i believe another useful way of learning is sentence drilling. this is a method in which you swap in and out words while keeping the same grammar structure or the sentence meaning in general. after that, one extra step you may take to upgrade the whole thing is to change the connotation in bit by changing either the verb endings or the sentence endings. it just adds a little more fun in this whole sentence drilling thing i guess ^^ for example: Do you have any pencils? -> 연필이 있*어요*? (direct) -> 연필이 있*나요*? (gives off a bit softer attitude, it's like saying: "Do you have a pencil by any chance?" or "I wonder if you have a pencil.") Yes, i have. -> 네, 있어요. (polite) -> 연필 있*죠*. (Of course I do have a pencil.) Something like that. I hope y'all can get the idea ^^
I’ve been learning hard English since I moved out to US 6 month ago so,this has been is by myself and I already am b2 level and I want to say that isn’t been easy the process because there have been days where I don’t feel that I am doing it right, but the most important is the consistency and keep doing it, so, don’t get stressed or upset about it, just enjoy your trip of your learning and over the time you will see the results ❤
Thank you so much! Truly it makes the biggest difference when you stop hyperfocusing on your progression. I started seeing it this way: when I was a kid I hated long car journeys so I would ask every 5 minutes how far away we were from the destination, which would only increase my frustration cause time didn't seem to pass. Instead when I distracted myself along the way, time would pass anyways without me noticing and we would reach the goal regardless :) Working on things this way really changed the game for me
Great video! I definitely think the stacking languages idea is very useful. I used to focus on one language but now I try to juggle multiple because it helps with not getting burnt out as well besides being very efficient. I hope you continue learning!
Awesome video and great advice! I am comfortable in 5 languages and the one thing that I do is consume as many podcasts as possible until it becomes understandable and then try to speak with native speakers as soon as possible. This builds so much confidence! And I am also trying to learn Japanese right now on my channel but it is a completely different kind of beast haha. Keep up the good work! 😃
That's such a good approach, and wow, you must be so confident to be able to speak to native speakers from the get go! Any reccomendations as to apps/websites to use?
when you said after one year you are gonna understand that video you watched I felt that, like 3 years ago when I was forced to watch an English tv series with no subtitles and I literally understood every word I was so happy I almost cried. of course I still lack a lot but I never thought I would get to this level by myself now all the English language series I watch with no subtitles it was uncomfortable at first but now when there's subtitles I rarely look at it and I hope I get to this point in the other 3 languages im learning
The increase exposure one helped me a lot. I remember studying Spanish in HS but when I hear it in real time, I pretty much couldn't pick out any words. But now I study Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, and over half the shows/movies I watch is in either of those 3 languages, and I rlly synced in with Japanese in particular, mainly b/c it's similar to Korean, which is my mom's tongue, so I was already synced with it, just have to memorize vocab and read more books. But yeah, if you just memorize sentences and vocab, but don't get exposed to it, you'll probably blank out like I did with Spanish at first
Yes it's really so helpful! Like, it turns out that the reason why my friends were so much better at english than me back in high-school was because they were constantly on Tumblr and Twitter so they would get ton of exposure while I was using textbooks 😂 congrats on your improvements btw, that's awesome!
@@valentina_sulisthanks. I hope your channel does well also, this vid was rlly well structured, I was surprised you only have under 200 subscribers. But I realized you just started YT recently, keep up the good vids 👍
It's impressive how time passes by. The prob with language learning is the intermediate plateau. Frustration, anxiety, and stress come thither. Just patience...
It's truee, such a frustrating phase. My best piece of advice to overcome it is to switch to consuming content at a higher level than you currently are once you notice you hit it and keep at it (even if you think it might be too challenging) 💪
I am learning japanese by myself but I'm also learning english and french in highschool here in spain so it's a little bit hard to focus on mostly 2 languages wich are completely different since I'm already "fluent" in english, but thanks to your video I'm more motivated to learn japanese. I also wanted to learn korean but everyone says that's too much 😅, I don't know what to do
Well, I would say that something being "too much" is very personal, maybe because you follow your curiosity you'll end up learning and growing more than the people who see this as a limit. So if you feel like this is something you want to do don't let other people perception get in the way, besides, you don't need to be fully committed or aim to become fluent or perfect to start something, you can just start :)
@@valentina_sulis oh, I thought you weren't going to answer, thanks. My parents yesterday told me that a Japanese academy had a new group so I was thinking to join it instead of learning by myself, the thing is that I would have to quit my English academy because I also have highschool. Maybe I will start learning Korean little by little, thanks for answering me :)
@@ArianneIzquierdo Anytime ☺ It makes sense, take it one step at the time. I think it's amazing what you are doing, and considering you are in high school you must be quite young as well! I admire people who follow their curiosity :) I wish you the best of luck on your learning journey 💕
@@valentina_sulis thanks, Yes I'm young I'm gonna turn 13 this year on december. I've always loved learning languages, I still have some notes about Japanese numbers when I was 8-9 but I was lazy to learn at that moment hahahaha.
