Maintaining multiple languages

[@alexandracsaranko8809]

That's a really important thing that you've mentioned: when you really speak a language you don't only say words ands sentences but you think the way natives do! I think this is essential!

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

:)

[@yexu6035]

That's really helpful. I feel listening to the real talk ( no matter it's news or talk show or even advertisement ) really help me improve and maintain my foreign language. But I didn't feel the same way when listening to songs. I was told that some people learned certain language by listening to the songs in that language, but it was just not working for me. I could be so distracted by the melody and paid little attention to the lyrics, let alone some lyrics are in broken grammar and just confuse me.

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Singing along songs, or rap songs is a great way to improve your pronunciation, but it is impossible to learn a language that way. There's like only 50 - 100 words per song. That is really very little.

[@gigisimbajon4625]

My attention is quite distracted by the beautiful side chair... Great technique and thanks for sharing..

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

:)) Thank you.

[@alexmga9303]

The more languages you speak, the harder it gets. Especially when it comes about similar languages such as Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese

[@milanpaudel9624]

on the contrary, more you learn its gets more easier.

[@carlosochoa4715]

Milan Plaudel. You are completely wrong. Initially you learn similar languages faster, then you struggle with mixing them up. Best example is Spanish vs Portuguese. Sometimes I still do Portuñol a few times when I speak Portuguese (my Spanish is stronger). Add Italian and it will be worse.

[@carlosochoa4715]

Alex both yes and no. The more you speak the faster you'll learn new languages but you will also struggle to maintain them.

[@gamzeugur5355]

Combining two activities at a time is a really useful tip as you have mentioned. Enjoying the process of learning instead of expecting an idealized result always works.What I admire about polyglots is that they are independent thinkers. Most of them have their own way of learning or practising a new language.I only speak four languages and want to learn more of course. But I know deep down in my heart if I was living in Europe this learning process would be totally different... like being able to travel without a need of a visa☺️and to communicate with other people. Listenin,reading also works for me but talking face to face with native speakers is essential I believe. I congratulate you for your hard work, talent and dedication... Peace from İstanbul to all the language enthusiasts,polyglots and humble, intelligent people...🙋🙏

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Thank you very much for the comment :)

[@academictraveling]

Wow..! That's really helpful video. Your channel is positively encouragin' me to be a polyglot in the future! I got a lot of tips from your videos... Thanks! If you have time, Make a video tips for learning Italian. How do you learn italian?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Thank you. I wrote an article about how I learned Italian, you can read that if you like: www.foreverastudent.com/2011/09/hello-all-on-my-blog-i-have-written.html

[@XANANAZ]

Bravo! Amazing! Sooo following this guy! And i thought i was multilingual ahaha! Good luck learning languages and spreading this knowledge with the world! ;)))

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Thank you. Good luck to you too:)

[@XANANAZ]

Oh, and totally forgot to say that Slovakia is one of my favorite countries! Very beautiful and Bratislava can easily compete with Prague (sorry Czechs :D ) #замечательнаясловакия

[@fengzheng3105]

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[@acspeter7]

Szia teljesen amerikai a kiejtesed, fantasztikus az imitacios kepesseged, en angolul, spanyolul beszelek, most tanulok franciaul, koszonet az inspiralo videoert

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Nagyon szepen koszonom:)

[@ArchangelShine]

I always thought talking to someone is important to maintain your language knowledge. But not having the possibility, I watched cartoons, and later TV shows/movies with no subtitles. It helped me learn english, german and korean :)

[@ArchangelShine]

Oh, I have an irrelevant question but I'm really curious.. for whatever reason.. at 2 AM... In all of your videos you're wearing the same shirt (mostly white), is it a concept, a ritual or simply your style?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

No:) I just made about 5 videos on the same day and I am slowly releasing them now.

[@weronikamanista-uczkiewicz5875]

A way you described, Vladimir, seems to be a bit passive meantime, for me anyway, the hardest pice in keeping language on high level of fluency is to maintain being creative in it what is practice means to speak, construct sentences (written as well). For me, best work conversations but there's a question: how to find enough time, it's pretty hard when I know just 2 foreign languages and been learning another 2, so I guess it would be impossible to try this with 19. I guess we would gladly all hear they above few learnt languages it doesnt require constant practice but becomes all the time avalible skill :') But the more time elaps, the more I notice that my learnt languages become poorer and simplified, unfortunately.

[@davidbest3408]

Hello vlad - very much enjoying your content you put out! I'm learning my first foreign language as a native English speaker. You've said that in learning Italian you just picked up 'the old man and the sea' and began just translating every word you didn't know. As a beginner this would seem quite challenging to me. Is there a particularly technique to reading novels to get a grounding in a foreign language i.e. the particular story, is it in first person etc - thanks again, and no worries if you can't reply

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Hello David. Thank you for the comment. The Old man and the sea was not an ideal choice to be honest, because it was full of fishing terminology, but I chose it because I knew the English version pretty well and thought it would be easier for me to read in Italian - and it was. Italian is really not that hard for English speakers and I think very suitable for extensive and intensive reading studies. It is a very transparent language in the sense that it contains so many cognates that a lot of sentences simply make sense even if you don't speak Italian at all. Also, its spelling is very regular, what you read is what you say and the pronunciation, save the trilled "r" is not that difficult either. You will not sound as a native speaker of course, but people will understand you. I like reading, because you are not limited by anything only your free time - you don't need a teacher, conversation partner, don't need to follow a class schedule etc. Maybe you can use intensive and extensive reading as a supplement to your studies and try to figure out Italian on your own, treat it like a riddle. I like this approach much more than having someone tell me all the rules that are in the language. You can read about them of course, I just like to discover them as they appear naturally either in regular speech or books.

