I would like to share a technique that really took my listening comprehension to the next level. I started doing this while studying for my degree in French. I don't know if this is a known method or if it sounds obvious, so apologies! I take a short (5-10 mins) recording of a native French person speaking. Could be somebody reading the news, somebody telling a telling a story, reading from a book, etc. As they are talking, I transcribe what they are saying, word for word. You will find that you need to stop the recording after each sentence, or rewind and listen to the same clip several times, or look up words you didn't know. It's a really great exercise and helps atune your ear to the French accent, and separate the words from each other.
"What's going to happen is, you're going to develop a vocabulary of YOUR life. A vocabulary of words related to your interests, your friends, your family, your job." THIS IS GOLD.
man, I cant believe im gonna say this but I think you just cracked the code. haven't tried it yet but its the first time I feel like there's a method that is possible to help me become fluent in French. Keep doing great stuff man!
Step #1 = Tell a story for 5 minutes Step #2 = Write down new words & sentences Step #3 = Repeat Step 1 & 2 Step #4 = Repeat exercise with a new story Step #5 = Study the words you've leaned. BONUS = Go over your story with your language partner.
I just finished doing this for 30 days. Huge improvement! I played my Day 1 and Day 30 videos for some people close to me and they heard the enormous improvement. This is not for beginners. You need a toehold in the language to do this. But if you're frustrated with your progress and want to develop with a language you *sort of* know, this method works. FWIW, highly recommended. Like the man said, don't get discouraged: "Push through!"
I learn French at school and I'm able to decipher the beginner texts they give us and also make broken paragraphs. But that's as much as there is. Especially with listening , I find it hard to understand french. Do you think this method would work for me?
hmm , good point.. maybe i'll wait until i know a little more French to do this.. then again , i probably know enough to start telling simple stories now
I watched this video and started doing this exercise - not for 8 hours every day, but around 4 hours per week, divided into 2 days (2 hours each). And MAN, did this help? ABSOLUTELY. I can't believe how much better I'm speaking french now. Imagine the wonders this practice can do if we take it like shown in the video. This guy is a genius!! Thank you for sharing this method with the world!
Hello I would like to know how did you do this exercise for two hours you repeated the five minute session for two I would like to have more details from you please😊
Hi, I’m a french native and I’d like to improve myself in English with a English native and permit him to improve his competence in french thanks to a lot of conversation , if you’re okay please, let me a sign 🙏🏾
this is going to be so much fun if you pretend you're a RUclipsr doing a "sit down vlog" and tell a ridiculous story lmao this is so helpful thank you ma dude!
hahaha , while you're playing , this is exactly what came to my mind.. i seriously thought about making a completely separate RUclips account that i don't share with anyone i know offline
@@lockaaas L1 Your first language/language you use from birth, one that you acquire because you're exposed to it from a young age. This is distinguished from the target language, the one that you're learning, here for the OP is French. I use L* because whether it's your second language (L2), third (L3), etc. can be really muddy if you live in multilingual environments.
You need Anki & DeepL software: step 1 - tell a story in the 2nd language about yourself for 5 mins and record yourself step 2 - Write down new words & sentences! After recording, stop and watch out for how you speak and write them down! These are words you did not know how to say, and sentences you did not know how to structure! Take the words you did not know and input them into deepL & create an Anki deck, give a story in the anki deck a title! The anki deck is only for words you used in the story that you didn't know. Take the list of sentences you didn't know how to structure and translate them in deepL & save them on a google sheet! Step 3 - Repeat step 1 & 2 ---- Two more times press record repeat the process, as you repeat the process, the story becomes easier. Write down any new words & sentences you didn't know how to say, add then to words to anki deck and new sentences to the Google sheet. Again repeat step 1 & 2 until you master the story! Step 4 - create new stories adding new vocab and just keep repeating the process of creating new stories & vocab. Go over your anki deck at least twice per day! Once before you do the exercise an once before you go to bed. The the same with the Google sheets as well. 1000 most commonly used words in any language is roughly 70% of that language, of course Grammar is important so learn that as well. Bonus tip get a language partner to actual speak to and sen your video to them and get them to correct it and give you tips on their language.
Great thanks. I just found your comment after listening and taking my own notes from the video...LOL I guess i should have scrolled down to read the comments. Thanks for posting that as it will help others and I added your tips to my notes.
What's genius about this is the concept of learning and assimilating vocabulary that's actually relevant for you and for the stories you want to tell. We all have a list of words we use all the time in our own language, and we are not even aware of that. Cracking your own system of words in your mother tongue will drastically reduce the number of words you feel you have to learn in order to become fluent in another language. And once you've learned your own word system, then you can start learning someone else's, if that makes sense. Hell yeah!
what if you started using english more often than native language and now you start with french haha you have then two default libraries and neither is used fully when you start with new language you link it with what fits of what you know but later it becomes it's own space in brain and overwrites your original thinking and patterns and hybrids aren't fully adapted to none of parents different environments. my thinking and behaviour changes depending which language I use even type of music you listens primed you differently
03:00 this is the major problem for everyone who struggles to learn a foreign language. we avoid it because it's painful and not uncomfortable. thank you for this golden advice it's revolutionary. I wasted a lot of time searching on the internet for a method to let me speak and express my thoughts.
I have a variation on this: in lieu of telling stories, translate a song you know well into German. I’m working on doing 3-4 songs a day as part of my German learning routine.
Straight up, this method words. I've been using it for French every day since 20 July 2023. My French has gotten so much better in that short amount of time. It's uncomfortable at first, but you get used to it after the first few days. It becomes easier and easier the more you continue to tell your stories and the more you watch and critique yourself. The feedback that this exercise gives you is second only to getting feedback from a native speaker and/or a tutor. The feedback is so valuable. Respect to you for sharing this, my brother!
Ok! I have done your method for day one. I'm going to do it for 29 more days. I added "speaking to someone in my household" after I've gone through recording 3 times and making flashcards. Here goes! No, no one in my household speaks my target language. They just have to sit and listen to me try.
oooh I should try this!! I always get most nervous when I actually have to talk to someone, so it'd be good practice before working with a native speaker :D
this is so smart!! I understand french perfectly, but whenever i try to speak i get so choked up, it frustrates me. this really seems like it will work! thank you :)
My thoughts exactly. It seems like a method for those who already have an excellent passive knowledge of the language. Ive been itching to start speaking but wasn't sure of a good routine and this one will be basically the one I'll go with.
There is a simpler one which works perfectly fine. Just get an audio recording of someone you want to speak like and turn it on. Now when that person speaks ,right then and there start repeating what he /she sais and try to copy it perfectly. Trust me you'll learn. Its how we all learn as babies.
It does work too, but the issue with this method is you're basically repeating another person's way of talking, which most probably is way different to yours. Formulating your own story is way harder, though a lot more helpful on the long run. I believe both techniques should be combined.
The problem with this is you have no transcript of what the person is saying, but you have a transcript with Ted Talks as the author explained in another video.
This is a great method to improve listening and pronunciation skills, but since you are not creating language like you would with telling a story from your life, your brain doesn't really acquire what you are saying. Technically speaking, someone could memorize an entire audiobook in another language and still not actually be able to speak because there is no intentional meaning attached. (Research source from Bill Van Patten's work)
I am using Tandem to find language partners. Your can choose messaging, audio clips, phone, or video as means for chatting and practicing. It was quite intimidating for me at first, but everyone I've chatted with has been super friendly! I am wanting to learn French, Spanish, Korean, and I would like to use your technique in learning how to sign ASL. Thanks for your videos!
(also i know this is an older comment but i would practice ASL with you! been teaching myself on and off for a couple years, and it's way easier when studying with another person who's also trying to learn!)