That's truee :( but experience tells me that if you learned it really well the first time around and then stop practicing it you will quickly go back into fluency after a few weeks of practicing again :)
I speak English and Spanish and now I’m currently studying Persian Language (Farsi) I study these languages by watching RUclips videos in my target language (which is Farsi) I learnt speaking Spanish through music and reading the lyrics (lyrics is letras) in Spanish 🇪🇸 🇲🇽
Hello Valentina. I am AlonsoG I learnt English by myself. 1 vocabulary 2 colocatton 3 listenlng 4 wrting. I learnt with the series ExtraEnglish Good input always. Series are the best cause you have context. Stories Etc.
Very good video, I completely agree. I speak and read 5 langs right now. Hopefully 6 langs before 2025. These advices you have given, I literally follow them already.
@@valentina_sulis In learning, I am right now doing Hindi + French. And also preparing IELTS English exam which is like a C2 level exam which I plan to give in December of this year. And hopefully I will be able to add Persian to my list of languages this year.
I would be actually very careful with learning two similar languages at the same time from scratch, I've heard other polyglots advise against it, cause it's just gonna mix up in your head (maybe more of vocabulary-wise than grammar-wise, that's probably why Japanese and Korean works for you, but for example Spanish and Italian might not be the best decision).
when it comes to learning anything obviously people do need to experiment a lot, whatever works for me the opposite advice will work for somebody else. So here I shared what helped me and I found worked really well (even similar vocab was ok for me), but what other polyglots say can be valid as well. If anyone reading this does test it for a while and finds it confusing by all means do stop
mmh, I get that! Do you use Instagram or tiktok? I am thinking maybe if you already use it you could make an account and follow people who talk about your interests but only in korean! Also I have been listening to this podcast called "Choisusu's Korean podcast' on spotify which has talks for all levels about daily life, so I recommend :)
I don't have any social media outside of RUclips, but I can definitely try watching vlogs. I do watch podcast to work on listening, but I've been stuck at the same level for a while so I've only watched short beginner level videos
@@pammonty6240 Oh yeah, I use the talk to me in Korean book for learning. And, after each story I listen then write my own story up. I did want to try cooking videos, but I haven't been able to find a good Korean Cooking channel where the person is talking
I have an important question but first you’re right about overwhelming because I was overwhelming about vocab and ended up deleted some of them 🤡 and want to learn German too but I’m afraid I’m not be able to adjust between them but you encouraged me to learn it now because too I think it’s similar to English ..so the question is from where did you learn English vocab ? Because this thing frustrating me 😂😭
Omg it makes me so happy to know I have encouraged you to do it! So I would say the best approach depends on how much you need to get to your end goal, so how intense you can be. I think probably the thing that had me learning the fastest was reading above my level and then try and write about it. I don't really like writing but it was very effective. Also consuming a lot of media possibly without subtitles. When I reached a bit of a higher level (so that I wouldn't just be adding anything and everything) I would keep a journal where I would write down all the expressions I did not know already and tried to use them as much as possible, you get tons of words in context that way. If you need more advice feel free to text me on IG!
I’m currently trying to learn Italian, my problem is I always translate it to English when I read something in Italian. Is there a way I can overcome this?