[@davidbest3408]

Cheers Vlad, I appreciate your well detailed response. I like the idea of a riddle and have found that going through course books to be extremely tedious in how you are presented with a canned dialog with lashings on grammar on top. In a sense, working from the top down approach seems more effective,no? I'm armed with a copy of io e te' here which I have read in English before so for now I'm gonna throw away the course books and start on this. I would hope that you produce a language course in the future, Vlad. I'm sure it would be a whole lot more useful than some of the guides available out there that focus way to heavily on themes i.e. fruits and veg, items of clothing...Is that something we can expect from you ? :D

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Actually yes. I would love to:) Just today I had a one hour brainstorm session with my good friend who is a world class tennis coach to try to find out what the parallels are between movement learning and language learning and see what he uses in his coaching that I could use in my teaching. The goal would then me to somehow implement all that into my course. I would like to make the first course in Mandarin though, I don't know how attractive that would be. I realize this will be a huge task so I was even thinking of starting a fundraising campaign. I'll try to do a bit of planning and see what I can do.

[@marthabarbieri3837]

You're so interesting! I think it would be so nice to meet you. I'd love to speak multilple languages. I'm italian and I speak also english and I used to speak spanish quite good but I didn't have know anyone that spoke that lamguage, so when I stopped studying it, I lost all my fluency. I love these tips to stay in touch with the language, I have some for you: reading and like watching films and tv in that language. It helps a lot! Bye!

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Hi Martha. thanks for the comment.

[@giuliaiervolino4692]

I'm trying to talk with my foreign friends in order to maintain the languages I studied before but now I can't speak them as well as I was used to because I spend all my time for other languages

[@FINcLoAk]

Well explained! Personally i try to approach the languages like that. Still a novice what comes to learning or actually speaking languages. More like "absorbing" than learning... Keep up the good work mr. 🙏🏼 btw. Do you ever counter the situation where you struggle to find words in Slovak. Perhaps even have forgotten totally? Because of maintaining the level with multiple languages. Or the word pops first into your mind in different language.

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Hello. Of course it happens. Maybe not totally forget a word, but suddenly not know how to say it. It happens to everyone. It's enough to go abroad for a few months and not use your native language.

[@haraldgruenzig]

Hello Vladimir! I find your channel interessting. 😀 Well my mother language is german. I think i speak a good english. Well the russian language.... i have only basic knowledge there.... probably there is no possibility for me to speak it and like a blockade... we had to learn it at school. However I find it wonderful what you can do. And i hope you could show a bit how you maintane your knowledge in all those languages. 😀 Like telling us something about a book, you have read. Like the introduction of a book in the languages it was written? Or you could do a Interview with a native speaker in his or her languages about a cultural thing. In a way i would like to see, how you do all these things. Well it is just an idea, if you want to do it. 😀

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Hi Harald. Thank you for the comment. I was thinking of making a video like that. Maybe I will in the future:)

[@haraldgruenzig]

😉

[@marinai1753]

where do you get these talkshows or radio shows in different languages? KZbin or something else? And where do you chat to people in their native language? friends or do you have some forum on the internet? Super Video, sehr hilfreich :)

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Hi Marina. Danke sehr:) You have to search the web a bit and ask around. I prefer national radios and TV stations as they tend to be the most professional ones. I just listen to all talkshows I can find on the websites of these national TVs or radios for a few hours and choose the ones I like the most. As for looking for native speakers, I luckily have enough friends who are native speakers of the languages I speak, but there is a website called italki.com which I use from time to time too.

[@AlessiaAlvarado]

You're amazing man,you're so smart 💯 I'm trying to learn Chinese 😉

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Good luck with your studies:)

[@owenzou2673]

just wondering if you've got any interest to speak with native chinese speaker like me~

[@soywaz6645]

I think a good way to maintain multiple languages would be to think in a different language every day. Like, one day you could think in Italian and then the next day French and the next day Spanish and just keep doing that until you've thought in every language you know each day and then you can circle back to Italian

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

It's not bad, but I'm too lazy to do that with languages I haven't used in a while.

[@soywaz6645]

Okay haha

[@amandamanda125]

Hi Vladimir! Your videos are always pleasant! I am learning Romanian language. I can't manage to roll this famous ''R''. It's so frustrating! Some advices?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Thank you very much:) I have 2 native languages and the rolling "r" is in both of them so I didn't have a problem with this sound and unfortunately do not know how to explain to you too well how to pronounce it. I heard that one way of getting it right is to start slowly saying "d" and then "t" and saying them faster and faster until you get the "r". I don't know if it works though. Just heard someone say it:)

[@amandamanda125]

Vladimir Skultety Ok. I will try this method. Thanks for your response.

