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I've seen this video , it's quite for the leveraging the vocabulary that your learning language . Yet I'd like to write my own learning phrase that I've been using so far , it maybe help you out to increase your vocabs. In my daily life , I read and listen english resources during the day . I check the vocabs if I couldn't comprehend the meaning of the sentence otherwise it is redundant to check and you will feel lost after return to context. As if , I can infer the meaning to vocab even though not know about it , I would highlight but I wouldn't stop the reading until end of to paragraph after that , I look the dictionary in English not my mother tongue firstly. If I could not understand even , I'd check the mother tongue as well . Most likely , I would forget it the meaning precisely after a while . Probably I'd see that words some other resources either within the next paragraphs therefore , I get used the word after see couple of time . Instead of writing tons of words to paper, you could grasp the words easily by this technique which I've been using it. So this encountered couple of times world could have been familiar or known words. I wish , you would understand what I mentioned in this paragraph because I'm not to much good with the writing and I don't feel free while I write some context in English. :D
My memory is really bad, so I really can't memorize vocabulary by writing them down in a notebook and trying to memorize them. Rather, I memorize whole sentences in contexes and situations. My body can remember so much more than my brain. Weird, but true.
I think this is actually true for most people. Memory works by linking knowledge together, the more you link a word to context, the easier it is to recall. It's much easier for me to memorize all the words in a sentence from a story than a single word, or an out-of-context vocabulary sentence. However, the downside is that sometimes I can't recall the meaning of word, or the reading of kanji out of the original context I learned it in. I think, optimally, you learn the words in one context, one sentence first, then you learn another 2 or 3 sentences and, eventually, you become pretty good at recognizing the word in any context.
yee,me too .when my teacher tell us to dictate words in our notebook that i always feel hard for that because of my weak memory.when try to dicate,i need to read them for many many times but cant remember them permenantly but i will forget them quickly when finish the dicatation. But if I go through many books and the words come up again and again, i'll remember them unconsciously.
Very Interesting video! There are a lot vocabularies that I've learned long time ago and i never use them,I don't forget them,but thanks to them I can understand more complex ideas.
I can definitely get behind this! I'm relearning Japanese after not speaking it for about 10 years. I remember a lot more about the grammar than I do actual vocabulary... which leaves me in an awkward position when trying to have a discussion 😅. I'm doing my best to relearn as much vocab as possible so that I can actually start speaking it again, lol.
that's awesome!! i just moved back to Japan and am in the same situation!! amazing 😂 lived here about 8 years ago and need to catch up AND learn things i was too lazy to do before like reading and writing properly. GOOD LUCK!! i just made a video about how i will do this actually
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Hey Steve, Good video First of all. I really enjoy watching your videos Just to listen and listen in english. I would be really happy if you make a video with the Channel "Gengotaku" ( which is such like your Channel, talking about languages and learning methods ) .He's from Brazil, Living in Japan and he can speak... maybe 13 languages?! Incredible. Thanks.
I will be forever thankful and grateful for you Steve for sharing your invaluable wisdom and experience, I actually totally agree with your statements but I never were able to summarize it for my self and output it elegantly and clearly as you just did, Thank you so much.
A have my own experience in studying foreign language words - when I started to study Chinese, studying characters and tones was very hard, therefore I wrote a short application in Python with random appearing of words. It helped me much to get initial Chinese vocabulary.
The idea that passive vocabulary is your main indicator of how far you“ve progressed in a language is very appealing to me. I think though it depends on your communicative (or for that matter non-communicative goals) you are trying to achieve in a certain language. If your aim is to be able to understand reading and listening material passively, it would help you a great deal. Once you want to communicate or write something in a language, you“d eventually have to turn your acquired passive vocabulary into an active one. Thus, being aware of the contexts (syntactical,lexical and pragmatical) in which you can actively use certain words is quite essential, I think. I would love to see comments on that.Being a linguist and polyglotte myself, I“ ve always enjoyed learning vocabulary, even out of a dictionary:)
Totally on the same page! I just have a hard time finding listening material to what phrases I’m reading here and there (in Japanese, I don’t really know the pitch etc) did you study linguistics?
nu@@lucie442 Thank you for your comment. Wow, Japanese would be a hard nut for me :) Not that I havent thought about learning asian languages, I‘d be struggling with Kanji and the pitch accent as well. Yes, I studied German as a second language, linguistics and language acquisition in particular. Hence,my passion for language learning.
2:08 this is why you're a gem, somebody who has been through all of this, and is now sharing is knowledge in simple 10 minute videos is truly a treasure to be found. Thanks!
I really agree to learning vocabulary naturally :). I am now learning a lot of Swedish words by listening to an "easy Swedish podcasts", it is like "Assimil" but in a podcast format, I love it!
It is impressive how we can learn any language by just doing simple things like reading books, listening to podcasts, and writing things in that language. When I first started to learn English, I didn't take it very seriously because I thought that if I went to school and studied English there, I would learn English as time went by, but then I realized that if I really want to learn and speak English fluently, I will have to study English everyday and make English learning a habit.
I completely agree with you, and I also see language imput as a form of review because everything we consume in the language is only going to have repetitive words so you dont have to worry about ever seeing it again plus it'll still give you context (90% of the time) compared to if you only stuck with language programs.
5:22 The best idea that I always had in mind, a large passive vocabularies. With massive listening and reading to create familiarity with the language and increase our comprehensive, increase our passive vocabularies
Steve, Do you ever do vocabulary augmentation by learning the roots and affixes of a language? I continue to do that and cannot see myself ever doing the one word at a time with the dictionary ever again. Aside from the most frequent words study of in a case of one word at a time, which is necessary, the passive knowledge of learning word roots and affixes has changed my outlook entirely. The Ancient Greek and Latin roots, suffixes and prefixes have expanded my passive understanding of English my mother tongue. Now I know many of that can be transferred to other Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages. Also modern Greek of which I can think of.
Dear Mr. Kaufmann This Nojan, I am an IELTS cours student and very interested in learning English, my mother language is Persian and since I saw your videos I become your loyal fan. As I understand you are studying Persian currently and I want to tell you I will be more than happy if I can help you in this wau evem by simple talk in persian and practice English with you too in a two way conversation. Thanks for your brilliant videos. Sincerely yours.
I want to say that my weakness is learn new words in english, i'm still struggling with vocabulary i agree with you mr. Steve learn new words by memorsing 500 words it won't affective at all we should do more input learning ya you're right good luck on your languange learning guys.
Thanks for this video. From my own limited, but intensive experience I find that there is a 'scale' of knowing a word. In the early going it is exposure, exposure, exposure in context for non-cognates. True cognates are a gift. My biggest current challenge is recognizing known words in speech. Early on I might recognize a word, but slowly. So slowly that I loose the context - the world passes me by. A weird, long delay until my brain accepts it knows this word. This delay shortens the more times I hear a given word. So in this context I wouldn't say I fully know a word (or phrase) until I can understand it in speech at a normal listening rate. Repetition matters a lot. Reading is different, the delay in recognition doesn't matter because the rate I read at is not important. Great stuff!
