I never learned English in my entire life, when I was a kid I used to watch movies and TV shows with subtitles, and played a lot of video games in English, such as GTA SA, God of War, God Hand. and used to listen to a lot of music in English, used to go and search for lyrics and try to sing even though I didn't understand anything they said, but still I did it anyway, but the impressive part about this (at least for me) is learning English was never something I wanted to do, it just came naturally, and as time goes by (doing these things) I was able to understand and speak English, which comes to the point of making this comment. if you wanna learn a language (any language) make it a fun and an entertaining experience, because when you combine fun and learning it becomes more affective. Edit 2024/01/24: Wow. I cannot believe it has been two years since I've wrote this comment. It's almost surreal how time quickly flies by. And my original comment contains quite few grammatical errors, lol. The idea is still pretty much the same. Comprehensible input is the only way to acquire a language and become efficient at it. While I understand the need for grammar and "formal" learning, it's important to acknowledge and admit it won't do you any good except clarifying some concepts and rules in the language. The real battle, so to speak, is within the content the language has to offer. Books, movies, games, podcasts, music... etc. That is where the real language happen, not in textbooks.

@Podzhagitel

Жыл бұрын

god hand? LMAO what a way to learn

@zara8537

Жыл бұрын

❤

@AsGaRd01-

10 ай бұрын

I like your comment. My level beginer, but i try learning english. I try surround myself with an English-speaking environment

@landon974

10 ай бұрын

@@AsGaRd01-awesome! just don’t give up, may I ask what your native language is?

@nenavist9933

9 ай бұрын

Learned English the exact same way. One day it was just there lol, like bang! you know English now. This is brilliant advice. I’ve also found speaking in your target language inside your head helps a whole lot, even if it’s just a little bit at a time, a sentence here and there. It works!

I never made so much progress in English than those last 4 years, listening to content on KZread in English with no subtitles. I struggled a lot at first but as I only watched content I liked, it was interesting and I acquired the language. Now I can even understand words or expressions I never heard before.

@cowboy1471

7 ай бұрын

Me quedo con tu comentario bro, bless you

@ancientmage666

7 ай бұрын

Keep it up😊😊😊

@josecontreras7153

3 ай бұрын

How did you learn to write in English?

@s3m4ril

3 ай бұрын

Nice one dude. But that works only if you already have a lot of vocabulary and you on B2 or C1 level. That thing works when you are polishing your language, not learning it.

@NewLife2028

3 ай бұрын

You are overly proud and you just don't know what you don't know. You watched a video game and now, you're ready for you B2 exam. Awesome.

😱That is awesome, and I agree absolutely cause I 'm acquiring english, I didn't study grammar, nor rules and I can understand your words about 85% and the message in context 100%. And could to write this sentence without translation, it isn't perfect but if you can understand me, I'm happy 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻Our brains are incredible. Hugs 🤗 from Brazil 🇧🇷

@coord.deeducacaoindigena-c1069

3 ай бұрын

Awesome 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

@TheStickofWar

3 ай бұрын

Well done - an impressed Englishman

@Xilaneda

3 ай бұрын

Yes, we can understand you! 🎉

@0terrors1

3 ай бұрын

It should be "and could write" not "and could to write", but good job 👍

@erinelle4310

2 ай бұрын

Nicely done

Great video. I realised watching this that you don't understand a new sport by learning the rules, you learn it by acquiring it, by watching the sport and learning the rules in context with the input.

"Every second you spend in a dictionary is one second less of comprehensible input." Not if you're using a monolingual dictionary, which itself will be a source of comprehensible input.

To acquire a second or third language requires motivation. This works for learning a language too. But, as this video believes, it is better to want to acquire a language because the understandable messages should not be boring. I acquired Spanish because at age 14 I was taken to a corrida by my dad and I wanted to understand it more. I ended up buying books about toros. Now I have the nerve to speak the language in Spain. Secondly, I taught history and I had an interest in pre- and post-WWII Germany. So, as a student I visited the Deutsche Demokratische Republik where I picked up my very first words from a border policeman. "Ihren Reisepass, bitte. Wo ist Ihr Visum?" Eventually I was making sentences which I had never heard! I do not know where I got the nerve to raise my voice to a Berlin policeman who did not want to bother with me. "Ich möchte Hilfe!" Where did that come from? Is it even correct? Straight away a different policeman got up from his desk and brought me to the right place. Imagine. I gave an order to a policeman in Berlin using German. I was acquiring the language!

