Well she answered the question right at the beginning of the video: "Over the past few years I have dedicated a significant portion of my time to learning a lot of languages..." I guess the biggest problem I see is that most fellas think they can learn without effort and devotion to what they are trying to achieve.
Sometimes I forget that english is not my mother tongue. I grew up learning it in school, I now watch movies and series in english, of course listen to english music, speak english in uni and at work, read english literature.. but as this is quite common for people of my generation in Germany, I don't see this as something very special. English seems so easy and natural to me, I wished I had this with other languages as well.
Not quite there yet, and hopefully never - I really don't want to lose my mothertongue :-D - but I, too, wish I had the relation with other foreign languages I have with English :-D
I'm Italian, I speak mostly English throughout my days, and it's crazy how I even think in English now, and it's easier to express myself in English sometimes. I also lived in Germany for 3 years, German did NOT come as natural at all, it's such a difficult language. My daughter had a teacher from Spain who couldn't speak English, so we would communicate by mixing Italian, Spanish (both are so similar it was easy enough) and a bit of German :)
@josiadam98 that's actually amazing. My relationship with English is very similar. I think and speak both in my native language (Hindi) and English. So I feel like a true bilingual. All because of the exposure method of learning English instead of a very organised method. I personally think the best way to learn a language is how you learnt your own when you were a child. And you've described pretty well how that is achieved.
“If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” - Wayne Dyer Sharing some love with ya all, have a delightful day
As a Hungarian native speaker, i have to say her Hungarian is fluent which is really impressive, not many foreigners get to this level. Hungarian is a difficult language for english speakers. Yes she makes some grammar mistakes and she does have an accent but she is good enough to make herself understood, so great respect. I am very curious how many hours went into her Hungarian language project.
@@asbest2092 She just studied all her life in English (the official language of South Africa). Were you misled by the fact that Afrikaans is her mother tongue?
OK, so according to you, she is not an English speaker. And if I am pointing out your mistakes, I am shameful. Sorry, in the universe I am living, she speaks English, and from early age she is bilingual. We both know who has a comprehension problem here, don´t we?
To be honest, I don’t want to speak 12 languages. I am not that ambicious. I want to speak 4-5 languages fluently. I am in the middle of that journey. I admire people who can speak more than 2 languages fluently. It requires a lot of work. I started with just 1 language, my native language and I am moving slowly from there.
That is really interesting, I was very shy and insecure too! 😮 I think when you start learning new languages, you realise you can "start over" and it makes your life fuller and you can "live several lives" ❤️ Yeah, to me learning by context is also a lot better, I "hate" learning vocabulary lists, I prefer watching films, listening to music, talking to people... 😄
hey! i agree with you as well. I'm not a polyglot or anywhere close to it, but i love learning languages and that gives me confidence for sure! thank you so much for this comment and all the best in your language journey!
Watching shows and listening to music even helps in gaining accents too. Once I started to learn languages and slowly I saw I can practice and not only retain vast amount of information but also break them and form new sentences as I like, I practically felt we can do anything with our brains. And I think that shyness or introvert nature compells us to create more versions of us and hence newer languages lol😂
That’s funny as true that when you speak other languages, you change your personality. My family says that my voice even changes when I speak Spanish. When I speak Thai, I am totally different. When I speak Polish (my native tongue), different sense of humour and different body language. I need more personalities and I can’t wait to try your method using stories only
Luca Lampariello has a way of describing it. As a prism and the light that hits the prism(the languages) and the different light produced form different angles as the different "personalities". Essentially you're still the same person but just have different side to you through these languages
Same. I am definitey way more charming in english compared to german. It’s easier for me too to express my thoughts and emotions in english. Noticed during the summer too (live on an island so lots of tourists and foreign service workers) that i am way more forward and physical when i am on dates speaking english compared to german 😅
This is really helpful! I’m bilingual in Korean and English, and always wanted to explore other languages as well - knowing that language is a door to the different culture and soul. Can’t imagine the depth and flavor of experience from the polyglot perspective. Very inspiring and challenging. Thank you!!
English is the most important in the western world And Arabic is the most important in the Islamic world, so I highly recommend learning it.. For information, it is the most beautiful language in the world
I learn languages because I had absolutely no self worth I can draw really well and I’ve always been very intellegent but after losing family in highschool and being bullied every day I dropped out it took a hard hit on my self esteem learning languages gave me back my self appreciation i have a sense of fulfillment and accomplishment again I only speak English and mandarin but i spend all my free time studying and I live it languages are my favorite thing once I’ve reached mandarin fluency I will move on to either Spanish Korean or Japanese I haven’t decided yet
I've got a fun book called Essential Korean Root Vocabulary that shows the Chinese roots of sino-Korean words. I love etymology, and learning both Sino and native Korean words is fascinating for me. I started Korean after Chinese, and am eyeing Japanese next. 🤓
That’s so great Learning languages has been my passion since I was about 6 years old, but the problem is I hate sticking to ones language, I love a lot of languages and I want to learn a lot simultaneously but I’m too lazy and I procrastinate so much, so when I see videos of polyglots I just feel like shit 😂
@@Boxxxxxxxxx Not that it should matter to a stranger lol but I actually did take an out of school course for adults that left highschool young and got my diploma at 17 it’s a great option for anyone that regrets leaving
@@Zk-dr7rg I know how you feel that’s why I focus on one language at a time and go into complete immersion mode meaning watching those shows using their social media sites listening to their music and once I’m at an ok level changing my phone settings to that language I even try my hardest to think I’m that languages and when I’m absent mindey listening to things I try to translate them into that language
This. I have add-pi (not adhd) and I am trying to learn lojban and its too hard. One thing I am testing is spending each day 5 minutes trying to learn lojban, after those 2 minutes I have two choices, stop and continue at the next day or continue trying to learn lojban until I say to myself I will quit and continue tomorrow. The trick here is that its just 5 minutes and you can handle it, but at some time (problably, I am starting that techinique now) you will be able to spend more time doing it, and then more and then more. PS: Dont try to learn while at very very late at night, you will be sleepy and even 5 minutes will be too much and you will quit after those 5 minutes not because of boredom but because you are sleepy and wants to sleep.
Lindie is the polyglot that really inspired me to start learning. She's honest and realistic about the hardships of language learning, yet she's so full of positivity about the ability to learn a language. Before I found her channel, I was looking for the "perfect" method to learn a language. After watching her channel, I learned that the method doesn't matter as much as just getting started. So, I got started. Now that I'm in the thick of it, her personal update vidoes are so encouraging to my own studies :) Olly, I really appreciate these Polyglot videos! They are such a great archive of people, methods and success stories. They are really encouraging!
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!
That's so weird that so many polyglots struggled with bullying and not having many friends as a kid - I was the same! I was bullied in school and ended up immersing myself in learning languages (using books from the library because 2000s) as an escape/way to occupy myself. I was never this dedicated but taught myself the basics in quite a few languages and learned the Russian, Greek and Hebrew alphabets around the ages of 12-15. I only speak two languages now and intermediate Spanish but this definitely was my escape as a kid!
I speak 2 fluent languages English and Spanish. Sometimes when I pray, I'll pray totally in Spanish depending on my mood. Other times when I pray, I'll pray totally in English. I'm now learning Portuguese as I plan to move to Portugal in the future. I live in Puerto Rico now and so what I've done is download a Portuguese Radio app and constantly listen to Portuguese Radio. I love it! I repeat the words and sentences I hear. It helps.
I also use radios, they’re super useful imo. What radio are you using for portuguese? I’ve been using franceinfo’s mobile app to great success, if you ever plan on learning french i would totally recommend it
I'm brazilian, my first language is Portuguese but my mother is from Bolivia, so learn the Spanish was natural to me, I speak both Spanish and Portuguese home and also in the internet. Oh, I forgot, English, taught in brazilian schools and universal language of the world and the internet, not gonna say I am fluent, I have a lot of grammar mistakes but I am sure I can survive in a English speaking country. So I think I am trilingual? Btw I am learning French, so I expect to be "Polyglot" soon.
Writing a new journal in a different language everyday is amazing! I absolutely love that! I also think I may try the language stacking with Spanish and Italian 🤔
You can find books, dictionaries. videos that are bi lingual + both languages to use Spanish to teach Italian Italian to teach Spanish. Also, to find reference grammars--- both books + websites Wikipedia,,etc. in 2 languages, to contrast point by point the 2 languages. Note---to, be aware when each language uses different nos of words to mean same meaning (see dictionary, grammar book) Note--- to find each languages unique words---1 word may not be translatable only explainable in the other language. Examples--- English hip ( Adj.), Portuguese language saudade, Chinese yin yang, etc. These need sentences, articles, books, etc. to explain. Buenas suerte!!! Buon fortuna!!!
Watching this again...for me, my story is different...I am an artist, so I view languages an art form. Just like a painting or crochet piece, sculpture etc... It's art. That's why I love languages. Pulls the threads of humanity together.
This entire video absolutely blew my mind! I always thought the best way to learn a new language is through studying words, phrases, moving to a country, or by using Duolingo loool. But the idea of learning a language by living like a native speaker (changing the language in you phone settings, listening to podcast and other things they use on a day to day life totally blew my mind! This is such a simple way of learning, I feel silly for not considering this for myself! So glad to chose to watch this video!
When I study the Korean and Turkish language, I thinks it’s important to study the basic grammar rules. It sort of help you to understand basic sentence structure and suffixes. Once you got that it’s pretty easy road ahead plus memorizing of course the vocabulary
I Adore Lindie, I have learned so much from her, and learned that a lot of her way of studying and learning matches mine. I'm Learning Korean about 4 months in. It's a slow Journey, but I'm loving the Journey. It's also my first foreign language! I'm glad I have now found your channel as well!! ❤❤
learning multiple languages is a matter of character and heart. it's about perseverance, motivation, humility, open-mindedness, courage, creativity, hard work, not giving up, etc
This feeling of searching for one’s identity certainly hits home for me. When I started learning French in Middle School, and later visited France, I felt like I was “Me” for maybe the first time, and finally had found a place of belonging! Paris, especially, seemed like my place in the world. Now I don’t speak French much and don’t travel, but sometimes I do dream in French and if I start to speak it comes flooding back to some degree.
You’ve done a great job in showing us how great Lindie is with her language learning. I love her channel and she, along with yourself, are my fave language learning you tubers!
I am a afrikaans person that live in austria, I understand everyone in europe but the moment I set foot in Hungary I had a block, nothing familiar, the only word I understood was -Keksi_ thats a Keks in Vienna and a koekie in afrikaans, I still remember that strange feeling, I visit hungary every year just for a beauty treat, be blessed.
