated because she took Spanish 1A a few years ago and got an A, but now feels like she can't remember anything. She's a good student, so she doesn't like struggling in a subject. I told her language was more like exercise than a school subject. If you worked out really hard in the gun three years ago, it's not going to have any effect on you today. You have to keep exercising.

[@mollygrace3068]

*gym

[@franklinalexanderColmenarez]

hi Molly Grace are you still practicing spanish ?

[@nikkijubilant]

Very good point, utilize, don't analyze a language.

[@Wandering.Homebody]

Ha ha, what. If you studied some language really hard 3 years ago, and reached such and such level, and then dropped it altogether, but now decide to take another course in that language, you won't have magically un-known what you learned previously. It may be a tad rusty, but it will be fully usable, at the level it was before, within hours, or a couple of days, completely UNLIKE having worked out a lot 3 years ago and having been a complete couchpotato for the last 3 years. It's as if people are just saying anything. A language is knowledge. You can't compare that to your physical fitness level.

[@orphechristian1019]

im gonna give you the key of learning languages...u just need to love the people , the language and the culture of the country that speak the language you try to learn , that all...how can you learn chinese if you don't like chinese people and their culture? i will make a video later about it...

[@orphechristian1019]

i think any language are not easy...that why you should get the culture 1st and then the people...ask yourself if you are ready to be wit chinese , german or american before learning they language....and don't learn a language because your friends , or brother/sister did it...do it because ur sure that where you wanna go...

[@DReyna-bc6zd]

very good point. Some people say they want to learn English because they....."love English". But in actuality they only want to move to America. There is a difference. One must learn the culture to learn the language. It is something that I am slowly starting to understand as well.

[@alfredojesusbejaranojarami9360]

Especially love the language we maintain motivated and learning constantly, what is more, I agree with Luca, it is better to learn the natural way than study any language as the university's subject or degree, if we caught the language in our daily life, it's absolutely we will go to master it. In my case, I have changed all of my habits like watch TV and videos, read books, speaking, etc. these simple things that they are of our life routine in our target language and I have improved a lot. Regards

[@gringa23]

@@orphechristian1019 that is the reason why you have a straight answer on why you want to study a certain language. Find that purpose for doing so. Not just because oh it can give me money. Yes that is true, but people can do that and still feel miserable because there is no passion towards the things that they do. Sorry I was so off topic just giving an example.

[@Sunshine-rq1ow]

I just found you this month, but can’t believe you have videos from almost a decade ago! Wow. 🙂

[@LucaLampariello]

Been a long time, yes =)

[@najouacheddad]

Thank you Luca

[@Earth098]

I totally agree with you. This has been my experience as well. Thanks for the video!!!

[@bongmanding]

Makes a lot of sense. I appreciate this, Luca.

[@jadatoav]

He seems to be one of the few that actually get to the point and doesn't beat around the bush. He gives usable substance, which i appreciate! I find a lot of these linquists wasting air and saying zero in their video (just trying to impress).

[@mnemonics0211]

I am not a native speaker of English but I was moved and inspired by your videos especially the one that explained why you had an american accent, and that made me think that I should keep learning it. I just needed motivation and passion on learning it! Anyway, keep it up! Two thumbs up for you! :D

[@AnthonyLauder]

I see playing a guitar, as a fair analogy to learning a foreign language. Some people study deep musical theory, but never play the guitar well. Some play by copying other musicians without ever learning any music theory. Yet others balance the two. Furthermore, some players stop trying to improve when they are at a level of proficiency they are happy with. Others keep pushing themselves on to higher levels, and even move on to learn other instruments in the same or different families.

[@Deecarney90]

Hi Luca I think the distinction that studying is different from learning is one that is definitely a major step in the right direction towards truly getting good footing in the language you are trying to learn. Ever since I made that distinction things have just began to fall into place, more or less.

[@elisem11]

Wow. I can’t believe you have been doing KZbin this long.. I’m impressed, thank you !

