Tried out a new video style, so it took me some time and reading to make this one. Let me know what you think! 🙏🏽 And try out my iPhone app to practice speaking Spanish-let me know what we should add! 📲 apps.apple.com/us/app/langtalk/id6478437989
I dislike the concept of being “genius”. Knowing a lot means investing a lot of time and pulling your socks up. Yes, we can learn a bunch of languages, but it will take time, effort and last but not least “motivation”. Without motivation, you can’t accomplish your goals.
You forgot one thing that is totally important as well: The first few languages take more time to learn. But with every new language it gets much faster. So, when you have already started one or two languages of a language family the rest is just a play. Then those language families that are somehow related are easier as well. Like this it’s very easy. I only speak 9 languages but it is really easy and you start to assimilate in other languages. So, it’s normal that the first language to learn is hard, the second is already easier and once you mastered a few it‘s like all of a sudden the brain opens up.
@ yes, it makes perfectly sense. Depending on your mothertongue which I now presume to be English I would suggest starting either with some of the Germanic language family or the Romanic languages. I would recommend to start with either Dutch, Swedish or German from the Germanic languages or with French or Italian from the Romanic languages. As especially the American English uses a lot of French words at least the vocabulary would be easy to learn. So, go for it and take your time! And what I realized for me: It’s better to start with any language twice. The first time everything is new and it can overwhelm oneself. Then after some time you might make a break. Then after some time you restart from the beginning and suddenly it feels so easy as you remember a lot from the first time and you fill in the blanks that you couldn’t memorize beforehand. That’s how it works for me. But I have to say that I always get headache from studying the first few weeks. So at a time I need a Break. And when I then start again it’s easy and the progress is very quick and that helps to get through. And: it’s good to start studying the first texts by heart. Like this you get the syntax pattern in your brain and you start to develop a sense and a feeling for the language. And you have sentences to use. So, that is very helpful. Especially if you write a text about a presentation of yourself or dialogues you would like to be able to speak. Then it’s much easier to start speaking it.
@@BarbaraMarieLouise First of all, thank you so much for taking time to give me such a detailed answer! Furthermore, I'm actually French haha but I'm taking notes and I will start with German and Italian! Ohhh, that's actually a very brilliant idea! I love that. Do you perhaps know any language which use a different alphabet ? I used to learn Chinese but got really discouraged by the complexicity. I'd love to hear your insight if you've had any experience with a language that don't use the same alphabet.
I'm always impressed by the amount of languages many polyglot achieve in a lifetime. I currently speak seven languages, but they're all at different levels. Of the seven I can speak in four with no problem, or at least comfortably. It was really cool to learn about some of these techniques polyglots of the past used to acquire languages. Thanks for sharing :)
@ thanks so much 😊 I speak English, Spanish, French, German, some Russian, and a little bit of Italian and Japanese. I make videos about that along with other things on my channel. 😄💕
@RubyDuran Hey there's a guy on RUclips that explains every fundamentals of Spanish and Russian grammar,Spanish is around 4 hours long and Russian is 7 hours and 35 minutes long,Although he admitted that he made some minor mistakes in Spanish,He will redo it His name is ThelanguageBro,Watch his Russian video if you want to learn more in Russian
@@RubyDuranHah we have 4 shared languages! The thing is the more languages you learn, the easier it becomes to compound on that basically. I speak German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, French & Mandarin. I can hold conversations in Afrikaans as I studied it for about 6 months and it is very similar to German and English so it is one of the easier languages to learn (as rveb the Gramar is rather easy in comparisson to Dutch for example). Also did 6 months of Servian in which I did not suceed very much and I would not be able to hold a conversation in it, despites putting at least as much effort into it. I basically gave up on those 2 languages for now, as motivation is a struggle for me - there isn't a lot of content in those languages to just enjoy, or at least I didn't find much.. And when I was in South Africa I was bummed that it was even there hard to find opportunities to use my Afrikaans as people adress each other mostly in English, as there is such a big mix of languages people speak. Something I was not aware of to this extreme before going. Might be trying to learn Dutch instead down the line, as I think there is a lot more content and as European I'd rather get opportunities to go to the Netherlands. I started Spanish just cause it is to me basically a dialect of Portuguese 😂 And even Portuguese was ratger easy for me as my kotivation was high and after learning mandarin I had the dedication and skills of how to learn a language. Plus many shared words with English or French. Ironically becoming good in Portuguese helped me to freshen up my not very good French that I hated when I learned it in school. So yeah I could add Dutch, then get back into Afrikaans with the learned Dutch skills, add Italian in a very short amount of time, and then adding Creol languages would be the next easy thing to do like Jamaican Patois, or learning another chinese language such as Cantonese would build up on previous knowledge. Just saying I can see that if someone dedicates their lifes to this, you can always build on previous knowledge to excellerate the progressin speed
This is the most interesting and helpful video on this topic that I have come across so far. And as a wanna-be-polyglot, I've been dealing with it for a long time. Awesome work!
Wow really cool! Saw the thumbnail and for a second I thought that this was just a randomly recommended video. I clicked before I saw that it was you. Positively intrigued!
@@ianNotShort Haha I experimented with a different kind of video and editing from my usual style this time, so that’s awesome to hear. What did you think of the information and the editing style?
There were actually 13 golden sentences. But someone typed and pointed that out already. Well, doesn't hurt to see twice and I think this video is valuable so here's a comment for engagement 1. The apple is red 2. This is John's apple 3. I give John the apple 4. We give him the apple 5. He gives it to John 6. She gives it to him 7. Is the apple red? 8. The apples are red. 9. I must give it to him 10. I want to give it to her 11. I'll know tomorrow 12. I ate the apple 13. I can't eat the apple In my amateur analysis (off the top of my head), seems to cover present tense, possession, subject pronouns, articles, the verb to be, object transfer, object pronouns, questions, singular/plural, 'ought to', subjunctive, future tense, past tense, to be able to verb.
i often read through song lyrics while listening to said songs. and sometimes i'll read a word i've heard in a song in a completely different context, but then I'll hear a split second of the song, making me remember it better and tie it back to that song.
Definitely a grind haha, but I learned a ton in the process. And I’m glad you noticed the time periods-I wanted to cover a few different eras to see how things have changed. It’s interesting to look at it from that lens and notice how things like religion and technology have changed the strategies over time.