I can relate to some of the points; I am more "chatty" and "funnier" in one of the languages that isn't my native. I feel more confident in discussing certain topics in certain languages, and I find myself even laughing differently depending on which language I speak in a specific moment. This was in my recommendations, and I am glad for watching it. It is inspiring to see someone talking in a simple, yet constructive way about language learning. One tip I always do: if you don't know how to say something, try explaining it as if you were speaking to a seven years old - it helps you leave out all the unnecessary clutter that might confuse both you and the listener(s).
Bravo. I started teaching myself at age 12..68 now. Love it. Have my 8 foot shelf cabinet where i keep all the books with and without audio. Lots of fun always. For myself Ive always loved older textbooks for me they're the best. For Hungarian one of my favorites is Hungarian Textbook and Grammar by Charles Wojatsek 1962❤️
What a helpful video and insight into a polyglot. Immersion, immersion, immersion is the way to go. I have found reading and listening to the news in the language I am learning to be most helpful and of course finding a native conversation partner. Language is meant to be used - not studied in a text book.
As a lifelong lover of languages who is currently struggling with Russian, I really needed this video. Thank you Olly and Lindie, for putting this content together, and for helping to clarify the ways in which I can improve my language learning. I am ALWAYS looking for new strategies to increase my progress and momentum. My favorites from this vid (and in language learning as a craft): Learning by context, learning by talking to/involving myself with native speakers, and habit stacking. I thought it was just “multi-tasking.” Many Russian speakers/ex-pats here in Texas are very uneasy when they first meet me and I start a conversation with them in clear Russian. But when they learn I am a language student (and not a KGB spy) 🕵️♂️ 🇷🇺 , their entire attitude changes towards me. They become very helpful, supportive and interested in what I’m going through. They appreciate the efforts I’m making; some of them remember how *foreign* English felt when they first began learning. It’s a shared human experience in that regard. Love ❤️ and gratitude from central TX, 🇺🇸 Cheers, Olly and Lindie.
I learned several languages as a child because of my father's job. We moved every three to four years to a different country. The longest I have spent in a country other than the USA has been seven years in Italy (really six because one of those years I spent in boarding school in Switzerland). My point is that by the time I was 9 I spoke five languages. I learned them like every child learns to speak. When you think of how a baby learns to speak they get spoken to and then they try to imitate the sounds that they hear. Of course, once you already know how to make sounds it is easier to repeat those sounds. A child is not worried about grammar they are just interested in getting their point across. A five year old will say in English "I live in a green house". If you were to ask that child why is it that the correct way of saying that is a " green house" instead of a "house green" they will say it just is. They are not going to say because in English the adjective precedes the noun. Of course in my experience the longest it took me to lean a language as a child was the first one after that it only took me about six months to a year to be fluent in the other languages. Now once you stop speaking them you loose them. I have lost the ability to speak Portuguese a language that I stopped speaking at age six. Now I can understand it. At work we get visitors from Brazil I will say hello to them in Portuguese and when they ask me a question in Portuguese I answer them in Spanish and explain that I have forgotten most of my Portuguese but that I can understand what they are saying. I can still hold a conversation in Italian and French. By the way it has been 55 years since I left Brazil and we had lived there for about three years. I know that I can be fluent in Portuguese again maybe one day I'll see how long it takes me to speak it fluently again.
For a long time I believed and told that I wouldn't be able to learn a new language because I'll find it difficult (I have a disability) although it will be difficult I've got a long way ahead of me to learn French. I'll believe and get there💕 this is an inspiring video. Thank you😊
I met someone who cannot read (due to a medical condition) but you would never know about it when you meet them. However they speak perfect English and Spanish.
I can even think of fascination towards world geography...the love and zeal shown towards knowing places better, even if you haven't visited any of those, specially, in far off countries can also be a driving desire which can persuade you to live like a native of that place, like a guide or so...it does seem to convey a meaning of this kind, too.
Being from South Africa, a country with 11 official languages, with so many different cultures and tribes... its kind of sad not seeing any native south african languages on her list 💔. That would have made it even more beautiful taking the time to learn the languages of the different people around you everyday But nonetheless it’s still beautiful ♥️... im inspired
Lindie is a real inspiration. Love her channel. Hungarian is a real challenge even for an experienced polyglot. A lexicon with very few English cognates, compared to Russian or Japanese for example. Then there's the 14 vowels and 18 cases. Hungarians are not used to hearing their language spoken badly and struggle to understand mangled attempts, though they are charmed and appreciative of any efforts. Of course the challenge is part of the fun. I enjoyed travelling around provincial Hungary last year, interacting mostly in Hungarian. Took a lot of study to manage it I'm not gonna lie! I'm learning Japanese right now, and it's an absolute joy! Can't wait to my first visit in November.
I use Polish to help me learn Spanish in an app to learn Spanish. As my understanding of Spanish is way better than my Polish, studying the 'Spanish learning ' app is actually helping me learn Polish. I also watch :Polish videos about learning German, and German videos about learning Polish. Every little helps. I never watch English videos about learning Spanish or Polish. Also , learning languages should be entertaining , not work. It's fun.
Such a novel idea. My Russian is pretty good and I'm thinking of pivoting to German next. Learning German through Russian sounds like a lot of fun and i already have Russian friends learning German.
I have been thought "studying" isnt fun. But for myself I had to have hobbies to create worth and make other people see value in me. So i pursued hobbies I did not really feel like doing for a very long time. Then i would choose a different hobby. The result is im not really good at anything. Through this video i learnt that some people find it really fun to study, so I am allowed to feel that way as well.... I have always been so interested and passionate about languages but never embraced it. I think I can now
This is the video I've been waiting for! Lindie is exceptional. Can't say I have ambitions to learn as many languages as she has, but what I will say is how much of myself I recognise in the story. I always wanted to learn a language and tried French, Spanish and German, but I never had the discipline for sitting and poring over conjugation tables or creating flashcards and classroom always felt stifling - too many people for you to actually speak much. I think in my case, I knew deep down something wasn't right about the traditional approach, at least for me. It helps that I'm a bit older now and less in need of instant gratification, but what's also different this time is the extent to which I'm letting the input be my teacher. I don't have time to be immersed to quite Lindie's extent because of work commitments, but I'm making much quicker progress than I would using older more traditional methods.
this shift in technique totally makes sense! i was just thinking about my own shift in perspective yesterday. for me, it seems like the more languages I become familiar with, the less time i need to spend on that initial drilling. since I understand the way languages can work, once I acquire some vocabulary and grammar, i can simply fit them into patterns I already somewhat recognize.
Yeah, I have had an interest in language since preschool, and when I was younger, I used to learn some 4 dozen languages just for fun. Now, that I'm old, I hardly speak three languages. Why? Nobody to speak with. I lost them all. Now there are ways geeky people can speak over computers, but I didn't grow up with computers and can't figure it out. I live in Utah, the home of the LDS religion, and many young people learn a foreign language while being a missionary in another country. If you catch them when they first get back, they can help you keep up your language. But almost al of them lose the foreign language completely within two years. It is really important to find a way to keep speaking.
Lee, I am also in Utah, and striving to be a competent polyglot. What languages are you interested in? Where is your fluency? Would you care to correspond or meet?
Find Skype partners. You're American, and living in Utah you probably have a generic Standard American English Pronunciation. SAE is _the_ gold standard for the global lingua franca. Everybody learning English wants a standard pronunciation, so you're sitting in the catbird seat. You teach them English, they teach you French, Hungarian, Korean, whatever. There are other online, more _specific_ venues for this partnering, but people have sort of gravitated to Skype as the default grand central station. You'll be talking in lots of languages all day long, no problem. The only trap to this is getting into a "talking about learning languages... best way of learning languages, language-learning pet theories and pedagogy, etc." rut. Talking about polyglotty is especially one of the worst ruts. You want to talk about everything else: politics, science, current events, friends, family, etc.
@@-danR They said "Now there are ways geeky people can speak over computers, but I didn't grow up with computers and can't figure it out", so Skype isn't really an answer.
Oh my god what she said about thinking in different languages is so relatable :0 I do that all the time. I literally have different languages for different emotions.
I'm going to start my journey as polyglot with learning Spanish in the beginning of 2023 . I already learned English language within 2 years and I passed flouncy level. Throughout 2023 I will sit for IELTS and at the same time I will learn Spanish. Beuno suerte para mi. Note : my native language is Arabic and I from Sudan . Ibrahim❤ 16th of December 2022.
💜Lindie is my ultimate inspiration to remain consistent, 💜Moses McCormick(laoshu505000) was my inspiration to take on the challenge of learning mandarin because he was a black american man from my hometown and he loved speaking to people in his target languages,💜Diana Watson(black woman won chinese speech contest) just the same as moses, 💜Olly Richards inspired me to translate my target language to my native language and back again in writing and speaking, and 💜Steven Kauffman inspired me to improve my study methods and keep a positive mindset.
Olly, I studied English as a foreign language, and the quality of textbooks has improved incredibly between when I was in high school and when I was teaching. it's now a lot about photo stories, implementing music etc. Maybe you could do a video about the Cambridge and Oxford books intended for foreign markets?
This polyglot knows the language of filmmaking too. He knows how to format his stories, introduction, middle, conclusie, ending notes. All segments are well written en nicely spoken/elaborated, and his excitement comes through, he loves speaking about learning languages and you can see that But I do feel like I haven't learned anything knew and wasted 20 min I could have spend on something different. 🤣 But I agree with what he said, dedication, motivation, and willingness to want to learn needs to be present. So make that routine and don't give up.
I speak 5 languages fluently. The biggest shock to me was when I moved to the US that people rarely very rarely speak a second language at least. Then I saw that even the one language that is taught in school is not really taught, since nobody fails it and nobody takes it serious. I learned spanish from living in Texas the language is so accessible here. I learned German from having moved there for a couple years, I learned Turkish in College studied it as a major when I lived in Europe. I learned English in middle and High school, just from the school lessons. And Bosnian (Croatian/Serbian) is my native language. Currently learning Russian since my husband is from Russia. Reason I shared that is because you can learn a language in a lot of different ways but you do need to be open to learn and give it your very best. I do recommend to always listen to music in the language you are learning and occasionally as time allows watch something with subtitles to your language so you can hear and translate immediately.
