EDIT: Points discussed in this video: [1] We improve our language skills *only* when we *acquire* language through understanding what is being said (According to Krashen). [2] Your brain is a massive pattern recognition device that can piece out vocabulary and grammar rules IF it gets the meaning. [3] Dictionaries may help you "learn" words, but they do not help you improve your language skills (though it may indirectly help you "acquire" language which would improve your language skill) [4] Input of content in the target language is so important because it rapidly exposes you to a wide variety of vocabulary, grammar and contextual clues for how the language works. [5] NO SUBTITLES IN YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE. You can kiss any language gains goodbye if you use them. Though, subtitles in the target language can even have you learn quicker. [6] Speaking is NOT necessary for acquiring language. (Though it is surely necessary for pronunciation and being able to speak fluidly) As per Krashen "It means talking out loud to yourself in the car in Spanish will NOT help your Spanish ability." However, speaking can *indirectly* improve your language because you can use it to elicit more speech from speakers of your target language. [7] Use shadowing to improve your listening and pronunciation. Extra tips: RECOMMENDED BOOKS to get started in developing a productive approach to learning a language: ・Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisition by Stephen Krashen ・Fluent forever by Gabriel Wyner ・Fluent in 3 months by Benny Lewis ◆I don't agree with everything said in these books. For example, Benny Lewis has some great approaches to language, but I don't agree with "Use the Language from Day 1" unless you are entirely comfortable embarrassing yourself in front of strangers. As per Krashen's Input Theory, The affective filter hypothesis states that learners' ability to acquire language is constrained if they are experiencing negative emotions such as fear or embarrassment. I totally agree with this based on my experience and think this is why "classroom language teaching" does not work. You are risking embarrassment every time the teacher calls on you and may be in fear of failing as you study the language. ◆Also, I do not think techniques for "memorizing" words are a good use of your time, *unless you are taking a language test.* If your aim is to learn the language to where you can understand media in that language and have enjoyable conversations, then mnemonics are not helpful. This is because they facilitate "learning" of the language and not "acquisition." For example, if someone says "Do you know what taberu means?" You can access your mnemonic of "I eat on a table [TABEru means eat!]," but if someone says to you "issho ni gohan tabenai?" you probably won't be able to rapidly comprehend this phrase and respond in a natural way. ◆The distinction between acquisition and learning is tricky, but very important to keep in mind while you develop methods to *acquiring* your target language in an efficient manner. ・Beginner Vocabulary: Try and find the "Core 100" words of your target language. After you get those down, move on to the next 100 and so on. The "core" is the most commonly used words (make sure the list you get distinguishes between the 100 most commonly used spoken words and written words) Relevant resource: fluent-forever.com/the-method/vocabulary/base-vocabulary-list/ ・Beginner Grammar: I recommend Tim Ferriss's "13 Sentences for introducing yourself to the Grammar. kzbin.info/www/bejne/mqnUoGdtmqyCgtU SHADOWING ・Shadowing is simply finding a clip of a native speaker speaking and mimicking everything about their speech - pacing, intonation, cadence, and most importantly of course: pronunciation ・Try and shadow with video clips that show the speakers mouth so you can copy their mouth positioning. ・Especially if you're a beginner, do not attempt to shadow _everything._ For example a beginner shadowing session of an English sentence like "Hey bro I was thinking we should go grab some steak at that place around the corner when we finish work." would be like "Hey bro .... grab some... around the corner.... work." In short, you don't want to rush yourself to try and copy everything because you will mumble and that is not a good habit ・Be attentive of your frustration level. Shadowing is super hard and challenging. Let your goal be to slowly increase the amount of time you can sit in frustration. For example, one day you start shadowing, get super frustrated because you feel like you can't get more than 3 syllables right at a time and give up in 10 minutes. No problem. See if you can sit in that frustration for 11 minutes the next day. Don't overload yourself and turn language learning into a chore or you'll become more and more averse to doing language acquisition and shoot yourself in the foot. ・BEGINNERS may be especially frustrated, but even a little bit of shadowing will be very helpful. Work your way up from just 5 minutes or so. ・Keep in mind certain types of clips will be more useful to shadow than others. For example, since most people in Japan don't speak much like a newscaster or anime character at all, that's not a really good shadowing target. ・Get apps like "Video Speed Controller" for chrome so you can quickly adjust the video's speed on the fly. (Being able to quickly adjust the speed is especially helpful if you have one character in a TV show who mumbles and other characters who speak really clearly) ・RECORD yourself. This is a tip from @Dogen, and I wish I implemented this more often when I was learning Japanese, it adds more time to your practice, but really does reveal where your pronunciation is lacking. JAPANESE ・If you're trying to improve your Japanese skills, particularly pronunciation, I recommend checking out @Dogen . He's got a funny youtube channel kzbin.info But if you're interested in specifics on how to step up your Japanese, check out www.patreon.com/dogen ・JLPT - If you're aiming to pass the JLPT, don't waste any time on WRITING Kanji. It's 100% not necessary for the test (As of 2012). Which, honestly I think is a good thing, because I can get everything I want to done in Japan without being able to write a lick of Kanji. To clarify: I would say I am fluent in written Japanese, I can read newspapers, books and can type and read most Kanji. *However,* I can hardly _write_ Kanji. Then again, I don't need to. The only time I do is when I have to fill something out on a tax form or address a letter - but there's no rules against referring to your phone when filling forms in. Just make sure you know the stroke order behind Kanji.
@FrameByFrame966 жыл бұрын
Amazing video. As usual. However, I'm quite surprised that inspite of your excellent critical choice of your research rsources, you haven't mentioned Chris Lonsdale and his Third Ear book. It's a book that basically illustrates a very effective way to learn a language starting from the very beginning of trying to make sense of your environment until the very end when you get a language parent that helps you learn how to actually coverse in that language. And he gives very interesting and useful tips. For example, with the language parent, basically some native, s/he has to converse with you and cofirms that s/he understands you every time you say something correctly. However, if wrongly said, s/he would reformulate what you've just said but in the right way. One question, though, did you study Japanese at the university or at some institute or did you manage to have that certificate on your own? Cuz if it's on your own, only using the concepts you discussed in your video, man that's amazing! I have a similair story with lagnauge acquisition as well. I was born and raised speaking Arabic and learnt English at uni. Then I traveled to Hungary to resume my studies there. I couldn't make sense of what they were saying so I looked up how to learn a language from scratch and Chris Lonsdale's video came up. Since then, I've been implementing his concepts and now, I'm able to more or less hold a conversation in Hungarian :D (quite the achievment considering it's only been a year and never studied the language in uni or some private school)
@ikosimazaki7236 жыл бұрын
Super helpful, definitely gonna use the techniques to teach my students!
@TruFlyFox6 жыл бұрын
Get some sleep! Also, I use these techniques to learn languages. I gave 4...learned to different levels of proficiency but I'm planning on sticking with one for now with MASSIVE input until I'm dreaming in it. Then on to another one.
@Terri_2.06 жыл бұрын
Your sleep is more important right now; thank you for the very informative video.
@SouthPark333Gaming6 жыл бұрын
Where is that lecture you showed bits of? I would love to watch that
@dixiiid38423 жыл бұрын
There is no better feeling than when a new language starts to click
@menaatefadly3 жыл бұрын
U mean...its better than sex?
@JohnSmith-gd8ec3 жыл бұрын
@@menaatefadly yes
@nodeue3 жыл бұрын
@@menaatefadly it's absolutely better than sex, better than the best sex you can imagine.
@deez33 жыл бұрын
@@menaatefadly yes
@abdullahhamoodah32003 жыл бұрын
@@menaatefadly ye man because I’m a virgin
@victorgrazziani40553 жыл бұрын
Learning a new leanguage is like unlocking another part of the internet you didn't had access before
@ndescruzur43783 жыл бұрын
this!
@RussianWonder293 жыл бұрын
so truee for russian !!!
@HolahkuTaigiTWFormosanDiplomat3 жыл бұрын
0.0
@Termenz13 жыл бұрын
@@RussianWonder29 Are you Russian too? For me it feels like English internet is so much different than the Russian one, different tastes, different community etc.
@RussianWonder293 жыл бұрын
@@Termenz1 Нет, я Францус но учу русского языка ;)
@spanishafterhours4 жыл бұрын
People pretend to learn a language in 3-6 months, when kids are still making mistakes at age 5. Patience and dedication is the answer.
@EmilyKinny4 жыл бұрын
most underrated comment.... people think they've always "known" their language and so think they magically one day at the age of 2 became perfect at it. Not so, my guys. Even for your FIRST, native, language it takes 6 or more years to be "fluent" and even longer to be fluent in an "adult" way. But people expect to talk like perfect adults in their second language within a year.
@InsertHere4 жыл бұрын
Remember that kids are also learning how to live, and what the hell is going on. Although they learn stuff much more easly
@spanishafterhours4 жыл бұрын
@@EmilyKinny Exactly, it takes time, but nowadays we feel like everything must be done in a rush.
@spanishafterhours4 жыл бұрын
@@InsertHere That is also true, hahah they are not only learning a language, they are learning everything, but still, the fact that learning a language takes time, is still true even for kids, whose learning ability is way better than that of adults.
@pooyamazloomi65484 жыл бұрын
One learn the language once, the rest is only differnt tongues and words
@john276383 жыл бұрын
I am currently 17 years old, not a native English speaker, and have been speaking English fluently since I was 11 just from watching a bunch of KZbin videos. Ever since I won some competitions, I have been an advocate for learning from consuming media.
@bestusernameever6518 Жыл бұрын
This works as long as you're still within the critical period (which ends at 20).
@tubax926 Жыл бұрын
Bro, are u me? I basically speak and write like a native (I've literally talked with strangers, and they were surprised to hear that I wasn't from the US because of my accent). Literally learned it through youtube and video games (of course, it took me like 6-7 years to reach the level of a native). Planning to do the same with German, once I get to the B1 level.
@gianfranco8572 Жыл бұрын
Nice
@metaphordreams378 Жыл бұрын
@@bestusernameever6518 I have heard its between 2 and puberty
@9000ck Жыл бұрын
amazing
@adde95064 жыл бұрын
"I learned English through magic, like every other baby." Word.
@wesnohathas19934 жыл бұрын
Those darn babies with their unfair advantage in language acquisition...
@MrEysox4 жыл бұрын
As a baby I didn't learn English sadly...
@Zaefnyr4 жыл бұрын
my first language isn't english and same
@kyrakia55074 жыл бұрын
Eysox Don’t you understand? All babies learn English through magic, even if they live in a non-English speaking country and never meet anyone who speaks and English. Its magic.
@MrEysox4 жыл бұрын
@@kyrakia5507 but I'm a muggle...
@thatredheaddan58094 жыл бұрын
I think this is basically how I gained most of my knowledge in English. I would just consume every bit of American media I could find during middle and high school. I still remember how I mostly didn’t understand about 40% of the words but overtime I learned the meaning only by context. Turns out, now I can’t give u a precise translation in my mother language because I never learned it. In my head certain words are saved like a feeling of what the word actually means.