I wish I could have used lingq more for my japanese lessons. Unfortunately the system used to identify and separate words doesn't do japanese well. I plan on coming back to it when I'm more advanced. 😁
As a complete beginner, I’ve been supplementing Anki flashcards with podcasts, TV shows, and movies. So far, the flashcards have actually been helpful because words I would never even have parsed out in spoken language are specifically drawn out to me repeatedly by Anki. Then when I consume the media it’s like it just “clicks” and from this I’m able to learn even more words because I can guess based on the context of the words I just learned. I’m learning like 20 new words per day from flashcards and reviewing others recommended by Anki, and so far I’m pretty satisfied with my progress. Goal right now is to learn like 5K words in under a year.
Thank you so much. Mr. Steve. I am currently learning one Language on LingQ Turkish and I was Familiar with the language before I started learning on LingQ. I want to try French, what will you recommend as I am starting from 0.
Halima your question is so broad, it might help to be more specific in your question? Are you asking for step by step how to study, best apps or... He has lots of videos on how to learn a language on this channel.
Try super simple resources like cartoons or comic books! You can also check out some comprehensible input French channels like Alice Ayel, for instance! It's all about comprehensible input, so those could be good places to start from!!
Word count isn't about if you can use it, but it _is_ about if you don't forget it. I fail at language learning because i'm on a treadmill - the words i "learn" fall away, come back, fall away, come back, and i'm treading water, never reaching the point where i can use regular material as input
Hi Steve, I did not understand why you find the following statement irrelevant: "you must read content that only has a small percentage of new words in it, or that you have to meet a word so many times" and how it contradicts with what you later describe how we should acquire words. To me, they complement each other perfectly.
I signed up for LingQ a few weeks ago, after seeing several of your videos over a couple of years. My Russian learning has moved from ‘stagnation’ to ‘making process’ since then. I watch a few polyglots telling how they learn languages, but as you say, it comes down to spending time with the language and having comprehensible input. Thanks much for LingQ and for your continued motivation.
I learn Russian by listening audio books, such as Anna Karenina, found on RUclips, and reading a bilingual edition of the same book, which I bought on Amazon. Tolstoy's book Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth --is easy.
Hi! I wanted to know, at what point should I start trying to converse with someone in my target language? I am currently content with learning new words and phrases.
Hi Steve, I’d like to know how many words are mature on my LingQ, you know, for ex: Today I’ve know 4,500 words on Lingq but, how many these words i’ve reading over and over? Thank you. I am a lingq member and it help me a lot in the language learning!!! Kind regards from BR🇧🇷
Seu inglês é muito bom mano. Eu só encontrei LingQ uma semana atrás. No entanto, eu me ensino a língua Português por um ano e meio. LingQ já me ajuda muito! Espero que posso entender português como uma nativa 😊 quero ler um livro sem precisando ver a translação. Sei que minha português não é perfeita 😂 mas para um gringo nos Estados Unidos... Acho que tô bem agora mesmo.. minha maioria problema é compreensão de áudio.. é muito pequenininho 😭
Thank you Steve, your tips are always useful and interesting to hear! 👍🙋♂️ I strongly believe that we all should learn vocabulary *through listening and reading THE CONTENT THAT IS INTERESTING FOR US* 😊 It's the most natural way to aquisite vocabulary and finally get our language goals 💪 *Reading, listening, review* - all three components are very important! 👏 Let's boost our English confidency in 2022, guys! 🤩🙌
I think I’m doing fine with speaking to individual in English. But whenever it’s a group setting, I become nervous because I’m so afraid that people won’t understand what I’m saying or they are judging my strange accent etc. I guess I need more of practice and courage to speak up in a group using English. I’m not a shy person in my native language and I have no problem in group discussion or presentation or whatever in Chinese, but whenever it comes to English setting, I become nervous about it. Maybe because I don’t have too much exposure in this and need more opportunities to speak to a group of people.
I didn't really like this video. The title was how to learn vocabulary but then there was no real discussion of how to learn vocabulary, most of the video was just talking about how many words and a passive versus active learning preference.
Please tell if you are grading your english in this video? I wanna to know because I understood roughly all your talk. I wanna to know if I have a good level in listening skill.
Hey Steve, Isn't is true that you only need about 400 words of a language to understand and speak reasonably? If so, is there a list of these words that can be studied in different languages? ( Italian )
We LOVE you, Steve! Keep up the good work; you are an inspirational teacher. I am learning Arabic with Arabe Facil, which means I am learning that language through Spanish. It makes sense to me because I am learning to improve both languages ...
Arabic & Portuguese both borrow Arabic words. See videos by Paul Jorgensen of Langfocus Bahador Alast of ? both discuss both languages words that are borrowed from Arabic.
I know a lot of words that I don`t necessarily know how to use them and I find that, when I`m talking to my tutor and he says one of those words (or words I`m still learning), I tend to ask him to repeat it and suddenly my brain remembers what it means.
Mr. Kaufman, do you think memorising words (28 aprox per day) from a list and listening a lot of the target language is a good idea? . Besides it, also doing reading of course.
In my opinion it is absolutely key (at least when we are past the basics) to engage with material that we find interesting. For example, if I was learning French, it would be no good to listen to content about cookery - because that would just send me to sleep! But if there were (let's say) a French police detective talking about a really good murder case, I'd _want_ to understand, because I'd find it compelling. (Okay, maybe that means I'm a psycho? But still!)
Ok, now I understand every single word you speak, but I still have a problem with reading correctly😢 I’m very confused with grammar but I used to speak fluent in my job language “aviation” but I can’t speak fluent out of my profession. Please advise. Thank
steve, I can't agree with you more. Passive vocabulary is the first step to learning a language, it's like some people can understand the language but can't speak it fluently. The next step is to turn the passive things into active vocabularies.... and this process could be much longer. coz... now, it's about memory and instinct, but not just basic understanding.
Hi Mr. Steve, I have a question. What do you think about the book that calls 4000 Essential English Words? book by Paul Nation. Nowadays, I'm learning words from that book. After ending the first part of the book. I gained lots of experience and my language barrier was burst now I can easily comprehend many English contents like movies, books, and music. As you mentioned these are passive words, and I can't use these words in many situations. Besides, I have a problem the words from the book are getting more difficult and it's hard to memorize them.
I found out that a passive vocabulary much bigger than active one. That's why we can understand more when listening than we are able to say in conversation. So when someone is listening or writing, he likely uses both of them, but when saying a person mostly applies an active vocabulary.
But how do we improve in learning how to speak the target language? I like this idea of passive vocabulary and I've always found it very useful, but the goal is learning how to speak, to produce that language. I really can't understand how you're supposed to improve your speaking without mastering, though active recall, a big vocabulary (and phonology of course).