[@juliaulloa9490]

you should put the subtitles in Spanish please or can be in English, because I can understand writing but the listening not. please!! you've been a inspiration for me. I'm Mexican 😘😊😚

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Hello Julia. Thank you very much. I'm sorry, but it takes a few hours to make subtitles even for a short video and I unfortunately don't have the time to do that.

[@mep6302]

Julia Ulloa if you don't know English, start learning!

[@evalinfeher5623]

First and foremost, I really love your videos. Secondly, I was wondering, would it be a better idea to learn one language at a time? Would there be major problems if I tried to learn two languages at once? thanks in advance

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Hello Evalin. Thank you:) This video was just about maintaining several languages, not learning several languages at the same time. I never learned two languages at the same time from scratch and actually even made a video about how I think it would be a bad idea:)

[@lukasleoson252]

I just started learning Chinese do you have any advice on learning how to talk and build sentences? I can't go to China right now but i want to learn it.

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

It's very hard to give advice to beginners. Especially with Chinese. Try to learn as many simple sentences as you can. It took me almost 10 years to learn Chinese well and I don't think I'm a slow learner.

[@lukasleoson252]

Vladimir Skultety Hm... Ok thanks for the quick response.

[@2000newguy]

Do you paint? I see a painting behind you

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

It's just a puzzle:)

[@faraway800]

As you mostly refer to official languages any thoughts about multiple dialects from the languages you already know like Mandarin and Taiwanese Hakka?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Hello. I'm not sure I understand your question too well. You mean specifically the Taiwanese version of Hakka (台式客家話)? Or Taiwanese Hokkien (台式福建話／台式閩南話／台語)? Or Just Hokkien in general (福建話／閩南話)? Either one you meant, I think Hokkien, Hakka and Mandarin are languages and not dialects and I would do the same thing I said with the video regardless of whether it would be a dialect or a language I think.

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

@Big Mikey How would you define it?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

@Big Mikey That way you would disqualify several thousand languages as languages and re-qualify them as dialects. (see languages in Canada, Russia, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Congo...)

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

@Big Mikey No. But I wasn't talking about languages like Portuguese in Brazil. I was talking about languages languages like Chechen, Ainu, Evenki, Euskara or languages like Kurdish or even Catalan.

[@philippkreis9683]

Hey, nice video :) is there something like a website for watching foreign news or how do you get to watch the news?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Every country has a national broadcasting service. I just go to that website as a starting point and look for a live stream or a news archive.

[@perseoeridano4182]

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Savage-sc3kd]

Make video on Serbian :) Napravi video na Srpskom :)

[@billyriedel6449]

Да, молим

[@dekost1]

talk about your work out schedule! :)

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

:))

[@hugobustamante591]

Hey man, I'm trying to become an hyperglot, and be able to communicate in 16 languages, at least, I'd like to ask you what's the app or page you use to chat with people to practice, and do you think I could practices one day with you man? Success man!

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

You can try italki.com if you like:)

[@Endralon]

Jé, díky za tip.

[@hugobustamante591]

Vladimir Skultety i'm trying to learn without investing but time on it and as far as i know in italki they charge isn't it?(sorry forget to say for free) so i've been using duolingo, memrise and tandem to chat with other people, i know the level of those are very basic but for now i just wanna be able to have a conversation although it wouldn't be perfect, maybe later i'll try to perfect them but not for now, i really appreciate your tip and by last, i kinda have lose a bit of motivation lately any advice? i really appreciate it,

[@alecrosewell6959]

If he doesnt reply, think of a reason to continue to learn the language.

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Hugo Bustamante italki is free. If you look for language exchange partners, it is completely free, if you look for teachers, you pay directly the teacher and italki takes a share from the teacher's fee.

[@davidmares6053]

Hi vlad, so you would recommend to use simultaneous translation when learning a language from youtube vloggers?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Yes. KZbin vloggers are my favorite listening resource. Interpreting/translating them is a great exercise.

[@hansdejong8733]

Did you ever regret learning a language?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

No, not really. I usually try to make sure I have a really good reason to learn a language so that this doesn't happen.

[@Essetkol]

What shows do you listen or watch?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Nowadays not much really. Before I used to listen to a lot of national radios news shows from different countries or local youtubers I liked.

[@MessedUpGaming]

Why are Russian, Italian, Chinese, and German important to you?

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Chinese because of my work and Russian, Italian and German, because I speak them well and don't want to loose my fluency.

[@MessedUpGaming]

Vladimir Skultety you should do a video in Italian :)

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

MessedUpGaming I made one already but I didn't like the lighting, so I didn't upload it:) I'll try to make another one.

[@MessedUpGaming]

Vladimir Skultety much appreciated!

[@samuelebaglio00]

bel video, anche se ci ho capito poco😂😅

[@VladimirSkultetyOfficial]

Grazie:)

[@Roxakk926]

;)