How to ACTUALLY learn a language from scratch

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  • Опубликовано: 7 окт 2024
  • In this video, I want to share with you my experience of studying foreign languages from scratch. That is, from the very beginning of learning the alphabet to reaching full fluency. I will also use English, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese to demonstrate my points. I hope you find it helpful. And I hope all of you enjoy the language-learning journey!
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Комментарии • 342

  • @e-genieclimatique
    @e-genieclimatique 9 месяцев назад +56

    in brief : The video provides a comprehensive guide on studying foreign languages from the very beginning to achieving fluency. Phoenix uses examples from English, Chinese, Spanish, Korean, and Japanese to illustrate his points.
    1. **Starting with the Basics**: Begin with learning the alphabet. Some alphabets are easier (like Korean Hangul), while others are more complex (like Arabic or Chinese characters). Understanding the basic phonetics and pronouns is also crucial.
    2. **Tackling Grammar**: Start with simple grammatical concepts like present tense, gender in languages like French or Spanish, and basic case particles in languages like Korean, Japanese, and Russian. Gradually move to more complex grammar like past and future tenses, and expressing location, direction, or time.
    3. **Overcoming Challenges**: Many learners give up when they can understand and express sophisticated ideas but still find native conversations and reading difficult. This stage requires patience and practice. Phoenix suggests grammar exercises, memorizing phrases, and internalizing grammar to make it natural.
    4. **Accumulation and Improvement**: This stage involves familiarizing yourself with grammar and building vocabulary. It's important to be patient and keep studying. Use resources like videos, audio clips, children's books, or books for teenagers. Practice speaking through shadowing dialogues or talking to yourself. Ensure a solid grammatical foundation to avoid fossilizing mistakes.
    5. **Enjoying the Language**: Once you've accumulated enough knowledge and experience, you'll start understanding more and making longer, complex sentences. Engage with the language by watching movies, reading books, and immersing yourself in the culture and people behind the language.
    Phoenix emphasizes that while some languages have unique grammatical structures, the general process of language learning is similar across different languages. The key is to enjoy the learning process and immerse oneself in the language and its culture.
    The video concludes with an encouragement to continue the journey of language learning, highlighting the joy and cultural insights it brings.

    • @tk12exploresengineering
      @tk12exploresengineering 8 месяцев назад +4

      AI?

    • @EmperorAugustus1k
      @EmperorAugustus1k 7 месяцев назад +4

      @@tk12exploresengineering100% AI

    • @michelleafton2377
      @michelleafton2377 3 месяца назад

      ​@@EmperorAugustus1kfr bro .... literally felt like it was chat gtp generated 😅
      Especially when he mentioned "phoenix emphasis" 😂

  • @alancantu2557
    @alancantu2557 10 месяцев назад +165

    Method I’ve used that’s helped me progress rapidly:
    - Learn alphabet
    - Learn top 1000 words (spelling, pronunciation, contexts used in, etc)
    - Use the best translator software you can find to memorize at least 50 sentences that describe who you are as a person and what you do (learning the top 1000 words first helps this step a lot)
    - Listen to music and watch movies in the language (stick to at least 30 minutes of music a day and 2-3 movies a week)
    It’s an overload strategy and can seem overwhelming, but as soon as you master the first two steps, the rest becomes way easier. Trust me, you’ll be amazed at how fast you make progress.

    • @muratsendur619
      @muratsendur619 9 месяцев назад +1

      any recom. for learnin top 1000 as soon as possib?

    • @thisisdriveingtohell
      @thisisdriveingtohell 8 месяцев назад

      @@muratsendur619
      1. Anki app
      2. Learn in context
      That’s it.

    • @oyku8799
      @oyku8799 8 месяцев назад

      what is the best translator software?

    • @muratsendur619
      @muratsendur619 8 месяцев назад

      deepL@@oyku8799

    • @Серёжа-з9ю
      @Серёжа-з9ю 7 месяцев назад

      @@muratsendur619use Anki

  • @XinxilanDiaosi
    @XinxilanDiaosi 11 месяцев назад +189

    Babe wake up new Phoenix Hou video just dropped

  • @rinnerifu
    @rinnerifu 11 месяцев назад +169

    I learned to speak and read Japanese without studying.
    I studied Mandarin for 9 years starting from primary school. Can't speak nor understand anything in Mandarin today.
    I grew up watching manga and anime, so I'm familiar with the sounds, but still can't understand Japanese anyway. Started playing VALORANT in Tokyo server and spoke to Japanese people around July last year. I can't understand anything, they can't understand anything either, but it was fun.
    In November, I befriended my first ever Japanese friend (who couldn't speak English) and we survived by using google translate. In December, he taught me the alphabets. Then I started speaking to him everyday, and befriended more Japanese people, and more, and even more.....
    3 months after that, I could speak Japanese more fluently and understand conversations better than my friends who took courses in Japanese, and it's only getting better and better :)

    • @meaniezucchini5216
      @meaniezucchini5216 11 месяцев назад +8

      Are the Japanese players usually open to talking with foreigners? I've considered just jumping into a Japanese server and doing my best to communicate in broken Japanese but I worry about inconveniencing people.

