People that do take on a language ought to realise that it's truly a marathon, definitely NOT a sprint ! Patience with oneself must come in bucketfuls. Avoid youtubers that claim " I've learned so and so in 3 weeks etc " these people are only fooling themselves.

@jeanleduy9923

3 ай бұрын

Roma uno die non est condita

@ladybluelotus

3 ай бұрын

Agreed. I think it's also helpful to measure your progress by target language hours not months or years. It's a lot easier to measure and recognize the correlation between hours spent on a particular language skill and your ability to process the language. So, 80 listening hours produces x experience and understanding of the target language. 50 speaking hours or writing practice hours produces x. So on and so forth.

@strikeback1080

3 ай бұрын

​@@ladybluelotusGenius idea. Thanks for sharing.

@strikeback1080

3 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comment. I have to keep reminding myself that. I'm a native English speaker who decided to learn Spanish. I can converse on a basic level and somewhat intermediate I suppose. But when any Spanish speaker I'm communicating with starts speaking really fast I'm basically lost.

@jordandavis6709

3 ай бұрын

Yes and no. You don’t want to spend 8 years like myself and still struggle to speech

Personally I have learned diffrent languages through story reading and telling. Ask questions and answering them. And finally, learning a language out of survival.

@katherineortiz6754

3 ай бұрын

Hey there, can you please share how do you apply this method? Thanks.😊

Listening, reading and writing a lot. In that order. Leave speaking for last and be very very patient. Do not worry about it much. Enjoy!

So much of being successful in anything is focus. If you can go into airplane mode a few hours a day to focus on language learning, it’ll be much faster than trying to do it with all your notifications popping off

@solea59

3 ай бұрын

you could just leave you phone in another place 😁

Learn 500 words and be able to have small conversations. Understand isolated and very frequently used sentences. Learn 2000 words and be able to talk in a varied array of topics with a limited and adapted or simplified vocabulary. Be able to understand half of what you hear and 70% of what you read. Learn 5k words and be able to speak about most subjects with a lot of expressiveness and clarity. Be able to understand 90% of what you hear and read.

@Lovren2

3 ай бұрын

Could u help me about words ? Vocabulary a curse for me. When i read a book for example (there are 200 words a page and there are 10 words that i couldn't understand) if i study for those words for hours and then i forget them (maybe expect 2-3) but sometimes when i see just 1 word and looking whats that mean oh suddenly it comes into my long-term memorize. but HOW i tried all the ways how to get new words but still i dont know how can i . just randomly it come into my mind if i learn them.

@RogerRamos1993

3 ай бұрын

@@Lovren2 The way I do it for every language I study. Don't try to remember the words you just learned. You won't learn an uncommon word the first time you see it. If you read the word correlation, for instance, you should not stop reading and then study the word correlation and other unknown words for hours on end. Depending on what you read, a word like correlation will appear once every 100 pages or less. If you read sociology, it might appear once or twice every one or two pages. The words that matter to you will keep appearing. I perceived you already have a good vocabulary. You surely know thousands already. Keep reading. And if you study vocabulary, use apps to train sentences and not isolated words. Or look up dialogues in the target language. You will learn the most common words first. There's no other way, imo.

@Lovren2

3 ай бұрын

​@@RogerRamos1993 so you mean when i see a word in a sentence when reading a book. don't try to memorize this word just look one time word's mean and when i see it a lot of time i will be learned. am i get right ?. and thanks for your help im trying to learn english and i hope you get what i am wrote :/ fortunately even little bit i can write and what about speak ? don't even ask :D

@RogerRamos1993

3 ай бұрын

@@Lovren2 That's it. If you read in a tablet, phone or kindle, look up a word when you don't know its meaning. If you read printed books, you can write down words you don't know and research their meaning from time to time.

