How I Learn Languages With Podcasts | A TUTORIAL | Polyglot Language Learning Tips
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- Опубликовано: 12 июн 2024
- Recently, I shared a really special moment on my journey to advanced fluency in German as I had a breakthrough with my listening comprehension and podcasts. Today's episode is a complete tutorial on my personal method for studying foreign languages with podcasts - it's always been incredibly effective for me in reaching highly advanced levels of proficiency.
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step 1: Listen to the episode once all the way through
step 2: Get transcript or transcribe it yourself
step 3: Re-listen to the episode multiple times over time
step 4: Activities! choose one or several options. (put phrases in Anki, self-interview, role-play in the podcast, etc.)
step 5: Shadowing from mimicking the words to eventually emotion, rhythm, & intonation
Thank you
Great tips.
thx im gonna put that in notion
thank you!!!
i’m gonna try thissss
We love Easy German! 💛
Love Easy German and Easy Spanish. Now that my Spanish is better, I listen to La Cultureta. Now there's a challenge...
@Easy Spanish me encantan tus vídeos también! Tengo muchas ganas de ver más de ellos pronto 😊 Buen trabajo!
genau richtig !
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The summary of this video :
1. Listen to the episode once all the way through:
• Don’t focus on details and individual words, and try just to get the main idea of the podcast.
• It’s not a problem if you miss some words.
• If you can’t understand anything from the podcast, then you should definitely look for something easier that suits your language level.
2. Get transcript or transcribe it yourself.
• It’s recommended to experiment both options, in order to diversify.
• If you are a newbie and you look for something easy, getting the transcript is a great way to get started and it’s going to be much faster.
• If you are intermediate/upper-intermediate, and you don’t care about the task difficulty and how much time the process will take, or just the transcript isn’t available, then you can transcribe it yourself. Transcribing the podcast will deeply boost your comprehension, but in this case, you need somebody to verify the transcript after you.
• You should take note of every word, idiom, cultural references that seem to be interesting for you. You either write them down on a copybook or in some apps like Notion
3. Re-listen to the episode multiple times over time.
• It makes you able to understand the whole vocabulary used in the podcast and to get familiar with it, which will gave you such a gratifying feeling.
• It’s a good activity to fill a dead time
4. Activities! choose one or several options. (put phrases in Anki, self-interview, role-play in the podcast, etc.)
• It’s done in parallel with step 3 with a slight delay.
• You can incorporate your favorite vocabulary into flashcards (e.g Anki)
• You can use podcast interview method, which consist in taking one of the conversation roles, and to speak for it, then practice being part of the conversation.
• If you are a group of persons, you can turn it into a dialogue and practice it with each other.
• You can just summarize the podcast and give the summary to your learning partners.
5. Shadowing from mimicking the words to eventually emotion, rhythm, & intonation (when you get familiar with the material)
P.S: I'm an English learner, I hope that my writing is correct
Oh, so huge job was done. Thank you so much, stranger
Wow wow wow. You’re learning English but you write like a native speaker. Keep it up man.
Und danke für die Zusammenfassung des Video 😅
Wow you are on point thanks for summarizing and the joke at the end 😂
Thanks. Fine English you have. I thought you were an educated native speaker. Best wishes.
Hey Robin, Cari hier!
Ich habe eine Frage für dich: Was denkst du eigentlich über Design? Welchen Einfluss hat Design auf dein tägliches Leben? Und welche Rolle spielt Design für dich in der Welt? Ich freue mich auf deine Antwort. :)
Really loved this video! Greetings from the whole Easy German team! 😃
Robin, it's Manuel from Easy German. We have the same coffee grinder! Hope to meet you some day, I think we'd get along well. ☕️🤓
Ich hab gerade eure Podcast über Mac VS PC gehört und dann ‘Robin Language Podcast’ gegoogelt. Schön euch hier zu finden :)
@@marliw Haha, auf Deutsch sagt man: der Kreis schließt sich! :)
Hey Cari und Manuel! Wow, es ist wie mit euch im Podcast zu sein!
Design ist für mich unglaublich wichtig. Einerseits kann es absolut ein Kunstwerk sein, das sich von selbst abhebt. Andererseits ist es auch wie eine *Leinwand*. Meine gesamte Erfahrung des täglichen Lebens existiert total auf der Leinwand des Designs. Das Innendesign meines Hauses... mein persönlicher Stil und Kleidung... das städtische Design der Stadt wo ich wohne, und die Architektur ihrer Gebäude, und die Typografie jedes Zeichens... der Stuhl, auf dem ich gerade sitze!
