Thank you so much, i was the one ( or one of the people) who asked for this video and it did not disappoint, i found this very helpful, thank you very much. I hope to see more of you in the future.
ScorpiousMartianus might be a great resource if you haven't heard of his Latin and Greek videos already. I appreciate your videos very much. Thank you for encouraging us and providing very practical guidance. Your real-ness is entertaining and very much needed in language acquisition circles 😁
Wouldn't it be a good strategy to practice the sentences you suggested using the top 50 most important verbs, then move on to the top 100, and so on? Also in the past, present and future. Great video by the way. I enjoy your no nonsense approach to language learning
That approach is perfectly fine. However, I will add that the top 50 most important verbs might not be the top 50 in the basic material your reviewing from the start. But you'd probably want to get to the top 50 - 100 pretty soon thereafter. A quick example, I went hard on the Chinese cartoons for a while and then I decided to look up what the main verbs I had been learning according to the HSK system and a lot of them were actually HSK 5 / 6 but were super common in the kids shows.
caught me off guard with the slaves line, but very informative video! I have been trying to learn french off and on. but really want to set my teeth into it now and push through. i really need to get the basics down with pepa pig.
Well, Lithuanian shares many things with Latin but is spoken. My current guess is that you only need to learn about 2000 roots, usually single syllable. If you want guidance, let me know.
Latin also shares a heap with Esperanto. When I spent a week a year or so ago looking at it I was shocked to see I could guess my way through a heap of basic sentences.
@@Evildea Most Romance language roots have not changed much in spelling over the centuries. The question is, what are you expecting to get out of the experience? Modern Romance languages are taught for communication purposes, like tourism and reading. Latin and Lithuanian are taught more for linguistics. Latin will teach you to write more complicated sentences, as shown by the English 19th-cent. classics, and Lithuanian is closer to the proto-Indo-European, although I personally think this is irrelevant. What Lithuanian really teaches is word construction as it is on a far different level than Esperanto. Prefixes in Esperanto have strict definitions, but in a living language like German and Lithuanian, while linguists have given multiple definitions for each prefix, you really need to develop a feel for the meaning, not learn a definition. It's like the word 'set' in English. You can go crazy reading all the definitions, but in the end, you have to go with your gut feeling. Thus, Lithuanian is good as a step in learning how to learn languages. The next question is whether you can reach proficiency in Latin. Like I wrote, it is a very complex language. My Latin professor at university was such a master. He knew the Latin as well as we know our native languages, perhaps better. So, he would read a text and the syntax and diction would bring him all sorts of pleasure. For the ordinary mortal, we are just happy to understand the surface meaning. The Asterix jokes will probably bring you more pleasure than Cicero's word play. There is some online material for speaking Latin, but how well rounded the vocabulary is remains a question. I tried to speak Latin with my daughter, but it was a real challenge to formulate everyday sentences. Like do you say 'Felicem vesperem' or 'Felicem vesperem fruare'? Finding those rules are challenging because grammar is written to decipher Plautus, not write in his style.
Ok, you are going to encounter a problem with Latin that you have not met before. Latin was spoken over a wide geographical area over a very long period of time. This was one of my early language lessons. For two years we prepared to read Caesar, but our third year, our darling headmaster gave us instead a Latin reader with selections from across the spectrum, and no Caesar. What a * storm. Every author uses different constructions and different vocabulary in Latin. Pick one author, best a simpler one with lots of dialogue, (No, Plautus, go away.) and stick with him or her until you grasp the language. Then you can spread your wings. An Asterix comic book will take you 6 weeks to read, at least that was how long it took my daughter. It did a pretty good job since just from that one book, she took 2nd place in the national exam for 2 years of Latin.
Is there a way to learn language without having to translate it in my own language?, I want to learn Turkish but confused on which area to work on as in whether start with tenses, sentences or the good old suffixes.
Start with full, super simple sentences. Forget about grammar, tenses, etc. If you practice a heap of sentences that follow a similar template you'll start to just instinctively recognise the grammar without study.
🌈🌈🌈 I am coming up with more creative ways to help me with my foreign languages.🌈🌈🌈 Some of these languages have a history with one another such as the Spaniards and the Filipinos, Swahili and Arabic. I am currently learning Swahili, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Modern Standard Arabic and Filipino. 🌈🌈🌈I do not recommend doing all that typing in that spreadsheet for beginners though. I use ChatGPT too, along with audio, visual videos, Google Translate,etc. That is a perfect combination.🌈🌈🌈
Thank you so much, i was the one ( or one of the people) who asked for this video and it did not disappoint, i found this very helpful, thank you very much. I hope to see more of you in the future.
No problem mate
Would love to hear more specifically about your Chinese learning process and progress.
Sure, I'll make more videos on it :)
Five Evildea videos in the past week? What a treat! What did we do to deserve this?!
You grinded.
Very clear, thanks!
ScorpiousMartianus might be a great resource if you haven't heard of his Latin and Greek videos already. I appreciate your videos very much. Thank you for encouraging us and providing very practical guidance. Your real-ness is entertaining and very much needed in language acquisition circles 😁
Correction: ScorpioMartianus.
I'm not good with computers/cellphones yet 😋
Ah yes I remember ScorpioMartianus videos and they are a god damn goldmine. Thanks for the kind comment!
Memorize in order to access knowledge in the new language
What tv kids shows would u recommend for learning Chinese?
Search Little Fox Chinese on RUclips. They got a heap of kids series from super basic to quite advanced.
