Do THIS to keep improving in a language

[@Thelinguist]

📲 The app I use to learn languages 👉🏼bit.ly/48pKZPp 🆓 My 10 FREE secrets to language learning 👉🏼bit.ly/3ZtHlAb ❓What are your favorite activities at the beginner, intermediate, and advanced stages?👇🏼

[@i_want_my_shuggah]

For advanced, my technique is to think all day in the language I'm learning.

[@GeorgeDeCarlo]

FAILURE. I used it after being assured I would see a difference. I did more each day than expected for more than three months. It failed. So now I feel much worse. I have begged and am willing to pay someone to explain what is wrong. I spent $5,000.00 on conventional lessons and more on the storytelling method for several years. Then in 2023 I joined LingQ thinking it would take me to where I have been unable to achieve. I want conversational fluency. I still cannot understand talk and I cannot speak. Prof. Brown of Poly-glot-a-lot was kind enough to speak to me twice. Sadly the storytelling method a part of the general method of Natural Learning has failed. I have literally spent several hundred hours online searching for an answer as to whatnis wrong. I have taken an increase in supplements and listened to hypnosis audios to see if those would help. Nothing improved. The staff of LingQ finally gave me suggested instructions that leave me even more confused. I have been doing these things on each lesson in order. Nothing happened. I though it would. I have commented on various polyglot posts and no suggestions. I don't care what is sounds like, I am now convinced Kaufman and others do and/or know something that got them in the proper mode to acquire language but they are not disclosing it. The amount of time I have spent on Tagalog and commenting on this entire 13 year venture has been absurd. I sit in Metro Manila alone, lonely and isolated unable to attend functions sincenI end up alone in a crowd speaking Tagalog. Do you or anyone know what is wrong?

[@arindo]

Hi Steve, I am new to your channel! Thanks for the great content. I am native Turkish and I am learning Dutch. I also speak advanced English. Should I use Turkish while learning Dutch or English, which is much similar. (Edit. Grammar)

[@brunogonzalez5830]

Sometimes I get stuck hearing/reading the same thing over and over again because I set a random goal to myself by saying "I won't stop studying this until I fully understand it" but then I remember this advice of Steve and I can confirm that this is NOT a good goal to set. You should expand your resources and try new stuff and after you learn a lot you come back to the stuff you were stuck with. You will see that you can understand way more things because you developed your language skills. This man is the man

[@alex10291]

Don't think that way, just have a goal like I'm gonna listen to this audio from lingq 10 times and at the end delete it. It's just volume of listening over time that you will start to understand I couldnt understand stuff till like 900 hours on lingq

[@Carol61347]

Thank you Steve, you always give me refreshing ideas, and really appreciate this video, because learning the same material you get stuck, plus your mind wanders 👌

[@juandavidcaicedo5696]

As a self-taught English speaker and German learner I absolutely agree with you.

[@cristinas4398]

Bruno Gonzalez 🎯 Yeah exactly, have same and other similar problematic approaches

[@henriqueangelin2912]

One of the best advices that I gor from you, Steve, is "to improve comprehension, don't try to force comprehension". When I learned that, my level of comprehension improved a lot! My listening skills in English improved a lot as well. I used to get frustrated when I listened to something and I wasn't able to understand even after reading the text. I started leaving the sounds "go through" my ears and not forcing the comprehension. My listening skills improved a lot in just 4 months. Thank you, Steve!

[@BreannaMcDonald-fq3bd]

@5:00 High-frequency words, lots of repetition and repeated listening/processing. In other words, learn and apply the same information from multiple sources at the same time - this is great advice! Thank you.

[@Elyza404]

I studied German for 12 years, could barely understand or speak it since the focus was so much on correct grammar. It was as an adult that I started playing a online game where I got a lot of German friends, who mostly spoke English but would explain things in German to the people not as fluent in English that it started to click for me. Now I'm able to even speak to them in German, because I had a lot of vocabulary and grammar in my brain but it required me to constantly hear it being spoken that my brain started to piece it together. I think in my country we often put so much focus on learning the language "correctly" that we just focus on having the correct grammar and words instead of learning to actually understand or speak it. Last week I visited Germany and no one pointed out that I used improper form of verb/adjective etc and I was successful in communicating even if I made a lot of mistakes. Before I would have been too ashamed to try and speak incorrectly.