@Lovren2

3 ай бұрын

@@RogerRamos1993 Thank you so much mate. it will help me a lot

I have been learning English since 2020. But still I am not good. I listen a lot of English and keep patience one day I will definitely speak good English.

the easiest way to learn a language is to move to an area where everyone speaks that language. if you don't have that option you can go online and find a bilingual teacher who you can mimic and this will fast forward your progress. trying to learn academically via vocab memorization/conjugating grammar is a good way to spend years and years and still not be very good at communicating. you have to learn the way you learned your native language, by interacting with people who speak the language.

@miyururanasingheonlinetuit9604

3 ай бұрын

F@@##😂😂@@÷••

@szymonbaranowski8184

2 ай бұрын

it's a barrier you can't break without basic knowledge and getting basic knowledge of french is a really high threshold to reach lol

@Maldemer896

Ай бұрын

It would help if you spoke correctly in Spanish-speaking areas. Otherwise, they will ignore you and not take you as a serious person. Spanish-speaking world is enormously sensitive, and you get deeply upset if your grammar is wrong. This is what our college teacher told us in the Spanish class. I asked why because they demand respect from foreigners. Weird, is it? They are “no habla ingles” in the US. For not knowing Russian, I probably must deport them back to Mexico or El Salvador if I could.

"Wherever I am I pull it out and I do it" 😂

@themagicofenglish2023

3 ай бұрын

Ah! .....'it' .... A most versatile and ambiguous pronoun....😀

@KF22TV

3 ай бұрын

A wild phrase💀

@dedhart

2 ай бұрын

It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again

Thank you for the video Michael! I hope this question isn't too personal, do you have kids? If yes, how do you balance that with other things? That topic wasn't really mentioned in the video, but it's an important topic because having kids is one of the things which causes the most unexpected emergencies in my life and I find it difficult to balance these 3 areas - career, parenthood and personal development (including language learning, fitness etc.)

According to academic research, it takes you 8 years to learn your mother tongue fluently. Adults can learn faster than children due to higher motivation, developed cognitive skills, time commitment, autonomy in learning, and leveraging prior experiences.

@murphy903

3 ай бұрын

I turn off ALL notifications. It's not that hard to do and I never miss a thing. I own and run a school. I've trained my people to do what needs to be done and I empower them to do them. I lived my life without notifications turned on my computer or phone at some point. Personally, I don't need them. It is all about building in more than just contingencies.

@choreomaniac

9 сағат бұрын

Sure but an infant has many advantages over an average adult learner. 1. Time. A baby is immersed 24-7 in the target language. Most adult learners cannot immerse at work (40 hours/week), with family and friends ( 20-40 hours), errands, hobbies, etc. you might have 10 hours a week if your lucky. A baby has 100. 2. Patient conversation partner. A mom or dad or grandparent is happy to talk to a 4 year old for hours even if the country and grammar is very limited and there are long pauses and mistakes. Not so much for adults. Most beginners would be lucky to pay for one hour a week of conversation. An average six year old will hear hours of their target language a day and will produce hours as well. There are exceptions like if you are a full-time student, traveling in the target country, married to a native speaker, or somehow able to devote 20+ hours a week to immersion. I’d say a person is exposed to around 30,000 hours of language in their first eight years. Let’s say an adult can do it ten times more efficiently. That would still take 2 hours a day for four years to reach the same level as an 8 year old.

These are valid ideas. Basic sentence construction

Wow now I can find someone that I can relate to. I find it hard to do the same things consistently at the same time everyday like some others advocates for. One more thing that I struggle with is I don't have a chance to use the new vocabulary or grammar that I learn and hence I can't convert it to active memory. Any recommendations on this issue?

@ladybluelotus

3 ай бұрын

Here are a couple of things that have worked for me. Carve out a core practice skill that you can commit to doing everyday, let's say listening practice for 20 minutes per day for two or three weeks. And then use another skill (writing or speaking) in your target language or a sister language for one week to break up the monotony. Two weeks on two weeks off or three weeks on one week off. Use listening to a sister languages or a language you're unfamiliar with to distract from your target language while keeping the language processing centers of your brain active. Also measuring your commitment and progress in your target language by skill hours rather than weeks or months will help alleviate guilt for taking much needed breaks while still tracking your progress. Hope this helps.

