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Hello Luca thank you for making these videos 😁 it's nice to have an Italian big brother 😂 in language learning that reminds us acquiring languages is a journey that has different terrains and for every terrain we must cross differently but as long as we are getting closer to our destination we are all winners 🏆👍. 🤗
Any suggestion from Luca is pure gold! I've been following him for years, and I save a lot of time just by following his guidelines. He’s undoubtedly the smartest teacher-no question about that!
My favorite time to stop and look up an unknown word is when I’ve noticed it comes up at least twice fairly early on in the book. Then I know I’m likely to keep encountering it and this book will be useful for deeply learning that particular word. Maybe it’s an important noun for understanding the story. But authors also love using the same strange adjective over and over!
Couldn’t agree more. It’s actually amazing how you notice the idiosyncrasies of a specific writer, especially when you begin reading in a foreign language. A word that you had never encountered before comes back twice in 50 pages !
Since I have learned to let go of perfection, I feel much happier learning and reading, thanks for the video, I will keep all of it mind once I start learning my next language! ☺️
Such a powerful and useful video, it's good to have you back! And huge thanks for the wonderful shout-out! (3:20) Te vojo bbene Luchino, sei il più grande!
Excelente video Luca! El concepto, la edición y, también, buenísima la idea de ir intercalando frases en otros idiomas! Esta nueva serie se viene con todo!
Yes! Letting go is key in every aspect of your life. You can't control the outcome, but you can control the process, and making mistakes is part of refining the learning process itself.
Merci Luca. Ça faisait un bout que je n’avais pas regardé tes capsules, mas ao retorno eu achei que você tinha melhorado muito. Tipo, finalmente você dá dicas que são realmente úteis и, при этом, ты наконец-то начал активно использовать все выученные тобой языки непосредственно в своих роликах. Моё почтение!
What a great video! I've falled probably into all of those mistakes. It's good to know that it could happen to everybody. Thanks for the book and the e-book, what a great gift to get back on track with the english! Greetings from Chile.
Dammm, you are basically my role model now! I discovered your channel thanks to the interviews in spanish, as I am learning it and now - i love it here! Your mindset is amazing!
When it comes to language aquisition I tend to break most of the rules (eg., learning more than one language at a time, even similar ones like Spanish and Italian or Ancient and Modern Greek). Not surprisingly I haven't made as much progress as I should have given the time I've invested. But I do love the journey. Thanks again for more useful tips. I also like your use of multiple language in the video.
You might need to change your approach. Remember, there aren’t any universal tips to learn a foreign language. It is a trial and error. I can give you tips, but I can’t manipulate your brain. I have no idea how does your brain remember phrases, words, idioms. Do you study passively and actively or only passively? Reading and listening to podcasts, audiobooks and watch movies is passive learning. Having conversations with an AI, friends, writing books, articles, stories, blogs is active learning. Do you evaluate yourself? How many words/ phrases I recognise/ understand now that I wasn’t able to understand last month?
I'm with you. I jump into material that's way above my level. Sometimes it kind of works anyway and other times it's a disaster. I was proud to read IT when I was a kid in my native language and also older than you were. I can't imagine 12 year old me reading that in English never mind a foreign language.
Great vid! It's always been my method to read in a language I'm learning. It's a method and a purpose all in one. 😄 The only thing from your video about the graded readers at an intermediate level. I'm intermediate in Portuguese and I am already reading regular books from Portugal and Brasil and/or in translation into Portuguese. They're simply more interesting than a graded reader.
I like to keep a notebook nearby when reading in a language I'm learning. I'm going to come across words that I don't know - that's OK. But when I run into the same word multiple times and haven't been able to figure it out in context I'll jot it down. After I've finished my reading session I'll go look up the words I've written down. I won't necessarily acquire the words after one glance at a dictionary, especially if there are multiple meanings. But this helps give me a sense of the words for the next time I encounter them. Waiting until after I'm done reading means I don't break the flow of the text and only looking up things that repeat multiple times limits the effort to a small set, which hopefully will be easier to remember.
I do something similar, I underline, aiming for about 5 words per page (to keep a pulse on level), then look up and add the phrase to a note book (to keep flow). I bracket phrases I want to add to my vocab notebook (maintain purpose/relevance). 5-10 pages a day is enough. My rule is books need to be less than 300 pages (even in my native language), and, ideally, about 200 to keep up my motivation.
