Top 10 Best Tips To Learn Languages That ACTUALLY Work!

[@Troopertroll]

I remember playing Kingdom Come in German and the voice acting was so much better than the English version it was criminal. There was a part where you have to translate Latin text, so I was trying to decipher multiple translations at once lol

[@gryaznygreeb]

That sounds fun lol. I'm an American studying Russian, and I agree native voice overs are better. STALKER and Metro sound way cooler in Russian. You also get to pick up on small untranslated things, like the signs in game or the combat voice lines from the bandits in Stalker. As a sidenote your latin german dual translation experience makes me think of the fact that I have uncovered some really cool similarities between Russian and English through common roots. For example, sea is море (sounds like mor-yay) and it's related to the words marine or maritime through the proto indo european root "mare" meaning sea. Another one is the word for throat - Горло (Gorla) is related to the words gargle and gargoyle and ultimately the latin root word for throat or swallow. It's crazy to realize even 2 European languages as different as English and Russian share common roots and actually makes it easier to understand Russian.

[@Riingwraith]

I love that section. I had an easier time since my first language is Portuguese, and many words sounded similar, but I'm also trying to learn German and maybe one day visit the old country!

[@dabtican4953]

Such a good game. I hope KCD2 is even better!

[@joelb8653]

Regional variations are also important. Spanish spoken in Madrid is very different than in Mexico or the Philippines. Still compressible but different. The longer a subgroup is separated from the parent tongue the more variation typically occurs.

[@CrispyCircuits]

I learned one semester of Spanish in Texas and then i was thrust into pure Mexican Spanish at work, home and with friends. (yes in Texas this is completely possible). But I have often needed to turn on Spanish subtitles for some movies from Spain. Such a difference in both accent and idioms! Right now I plan to learn both Russian and Latin at the same time. I studied both in college, but spoken wasn't dealt with at all. I'm 52 now, so I figure really turning on these parts of my brain will be the best strategy. I'm retired for health reasons, so I just realized from your video that I can get books in both English and Russian or Latin on the same subjects that I am already working on! Thanks.

[@MariahGessinger]

Está muito velho para conseguir aprender um idioma tão diferente e complexo como uma língua eslava

[@anne-marie2972]

​@@MariahGessingerI don't think so.

[@karliikaiser3800]

In films if you put on the subtitles and hear the actors the meaning is allways the same but the subtitles sometimes have a shorter forms with either shorter words or delete unneed words that are still said.

[@marcusott2973]

Nothing makes you learn a language quicker than having a boyfriend/girlfriend that speaks the other language and you're living in the country. I went full native in France and my French skills exploded in 2 years, compared to what I'd learned in 4 years of school.

[@nitsugua11]

Hou give so much hope and motivation. I'm really glad i found your channel. Thank you from the bottom of my heart

[@JsRazza]

Devo dire. È stato un video fantastico. Ottimo lavoro!

[@bradbrandon2506]

That was awesome and really inspiring!

[@jammydodger222Xxd]

I'm just starting to learn Italian. It is an incredibly daunting process but it helps to remember, when I'm watching this channel or Metatron's main channel, that English is not his first language. So if you want to know what fluency in a foreign language looks like, there you go. That's far more inspirational than any of these fake 'I learned language x in 30 days' videos.

[@theuniverse5173]

Looking foward to this

[@AthanasiosJapan]

The most important is to learn a language and enjoy it. You will definately need textbooks and dictonaries, but don't miss the exciting part. I highly recommend Karaoke (especially for Japanese) because a song's lyrics is a small piece of text that you can practice again and again. Movies can be a useful learning material. Finally, combine your hobby with foreign language learning. For example, I like chess, so I try to read books about chess or watch videos about chess in various languages. Checkmate!

