The ONLY Real Polyglot ''Secret''

[@sonoJess]

Great and valid thoughts about learning :) totally agree with finding ones own way. I have been lucky to grow up learning 4 languages at age 4, and using 3 of them on a daily basis. Later on as an adult I added 2 more. What I noticed with the last one was the inherent structure of a language (I like to call it skeleton). Languages have structural and "building" elements which are common to most of them. I think detecting a clear (but summed up and basic) structure of a language and step by step comparing it to the language one considers first language, sets a firm base from where to start with confidence. Not having to worry about "structural" elements brings us to develop a kind of intuition of how it "could be said", which will (or in my case it did) lead to more and more "correct answers". Speaking the language I think is a must, because you somehow not only speak that language, you become that language and the people who speak it and the feel there is to it :) I believe if you listen to a language first as a kind of melody and really get into the mood of it it just pulls of much easier later on when it's time to actually talk it. Hope someone gets inspired to share some thoughts on this. It's the first time I actually formulate this in any form ☺

[@osonhodeleon]

MOTIVATION is the key!

[@jbyoungfr]

Tu donnes de bons conseils! Outre la motivation c'est surtout la pratique active qui fait la grosse différence entre ceux qui réussissent et ceux qui échouent à parler une langue.Sinon content de t'avoir rencontré au Polyglot Gathering cette année!A+

[@ometodopoliglota]

Awesome video!!! Thanks

[@MarkBH70]

I've found that studying a book and listening to videos on KZbin, and then speaking using Italki works! The book should have readings. Stories. After talking using Italki, I write what the teacher writes on Skype, and enter it into Anki. My system. An important consideration: WHY are you learning the language/a language; specifically, the one you're learning? Are you having fun? You MUST have fun in order to learn it! Otherwise it's like working a job you wouldn't like. Variety too. I try to vary things.

[@sapphirelewis1389]

Aquarian Christianity Which languages are you learning brother?

[@MarkBH70]

Sapphire Lewis I'm studying Portuguese--although I know it already to some extent--and Swahili. What are you studying?

[@sapphirelewis1389]

Aquarian Christianity German, British Sign Language, Arabic, Polish and Spanish. 🙋

[@MarkBH70]

That's a full plate.

[@sapphirelewis1389]

Aquarian Christianity Well it is not as bad as it sounds. I am passively maintaining British Sign Language (B1) and Arabic (A2) Occasionally using Polish (A0) and Spanish (A0) and only really studying one language intensively: German (B2)

[@GeorgeDeCarlo]

Ok, there is a guaranteed method based upon the only way anyone ever acquires any language. First, watch all of Prof. Stephen Krashen's videos. Next, go to Prof. Brown's KZbin channel at Poly-glot-a-glot . go to the video list and scroll to the bottom and watch the instructional video on what exactly to do for any language. There is no secret.

[@alwaysuseless]

More precisely, you are referring to the video *How to Acquire any language NOT learn it!* kzbin.info/www/bejne/n53PcqOdlrGafaM by Poly-glot-a-lot.

[@sandydegener6436]

What happened to "Dean"?

[@ConorClyneNewEurope]

Go Polyglot Jan! 😜

[@LanguageBoost01]

Thank you Polyglot Conor! Missed you at the gathering!

[@TheFiestyhick]

Nice video. Yes. Motivation and diligent action are the core traits. Find what approach is nice for you and try to learn daily and the input accumulates. Then, speak a lot. Eventually you'll speak well.

[@hunteremery2825]

I’ve noticed that a bunch of KZbin polyglots get into really learning languages by learning an Asian language. Is there a reason that learning Chinese helped you become a polyglot?

[@idiomasaqui]

i use mostly extensive reading to learn english and russian, i hate anki and flash cards, but there many peole who get great results with SrS, in my estimation the best method is which you can't stop to do, which you are addictited

[@aamannadal7419]

9 minutes and for what....

[@Hinderlengjes]

I bet Dutch people don't expect foreigners to speak Dutch either.

[@Hinderlengjes]

@J. K. Do you have to take their clogs off first?

[@sandydegener6436]

Dude, nice vid, but FGS, people don't speak CHINESE, they speak Mandarin or Szechuan or Cantonese or...