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Luca! Such an inspiration for so many years now. As a language learner, as a teacher, as a thinker and as a human being. Thank you for all you share man and may it come back to you ten fold.
Great insights! Mistake #3 really resonated with me. Learning when my energy is low has always been a recipe for slow progress and frustration. Time to prioritize my language learning during my peak energy times. Thanks for the helpful reminder!
I did the habit anchoring to learning languages. I wake up to get ready for the day. I switch my headphones on after brushing my hair and washing my face. While making coffee and sitting on my porch every morning before kids wake up, I now listen to something in my target language. Currently it is two Pimsluer courses. Then I wake up kids, get them ready for the day, and set them to their homeschool. While I cook supper, then I watch an episode of a show in one of my languages (not necessarily my current target language). When I am working at our sales shop for my shift during the week I used to doodle or make lists for shopping or whatever. Now I have been using that time to practice "spelling" or writing in my target language this week. At night, after in bed for the night, then I play my video games in my languages. Sometimes I talk to myself in the shower to practice speaking if I don't have a friend to talk to this week. I also like to mimic lines from my shows (which I have done since I was little and used Disney to learn English.) So, I cannot do a lot of my stuff anymore without my languages, because I have switched my routines to have them in it.
I struggled for years in language learning. I tried and failed to learn German, Freanch, and others. Finding your content, along with Krashen's and Lingosteve's, has really changed things for me. I can see that you've put a lot of effort into making your content. If you've ever wondered if you've ever really made a difference in someone else's life, I can tell you, you've changed mine. Thank you. I've wanted to be multilingual for basically all of my life, and without content like yours, I don't think I would have ever found the path to success.
Thanks, very motivating. I like the idea to put language learning in every day routine. I'm currently studying Japanese, in my everyday routine there is a walk of about 30-40 minutes and I have connected it to listening Japanese playlist from lingq. In the evening I usually work on reading/writing/vocabulary of the lessons I've heard. On Saturday and Sunday I work on grammar with a course book and on Sunday I make my plan for the next week. Having a weekly plan is a great thing, I don't have time during the week to choose lessons and content but if I do it during the weekend I have not to bother about it and I am more focused on studying whatever I have decided.
Connecting and replacing learning with other habits has been the most useful when learning Russian for me. Since I got to an intermediate level, I have switched my habit of listening to podcasts from mainly Scandinavian to Russian podcasts, and I have replaced most of my time watching Netflix with watching Russian TV series. I've also started to listen to podcasts while cleaning the house, cooking food, and washing the dishes.
I remember I was slightly struggling with decluttering some time ago and someone said to me "just make a start and be consistent doing a bit more every single day" and I think the same applies to learning a language ! It's as simple as that ! 😌
Wonderful. To the point, great insights. The sign of a genius is seeing the obvious when those around him are chronically unaware of the obvious. Thank you for removing the fog.
3. Luca, you forgot that people are at work during the day. And usually at the time of their high energy. When they return home they usually are pretty tired. I don't know how others, but I definitely can't learn languages at work. 😏
The point that resonated with me the most has to be number 5, we can fight through the procrastination and friction to learn our target language, but once we don't even have a plan for what to learn, it is difficult to progress forward, and we just give up at the end. Thank you Luca for pointing this out!
Wow, you really hit the nail(s) on the head. I've been slothful and unsuccessful in my language learning for the past year or so. These ideas are so spot-on and clear. I feel like I can climb ack in the saddle again. Thank you!
Salut Luca, je t'ai croisé dans l'avion ce matin. Je voulais attendre d'etre descendu pour te dire que j'apprécie énormément ton travail et que tu m'as beaucoup aidé dans mon voyage dans le monde des langues. Malheureusement j'étais au fond de l'avion et je n'ai pas eu l'occasion de te croiser. Donc je te remercie ici! À bientôt peut-être !
Wow!! This video came exactly on time!! Because I am learning four languages: Russian, German, Italian and Greek, I felt lost and unknowing to organize my time!! Thank you very much.