Ich denke, dass Design eine enorme Kraft hat, um jeden Aspekt der täglichen Erfahrung der Menschen mit der Welt zu beeinflussen, zum Guten oder zum Schlechten :)
Sending greetings and big hugs back to the whole Easy German team! 😄
Maneul, great to see your comment. Wow, same coffee grinder! You must be quite passionate about coffee, too then? I think we'd get along well, too! I'm actually moving back to Europe in the new year, so I'll be much closer and it would be great to hang out with you all sometime ☕️
Unfortunately the podcasts I'm most interested in are definitely above my level, but every time I re-listen I capture additional vocab and those AHA! moments are very motivating. Good job with this presentation! Looking forward to the Shadowing discussion since I`m a fan of that method too
Understanding more when you go back and relisten to something is such an awesome feeling!
Understanding more of the podcast each time is great improvement!
True. It’s a huge motivation boost to listen and think ”omg! I actually understand what they are saying 😮” 😀
I'm Brazilian and I'm learning English language and your tip are super good, Thanks!
That's an amazing method , I could understand this full video in English , so useful thanks.
Who else from Easy German
Damn this is such a smart plan. I always had the "problem" that I ran out of good podcast content. But actually I should save the best ones for a (dead time) play list, so my brain remembers the sentences thoroughly and therefore these will be standby whenever the right situation occurs in a conversation. So simple but smart, many thanks!
Discovering Easy German in 2019 was a highlight of the year!soooo helpful and enjoyable!♥️🙏🏻
I agree! It's so helpful
I was learning German in 2018 and Easy Germany helped me get fluent. It was really helpful. I loved it.
I will definitely be trying this, thank you so much for the useful content! I also love how positive and enthusiastic you are.
Hugo from innerFrench makes very engaging podcasts. If anybody's interested in French I highly recommend him.
Seconded!
Couldn’t agree more man, the guy is a legend😂
Me three.
i started to listen a bit of it and it's pretty understandable.
I bought his course too “build a strong core” and I’d recommend it if any of you were thinking of buying it, it cleared up a lot of errors I was making
Highly inspirational!
Thanks so much for your suggestions.
I love this content, so inspiring, am really grateful for it Robin!
My week with languages was productive.
🎶🤍📖 ⚡️☁️
Without a doubt podcasts are one of the most powerful tools, especially for passive learning. I use one called Chinese pod and it's great! Now I'm starting to put it to good use in my videos
Thanks for the suggestion. I want to work on my Mandarin.
I will try Chinese pod. Thanks for the recommendation. I am learning Chinese too and was looking for ways to improve my listening. How is Chinese for you?
This is great, I like this method, the way you process the text, sounds, everything.
Thank you so much, I'm glad I found your channel
This is an outstanding resource! Thanks so much for all your language learning tips and tricks. I've been struggling to improve my Latin level beyond high intermediate and your suggestions have really helped me make a solid game plan to improve my fluency.
You are giving incredible knowledge about language learning. I am learning many things from your videos. So I appreciate your credibility.thanks🌹, love you bro.
Amazing content Robin!
Thanks for these tips, it's helping me a lot!
Watching u from Brazil 😁🇧🇷
You're a crack... You left me amazed about the way you carrying yourself, and how much encouraging you are... Thank you man!
You are on an absolute roll with the movies at the moment! It's like every video you realise comes at precisely the right time! Massively appreciate it :)
P.S. There are loads you can find on RUclips with closed captions. Even if they're auto generated, they're better than nothing!
Couldn't agree more on how helpful this method of learning and deepening a language can be. I've been doing this ever since I started to like podcasts.
Love it! Very usefull tutorial. Thanks for sharing your methods.
Hi Robin,
Thank you so much for sharing your views. They definitely confirm, and expand much further my experience using native podcasts and trying to get the most out of them.
I'll try to spend more time listening to the same podcast several times, and your idea of including yourself in the podcast so you can practice listening and practice is just brilliant !
I've been interested in language learning for a while, but your videos are clearly among the most enlightening and helpful ones (such as your book on 'How to maintain languages', of course )
Thank you !
Patrice
Thank you so much for these incredible tips! 😊
Came here from EasyGerman. Great video and great channel Robin! I love your high energy and analytic approach to learning. Amazing content you have here.
Great stuff! Thanks for sharing!
Thanks Robin! Thanks for your tips, you help me (or us) a lot! I like your positivity and actitud when you talk about something, interesting. I'm learning english so, i can listen to you to practice, too. You inspire!
@CoolCow cool
You are awesome, glad to find your channel. You are really doing a great job.