Ok, I think that from Portuguese the easiest jump it's Spanish, I know that for sure because as I am fluent in Spanish I can usually read and understand quite a bit of Portuguese even tho I cannot speak it at all just from sound similarity. The other ones are probably Italian and even French because of their grammar. From English probably German or Dutch :)
Hello dear ma'am I am looking for american best teacher who teaches biology physics and chemistry also can you tell me who is american best teacher please tell me their name in comment section
Никада нећеш погодити мој језик... Сад ако погодиш мој језик добро. честитаћу ти... "NO TRANSLATION" If you get it right probably make a video of my langauge on your channel...
very practical advice! thanks a lot 💌
i believe another useful way of learning is sentence drilling. this is a method in which you swap in and out words while keeping the same grammar structure or the sentence meaning in general. after that, one extra step you may take to upgrade the whole thing is to change the connotation in bit by changing either the verb endings or the sentence endings. it just adds a little more fun in this whole sentence drilling thing i guess ^^
for example: Do you have any pencils?
-> 연필이 있*어요*? (direct)
-> 연필이 있*나요*? (gives off a bit softer attitude, it's like saying: "Do you have a pencil by any chance?" or "I wonder if you have a pencil.")
Yes, i have.
-> 네, 있어요. (polite)
-> 연필 있*죠*. (Of course I do have a pencil.)
Something like that. I hope y'all can get the idea ^^
Thank you! 🥹 that's such a helpful tip! I didn't know that's what it was called, I'm going to pin this comment so other people can see it as well :)
As a language learner, I completely agree with your thinking ☺️
your accent is so nice!! so cute😊❤
That's so sweet 🥹 thank you so much
1:41 🤧 first humble person that says the level she has in the languages she speaks : D keep the good work.
Thank you 🥹 I made a pact with myself to keep a 100% honesty policy on this channel
I’ve been learning hard English since I moved out to US 6 month ago so,this has been is by myself and I already am b2 level and I want to say that isn’t been easy the process because there have been days where I don’t feel that I am doing it right, but the most important is the consistency and keep doing it, so, don’t get stressed or upset about it, just enjoy your trip of your learning and over the time you will see the results ❤
I am really amazed at how much useful advice you shared. I am following most of it and seeing some improvement. Thank you. ❤️❤️
Wow that makes me so happy 😭😭❤️ I am so glad
absolutely loved this video! Also the forget the goal tip was really eye-opening! I'm thinking how we can implement this also in our studies!
Thank you so much! Truly it makes the biggest difference when you stop hyperfocusing on your progression. I started seeing it this way: when I was a kid I hated long car journeys so I would ask every 5 minutes how far away we were from the destination, which would only increase my frustration cause time didn't seem to pass. Instead when I distracted myself along the way, time would pass anyways without me noticing and we would reach the goal regardless :) Working on things this way really changed the game for me
@@valentina_sulis wow! this mindset tho>>> we really need to start working on it 💞
thank u so much ♥ this is so helping
i already speak 3 languages and i'm trying to learn more
I'm glad :) good luck!
Great video! I definitely think the stacking languages idea is very useful. I used to focus on one language but now I try to juggle multiple because it helps with not getting burnt out as well besides being very efficient. I hope you continue learning!
Thank you!
thanks for your advices!
Thank you for watching :)
Awesome video and great advice! I am comfortable in 5 languages and the one thing that I do is consume as many podcasts as possible until it becomes understandable and then try to speak with native speakers as soon as possible. This builds so much confidence! And I am also trying to learn Japanese right now on my channel but it is a completely different kind of beast haha. Keep up the good work! 😃
That's such a good approach, and wow, you must be so confident to be able to speak to native speakers from the get go! Any reccomendations as to apps/websites to use?
Thank you for this magnificent video!
That's so nice, I'm glad it helped :)
Value packed video!! I like your advice on the speaking and comprehension first. Getting that muscle in is really beneficial I found~~ thank you!
thank you! :)
I'm learning my second foreign language and I really appreciate your tips.
I'm glad :)
when you said after one year you are gonna understand that video you watched I felt that, like 3 years ago when I was forced to watch an English tv series with no subtitles and I literally understood every word I was so happy I almost cried. of course I still lack a lot but I never thought I would get to this level by myself now all the English language series I watch with no subtitles it was uncomfortable at first but now when there's subtitles I rarely look at it and I hope I get to this point in the other 3 languages im learning
That's amazing 🥹 good luck with the other languages too
@@valentina_sulis thank you!
Extremely helpful video, thank you!!! I'm subscribing 😊😊
Thank you so much!! :))
Thank You for your valuable time!