@@alexandredossantos3921 Because I learned Russian from a young age, and when my level improved, I added German, and after a very noticeable improvement in both languages, I added Greek, and I continued in this way until I started learning Italian as well two weeks ago. I love learning languages, it gives me a feeling that I am doing something useful in my life without forgetting to talk about the benefits such as protection from Alzheimer’s and other diseases related to memory impairment, and I am in adolescence and I see that I am more interested in learning languages, just as the world needs language proficiency. It is true that I am overburdening myself, but organizing the time will do the trick. It is difficult for me to prevent myself from learning all of them at once, so I learned them gradually.
Hi Luca, I have been struggling for a while with all the things you said in this video, now i can tell realising that learn a language is not spending all your day but taking a few minutes in it. Now you can see the progress.
Bravo Luca! Complimenti! 👏🏻Awesome video. You're the one of the first couple of polyglots that I started following a long time ago 😊 You've been such a motivation for me all those years 😊
I'm currently on a maternity leave, and struggled very much to find time to improve the 5 languages I already speak. One day I was outdoors scrolling through Reels on Instagram, while my baby was playing by himself with a leaf, and it clicked! I have time to watch a video about someone's productivity, thinking how can I improve mine, while baby will be asleep, and I will be near my PC, and I will be motivated and not tired, and all the materials will be near me, and it will be the correct phase of the moon, and more other stupid excuses, instead of taking an action. So I just organized my language learning routine the way it's available fast both on the phone and PC, and I have no excuses now :D
The question is, how do you learn a certain or a current language (by reading grammar books, or memorize vocabulary, or making advance sentences?)? What methods do you use? What kind of subject or activities do you like to emphasis? As I got the time, but I don't know what kinda of thing I wanted to learn. I think that's one of the thing that makes my learning progress go slower, that's why I wanted to make the progress go faster I'm curious about that.
Ciao Luca! Grazie mille per il tuo video molto utile. Ho cominciato a imparare italiano un anno e mezzo fa e cerco di seguire sempre i tuoi consigli. Sei un insegnante/coach bravissimo. Sono sempre di più motivata con te. Grazie mille!
in brief: 1. **Telling Yourself You Have No Time to Learn**: Luca suggests that this is a limiting belief and encourages viewers to reframe their thinking. Instead of saying you don't have time, consider whether language learning is a priority and how you can make it one. 2. **Believing That Language Learning is All or Nothing**: Luca dispels the notion that you need to spend several hours a day learning a language. He suggests that even 15 to 30 minutes a day can be effective if done consistently. 3. **Learning When Your Energy is Low**: Luca advises scheduling your language learning during your peak energy times. This will help you be more alert, focused, and engaged in the learning process. 4. **Waiting for Motivation to Strike**: Instead of relying on motivation to learn, Luca suggests flipping the formula and letting action be a prerequisite for motivation. He believes that by taking action, the motivation will follow. 5. **Making it Difficult to Get Started Each Day**: Luca recommends preparing for each learning session in advance to reduce friction and make the start of each session easier. This includes deciding what you're going to learn and having all your resources ready. 6. **Not Connecting Your Learning to Your Other Daily Habits**: Luca suggests using a technique called anchoring, where you connect your language learning habit to a pre-existing daily habit. This helps make the learning routine more natural and effortless. Luca concludes by encouraging viewers to try these tips and see how they can create productive language learning time in their daily routines. He also mentions his courses for beginners and intermediate learners as additional resources.
hola luca, al principio Cúal fue el idioma mas complicado que has adquirido? podrías hacer potcasts en italiano y otros idiomas para aprender vocabulario, gracias, un saludo. 👍🌎🎲
I like that idea about the anchor habit and introducing other learning ideas around that how can i come up with other ideas with my anchor habit i drive a truck listening to my voice doing vocabulary have you got any ideas that could help Luca i am learning Spanish 😊 regards Richo
The main point of your presentation for me, as an early morning person, my concentration is at let’s peek. I’m going to try learning say an hour in the morning, and say an half hour immediately after lunch.
My job kicked up a notch this year. Japan hated days off so I work more 7-day weeks than I care to think about, plus I can't get through all my daily tasks before clocking out time. Then, when I do have free time, I am exhausted and just want to be a vegetable in my bed. I still do my languages, but I can not hit as many languages as I would like each day. And I don't spend as much time as I would like in each language. For me, language apps help with low-time, low-energy and low motivation. People dispute how effective Duolingo, Drops and other apps are, but the desire to not lose my streak by missing a day is the only reason I study sometimes. I think there is value in phoning it in on these days. Honestly, you probably won't learn a lot. However, the alternative for me is not doing any study at all. That might lead to me losing my habit and, before you know it, it has been months since my last interaction with the language. Also, even a little interaction with a language keeps it active in my brain, so I don't have to dig so far to find it next time. I may not have time or motivation today, but I will at some point. Til then, doing the minimum to keep the habit is fine by me.