I adore the way you speak German.! your tips have been really useful.
Life changing!!!! I’m 2 minutes in and you mention easy languages. And wallah, I have found what I’ve been looking for. Content in the Filipino language is so hard to come by. Thank you very much. Now back to the video 🙂
Thank you for sharing this. It will help me a lot 👍👍👍
Your channel is one of my favourite discoveries this year!
Right! I've been bing watching since I found you, Robin!
Your tips are great! I look forward to test this one. Thank you so much =)
Sehr hilfreich für alle, die selbst lernen möchten. Danke sehr
Cool, I had some structure of this doing LingQ but good to know what you've added to it. I knew about shadowing, but interesting you suggest shadowing multiple times to add on emotion, rhythm and intonation. Can't wait to see that video!
I will try this now. Thank you :)
Very good tips! I love German and believe your method is great!
Thank you for the tips robin God bless you
I'm currently studying English and I recently detect your channel and I wish if knew it before 💕 thank you so much
I'm very excited to learn German this year! yeay! ♥
Thank you for the content🙌
Yup I use Easy German to help me with my simultaneous interpretation skills of German into English. Then also they are one of the best options for people learning a language all the way though a working intermediate level. On the other hand learning to improve dialectal forms of the German Language requires other strategies. Those though are in abundance on You Tube.
Yup I liked hearing you have that discourse with the people of Easy German yesterday. Well done by all of the participants.
I am so excited because I've wanted to learn languages for so long without really knowing the way to go - I went through babbel lesson for swedish and spanish, and started hungarian and persian courses - but I always felt like I was lacking some kind of method and that my learning was partial so I stopped because of frustration. I also took german classes in high school but could never maintain it, even though my level must have been close to B1 at least. The only language I was able to improve over time is english because I have been using it around native speakers and then kept reading, watching sows and integrating (but again, I had the problem of highlighting a lot of phrases but never creating a proper database). All your videos provide such a comprehensive and solid method that I feel like I'm now much better equipped to always know what I should do next to take it the the next level while maintaining what I know already. So grateful Robin, thank you so much!
This method strongly reminds me of A.G. Hoge “effortless English” method. Main points are the same: listen multiple times, answer questions from the podcast, goal is to understand everything. This method boosted my spoken English, it’s true.
I starting seriously learning Spanish at the beginning of September and for the past 2 or 3 weeks I’ve been watching Easy Spanish. It has definitely helped me a lot!
Try coffee Spanish. It is amazing.
ROBIN!! You have a trove of incredible language learning tips. I cannot thank you enough for sharing them with us! 🙏
I know you're focusing more on German right now, but I would love to see some more videos on Spanish too! Thanks. Hugs from Pakistan 🇵🇰
Hallo Robin! Ich habe Dich und Cari auf ihrem RUclipskanal diskutieren sehen und fand es wunderbar. Du warst so glücklich, froh und begeistert. Deine eigene Methode hat Dich ermöglicht mit ihr auf Deutsch zu plaudern. Ich freue mich um Dich und bin Dir auch dankbar.
Thank you so much for guiding us through this journey of Language learning. I've been learning German by myself for a year now and your vidoes helped me a lot.
Super! What podcasts are you listening to? Maybe you know some german podcasts with transcript, besides Easy german? I want to try podcast-method as well? And you far you are in German with self-learning?
@@tinasparane3159 I'm currently on Level A2 . As Robin suggested in one of his video, I've created a sort of bubble around me to immerse myself in the language. I watched TV shows like Dark with subtitles ofc, I listen to podcasts by DW,Easy German. I also listen to music with lyrics on Spotify, btw Bushido and Annenmaykanteriat are my favourites. Please suggest me more artists if you know any.
I LOVE learning with podcasts, I truly believe it's what helped me get the Spanish level I have now. It's so fun and accomplishing to understand a native podcast. You also learn new things. I recommend them to everyone
I would love to use podcasts but they are all made my non-natives or way too long. I can't listen to a hour podcast repetitively
Que bueno que te sirvan, yo en mi caso uso podcasts para aprender inglés. Saludos :)
I'm learning english hahaha we can practice together 😆
I want ask you a question 🙋🏾♂️ should I listen to one kind of podcast or listen to all I find, I am an intermediate level of English?
@@gilmarvianna8536 idk if you ask me but i'm gonna respond you, as i know you should use the podcast you like most, so if you like 4 or 5 different podcast listen to them! but you have to be conscious is better to listen those podcast (or media as videos/series etc) which are easier to you to understand (comprehensible input)
An alternative to shadowing is what I tried to do in the past: watch films I'd seen many times and say the actors' lines with the same tone of voice, emotion ecc. I used to do a lot of reading books out loud for accent practice, then I wanted to try something new, so that's how I started with the film idea.