    • @zukov4772
      @zukov4772 11 месяцев назад +14

      ​@@meaniezucchini5216 It is just a game, in my experience, japanese people pretty chill with it and correct my japanese with their broken english. It quite fun tbh.

    • @rinnerifu
      @rinnerifu 11 месяцев назад +4

      @@meaniezucchini5216 in my case, i started using lower ranked accounts so that the ping difference will not be much of an issue. they were really nice most of the time though, although it's a bit harder to befriend them before I was able to speak Japanese :>

    • @meaniezucchini5216
      @meaniezucchini5216 11 месяцев назад

      @@zukov4772 That's really reassuring! Thank you. :)

    • @meaniezucchini5216
      @meaniezucchini5216 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@rinnerifu That makes sense.. takes a special kind of person to connect through a beginner level language barrier. Anyway, I have a decent foundation, just a bit rusty. Based on your comments, I'm hopeful that if I can overcome my anxiety about making imperfect sentences and just interact with people to the best of my ability, I'll be able to reach a decent level pretty quickly.

  • @goncaloPT01
    @goncaloPT01 11 месяцев назад +215

    In the middle of thousands of videos saying grammar can be neglected at first, and just listen and engaging in the language, i really agree with you that in an initial phase, the grammar is very important to build a strong foundation! What a good and realistic video! Congrats

    • @urielcanonic
      @urielcanonic 11 месяцев назад +5

      How did you learn your language? through grammar or pure listening? Why should we learn a language in a way that we did not learn in our mother tongue?

    • @goncaloPT01
      @goncaloPT01 11 месяцев назад +18

      @@urielcanonic Through years of trial and error and always having the parents correcting the mistakes. I’m talking of my experience as a Portuguese learning German. I tried the immersion method that everyone talks but i really felt the necessity to stop and learn some grammar foundations, as the sentence order and the verb conjugation is very different from my mother tongue. I couldn’t catch a thing before studying the grammar, but it’s just my experience

    • @thedogank
      @thedogank 11 месяцев назад +13

      @@urielcanonic If you have 10+ years and a native speaker that speaks you every day(full 10 year) and correct the mistakes, yeah you may learn the language by replicating this natural learning process.
      Is it efficient? No way, not even close :)
      If you grew up with a different grammar structure it would be vast mistake to learn a language has different structure from your native language.
      If both language have same structure, of course it would be efficient focus on immersion.
      Learn the basic foundation of the language which is grammar then you can use the method to improve your learning. It takes a few months not much, then focus full immersion.

    • @francisdec1615
      @francisdec1615 11 месяцев назад

      You know that that Bald and Bankrupt guy is an idiot, when he recommends you to ignore the grammar in a language like Russian.

    • @King-Park
      @King-Park 11 месяцев назад +2

      I mean how are you going to learn grammar at first if u don't know anything? It doesn't make sense. If u don't know some verbs, a lot of vocabulary, if ur knowledge isn't enough to read a simple sentence, why in the world would u learn grammar, u wouldn't understand, it wouldn't make any sense.
      We go to school to learn our mother tongue grammar at age of 7/8. Grammar should be focused after reaching at least low b1 level.

  • @trungkeeper4312
    @trungkeeper4312 11 месяцев назад +50

    This video is kind of like a motivational for me, the part of giving up where you think the effort isn't enough is spotted on with my current situation. Thank you

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +2

      Glad you find it helpful! Thanks! Keep up the work💪🏼

    • @akainu3534
      @akainu3534 10 месяцев назад

      i swear bro its so frustraing to lern a language i am near on giving up.....

    • @trungkeeper4312
      @trungkeeper4312 10 месяцев назад

      @@akainu3534 only you can pull you out of this, come on

    • @venomtang
      @venomtang 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@akainu3534 which?

    • @akainu3534
      @akainu3534 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@venomtang Turkish

  • @Leopold_van_Aubel
    @Leopold_van_Aubel 11 месяцев назад +46

    The Latin alphabet also has a cursive version. I know there are several countries where it's not used so much anymore. But in France everyone writes in cursive.