For me motivation is really a priority if I learn a new language. If I don't feel like learning, I just skip it for that day. Losing one day is no big deal to me. Having a timetable only stesses me. If I compel myself to learn every day no matter what, I get burn out for sure and I become very inefficient. Fortunately, I am very used to learning and I can't stop myself from doing it, so having motivation is quite a natural thing for me. I guess, each person is different.
Luca, you're great. You're an inspiration to us all, and I love the work you've done to help others. But I can't help but wonder: what is with the Pinocchio puppet hanging from your lamp? It's a most unusual thing to have in the background. 🙂
Hey Luca, another great video! I could use some advice :) I am currently learning Italian at university. I would consider myself A2/B1. But I really really wanna learn French. I did two years of French at high school so I know the grammar but…well…not more than that. Would it be a mistake to start learning French now and if so, when should I start and how should I approach it? Thanks a lot!
Ciao Luca, sarebbe carino (non so se in passato l'hai già fatto) se facessi un video dove fai vedere effettivamente come si svolge una tua daily routine (magari sullo studio dell'Inglese) Grazie e continua così ;)
What your advice for someone who wants to learn two languages at the sama time? Alocate equal amount of time for each one, or put bigger enphasis on one we are weaker?
Hi, Luca, I have been following your tremendous coaching tips / interviews for quite sometime, and wow, you are just such an inspiration and I have learnt so much from you, both as a language learner and as a teacher. I'd like to ask you a question relating to my own language situation, if I may. I am German originally, but lived and worked over 35 years in Australia, hence my ENGLISH is around C1 level (now in my retirement I teach beginner English to Seniors, plus German to young refugees). FRENCH which I have more or less used on a conversational level/reading books - I would be more or less on a B2 level. Since my retirement a few years ago and return to Germany I have been following advanced online courses and intend to continue this. ITALIAN- have started the language 1 1/2 years ago from zero, first online on my own, then started to participate in weekly classes, mainly for conversation practice, but keep continuing with online programs as I find the onsite lessons too slow - would think I am now at A2 level. In addition I am starting now weekly tandem sessions. SPANISH - have left it aside for approx. 5 years unfortunately. At one time I was at least A2 level, but I must have forgotten quite a lot, I think. My QUESTION to you - By beginning of next year I would like to tackle Italian and Spanish at the same time, aiming at the same level for both languages, A2 at least, or better B1 - whilst still continuing with my French sessions. Do you think this is realistic and doable? I am 74 now, fit both physically and mentally and feel I HAVE to do this now. I am retired, have time on my hand but also work on a voluntary basis, teaching German and English classes about 8-10hrs a week..... I love language learning. If your answer is yes,it can be done, what is the best way for me to bring my Spanish again up to scratch after these past years of doing nothing (going thru my coursebooks to revise)? Maybe give me a timeframe I have to look at, daily, to achieve this. If I have to, I can reduce my voluntary work by half..... Sorry Luca, to write such a novel, but I really wanted to explain what I am really about and I would be ever so grateful to you if you could give me your valuable advice. PractIcally i feel I wasted so much of my time over the years, and I want to make up for it now - life got into the way 😂 - and of course in my young time we did not have the (Online) options that exist today..... I hope so much to hear from you, even in an ever so brief way. Thank you for bringing your love and skill for languages to so many of us..... Chris😊 😊😊
Merci lucas pour tes conseils précieux mon problème c'est que j'ai commencé à apprendre le français et j'ai atteint un niveau moyen mais j'arrive pas à parler avec les gens j'ai peur comment résoudre ce problème svp?
Dear Luca, thanks a lot for this video! Can I ask you a qustion not connected directly with language learning? How do you meditate? Could you share some simple technique please?
@@LucaLampariello Hi, Luca!! Thank you ever so much for your feedback! You mean the cartoon series? What do you do with it? Just watch it? Think about it? Or something else as well?
