How to study languages consistently: a step-by-step guide to making habits

[@tbenavente]

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[@joreneelanguages]

I really like the identity-based concept, specifically because it focuses on what you usually do vs whether you miss a day. I feel like it helps avoid the pitfall of missing a day or so and feeling like you might as well give up.

[@nancytestani1470]

True

[@adventureswithmadison]

I am trying to become more consistent in language learning 😢 its difficult with school because all I want to do when I finish my classes is read fanfiction in English haha

[@tbenavente]

I know it’s probably suuuper obvious but have you tried reading fan faction in one of your target languages?

[@adventureswithmadison]

@@tbenavente yes... but I'm not skilled enough in it yet. I have tried using LingQ but I found it took me 30 minutes to read page one, I just gotta get my level there 💪🏻

[@olivia5030]

Fanfic novels are how I learned Korean lol (I read 1,000,000+ words of fanfic in Korean). It's worth the struggle required in the beginning though it does require a great deal of patience :)

[@adventureswithmadison]

@@olivia5030 okay, I'll read them then LMAO. It did not take much to convince me

[@examenesinternacionalesaf3576]

Ohhh, yeah. I love this hack, i actually recomend AO3 because you can download the fic and read it in your kindle/e-reader. And always try to give some comments to the author 🥰

[@feline8765]

i saw your thumbnail and I FELT like i must comment , i was waking up for 400 days or more at 5 am with consistency , when i noticed the number of the days and how much days a person could improve his consistency in your picture , i start saying how i began at the first , along with solving my procrastination , i found that everything came from your mind . if you want do it or no , if you've a huge reason which motivate u or no

[@readingdino711]

So my language goals before this video are: listen to Swedish for 15 minutes to an hour each day, write 50-100 words in Swedish daily as well, do Swedish, Spanish and Swahili flashcards daily (5 new cards per language plus 20+ repeats), listen to the language transfer lessons of Spanish and Swahili twice a week each, watch something in Spanish once a week for 1-10 minutes, learn Dutch once a week, and lastly, practice my hiragana and katakana every day. It's been doable even with an intensive 6 hours of learning Swedish and with me being out all day today and doing nothing in terms of learning, before two hours ago. I have enough time to study for two hours daily and I'll definitely be documenting my learning of these 5 languages to keep up a streak, like I had on Duolingo except this one can't disappear on me with two streak freezes and a completed lesson right after I hit 1k days (no customer support didn't help at all). Edit: I've watched the video now. First of all, I do my flashcards on the toilet (I use the bathroom around thrice a day) I write when I wake up and before I get to write on my books/comics and I listen during my downtime, when I would watch kids shows anyways (this is max an hour a day, because I'll feel too childish otherwise) and I get to watch KZbin after my downtime (or listen to a podcast in Swedish or Spanish if I'm feeling up to it). And 1-2 hours is a reasonable time for me atm.

[@autumnteacozy]

Thank you for this video, Tanya 😊 I have a list of identity-based habits already on my phone and I think it's a much better mindset. I think the obstacles I always hit were being too ambitious at the start and then falling off when week 3 started. I appreciate the tips you gave for some strategies that might help. Good luck with your languages! ❤

[@tbenavente]

Good luck to you too!

[@mylksiie]

This was super helpful! I’m planning to learn Japanese and I’m glad I found your channel :)

[@mylksiie]

Also at 15:19 you show a document you share with an accountability partner, is there any way you could share the doc (or a blank copy of it, possibly through email or something similar) so that I could see how to set one up myself? If you’re comfortable with sharing it, that is

[@tbenavente]

@@mylksiie Hi! I'm talking to my accountability partner about making a video on this topic, and I'm sure we'll share the template in some capacity, but I would need to discuss it with him first

[@mylksiie]

@@tbenavente I understand, privacy first :)

[@keichangg]

really enjoyed this video! your voice is so calming and your points are concise but well-explained and impactful. thank you for sharing this!

[@Daviddaze]

In the menu , captions, autotranslate , there's 16 language choices to read along with the video

[@JF-wp2rz]

I will write one sentence in Hebrew about a topic of my choice daily (I have already made a small list of topics) and then I want to write around 75 words in Italian about that sentence, so basically I want to use the Hebrew as some form of a headline for my text.

[@Monada19]

Here is an awesome way to keep our languages hot. Nice, JF.