So I just recorded my first video and it was brutal! For one, it took almost 20 minutes to tell it in French although it was a story I could tell in English in 5 minutes. If anyone else is doing this keep that in mind when you decide on your story. I wrote the whole story down in English and basically tried translating it into French as I told it on camera but I’m not sure if that was a good idea or if I should have tried to just tell the story without looking at the English words. At one point I actually stopped recording so I could decide if I was really going to finish telling it because I was getting so frustrated. But I pushed through! Now I’m at the point where I’m going through the video and listening for words or phrases that I didn’t know and it seems like it’s almost everything 😬 There are some places where I knew the words but couldn’t recall them in the moment to use them when I needed them which was very irritating. I’m actually thinking of posting my progress for accountability and to encourage me to keep going. If anyone else has had a similar experience, where almost their entire story needs to go in the Anki deck or the spreadsheet 😅 please let me know.
Great that means you already build some vocabulary and sentences. The next story that you tell would be much easier because you are using words and sentences that you use in your everyday life in your target language. You are talking about things that you have a common interest in.
Note: he said that when he told the story the second time he did not say it, in the same way, the third way as well was not the same. Build Vocabulary and sentences around your everyday life.
@Halle Summitt The same here! Frustrating! I didn't write the story, I just started to talk but on review, o la la! Tons of errors. I think he complicated a bit with putting only words in Anki and sentences in Excel. I put the whole sentences in Anki! So, I tried to tell the story twice, and the second time was getting better, and then I studied Anki words - whole sentences and tried again. I think you need to know the grammar and be on at least level A2 to use this method, which I think is great. I also think it is extremely important to pay attention to your accent and speed.
When we learn a new language, we are going to make mistakes, and to be honest his method isn't for everybody. I don't use it myself because when I talk or write to someone, I'm going to tell them about myself and my life anyway, but I do see value in the method because it gets you to practice what you're going to say when you do meet a native speaker online or in real life. The way I personally do it is by writing in the target language and looking up words I'll need, but when speaking one doesn't have the luxury of stopping to look up words, and the other person is going to either leave or switch to English if there's a lot of delay. There are other ways to achieve the same thing. However, the drawback to recording oneself (audio-only or video) is the self-criticism we impose on ourselves because we're not doing it perfectly (right words, right accent, etc). If one could get over perfectionist urges and the fear of making mistakes, then that would help with this method and with language learning in general. Maybe that's why he created this method. I think he realized that one has to get out of one's comfort zone in order to make progress, and this method is the one that worked for him.
I've been doing this with German for a whole week and I can already see some improvements, mostly related to how i approach the whole"speaking" deal. I'm not as uncomfortable as before and I feel way less awkward while I talk Also my vocabulary is already vastly improven Thank you some much for this amazing method
Would you agree that he's basically doing self-stimulation as described by Krashen in Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisiton p. 84? "The trivial sense in which a conscious rule might 'help' language acquisition is if the performer used a rule as a Monitor, and consistently applied it to his own output. Since we understand our own output, part of that performer's comprehensible input would include utterances with that structure. When the day came when that performer was 'ready' to acquire this already learned rule, his own performance of it would qualify as comprehensible input at 'i + 1'. In other words, self-stimulation!" I think what Krashen means by trivial is that this phenomenon is of negligible importance in a class-based language teaching scenario. On the other hand a highly motivated solo learner is in a position to take this as far as it can go.
rly good idea! I feel like it would be helpful to expand stories to also talking about your dreams (ex. where do you want to travel and why, where you see yourself in 10 years, etc.) so that you can have balance between learning past tense, present and future
I attribute my success learning German to my lack of fear of embarrassment for getting things wrong. Your technique seems great for someone more prone to embarrassment, or with less opportunity to practice with other people than I had. I will recommend it to a friend and when I come back to French, I think I will try it myself.
Thank you. You have helped me not give up(again). Speaking and listening have been my downfall (especially speaking,it terrifies me). I am trying to PUSH THROUGH! THANKS AGAIN.
You know what I appreciate about this guy? He doesn't skip over the things like "you probably won't tell the story with the exact same words". It's small things like that that make people feel more comfortable.
6:10 "Many of us think that reaching fluency means you have to learn a hundred thousand words and that's not true, fluency is actually just how well you use the words that you know in different contexts” Beautiful statement and not to be ignored. I'm way less impressed with someone learning English that knows a a rare word than I am if they can use grammar effectively with the most basic everyday words e.g. "I would have had to have gone there already" etc
@@Black-Circle Not sure what you're talking about. You're trying to say his personal level of fluency decides whether he is correct or not about what fluency really is about? I've seen ad hominem used often but never seen it used in such a blatant manner.
You're definitely on to something, bruh. I took German up to C1.1 and then stopped to go back to graduate school. I'm back down to B2.1, but I'm gonna try it again! I'll need this method when I return to the States. Thanks.
Man, I'm so blown away at your progress, I started uploading videos of myself learning French on my channel, but this 5 minute story is just what I was looking for. I subbed, You're awesome dude!
As a french, I can say that to you: this is impressive! You get passed from an incomprehensible french to a clear one. I should probably try it too for my english and german. Wish me luck!
After doing courses and exams at Alliance Francaise, I've been listening to and learning from native French speakers which has been good and I am progressing. What's refreshing about your channel is that you're not a native speaker but you hacked it! I'd never heard of Anki and DeepL before. Going for it and looking to be completely fluent (able to present and facilitate meetings) by the end of the year. Your dedication also says a lot. I can't afford 8 hours daily but I'll definitely put in the time and expect faster results. Thanks a bunch for these posts. Most useful!
bruh this is the best video i've seen in a while... it's concise, to the point, and most importantly it provides structure and actionable steps that one can take to achieve fluency! keep up the good work.
You are amazing! Just listening to this I got anxious and excited. I could feel the excitement in my stomach. I'm going to set a goal to do this for 66 days straight. Thank you
1:49 Beginning *RESOURCES* : Anki, DeepL *STEPS* : _Première étape_ 2:06-2:25 1) Tell a story for 5 minutes about you that you know well in your target language (foreign language for a lack of a better term) _Note d’accompagnement_ >> there will be a lot of words that you dont know how to say 1: Guess, THEN: say it in english BUT
in brief: In this video, the creator shares a language learning exercise that helped him become fluent in French. The exercise involves telling a story in the target language for five minutes, recording it, and identifying unknown words and sentence structures. These words and sentences are then added to an Anki deck and a Google Sheet respectively. The process is repeated two more times, with new words and sentences added each time. The exercise should be done for a week with the same story before moving on to a new one. The goal is to develop a vocabulary that's relevant to the learner's life, making fluency more attainable. Two free apps, DPL and Anki, are needed for this exercise. Anki helps internalize new words, while the Google Sheet is used to review sentences. The creator also suggests getting a language partner to help with corrections and finding more natural ways of speaking. The video highlights that fluency is about using known words effectively in different contexts rather than learning a massive number of words. The exercise helps users practice using the words they use most often in everyday life, which is key to achieving fluency.
I moved to France 5 weeks ago with my French wife. I have finally found a process that makes sense for me, thank you! We've been together nearly 6 years and I feel so ashamed that I never learnt enough French to speak comfortably with her dad and sister who both can't speak English. So hopefully with your method I'll make much faster progress. Your videos are so well produced. Have subscribed. Thank you.
My wife and me have been together since 1998 and I still cannot speak French to my eternal shame. It has meant I cannot communicate properly when there and with her family too ( now sadly deceased). I am in my early fifties and finally putting it right. I have spent just over a week learning 200 words from a book with the most common words in the language. Many I already knew and to my amazement I have made significant progress by recording them on a dictaphone and listening repeatedly as well as listening and writing them down as I go. On the basis of the idea of 10,000 hours needed to perfect a skill, it is going to take me a while to crack it but I have the foundation of enough words. I only want enough for conversational French and to understand documents when we are there/ hopefully relocate as I am probably won't need it for anything else like work. Or at least I hope not. We have always spoken in English at home and work in jobs that took up at least 60 hours a week has always meant I have been too tired to learn ( though still a poor excuse). Now I am no longer working ( career break), I can devote hours to it in order to achieve fluency. Having a foothold in the language anyway has helped, of course. I hope your French is progressing well.
Cool trick! Just, so you know, we don't say "ce magnifique exercice". "Magnifique" is only for visually beautiful things. Common mistake from foreigners. Keep it up! Et toutes mes félicitations !