[@EstNix]

Yes sir! Can't wait for all the interesting stuff you'll be putting out

[@gryaznygreeb]

I agree a great way is to watch stuff in your target language with subtitles in that language, not your native language. Even if you don't yet understand it completely, by reading the words as you hear them you will learn proper pronunciation. For example while learning Russian, a few of their prepositions are just single letters. "In" is "в" pronounced like a V, "with" is "с" pronounced like an S. I would pronounce "Я в доме" like "Yah vuh domyay." When watching Russian films I learned they pronounce it more like "Yav domyay" Another example is the common phrase "С новым годом!" Or "Happy new year!" I would say it like "Sss novym godom" or "suh novym godom" with a pause in between, but they say it like "Snovym godom" with no pause between. Just simple things like that make you sound way more native. Another is the word for "today" is spelled like "Segodnya" but they say "sevodnya", "now" is spelled like "say-chas" but they say it more like "schas" when speaking quickly. Another small detail I picked up on by doing this is you can often tell if someone speaking Russian is from Ukraine (many Eastern Ukrainians speak Russian as a first language although many are switching to Ukrainian in response to the invasion) because Russian speaking Ukrainians often pronounce their G's like hard H's. The Luhansk republic that Russia annexed from Ukraine is spelled Lugansk but pronounced Luhansk for example.

[@cahallo5964]

I like the short stories and elementary literature, it's the most entertaining way the of practicing kana constantly.

[@cahallo5964]

16:02 I feel like the "harder" excercise is the easiest one if you can't or can barely read the alphabet the subtitles are on

[@DerDoMeN]

TBH I always get quite envious when listening and reading about other people's progress and experiences with learning other languages. I can use (read/write/understand/speak) three languages: slovenian (my native tongue), english (from when I was 4-6 years old) and german (when I was between 8 and 10 years old). I'm horrible with rules so I couldn't even remember the ones for my mother tongue at school let alone for the two other languages but for me I could always tell the sentences correct because they "sounded correct" - unfortunately I haven't used german at all for 7 years in between so assigning gender in german got terrible so there is a drawback when you don't have rules to fall back on. I learned both english and german from TV but then I wasn't able to learn Japanese that way... And now learning new languages is just brute force repetition and hope for the best (got bad memory in the meantime so I have to map words to different words that I know just to retain them in my head). It'd be interesting to hear what you can do and how you should approach learning of new languages in such cases.

[@jan_kisan]

15:00 i have to disagree on subs in your first language. folks in the Nordic countries learn a lot of their English this way, i've heard. from my personal experience i'd say it can work similarly to comprehensible input from bilingual books, but only the familiar language would be in text and the target one would be spoken. which guarantees good pronunciation by the way. the trick is so control your attention really well. you either have to read the subtitles very quickly and then just listen to the same thing being said in your target language, or you could be sitting there trying to match some meanings in what you hear and what you see. to me, this latter way has seemed easier. but again, the key is to control your attention most of the time, without sliding too much into just reading the subs. gotta remind yourself to keep listening actively.

[@robertdurkin4366]

i can't understand how to roll r's ...even can't double or triple toung a brass intrument...how...roll r's please???

[@silveryphoenix44]

have you ever made machine gun noises as a child?

[@timurt6555]

Wish I could switch the language in my video games to Latin

[@joelb8653]

I was raised English speaking (American) but when I learned Spanish I discovered that I never really knew English.

[@TheOldBlackShuckyDog]

I’m trying to learn Medieval Latin currently, it’s going alright atm because im doing a uni course on it, but after said course im kind of worried it’s all just going to slip because there’s no where really to practise it and there are limited people I can discuss it with. Any suggestions?

[@eh1702]

remember that after you graduate, you can get a “reader’s ticket” not only for your own but often for other universities. You don’t necessarily have to still be a student to use their library. Also, there are a ton of medieval family, local and national records freely available online, like in Internet Archive, many of them in Latin transcribed to modern typography but also reproduced in medieval-like print or as images of the original. Many of these were collated and published by the various “societies” of the Victorian period. In those days they just expected anyone with an education to know Latin. I have really only paid attention to those of the British Isles and France, but there’s a variety of stuff from other countries too. At first I found the abbreviations quite challenging, and they are one reason that visual reproductions rather than transcriptions are made. There can be royal records or local town & city records, including things like disputes and trials, and cathedral and monastic records covering a variety of subjects. Some of the Papal records - letters to popes detailing disputes, asking for divorces etc can be quite an eye opener at times. There are long periods of letters to the Roman and Avignon popes from the clergy of Britain and Ireland, and from the British upper classes. The Vatican itself is digitising its archives, so you can see images of the original documents from many different countries on many different themes. Google digivatlib. Whatever interests you, you’re bound to fund some of it there, what between national disputes, church discipline all over Europe, and royal gifts. Very probably there’s also reprinted medieval poetry and such available on Internet Archive too. You could also ask postgrads and lecturers in your uni’s history department about what transcribed sources they know of. Or just go to Internet Archive and search for stuff ticking “Latin” as a search criterion. The same site has links to Internet Library, where you can borrow (and reborrow) books that are currently in print - some of which take up where Victorians had no access. I never studied Latin after my first nightmare high-school teacher at age 11, but in adult life I was trying to understand wills, land-ownership documents, trace people who worked for Norman kings, and looking at surviving records of towns and boroughs. I got a bit hooked.

