As someone who is learning Chinese at the moment, I agree that vocabulary input is THE MOST important thing that you need to start first. Then, listening, then talking.

@sabrina3138

4 жыл бұрын

That order is so accurate. Without the vocabulary input, there is little to no clue to what is being said, unlike in a language like Spanish that has some similar English words and some connection to English to get the meaning. Especially in daily conversation that moves so fast

@wanderingdoc5075

4 жыл бұрын

@@sabrina3138 What's meant by "vocabulary input"?

@johnchou7488

4 жыл бұрын

I’m a native Chinese speaker. It’s always beyond me how foreigners learn Chinese. Chinese doesn’t have grammar or an alphabet......

@milanhrvat

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnchou7488 you don't know what you are talking about. Clueless. Chinese has grammar. If it didn't, it would be gibberish of unstructured nonsense.

@josepcorretja

4 жыл бұрын

I am also learning Chinese and my dream is to oarticipate in a on line polyglots community.

Wow! A dream collab!

@LindieBotes

4 жыл бұрын

Stay tuned for my video coming up on his channel sometime soon - we talk about different things there :D

I love this. What a great attitude to have - he cannot speak Korean well but still tried to converse. That is what a real language learner does - you don't always have to be perfect. You just have to always try! Really respect that!

@ADeeSHUPA

4 жыл бұрын

Kid uP

As some who only speaks English and is learning Spanish it is so overwhelming with everyone in the community speaking 4+ languages. This topic being discussed in this Video makes me so much more happy at least trying to learn a second.

@BallisticaMetal

4 жыл бұрын

Do not fall for that shit anyways... Jack of all trades, master of none. Focus on you and don't give a damn if someone else speaks 1000 languages.

@melannyratliff9429

3 жыл бұрын

i can help you, I'm a native spanish speaker. :) you can talk with me

@jup3896

2 жыл бұрын

recomiendo(cundo entiendas español hablado)nadamas lanzarte a youtube

@drioko

2 жыл бұрын

@@BallisticaMetal no one in the world is a master, so I'd rather be a jack than pretending to be a master.

@greganthony4426

2 жыл бұрын

Everyone who can speak 4+ languages started by learning a second and progressing from there. I'm learning Spanish myself and I hope you have luck with it after these 2 years.

I personally don't think the words "polyglot" and "linguist" are interchangeable. A person can speak multiple languages without having an understanding of the science of linguistics. At the same time, one can study languages scientifically and be a linguist, while being in contact with only a limited number of languages, perhaps even just one. While it is true that many linguists are polyglots, the opposite is often not true. And that is totally fine! There is no competition :) Great content as always Lindie. I'd love to hear your opinion on this (or anyone's, for that matter:)

@Music_RTV

4 жыл бұрын

He was not talking about linguistics. He said that one of the dictionary difinitions of the word linguist was someone good at languages. Polyglot is a relatively new word in english and many people don't know it; many don't know about linguistic studies either. So, in his opinion, there is no problem to keep using the original term in english, which is linguist; or even another term like language lover, cause he doesn't like the term polyglot. Of course, maybe it can cause confusion if someone know about linguistics, cause there will be two meanings for the same word.

@rbylnz

4 жыл бұрын

@@Music_RTV Okay yeah, now I get his point. Thank you!

@ADeeSHUPA

4 жыл бұрын

gnightwalrus uP

@MyDataScienceTutor

4 жыл бұрын

I just left a similar comment before I saw yours. I totally agree! I’m a native English speaker and know nothing about the science of English linguistics. Mr Kaufman did imply they are interchangeable terms, but they are not at all. A polyglot is not necessarily a linguist and vice versa.

@muhilan8540

4 жыл бұрын

@@MyDataScienceTutor He implied that they were interchangeable but not in the way that you think. Word can have different meanings. According to the OED: 1A person skilled in foreign languages. 2A person who studies linguistics. So 1A is indeed interchangeable with polyglot but 2A is not. This is why he also said that most people don't know what linguistics is, because in that case they wouldn't get confused.