I know when I have learned a word because I noticed myself identitying it in several contexts. Most of the time it happens naturally, first with reading it and later in listening content. It is a nice feeling, it makes me feel I am learning. When I become advance and my base knowledge of the language is large, I start learning less unless it is specialist language, at that point I know I am fluent in that language. I am a Spanish native, fluent in English, advance in Italian and French begginer. I use lingQ, duolingo, linkpie, helloTalk, preplay, Netflix, audible, podcast and any other form of content that I can access. I enjoyed learning and teaching languages. And I like to listen Steve talking about language acquisition.😊
Passive vocabulary. At the back of your mind , huuuuuuuggggeee. MAASSSIIIVVVEEE INPOOOOOT. Will better your listening, reading. Sprechen und schreiben Fertigkeit kommen später, nachdem
I have been language learning at various levels for years and I have fully converged more and more over time to this exact perspective. Context, mass input, *passive vocabulary*
Hi Steve, I enjoy your videos a lot. I understand from one of the comments below that you have written a book. What is the title and where can I buy it ?
I've been learning English for a couple of years, one thing that I'm not doing anymore is studying in traditional courses in my country, because you go to school, study lots of grammar only, and we usually pay lots of money to have poor conversation, the classes tend to have lots of people and you have no enough time to get to practice what you have learned. I have a friend leaving in Japan, she has being there since 3 years ago, and it turns out that she doesn't speak the language because she's just have Brazilian friends.
Hi Steve, loved the video as I usually do. Hey I'm a retired public high school teacher. I had to retire early due to health reasons, so now live on a fixed (and not very opulent) income, I tell you this wondering if a discount for LingQ exists? I speak English and Spanish well, and French to a almost intermediate level, and I just love it- I want to expand French and start adding German.... please advise, thanks, pete
Is there a beginners guide to lingq? Do I start with the stories, how often should I use the vocabulary learning function and what about languages with different alphabet? I like lingq, but sometimes I feel a bit lost.
Here's the problem, Steve, this is not actually a matter of having to choose one over the other (input over output or vice versa). As you know, you can expose yourself to large amounts of input in a fairly short amount of time. Well, the same can be done with output every day allowing the learner to get a lot of meaningful practice in a fairly short amount of time. The problem, however, is not that it can't be done, the problem is that 99% of language teachers, students and language enthusiastics don't know how to do it. Many are still trying to come up with a system that would allow them to do just that, but many have already given up. It's people who already gave up on it that advocate for a strong emphasis on input, leaving pretty much any output goal for a quite distant future hoping to one day get there instead of directly attacking the problem. We know repetition is key, so it doesn't take a genius to know that repeating what you want to say fluently is a must. So, if you practice whatever sentence in whatever language even only once every day, say 你应该知道 (you should know, in Mandarin), Quiero saber por qué... (I want to know why, in Spanish) or لا افهم لماذا (I don't understand why, in Arabic), in a few days you'll be able to say that pretty fluently just by dedicating a few seconds of your day to it every day. So, learning to say things in any language is actually pretty easy, however the hard part is just THE SHEER AMOUNT OF THINGS YOU HAVE TO LEARN. Sure, practicing a few phrases every day won't take much time, but as soon as you realize all the different sentences natives use and all the possible combinations it immediately feels like an impossible task to take on. Well, that's what I mean when I say that people haven't as of yet figured out how to solve that problem, and many alreay gave up. There is a way to do it, actually. Well, several ways to do it. The reason I'm trying to make you understand that the problem is the fact that you gave up on something that is actually possible is because I don't think for a second that we have already reached the highest level of language learning we can aspire to, so I'm trying to encourage you to keep on going, to keep on trying. The whole reason I don't disclosure what that method is here on the Internet is that I need to make a living as a language teacher. Here in Tijuana, Mexico, I teach classes 101 and I use such method, but I wouldn't be able to charge for that if just about everybody knew how to do it. So, for now, I'm keeping it to myself. But I'm sure the language community will eventually get there as long as you keep trying. So, please, do keep trying. Once you figure out how to do it you'd be surprised of how obvious it actually was this whole time. Remember, it's not that is not possible to get fluent in a different language in a short time, it's just that you still haven't figured out how to do just that.
@@LinhLinh-fn1tu Hey, Linh Linh. Sorry for the late reply, hope you get to read this. A huge hint is that of replacement. Instead of trying to memorize the vocabulary of the language you're trying to learn you must reaplace those very same words in your own language and practice them every day. In my experience it takes about 3 to 4 days to completely acquire those words with this method and then you don't have to worry about those words any more. I'll give you an example because that's easier to understand. Say you want to learn 5 words in German (this can be done with more than 300 words a day but we'll do 5 here just to illustrate a point). Say those words are these: 1. I listen: ich höre 2. I think: Ich denke 3. I believe: Ich glaube 4. I look at: ich sehe das 5. I want: Ich will What you do is speak English (or whatever your first language is) and just replace "I listen" for "ich höre" or for whatever you want to learn. So, this is how it looks in practice: ich höre to The Doors sometimes. ich höre to Riders on the Strom becuse that's my favorite song by them. Ich höre to that song when it's cloudy and ich höre to it as I play along with my guitar. Ok, let's stop there. That's just an example of what I mean by replacement instead of memorizing. Now, how many examples do you need to do for each thing you want to learn? Well, give it a minute. Set a timer on your phone and start describing the things that you can listen to right there and then, like this: Ich höre the sound of my keyboard and ich höre the birds chirping outside. Ich höre my voice as I speak and ich höre my hand scratching my arm. You don't even need to set a time of your day to study with this method, you can do it when you're working, when you're taking a break or whatever. After a minute the alarm of the timer will go off. So, you reset the timer and you jump to the next word you want to learn in whatever language it is that you're leraning and then you just keep going about your day applying the same method for the new word (Ich denke it's really cold today, so ich denke I'm gonna grab a coffee after work, and such.) Now, if you set the timer for 1 minute that means that without really that much of an effort (because you keep going about your day as you practice) you can practice 180 new things in just 3 hours in an easy and natural way. Like I said before, in 3 to 4 days (normally 3) you will acquire those words that easy and then you don't have to worry about those anymore and you can move on to whatever else you want to learn in that language when it comes to vocabulary, or sentences or what have you. I want to be clear, Linh Linh, this is just meant for you to learn new vocab or phrases or even grammar, but this is not enough to be able to speak the language. This is just a small portion of what my method is, but it works wonders for vocabulary. If you do it, then you will be able to acquire that new vocab and you're going to see other peers of yours struggling to remember that vocab and then you're just going to think to yourself "if only they knew." Anyhow, remember you can do this for hundreds of words every day and that you're not trying to memorize them but simply replace them for a few days. There are many others things that go into speaking a language, but this is just a small hint that helps anyone learn hundreds of words in a few days as they go about their day. Again, sorry for the late reply but I know this is a game changer. If I wasn't clear enough, let me know and we can talk about it. Cheers, Linh Linh.
thanks Steve for your great videos I wanna ask about how many words I should I have to pass IELTS or TOEFL exam words totally of the beginning of English.