[@TheRedleg69]

Slowly learning German and Portuguese just because

[@MithriAK]

Wooo!!

[@MrMario477]

THE BEST LANGUAGES ARE THIS >> SPANISH PORTUGUESE ENGLISH FRENCH ITALIAN AND GERMANY AND RUSSIAN

[@MrMario477]

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[@bigzed7908]

I am half hungarian, half Romanian. I speak both and can write/read in both. I think having the possibility of growing up bilingual makes it so much easier to learn other languages. Especially when those two languages are so different.

[@iberius9937]

You are so right. This has already been linguistically proven, as well.

[@shadow-mask]

I was surprised how easy German was to start picking up. Strange vocabulary, sure, but.. Lutheran Latin decryption, they nailed the grammar almost perfectly.

[@thatstorm_spectre]

Bună ziua frate, I'm glad that your family put aside some of the overnationalist retoric. The balkans have to stick together în these tough times

[@magyarbondi]

Romania is not in the Balkans, it's in the Carpathians. 😁 Anyway, I agree, one needs to move away from Central/East Europe to understand how much we have in common through history, culture and cuisine, despite speaking several different languages.

[@FlagAnthem]

Wow that is a win win.

[@thethrashyone]

That first point brings me back to something my college Russian professor told us on our first day of class many years back: "If you don't like the language, then the language won't like you."

[@bobbybiggerstaff7269]

Learning a language is originally why I subscribed to you all those years ago. I stayed of course because of the content you put out and the quality of your videos! Thank you!

[@Filipnalepa]

I came here in similar way. In similar time I started following Metatron, Skallagrim and Tom Scott. Amount of time I spent on KZbin was a significant factor to me failing one year at uni, but after that year my english command went from "i need to check meaning of at least one word in each sentence" to "I watch movies in original and enjoy it".

[@MysticMan357]

I would love for you to release full guides for both Classical and Ecclesiastic Latin pronunciations. With your Sicilian heritage, and it's ties to Latin, and your training, you're uniquely qualified to do so.

[@metatronacademy]

I will thanks!

[@Bagginsess]

@@metatronacademy you're awesome!

[@Bagginsess]

Latin really needs to be taught as a mandatory subject along with English (or whatever your native latin based language is). I was told it really helps with grammar and understanding roots of words.

[@its_dey_mate]

​@@Bagginsess Now that you say this, it is not only a historical heritage that should be preserved, it was (and still is in a way) the most dominant and important lingua franca of Europe and by extention the entire World. Learning it would open the doors for dozens of languages you might be interested in and you would have a solid base for and it'd just be expremely cool to be able to speak it.

[@keyem4504]

What I noticed when my English became better was that I suddenly started to understand song texts. First small bits, but then more and more. Very satisfying.

[@marcusott2973]

Yes and then you realise how stupid many lyrics are and want to unlearn it again.😆

[@ChadKakashi]

@@marcusott2973 yeah. Songs aren’t perfect for that. But it helps your listening abilities.

[@nancymorales9784]

I’m glad to find your channel!!!! I wanted to search videos of learning Italian language, I watched some videos and I suscribed your channel. Thank you a lot of this video, you provide gold tips from your experience and knowledge! I’m learning English language (A2). I want to learn Mandarin, Korean, French and Portuguese language too.