Subtitles are now up for the Korean, Japanese and Mandarin part starting at 10:58!

@soleilyoshi8998

4 жыл бұрын

私は日本人です。I point out your Japanese. First of all, I don't wanna criticize it. I think you already speak Japanese fruently. なぜ、スティーブさんに韓国語が→ なぜ、スティーブさんにとって韓国語が難しいんですか？ 逆に、私は中国語は同じだと思います。→逆に、私は中国語で同じようになります。(になってしまいます。is better.) 今までもめっちゃ難しいと思います。→今まで勉強してめっちゃ難しいと思いました。or 今でも難しいと思います。 話が出ない → 言葉が出ない

@anilbabudaggu

4 жыл бұрын

I been following you and him you guys are excellent.

It’s not a competition 👍

@user-hc4xg3fm5m

4 жыл бұрын

こんにちは👏😁اللغة اليابانية JP

@jp_channel1

4 жыл бұрын

ここ こんにちは　🙂 お元気ですか？

@user-hc4xg3fm5m

4 жыл бұрын

اللغة اليابانية JP 元気です！ 今日は特に何もする事が無かったので家でのんびりしてました。 あなたは今、何をしていますか？

@jp_channel1

4 жыл бұрын

ここ 動画を作っています。

@user-hc4xg3fm5m

4 жыл бұрын

アラビア語は分からないですが、チャンネル登録させて頂きました！ 日本語の勉強がんばって下さい！私も英語の勉強がんばります！ اللغة اليابانية JP

6:05 That's is so true! English is my third language and I learned the "British version". If I spend hours watching, let's say, Doctor Who my British accent gets really strong, but if I spend days without speaking and watch an Indian person speaking English my accent sounds more like the Indian person. Or if I speak based on my mother tongue's pronunciation of words I sound Irish

@skaterbakes

3 жыл бұрын

I too have gotten my somewhat British accent from watching Doctor Who! Glad that im not the only one

@borahebangtan

2 жыл бұрын

i get super british after doctor who as well!! how lovely that i'm not alone in this weird phenomenon loll

Steve's Japanese sounds great..

I have a Korean friend who speaks English with a Filipino accent cause she learned English in the Philippines.

15:51 (conversation in japanese) (in chinese) but you lived in Hong Kong, right? (In japanese) Shall I answer in japanese or mandarin? (In japanese) Chinese please! 😂😂😂

@twistiicuber1055

3 жыл бұрын

I hope this doesn’t come off as nit picky, but I think 15:49 is a more accurate time stamp ☺️

“Everything is 어려워” I felt that 😅. Thank you sharing! Steve’s Chinese is phenomenal, one of the best I’ve seen - he’s very comfortable and sounds like he lived in China, very inspiring! ❤️

When Steve said "everything is 어려워요!" I felt that in my soul! I tried learning Korean for years, and it only truly improved after visiting and living here, figuring out how to actually learn a language, and sticking to it. I knew that I would be able to speak one day, that "day" just took a really long time compared to other people. Thank you both for your insights! Best collab ever

@ADeeSHUPA

4 жыл бұрын

Natalie Wood 어려워요

It was such a pleasant conversation, It was like I two friends were talking about something I really enjoy listening to. Steve is THE guy (if that makes sense in English, haha)

I've heard you speak Japanese before, but i don't think i ever fully appreciated how natural it sounds. You're pitch and everything, it has "personality" if that makes sense. Great video

That is one of the most interesting videos by my two favorite linguists! I'm pretty much like Steve when it comes to language learning: I have to read a lot, listen a lot, accumulate much vocabulary at the beginning. I remember that I learned Russian in a very traditional way, when it was rather difficult to meet Russian speakers. But when I met Russian people years later, all my theoretical passive knowledge suddenly got organised in my brain and I found out I could speak. And also, I struggle the same way with Korean...i thought it would be "easy" after Japanese but it's not! I'm much more luckier with Chinese so I've decided to focus on Chinese now and I only learn vocabulary in Korean, I'll have a look at the grammar, etc. when my Chinese reaches an intermediate level. Thank you very much for sharing your thoughts, both of you are really motivating and inspiring!