[@ywen783]

Very informative! I especially love the mindset shift of identity-based habits :D I'll be following the advice in this vid to help me finally become a conversationalist in Welsh, starting small with listening to a few minutes of a podcast each day Pob lwc i chi i gyd, good luck to you all :)

[@tbenavente]

Best of luck with Welsh :)

[@snowandinksoul]

I use the temptation bundling technique not only for language learning but also for doing exercise regularly. I often find it hard to start exercising and then I start doing a 'Netflix' workout (those are specifically designed so that you can watch something while doing the exercises) and continue watching KZbin or a series. And while doing that I get into the exercise flow and then continue to exercise without watching something else during it.

[@ot7and239]

can u do a tour on the gadgets u use?? love ur vids ao muchhh❤❤❤

[@ayinesk5205]

LingQ was a really nice discovery, thanks for that!

[@nancytestani1470]

Little overwhelmed but I think I will give this a go, keep on with Italian. Ciao

[@dinasaad8528]

Tell us more about accountability partners

[@tbenavente]

A video about this will be coming soon!

[@coolbrotherf127]

Easy, just be obsessive compulsive like me and never stop 😅 Take out the garage? No, I've got to study more kanji before bed.

[@W0llie1340]

Can you make a video on how you study Greek? I've recently been interested in studying Greek but don't know how to

[@tbenavente]

Yeah, I’m planning to make one, potentially next month

[@W0llie1340]

@@tbenavente I'm looking forward

[@MegaGaga99]

good video, keep moving on like this

[@nandenayo3_catsandraw]

Greetings from Turkiye I love your voice and videos so calming❤

[@FC-BS]

Thanks for the tips

[@GloriaJerez-xw3wh]

Gracias por tus consejos. Tomo nota y e into aplicarlo quiero pasar de pre intermedio a intermedio pronto.

[@enory5983]

i think review think is really important ,what do you think about it? becaus i know some people don’t review what they learned however i feel is less effective thank you for the video

[@tbenavente]

I think reviewing what you've learned is really important, but it doesn't have to come in the form of just re-reading your book or notes or even taking quizzes. Reading and watching things in your target language can be a great form of review, in my opinion

[@enory5983]

@@tbenavente thank you 😊

[@Nichachucha]

how many languages do you study now?

[@tbenavente]

I’m focusing on two right now - Spanish and Greek, but I also have Polish, Korean, Italian and Japanese, all at different levels waiting for their turn to come

[@jimbagsh9569]

Nice video. Any chance you could share your topics for daily writing prompts?

[@jimbagsh9569]

And could say more about "language twitter' you talked about in the video?

[@eaindraywin9269]

Thanks for sharing ❤

[@claucemicro1080]

Thank you!

[@AldonaAnna89]

Hi 🎉 Does anyone looking for an accountability partner in learning Brazilian Portuguese?

[@jinkisland]

hi!! I'm Brazilian, we can chat if you like to train your portuguese

[@langdinish]

Not the pun at the end djfsdkjfsdlkj Loved the video, as always!

[@tbenavente]

ahah I’m so glad you noticed 😅

[@tayintokyo]

what are the textbooks in 1:52 and 3:20 called? they seem very fun

[@tbenavente]

They are this amzn.to/3r7p7Ho and this one amzn.to/3r3zDPX

[@VanillaVixen18]

I have tried using LinQ and end up highlighting practically every single word. Am I using it wrong or do I need to have more vocabulary before I can use LinQ effectively?

[@Charlotte-ti2yk]

I use LingQ. In the beginning you do highlight every word. All the words start out as blue, meaning you’ve never seen the word and you don’t know it, so you highlight it and it becomes a ‘LingQ’. A LingQ is essentially a word you’ve seen before, you’ve looked up the meaning before, but it’s not a word you consider known. Eventually though you’ll see the yellow word enough times that you don’t need to look it up again. You now know it, so you mark the word as known (unhighlight it). In the beginning everything is either blue or yellow. It’s normal. Eventually, there are less blue words, and more yellow and white. And eventually you’ll get a whole page of white words with the odd yellow smattered in there. But it’s completely normal to start off with a page of highlighted words.

[@O-Demi]

In this video I see that you're watching a Korean drama with Korean and English subtitles. Can you recommend me a site/app like that?

[@tbenavente]

It's a browser extension called Inkah, it works with Netflix and KZbin

[@solaramazin3704]

please what the program you are using for double subtitles at 1:56?

[@tbenavente]

it’s a browser extension called Inkah

[@Fulanito163]

Estas leyendo a García Márquez? Sus libros a veces tienen partes difíciles de entender

[@tbenavente]

No, este es un libro de mi pareja. Todavía no he leído nada de García Márquez pero está en mis planes

[@languagelearningdabbler]

Great video! Thank you! What is your native language?

[@tbenavente]

Thank you! It's Russian

[@joonfanatic2140]

Exactly what I needed to see.. I’ve been slacking with my language studies 🥲