The correct goal of all the language learners is to keep learning every single day.

@thiagoaugusto9262

4 жыл бұрын

@@MultiLingualGaming good luck broo, you will be a super polyglot, several languages in your brain.

@NetAndyCz

4 жыл бұрын

I think that learning every day is great, but bit overrated, I would say it is okay to skip days if you learn more the next day, I think that 7 hours a week is fairly comparable to 1 hour a day. In some aspects learning every day a bit is better in others learning for a longer period of time in one go is better.

@Hofer2304

4 жыл бұрын

@@NetAndyCz Learning every day cannot be overrated. My brain, and probably your brain also, needs input every day. You don't have to learn something new, but read something, watch videos, listen something, write a meaningful text. Learning 7 hours a week is absolutly not comparable to 1 hour a day. The latter is superior. Even better would be 7 hours a day. Your brain has to feel that learning this language is very important.

@NetAndyCz

4 жыл бұрын

@@Hofer2304 Of course 7 hours a day are better than 7 hours a week, duh. I just meant that missing a day is not the end of your language progress at all, despite most language learning apps telling you it is and you have to start from scratch:)

@andersbodin1551

4 жыл бұрын

Then how do you know that you are learning is relevant and efficent? If you don't have agoal?

You are in inspiration. You show people that it doesn't matter how old you are, and that anyone can learn a language at any time and age.

@robertklose2140

4 жыл бұрын

Wishful thinking.

@TheStrataminor

Жыл бұрын

@@robertklose2140 You can....and people have shown they can....since you wrote this comment, you could have easily have quite good French, German etc by now....

@robertklose2140

Жыл бұрын

@@TheStrataminor Easily? That depends on the ability of the learner. Like everything else, there are differences in this ability. I have met people who have absolutely no ear for foreign language acquisition, and a woeful memory for new vocabulary.

@amiriy00

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely true

Hi Steve, an experience I have is that because I am learning Japanese I am now able to recognize Korean and other Asian languages because of their sounds. Using Korean specifically as an example, now that I can speak and understand some Japanese I know when I hear Korean because it sounds like Japanese but I don’t understand a single thing, but I recognize the language almost instantly.

@Fillipe_Mendes

4 жыл бұрын

I thinks that's similar to when you learn romance or germanic languages cause they have a lot in comon. I'm now only in the beggining of learning Japanese. My goal for this moment is only to get familiarized with the Hiragana alphabet

@samaval9920

5 ай бұрын

Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese etc. all borrowed many words, especially nouns, before 1509s when zN Chinese « zMandarin » dropped syllable end consonants lik-k, -/p, -t m, -m etc. example country Korean guy Japanese koku Vietnamese quoc.! Good luck!! Gan batte ça

Steve you are 100%... :D I have studied French about six months now and went to Paris to a language trip this week. I was able to talk about the weather, and it was very hot in Paris( canicule). I was able to order at the restaurant and at cafes..6 months ago I didnt know anything about French language..

Hey Steve, 1.5 years studying Spanish and 30 days into LingQ and loving it! I always focused on 'fluency' in the traditional sense rather than the addition of new 'useable' vocabulary and I can already see me breaking out of the plateau I was on. Love the program and the videos! Keep up the good work!

@Eric-le3uu

4 жыл бұрын

You can import a LOT of Spanish content (movies, TV, news, etc) into LingQ :) Check out the forum and you'll discover a lot of tips that will help you.

@barbaramassanares8817

4 жыл бұрын

LingQ changed my life. It's amazing!!!!

'Do something and if you do something good things will happen' Mr. Kaufmann pulls of inner philosophical self. I think I will write this down and put in some visable place.

Love this! I just started language learning 100 days ago. Thank you

@mahmoud-quran

4 жыл бұрын

Which language?

thank you very much Steve!!!!!

omg that's exactly the point! we're not actually learning languages. Instead, we are exploring cultures! thanks! 你的话总能让我眼前一亮！

Your ideas on languages learning always surprize me, thanks

I totally agree with you, as I have been learning English, french, Japanese, arabic, Spanish

This man is a inspiration for me, I like so much of your tips and videos,

تعلمت الكثير من هذا الفيديو شكراً لك

I really enjoy listening to your channel. So much wisdom there!

Thank you for your videos

Thanks for the reinforcement, Steve. I teach ESL, use Spanish daily(in South America) and have a loooong history with Japanese. I recently started to study/learn Mandarin and this is exactly my approach.

this was great. i've been in language burnout for a while and it was useful to get a reset of expectations.

Lovely photos! 😍

Wow, you really have helped me a lot. Maybe I feel stuck because I don´t use my English meaninfull. Thanks! I´ll try to do that. Many blessing from Brazil.