@MrBombSTI4 жыл бұрын
Same here, I struggle to translate words from english into german directly since I dont know the direct translation a lot of the time, usually I give a few examples to describe in which context a word is used and mention synonyms
@thatredheaddan58094 жыл бұрын
tahjera robinson I guess, counting from the beginning I started learning English in elementary school, around 15 years. Now I would consider my English to be quite fluent but it changes over time depending on how much I speak in real life. Although I can’t really count the first six years or so in school, cause I wasn’t really invested in learning anything.... sadly
@thatredheaddan58093 жыл бұрын
NBFGTA4 oh that’s so true! Plus German media, in my eyes, became kind of spoiled. Too much pretentious behavior, superficial content or the typical “Assi“ (short for asocial, but as a very derogatory term) stuff, when talking about television. Not saying that American Media is free of all that stuff but it‘s a foreign culture to me so I’m not so judging or can just look over it
@Pvemaster23 жыл бұрын
@@thatredheaddan5809 I had the same when I told someone I was watching Neo Magazin Royale for German language practice, like I don't really get the "level" of the content anyway, I was just using it for listening/understanding purposes. They made sure to tell me it "wasn't their preferred thing to watch" lal. Now I binge this channel called bushfunkistan cus I really like mushroom stuff and it's a great "context" way of learning while someone's describing characteristics or whatever
@Hanex943 жыл бұрын
Understanding a language and translating seems like two different things to me, sometimes I try to do that in my home with my family (spanish speakers), but always find myself using all my brainpower and failing in my head like 4 times before giving a proper translation
@Dixxi914 жыл бұрын
In short: learn like a child would. Lots of listening with pictures and things for context, then try to mimic sounds.
@neruya094 жыл бұрын
Dixxi91 thank you so much 💕
@kaichpotato61564 жыл бұрын
thanks for the tldw
@maze73764 жыл бұрын
I love you, bye.
@DinosaurNick4 жыл бұрын
That makes so much sense! Gracias!
@SirDavid2904 жыл бұрын
It's literally how i learned to speak english, with Markiplier's reaction compilation.
@Mohjo193 жыл бұрын
As a Brazilian, all my knowledge about English came from everything but english classes. All the content I really liked to watch/consume back then was in english, so I did to learn it in the "hard way", watching videos without subtitles or with just the native language subs. At some point I just acquired knowledge enough that the English classes I had in school just seemed trivial, aaand here we are today.
@cfilgueira2 жыл бұрын
Literally learned English the same way. I used to consume so much content in English that eventually i didn't need subtitles in Portuguese anymore.
@bastianse82352 жыл бұрын
My case is similar like yours and also English classes becomes so easy to me (not always but in the most of the time)
@bepreparedforwhatscoming4975 Жыл бұрын
@@cfilgueira how long do you think it took? 6 months? 2 years+ ?
@ViniciusRodriguesBR Жыл бұрын
@@bepreparedforwhatscoming4975 it took me 2 years and some moths
@mrnarason Жыл бұрын
Every Brazilian person I know who is pretty fluent in English learn it the same way. I'm trying to learn portuguese kkkkkk
@user-nf9xc7ww7m4 жыл бұрын
Dyslexia is fun too. I kept calling my teacher 생선님 instead of 선생님. She was wondering why I kept calling her the "honourable fish" instead of "(honourable) teacher" 😋
@sonofthepatient17143 жыл бұрын
I'm not even gonna lie,this made my day😂😂😂😂
@erikamiglioranza15593 жыл бұрын
ahahahaha 😆
@dywsliws3 жыл бұрын
Lmaoo this also made my day 😂
@butterflyexists3 жыл бұрын
honourable... fish... that’s hilarious
@default6323 жыл бұрын
Yeah Hangul has this weakness. Japanese doesn't do this and make you learn a lot of different symbols for each sound. Even then there are similar looking ones -.-
@verybarebones4 жыл бұрын
I learned English by playing videogames that were untranslated. All the years of English classes in middle school were useless compared to 10 hours of pokemon with a dictionary.
@Hanex943 жыл бұрын
Same happened to me with resident evil and silent hill :D
@FranciscoBattistella3 жыл бұрын
Same for me, but with Age of Empires!
@si-bang-sat3 жыл бұрын
It was GTA San Andreas for me... with a running e-dictionary in the background!
@triforce_xiii3 жыл бұрын
i played Resident evil by the age of 13 and learned a lot by it, same with breath of fire 2, played it at about 11 or so; now i think i am pretty decent at this language.
@luciosobrinho75083 жыл бұрын
This way is the best way that a lot of people have to get english vocabulary
@SuperOnigiripanda4 жыл бұрын
“And in two years I was able to pass the highest Japanese proficiency test” -throws all my textbooks out the window-
@nicolelindsay20984 жыл бұрын
Same, I've spent two years in university and I'm not that level. And now people tell me
@bobhoskins83064 жыл бұрын
I wouldn't bother. Passing the JLPT N1 isn't as scary as you think. There's no speaking component.
@dererlkonig74284 жыл бұрын
I was really surprised when he said it.N1 is 10 000 words 2000 kanji+grammar.It's insane.
@pao-sol4 жыл бұрын
Looks like I’m wasting my time with genki and anki :( But how do you learn kanji with this method?
@alfredomulleretxeberria42394 жыл бұрын
@@pao-sol Read at least 3 hours a day every day. Also, don't learn kanji. Just learn to recognize them as squiggles inside of words.
@chikokishi7030 Жыл бұрын
Im am an english teacher in Japan with no formal english training... Im an engineer grad. But over the years, i have slowly learned this as well so my teaching is 90% focused on situational cues and understanding more than exact grammar.
@juleslefumiste9204 Жыл бұрын
so your students probably say 'everyone DO it'? lol
@chikokishi7030 Жыл бұрын
@@juleslefumiste9204 No, but ill be using your comment to teach "how to be a lowkey dbag online" lessons. Thanks lol
@FireyDeath4 Жыл бұрын
@@chikokishi7030 erm never gona give you up xd yesh
@chikokishi7030 Жыл бұрын
@@FireyDeath4 never gonna let you down buddy
@TheFrantastic Жыл бұрын
I am an aspiring English teacher, I would like to know what do you do exactly, because this video has made me doubt my choice of career and your comment gave me hope.
@smokesparkdragonfly13684 жыл бұрын
I have two native frech speaking friends, and I like to parrot them under my breath to get the feel of the language. So one day I parrot a word a little too loud and they hear me. They look horrified, but don't tell me what the word means, so I repeat it. Over and over, I pester them to try and get the awnser. Then I go to french class and ask my teacher, who politely informs that I am saying the f word
@braidygal4 жыл бұрын
SmokeSpark Dragonfly oh my gosh I just burst out laughing at this!!
@lebulle45444 жыл бұрын
fourrer?
@youhavetogotheretocomeback4 жыл бұрын
r/thathappened
@youhavetogotheretocomeback4 жыл бұрын
@@RanchDressingPop-Tarts You sound very discerning "Sounds probable, I'll believe it"
@youhavetogotheretocomeback4 жыл бұрын
@@RanchDressingPop-Tarts Cool. So you have no opinion on this. Next.
@alnatex98153 жыл бұрын
If you're still very new to a language and consuming media is too overwhelming try starting with media geared towards children. Especially programs that are ment to teach native kids their own language. They have lots of visual clues, easy plots to follow and a simple vocabulary. That's something one of my English teacher did with us in school.
@coralpuppytin1139 Жыл бұрын
I tried doing this but it was just dubbed Peppa pig, too much of an obnoxious show for me. I’m trying to find something else
@drvlnn Жыл бұрын
watch a news is helpful
@koolooc726 Жыл бұрын
@@coralpuppytin1139 dont watch cartoons aimed at infants, lighthearted simple cartoons such as the ones in Cartoon Network are better
@unicorn111 Жыл бұрын
Dora the explorer for the 🏆 win
@KR_Kosmik Жыл бұрын
We watched a lot of German SpongeBob in my German class
@aninhagamez4 жыл бұрын
The biggest proof that I'm improving in my 2nd language is that I understood almost everything of this video, even though my native language is Portuguese
@chaeaddicted63463 жыл бұрын
mitou
@Kim-rw6tz3 жыл бұрын
same. i haven't attended classes. just some verrry basic lessens in school (alphabet and some simple grammars.) but bcz of spending a loooot of time in youtube and watching korean and thai series with eng subtitles, now i understand 99% of youtube's eng videos. and bcz of commenting and chatting with people in comment sections my writing also improved a looot.
@chaeaddicted63463 жыл бұрын
@@Kim-rw6tz on KZbin*
@Kim-rw6tz3 жыл бұрын
@@chaeaddicted6346 thanks for correcting me. >.
@chaeaddicted63463 жыл бұрын
@@Kim-rw6tz youre welcome also youre so smart cause self studying is tought, wish you luck keep on improving :)
@aikuisviihteenarkkipiispa8602 Жыл бұрын
I talk to myself in English all the time. It's a fun way to practise pronunciation and it helps with getting used to actually using the language for more than just watching stuff online. Making comments like this one is also really helpful for the same exact reasons after reading out loud what I've written.
@MysticHeather Жыл бұрын
Your written English is fantastic!
@AdamOwenBrowning Жыл бұрын
based finn
@Hanuuuuuuu Жыл бұрын
I thought you're a native speaker lol
@gus7130 Жыл бұрын
I have learned on my own skin that if you don't take the time to practice speaking and writing, you will never wake up one morning suddenly able to communicate fluently in the language. I'm aware of people who can comprehend every single word they read or hear, and someone is even able to write decently, but they simply connot speak.
@jessicalourenco747210 ай бұрын
@@gus7130I feel like that... But the craziest thing about my speaking is sometimes I'm able to have a productive conversation with myself (when I'm talking alone in English 😂) but sometimes I feel unable to do it.. it's horrible.. but maybe it's part of the process...
@zissler14 жыл бұрын
Took me a while to finally realize he wasn’t talking about learning c++
@grendo454 жыл бұрын
Maybe reading tons of source code and understanding what it does also works well for programming languages
@zjohnson8704 жыл бұрын
grendo44 or just copy from stack overflow
@OrangeC74 жыл бұрын
@@zjohnson870 That's what everyone does anyways
@AutistenKick4 жыл бұрын
Which steps do you guys suggest for learning a language on a c++ level?
@Flipoutpk20154 жыл бұрын
How high r u my dude
@sallybradshaw45763 жыл бұрын
The "positive learning experience" thing is honestly so underrated. I had an awful French teacher who was really rude and condescending, and every person in that class now has an aversion to learning French, which is really a pity.
@herp_derpingson3 жыл бұрын
" French ... who was ... condescending" thats redundant ;)
@sallybradshaw45763 жыл бұрын
@@herp_derpingson I should clarify that he was an American who taught French, not a teacher from France. But your comment made me chortle.
