Highly surprised when Rich brought up Luxembourg and that he is so well informed about the linguistic background of that little country of mine. Many people on earth are unaware of its existence even, so it's very refreshing to see foreigners showing some interest. thumbs up for that!
My favourite language is the one I am studying. Right now it is Czech. But I remain faithful to my old flames, and love the ones I have already studied.
I do more listening than anything else. Repetitive listening is less interesting but you will find that phrases will be ringing in your head for a while and reappear months and years later.
You just have to listen more, and if possible listen to the same content as you read, to help get you started. You may also have to listen more than once to the same content. You can also learn Norwegian at LingQ.
I know that native speakers of regional languages in Spain mostly speak Castilian, but the reverse is not true., unless I am mistaken. The ability to speak foreign languages in Spain, including French and Italian, or English, is much less common than elsewhere in Europe. I did not say that speaking one Romance language "guaranteed" that you could speak another. I just said that they are very close and easy to learn once you know one. To me they seem like versions of one language.
Great interview. I like the analogy of people who are interested in and good at learning sports stats. Learning language is not some special gene, it's a natural desire and a genuine love to learn the subject.
I have not met many Spaniards who spoke French or Italian. The Spaniards are at the bottom of the scale for English in Europe, and I find the level of English in Portugal much better. That said, their language skills greatly exceed the levels in the British Isles and English speaking North America.
In Englnd our foreign language skills are atrocious. I started French at age 11 at school, and hated it. It was the worst kind of classroom teaching. I remember listening to the voice of an old French man playing on an old reel to reel taperecorder, I never understood a word. It can’t be much better today as language skills are still poor. I think the approach is wrong. Giving low marks for making mistakes creates the false idea that one learns everything perfectly. And that creates anxiety when speaking. It should be fun, that’s how children learn their native language(s).
An astounding video, Mr. Steve. I'm trilingual, and I do speak Kazakh, Russian, English. Moreover, I've been studying an Italian for 2 months and pretty much familiar with the basics. I agree that when I switch into various languages I do forget the easiest words. However, I think it works well, because if you forget the words, it means that your brain functions normally.
With great pleasure I followed your conversation, Steve and Richard! Interesting to know what you say about Slavic languages as speakers of those. My talent of languages is that I can switch languages easily and I didn't have to learn that. Concerning grammar and vocabulary I always keep a balance between both. My vocabulary needs to fit in a logical structure of grammar in my head. I look very much forward to the next videos in this series. Kind regards, Fasulye
Thanks for the interview. I often find Mr. Kaufmann annoying and tend to avoid his videos, but this video was both illuminating and very good humoured.
Thanks for this great motivation resource ! My mom is a sport teacher and she always to her pupils that every function develops through the practicing of it. I think that for languages is the same.I spend a lot of time learning,putting a lot of passion in it,and things are workin out. I wish the best to you :)
I very much agree with the concept of having the desire to want to learn something. However, an equally as strong impact, is your exposure to something. Where someone who has grown up in a house hold with a parents of siblings who are fanatic about a sport, the likelihood is that they too will love it. Apply this to a nationality like the Swiss. Switzerland is surrounded by a magnitude of languages and so for them it may not be a desire to learn them, but in fact a necessity for day to day life.
I really find it interesting when you guys give your opinion and talk about individual languages. (for example your comment about the difference between Czech and Russian)
Following Pr. Alexander's ideas: brainstorming sessions of, first, finding ways of fundraising, but then, your ideas and dreams of founding an association of learning languages (not Berlitz, not Rosetta Bollocks, but people taking about their experiences, as you chaps do).
I usually don't agree with Steve at all on most topics (even though I do enjoy seeing his perspective), but I definitely like this video a lot. The media has a definite image of polyglots as "Oh, look at these superhumans! Normal people could never do that" -just as they do in for obsessive-"learners" in other areas.
What is your favorite language (Richard, Steve)? My favorite tends to change over time as I aquire more but overall the top ones are Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Thai,Chinese, and Afrikaans. The language that I like the least is French.