I've been looking for a good video that I can send to people about the input hypothesis and this is one of the best and most succinct I've found! Thanks for this!

Thanks. This removes a lot of burden on learning. Great to have this articulated.

Dude, what an amazing video! One of the best breakdowns of comprehensible input I have seen. Breaks down exactly what Comprehensible Input is in an easy to understand way, clears up a lot of the misconceptions people seem to have about it, and it's delivered in a way that's clear, to the point, and interesting enough to hold attention.

So basically this is how everyone learned their first language, its gotta be the best way

It's literally the only way babies learn their mother tongue. No native speaker even thinks about grammar consciously.

@Phylaetra

Ай бұрын

You are wrong. I am a native speaker of English, and I often think about English grammar when writing. Especially when writing something formal. Babies are terrible speakers. People don't really know their L1 until they have been experiencing it for around a decade - and even then, would you argue that a 10 year old is as fluent as even a teenager? Add in school - and a native speaker probably has 10 to 15 years of formal language education in their native language.

@user-iu6hu8oq5p

Ай бұрын

​@@PhylaetraWriting is different from speaking. It's pretty obvious that when talking about babies I'm not talking about written language. And by babies I mean people who start learning as babies and who eventually get older... No person ever speaks a language on the same level as the others. No one is perfectly fluent and knows all the words in every single area of expertise etc. Learning never ends. You're confusing writing with speaking and knowing the language. Firstly, every native speaker makes mistakes. Secondly, even the ones who speak well might not be able to tell you about the grammar rules. And they shouldn't, cause it's useless mostly. It's this "when you have a hammer then everything looks like a nail" situation. Just because we've got linguists in university and there's an education system - it doesn't mean that this kind of education is the best. I don't know a single person who became fluent through formal education. It helps from certain age onwards but it's not the main reason. It helps with writing as well obviously but again - writing is not fluency. It's just some extra tech on top of the language. I can now dictate to AI and let it correct everything from tone to grammar mistakes. Writing is not a goal in itself.

@Phylaetra

Ай бұрын

@@user-iu6hu8oq5p you keep making a lot of absolute statements that aren't necessarily true. Also, you clearly didn't bother to pay much attention to what I said. Your original comment made two claims: (1) it's literally the only way babies learn their mother tongue. To that, I pointed out that babies (and even children) are not particularly fluent speakers of their L1. Nothing to do with writing. It takes a decade of constant exposure to be as fluent as a ten year old. Would you say that most ten year olds are advanced language users in their L1? (2) you claimed that no native speaker even thinks about grammar consciously. And I pointed out how incorrect you are, as many people- especially writing formally, but not only then - think about grammar a great deal. Your response goes off on some weird tangent that neither addresses my comment nor supports your original assertion. I'll respond to it more directly a little later.

@Phylaetra

Ай бұрын

@@user-iu6hu8oq5pNow to your reply: "Writing is different from speaking." Yes, however both are part of fluency - languages have four skills: reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Those four skills are somewhat, but not completely, independent of one another. If you are after fluency, you really need to learn all four components (and really, a fifth - though less connected directly to language - is cultural comprehension). "It's pretty obvious that when talking about babies I'm not talking about written language." And I never implied you were - this is how I know you didn't really pay attention to my response. "And by babies I mean people who start learning as babies and who eventually get older..." So - not babies then? Perhaps English isn't your first language, because you are not putting your thoughts down very clearly. "No person ever speaks a language on the same level as the others." As the other people? As with other languages they know? And "no person"? There are a lot of people who are raised bilingual, or even trilingual and are well educated in all of their languages to the point the difference in level is indistinguishable. People can (and do) learn second languages to a level that makes them as fluent as a well-educated native speaker, and arguably as fluent as they are in their L1. This is not even particularly rare. "No one is perfectly fluent and knows all the words in every single area of expertise etc. Learning never ends." Agreed - and I never said anything like that. Again - it really seems like you did not really read my comment. "You're confusing writing with speaking and knowing the language." No - I am not. Writing is one of the four major skills of fluency in a language. I am not sure why you would _want_ to be illiterate, but generally a lack of reading and writing ability is not an indicator of language mastery in any culture. "Firstly, every native speaker makes mistakes. Secondly, even the ones who speak well might not be able to tell you about the grammar rules." Again - agreed - kind of. However, most people who are considered 'good' in a language also know the grammar. Even if they do not know the technical language to describe it. One way to improve fluency and to make learning a second language easier it to be told the rules rather than try to figure them out on your own. And the native speakers who are _good_ speakers generally have learned at least some formal grammar. "And they shouldn't, cause it's useless mostly." Says the person who has trouble understanding a short comment. And who has made an obvious grammar mistake in that very sentence - "it's useless" is referring to "the grammar rules", so which one rule is useless? Or do you mean _they_ are all useless? Your statement would have had a lot more impact if you hadn't have gotten it wrong. I have to run - but I'll respond to your last paragraph this evening.

