New here? I do crazy language learning experiments like this one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/aKqfp6qdgKTJl6Q.html

Totally had me at "chocolate cookies"....and then absolutely crushed me when it turned out to be an empty promise

@berkanathurisa

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Ok, finally had a chance to rewatch the video without kids yelling for snacks or drinks, or that someone looked at someone thereby triggering WW3. Good tips, really. Some youtube video I watched a while back mentioned the whole "watch a show or movie you've already familiar with, but in your target language" and I've done it a few times now (side note: it took my kids 30 min or so to realize we were watching Frozen in "not normal talk") but I kept forgetting to switch the language back after. I shall go create a new user on our Disney+ and Netflix and end that difficulty! I've been watching a lot of shows that are filmed in my TL, with and without subtitles. Folk med Angest and Bonus Family have been on my repeat list lately. I'm noticing a huge difference in actually hearing certain sounds. I use podcasts on Spotify for passive listening as well, to try and improve hearing the sounds and cadence of the language, and I'm starting to pick up enough to actually enjoy them as well. Getting my hands on some written material would be nice, but my local library is rather limited in options (as in, they have exactly zero books in my TL and are unwilling to add any based on my interest alone). I don't know about ebooks - they just don't have the right feel or scent, but I've started looking half-heartedly because they may be my only option for a while. I may even get desperate and advertise on social media to find someone reasonably local to just talk to! Also, I've decided to bake chocolate cookies tomorrow while the kids are at school. Best tip!

I somehow never realized how criminally underrated your channel is. I have consumed a lot of language learning content on KZread and yours is probably my favorite among ones not connected to my target language (Japanese).

@MaxEnglishCoach

Жыл бұрын

I see a lot of boring content out there really. But I like his style and personality.

@daysandwords

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Thanks both of you!

@antonioabbondanza4587

Жыл бұрын

Just realised right before watching that Ikenna has almost 1M subs and DFNS has 60k wtf? Even with way higher quality presentation and content? I guess you should make a video flexing your swedish, or something, just give in to the "dark side" a bit haha

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

It's not all just because he does viral kind of clickbait stuff... he's also got more videos and has been doing it longer.

Habit stacking with choccy bickies :)

Good video, glad to see people trying to give original advice beyond the level of "put your phone in your target language!" or "don't be afraid to make mistakes!".

This is great. I am a big fan of reading and had never thought about the soft box thing. 100% going to try that. Thanks man!

Reading is my favorite method. I like sitting on my front porch swing . I find it especially fun to read the dialogue parts out loud and try to make it sound authentic. I know I sound awful. That's why I like to wait until there's no one else around. Thank you for the tips. :)

First Hack--GENIUS!! I’ve been trying everything in Korean with English subs but it makes total sense to do what you said!! Thanks!!

Thanks for another good video, your channel is still the best language learning channel on youtube. Never feels unoriginal

Your videos always kick ass. This one is no exception. I love the cookie gag repetition. I've been a huge snob when it comes to native vs translated content. I tried so hard to only use native Spanish stuff, but so often being an English native speaker leaves us really spoiled when it comes to our quality expectations, particularly when it comes to things that are more common in English speaking countries (superhero movies are the easy example even though I don't really watch TV). I recently broke down and got a Spanish language Sarah J Maas audiobook, and I'm so excited to listen to Spanish now, because it's just better than most of the stuff I was listening to. I still haven't done the repetition thing, since I don't even repeat stuff in English, but I will say being open to English original content is a real positive.

@ADHDlanguages

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Two other things: -I spend almost all of my Spanish reading time with my kindle, so I never have to worry about having perfect lighting. Having one is highly recommended, not only for the light, but also the ability to quickly look up the odd word you don't know. If anyone IS looking for a first native Spanish language fantasy novel, Príncipe del Sol by Claudia Ramírez Lomelí is pretty solid and easy to read.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Someone bought me a Kindle and despite its advantages, I've just never ever rated it. I've tried... I just don't like it no matter what I try.

@uamdbro

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I'm generally a snob about this kind of thing too, but there are benefits to using translated content when you are at a certain level, I think. Especially for certain languages. I read translated books when I first started learning Chinese, because the barrier to entry for genuine native Chinese content is just absurdly high.

@ADHDlanguages

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@@daysandwords I had the opposite experience. I bought it on a whim thinking I would always prefer to read on paper but then fell in love. I still collect books, but I usually read on there (or listen to audiobooks).

@ADHDlanguages

Жыл бұрын

@@uamdbro comprehension is a whole different thing. There's plenty of simple native stuff to read in Spanish, and at my level simple isn't really an issue. I'm just talking about enjoyment.

