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From your thumbnail I thought you were Michelle C. Smith. "She does lightsaber combat choreography AND she knows multiple languages!? This woman's AMAZING!"

You are very beautiful ❤️❤️

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Some people say that speaking to your child in your second language (if you're not a native speaker) will damage their language acquisition. What is your opinion?

Eichhörnchen 🐿️ (niemiecki)

Thanks a lot. Your English suits me very well. I have b1 level of English, and I find out your channel tremendously attract for improving my listening skills.

Thank you so much for this! It really affirmed what I've been doing. My native language is English; I am fluent in French, Spanish, and Italian, and have passive Catalan; I have studied a little bit of Danish, Norwegian, and Korean, for travel and related purposes, and am currently working hard on German and a little bit less hard on Dutch. What you said about Polish was of particular interest to me; obviously, your fluent Russian helped you to quickly learn Polish, in a generally more informal way. That is basically what happened for me with Spanish, because I already spoke fluent French and Italian before starting Spanish. It's wonderful to study a language closely related to one that one already speaks; one starts with a huge advantage, and it's easier to study a closely related language more informally. You sound great in all your languages--thank you!

Mem i want to give speaking test to native Speaker so if u take my speaking test it will be helpful for me

Thank you for sharing your story and experience. I am soon to have a child and we will become a trilingual family as well (my mother tongue is Russian, my partner's is Finnish, we speak English amongst each other and also live in Finland. Both of us know Russian and Finnish to a some degree to communicate between each other and there's a constant effort to become more fluent in each other's mother tongue) I have had never seriously thought that I will become the parent who's child will potentially grow more distant as Finnish becomes their dominant language and I am afraid to loose this connection to be honest. There are many perks to speak Russian fluently in this country and I'm happy that materials in this language are more widely available here. Still the fear persists. But your video was very encouraging, I wish you and your family all the best!

What are your thoughts on kids ‘mixing and matching’ multiple languages in a single sentence? Does it ever happen with your child and do you explicitly correct your child when that happens? Or just trust the kids will sort it out in time given they are regularly exposed to quality samples from all languages they are in contact with?

That’s so nice! Congratulations for the video! My boyfriend and I are considering moving to the US and having kids there. He’s Mexican, I’m Brazilian, in the US, so it’s three languages as well. I can’t wait to start this language journey! Congratulation on yours!

Oh polish!! I was in krakow a few years ago and loved it. Do you still teach polish?

I've been trying this for years, but my children will always answer me in their mother tongue. The problem is that I speak their language almost like a second mother tongue, I don't even notice when I switch back. It is so frustrating.

Very interesting!

She says motivation, motivation, motivation, which is the primary factor, I agree. She speaks vaguely of immersive environment and active vs passive. From my experience, reading a book (not a graded reader or textbook) until you can read at near normal speed while recognising (i.e., knowing) all the words will give good active results. She skips the rest of the aspects that influence the chance of success.

Nice video 👍

Great video😊👏

I'm having the same challenge learning Thai.... I speak English, French and Spanish, but am struggling with Thai. I'm impressed you spent 10 years trying to learn Esperanto! Maybe you can do another video talking about when you know it's time to abandon a language? I'm curious when you realized that you should quit and cut your losses. By the way, I think Duolingo has so much potential but in its present iteration is an abomination.

Nice technique. I will try it for sure.

Thank you for sharing. I've also learned Esperanto in Sydney, Australia, and I felt the same way you did. It wasn't real and the people who spoke it belonged to the 'Save the World' intelligentsia so you had to abide by their correct opinions. Overall the speakers had a good heart, but the environment was boring. It was like a 'political party' where you had to have the same mindset! Please tell me something, how did you master the stress on Russian words? Polish is very regular, but the stress on Russian words changes all the time. I find it so confusing...

I am native Finn. But I do not operate a single word of Finn. The same time I can speak good Polish

maybe try dutch huh? i'm picking up my lithuanian language right now i was born there and spoke the language when i was young but have forgotten it now living in the netherlands!

Shortly after starting to date my wife, when I was working in her hometown here in Korea, one late evening we were walking together taking her back to her place. She pointed at this one sign for some closed up business asking me to read what the English said, since they were words she didn't recognize. I looked at it confused, because it was clearly not English, but looked like a mixture of words that seemed vaguely German and others vaguely Spanish, but I could tell that it said that it was a medical clinic for foreigners. After Googling for a minute, I figured out that the sign had been in Esperanto. Presumably, prior to the clinic shutting down, the doctor who ran it had been under the impression that because Esperanto is the "international language" he should name the place that way.