@Phylaetra

Ай бұрын

@@user-iu6hu8oq5p "It's this "when you have a hammer then everything looks like a nail" situation." That isn't really the correct idiom for what I have been saying - since I don't say that one should _only_ study grammar; that one should _only_ gain knowledge through formal education; that there is only a single way to learn; again - I think you are not really paying attention to what I said. "Just because we've got linguists in university..." Yes - people who dedicate their lives to studying how languages work, how people use them, and how people acquire them... "...and there's an education system - it doesn't mean that this kind of education is the best." What is 'this kind of education'? And who is saying it is 'the best'? I have only pointed out that comprehensible input is not really enough on its own. It is certainly a _component_ of language learning - as is grammar, reading and writing (if the language has a writing system), speech drills, and other things. There are a lot of tools one can use to learn a language - you seem opposed to most of them. "I don't know a single person who became fluent through formal education." Hav you considered that you don't really know that many people fluent in a second language? Or perhaps you are biased? Or maybe you are discounting the formal education they have had for some reason like your next statement implies: "It helps from certain age onwards but it's not the main reason." So - it helps, but not really? "It helps with writing as well obviously but again - writing is not fluency." But again - writing _is_ a _component_ of fluency. "It's just some extra tech on top of the language. I can now dictate to AI and let it correct everything from tone to grammar mistakes. Writing is not a goal in itself." Congratulations - the AI is fluent, you are not. If you cannot do it without a tool, you cannot do it.

Excellent point! I have met several foreigners who told me they learned English by listening to the radio, primarily music.

I’m at the beginning of my goal to learn Spanish so I found Yoga flows on KZread by Spanish speaking teachers. It’s helping a lot with my comprehension. Plus, I signed up for Spotify to get access to popular Latin music in my favorite genre. Fingers crossed for success.

@czucziandras1406

7 ай бұрын

how did it go?

@hunnerdayEDT

7 ай бұрын

@czucziandras1406 ADHD won, I got distracted, switched to Turkish, got distracted, and one year later, I'm still monolingual with fragments of knowledge of around 6 languages 🤦🏾‍♀️

@steveuni90

7 ай бұрын

One year later has this been successful? As a someone who practices yoga on a regular basis, I though of doing the same with Portuguese!

@hunnerdayEDT

7 ай бұрын

@steveuni813 My small bit of success with listening 2 meditation in Spanish was that it allowed me to just follow directions in Spanish without trying to translate the words. The sound and flow of the language settled into my brain, and it made book studying easier for me. However, as a person with ADHD my hyperfixation with learning the language ended & I got distracted with learning Turkish. But I think I would have been a basic Spanish speaker had I continued.

@thestealth2448

6 ай бұрын

Have you tried out dreaming Spanish? It’s one of the only websites that caters to beginners with comprehensible input. There’s superbeginner, beginner, internediate and advanced videos.

My mom lived in Mexico for two years. When she came back, she was fluent in Spanish, right down to her accent matched that of the locality she was in. I know this, because as a teenager in Indiana, I saw her help some Mexicans who were looking for masa in the grocery store (but didn't know where to look). She told them what aisle, and one of them said, "Where in Mexico did you say you're from?" So, this comprehensible method works, for sure.

It's just too good to believe. You can learn a second language without reading a single grammar book!