[@marcello7781]

Very nice channel! I have always thought that learning a language is like opening multiple windows towards different cultures and amplify your sight of this world. As an Italian native speaker that teaches Italian to foreigners, I never lose a chance to show the multiple aspects of Italian culture and history during the lessons.

[@iberius9937]

It's like growing a third or fourth or fifth or even sixth brain!

[@peterthomasjones3675]

I can play Skyrim in different languages 😮😮😮😮

[@_MaryRose_]

Absolutely agree with the first tip. Here in Sweden we not only learn our native language, we also start learning English at a really young age. Later, somewhere around 7th grade of elementary school, (unless you fail/fall behind in English), you will be given the option to pick a third. The options we had when I was in that grade were: French, Spanish or German. Most kids went with Spanish and based that purely on how widely used that language is over all. Meanwhile I picked German, the less picked one for the soul reason that I started to listen to a lot of German music and felt I needed to understand the lyrics. That kept me motivated and i still to this day count German as my 3'd language.

[@americafy9195]

I'm French and to be honest, I am not really fluent in English due to a lack of oral practice but the moment I realized I would never ever struggle again to understand English was when I didn't even notice the thing I was listening to or reading was actually in English. My brain now switches on its own, sometimes even during conversations in French and it's a bit embarrassing this moment, you know, when you're talking in your native tongue and searching for your words, and the first thing that comes out is in a foreign language. Most of the time, it's cause the equivalent doesn't exist or is rarely used. As an example : in French, there isn't anything that translates to "it's a bit of an overstatement" so I often find myself blurting it out without thinking that much and only when I see the faces of the people I'm talking to do I realize that it definitely wasn't French I spoke.

[@PC_Simo]

Yeah; as I’ve said, before; and I’ll say it, again: Language immersion, when you have 0 knowledge of the language, is like solving an equation with 0 constants; an equation, where all the numbers are variables; like: ”x + y = z; Solve for x, y, and z.”. Because you have 0 reference points. You have nothing to grab, to help you tackle the problem. 🤯

[@Joe-ju4cj]

Videos on Sicilian would be great!

[@Drahko12]

My first language is Spanish and is even for me a native sometimes fun finding what local words are spoken in other Spanish countries. Playing video games in English with subtitles also helped much. The moment I reach the peak of the mountain I was not even aware of how better I got to speak and understand until my English teacher choose me to do a theater performance in English. It was fun and daring to do that and succeed. Will try out these tips to learn a 3rd language, still deciding for Italian or any of the Nordic languages or take on indigenous people languages.

[@IIARROWS]

Vuoi del burro?

[@ConnortheCanaanite]

I do a similar thing with video games, except I’m leaning French and English is my native language. But I’ve been playing with French subtitles, watching French audio Movies/TV Shows and listening to French music. Writing is very important in my opinion, I find it the best for solidifying that knowledge. Whether one wants to learn French or not, ‘La Femme’ and ‘Grand Blanc’ are incredibly good bands.

[@yudjerthen]

I speak 5 languages fluently Arabic, Berber, French, English, Spanish Aswell as a basic understanding of Portuguese, German, Turkish & Latin about 5 years ago i encountered the Metatron's channel & i can really relate to these tips

[@kingaflamez6941]

what country do i go to after studying latin for a year? :(

[@Deckbark]

Doggoland 🐕

[@jeffreygao3956]

I was raised bilingual.

[@1982spqr]

I was starting to miss your language content... I'm balls deep in ภาษาไทย .

[@tevarinvagabond1192]

やばいwww I'm founder now ;)

[@baronvonboomboom4349]

Now I can support more of Raff's content and learn more stuff? Awesome!

[@keyem4504]

I would like to learn Latin. Any tips how I can train that. Native speakers might be hard to find. 😬

[@TheRedleg69]

Scorpio Martianus channel.

[@jarongreen5480]

This is really exciting! Me and my brother and mother want to learn Mandarin Chinese this year. We've already got a teacher who is a native speaker and teaches languages for a living and along with this channel I'm stoked to start learning!