@mimihua23 жыл бұрын
Same tho. I now have an aversion to french because of my French teacher
@viktorreznov15483 жыл бұрын
Interesting.. i had a similar experience with my french teacher. Maybe languages really do have a character.
@user-up7nb6id1f3 жыл бұрын
@@sallybradshaw4576 “chortle” haven’t seen this word in a while
@anastasiadolgaya96183 жыл бұрын
I agree that input is crucial - I, for one, was able to learn English by watching KZbin and reading books, with no actual speaking practice with native speakers. However, I'd like to add that simply talking out loud to myself (I promise, I'm not crazy) helped me to feel more confident in my ability to express my ideas in English. So I wouldn't say it's completely useless. I still like doing these lengthy monologues in foreign languages haha idk why it's never in my native language
@proverbalizer2 жыл бұрын
Definitely. If you want to be able to speak a language you're definitely gonna have to speak. I guess you could "learn" or "understand" the game of basketball by watching NBA games, reading books, listening to coaches...but if you never actually pick up the ball and practice shooting....
@tamaszalanyi63162 жыл бұрын
Haha, I can totally relate to that!
@egyptianpools2 жыл бұрын
omg i thought i was the only one! one day i was talking to myself while in the shower and my dad overheard me. later he asked me "who were you talking to?" and i said " ummm no one? do you not do that when you're alone?" and he looked at me weird lol
@JamesKelly892 жыл бұрын
You're not crazy. I talk to myself in Spanish all the time. It seems to have helped a lot actually.
@thedeegeesaga2 жыл бұрын
Production, if you desire active skills (speaking and writing) is key, and talking to yourself is production, you organize the ideas on your mind quicker and quicker if you keep talking to yourself, shadowing, etc. Only input is a myth, otherwise there would be much more people better at languages.
@nicholaswise5818 Жыл бұрын
Shadowing made a lot of sense to me when I started Japanese. As a Jazz musician, I often "Lift" solos, in which I learn a solo by ear and try to match the tone, time, and other characteristics of the solo as closely as possible. Music really is a kind of language acquisition!
@lubedhomo Жыл бұрын
Dude, you are precious
@ClemensAlive5 жыл бұрын
After school I learned english by just watching KZbin and Netflix in english, and forced my brain to learn it. My thought was: "If a baby can do it, why shouldn't I?" So..7 years later my english is far from perfect. But fluent enough to make serious business conversations with international partners. (I never visited an english speaking country for more than 1 day.)
@NicolaiSyvertsen5 жыл бұрын
English being the defacto world language makes it so easy as well. I got massively exposed to it through computers back in the early 90s and being online and interacting with people from all over the world. I'm trying to learn spanish now and started out with the Duolingo app which has been fun. I need to start reading some spanish language news sites and try out some of those duolingo podcasts but I feel like I don't know enough spanish yet to understand much. Norwegian is my mother tongue.
@emmamemma41625 жыл бұрын
It was so difficult for me to start understanding what people where saying in Spanish, @@NicolaiSyvertsen. What helped me a lot was watching Spanish series with subtitles in Spanish. There is an educational series called "Extra Espanol" that can be found on YT. Watch with subtitles first and then re-watch without subtitles, after this you will have an easier time with regular movies and series.
@Isaac-cq6ns5 жыл бұрын
Did u watch with subtitles
@meat.5 жыл бұрын
ClemensAlive babies learn language differently than teens/adults so not really a great route to take without subtitles lol
@michaelshultz21995 жыл бұрын
ClemensAlive your English seems perfect to be honest 👌
@nenufae74996 жыл бұрын
Shadowing is great technique until you learn japanese by mimicking anime and you end up speaking like jojo characters
@MrDadidou6 жыл бұрын
tbh to be successful in life, all you need is some MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA
@KAFaye-nk5tl6 жыл бұрын
Nenufae lmaooo i laughed at this
@bvamstel92826 жыл бұрын
KONO DIO DA ゴゴゴゴゴゴゴ
@rizkyanuar6 жыл бұрын
NANI!?
@makarlock6 жыл бұрын
Yare yare daze
@RachelleAshmanWells4 жыл бұрын
so you're telling me that continuing to watch korean dramas nonstop will indeed help me in my efforts to learn korean? i am pleased with this information.
@Jack-lc9zu4 жыл бұрын
Without subtittles tho
@banhbae4 жыл бұрын
have to avoid historical dramas though since they use outdated korean to fit with the time period (imagine someone learning english from a shakespearean play). which sucks since i love historical dramas 😭
@Jack-lc9zu4 жыл бұрын
@@banhbae Thanks..I didn't know that. But yeah in my country they use the old language to. It makes sense
@litchtheshinigami89364 жыл бұрын
Tsubasa Datenshi eh i prefer ones that are in this time but have spiritual or fantasy esque undertones. I recently watched hi bye mama on netflix and I ADORED that show. Sucks it came to an end though now i’m watching itaewon class wich though isn’t exactly spiritual er fantasy esque i still really enjoy.
@meghanagk25784 жыл бұрын
I actually did learn Korean that way. Pay more attention to words and how they're used and maybe study a little about them.
@nathanielcolbert9070 Жыл бұрын
Conversation is also very important. I have plenty of friends that grew up with parents that spoke another language to them, but my friends only responded in English. As a result, they are able to understand everything perfectly but are unable to speak the language back because they aren’t used to thinking about responses in that language. It’s really strange, but speaking and listening skills are two separate things.
@us3rG Жыл бұрын
I spoke three languages all my life since I was a kid but now am starting to lose one couse I rarely speak it nowadays
@NikeshDahal-yz1bf Жыл бұрын
Sad what language?
@nesounesouu1133 Жыл бұрын
Same here ! I'm from France but I'm of Moroccan origin. My parents used to talk to me in Moroccan and I always respond in French... I understand Moroccan, but I find it a little tricky when it comes to speaking...
@Reforming_LL8 ай бұрын
@@nesounesouu1133What is Moroccan? Because you either mean: Moroccan Arabic or any of the Berber/Tamazight languages.
@702degrees7 ай бұрын
this is receptive bilingualism!
@i-dunnowhatimtalkingaboutbut4 жыл бұрын
I initially thought I learned some German words at 2:53 and was hyped about it, until I realized I'm a native German speaker :(
@thomas.thomas4 жыл бұрын
Nein nein, die paar Wörter haben einfach dir das ganze deutsche Vokabular beigebracht.
@liamthom71274 жыл бұрын
Thomas S. *haben ihn ein Deutscher gemacht*
@aan25384 жыл бұрын
Thomas S. Ziben ziben ei lu lu ziben ziben eintz
@rebeccan82904 жыл бұрын
Same though, I was like woooaaaah, I understand and then I was like wait, I am German....
@gjmarin20044 жыл бұрын
😂🤣
@stavrostziounis47566 жыл бұрын
That's exactly how I learned and became fluent at English, from KZbin. Even though I was studying English as a lesson I never got much out of it and never really studied. Looking at my old textbooks now even from the proficiency level I know almost all the words and can perform very high on the grammar and other exercises even though I hardly studied for the class. I've noticed that it is kinda hard for me to translate from English back to my native tongue and that makes me think that when learning a second language you are not associating the words with your native tongue words but with the concept itself.
@etofok6 жыл бұрын
haha i have the exact same experience. Several years ago when I was on Advanced level I couldn't translate "on the fly" AT ALL, it'd take me unpractical amounts of time to do so. Granted I improved on that matter but yes I came to the same conclusion = I got my 2nd language separated from my native and the words/phrases have no "bridges" so to speak. It's like a completely different skill
@muhammedberkonder78026 жыл бұрын
palm boy69 same
@grumpyrabbit19346 жыл бұрын
Same hahahahahha
@zeeschelp6 жыл бұрын
@palm boy69 did you use a dictionary while watching vids?
@SlackwareNVM6 жыл бұрын
Although it sucks for translating, that is the point where you want to be at. To have an intuitive understanding of the concept that is being talked about, and not having to translate it to your own language in your head to understand it (that's terribly inefficient). Translating on the fly is then a different skill to learn on top of the language you've acquired.
@chewygami87814 жыл бұрын
"you dont need to use your mouth to lea-" **Celebrates in social anxiety**
@m_m_e_e_f4 жыл бұрын
Exactly!😂😂
@justsomeguywithoutamask96024 жыл бұрын
My Anxiety, Social Anxiety and Shyness are really thankful
@haltdieklappe79724 жыл бұрын
Except you do sorry bro. Input is just more important
@loveexposure33514 жыл бұрын
@@haltdieklappe7972 Shut up
@haltdieklappe79724 жыл бұрын
Optigisa you’re the one that’s probably got shyness issues so I think it’s fair to say you should shut up
@Nosttromo Жыл бұрын
I am a natural portuguese speaker, and I learned english without noticing it, through a method that this video basically described almost perfectly step by step. I had english classes at school, and learned some things about the structure, and many words in english are similar to portuguese, because english takes a lot from latin. For example, "prepare" in portuguese means "prepare" in english. It's that similar. My dad bought me a PS2 game called Ace Combat 5 and I started playing it. I didn't understand a thing about anything so I started blasting planes, but I got stuck at a particular mission. At this time, I started looking up what I should do in the mission, and started paying attention to everything, without understanding anything, of course. Then, I started paying attention to the words I knew, together with the words that I thought similar to my natural language, and then deduced the meaning of the rest of the words, based on context. Once in a while, some word's meaning would get confusing and contradictory, so I looked it up on a dictionary. Not an english to portuguese dictionary, an english dictionary, that tells the meaning of words in english. Usually the same cycle would repeat 2 or 3 times, until I found something that would make the entire chain click, and then i would learn not only my target word, but many other similar ones. When I started playing the game, I didn't understand a thing. The campaign lasts for 5 hours, and by the end of it, I didn't need the dictionary anymore. Of course, i didn't learn everything in 5 hours, beause I would fail missions a lot and repeat others to learn the context and plot. It's so curious to see the video describing very precisely the things that I did alone by myself. Needless to say, it worked. I'm now learning japanese because I like to watch a lot of anime. And it's going through the same process.
@JMSG76 Жыл бұрын
Same here
@alavanemano9027 Жыл бұрын
igual eu vei
@tomwell9238 Жыл бұрын
Excellent experience!