Thanks for this video, as a low B1 German speaker, I have struggled to find decent content to watch, but hopefully, once i order some books to start reading it’ll get easier and more straightforward.

really looking forward to the deepdive video on how you took the rewatch a movie you loved multiple times too far XD great content as always Lamont

wow multiple audio tracks available on one video is a huge plus for creators

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I've got a video specifically about this coming soon.

@87advil

Жыл бұрын

I can see some creative applications for it. Family-friendly alternate audio? Background music free track? (I would love this for certain creators and it would really be an accessibility boon)

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

I mentioned those in my upcoming video (it's already recorded, just not edited) but not the family friendly one... Yes, that is a potential use! Especially if YT could make it so that only adult accounts could turn on the non-family track.

I have been doing Drops for 6 months . Have been through 2 month rounds of different teachers on italki. I would love to watch movies in TL on Netflix if I could only prie the remote out of hubby’s hands.Love your videos Lamont.

ty for video

You always give good and practical advice. I love reading in my target language, it’s really helped my vocabulary and comprehension which inadvertently helped my listening lol.

I wanna see that in-depth video about watching a thing a buncha times, please! Language Lords did it already but I wanna see the Lamont version!

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but it's a specific thing that I'm doing it with so it has a timed release. It'll make sense when you see it. LOL Language Lords...

Would love a video on bilingual books or interlinear books or apps that have books in other languages.

Great cookie!

The incredibly annoying, dialog and subtitle mismatch is something that puts me off consuming content like films and shows. It just ends up frustrating me. It seems rampant in shows I would have seen a lot in my native language but is then dubbed in my target language. We live in a world where AI can generate, 90% correct speech to text. Just run through the content once reading subtitles and correct the last little bit manually. It's not rocket science, its really straight forward to create accurate subtitles for what's spoken on screen. Forget language learning the hearing impaired deserve to have subtitles that reflect what's actually being said.

@hillmanntoby

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You can use whisper from openai to do this yourself now. It is a little technical to setup and use, but there are people that have setup free websites to be able to. You would have to either have someone check to get the other 10%, or just be content to get it 90% right. The cool thing to me is that it works with podcasts.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

They're not just randomly being annoying by the way... Subtitles can never be accurate because they follow rules that dialogue does not follow. There's a book called "Is that a fish in your ear? Translation and the meaning of everything." that addresses why this is.

@MaxEnglishCoach

Жыл бұрын

Interesting. I actually appreciate that because I see two people's different interpretation of a piece of dialogue... I do keep in mind both subs and dubbed audio work within their own constraints so the mismatch is always gonna be ther

Thanks, great ideas, especially no.3, it never occurred to me that there were good lights especially for reading. Just on point 1 - be careful about your choice of favourite movie! I picked one anime I loved for multiple views, then a Japanese friend pointed out that all the characters 'talked like truck drivers' as she put it (it was set in a rural area way up north). Probably not the best accent to pick up. One more point on this - netflix has an option for a description voice over (for people with vision problems). This is great for additional input.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

You don't get a choice of favourite movie. 😉

Nice vídeo

Love the reading recommendation. I do actually read a lot in my target language, my difficulty was listening. I work from home, so no commute, and my issue was that headphones and earphones were all so uncomfortable. You recommended a channel to me, Matt Brooks-Green, who made a great earphones recommendation. Game changer for my listening. I think the message here is, set yourself up for success. Create a reading space you really want to sit in and you’ll read, get a comfortable pair of earphones and you’ll listen while you cook, (or whatever). Such basic and yet underrated and overlooked advice.

@daysandwords

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Yeah I have been saying this to myself lately: "Solve the problem that causes the problem." e.g. I hate mowing the lawn. So I consider it a "problem". It doesn't get done and only becomes less and less desirable to do because it's harder as the grass is longer. But the problem is actually that I hate getting the equipment out and getting it to work... not the actual mowing itself. There are ways to solve the REAL problem that will mean there is no "problem" with mowing the lawn. Also I get you about the headphones... when I discovered the right ones for me, it helped a lot with the commute. Now I don't commute anymore (same as you) but at least my car has bluetooth so it always just starts playing whatever was playing on my phone, which is almost always Spanish... so it cuts out a bit of resistance with setting it up and everything, so that's good.

@Charlotte-ti2yk

Жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords Exactly. Reduce the resistance!

someone said cookies? ^_^

Nice hacks - with the crazy diversion-DIY-lamp and all! Is this a very common tip: talk imaginary conversation with an interesting native speaker, preferably aloud, many times a day. Each time magine someone who is interested in all you have to tell, and who has interesting responses for you. Let it flow - it is a plus if you do it while moving and have no props at hand. Buy chocolate cookies are great!