With reference to Luxembourg as mentioned in the video, a friend of mine from University was from there and she spoke Luxembourgish, French, German and English and when she told me little words in Luxembourgish - I really liked how there was a similarity to German but it is also quite different like ech schwätzen / ich spreche
I also knew a Luxembourger when I was at university. She spoke fluent Luxembourgish, German, French and English, and I think she also spoke Spanish. She got quite annoyed if someone said Luxembourgish was like German. The relationship is probably like Catalan and Spanish, or Spanish and Italian. Her family were wine growers so very wealthy. I don’t know if all Luxembourgers are so linguistically capable.
Oh, Richard. He speaks Spanish with an Andalusian accent xD I saw his video speaking 16 languages and oved it. Besides, what a charming British accent he has!
Do Swedes have a special talent, genetically, that Brits don't have? Talent may be a factor, but it is less important than attitude and time. You can develop the skill of noticing, which you need to be a good language learner.
Do you think i could learn it in much the same way that you learned other languages? I know that there is less audio content around. Does LingQ have audio content for it(You recommended listening on many of your videos)?
Steve, i recently found you on RUclips, so excuse me if you have gone over this before: Steve, do you know Latin? I am trying to learn Latin, and i actually want to speak it, i am really interested in the language. But, i was wondering, what would you recommend me do for learning such a language.
I would love to hear you guys' thoughts on different languages, what are your favorites, which languages do you think are the most beautiful,... (for example: in the video you talked about Czech being so different from Russian)
Hi Steve, great video as always and just a quick question if I may. I'm new to the language learning scene and am currently learning Norwegian motivated by my visit there in the past and also my upcoming second visit. I'm finding it hard listening and conversing. Things that I can always understand written just become that much harder when spoken as I can't keep up with the native pace etc such as radio, what do you recommend that could help me get better at this?
Hi. I admired you very much. And i really want to understand all your conversation. I am Asian. And i am bad at listening to English. And i desire to improve my listening skill. Can you help for making engsub? I am grateful so much :)
Hồ Mỹ Chi Do a lot of listening and reading. Listen to what you are reading and vice versa, and eventually you will be able to understand more and more without reading.
Hey steve! I am a twelve year old boy from m=boston Massachusetts:) I am currently learning dutch I have to say it is the most beautiful language that I have EVER heard. I started about eight months ago and I kan have coversations with few (yet sometimes many) mistakes and can understand the basic point of shows on TV, I study atleast 4 hours every night but only because I love it so much:) now I was curious if without anymore grammar learning is it possible to only use Skype and to talk with
I would like to mention, that we have 8 types of intelligence. it's a bit late i will mention that tomorrow.At least we know that the capability to speak languages come from the first intelligence which is: linguistic intelligence, more infor will be provided tomorrow.
people in Dutch almost daily and still learn it fluently? I want to be fluent really bad and have like no confidence and am always very hard on myself:( do you know how long it will probably take? And my aunt lives in the hague in the Netherlands and im going in two months so I can also practice, do you have any suggestions for me? thanks, and by the way awesome video really enjoyed it!!!! (message part 2)
I'm taking a quick peek at Russian grammar now after ignoring it completely for some time as Steve always suggests beginners can feel fine in doing... Now that I see the first one, I gotta laugh: Verb conjugations for: oн oнa and oно (oh no!) 😆 oh no is RIGHT! Lol jk. Everyone says Russian conjugation etc is so difficult and boring but I think I'm gonna freaking love it. I also love math and astrophysics so... I'm gonna nail this shēt! 😀 I'm a particularly good speller too, even tho the spelling is a little wackadoodle. I think I like it because it reminds me of formulae (?) and algorithms. I can usually spell a big long word after seeing it just once. Of course, my computer psswds are 26 digits long (yes, memorized) so I get some practice. Thanks Steve, for the lessons and advice, as always.
Hey, have you heard of "SpaniMaster" (just google it)? On their website you can watch a nice free presentation featuring an amazing and effective method to learn the Spanish language quickly. This made it possible for Keith to read, speak and understand Spanish straight away. Hopefully it helps somebody you know to learn spanish in less time also..