Thank you so much for your video and your insights! I only just now realised how important it also is to allow myself to say that some languages I tried to study in the past simply didn't "click" with me (at least at that point in my life) and that is okay. It also gives me some more motivation to further increase my French active language skills because they have been lacking so far :) Oh and regarding your own experience with German (I suppose this also applies to my own language attempts), I suppose even if it wasnt the right setting in the past and didn't "click" I suppose this leaves the possibility open to the future, should the circumstances ever change. :) (Als Deutsche freut es mich natürlich immer, wenn sich jemand dazu entscheidet, meine Muttersprache zu lernen. Aber ich weiß auch, wie unglaublich kompliziert und frustrierend die Sprache sein kann (und dass sie für andere Muttersprachler meist sehr "hart" klingt) und kann somit vollkommen verstehen, dass die Sprache nicht jedermanns Fall ist. Also egal welche Sprache du dir aussuchst weiter zu lernen, ich wünsche dir ganz viel Erfolg!)

Если нет долгосрочной цели, то вероятнее всего человек бросит учить язык, и это относиться не только к изучению языков, а всех аспектов жизни.

100% correct about passive learning leading nowhere, although I don't speak when I train, I write. Written language is far greater than spoken language.

In the cog menu under captions autotranslate are sixteen languages to read script on screen for keeping the brain sharp 🎉😊

You're totally right when you said about studying languages only with passive skills! I'm Brazilian and I have a good English level, but I learned it with this traditional method in school and it wasn't so interesting to me. But in November 2023 I started to learn French by myself with a method that works for me. It's always a pleasure to learn new words and expressions in French and, during the conversation with natives on the internet, I utilise them and it's so rewarding

great video thank you!

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Pronunciation is a breeze in learning Finnish it’s the grammatical cases that gives you a hard time.

The biggest obstacle to a language is not the Pronunciation, it is the hearing. 👂

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That is a really good Polish. Your voice sounds natural and the way You speak, words You use and Your word order sounds native. When listening I never once thought That You are translating a sentence or using a word from Your native language to Polish. It was perfection. You could easily apply to be a spy!

Hyvä suunnitelma. Itselläni on aina metatyöpäivä ennen 30 päivän haasteita, eli kirjoitustarvikkeiden hankkimista, työtilan järjestelyä, kirjojen lainaamista tai täällä YouYubessa soittolistojen täydentämistä. Muita 30 päivän haasteita joita olen viennyt läpi: Ruoskan punominen, moottorisahan perusteiden opiskelu, spagaatti, 30 uuden sävelasteikon opettelu kitaralla ja pianolla, jne.

Yee, let’s do it! 🎉💪🏻

If you are interested in foreign languages, I think you are already one step closer to being good at it.

How old are you?

You have the most beautiful eyes i have ever seen in my whole life

I started studying German over a year ago. Difficult 😂. But i study almost every day. Now i listen to it a lot and am starting to pock stuff up. Listening for hours at a time helps me most

Sono nuovo qui, il tuo canale è molto bello.. sono poliglotta e mi piacciono molto grazie.. solo dobbiamo parlare una lingua per imparare un saluto..

Nice

Wow its amazing you are very confident that language. By the way i am from India. I am watching your video from Bangalore.

Melkoista! Sujuu sinulta. Kieliin kyllä menee aikaa, joten yhdistelen tiedon kartuttamista ja kielten opiskelua. Nyt treenaan shakkia, joten opiskelen sitä eri kielillä. Sujuvuusjärjestyksessä puhun suomea, japania, englantia, mandariinikiinaa (9000 kirjoitusmerkkiä! Vahva kirjallinen) ruotsia, saksaa ja italiaa. Pystyn hankkimaan tietoa espanjan kielellä, mutta en puhu sitä vielä.

What are your language goals? Also kudos to you for the vid. Got a new subscriber

Your background was too light, my subtitles were also white. So I could not understand what you told in Latvian, Russian or Polish. My English is good and of course Finnish. I'm now not studying languages, but know also German and Swedish. I like when people are interested in them. Used to have course in Spanish, just have forgotten most out of practice.

I am learning British accent, your videos are helping me a lot 😊😊😊😊😍😍😍🥰 thanks ma'am

I am learning English and I enjoy listening to someone talk about their own experiences learning a foreign language.