    • @pipocacabral2535
      @pipocacabral2535 11 месяцев назад +5

      Same with brazil

    • @ksajamx
      @ksajamx 9 месяцев назад +4

      What he means is, the cursive version of the Cyrillic script is completely different from the typed version, that doesn’t happen with French, the ‘cursive’ French script is just an stylised version, it also happens even with Korean or Chinese.

    • @Gardabah
      @Gardabah Месяц назад

      You are right! The cursive Russian looks completely incomprehensible and some completely different langauge! I do not like it at all.

  • @MegF142857
    @MegF142857 9 месяцев назад +2

    I have realized that some people are just better at learning languages than others. I'm not one of them, but I keep trying. Congratulations. Some folks can run or ride horses or jump better than others. Others can draw or sing. Good that working at it that you are able to learn so well, particularly as an adult. That's a skill!

  • @GlibbyGloyper
    @GlibbyGloyper 10 месяцев назад +3

    Simple, practical, insightful. How you explained why we have a hard time understanding a sentence in an unmastered language near the middle of the video was very interesting. I'd suspected it was something like that just from experience, but hearing it explained so well is just nice so that I know there really is some kind of logic behind it. I'm studying Vietnamese right now and I definitely got past "the hard part" as described in this video. Learning so much new vocabulary definitely takes a lot of time but since I'm past learning the alphabet and the tones -- by far the most arcane part of the language for a native English speaker -- I think I should take heart in the fact that someone as experienced as yourself calls where I am "the easy part."
    My life is delightfully busy with things right now and that made me take a big step away from learning Vietnamese in the last 1.5 months or so, I hate to say. But this video put things into perspective for me again and gave me the reminder that I probably needed most right now: since I only intend for my life to get more busy in the future, I just need to adapt and hop back into Vietnamese with a spring in my step. I can afford to make the time for it and it's going to be fun and easy so long as I don't talk myself out of that mindset. :P Thanks for this video!

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  10 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you! glad you found it helpful!

  • @egiipta
    @egiipta 11 месяцев назад +37

    Thanks so much for this video! You are right about reaching that certain point then many giving up, I am always encouraged at the very beginning, because I can actually see my progress so clearly week by week. It progressively becomes less visible to see the progress once you hit intermediate or even lower-advanced level, and falling behind when conversing with natives can be discouraging. This video was on the shorter side, but super informative, and I totally agree about the emphasis on grammar. Such a necessary step. Learning phonetics and grammar has been one of the best things I did for the languages I learn.

  • @ToastyMarshmallows2000
    @ToastyMarshmallows2000 11 месяцев назад +15

    Thank you so much! This was very helpful in my language learning process. I felt like I had come to a complete stand still and wasn't learning to a point of fluency, but this really helped me overcome some of those things.😊

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +2

      Thank you! Glad you find it helpful

  • @wombatpandaa9774
    @wombatpandaa9774 11 месяцев назад +16

    Thanks for this! I always find your videos refreshing becausw they describe a language learning process similar to the one I stumbled upon by accident when learning Korean several years ago.

  • @carolwang3698
    @carolwang3698 9 месяцев назад +2

    Hi Phoenix, thank you for sharing! I think in this video you mainly answered the question of WHAT to learn in the language rather than HOW to learn a language. We all know that these things (alphabet, grammar, vocabulary) should be learned. We‘d like to hear more about your practices and learning routines!

  • @JamesColemanChess
    @JamesColemanChess 10 месяцев назад +10

    I really enjoyed this and found it really motivating. I’ve been learning Thai for about 5 months (not long I know), sometimes it can be demotivating when you hear native speakers and it’s just a blur of words, but I do think I am improving slowly. I have many friends there and I want to improve so I don’t plan on quitting. I usually find if I put it aside for a couple of days that break gives me renewed motivation. Thanks again and I’ll subscribe for more vids :)

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  10 месяцев назад +1

      Glad you found it helpful! Than you for your support!

  • @燕格格-s1q
    @燕格格-s1q 11 месяцев назад +18

    Dear Phoenix
    您是這世上少有的奇才!!
    我來自台灣,在美國拿了商業學位,也在那裡生活六年。
    你是我遇過講英文講得最好的一位...用句遣詞十分精鍊。
    相信你一定讀破萬卷書又行過萬里路,才能有如此英文造詣。
    把你當成學習英文的榜樣! 謝謝你辛苦製作,讓我受益非淺的影片。

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +6

      過獎了🙏🏼🙏🏼我們一起加油💪🏼

    • @carkawalakhatulistiwa
      @carkawalakhatulistiwa 11 месяцев назад

      ​​@@phoenixhou4486Why don't all language move to Latin Script? so that we don't have to learn how to write and read strange language characters. Vietnam, Mongolia and Central Asia contry moved to Latin.