What you say makes sense to me, but I disagree that expressions of disagreement = actively seeking discord. As to the necessity or worth of my comment, I think you've missed something. I don't know how familiar you are with Mr. Kaufmann's online presence, but he & I are well aware that many aren't fond of his style of communication. My comment was merely noting that on the basis of this video alone, I as one in that camp, am willing to consider, that I may, in part, be wrong about him.
Steve, regarding your comment about the Spanish, people here do speak languages, but they go for the "easy" and useful languages of our immediate environment: French (France and Morocco), Portuguese, Italian and other official languages of the state: Catalan, Galician. What Spaniards generally don't speak is English. That does not mean that they don't speak other languages besides Spanish. So, I don't agree with that. That stereotype is just built from an English-speaking perspective.
Actually, half of the population in Spain lives in the bilingual territories (Catalonia, Basque Country, Valencia, Galicia, Balearic Islands, Navarre) with two official languages, So, see how biased that statement is. And don't agree with the Romance languages comment either LOL Being an Italian or French native does not guarantee you to know all the Iberian, Arabic and Gothic vocabulary of Spanish. Left: sinistra (it) / izquierda (sp). Carpet: tappeto (it) / alfombra (sp), etc..
Swedish people are not gifted at learning languages, we just don't put voice-overs on TV-programmes or films. Ask Swiss people how they communicate between each other, as they got four languages in their country.
I don't think that there is any genetic predisposition..just a sorry excuse not to find the scientific objective reasons why some people learn better ,,,,
By the way having been teaching languages to hundreds of people for 13 years I think I know better than people that have experience teaching themselves,,..but I don't pose as a guru ,what I say is consequence of my experience and deep knowledge of what other 'real' experts have writtten on the subject up to now...
I don't believe in talent....that's an overrated notion and word that we use when we don't understand why people do something well..by the way Macedonia is a Greek region ..he probably means the Republic Of Macedonia (former Yugoslavia)...please do not use the word Macedonia in this way,,misleading and historically wrong....I think most of people are interested in learning tops two foreign languages
well...let's say there's no scientific proof proving the existence of any inborn talent regarding languages...if you have it show it here otherwise you are the one doing that not me
That's plain wrong ...using the term Macedonia is misleading ..have you ever studied history ? ...Macedonia is the region where Alexandros was from ..historically connected with the hellenistic period..I guess studying too many languages makes people ignorant of many other important things in life, that's why I stick to two,,,
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Highly surprised when Rich brought up Luxembourg and that he is so well informed about the linguistic background of that little country of mine. Many people on earth are unaware of its existence even, so it's very refreshing to see foreigners showing some interest. thumbs up for that!
My favourite language is the one I am studying. Right now it is Czech. But I remain faithful to my old flames, and love the ones I have already studied.
Simcott is the Beast of Revelation. Never stops with the languages.
Ďakujem za milé slová. S mojím Česká chápem, čo ste napísal.
Merci bien pour cette video. You both seem so happy and relaxed and comfortable in this video. It's so refreshing! Steve, you are a great interviewer.
I do more listening than anything else. Repetitive listening is less interesting but you will find that phrases will be ringing in your head for a while and reappear months and years later.
My Korean tutor was a member of LingQ.
You just have to listen more, and if possible listen to the same content as you read, to help get you started. You may also have to listen more than once to the same content. You can also learn Norwegian at LingQ.
I know that native speakers of regional languages in Spain mostly speak Castilian, but the reverse is not true., unless I am mistaken. The ability to speak foreign languages in Spain, including French and Italian, or English, is much less common than elsewhere in Europe. I did not say that speaking one Romance language "guaranteed" that you could speak another. I just said that they are very close and easy to learn once you know one. To me they seem like versions of one language.
Richard and Steve, I am so happy to see you both finally talking together...
Prajem mnoho úspechov a zdravia
Fan from Slovakia
Great interview. I like the analogy of people who are interested in and good at learning sports stats. Learning language is not some special gene, it's a natural desire and a genuine love to learn the subject.