@AmazingStoryDewd

4 жыл бұрын

I never did a whole lot of reading when I learned Spanish and French. I did more listening and speaking than anything else. Reading didn't exactly help me to speak better.

@LockMacFly

4 жыл бұрын

Linguists are language scientists not polyglots. They are multilingual not linguists.

@erturtemirbaev5207

4 жыл бұрын

Давай на русском

@christinebilore3307

4 жыл бұрын

@@erturtemirbaev5207 конечно это лучше на русском но мне так трудно с русской клавиатурой :-D

@erturtemirbaev5207

4 жыл бұрын

@@christinebilore3307 а Вы откуда? Из какой страны!

The one thing I learned from Steve is that to learn new language requires a lot of reading and listening, not just basic 300-400 words. Wow!!! his Japanese and Chinese are very great compared to Korean. Thank you for having a wonderful conversation with the master Lindie!

読み書きは出来るけどピンインで苦労してる日本語話者が通りますよ。Mr. Kaufmann, what you have said really encouraging. Thank you.

As a cantonese speaker just to add on the subs when steve speaks in cantonese he is just saying he can also speak in cantonese! I mean it is just so cool to see this chat between two polyglots (or should I say linguists?)

Lindie and Steve appear togeher in one video, it's wonderful. You can't immagine how happy i am to day, when see 2 you guys taking about language.

Thanks for the manual transcript!

My two favourite linguists talking together!

@LockMacFly

4 жыл бұрын

They are not linguists

@manuelaguilarr9169

4 жыл бұрын

Mmlemonade what do you mean?

@wangzai3746

4 жыл бұрын

They don’t pay attention to the science behind languages, they just learn them. Lindie has said before that her job has nothing to do with languages. Not all linguists are polyglots, and the majority of polyglots are not linguists. That’s ok though

omg how funny about the Korean accent in Japanese and vice versa... My fluency in either language has never been as up to par as yours, but when I was formally trained to be a Navy Korean linguist, my Korean was very Japanese from being stationed in Japan for many years (I was never formally trained in Japanese). So, for the longest, I was really focused on my Korean up until just a week ago until I started teaching my brother in law the basic of Japanese, and it's just so funny because I'd point out where his accent sounds "American," but when I try to say a sample sentence, he'd point out that there's something off with the Japanese accent too... almost as if it's... whiny 🤣😂🤣😂 But anyways... great interview... Your language learning tips are amazing.. even point your channel to my bro in law and some other Korean/Japanese learning friends/students

Its sad to hear Steve先生 gave up learning Turkish 🙁. As an fluent Chinese speaker and Japanese learner it was very inspirational video. Hope to speak Japanese like you. Thank you 私の先生方ありがとございました🙏🏻

@jianghuwang

4 жыл бұрын

Çinceyi öğrenme süreciniz nasıldı? merak ettim.

@asz6134

4 жыл бұрын

Mehmet A. Çin de öğrendim.

I am working on becoming a linguistic Anthropology and love how you guys brought in a lot of topics that we discuss, such as culture, dialect, and even the definition of words and labels. I love all of your content and it has inspired me to think in a different way in the language. Keep up the great work!