@flutterbyfisto3 жыл бұрын
In short: See like a baby Listen like a baby Talk like a baby Learn like a baby BE the- Lets not be too ahead of ourselves now~
@greenblue16083 жыл бұрын
😂
@robertjamestaylor92613 жыл бұрын
BE DABABY LET'S GOOOO
@sharpnell79493 жыл бұрын
My pacifier's ready. LEZZGOOO
@DiarioCarnivoro3 жыл бұрын
You forgot "sleep like a baby" 😜
@username10932 жыл бұрын
lessgooo
@junsuidearu4 жыл бұрын
MY JAPANESE TEACHER MAKES US DO SHADOWING ALL THE TIME!!! Makes so much sense now. However, we had some Japanese students in a exchange and they all said we spoke like anime characters... :,)
@mpatel70804 жыл бұрын
If only I could speak like an anime character! :(
@deen_7714 жыл бұрын
@@mpatel7080 nah u dont wanna do the moan gasp konichiwa and "B-BAKA!" when trying to get your bread in japan
@junsuidearu4 жыл бұрын
@@mpatel7080 hehe the japanese made fun of us xD
@yiumyoumsan69973 жыл бұрын
@@mpatel7080 Please don't
@mpatel70803 жыл бұрын
@@junsuidearu ok.(-_-)
@kannan38015 жыл бұрын
1.learn through context Movies Shows 2.maximise input 3.listen and shadow
@allina155 жыл бұрын
10x
@mikesaunders84115 жыл бұрын
Perhaps after shadowing record your voice and allow a native speaker to correct you thats the final test of fluency !!
@Luis-io6fb5 жыл бұрын
@@lorax121323 Where can I get raw manga for free?
@AmiciCherno4 жыл бұрын
Kannan Ravinther maximize*
@magnificentsven16944 жыл бұрын
Maximise is fine for UK/ex-USA spelling
@SparklesNJazz3 жыл бұрын
when i was in Greece, i hardly knew any, but this little girl came up to me who knew zero English and started talking to me. by the end of our conversation i knew the words for milk, cup, and table. one of my best memories, and i realize now, taught me everything i need to know about language.
@sMowlad4 жыл бұрын
Bilinguals be like: "We learned 2 languages through magic!"
@xofantaxoo46904 жыл бұрын
As a bilingual I agree
@orangekoi4 жыл бұрын
That's kinda true
@hazensze44904 жыл бұрын
Damn my English is kinda off cuz I stopped using it for about three years when I was 11. I guess I'm just a half bilingual :(
@angrydoodle89194 жыл бұрын
I learned English through watching only spongebob and by talking only English in my school for five months.There was a program to learn English in 6th grade. The first five months of school, we would do it in French and we would use it to learn all that we have to learn during the year and in the last five months, the only class we had was English class and we were not allowed to speak another language. The only time we could talk French was to be understood by younger students.
@dq84314 жыл бұрын
Idk how I learned English when basically all my family doesn’t know it or prefers Spanish
@RookieN086 жыл бұрын
This video pretty much explains how I've gotten fluent in English. My English was atrocious to say the least when I was learning it in school. But after a decade of playing video games and watching movies with English subs, I now find it easier to speak and write English compared to my first language lol.
@RICKtoSICK106 жыл бұрын
What is your first language by the way?
@AbyssWatcher7456 жыл бұрын
I know right
@diersteinjulien67736 жыл бұрын
Same for me. I'm french and I was speaking very decent english at 10 because I just wanted to play video games. Also, my girlfriend started watching english youtubers, and her english is getting better really fast (as for me, watching english youtubers didn't get my english better, but it got my listening comprehension throught the roof)
@chemmaz6 жыл бұрын
same af.
@MedK0016 жыл бұрын
Same
@aryanshygun43174 жыл бұрын
*tries to learn japanese and find patterns by watching movies with japanese subs * KANJI : ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF
@Mu5icGodzilla4 жыл бұрын
Cries
@Iluhvahtar4 жыл бұрын
@@scorpioassmodeusgtx1811 IDK, i find seemingly random sounds easier to learn than seemingly random images. And I don't get what you mean by the second part. I mean, 車 and 電車 have similar kanji, but not a single phonem of one is in the other.
@egiamulyabaskara8974 жыл бұрын
@@Iluhvahtar kanji imo make it easier to understand the meaning of a word, but not how it pronounced in japanese. Like in your example, at least for me, i know automatically its a car and a train in english, but i usually forgot how the pronounciation in japanese.
@Iluhvahtar4 жыл бұрын
@@egiamulyabaskara897 Yeah, I cam see how kanji could help make it easier to understand a word (even though I'm really vocal and want to know how to say it). What I don't get is how it would help to know how it sound
@davidmacdonald91594 жыл бұрын
Scorpio Assmödeus GTX1 i agree, especially having already learned a few hundred words in chinese for school
@Sugarglidergirl101 Жыл бұрын
Moving to Japan through a language school was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made. Never felt more free in my life. I was a pretty sheltered kid and this was my first time ever being away from family longer than like two weeks maybe. And going from a small town in the southern states of America to living in Tokyo was so exciting. My life back home seems bland and boring now.
@mobaplayer307 Жыл бұрын
How does one get into a language school!? i’m trying to do something similar when i get out of the marines but for portuguese!
@eleanorgates370010 ай бұрын
how long did u go for? and did u go after highschool or college?
@Sugarglidergirl10110 ай бұрын
@@mobaplayer307 I just found one I liked and sent an application! I actually visited the school in person first during a trip there!
@Sugarglidergirl10110 ай бұрын
@@eleanorgates3700 I was in the language school for a year and a half. Went back home temporarily to see family and right now I live in Japan. I went after university (technically not right after, I worked in my studied field for a while first.
@finbar215 жыл бұрын
By watching Star Wars learned a language I did
@hzmi_5 жыл бұрын
lmao
@user-lh3bw4vy7r5 жыл бұрын
Well played sir.
@mlgprussian71155 жыл бұрын
Ho ho young skywalker
@jenniferwilson95795 жыл бұрын
👍🏻😂
@dylanbracey94934 жыл бұрын
There is another
@screamcheeese71754 жыл бұрын
This is actually how I learned German, and it was even in my 100 level classes. My professor spoke only German, but he also pointed at things so that we would understand context. Best experience I ever had in learning a language.
@taranpreetkaur31344 жыл бұрын
Heyy, ich würde dir die Serie "How to sell drugs online fast" empfehlen. Die ist SUPER LUSTIG und SPANNEND! Du wirst sie lieben!
@user-up7nb6id1f3 жыл бұрын
@@taranpreetkaur3134 ich habe angeschaut, es ist sowieso ok aber konnte nicht jenseits der fünfte Folge schauen. weiß nicht warum, zu viel Wörter wahrscheinlich 😂
@user-cd4bx6uq1y3 жыл бұрын
A thing my teacher told me is that you need atleast a small word base. She talked only German, we had no training data and no idea about how to feel about german stuff, it was just horrible. Nobody knew what to do and what page is it
@user-cd4bx6uq1y3 жыл бұрын
@@user-up7nb6id1f ich habe nicht "drugs", das die habe "drugs"? Ich finde essen "drugs" SUPER LUSTIG und SPANNED! (Ich night Deutch, ich spreche deutch bekommen kuh)
@KevWebsz5 жыл бұрын
Apple Brad Pitt Got it Moving to Japan.
@liyans14 жыл бұрын
KevWebsz 😂
@StellaPlayss4 жыл бұрын
I laughed way too much at that
@HeatherCutright4 жыл бұрын
@@StellaPlayss me too lol 😆
@gabe_ed4 жыл бұрын
Ahhh, Taberu, my favorite actor
@JosephM4 жыл бұрын
Same
@harktischris Жыл бұрын
I did a ton of flash cards at the beginning, basically just to scaffold my way up to the point where I *could* start consuming media in my target language (German) without having to look up every word. Then language "practice" became listening to podcasts, watching shows (consciously trying to avoid subtitles when I could), playing video games in German, reading books (esp ones that I knew I would enjoy, like the German Calvin & Hobbes), etc. It felt really effective, but felt like, i dunno, "dirty", given that my german grammar worksheet book was going unused. Glad to find this video that puts words to what I was dancing around, and even provides some studies validating this approach towards focusing on input! (I took some tests and I'm apparently now ~B2 overall in German, w/ C1 when it comes to reading/writing. Compared to years of me failing to learn French in school, focusing on input is the only approach that has actually worked for me. I was beginning to comprehend content well before I even know what grammatical structures were at play)
@nickc36576 жыл бұрын
Lmao my applied linguistics professor took almost two months to explain what you laid out in less than 13 minutes.
@theshagidelicgamers42326 жыл бұрын
College in a nutshell
@OatmealTheCrazy6 жыл бұрын
@@theshagidelicgamers4232 School in general really
@Meverynoob6 жыл бұрын
@。ガッレット you wouldn't learn anything in 13 minutes though, there's no one lesson that can be learnt without hours of build up.
@rotnmold78616 жыл бұрын
Imma leave it at 420
@nickc36576 жыл бұрын
。ガッレット *she. Most of the professors I’ve met are women, it turns out
@maklasik6 жыл бұрын
I spent 5 years studying English in school. Even though I had better chances to study a new language back then (due to brain plasticity) after 5 years I had little to no knowledge. Then I decided to learn language by watching all seasons of South Park in English, my English perception skyrocketed to say the least. Started with subtitles and I spent 40 minutes per episode because I really wanted to understand all the jokes and had to use Google translate. After 5 seasons I was done with subtitles and after 7 more seasons I only needed google translate 1 word per episode. I finally made learning English fun! My advice would be to learn basics first. Like alphabet, 100-200 most common words and learn most used sentence structures. Then go rewatch your favorite tv-shows/movies. You most likely remember what people say in each dialog (since you watched it in your language) and now you just make these connections with the language you learn. It's fun, it's fast and if you think about it, it gives you that high "input". Happy learning guys!
@ly_06 жыл бұрын
brain plasticity degrading with age is a myth
@Panic_Pickle6 жыл бұрын
Alaya or at least a vastly exaggerated one.
@FeelingShred6 жыл бұрын
That's similar to how I learned english too. Playing strategy games and always looking at the dictionary for any word I didn't know. This was shortly before the internet.
@willmcpherson26 жыл бұрын
This method is genius.
@not-so-smartaleck89875 жыл бұрын
so what'd you think of South Park? "screw you guys, I'm goin' home" ;)
@Kiwikick2386 жыл бұрын
My mom says she learned English by watching kids shows with me and my siblings and she’d do her own copy of my kindergarten work like practicing the letters and learning the shapes and colours. She’d also try to talk to us a lot in English so the convos were easy to follow since vocabulary wasn’t that big in early elementary. To this day she’s still better than my dad at speaking English and he did some classes lol
@ht1ps5555 жыл бұрын
Kiwikick238 wow she’s a genius!
@Cuticatie5 жыл бұрын
Cheer to your mum! and your dad may learn a thing or two from your mum (esp. the appropriate method for ur dad and an enjoyable experience in learning will improve your dad's English). remember the comprehensible input! (you don't need to be genius to acquire a foreign language imho)
@racoon_in_ankhmorpork Жыл бұрын
It’s funny-I clicked on this video thinking “oh, this’ll be useful for my Japanese studies!”, and it turns out the example language is exactly that! Thanks for all the tips: some of it I knew intuitively (I learned many languages at a young age, so the importance of acquisition was something I already knew about), but I gained insight on many other things I had previously overlooked. Great video ;)
@megancress13844 жыл бұрын
I learned English through SpongeBob. I watched so much SpongeBob when I was little that I managed to learn the damn language
@megancress13844 жыл бұрын
@m m oh afterwards I came to Canada. It's just the amount I learned from SpongeBob managed to get me through school and conversations and such, which surprised us all
@marley42734 жыл бұрын
@@megancress1384 WOAHH!!