I got it, thanks sir for your tips. Actually, i know a many vocabulary in English since i learn English 1 years ago. But, the problem is i forget it when i speaking in English idk why can like that😖. I can understand when other people speaking in English, i can reading in English, but i can't speaking English with other people. I can if i am alone in a room. Maybe i already have been English for 1 years so, i should learn hard for this language. P.s I'm sorry if my English is really bad, i coment for this video just test my English Skills thank you
It all takes time. The brain gradually gets used to the language. You will slowly speak better and better. Writing is also a good way to practice your output.
How do you go about increasing your vocabulary?
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Kiitos Steve! Thanks for your video.
I read read and read.
I've seen this video , it's quite for the leveraging the vocabulary that your learning language . Yet I'd like to write my own learning phrase that I've been using so far , it maybe help you out to increase your vocabs. In my daily life , I read and listen english resources during the day . I check the vocabs if I couldn't comprehend the meaning of the sentence otherwise it is redundant to check and you will feel lost after return to context. As if , I can infer the meaning to vocab even though not know about it , I would highlight but I wouldn't stop the reading until end of to paragraph after that , I look the dictionary in English not my mother tongue firstly. If I could not understand even , I'd check the mother tongue as well . Most likely , I would forget it the meaning precisely after a while . Probably I'd see that words some other resources either within the next paragraphs therefore , I get used the word after see couple of time . Instead of writing tons of words to paper, you could grasp the words easily by this technique which I've been using it. So this encountered couple of times world could have been familiar or known words.
I wish , you would understand what I mentioned in this paragraph because I'm not to much good with the writing and I don't feel free while I write some context in English. :D
You have to read the Qur'an , the best book on the surface of the earth .
Thank you Steve! You are the best
My memory is really bad, so I really can't memorize vocabulary by writing them down in a notebook and trying to memorize them. Rather, I memorize whole sentences in contexes and situations. My body can remember so much more than my brain. Weird, but true.
I can relate.
I think this is actually true for most people. Memory works by linking knowledge together, the more you link a word to context, the easier it is to recall. It's much easier for me to memorize all the words in a sentence from a story than a single word, or an out-of-context vocabulary sentence. However, the downside is that sometimes I can't recall the meaning of word, or the reading of kanji out of the original context I learned it in.
I think, optimally, you learn the words in one context, one sentence first, then you learn another 2 or 3 sentences and, eventually, you become pretty good at recognizing the word in any context.
Study harder.
Well, it's not your body it is still your brain 😂😂😂
You just use it better
yee,me too .when my teacher tell us to dictate words in our notebook that i always feel hard for that because of my weak memory.when try to dicate,i need to read them for many many times but cant remember them permenantly but i will forget them quickly when finish the dicatation. But if I go through many books and the words come up again and again, i'll remember them unconsciously.
Hi! My name is André, I’m from Brazil, I’m learning English and I have a dream to speak many languages and to be a linguist.
Thanks for this video👏🏾
Very Interesting video!
There are a lot vocabularies that I've learned long time ago and i never use them,I don't forget them,but thanks to them I can understand more complex ideas.
Certainly need words to... wordsmith (e.g., apply grammatical rules, etc.) 😉
I can definitely get behind this! I'm relearning Japanese after not speaking it for about 10 years. I remember a lot more about the grammar than I do actual vocabulary... which leaves me in an awkward position when trying to have a discussion 😅. I'm doing my best to relearn as much vocab as possible so that I can actually start speaking it again, lol.
that's awesome!! i just moved back to Japan and am in the same situation!! amazing 😂 lived here about 8 years ago and need to catch up AND learn things i was too lazy to do before like reading and writing properly. GOOD LUCK!! i just made a video about how i will do this actually
@@DrJustininJapan 👍
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لا تقل Its a girl فهذا خطأ 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
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كيفية لفظ be و been ، ليس كما تلفظها 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
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تعريف ال Irregular verbs الأفعال الشاذة و الفعل Bet 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
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أصل الفعل born 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
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الفرق بين Cut / Split / Slit 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
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الفعل Creep وكيف نقول عن شخص " دمه سميك " / " غليظ " ... 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
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الأفعال Sting و Stink و كيف بقول " طلعت ريحتكن " ؟ وكيف بقول " لدغني عقرب " ؟ 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
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الفرق بين Lay / Lie / Put 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
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الفرق بين bed و bid وكيف بقول " بعمل اللي بدك ياه " ؟ 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
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افهم كيفية استخدام الفعل Be في اللغة الإنكليزية بطريقة سهلة | سيمكنك هذا الدرس من تركيب جملة بسيطة في اللغة الإنكليزية في أقل من ربع ساعة. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
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I’m there too lmao
How can we expand our vocab knowledge faster as a result of this speech ?
Parfait comme toujours. J'ai 40 ans et bientôt 41 et moi qui ne suis jamais aller à l'école ( vie très particulière suite à différentes circonstances) ait commencé l'anglais il y a quelques mois ( je ne me l'étais jamais autorisée auparavant).
J'avançais très lentement puis il y a environ un mois et demi je vous ai découvert ainsi que toutes vos précieuses méthodes et depuis je suis bien plus confiant.
En faite, je suis en train de lire votre livre actuellement et bien qu'il existe en français je l'ai acheté en Anglais et je suis en train de le lire en Anglais ... À ma grande surprise je m'aperçois que je comprends à plus de 90% ...
Parler, surtout en circonstances réel est bien plus délicat... Mais je sais que ça viendra en continuant à prendre du plaisir.
Merci 🙏
Hey Steve, Good video First of all. I really enjoy watching your videos Just to listen and listen in english. I would be really happy if you make a video with the Channel "Gengotaku" ( which is such like your Channel, talking about languages and learning methods ) .He's from Brazil, Living in Japan and he can speak... maybe 13 languages?! Incredible. Thanks.
Just found this looking him up. :D It seems they have indeed met lol. ruclips.net/video/fe5O9M5VB3I/видео.html
از این ویدیو استفاده کردم و برام مفید بود. چقدر خوب که در حال یادگیری فارسی هستید. براتون آرزوی موفقیت دارم. بترکونید.
I will be forever thankful and grateful for you Steve for sharing your invaluable wisdom and experience, I actually totally agree with your statements but I never were able to summarize it for my self and output it elegantly and clearly as you just did, Thank you so much.
“You see behind me I have all these books”
lol I thought it was a curtain with books on it at first
A have my own experience in studying foreign language words - when I started to study Chinese, studying characters and tones was very hard, therefore I wrote a short application in Python with random appearing of words. It helped me much to get initial Chinese vocabulary.
با درود و احترام .
از مطالب آموزنده شما سپاسگذارم .