LOL! I wake up, make my bed, do some wake-up things in the bathroom, and then start making breakfast. In the meantime I feed the birds, turtle and squirrels, then water my garden. Then I eat my breakfast. I've also started prepping things for lunch. By this time, I'm getting tired, but because of time differences, I often have to do business by phone in the morning. By that time...well, running a house takes time. AndI don't see any EATING in your morning routine!!!!! LOL!
Ciao Luca, in my opinion the real problem Is improving the the language. For example if I start from scratch a new language ( It depends Which Is your mother tongue obviously), reaching a B1/B2 level It Is not so difficoult. But the hardest thing Is reaching C1/C2 and sharing time with othet languages that you already know or you are going to study. I am italian ok, i can speak in Romanian, Spanish, French at different levels and understand Portuguese but i feel Always as in my knowledge misses something because there a lots of Word that we should know in every languages and in every topic. The job Is a real problem when you come back and are tired After 10 hours with traffic, stress, efforts and I've found a Little thing that can help me. I am a driver so I put music from all over the world
I think people typically don't understand the benefit of spacing on their learning. It's actually much better to spread study out than to commit the same amount of time over fewer days. Whether you have time/energy for it is such a fine line that I don't think it's good to get judgmental about it. It only takes a little shift one way or the other to be in a good spot to be in a really bad spot, and people typically underestimate that privilege. I do a little everyday, but there's definitely many days I get close to no value out of it because of the abuse I experience from my landlord, getting no sleep, being stressed. I am sure I'm not the only person in the world with such problems, and there's times when I have a week or two in a row with no good days that I consider just giving up. But the habit is so ingrained after 2 years that there's no motivation component.
2 things: practice each skill separately: comprehension, reading, speaking, pronunciation, and writing, but to practice those skills, don't use a method you don't like. You can look for different methods on the internet if you don't have ideas, in order to try and then eliminate what doesn't suit you.
A RUclipser. Who knows Mandarin. And Japense. Had a trip sponsored. Flew to Korea. . And she said. She studied 10 hours a dat. 7 days a week. And memorized 700 words. Must be at least a 5. Out of 10
People re so lazy. People who say this will happily spend an hour a night scrolling though instagram or watching netflix. If you’re watching a youtube video at all you prob have time to do a few parallel translations or something
On Jan 1 this year I started a streak on my preferred learning app. I'm at 144 days and the thought of breaking the streak is unthinkable. Even if I have to skip tv at night after my youngest goes to bed and I'm exhausted, I will still get my lingQ coins in.
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Luca! Such an inspiration for so many years now. As a language learner, as a teacher, as a thinker and as a human being. Thank you for all you share man and may it come back to you ten fold.
Thanks for the glowing words Erik! =)
Great insights! Mistake #3 really resonated with me. Learning when my energy is low has always been a recipe for slow progress and frustration. Time to prioritize my language learning during my peak energy times. Thanks for the helpful reminder!
I did the habit anchoring to learning languages.
I wake up to get ready for the day. I switch my headphones on after brushing my hair and washing my face. While making coffee and sitting on my porch every morning before kids wake up, I now listen to something in my target language. Currently it is two Pimsluer courses. Then I wake up kids, get them ready for the day, and set them to their homeschool. While I cook supper, then I watch an episode of a show in one of my languages (not necessarily my current target language).
When I am working at our sales shop for my shift during the week I used to doodle or make lists for shopping or whatever. Now I have been using that time to practice "spelling" or writing in my target language this week.
At night, after in bed for the night, then I play my video games in my languages. Sometimes I talk to myself in the shower to practice speaking if I don't have a friend to talk to this week. I also like to mimic lines from my shows (which I have done since I was little and used Disney to learn English.)
So, I cannot do a lot of my stuff anymore without my languages, because I have switched my routines to have them in it.
I struggled for years in language learning. I tried and failed to learn German, Freanch, and others. Finding your content, along with Krashen's and Lingosteve's, has really changed things for me. I can see that you've put a lot of effort into making your content. If you've ever wondered if you've ever really made a difference in someone else's life, I can tell you, you've changed mine. Thank you. I've wanted to be multilingual for basically all of my life, and without content like yours, I don't think I would have ever found the path to success.