I have not met many Spaniards who spoke French or Italian. The Spaniards are at the bottom of the scale for English in Europe, and I find the level of English in Portugal much better. That said, their language skills greatly exceed the levels in the British Isles and English speaking North America.
In Englnd our foreign language skills are atrocious. I started French at age 11 at school, and hated it. It was the worst kind of classroom teaching. I remember listening to the voice of an old French man playing on an old reel to reel taperecorder, I never understood a word. It can’t be much better today as language skills are still poor. I think the approach is wrong. Giving low marks for making mistakes creates the false idea that one learns everything perfectly. And that creates anxiety when speaking. It should be fun, that’s how children learn their native language(s).
An astounding video, Mr. Steve. I'm trilingual, and I do speak Kazakh, Russian, English. Moreover, I've been studying an Italian for 2 months and pretty much familiar with the basics. I agree that when I switch into various languages I do forget the easiest words. However, I think it works well, because if you forget the words, it means that your brain functions normally.
Yes when we hear a language it resides somewhere and different things seem to bring it forward.
With great pleasure I followed your conversation, Steve and Richard! Interesting to know what you say about Slavic languages as speakers of those. My talent of languages is that I can switch languages easily and I didn't have to learn that. Concerning grammar and vocabulary I always keep a balance between both. My vocabulary needs to fit in a logical structure of grammar in my head. I look very much forward to the next videos in this series. Kind regards, Fasulye
Thanks for the kind words Luca. I hope we can do another one later on, and hopefully the video will work.
What a great discussion. Well done guys, you are both very inspiring.
Hi, I am glad to be able to find people like you on the internet. I am also a polyglot but I am more geared towards the Asian languages.
Thanks for the interview. I often find Mr. Kaufmann annoying and tend to avoid his videos, but this video was both illuminating and very good humoured.
Thanks for this great motivation resource ! My mom is a sport teacher and she always to her pupils that every function develops through the practicing of it.
I think that for languages is the same.I spend a lot of time learning,putting a lot of passion in it,and things are workin out. I wish the best to you :)
Many thanks for your reply - I have started using Norwegian at LingQ and I'm impressed with the method so far!
For sure, look forward to that.
I very much agree with the concept of having the desire to want to learn something. However, an equally as strong impact, is your exposure to something. Where someone who has grown up in a house hold with a parents of siblings who are fanatic about a sport, the likelihood is that they too will love it. Apply this to a nationality like the Swiss. Switzerland is surrounded by a magnitude of languages and so for them it may not be a desire to learn them, but in fact a necessity for day to day life.
I really find it interesting when you guys give your opinion and talk about individual languages. (for example your comment about the difference between Czech and Russian)
I takes time to do a proper review of different language systems. I do not have the time to review Fluenz. I hope you will understand.
Following Pr. Alexander's ideas: brainstorming sessions of, first, finding ways of fundraising, but then, your ideas and dreams of founding an association of learning languages (not Berlitz, not Rosetta Bollocks, but people taking about their experiences, as you chaps do).
I usually don't agree with Steve at all on most topics (even though I do enjoy seeing his perspective), but I definitely like this video a lot. The media has a definite image of polyglots as "Oh, look at these superhumans! Normal people could never do that" -just as they do in for obsessive-"learners" in other areas.
We will see what we can do. What subject would be of interest?
What is your favorite language (Richard, Steve)? My favorite tends to change over time as I aquire more but overall the top ones are Brazilian Portuguese, Italian, Polish, Thai,Chinese, and Afrikaans. The language that I like the least is French.
Excellent stuff. Looking forward to part 2!!
I do not know much about Latin resources other than LingQ where you can study Latin.
Thanks for the comment. I would be very disappointed if I did not annoy some people.
With reference to Luxembourg as mentioned in the video, a friend of mine from University was from there and she spoke Luxembourgish, French, German and English and when she told me little words in Luxembourgish - I really liked how there was a similarity to German but it is also quite different like ech schwätzen / ich spreche
I also knew a Luxembourger when I was at university. She spoke fluent Luxembourgish, German, French and English, and I think she also spoke Spanish. She got quite annoyed if someone said Luxembourgish was like German. The relationship is probably like Catalan and Spanish, or Spanish and Italian. Her family were wine growers so very wealthy. I don’t know if all Luxembourgers are so linguistically capable.