[@jamilamussa7250]

I think the focus in correct language particular based on grammar is the problem of many countries when it comes to learning language. This behaviour lead to the problem in the ability of being able to speak and use language naturally

[@rashafaraj8825]

I am exactly in the same place as you were. I just finished a course up to B1 level, but need to start hearing it spoken to link what I learned and really apply it. Looking for ideas. Other than games as I am not interested in them. My 20-yr old son is.

[@lenakirkland4413]

Maybe tv shows and songs

[@백인줄어든다]

I almost didn't study grammer during I have been studying english for over two years. I think personally that grammer is one of the main factors that makes us confused while learning languages

[@josepho.t.7610]

Thank you so much for all those tips to learn a foreign language. I am a Spanish speaker and I set the goal to improve my proficiency in English.

[@jangravityhollyer532]

Thank you for this info. It made me think that native speakers of any language, are themselves at various levels in their native language. Various income and education levels, interests etc contribute to one’s ability to speak and communicate. This is definitely true in my American culture.

[@gabriellawrence6598]

Thanks to KZbin's CC, I've been putting my subtitles in Hungarianwhenever possible. It's fascinating to see that, even once rusty, I end up recognize the majority of words on the subs.

[@jamesrankin6055]

I like your idea of grazing and repetition. It's mostly what I do, when I'm not being distracted with the many other things that I'm either doing or dreaming of doing. My Polish manager once told me that he learned English by only learning 3 new words a day. So I thought to myself I can do one better and learn 15 new words a day. It was going great untill it started seeing multiple contextual variations of just one of the many 1000s of words out there. LOL

[@AVOWIRENEWS]

It's fantastic to see content that encourages language learning and improvement! Picking up a new language can be such a rewarding experience, opening doors to new cultures and ways of thinking. It's great that there are resources out there to help learners stay motivated and keep progressing. Remember, every bit of practice counts, and it's always exciting to see how far you can go with dedication and the right strategies! Keep up the great work in your language learning journey! 🌍📚✨

[@lidiiag]

Спасибо Стив! Ваши видео очень мотивирующие для меня! Я изучаю английский язык сейчас. Вы вдохновляете, направляете, помогаете верить в себя. Смотрю и понимаю, если у Вас получилось выучить так много таких разных языков, то с одним я точно справлюсь! Я пишу по русски, т.к. Вы, я точно знаю, поймете! Thanks a million for your job!!!!

[@andrewdonnelly4187]

Best of luck with your English 🎉

[@lidiiag]

@@Jess-737 thanks

[@lidiiag]

@@andrewdonnelly4187 thank you

[@obychnyichelovek6757]

I can relate to you, i'm frequently posting comments in english under videos in german )

[@henriquesnowing8762]

hey, im learning russian btw =p

[@Grimcula]

Being learning English, your different tips that you given into this video, has really helped me or should I say, it is like that I process to memorize different terms in English, the repetition for some people like me, it's necessary.

[@vrmartin202]

Nothing like personal experience to inform reality, and my experience tells me Steve’s advice is practical and helpful.

[@369jwillow]

Your videos are indispensable to language learners. Thank you

[@anthonydavid5121]

In 2021 I decided to take A1/A2 level Catalan in Barcelona and scored high on the A level written enterance test, therefore the headmaster recommended I go directly into level B1. True, I had studied it informally in the past yet I feared this higher level and enrolled in level A1 anyway. I was clearlly one of the best speakers of Catalan in the classroom. The teacher commented on this, as did my class mates, but I had (and still have) a problem many of my classmates did not have, and that's the ability to understand spoken Catalan. I speak and read Catlan far better than I understand spoken Catalan, which I'm told is unusual. Anyway, the final exam determined the final grade and a large portion of the exam was listening comprehension. I bombed that section, thus failing both the final exam and the course which shocked my fellow classmates becasue they could see how I could hold down coversations in basic Catalan while they could barely get a sentence out fo thier mouths. I entered A1/A2 speaking some Catalan and left speaking better Catalan but failed the course. Talk about feeling punched in the face! I no longer believe in immersion and should I ever decide to study Catalan again, I want to be taught using the same old school teaching methods used to teach me French in high school.

[@luciferkkx1878]

Now I am learning english language and I trying to give my best❤❤❤

[@RetagTaha-i6v]

Thanks for your advice. I will try it and then see.