Do and does make language easier

...Michael Campbell is pleasant enough, a regular fellow... The issue is that one can watch the clip, wait patiently for 15 minutes, without getting anything at all, excepting, to be fair, the fact that Michael is using (as many do) the structural method... KZreadrs, KZreadrs...

Thank you so much... 😊

I screenshot the sentence of the App, clean up the page, and save in my Photo. I can easily review them anywhere. Quite good for vocabulary and sentences (e.g. one verb in different sentencing.) My Tip of the Day - learn Chinese if you are over 50. It would help ward off Alzheimer then travel to Taiwan to practice your speaking. Just stay with a native family and make friends with all the shop keepers in your neighborhood.

@rogu7617

3 ай бұрын

Ich lerne mich über 60 Ägyptisch. Ist voll cool in Ägypten mit den Einheimischen zu sprechen. Und mein Gehirn bleibt fit.

great content

Welsh has a Do or does. Do is a verb. Welsh verbs come first. So not only does Welsh have the Do you and does he but many variations that show tense number and person all in the one verb to Do. It's a shame many language courses and apps ignore this wonderful Brythonic language. It's very ornate and poetic and economical and efficient at the same time. Ga i = May I have in Welsh. 3 letters compared to 8 in English. By putting a G instead of a C as in Ca i you change it into a question. Thats clever and economical. Or...Es i i'r = I went to the. 5 letters compared to English 10. On the other hand..listen to the music = .gwrando ar y gerddoriaeth..very ornate. Hwyl 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@michaelcampbellglossika

Ай бұрын

thanks, I'll add it to my list

Thans you teacher

Shout-out to this huge accomplisher 😊

Everything what was said here might be compressed in 3-4 key-words with a super laconic comments. Be: a) motivated, b) persistent, c)self- disciplined and d) financially well supported. As this style of life definitely required the last point. Then instead of 15 minutes all these relaxions would take 1,5 minute or so. Or maybe his descriptions precisely "covered" such wordy and clumsy questions of interviewer.

Great!

❤

Smart approach to starting simple talking. But listening to another person with comprehension is not as easy…

I understand, but I can't speak. From Guatemala

Thans you

Learn and practice speaking. That's it.

Thans

He's so 'relatable' I'm crying with laughter. As for emergencies - I work in emergencies, and they do happen. :D Again, I just can't... Going back to my 9-5 work and learning languages on the side, whenever I can.

Do you consider "Czy..?" similar to "Do..?" in Polish? Or is it something else? In that case French would qualify to with "Est-ce que..?", wouldn't it?

@ChrisBadges

2 ай бұрын

Similar, yes, it's a yes/no-question marker

I do the same thing I have flashcards on my phone for Russian I just look at it to just familiarize myself with the words I wrote down to remember

@user-me6mp3fn7x

3 ай бұрын

Hi I can help you with Prussian if you want I need someone to help me with English How old are you? But I’m not Russian I I’m Chechen And l live in Russia

What's the one tip in summary?

I do a lot of listening

Learning just enough to get by is not learning much of a language. Apply yourself for the long haul or move on.

Hello whoever is reading this comment, (if you speak english) i'm learning english, my mother language is spanish, would you like practice and learn spanish with me, and i practice and learn english with you? Please, i don't have to practice with

But what is the advice you implied that you would be imparting?

I don't understand this "incidental" learning in a taxi, is this people with 0 context switching cost that find it useful? I can't even warm up to read a page in a Chinese book without 15 minutes of uninterrupted silence. I don't think people woh aren't willing to end friendships and relationships so they can put 5-6 hours /day 7 days a week in for the long years take language learning seriously and doubt they will accomplish anything tbh. (Now of course the retired are blessed they can still lead a normal life, but I don't find language learning compatible with working a full time job or being a student unless you're willing to pay the price - cut the social ties.)