@litchtheshinigami89364 жыл бұрын
In my case it was a mix or winnie the pooh for ps1 and the tweenies wich was a british tv show i adored as a kid. I used to beg my mum to watch more so she then searched it up on the internet and let me watch the english version
When I was a kid I would get mad at my sister and mother for speaking German to each other so I wouldn't understand them. So I started to watch kid shows in German without any subtitles and learned the language based on context. This makes so much sense to me now!
@weltraumkotze4 жыл бұрын
may I ask why your mom apparently taught your sister, but not you?
@justthere8453 жыл бұрын
@@weltraumkotze probably a huge age gap like me. I have a 14 year difference from my oldest sibling and the next is 9 older than me. My older siblings can speak and write our 2 native languages but things changed as time went on and I can only barely speak the one and understand a little of the other one.
@woodaloo59823 жыл бұрын
can you recommend german shows for kids pls? im a beginner at learning german
@Kutaibon2 жыл бұрын
@@woodaloo5982 Angelo, because it plays offen in School
@kylebui15303 жыл бұрын
1. Learn from the context 2. Maximize the input 3. Listen & pronounce
@tillie_brn2 жыл бұрын
Having a positive experience while learning is such a huge factor. I learnt English mostly by watching TV shows, KZbinrs, and looking up the translations of my favorite English-language songs. I was fluent within 3 years. Meanwhile, I took German classes for 10 years. The first two years I had horrible, abusive teachers, and the rest of the time even with better teachers it was always all about learning grammar rules and lists of vocabulary by heart. I never got past a mediocre intermediate level. These days I've been into a lot of Korean media, and surprise surprise, although I've only been actively trying to learn the language for a few months, I'm already starting to pick it up much more naturally than I ever did German. I guess this applies to anything you want to learn, not just languages, but I find it fascinating the way our brains just refuse to absorb information if we view it in a negative light.
@unleashingpotential-psycho94336 жыл бұрын
Mimicking a native speaker has a great idea for learning a new language. I have to try this out for Spanish.
@MrRishik1236 жыл бұрын
As matt vs Japan said. There are billions of English speakers, so pick one and copy them. No point trying to make your own speech style if you never grew up there.
@dailyjoy95566 жыл бұрын
Mr Rishi The Cookie buena suerte!
@felipeperez55056 жыл бұрын
beware of accents could be a little annoying for non-native speakers
@differentlyabledmuslimjewi44756 жыл бұрын
The people I've met abroad who get English the best, were not those with English teaching jobs, but the young people who watched american cartoons, played videogames in English and enjoyed British TV.
@Wolfenry6 жыл бұрын
Sorry but, don't, as a native Spanish speaker i can tell you that if you choose one person and mimick it, your Spanish may be ruined, this is because all of the different pronounciations of Spanish. Just go basic, it's a difficult language and no one can blame your pronounciation
@MegaLuros6 жыл бұрын
A lot of us learned English without speaking a word. KZbin was our school. I never went into an English speaking country before I became fluent in English. I almost never spoke English before I started a year of study entirely taught in English.
@americanfootball59396 жыл бұрын
I can write, understand and read english... thanks KZbin !
@ani_n016 жыл бұрын
I learned it by asking Google to translate linkin park lyrics lmao... And then I got into mobile games yoh know those alliances and stuff
@livedandletdie6 жыл бұрын
MegaLuros, when I was a kid, I wish KZbin was a thing... you kids are lucky, I had to learn English from text based adventure games and later on Strategy games and RPGS. So in the year 2000 when Broadband became a thing I was semi-fluent in English, at age 8, mind you I wasn't even fluent in my native language.
@livedandletdie6 жыл бұрын
egal, Deutschen KZbin... let me think, if you are interested in music, then listening to German music would be a great idea, other than that, I think that the channel Gibt's nicht might work, as it's a lot of talking seeing that it's a German top 10 channel. Other than that, it's too interest based of what content you would like to watch. There should be a lot of German gaming channels as far as I know. I just wish there were a lot more interesting youtube channels out there period though. Oh and try shadowing the words Daaruum says in her videos, it should help out a lot, or go to Google Translate and type in your hobby/interest and translate it into German and paste that into KZbin to maybe find other similar channels. I've run out of other ideas, sure you could combine this with some other language help such as Duolingo or Babbel.
@ajhhc6 жыл бұрын
@@Retrosenescent I haven't started learning German actively yet, but I found a channel called Don't trust the rabbit, and she has some videos in German, you may want to check it out if you haven't yet.
@greyfoxninja12396 жыл бұрын
I started doing this and now I run into people in my dreams who speak Japanese I can't understand but it sounds fluent. I don't get it, it's MY dream, those words are coming from my mind and yet I can't understand them.
@MagnusSkiptonLLC6 жыл бұрын
Maybe they're just speaking Japanese-sounding gibberish.
@shuu_396 жыл бұрын
Hey I've had that dream. But that was after I played a japanese visual novel game. The characters appeared in my dream, and their said words would come out in big bold text blocks that floated in the air. I have to thank the voice actors of the game and the massive text dialogs that came along with it lol
@OfficialFedHater6 жыл бұрын
Have you ever heard the idea that other people's consciousness can influence your dreams? Like a guy in Germany just showing up in your dream while he's also sleeping and trying to speak to you. Weird to think about, we really know very little about what's going on with our brains while sleeping.
@Hyperactivi6 жыл бұрын
That is the funniest thing i’ve heard in a long time haha
@dylanlacelle37286 жыл бұрын
Its just gibberish but your brain thinks its correct japanese
@vannedotdash77492 жыл бұрын
This was so peaceful to watch. Because this is what I did to learn English. And that's what I'm trying to do to learn Japanese now. It's a lot of fun, and I'm glad there's more people learning about this.
@MrWackydoodles5 ай бұрын
y fluent now?
@vannedotdash77495 ай бұрын
@@MrWackydoodles in Japanese? Not yet, I'm taking it slow 😂 admittedly I haven't really studied in a while, this comment reminded me of it, thank you!
@MrWackydoodles5 ай бұрын
@@vannedotdash7749 haha! I'm 2 months in and I'm starting to doubt myself If I'll ever learn it lol
@cry-wr4wt3 жыл бұрын
As a german, english is my main second language. And if im honest, besides the basics i've learned not much of it in school. But playing games, watching movies, yt so and so on i managed to get really confident in it, with no stress whatsoever. Now i try the same tactic with norwegian and so far id say it works :)
@Sternburg3 жыл бұрын
wahre Worte
@mallagallabumbum82093 жыл бұрын
I'm also German and its the same for me. I still don't get how anyone is supposed to learn, let alone acquire, a language (apart from Latin and Old Greek maybe) with the methods used in school.
@Arrijoyyy3 жыл бұрын
OMG YES! I learned most of my English from watching english movies, games, and of course watching KZbin videos and Twitch streams! :D
@CJ-be2cu3 жыл бұрын
I learned most of my English through magic, and some in school using flash cards
@MsBonsai20103 жыл бұрын
Your written English is spot-on
@mariablanco776 жыл бұрын
I am Mexican, and here on my country, people spend a lot of money on useless english classes and only end up having very little knowledge with almost 0 fluency Of course, I am talking just of what i've seen all my life, but even on the school (normal, obligatory one) I used to despise my teachers because it was so boring and lame, and not only because I already knew some of the language I have never spent any of my money on an english class because I already know how it's going to be, and yet, I have much much higher level than any of the people that have. No one believes me when I tell them that I learned (or perhaps, acquired?) english by myself with this very method without even noticing that I was learning, starting at 12-13 years old (now 18) Now, my main goal (besides university) is becoming a traductor or a teacher, mainly focused on English and i'm saving money to pay my certificates Thank you, for summarizing this in such a cool form, and yet, I apologize if my comment has any mistakes, English is not my native language :)
@kurashi30786 жыл бұрын
That's really motivating to hear! I am still rather hesitant towards using media rather than a more "formal approach", but this feels much more enjoyable, and better mimics how children learn their native language (in my opinion). Also, your English is great, there were only a few mistakes in your comment. I hope to reach this level in Japanese someday!
@diegomastro56816 жыл бұрын
@@kurashi3078 play games in japanese, youll learn a lot
@kurashi30786 жыл бұрын
@@diegomastro5681 Alright, thanks for the tip!
@gabrielsoler54656 жыл бұрын
Maria Blanco, that's exactly what happens in Brazil
@gossamera46656 жыл бұрын
Traductor should be translator or interpreter, someone who interprets another language, I think there's even a third, more official word that I'm not recalling at the moment. Traduction is translation.
@lizannedsouza18382 жыл бұрын
When I was learning French, only watching shows with French subtitles was super helpful. Thanks so much for this incredible video!
@rixille11 ай бұрын
Vous avez raison. Les jeux videos et livres m'aider aussi. I'm not perfect but it seems to be working.
@IndellableHatesHandles3 жыл бұрын
"The Japanese word for persimmon is..." I don't even know what a persimmon is lol
@ronlugbill14003 жыл бұрын
A fruit. Looks kind of like a tomato but it is sweet and tasty. I ate persimmons in Italy and didn't know what they were in English either but they were delicious.
@Antonina_Naamah3 жыл бұрын
@@ronlugbill1400 oh you mean a kaki in german. :D
@MarcosAntonio-xt8xp3 жыл бұрын
@@Antonina_Naamah Ah, you mean a caqui in portuguese!
@OJapaXD3 жыл бұрын
@@MarcosAntonio-xt8xp Agora entendi mano kkkkkk
@JoaoPedro-qk3uq3 жыл бұрын
@@OJapaXD Sksksksksksksksksk tbm mano
@angelb83174 жыл бұрын
It really does seem like we learned our native languages magically tho 😂
@dixiiid38423 жыл бұрын
I thought that too but then I think of all the language classes you take in school to learn about sentence structure, verbs, everything! Still insane that we can absorb all of it at such a young age, language is pretty cool
@inconnn3 жыл бұрын
@@dixiiid3842 it's bc we gotta use the info we learn right away since everything we see and listen to is in that language so we remember it
@Comintern19193 жыл бұрын
@@dixiiid3842 But you also have to remember it takes children around 6 years to get a decent control of their native language, and another 4, 5 years to "perfect" it. An Adult can achieve that in around 3 years and even less with the right methods and resources.