As an older (+60) learner of Spanish, I find that it certainly helps to start while you are younger. Even though my wife native lanugage is Spanish and is highly fluent in English, I she can't get past my bad grammar to understand me, (we have a hard enough time in English), and all my spanish speaking friends in Miami, would rather speak English. But the 2 biggest problems for introverts like me, is the inhibition part, and the motivation. It's hard for me to keep speaking if I make to many mistakes and they can't figure out what I'm saying, and it's hard to keep learning, when no one wants to talk to you in Spanish, even though I've asked them too several times.
i understand! It’s not easy when people don’t want to communicate in the language. Honestly i’d recommend discord, (an app) and you can join a language learning server, and you can speak to people around the world who are learning or native in spanish. Just by searching up Spanish speaking server on google, you’ll find it once you have discord and an account :)) people are friendly and willing to speak there
I struggled with Japanese for almost 20 years (started when I was 10) before I finally upped and moved to Japan, and even then I really struggled with the immersion school program. Some days I did better, and other days I did worse. But a few things helped. One, I found a good tutor. She crafted her own lesson plans, and she had a lot of patience. She would also assign me homework to write in Japanese 2 to 3 diary entries which she would correct - writing is a lot less daunting than speaking. Two, I found easy to listen to podcasts and would read the transcript while they were speaking. Three) Reading articles out loud, while using a read-a-loud program really helps. I have had many native speakers now compliment my pronunciation of Japanese words and my pacing. And while I have many non-Japanese friends who are still better at speaking (in terms of vocabulary and grammar), I seem to have the easiest time getting people to speak to me on the first try. So don’t give up, it’ll just take some time to find methods that work for you. But once you do you’ll really find your grove (PS) I recently subscribed to an AI tutor program, and def worth looking into
Spanish is useless. They are a very excluding and prideful people. If you aint hispanic, they pretend you cant speak spanish and they play dumb. i speak in a way they cant tell to hear me that i aint native, but they look at me or ask where im from and then its straight to yelling at me in broken English and telling me how awful my spanish supposedly is. Spanish = the worst language to learn in the whole world.
@@JerryRegistre In the past I have studied Thai, Khmer, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Maori, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, but I am only fluent in Spanish and the rest are learned to various degrees. I am currently in Bali so getting inspired to learn some Indonesian, looks pretty easy to me. How about you bro?
Love this video! I hadn't heard most of these names before so I'm always inspired to see more different ways people have succeeded in doing this. Thanks for the great research man
0:27 - 2:37 Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti Covers the Golden Sentences (Based off translating the Lord's Prayer) 2:37 - 5:05 Kató Lomb (Time x Motivation)/Inhibition = The best results Spending 10 minutes a day studying fine if you follow 3 autos method Autolexia - Read for oneself Autographia - Write for oneself Autologia - Speak to oneself 5:05 - 7:26 Kenneth Hale Listen + Silent Period = Comprehensible Input Hypothesis Listen to input slightly above your level, then meditate on it until you feel ready to speak 7:26 - 10:23 Powell Janulus Put on a silly hat (Note: This is not a metaphor, he's being very literal) Also covered in book Velocity: Instant Fluency by Marilyn Atkinson Intoning - Select 20 - 30 words you want to learn, assign rhythms to each and repeat 3x each Encharting - Listen for words native speakers use most and make enchart (Watch the video) 10: 23 - 12:24 Steve Kaufman Don't memorize. Expose yourself to different sources of the target language
Awesome video mate! I didn't know anything concerning these fantastic professors but before I naturally used the Vagabond technique to learn English, French and Spanish. As of now, I'm a professional Interpreter. Wow! Thanks God!
Great video with language learning techniques. I speak a few languages but am pretty rusty on a few. 'Important points re- inhibition and being willing to make mistakes. I've shared this w several people. Well Done! Thank You. 😊
@@cicolas_nage I speak 3 languages that I learned pretty much before 6 years old. It definitely helps with learning similar languages like the Romance languages. However, I don’t think it’s that huge of an advantage because learning eastern languages (Chinese, Korean etc) puts me in the same boat as someone who only knows one. So I think it just has to do with willpower. For example, don’t try to learn Japanese if you’re not planning on going to Japan because you won’t have a reason to use it
I accidentally learned chinese by only watching dramas and chinese songs for 2 years.. Then I figure it out that actually learning a language is too easy !!! And it is indeed addictive. But the main problem here is motivation aaah
Just a quick word about ‘motivation’ when learning languages based on my own experience. As a Brit who speaks French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German (in that order!), the key for me in all these choices (aside from English, which is my mother-tongue) is attraction to the culture/country. I’d find it _extremely_ difficult to find the motivation to randomly learn a language if: 1. I wasn’t particularly attracted to the culture/country. 2. I wasn’t going to have any real chance to use the language. If you’re being a polyglot for a polyglot’s sake, then, IME, unless you are supremely self-motivated and/or financially rewarded for it, this is exceedingly difficult to do. My key advice to _anyone_ thinking of being multilingual from scratch: 1. Be attracted to the place(s)/culture(s) that use the given language, otherwise the motivation to continue will drop off very quickly. 2. Try to ensure you pick languages that you will have the chance to use on a regular basis. In my case, I visit France, Spain (South America), Italy, Portugal and Germany regularly, so am constantly getting the opportunity to actually _use_ the languages and keep them ‘topped up’ in the real world. 3. Enjoy it! If it’s a chore, stop. It isn’t worth it. Shakespeare said: _No profit grows where no pleasure ta'en: in brief, sir, study what you most affect._ He is saying is that nothing useful comes from work without _enjoyment!_
Im going to look up all of their techniques and put together a pdf so I can apply some of it. Thank you for this. The song method is awesome. I know somgs in French Spanish Chinese and Korean. Wish I knew what i was singing. I just love music
I request that you add Moses McCormick to your list. He is passed away 😢. He spoke 50 languages. His system was and is the FLR method. Please check it out and add him to list.
💔💔💔 Moe is the legend. I remember the time when I helped him build an Assamese course along with virtuoso musicians Vishal J. and Kasturi Nath Singh (Amogh Symphony, etc). Moe was like a big bro to me and forever will be missed. Thank you for the video ❤️❤️❤️
No, there are 12: The apple is red. This is John's Apple. I give John the Apple. We give him the Apple. He gives it to John. She gives it to him. Is the apple red? I must give it to him. I want to give it to her. I'll know tomorrow. I ate the Apple. I can't eat the Apple.
If you are human, you learn language in the same way and basically at the same rate as other humans. If you want to become fluent, it will take thousands of hours of listening and reading in the target language. There are no shortcuts.
Wow! I nearly didn't watch because so many videos like this are a disappointment but you really put a lot of time and effort into this and its a Gem. Thank you!
@@idkybutwuteverthat is a very smart move considering that Abu Aswad al-Duali, the "father of Arabic grammar", derived core principles of the language from the Qur'an in order to teach non-Arabs the language. This happened in the 7th century when Islam started to spread outside of Arabia.
Person who might be of interest to you: Ernst Oswald Johannes Gotthard Gotthilf Westphal.. spoke 6 languages at native level, another 6 near-native, and an estimated 200 or more languages at various levels of proficiency. He was raised speaking Venda (one of many South African languages), and spoke and understood the language so well that his treatise on it was accepted as a doctoral thesis even though he did not cite any previous work in the paper. His specific techniques aren't mentioned in the materials I've read, but I think it is safe to say that he understood at least some language families exceedingly well, probably deriving most of what he needed to know from common basics. ( Think of someone who knows Latin having an easier time learning French, Spanish or Italian, but doing that to entire language families :) )
Indonesian is the easiest language, as you don't have to struggle with verb conjugations. The context gives you the understanding of the tense. Best of luck in your learning journey. 🙂
For those who don't want to write down the 12 (It's 13 sentences) sentences here it is: The apple is red. This is John's apple. I give John the apple. We give him the apple. He gives it to John. She gives it to him. Is the apple red? The apples are red. I must give it to him. I want to give it to her. I'll know tomorrow. I ate the apple. I can't eat the apple.