Thanks, Luca. Three things you might add are: Length of the book (IT is a long book). Gamification makes us think that rereading is not okay and it is hard to reread longer books. This is where repetition comes in. You are guaranteed to see all the words you read again! You were really interested in the Clown, which was a motivational factor, but how useful is the vocabulary? I recently bought a 9th grade social studies book to learn about Polish government at a citizen level. I don't need to know about clowns, sewers, or murder, but how often elections are held. Overall a great video!
@@frogskocinq IMO If you make reading all about utility then it will be harder to push yourself to keep doing it. Right now I'm reading a fantasy novel in my target language. Do I need vocabulary about magicians and dragons in everyday situations? Certainly not. But I'm enjoying the story so reading it is a pleasure, not a chore.
i really learn a lot from you , thank you very much for everything you done , now i'm learning german , and apply your tips , and i see some progress everyday which keeps me on the line to move on
You are right. There are some words I Even almost never use in my own language. E. g. Парашут = Fallschirm These words you can forget without any problems.
OMG, this is such a good video. Mistake number 3, I do it so much. I will need to fix that. Is it possible for you to make a video on tips of starting to read in Chinese/Japanese languages?
One mistake I've made is not listening and reading more when I started learning Finnish nine years ago (Moi, Stefano!) ; I think it set me back. But I've finally read through two novels now, entirely in Finnish, and even though I didn't/ don't know, but I understood enough to get the plot.
Words and their various meanings... Would you Turn on the light. Turn up on time. Turn down the bed. Turn down the music. Turn around. Turn over. Turn left. Turn the wheel. Turn the page. Turn into. Turn off. And now it is your turn...
Mistakes are your best friends on your road to fluency ;-) Once you are aware that you are making them, you can readjust and learn even better and faster!
I already know from my own experience that all of the mistakes you name are indeed mistakes. But have I stopped reading advanced books or looking up every word, etc.? Not on your life. However, I have managed to start to spending some time with comic books like Donald Duck. They are of course much more advanced than beginner texts, but sorry, can’t stomach Mike the cook. (Back to it , where did I put down my Norwegian Don Quijote?)
IF we’re addressing the reason why MOST (99%) of language learners quit then, yes, I agree. However, for those intensely passionate, like you were, over-your-head is the BEST advice you can possibly give! Think about being A0, do you remember? I do. I got kicked in the cojones "thinking" that I’ll start with the book which changed my life in 6th grade, Charlotte's Web in Spanish! Holy sht. Wow! Every single sentence was littered with words, phrases, why this? why that? And you know what I learned? That English natives try to teach foreign languages as if they were English and you can NEVER become fluent using their method!! That discovery saved my entire language learning adventure! You mean in Spanish, there truly is no such thing as DO, IO, Reflexive and Subject pronouns? That they are boxes artificially created for a concept which doesn’t exist in English? Action direction. This is why Me, Te, Lo/la/Le/Se, Nos and Os are all THE SAME. They are action redirections with nuances, not "objects" at all. If you want to think deep, you gotta go deep. Otherwise, you’re just premature on the surface. The only reason we "slow down" after B2 is because we get scared!
I think texts which are difficult turn into little more than word lists if you try to blast through them. There is value to be had from difficult content but you can really only go a sentence or two a day. For me the worst content is the middle ground of difficult where it's not ornate or beautiful enough to be worth going through slowly but you'r e not getting any of the sentence structure either, just vaguely knowing this verb affects this object, this is the subject etc. You know what's happening and you're learning new words but the structure of the language is lost. I think once you have good vocabulary it's nice if you can find things that are 99% and higher familiar words so you can properly pay attention to structure and rhythm. There are oceans of the middleground content I spoke of that don't seem to help sentence structure much, something like 95 - 97% known words in relatively mundane content. I'm undecided if that kind of material is worth the time.
Any suggestions for when you can understand a few pages at a time and then hit a paragraph that you donct understand at all? That's kind of where I am with Spanish, with several different books I've tried at different reading levels.
Just create a bilingual version of that paragraph and ask ChatGPT to dissect it for you word by word. This way you have the big picture but also you understand the single components of the message. Remember that the main goal to acquire any language is to UNDERSTAND it, NOT memorize it.
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"Adivina lo que pasó", sin tilde en la conjunción "que". Con tilde esta palabra se habría pronunciado con más fuerza, y habría sonado raro. Pero tranquilo, que los españoles también se equivocan con esto con frecuencia.
Comics and Mangas are really good for intermediate learners, specially those who are at B2. I've started reading manga recently and I can follow it and have a lot of fun.