No I am French and certainly the word magnificent means beautiful visually but also for certain expression of the genre magnifique jeu vidéo ». je suis français et certe mot magnifique veux signifier beau visuellement mais aussi pour certaine expression du genre « magnifique jeu vidéo »
@@mahermeursault9652 i'm french too. je suis française aussi. "'magnifique" ne s'applique pas dans le cas qu'il utilise. Tu peux dire "c'est magnifique!" Pour "that's amazing" à la rigueur. Mais "ce magnifique jeu vidéo" ça sonne mal. Ca s'entend qu'il l'a traduit de l'anglais
@@mahermeursault9652 déjà, on dit UNE* histoire. Ensuite, l'adjectif se placerait après le mot histoire. Enfin, on dirait "une histoire magnifique" moins volontiers que "une très belle histoire".
This sounds like the PERFECT thing to do to take what you know in any foreign language to the next level. We learn so much but if we don't use it by speaking, do we really know it? And actual practice is what makes perfect, right? This sounds like the step that is missing in most (all?) language courses - going to try it next! Great video!!
Brilliant!! I’m a language learning junkie who’s watched tons of videos on the subject. This is a novel approach! Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more videos. Quick question - before launching into this method how do you acquire your baseline grammar and vocab?
Find and study grammar rules that are only necessary in daily life for targeted language, example for german : fälle, präsens, präteritum, perfekt (youtube videos and - grammar book). Then just do this method until you’re used to the grammar by heart
For vocab, I personally used duolingo and a Spanish book for kids that I had a long time ago to start, but it took quite some time. For grammar, I just googled specific grammar tenses and bow they're formed: present, past, future, subjunctive, and command. And I would just speak and record myself and have Google translate in front of me to translate the words I don't know(Google translate works better for United Nations official languages like Spanish, French, etc).
I'd also like to add that I would start listening earlier. It's quite difficult to understand speech at first, so that's something that has to be worked on. When I started using this method, I already knew a bit about grammar and words. I opened subtitles and watched real Spanish channels like HolaSoyGerman, and Google translated the words I didn't know. After some Time I would stop using subtitles.
Bonjour Cameron, je te félicite pour ta résilience dans l'apprentissage de langue française, je me suis remise à l'apprentissage de l'anglais, je n'arrête pas de traduire du français à l'anglais, ma motivation n'est pas régulière, ma prononciation est juste horrible, je regarde pas mal de vidéos pour progresser, peut-être que cette année j'y arriverai, I hope so !
I get it!! Cool. I’d summarize this as: Force yourself to speak by practicing little stories of you life. This make is both relevant to you and makes you ready for conversation. I’m going to try this. I think first I need to focus a bit more on my basic beginner level - but I can just tell very simple stories to start with.
I have been working toward fluency in French. When I have been able to Converse with other French speakers, it is because I’ve repeated the same story over and over again. Unconsciously, I’ve been doing a similar type of method, but I had not developed it into an exercise. This will be a real timesaver.
At first I thought this video was going to be a huge click-bait. I normally stay away from this kind of video because, let's be honest, most of them are rather demotivating than helpful... but here finally comes someone with actual advice and practical tools! Thanks a lot for sharing, buddy. I can't wait to try this method and improve my spoken French. :D
This is awesome. I’ve been studying for about 5 months and I’m still heavily focused on listening and reading. To break out of that, I’ve been reading mini stories on LingQ and then writing a version based on my own life. Something similar to what you’re doing. The problem I’m encountering with personal stories is that I place too much stress on “I” and “we” conjugations and I’m not practicing enough of the others. Your method sounds amazing. I’m gonna give it a go, but I have to make sure to insert all the different person conjugations, as well as questions using both vous and tu. Thanks for your work!
Hi bro !! I really like the simplicity with wich you explain your method of learning french. I' m a native French speaker and my target language is English. I noticed that a lot of people who want to learn a language tend to do all types of exercises except speaking exercises. We learn how to speak by actually doing so, just like children do. It might not be perfect at the first try, but this is, I think, the natural way to learn anything, by reducing mistakes one after the other: Repetition is the key. You also mention something very important about the use of words coming from our own life and interest. This is also the best way to build yourself a level of language matching who you really are and that you can use comfortably ( like an old jean) You are on the right track, you can feel it yourself. BIG UP !! from Paris.
@@comradeabby3141 Not really,I guess listening and repeating , writing,reading talking,texting and getting correction on those,learn words that you don't understand that you've come across,that kind of thing
I'm gonna try this method, diary style: each day, if it's earlier in the day, discuss what i plan to do in the day. If it's evening time, discuss what i had done during the day and what I had learned also
I'm watching this video every day to push me. Just started today with this method to learn French, my 3rd language. I believe this is the best way to learn. I will give my thoughts as I go! THANK YOU!
I came across this channel. i been using duo lingo for a week but i really want faster results with french. i feel ur ways will help with those results. thanks for this videos. keep uploading 👍🏼
(This comment is for myself bc my memory is bad lol) Also, I believe if I am going to do something that requires a lot of time/effort it helps to clearly state why I am going to do it. Ok, here I go. it’s 11:42pm, May 4.. I’m an introvert and determined to make this my main learning technique. Why? (Not ordered specifically) 1. I don’t want to have a gringa accent when speaking Spanish lol. 2. I believe this will help my social/conversational skills in any language. (As well as confidence and being more comfortable talking) 3. I was never really interested in this before but, I genuinely want to connect with more people. 4. This is ironic since this whole message is in English but I’m getting tired of English. I want to learn as much as I can and share beautiful languages with everyone around me ! I will set a reminder to reflect how it goes after just 1 week. No soy una principiante del idioma español, he sido estudiando por mucho tiempo pero no constantemente o con mucho esfuerzo. If this method works for me I will also try it with a new language as a complete beginner (Korean) which I just started 3 days ago :). Thanks to this RUclips video/channel and this kind person (sry I don’t know your name) for sharing what you have learned and your method, I think a lot of people will benefit, me included.. I appreciate you! ❤️ ..Wow I rambled on too long, took me 20 min to write this 😂
This is such an amazing concept and process. Thanks for sharing with others. I’ve been teaching myself Spanish for about 3.5 years, and have an advanced level of knowledge, but I still struggle with speaking fluently, mainly because I continue to translate from English to Spanish in my head as I’m speaking, and sometimes I just mix things up. I’m going to try this and see how it works for me. I hope I have the patience and discipline to keep at it.
I watched anothe video where the author said memorizing about 800 common words and their meaning can take you from a beginer to fluency in a few weeks. it wont be perfect but will get the job done. So I figured, I would do a list of the common words I use in English (to tell my daily stories) translate them and memorize them then apply this technique. I am a total beginner so I am actually looking forward to a month's result. Good luck to all those trying to learn a new language
@@evangelineeden342 go onto a language learning or French subreddit and ask if anyone would wanna help you practice. I’m sure there are lots of French students learning English who would love to have someone to learn English from and teach French to.
Man, i'm a frecnh native speaker, passionated by languages and I was always searching a plan to learn a language, but never found it. I always searched a technique to learn language, and i feel like your technique is the most powerful, and the most appropriate for myself. Thank you so much for your video, I will use it to learn German and Spanish more deeply.
This is brilliant! When you think about it, this is what conversation is. Just sharing the events of your life. Learning how to talk about your own life story... is so good that it seems really obvious but for some reason it isn't.
Best video I've seen on the subject of becoming fluent in a language while learning at home. I'm going to put this method into practice to speak English
Mais mec! Je suis français et je dois te dire bravo! Tu parles super bien, on dirait que tu es québécois (a.k.a. french-canadian)! Bien joué! Je vais m'inspirer de toi pour apprendre l'allemand 💪🏽
awesome!!!! thank you for sharing this method. I've been learning French for about 2 months now and I think I'm progressing quite quickly but this will definitely help!
I am doing it with italian, I was B1 when I started this technique, so I was a little advanced but I struggled with the construction of the sentence and vocabulary and I am doing that to, this is pretty amazing. I think with this technic we can learn a lot of languages and this is a good thing. Thank you.