@dixiiid38423 жыл бұрын
AugustusCaesar I would have thought children would learn it quicker than adults. I remember reading that it’s far more difficult to learn a new language as an adult because our brains don’t have the same plasticity as children do, but I suppose 3 years is still a fairly long time. Would take an awful lot of language acquisition for that!
@heatherperleberg78163 жыл бұрын
@@dixiiid3842 as a youngen myself trying to learn Italian, i think i missed the gap that would yield the greatest return in the shortest time. I know too much about english to be able to think about another language as an individual thing, by which i mean something seperate from English. Id say being a younger child arounf 4-6 is probably the best time to learn a language. Not entirely fluent, so they can disassociate languages from english easier. Thats my thought process, at least.
@X33Ultras0und4 жыл бұрын
Did I just buy a language course by accident or something? This seems like knowledge you have to pay for.
@correctionguy76324 жыл бұрын
what do you mean? MattvsJapan and Ikenna all cover this and more on their youtube.
@luxraider53844 жыл бұрын
people spent their time creating this textbook so it is normal to pay for it. It is still better than learning a language from scratch by only listenning to native people. Theorically you can learn everything by yourself but what you're buying is not knowledge, it is the time to learn the knowledge that can be reduced by buying the book
@user-hf6jm4tv2v3 жыл бұрын
If you need a little bit of aid but not from textbooks as they do view languages such as japanese as if it's a European language when it's far, far from any sort of european language in reality but from independent sources that actually understand what the Japanese language is structurally then it's in option but even this particular independent source I mentioned also says that you need to be immersed in the language, watch things that you enjoy in the language in order to get something out of it, they take modern day knowledge into account. Cure dolly is the great source I mentioned as it actually helpful, say if you're mind cannot absorb the language particularly as consistently as people who can understand 20% of the language then after a second viewing end up understanding up to 30-40% afterwards, basically they have an approach for those with a lower tolerance to ambiguity though if you particularly do have a high tolerance for ambiguity and that it's working for you then they say continue on with what you're doing as that is actually working well for you. A "whatever size fits you the best" kind of line of thought.
@alaskawoolf37373 жыл бұрын
You don't need to pay for knowledge if you have internet. Somewhere, somebody is sharing it for free. Just look in the right places.
@X33Ultras0und3 жыл бұрын
@@alaskawoolf3737 You are right. Only thing is, those who have more money (the ones you pay for) take all the attention and Google / YT search space. So it is really difficult.
@temar_tinez3 жыл бұрын
Dude your ideas where in my brain but I couldn't put them into words. This is exactly what I am going through. I'm studying Japanese and found the interactions with native speakers helped me more with actual vocabulary and the way to use them than just memorizing them from the course. Cheers
@atJamie6 жыл бұрын
Now I can justify my Netflix binges as studying sessions. Oh hell yeah.
@WhatIveLearned6 жыл бұрын
You totally can! But... no English subtitles :)
@jayf8726 жыл бұрын
Would you recommend watching anime in japanese with japanese subtitles for learning then? Or would drama/film be better I suppose?
@rauln92736 жыл бұрын
yes but try to see the same chapter many times
@yugom488mmmauser26 жыл бұрын
if we're going by what the video cited, japanese show + japanese subtitles is suggested to be the most effective. however, there will be a point where it become unnecessary.
@nanusantos16966 жыл бұрын
That's literally how i learned English, so i guess you're as justified as you can be
@XIL3GANDIX6 жыл бұрын
This is why i watch anime like a true linguist
@AstraIVagabond6 жыл бұрын
This is unironically what I'm planning to do now, though. (Slice-of-life will probably work best, obviously, since I'm not trying to learn to become a galactic mech hero just yet.) How did KZbin know I needed this video??
@asdfgoogle6 жыл бұрын
How is that? In Japanese language with Japanese subtitles?
@user-dw2yp6jl8s6 жыл бұрын
@@asdfgoogle , Romaji and/or hiragana subtitles 🤔
@justwow19156 жыл бұрын
Because of this video I realized I actually knew a lot of phrases from anime.
@jimmyd.64316 жыл бұрын
+Just Wow same
@fire68894 жыл бұрын
Had me in the first half, not gonna lie. He genuinely made me believe that his mother had forced him to go through verbs, nouns and other such stuff when he was a child.
@rockinggirl06104 жыл бұрын
Lolll
@Mateus.0074 жыл бұрын
LMAO.
@fyradur3 жыл бұрын
It's so cringe when some language learners say things like "you can't learn Japanese by just watching anime", but they don't realise that most of us non-native speakers of English in the comment section acquired it by just watching Cartoons and KZbin. (the reason why most weebs don't know Japanese is because L1 subtitles completely hinders language acquisition)
@sazukegu3 жыл бұрын
And English is super easy too.
@t.ist6663 жыл бұрын
@@sazukegu Easy to learn, hard to master.
@Krasses3 жыл бұрын
Some might be able to do it. I didn't learn through anime but I learned it through dramas and a shitload of anki jpod101 and stacks of A4 paper writing characters every single day. You might be able to learn phrases and repeated words in anime but for the grammar things? Yeah no. Listening is one thing, forming sentences in your head is another thing
@fyradur3 жыл бұрын
@@Krasses Read the referenced studies in the literature by professor Stephen Krashen. Grammar drilling does not help one in the path to fluent comprehension. Hundreds of hours of comprehensible input is the only path to true fluent comprehension. "I before e, except after c" is not a rule, it is a pattern. You can only learn patterns and their exceptions from examples. I know it sounds unitiutive that just mindlessly consuming content leads anywhere, but it is supported by the literature and I can anecdotally confirm this as a non-native speaker of English.
@Krasses3 жыл бұрын
@@fyradur English is not my native either. Japanese is probably my 4th. But yeah I'll look into the guy
@mitchki5 жыл бұрын
I tried really, REALLY hard to get my Japanese coworkers to apply some of Krashen's ideas because I discovered him back when I was a student, used those ideas for myself and my skills noticeably improved where my teachers were surprised how much better I became at speaking than my classmates. It's input, folks. We all learn by input, not 'repeat after me' garbage. Spoiler alert; none of my Japanese coworkers believed me until I convinced them to let me do a "club" with students who wanted to improve their English and I did my own comprehensible input-based classes. Of course, THOSE kids saw improvements across the board in English. My coworkers begrudgingly said "Ok, I guess it works... but we still need to teach based on the college entrance exams, so we can't use it in REAL classes." The absolute state of Japanese English education, folks.
@RhysMcGoldrick944 жыл бұрын
This ^^ :( I feel the same way
@laur-unstagenameactuallyca15874 жыл бұрын
wtf...
@PeterKoperdan4 жыл бұрын
'repeat after me' is a form of input. Its usefulness depends on many factors.
@abcxyz46534 жыл бұрын
You can get input AND study to speed up the process. It’s not one or the other........
@aimexoxo29334 жыл бұрын
Just like korean english education hahahaha
@ruvik25084 жыл бұрын
"Das ist meine Hand. Verstehen sie das? Hand?" Me who is German: Aber natürlich!
@B9nji4 жыл бұрын
It’s kinda weird how i can’t speak german at all, but i understood what you said easily? Lol
@user-nf4qd8wr1u3 жыл бұрын
@asdf yea i understood that too and the only germanic language that i speak is english (not super fluent) that is different than the other germanic ones i think that is a great example of the comprehensible input
@delphio46693 жыл бұрын
Same but I'm a Swede.
@user-cd4bx6uq1y3 жыл бұрын
I can understand german context, but our teacher teaches the words in a very dump way....... always hated german since fifth grade....... it's a cool language though
@erex98753 жыл бұрын
@@B9nji how did you understand I have no clue what he's saying.
@leoniecarolin15384 жыл бұрын
And then there's me: I'm learning korean I dreamed something in korean And I don't have a clue what that meant😂
@gabic61744 жыл бұрын
i feel you lol
@angrydoodle89194 жыл бұрын
You lucky ones !
@glitterfae60534 жыл бұрын
it happened to me with Portuguese, I understood in the dream but woke up like ? I didn't know I knew how to say that, lmao
@lauragg91214 жыл бұрын
Sameeeee
@renkun994 жыл бұрын
I had a dream in Spanish once. I also didn't know what it meant either lol
@dl56412 жыл бұрын
Holy crap, I already speak Japanese but that example between just having text and a spoken sample vs. having basically a step-by-step demonstration of what you are referring to is night and day! I can definitely see where that is super helpful in acquiring a language at any point in fluency.
@AwesomeCrabman5 жыл бұрын
I came here to improve my English, now I've learned some Japanese. Ringo tabaru.
@ravenclaw12285 жыл бұрын
Ringo o taberu
@lieutenantgonads5 жыл бұрын
@@ravenclaw1228 oshiri kudasai
@janetdoon22474 жыл бұрын
@@lieutenantgonads that is hilarious!! :-)
@proyagchakraborty15254 жыл бұрын
@@lieutenantgonads nani?!
@bleack87014 жыл бұрын
@@lieutenantgonads den - matte....setsu!
@halls48494 жыл бұрын
Everyone laughs when I tell them that minecraft taught me a big part of the vocabulary I can use now
@Redcloudsrocks4 жыл бұрын
pokémon blue for game boy taught me
@heckinmemes64304 жыл бұрын
"Hnnnnn"
@stepa95954 жыл бұрын
same
@33blue4 жыл бұрын
The input from factions servers wasn't that useful to learn communicative language lol
@Frahppei4 жыл бұрын
mine was barney
@aykay78285 жыл бұрын
Ten years ago, I was in a car accident. Hence, my catastrophic massive stroke which fork up my oral speaking and written spelling. I relearned the English language. I was a trilingual speaker and reading in French and Hebrew. My aphasia and apraxia gotten in the way of my oral speaking. And yet, I started out with no speech and began to talk with a toddler language. Missing words at all. I do mixing up the phases or placing the noun where the verb should be. Lately, within weeks, I began to talk like I used to do, before my stroke.
@patricioiglesias53465 жыл бұрын
Did you forget all of your French and Hebrew?
@Brillemeister5 жыл бұрын
You're doing well now, all things considered! I even see an adverb in there (lately). My aunt has had several strokes in the last few years, and for a while she could barely talk. Now she's speaking in full sentences.
@sincereexistentialist41005 жыл бұрын
That’s horrible to hear man, I do hope you become trilingual again dude.
@busteraycan5 жыл бұрын
are you considered lucky to only lose the information about languages in your brain instead of the ability to do something else?