These are GREAT tips! Thank you, Luca!!
Thank you very much Lucca, I agree..keep a routine..never wait for motivation to strike
Thanks, very motivating. I like the idea to put language learning in every day routine. I'm currently studying Japanese, in my everyday routine there is a walk of about 30-40 minutes and I have connected it to listening Japanese playlist from lingq. In the evening I usually work on reading/writing/vocabulary of the lessons I've heard. On Saturday and Sunday I work on grammar with a course book and on Sunday I make my plan for the next week. Having a weekly plan is a great thing, I don't have time during the week to choose lessons and content but if I do it during the weekend I have not to bother about it and I am more focused on studying whatever I have decided.
Connecting and replacing learning with other habits has been the most useful when learning Russian for me. Since I got to an intermediate level, I have switched my habit of listening to podcasts from mainly Scandinavian to Russian podcasts, and I have replaced most of my time watching Netflix with watching Russian TV series. I've also started to listen to podcasts while cleaning the house, cooking food, and washing the dishes.
I remember I was slightly struggling with decluttering some time ago and someone said to me "just make a start and be consistent doing a bit more every single day" and I think the same applies to learning a language ! It's as simple as that ! 😌
Wonderful. To the point, great insights.
The sign of a genius is seeing the obvious when those around him are chronically unaware of the obvious.
Thank you for removing the fog.
3. Luca, you forgot that people are at work during the day. And usually at the time of their high energy. When they return home they usually are pretty tired. I don't know how others, but I definitely can't learn languages at work. 😏
Thank u for your amazing steps!
The point that resonated with me the most has to be number 5, we can fight through the procrastination and friction to learn our target language, but once we don't even have a plan for what to learn, it is difficult to progress forward, and we just give up at the end. Thank you Luca for pointing this out!
Wow, you really hit the nail(s) on the head. I've been slothful and unsuccessful in my language learning for the past year or so. These ideas are so spot-on and clear. I feel like I can climb ack in the saddle again. Thank you!
I love the idea of anchoring habits!
7:15 is probably one of the best tips I've ever heard ngl
Merci pour tes précieux conseils Lucas , vraiment qualitative ta chaîne , on apprécie
Salut Luca, je t'ai croisé dans l'avion ce matin. Je voulais attendre d'etre descendu pour te dire que j'apprécie énormément ton travail et que tu m'as beaucoup aidé dans mon voyage dans le monde des langues. Malheureusement j'étais au fond de l'avion et je n'ai pas eu l'occasion de te croiser. Donc je te remercie ici! À bientôt peut-être !
Great, useful video...Thank you!😊
Awesome video Luca. Keep it up!
Very useful suggestions, thank you!
Thank a lot Luca for the tips, see you.
Every single tip is very helpful. Thanks
Thanks! This video was packed with great practical tips.
This is very helpful! Your videos have so many useful tips, language learners can not thank you enough for all that you are doing!!!
Gracias, Luca!.
Wow!! This video came exactly on time!! Because I am learning four languages: Russian, German, Italian and Greek, I felt lost and unknowing to organize my time!! Thank you very much.
Why are you learning those? At the same time, I mean
@@alexandredossantos3921 Because I learned Russian from a young age, and when my level improved, I added German, and after a very noticeable improvement in both languages, I added Greek, and I continued in this way until I started learning Italian as well two weeks ago. I love learning languages, it gives me a feeling that I am doing something useful in my life without forgetting to talk about the benefits such as protection from Alzheimer’s and other diseases related to memory impairment, and I am in adolescence and I see that I am more interested in learning languages, just as the world needs language proficiency. It is true that I am overburdening myself, but organizing the time will do the trick. It is difficult for me to prevent myself from learning all of them at once, so I learned them gradually.
Very nice video, thanks Luca!:)
Thanks for the kind words Jan!
Useful insights! That's what I needed
Thanks Cher!
Hi Luca, I have been struggling for a while with all the things you said in this video, now i can tell realising that learn a language is not spending all your day but taking a few minutes in it. Now you can see the progress.
Thanks. This is very helpful information. 🙏🙂
Luca you are always inspirational!
Bravo Luca! Complimenti! 👏🏻Awesome video. You're the one of the first couple of polyglots that I started following a long time ago 😊 You've been such a motivation for me all those years 😊
Someone has read Atomic Habits🙌Great application of those principles here, Luca!