[@백인줄어든다]

I am studying listening skill with his videos these days~

[@zijia1292]

As a Chinese learner,I didn’t do the sentence reviews you mentioned. I dive into the movies, TV series straight away(from easy to hard). I find it also work. Now I am also lesson to audibles and read novel. I don’t know what’s my current English levels are but some classic novels still tough for me, such as The Great Expectations etc..

[@davidbrisbane7206]

My problem isn't motivation, or access to learning material, or lack of time, or lack of comprehensive input and I chat online with a native tutor on a regular basis. My problem is my ability to learn a language. It's been a hard slog for me over the years. Learning German has become a journey rather than a destination and I make some progress each year and I am happy with this and accept my limitations.

[@andrew_rogovoy_art]

Thank you so much, Mr. Steve!

[@Alejandromb01]

thanks, for all the information that you give us!, I'm learning a new language and trying to do different things in this way

[@Arabic_Flashcards]

unlocking the mysteries of learning language - thank you! 🤩

[@-nf9vt]

Personally Immersive translate has been working out for me. It can successful translate foreign languages for free and excellently accurate. It is just insane and I recommend it to you.

[@rebeccamiko9156]

I'm starting to learn Korean from absolutely zero, and so these tips are really helpful! Well, I do know some basic Japanese, so I think Korean grammar won't be too hard. Either way, it's been a LONG TIME since I've started a language from zero (like almost a decade), so it's a bit difficult to know where exactly to start! Thanks for the advice, Steve!

[@힐베르토로드리게스]

한국어는 엄청 어렵습니다.

[@lexterdawatan312]

It's bad for me because ive learned in English for almost 3 years ago ,i always exposed my self watching movie series and cartoons but i guess that there is no improvement of it because one of my friend told me when I wright essay during our classes and he said that there is something wrong with my sentence and i respond him back of what is wrong of my sentence then he said I would know it if I will study English on how to used subject verb agreement

[@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157]

It blows my mind how someone can be better in listening than in reading.. for me.. I can somewhat read Portuguese. Not enough to read novels, but I'm getting there. I can text people and understand a lot of things without translator a lot of the time. (1 on 1) in a group it's a lot more difficult.. but I can't understand much of spoken.. if I have studied it before.. it'll be much much easier. But just opening something I've never heard, even if I know 80% of the words.. it's just super difficult.

[@msteajuda2218]

Hi, it's nice to know that anyone is learning Portuguese. I'm from Brazil, maybe we could help each other. I speak English, but I haven't done it in a long time, so, if you wanna learn Portuguese more, and are willing to help me with English, maybe we could talk to one another.

[@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157]

@@msteajuda2218 sim, por favor. Não tenho ninguém que quer falar ao telefone. É isso que você quis dizer? Se sim, gostaria de falar com você e trocar contatos. Tenho um WhatsApp mas não quero dar minha número de telefone aqui no público 😂. Ahh sorry, that was rough. I haven't talked in this specific context before so it was really bad 😅 we can do a language exchange if you'd like, just find a way to contact each other without everyone knowing ☺️

[@aidagholampour100]

Interesting, I better in listening and speaking compare to the reading

[@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157]

@@aidagholampour100 what is your native language? Maybe it is easier to understand spoken English for you than it is for me to understand spoken Portuguese. OR maybe you have spent more time listening than reading. For me It's the opposite. A lot more time reading, and so my reading is naturally better.

[@tannisjett1308]

@@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157 while the native language does play a part. You have to consider the various ways someone might study a language. There is a hypothesis that says we have two ways of acquiring a language, solid and fuzzy. Someone who learned through methods that facilitate a solid idea of the language, mainly reading and writing, will have a strong sense of what every word means and is in a sentence. Someone who learned through methods that facilitate a soft idea of the language, mainly speaking and listening, only know what then sentence means by feeling. Soft is how we learned our native language. The pure amount of exposure is what makes our native language so solid. To recap you can learn in two ways a hard way and a soft way. Hard starts from the bottom and learns a definite idea of the language. While a soft starts from the top down and learns a loose idea that hardens with expose to the language

[@Ronia_Mohamad]