    • @ene7939
      @ene7939 11 месяцев назад

      nonsense. Humanity has to stop destroying its richness by merging everything into this global nightmare. The Latin script is POOR is comparaison to chinese and arabic counterparts, even in slavic it doesn't work (and looks awfully hard to understand for a beginner in polish) if you don't have the capacity to understand this im sorry for you, but your really are the only one.@@carkawalakhatulistiwa

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +13

      @@carkawalakhatulistiwa That is an extremely Eurocentric point of view. So you are basically asking all other civilizations to give up their own scripts for the convenience of people already using Latin Scritps. That being said, many languages have indeed been latinized, like Vietnamese. China has also made a similar attempt about 100 years ago but failed. But those were the results of the colonial period, which is unlikely to reappear in the near future.

    • @thebritishenglishteacher
      @thebritishenglishteacher 11 месяцев назад +2

      @@carkawalakhatulistiwa Those “strange language characters” don’t look strange to the people who use them every day!
      Hiragana is much easier to read and write than you think. Kanji will take longer, but it’s certainly not impossible.

  • @SamDuha-w5l
    @SamDuha-w5l 9 месяцев назад +1

    I would love to see you discuss this with Steve K or Matt v Japan. This explanation is the most common sense approach I've seen.

  • @vettaj9752
    @vettaj9752 11 месяцев назад +23

    I wrote a long note, but it disappeared. 😂😂 Learning the languages is just as different as listening to music from different eras. I love Bach and I love BigBang, but they are quite different. And you will never mix up 안녕하세요? 你好吗? I enjoy learning and it is quite fun. Plus, I have met some great friends along the way. Take your time. Enjoy the journey. Even if you learn one sentence or able to write one word. You will be closer to your goal each day. 😅😅 Believe and you shall achieve.

  • @Se7enSoups
    @Se7enSoups 9 месяцев назад +1

    Beautiful video. Thank you for sharing

  • @Alexandrita2212
    @Alexandrita2212 3 месяца назад +1

    Esto video me ayudo a organizarme mucho mejor. Gracias por los consejos, me suscribí. Eres muy bueno explicando.

  • @vettaj9752
    @vettaj9752 11 месяцев назад +18

    ❤❤❤👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾💯💯💯. I am learning Korean and Mandarin right now. I love both languages. And you are correct. It just takes time. And understanding anything is so great, because you know your studying is paying off. 😂😂😂 Korean is easier as I have more experience. Chinese is quite fun. I have friends who help me with both.. Thank you!!!

    • @nancyg.6625
      @nancyg.6625 11 месяцев назад +2

      I’m currently learning Korean and would love to start with Chinese…any tips? Do you confuse the 2 languages?

    • @vettaj9752
      @vettaj9752 11 месяцев назад

      @@nancyg.6625Read my other comment it is for you. Having some tech issues.

  • @daniel_gh87
    @daniel_gh87 9 месяцев назад +1

    Great and inspirational video, I'd like to learn more language besides French and my mother tonge, Spanish, and I find your advice, realistic and practical, a strong grammar foundation is very important, we as adults should take advantage of it, that we can understand it in a better and fast way than kids.

  • @fortuneprecious2175
    @fortuneprecious2175 10 месяцев назад

    Watching this made me understand, this is just like learning English from scratch and understanding the basics

  • @CaptainWumbo
    @CaptainWumbo 11 месяцев назад +2

    I think this is a good high level overview of how to learn languages, but glosses over the detail that everyone gets stuck on, which is how to efficiently look up words prior to acquiring enough familiarity with the language to be able to guess words, and how to find reading or listening material that is appropriate to their level. Particularly in languages where looking up words in a paper dictionary is infeasible (languages where a "word" is too western of an idea or which use chinese characters). Once you solve those problems, if you actually like the process you can make the long climb from B to C.

  • @PopDasKorn
    @PopDasKorn 11 месяцев назад +13

    I just had such a stand-still-phase in my language learning, but I think I overcame it now and it feels like I am making progress again. I would even venture out and maybe visit the country where this language is spoken and see what happens.

  • @Xf-wl5gs
    @Xf-wl5gs 5 месяцев назад +1

    Your korean is just perfect. So impressive!

  • @readingdino711
    @readingdino711 10 месяцев назад +2

    What helps me with grammar is learning the basics properly and then ignoring learning grammar until I'm at a higher level (around B2), at which point I'll learn the more complex concepts, but never memorize the rules, I just apply them because they now feel natural thanks to immersion. Not sure if this is something that can help you though.

  • @khoanguyen-wc8qz
    @khoanguyen-wc8qz 11 месяцев назад +1

    Just like Steve Kaufmann said during a zoom interview with Steven Krashen: before you speak it grammatically right, you need to get it right with meaning first, most started with just separated words linked together and the gap between slapping words together to a functional sentence can be very long, so don’t fret over it, keep learning, keep practicing and you get there!