So it all depends on the Individual to find the method that works best for them, i have tried several Thai Learning teachers on YT, some are good and some for me not so good. Its all in the Delivery.
The apple is red. This is John's apple. I give John the apple. We give him the apple. He gives it to John. She gives it to him. Is the apple red? The apples are red. I must give it to him. I want to give it to her. I'll know tomorrow. I ate the apple. I can't eat the apple.
1:24 min: Slovakian here. There is no such language called a slavonic language. Much more we have a GROUP of languages which is called slavonic (or slavic) language family. With other words - slavonic language group. There are e.g. Slovakian, Czech, Polish (Westslavic languages), then Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian (Southslavic languages) and then Ukrainian, Russian, Belarussian, which belong to the last group (Eastslavic languages). There are a few more. All of them are slavic (or slavonic) languages; they are different but have a lot of similarities. But again - it’s a group of languages called slavonic, it’s not a single language.
Good callout. In an old book on Mezzofanti's life, the writing mentions Czechish, Romanic, and Slavonic - which I believe are referring to Czech, Romance, and Slavic languages. So I think you're right on the money that Slavonic (and, likely, Romanic) are being used to refer to collectives of languages rather than a single language. This is glossed over in the video for brevity, so your comment is a good clarifying note 🙏🏽
So if I lisen everyday a language. I mean watching shows in that language. Lisen music in that language... I will start to understand that language and speak it 😮?
One simple thing for all habits is 1 push up, 10 mins of study, 5 min of exercise multiplies 100x quicker than going all out at day 1. I am saying from personal experience
Really loved this video. Fantastically well done and insightful. 👏 New subscriber here today (a very rusty polyglot), and I resonate with all of those methods a bit, even the silly hat one! (My version is to dance around to cheesy music before or during language practice!) 🤪 💃
steve kaufmann doesn't have a paticularly high level in the majority of languages he speaks at least orally (speed of speech, pronunciation, general fluidity). quality >>>>>>>> quantity
Anyone can improve the languages they already know that's easy, learning other languages and "not being in a particularly high level" at them it's hard, sounds like you are making excuses quality
I disagree. I've had co-workers who only speak their native languages at home and therefore are only at that kind of level in English, and it really frustrates both co-workers and customers when they have to slow down everything they say, repeat themselves, and often don't understand the answer. On the other side, I've tried to use other languages when travelling, and often have the people I'm speaking to refuse to speak anything but English with me, because they don't understand what I'm saying. Imo, the a1-c2 framework distorted the idea of fluency away from the common sense meaning - being able to have a communicate on the wide range of topics people will speak about daily, without issues with understanding each other
HELLO! THANKKKSSS ALOT FOR THIS EXTREMELY WONDERFUL VIDEO, AND TO SAY YOU HAVE A VERY EFFECTIVE WAY OF PRESENTING THE MATERIAL....MAY YOU BE BLESSED.....AMEEN
@@DerAcidEnMaPantsM8 ¡Ánimo! Presumo que eres joven -- yo tengo 81 años. Ustedes jóvenes van a cambiar el mundo, no por la política ni el militar, sino por tu empeño y disciplina para abrir tus mentes y corazones a otras idiomas y culturas. Pops Ustedes me dan muchísima esperanza. ¡Adelante!
@@JerryRegistre Veo que eres joven en comparación a mí -- tengo 81 años. Creo que lo que haces y enseñas va a hacer muchísimo más para sanar nuestro mundo que todas las políticas, armas, y propaganda pueden hacer. El que aprende un idioma abre su mente y su corazón, no solo a otro lenguaje sino también a la historia, la cultura, la civilización, y el alma del otro pueblo. Lo que haces no es algo meramente técnico-académico. Es algo sagrado, aunque no tiene nada para ver con religión. ¡Que nunca te desanimes! Pops
Lomb Kató's family name is Lomb and her given name is Kató. In Hungarian first and last names are given in reverse order. But your pronunciation if her first name was very good 😊.
@@JerryRegistre , her friends would refer to her as Kató but everyone else as Ms/Dr/title Lomb. So when talking about her in the media, she should be either Lomb or Kató Lomb or Lomb Kató, but not Kató by itself. 🙂
Once and for all, translation means to render content in another language in the WRITTEN form. Interpretation does the same, but in ORAL form. Both professions require excellent skills both in your native and the target language, but apart from that, they are based on distinct skill sets. While a translator usually needs to work very precisely with nuance, detail, and register, an interpreter must be able to listen, process, deliver their rendition in the target language while listening to what is being said - and all that in a natural flow. Here, nuance is of less importance than the great picture and greater message itself. Translating and interpreting are two different activities, and there's no such thing as simultaneous or consecutive translation. Those terms are linked exclusively to interpretation.
No hate at all-I love learning and getting better 🙌🏽. Any good recs you’d recommend to learn more about frame composition and camera placement? I’ve seen a few conflicting ideas
L’est chose qu’est le plus important est to constantly practice by switching them super often. Me amo le Hablo early method because it helps with pronouncing and accent. Quand tu peux pense en le langue tu Peux translate easily. It’s easy just always switch and always have fun talking to new people who really want to help you. Pas la parisiens. Peut être la swuisse
The secret to their fast language learning… How about they had incredible talent at learning languages? I know hard work is important and practice makes “perfect” but you need to have some talent to start with.
This is a defeatist attitude and it only hurts you. So long as you work hard (and smart) the 2nd language you learn will always take less time than the first you learned - and so on, and so forth.
No. What you call talent just means they know a way in their brain to learn faster. Anyone can find this way. And you will get better the more you learn.
Yes, but that makes learning a bit more difficult. I read that it's best if the two languages are very different from each other because that lowers the chance of mixing them, and it's better if you get to a certain level in one language first and only then pick up a second one. This is also because it helps not to mix them up. For instance, if you started with one language first, you are learning about, say, protecting the environment in one language, because that's an advanced level topic, and you learn about what the names of family members are in the other language. If you start learning two at once, you might be learning the names of family members in both of them at the same time or almost at the same time. This causes more mix-ups. However, the best advance is: go at your own pace. Experiment and do what feels good to you. I am Hungarian and currently I only speak English and German fluently. About a year ago, I started learning Italian too. Now I can speak and understand some basics but I would not say I am speaking it fluently, that takes more time for me. Some time ago I tried adding French too, but that was too much for me. I felt as if my brain was getting fractured. French is a bit difficult, at least for me, now. I decided to stick to learning Italian and maybe later on, I will pick up learning French again.