It’s quite frustrating how poorly languages are taught here. All they care about is your ability to pass a test, not your ability to speak the langauge
Being open is right….and I have noticed too that as I’ve evolved I’m changing the way that I learn each language. Started learning Croatian earlier this year, it’s such a beautiful language. Pozdrav iz Engleske. ❤❤
personally i think the confidence that comes from mastering a second language is key to the third, fourth, etc. i’m not quite there yet… i really have no idea how some people develop fluency so quickly. it seems that the more words and grammar points i get comfortable with, there are 50 more i don’t know. it’s quite overwhelming and frustrating. i am determined, however i’ve accepted that i just naturally take longer to acquire languages than others.
Everything she says makes sense, but from a more casual "language sampler's" point of view I have some good news for those who put a lot into language learning (and thus get a lot out of it): You never lose it. Not entirely, and what you've lost comes back to you faster than it took to originally learn it. So when you're putting in the required dedication, reassure yourself sometimes that, "This is for life." I've learned languages formally just as a way of "getting back into studying". I decided not being able to do maths wasn't a good enough excuse for not pursuing an interest in the sciences, and signed up with a correspondence university for their "maths access" course. To prepare for the next year, where I was going to have to load up and get into studying again, I took such other courses as I was allowed to, and I was interested in, just as "a load", with no intention of ever pursuing actual study any further, later. This worked out as being just a semester of Mandarin, Spanish, and Portuguese, and a single year of German. (The rest of the time was in other stuff). Useless, right? Actually not entirely. Mandarin would've taken more to carry me to "basic uses level", but I can generally figure out at least written Spanish and Portuguese. And I've gone a bit further with German, so can do German web searches when English is not working well. (And I've even had conversations in a kind of German with, e.g. Russians and Turks, who don't English). It's never entirely useless. Since that time, as far as deliberate language learning goes, I've done "language tapes" and a bit beyond in Russian, Japanese, and French. (And then I've gone a bit further with the French to the point where I'm probably less useless at it than I am with German. I've read Madame Bovary over the course of about a year, and listened to it as an audio book, as well as read it out aloud. So there's something you can try with a language you don't have any plans to completely master: Just grok a great piece of literature in the language very slowly. You'll find it gets etched into you. Something everyone should experience at least once in a lifetime - a book obsessed about, read and reread, and read aloud. We consume books like hamburgers, and don't get everything from them that we could. Incompetence in a language can force you to slow down enough to put in the right amount of time. And then if you become a deep scholar of beautiful words later on, you'll already have some of the skills you need.) Hmm ... I've read quite a large part of The Canterbury Tales in the original old English. That's pretty much like the Madame Bovary foreign book experience. You're forced to go slow. You're forced to stop and consider whether you really understand the last sentence you read. You have to linger long enough to appreciate the writer's craft at the phrase level, instead of just at the usual chapter or whole book level. This grokking of The Canterbury Tales was quite a long time before the dabble in a bunch of languages chosen to be good at tripping me up (to prepare for stuff I was expecting to get me into similar tangles the next year, in maths). So far this isn't really the news that you never lose it. (I mean it's arguable that I've not yet gained it, so what is there to lose?) I'm not a polyglot, but I'm bilingual. I can speak English and Afrikaans. If I use Afrikaans a lot, I start to think it it, even. However, I'm in a place now where very few people speak Afrikaans, and haven't spoken it at all (I think) for about five years now. It feels like it's "gone", but I've been in a situation like this before, so I know it's just gone latent. (That might be an interesting topic for you one day? "Latency in languages" ... but phrased better than that, of course.) About five years ago I went to visit an Afrikaans mate of mine, who has "turned English", but with whom I could only communicate in Afrikaans when I was young - it just felt awkward and unnatural speaking English with him. The idea of having many minds by having many languages feels very true to me. When I'm "in" one, it's not even easy to switch out of it into English, from the context in which it has become the "natural language". When I'm "in" Afrikaans, I'm thinking in Afrikaans. I have to translate to English, almost. Anyway five years ago I was visiting there, and his cousin only speaks Afrikaans comfortably, so I had to switch it back on. And within about a week it was almost all back. You never lose it. As far as learning goes, I can go along with the advice to find uses for it. And the best way to learn is to need the language (no other option available). When I was young I was a prosecutor. If the magistrate was Afrikaans, they would generally do everything in Afrikaans. Keep up or get out. (I needed Afrikaans for speaking with Afrikaans friends, too, but that was always really optional. With a bit of effort we could've all switched to English - useful for them, because all the good text books are in English.) I had to address a court in Afrikaans sometimes (mostly not - district court is more a matter of juggling 15 balls all at once), and would spend hours of each day living in Afrikaans. In circumstances like that, you can't but become fluent. But (last thing, I promise) what is "fluency"? In my second language I actually have two modes: 1. "Fokken Afrikaans" - with lots of swearing to prop up the conversational cripple, as the saying goes. The Afrikaans of kids getting drunk together, and speaking crudely of girls, mainly. It's a really Afrikaans, and is the only Afrikaans some native speakers ever speak, but it ... has limited uses? 2. "School Afrikaans". I paid attention in school, and was particular in following the official rules of the "Taalbond" - "language society" - like French has. I learnt formal Afrikaans well. I bent it a bit when speaking fokken Afrikaans, but even then the mates would say I was speaking "high" Afrikaans - as in academic/ churchy/ formal language. That's also a limited form of the language. So (here's the rub) "fluency" is a "how long is a piece of string issue" (to put it in crippled English). If you can say "G'day mate" and a few things related to beer, you can get by in English somewhere - sort-of. But even if you develop "perfect" English, it's always going to lack something. Your Scots vocabulary might be poor, for instance. Or your Shakespeare might be rusty. And maybe you're one of those illiterate morons who hasn't read The Green Gome in the original script, or only knows the last translation of Beowulf. And if so, maybe what you need to do is simply assess what need the language - as you use it - is satisfying. If it's doing all you ask of it, you're fluent enough, surely?
Language stacking is really useful. However, I would only recommend to stack similar languages in order to simply your learning process. Like learning German in English, learning Spanish in German, Korean in Japanese etc. etc. Similar grammar/sentence structure will help you to get grip on your new target language.
it's better to learn more helpful languages first like japanese or Chinese first because even though all Chinese characters are removed from Korean text, nearly 60% of vocabulary it is directly from Chinese characters same for japanese
@@storylearning that's totally true, I'm just saying it as advice because my former japense studies have massively helped my Korean studies through Chinese roots, love your videos too www
It's very important what I wanna say : I am shy because My dad left me when I was born and my mother was always working outside. So I grew up lonely and I had a lot of fears feeling like I don't fit in anxiety an so on . But languages for me was an escape ... Cuz in my native language my mind was killing me And I didn't have money to pay a Doctor for my mental health. So it was a therapy for me . And now my Spanish thoughts don't kill me as they use to
I found myself agreeing right away with her idea of immersing yourself in the language each day. I took French for four years in high school and became pretty fluent. That was 30+ years ago. How do I keep it? Every time I look at something, I think about it "en francais." I constantly challenge myself to translate snippets of conversations into French. I watch Scooby Doo with French subtitles, or in French with English subtitles. When I read the product information on, for instance, a bottle of shampoo or a TV set, I read it in French.
I consider myself as a person with a great talent to learn languages, I learned English by myself (pretty much unintentionally), and tried to do Italian for a few months, in a classroom, since Spanish is my first language the talking is pretty easy, even if I learned, I didn't really felt like it was my way of getting to know a language. But now I am interested in Korean, and I hope i can improve, the alphabet scared me, but I think that's my only barrier. I consider my easiest way of learning is "learn english like a toddler", someone who absobs what they hear, see and associate stuff, and most importantly, don't be afraid to ask.
This video inspired me..i can only speak english, french, arabics, my native Indonesian, Javanese,,, learnt mandarin basics,, now i am going to go through on mandarim and japanese...finish what i started....inspiring story..
The difficulty I find is that I live with my partner. If I tried to incorporate 3-4 hours a day of study/immersion, I know that the feeling of neglect would be high. Throughout my whole day I’m either at home or at work with English/Russian speaking people. There’s no time when I can have uninterrupted Japanese for hours.
We can always find examples of people who study more hours than us. Don’t worry about what others do. If 30 mins of quality study a day works for you, then that is perfectly fine!
I have 3 jobs and I'm trying to learn Japanese. I also live with my partner so I know what you mean. I just study during my work breaks and before bed. You just need to find some time during your day. Even if it's 15 minutes. Also the key is to keep reviewing what you've learned so it sticks.
I hear you. I get up early and do 30 minutes of study before anyone else is awake. At night, my wireless earbuds are the key. I put them in, start an audio lesson, and do the dishes. Funny how nobody disrupts me! :). Anyway those are my tips. Not perfect! Hope you can make time for study!
I answer the phone in German or English, and I have dreams in German, or English, also I think a lot mainly German, but I can count to 3 in German, but to 4 in English... though I say hi in Korean a lot, because it just comes out a lot
Me, at the beginning of video: "Amazing, I wonder if she knows Turkish!" Video: "...and Hungarian..." Me: "Nevermind, one hellish landscape of a language is enough for her."
I'm a big fan of Lindie Botes and a new subscriber to your channel. I'm on my way to becoming a polyglot and I think learning languages helps to understand other cultures more.
I found this video very interesting and helpful to see. I moved to France on two separate occasions and studied French in college but I have a completely different method I used to learn French Perhaps I’ll do a video to help someone else learn! 💜🙏🏾
Wow this woman is pretty cool! I like that she admits she isn’t fluent in them. So many of these internet ‘polyglots’ claim to be absolutely fluent but fluency is such a fluid concept. I think any effort to communicate should be applauded. My French pronunciation is far from perfect but the fact that I can think in French and read fluently in French is good enough for me. I still practice pronunciation and listen to French podcasts and French interviews etc to keep up my comprehension. I wouldn’t say I’m ‘fluent’ though. I barely consider myself fluent in English since we are all learning all the time. I read once that ‘You never fully learn a language. You just get used to it.’ And that’s a big thing that keeps me motivated to keep going. Language learning is never complete but it doesn’t have to be ‘perfect’. It’s just a method of communication.
I loved this video so much. The idea to journal and pick up a part time job in the language you want to learn is incredible. I will definitely use it. You have a great channel! It's very inspiring and useful!
Loved this video. It brought back a funny memory too. I worked on a science project with a German man and we wrote in the laboratory book in English but sometimes we would forget an English word. He would just write it in German then and I would write words in Afrikaans. We always laughed at what someone will think if they ever had to use that book.
I envy her so much. As well as her amazing linguistic ability, it is her innate sense of humour that brings cheer to those who listen to her. Another polyglot explained to me that every time I change my language, my nature and personality changes, and I wonder if this is the case with her. From Japan.