  • @MrMwurm
    @MrMwurm 5 месяцев назад

    Hey bro, just wanna say thanks. I'm in about my second or third year of Korean. The main reason i do it, is that i really like the sound of the language. And the people behind the language.

  • @MM-rh9fc
    @MM-rh9fc 10 месяцев назад

    I admire how you enunciate youself. I speak english for about 7 years now, but now is the time I'm looking into the details, a higher language register. Además apredí las palabras "counter-intuitive", "gradually" y "accumulate". I think you are great.

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  10 месяцев назад

      Thank you! Glad you liked it! Muchas gracias!

  • @Bluecheesess
    @Bluecheesess 10 месяцев назад

    jeez u r such a Genius ,i literally had experienced all this studying phases u mentioned heree , somedayyy my french level would reach out to the nexttt levellll ,thx for ya contenttttt

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  10 месяцев назад

      Thank you for your support! Best of luck to you on your French learning journey!

  • @littlejunschinese
    @littlejunschinese 11 месяцев назад +3

    Very insightful as always👏👏👏

  • @ellibrerodejuan2006
    @ellibrerodejuan2006 8 месяцев назад +1

    Hola, mi nombre es Juan, soy de Colombia y he de decirte que tienes un muy buen nivel de español, veo además que tu acento es muy castellano, pero no obstante suena muy bien.
    Saludos desde Colombia
    😀

  • @reginaenjoylife5216
    @reginaenjoylife5216 10 месяцев назад +2

    1.字母表 拼音
    2.文法
    3.各種時態
    4.讀兒童/青少年讀物
    5.多說

  • @blockyeric6381
    @blockyeric6381 11 месяцев назад +2

    Thank you man, your videos are really helpful to me

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад

      Thanks! Glad you find it helpful!

  • @Long_Le_441
    @Long_Le_441 11 месяцев назад +3

    No words can describe how useful this video is to me, your videos help me connect my lines of information.
    Cảm ơn anh rất nhiều nhé ♥♥
    Thank you very much 🥰🥰
    Hontoni arigatou ❤❤
    ¡Gracias mucho! 😍😍

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад

      Thank you! I’m really glad you find it helpful!

  • @conradtrinh6470
    @conradtrinh6470 11 месяцев назад +1

    Now i know why English is most popular due most easy grammar and writing system to learn and use and pronounce too esply some big countries too like US UK Canada.

  • @MrBrown95
    @MrBrown95 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thank you for the video, and for your thoughtful insights.

  • @limaceaae
    @limaceaae 5 месяцев назад

    Thank you. You're an inspiration to me.

  • @teresasilva9424
    @teresasilva9424 10 месяцев назад

    Great advice, thank you for sharing

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  10 месяцев назад +1

      Thank you. Glad you found it helpful

  • @duannyyasmim18145
    @duannyyasmim18145 11 месяцев назад

    There's so much good information in this video that i forgot the time is passing

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад

      Thank you! Glad you find it helpful!

  • @ArizeOW
    @ArizeOW 11 месяцев назад +4

    I don't think most people have trouble learning a new language. Most people have trouble learning.

  • @bartekflisiak2212
    @bartekflisiak2212 11 месяцев назад

    Exactly what I needed, thank you so much! ❤

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад

      Glad you found it helpful! Thanks for the support!

  • @BeatLabStudio2024
    @BeatLabStudio2024 8 месяцев назад +1

    5:10 so true... I only recognized 'to ur place' 😂

  • @ksajamx
    @ksajamx 9 месяцев назад +1

    The final boss in every language for me is vocabulary 🤣😭

  • @oilyvio
    @oilyvio 10 месяцев назад

    such a well made video, thank you :)

  • @chrissanti9869
    @chrissanti9869 9 месяцев назад +1

    Super helpful and inspiring video, felt wholesome and motivating to me to keep pursuing my goal to learn several languages, don’t mind the garbage comments on here.

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  9 месяцев назад

      Thanks a lot for your support!!!💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

  • @eiji3690
    @eiji3690 11 месяцев назад

    Thank you for the motivation man!!!

  • @ricardomendiola3947
    @ricardomendiola3947 11 месяцев назад +3

    Hola
    ¿como estas?, extrañaba ver tus videos
    saludos desde mexico

  • @dwoong2
    @dwoong2 11 месяцев назад

    yes, yes, yes. to be patient and accumulate the languages enjoying the relationship back in the language. :)

  • @rajxvier
    @rajxvier 8 месяцев назад

    Impressive....good analysis.