Oh, Richard. He speaks Spanish with an Andalusian accent xD I saw his video speaking 16 languages and oved it. Besides, what a charming British accent he has!
Thanks, I changed it. His twitter account has no "g" and I thought his website did as well.
I loved the video. Thank you guys, you both are my inspiration :)
Do Swedes have a special talent, genetically, that Brits don't have? Talent may be a factor, but it is less important than attitude and time. You can develop the skill of noticing, which you need to be a good language learner.
Agreed.
In Luxembourg it's normal to speak 3 languages fluently (French, German, Luxemburgic). They also learn English in school, like most Europeans do.
Do you think i could learn it in much the same way that you learned other languages? I know that there is less audio content around. Does LingQ have audio content for it(You recommended listening on many of your videos)?
Thanks.
Steve, i recently found you on RUclips, so excuse me if you have gone over this before:
Steve, do you know Latin? I am trying to learn Latin, and i actually want to speak it, i am really interested in the language. But, i was wondering, what would you recommend me do for learning such a language.
I would love to hear you guys' thoughts on different languages, what are your favorites, which languages do you think are the most beautiful,... (for example: in the video you talked about Czech being so different from Russian)
Hi Steve, great video as always and just a quick question if I may. I'm new to the language learning scene and am currently learning Norwegian motivated by my visit there in the past and also my upcoming second visit. I'm finding it hard listening and conversing. Things that I can always understand written just become that much harder when spoken as I can't keep up with the native pace etc such as radio, what do you recommend that could help me get better at this?
Who knows what interview he is talking about at 2:52?
I really need it! Thank you!
Hi. I admired you very much. And i really want to understand all your conversation. I am Asian. And i am bad at listening to English. And i desire to improve my listening skill. Can you help for making engsub? I am grateful so much :)
Hồ Mỹ Chi Do a lot of listening and reading. Listen to what you are reading and vice versa, and eventually you will be able to understand more and more without reading.
great discussion.
this is better than watching tv.
Thanks , good conversation
Why don't you just go there and do it instead of asking a lot of quetions? Yes there is sound.
Hey steve! I am a twelve year old boy from m=boston Massachusetts:) I am currently learning dutch I have to say it is the most beautiful language that I have EVER heard. I started about eight months ago and I kan have coversations with few (yet sometimes many) mistakes and can understand the basic point of shows on TV, I study atleast 4 hours every night but only because I love it so much:) now I was curious if without anymore grammar learning is it possible to only use Skype and to talk with
So do you speak Dutch now?
When will there be new videos with you and Richard?
I always use bilingual dictionaries.
Sería fantástico que así fuera. La fuente de la juventud: el poliglotismo :-D
Tolles Video danke schön!
Maybe language learning keeps you young. Thanks.
Steve you missed the G in speakingfluently Just thought I'd mention it for those who want to read more about Richard
I would like to mention, that we have 8 types of intelligence. it's a bit late i will mention that tomorrow.At least we know that the capability to speak languages come from the first intelligence which is: linguistic intelligence, more infor will be provided tomorrow.
people in Dutch almost daily and still learn it fluently? I want to be fluent really bad and have like no confidence and am always very hard on myself:( do you know how long it will probably take? And my aunt lives in the hague in the Netherlands and im going in two months so I can also practice, do you have any suggestions for me? thanks, and by the way awesome video really enjoyed it!!!! (message part 2)
Thanks from Egypt
Oh guys i just like it!!!
I would expect nothing less. It's part of the kick you seek from speaking in public, methinks. Best...
Aw shucks! Thank you.
Need to get yourself a better internet connection ;) Love these vids, keep up the great work.
Como dicen los Italianos, chi va piano, va sano; chi va sano, va lontano. ¡Paciencia con los muebles,son caros !
I doubt that this holds true for sport and dancing.
I'm taking a quick peek at Russian grammar now after ignoring it completely for some time as Steve always suggests beginners can feel fine in doing...