Thanks for the video bro, great information which (as many have said below and above) has relighted my vigor for language learning. Given all what you say in the video i am conflicted on whos method i should use to pick things up again, will you do another video on how to maybe use the best of all methods. I thought about feeding alot of this info in ChatGPT but i hink i will ask you first hand what you opinion is. I've also purchased on of your packs in the past and you do great content so thanks. I'm an android guy on phones so i can't check out your app, maybe on my m2 macbook but any word on an android version of your app. Thanks for continuing with the helpful content!
Hey bro, I’m glad you enjoyed the video. I didn’t know the names of these methods at the time I got serious about learning Spanish, but I definitely ended up using Kató’s method (I made sure I had a good motivation for Spanish, gave up the fear of making mistakes, and I talked/wrote/thought/read to myself in Spanish). I also did a bit of Steve’s method of looking at the same information in different forms-like watching a YT video of a talk, pulling the transcript of the video to read it, reciting the transcript to myself, and then using some of the phrases from the transcript in my writing. I think these two + a quick start with the 12 sentences technique should be a good kickoff. (I also don’t know if I agree with the strategy of not speaking-I definitely would at least recite/repeat what I hear at the start). I pinned a video on my channel where I shared my full journey to learn Spanish from the very start to the C2 test, if that’s helpful. All the best bro 🙌🏽
My suggestion, learn different sentence structures of each languages, and when reading a dictionary of phrase book, split the amount of words into an alphabetical list of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and so on.
@@marouam8780 I’m sure it can be done! But a single language is challenging enough, so I’d only do that if you have significant energy and time to take on the challenge with excitement
@@AttilatheNun-xv6kc my bad on this one. I did something similar for most of the other terms, but this one slipped. I added a note in the description about this correction
@@JerryRegistre No problem. I made a *futile* attempt to study Hungarian a while ago, since it has such a reputation for difficulty. Then later a friend's daughter was accepted by a medical school in Pécs where the courses are taught in English. She reportedly made very few inroads into learning everyday Hungarian and gave up after a while.
I wanna learn languages fast as well but i struggle with pronunciation (in english) and vocabulary ,i mean im intermediate in italian bc i lived in italy 1 year but i need to reach c1 and i need to remember and learn so much vocabulary and this is difficult to me because i forget always what i learnt
I’m kinda-of i the same situation, I’m learning French and the pronunciation is very difficult to add on to that they also speak very fast, what do, how’s your schedule?
Tried out a new video style, so it took me some time and reading to make this one. Let me know what you think! 🙏🏽
And try out my iPhone app to practice speaking Spanish-let me know what we should add!
📲 apps.apple.com/us/app/langtalk/id6478437989
I dislike the concept of being “genius”. Knowing a lot means investing a lot of time and pulling your socks up. Yes, we can learn a bunch of languages, but it will take time, effort and last but not least “motivation”. Without motivation, you can’t accomplish your goals.
This is my first time watching your videos and I like the detail and the sound is not offensive like some channels.
Well done
Is it free ?
@ LangTalk is paid, but I have a bunch of videos showing how to use AI for language learning with free versions of ChatGPT :)
Really something to consider these techniques that tried& thank you. Am un sub, ❤ your channel keep up the good work, like the new style
You forgot one thing that is totally important as well:
The first few languages take more time to learn. But with every new language it gets much faster.
So, when you have already started one or two languages of a language family the rest is just a play. Then those language families that are somehow related are easier as well. Like this it’s very easy.
I only speak 9 languages but it is really easy and you start to assimilate in other languages.
So, it’s normal that the first language to learn is hard, the second is already easier and once you mastered a few it‘s like all of a sudden the brain opens up.
If you don't mind, could you recommend me some "language family" to learn ?
I hope my question makes sense 😅
@ yes, it makes perfectly sense.
Depending on your mothertongue which I now presume to be English I would suggest starting either with some of the Germanic language family or the Romanic languages. I would recommend to start with either Dutch, Swedish or German from the Germanic languages or with French or Italian from the Romanic languages. As especially the American English uses a lot of French words at least the vocabulary would be easy to learn.
So, go for it and take your time!
And what I realized for me: It’s better to start with any language twice. The first time everything is new and it can overwhelm oneself. Then after some time you might make a break. Then after some time you restart from the beginning and suddenly it feels so easy as you remember a lot from the first time and you fill in the blanks that you couldn’t memorize beforehand.
That’s how it works for me. But I have to say that I always get headache from studying the first few weeks. So at a time I need a Break. And when I then start again it’s easy and the progress is very quick and that helps to get through.
And: it’s good to start studying the first texts by heart. Like this you get the syntax pattern in your brain and you start to develop a sense and a feeling for the language. And you have sentences to use.
So, that is very helpful. Especially if you write a text about a presentation of yourself or dialogues you would like to be able to speak. Then it’s much easier to start speaking it.
@@BarbaraMarieLouise First of all, thank you so much for taking time to give me such a detailed answer! Furthermore, I'm actually French haha but I'm taking notes and I will start with German and Italian!
Ohhh, that's actually a very brilliant idea! I love that. Do you perhaps know any language which use a different alphabet ? I used to learn Chinese but got really discouraged by the complexicity. I'd love to hear your insight if you've had any experience with a language that don't use the same alphabet.
Yes that is true
“ I ONLY peak 9” only ? 9 ? Crazy flex 😭 I only speak English and I’m currently learning French
I'm always impressed by the amount of languages many polyglot achieve in a lifetime. I currently speak seven languages, but they're all at different levels. Of the seven I can speak in four with no problem, or at least comfortably. It was really cool to learn about some of these techniques polyglots of the past used to acquire languages. Thanks for sharing :)
Well that’s so awesome ,Which languages do you know?
@ thanks so much 😊 I speak English, Spanish, French, German, some Russian, and a little bit of Italian and Japanese. I make videos about that along with other things on my channel. 😄💕
@@RubyDurandas ist sehr schön
@RubyDuran
Hey there's a guy on RUclips that explains every fundamentals of Spanish and Russian grammar,Spanish is around 4 hours long and Russian is 7 hours and 35 minutes long,Although he admitted that he made some minor mistakes in Spanish,He will redo it
His name is ThelanguageBro,Watch his Russian video if you want to learn more in Russian
@@RubyDuranHah we have 4 shared languages! The thing is the more languages you learn, the easier it becomes to compound on that basically. I speak German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, French & Mandarin. I can hold conversations in Afrikaans as I studied it for about 6 months and it is very similar to German and English so it is one of the easier languages to learn (as rveb the Gramar is rather easy in comparisson to Dutch for example). Also did 6 months of Servian in which I did not suceed very much and I would not be able to hold a conversation in it, despites putting at least as much effort into it. I basically gave up on those 2 languages for now, as motivation is a struggle for me - there isn't a lot of content in those languages to just enjoy, or at least I didn't find much.. And when I was in South Africa I was bummed that it was even there hard to find opportunities to use my Afrikaans as people adress each other mostly in English, as there is such a big mix of languages people speak. Something I was not aware of to this extreme before going. Might be trying to learn Dutch instead down the line, as I think there is a lot more content and as European I'd rather get opportunities to go to the Netherlands.