The idea that passive vocabulary is your main indicator of how far you“ve progressed in a language is very appealing to me. I think though it depends on your communicative (or for that matter non-communicative goals) you are trying to achieve in a certain language. If your aim is to be able to understand reading and listening material passively, it would help you a great deal. Once you want to communicate or write something in a language, you“d eventually have to turn your acquired passive vocabulary into an active one. Thus, being aware of the contexts (syntactical,lexical and pragmatical) in which you can actively use certain words is quite essential, I think. I would love to see comments on that.Being a linguist and polyglotte myself, I“ ve always enjoyed learning vocabulary, even out of a dictionary:)
I completely agree!
Thank you for your comment! Excellent!
Totally on the same page! I just have a hard time finding listening material to what phrases I’m reading here and there (in Japanese, I don’t really know the pitch etc) did you study linguistics?
nu@@lucie442 Thank you for your comment. Wow, Japanese would be a hard nut for me :) Not that I havent thought about learning asian languages, I‘d be struggling with Kanji and the pitch accent as well. Yes, I studied German as a second language, linguistics and language acquisition in particular. Hence,my passion for language learning.
Thank you so much for this nice advice. You are wonderful
2:08 this is why you're a gem, somebody who has been through all of this, and is now sharing is knowledge in simple 10 minute videos is truly a treasure to be found. Thanks!
YEA
This is fantastic, I love binge learning new words but felt guilty not using any of them. This gives me perfect excuse to indulge in this hobby
Have a try for it.
I really agree to learning vocabulary naturally :). I am now learning a lot of Swedish words by listening to an "easy Swedish podcasts", it is like "Assimil" but in a podcast format, I love it!
@rm monster just by listening to input that we can understand, have you heard about the "natural approach"? I am a big fan :)
It is impressive how we can learn any language by just doing simple things like reading books, listening to podcasts, and writing things in that language. When I first started to learn English, I didn't take it very seriously because I thought that if I went to school and studied English there, I would learn English as time went by, but then I realized that if I really want to learn and speak English fluently, I will have to study English everyday and make English learning a habit.
I completely agree with you, and I also see language imput as a form of review because everything we consume in the language is only going to have repetitive words so you dont have to worry about ever seeing it again
plus it'll still give you context (90% of the time) compared to if you only stuck with language programs.
5:22 The best idea that I always had in mind, a large passive vocabularies. With massive listening and reading to create familiarity with the language and increase our comprehensive, increase our passive vocabularies
Great video... I'm a native Spanish speaker
Steve,
Do you ever do vocabulary augmentation by learning the roots and affixes of a language?
I continue to do that and cannot see myself ever doing the one word at a time with the dictionary ever again.
Aside from the most frequent words study of in a case of one word at a time, which is necessary, the passive knowledge of learning word roots and affixes has changed my outlook entirely.
The Ancient Greek and Latin roots, suffixes and prefixes have expanded my passive understanding of English my mother tongue. Now I know many of that can be transferred to other Germanic, Romance and Slavic languages. Also modern Greek of which I can think of.
What I have found helpful is using a frequency dictionary and making Anki cards out of the words.
Can you please recommend books/vocabulary for Arabic. I just starting to learn it.
As a language teacher, I independently came to Steve's conclusions myself. This Man has it bang on!
100% agree!!
How do you imorove in speaking without actively recalling vocabulary? Passive vocabulary is not enough in order to produce (a decent) language.
Honestly, I found myself considering Occam's raisin and realized I'd missed half the video
Eu realmente sinto algo Me dizendo que isso é o certo
Dear Mr. Kaufmann
This Nojan, I am an IELTS cours student and very interested in learning English, my mother language is Persian and since I saw your videos I become your loyal fan. As I understand you are studying Persian currently and I want to tell you I will be more than happy if I can help you in this wau evem by simple talk in persian and practice English with you too in a two way conversation.
Thanks for your brilliant videos.
Sincerely yours.
I want to say that my weakness is learn new words in english, i'm still struggling with vocabulary i agree with you mr. Steve learn new words by memorsing 500 words it won't affective at all we should do more input learning ya you're right good luck on your languange learning guys.
Болтовня ни о чём
Therefore, to learn a new language should we use text with audio, spaced repetition and vocabulary?
Thanks for this video. From my own limited, but intensive experience I find that there is a 'scale' of knowing a word. In the early going it is exposure, exposure, exposure in context for non-cognates. True cognates are a gift. My biggest current challenge is recognizing known words in speech. Early on I might recognize a word, but slowly. So slowly that I loose the context - the world passes me by. A weird, long delay until my brain accepts it knows this word. This delay shortens the more times I hear a given word. So in this context I wouldn't say I fully know a word (or phrase) until I can understand it in speech at a normal listening rate. Repetition matters a lot.
Reading is different, the delay in recognition doesn't matter because the rate I read at is not important.
Great stuff!
This comment should have more likes! Great observation! I couldn't agree more!
I wish I could have used lingq more for my japanese lessons. Unfortunately the system used to identify and separate words doesn't do japanese well. I plan on coming back to it when I'm more advanced. 😁
As a complete beginner, I’ve been supplementing Anki flashcards with podcasts, TV shows, and movies. So far, the flashcards have actually been helpful because words I would never even have parsed out in spoken language are specifically drawn out to me repeatedly by Anki. Then when I consume the media it’s like it just “clicks” and from this I’m able to learn even more words because I can guess based on the context of the words I just learned. I’m learning like 20 new words per day from flashcards and reviewing others recommended by Anki, and so far I’m pretty satisfied with my progress. Goal right now is to learn like 5K words in under a year.
Thank you so much. Mr. Steve. I am currently learning one Language on LingQ Turkish and I was Familiar with the language before I started learning on LingQ. I want to try French, what will you recommend as I am starting from 0.
Halima your question is so broad, it might help to be more specific in your question? Are you asking for step by step how to study, best apps or... He has lots of videos on how to learn a language on this channel.
Try super simple resources like cartoons or comic books! You can also check out some comprehensible input French channels like Alice Ayel, for instance! It's all about comprehensible input, so those could be good places to start from!!
@@YogaBlissDance
Hello Yoga, to be more specific, I was asking for more basic resources, the mini-stories are not for beginners. Thank you
Nolashu waa loolan iyo dhabar adagy aduu maanta ha noqon midka ilaaba naftiisa nafa kalena baahi hoosgayso waligaa amin wax qabad kaaga iyo sharafta aad leedahay in aythay mid adiga gacantaada kujirta maanta waanu ku amaani karnaa wax aadan ahayna kugu sheegi karnaa
HOLA, GRACIAS POR COMUNICARTE, QUIERO REAPRENDER LENGUA RUSA ;)
What would be the strategy to acquire the vocabulary we want? Making lists, flashcards, what else?