You are refreshing Steve that you forget lots of stuff ! It gives permission to forget, not to get hung up on learning. We are not machines. Learning a language shouldn't be a race. So I am an enjoyment learner then, I agree with that. And thanks for the idea of the three month language idea, I'm going to apply it to my learning Italian.

When it comes to acquiring languages, Steve Kaufmann and Luca Lampariello are my biggest inspirations. You're just amazing.

How true. After I developed my Spanish movie understanding (harder than listening to simple videos) my Portuguese understanding also developed faster. Now with French I had to put in even less effort.

I enjoy heart you, I am fascinated, Inspired, I am very happy because I Know your Channel. Thanks totals

Great Vídeo!

He's right. You have to actually speak the language you're acquiring and studying, in real time... sort of like a toddler, who learns over time. As years go on, their fluency strengthens. It only gets better. That is the BEST part of learning a language. It just keeps getting better and better.

Hi Steve! I've recently started learning French from scratch. I'm using the poems of Baudelaire to get a sense of the language and the radio as well. I'm bulding my vocabulary enjoying the process. I don't care about grammar at this stage. I just want to learn vocabulary (an awful lot possibly, given the fact that I really love the language). I think that poetry constitutes a tremendously useful tool in order to expand one's vocabulary and train the lips for pronunciation. But of course, one has to enjoy/love it to get the most out of it. Nowadays one can even listen to poetry on youtube recited by native speakers. On the plus side, from this "small amount of input" (a piece of poetry), one can exert "much output" since the inception of his/her studies. Personally, once I learn the piece of poetry which strikes me more, I recite it and listen to it whenever I can (because I love it). However, I'm well aware that poetry may not be the best source of all to learn from. Many wouldn't recommend it but I feel that I learn more when I enjoy the process, especially because at present I'm already studying english.

@brunocruzadomunoz6732

4 жыл бұрын

Still studying French?

Hi Steve, as always, a helpful video! I have a very good sense of your advice for "pleasure learners" or polyglots. Have you ever written something or made a video about your "ideal" plan from zero to real fluency in a language if a person were just focusing on one language, for work for example. I often meet people here in Russia who want to move to the US. They will obviously need to become very fluent in English if they want to integrate and do well in the US. I recall that you learned Chinese more or less full time, for work purposes. Your job depended being able to communicate fluently and you had a limited number of months or years to reach the needed areas of fluency, I assume. How would you approach tackling a single language from basically zero to fluency in these kinds of situations? Thank you!

I think i will subscribe without running the work; Currently I am running Espanol videos on a loop ( Cumbia & Spanish instructions ) thinking soon I will put together short phrases to say something soaking subliminally

Hey Steve, it would be a lot of work but I think very helpful for many people however, I think you should do a day-in-life when you start a new language and record your progress each day/week so we see what you do and how fast you progress.

@scarcity6016

4 жыл бұрын

That would be a great idea but the thing is, making a video when you're learning a language for most people can be a distraction. It can actually harm his progress and make it hard for him actually get anything out of doing that.

@Eric-le3uu

4 жыл бұрын

He did something like this before, during his live streams when he was learning Arabic.

after 3 month everyday study of arabic ( i am 71 old) i can read simple text . i can distinguish between standard arabic and local dialect but if i read intermediate level text i need lot of words to translate . but the real test will be if i will be able to reach intermadiate level in reading MSA .

this great video start to 4:10

Hi Steve, I'm sure you have covered this in a previous video but I can't seem to find it anywhere. What do you recommend for a beginner in Japanese; Hiragana, and Katakana first then start with most common Kanji or move straight to Mini-stories and focus more on getting to know the language? I should add that my goal is fluency in all areas (Spoken and Written) Thanks as always.

Hi Steve. I love your videos. Do you have any or any tips for how to effectively make use of online speaking sessions with a teacher. E.g., do you prepare a topic; ask for correction during or after; etc.? Basically, how to make such sessions both pleasant and useful for both parties. Thanks!

@Thelinguist

4 жыл бұрын

I don't prepare for my online sessions with my tutors. The good tutors keep me talking. The good tutors provide me a list of phrases with my errors and difficulties as well as a recording usually around five minutes long. I work this as a lesson. To me it's more about getting the maximum benefit out of the hour rather than any specific preparation.

@prasanthighattamaneni3688

10 ай бұрын

​@@Thelinguist considering the average no. hours it takes to become fluent enough to continue on your own, how much would you consider the cost of each lesson to be?

can you help me find the video you mention here, about learning several languages at once...thanks!

I want to know about learning with people that is not native. I am brasilian. I have difficult understand an american and britsh. Because this? Thank you so much!