I started Spanish just cause it is to me basically a dialect of Portuguese 😂 And even Portuguese was ratger easy for me as my kotivation was high and after learning mandarin I had the dedication and skills of how to learn a language. Plus many shared words with English or French. Ironically becoming good in Portuguese helped me to freshen up my not very good French that I hated when I learned it in school.
So yeah I could add Dutch, then get back into Afrikaans with the learned Dutch skills, add Italian in a very short amount of time, and then adding Creol languages would be the next easy thing to do like Jamaican Patois, or learning another chinese language such as Cantonese would build up on previous knowledge.
Just saying I can see that if someone dedicates their lifes to this, you can always build on previous knowledge to excellerate the progressin speed
This is the most interesting and helpful video on this topic that I have come across so far. And as a wanna-be-polyglot, I've been dealing with it for a long time. Awesome work!
@@Ichthys73 that’s means a ton 🙏🏽 Rooting for you in your language journey!
Wow really cool! Saw the thumbnail and for a second I thought that this was just a randomly recommended video. I clicked before I saw that it was you. Positively intrigued!
@@ianNotShort Haha I experimented with a different kind of video and editing from my usual style this time, so that’s awesome to hear. What did you think of the information and the editing style?
There were actually 13 golden sentences. But someone typed and pointed that out already. Well, doesn't hurt to see twice and I think this video is valuable so here's a comment for engagement
1. The apple is red
2. This is John's apple
3. I give John the apple
4. We give him the apple
5. He gives it to John
6. She gives it to him
7. Is the apple red?
8. The apples are red.
9. I must give it to him
10. I want to give it to her
11. I'll know tomorrow
12. I ate the apple
13. I can't eat the apple
In my amateur analysis (off the top of my head), seems to cover present tense, possession, subject pronouns, articles, the verb to be, object transfer, object pronouns, questions, singular/plural, 'ought to', subjunctive, future tense, past tense, to be able to verb.
Thanks!
i often read through song lyrics while listening to said songs. and sometimes i'll read a word i've heard in a song in a completely different context, but then I'll hear a split second of the song, making me remember it better and tie it back to that song.
Memories...like the corner of my mind..
@@Joshua-w5hJ77 the power of music 🎶
I can relate to your comment, I just started learning French using music.
nice video, cool summary of historical as well as contemporary polyglots. i can see a lot of work has gone into this, keep it up!
Definitely a grind haha, but I learned a ton in the process.
And I’m glad you noticed the time periods-I wanted to cover a few different eras to see how things have changed. It’s interesting to look at it from that lens and notice how things like religion and technology have changed the strategies over time.
As an older (+60) learner of Spanish, I find that it certainly helps to start while you are younger. Even though my wife native lanugage is Spanish and is highly fluent in English, I she can't get past my bad grammar to understand me, (we have a hard enough time in English), and all my spanish speaking friends in Miami, would rather speak English. But the 2 biggest problems for introverts like me, is the inhibition part, and the motivation. It's hard for me to keep speaking if I make to many mistakes and they can't figure out what I'm saying, and it's hard to keep learning, when no one wants to talk to you in Spanish, even though I've asked them too several times.
ask AI
i understand! It’s not easy when people don’t want to communicate in the language. Honestly i’d recommend discord, (an app) and you can join a language learning server, and you can speak to people around the world who are learning or native in spanish. Just by searching up Spanish speaking server on google, you’ll find it once you have discord and an account :)) people are friendly and willing to speak there
Order a hispanic prostitute and pay her to talk to you in spanish.... problem fixed.
I struggled with Japanese for almost 20 years (started when I was 10) before I finally upped and moved to Japan, and even then I really struggled with the immersion school program. Some days I did better, and other days I did worse. But a few things helped. One, I found a good tutor. She crafted her own lesson plans, and she had a lot of patience. She would also assign me homework to write in Japanese 2 to 3 diary entries which she would correct - writing is a lot less daunting than speaking. Two, I found easy to listen to podcasts and would read the transcript while they were speaking. Three) Reading articles out loud, while using a read-a-loud program really helps. I have had many native speakers now compliment my pronunciation of Japanese words and my pacing. And while I have many non-Japanese friends who are still better at speaking (in terms of vocabulary and grammar), I seem to have the easiest time getting people to speak to me on the first try. So don’t give up, it’ll just take some time to find methods that work for you. But once you do you’ll really find your grove
(PS) I recently subscribed to an AI tutor program, and def worth looking into
Spanish is useless. They are a very excluding and prideful people. If you aint hispanic, they pretend you cant speak spanish and they play dumb. i speak in a way they cant tell to hear me that i aint native, but they look at me or ask where im from and then its straight to yelling at me in broken English and telling me how awful my spanish supposedly is. Spanish = the worst language to learn in the whole world.
This is an excellent video brother!
Well done!
You have re-inspired me to continue on my language-learning journey of more than 10 languages.
Let's go! Awesome to hear that brother. Which languages are you going after?
@@JerryRegistre In the past I have studied Thai, Khmer, Japanese, Mandarin, Korean, Maori, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, French, but I am only fluent in Spanish and the rest are learned to various degrees.
I am currently in Bali so getting inspired to learn some Indonesian, looks pretty easy to me.
How about you bro?
Wtf going on with u firstly ace one language at a time then move to another .
Even japanese and mandarian solely take 5 years to ace 😂
@@Vickyaulakh5911 I am not you. So keep your opinions to your self. I do things how I want keyboard warrior.
Love this video! I hadn't heard most of these names before so I'm always inspired to see more different ways people have succeeded in doing this. Thanks for the great research man
This is one of the best videos I've watched in ages. Thank you.
@@ndas_adriana That’s really kind of you to say 🥹🙏🏽
0:27 - 2:37 Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti
Covers the Golden Sentences (Based off translating the Lord's Prayer)
2:37 - 5:05 Kató Lomb
(Time x Motivation)/Inhibition = The best results
Spending 10 minutes a day studying fine if you follow 3 autos method
Autolexia - Read for oneself
Autographia - Write for oneself
Autologia - Speak to oneself
5:05 - 7:26 Kenneth Hale
Listen + Silent Period = Comprehensible Input Hypothesis
Listen to input slightly above your level, then meditate on it until you feel ready to speak
7:26 - 10:23 Powell Janulus
Put on a silly hat (Note: This is not a metaphor, he's being very literal)
Also covered in book Velocity: Instant Fluency by Marilyn Atkinson
Intoning - Select 20 - 30 words you want to learn, assign rhythms to each and repeat 3x each
Encharting - Listen for words native speakers use most and make enchart (Watch the video)
10: 23 - 12:24 Steve Kaufman
Don't memorize. Expose yourself to different sources of the target language
Thank you for the flash notes. After watching the video, I'll be sure to use a screenshot of your comment as a reference/recall 4 when I need it. ☺️
Bless you
Awesome video mate! I didn't know anything concerning these fantastic professors but before I naturally used the Vagabond technique to learn English, French and Spanish. As of now, I'm a professional Interpreter. Wow! Thanks God!