Luca is the real deal , this advice can be applied in leaning other than foreign languages
Excellent video. We all have the same 24/7. You make time for the things that are important to you.
Thanks Luca - It really helped!
I'm currently on a maternity leave, and struggled very much to find time to improve the 5 languages I already speak. One day I was outdoors scrolling through Reels on Instagram, while my baby was playing by himself with a leaf, and it clicked! I have time to watch a video about someone's productivity, thinking how can I improve mine, while baby will be asleep, and I will be near my PC, and I will be motivated and not tired, and all the materials will be near me, and it will be the correct phase of the moon, and more other stupid excuses, instead of taking an action. So I just organized my language learning routine the way it's available fast both on the phone and PC, and I have no excuses now :D
Sir. These are practical truth and tipxs
The question is, how do you learn a certain or a current language (by reading grammar books, or memorize vocabulary, or making advance sentences?)? What methods do you use? What kind of subject or activities do you like to emphasis?
As I got the time, but I don't know what kinda of thing I wanted to learn. I think that's one of the thing that makes my learning progress go slower, that's why I wanted to make the progress go faster
I'm curious about that.
Ciao Luca! Grazie mille per il tuo video molto utile. Ho cominciato a imparare italiano un anno e mezzo fa e cerco di seguire sempre i tuoi consigli. Sei un insegnante/coach bravissimo. Sono sempre di più motivata con te. Grazie mille!
Mi fa piacere di sentire tutto ciò cara Joanna =) Dal nome, immagino tu sia polacca. Non vedo l'ora di arrivare in Polonia fra qualche giorno!^^
Luca, please, make a video showing us how do you use all languague that you have learned in your day.
in brief:
1. **Telling Yourself You Have No Time to Learn**: Luca suggests that this is a limiting belief and encourages viewers to reframe their thinking.
Instead of saying you don't have time, consider whether language learning is a priority and how you can make it one.
2. **Believing That Language Learning is All or Nothing**: Luca dispels the notion that you need to spend several hours a day learning a language.
He suggests that even 15 to 30 minutes a day can be effective if done consistently.
3. **Learning When Your Energy is Low**: Luca advises scheduling your language learning during your peak energy times.
This will help you be more alert, focused, and engaged in the learning process.
4. **Waiting for Motivation to Strike**: Instead of relying on motivation to learn, Luca suggests flipping the formula and letting action be a prerequisite for motivation.
He believes that by taking action, the motivation will follow.
5. **Making it Difficult to Get Started Each Day**: Luca recommends preparing for each learning session in advance to reduce friction and make the start of each session easier.
This includes deciding what you're going to learn and having all your resources ready.
6. **Not Connecting Your Learning to Your Other Daily Habits**: Luca suggests using a technique called anchoring, where you connect your language learning habit to a pre-existing daily habit.
This helps make the learning routine more natural and effortless.
Luca concludes by encouraging viewers to try these tips and see how they can create productive language learning time in their daily routines.
He also mentions his courses for beginners and intermediate learners as additional resources.
Thank you!
hola luca, al principio Cúal fue el idioma mas complicado que has adquirido? podrías hacer potcasts en italiano y otros idiomas para aprender vocabulario, gracias, un saludo. 👍🌎🎲
Thank you! Very helpful. Надо фигачить и фигачить, даже если не очень хочется. Тогда будет результат.
Thanks a lot ❤
As usual, excellent tips Luca. Thanks a heap. 😊
You are most welcome! Glad you find the video useful!
You are a living Legend!🙂😉
Have you thought about making a separate channel in Spanish? Or Making more Spanish videos on here? Love your content
I was actually thinking about this today!
I like that idea about the anchor habit and introducing other learning ideas around that how can i come up with other ideas with my anchor habit i drive a truck listening to my voice doing vocabulary have you got any ideas that could help Luca i am learning Spanish 😊 regards Richo
The main point of your presentation for me, as an early morning person, my concentration is at let’s peek. I’m going to try learning say an hour in the morning, and say an half hour immediately after lunch.
My job kicked up a notch this year. Japan hated days off so I work more 7-day weeks than I care to think about, plus I can't get through all my daily tasks before clocking out time. Then, when I do have free time, I am exhausted and just want to be a vegetable in my bed. I still do my languages, but I can not hit as many languages as I would like each day. And I don't spend as much time as I would like in each language.