Never really tried it myself, but I can kinda see the advantages to watching your favorite movie more than once. (by the way, Rango in the b-roll is awesome). Sometimes I know what a character said, but I’m not sure HOW he said it, and I get curious about the language used. So I go back and check, and even compare it with what I thought were the words used. This is great because it allows you to either validate your language or see the room for improvement.

Lamont, I'm still salivating over your computer setup and then you throw the reading space at me... if you remodel your kitchen for generating those chocolate chip cookies I'm in big trouble!

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Haha where did you see my computer set up? (1000 words video I guess?)

@aggiebattery8354

Жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords yes indeed

Question is number one also fine for a movie in your target language or is it more knowing that movie inside and out given its in your native language

Bribing yourself with cookies and coffee works. I use it to get through my workday too. There is the obvious drawback of gaining wait though 😅. I love that reading light setup you have. It seems like going to the library - at least at mine they have very good lighting and you can comfortably read anywhere. However, like you mention, I am bad at getting myself to read, also in English even. As far as English goes I have a solution - audiobooks or text to speech (I know not everyone can tolerate this but I really like text to speech. The new iOS voices are very nice). The huge drawback to listening to books instead of reading them is you can't lookup words so there's really no way you'll increase your vocabulary but you'll definitely improve upon the words you do know. I think for some languages there are apps that will actually analyze a text (a whole e-book even if you convert it to a text file) and then list words by frequency for you so you can study them before listening or maybe use Anki. Not for Korean though - at least not that I've found. As far as Anki goes - I'm trying a new thing where I just study new words intensely for a week or two and then retire them forever. Sorry for the rambling comment. Good luck with your studies.

@daysandwords

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In 3 to 4 years I think most audiobooks will be at least partially TTS, but you'll never know that they are. AI can generated a specific human voice for any content and can even add emotion etc. I'm hoping that they figure out to do this with the next GoT book and do it in the late Roy Dotrice's voice. They've got thousands of hours of sample content, so in theory we'll be able to generate the perfect Roy Dotrice narrator, despite him no longer being alive.

@paulwalther5237

Жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords I haven’t heard him but I just pulled up a KZread interview of him talking about Game of Thrones and he mentioned coming up with 310 voices for the different characters in episode 5.. 310 voices??

@87advil

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I've increased my vocabulary hugely almost entirely through listening. I am trying to transition to reading more, but so far have done quite little in my target language. It's probably a less efficient way of gaining word knowledge but I know it works because I haven't really done anything else yet know way more words in Spanish than I used to.

@paulwalther5237

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@@87advil I would love to listen instead of reading. Do you have any tips?

@87advil

Жыл бұрын

​@@paulwalther5237 Books tend to use longer, more complex sentences and a wider range of vocabulary than everyday speech. The back and forth of conversation also provides a lot of context and redundancy for new words. For those reasons, finding podcasts related to topics you like can be really helpful for picking up vocabulary - even if the topic itself is advanced or specialized, the language around it will be easier. The other thing is that it's ok to not understand everything - learning from context usually means hearing a new word multiple times in different contexts before the meaning fully clicks. Of course, if you want to look things up you need to be able to "hear" the sound accurately enough to google it, even if there's a slight misspelling. If you're not at the point in a target language where you can accurately hear an unknown word well enough to write it in a way google can recognize, developing your ear via listening is necessary to be able to learn the word, either via context or a dictionary. Listening a lot is the only way to get there, but the payoff is huge. I think I would summarize my advice as, find easier level listening material, go with the flow, and don't feel like you have to study every new word you hear in a given piece of media because repeated exposure will do most of the work of locking it in - and when your ear is developed it's MUCH easier to just "hear" a new word accurately enough that you recognize it the next time you hear it, allowing you to associate meaning more quickly, etc... it's a virtuous cycle. And finally, the more words you already know well the easier it is to remember new words. So really all of this gets easier over time. Good luck sorry this comment was so giant.

Do you have any Swedish KZread creators you love?

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

It's been a while but Emil Hansius was probably my favourite... "unfortunately", he has a very northern accent (which is a lot of the reason that he's so popular... Swedes love the funny sound of it)... Gordon Dewoon is pretty good but can be a bit hard to understand. Oh "Uppdrag Mat"! Definitely one of the best... and a "normal" accent, very interesting videos too. There's heaps to go on just with those 3 channels.

You can keep your cookies, I have kanelbullar 😊 BTW, I keep reading your new channel name as 'defense', like a gamer tag lol

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

I woke up and saw this comment and my wife had actually made kanelbullar!