من کوردم و ئەم زمانانە ئەزانم:عەرەبی، ئینگلیزی، فەڕەنسی،تورکی و فارسی ❤ وە خەریکی فێربوونی :ئیتاڵی، ئیسپانی، ئەڵمانی و ڕووسی I am Kurdish and I can speak:Arabic, English, Persian, French and Turkish ❤ And I am learning :German, Italian, Russian and Spanish اني كردية و بتكلم:عربي، فارسي، انجليزي، تركي و فرنسي❤ واتعلم :إيطالي، اسباني، ألماني و روسي من کردم و زبانهای:عربی، فارسی، فرانسوی، ترکی و انگلیسی بلدم❤ و این زبانهارا یادمیگیرم:المانی، روسی، اسپانیایی و ایتالیایی Je suis kurde et je peux parler: arabe, anglais, persan, français et turc ❤ Et j’apprends : allemand, italien, russe et espagnol Ben Kürt'üm ve Arapça, İngilizce, Farsça, Fransızca ve Türkçe ❤ konuşabiliyorum. Ve öğreniyorum: Almanca, İtalyanca, Rusça ve İspanyolca

[@marikothecheetah9342]

CEFR is helpful in establishing one's abilities in school or professional setting. Each level has some guidelines one has to be able to achieve in the language to be set on the scale but everyone understands it's not rigid. However, C1 and C2 are good indicators of what fluency in the language is and is accepted across Europe so you don't have differences in measuring one's language level. Also, most European language certificates follow the CEFR scale and adjust it to their levels. I think it is convenient and quite useful, as it is a universal method of measuring one's abilities. Personally, I like it as it gives me clear goals and milestones in the language to follow.

[@michelleneuman579]

Great info! I’m definitely a daily grazer!

[@tannisjett1308]

I do think this is good. I slightly waver in the end. while i was learning japanese i found that being able to understand a movie or even a show was possible. While understanding a book... thats a much larger task. So i think he should explain that these things differ between languages. Japanese for example has a very different way of writing books than it does of writing dialogue in a movie. Therefore you're much better off studying movie transcripts than you are reading a book and vice versa if you're goal is reading.

[@ltlosaol7144]

Is furigana manga a good way to learn?

[@tannisjett1308]

@@ltlosaol7144 it can be good but if your goal is to understand speech then it doesnt really add up. If you check the 1000 most common words for both books and movies/shows. You will notice that books use alot of reading only vocabulary that you will never hear in day to day speech. So i think in Japanese if you want to understand speech you can read transcripts and if you want to read books then read books.

[@tannisjett1308]

@@ltlosaol7144 mb i miss read brother. I was just out of bed when i responded. Yes it's a good way because it is generally the speech dialogue or thought of someone or something.

[@phillylegion]

(spanglish cause i wanna keep active) hola señor ¡steve! yo have been learning español por ocho o nueve días ahora. primer dos dias were mira en “KZbin” then yo remembered about tú channel (yo used a watch sometimes) y eso es when yo learned de “LingQ” y LingQ has been una bien ayuda y lo es fun a use. ¡100 known palabras en uno semana! mi main idiomas yo quieres a aprender is Japanese y Korean but yo never learned una idioma before así yo quieres a go easy en el primer idioma aprender. sorry si there es mistakes but eso es una part de idioma aprender. ¡Gracias and bye! (por ahora😉)

[@ghostly2.3]

✨

[@Yeison_21.]

Buena suerte con el español ✨

[@phillylegion]

@@Yeison_21. ¡gracias mucho! bien noche a tu 🕺

[@ghostly2.3]

Estoy aprendiendo español también, es difícil aprender un segundo idioma especialmente porque no lo hago durante mucho tiempo cada día o semana. Pero espero que mi conocimiento mejorará lentamente con el paso del tiempo 🦜 i hope that makes sense lol

[@phillylegion]

@@ghostly2.3​​si yo aprender poco. yo estoy solo nueve días en así yo solo entender una poco. ¡bien suerte a tu!

[@Kate-sv8pt]

Grettings from Colombia

[@jaki5002]

Thank you, Steve.

[@brmrao448]

A well and satisfied understanding about language learning..thank you..Steve..!!

[@flow8164]

Thank you for the tips:)

[@ПавелДубин-ь4ы]

There are some langs which simply don't have enough materials to study. Like I am learning azeri at the moment and I struggle a lot to find some decent material because all I actually get is beginner dialogues (at a store, doctor's, customs etc) and then there is a huge gap where you leap on the news and economics right away. So I have to repeat the beginner material over and over again since there is not much diversity

[@sef83]

Try Turkish resources. Turkish and Azeri are the same languages with different dialects.