  • @yeestrong
    @yeestrong 11 месяцев назад +2

    1、字母;
    2、基础单词;
    3、基础语法;
    4、跟读,矫正读音;
    5、看书,刷剧,享受

  • @nio_ng
    @nio_ng 10 месяцев назад +2

    My learning path is the same with you, grammar and vocabulary go first, then skills :Đ. I find this way is way more faster than the "learning like the way we learn our mother tongues" way.

  • @onePickJangCherry
    @onePickJangCherry 11 месяцев назад +4

    目前我的英语就卡在一个不上不下的位置。多谢大神的鼓励,看来我的问题还是在输入不够上,今年目标是看一本青少年读物的英文小说😊

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +1

      加油加油!💪🏼

    • @Emma1900-x6j
      @Emma1900-x6j 11 месяцев назад

      Me too.even i sighed up lots of English classes. I still can't speak English fluently

  • @user-sunusre
    @user-sunusre 5 месяцев назад

    정말 도움이 많이 되었습니다. 한글을 공부하고 싶어하는 중국인 친구에게 Phoenix Hou님의 영상을 공유했어요. 영어를 잘하고 싶은 저에게도 큰 동기부여가 되었습니다. 고마워요^^

  • @ziloj-perezivat
    @ziloj-perezivat 11 месяцев назад

    Your the best mate. Thanks!

  • @stargirlcosmos
    @stargirlcosmos 8 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for sharing this! Just out of curiosity, can I ask what your first language is? you're obviously very fluent in English, but I just wondered which is more of your first language among many different languages. Thanks!

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  8 месяцев назад +1

      My only native language is Mandarin Chinese

  • @abdulbyrd7902
    @abdulbyrd7902 11 месяцев назад +1

    Bro just told me to just have fun and study grammar in the same minute 😂

  • @Sophie-wh3gx
    @Sophie-wh3gx 8 месяцев назад +1

    Hi, Phonenix. I have some question related to language learning. I am learning both English and French, but my language level has been stuck between B1 and B2. I found it really hard to get any further, is there any way that I can improve that.

  • @Smittenhamster
    @Smittenhamster 11 месяцев назад

    Ugh I just want to cry and hug you. Where's the Superthanks when I really want to use it😂

  • @tkrocks7710
    @tkrocks7710 11 месяцев назад +2

    好厉害!!我是爱学语言的泰国人!现在正在学俄语,冰岛语,葡萄牙语。有很多东西我能向你学习!我们一起加油:) 以后还有什么好的学习方法请跟我们分享

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +1

      哇你也好厉害!我们一起进步!💪🏼

  • @sage-A
    @sage-A 11 месяцев назад +3

    0:35
    2:02
    3:06
    5:54

  • @begi_tutu
    @begi_tutu 10 месяцев назад +1

    Hi, Could you maybe please share with me the Russian case table (3:27) which is the clearest one I've ever seen. Appreciates!

  • @monisg_jj0376
    @monisg_jj0376 10 месяцев назад

    感谢分享!英文讲得好好听!

  • @elizabethgrant7623
    @elizabethgrant7623 11 месяцев назад

    خیلی ممنون برای ویدیوهات امیدوارم یک روز مثل تو بشم ❤

  • @Entschleunigung-l9u
    @Entschleunigung-l9u 11 месяцев назад +4

    5:36 5:38 如果到了这一步已经度过了最困难的阶段😅可能是对学习了一定阶段原地打转最大的鼓励😂,的确语言不是学懂而是不断扩充熟练运用的进阶过程

  • @booksketball
    @booksketball 11 месяцев назад +2

    3:52 the example caught me so off-guard 💀

  • @mcmerry2846
    @mcmerry2846 11 месяцев назад +3

    Good thing you give realistic tips, not like those fake polyglots talking "perfect" after 2 weeks 😂

  • @celinaduguay6484
    @celinaduguay6484 11 месяцев назад

    I am trying to learn Polish because I want to be able to have conversations in Polish with my relatives (aunts, uncles, cousins) in Poland who don't speak English.

  • @teresagirlando
    @teresagirlando 11 месяцев назад +4

    what do you think about starting learning Russian and Korean after having achieved an advanced fluency of Japanese and English? should I avoid learning more languages at the same time?