As a Russian learner for the last 2.5 years, I realize the importance of reading to enhance my vocabularies and understand better the grammatical concept of the language. So I decided to buy some Russian books (short stories) intended for primary schoolers when I was on a trip to Kazakhstan because it's so difficult to find Russian printed books here in Indonesia. I thought it would be so much fun and easy enough. Boy, I was wrong! I felt so defeated, because 75% of the words used in the short stores were new to me. I was too busy to write down new words on my notes and to find the meaning on dictionary. I need almost an hour just to figure out the meaning of the stories, even just part of them (2 pages). Frustrating. 😭😫😩. I'd better find other texts that better suit my level.
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Hello Luca thank you for making these videos 😁 it's nice to have an Italian big brother 😂 in language learning that reminds us acquiring languages is a journey that has different terrains and for every terrain we must cross differently but as long as we are getting closer to our destination we are all winners 🏆👍. 🤗
Any suggestion from Luca is pure gold!
I've been following him for years, and I save a lot of time just by following his guidelines. He’s undoubtedly the smartest teacher-no question about that!
My favorite time to stop and look up an unknown word is when I’ve noticed it comes up at least twice fairly early on in the book. Then I know I’m likely to keep encountering it and this book will be useful for deeply learning that particular word. Maybe it’s an important noun for understanding the story. But authors also love using the same strange adjective over and over!
Couldn’t agree more. It’s actually amazing how you notice the idiosyncrasies of a specific writer, especially when you begin reading in a foreign language. A word that you had never encountered before comes back twice in 50 pages !
Excellent advice.
I think that the dual language subs was a great addition.
Thanks! Glad you like the video
Since I have learned to let go of perfection, I feel much happier learning and reading, thanks for the video, I will keep all of it mind once I start learning my next language! ☺️
Such a powerful and useful video, it's good to have you back!
And huge thanks for the wonderful shout-out! (3:20)
Te vojo bbene Luchino, sei il più grande!
Grazie Stefanotto, tu sei il meglio del meglio, la crème de la crème =) Non vedo l'ora di fare qualche altro video insieme!
I love the fancy editing, very well done, the video looks very clean and interactive
Thanks Luiza! More videos to come so stay tuned ;-)
Excelente video Luca! El concepto, la edición y, también, buenísima la idea de ir intercalando frases en otros idiomas! Esta nueva serie se viene con todo!
I consider Luca as the best language teacher of the world!
Thanks for the kind words Arthur!
I've done all of these. But recently, I've been letting go of perfection, and I realize that learning comes with making mistakes.
Yes! Letting go is key in every aspect of your life. You can't control the outcome, but you can control the process, and making mistakes is part of refining the learning process itself.
Merci Luca. Ça faisait un bout que je n’avais pas regardé tes capsules, mas ao retorno eu achei que você tinha melhorado muito. Tipo, finalmente você dá dicas que são realmente úteis и, при этом, ты наконец-то начал активно использовать все выученные тобой языки непосредственно в своих роликах. Моё почтение!
What a great video! I've falled probably into all of those mistakes. It's good to know that it could happen to everybody.
Thanks for the book and the e-book, what a great gift to get back on track with the english!
Greetings from Chile.
Thanks for the lovely comment Felipe! Hope you like the free ebook (and audiobook)
Dammm, you are basically my role model now! I discovered your channel thanks to the interviews in spanish, as I am learning it and now - i love it here! Your mindset is amazing!
Dzięki^^
When it comes to language aquisition I tend to break most of the rules (eg., learning more than one language at a time, even similar ones like Spanish and Italian or Ancient and Modern Greek). Not surprisingly I haven't made as much progress as I should have given the time I've invested. But I do love the journey. Thanks again for more useful tips. I also like your use of multiple language in the video.
You might need to change your approach. Remember, there aren’t any universal tips to learn a foreign language. It is a trial and error. I can give you tips, but I can’t manipulate your brain. I have no idea how does your brain remember phrases, words, idioms. Do you study passively and actively or only passively? Reading and listening to podcasts, audiobooks and watch movies is passive learning. Having conversations with an AI, friends, writing books, articles, stories, blogs is active learning. Do you evaluate yourself? How many words/ phrases I recognise/ understand now that I wasn’t able to understand last month?
I'm with you. I jump into material that's way above my level. Sometimes it kind of works anyway and other times it's a disaster. I was proud to read IT when I was a kid in my native language and also older than you were. I can't imagine 12 year old me reading that in English never mind a foreign language.
Always amazing material, thanks!🤩
Thanks for the kind words Guglielmo!