For me, language apps help with low-time, low-energy and low motivation. People dispute how effective Duolingo, Drops and other apps are, but the desire to not lose my streak by missing a day is the only reason I study sometimes. I think there is value in phoning it in on these days. Honestly, you probably won't learn a lot. However, the alternative for me is not doing any study at all. That might lead to me losing my habit and, before you know it, it has been months since my last interaction with the language. Also, even a little interaction with a language keeps it active in my brain, so I don't have to dig so far to find it next time. I may not have time or motivation today, but I will at some point. Til then, doing the minimum to keep the habit is fine by me.
Thank you
For me motivation is really a priority if I learn a new language. If I don't feel like learning, I just skip it for that day. Losing one day is no big deal to me. Having a timetable only stesses me. If I compel myself to learn every day no matter what, I get burn out for sure and I become very inefficient. Fortunately, I am very used to learning and I can't stop myself from doing it, so having motivation is quite a natural thing for me. I guess, each person is different.
Luca, you're great. You're an inspiration to us all, and I love the work you've done to help others. But I can't help but wonder: what is with the Pinocchio puppet hanging from your lamp? It's a most unusual thing to have in the background. 🙂
Luca in how many blocks of 20-30 minutes would you divide a Teach Yourself lesson or a Colloquial lesson? Grazie :)
Hey Luca,
another great video!
I could use some advice :)
I am currently learning Italian at university. I would consider myself A2/B1. But I really really wanna learn French. I did two years of French at high school so I know the grammar but…well…not more than that.
Would it be a mistake to start learning French now and if so, when should I start and how should I approach it?
Thanks a lot!
Ciao Luca, sarebbe carino (non so se in passato l'hai già fatto) se facessi un video dove fai vedere effettivamente come si svolge una tua daily routine (magari sullo studio dell'Inglese)
Grazie e continua così ;)
What your advice for someone who wants to learn two languages at the sama time? Alocate equal amount of time for each one, or put bigger enphasis on one we are weaker?
Hi, Luca, I have been following your tremendous coaching tips / interviews for quite sometime, and wow, you are just such an inspiration and I have learnt so much from you, both as a language learner and as a teacher.
I'd like to ask you a question relating to my own language situation, if I may. I am German originally, but lived and worked over 35 years in Australia, hence my ENGLISH is around C1 level (now in my retirement I teach beginner English to Seniors, plus German to young refugees).
FRENCH which I have more or less used on a conversational level/reading books - I would be more or less on a B2 level. Since my retirement a few years ago and return to Germany I have been following advanced online courses and intend to continue this.
ITALIAN- have started the language 1 1/2 years ago from zero, first online on my own, then started to participate in weekly classes, mainly for conversation practice, but keep continuing with online programs as I find the onsite lessons too slow - would think I am now at A2 level. In addition I am starting now weekly tandem sessions.
SPANISH - have left it aside for approx. 5 years unfortunately. At one time I was at least A2 level, but I must have forgotten quite a lot, I think.
My QUESTION to you -
By beginning of next year I would like to tackle Italian and Spanish at the same time, aiming at the same level for both languages, A2 at least, or better B1 - whilst still continuing with my French sessions.
Do you think this is realistic and doable? I am 74 now, fit both physically and mentally and feel I HAVE to do this now. I am retired, have time on my hand but also work on a voluntary basis, teaching German and English classes about 8-10hrs a week..... I love language learning.
If your answer is yes,it can be done, what is the best way for me to bring my Spanish again up to scratch after these past years of doing nothing (going thru my coursebooks to revise)? Maybe give me a timeframe I have to look at, daily, to achieve this. If I have to, I can reduce my voluntary work by half.....
Sorry Luca, to write such a novel, but I really wanted to explain what I am really about and I would be ever so grateful to you if you could give me your valuable advice. PractIcally i feel I wasted so much of my time over the years, and I want to make up for it now - life got into the way 😂 - and of course in my young time we did not have the (Online) options that exist today.....
I hope so much to hear from you, even in an ever so brief way.