[@keithkannenberg7414]

I hate repetition, whether in language learning or any other kind of learning. For me it's much better to find another piece of content that's similar in level/subject and read or listen to it than to study the same thing over and over. Otherwise I get bored. I prefer to push on to extensive consumption of input as quickly as possible. One thing I've done multiple times is take a book that I've read multiple times in my native language that I know really well and read a translation in my target language. I find that this jump starts my learning. I can read the story extensively because I know what's happening even if I don't know the all the words I'm reading. My go to is the book The Hobbit. I've read and loved it many times in English and now in three different foreign languages.

[@Yeison_21.]

Joder que buen truco lo voy a probar

[@tannisjett1308]

Do you start by learning the top 500 most frequent words or something. I have only studied languages with characters (so far 汉字, 漢字) so I havent had an opportunity to try something like that.

[@keithkannenberg7414]

@@tannisjett1308 I've usually used some beginner course content to get my feet under me and then found that I could progress from there. But in fairness the languages that I've studied (German, French, Italian) all have a significant degree of lexical similarity with English which makes it a lot easier to get off the ground floor, so to speak. I think it would take a lot more basic study for something like Chinese.

[@KnightOfEternity13]

@@tannisjett1308 I don't concentrate deliberately on learning some basic list of words. I prefer to engage into some meaningful activity right from the start. One method I've used successfully with different languages to "kickstart" them, is taking some beginner textbook and just reading all the main texts from it using Lingq, along with the grammar explanations from the same textbook.

[@tannisjett1308]

@@KnightOfEternity13 ok that makea sense. Personally I've only attempted learn by memorize 500+ then jump into interesting easy and less than 10 minutes native content.

[@adanliranzo2403]

como aprendiste mandarin porque es muy complicado

[@adenewdemsa]

አመሰግናለሁ 😂😂😂❤❤❤

[@Simrealism]

I'm a disabled Canadian and as such am struggling to live at 30% of the poverty line but even though I'm destitute and suffering under the care of the good people of Canada I still have interests and would like to pursue my Mandarin studies. Is LingQ very expensive? I can't even afford a few dollars oper month. I litterarally don't have enough to eat proper food or even do laundry, not that I have anything but pajamas to wear because clothes are too expenmsive, not that I can leave my room more than about once a year to go to a doctor's appointment. I hate that I have to be contantly embarassed by explaining how worthless I am, but that's life I guess. I'm actually scared to go look at what the cost is because I don't think I can take much more being crushed by financial requirements. Thanks fior the videos. Edit $10/month for the cheap version? Never mind. I'll just go back to being a piece of trash with no hope.

[@valdirbergamobergamo5396]

Thanks always 😊😮

[@anashassan8496]

When I am talking to myself is good when I go to school and I wanna talk my friends I hesitant and I struggle to talking

[@SimranjitSingh-e8h]

Tbh i used the same technique before watching this video and i found it very useful

[@Xbolu16]

In this time i don't know if i beginner in the english language, but i need more vocabularies, more flashcards in anki, more listening and read on my LingQ Account, SO, yeah i don't know, maybe i'm a A1 or maybe not. But thank you Master.

[@tannisjett1308]

What do you want out of studying English. for example, do you want to have a conversation or do you want to understand everything?

[@tannisjett1308]

Also what anime/manga is your profile picture from? It looks super cute. I might want to read it

[@Xbolu16]

@@tannisjett1308 Understand to see movie, read books, talk with the people and play videogames, i like the english

[@Xbolu16]

@@tannisjett1308 i don't know, i searched in google images

[@tannisjett1308]

@@Xbolu16 aaahhh I see. I'm glad that you are following the right guy then (Steve). Depending on what you said I would have recommended faster routes, but if you want a everything then this is the right KZbinr to be watching.

[@annettemcnabb3033]

I am curious Steve if you know how long it takes you from beginner to say B2 and how many hours a day you spend with the language to achieve that level? Thanks for another great video:)

[@Thelinguist]

Depends on the language and the languages you know, how motivated you are and how many hours a day you put in.

[@battarabbit8827]

I agree with your approach but how do you deal with a new alphabet at the beginning without romanization?

[@darioortiz7917]

Thanks Steve !! You are fenomenal!!