Hello Robin, hello All in this channel,
This episode is really good advice. Thank you for sharing.
Lol @ you drinking coffee even while doing the chores 😂
Wunderbar! Tolle Ideen ! Danke! I recently became a Patreon for Easy German podcast myself and it is indeed an excellent way to learn like you say !! by the way you drinking kaffee while ironing is so like me hahaha Sehr lustig
You totally deserve the thumbs up, you brought the coffee again☕👍🏼😊
Thank you very much !
Thank uuuu!!! I study German and Russian at University and i was a little bit worried about exams that i will have to do this summer cause they are two very difficult languages and studying them in the same time is really a mess for me ahah. But i will try to follow your tips to improve my skills, my pronunciation and to learn this two languages a little bit faster to be ready and more confortable with them at my exams!!!!
I was in the same situation some months ago. I know it's hard but you can get through it. Your languages are very useful; this can give some motivation. I studied Greek and English at the same time and I can say, surprisingly (!) that English at an academic level was way harder.
First. Thank you. Really great information!
Your videos have really helped me with my language learning: Czech! 🇨🇿 I've started listening to Podcasts this week. While my vocabulary is still limited it's nice to hear the flow, the pronunciation etc. I'm going to try the transcribing activity! I'm already doing that with my books. I'm a fellow book lover. 😄 I'm a new subscriber but I've been binging your videos. Such great stuff! I hope you can do this full time soon.
Hi, bist du aus Polen? wenn ich fragen darf natürlich
Hallo, how is your Czech learning going? Czech Is a difficult language, but beautiful😍 . What book Are you reading?
DaZPod is a fantastic set of podcasts. It is aimed at German learners. It is a conversation spoken slowly then explained in german and then redone at normal speed. There are also links to tests and transcripts on the website.
I admire your enthusiam and how well you transmit it. In german I listen HINTERGRUND and the transcrips are available.
Ich glaube, easy German wäre besser für dich Eva
Another great video!! I also listen to the Easy German podcast but at this point I’m only able to have short bursts of knowing what’s going on then I’m lost again for a minute 😂. I am however pretty sure I’m at the level I can try this method with Korean and Mandarin so I’ll give it a go this weekend! Thanks 🙏
It's nice to find someone not pushing people to use podcasts when they don't have the right level!! I am just starting to reach that level, I do well with some podcasts and horrible with others. I finally stopped listening to people telling me what I should listen to! Your advice is much more sound than many other people.
Gracias por el tutorial...! have a good thursday! ayer en mi ciudad hubo un corte eléctrico y me perdí el estreno ( en mi pais eso está pasando mucho por cierto) y bueno... big hugs! ,,
Hello Robin, great video ! I was already doing some aspects that you spoke about , but highlighting repeated words was great to pick up on . I love highlighter pens and I think the person who invented them should have got the Nobel prize ! ...by the way, I use different colours for verb endings , then they stick out like a sore thumb !
Great advice thank you :)
The secret of learning a language is to always have a cup of coffee near by 😃
Danke Robin! Ich habe die von Easy German kennengelernt!
Hi Robin, I would like to make an interview with you in my youtube channel. Have you an email or something? Best Regards!
Hey Martín! I’d love to join you on your channel for an interview. Please feel free to email me at hello@robinmacpherson.co
Looking forward to it! :)
Ingenious !!!
A great channel, thanks. Subscribed. Best wishes.
Thanks so much Tommy! Lots of new language learning videos coming soon 😊 but I think the existing catalog should keep you busy as well 😄
Thank uuu!! 👏👏👏❤
I'm a real fan of easy german podcast and youtube channel! I feel like I'm friends with cari and manuel. I love them so much! :) for about a few months I'm listening to them in all my dead times :)) thank you soo much for these instructions. I'll be definitely doing what you suggest!
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@@EasyGerman 🤗😍
@@EasyGerman I listened robin's.. nein, ich versuche das auf Deutsch erzählen! Ich habe gestern Robin's video gehört und möchtet euch das schreiben, aber konnte nicht. Dann, heute habe ich am morgen eure letzte episode gehört und freut mich, dass ihr über dieses Video gesprochen habt. Love you so much 😊
Waiting for the Shadowing tutorial! :)
I would love to hear about your shadowing method!
i would like yo heard too about the shadowing method
Hola Robin gusto saludarte, recientemente te encontre en you tobe y realmente me identifico con tu historia en relacion a lo renuente de aprender otra lengua. Soy venezolana y ahora de adulta quiero aprender ingles como segunda lengua.