Ok I have a couple questions. What should someone like me do with step number one when there isn’t any movie on the planet dubbed into my target language. There is reading material but not very much at all. There’s only 1 full length motion picture in my target language as well. KZread is hard to find good content in my target language, only a few people have posted things about and in my target language. This being Samoan btw

If you're not reading books in your target language (assuming you're beyond the beginner level), you're basically doing the equivalent of trying to ride a bike with only one leg

I've been self teaching myself korean for a year and I feel like im going super slow. I'm still a beginner. Do you have any tips or advice to help boost my level please?

Gracias por las galletas!

I am a native German speaker and i Watch so many language learning videos that KZread started recommending me videos for learning German. But far more than for other languages.

bro you're better than mr. beast, you promised cookies and delivered. Jimmy never delivered on his promise. thank you.

I was literally eating a chocolate cookie when I started watching this!

he's a real one

Which video has the full explanation of the lighting setup? I saw it, I simply spaced it off and now have forgotten all of the details.

@MarkandDawnAxelson

Жыл бұрын

Sorry, I thought it was in one of the multiple hacks for language learning type of videos, not in something so obviously titled like “I created the PERFECT space for LANGUAGE LEARNING!” or I wouldn’t have asked that question.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Sorry, I wasn't deliberating ignoring this. I saw it while I was in Mexico and thought "Oh I should paste a link" and never did.

I want to hear about all the cognitive reasons things become more interesting the more you watch them. 1:34 You are one of my favorite language KZreadrs, by the way.

@paulwalther5237

Жыл бұрын

I feel like rewatching content is a personal thing. I know kids like to do it. I vaguely remember enjoying watching the same shows/movies over and over as a kid. But then it went away. But some of my friends I've noticed (only some) still really enjoy rewatching shows/movies. I totally get how it will benefit you to rewatch stuff but personally I haven't been able to make this a part of my routine.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Yeah stayed tuned for early June... I have a few videos coming about this (yes I know that's a long wait but I'm out of action for the next month).

@MaxEnglishCoach

Жыл бұрын

Whenever I watched something more than once, the second time around I got to appreciate subtle aspects of dialogue and other details so much more. I feel it allows you to focus your attention on things you otherwise wouldn't the first time because get sucked up by the storyline or your focus goes to understanding the plots, and so on

@BrunUgle

Жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords Are you going to make any videos about your trip? Do we get to see you amazing Mexicans with your perfect Spanish?

¡Gracias por la galleta!

Thanks for the cookie! 😂 🍪

Hola. Hi, Ok. So, some how I missed how well you speak spanish? And how you would rate your languages? Let's do it on a 1 to 10, 10 being native. English 10, Swedish 5? French 3?, spanish 2? German 1? So, of course this is a relative scale. But, perhaps you could express how well you speak these using examples? Also, I didn't hear what you actually did with your Swedish after your French detour. Thanks

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Watch my most recent video and it is genuinely just an extended answer to your question.

“Idk thanks for the cookie, here’s your cookie..eeeaaaaatttt itttt(in monster voice) ”. As requested sir 🤙🏾

Didn't realize you had abbreviated your channel name so when the video popped up on my recommended I thought someone had stolen and re-uploaded it lol

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Funnily enough I was accused of that with my earliest videos because some people didn't believe that a channel with 40 subscribers could have made such a "high quality" video. Haha... evidently they have never seen James Jani.

Watching this video while hungry was a mistake... now I'm ordering cookies to the house lol

You are one of the few language channels that I trust. A lot of wacky stuff out there on those fake polyglot channels.

Thanks for the cookie :D

Looking forward to hearing about your experiences in Mexico. I really don't like repeating content in a short span of time. A video getting into the nitty gritty of cognitive stuff about it would be very interesting.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

People can say "I don't like..." all they want but eventually they vote with their clicks, and the clicks don't lie. I literally can't afford to keep making month long videos that only 20,000 people watch. BTW I actually said that there was a video coming about the nitty gritty of it... I said that in this video. Sorry, but it feels like you're complaining about not getting the very content that I said you'd be getting.

@87advil

Жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords Sorry, may have been badly worded - my repetition comment wasn't an opinion about *your* content, I meant that was my personal taste about consuming movies and tv shows for language learning and even for that very reason would be interested in learning more about the uses of repetition... I didn't even mean it as a request, but rather since you mentioned it in the video and to another commenter, as a support - saying hey good idea for a video, looking forward to it when it comes out. No complaints here about your content.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Oooooh right, sorry. The thing is... content can actually get more interesting if you repeat it enough. It's weird, it seems boring, but then suddenly you see the film on a whole new level (assuming it's good to begin with).