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OMG. AT LAST!! I've been looking for a detailed method that made sense to me and that was explained in a way that made it easy to understand. You gave me both-excellently. Thank you so much!!
Excellent video. This is a brilliant idea: it's something every language learner does from time to time - but the key is doing it systematically and repeatedly.
First off. What a time to be alive!! In moving to France to finish studying French. And you've just helped me so much. I dunno you. But thank you so so so much. I'm so glad I found your channel
It is funny how the RUclips algorithm recommended this to me because I actually started doing this same thing with the same exact tools deepl and anki and then about two days later I find this video saying the exact same thing! I got the story telling part from watching a Steve Kaufmann video on RUclips about language learning. I like this idea because it is realistic and no native speaker really wants to sit with you for more than an hour in your early stages of learning because it would be ineffective and half the time would be spent just trying to understand what each other are saying so this will give a good boost to jump start your language learning so you could begin at a lower intermediate level when you meet with a native speaker. It is amazing that technology is now at this point to where we can form a strategy like this to acquire languages.
Thank you. Great advice. We spend so much time learning languages from / in books and don't speak aloud enough. Your exercise is a great way to advance your comfort level and get used to hearing yourself speak in another language : )
What a great plan! Our everyday conversations are about the things we are most familiar with (ourselves) so great idea to start with learning how to say those things!! Thanks! Love the channel name!!! Subscribed @ 2.23k - Bonne chance!!!
This is absolutely brilliant. I have just started (as in, less than a week ago) learning Persian and I’m going to add this as a key part of my method and try it out!
So how was the approach? Also, if you don't mind sharing, how did you start? The storytelling aspect on day 1, when you know nothing? How do you tell a story in your target language when you know nothing yet?
This was an amazing, well thought out and creative language learning exercise that I plan on implementing in my language learning journey(s) in the future!! So glad this video showed up into my feed! Have a good one!
Not sure why I've never thought of this myself but this seems pretty genius. I just recorded my first video, it wasn't great but it was better than I thought. I am looking forward to doing this again and again and making progress! This is my only outlet for speaking French. You would think with me being Canadian I would have opportunities to speak French but I don't even know anyone who can speak French. Crazy! But this method gives me a chance to speak French and I love it! Merci beaucoup :)
I have cleared out the whole month dedicated to this. I did start a little today. Feel free to ask for updates after a month. I am truly dedicated. I’m learning Spanish.
I love this method so much! I’ve been told in my beginning college Spanish class that speaking is the most important part of learning, but I’m so embarrassed to speak so terribly to real people. This method eliminates all that early embarrassment of not being able to really form any good sentences. Thanks so much for the awesome videos!
Thanks! Iam an 11 year old that really wants to learn other languages and become an poliglot in the future and Iam going to use this method for my French! (Also sorry if I have bad grammar and you had an stroke reading this! English is not my native language)
Excellent. I've been watching language learning vids for like 4.5 years. I've seen tons of methods, but I've never heard of this approach. Makes sense. Seems very, very solid. Good job
This is what I did for my study when I had an oral test for the German language. Making my own story and using google translate + dictionaries helped me so much. (This was 16 years ago, there were no cool apps :P )
I'm a language learner and overall fanatic of these types of things, I can speak English, Spanish, and French (and Catalan, but I don't really use it). I've seen a lot of RUclips polyglots who claim to speak 10-20 or more languages but the ones I can understand, when I hear them, they usually speak them quite weakly. In spite of that, they try to sell you their method or tricks telling you that you can become fluent with them, without admitting that they're barely fluent. This man is the real deal. I heard you're French and it's extremely fluent with a good accent, better than many that I've heard. Congrats to you, and if this method's worked for you I can say it's because it truly has some merit, and that shows that it's a good example to follow.
I would like to share a technique that really took my listening comprehension to the next level. I started doing this while studying for my degree in French. I don't know if this is a known method or if it sounds obvious, so apologies! I take a short (5-10 mins) recording of a native French person speaking. Could be somebody reading the news, somebody telling a telling a story, reading from a book, etc. As they are talking, I transcribe what they are saying, word for word. You will find that you need to stop the recording after each sentence, or rewind and listen to the same clip several times, or look up words you didn't know. It's a really great exercise and helps atune your ear to the French accent, and separate the words from each other.
This is a good idea too!
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you ,it really does help
This sounds really good for improving your listening comprehension - how do you guarantee accuracy if you don’t necessarily have a transcript?
@@jamescarroll7251 You can't unless you get help so just use material with transcripts.
"What's going to happen is, you're going to develop a vocabulary of YOUR life. A vocabulary of words related to your interests, your friends, your family, your job." THIS IS GOLD.
yes!!! when you are able to talk about yourself you grow in self-confidence.
This is something you have to do anyways when speaking with others, but he lays out a method for doing that.
Yeah 👍 this guy is f****** awesome!
Here's the timestamp! 5:40
You made me realise I was afraid of speaking in my targeted language
Same
Edit: my target language is Spanish and I got a teacher via italki. Now I have to speak xD
It's an almost universal fear.... it's not unusual at all.
trueee
I was afraid to talk in my mother language too
Same im really afraid of speaking french
man, I cant believe im gonna say this but I think you just cracked the code. haven't tried it yet but its the first time I feel like there's a method that is possible to help me become fluent in French. Keep doing great stuff man!
Same here... I actually have hope now
@@thelittlebean8734 It's crazy how he's good in french now, I know that because I am
@@thelittlebean8734 do it, then feedback here
Bro I totally agree!!!!!
there are videos of teachers talking about this kind of methods :)
Step #1 = Tell a story for 5 minutes
Step #2 = Write down new words & sentences
Step #3 = Repeat Step 1 & 2
Step #4 = Repeat exercise with a new story
Step #5 = Study the words you've leaned.
BONUS = Go over your story with your language partner.
Thank you :)
Thank you for this summary!!
So do we tell it 3 times a day or once a day?
@@mrstruggle4278 you tell it twice a day
@@mrstruggle4278 3 times a day on an empty stomach
I just finished doing this for 30 days. Huge improvement! I played my Day 1 and Day 30 videos for some people close to me and they heard the enormous improvement. This is not for beginners. You need a toehold in the language to do this. But if you're frustrated with your progress and want to develop with a language you *sort of* know, this method works. FWIW, highly recommended. Like the man said, don't get discouraged: "Push through!"
...and yet the guy making this said it would be tough, not that it was not, for Beginners...wonder who people will listen to...
@@dexstewart2450 He definitely knew the language before he started this. Whether it be the basics from his school days, it's a huge advantage.
I learn French at school and I'm able to decipher the beginner texts they give us and also make broken paragraphs. But that's as much as there is. Especially with listening , I find it hard to understand french. Do you think this method would work for me?
hmm , good point.. maybe i'll wait until i know a little more French to do this.. then again , i probably know enough to start telling simple stories now
me with german
I watched this video and started doing this exercise - not for 8 hours every day, but around 4 hours per week, divided into 2 days (2 hours each). And MAN, did this help? ABSOLUTELY. I can't believe how much better I'm speaking french now. Imagine the wonders this practice can do if we take it like shown in the video.
This guy is a genius!! Thank you for sharing this method with the world!
Hello I would like to know how did you do this exercise for two hours you repeated the five minute session for two I would like to have more details from you please😊
How long did it take tho ?
Hi, I’m a french native and I’d like to improve myself in English with a English native and permit him to improve his competence in french thanks to a lot of conversation , if you’re okay please, let me a sign 🙏🏾
this is going to be so much fun if you pretend you're a RUclipsr doing a "sit down vlog" and tell a ridiculous story lmao this is so helpful thank you ma dude!
I’ve been doing this for a while! Haha
FR i'm excited to start lol
Yeah this is what I do *pretending to be a youtuber*
@@SHINYFUNGAMES how's it going so far?
hahaha , while you're playing , this is exactly what came to my mind.. i seriously thought about making a completely separate RUclips account that i don't share with anyone i know offline
As a former French teacher, I fully approve! We should not be afraid of our L1 and using that to our advantage as we develop our L*
mot.