This is the best video Ive watched in 6 months that has easily taught be the most practical strategies to learn French , I’m grateful
@@Royalfenixwyld That’s incredibly kind of you to say 🫶🏽 Cheering you on for French this year!
This video was a early Christmas present 🎁
Thanks my friend 🇧🇷
Amazing comment man - that means a lot ☃️🎄
Your video is very well produced. You make it easy to get hooked from the very beginning and watching until the end
Great video with language learning techniques. I speak a few languages but am pretty rusty on a few. 'Important points re- inhibition and being willing to make mistakes. I've shared this w several people. Well Done! Thank You. 😊
That's awesome! I hope you enjoy the process of getting reacquainted with all of your languages :)
Nice video brother. I aspire to be like them. You got a great style to your videos and can tell you put a lot of research into it.
Appreciate that brother 🙏🏽 This one was a grind to make haha, but it’s all a labor of love
@@JerryRegistre
Like UB40
notice how none of them are in the 'speak early' crowd?
Speak early is bad 😂😂
@@victorygarden556 not sure what you're saying but yes it is
What's speak early
@@eastsidepb8139 when you speak early because you think speaking = getting better at speaking, which isn't true
@@cicolas_nage I speak 3 languages that I learned pretty much before 6 years old. It definitely helps with learning similar languages like the Romance languages. However, I don’t think it’s that huge of an advantage because learning eastern languages (Chinese, Korean etc) puts me in the same boat as someone who only knows one. So I think it just has to do with willpower. For example, don’t try to learn Japanese if you’re not planning on going to Japan because you won’t have a reason to use it
I accidentally learned chinese by only watching dramas and chinese songs for 2 years.. Then I figure it out that actually learning a language is too easy !!! And it is indeed addictive. But the main problem here is motivation aaah
ACCIDENTALLY LEARNED CHINESE?????
@Evonaevona-pe1jd While watching dramas I learned some favourite chinese phrases and sentences...With the help of Google dictionary..
Were you watching it with subtitles
@@Evonaevona-pe1jd I have searched and learned some word and phrases though while watching drama..
@@RAralar Yes I still uses subtitle, but I can understand most of them without subtitle though..
This is literally one of the most interesting videos I have seen on RUclips in years. Thank you.
Just a quick word about ‘motivation’ when learning languages based on my own experience. As a Brit who speaks French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and German (in that order!), the key for me in all these choices (aside from English, which is my mother-tongue) is attraction to the culture/country. I’d find it _extremely_ difficult to find the motivation to randomly learn a language if: 1. I wasn’t particularly attracted to the culture/country. 2. I wasn’t going to have any real chance to use the language. If you’re being a polyglot for a polyglot’s sake, then, IME, unless you are supremely self-motivated and/or financially rewarded for it, this is exceedingly difficult to do. My key advice to _anyone_ thinking of being multilingual from scratch: 1. Be attracted to the place(s)/culture(s) that use the given language, otherwise the motivation to continue will drop off very quickly. 2. Try to ensure you pick languages that you will have the chance to use on a regular basis. In my case, I visit France, Spain (South America), Italy, Portugal and Germany regularly, so am constantly getting the opportunity to actually _use_ the languages and keep them ‘topped up’ in the real world. 3. Enjoy it! If it’s a chore, stop. It isn’t worth it. Shakespeare said: _No profit grows where no pleasure ta'en: in brief, sir, study what you most affect._ He is saying is that nothing useful comes from work without _enjoyment!_
I am so impressed to see Lomb Kató in your post. She wrote really inspirational and entertaining books about her methods.
I thought this would be another clickbait or mistitled content, but I'm genuinely satisfied with the content.
Im going to look up all of their techniques and put together a pdf so I can apply some of it. Thank you for this. The song method is awesome. I know somgs in French Spanish Chinese and Korean. Wish I knew what i was singing. I just love music
I request that you add Moses McCormick to your list. He is passed away 😢. He spoke 50 languages. His system was and is the FLR method. Please check it out and add him to list.
Oh man; Laoshu was a legend to many of us 🕊️ It’d be an honor to share about his love of languages if I get the chance to someday
💔💔💔 Moe is the legend. I remember the time when I helped him build an Assamese course along with virtuoso musicians Vishal J. and Kasturi Nath Singh (Amogh Symphony, etc).
Moe was like a big bro to me and forever will be missed.
Thank you for the video ❤️❤️❤️
RIP Moses
Oh, he was my idol when I was a kid. Fly high 🕊
Nicely done video! Good job, and thank you!
Glad you liked this one 🙌🏽
the supposed 12 sentences looked like 13 to me
No, there are 12:
The apple is red. This is John's Apple. I give John the Apple. We give him the Apple. He gives it to John. She gives it to him. Is the apple red? I must give it to him. I want to give it to her. I'll know tomorrow. I ate the Apple. I can't eat the Apple.
You missed out one sentence,,
Between the „Is the apple red?“ and „I must give it to him.“ is the sentence „The apples are red.“
If you are human, you learn language in the same way and basically at the same rate as other humans. If you want to become fluent, it will take thousands of hours of listening and reading in the target language. There are no shortcuts.
Sigh.... Goddamn it.... 😞
How many languages do you speak?
@@JohnSmith-yn9ju 3 well (B2 or higher), including native language. Others to a lesser degree.
@@coryjorgensen622 nice one m8
I do believe some people are able to learn better or be more fluent than others using techniques though
Your content is so informative. Incredible
This was a great video! Excellent job putting together information about all these people.
Wow! I nearly didn't watch because so many videos like this are a disappointment but you really put a lot of time and effort into this and its a Gem. Thank you!
Great presentation. I have only just found your channel and have subscribed. Very interesting. Thanks a lot!!
I appreciate the support! Really encouraging to read this 🙏🏽
Loved this video. Thank you
Glad you liked this new style 🙌🏽
Really good video, not sure about how to apply these advises on learning fussa(Arabic) but I’ll give it a chance!
pimsleur really helped me with my arabic. also listening to the quran, altho i aint muslim myself.
@@idkybutwuteverthat is a very smart move considering that Abu Aswad al-Duali, the "father of Arabic grammar", derived core principles of the language from the Qur'an in order to teach non-Arabs the language. This happened in the 7th century when Islam started to spread outside of Arabia.
@@electricfence3152 I see. Thats somethin I may look deeper into. Thanks!
Person who might be of interest to you: Ernst Oswald Johannes Gotthard Gotthilf Westphal.. spoke 6 languages at native level, another 6 near-native, and an estimated 200 or more languages at various levels of proficiency. He was raised speaking Venda (one of many South African languages), and spoke and understood the language so well that his treatise on it was accepted as a doctoral thesis even though he did not cite any previous work in the paper. His specific techniques aren't mentioned in the materials I've read, but I think it is safe to say that he understood at least some language families exceedingly well, probably deriving most of what he needed to know from common basics. ( Think of someone who knows Latin having an easier time learning French, Spanish or Italian, but doing that to entire language families :) )
Thank you very much. I really needed an overview of this subject.