Great vid! It's always been my method to read in a language I'm learning. It's a method and a purpose all in one. 😄 The only thing from your video about the graded readers at an intermediate level. I'm intermediate in Portuguese and I am already reading regular books from Portugal and Brasil and/or in translation into Portuguese. They're simply more interesting than a graded reader.
Agreed! Graded readers are fine, but if you can already read books written by and for native speakers, even better!
I like to keep a notebook nearby when reading in a language I'm learning. I'm going to come across words that I don't know - that's OK. But when I run into the same word multiple times and haven't been able to figure it out in context I'll jot it down. After I've finished my reading session I'll go look up the words I've written down. I won't necessarily acquire the words after one glance at a dictionary, especially if there are multiple meanings. But this helps give me a sense of the words for the next time I encounter them. Waiting until after I'm done reading means I don't break the flow of the text and only looking up things that repeat multiple times limits the effort to a small set, which hopefully will be easier to remember.
I do something similar, I underline, aiming for about 5 words per page (to keep a pulse on level), then look up and add the phrase to a note book (to keep flow). I bracket phrases I want to add to my vocab notebook (maintain purpose/relevance). 5-10 pages a day is enough. My rule is books need to be less than 300 pages (even in my native language), and, ideally, about 200 to keep up my motivation.
Thanks, Luca. Three things you might add are:
Length of the book (IT is a long book).
Gamification makes us think that rereading is not okay and it is hard to reread longer books. This is where repetition comes in. You are guaranteed to see all the words you read again!
You were really interested in the Clown, which was a motivational factor, but how useful is the vocabulary? I recently bought a 9th grade social studies book to learn about Polish government at a citizen level. I don't need to know about clowns, sewers, or murder, but how often elections are held.
Overall a great video!
@@frogskocinq IMO If you make reading all about utility then it will be harder to push yourself to keep doing it. Right now I'm reading a fantasy novel in my target language. Do I need vocabulary about magicians and dragons in everyday situations? Certainly not. But I'm enjoying the story so reading it is a pleasure, not a chore.
i really learn a lot from you , thank you very much for everything you done , now i'm learning german , and apply your tips , and i see some progress everyday which keeps me on the line to move on
Una gusto verte por aqui Luca después de tanto tiempo, te sigo ya muchos años
Gracias!
Very interesting and useful information! Thanks a lot!
You are most welcome!
Great content with very useful information. Learning to let go of perfection may be my greatest challenge.
Saludos de Venezuela, Suramérica, Luca. 🇻🇪🖐️👌
Saludos dese Cracovia, Polonia 🥰
I've been guilty of all of these at times, but I'm learning to do things the right way
One step at a time as they say
Make no mistake 🤯
J'adore écouter a Luca cuando parla in lingue que eu não falo 🙂
Obrigado, grazie, Danke! ;-)
Come sempre : grazie di cuore ! A presto ! 🙏
Finalmente insegnanti Italiani che aiutano veramente a crescere nelle lingue straniere!
You are right.
There are some words I Even almost never use in my own language.
E. g. Парашут = Fallschirm
These words you can forget without any problems.
Great video 😊 👏 mistake # 3 is very common among language learners.
Brilliant video!!!
Glad you liked it! I will be posting a new video every Thursday at 18 PM Rome time ;-)
OMG, this is such a good video. Mistake number 3, I do it so much. I will need to fix that.
Is it possible for you to make a video on tips of starting to read in Chinese/Japanese languages?
Great idea Adam, thanks! I will add it to the list of the 50 videos I have been preparing for you lovely people over the last 2 months ;-)
One mistake I've made is not listening and reading more when I started learning Finnish nine years ago (Moi, Stefano!) ; I think it set me back. But I've finally read through two novels now, entirely in Finnish, and even though I didn't/ don't know, but I understood enough to get the plot.
Très sympa de dire des petites phrases dans différentes langues !
Merci!
Words and their various meanings... Would you Turn on the light. Turn up on time. Turn down the bed. Turn down the music. Turn around. Turn over. Turn left. Turn the wheel. Turn the page. Turn into. Turn off. And now it is your turn...
Yes! Phrasal verbs in English. You gotta love 'em :-D
And i am gracefully commiting all these mistakes while learning my target languages😂😅
Mistakes are your best friends on your road to fluency ;-) Once you are aware that you are making them, you can readjust and learn even better and faster!