[@yurakolesnikov9725]

Thanks man! I'm crazy obsessed with languages and I wanna learn 1. Italian 2. Spanish 3. Greek 4. Latin 5. Thai 6. Korean 7. Japanese 8. Chinese

[@tarvos_trigaranvs]

Wooow, I really wished that Metatron would speak again about languages more often, and oh my god, here it is!!

[@metatronacademy]

Welcome to the academy!

[@cadileigh9948]

the dramatic indicator that I was there was my first dream where I asked somone else to speak yn Gymraeg to me. Then I knew my subconcious spoke Welsh too. My daughter got there at 4 and reported her first dream in her second language, she went on to learn a dozen

[@LovePikaMusic]

what is a "difficult" word, anyway? I've seen/heard people express the opinion that people who use "big" words are stuck up or something, but I just really don't think of it in those terms. Even in my brief experience as a foreign language teacher, I found myself struggling to tell beforehand whether the words I used would be difficult for my student, because they were just normal everyday words for me. I suppose a word might be objectively difficult if it is very similar to another word in the same language, but beyond that..?

[@UndeadCrabstick]

I find that becoming fluent in a language is easier when you use it to write creative prose. This causes you to both use the language, and think of words you otherwise wouldn't think of, as well as gives you ample time to look up. Thesaurus and explanation dictionaries are useful too. I don't know what you call the explanatory dictionaries in English but essentially they're the ones that actually explain the words. I find those explanations translated work better than regular dictionaries. Once you have enough of a vocabulary a cool way to polish it is to journal in that language.

[@genreartwithjb5095]

“PREGO” is almost - almost to me an American used as a salutation in Italy. I was floored by how much the phrase is used as the sort of dry definition of it is “ your welcome “ but is almost can be used to mean “welcome! No problem! Come on in! Sure! Interacting with natives definitely is key to understanding your own limitations. It’s one thing to do lessons on your own and quite another to understand a native posting on Facebook, and still further to go to the country and hear it spoken

[@marikothecheetah9342]

You are one of the few people that say how important pronunciation is. I always try to learn the pronunciation to the best of my ability, because I think it's a sign of respect towards the language. Also, even people who learn click languages develop the same growth in the throat like natives do. So in my books - we can pronounce things the way natives do, we just need to practice facial muscles and our vocal chords to pronounce certain sounds.

[@Armeron321]

I think some languages can be gateways to other languages. My first language is Afrikaans. So for instance I can follow spoken Dutch quite easily (depending on dialect ... Andre Rieu is very easy for me to understand) Some words are also the same as in German. Even some Scandinavian languages contain understandable words.

[@workingmothercatlover6699]

I'm learning a bit of Spanish. Most of my coworkers are Hispanic and are working on their English. Most of the Spanish I know is from work. That's why I know how to ask for 2 fish. McDonald's experience. And in highschool Spanish class, we watched An American Tale in Spanish. A movie about a family of Russian mice who speak Spanish immigrating to America, where everyone else speaks Spanish. Quite fun.

[@katarzynalpzm0arajko-nenow32]

So true. I've learned myself English at school. It went well. The second, obligatoey foreign language was German. Although it might become useful for me in the future, I just didn't like it. As a result, despite good grades at school,, I'm able only to introduce myself in German. After all, besides Polish I speak English and Norwegian fluently and have the very basics of German and Russian from school. Now it is time to learn Italian (I love Italy and to hike long distance trail across the whole country is my gratest dream). When it comes to "useless" languages that I adore - Hungarian, Romanian and Bulgarian are still waiting. 😀

[@marcocisneros8643]

Wow you're English is so good, I thought you were British, I'm Mexican born and raised in Mexico but I have an American accent, If you hear speak English you'd never think I'm from Mexico

[@Uteuschmidth]

It's crazy I exactly learnt English with your 10 tips :D

[@mansfieldtime]

Seven languages, I would say that qualifies as EXPERT.

[@normacasini838]

As a new member, I can't help but express how much I value the content on your channel. I'm reaching out for some specialized guidance. I'm an English-only speaker, retired, and not in a position to travel abroad for immersive study. Despite these limitations, I'm eager to enrich my life and keep my aging brain active by learning a new language. Specifically, I'm captivated by the allure of Latin and its connection to the ancient world, as well as the vibrant culture of Italy. I am especially interested in learning Latin as it relates to root words in my own language and in the sciences and also in understanding it in a historical perspective. Could you recommend a learning program or system tailored for someone in my situation? Your advice would be invaluable as I embark on this enriching journey. Thank you!