[@shienipierce1]

Thank you Luca, I have just found the website.

[@Coen80]

I'm not so sure.. I speak Dutch (native) German, French (all mandatory subjects at school) i did a bit of Spanish and now i live in Greece, learning that now. I study -meaning i take classes/courses and of course i put in practice what i learned, being surrounded by the language. The main thing is repetition. this creates retention. I learned words at school that i already forgot just çause i dont use em, and i know other words, just because i need/use em.

[@Earbly]

I think this demonstrates why my early language schooling stuck all these years, because I did an immersion program. So *all* my classes were in French, I learned my Math, Social, Science, and French language arts all in French. All of my subjects in school were in French except English Language Arts. I was learning in, and using French the whole day for about 4-5 hours a day, 5 days a week. Even though I was speaking English everywhere outside of class, I'm so thankful I was in immersion because even though I've grown up anglophone, I was able to pick my French back up very quickly later in life and sound pretty native too. Kind of like riding a bike, once you get to a certain skill level it tends to stick around.

[@learnguage]

you are very good! you swedish is great! i love languages as well, i speak spanish italian swedish russian english and im working on my german, french and bulgarian... i just found out about all this polyglot community and thats a great inspiration! I want to learn more now and turn up the gear. Grazie !

[@The55five5]

Finding "interesting content" is easier said then done, and I think there needs to be a basis of understanding before that can be effective. You can't just start showing someone who has never learnt any Japanese some interesting videos and expect them to pick up what is happening. There has to be understanding of the basics first which does require some actual study. I'm learning Japanese and if I just watched the anime I was interested in then I would have no good grasp of so many key factors and be a lot further behind than I am. Of course once you've developed to a certain level then you'll get better faster from consuming things your interested in but if you now 5% of what is said then understanding is just constantly guessing and being confused

[@Meowmeowingz]

I agree. I'm studying korean and there's no way I'm gonna learn without studying how it works first, but don't focus too much on the grammer

[@alessandrofacciani7209]

As Khatz likes to say"you don't learn a language,you get used to it"Go ahead Luca,what you are doing with Linguacore is truly outstanding..I have been watching your old videos for some months..I can certainly say they are useful and interesting

[@medardomartinez8533]

Hi Luca. I learned my mother language by listening and repeating. Greetings from Los Angeles California.

[@lorenzovonmatta8278]

Day 36: I like that comparison. When I think of a sport like football in school, it was never about studying it. It was about practicing and learning. I never sat down to think about the technicalities. I just played. I'm going about this with language learning with Assimil. Much more of a seamless process than the grammar approach.

[@IdiomaSprachler]

I agree with your ideas here and I enjoyed your extended analogy. Schools simply are not doing languages right. Extensive focus on grammar [like physics] doesn't help when learning a language [when learning to ride a bike] and instead can get in the way. However, the grammar and the physics ARE important, but both of them can be understood without knowing how to explain them.

[@SolarLandlord]

Very good "distinction" U have made !

[@xxpowwowbluexx]

I think you are on the right track with terminology; however, I would recommend the term 'acquiring' a language instead of 'learning' a language. Within the field of second language acquisition (SLA), this is a huge distinction. What you call language 'learning', SLA terms language 'acquisition'. What you call language study, SLA calls language 'learning' or 'study'.

[@TCKKR]

Look up Krashen. This idea has already been promulgated in the community; the two concepts are "language acquisition" and "language learning," the latter being the academic approach.

[@nikkijubilant]

thanks

[@NIKXart]

Hi Luca, could you please make a video about the "Bidirectional Translation Method" you mentioned?

[@h.b.4826]

Thank you for this great video! and especially for having made a version of it in French as well. :)

[@samljer]

The only time someone should "study" in a language, is to learn a new alphabet.

[@rateeightx]

Study A Language After Learning It.