@@figgettit pas chapeau
@@TLOGhx hat on a hat
what's L1 and L*?
@@lockaaas L1 Your first language/language you use from birth, one that you acquire because you're exposed to it from a young age. This is distinguished from the target language, the one that you're learning, here for the OP is French. I use L* because whether it's your second language (L2), third (L3), etc. can be really muddy if you live in multilingual environments.
You need Anki & DeepL software:
step 1 - tell a story in the 2nd language about yourself for 5 mins and record yourself
step 2 - Write down new words & sentences! After recording, stop and watch out for how you speak and write them down! These are words you did not know how to say, and sentences you did not know how to structure!
Take the words you did not know and input them into deepL & create an Anki deck, give a story in the anki deck a title! The anki deck is only for words you used in the story that you didn't know.
Take the list of sentences you didn't know how to structure and translate them in deepL & save them on a google sheet!
Step 3 - Repeat step 1 & 2 ---- Two more times press record repeat the process, as you repeat the process, the story becomes easier.
Write down any new words & sentences you didn't know how to say, add then to words to anki deck and new sentences to the Google sheet.
Again repeat step 1 & 2 until you master the story!
Step 4 - create new stories adding new vocab and just keep repeating the process of creating new stories & vocab.
Go over your anki deck at least twice per day! Once before you do the exercise an once before you go to bed. The the same with the Google sheets as well.
1000 most commonly used words in any language is roughly 70% of that language, of course Grammar is important so learn that as well.
Bonus tip get a language partner to actual speak to and sen your video to them and get them to correct it and give you tips on their language.
merci beacuop, monseiur
Don't forget to listen to natives speakers as well.
Thank you!
Great thanks. I just found your comment after listening and taking my own notes from the video...LOL I guess i should have scrolled down to read the comments. Thanks for posting that as it will help others and I added your tips to my notes.
brilliant.
What's genius about this is the concept of learning and assimilating vocabulary that's actually relevant for you and for the stories you want to tell. We all have a list of words we use all the time in our own language, and we are not even aware of that. Cracking your own system of words in your mother tongue will drastically reduce the number of words you feel you have to learn in order to become fluent in another language. And once you've learned your own word system, then you can start learning someone else's, if that makes sense. Hell yeah!
what if you started using english more often than native language and now you start with french haha
you have then two default libraries and neither is used fully
when you start with new language you link it with what fits of what you know but later it becomes it's own space in brain and overwrites your original thinking and patterns
and hybrids aren't fully adapted to none of parents different environments.
my thinking and behaviour changes depending which language I use
even type of music you listens primed you differently
03:00 this is the major problem for everyone who struggles to learn a foreign language. we avoid it because it's painful and not uncomfortable. thank you for this golden advice it's revolutionary. I wasted a lot of time searching on the internet for a method to let me speak and express my thoughts.
I have a variation on this: in lieu of telling stories, translate a song you know well into German. I’m working on doing 3-4 songs a day as part of my German learning routine.
You could do both 👍🏾
me too !! I went from thinking it sounded like gibberish in song to actually being able to distinguish the words. :D
Ah man I used to do this and it worked quite well. I have to start doing this again.
Erlkönig and bohemian rhapsody lol
Ill try it!
Straight up, this method words. I've been using it for French every day since 20 July 2023. My French has gotten so much better in that short amount of time. It's uncomfortable at first, but you get used to it after the first few days. It becomes easier and easier the more you continue to tell your stories and the more you watch and critique yourself. The feedback that this exercise gives you is second only to getting feedback from a native speaker and/or a tutor. The feedback is so valuable. Respect to you for sharing this, my brother!
Ok! I have done your method for day one. I'm going to do it for 29 more days. I added "speaking to someone in my household" after I've gone through recording 3 times and making flashcards. Here goes! No, no one in my household speaks my target language. They just have to sit and listen to me try.
lol
oooh I should try this!! I always get most nervous when I actually have to talk to someone, so it'd be good practice before working with a native speaker :D
How's your progress going?
This is brilliant! I wish you luck!
Update ?
Damn , Im french , and this guy know wat he's doin 4 real
this is so smart!! I understand french perfectly, but whenever i try to speak i get so choked up, it frustrates me. this really seems like it will work! thank you :)
do it, then feedback here about your progress, please?
My thoughts exactly. It seems like a method for those who already have an excellent passive knowledge of the language. Ive been itching to start speaking but wasn't sure of a good routine and this one will be basically the one I'll go with.
Blanca, have you tried yet? I can read Italian somewhat well, but talk like a 2 year old.
Blanca! Have you tried it? Has it worked well?
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There is a simpler one which works perfectly fine.
Just get an audio recording of someone you want to speak like and turn it on.
Now when that person speaks ,right then and there start repeating what he /she sais and try to copy it perfectly.
Trust me you'll learn. Its how we all learn as babies.
Very effective?
It does work too, but the issue with this method is you're basically repeating another person's way of talking, which most probably is way different to yours. Formulating your own story is way harder, though a lot more helpful on the long run.
I believe both techniques should be combined.
The problem with this is you have no transcript of what the person is saying, but you have a transcript with Ted Talks as the author explained in another video.
This is a great method to improve listening and pronunciation skills, but since you are not creating language like you would with telling a story from your life, your brain doesn't really acquire what you are saying. Technically speaking, someone could memorize an entire audiobook in another language and still not actually be able to speak because there is no intentional meaning attached. (Research source from Bill Van Patten's work)
Its shadowing and He also recomend this technique in The vídeo
You can also achieve this by thinking about the kind of topics that you enjoy talking about in your target language and homing in on those areas :)
Cool. I'm gonna give that a try as well and maybe add it to my routine. Talking about things we like does conversation a lot easier as well!
What I'm gonna do is also tell current stories to get present tenses down too and do future stories of what I want to do or what I think will happen
@@languagelords can we write the story down before telling the story?
I am using Tandem to find language partners. Your can choose messaging, audio clips, phone, or video as means for chatting and practicing. It was quite intimidating for me at first, but everyone I've chatted with has been super friendly! I am wanting to learn French, Spanish, Korean, and I would like to use your technique in learning how to sign ASL. Thanks for your videos!
thank you for sharing this, i've never heard of tandem and i'm def looking into it!
(also i know this is an older comment but i would practice ASL with you! been teaching myself on and off for a couple years, and it's way easier when studying with another person who's also trying to learn!)
@@phoeniceae hey have u studied French?
@@phoeniceae i grew to love ASL after watching SWITCHED AT BIRTH series.. I would be doing that after i do French and spanish 😅
I was praying for an app like TANDEM. thank you so much!! Im going to give it a try!
So I just recorded my first video and it was brutal! For one, it took almost 20 minutes to tell it in French although it was a story I could tell in English in 5 minutes. If anyone else is doing this keep that in mind when you decide on your story. I wrote the whole story down in English and basically tried translating it into French as I told it on camera but I’m not sure if that was a good idea or if I should have tried to just tell the story without looking at the English words. At one point I actually stopped recording so I could decide if I was really going to finish telling it because I was getting so frustrated. But I pushed through! Now I’m at the point where I’m going through the video and listening for words or phrases that I didn’t know and it seems like it’s almost everything 😬 There are some places where I knew the words but couldn’t recall them in the moment to use them when I needed them which was very irritating. I’m actually thinking of posting my progress for accountability and to encourage me to keep going. If anyone else has had a similar experience, where almost their entire story needs to go in the Anki deck or the spreadsheet 😅 please let me know.
Great that means you already build some vocabulary and sentences. The next story that you tell would be much easier because you are using words and sentences that you use in your everyday life in your target language. You are talking about things that you have a common interest in.
Note: he said that when he told the story the second time he did not say it, in the same way, the third way as well was not the same. Build Vocabulary and sentences around your everyday life.
I would say fill a page or two with new words/phrases and then stop. Keep it manageable. Tomorrow is another day.