[@voswouter87]

11. Realize that language is an expression of culture. As a result languages they're not consistent. There's all kinds of exceptions because languages aren't designed rationally, but grow from accident.

[@VoodooAngel63]

I've noticed that when I have been studying a language and I am getting to that "peak" I will start to dream in the target language. And then sometimes it just pops up in dreams when I'm not studying. For instance, I dreamt that I was in a café in Paris ordering breakfast in French for myself and my husband

[@janwilson9485]

Thanks a lot, that was very helpful. Im making another attempt at learning Italian and have been unsure of the best way to support my learning, thanks to you I now have a broader range of strategies - wish me luck!!

[@sigmish]

I was trying to buy an alarm clock in Italy. An alarm clock is a sveglia. I thought I was pronouncing it correctly, but the store clerk didn't understand what I was asking for. I had to over enunciate the word. When there is an s and a v together it makes a z + v sound. I had to focus on that z sound, and as soon as I did that the clerk new exactly what I wanted. I knew my pronunciation wasn't exact, but I didn't think that it was so far off that I wouldn't be understood. After that I really tried to make sure that my pronunciation was better. I did get good enough to use the voice dialing on my friends cellphone. He was honestly surprised when the phone actually started dialing when I told it to call casa. None of his other American friends could get it to work.

[@NunyaBizniz-om6xf]

I feel like my only interest towards learning another language would be games. Japanese or Korean are two very common languages I've seen games either locked by or have strong modding scenes in. So I haven't really gone for learning them yet, but ive wanted to, to some extent.

[@paulwalther5237]

I think I reached the peak so to speak with Japanese when I realized I didn't have to quick quick write stuff down natives said that I didn't understand before I forgot... or even worse, ask them to repeat it over and over or write it down for me. I finally reached a point where my brain actually remembered the words they said that I didn't understand without trying for the rest the day and maybe even the next day or longer until I had the opportunity to look it up. I remember talking to a Japanese friend about language learning and my brain was ultra focused like always (because I abused it the poor thing and had it cowed against its will) and she commented that she couldn't repeat back to me the exact words she just said, just the gist, for some reason I forget now but I was like.. oh I don't need you to remember. I got you. And I repeated back to her word for word the exact words she just said. And she looked at me like she hadn't seen before. I think she actually respected me for the first time then. I had reached the peak baby.

[@chris092283]

Thanks for the advice. I want to learn Japanese cause my wife and i are planning a trip for our anniversary and we love the culture. This was helpful thanks.

[@kathleensiemion5108]

Moving to a country to become fluent in a language is something that can work in a lot of cases, but I don't think this is universally applicable. This is because some people choose to learn minority languages and minority languages are not the main language of the country that they are spoken in. So living there isn't necessarily going to create that immersion experience unless that person specifically goes to the particular region in the country where the language is spoken.

[@husky0098]

Guten Tag from Germany. Best of luck for your new channel.

[@paulwalther5237]

My dad is leading the charge of everyone I know who disagrees with rule #1 and is trying to convince me to learn more useful languages.

[@elaqgarahulelpon1479]

Just a little thing I will point out about the video´s sections, It starts at 10, then counts down to 9, then goes back to 10, and keeps going up to 17.

[@StuartGrant]

Subtitles can be really good a little way into your language of choice. When you get to the point where you are screaming at the TV "that's not what was really said " then you're getting there...