I already know from my own experience that all of the mistakes you name are indeed mistakes. But have I stopped reading advanced books or looking up every word, etc.? Not on your life. However, I have managed to start to spending some time with comic books like Donald Duck. They are of course much more advanced than beginner texts, but sorry, can’t stomach Mike the cook. (Back to it , where did I put down my Norwegian Don Quijote?)
IF we’re addressing the reason why MOST (99%) of language learners quit then, yes, I agree. However, for those intensely passionate, like you were, over-your-head is the BEST advice you can possibly give! Think about being A0, do you remember? I do. I got kicked in the cojones "thinking" that I’ll start with the book which changed my life in 6th grade, Charlotte's Web in Spanish! Holy sht. Wow! Every single sentence was littered with words, phrases, why this? why that? And you know what I learned? That English natives try to teach foreign languages as if they were English and you can NEVER become fluent using their method!! That discovery saved my entire language learning adventure! You mean in Spanish, there truly is no such thing as DO, IO, Reflexive and Subject pronouns? That they are boxes artificially created for a concept which doesn’t exist in English? Action direction. This is why Me, Te, Lo/la/Le/Se, Nos and Os are all THE SAME. They are action redirections with nuances, not "objects" at all. If you want to think deep, you gotta go deep. Otherwise, you’re just premature on the surface. The only reason we "slow down" after B2 is because we get scared!
I think texts which are difficult turn into little more than word lists if you try to blast through them. There is value to be had from difficult content but you can really only go a sentence or two a day.
For me the worst content is the middle ground of difficult where it's not ornate or beautiful enough to be worth going through slowly but you'r e not getting any of the sentence structure either, just vaguely knowing this verb affects this object, this is the subject etc. You know what's happening and you're learning new words but the structure of the language is lost.
I think once you have good vocabulary it's nice if you can find things that are 99% and higher familiar words so you can properly pay attention to structure and rhythm. There are oceans of the middleground content I spoke of that don't seem to help sentence structure much, something like 95 - 97% known words in relatively mundane content. I'm undecided if that kind of material is worth the time.
Any suggestions for when you can understand a few pages at a time and then hit a paragraph that you donct understand at all? That's kind of where I am with Spanish, with several different books I've tried at different reading levels.
Just create a bilingual version of that paragraph and ask ChatGPT to dissect it for you word by word. This way you have the big picture but also you understand the single components of the message. Remember that the main goal to acquire any language is to UNDERSTAND it, NOT memorize it.
Я на Вас любуюсь...какой Вы симпатичный!))
Спасибо )
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Привет, Марина! Все курсы ты можешь найти здесь: www.lucalampariello.com/courses/ Курсы на английском языке, но к ним есть русские субтитры. Это общие курсы о том, как выучить любой язык, включая английский. Если будут вопросы, обращайся, я на связи! 🙂
@@LucaLampariello спасибо большое. Мило🥰😊
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"Adivina lo que pasó", sin tilde en la conjunción "que". Con tilde esta palabra se habría pronunciado con más fuerza, y habría sonado raro.
Pero tranquilo, que los españoles también se equivocan con esto con frecuencia.
Buen dicho!
Gracias Jaime ;-)
Suspending your own ego is also very important when learning a new language.
Estoy decepcionado porque aun lleves una camiseta!
Jaja
If you can high light every word in page that you don't know
Reagrding failure #1, it took me 10 years to read Eva Luna by Isabel Allende.
Non ti posso ascoltare mentre faccio altro se mi butti dentro frasi in lingue che non conosco 😂 please
Guardati il video allora ;-)
Devo ottimizzare i tempi, ti ascolto quando vado a correre, il cellulare c'è l' ho sul braccio. Ma va bene, non importa 😅
Comics and Mangas are really good for intermediate learners, specially those who are at B2. I've started reading manga recently and I can follow it and have a lot of fun.
Yes sir!
+1
Read with the audio
❤
They float, Georgie, and when you’re down here with me, you’ll float, too! 🎈🤡
As a Russian learner for the last 2.5 years, I realize the importance of reading to enhance my vocabularies and understand better the grammatical concept of the language. So I decided to buy some Russian books (short stories) intended for primary schoolers when I was on a trip to Kazakhstan because it's so difficult to find Russian printed books here in Indonesia. I thought it would be so much fun and easy enough. Boy, I was wrong! I felt so defeated, because 75% of the words used in the short stores were new to me. I was too busy to write down new words on my notes and to find the meaning on dictionary. I need almost an hour just to figure out the meaning of the stories, even just part of them (2 pages). Frustrating. 😭😫😩. I'd better find other texts that better suit my level.