Word count isn't about if you can use it, but it _is_ about if you don't forget it. I fail at language learning because i'm on a treadmill - the words i "learn" fall away, come back, fall away, come back, and i'm treading water, never reaching the point where i can use regular material as input
Hi Steve,
I did not understand
why you find the following statement irrelevant:
"you must read content that
only has a small percentage of new words in it,
or that you have to meet a word so many times"
and how it contradicts with
what you later describe how we should acquire words.
To me, they complement each other perfectly.
I signed up for LingQ a few weeks ago, after seeing several of your videos over a couple of years. My Russian learning has moved from ‘stagnation’ to ‘making process’ since then. I watch a few polyglots telling how they learn languages, but as you say, it comes down to spending time with the language and having comprehensible input. Thanks much for LingQ and for your continued motivation.
Is it that helpful ??
I am learning Russian like you. I hope we can do it
Я могу поговорить с вами по-русски))
I learn Russian by listening audio books, such as Anna Karenina, found on RUclips, and reading a bilingual edition of the same book, which I bought on Amazon. Tolstoy's book Childhood, Boyhood, and Youth --is easy.
@@sonjak8265 I love Tolstoy too) Some people prefer Dostoevskij, not me😁
Hi! Great video! Do you learn Polish as well? Supposedly it’s one of the most difficult languages 😀
I'm really grateful that I know you. every time you upload a video I learn something new. thank you for your time.
Claramente um sábio profissional, nota-se o domínio que você tem do que está falando, parabéns pelo trabalho
Hi!
I wanted to know, at what point should I start trying to converse with someone in my target language?
I am currently content with learning new words and phrases.
You speaking toooooooooooo much until i forget what i was want
u can shortcut you idea
wow almost hitting the 500k mark, thanks a lot for all these videos Steve! we much appreciate it!
He’s on over 1M now 😂
Hi Steve, I’d like to know how many words are mature on my LingQ, you know, for ex: Today I’ve know 4,500 words on Lingq but, how many these words i’ve reading over and over? Thank you. I am a lingq member and it help me a lot in the language learning!!! Kind regards from BR🇧🇷
Seu inglês é muito bom mano. Eu só encontrei LingQ uma semana atrás. No entanto, eu me ensino a língua Português por um ano e meio. LingQ já me ajuda muito! Espero que posso entender português como uma nativa 😊 quero ler um livro sem precisando ver a translação. Sei que minha português não é perfeita 😂 mas para um gringo nos Estados Unidos... Acho que tô bem agora mesmo.. minha maioria problema é compreensão de áudio.. é muito pequenininho 😭
Thank you Steve, your tips are always useful and interesting to hear! 👍🙋♂️ I strongly believe that we all should learn vocabulary *through listening and reading THE CONTENT THAT IS INTERESTING FOR US* 😊 It's the most natural way to aquisite vocabulary and finally get our language goals 💪 *Reading, listening, review* - all three components are very important! 👏 Let's boost our English confidency in 2022, guys! 🤩🙌
True 👍👍👍
Obrigado Steve por trazer mais um desses video e Por coincidência estava pensando exatamente sobre isso.
Is this Italian or Spanish? Sorry for disturbing...
@ it is portuguese from brazil.
@@kaynansilva6998 Oh, thanks. Are there big differences bitween Brazil and Portugal Portuguese? How did you understand it's from Brazil?
just a few words, but the most biggest difference is from the accent.@
@@henriquesnowing8762 I understand it. It's like saying garbage and rubbish different in USA and UK English...
خیلی ممنون و موفق باشید.
Muchas gracias como siempre señor steve Kaufman
Learning a word in a context (in a phrase) is much better than learning it and trying to memorize it singularly! Bear it in mind to everyone!
Thank you 🤗🤗🤗
I think I’m doing fine with speaking to individual in English. But whenever it’s a group setting, I become nervous because I’m so afraid that people won’t understand what I’m saying or they are judging my strange accent etc. I guess I need more of practice and courage to speak up in a group using English. I’m not a shy person in my native language and I have no problem in group discussion or presentation or whatever in Chinese, but whenever it comes to English setting, I become nervous about it. Maybe because I don’t have too much exposure in this and need more opportunities to speak to a group of people.
I didn't really like this video. The title was how to learn vocabulary but then there was no real discussion of how to learn vocabulary, most of the video was just talking about how many words and a passive versus active learning preference.
Repetition
Vocabulary is the most important step to learn any language. If you want to learn vocabulary firstly, you can understand any language easily.
Please tell if you are grading your english in this video? I wanna to know because I understood roughly all your talk. I wanna to know if I have a good level in listening skill.
If you wanna know your lever is maybe more accurate to watch some streamer or something like that because that is more real life speaking.
@@michelfloresvega5534 okay! thank you.
关于学习方式，我认可主播很多说法和指引。“指引”？对，指导，推荐。说起词汇，“指引”词语是我比较新的词语。我在这里引用某种程度是探测性的尝试。就是故意使用尚未十分掌握的词语。目的是透过接触，使得尚未掌握好的词语变得更加熟悉，操作起来更加顺手。这是我我学习词汇的策略。当然，在没有老师的陪同下，这么做未必解决掉什么。需要收到反馈。有知道者纠正，让你体会到你哪里出了错。我缺乏这一环。但是，我认为这是我学习汉语的基本面。都还是自己摸索。本频道的主播也是提倡多接触。我也一样。只是，当你始终依靠自己，你需要很多的接触才能拍出错误的理解。没有关系。我可以接受这个情景。我只是表述一下我的情况和对于事物表达我的人知。回到主题，词汇学习，我也要表达一下我的看法。并不一定是应付主播而陈述的。只是空谈一下自己的见解。哎呀，我有点不谨慎做表述。可能让读者感到混乱不清。请别介意。我首先是来练习练习中文阐述。随笔阐述。我有点忘了要说什么。主播说词汇学习重要。掌握词汇多寡是衡量一个人的外语能力最好的指标。这一点我听进去了。另外，他好像说了理解词汇的质量也重要。硬背词汇不一定好，但是他不反对。他只是提倡透过阅读和聆听顺其自然学习词汇。这些我都不反对。就是我与人的认知高度契合了。我赞成Steve老师的input策略。就是获得讯息的策略和实际做法。但是，我发现我自己所使用的接触，再接触，却不分析或者反思自己的学习方略。。。这个局面，一定也有不足之处。我认为我的学习方法缺乏创新。也没有必要排出人家发明的技术和方法。就是app的应用什么的。但是先不说这些了。因为我也年纪比较大了。我还是要为比较老套的学习工具说两句。那就是看辞典。不是查词典喽。我说的是随机性翻阅辞典的动作。我记得在中国的时候，两位比较闲的办公室女管理员常常阅读词典。我总觉得奇怪。多么无聊啊。我为做过。直到今天也很少那么做。但是，我最近对此态度提出质疑。我汉语学习事业里不怎么接触英语。结果，有些概念一直很模糊。还有，我查字典是针对性的。结果，我好像缺乏梳理一些基本道理。就是针对性的查字典往往是个别词义的接触，而汉字的意思很多。假若很想搞定汉语，不排除阅读字典的积极作用。就是主动阅读词典区分每个字不同意思。哎呀，这是天大的工程。我赞成这么做。我只是说可能是可行的学习方法。还有，因为我不看英语，或者少看英语，我的一些基本东西的名称不知晓。我家里有一本带图的词典。大家可能看过类似的词典。一个主题一个主题分别排列。看图学习汉语词汇。我觉得我就缺乏这方面的知识。普通物品的名称。但是我从未阅读过那本词典。这或许是我本人的疏忽。或许阅读那本店铺词典可以高度集中学到至今缺乏认知的词汇。那种学习方法苦闷，无聊。但是，我不应该自动的去否认它了。也许当年阅读词典那几位有了自己的一套学习方法。或许我需要借鉴。好，写了那么多。先不修改错别字。直接发布。回头整理整理。
Hey Steve, Isn't is true that you only need about 400 words of a language to understand and speak reasonably? If so, is there a list of these words that can be studied in different languages? ( Italian )
I don't agree with any of this. For a two way conversation you need many words.