Hola Lindie, estudio inglés soy de México. Hablo español y me gusta mucho tu canal. Saludos

I enjoyed this talk a lot. Thanks to you I can consider myself a polyglot now with the “only” three languages that I speak: Spanish (native), English and German. I’ve started and left unfinished courses in Czech, Italian, Russian and Polish. I do have a certain capability to learn languages but have become comfortable with the three that I actually use. Nowadays I feel hugely motivated to learn more and I’ve been really constant with Swedish for the last four months. Channels like yours and Steve’s help booster my confidence a lot. Muchas gracias, Lindie :-)

도중에 갑자기 한국어 튀어나와서 깜놀 ㅋㅋ 와 꿈의 콜라보 실현이네요 제가 젤 좋아하는 polyglot 두분..린디님과 스티브님ㄷㄷ 스티브님 채널은 언어공부세계의 엄선된 가장 뛰어난 지혜를 엿보는 느낌이고, 린디님 채널은 항상 제 언어공부를 위한 의욕을 불태워주고 정말 린디님처럼 되고싶다는 생각이 들게하는 채널입니다!!

@LindieBotes

4 жыл бұрын

ㅋㅋㅋ감사합니다! 저도 일본에서 스티브씨 처음 봤을 때 너무 꿈같았어요 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ 봐주셔서 감사합니당! 공부 화이팅하세여~!

Such a cool interview!! Thank you!!

One should be envious of Steve's energy and positive mood!!!

Great interview :D

This was so insightful.

This was such an inspiring conversation.

So awesome, thank you both for doing this!!

Such an interesting and inspirational talk💕

Fantastic!!!

I've been following Steve ever since! This is great

I love these two guys

Nice interview

Was thinking about the polyglot conference and you two like 2 hours ago 😱 great video between 👍

This is when you give a video thumbs up before you start watching :)

I always watch steve kaufmaan's videos.you guys are awesome

Such a great conversation. Thank you Lindie and Steve. You are amazing. 😊

I think it would be so interesting to go to one of those polyglot conferences if there was ever one near me, but I'm only intermediate in Spanish & Korean and only speak English fluently so I don't fit who goes to those things. But the talks seem so interesting and useful and I feel like I could get so much out of it, and get to meet KZread polyglots like you guys!

お二人の日本語の会話が聞けてとても感激しました。

This is such a beautiful and insightful video! ☺️ ❤️

That's a great collaboration! :-)

This video made me so happy 😁 Two of my idols!!

You are SUCH an inspiration! Your optimistic attitude really inspires me to keep going! Thank you so much!!!!❤️

いつもながらスティーブさんの日本語は完璧！内容も深いです。

Wow what a great video, thx for giving me something I never even realised I wanted.

Such positivity ❤

It's awesome to hear you both in action, speaking in languages other than english!

It was be great with subtitle

Compliments and congrats Steve on your Japanese and Korean speaking very good stuff, keep up your good work.

wouah !! You could interview Steve kaufmann !!! I'm impressed ! How lucky you are :)

I adore both of you thank you. From Japan.

Awesome hearing you guys communicating in different languages, it has motivated me to learn Japanese again ,🤗

It's been 2 years I've been watching your videos and it has helped me so much to improve in learning the languages. I want to thank you :) You are a great person

Oooo Lindie, this was so NICE! Loved all the insights and connections you guys made me have. =D Please, bring more contents like this to the channel.

The crossover all languages learners love! both of you are so inspirational, thanks for the tips and the video. !!!

This is so awesome! I really enjoyed this video. It gives me hope that someday I'll be able to speak Japanese with such fluidity. Thank you :D

OH MY GOD THIS IS THE BEST CROSSOVER! 😍

Learning languages is fun and fascinating seeing it all come together what u learn.. what the bad part is not being able to be consistent. And getting behind. ❤️

Really love this interview!!! Especially the part where He talks about listening and reading.... In my head, I'm like I need to speak the language in order to know that I'm using the language. Which is not necessarily the case. That listening and reading also plays a major role in using language. I appreciate you doing this interview. Thank you.

This guy is a master. Very nice. It is so good se two polyglots talking.

This was really helpful in rekindling my flame!!! I have been studying Korean since January 2017(3 years as of posting this) and I remember how I wanted to learn Japanese at the same time and watched your videos! I JUST started Russian less than a month ago. Maybe after 2 years (to get to mid to upper intermediate as a native english speaker in Russian with a DECENT accent) I will start Japanese since I expect my Korean to be Lower Advanced by that point (at least...hopefully lol). Thanks for the help.

amazing

Wow! These two people in the same video just blew my mind. I would be the happiest person on earth if you make a video with Luca Lampariello.