Pronouncion / accent are important, but don't forget the melody of sentences
Good point, but one should naturally pick up if repeating sentences the way I lay out in my Grind video. But still a good point.
Wouldn't it be a good strategy to practice the sentences you suggested using the top 50 most important verbs, then move on to the top 100, and so on? Also in the past, present and future.
Great video by the way. I enjoy your no nonsense approach to language learning
That approach is perfectly fine. However, I will add that the top 50 most important verbs might not be the top 50 in the basic material your reviewing from the start. But you'd probably want to get to the top 50 - 100 pretty soon thereafter. A quick example, I went hard on the Chinese cartoons for a while and then I decided to look up what the main verbs I had been learning according to the HSK system and a lot of them were actually HSK 5 / 6 but were super common in the kids shows.
caught me off guard with the slaves line, but very informative video! I have been trying to learn french off and on. but really want to set my teeth into it now and push through. i really need to get the basics down with pepa pig.
Haha, just make sure you do your active study using Pepa Pig so you're not stuck in Pepa Pig hell forever :D
That's all good to know. I already know Latin (thanks church). 😂 I like learning how you learn languages though.
Is Elmo cooking. 😅😂
Elmo loves cooking. Elmo isn't a vegan.
Well, Lithuanian shares many things with Latin but is spoken. My current guess is that you only need to learn about 2000 roots, usually single syllable. If you want guidance, let me know.
Latin also shares a heap with Esperanto. When I spent a week a year or so ago looking at it I was shocked to see I could guess my way through a heap of basic sentences.
@@Evildea Most Romance language roots have not changed much in spelling over the centuries.
The question is, what are you expecting to get out of the experience? Modern Romance languages are taught for communication purposes, like tourism and reading. Latin and Lithuanian are taught more for linguistics. Latin will teach you to write more complicated sentences, as shown by the English 19th-cent. classics, and Lithuanian is closer to the proto-Indo-European, although I personally think this is irrelevant. What Lithuanian really teaches is word construction as it is on a far different level than Esperanto. Prefixes in Esperanto have strict definitions, but in a living language like German and Lithuanian, while linguists have given multiple definitions for each prefix, you really need to develop a feel for the meaning, not learn a definition. It's like the word 'set' in English. You can go crazy reading all the definitions, but in the end, you have to go with your gut feeling. Thus, Lithuanian is good as a step in learning how to learn languages.
The next question is whether you can reach proficiency in Latin. Like I wrote, it is a very complex language. My Latin professor at university was such a master. He knew the Latin as well as we know our native languages, perhaps better. So, he would read a text and the syntax and diction would bring him all sorts of pleasure. For the ordinary mortal, we are just happy to understand the surface meaning. The Asterix jokes will probably bring you more pleasure than Cicero's word play.
There is some online material for speaking Latin, but how well rounded the vocabulary is remains a question. I tried to speak Latin with my daughter, but it was a real challenge to formulate everyday sentences. Like do you say 'Felicem vesperem' or 'Felicem vesperem fruare'? Finding those rules are challenging because grammar is written to decipher Plautus, not write in his style.
Ok, you are going to encounter a problem with Latin that you have not met before. Latin was spoken over a wide geographical area over a very long period of time. This was one of my early language lessons. For two years we prepared to read Caesar, but our third year, our darling headmaster gave us instead a Latin reader with selections from across the spectrum, and no Caesar. What a * storm. Every author uses different constructions and different vocabulary in Latin. Pick one author, best a simpler one with lots of dialogue, (No, Plautus, go away.) and stick with him or her until you grasp the language. Then you can spread your wings. An Asterix comic book will take you 6 weeks to read, at least that was how long it took my daughter. It did a pretty good job since just from that one book, she took 2nd place in the national exam for 2 years of Latin.
If you do want to do Latin at some point in the future, let me know and I'll show you grammar shortcuts when you do.
Very nice, thanks for the advice and I'll definitely keep that in mind! Expect a random ping a year from now haha
@@Evildea Looking forward to it
Is there a way to learn language without having to translate it in my own language?, I want to learn Turkish but confused on which area to work on as in whether start with tenses, sentences or the good old suffixes.
Start with full, super simple sentences. Forget about grammar, tenses, etc. If you practice a heap of sentences that follow a similar template you'll start to just instinctively recognise the grammar without study.
@Evildea unfortunately I'm a slow learner but I will do what I can 🤞🏼
When you started learning English why did you choose the Australian accent?
It was the most prestigious
"Elmo in the bedroom with the meat cleaver!"
Elmo says "You better grind or you'll be grinded"
First!
La dua!
La tria!
Facciamo cinque, dai
🌈🌈🌈 I am coming up with more creative ways to help me with my foreign languages.🌈🌈🌈
Some of these languages have a history with one another such as the Spaniards and the Filipinos, Swahili and Arabic.
I am currently learning Swahili, Brazilian Portuguese, Dutch, Modern Standard Arabic and Filipino.
🌈🌈🌈I do not recommend doing all that typing in that spreadsheet for beginners though. I use ChatGPT too, along with audio, visual videos, Google Translate,etc. That is a perfect combination.🌈🌈🌈
Damn that’s a lot of languages at once!
@@Evildea 🌈🌈🌈 Who Said I am Learning Them At once. I would not Dare. 🌈🌈🌈
1 hour a day for each language would be a killer exercise
Ĉu vi kabeis?
Ne