I'm not "shy" I just like meeting new people and other cultures. I'm artist and I don't feel at home in my native land. I have intense desire to learn and share creativity with others around the world. The language I naturally gravitate to are spanish,Korean,Japanese,French and Portuguese
@@sarahthevirgo2777 Currently re-learning french( i had took in high school but lack of using the language has made me rusty) I want relocate to France first.
@@sarahthevirgo2777 So cool! I think my problem is I had to stop listening all my Spanish speaking songs. Along with all my jpop/kpop anime,and dramas. It started to confuse my brain when I started to actively relearn another language. Before than I can pick up words pretty good in Spanish(probably butchered it when tried to speak it). Same with Korean and Japanese all through music,shows,anime. Some words and phrases I can say and understand but I'm a longgg way from being fluent. Barely survival language knowledge. So im using music,shows,entertainment that's spoken in French to help me out.
@@noelleggett5368 you seriously misunderstood the comment you replied to. In no way did she say that learning Afrikaans natively is unnatural. She is saying that Lindie learned English “naturally” in an immersive environment, rather than studying at home (like she did for Korean, for example). And as a South African, I can say that most Afrikaans speakers have a great, even native-like level of English since they speak it at school and sometimes even at home. I would say that for Lindie, she is natively bilingual in Afrikaans and English
I got into languages in college after a trip to Europe and the experience of being in a foreign country was just so new, novel, challenging, and something I couldn't get out of my head. I am introverted (although I can seem outgoing given the right situation). I think being introverted naturally lent itself to spending a lot of time studying and reading in German. An extroverted person would maybe get bored with self study but given the opportunity to socialize with people in the language could really excel too I think. I was also just lacking a hobby or something I could point to and say yeah, I'm proud of this. In a sense, being introverted can be good for language learners stuck in their own country but when I was in Japan and wanting to speak the language as much as possible I noticed for sure that being naturally extroverted was a huge advantage for other learners.
You could talk with "Mr Salas here" (Alberto), He's incredible a polyglot youtuber that talk about methods to learn languages. ( Sorry for my mistakes, i'm learning english. Mi idioma nativo es el español. Saludos! Me encantan tus videos 🎬❤
I never really had an identity crisis, and I wasn't ever bullied or sidelined. Still, I feel that learning a new language is a very unique activity, like learning how to play a musical instrument or doing a sport, or playing videogames, just like you said. Having some personal activities isn't an identity crisis, but a sign of a healthy personality. I also think that, depending on your character, you can choose a different language to learn that suits you best, and that's what's great about learning new languages. Of course, I'm not even close to the level of Lindie, but that's my opinion on the subject.
I'm an ENPF, an identity crises on two legs. 😅 Maybe that's a little bit of an explanation why I love languages and sort of want to learn them all. 😄 (Ok, not all, but there are many languages on my list) 😉 The idea of writing a diary in the languages I want to learn sounds interesting. I am a lazy diary writer, but this sounds motivating to me. I like your content, thank you very much for putting in, not only the effort, also your heart and soul. (sorry, that sounds cheesy, but it's honestly ment that way)
During the last 2 years I have learned 7 languages starting at 0. Incredible how is Lindie similar to me. Lack of confidence, no friends and the same motivation and methods of learning
@@ellanunesella2179 I find it easier to learn two languages at the same time if they are very different from each other, like Korean and Spanish. I actually had a harder time to learn Italian since I tend to mix it with Spanish, so I give a specific day or week to just study it.
I'm a 52 year-old Indonesian. I understand 6 foreign languages : English, German, French, Arabic, Russian, and Mandarin with different levels of abilities. I speak German pretty well, and been to Munich to learn German. It was long time ago that I reached B2 level, nearly C1. But it seems that my German deteriorates. I also learned French and Russian, but I don't speak those languages very well like my German, and of course, my fluent English. Now I'm learning Mandarin, and I believe my Mandarin reached A2 or B1 level, because I got Hsk-3 in October 2019. The problem is maintaining the ability. Once you get the B level, you start to be fed up with the language you have learned, unless you have a very high motivation and specific purpose to learn the language. And after that the next question is whether you can maintain the level that has been attained. I reached B2 or even almost C1 in German long time ago, but now it seems that I can only answer relatively correct the B1 level. My German deteriorates. Language is a matter of habits and habitation....
Uh I have the same problem with mandarin. In 2014 I had a reason to learn it and passed hsk 3 but afterwards my life plans Kind of changed. Now I would like to catch up on the language but doing things again that you were already able to do before is just so much less motivating.
@@yanzi8543 the HSK exam will be more difficult. Last year, I wanted to participate Hsk-4, but the Confucius Institute in Jakarta closed down, due to the pandemi. They are open only with appointments, and the test is conducted at home, not on the spot like before... Formerly, I came to CI, enrolled the test and paid the test-fee in cash. Now, all of the procedures are made with internet...
@@ayi3455 in languages like Chinese people can easily jump classes in university with an entrance exam, that was my plan. At the moment I first need time to catch up on what I used to know. I wouldn't be able to pass right now. :D I'm situated in Germany. Do some people in Indonesia speak Mandarin?
@@yanzi8543 in general : No.... Maybe certain families do, but not in common like in Malaysia.. in Indonesia Mandarin is a foreign language, like Japanese or Korean. in Malaysia, children of Chinese ethnics study at Chinese schools and speak Mandarin or other Chinese dialects every day...
@@ayi3455 I think you were guessing very well. I don't know much about Indonesia but I thought it might be similar as Malaysia. A friend of mine is malaysian Chinese. :)
15:58 Yes, I'm learning Mandarin and Spanish now so I have Speechling / Glossika set to "Learning" Mandarin with "Translations" to Spanish instead of English - Spanish is so easy (comparatively speaking when you've had high school Spanish and studied Italian) that it's not a problem at all to understand the sentence and actually "cements" the phrase in my mind in BOTH target languages.
Great story and tips, i like how she could to push the more positive habit so she can always learn more language. Also, i like she study language with dual foreign language. That's make me motivate to learn new language. Thanks
How did this guy learn fluent Japanese all on his own? 👉🏼 ruclips.net/video/T5h_WdqJ7tQ/видео.html
What she DIDN'T do is watch RUclips videos about language learning all day, so go and study your target language now.👊
yes!! 😅
But videos of the polyglots from the different countries help me with my English listening skills. It's another)
I feel attacked...
Merci "egle lt" pour ton bon conseil. I'm french and I watching it without subtitle so I'm currently doing very hard my homework😅✌️.
Para quienes aprendemos inglés es una gran fuente de recursos y mejora a través de la inmersión.
Well she answered the question right at the beginning of the video: "Over the past few years I have dedicated a significant portion of my time to learning a lot of languages..." I guess the biggest problem I see is that most fellas think they can learn without effort and devotion to what they are trying to achieve.
It is like everything really- wanna build muscle? 20 mins here and there working out is not going to work.
@@little_engine_goes_to_Thailand Yeeeh....
Yes, I have been learning French now 3 hours everyday for 5 months. It seems everyone does the same as me or more
Concordo Evandro!
@@deborahmeek6529 I do Thai for about 2 hours most days - for abou 11 months now
I think more impressively, how'd she start at 0 in a photo that isn't her as a baby?
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@@nickorange4881 you have to speak at least one language. When you are a baby you don’t speak
hahaha
Well it's referring to foreign languages so yeah
@@marjoa.8740 Please, get the fucking joke.
The thumbnail for this video indicates that she knew zero languages when she was an adult. That's funny.
Here in the US a lot of us know zero languages 😂😂😂
@@lmelior If you don't consider English a language
She was raised by wolves until she was 18
It's about foreign languages I think
@@kevinross6235 I was jokingly implying that a lot of us don't even know English :)
Sometimes I forget that english is not my mother tongue. I grew up learning it in school, I now watch movies and series in english, of course listen to english music, speak english in uni and at work, read english literature.. but as this is quite common for people of my generation in Germany, I don't see this as something very special. English seems so easy and natural to me, I wished I had this with other languages as well.
Not quite there yet, and hopefully never - I really don't want to lose my mothertongue :-D - but I, too, wish I had the relation with other foreign languages I have with English :-D
English is a Germanic language, so it makes sense that it would come easy for you.
I'm Italian, I speak mostly English throughout my days, and it's crazy how I even think in English now, and it's easier to express myself in English sometimes. I also lived in Germany for 3 years, German did NOT come as natural at all, it's such a difficult language. My daughter had a teacher from Spain who couldn't speak English, so we would communicate by mixing Italian, Spanish (both are so similar it was easy enough) and a bit of German :)
Should be "wish", not "wished". :)
@josiadam98 that's actually amazing. My relationship with English is very similar. I think and speak both in my native language (Hindi) and English. So I feel like a true bilingual. All because of the exposure method of learning English instead of a very organised method.
I personally think the best way to learn a language is how you learnt your own when you were a child. And you've described pretty well how that is achieved.
“If you believe it’ll work out, you’ll see opportunities. If you don’t believe it’ll work out, you’ll see obstacles.” - Wayne Dyer
Sharing some love with ya all, have a delightful day
Thanks for that 😊
Oh, so this is what has changed about me over the year- my perspective
"Wear is 'e geezer? E's aaa in Fraarghrnse, WIVVIZ TROTTAZZAP" - Danny Dyer
Sharing some more of another beautiful message. Peace, my babies
@@kaygee301 you welcome
Thats good
As a Hungarian native speaker, i have to say her Hungarian is fluent which is really impressive, not many foreigners get to this level. Hungarian is a difficult language for english speakers. Yes she makes some grammar mistakes and she does have an accent but she is good enough to make herself understood, so great respect. I am very curious how many hours went into her Hungarian language project.
she is not an english speaker lol)
@@asbest2092 She just studied all her life in English (the official language of South Africa). Were you misled by the fact that Afrikaans is her mother tongue?
@@xenonnexus8548 where was you mislead? Watch the video, don't say things that are your own theories and don't be shameful.
OK, so according to you, she is not an English speaker. And if I am pointing out your mistakes, I am shameful. Sorry, in the universe I am living, she speaks English, and from early age she is bilingual. We both know who has a comprehension problem here, don´t we?
@@asbest2092 even so it’s very impressive
To be honest, I don’t want to speak 12 languages. I am not that ambicious. I want to speak 4-5 languages fluently. I am in the middle of that journey. I admire people who can speak more than 2 languages fluently. It requires a lot of work. I started with just 1 language, my native language and I am moving slowly from there.
Same!! You can do it, how have you come along since then? (:
how long did it take to learn 4 languages
And what is your native language?
@🐯Younes🐯 1st language or the language spoken by ur ethnicity.