Thank you for bringing your love and skill for languages to so many of us..... Chris😊 😊😊
My prep work is loading LingQ and then clicking on whatever looks interesting 😂
Merci lucas pour tes conseils précieux mon problème c'est que j'ai commencé à apprendre le français et j'ai atteint un niveau moyen mais j'arrive pas à parler avec les gens j'ai peur comment résoudre ce problème svp?
Dear Luca, thanks a lot for this video! Can I ask you a qustion not connected directly with language learning? How do you meditate? Could you share some simple technique please?
I use Headspace (10-20 minutes a day). Nothing particularly complicated =)
@@LucaLampariello Hi, Luca!! Thank you ever so much for your feedback! You mean the cartoon series? What do you do with it? Just watch it? Think about it? Or something else as well?
LOL! I wake up, make my bed, do some wake-up things in the bathroom, and then start making breakfast. In the meantime I feed the birds, turtle and squirrels, then water my garden. Then I eat my breakfast. I've also started prepping things for lunch. By this time, I'm getting tired, but because of time differences, I often have to do business by phone in the morning. By that time...well, running a house takes time. AndI don't see any EATING in your morning routine!!!!! LOL!
Ciao Luca, in my opinion the real problem Is improving the the language. For example if I start from scratch a new language ( It depends Which Is your mother tongue obviously), reaching a B1/B2 level It Is not so difficoult. But the hardest thing Is reaching C1/C2 and sharing time with othet languages that you already know or you are going to study. I am italian ok, i can speak in Romanian, Spanish, French at different levels and understand Portuguese but i feel Always as in my knowledge misses something because there a lots of Word that we should know in every languages and in every topic. The job Is a real problem when you come back and are tired After 10 hours with traffic, stress, efforts and I've found a Little thing that can help me. I am a driver so I put music from all over the world
I think people typically don't understand the benefit of spacing on their learning. It's actually much better to spread study out than to commit the same amount of time over fewer days.
Whether you have time/energy for it is such a fine line that I don't think it's good to get judgmental about it. It only takes a little shift one way or the other to be in a good spot to be in a really bad spot, and people typically underestimate that privilege.
I do a little everyday, but there's definitely many days I get close to no value out of it because of the abuse I experience from my landlord, getting no sleep, being stressed. I am sure I'm not the only person in the world with such problems, and there's times when I have a week or two in a row with no good days that I consider just giving up. But the habit is so ingrained after 2 years that there's no motivation component.
Funny that I don't use any of theses excuses, but it's still good to hear. Btw do you have any tips for Japanese ?
Hola Luca, ¿cómo va tu aprendizaje del japonés? ¿Has probado con el libro "Japanese Sentence Patterns For Effective Communication" (Kodansha)?
Lo tengo en casa =)
This wasnt great just for lamguage learninf but tackling sny hard tasks thst move your goals foward
Is there someone here who is a programmer and also an avid language learner ? Is it possible to do both
If something matters to you, you have to make time. We all have the same 24hrs in a day.
My problem is what, or better how to learn: reading,listening,..what?
2 things: practice each skill separately: comprehension, reading, speaking, pronunciation, and writing, but to practice those skills, don't use a method you don't like. You can look for different methods on the internet if you don't have ideas, in order to try and then eliminate what doesn't suit you.
A RUclipser. Who knows Mandarin. And Japense.
Had a trip sponsored. Flew to Korea. . And she said. She studied 10 hours a dat. 7 days a week.
And memorized 700 words. Must be at least a 5. Out of 10
I have a lot of time. I am an introvert and communication with people does not give me pleasure. Therefore, learning foreign languages is not for me.
People re so lazy. People who say this will happily spend an hour a night scrolling though instagram or watching netflix. If you’re watching a youtube video at all you prob have time to do a few parallel translations or something
Or just do what I do and watch RUclips in your target language 😉
On Jan 1 this year I started a streak on my preferred learning app. I'm at 144 days and the thought of breaking the streak is unthinkable. Even if I have to skip tv at night after my youngest goes to bed and I'm exhausted, I will still get my lingQ coins in.
Being a night owl f*ckin sucks.
@Luca Lampariello
altın/qızıl bir adam ve sənətkar (ya usta) san/[sın] peKk minnətdaram lütfüz üçün/için☺🎁🎈
🐏🐏🍕İtaliano no komprendo -🍕🛤🛤