Profesor, ayúdame, enseñame a hacer oraciones en inglés, se me dificulta, help me please
mercieee Italian world auX pluriels ou multiples moult altitude player of choir LEMAHAN REAH NIHOAH LA CHEM
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KETORET MAGNETUDE
We LOVE you, Steve! Keep up the good work; you are an inspirational teacher. I am learning Arabic with Arabe Facil, which means I am learning that language through Spanish. It makes sense to me because I am learning to improve both languages ...
Arabic & Portuguese both borrow Arabic words. See videos by Paul
Jorgensen of Langfocus
Bahador Alast of ?
both discuss both languages words that are
borrowed from Arabic.
Too me, it’s all about context in which the words are used.
I know a lot of words that I don`t necessarily know how to use them and I find that, when I`m talking to my tutor and he says one of those words (or words I`m still learning), I tend to ask him to repeat it and suddenly my brain remembers what it means.
Mr. Kaufman, do you think memorising words (28 aprox per day) from a list and listening a lot of the target language is a good idea? . Besides it, also doing reading of course.
anki is a good app to memorize words bro. but 28 words is too much, make up to 20 a day so you don't overload
since childhood i was telling people " how can i talk other language if i dont know their majority words" , the stupids were telling me "just talk".
Стив, можно с вами поработать над идеей курса изучения второго языка, пришедшей мне из теории информации? Или хотя обсудить с вами эту идею
I so like your video! That's really usefull information!!!
In my opinion it is absolutely key (at least when we are past the basics) to engage with material that we find interesting. For example, if I was learning French, it would be no good to listen to content about cookery - because that would just send me to sleep! But if there were (let's say) a French police detective talking about a really good murder case, I'd _want_ to understand, because I'd find it compelling. (Okay, maybe that means I'm a psycho? But still!)
Excellent point! 😊
Ok, now I understand every single word you speak, but I still have a problem with reading correctly😢 I’m very confused with grammar but I used to speak fluent in my job language “aviation” but I can’t speak fluent out of my profession. Please advise. Thank
I learn vocabulary through listening and I'm getting better and better
I love Occam's Raisin
steve, I can't agree with you more. Passive vocabulary is the first step to learning a language, it's like some people can understand the language but can't speak it fluently. The next step is to turn the passive things into active vocabularies.... and this process could be much longer. coz... now, it's about memory and instinct, but not just basic understanding.
Just found this channel and loved it at first sight!!!!Big thanks!!! Greetings from Germany from a fan of linguistics:)
I am so excited to hear that you are learning Persian. It's very interesting. What do you think about it? Is it hard?
Hola Stephan sentiste curiosidad por el idioma fines? Estoy viviendo en Finlandia y cuando quiero empezar a aprender siento rechazo😢
Hi Mr. Steve, I have a question. What do you think about the book that calls 4000 Essential English Words?
book by Paul Nation. Nowadays, I'm learning words from that book. After ending the first part of the book. I gained lots of experience and my language barrier was burst now I can easily comprehend many English contents like movies, books, and music. As you mentioned these are passive words, and I can't use these words in many situations. Besides, I have a problem the words from the book are getting more difficult and it's hard to memorize them.
I found out that a passive vocabulary much bigger than active one. That's why we can understand more when listening than we are able to say in conversation. So when someone is listening or writing, he likely uses both of them, but when saying a person mostly applies an active vocabulary.
But how do we improve in learning how to speak the target language? I like this idea of passive vocabulary and I've always found it very useful, but the goal is learning how to speak, to produce that language. I really can't understand how you're supposed to improve your speaking without mastering, though active recall, a big vocabulary (and phonology of course).
Ingenious! Thanks a lot for your video! Very interesting it is!)
I know when I have learned a word because I noticed myself identitying it in several contexts. Most of the time it happens naturally, first with reading it and later in listening content. It is a nice feeling, it makes me feel I am learning. When I become advance and my base knowledge of the language is large, I start learning less unless it is specialist language, at that point I know I am fluent in that language. I am a Spanish native, fluent in English, advance in Italian and French begginer. I use lingQ, duolingo, linkpie, helloTalk, preplay, Netflix, audible, podcast and any other form of content that I can access. I enjoyed learning and teaching languages. And I like to listen Steve talking about language acquisition.😊
Passive vocabulary. At the back of your mind , huuuuuuuggggeee. MAASSSIIIVVVEEE INPOOOOOT. Will better your listening, reading. Sprechen und schreiben Fertigkeit kommen später, nachdem
My favorite sub-topic in the genre! Great assessment 👏🏾
Hey professor, may I know how many languages do you speak exactly? I'm so impressed
I have been language learning at various levels for years and I have fully converged more and more over time to this exact perspective.
Context, mass input, *passive vocabulary*
Could you maybe explain what you mean with passive vocabulary 😅? Because I don’t really know what it’s supposed to mean
Iam Kurdish, and I learned English 🇺🇸 Persian 🇮🇷 , recently iam learning spanish 🇪🇸 any partner is here?
Hi Steve, I enjoy your videos a lot. I understand from one of the comments below that you have written a book. What is the title and where can I buy it ?
I've been learning English for a couple of years, one thing that I'm not doing anymore is studying in traditional courses in my country, because you go to school, study lots of grammar only, and we usually pay lots of money to have poor conversation, the classes tend to have lots of people and you have no enough time to get to practice what you have learned. I have a friend leaving in Japan, she has being there since 3 years ago, and it turns out that she doesn't speak the language because she's just have Brazilian friends.
Hi Steve, loved the video as I usually do. Hey I'm a retired public high school teacher. I had to retire early due to health reasons, so now live on a fixed (and not very opulent) income, I tell you this wondering if a discount for LingQ exists? I speak English and Spanish well, and French to a almost intermediate level, and I just love it- I want to expand French and start adding German.... please advise, thanks, pete
Your best deal is the annual membership which allows you to learn as many languages as you want that we have available on our site (45)
Is there a beginners guide to lingq? Do I start with the stories, how often should I use the vocabulary learning function and what about languages with different alphabet?