  • @kaiparker1756
    @kaiparker1756 9 месяцев назад +1

    What's the best process for learning the alphabet? Is it just repetitiveness until you're able to memorise and is it fine if you don't know how to make a sound 100% correctly? Like for example, I don't know how to properly trill my R's (learning Swedish)

  • @jamoladdintadjimov5319
    @jamoladdintadjimov5319 11 месяцев назад +5

    I usually don't write comments like this but I am very dissapointed. This one is just like any other "How to learn a language" video. It just states what's painfully obvious:
    Step 1: Learn the alphabet because every language has different language.
    Step 2: Learn grammar
    Step 3: Learn some more grammar
    Step 4: Consume content in the language you're learning
    If you're serious about learning a language there is my tip that will save your time and maybe even money: There is not a right or wrong way to learn a language. Just study. Just keep studying. You learn it for yourself so no one has the authority to tell you how to do it properly. No matter what or how you do it, you'll eventually succed in it. I know I did.

    • @ksajamx
      @ksajamx 9 месяцев назад +2

      Because as you say, there’s no other way, the person needs to study it, simple as that, but as obvious as it looks, most people fail learning not only languages but everything because they cannot keep doing it for more than a week, the problem is in the person not on the method, otherwise most people wouldn’t keep asking for these starter tips.

  • @EinsteinTV-Pharmacy
    @EinsteinTV-Pharmacy 11 месяцев назад +2

    I want to learn Japan language now in vocational high school, hopefully I can do that😁

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +1

      I’m sure you’ll be fluent in Japanese one day!

  • @李赞-h9h
    @李赞-h9h 3 месяца назад

    so amazing

  • @이준영-o1u
    @이준영-o1u 11 месяцев назад

    lovely video as always!!
    fyi
    4:07 There seems to be a typo in the Korean sentence. It should be 치였습니다 not 차였습니다.

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад

      Thank you! And thanks for the correction!🙏🏼

  • @irnarcticA
    @irnarcticA 11 месяцев назад

    This is great content

  • @elijahjflowers
    @elijahjflowers 11 месяцев назад

    Alphabet
    Grammar
    Grammar (more complex)
    Personalization - Actualization

  • @AbelardusSoccer
    @AbelardusSoccer 3 месяца назад

    Thanks for sharing your personal feedback! Any tips on learning one of the most challenging languages; Hungarian?

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  3 месяца назад +1

      I haven’t studied Hungarian but it sounds like an interesting challenge.

    • @AbelardusSoccer
      @AbelardusSoccer 3 месяца назад

      @@phoenixhou4486 Hungarian is a unique language in the sense that it does not have roots in any other language. It is a Uralic language, which did not even keep any similarity with that of Mongolia (Magyars originally came from that region). I started the learning quest some time ago but a bit slow.

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  3 месяца назад +1

      @@AbelardusSoccer Yes I heard Hungarian is a language isolate with no living close relatives. making it a more atractive language haha

  • @ultrasurfs
    @ultrasurfs 11 месяцев назад +2

    You cannot. You always use dictionary to map your knowledge back to your native language. So it is never "from scratch".

  • @amoelinthemoelhoel
    @amoelinthemoelhoel 10 месяцев назад

    for me i learned so much grammar but almost no vocabulary so i ended up reading a dictionary all day

  • @HimalayaFEI
    @HimalayaFEI 3 месяца назад

    侯哥,总结很到位!标杆!

  • @nyssatang1173
    @nyssatang1173 6 месяцев назад +1

    哇,刚看完B站的视频,这边也来支持一下

  • @ΑΝΑΣΤΑΣΙΑΣΠΥΡΛΙΑΔΟΥ

    Hello, do you think that it’s capable to learn two languages at the same time? I have started learning French A1 and I want to continue to B2 level, but I also want to start learning Russian ( I’m half Russian but unfortunately I don’t speak, but I understand sometimes ) so I don’t waste time. What’s your advise? ☺️

  • @billybob26881
    @billybob26881 11 месяцев назад +1

    My problem is the dialect. Ive been studying spanish for years but the dialect in school (south american/spain) and the dialect here (Mexican spanish) seems totally different and there's not a whole lot of learning materials to learn a specific dialect but i think thats very important

    • @Syria2002-dx3ov
      @Syria2002-dx3ov 10 месяцев назад

      I would say watch tv shows and movies to help you out

  • @depotemkin
    @depotemkin 10 месяцев назад

    How do you feel about Steve Kaufman's method? It promotes comprehensible input

  • @yngmei
    @yngmei 11 месяцев назад

    你的分享真的很激勵人心耶~!!真的覺得花時間了,但還是聽的很模糊很像在水裡聽人家講話XDD CHAO

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад

      哈哈哈哈水裡聽人講話 很形象

  • @saifulhap7952
    @saifulhap7952 11 месяцев назад +1

    Great vid! I was wondering if you had any thoughts on something I read that you should learn subsequent languages in the last language you learned. For example if I learned Arabic with books designed for English speakers, I should learn my next language in Arabic to reinforce Arabic. Is there any truth to this? Thanks.