@SarathMulugurthi

3 ай бұрын

there are still lot of ways to learn the language even if you are busy. I go for an hour walk daily. during this time i listen to pimsleur spanish audio course (almost half done). i listen it while i am showering, i listen it while cooking, while on transit. i clock in 2-3 hours of daily study. before sleeping i switch off my screens and read madrigals guide to spanish which cures my insomnia problem. i am few months in learning spanish and i can already make conversations. if you have a will you will learn it

@ChristoChristo03

3 ай бұрын

That's the price you are always gonna pay wherever you are , whatever you do have a cost , God saved the people by becoming a man as his creation and died to forgive his people as you can see , he paied the price , he died on the cross a really sacrifice , the most important sacrifice you are going ever to see , God leaving his throne becoming a man to die and to be humillated by evil men , supporting it for he loves you . Jesuschrist is coming soon even if you die and we all die , he will return , if you repent of your sin and belive in his name , you will recive his work about the cross he did , and you will recive eternal life and forgivness. I spend my time reading and watching videos by listenning to them in order to learn english and spread the truth for you be saved although there are more people better than me , please think about what i said to you , seek God before he can´t be found .

@solea59

3 ай бұрын

Comprehensible compelling input. Reading subjects that you like is very rewarding.You are more likely to remember words and grammar constructions. Spending time listening to subjects you like also. Don't waste valuable time scouring text books that have no relevance to your life. I cannot for the life of me insert words into spaces, my brain freezes up so I avoid that stuff. Makr careful choices of stuff you like and go for it !

How did this turn into this dude stroking his ego?

Why is it "with this *one* tip? Why not "with this tip"? What does the addition of the word "one" add to this sentence??

@johncouch7785

2 ай бұрын

it implies that only one is required. “with Only this one tip….”

yet more bla bla bla that doesn't address the issue at all.

@vitorvaungh2232

3 ай бұрын

2 min in that video and I realized this man is talking a lot of manbo jambo

All talk, no substance in this

Using a small number of highly restricted structures to communicate will only work (if it works at all) for production. Sadly, native interlocuteurs (somewhat unsurprisingly) will not restrict themselves to the same narrow range. To put it simply, you might be able to choke out some basic sentences, but people will respond with natural speech that's way beyond your comprehension.

Steve Kaufmann who?

Only watched the first ten seconds - this guy needs help.

All he is doing is bragging about himself being so clever than giving tips 😂

@szymonbaranowski8184

2 ай бұрын

no you just are a mean person haha

@MenuBee

2 ай бұрын

Describe- “mean person.”

@theblessedblackwoman

2 ай бұрын

Exactly. I didn't really get any tips! Waste of my time.

@1vantheterr1ble47

2 ай бұрын

How does it take 15 min to give ONE tip? I was hoping for a 2 min video! This is RUBBISH!

@EliasVanLorien

2 ай бұрын

I also waiting for the tip

How to learn a language… Learn a language.

@kioiiou

2 ай бұрын

Acquire it

bla, bla, bla...

Scam

@injured9406

3 ай бұрын

Why?

@Maldemer896

Ай бұрын

@@injured9406You need 400 to 2200 hours of hard path every day to learn a new language. Do you have 2-3 hours daily to learn a new language without affecting your job, family, or daily routine? Who will prepare the food, do laundry, go to PTS, etc? While you are in the process of learning the language, who does the rest? I knew one guy who spoke six languages fluently. It is great! But he lived with his mom, who did everything else: worked, cooked, and cleaned after him while he was studying. This is a scam because this guy is not burdened by anything.

He just talked about himself generally. Very little in the way of language learning tips.

What a load of utter twaddle. Blabbering on and on and not one piece of advice .Just bragging about himself

just useless talk