[@Vellwander]

I learned English when I was 6-7 by just watching foreign television all day, it's as if I didn't care that it was all gibberish at first. I wonder if that was possible because the young brain is excellent at learning, or because it had the patience to go through with it. Today I can listen to an audio book in German for a few minutes before I grab a dictionary or dismiss it as a waste of time.

[@NomadSage]

Me encanta este vídeo. Good job! While I never thought of it in these words, I think that one major reason why people don't learn languages or give up halfway through learning them is because they attempt to learn through this "studying" approach.

[@InspiringWorship]

I agree. There is a big difference between learning and studying.

[@valeval6852]

You also have to mantain the hight speed (speaking and improve the foreign language every day) in other to mantain the balance of the bike. :)

[@TheWarTurkey]

Hey, jagerman19, I just wanted to say that I too have had a moment like that. However, keeping with the analogy, I want to say that similar to when you first ride a bike, it's not perfect, my speaking is also not perfect, but for me, it helps me feel like I'm getting somewhere when I hear another learner speaking the language I'm learning (in my case, Russian.) I found this guy who's a native Croatian speaker who also spoke Russian, and I understood his Russian completely.

[@MamiYare]

ahh i remember first learning French..I have been speaking Spanish way longer than French (I only have 2 years studies worth of French) And in college I had my advance research spanish class and French at the same time and it was sooo hard lol i agree getting yourself around it daily (listen to it, and not just reading, it has to be back and forth interaction) rather than lecture lecture lecture. I hope they do change this type of learning language method in schools

[@Charls03]

This was extremely interesting for me as recently before I watched this video, i've been watching italian childrens programmes. I make my mind go blank and just take in the words and not think about english and translating, kind of like i'm a child again. I have caught so many words doing this and even though italians speak very(!) fast, it has still helped, especially when particular words get repeated.

[@thiagoaugusto9262]

Riding a bike you never forget but language if you aren't in contact with the language everyday it can happens.

[@stwms0519]

Thanks for the video luca! I was wondering if you have noticed a moment with language learning where all of a sudden you realize that you can do it. An analogy perhaps being a child who looks over his shoulder on the bike and suddenly realizes that his Dad isn't holding on to the bike anymore, but that he is riding all by himself.

[@stefancristian4324]

Im learning English from memes, books and yt videos. At school Ive learned nothing, my English was bad, really bad, but bow it's improving cuz I no longer study it, but I learn it, I enjoy it whenever I read a history book or watch a documentary. Of course my accent is horrible, but it will improve once with time.

[@SolarLandlord]

EXCELLENT video !!!! There is a distinction between STUDY and LEARNING. U just gave me the key to succes..

[@cloeye32]

Hello Luca, I love this video. I would love to share it with my listeners on my podcast show. I feel that they would benefit from hearing this particular video because a lot of my students have the difficulty distinguishing between studying an actual learning all of the target language which for them in this case is English. Thank you for your videos and all of your content is really useful to me not only as a fellow polyglot but as a podcast as well and A TeFL instructor/community tutor. I would love to have you on my podcast next year in March if you’re available

[@sarahekonen]

you are my master zen for learning a language, if there's a philosophy for speaking any - you definitely own the rights to it!

[@twopaddles1]

very nice video with a great message... much respect to you sir..

[@langbard4261]

I agree with you

[@akhilnandakumar3564]

Your accent changed over time so much . Wow. It's Soo cool

[@xvgx]

I am still confused what is the difference between learning and studying the language. They both sound similar to me. How can you learn the language without studying vocabulary or grammar?

[@romaaeterna5476]

Wow, Lampariello. You’ve come a long way!