[@milagrosaliendo101]

Gracias Stivi ❤

[@janpapaj1982]

Well said, Steve. 🎉. As a teaching professional myself, i couldnt agree more. Yet, if I may, I wouldn’t underestimate the power of the productive skills in the process. Only in the ‘inter language’ stage did you mention something productive (‘sentence correct’). Don’t you feel ‘graded speaking and writing’ practice is vital in the process at any stage? (I’m not underestimating the importance of a prolonged language acquisition period at A0-1 here). Anyway, all in all well played again. I like to listen in to your experience and compare it to mine (20 yrs too). Have a good day

[@KnightOfEternity13]

The problem with productive skills is that they are difficult to get right without a teacher, when you're still a beginner. For people who study alone, it's easier to focus on input first, so you could "feel" later, which of your phrases don't sound right.

[@paulwalther5237]

It’s a little weird. Steve is very much pro input over output and yet at the same time he sometimes posts videos of himself speaking a language he’s not yet fluent in. He does this way more than any other KZbinr I follow. I personally think output can be very beneficial but only if it’s meaningful. Being in a classroom can work well sometimes. Or living abroad or traveling abroad. Or intending to go abroad in the near future even. But if you’re like me and you’re in America and self studying and don’t really know any Korean speakers. Focusing on all input because it’s the only meaningful activity seems to make sense. Do you think you should try to force the output to improve your overall level?

[@tomasmills8258]

Could you please re-enable Danish subtitles on your videos? i like turning off the sound and following along in Danish and then exporting it to LingQ

[@alexanderkofoed9786]

Lol Tom? Didn't expect to see you on here haha, it's Alex from IPC

[@tomasmills8258]

@@alexanderkofoed9786 ejjj sikke en overraskelse! Hvordan går det med dit kinesiske?

[@brain_respect_and_freedom]

Good point!

[@azanseq]

For me the most difficult part is when I'm beginner... Because when I'm in the plateau at least I enjoy the content I'm watching/reading but as a beginner I don't enjoy. Even though I have a high level in japanese I can't achieve the intermediate level in korean because of the begginer content. It's too boring.

[@thoshitagatte1285]

I want to learn a new language means learning to write that language?

[@issawaled2062]

Wow what awsome Steve i dont know how you learn langunge more i want learn just English or spanish i dont how i learn so hardly😢😢😢

[@issawaled2062]

@@Jess-737 oky don 👍🏿👍🏿😁😁😍😍🥰🥰😍😍

[@paulwalther5237]

Very good summary of the learning process. I hadn’t thought to buy three books up front for a new language but I tend to get bored with just one book and I think this makes sense. I’m pushing B1 I. Korean (for years now 😂) and I think I’m going to take this need for variety idea and change my routine I’m learning the same thing from three sources. If I have three textbooks to choose from maybe I’ll be more motivated to study properly instead of just “immerse” which is ok but I haven’t learned all the intermediate grammar yet. I think this mostly applies to self study and if you’re in a (good) course you can hopefully rely on the class and your classmates to bring variety. I had a good experience with Japanese early on in the classroom.

[@mdmuklesurrahman2739]

Steve, I am very weak in vocabulary.When i think to speak something in english stuck because i am a Bangladeshi.so make me reply or a video on vocabulary improvment.😢😢😢😢

[@rozitasadeghi3969]

سلام من دارم اینگلیسی یاد میگیرم خواندن بهتر هست ولی میخواهم صحبت کنم کلمات یادم میره چکار کنم

[@honey3762]

Legend

[@rubenivandiazdiaz2104]

Any way, we very soon willbe learning Manadarin o Russian!!!

[@KFrench1123]

Give us an update on your languages, Steve!

[@captainreza1]

What is your view on Learning to Write (not type) characters when learning a new language such as Chinese?

[@Hofer2304]

Is it even possible to read Chinese characters without writing them? If you know just a few characters you can surely recognize them, even when you can't write them. But a few hundred? Very difficult. A few thousand? Impossible!

[@High_Priest_Jonko]

Totally unnecessary in my opinion. Some think that attaching a physical action to language learning (Like speaking sentences as you read them, or writing Chinese characters) helps but the evidence is inconclusive

[@xiangshipin]

Right now I am learning mandarin I only focus on reading and understanding

[@KnightOfEternity13]

@@Hofer2304 That's totally possible and that's how I did it myself. I'd say more, even native Japanese these days sometimes forget how to write characters correctly, because they are too used to typing them using phonetic methods.