@Halle Summitt The same here! Frustrating! I didn't write the story, I just started to talk but on review, o la la! Tons of errors. I think he complicated a bit with putting only words in Anki and sentences in Excel. I put the whole sentences in Anki!
So, I tried to tell the story twice, and the second time was getting better, and then I studied Anki words - whole sentences and tried again.
I think you need to know the grammar and be on at least level A2 to use this method, which I think is great. I also think it is extremely important to pay attention to your accent and speed.
When we learn a new language, we are going to make mistakes, and to be honest his method isn't for everybody. I don't use it myself because when I talk or write to someone, I'm going to tell them about myself and my life anyway, but I do see value in the method because it gets you to practice what you're going to say when you do meet a native speaker online or in real life. The way I personally do it is by writing in the target language and looking up words I'll need, but when speaking one doesn't have the luxury of stopping to look up words, and the other person is going to either leave or switch to English if there's a lot of delay. There are other ways to achieve the same thing. However, the drawback to recording oneself (audio-only or video) is the self-criticism we impose on ourselves because we're not doing it perfectly (right words, right accent, etc). If one could get over perfectionist urges and the fear of making mistakes, then that would help with this method and with language learning in general. Maybe that's why he created this method. I think he realized that one has to get out of one's comfort zone in order to make progress, and this method is the one that worked for him.
When learning a language, fast is not important. Being through is.
Oh the irony. I think you mean "thorough", friend. :)
@@chrisdevine4848 he must be joking because there is no way he isnt
Depends if u need it quickly or not haha
You can never be thorough enough. You need to keep trying and not give up
I've been doing this with German for a whole week and I can already see some improvements, mostly related to how i approach the whole"speaking" deal. I'm not as uncomfortable as before and I feel way less awkward while I talk
Also my vocabulary is already vastly improven
Thank you some much for this amazing method
this technique + comprehensible input = a great combination !!! 😃
Thanks for sharing!
100% je suis d'accord avec toi. merci beaucoup.
Would you agree that he's basically doing self-stimulation as described by Krashen in Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisiton p. 84?
"The trivial sense in which a conscious rule might 'help' language acquisition is if the performer used a rule as a Monitor, and consistently applied it to his own output. Since we understand our own output, part of that performer's comprehensible input would include utterances with that structure. When the day came when that performer was 'ready' to acquire this already learned rule, his own performance of it would qualify as comprehensible input at 'i + 1'. In other words, self-stimulation!"
I think what Krashen means by trivial is that this phenomenon is of negligible importance in a class-based language teaching scenario. On the other hand a highly motivated solo learner is in a position to take this as far as it can go.
rly good idea! I feel like it would be helpful to expand stories to also talking about your dreams (ex. where do you want to travel and why, where you see yourself in 10 years, etc.) so that you can have balance between learning past tense, present and future
Helpful this
That sounds like a genius approach, I'm gonna try this with Arabic!!
nICE CHOIce SIS
@@barittos5585 dont be rude lol stfu
@@KokomiyaSangonomi youre the one whos being rude
same
Same!! If you did this, how did you do? How was it? Did you improve?
I attribute my success learning German to my lack of fear of embarrassment for getting things wrong. Your technique seems great for someone more prone to embarrassment, or with less opportunity to practice with other people than I had. I will recommend it to a friend and when I come back to French, I think I will try it myself.
this method provides precision. people don't. germans are the only exception.
Thank you. You have helped me not give up(again). Speaking and listening have been my downfall (especially speaking,it terrifies me). I am trying to PUSH THROUGH! THANKS AGAIN.
You know what I appreciate about this guy? He doesn't skip over the things like "you probably won't tell the story with the exact same words". It's small things like that that make people feel more comfortable.
I've watched this several times, and the line that always gets me is, "You're going to develop a vocabulary of your life."
6:10 "Many of us think that reaching fluency means you have to learn a hundred thousand words and that's not true, fluency is actually just how well you use the words that you know in different contexts” Beautiful statement and not to be ignored. I'm way less impressed with someone learning English that knows a a rare word than I am if they can use grammar effectively with the most basic everyday words e.g. "I would have had to have gone there already" etc
being fluent is objective it isnt just know fewer words and use less words = fluency
@@Black-Circle No, he was right in what he said. It's not about knowing a certain number of words.
@@loot6 so when did he pass the c-1 french test then? I'll wait
@@loot6 having a grasp on the basics is not fluency!
@@Black-Circle Not sure what you're talking about. You're trying to say his personal level of fluency decides whether he is correct or not about what fluency really is about? I've seen ad hominem used often but never seen it used in such a blatant manner.
Hello, I am french, I feel like improving my english. I will use your process. Thanks a lot.
Best of luck! Bonne chance!
How's it going?
You're definitely on to something, bruh. I took German up to C1.1 and then stopped to go back to graduate school. I'm back down to B2.1, but I'm gonna try it again! I'll need this method when I return to the States. Thanks.
Man, I'm so blown away at your progress, I started uploading videos of myself learning French on my channel, but this 5 minute story is just what I was looking for. I subbed, You're awesome dude!
As a french, I can say that to you: this is impressive!
You get passed from an incomprehensible french to a clear one. I should probably try it too for my english and german.
Wish me luck!
lets do it together
bon chance!
After doing courses and exams at Alliance Francaise, I've been listening to and learning from native French speakers which has been good and I am progressing. What's refreshing about your channel is that you're not a native speaker but you hacked it! I'd never heard of Anki and DeepL before. Going for it and looking to be completely fluent (able to present and facilitate meetings) by the end of the year. Your dedication also says a lot. I can't afford 8 hours daily but I'll definitely put in the time and expect faster results. Thanks a bunch for these posts. Most useful!
bruh this is the best video i've seen in a while... it's concise, to the point, and most importantly it provides structure and actionable steps that one can take to achieve fluency! keep up the good work.
You are amazing! Just listening to this I got anxious and excited. I could feel the excitement in my stomach. I'm going to set a goal to do this for 66 days straight. Thank you
How did it go?
@@alexanderhill5206 he didnt commit lol
Did you commit?
Did you do it?
@@aNDY-rj4sy yeah 66 days is way too long, he should've tried 1-2 weeks lol
1:49 Beginning
*RESOURCES* : Anki, DeepL
*STEPS* :
_Première étape_
2:06-2:25
1) Tell a story for 5 minutes about you that you know well in your target language (foreign language for a lack of a better term)
_Note d’accompagnement_
>> there will be a lot of words that you dont know how to say 1: Guess, THEN: say it in english BUT
in brief:
In this video, the creator shares a language learning exercise that helped him become fluent in French.
The exercise involves telling a story in the target language for five minutes, recording it, and identifying unknown words and sentence structures.
These words and sentences are then added to an Anki deck and a Google Sheet respectively.
The process is repeated two more times, with new words and sentences added each time.
The exercise should be done for a week with the same story before moving on to a new one.
The goal is to develop a vocabulary that's relevant to the learner's life, making fluency more attainable.
Two free apps, DPL and Anki, are needed for this exercise.
Anki helps internalize new words, while the Google Sheet is used to review sentences.
The creator also suggests getting a language partner to help with corrections and finding more natural ways of speaking.
The video highlights that fluency is about using known words effectively in different contexts rather than learning a massive number of words.
The exercise helps users practice using the words they use most often in everyday life, which is key to achieving fluency.
I moved to France 5 weeks ago with my French wife. I have finally found a process that makes sense for me, thank you! We've been together nearly 6 years and I feel so ashamed that I never learnt enough French to speak comfortably with her dad and sister who both can't speak English. So hopefully with your method I'll make much faster progress. Your videos are so well produced. Have subscribed. Thank you.