[@EvgenyPoluyantsev]

I already have an idea of what this finestra temporale thing is gonna be about. I'm a very lazy language learner and it takes me an extra amount of struggle to get things done on time. Oftentimes I just loose interest and motivation during some course and abandon it like an oil well, hoping it will replenish itself one day. So, recently I got back to French after a year and a half hiatus and the same course looks to me like I've never touched it before. Went past the time window=remember nothing

[@GerdiHono]

Hey, I think your awesome, and totally agree with a lot of what you say. I personally speak, Canadian English (my native tongue), French, German, Spanish, and a little Japanese, with a smattering of other languages, including Polish, Dutch, and Swedish (though I'm far from saying I "speak" any of those three). I would say though that I personally both a "mark" and a "john": I learn both analytically and through the more organic "block" approach. For me that combines the best of both worlds! :)

[@thayishere]

I'm totally agree with you; since are little kids we are learning a language (our native language), but! our mother/father didn't tell us to learn our mother tongue ussing grammar, we just learn because we are creating pictures in our mind, well the point is that the grammar it's cool when you have some knowledges of the language you're learning, so "learn" a language using grammar as a base would be a severe error... Well, thank you again for this video!! :D It helps me a lot (sorryGmmarfails)

[@KevJYT]

I agree with the learning and studying comparison. However, for the theory and practice, both are important. You won't be able to speak much of the language you are studying if you are only memorizing lists of vocabulary and reading grammar rules. For practice it is the same; you won't learn a language only by trying to read a book in your target language (when you don't know how to read and you barely have any vocabulary) and speaking with natives you meet on the street. I think learning a language is like learning how to play a musical instrument. Essentially, what it comes down to is how well you play, but by learning solfeggio, doing melodic dictations, learning musical theory, history of music and other things, that improves very much how you play the instrument.

[@veecel]

+KevJYT There are many great musicians that learned how to play well without learning music theory or how to read notes. Yes, I imagine that the theory and grammar of music will help them improve . . . but.

[@KevJYT]

+Vee Cel Yeah, nowadays, but I wouldn't consider them highly proficient musicians either. Being able to play a pentatonic scale and a 4/4 rock or metal beat isn't much of a feat. At least, most classical, baroque and jazz musicians know and knew a huge amount of theory. Advanced jazz musicians even more so than classical. Reading notes for these musicians was a walk in the park. For some of them, you could give them a piece they never saw or heard and they could play it only from sight reading, which is a hundred times more difficult than reading words and sentences.

[@veecel]

KevJYT Yes to all the above, but for many artists, recording artists, entertainers, musicians, the goal is to be able communicate with the hoi polloi. Many brawlers have great careers entertaining the masses without ever being skilled, proficient boxers. They just don't care for the sweet science or just good 'ol defense.

[@KevJYT]

+Vee Cel Agreed. However, I wouldn't consider that to be convincing enough proof to forego theory almost completely. Focusing only on practice is just as bad as focusing too much on theory. Even more so, for certain languages, learning theory and grammar is inescapable and actually, in some situations, makes learning some things much faster. If you can learn a grammar rule that explains something in 2 minutes, rather than trying to understand it from deductive learning after 5 years of learning the language, to me that is much better. Anyway, either extreme is unhealthy for learning a language, and while it is true there are a lot of people who say to focus on theory, saying to focus only on practice is the same thing, just the opposite side of the spectrum.

[@KevJYT]

Also, I'm not trying to contradict Luca's video, which I thought was awesome. I'm simply saying that a balanced approach to learning a new language, with theory and especially practice is important. Like with music, you learn theory to play better on your instrument; the end goal is therefore playing and theory is only a means.

[@26blanco]

i think the same as you.i always learn things,i learn not only languages but history,etc.i prefer the word learn,because i do it with love and not forced to get a job and get money.do videos in italian i love italian language.i see english is everywhere but the world is full of languages.i wanted to learn a language only listening to audios.i do this by myself with no help of teachers.it would be fun to learn a new and strange language only listening,it would be the oldest way to learn it

[@pon00050]

What's your opinion on the subjects that we do study? geography, math, science..how should we approach those subjects?

[@shienipierce1]

we will be moving to a very small town,majority English speaker without native speaker of some languages i want to learn. ( Me & my toddler ). Do you have any suggestion on how to learn foreign languages when we dont have a change to talk to native speaker ? so far i use movie,iPad,youtube etc. but all passive. i would love to meet native speaker. is there any online community where we can voice chat with native speaker or even better with webcam ?