Thank you. Excellent analysis.
Really great video brother, got my sub
Much appreciated brother 🙏🏽 Will try to keep rolling out good content
The video is good and informative. All we have to do when we watch it is to ignore the term “Fast” from all the sentences it shows up on. 👍🏻
That’s a good call-we should move away from the trope that language fluency should come quickly
Wow this was fantastic! Thank you!
Happy you enjoyed it! :)
Absolutely Golden Content ❤
Now i FEEL like I wanna learn so many languages. This video is very motivating 😂
I needed that video 🔥 my indonesian will skyrocket in 2025 🚀
Indonesian is the easiest language, as you don't have to struggle with verb conjugations. The context gives you the understanding of the tense.
Best of luck in your learning journey. 🙂
@@joettaqueen-ellenwood7711 my wife is balinese Im learning indonesian for her 😍😍
Thank you! I needed this. 🗣
Very well made, thank you for sharing
Thank you very much for this video and research! It gave me actual new insights that I’m going to put to practice
Awesome! Happy to hear that - for me, comments like yours make all the work worth it :)
This was so interesting and helpful. Thank you
I’m really happy you enjoyed it :)
Holy cow! Didn't know you did this outside of bachata!!!😯 Very cool!
@@lizalaartistka Secret double life haha 😄 I’m happy you like it!
Thank you to the RUclips algorithm for suggesting this , amazing 👏
Means a lot! I’m glad you liked it 🙌🏽
Shout out to the language lovers like me who keep forgetting watching videos about studying languages isn’t the same as studying languages.
😂 I do the same sometimes-let’s call it inspiration lol
🤭🤣
For those who don't want to write down the 12 (It's 13 sentences) sentences here it is:
The apple is red.
This is John's apple.
I give John the apple.
We give him the apple.
He gives it to John.
She gives it to him.
Is the apple red?
The apples are red.
I must give it to him.
I want to give it to her.
I'll know tomorrow.
I ate the apple.
I can't eat the apple.
🙏🏽
Wow thank you for this video! So many new techniques I never heard of before! Really valuable!
Thanks for sharing!!😊
So it all depends on the Individual to find the method that works best for them, i have tried several Thai Learning teachers on YT, some are good and some for me not so good. Its all in the Delivery.
Can you write the list of 12 golden sentences please?
Oh come on how hard is it to just pause the video and write it down.
Take some effort g. You need that to learn a new language.
The apple is red.
This is John's apple.
I give John the apple.
We give him the apple.
He gives it to John.
She gives it to him.
Is the apple red?
The apples are red.
I must give it to him.
I want to give it to her.
I'll know tomorrow.
I ate the apple.
I can't eat the apple.
1:24 min: Slovakian here.
There is no such language called a slavonic language.
Much more we have a GROUP of languages which is called slavonic (or slavic) language family. With other words - slavonic language group. There are e.g. Slovakian, Czech, Polish (Westslavic languages), then Slovenian, Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian (Southslavic languages) and then Ukrainian, Russian, Belarussian, which belong to the last group (Eastslavic languages). There are a few more. All of them are slavic (or slavonic) languages; they are different but have a lot of similarities.
But again - it’s a group of languages called slavonic, it’s not a single language.
Good callout. In an old book on Mezzofanti's life, the writing mentions Czechish, Romanic, and Slavonic - which I believe are referring to Czech, Romance, and Slavic languages. So I think you're right on the money that Slavonic (and, likely, Romanic) are being used to refer to collectives of languages rather than a single language. This is glossed over in the video for brevity, so your comment is a good clarifying note 🙏🏽
So if I lisen everyday a language. I mean watching shows in that language. Lisen music in that language... I will start to understand that language and speak it 😮?
One simple thing for all habits is 1 push up, 10 mins of study, 5 min of exercise multiplies 100x quicker than going all out at day 1. I am saying from personal experience
This is very insightful 💯✅
Great video Brother! Keep up the Amazing work ⭐️🫵🏽
Appreciate it, bro! 🙌🏽
Really loved this video. Fantastically well done and insightful. 👏 New subscriber here today (a very rusty polyglot), and I resonate with all of those methods a bit, even the silly hat one! (My version is to dance around to cheesy music before or during language practice!) 🤪 💃
I really enjoyed this video. I speak 3 languages and 2 dialects. 😊
@@Factotumsmarketplace Really glad to hear it, and that’s awesome 🙌🏽 I hope you get plenty of opportunities to use them
@JerryRegistre Thank you. 👏🤗
The last technique really describe how I learn English
Thank you bro❤❤❤
steve kaufmann doesn't have a paticularly high level in the majority of languages he speaks at least orally (speed of speech, pronunciation, general fluidity). quality >>>>>>>> quantity
Anyone can improve the languages they already know that's easy, learning other languages and "not being in a particularly high level" at them it's hard, sounds like you are making excuses quality
I disagree. I've had co-workers who only speak their native languages at home and therefore are only at that kind of level in English, and it really frustrates both co-workers and customers when they have to slow down everything they say, repeat themselves, and often don't understand the answer. On the other side, I've tried to use other languages when travelling, and often have the people I'm speaking to refuse to speak anything but English with me, because they don't understand what I'm saying. Imo, the a1-c2 framework distorted the idea of fluency away from the common sense meaning - being able to have a communicate on the wide range of topics people will speak about daily, without issues with understanding each other
Thanks for this amazing video.
Great video!
HELLO! THANKKKSSS ALOT FOR THIS EXTREMELY WONDERFUL VIDEO, AND TO SAY YOU HAVE A VERY EFFECTIVE WAY OF PRESENTING THE MATERIAL....MAY YOU BE BLESSED.....AMEEN
Thank you much!
Vivo en México y lucho no solo con español pero también con náhuatl, ruso, y chino.
P
Oye hablo esas idiomas excepto chino. También estoy aprendiendo Japonés.
¡Ánimo! El náhuatl me fascina mucho
@@DerAcidEnMaPantsM8 ¡Ánimo! Presumo que eres joven -- yo tengo 81 años. Ustedes jóvenes van a cambiar el mundo, no por la política ni el militar, sino por tu empeño y disciplina para abrir tus mentes y corazones a otras idiomas y culturas. Pops
Ustedes me dan muchísima esperanza. ¡Adelante!
@@JerryRegistre Veo que eres joven en comparación a mí -- tengo 81 años. Creo que lo que haces y enseñas va a hacer muchísimo más para sanar nuestro mundo que todas las políticas, armas, y
propaganda pueden hacer.
El que aprende un idioma abre su mente y su corazón, no solo a otro lenguaje sino también a la historia, la cultura, la civilización, y el alma del otro pueblo.