I'm sooooo happy to see this video...♡ 한국에서 일본어를 전공한 linguistics(?) Language lover 에겐 그저 흥미로운 영상 ㅠㅠ

Steve is the best.

정말 좋은 말씀 감사합니다. 저도 몇개 다른 언어를 더 배우고 싶은 사람인데 오늘 좋은 조언을 들은 것 같습니다. 그리고 두 분이 한국말로 대화하시는 모습은 굉장히 인상적이었습니다^^

나른한 주말을 보내면서 아무 공부를 하지 않았는데 이 동영상을 보다가 영감을 많이 받았습니다^^ 이제 또 열공! 🔥

@austinheadrick

4 жыл бұрын

@팔락파니르 ㅎㅎ 아닙니다. 한국에서 살고 있는 미국 사람입니다

Thank you so much for doing this interview, it was very amazing to listen to in its entirety. I am currently learning Japanese and Korean simultaneously and it gave me a lot of motivation and insights.

@Islamic_gems

4 жыл бұрын

Same too me

Saphir Wolfe said that it's the language that shapes the way we think. Maybe that's what we love about learning new languages, the ability to think in a different way and see the world from another point of view... Ps: it still amazes me that the French don't have a word for cheap

you both are so inspiring~ i like his attitude of not bragging about his own talent but instead supporting people who even speak 2 languages, he is awesome!

Yes i need to have a comfortable knowledge before i talk to a tutor or have a conversation.

@ginismoja2459

4 жыл бұрын

Same.

6:15 even our native languages can be influenced! I started saying a Tyrolian h/ch sound at the end of Bulgarian words that end with a "regular" h/ch haha and I know an American girl who lives in Tyrol and her German is fluent but not that great yet, and yet her accent is all over the place - influenced by German, by her boyfriend's British English and of course by her American origins, and it flunctuates between these influences. It's fascinating!

I have to agree with Steve about making sure the content you read is interesting to you. I usually try to overlap my language studies with whichever historical time period I'm studying at the time. History is one of my greatest interests, so my main focus is to learn more about that era in general. Still, I aim to do so using reading materials in one (or a few) of my target languages on the topic. If content in my target language is lacking on that subject, I might additionally try to write my own text or translation for extra practice.

Impressive!

I really enjoyed watching this video. So many gems where shared with the viewers. Thank you so much. I'm learning Korean and when it comes to reading I get so overwhelmed when I see a whole paragraph... I find it even a little daunting to read a long sentence... Any tips on how to get over this unexplained fear of mine?

@graemep7729

4 жыл бұрын

It’s no big deal! Make it normal to you- Adopt a better mindset. Millions of Koreans read and encounter text all the time! Just practice reading more or search for news/articles in your interest. Look at stuff all the time and you’ll come to realize it is no big deal- Beat that mental game and know you can only improve! Put the time in and it’ll improve and your nerves will go down.

I have to completely agree with the motivational boost of trying to speak when you have a vocab of 200 words. For me, as I started going to Korean class 1,5 years ago, it took me 1 year to buck up the courage to speak in class. And 1 year to realise that only textbook learning and a bit of listening is not doing the trick and started watching K-drama, and since then I know how I should sound (even though I don't) and since I started listening (while cooking, driving, cleaning) to one of the podcasts you suggested, in just 2 weeks I can suddenly understand 20% more of what our teacher is saying in Korean. So the confidence, and social anxiety is a big part. I could speak German almost fluently, but as I was always so shy I only spoke it in the classroom at high school, once with German friends I barely got the courage to speak after 5 days of hanging out together.

His Chinese literality has no accent(and the Cantonese), if I only listen to the sound, I would think that there is a Chinese man speaking. so amazing!