[@ghenulo]

I don't remember any eureka moments when learning to ride a bike. Maybe because I had training wheels, so I had already learned how to do it by the time I was stuck on two wheels. I do remember dad watching me while I was riding with the training wheels. He also tried to teach me to drive later in life, but that was a total fiasco.

[@tainahollo]

In my opinion the best way is to BOTH study AND learn! Of course it may depend on your aim - and your personality, too. I am an analytical person; maybe that is why I spent 7 years studying my own mother tongue?!

[@franklinalexanderColmenarez]

jajaja y cual es tu lengua nativa ?

[@tainahollo]

franklin alexander Colmenarez

[@franklinalexanderColmenarez]

hi Taina Hollo tell me ...!

[@tainahollo]

franklin alexander Colmenarez I tried, but somehow it disappeared... My mother tongue is Finnish.

[@franklinalexanderColmenarez]

ooh should i suposse that finish is very hard to learn ?

[@MrShawnbks9090]

When you were learning english how early on did you learn the word "uh"? You used it about 100 times in 10:42.

[@TheWarTurkey]

@poliglotta80: With all due respect, when you say that the second guy treats the language as "one block," yet he reads/speaks at a suitable level, isn't that still segmenting it (technically)? It's different, because it's more like "slicing" it horizontally rather than vertically, so that you "build up" to new levels, but I think it's still like keeping manageable chunks, right?

[@gamzeugur5355]

Thank you Luca!!☺️🌸 It is really helpful!!! Adios...🙋

[@petros_adamopoulos]

This particular example doesn't speak to me, I learned to ride a bike the slavic way, I was seated on it on a slope and here I went, pedaling like crazy until I fell 100m farther :D.

[@thayishere]

since we are* // Sorry about the grammar fails, english isn't my native language and I started to learn it 5 months ago!! but I'm improving ^^

[@EdmundSouthgate]

Fai quello che fanno i maestri e diventerai un maestro.

[@MyEducationalProgress]

Can you make more french lesson videos Luca?

[@Wandering.Homebody]

Well, it depends on what your goal is, I think. For attaining a really, really high level of mastery, the studying approach makes a lot of sense. If you are OK with quite flawed fluency, the mostly immersion approach is fine. There is a big difference in my ability to be precise and really grammatically correct, in an intentional way, based on certainty and real knowledge, in the languages I "studied", vs the ones I "learned".

[@simonh6907]

i somewhat agree with you...I dont study with one method i use four separate methods, I dont follow a structure though, maybe i should?

[@nawilka]

wow what a beautiful eyes luca o_O ur so drop dead georgeous

[@kenninast]

I completely concur! You are right! Except for the "et cetera". It's eT cetera. There isn't an x sound in proper pronunciation.

[@dionibatista9200]

Luca the best language learner in the world .

[@MarkBH70]

Great!! Great Technique! I'm finding learning a SECOND second language also is much easier than learning the first. Just adding.

[@TheWarTurkey]

I still can't keep up with native Russians, or their idioms, etc., but it's helpful when 1.) I see that someone else has learnt the language, 2.) They speak it slower than natives, so I understand them, and 3.) I am learning another language (Croatian) through this one (Russian.)

[@singingsamodiva]

A very interesting video, and I totally think like you in this matter. ;)

[@mancunionpanther]

luca, when i used lingq it was shit, i had to use google translate to fully understand the actual links, and when its says hello in maltese is bonjour you know its shit, so can you do a tutoriol on how to use it properly or give me a better website? so far im using livemocha which is really good

[@Meowmeowingz]

I believe you do have to study some, especially going from English to Japanese or Korean. It's a completely new alphabet and grammar structure. You have to study these things first

[@TheAnas45]

hay luca... kannst du mir einige Tps geben, wie man Vokabeln lernt ? .... wie machst du es denn ? Danke anas

[@irenemcnamara9699]

I get a lot of satisfaction from studying foreign language grammar, even German!