Lo que haces no es algo meramente técnico-académico. Es algo sagrado, aunque no tiene nada para ver con religión.
¡Que nunca te desanimes! Pops
Hablo urdu punjabi hindi english spanish italian y poco persian french y arabic
Great video 😊
Unbelievablly impressive😊
Lomb Kató's family name is Lomb and her given name is Kató. In Hungarian first and last names are given in reverse order. But your pronunciation if her first name was very good 😊.
Fascinating! So in this case, would people refer to her as Kató or as Lomb in day to day life?
@@JerryRegistre , her friends would refer to her as Kató but everyone else as Ms/Dr/title Lomb. So when talking about her in the media, she should be either Lomb or Kató Lomb or Lomb Kató, but not Kató by itself. 🙂
easy to learn any language in the world .. just open your heart and ears
0:05 That's literally what a polyglot is
He defined it for those who didn't know
Czechish?
Este video esta muy interesante, hasta la proxima🎉🎉🎉
Where does that encharting comes from? I can't find anything about it...
Excelente video ❤
Dude i really wish you added time stamps
Lovely content thanks
Once and for all, translation means to render content in another language in the WRITTEN form. Interpretation does the same, but in ORAL form. Both professions require excellent skills both in your native and the target language, but apart from that, they are based on distinct skill sets. While a translator usually needs to work very precisely with nuance, detail, and register, an interpreter must be able to listen, process, deliver their rendition in the target language while listening to what is being said - and all that in a natural flow. Here, nuance is of less importance than the great picture and greater message itself. Translating and interpreting are two different activities, and there's no such thing as simultaneous or consecutive translation. Those terms are linked exclusively to interpretation.
Currently learning French ALONE it’s hard no one around to converse with. I’m 29
No hate on you, but try to put the camera back more. Use medium shot, not close-up and check your frame composition.
No hate at all-I love learning and getting better 🙌🏽. Any good recs you’d recommend to learn more about frame composition and camera placement? I’ve seen a few conflicting ideas
L’est chose qu’est le plus important est to constantly practice by switching them super often. Me amo le Hablo early method because it helps with pronouncing and accent. Quand tu peux pense en le langue tu Peux translate easily. It’s easy just always switch and always have fun talking to new people who really want to help you. Pas la parisiens. Peut être la swuisse
J’ai apprendre 5 langue loose mais j’ai comprend bien maintenant
J’ai vien à essayer et je travaille
The secret to their fast language learning… How about they had incredible talent at learning languages? I know hard work is important and practice makes “perfect” but you need to have some talent to start with.
This is a defeatist attitude and it only hurts you.
So long as you work hard (and smart) the 2nd language you learn will always take less time than the first you learned - and so on, and so forth.
No. What you call talent just means they know a way in their brain to learn faster. Anyone can find this way. And you will get better the more you learn.
Is it possible to learn two or more languages simultaneously?
Yes, but that makes learning a bit more difficult. I read that it's best if the two languages are very different from each other because that lowers the chance of mixing them, and it's better if you get to a certain level in one language first and only then pick up a second one. This is also because it helps not to mix them up. For instance, if you started with one language first, you are learning about, say, protecting the environment in one language, because that's an advanced level topic, and you learn about what the names of family members are in the other language. If you start learning two at once, you might be learning the names of family members in both of them at the same time or almost at the same time. This causes more mix-ups. However, the best advance is: go at your own pace. Experiment and do what feels good to you. I am Hungarian and currently I only speak English and German fluently. About a year ago, I started learning Italian too. Now I can speak and understand some basics but I would not say I am speaking it fluently, that takes more time for me. Some time ago I tried adding French too, but that was too much for me. I felt as if my brain was getting fractured. French is a bit difficult, at least for me, now. I decided to stick to learning Italian and maybe later on, I will pick up learning French again.
Great work man, I really enjoyed this. I am learning Japanese.
Where did you learn to make videos like this?
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Timon
Thanks for the video bro, great information which (as many have said below and above) has relighted my vigor for language learning. Given all what you say in the video i am conflicted on whos method i should use to pick things up again, will you do another video on how to maybe use the best of all methods. I thought about feeding alot of this info in ChatGPT but i hink i will ask you first hand what you opinion is. I've also purchased on of your packs in the past and you do great content so thanks. I'm an android guy on phones so i can't check out your app, maybe on my m2 macbook but any word on an android version of your app.
Thanks for continuing with the helpful content!
Hey bro, I’m glad you enjoyed the video. I didn’t know the names of these methods at the time I got serious about learning Spanish, but I definitely ended up using Kató’s method (I made sure I had a good motivation for Spanish, gave up the fear of making mistakes, and I talked/wrote/thought/read to myself in Spanish).
I also did a bit of Steve’s method of looking at the same information in different forms-like watching a YT video of a talk, pulling the transcript of the video to read it, reciting the transcript to myself, and then using some of the phrases from the transcript in my writing.
I think these two + a quick start with the 12 sentences technique should be a good kickoff. (I also don’t know if I agree with the strategy of not speaking-I definitely would at least recite/repeat what I hear at the start).
I pinned a video on my channel where I shared my full journey to learn Spanish from the very start to the C2 test, if that’s helpful. All the best bro 🙌🏽
Tim ferris really is insane he learned how to learn Istead of focusing on the subject itself
I'm surprised Michel Thomas wasn't mentioned here.
My suggestion, learn different sentence structures of each languages, and when reading a dictionary of phrase book, split the amount of words into an alphabetical list of nouns, adjectives, verbs, and so on.
Is it okay if i tried to learn 2 languages at the same time ??
@@marouam8780 I’m sure it can be done! But a single language is challenging enough, so I’d only do that if you have significant energy and time to take on the challenge with excitement
do polyglot have C2 certification of all their languages tho?
Pecs rhymes with "H"
@@perchenonsali I butchered that pronunciation 🫣
@@JerryRegistre It pays to check the pronunciation on Wikipedia before you start recording: Pécs (/peɪtʃ/ PAYTCH, Hungarian: [peːt͡ʃ]
@@AttilatheNun-xv6kc my bad on this one. I did something similar for most of the other terms, but this one slipped. I added a note in the description about this correction
@@JerryRegistre No problem. I made a *futile* attempt to study Hungarian a while ago, since it has such a reputation for difficulty. Then later a friend's daughter was accepted by a medical school in Pécs where the courses are taught in English. She reportedly made very few inroads into learning everyday Hungarian and gave up after a while.
Great video
Appreciate you 🙏🏽
Strange that there isn't much any interwiews from Janus Powell here on RUclips!!. Considering 42 languages in his belt
The Hale method seems difficult...
I wanna learn languages fast as well but i struggle with pronunciation (in english) and vocabulary ,i mean im intermediate in italian bc i lived in italy 1 year but i need to reach c1 and i need to remember and learn so much vocabulary and this is difficult to me because i forget always what i learnt
I’m kinda-of i the same situation, I’m learning French and the pronunciation is very difficult to add on to that they also speak very fast, what do, how’s your schedule?