[@CaramelSwatches]

Note: the “b” in “climb,” “climbing,” etc. is silent. 😉

[@mgplayzxd3062]

My god, I have been waiting for language content for decades, absolute bless from the metatron himself

[@GigaDavy91]

On subtitles: I am italian as you, and I did learn english mainly from watching english TV series with italian subtitles, slowly I enlarged my vocabulary from understanding from context by listening while reading, after that I switched to english subs, and not long after I got a pretty high proficiency in the reading and listening. The problem is that if you just ignore the audio and read the subtitles you wont get any improvement to your vocabulary, tbh i had a very bad experience when trying to learn english in middle school, I did get basically zero grammar and vucabulary from it and I studied only french in high school, after some years I noticed that the translations of jokes in tv series was made better in the subtitles than in the dubbing, so I started first with a funny series, then just out of curiosity I tried to start all new series and continue all series I was already watchin in english with subs, that was actually a better way to learn grammar an vocabulary than studying on a book, and I wouldn't have had any advantages by starting with english subtitles before knowing enough words (and in english where spelling and sounds are wildly different because of the GVS even more), in this specific scenario I wouldn't advise the younger me to watch without subs. Now I am starting to study japanese, the link between written and spoken it's much more strong, and I am also interested in be able to read some simple text, in this case I am trying to study enough kana and grammar to be able to have an intellegible input and probably a furigana subtitle can be great to learn more japanese, also because the logic with which japanese it's built it's wildly different from Italian and english, so I believe it's also largely dependent on how close the two language are and how different is the pronounce from the spelling, like if you started with a language that is both very far from the spelling in it's spoken form and also very far from your native language (like for example a japanese trying to learn english) I believe that before getting a lot of knowledge and vucabulary even in the best condition with or without subs an english tv series would be mostly a loss of time and you would be better off studing a lot more to compensate the gap. If instead one starts from a language very close to its own it might be better to learn words from sounds by keeping subs in his/hers native language, and learn only after how they are spelled and formal grammar, like for italian and french or spanish, also the subs will be probably more accurate and will enable that person to learn words by their translation, that makes the learning way faster. Also as you said it probably comes to how much one enjoys learning that language of course, and that might be the most important point overall.

[@tracygregory8448]

Your command of Inglese is so impressive!

[@jameshumphreys9715]

I like to know the word order and parts of speech, phonology.

[@curteye22]

Ciao, Raffaello! Ex Anz. Bryan qui! Spero di poter migliorare il mio italiano!

[@metatronacademy]

Wow benvenuto!

[@JacobvsRex]

Having spent 20+ years learning three languages. Latin, Spanish, and Russian. I’ve come to the conclusion as I believe you may have stated before that the biggest factor is your capacity to remember vocabulary. I can get the grammars with no problem. My biggest setback is the volume of vocabulary required to be remembered

[@edge81y42]

Too bad only 1 or 2 games have latin as a language option.

[@talentlessgamer]

i learned english watching ssundee videos

[@arjay9745]

The video that I'm actually looking for is the one on "How to learn a language that you hate because you have to". By point number one, it was clear that this is not that video. Sigh.

[@scobra1cz]

It would be the same video just without the 10th advice 😀

[@arjay9745]

@@scobra1cz In all seriousness, I don't think so. To learn a language you hate, you have to battle your own psychology. While these tips build on things you want to do, I need to either trick myself into liking something I don't, or find methods that work in spite of the aversion.

[@scobra1cz]

@@arjay9745 This video is about the best way to learn a language and it's the best way to do it regardless you like the language and culture or not. Procedure is going to be the same every time, in case of hated language just a lot harder to follow. I have an experience with learning a language I hated 😀 It's better to just learn it as quick as possible than struggle with it for years.

[@arjay9745]

@@scobra1cz Yeah, no. Not the kind of tips I'm looking for.

[@silveryphoenix44]

þū ēort wīs in manig lāre to lēornianne tungan. Also what dictionary do you recommend for Learning Latin?

[@huguesdepayens807]

I can tell this channel is going to be awesome. I love languages and learning about languages. Thank you for making this channel.

[@rufiohaspan]

These r my favorite metatron videos

[@Xardas131]

Why did you learn Japanese?

[@JD-bk4zi]

Imma switch my skyrim to Italian

[@Deckbark]

Spanish or Japanese, which is better? 🇯🇵🇪🇸🇵🇪🇲🇽🇦🇷🇨🇴🇸🇻

[@Avram_Orozco]

Iberian Spanish!

[@SwartzGunther]

Ah yes, amongst the firsts!

[@kathleenmccrory9883]

Do you speak Gaelic?