[@chloerayn]

Lol this bike explanation reminds me of my composition class

[@MateusCSilva-oh7sy]

I am watching your videos from 2019, when I listened to this I suddenly gone to look when it was published because your English here is in my level... well it was 7 years ago haha

[@GladiatorShield]

you sir are fucking brillant and speak english better than 90% of the english speaking world

[@Hidden940]

I havent learn to bike so I dont really know how does it feel ;(

[@guyjunge10]

Great! How many languages do you really speak?

[@billehscego7529]

Luca is there any websites that I can learn italian.

[@dasdadadadda]

What do you think about Duolingo?

[@Xaxataja]

Hello. Im learning spanish in school and im looking for at website where i can chat with spanish fokes? Know any?

[@Hidden940]

What is De agoistini course about?

[@00Elwe]

come hai imparato questo accento?

[@nonamed56]

what do you think of Duolingo for learning languages?

[@oktalpucino8718]

absolutely...

[@cayermiller]

Awesome :)

[@TheLittleRussian2]

@Frantscheszko Mercilessly. If you can't survive riding down a slope the fist time you sit on a bike, you're not good enough to be my son anyway. So it's a win-win situation. For the father.

[@Mecklybver]

languages should be taugh in a natural way. people should learn how to think in another language rather than translating and listening should be the pilar of the language rather than grammar.

[@teddyboysmith2]

언어에 대한 당신의 재능은 날 놀라게

[@avq5]

What's the difference between memorizing and absorbing? Is one conscious and the other not?

[@athos6450]

Allow me to enlighten you. Memorizing is when you want to remember that thing by force. You actually tell your brain that you need that information for future use so he must store it in the long term memory folder. You do this with things that you consider important but you dont actually care about like feather for example. You don't need this thing to make a conversation but you want to know it to increase your vocabulary and become better at the language you are learning right now. Absorbing information on the other side is opposite to memorizing. Your brain consider that information utile or likes it(here comes in play the personallity of an individual) and decides to remember it without your permission. Like in horror movies. You'll find yourself remember scary moments even though you'd like to never see them again. Your brain stored them because he consider it as an experience and a shock too plus many other factors that i won't conver here cause they make no point with the real subject i'm talking about. Now ill give you an example to make you understand better how those two work. Here are 2 words: ship and graveyard If you like sea, beaches, horizon youl'l absorbe the word ship because is something you like while graveyard is something you dont like so it must be memorized. Try to do this exercise by yourself and see the result. Make a list with words 10 to 20 and put in there 3 or 5 words that belong to a domain you like and other common ones and try to memorize them all. After take a break of 30 minutes and dont think at them again. Do another thing you like. Play a game or something that will catch your attention. After the time passed, try to see what your brain stored and what not. Most likely you'll remember the words that you like even though they might be hard to pronounce or long. Try to use nouns. Hope i made you understand. :)

[@javierladino6118]

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[@NewLanguageGuy]

This is the exactly the right way to approach a foreign language :D

[@kakumah]

I love your accent

[@freelmpr1]

u speak as if you should either practice or study, u should do both since they are not opposite but complementary to each other, in relation to the bike, knowing physics help you to know that the faster you go the most difficult it is to fall, (inertia law) many people do bike all their lives without knowing that you must apply the force on the pedals when the crankarm is horizontal or close to horizontal (vectors knowledge) otherwise you waste a lot of energy, thanks for the videos!

[@summerwilcox]

Luca, j'adore vos vidéos. Je pense que vous êtes très beau et j'utilise votre analogie quand j'explique aux gens pourquoi je refuse d'obtenir un diplôme dans une langue. La plupart des gens que je prends des cours françaises avec sont terribles. La façon dont nous sommes "enseignés"(guillemet) les langues n'est pas très pratique. Ma prof française n'a pas utilisé un livre de texte dans notre classe. Je trouve q'il est plus pratique d'être capable de parler une langue que de l'écrire.