Kia ora Steve, I have seen on your channel you talking about Steve Krashen's approach to learning, but have you heard of Paul Nation's 4 strands theory to language learning? Going through the memory bank from my uni years, one of the four strands is fluency development, and he questioned what fluency actually means. What I recall he said was along the lines that, fluency is the ability to recall and use what you have learnt, and that it something you should strive for at every stage of language learning. So, based on that, I would say that 3 months learning roughly 20 new words a day would give you a base of around the first 2000 words of a language, and if you learn to become fluent in those words, they cover roughly 80% of running language. I would be interested to hear what you have to say about Paul Nation's approach.

@sklanguage589

4 жыл бұрын

That approach will not get you fluent.

@12jnixon

4 жыл бұрын

@@sklanguage589 It does, and the fact it came through a university, there are many studies looking at it.

@sklanguage589

4 жыл бұрын

@@12jnixon If anyone could memorize 2,000 words in 3 months without burning out and quitting they'd have poor pronunciation, and cadence. They'd speak slowly and haltingly while trying to translate everything. They wouldn't know how natives phrase things, so almost every sentence they'd say would have errors. They would have such poor listening comprehension that they would not be able to have a conversation with anyone unless their conversation partner purposely says the very easiest sentences, repeats everything, and talks so slowly it sounds like they're on horse tranquilizers.

@12jnixon

4 жыл бұрын

@@sklanguage589 Please do some research about the 4 strands theory, equal emphasis is to be given to all 4 of them. 20 new words a day in a total immersion scenario is not too difficult either, a lot harder if you are learning from home though. Also, a lot depends on how you learn a word, and what you mean by learn a word.

@Thelinguist

4 жыл бұрын

I don't agree with what you have explained here fluency means the ability to converse on a wide range of subjects comfortably even though you make the odd mistake. To be able to use a limited number of words is kind of meaningless. Besides which you don't really get much of a sense of the language until you have exposed yourself to a lot of it

Hey, Steve, thank you for your videos. I have a question for you, I hope you get to answer it :) Look, I'm a polyglot/language junkie myself and every time I listen to you or people like you (us) speak, I realize that "yeah, that's it, that's what I think, that's what I do". The only thing that I haven't understood yet is how you take the very first steps into an unknown language. Do you start straight away with "real", "intense" content without any dealings with textbooks and essential grammar? I certainly don't focus on grammar, but at the very beginning, I get a text book, take a look at the basic grammar, like the "verb to be" or whatever and walk step-by-step through simple sentences and grammar, without actually trying to master or reproduce it. After a while, I venture into more challenging territories. I was super curious, if you just dive into reading and listening difficult texts and try to deduce the language kind of backwards. I am willing to try it, but part of me tells me that it is a much harder journey, I mean, if you have to "deduce" the language from the very start. What are your thoughts on it? Could you, please, talk about your baby steps with a totally new language? Thanks in advance!

@inglesemsegundo

4 жыл бұрын

I am learning accent english with many vídeos and i have 7 books of grammar to after i do can see any grammar, i know who people learning english Just listen the voice in KZread But i dont have Friends to be training english then i use books And Skype or face...

I do not like measuring language learning by days and larger units of time (weeks, months, years). Unless you are fully immersed in the language they cannot be really compared to anything.

Then when do we achive the "the compression fluency"?

Hi, Steve, hi from Russia and my question is how it possible to study two languages at the same time. For instance, I speak English fluently and have a lot of practice in it, probably B2 or C1 level and concerning my second language which is Turkish I have A2 level, should I start studying the German language, new for me, now or firstly go deep with my Turkish until B2 lvl?

@Thelinguist

4 жыл бұрын

I will be talking about that on Thursday. It will also be a live stream so I welcome you to ask questions.

When I was learning Indonesian, I used to watch a talk show at the same time. Because the show airs almost every day and different guests are invited all the time, every program uses a wide variety of vocabulary. Because the language uses very little grammar, is easy to read and pronounce, and words are difficult to confuse, even from an early stage, I picked up Indonesian quite fast thanks to the program. Unless you've tried learning Indonesian yourself, you can't make a counterargument. Many people attest to how easy it is to learn, even in a short period of time like 3 months, so anybody who has trouble learning it is either very busy or somehow lacks resourcefulness.

I work full-time and studying for my master's degree. Do you have any tips for language learning with a limited amount of time in my day?

@High_Priest_Jonko

3 жыл бұрын

10 minutes each day

@Sharon-xr3pv

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@user-jd9sj1mq2b

2 жыл бұрын

@@High_Priest_Jonko 10min a day is not enough, not even close. An hour or two at the very least. Listen while doing chores and/or commute. You have more time than you think. You could easily put in 5hrs a day of listening if you want to.

The bottom line is the first three months are to build your potential in the language

I have a question: when you take this 90 days challenge, how many minutes/hours do you invest in it daily?

I love this. One question that puzzled me. How do I identify the meaning of the words I hear and see if I don't study some grammar first?