@🐯Younes🐯 what are you doing on this app if ur 4 years old 😭
That is really interesting, I was very shy and insecure too! 😮 I think when you start learning new languages, you realise you can "start over" and it makes your life fuller and you can "live several lives" ❤️
Yeah, to me learning by context is also a lot better, I "hate" learning vocabulary lists, I prefer watching films, listening to music, talking to people... 😄
It’s definitely a more fulfilling way of learning languages!
hey! i agree with you as well. I'm not a polyglot or anywhere close to it, but i love learning languages and that gives me confidence for sure! thank you so much for this comment and all the best in your language journey!
Watching shows and listening to music even helps in gaining accents too. Once I started to learn languages and slowly I saw I can practice and not only retain vast amount of information but also break them and form new sentences as I like, I practically felt we can do anything with our brains.
And I think that shyness or introvert nature compells us to create more versions of us and hence newer languages lol😂
Couldn't agree more
How do you overcome the fear of talking to other people that are native speakers?
That’s funny as true that when you speak other languages, you change your personality. My family says that my voice even changes when I speak Spanish. When I speak Thai, I am totally different. When I speak Polish (my native tongue), different sense of humour and different body language. I need more personalities and I can’t wait to try your method using stories only
Luca Lampariello has a way of describing it. As a prism and the light that hits the prism(the languages) and the different light produced form different angles as the different "personalities". Essentially you're still the same person but just have different side to you through these languages
Interesting comments. I'm sure you'd appreciate this fascinating website on language learning: www.thelanguagesecret.com
Same. I am definitey way more charming in english compared to german. It’s easier for me too to express my thoughts and emotions in english.
Noticed during the summer too (live on an island so lots of tourists and foreign service workers) that i am way more forward and physical when i am on dates speaking english compared to german 😅
My native language is Thai and I'm learning Polish. Glad that you've put in effort to learn it, it really is a beautiful language
This is really helpful! I’m bilingual in Korean and English, and always wanted to explore other languages as well - knowing that language is a door to the different culture and soul. Can’t imagine the depth and flavor of experience from the polyglot perspective. Very inspiring and challenging. Thank you!!
Lindie is great to take inspiration from!
English is the most important in the western world
And Arabic is the most important in the Islamic world, so I highly recommend learning it.. For information, it is the most beautiful language in the world
@@عبدالله-ن6ه2ص I speak Arabic as my first language (: it is different for sure😍 حلو العربي
I am a great admirer first and foremost of Lindie’s positive attitude and humility. Her language accomplishments are quite considerable as well.
Indeed they are!
She has (Iat least!) one advantage over me. She loves pop music and learns from it! I can't abide it.
I learn languages because I had absolutely no self worth I can draw really well and I’ve always been very intellegent but after losing family in highschool and being bullied every day I dropped out it took a hard hit on my self esteem learning languages gave me back my self appreciation i have a sense of fulfillment and accomplishment again I only speak English and mandarin but i spend all my free time studying and I live it languages are my favorite thing once I’ve reached mandarin fluency I will move on to either Spanish Korean or Japanese I haven’t decided yet
I've got a fun book called Essential Korean Root Vocabulary that shows the Chinese roots of sino-Korean words. I love etymology, and learning both Sino and native Korean words is fascinating for me. I started Korean after Chinese, and am eyeing Japanese next. 🤓
That’s so great
Learning languages has been my passion since I was about 6 years old, but the problem is I hate sticking to ones language, I love a lot of languages and I want to learn a lot simultaneously but I’m too lazy and I procrastinate so much, so when I see videos of polyglots I just feel like shit 😂
You still haven’t graduated?
@@Boxxxxxxxxx Not that it should matter to a stranger lol but I actually did take an out of school course for adults that left highschool young and got my diploma at 17 it’s a great option for anyone that regrets leaving
@@Zk-dr7rg I know how you feel that’s why I focus on one language at a time and go into complete immersion mode meaning watching those shows using their social media sites listening to their music and once I’m at an ok level changing my phone settings to that language I even try my hardest to think I’m that languages and when I’m absent mindey listening to things I try to translate them into that language
Discipline and hard work are the two things on a daily basis that I fundamentally struggle to muster with my ADHD brain.
Me too!!!! I ain't got no discipline, and I HATE work, let alone hard work.
Same
This. I have add-pi (not adhd) and I am trying to learn lojban and its too hard. One thing I am testing is spending each day 5 minutes trying to learn lojban, after those 2 minutes I have two choices, stop and continue at the next day or continue trying to learn lojban until I say to myself I will quit and continue tomorrow.
The trick here is that its just 5 minutes and you can handle it, but at some time (problably, I am starting that techinique now) you will be able to spend more time doing it, and then more and then more.
PS: Dont try to learn while at very very late at night, you will be sleepy and even 5 minutes will be too much and you will quit after those 5 minutes not because of boredom but because you are sleepy and wants to sleep.
@@M_SC Gonna try that.
@@M_SC that’s actually a great idea. I’m going to try that out too. Thanks
Lindie is such an inspiration! I still haven’t found my groove but I’m enjoying the journey. 🤓
Enjoy it and you can’t fail!
What helps me is looking at the grammar structure, if it's SOV or something like that
I think you’re learning if you’re struggling with it. Unless the struggle is making contact with the language at all.
Lindie is the polyglot that really inspired me to start learning. She's honest and realistic about the hardships of language learning, yet she's so full of positivity about the ability to learn a language.
Before I found her channel, I was looking for the "perfect" method to learn a language. After watching her channel, I learned that the method doesn't matter as much as just getting started. So, I got started. Now that I'm in the thick of it, her personal update vidoes are so encouraging to my own studies :)
Olly, I really appreciate these Polyglot videos! They are such a great archive of people, methods and success stories. They are really encouraging!
Same here, identity crisis and introverted haha
I think we successful language learners have a lot in common 😂
Amen!!
facts ✊✨
Same
Indeed!!
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential!
That's so weird that so many polyglots struggled with bullying and not having many friends as a kid - I was the same! I was bullied in school and ended up immersing myself in learning languages (using books from the library because 2000s) as an escape/way to occupy myself. I was never this dedicated but taught myself the basics in quite a few languages and learned the Russian, Greek and Hebrew alphabets around the ages of 12-15. I only speak two languages now and intermediate Spanish but this definitely was my escape as a kid!
I speak 2 fluent languages English and Spanish. Sometimes when I pray, I'll pray totally in Spanish depending on my mood. Other times when I pray, I'll pray totally in English. I'm now learning Portuguese as I plan to move to Portugal in the future. I live in Puerto Rico now and so what I've done is download a Portuguese Radio app and constantly listen to Portuguese Radio. I love it! I repeat the words and sentences I hear. It helps.
I also use radios, they’re super useful imo. What radio are you using for portuguese? I’ve been using franceinfo’s mobile app to great success, if you ever plan on learning french i would totally recommend it
Don't worry, you speak more languages fluently than most "polyglots", especially youtube polyglots or polyglots that youtube polyglots priase.
I'm brazilian, my first language is Portuguese but my mother is from Bolivia, so learn the Spanish was natural to me, I speak both Spanish and Portuguese home and also in the internet.
Oh, I forgot, English, taught in brazilian schools and universal language of the world and the internet, not gonna say I am fluent, I have a lot of grammar mistakes but I am sure I can survive in a English speaking country.
So I think I am trilingual? Btw I am learning French, so I expect to be "Polyglot" soon.
It is good that you pray.
Writing a new journal in a different language everyday is amazing! I absolutely love that! I also think I may try the language stacking with Spanish and Italian 🤔
yes - That was an aha for me too. I already keep a diary, why not do it in Portuguese?
Wow this a good idea , to write diary , I should work it out too, thanks
You can find books, dictionaries. videos that are bi lingual + both languages
to use Spanish to teach Italian
Italian to teach Spanish.
Also, to find reference grammars---
both books + websites Wikipedia,,etc.
in 2 languages, to contrast point by point
the 2 languages.
Note---to, be aware when each language
uses different nos of words to mean same meaning (see dictionary, grammar book)
Note--- to find each languages unique
words---1 word may not be translatable
only explainable in the other language.
Examples--- English hip ( Adj.),
Portuguese language saudade, Chinese
yin yang, etc. These need sentences,
articles, books, etc. to explain.
Buenas suerte!!! Buon fortuna!!!
Thanks for featuring Lindie in this episode. She's an inspiration for sure.
Pls comsider interviewing Tim Doner on your channel sometime.
Can't look at any of these language learning and polyglot videos without Moses popping up every now and then. RIP Moses.
What? Oh, no! :-( RIP Moses.
@@Ketutar damn news to me too. I loved watching his vids.
Watching this again...for me, my story is different...I am an artist, so I view languages an art form. Just like a painting or crochet piece, sculpture etc... It's art. That's why I love languages. Pulls the threads of humanity together.
This entire video absolutely blew my mind! I always thought the best way to learn a new language is through studying words, phrases, moving to a country, or by using Duolingo loool. But the idea of learning a language by living like a native speaker (changing the language in you phone settings, listening to podcast and other things they use on a day to day life totally blew my mind! This is such a simple way of learning, I feel silly for not considering this for myself! So glad to chose to watch this video!
When I study the Korean and Turkish language, I thinks it’s important to study the basic grammar rules. It sort of help you to understand basic sentence structure and suffixes. Once you got that it’s pretty easy road ahead plus memorizing of course the vocabulary
Anadilin ne ?
@@dunyahali8926 İngilizce
Korean and Turkish are great partners - I've heard they have some grammar structures in common. (And Finnish as well.)
I Adore Lindie, I have learned so much from her, and learned that a lot of her way of studying and learning matches mine. I'm Learning Korean about 4 months in. It's a slow Journey, but I'm loving the Journey. It's also my first foreign language! I'm glad I have now found your channel as well!! ❤❤
learning multiple languages is a matter of character and heart. it's about perseverance, motivation, humility, open-mindedness, courage, creativity, hard work, not giving up, etc
This feeling of searching for one’s identity certainly hits home for me. When I started learning French in Middle School, and later visited France, I felt like I was “Me” for maybe the first time, and finally had found a place of belonging! Paris, especially, seemed like my place in the world. Now I don’t speak French much and don’t travel, but sometimes I do dream in French and if I start to speak it comes flooding back to some degree.
You’ve done a great job in showing us how great Lindie is with her language learning. I love her channel and she, along with yourself, are my fave language learning you tubers!
Thank you Anna!