[@Hofer2304]

@@KnightOfEternity13 They have learned to write the most important kanji in school. Their wrongly written kanji are probably recognizable by other Japanese people.

[@My_Sunny_buddies]

Morning, maybe you could learn Kazakh language 😅😊

[@granache]

Stuck in B2 and subtitles

[@shamsurrehman9751]

What's mean sort of?😊

[@ajameslee]

Very interesting

[@Keideezy]

on my 3rd month on learning European Portuguese. any tips guys? i can read/understand daily conversations but when i listen to pod cast i just miss pretty much 90% of the topic. i know it will take time but should i keep listening even if i dont understand much?

[@Vamos1969]

Try to find podcasts that are at your level or just above it. Say your level is A2 [ for listening ] listen to podcasts at A2 / B1. Listen at B1 to challenge yourself. If it's too difficult then stay at A2 for a while. Just keep listening as much as you can. Get the transcripts of the podcasts if you can and read those as well, some words you miss you can check them on the transcripts. Personally, I listen to podcasts but read the transcripts separately, I don't read and listen at the same time because I believe it takes the concentration away from the listening. I'll use the transcripts to connect the words I miss though. I'm learning Spanish and what I found after a lot of listening was the audio seems to sound a little slower and the words become more separate and clearer. The audio hasn't slowed down really, it has been my comprehension that has got better. It does take time for this to happen, but it will do. I listen to podcasts at level B1 - C1 and understand maybe 80% or more. When I watch Spanish films and series I have problems understanding. The movies and series are super native advanced though so it will take a lot more listening to eventually understand them. Not many people think about this but think about how you learnt your native language. Think about how a baby learns his/her native language. We all learnt/acquired our native language through input and plenty of it. Keep going Keideezy, you'll get there.

[@Keideezy]

@@Vamos1969 that makes sense! it would probably slow down my progression if i kept listening to more advance stuff so ill try to find the right topic thats more on my level. also im gonna follow that technique that you use when you separate listening and reading the transcript. anyways thank you so much for the advice!

[@KnightOfEternity13]

I'd say try to introduce more reading into your learning process, it's easier to "mine" new words from it. For me it's easier to hear words I already know, rather to learn new words from the speech. But, basically, you should analyze why don't you understand what is spoken. If you already know most of the used words, then my advice is useless.

[@Vamos1969]

​@@Keideezy I remember when I first started learning Spanish. I used to listen to podcasts that were just too difficult to understand. This is a mistake that a lot of language learners make. Another mistake is listening to audio and trying to analyse the audio too much by trying to listen to each and every word, trying to single out the words. It's better to listen to the full context surrounding the words. It's called listening in chunks. When we speak/listen in our native languages we don't try to listen to singular words, we listen to the context as a whole. If someone said '' I'm going to the shop to buy some milk'' you wouldn't try to listen to every single word, you'd listen to the full context. This is something one needs to do when listening to a language they're learning. Another method I use is to read transcripts in a loud voice. This isn't for comprehension, it's to practice pronunciation and to get the mouth used to speaking in the language. Pick a transcript from a podcast that you already fully understand and use it to practice speaking in a loud voice. When you do it you'll be only concentrating on the pronunciation and not trying to understand the text, again the brain can't concentrate on both at the same time, the concentration is solely on pronunciation and the rhythm. You'll find that even only after a week of doing this exercise you'll be pronouncing better and the words and sentences will flow out of your mouth so much easier. Start off slowly and you'll eventually get faster. It's quite difficult at first and your mouth will be all over the place 😂 but stick with it. You'll be shocked at how quick you'll progress. One last thing. You can still watch movies in your target language just don't treat them as an exercise for learning. Put the subtitles on and just watch them if you're interested in them or you'll think you'll enjoy the movies. Even though they're advanced, you're still getting some input. Happy Studying.