@elizabethmonroe2290 Жыл бұрын
The most powerful learning ive done as I start learning Japanese, is to pick the words i learn from the media i enjoy. I take a word from a song i like, look up it's meaning, bonus points if i can find where someone broke the word down to it's individual ideas that explain why a word means what it means. From that point on, that word acts like hook at the end of a fishing line, where if im zoned out, it grabs my attention and my mind translates, or at least makes it's best effort to translate, it without needing to intentionally, and manually, translate it. I find that this helps me to learn the word as it's own word, rather than as a translation to an english word i know, though ive also spent time intentionally learning the very few words i do know in a way that tries to avoid translations, and just links the word to the 'feeling', object, or meaning of the word. Now, when i hear one of those words, my mind doesnt translate it automatically, yet i can "sense" the meaning of the word in the same way as i just know what words mean in my native language (albeit, the mental connections feel much much weaker than i have with those of my native language) What I plan to do is learn a few words a day, especially those that pop up in songs and when i zone out to music, i just focus on keeping up with the speaker, making sure i hear each mora without focusing too much on any words i recognize, then working on comprehension overtime while keeping up
@SapphFire5 жыл бұрын
Another technique you can try out is: 1. Watch a movie or an episode of a series with subtitles on for a language you're fluent in 2. Watch it again later with the subtitles and audio track in the language you want to learn If the time between those is great enough you won't exactly remember what anyone is saying but you'll have more context which helps your brain understand the new language better. Of course only do this with movies that you feel like watching again. If you bore yourself out you wont pay as much attention to the language.
@RayZin4 жыл бұрын
My favorite part is that I can’t understand this comment. My brain stopped working
@Dankschon4 жыл бұрын
@@RayZin Just watch a movie you like and then watch again with the subtitles from the language you want to learn.
@yunusseven4 жыл бұрын
I was just looking for German movies I could watch with German subtitles when I saw your comment. Makes a lot of sense to me but I can't seem find any German movies with perfect German subtitles (not those simplified subtitles for the hearing impaired). Anybody have any suggestions? Thanks.
@calspencer58624 жыл бұрын
I do this with Ghibli! I used to watch the movies in english dub as a kid a lot so I already know the general context and then just re-watch in japanese with corresponding captions :) It's really fun
@bonvabriones4 жыл бұрын
That's exactly how I finally learned English. Years and years of school classes didn't make the cut.
@serpentscorpio98936 жыл бұрын
I and many other non-native English speakers of my generation learned English primarily from video games as kids (we had no choice since most games were only in English). Of course we had English classes at school, but the gaming population was always miles better than those who didn't play games.
@KabooM10676 жыл бұрын
Yes. Completely agreed. Games and online gaming communities were my biggest source of English input as a kid. Even though the native speakers weren't a majority. Most came from Europe and spoke English as a second language but still spoke it near fluently. Especially Swedish people. Idk why but whenever I met a Swede in a game he would have perfect writing and speaking that you'd have a hard time figuring out he wasn't a native, no sign of an accent whatsoever.
@johnmcclane44306 жыл бұрын
Yea, that and youtube have teached me how to speak english fluently.
@emmatessier6006 жыл бұрын
*taught - ironic mistake there brett (though you said fluent not without errors)
@pentrubarbati6 жыл бұрын
I've learned from cartoons witch were in English sadly now are translated in my country language = dumber people sadly ....
@emmatessier6006 жыл бұрын
They changed it? Which country?
@dudusampaioo4 жыл бұрын
I'm brazillian and I have been learning how to speak english since 2019 One of my main methods to do so is to watch english videos... I think it's working...
@clmoderno50084 жыл бұрын
Im learning english since I started to play games that dont have portuguese subtitles
@MrGeencie4 жыл бұрын
Watch "Amazing Facts" videos by Doug Batchelor or Joe Crews! You will learn Bible and English!
@giotavares4 жыл бұрын
eu aprendi cantando let it go do frozen até que eu soubesse tudo oq significava ;-; bons tempos
@0terrors13 жыл бұрын
Yea it's working
@jalk123 жыл бұрын
Worked for me together with google translator
@TrollMcLolTheFirst Жыл бұрын
You’ve described Hermeneutics, the process of analyzing ‘part’ to apprehend the ‘whole’. Current worldview(the whole)-> event or text raises the need for the meaning of said event or text(the part)->the need for meaning is projected through actions or speech->engaging with the part elicits feedback, which challenges our understanding of the whole.->challenge triggers reflection, reinterpretation and greater understanding->cycle continues.
@Brutaltronics6 жыл бұрын
I learned English through memes. Yes I yeet
@risingstars34786 жыл бұрын
Brutaltronics lol wut
@Hentai_Master_696 жыл бұрын
I learned english through youtube and cartoons. Thus i can't speak it properly, but most of the times i can understand it.
@brandonwong81696 жыл бұрын
Haha
@ixalaz45366 жыл бұрын
Me too
@Manie2306 жыл бұрын
I learned English through English KZbin videos. One day I just started watching English videos even though I only knew the basic stuff that you learn in school. Now I often use words in the right context but can’t translate them in German( german is my native language.) And in my class I am know as the dictionary. So watching native speakers is the best learning method in my opinion. But my teachers always said that I have a talent for learning languages.
@Chan98Yuki6 жыл бұрын
I'm majoring in Japanese. Before going to university, I've learnt Japanese through acquisition (watching films, listening to music) for about 5 years or so. To use the language in daily situation may be easy, but to understand big words or concepts like economy or anatomy is a whole different thing. When I couldn't understand too many words in the video I'm watching, I started to feel bored and switch on subtitles. Also, after 5 years of playing around, I finally went to a proper Japanese class. Only then did I realize that the words I unconsciously learnt in 5 years can be learnt in just 1 semester. My classmates, who didn't interact with Japanese before, are now at the same level as I am. They might have been struggling at first, but with their diligence, they did manage to make progress. The thing I want to point out is that learning a language through acquisition may sound simple, but it requires time and effort much like any other learning methods. In fact, it even takes more time. So if one is under time pressure, say an upcoming exam, they'd better study really hard for it rather than wasting time on watching films. Learning languages through movies and sorts should only be supplementary, whereas text books should still remain compulsory.
@barszczpop6 жыл бұрын
Thank you, I've been hoping to see such a comment. Even though I agree that surrounding yourself with the language is really helpful, the message the video brought across seemed a bit oversimplified. The various comments saying "Neat! Now I only need to watch Japanese tv series!" show what I'm talking about.
@LinkinGarden6 жыл бұрын
The best way to learn a language is through acquisition and actively studying it at the same time.
@burritobowl01905 жыл бұрын
All I can say is kansei dorifto
@Leadvest5 жыл бұрын
KZbin videos in general, have to show reductive viewpoint to be valuable. Sometimes like in this case they can be very one sided. The alternative is 4h videos only appealing to small audiences. Long all encompassing statements kill discussions. The benefit of a youtube video is presenting an argument in a concise accessible way. Creating opportunity for social interaction, and sharing of viewpoints. Besides that you should always consider past experiences, and ask questions, when consuming media. You can't just blindly internalize, and/or parrot things you heard in a video one time. This entire discussion is much more elegantly summed up by the top comment on the video. Obviously it's still going to take actual work to learn a language.
@ryanw85095 жыл бұрын
Thank you. The truth is, everyone wants to believe that we can learn with out working "just like babies" . "You don't have to study, just watch anime!" but in fact, if you put in work, you will make progress much faster.
@Blondesax6 жыл бұрын
Haha! "I learned English through magic, like every other baby." Perfect.
@CaptainAMAZINGGG5 жыл бұрын
Literally same tho.
@jakistam10005 жыл бұрын
Yeah, this suggests that every baby learns English. I didn't.
@yvonnesaldana73475 жыл бұрын
Krzysztof Szyszka Same. I began learning it when I was in Elementary school.
@Blondesax5 жыл бұрын
GalacticalYvonneGaming Yeah, I gotcha. I’m sure that’s not what he meant to imply, though.
@YoutubeViral775 жыл бұрын
Omg! Mr. Lockwood I really miss you playing the piano for our chorus class.
@gierasole Жыл бұрын
so here's something i've learned. My best friend through my school life was from Colombia, living in Canada. He spoke spanish with his mom at home around me almost all the time, and i've learned that I am almost fluent now through minimal learning as an adult because I'm already used to how the language sounds already (and I also just retained a lot of what I heard)
@redsea12343 жыл бұрын
This is by far THE BEST video I have seen on language acquisition. Someone that finally gets how things are meant to be learned.
@Reforming_LL3 жыл бұрын
True
@dannyd43395 жыл бұрын
Dude I understood like 20% of what you said the first time thanks to anime lol. But with visual aid I understood almost 92% of everything said. That's amazing.
@Cromartie3 жыл бұрын
Definitely makes me rethink only using books for most of my Korean learning
@rv7w6023 жыл бұрын
Books should definitely be the number 1 thing to rely on but you should hundred percent use other things with it
@RandomUserX993 жыл бұрын
you should start watching K-drama and movies with Korean subtitle.
@xenioralad31593 жыл бұрын
@@rv7w602 disagree lol u need to listen and study native audio content to train your ears
@adiellaishere3 жыл бұрын
@@RandomUserX99 I can speak intermediate korean from that alone
@TerraMarie343 жыл бұрын
I can’t speak an ounce of Korean and only learned how to pronounce and write the Korean alphabet, but watching Korean dramas with even English subtitles has gotten me really far. I’ve never tried without English subtitles though. I will be taking that advice from this video for sure!
@avgchoobafan Жыл бұрын
I can confidently say that this is one of the most time consuming but more solid ways to learn a new language. Just look at me, I studied Tourism in school but never got past the barrier of giving directions and receiving basic orders from customers, but at some point you just 'know' the language you want to learn and the more you consume from it you're just getting better at it. I'm a native Spanish speaker but I can say I can interact with pretty much anyone who speaks English, although my pronunciation is not the best, in text at least I think I'm indistinguishable from a native speaker, almost everything self taught, or better said, learned through comprehensible input.
@commoners4655 Жыл бұрын
yeah same goes for me!
@komurohokyoji91695 жыл бұрын
I learned English just by watching stuff and playing games in English, even without subs or translation, and learning guided by my curiosity and talking with people online I am just as fluent in English as I am in Spanish. I didn't even notice it.
@funkyrhcpcat78495 жыл бұрын
Jennifer Mabel i think it does not work with an hard learning language like german or france :/
@pmmeurcatpics5 жыл бұрын
@@funkyrhcpcat7849 but German isn't hard learning language at all
@funkyrhcpcat78495 жыл бұрын
Угур Алекперов I bet you are a native german speaker haha
@samuelis34555 жыл бұрын
@@funkyrhcpcat7849 French and German aren't hard to learn
@addalang71645 жыл бұрын
i did the same with german
@taylarobinson79996 жыл бұрын
I’ve actually experienced this without knowing this was a thing! Before going to Cuba, I got into the habit of constantly listening to Spanish music-no other forms of practicing Spanish. My Spanish was BASIC. When I got to Cuba, I was blown away by how much I understood! I could follow a conversation and was constantly hearing phrases I had heard in the songs. Though I was slow to speak in the beginning, I started listening to the accent and literally just copying phrases I’d heard. It ended up with me convincing some other tourists I was Cuban by speaking “Cuban” Spanish with them. Amazing how this works.
@anthonyhernandez42666 жыл бұрын
Could you give a bit of detail about how you "studied". Like did you hear a phrase in a song and then say it out loud or something?