My wife and me have been together since 1998 and I still cannot speak French to my eternal shame. It has meant I cannot communicate properly when there and with her family too ( now sadly deceased). I am in my early fifties and finally putting it right. I have spent just over a week learning 200 words from a book with the most common words in the language. Many I already knew and to my amazement I have made significant progress by recording them on a dictaphone and listening repeatedly as well as listening and writing them down as I go. On the basis of the idea of 10,000 hours needed to perfect a skill, it is going to take me a while to crack it but I have the foundation of enough words. I only want enough for conversational French and to understand documents when we are there/ hopefully relocate as I am probably won't need it for anything else like work. Or at least I hope not. We have always spoken in English at home and work in jobs that took up at least 60 hours a week has always meant I have been too tired to learn ( though still a poor excuse). Now I am no longer working ( career break), I can devote hours to it in order to achieve fluency. Having a foothold in the language anyway has helped, of course. I hope your French is progressing well.
Cool trick! Just, so you know, we don't say "ce magnifique exercice". "Magnifique" is only for visually beautiful things. Common mistake from foreigners. Keep it up!
Et toutes mes félicitations !
No I am French and certainly the word magnificent means beautiful visually but also for certain expression of the genre magnifique jeu vidéo ».
je suis français et certe mot magnifique veux signifier beau visuellement mais aussi pour certaine expression du genre « magnifique jeu vidéo »
@@mahermeursault9652 i'm french too. je suis française aussi. "'magnifique" ne s'applique pas dans le cas qu'il utilise. Tu peux dire "c'est magnifique!" Pour "that's amazing" à la rigueur. Mais "ce magnifique jeu vidéo" ça sonne mal. Ca s'entend qu'il l'a traduit de l'anglais
@@sofitocyn100 oui mais on peut dire un magnifique histoire
@@mahermeursault9652 déjà, on dit UNE* histoire. Ensuite, l'adjectif se placerait après le mot histoire. Enfin, on dirait "une histoire magnifique" moins volontiers que "une très belle histoire".
@@sofitocyn100 ce magnifique jeu vidéo sutilise quand on parle de lapparence de celui-ci.
This sounds like the PERFECT thing to do to take what you know in any foreign language to the next level. We learn so much but if we don't use it by speaking, do we really know it? And actual practice is what makes perfect, right? This sounds like the step that is missing in most (all?) language courses - going to try it next! Great video!!
I’ve not seen a tip like this before. Sounds like a great idea.
Can I just say that this is absolutely revolutionary? Thank you for imparting your knowledge with us. You're a legend.
Brilliant!! I’m a language learning junkie who’s watched tons of videos on the subject. This is a novel approach! Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more videos. Quick question - before launching into this method how do you acquire your baseline grammar and vocab?
I'd say that basic apps like Mondly orDuoling should do the trick
Find and study grammar rules that are only necessary in daily life for targeted language, example for german : fälle, präsens, präteritum, perfekt (youtube videos and - grammar book). Then just do this method until you’re used to the grammar by heart
For vocab, I personally used duolingo and a Spanish book for kids that I had a long time ago to start, but it took quite some time. For grammar, I just googled specific grammar tenses and bow they're formed: present, past, future, subjunctive, and command. And I would just speak and record myself and have Google translate in front of me to translate the words I don't know(Google translate works better for United Nations official languages like Spanish, French, etc).
I'd also like to add that I would start listening earlier. It's quite difficult to understand speech at first, so that's something that has to be worked on. When I started using this method, I already knew a bit about grammar and words. I opened subtitles and watched real Spanish channels like HolaSoyGerman, and Google translated the words I didn't know. After some Time I would stop using subtitles.
I ended up going with Pimsleur for my language intro.
Bonjour Cameron, je te félicite pour ta résilience dans l'apprentissage de langue française, je me suis remise à l'apprentissage de l'anglais, je n'arrête pas de traduire du français à l'anglais, ma motivation n'est pas régulière, ma prononciation est juste horrible, je regarde pas mal de vidéos pour progresser, peut-être que cette année j'y arriverai, I hope so !
Tu dois te donner à fond
Well done.
I am a hyperpolyglot and I found this simple instructive video very practical and sensible. You communicated your technique rather well.
I get it!! Cool. I’d summarize this as: Force yourself to speak by practicing little stories of you life. This make is both relevant to you and makes you ready for conversation. I’m going to try this. I think first I need to focus a bit more on my basic beginner level - but I can just tell very simple stories to start with.
amazing! i have a lot of faith in this. im intermediate in french right now & i’m going to try for a month and see how much i can improve. i’ll update
I have been working toward fluency in French. When I have been able to Converse with other French speakers, it is because I’ve repeated the same story over and over again. Unconsciously, I’ve been doing a similar type of method, but I had not developed it into an exercise. This will be a real timesaver.
At first I thought this video was going to be a huge click-bait. I normally stay away from this kind of video because, let's be honest, most of them are rather demotivating than helpful... but here finally comes someone with actual advice and practical tools! Thanks a lot for sharing, buddy. I can't wait to try this method and improve my spoken French. :D
This is awesome. I’ve been studying for about 5 months and I’m still heavily focused on listening and reading. To break out of that, I’ve been reading mini stories on LingQ and then writing a version based on my own life. Something similar to what you’re doing.
The problem I’m encountering with personal stories is that I place too much stress on “I” and “we” conjugations and I’m not practicing enough of the others. Your method sounds amazing. I’m gonna give it a go, but I have to make sure to insert all the different person conjugations, as well as questions using both vous and tu.
Thanks for your work!
Hi bro !! I really like the simplicity with wich you explain your method of learning french. I' m a native French speaker and my target language is English.
I noticed that a lot of people who want to learn a language tend to do all types of exercises except speaking exercises. We learn how to speak by actually doing so, just like children do.
It might not be perfect at the first try, but this is, I think, the natural way to learn anything, by reducing mistakes one after the other: Repetition is the key.
You also mention something very important about the use of words coming from our own life and interest. This is also the best way to build yourself a level of language matching who you really are and that you can use comfortably ( like an old jean)
You are on the right track, you can feel it yourself.
BIG UP !! from Paris.
This sounds great. I think a lot of fluency is being able to use the words and phrases that describe your everyday life. Thanks for sharing this.
You the real MVP😊
Bro thank you for this I am going to start tomorrow. Also, get that Merch up because once I become fluent I wanna have a Language Lord shirt
Wow dude THANK YOU. my Italian has just moved a ahead in days.
Im trying to learn italian as well, any tips?
@@nylon6240 I'm learning it now too. Do you have any tips?
@@comradeabby3141 Not really,I guess listening and repeating , writing,reading talking,texting and getting correction on those,learn words that you don't understand that you've come across,that kind of thing
This seems like the most practical language learning advice I've come across. I'm going to give it a try with my Polish studies.
I'm gonna try this method, diary style: each day, if it's earlier in the day, discuss what i plan to do in the day. If it's evening time, discuss what i had done during the day and what I had learned also
I'm watching this video every day to push me. Just started today with this method to learn French, my 3rd language. I believe this is the best way to learn. I will give my thoughts as I go! THANK YOU!
I came across this channel. i been using duo lingo for a week but i really want faster results with french. i feel ur ways will help with those results. thanks for this videos. keep uploading 👍🏼
(This comment is for myself bc my memory is bad lol)
Also, I believe if I am going to do something that requires a lot of time/effort it helps to clearly state why I am going to do it.
Ok, here I go. it’s 11:42pm, May 4.. I’m an introvert and determined to make this my main learning technique. Why? (Not ordered specifically)
1. I don’t want to have a gringa accent when speaking Spanish lol.
2. I believe this will help my social/conversational skills in any language. (As well as confidence and being more comfortable talking)
3. I was never really interested in this before but, I genuinely want to connect with more people.
4. This is ironic since this whole message is in English but I’m getting tired of English. I want to learn as much as I can and share beautiful languages with everyone around me !
I will set a reminder to reflect how it goes after just 1 week. No soy una principiante del idioma español, he sido estudiando por mucho tiempo pero no constantemente o con mucho esfuerzo. If this method works for me I will also try it with a new language as a complete beginner (Korean) which I just started 3 days ago :).
Thanks to this RUclips video/channel and this kind person (sry I don’t know your name) for sharing what you have learned and your method, I think a lot of people will benefit, me included.. I appreciate you! ❤️
..Wow I rambled on too long, took me 20 min to write this 😂
Amazing method. Felt like I've been stuck at an upper-intermediate plateau for so long and this should really help to push further! Merci beaucoup.