@87advil

Жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords Very interesting perspective - most people who talk up repetition will say that it's a necessary chore, not so much a way of getting a deeper experience with a piece of media in an enjoyable way. Definitely sounds like something that rewards quality in ones choice of art, which is not a bad thing. Count me intrigued!

I was given a cookie. Now I want a glass of milk.

Thanks for the cookie fella

Thanks for the cookie

guess I'll go watch "hook" in spanish 100 times lol seeing as I know the movie by heart in English

I figured that one about typing in your target language in youtube a few months ago. Just ask about anything you're interested in, in your L2 and youtubers in your target language talking about that subject will come up. Why ever watch youtube in your boring L1 anymore?

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Well because KZread has some awesome content in English haha.

Any Netflix recommendations for good Spanish dubs?

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

I actually don't have Netflix at the moment. Basically any animated content works well.

@87advil

Жыл бұрын

Not on netflix, but the Latino dub of the Simpsons is amazing.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

​@@87advilYes I'm slowly working through that at the moment actually.

Bro, I came here for the chocolate cookies. And all I got was what the title of the video advertised.

Woof

Lamont, you eat all those chocolate cookies yourself and you will have to run further and faster than last time

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Oh that's already the case haha. Not looking forward to seeing the scales when I get back from Houston. 😂

Just when I was feeling glum about not making more progress, here you come along and have irresistible ideas for making progress! Wow, lighting and making a special place that isn't the kitchen table, where I always feel guilty about not having done the dishes right away. I know my husband is sick of being recommended videos in Ukrainian, so another KZread login is brilliant! Yes, chocolate cookies! So, what do you think about reading recipes in my target language? 🍪 🔥

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Of course, recipes are a great idea! The only thing is, they are a bit more advanced, e.g. "dice" or "braise" and those kinds of words.

@DNA350ppm

Жыл бұрын

Oh, do the recipes - look up thos words that recur in recipe after recipe! You'll be able to reade any cookery book in a very short time. And to discuss cooking, baking, tastes and so on on You Tube. A comp

Дякую за печиво 🙏🍪!

@sxwej

Жыл бұрын

Пожалуйста

Skip to 2:26 for chocolate cookies, yum, num.

'DFAS' - just a small correction needed.

@mariajohnson2294

Жыл бұрын

DSAS - days of Swedish and Spanish. He brings dah-sass to KZread 😉😉😄

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

DFAS would be the only truly incorrect channel name there is for this channel. Everything else is subjective, but that would be wrong.

All I can think about now are chocolate cookies and brownies.

But but where are the chocolate cookies??? 🥺🥺🥺

How far along in your language learning, do you think someone should be, before they try to watch a dubbed movie several times?

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

How familiar are you with the scenes of the movie?

@TheRealRaygor

Жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords Watched it a few times.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheRealRaygorOK then you can start right away. You already know what happens so you won't miss what's going on. Just try it and watch it twice in your target language to start with.

Yes but what about actually producing something in your TL.. like speaking 😢

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Then just do all these except focus them on speaking. They can all be adapted to that, even the reading one.

"I don't even own a book and my IQ is 783"

Thanks for cookie

delicious cookies

I mean, I'm in for the cookies

cute!! 6:20

I'm trash, I typed "melhor youtubers no brasil" what I got was maiores canais do youtube... I'm so trash at brazillian.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Not trash, just not that experienced with it yet.

Personally, I watch videos in domains I know very well so I can focus on my target language. For example, I watch a lot of maths videos. I studied maths so I understand well what is said and there are many animations, so it is really easy for me to understand, even if I am a beginner in the language.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

That's a good tip! 🎉

giving me cookies when im trying to drops some kilos? daaaaaaamn!

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

I am also trying to drop some... yeah, it's not working.

You are my favorite language learning channel because you take pride in making quality videos; both content and appearance. However, that's why your channel also frustrates me. I want more videos and I know you also have a life outside of KZread and quality cannot be produced on mass. Nevertheless, I want more.

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

There are actually more coming soon. I've finally put together a system for getting videos of similar quality out a bit more regularly, but I've been busy with preparing for the trip. However you should see more soon!

Wtf there are rlly good advices and not the same as usual what kind of video is it

@daysandwords

Жыл бұрын

Yep. I aim to make the best language learning videos on the internet.

chocolate cookies are probably better than chocolate chip cookies. unfortunately, i just got back from the store with pillsbury chocolate chip cookies you bake in the oven. then i saw this video. if i had known… then i could have looked for chocolate cookies.

Why read? Because it teaches you more advanced grammar without having to learn *about* grammar.