@user-uz5td2re2c

4 жыл бұрын

cui yi 天 咱们名字发音一样诶

wow this video was so short to me!! Your Korean and Japanese accent is stunning

I am so glad that I can understand all you guys are saying except Korean.

Pleaso. Make a video "how you plan your tame" and. "Best books for studying french" and " best apps for studying Japanese" Because I need it i am 13 years pld i know Arabic ,French, English and Japanese and i want to learn korean and i love how you can speek all these languages 💕 i love you soo much ♥️🍀

oh, my two faves.

you need the right mindset but there is credit to be given to good teachers, there are language teachers that can really help and very intuitive and well prepared, at least this is my experience

Lindie I wanted to tell you and your fans about a polyglot princess in the making with the same name as me (but not me), her channel is called called Esther and her little world. I think she deserves encouragement.

I think that most of the people who really worth it to keep in touch with speaks good English. English is the lingua franca today. I love German, for instance, but is not that popular.

@PassionPno

3 жыл бұрын

Not in Asia. People are busy studying Mandarin here.

Lindie, it's always great to watch this collabs!! | One question for any of you two: Any tips/recommendations for getting my parents (Or any middle age adult) to stop thinking they are way too old to learn a new language and make them truly think it's completely possible ... And helping them stay motivated in the journey??

@1mobetter99

4 жыл бұрын

Send them to Steve's youtube channel and website. (FYI, I'm in my mid-50s and study languages for fun...Korean, Mandarin, Japanese, Cree, Nakoda, etc,)

For learning languages it is about the context and how similar other languages are to start off with. After you have the base then you can add grammar which then makes more sense. At some point you do need to know the tenses but in my opinion that would be late beginner when you can already say something in the present tense. I may strive to learn another Germanic language at some point but French is more practical being Canadian. I am open to learning others but will stick with European languages to begin with.

My approach at the moment is to have a primary language I learn whilst having a background one alongside it, doing that for a year and seeing where I get

Next chat between Lindie and Steve: in Spanish and French :) ?

私は英語が大好きなので、チャンネル登録しました！！❤️ リンディさんも電話相手の方も日本語が上手！！！ネイティブ並み✨✨

@ADeeSHUPA

4 жыл бұрын

大阪花子 Are You A 日本の方

I'm a new subscriber and I was wondering could you do videos for different levels for Korean

As a Chinese native speaker learning Japanese right now, I have to say that these two languages are actually really different! Thanks for this interview!

@AfroLinguo

4 жыл бұрын

Really? But everybody is like, they are very similar. 😅😅 I am learning Mandarin now, I was thinking of learning maybe Japanese when I am done but looks like I was wrong. 😂😂😂😂

@user-hc4xg3fm5m

4 жыл бұрын

葉柏廷 Chinese's pronounceation is so difficult😭

@user-yo6nm6zi2g

4 жыл бұрын

@Tony Woks Well, your knowledge of Chinese Characters may help you with getting across Japanese Kanji, and we share some similar culture backgrounds so don't be depressed!

@user-yo6nm6zi2g

4 жыл бұрын

@ここ You're right! Work hard and keep listening to our pronunciation will help!

@AfroLinguo

4 жыл бұрын

@@user-yo6nm6zi2g thank you

Bonjour! Excellent podcast ... comme d'habitude! Est-ce que vous mettriez le Vietnamien dans le même bloc que les trois autres?

Hi Lindie! You and Steve are simply amazing! 私は日本語を3年間ぐらい勉強しています。 Lindieさんの日本語の発音が凄いですよ 最近、私が中国語も勉強し始めましたが、中国語はめっちゃ難しいですよね Lindieさん頑張ってください！

@user-vf7cn3oy8g

Жыл бұрын

Steve sanの日本語は素晴らしい。私は中国語と韓国語を勉強している日本人です。韓国語は易しいが､中国語はすごく難しいです。한국말은 쉽지만 중국말은 굉장히 어려워요.

Steve’s face expressions and the way he speaks is so similar to my history teacher, it’s so funny.