Probably one of the best tips I’ve found on language learning RUclips in over a year! Bravo 👏🏾
This is such an amazing concept and process. Thanks for sharing with others. I’ve been teaching myself Spanish for about 3.5 years, and have an advanced level of knowledge, but I still struggle with speaking fluently, mainly because I continue to translate from English to Spanish in my head as I’m speaking, and sometimes I just mix things up. I’m going to try this and see how it works for me. I hope I have the patience and discipline to keep at it.
I watched anothe video where the author said memorizing about 800 common words and their meaning can take you from a beginer to fluency in a few weeks. it wont be perfect but will get the job done. So I figured, I would do a list of the common words I use in English (to tell my daily stories) translate them and memorize them then apply this technique. I am a total beginner so I am actually looking forward to a month's result. Good luck to all those trying to learn a new language
discord is a good place to practice with a language partner too
I use Omegle! Some creeps on there, but I just put my target language as the tag and it’s mostly people around my age (17) who just wanna talk.
@@randomworkings3600 you can use HelloTalk too
I’ve been trying to figure out how to join a French discord server I’m new to discord and I failed
@@evangelineeden342 there's this discord server called Le Salon Français it's an amazing server you should join!
@@evangelineeden342 go onto a language learning or French subreddit and ask if anyone would wanna help you practice. I’m sure there are lots of French students learning English who would love to have someone to learn English from and teach French to.
Man, i'm a frecnh native speaker, passionated by languages and I was always searching a plan to learn a language, but never found it. I always searched a technique to learn language, and i feel like your technique is the most powerful, and the most appropriate for myself.
Thank you so much for your video, I will use it to learn German and Spanish more deeply.
This is brilliant! When you think about it, this is what conversation is. Just sharing the events of your life. Learning how to talk about your own life story... is so good that it seems really obvious but for some reason it isn't.
Best video I've seen on the subject of becoming fluent in a language while learning at home. I'm going to put this method into practice to speak English
Mais mec! Je suis français et je dois te dire bravo! Tu parles super bien, on dirait que tu es québécois (a.k.a. french-canadian)! Bien joué! Je vais m'inspirer de toi pour apprendre l'allemand 💪🏽
J'apprends l'allemand aussi. Belle langue.
Viel Erfolg dabei! Moi, j'apprendre le français
@@ruthspecht6991 Danke schön! Et bon courage à toi aussi ;)
I am so inspired! I tried talking in French on my morning commute and it surprised me that I was recalling words I learned many years ago!
awesome!!!! thank you for sharing this method. I've been learning French for about 2 months now and I think I'm progressing quite quickly but this will definitely help!
Great discovery! Your self-story-telling method is absolutely the key to quick fluency.
This is a highly autonomous and effective way to learn a language! Thank you for the great input!
I am doing it with italian, I was B1 when I started this technique, so I was a little advanced but I struggled with the construction of the sentence and vocabulary and I am doing that to, this is pretty amazing. I think with this technic we can learn a lot of languages and this is a good thing. Thank you.
It's proven: the more facial hair u have, the more intelligent u become.
I guess im dumb af then. Lol
@@gil_7038 lol
which is why in the Ryan George universe, your authority status is designated by the size of your moustache, with the top positions going only to those with the most commanding moustaches
@@DialecticRed what a world
All girls in the world: "fuck"
OMG. AT LAST!! I've been looking for a detailed method that made sense to me and that was explained in a way that made it easy to understand. You gave me both-excellently. Thank you so much!!
Excellent video. This is a brilliant idea: it's something every language learner does from time to time - but the key is doing it systematically and repeatedly.
First off. What a time to be alive!! In moving to France to finish studying French. And you've just helped me so much. I dunno you. But thank you so so so much. I'm so glad I found your channel
God bless you man, this is absolutely BRILLIANT. I’m trying to learn German and I think this will get me there🙏🏾
Ich lerne Deutsch auch. Ich finde "German Demystified" sehr hilfreich. Duo Übungen und Online Geschichte.
It is funny how the RUclips algorithm recommended this to me because I actually started doing this same thing with the same exact tools deepl and anki and then about two days later I find this video saying the exact same thing! I got the story telling part from watching a Steve Kaufmann video on RUclips about language learning. I like this idea because it is realistic and no native speaker really wants to sit with you for more than an hour in your early stages of learning because it would be ineffective and half the time would be spent just trying to understand what each other are saying so this will give a good boost to jump start your language learning so you could begin at a lower intermediate level when you meet with a native speaker.
It is amazing that technology is now at this point to where we can form a strategy like this to acquire languages.
Thank you. Great advice. We spend so much time learning languages from / in books and don't speak aloud enough. Your exercise is a great way to advance your comfort level and get used to hearing yourself speak in another language : )
I don't know how you came up with these exercices but it's really smart. Great job and thanks for sharing.
What a great plan! Our everyday conversations are about the things we are most familiar with (ourselves) so great idea to start with learning how to say those things!! Thanks! Love the channel name!!! Subscribed @ 2.23k - Bonne chance!!!
This is absolutely brilliant. I have just started (as in, less than a week ago) learning Persian and I’m going to add this as a key part of my method and try it out!
So how was the approach? Also, if you don't mind sharing, how did you start? The storytelling aspect on day 1, when you know nothing? How do you tell a story in your target language when you know nothing yet?
This was an amazing, well thought out and creative language learning exercise that I plan on implementing in my language learning journey(s) in the future!! So glad this video showed up into my feed! Have a good one!
Not sure why I've never thought of this myself but this seems pretty genius. I just recorded my first video, it wasn't great but it was better than I thought. I am looking forward to doing this again and again and making progress!
This is my only outlet for speaking French. You would think with me being Canadian I would have opportunities to speak French but I don't even know anyone who can speak French. Crazy! But this method gives me a chance to speak French and I love it! Merci beaucoup :)
I have cleared out the whole month dedicated to this. I did start a little today. Feel free to ask for updates after a month. I am truly dedicated. I’m learning Spanish.
Yo también. Spanish is such a goated language
how's it going?
@@noname-qh7tr it’s going good. It is hard work. I am doing it a little different with the same amount of time. Being consistent is key for me.
@@rosschandler4050 Have you improved much?
I love this method so much! I’ve been told in my beginning college Spanish class that speaking is the most important part of learning, but I’m so embarrassed to speak so terribly to real people. This method eliminates all that early embarrassment of not being able to really form any good sentences. Thanks so much for the awesome videos!
I'm going to try this.
Merci,
Au revoir
For now 🙂
Get this dude more subscribers. this is actual no bs advice. ive learnt four languages and this is a max efficiency method.
New subscriber, greetings from Costa Rica
Thanks! Iam an 11 year old that really wants to learn other languages and become an poliglot in the future and Iam going to use this method for my French! (Also sorry if I have bad grammar and you had an stroke reading this! English is not my native language)
Sick video bro!
Thanks Bro!
Excellent.
I've been watching language learning vids for like 4.5 years. I've seen tons of methods, but I've never heard of this approach.
Makes sense.
Seems very, very solid.
Good job
Just wanted to say that I appreciate the time and effort you've taken in making this video. Love the approach to learning French also!
This is what I did for my study when I had an oral test for the German language. Making my own story and using google translate + dictionaries helped me so much. (This was 16 years ago, there were no cool apps :P )
I need to know the time you woke up in an ambulance story now 😂😂
I need to know how the dog was still alive!
😂😂@@potatoqueen2910
I'm a language learner and overall fanatic of these types of things, I can speak English, Spanish, and French (and Catalan, but I don't really use it). I've seen a lot of RUclips polyglots who claim to speak 10-20 or more languages but the ones I can understand, when I hear them, they usually speak them quite weakly. In spite of that, they try to sell you their method or tricks telling you that you can become fluent with them, without admitting that they're barely fluent.
This man is the real deal. I heard you're French and it's extremely fluent with a good accent, better than many that I've heard. Congrats to you, and if this method's worked for you I can say it's because it truly has some merit, and that shows that it's a good example to follow.