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +3

      I recommend maximizing exposure to the language if possible, but without compromising the understanding of the content itself. So learn Arabic in Arabic if you at a medium level, but for beginners I think more understandable explanations are more helpful

  • @annelee1021
    @annelee1021 9 месяцев назад +1

    可以提供影片裡用到的表格嗎~謝謝

  • @triangdrie
    @triangdrie 11 месяцев назад +2

    我觉得充满母语者的环境也很重要. 我在墨西哥两周学的西班牙语就比自己一学期学的要多. 以及, 什么时候能再安排和女朋友的对谈😜

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад

      哈哈哈哈哈她害羞了 我得求求她!

    • @triangdrie
      @triangdrie 11 месяцев назад

      我觉得你们的对话非常可爱, 可能很大程度上是因为你们说汉语时的口音有点像我姥姥. 她是满人.@@phoenixhou4486

  • @babuschka777
    @babuschka777 11 месяцев назад +11

    This actually motivated me to start again to learn the language I started to learn. I was at exactly this point and eventually just gave up.
    Thank you 🙌🏾
    Do you have some advice for learning Russian and Spanish ?

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +3

      Russian is probably the hardest language I have ever studied haha. The amount of conjugations just blows everything else out of the water. It’s been a while since I studied Russian the last time. Maybe I could make a video when I start again

  • @clotairezhang6795
    @clotairezhang6795 11 месяцев назад +2

    老师,啥时候你能出个教材或者论著之类?

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад

      哈哈我确实在写一本书,不过跟语言没关系🤣

  • @derricklowrance8052
    @derricklowrance8052 11 месяцев назад

    Thanks

  • @RNekozilla
    @RNekozilla 11 месяцев назад +1

    从b站来油管了哈哈,我是问你SK输入理论那个👀
    想问一下博主 在看书的时候要是有很多词不认识 你是全都查词典还是直接换一本书
    我现在在学西语🇪🇸 SK说的方法好简单 但你掌握了好多语言 学习语言的经验很丰富 不过我很怕做题🤣 就想问问博主 在学习语言时你是怎么平衡做练习和输入感兴趣的内容的
    还有就是 感觉按照SK的理论 找到合适的材料很重要 既要符合i+1 又要有趣 所以感觉在学一门语言时 我还在到处找合适的材料 你这样的大佬已经冲到老前面去了😀 所以想问一下博主觉得i+1的学习材料重要吗

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +1

      碰到不认识的单词的时候去查,去收藏,对我来说是很享受的一件事情哈哈哈

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +1

      所以如果新单词很少我会觉得有些无聊

  • @AYinNYC
    @AYinNYC 11 месяцев назад +1

    How and where do you learn Chinese? Do you think it’s possible to learn a language without physically visiting where it’s originated ?

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад

      Yes I definitely think it’s possible. I have learnt Japanese and I haven’t yet visited Japan. But I think visiting the country will help a lot

  • @prosaicGodowsky
    @prosaicGodowsky 11 месяцев назад +1

    Thanks for making this! What resources have you been using to study arabic?

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  11 месяцев назад +2

      I came in contact with the Arabic alphabet when I started studying Uyghur. I haven’t studied the Arabic language yet. Maybe sometime in the future 🤓🤓

  • @Brain_yu
    @Brain_yu 11 месяцев назад

    由衷感謝你的影片

  • @RahmaZeggada
    @RahmaZeggada 10 месяцев назад

    You're mistaken when saying that Arabic alphabet is difficult, it's one of the easiest alphabet in the world ! Only 28 letters and number of those letter are similar in writing. On the other hand, Arabic grammar is really hard.

  • @DanielLovesPatois
    @DanielLovesPatois 10 месяцев назад

    What, in your mind, would be some of the "special languages" with "bizarre grammatical structures"?

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  10 месяцев назад

      To me Tibetan seems counter-intuitive, but it’s all relative. English may seem extremely counter-intuitive to a Tibetan

  • @hengjunxie1319
    @hengjunxie1319 9 месяцев назад +1

    请问,你学习语言时期每天都会用这些语言吗?会用这种语言思考吗?从零开始的话,从哪里开始呢?从什么用语开始?求解答。谢谢🙏

    • @phoenixhou4486
      @phoenixhou4486  9 месяцев назад

      收到!以后出一期视频回答!

  • @mari-h7q
    @mari-h7q 11 месяцев назад

    I'm studying Korean, how much time could take to internalize intermediate grammar? idk if it's worth giving a shot for Korean... 5:56 seems the way but how to do it in the best efficient way? I don't have much time anyways so I'd like to know more :)

  • @Yes-bn6yy
    @Yes-bn6yy 11 месяцев назад

    I saw the thumbnail and thought this was an uncle Roger video for a second