Anytime! :)
could you please make a video speaking in other languages? i love it🌹💖
Hii :) sure, i can come up with something. what kind of video were you thinking? 🫶
The increase exposure one helped me a lot. I remember studying Spanish in HS but when I hear it in real time, I pretty much couldn't pick out any words. But now I study Japanese, Korean, and Spanish, and over half the shows/movies I watch is in either of those 3 languages, and I rlly synced in with Japanese in particular, mainly b/c it's similar to Korean, which is my mom's tongue, so I was already synced with it, just have to memorize vocab and read more books. But yeah, if you just memorize sentences and vocab, but don't get exposed to it, you'll probably blank out like I did with Spanish at first
Yes it's really so helpful! Like, it turns out that the reason why my friends were so much better at english than me back in high-school was because they were constantly on Tumblr and Twitter so they would get ton of exposure while I was using textbooks 😂 congrats on your improvements btw, that's awesome!
@@valentina_sulisthanks. I hope your channel does well also, this vid was rlly well structured, I was surprised you only have under 200 subscribers. But I realized you just started YT recently, keep up the good vids 👍
It's impressive how time passes by. The prob with language learning is the intermediate plateau. Frustration, anxiety, and stress come thither. Just patience...
It's truee, such a frustrating phase. My best piece of advice to overcome it is to switch to consuming content at a higher level than you currently are once you notice you hit it and keep at it (even if you think it might be too challenging) 💪
Everything happens at the right time, remember that.
100% agree :)
I am learning japanese by myself but I'm also learning english and french in highschool here in spain so it's a little bit hard to focus on mostly 2 languages wich are completely different since I'm already "fluent" in english, but thanks to your video I'm more motivated to learn japanese. I also wanted to learn korean but everyone says that's too much 😅, I don't know what to do
Well, I would say that something being "too much" is very personal, maybe because you follow your curiosity you'll end up learning and growing more than the people who see this as a limit. So if you feel like this is something you want to do don't let other people perception get in the way, besides, you don't need to be fully committed or aim to become fluent or perfect to start something, you can just start :)
@@valentina_sulis oh, I thought you weren't going to answer, thanks. My parents yesterday told me that a Japanese academy had a new group so I was thinking to join it instead of learning by myself, the thing is that I would have to quit my English academy because I also have highschool. Maybe I will start learning Korean little by little, thanks for answering me :)
@@ArianneIzquierdo Anytime ☺ It makes sense, take it one step at the time. I think it's amazing what you are doing, and considering you are in high school you must be quite young as well! I admire people who follow their curiosity :) I wish you the best of luck on your learning journey 💕
@@valentina_sulis thanks, Yes I'm young I'm gonna turn 13 this year on december. I've always loved learning languages, I still have some notes about Japanese numbers when I was 8-9 but I was lazy to learn at that moment hahahaha.
Extremely helpful thanks 🙂
I'm really glad you found it helpful :)
Other big challenge is what you learnt at university forgetting it because you don't practice at all, that's my case
That's truee :( but experience tells me that if you learned it really well the first time around and then stop practicing it you will quickly go back into fluency after a few weeks of practicing again :)
I speak English and Spanish and now I’m currently studying Persian Language (Farsi)
I study these languages by watching RUclips videos in my target language (which is Farsi)
I learnt speaking Spanish through music and reading the lyrics (lyrics is letras) in Spanish 🇪🇸 🇲🇽
Yes! That's learning through music is actually a great tip :)
Hello Valentina.
I am AlonsoG I learnt English by myself.
1 vocabulary
2 colocatton
3 listenlng
4 wrting.
I learnt with the series ExtraEnglish
Good input always.
Series are the best cause you have context.
Stories
Etc.
Thank you for sharing :)
Please more and more videos i enjoy whatching your videos 🎉❤
that's so nice of you, I appreciate that :) more videos coming soon!
@valentina_sulis big fan thank you
Very good video, I completely agree. I speak and read 5 langs right now. Hopefully 6 langs before 2025. These advices you have given, I literally follow them already.
wow which languages are you learning? You can definitely learn quite a bit in the next 6 mont
@@valentina_sulis In learning, I am right now doing Hindi + French. And also preparing IELTS English exam which is like a C2 level exam which I plan to give in December of this year. And hopefully I will be able to add Persian to my list of languages this year.
@@AdamYLM good luck on your exam!