Hey Robin, thanks for all the valuable tips you provide in each and every video, personally I truly benefited a lot from your detailed content. May I ask you if you could please share with us what's your exact process to internalize those phrases? How many times you go through them? Is there a routine that we can all follow to move those phrases to our long term memory?
podcasts are my favourite method for learning mandarin Chinese!
I was afraid about this method, well I'm still afraid... I've found many interesting podcasts and I've decided to improve my English by listening to podcasts. I've been studying English for over 6 months and I'm gonna finish my course so, I'll spend all my time with "input".
I just finished an episode of my favorite podcasts but... I can't put up 10 minutes, I have to take breaks every 10/15 minutes. My fatigue mental makes me feel as I was studying the whole.
Thank you so much, I'm gonna use this video as my guide to learn by listening to podcasts.
Which podcast are u listening to improve ur english?
As per my interests. In my case, I love listening to horror stories, how to learn languages (cuz, I'm interesting in another language), culture...
You can find any topic on Google podcasts 😊
I love this!!! Ingenious! I wonder if there is an equivalent Easy German for French
I'm so glad you loved it! Yes there is actually a whole RUclips channel for Easy French and it's excellent 😄
For English lerner I would recommend Culips podcasts. It is suitable for b1 level too :).
I am basically already doing a lot of this but I use google translate as my phrase capture tool when analyzing the text. As I am going through the material I grab what I want on the computer screen then dump it into google translate. That of course instantly provides a translation then I hit the phrasebook button. I like using that because it is just a quick one button push to capture what I want then I can focus on reading again quickly. After I accumulate enough in the phrasebook, I export it to a spreadsheet then feed that sheet into Anki. The problem is that I do not spend enough time reviewing the cards in my various Anki decks. Drilling with flashcards is not the most interesting activity but I know that it will really help my retention and I certainly need that.
I looove 'Easy Languages' videos and your Channel more and more.
Where are you from Teresita?
@@leonmiguel5926 I am from Puerto Rico.
@@teresita.lozada oh, lucky you, so you can speak 2 languages from the start on, english and spanish
@@leonmiguel5926 Correct. And I can understand some French.
@@teresita.lozada wow pas mal, tres bien, t' as deja ete en france?
I listen to many podcasts at all different levels and i understand 95% of all conversations but my issue is that when it come to speaking or writing i dont use any or forgot them.
Please do a video on shadowing. I love all your videos.
Million thank you
I am at a new year and new levels. I am at the conversational level in several levels.
Here from the EasyGerman fan club!!!
Easy German brings me here!
Btw it is impossible dont take a couple of coffee after watched this video.
Hi Robin , I'm waiting for your shadowing video. just a reminder :D
Would you mind sharing the 10 Easy German podcast episodes you used? Thanks for the video I am going to use this very clever method very soon!
Hi Robin, great video, roughly how long would this process take you, start to finish?
It's almost the same method I use. But I don't focus on shadowing method, I think your method is better than mine 😁👍. Ty for sharing it with us. If I had money I would do a donation to you 😆
Hey Robin, thanks for the video, I found it very helpful. :) Let me ask you, what application did you use at 8:42 ? Thanks for your answer in advance!
Coffee is Life😀☕
I came here from the Easy German video about talking to yourself!!
Amazing video, i can learn English with podcasts
Thanks for the insight, Robin! I'm currently listening to DuoLingo's French podcast. It's perfect for my current level: a challenge, but not so advanced that can't follow it.
if you allow me to ask you, are you learning French for study, work or for travel F.E.?
@@leonmiguel5926 For now, I'm learning it to prove to myself that I can do it. :-)
@@jennifermckeithen1498 you can do definitely
je suis confident que tu peux le faire :)
@@leonmiguel5926 merci ! 😁
Hi Robin, this method is very interesting. I am stuck between basic and low intermediate level. I hear a podcast that I understand a lot about what they say. Could you recommend specific RUclips channels to start applying the method. Thanks
Hello Robin thank you very much you are great but how can I get friends to communicate in english to make mu self fluent speaker and to learn french?
Thanks for the detailed explanation. The thing I do not understand when you start a new language, do you study grammar or some vocabulary at some basic level? Otherwise, it must be difficult to listen to something even if it is easy level. Did I miss something?
great tutorial but what do i need to get to take the podcasts outside. Who makes such headphones or what are they called?