[@MMauge]

Thanks italian brother

[@ibinamensch]

I grew up speaking Bavarian, English and German. I am fluent in all three languages and currently Im learning french

[@mithridatesi9981]

Bayrisch ist keine Sprache 😂

[@HerzogVonMartian]

Subscribed to your channel, I've followed you for a few years now and I am happy to see you are doing well. Keep up the good work :D

[@AKRex]

I was born and grew up speaking Russian (even though that's not my native language) and eventually learned and picked up English. Right now learning Japanese and tbh, I actually feel like speaking part of Japanese is coming so much easier to me than English (which I still speak with a bit of an accent). And I have booked my trip to Japan already, so I am excited to "go into the field" :)

[@ChadKakashi]

So you’re on your 4th language? That’s impressive. Sadly I only know 2 including English.

[@AKRex]

@@ChadKakashi I hardly speak my native language (Armenian), but I can understand it at least based on the local dialect that I grew up in. But because I was born in USSR I was brought up to speak Russian, cause my parents didn’t want me to speak with an accent when I would have gone to school, so I wouldn’t get picked on. Nobody at the time knew that the whole thing was gonna go down the toilet lol So, technically it is 4 as you correctly noted, but I am fluent only in 2 of them and pretty decent in Japanese, but trying to catch up with my native one as well.

[@nickpavia9021]

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[@juanantoniourbinavillalobo9777]

Like number 1k 😂❤🎉

[@barryryan7777]

One of the first 2000

[@iberius9937]

I've been learning Modern and Ancient Greek and Latin since 2019. I've decided to focus on just Modern Greek for this year or more, before moving backwards to Koine and Attic, and then eventually taking up my Latin, again, sometime in the near future. I'm taking Joseph Conlon's advice from his channel Deka Glossai and believe that modern, living descendants of an ancient language and or culture should be learned and assimilated first before going in reverse chronological order.

[@evo481]

Without being an expert I would go for ancient greek and then modern because if you learn the structure of the ancient greek you can easily go for most Slavic languages. They say that German is structured in line with ancient Greek but I'm not familiar with it. Modern greek is easier than ancient and has differences. Of course if you want to visit Greece, go for modern. I'm Greek by the way.

[@iberius9937]

Ευχαριστώ. Για μένα, πρέπει να μάθω πρώτα τα νεοελληνικά. Είναι η ζωντανή ελληνική γλώσσα που μιλούν οι ζωντανοί Έλληνες. Μετά, μπορώ να κάνω βόλτα στο παρελθόν μαθαίνοντας με την αρχαία. Ήδη καταλάβω πολύ τής κοινής διαλέκτου και της Αττικής. 😉🇬🇷

[@iberius9937]

Also: Slavic languages are not a priority for me, now. I'm centered on the Mediterranean side of things and hope for that to be my cultural specialty, which will eventually lead to me getting into the South Slavic/Baltic side of things.

[@iberius9937]

Lastly, I'm a native Spanish speaker and notice that Greek not only has a lot of similarity to Spanish in terms of gramnar and idioms and phonology (minus the case system, of course) but also that it translates very well into Spanish.

[@JohnMiller-zr8pl]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@TheFiestyhick]

Very good tips

[@vasilkraychev8194]

Godspeed and fair winds to your new channel!

[@HyperManSP]

I am studying... a number of languages, because I find it fun. However, I know it's probably too many. So, I'm really only focused on learning one at the moment - Italian. I also practice translating from my non-native languages to Italian (i.e. Spanish to Italian), I play Skyrim and Fallout 4 in Italian, and I find myself looking up words I think I might want to know throughout the day. But I'm having trouble recalling those words (and using them with the correct grammar and sentence structure), that I know I know, spontaneously. Like if I want to say a sentence I have to prepare it beforehand and by the time I have prepared to say it the moment has passed, it's no longer relevant to the conversation, and I don't say it at all. Seems a bit like a confidence problem, but I'm not sure. Not to say that this is the only thing standing between me and fluency - I'm a ways off from that regardless, but this stands out as my current issue. Anyway, looking forward to more videos, maybe they will help me get passed my problem.