I would be actually very careful with learning two similar languages at the same time from scratch, I've heard other polyglots advise against it, cause it's just gonna mix up in your head (maybe more of vocabulary-wise than grammar-wise, that's probably why Japanese and Korean works for you, but for example Spanish and Italian might not be the best decision).
when it comes to learning anything obviously people do need to experiment a lot, whatever works for me the opposite advice will work for somebody else. So here I shared what helped me and I found worked really well (even similar vocab was ok for me), but what other polyglots say can be valid as well. If anyone reading this does test it for a while and finds it confusing by all means do stop
Thank you for this video
So nice of you :)
RUclips recommend your channel me, hi, I’m new here ❤
welcome! :)
where do you usually take your lessons? Nice wideo btw
Thank you :) I take them on preply!
Thank you nono
Je parle 8+ langues
Wow c’est beaucoup de langage 🤩
@@videovideoyeah j'ai menti
Very good! Would you be interested to share your whole language journey in Italian on our language podcast?
Thanks a lot for asking. Right now I am super packed, but maybe in the future
I like this video! I just subscribed
Thank you so much :)
I tried the tv and music thing but I hate kdramas and kpop so it's so hard 😂. I just like the language so getting immersion is hard
mmh, I get that! Do you use Instagram or tiktok? I am thinking maybe if you already use it you could make an account and follow people who talk about your interests but only in korean! Also I have been listening to this podcast called "Choisusu's Korean podcast' on spotify which has talks for all levels about daily life, so I recommend :)
Oh and maybe korean vlogs on youtube if you are into that!
I don't have any social media outside of RUclips, but I can definitely try watching vlogs. I do watch podcast to work on listening, but I've been stuck at the same level for a while so I've only watched short beginner level videos
I'm also learning Korean, and I'm trying to read Harry Potter 😅. What about reading short stories or watching cooking videos?
@@pammonty6240 Oh yeah, I use the talk to me in Korean book for learning. And, after each story I listen then write my own story up. I did want to try cooking videos, but I haven't been able to find a good Korean Cooking channel where the person is talking
Thanks for you video very useful, sorry for my English my mother tongue is Spanish
Glad it was helpful :)
I have an important question but first you’re right about overwhelming because I was overwhelming about vocab and ended up deleted some of them 🤡 and want to learn German too but I’m afraid I’m not be able to adjust between them but you encouraged me to learn it now because too I think it’s similar to English ..so the question is from where did you learn English vocab ? Because this thing frustrating me 😂😭
Omg it makes me so happy to know I have encouraged you to do it! So I would say the best approach depends on how much you need to get to your end goal, so how intense you can be. I think probably the thing that had me learning the fastest was reading above my level and then try and write about it. I don't really like writing but it was very effective. Also consuming a lot of media possibly without subtitles. When I reached a bit of a higher level (so that I wouldn't just be adding anything and everything) I would keep a journal where I would write down all the expressions I did not know already and tried to use them as much as possible, you get tons of words in context that way. If you need more advice feel free to text me on IG!
@@valentina_sulis thank you so much for replaying 🥹 I’ll send you now haha 😂❤️🧑🏻🦯
@@YaraMahmoud_21 of course
I’m currently trying to learn Italian, my problem is I always translate it to English when I read something in Italian. Is there a way I can overcome this?
Hii, could you give me an example?
Iam currently on that
Hello excellent video
thanks :)
Brava!
Grazie!
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スリスさんはマルチリンガルですか
私の日本が分かりますか
はい、分かります🤗
Great video.
Thank you so much ☺️
Which Language do you recommend to me after English? (I speak Portuguese and English)
Ok, I think that from Portuguese the easiest jump it's Spanish, I know that for sure because as I am fluent in Spanish I can usually read and understand quite a bit of Portuguese even tho I cannot speak it at all just from sound similarity. The other ones are probably Italian and even French because of their grammar. From English probably German or Dutch :)
Hello dear ma'am
I am looking for american best teacher who teaches biology physics and chemistry also can you tell me who is american best teacher please tell me their name in comment section
Sorry I don't know
Which country did you leave? 😮😮
I left Italy and then the Uk :)
@@valentina_sulis nice to meet you
Nice girl:)
Thanks :)
Do you speak arabic
@@dianadeeh-pv2bh no, but maybe I'll study it in the future
Никада нећеш погодити мој језик... Сад ако погодиш мој језик добро. честитаћу ти... "NO TRANSLATION" If you get it right probably make a video of my langauge on your channel...
I don't speak any cyrilic language