As a Hungarian, I must say chapeau! Well done Lindie⭐️🌸
I am a afrikaans person that live in austria, I understand everyone in europe but the moment I set foot in Hungary I had a block, nothing familiar, the only word I understood was -Keksi_ thats a Keks in Vienna and a koekie in afrikaans, I still remember that strange feeling, I visit hungary every year just for a beauty treat, be blessed.
I can relate to some of the points; I am more "chatty" and "funnier" in one of the languages that isn't my native. I feel more confident in discussing certain topics in certain languages, and I find myself even laughing differently depending on which language I speak in a specific moment. This was in my recommendations, and I am glad for watching it. It is inspiring to see someone talking in a simple, yet constructive way about language learning. One tip I always do: if you don't know how to say something, try explaining it as if you were speaking to a seven years old - it helps you leave out all the unnecessary clutter that might confuse both you and the listener(s).
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Welcome to the channel!
Bravo. I started teaching myself at age 12..68 now. Love it. Have my 8 foot shelf cabinet where i keep all the books with and without audio. Lots of fun always. For myself Ive always loved older textbooks for me they're the best. For Hungarian one of my favorites is Hungarian Textbook and Grammar by Charles Wojatsek 1962❤️
What a helpful video and insight into a polyglot. Immersion, immersion, immersion is the way to go. I have found reading and listening to the news in the language I am learning to be most helpful and of course finding a native conversation partner. Language is meant to be used - not studied in a text book.
Thank you! It was a pleasure to watch!
Glad you enjoyed it!
As a lifelong lover of languages who is currently struggling with Russian, I really needed this video.
Thank you Olly and Lindie, for putting this content together, and for helping to clarify the ways in which I can improve my language learning.
I am ALWAYS looking for new strategies to increase my progress and momentum.
My favorites from this vid (and in language learning as a craft):
Learning by context, learning by talking to/involving myself with native speakers, and habit stacking. I thought it was just “multi-tasking.”
Many Russian speakers/ex-pats here in Texas are very uneasy when they first meet me and I start a conversation with them in clear Russian. But when they learn I am a language student (and not a KGB spy) 🕵️♂️ 🇷🇺 , their entire attitude changes towards me.
They become very helpful, supportive and interested in what I’m going through. They appreciate the efforts I’m making; some of them remember how *foreign* English felt when they first began learning. It’s a shared human experience in that regard.
Love ❤️ and gratitude from central TX, 🇺🇸
Cheers, Olly and Lindie.
хорошо и молодец! яусский язык очень сложно
I learned several languages as a child because of my father's job. We moved every three to four years to a different country. The longest I have spent in a country other than the USA has been seven years in Italy (really six because one of those years I spent in boarding school in Switzerland). My point is that by the time I was 9 I spoke five languages. I learned them like every child learns to speak. When you think of how a baby learns to speak they get spoken to and then they try to imitate the sounds that they hear. Of course, once you already know how to make sounds it is easier to repeat those sounds. A child is not worried about grammar they are just interested in getting their point across. A five year old will say in English "I live in a green house". If you were to ask that child why is it that the correct way of saying that is a " green house" instead of a "house green" they will say it just is. They are not going to say because in English the adjective precedes the noun. Of course in my experience the longest it took me to lean a language as a child was the first one after that it only took me about six months to a year to be fluent in the other languages. Now once you stop speaking them you loose them. I have lost the ability to speak Portuguese a language that I stopped speaking at age six. Now I can understand it. At work we get visitors from Brazil I will say hello to them in Portuguese and when they ask me a question in Portuguese I answer them in Spanish and explain that I have forgotten most of my Portuguese but that I can understand what they are saying. I can still hold a conversation in Italian and French. By the way it has been 55 years since I left Brazil and we had lived there for about three years. I know that I can be fluent in Portuguese again maybe one day I'll see how long it takes me to speak it fluently again.
What does your father work in? Moving to a different county every 3-4 years sounds cool to me
02:49 "Ja" 😂
Ja, I do the same. Ja is such a trusty Afrikaans interjection 😊
For a long time I believed and told that I wouldn't be able to learn a new language because I'll find it difficult (I have a disability) although it will be difficult I've got a long way ahead of me to learn French. I'll believe and get there💕 this is an inspiring video. Thank you😊
I met someone who cannot read (due to a medical condition) but you would never know about it when you meet them. However they speak perfect English and Spanish.
Lindie is indeed a marvel...I'm so touched by her prowess in language learning. You have done a great job, Olly! Kudos! 😃😃
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I can even think of fascination towards world geography...the love and zeal shown towards knowing places better, even if you haven't visited any of those, specially, in far off countries can also be a driving desire which can persuade you to live like a native of that place, like a guide or so...it does seem to convey a meaning of this kind, too.
Being from South Africa, a country with 11 official languages, with so many different cultures and tribes... its kind of sad not seeing any native south african languages on her list 💔.
That would have made it even more beautiful taking the time to learn the languages of the different people around you everyday
But nonetheless it’s still beautiful ♥️... im inspired
Seems the other SA languages doesn't fit her profile. Not popular enough I guess.
Lindie is a real inspiration. Love her channel. Hungarian is a real challenge even for an experienced polyglot. A lexicon with very few English cognates, compared to Russian or Japanese for example. Then there's the 14 vowels and 18 cases. Hungarians are not used to hearing their language spoken badly and struggle to understand mangled attempts, though they are charmed and appreciative of any efforts. Of course the challenge is part of the fun. I enjoyed travelling around provincial Hungary last year, interacting mostly in Hungarian. Took a lot of study to manage it I'm not gonna lie!
I'm learning Japanese right now, and it's an absolute joy! Can't wait to my first visit in November.
I use Polish to help me learn Spanish in an app to learn Spanish. As my understanding of Spanish is way better than my Polish, studying the 'Spanish learning ' app is actually helping me learn Polish.
I also watch :Polish videos about learning German, and German videos about learning Polish. Every little helps. I never watch English videos about learning Spanish or Polish.
Also , learning languages should be entertaining , not work. It's fun.
Uczę się polskiego, ale znam więcej hiszpańskiego. Native language-English
Hi, this is exactly what Im doing.. I use English to learn Spanish never Polish :). Powodzenia w nauce Polskiego
Such a novel idea. My Russian is pretty good and I'm thinking of pivoting to German next. Learning German through Russian sounds like a lot of fun and i already have Russian friends learning German.
nepalskiego! Trudny
I have been thought "studying" isnt fun. But for myself I had to have hobbies to create worth and make other people see value in me. So i pursued hobbies I did not really feel like doing for a very long time. Then i would choose a different hobby. The result is im not really good at anything. Through this video i learnt that some people find it really fun to study, so I am allowed to feel that way as well.... I have always been so interested and passionate about languages but never embraced it. I think I can now
This is the video I've been waiting for! Lindie is exceptional. Can't say I have ambitions to learn as many languages as she has, but what I will say is how much of myself I recognise in the story. I always wanted to learn a language and tried French, Spanish and German, but I never had the discipline for sitting and poring over conjugation tables or creating flashcards and classroom always felt stifling - too many people for you to actually speak much.
I think in my case, I knew deep down something wasn't right about the traditional approach, at least for me. It helps that I'm a bit older now and less in need of instant gratification, but what's also different this time is the extent to which I'm letting the input be my teacher. I don't have time to be immersed to quite Lindie's extent because of work commitments, but I'm making much quicker progress than I would using older more traditional methods.
Language learning is all about enriching our lives, and that means sth different for everyone. It’s fantastic you’ve discovered what drives you!
this shift in technique totally makes sense! i was just thinking about my own shift in perspective yesterday. for me, it seems like the more languages I become familiar with, the less time i need to spend on that initial drilling. since I understand the way languages can work, once I acquire some vocabulary and grammar, i can simply fit them into patterns I already somewhat recognize.
I started learning Chinese by myself, This video gives me hope !!
你好😊
Yeah, I have had an interest in language since preschool, and when I was younger, I used to learn some 4 dozen languages just for fun. Now, that I'm old, I hardly speak three languages. Why? Nobody to speak with. I lost them all. Now there are ways geeky people can speak over computers, but I didn't grow up with computers and can't figure it out. I live in Utah, the home of the LDS religion, and many young people learn a foreign language while being a missionary in another country. If you catch them when they first get back, they can help you keep up your language. But almost al of them lose the foreign language completely within two years. It is really important to find a way to keep speaking.
Lee, I am also in Utah, and striving to be a competent polyglot. What languages are you interested in? Where is your fluency? Would you care to correspond or meet?
Find Skype partners. You're American, and living in Utah you probably have a generic Standard American English Pronunciation.
SAE is _the_ gold standard for the global lingua franca. Everybody learning English wants a standard pronunciation, so you're sitting in the catbird seat. You teach them English, they teach you French, Hungarian, Korean, whatever.
There are other online, more _specific_ venues for this partnering, but people have sort of gravitated to Skype as the default grand central station.
You'll be talking in lots of languages all day long, no problem. The only trap to this is getting into a "talking about learning languages... best way of learning languages, language-learning pet theories and pedagogy, etc." rut. Talking about polyglotty is especially one of the worst ruts. You want to talk about everything else: politics, science, current events, friends, family, etc.
It helps a lot in keeping up your languages to read books in those languages.
@@-danR They said "Now there are ways geeky people can speak over computers, but I didn't grow up with computers and can't figure it out", so Skype isn't really an answer.
@@redfishswimming BS :-D I think I manage English just fine. Never lived or worked anywhere but Finland and Sweden.
Oh my god what she said about thinking in different languages is so relatable :0 I do that all the time. I literally have different languages for different emotions.
I'm going to start my journey as polyglot with learning Spanish in the beginning of 2023 . I already learned English language within 2 years and I passed flouncy level. Throughout 2023 I will sit for IELTS and at the same time I will learn Spanish.
Beuno suerte para mi.
Note : my native language is Arabic and I from Sudan .
Ibrahim❤ 16th of December 2022.
Paraphrasing or talking around the word or phrase you are searching for is an excellent method for learning new words or phrases in a language.
💜Lindie is my ultimate inspiration to remain consistent, 💜Moses McCormick(laoshu505000) was my inspiration to take on the challenge of learning mandarin because he was a black american man from my hometown and he loved speaking to people in his target languages,💜Diana Watson(black woman won chinese speech contest) just the same as moses, 💜Olly Richards inspired me to translate my target language to my native language and back again in writing and speaking, and 💜Steven Kauffman inspired me to improve my study methods and keep a positive mindset.
What a list!
Olly, I studied English as a foreign language, and the quality of textbooks has improved incredibly between when I was in high school and when I was teaching. it's now a lot about photo stories, implementing music etc. Maybe you could do a video about the Cambridge and Oxford books intended for foreign markets?