[@OneWayOneSpace]

I'm learning French, it's my 3rd language. English is not my native language, now it's something like a B2 level. I had an issue with English: while I was listening to music, I almost couldn't understand the lyrics at all, but when I opened the lyrics, I saw that all the words were familiar to me. Now I got what the obstacle was - I didn't spend enough time for listening. Yes, it's a trivial thing, but it was hard to understand. When I started learning French, I started by watching KZbin teachers in French and always used subtitles. After all, it's not difficult for me to understand French if it contains most of the words which I already know. So, I can recommend you to concentrate more exactly on KZbin language learning videos for several reasons: 1. You can see subtitles, and thus it will make it easier for you to comprehend speech; 2. Teachers make their speech very easy for students to comprehend; 3. You will constantly encounter the most frequently used words on your way and over time you will comprehend them automatically.

[@rashafaraj8825]

Can I learn more than one language at the same time? I am around B1 in German and still learning but would like to start Italian.

[@gabrielbarbosa4091]

It depends on your disponilility and your will. Im currently learning french and korean, but with more focus in korean. Nobody can tell you an objective answer, analyze yourself and decide it. However you should nonetheless give a try before.

[@paulwalther5237]

I try studying multiple languages but one seems to just take over my time eventually. It just happens. I am impressed by people who can stay motivated to learn several languages at once.

[@賴文茹-y1w]

不要以 分級分類，以 成長漸程

[@amsumalivallaart2805]

It seems like you had tutors studied hours every day lived in China so you speak well A guy near hear where I live learned to speak fluently self taught in 6 months what do you say about that what techniques did he use you think

[@wanjingtan3530]

Self taught (a foreign language, presumably Mandarin Chinese) n fluency in 6 months.. rather clickbait statement... I would say that depends on how you define "speak fluently". You assess based on what criteria? Definitely not cefr which this video refers to

[@amsumalivallaart2805]

@@wanjingtan3530 self taught and fluent Yes can speak fairly well amazing a native speaker that criteria Any have a great day my friend

[@TheCompleteGuitarist]

The competence definitions are not that useful. I teach English to south american10 year olds and I have some who are fluent in English at 10 but would struggle to express certain aspects (basically complex clauses and conditional based ideas) and may (like a native speaker does anyway) make errors in output, especially writing. But to all intents, they have the ability to negotiate their own acquisition of the language and no longer rely on a teacher. I also have students in the same class who followed the same course of study who have almost zero english. The zero to very low level students are usually the consequence of the school course and the ones who are basically free and ready to use the language, developed it on their own outside of school either watching youtube, netflix or playing online games in English. I have colleagues, almost all of them who do no more than teach grammar ... even to primary school kids, and expect them to learn, and accuse the ones who do poorly of either not paying attention or working hard enough or having a learning disability but to the teacher it's NEVER THE COURSE. I don't teach like that.

[@Katharicshan]

မြန်မာစကားတတ်လား😊

[@albg1877]

Great

[@eugene5610]

Ukrainian language, Mr. Kaufmann learning this language?

[@Thelinguist]

Yes. You can find videos here at my channel of me speaking Ukrainian.

[@adilkatan2484]

❤tanks sir Welcom marocco

[@braveshine2579]

done

[@ArchimedesWoo]

Hmm... All the choppy edits have given me a headache. ;-(

[@misstrendee6732]

💜👏🏾

[@Gabreel_alves]

10

[@adiboena123]

True :)

[@LanguageswithErman]

👍

[@Synthboom]

The cuts are horrible.

[@paulaandreafernandezchavez1132]

🇨🇴☕

[@evapitova7466]

You think ... If I were a total (zero) beginner, I wouldn't understand anything from your topic.

[@EM-qx3hx]

That would happen if you were a student of English. If English is your first language and you are trying to learn French, German, Chinese or any language other than English, this is very useful. Also, if you are a language teacher, there is a lot to learn and reflect on from this video.

[@The_me_but_not]

I can see my flag 😍🇺🇦💙💛🙏🏻

[@kapilpatel2897]

❤️‍🩹

[@kokisirai6781]

L2R1

[@menhera2]

なにゆっとんね

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[@thomasthomas6557]

Uvarkoldavnutop

[@crivofilosofico0103]

I am learning how to speak English, I think you speak so fast, therefore, it's not good to learn English this way. Sorry for my sincerity.

[@UrMom-dm6bt]

Sorry to hear that, I'll adjust it in my next video

[@PominReklamy]

That you have so much hair on your head does not reflect well on you Steve, at the age of 26 I don't even have that much on my back or chest, what's wrong with you Steve

[@kame-sama3493]

What's wrong with long hair at 26?

[@braveshine2579]

done