@tschewm1353

4 жыл бұрын

By a lot of exposition to the lnguage. Remember your own mother tongue. When you started understanding your native language and at what age you started studying the grammar. I understand Turkish pretty well thanks to reading and listening only. I never studied grammar. That is the result of my experiment: trying to learn a totally unknown and lexicaly distant language without studying grammar.

@linjubar

4 жыл бұрын

Everyone has a different way of learning. I need to study grammar up front, so I can make sense of what I’m learning. Just reading and listening with no English translation is too frustrating for me.

@tschewm1353

4 жыл бұрын

@@linjubar , I don't mean "without translation". Of course, I am using Google-translator. And try to understand. Concerning the grammar, let's take three short sentences The man reading a book is my brother. I like reading books. I am reading a book now. The word "reading" is in three different grammar forms. adjective, a part of present continious tense, gerund. Do I nessesary need to know all this grammar stuff? I simply uderstand these sentenses from exposing to the language. From Turkish: Sizden duymanızı ama duyulmamanızı rica ediyorum. Google translates (I divide the sentence) Sizden duymanızı rica ediyorum - I ask you to hear. ama duyulmamanızı rica ediyorum. - but I ask you not to be heard. For me that's enough to understand without knowing the Turkish grammar.

@dboardjr8873

4 жыл бұрын

@@tschewm1353 I will try this with French. Let's see how it goes.

@dboardjr8873

4 жыл бұрын

@@linjubar This is usually my approach to learning. And it works well with consistency.

👍

Do you know anything about how to unlearn?

Is 3 months = 200 clock hours ?

:)

There are a lot more Spanish speakers than Italian. I should have started learning Spanish first

Hey Steve, it's me again, What's your username on LingQ? I want to watch you progress.

@Thelinguist

4 жыл бұрын

steve

Any partner here Arabic to rnglish

How many videos have you already done about the same topic?

@tschewm1353

4 жыл бұрын

the more the better. I watch them all many times. It helps me understand spoken English.

@Thelinguist

4 жыл бұрын

Many. I enjoy doing them. I talk about things that come to my mind when I think of language learning. People who find these useful for whatever reason, continue watching them. People who no longer find them interesting usually stop watching.

@adriansanvelaz

4 жыл бұрын

@@Thelinguist "I talk about things that come to my mind..." Yep, that's true. I just decided to ask you that since I have found at least four to five videos with the same title related to achieving fluency or not in three months. It seems that it is a recurring topic you use from time to time. Probably, the origin of that could be related to those fraudulent language books on which the author use a catchy slogan title to make readers believe that they are going to achieve an intermediate level of proficiency in a language in short period of time.

@tomilan6001

4 жыл бұрын

you have to do more the fluency can be tackled from tens of angles

I Gave up on learning chinese.

@SaqibManir786

4 жыл бұрын

You can do it, I gave up Chinese twice but I persisted and now I'm HSK5

Hebrew is almost like an Arabic dialect

@tomilan6001

4 жыл бұрын

hebrew is grammatically similar to MSA arabic but the words are entirely different so if you study arabic from hebrew it helps but you have to study the whole vocabulary from zero the dialects are different each from other and from MSA and from hebrew

@tomilan6001

4 жыл бұрын

with the very similarity it takes at least two years to learn arabic from hebrew for a regular person not polygot and even more lot of arabic natives does not know MSA arabic and have reading difficulties

你是加拿大人吗?

Instead of dabbling, why not go all in on one language?

@Thelinguist

4 жыл бұрын

Because I prefer to study and discover new languages at this point.

@UAANC

4 жыл бұрын

@@mustafaerdem1862 english or spanish

LingQ is so good but these videos are always so painfully rambling

It's interesting that you once again speak of not really being fluent in Portuguese, my target language, because I often watch your old videos from many years ago and you claimed to have had problems with Portuguese back then. The fact is, based on your video trail, you NEVER really learned Portuguese to a fluent level. Now you blame mixing it with Spanish and Italian as the problem. Perhaps if you were not jumping from language to language you wouldn't be confused. For example, I only speak English and Portuguese. There is no chance of me mixing in Spanish or Italian because I don't speak those languages. Clearly trying to acquire too many language's, especially related languages, can cause a lot of confusion. Perhaps your Portuguese would be better if you never learned Italian or Spanish. It's great that you are having fun lately jumping from language to language and not becoming fluent in any of them, but for many of us learning our target language is not a game. We need it and sticking to it for a short time then switching because we got bored or we got our butt kicked (e.g. you trying to learn Arabic) is not an option.

It's not Israel, it has her own name palestin

@kamalali7911

4 жыл бұрын

@@markchavez738 never will stop

@moazmuhammad5092

4 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree more💙

3:05 - Actually, yes 1+1 does always 2. 🤦‍♂️