Now that I see the first one, I gotta laugh:
Verb conjugations for:
oн oнa and oно (oh no!) 😆 oh no is RIGHT! Lol jk.
Everyone says Russian conjugation etc is so difficult and boring but I think I'm gonna freaking love it. I also love math and astrophysics so... I'm gonna nail this shēt! 😀 I'm a particularly good speller too, even tho the spelling is a little wackadoodle.
I think I like it because it reminds me of formulae (?) and algorithms. I can usually spell a big long word after seeing it just once. Of course, my computer psswds are 26 digits long (yes, memorized) so I get some practice.
Thanks Steve, for the lessons and advice, as always.
Aqui estuvo un futuro poliglota latino!!
Hey, have you heard of "SpaniMaster" (just google it)? On their website you can watch a nice free presentation featuring an amazing and effective method to learn the Spanish language quickly. This made it possible for Keith to read, speak and understand Spanish straight away. Hopefully it helps somebody you know to learn spanish in less time also..
What you say makes sense to me, but I disagree that expressions of disagreement = actively seeking discord. As to the necessity or worth of my comment, I think you've missed something. I don't know how familiar you are with Mr. Kaufmann's online presence, but he & I are well aware that many aren't fond of his style of communication. My comment was merely noting that on the basis of this video alone, I as one in that camp, am willing to consider, that I may, in part, be wrong about him.
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Kazakh is a turk language, isn't it? Could you understand a turkish text?
Steve, regarding your comment about the Spanish, people here do speak languages, but they go for the "easy" and useful languages of our immediate environment: French (France and Morocco), Portuguese, Italian and other official languages of the state: Catalan, Galician. What Spaniards generally don't speak is English. That does not mean that they don't speak other languages besides Spanish. So, I don't agree with that. That stereotype is just built from an English-speaking perspective.
We seem to have a very different understanding of the word abrasive. Oh well.
Actually, half of the population in Spain lives in the bilingual territories (Catalonia, Basque Country, Valencia, Galicia, Balearic Islands, Navarre) with two official languages, So, see how biased that statement is.
And don't agree with the Romance languages comment either LOL Being an Italian or French native does not guarantee you to know all the Iberian, Arabic and Gothic vocabulary of Spanish. Left: sinistra (it) / izquierda (sp). Carpet: tappeto (it) / alfombra (sp), etc..
steve looks great for 86
teddyboysmith2 he's 71 now (he was 67 when you posted this comment)
I'll just stay with the term Macedonia thank you. If the Greeks have a region that is called Macedonia that is also fine by me.
Swedish people are not gifted at learning languages, we just don't put voice-overs on TV-programmes or films. Ask Swiss people how they communicate between each other, as they got four languages in their country.
he doesn't smoke and plays hockey
Please don't confuse your opinions with science.
I don't think that there is any genetic predisposition..just a sorry excuse not to find the scientific objective reasons why some people learn better ,,,,
There is no way you are 66!! You seem younger!
Why? - who cares? He's clever - that's enough.
Goomba.
By the way having been teaching languages to hundreds of people for 13 years I think I know better than people that have experience teaching themselves,,..but I don't pose as a guru ,what I say is consequence of my experience and deep knowledge of what other 'real' experts have writtten on the subject up to now...
Hi from the future in 2023. XD
sheesh u do not seem 66!
argh, wrong person, Richard needs a new internet connection not you ;)
I don't believe in talent....that's an overrated notion and word that we use when we don't understand why people do something well..by the way Macedonia is a Greek region ..he probably means the Republic Of Macedonia (former Yugoslavia)...please do not use the word Macedonia in this way,,misleading and historically wrong....I think most of people are interested in learning tops two foreign languages
well...let's say there's no scientific proof proving the existence of any inborn talent regarding languages...if you have it show it here otherwise you are the one doing that not me
That's plain wrong ...using the term Macedonia is misleading ..have you ever studied history ? ...Macedonia is the region where Alexandros was from ..historically connected with the hellenistic period..I guess studying too many languages makes people ignorant of many other important things in life, that's why I stick to two,,,
Oh shut up, Mr. fancy pants
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