I love Lindie! She has helped me a lot
I’m struggling to finish this video… because it’s making me want to immediately go study!!
This polyglot knows the language of filmmaking too. He knows how to format his stories, introduction, middle, conclusie, ending notes. All segments are well written en nicely spoken/elaborated, and his excitement comes through, he loves speaking about learning languages and you can see that But I do feel like I haven't learned anything knew and wasted 20 min I could have spend on something different. 🤣 But I agree with what he said, dedication, motivation, and willingness to want to learn needs to be present. So make that routine and don't give up.
Boy oh boy am I excited to hear about the first one!
I speak 5 languages fluently. The biggest shock to me was when I moved to the US that people rarely very rarely speak a second language at least. Then I saw that even the one language that is taught in school is not really taught, since nobody fails it and nobody takes it serious. I learned spanish from living in Texas the language is so accessible here. I learned German from having moved there for a couple years, I learned Turkish in College studied it as a major when I lived in Europe. I learned English in middle and High school, just from the school lessons. And Bosnian (Croatian/Serbian) is my native language. Currently learning Russian since my husband is from Russia. Reason I shared that is because you can learn a language in a lot of different ways but you do need to be open to learn and give it your very best. I do recommend to always listen to music in the language you are learning and occasionally as time allows watch something with subtitles to your language so you can hear and translate immediately.
It’s quite frustrating how poorly languages are taught here. All they care about is your ability to pass a test, not your ability to speak the langauge
Being open is right….and I have noticed too that as I’ve evolved I’m changing the way that I learn each language.
Started learning Croatian earlier this year, it’s such a beautiful language.
Pozdrav iz Engleske. ❤❤
personally i think the confidence that comes from mastering a second language is key to the third, fourth, etc. i’m not quite there yet… i really have no idea how some people develop fluency so quickly. it seems that the more words and grammar points i get comfortable with, there are 50 more i don’t know. it’s quite overwhelming and frustrating. i am determined, however i’ve accepted that i just naturally take longer to acquire languages than others.
Olly this is so awesome! Do more of these. It makes me feel more connected to other language learners! Cheers from Los Angeles
The no friends part really shook me, it resonates so much, never even considered it.
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Exactly! This video made me realize that issue that I couldn't express before!
Everything she says makes sense, but from a more casual "language sampler's" point of view I have some good news for those who put a lot into language learning (and thus get a lot out of it): You never lose it. Not entirely, and what you've lost comes back to you faster than it took to originally learn it. So when you're putting in the required dedication, reassure yourself sometimes that, "This is for life."
I've learned languages formally just as a way of "getting back into studying". I decided not being able to do maths wasn't a good enough excuse for not pursuing an interest in the sciences, and signed up with a correspondence university for their "maths access" course. To prepare for the next year, where I was going to have to load up and get into studying again, I took such other courses as I was allowed to, and I was interested in, just as "a load", with no intention of ever pursuing actual study any further, later. This worked out as being just a semester of Mandarin, Spanish, and Portuguese, and a single year of German. (The rest of the time was in other stuff). Useless, right? Actually not entirely. Mandarin would've taken more to carry me to "basic uses level", but I can generally figure out at least written Spanish and Portuguese. And I've gone a bit further with German, so can do German web searches when English is not working well. (And I've even had conversations in a kind of German with, e.g. Russians and Turks, who don't English). It's never entirely useless.
Since that time, as far as deliberate language learning goes, I've done "language tapes" and a bit beyond in Russian, Japanese, and French. (And then I've gone a bit further with the French to the point where I'm probably less useless at it than I am with German. I've read Madame Bovary over the course of about a year, and listened to it as an audio book, as well as read it out aloud. So there's something you can try with a language you don't have any plans to completely master: Just grok a great piece of literature in the language very slowly. You'll find it gets etched into you. Something everyone should experience at least once in a lifetime - a book obsessed about, read and reread, and read aloud. We consume books like hamburgers, and don't get everything from them that we could. Incompetence in a language can force you to slow down enough to put in the right amount of time. And then if you become a deep scholar of beautiful words later on, you'll already have some of the skills you need.)
Hmm ... I've read quite a large part of The Canterbury Tales in the original old English. That's pretty much like the Madame Bovary foreign book experience. You're forced to go slow. You're forced to stop and consider whether you really understand the last sentence you read. You have to linger long enough to appreciate the writer's craft at the phrase level, instead of just at the usual chapter or whole book level. This grokking of The Canterbury Tales was quite a long time before the dabble in a bunch of languages chosen to be good at tripping me up (to prepare for stuff I was expecting to get me into similar tangles the next year, in maths).
So far this isn't really the news that you never lose it. (I mean it's arguable that I've not yet gained it, so what is there to lose?)
I'm not a polyglot, but I'm bilingual. I can speak English and Afrikaans. If I use Afrikaans a lot, I start to think it it, even. However, I'm in a place now where very few people speak Afrikaans, and haven't spoken it at all (I think) for about five years now. It feels like it's "gone", but I've been in a situation like this before, so I know it's just gone latent. (That might be an interesting topic for you one day? "Latency in languages" ... but phrased better than that, of course.) About five years ago I went to visit an Afrikaans mate of mine, who has "turned English", but with whom I could only communicate in Afrikaans when I was young - it just felt awkward and unnatural speaking English with him. The idea of having many minds by having many languages feels very true to me. When I'm "in" one, it's not even easy to switch out of it into English, from the context in which it has become the "natural language". When I'm "in" Afrikaans, I'm thinking in Afrikaans. I have to translate to English, almost. Anyway five years ago I was visiting there, and his cousin only speaks Afrikaans comfortably, so I had to switch it back on. And within about a week it was almost all back. You never lose it.
As far as learning goes, I can go along with the advice to find uses for it. And the best way to learn is to need the language (no other option available). When I was young I was a prosecutor. If the magistrate was Afrikaans, they would generally do everything in Afrikaans. Keep up or get out. (I needed Afrikaans for speaking with Afrikaans friends, too, but that was always really optional. With a bit of effort we could've all switched to English - useful for them, because all the good text books are in English.) I had to address a court in Afrikaans sometimes (mostly not - district court is more a matter of juggling 15 balls all at once), and would spend hours of each day living in Afrikaans. In circumstances like that, you can't but become fluent.
But (last thing, I promise) what is "fluency"? In my second language I actually have two modes:
1. "Fokken Afrikaans" - with lots of swearing to prop up the conversational cripple, as the saying goes. The Afrikaans of kids getting drunk together, and speaking crudely of girls, mainly. It's a really Afrikaans, and is the only Afrikaans some native speakers ever speak, but it ... has limited uses?
2. "School Afrikaans". I paid attention in school, and was particular in following the official rules of the "Taalbond" - "language society" - like French has. I learnt formal Afrikaans well. I bent it a bit when speaking fokken Afrikaans, but even then the mates would say I was speaking "high" Afrikaans - as in academic/ churchy/ formal language. That's also a limited form of the language.
So (here's the rub) "fluency" is a "how long is a piece of string issue" (to put it in crippled English). If you can say "G'day mate" and a few things related to beer, you can get by in English somewhere - sort-of. But even if you develop "perfect" English, it's always going to lack something. Your Scots vocabulary might be poor, for instance. Or your Shakespeare might be rusty. And maybe you're one of those illiterate morons who hasn't read The Green Gome in the original script, or only knows the last translation of Beowulf. And if so, maybe what you need to do is simply assess what need the language - as you use it - is satisfying. If it's doing all you ask of it, you're fluent enough, surely?
Language stacking is really useful. However, I would only recommend to stack similar languages in order to simply your learning process. Like learning German in English, learning Spanish in German, Korean in Japanese etc. etc. Similar grammar/sentence structure will help you to get grip on your new target language.
it's better to learn more helpful languages first like japanese or Chinese first because even though all Chinese characters are removed from Korean text, nearly 60% of vocabulary it is directly from Chinese characters same for japanese
From a pure efficiency perspective, yes. But often our decisions are borne more from passion or interest, in which case anything goes!
@@storylearning that's totally true, I'm just saying it as advice because my former japense studies have massively helped my Korean studies through Chinese roots, love your videos too www
Yh, it would be difficult to learn Korean in Spanish
But I kinda wanna do that😅
It's very important what I wanna say : I am shy because My dad left me when I was born and my mother was always working outside. So I grew up lonely and I had a lot of fears feeling like I don't fit in anxiety an so on . But languages for me was an escape ... Cuz in my native language my mind was killing me And I didn't have money to pay a Doctor for my mental health. So it was a therapy for me . And now my Spanish thoughts don't kill me as they use to
I found myself agreeing right away with her idea of immersing yourself in the language each day. I took French for four years in high school and became pretty fluent. That was 30+ years ago. How do I keep it? Every time I look at something, I think about it "en francais." I constantly challenge myself to translate snippets of conversations into French. I watch Scooby Doo with French subtitles, or in French with English subtitles. When I read the product information on, for instance, a bottle of shampoo or a TV set, I read it in French.
I do the same things as you! In French as well
Another great video Olly! Lindie is a real inspiration . Her videos are so encouraging and helpful to me. Love these videos. 👍🏼
Cheers Ernie!
I consider myself as a person with a great talent to learn languages, I learned English by myself (pretty much unintentionally), and tried to do Italian for a few months, in a classroom, since Spanish is my first language the talking is pretty easy, even if I learned, I didn't really felt like it was my way of getting to know a language. But now I am interested in Korean, and I hope i can improve, the alphabet scared me, but I think that's my only barrier. I consider my easiest way of learning is "learn english like a toddler", someone who absobs what they hear, see and associate stuff, and most importantly, don't be afraid to ask.
This video inspired me..i can only speak english, french, arabics, my native Indonesian, Javanese,,, learnt mandarin basics,, now i am going to go through on mandarim and japanese...finish what i started....inspiring story..
The difficulty I find is that I live with my partner. If I tried to incorporate 3-4 hours a day of study/immersion, I know that the feeling of neglect would be high. Throughout my whole day I’m either at home or at work with English/Russian speaking people. There’s no time when I can have uninterrupted Japanese for hours.
We can always find examples of people who study more hours than us. Don’t worry about what others do. If 30 mins of quality study a day works for you, then that is perfectly fine!
@@storylearning Totally, I was going to say this. 30 minutes of study a day is sufficient to progress quickly in a language. And lots of listening.
Why is uninterrupted even a goal? Do 20 min on the bus. Why is nothing better than that.
I have 3 jobs and I'm trying to learn Japanese. I also live with my partner so I know what you mean. I just study during my work breaks and before bed. You just need to find some time during your day. Even if it's 15 minutes. Also the key is to keep reviewing what you've learned so it sticks.