I like lingq, but sometimes I feel a bit lost.
Here's the problem, Steve, this is not actually a matter of having to choose one over the other (input over output or vice versa). As you know, you can expose yourself to large amounts of input in a fairly short amount of time. Well, the same can be done with output every day allowing the learner to get a lot of meaningful practice in a fairly short amount of time.
The problem, however, is not that it can't be done, the problem is that 99% of language teachers, students and language enthusiastics don't know how to do it. Many are still trying to come up with a system that would allow them to do just that, but many have already given up. It's people who already gave up on it that advocate for a strong emphasis on input, leaving pretty much any output goal for a quite distant future hoping to one day get there instead of directly attacking the problem.
We know repetition is key, so it doesn't take a genius to know that repeating what you want to say fluently is a must. So, if you practice whatever sentence in whatever language even only once every day, say 你应该知道
(you should know, in Mandarin), Quiero saber por qué... (I want to know why, in Spanish) or لا افهم لماذا (I don't understand why, in Arabic), in a few days you'll be able to say that pretty fluently just by dedicating a few seconds of your day to it every day.
So, learning to say things in any language is actually pretty easy, however the hard part is just THE SHEER AMOUNT OF THINGS YOU HAVE TO LEARN. Sure, practicing a few phrases every day won't take much time, but as soon as you realize all the different sentences natives use and all the possible combinations it immediately feels like an impossible task to take on.
Well, that's what I mean when I say that people haven't as of yet figured out how to solve that problem, and many alreay gave up. There is a way to do it, actually. Well, several ways to do it.
The reason I'm trying to make you understand that the problem is the fact that you gave up on something that is actually possible is because I don't think for a second that we have already reached the highest level of language learning we can aspire to, so I'm trying to encourage you to keep on going, to keep on trying.
The whole reason I don't disclosure what that method is here on the Internet is that I need to make a living as a language teacher. Here in Tijuana, Mexico, I teach classes 101 and I use such method, but I wouldn't be able to charge for that if just about everybody knew how to do it. So, for now, I'm keeping it to myself.
But I'm sure the language community will eventually get there as long as you keep trying. So, please, do keep trying. Once you figure out how to do it you'd be surprised of how obvious it actually was this whole time.
Remember, it's not that is not possible to get fluent in a different language in a short time, it's just that you still haven't figured out how to do just that.
Please tell just some hint about your method so i can figure out after thinking deeply
@Beaudile You're more than welcome to give it up, Beaudile. You're more than welcome to stay put and not move forward.
@@LinhLinh-fn1tu Hey, Linh Linh. Sorry for the late reply, hope you get to read this. A huge hint is that of replacement.
Instead of trying to memorize the vocabulary of the language you're trying to learn you must reaplace those very same words in your own language and practice them every day. In my experience it takes about 3 to 4 days to completely acquire those words with this method and then you don't have to worry about those words any more.
I'll give you an example because that's easier to understand.
Say you want to learn 5 words in German (this can be done with more than 300 words a day but we'll do 5 here just to illustrate a point). Say those words are these:
1. I listen: ich höre
2. I think: Ich denke
3. I believe: Ich glaube
4. I look at: ich sehe das
5. I want: Ich will
What you do is speak English (or whatever your first language is) and just replace "I listen" for "ich höre" or for whatever you want to learn.
So, this is how it looks in practice:
ich höre to The Doors sometimes. ich höre to Riders on the Strom becuse that's my favorite song by them. Ich höre to that song when it's cloudy and ich höre to it as I play along with my guitar.
Ok, let's stop there. That's just an example of what I mean by replacement instead of memorizing. Now, how many examples do you need to do for each thing you want to learn? Well, give it a minute. Set a timer on your phone and start describing the things that you can listen to right there and then, like this:
Ich höre the sound of my keyboard and ich höre the birds chirping outside. Ich höre my voice as I speak and ich höre my hand scratching my arm.
You don't even need to set a time of your day to study with this method, you can do it when you're working, when you're taking a break or whatever.
After a minute the alarm of the timer will go off. So, you reset the timer and you jump to the next word you want to learn in whatever language it is that you're leraning and then you just keep going about your day applying the same method for the new word (Ich denke it's really cold today, so ich denke I'm gonna grab a coffee after work, and such.)
Now, if you set the timer for 1 minute that means that without really that much of an effort (because you keep going about your day as you practice) you can practice 180 new things in just 3 hours in an easy and natural way.
Like I said before, in 3 to 4 days (normally 3) you will acquire those words that easy and then you don't have to worry about those anymore and you can move on to whatever else you want to learn in that language when it comes to vocabulary, or sentences or what have you.
I want to be clear, Linh Linh, this is just meant for you to learn new vocab or phrases or even grammar, but this is not enough to be able to speak the language. This is just a small portion of what my method is, but it works wonders for vocabulary.
If you do it, then you will be able to acquire that new vocab and you're going to see other peers of yours struggling to remember that vocab and then you're just going to think to yourself "if only they knew."
Anyhow, remember you can do this for hundreds of words every day and that you're not trying to memorize them but simply replace them for a few days.
There are many others things that go into speaking a language, but this is just a small hint that helps anyone learn hundreds of words in a few days as they go about their day.
Again, sorry for the late reply but I know this is a game changer. If I wasn't clear enough, let me know and we can talk about it. Cheers, Linh Linh.
Thank you. Your method of learning vocabulary is similar to mine. I learn it just harder with long sentence. Thanks a lot for sharing.
thanks Steve for your great videos
I wanna ask about how many words I should I have to pass IELTS or TOEFL exam
words totally of the beginning of English.
Not knowing how many words you know is probably the best if you are doing immersion appropriately. Language isn't a game, unless you want it to be.
I got it, thanks sir for your tips. Actually, i know a many vocabulary in English since i learn English 1 years ago. But, the problem is i forget it when i speaking in English idk why can like that😖. I can understand when other people speaking in English, i can reading in English, but i can't speaking English with other people. I can if i am alone in a room. Maybe i already have been English for 1 years so, i should learn hard for this language.
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I'm sorry if my English is really bad, i coment for this video just test my English Skills thank you
It all takes time. The brain gradually gets used to the language. You will slowly speak better and better. Writing is also a good way to practice your output.
I'm Persian and be glad to hear that and thanks for your videos ❤️👑
Thank you for sharing this amazing knowledge with us, your channel is wonderful!
Real bookshelf this time lol :) awesome as always
chitta bujos ya nabujo hamro isthai sathi vaneyko aafnai pariwar ho......tesailey afno pariwar lai paxi parera aru sanga najikini pardaina
Well done, Steve. An excellent summary of this topic.
7:00 listening and comprensión reading ti learn words