@yondercode49836 жыл бұрын
wow interesting! i can recite despacito fluently so.. brb going to cuba and pretend as a native
@juliamaria38076 жыл бұрын
Maybe sing along?
@compedium6 жыл бұрын
Same. I learned a ton of Spanish via listening to Carlos Vives and Julieta Venegas
@cavemann_6 жыл бұрын
@@DevonMiniFlicks He didn't. He just heard the same/similar words in use in everyday life. Thus he was able to connect the dots well enough to somewhat understand, which led to understanding the language even better later on.
@BlueDragon15044 жыл бұрын
Alternate title: "Why learning languages in school is useless."
@alexhjc84 жыл бұрын
not entirely useless
@BlueDragon15044 жыл бұрын
@@alexhjc8 Entirely useless
@alexhjc84 жыл бұрын
@@BlueDragon1504 Hmm maybe for you, not for me. I learned some German in school and I'm grateful.
@josefmarksteiner99544 жыл бұрын
@@alexhjc8 Hallo. Wie gut sprichst du deutsch?
@alexhjc84 жыл бұрын
@@josefmarksteiner9954 Hallo. Ich spreche Deutsch nicht so gut, aber ich (understand some basics).
@ComprehensibleMandarin2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for spreading the word on the benefits of learning a language through comprehensible input! We are so used to learning in a classroom environment that many people believe natural acquisition, and picking up meaning through context, are literally impossible for adults. It's great that so many people have seen this video on some of the science, & examples of its effectiveness.
@rosabowen7316 жыл бұрын
My favourite way to learn French is to find versions of things I'm familiar with in English: Disney songs, playing and watching Pokémon, and such.
@kallht20795 жыл бұрын
Ouais! Pokemon en français est super. Ça m'a beaucoup aidé:)
@Dynia2985 жыл бұрын
It's actually funny how learning a language in a formalized manner can impede the abilities of a person who learned it through "assimilation" (can't find a better word for it). My English teacher once had my whole class memorize all of the different rules that apply when using tenses in English (we didn't have to be able to use them, we just had to explain when and how to use them), in short it was a prime example of "theory over practice". Having learned all of it, it literally made me self conscious in the worst kind of way. I couldn't formulate sentences fluidly, because my mind was like "Oh, am I doing this correctly. Does it comply to the rules that I've learned", whilst before that I did not have such problems.
@marla04125 жыл бұрын
omg this also happened to me! honestly i advise you to try and forget all of it again, it is muuch better to use tenses naturally. and i also found that i make less mistakes that way :)
@ahall98395 жыл бұрын
You couldn't formulate sentences fluidly because you just learned the rules. It's just a starting point. Of course you are going to be self conscious, that is your error correcting mechanism, you need to continue listening/using the rules so that they become natural. You've somehow equated learning the rules of a language as getting worse at the language, which just isn't true. It gave you a head start. It was the parent lifting you onto your feet, and you decided it didn't help since you fell down after your first step. You still need to put in the work on your end.
@hampTC5 жыл бұрын
@@ahall9839 you don't need to know those rules in the first place
@videoguy6405 жыл бұрын
@@ahall9839 Their English seems perfectly fine now
@inafridge85735 жыл бұрын
Well eventually the new rules will come naturally for you and eventually the differences in meaning that they offer will become intuitive for you. The difficulty is only temporary. Although it's much easier to learn these more subtle rules when you learned the bulk of the language in an intuitive way
@OlivioSarikas5 жыл бұрын
"How many parents give their children a deck of flash cards?" - All of them! You never noticed all the child books, toys and paint books that have different versions of A is for Apple in them - those are all Flash Cards....
@unni58095 жыл бұрын
well yes, but actually no - those are more for learning the alphabet
@silentj6244 жыл бұрын
not the same. context also matters
@lukes36674 жыл бұрын
@@unni5809 still gives some base vocabulary even if it's just foods and animals
@unni58094 жыл бұрын
@@lukes3667 yes but the main point of it is to learn the alphabet and to read, you wouldn't need that as an adult learning a language unless it uses an alphabet that's completely different than the one you're used to.
@lukes36674 жыл бұрын
@@unni5809 "unless it uses an alphabet that's completley different than you're used to" ... you must be slavic.
@e-genieclimatique Жыл бұрын
in brief: This video discusses language learning and highlights four key points that are important for acquiring a new language efficiently: 1-Acquiring language through context 2-Maximizing input 3-Practicing listening and pronunciation simultaneously 4-Ensuring a positive learning experience The video emphasizes the concept of comprehensible input, which means understanding messages through context rather than explicit explanations. To acquire a language effectively, it is crucial to expose oneself to a lot of content in the target language, such as media, books, or conversations. Deliberate learning can trigger language acquisition when combined with context. Watching television without subtitles can be helpful, as a study showed that watching a show in the target language with subtitles in the same language resulted in a 17% improvement in language ability. The video also highlights the technique called "shadowing," which involves mimicking native speakers' pronunciation and intonation to improve one's own pronunciation and ability to recognize phonemes in natural language.
@cutiepiedaina4 жыл бұрын
I'm an ESL teacher and my whole life revolves around comprehensible input!
@fouronetwo8134 жыл бұрын
Really? See, I didn't think you could teach that. I thought that was something you were born with. What am I thinking right now?
@edwardespinoza87494 жыл бұрын
Me too
@inductive78094 жыл бұрын
My first language is Arabic and I learned English 'magically' through Roblox
@j4yla9594 жыл бұрын
wow! that’s interesting, my first language is english. but i grew up watching korean dramas, with subtitles. since i’ve been watching them more that half my life since i was 7, i’ve learned fragments. i can’t speak the language enough to form a sentence, but i can understand it on a basis of conversation.
@j4yla9593 жыл бұрын
MsSunhappy you’re right, and i can’t believe i never realized that. i’ll try it, thank you :)
@headempty26653 жыл бұрын
This is actually me
@kimjihyun91533 жыл бұрын
could you tell me what it is?
@comradecameron37263 жыл бұрын
Such skill.
@Zeranon6 жыл бұрын
This is actually how i learned English as a german. I started watching a lot of english vids and movies several years ago, which pulled me ahead in school in comparison to my classmates. Now I have the best english graduation in my class
@WhatIveLearned6 жыл бұрын
+Ludwig Baden That's great! I bet you had a lot more fun learning English too.
@keepXonXrockin6 жыл бұрын
Same. My mum got me the newest Harry Potter in English one year, and I was annoyed at first, but as I read, it wasn't as difficult as I thought and basically kick-started a consumption spree of English language media that never ended. Don't think I've gone a day without using English in at least 12 or 15 years.
@antodovodja52446 жыл бұрын
Same here, my native language is Croatian though I was born in Austria where I picked up German in preschool, and throughout the years I have been interested in sports, programming and science and have found waaaaayyy more English content on all those topics and that's how i learned it, I'm currently 15 years old, and now trying to learn Italian through KZbin too and I'm learning latin at school lol.
@MuttFitness6 жыл бұрын
To a german, isn't english like a dumbed down deutsch? Except for the french vocabulary, I'd think a german could learn english in a month.
@Zeutomehr6 жыл бұрын
Mutt Fitness not really. while yes, both of them are germanic languages, they diverged over a thousand years ago and are wildly different today. i don't really know how you'd come to that "dumbed down" conclusion. they certainly are different languages, but that's it. neither better nor worse
@amarug2 жыл бұрын
I think the importance of "input" can't be overstated, except perhaps by saying "it's ALL input". If you don't also start practicing from the start, you will miss out on organically developing the "synthesis" part of the language, practicing the sounds and intonations that are most likely different, and possibly most importantly, you overcome that "barrier" it takes to put yourself out there and sound terrible, early on. I tried the all-input method with Spanish and sure, I do understand it almost perfectly, but I cannot speak much at all and since the divergence between understanding and speaking has evolved so far, I lost all motivation and abandoned the study. Later I started Japanese and told myself to keep up the input as high as possible but additionally, I decided that I will try and practice using the first three words that I learned already in "real life" and searched for language exchange partners. The thing is, if you don't practice speaking the language from the start, the "barrier" to start speaking just grows and grows, because you have a lot of "potential sentences" that you might be able to squeeze out somehow, but the feedback on how your newly acquired language lands on others (best with natives) is completely missing. Then you get overwhelmed and stressed and you can't talk at all. If you start practicing crappy sentences with an exchange partner early on, you know how your sentences "land" (are they even understood etc). Building up this experience is of utmost importance. The advice I have heard a few times now, esp. from MattvsJapan to not speak the language for like 2 years at all, is one of the most bizarre language-learning "tips" I have ever heard. Speaking of the Japanese learning community, I think people like Matt and also Dogen (unintentionally) have inflicted tremendous damage by somehow normalizing the twisted idea of "you need to sound exactly like a native or you can't even be considered speaking the language". The vast majority of people will never have the time to tank hours of their lives every day for a decade or more dedicated to learning a language as these guys have done. Most of us will just want to communicate and have some fun with it or even have functional use of it during travel, business etc. Many (including myself at the start) can get insecure and demotivated by this.
@firstlast-wg2on Жыл бұрын
Completely agreed, and I don’t understand how he can say it’s not necessary when he himself was learning Japanese, which has pitch-based pronunciation (at times)… I feel as though I remember as a kid first learning language, and we just pronounced the alphabet, you know? And in any language, it’s so important to create those utter basics, same goes for music, another form of language. You learn the notes, the basic rhythms, maybe build into the scales, subdivided rhythms and from there building chords and polyrhythms, etc.
@elishevabarenbaum5319 Жыл бұрын
Agree. You're building up a perfectionist psychological barrier which becomes harder to overcome as the gap between your aural and oral abilities grows.
@sidney98844 жыл бұрын
I’ve never understood how it was possible for immigrants like my grandparents to come to America from their home country and learn the language during their first year of school without formal teaching, because all I’ve ever known is formal teaching to learn a new language. This video is wonderful and gives a GREAT perspective.
@x-pilot61803 жыл бұрын
Rules 1) acquire through context 2) maximize input 3) Listen + pronounce 4) positive learning experience Examples 1) watching movies 2) with subtitles of the target language 3) shadowing: repeating. First word(s) then sentence(s) and finally whole text with the right intonation
@sv7073 Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@zahirooon Жыл бұрын
great job!
@Pintyp965 жыл бұрын
I love the fact that you made more sense in 14 minutes and actually made me learn more about language learning than my actual language professor in the last 15 months.
@agalva100 Жыл бұрын
I've tried to learn german for a while now. Maybe 8-9 years. It's an on and off thing for me. I always get discouraged because in classes the focus on grammar is too much and German grammar is a tough one. But lately I've seen improvements by attending a class where there's more to it than grammar. We listen, we speak and we focus on situations. True, I still need to review grammar but I feel a lot less pressure because I know it's okay if I make a mistake.