I hear you. I get up early and do 30 minutes of study before anyone else is awake. At night, my wireless earbuds are the key. I put them in, start an audio lesson, and do the dishes. Funny how nobody disrupts me! :). Anyway those are my tips. Not perfect! Hope you can make time for study!
Find a way to immersion is not necessarily moving to the country, you can bring the country to you.. That's I've learned from her amazing experience.
It’s a hallmark moment when you can express yourself in many ways without a translation or connection to your native tongue.
I answer the phone in German or English, and I have dreams in German, or English, also I think a lot mainly German, but I can count to 3 in German, but to 4 in English... though I say hi in Korean a lot, because it just comes out a lot
Me, at the beginning of video: "Amazing, I wonder if she knows Turkish!"
Video: "...and Hungarian..."
Me: "Nevermind, one hellish landscape of a language is enough for her."
Funny you should say that my daughters best friend is hungarian-turkish bilingual at 8. Good start eh?
I'm a big fan of Lindie Botes and a new subscriber to your channel. I'm on my way to becoming a polyglot and I think learning languages helps to understand other cultures more.
I found this video very interesting and helpful to see. I moved to France on two separate occasions and studied French in college but I have a completely different method I used to learn French Perhaps I’ll do a video to help someone else learn! 💜🙏🏾
Wow this woman is pretty cool! I like that she admits she isn’t fluent in them. So many of these internet ‘polyglots’ claim to be absolutely fluent but fluency is such a fluid concept. I think any effort to communicate should be applauded. My French pronunciation is far from perfect but the fact that I can think in French and read fluently in French is good enough for me. I still practice pronunciation and listen to French podcasts and French interviews etc to keep up my comprehension. I wouldn’t say I’m ‘fluent’ though. I barely consider myself fluent in English since we are all learning all the time. I read once that ‘You never fully learn a language. You just get used to it.’ And that’s a big thing that keeps me motivated to keep going. Language learning is never complete but it doesn’t have to be ‘perfect’. It’s just a method of communication.
Im filipino and my native language is tagalog of course and i would like learn japanese, italian, thai and spanish
My native language is Spanish and i want to learn Tagalog 🥺🥺
Then start
I loved this video so much. The idea to journal and pick up a part time job in the language you want to learn is incredible. I will definitely use it. You have a great channel! It's very inspiring and useful!
Loved this video. It brought back a funny memory too. I worked on a science project with a German man and we wrote in the laboratory book in English but sometimes we would forget an English word. He would just write it in German then and I would write words in Afrikaans. We always laughed at what someone will think if they ever had to use that book.
I envy her so much.
As well as her amazing linguistic ability, it is her innate sense of humour that brings cheer to those who listen to her. Another polyglot explained to me that every time I change my language, my nature and personality changes, and I wonder if this is the case with her.
From Japan.
I'm not "shy" I just like meeting new people and other cultures. I'm artist and I don't feel at home in my native land. I have intense desire to learn and share creativity with others around the world. The language I naturally gravitate to are spanish,Korean,Japanese,French and Portuguese
Me too except Portuguese haha. How’s your language learning going ?
@@sarahthevirgo2777 Currently re-learning french( i had took in high school but lack of using the language has made me rusty)
I want relocate to France first.
@@MaddCB oh awesome. I’m busy with my first language Spanish.
@@sarahthevirgo2777 So cool!
I think my problem is I had to stop listening all my Spanish speaking songs. Along with all my jpop/kpop anime,and dramas. It started to confuse my brain when I started to actively relearn another language.
Before than I can pick up words pretty good in Spanish(probably butchered it when tried to speak it). Same with Korean and Japanese all through music,shows,anime. Some words and phrases I can say and understand but I'm a longgg way from being fluent. Barely survival language knowledge.
So im using music,shows,entertainment that's spoken in French to help me out.
VERY interesting video! Love peeking into other people's methods, very useful. I find it much easier learning Japanese from Spanish than from English.
Olly forgot to mention that Lindie also learned English, since he mentions that Afrikaans is her native language.
Lindie mentioned that she did school in English, so she probably learnt that naturally.
@@samayalidder8624 So learning Afrikaans as a native language is unnatural?
@@noelleggett5368 you seriously misunderstood the comment you replied to. In no way did she say that learning Afrikaans natively is unnatural. She is saying that Lindie learned English “naturally” in an immersive environment, rather than studying at home (like she did for Korean, for example). And as a South African, I can say that most Afrikaans speakers have a great, even native-like level of English since they speak it at school and sometimes even at home. I would say that for Lindie, she is natively bilingual in Afrikaans and English
@@matthewdegroot1985 I was being flippant. I should have added a wonky face emoji. 😜
Well, considering she is speaking it throughout the entire video, I think he probably just considered that a given.
I got into languages in college after a trip to Europe and the experience of being in a foreign country was just so new, novel, challenging, and something I couldn't get out of my head. I am introverted (although I can seem outgoing given the right situation). I think being introverted naturally lent itself to spending a lot of time studying and reading in German. An extroverted person would maybe get bored with self study but given the opportunity to socialize with people in the language could really excel too I think. I was also just lacking a hobby or something I could point to and say yeah, I'm proud of this. In a sense, being introverted can be good for language learners stuck in their own country but when I was in Japan and wanting to speak the language as much as possible I noticed for sure that being naturally extroverted was a huge advantage for other learners.
You could talk with "Mr Salas here" (Alberto), He's incredible a polyglot youtuber that talk about methods to learn languages. ( Sorry for my mistakes, i'm learning english. Mi idioma nativo es el español. Saludos! Me encantan tus videos 🎬❤
I never really had an identity crisis, and I wasn't ever bullied or sidelined. Still, I feel that learning a new language is a very unique activity, like learning how to play a musical instrument or doing a sport, or playing videogames, just like you said. Having some personal activities isn't an identity crisis, but a sign of a healthy personality. I also think that, depending on your character, you can choose a different language to learn that suits you best, and that's what's great about learning new languages. Of course, I'm not even close to the level of Lindie, but that's my opinion on the subject.
Lindie est une inspiration incroyable.
absolument
Je suis d’accord
She mentioned she is learning hungarian!
Magyarként mindig nagyon jól esik amikor azt látom, hogy valakit érdekel ez a nyelv!
I'm an ENPF, an identity crises on two legs. 😅
Maybe that's a little bit of an explanation why I love languages and sort of want to learn them all. 😄 (Ok, not all, but there are many languages on my list) 😉
The idea of writing a diary in the languages I want to learn sounds interesting. I am a lazy diary writer, but this sounds motivating to me.
I like your content, thank you very much for putting in, not only the effort, also your heart and soul. (sorry, that sounds cheesy, but it's honestly ment that way)
Thank you so much, I do appreciate it
During the last 2 years I have learned 7 languages starting at 0. Incredible how is Lindie similar to me. Lack of confidence, no friends and the same motivation and methods of learning
I speak Filipino, English, & Hiligaynon (another local language in the Philippines). Started learning Korean, Spanish & Italian last year.
Do you like to learn more than one language at the same time?
Sometimes I want to do it, but I think I’m not going to learn any properly 😓😓
@@ellanunesella2179 I find it easier to learn two languages at the same time if they are very different from each other, like Korean and Spanish. I actually had a harder time to learn Italian since I tend to mix it with Spanish, so I give a specific day or week to just study it.
Massive respect for her Hungarian. As a native speaker, I appreciate the effort that goes into learning a language this difficult 🙏
Omg language stacking....freaking genius. I could see this being especially useful if the languages are similar in origin
I'm a 52 year-old Indonesian.
I understand 6 foreign languages : English, German, French, Arabic, Russian, and Mandarin with different levels of abilities.
I speak German pretty well, and been to Munich to learn German.
It was long time ago that I reached B2 level, nearly C1.
But it seems that my German deteriorates.
I also learned French and Russian, but I don't speak those languages very well like my German, and of course, my fluent English.
Now I'm learning Mandarin, and I believe my Mandarin reached A2 or B1 level, because I got Hsk-3 in October 2019.
The problem is maintaining the ability.
Once you get the B level, you start to be fed up with the language you have learned, unless you have a very high motivation and specific purpose to learn the language.
And after that the next question is whether you can maintain the level that has been attained.
I reached B2 or even almost C1 in German long time ago, but now it seems that I can only answer relatively correct the B1 level.
My German deteriorates.
Language is a matter of habits and habitation....
Uh I have the same problem with mandarin. In 2014 I had a reason to learn it and passed hsk 3 but afterwards my life plans Kind of changed. Now I would like to catch up on the language but doing things again that you were already able to do before is just so much less motivating.
@@yanzi8543
the HSK exam will be more difficult.
Last year, I wanted to participate Hsk-4, but the Confucius Institute in Jakarta closed down, due to the pandemi.
They are open only with appointments, and the test is conducted at home, not on the spot like before...
Formerly, I came to CI, enrolled the test and paid the test-fee in cash.
Now, all of the procedures are made with internet...
@@ayi3455 in languages like Chinese people can easily jump classes in university with an entrance exam, that was my plan. At the moment I first need time to catch up on what I used to know. I wouldn't be able to pass right now. :D I'm situated in Germany. Do some people in Indonesia speak Mandarin?
@@yanzi8543
in general : No....
Maybe certain families do, but not in common like in Malaysia..
in Indonesia Mandarin is a foreign language, like Japanese or Korean.
in Malaysia, children of Chinese ethnics study at Chinese schools and speak Mandarin or other Chinese dialects every day...
@@ayi3455 I think you were guessing very well. I don't know much about Indonesia but I thought it might be similar as Malaysia. A friend of mine is malaysian Chinese. :)
here a subscriber from Argentina🙋
i love your videos and practice mi english with them
¿Hablas español o portugués o ambos mi querido amigo?
Voce fala espanhol ou portugues ou ambos meu querido amigo?
@@sleepsmartsmashstress740 hablo español but estou estudando portugues tambem
I dream to live in Argentina 🇦🇷
Thanks lindie and olly!! So informative
15:58 Yes, I'm learning Mandarin and Spanish now so I have Speechling / Glossika set to "Learning" Mandarin with "Translations" to Spanish instead of English - Spanish is so easy (comparatively speaking when you've had high school Spanish and studied Italian) that it's not a problem at all to understand the sentence and actually "cements" the phrase in my mind in BOTH target languages.
Great story and tips, i like how she could to push the more positive habit so she can always learn more language. Also, i like she study language with dual foreign language. That's make me motivate to learn new language. Thanks