@ancientmage666

7 ай бұрын

Yep, I promise u

@brandonclark8960

5 ай бұрын

When you started school, maybe kindergarten, I’m sure you had a solid foundation of English already before you were introduced to a grammar book.

@davidbrisbane7206

5 ай бұрын

@@brandonclark8960 I was never taught grammar at school. My point was about a second language. So, if you are happy to learn a second language like a kid for many years and the go to school for around ten years to become proficient in a second language then I guess you wouldn't need a grammar book at all.

@simontaylor2525

4 ай бұрын

I'm kind of with you on that. I think most intelligent adults like to have a framework of how the thing they are learning works, which is what grammar is. To me knowing the grammar makes learning more enjoyable

@Phylaetra

Ай бұрын

@@brandonclark8960have you listened to kindergarten-aged children? Would you say they have a solid foundation of English? If so - why do we need another 12 years of education in English?

Excellent strategy to acquire language. Trying to do this with my current attempt at picking up Italian. Working great so far!

I got this idea somewhat vaguely on my own, because I like to write and even my native language I improve in by writing and finding new words to describe something. So I decided to write a little in the language I was learning, simple stories until I could get more and more descriptive. This is something I think creative people can find fun, because it makes learning more natural and you have an associated scene to remember the vocabulary with.

@iamapokerface8992

Ай бұрын

yeah sure u did

@kovici7226

Ай бұрын

@@iamapokerface8992 lol i did because i had recently read something with partial inclusion of french, or something. and i was merging my hobbies of language learning and writing together 🤷‍♀️

thank you, yes I agree with you. I started learning new language using learning method word by word understanding every word but the result is very slow processed, boring and forget what I learned. so I will try what you mentioned.

This is the way how I’d gotten fluent in Russian and I’ve been doing the same with English now for the last several years. Back in the days I tried to tackle English with traditional way of learning but it didn’t work out and couldn’t make any essential progress. Then I stumbled upon this hypothesis and started implementing it in my life. I just completely stopped grinding grammar and started getting as much input as possible where I’ve reached the point where I can read books, listen science related podcasts and totally understand them. Also I work in foreign company in my country where I provide safety related workshops for expats at work for 4-5 hours and I do work partially as an interpreter as well. Just keep getting exposed to the language guys and you’ll eventually end up acquiring it and speaking it fluently.

@omarsobh4419

8 ай бұрын

Hello I'm also learning russian can you please give me some advice 🙏

@almazkairosh7976

8 ай бұрын

@@omarsobh4419 My advice is simple create new account on KZread and start to subscribe to Russian related contents only and watch a lot of movies and tv series. At the beginning it all will be gibberish but if you keep doing it and stay consistent you’ll slowly understand and you’ll start picking up the way natives speak and you’ll start building your vocabulary and lexicon. It takes time but consistency eventually will get you there. Also start from simple stuff and simple movies. Don’t focus too much on grammar, cause’ Russian grammar is really tough and you’ll lose interest in the language. Even me as a fluent Russian speaker still can’t fully understand it and I can’t give proper explanation for grammar. So less grammar and more immersion is the key. Speaking part also is overrated at the beginning, first build good comprehension then later on start thinking about speaking. Also get notebook for new words and start writing down new words with examples in sentences. Stay patient and don’t get overwhelmed.

@hankersoree

7 ай бұрын

привет как дела

@almazkairosh7976

7 ай бұрын

@@hankersoree Все отлично! Сами то как?

@hankersoree

7 ай бұрын

@@almazkairosh7976 нормально:) живя в постсоветском государстве, для меня русский как второй родной язык, но вы выучили его не имея русского окружения (как я понимаю). вы молодец!

Abosolutely true, now I'm convinced reading and listening are the keys to succeed when it comes to learning a new language. In the past I feel hopeless when I wanted to speak or even write, but now I able to get my ideas across and all of that happened because I read and listen a lot. I still use some books for English learner when I have encountered somthing I don't understand but I spend most of the fime just for reading and listening. In my opion the best method may differ from person to person. But in the end if someone wants to speak a target language fluently they have to somehow gain a lot of input, I have never met anyone who can speak a language well if they don't gain a lot of input. On the other hand, if you don't gain a lot of input you are likely to ask yourself like how can I stop translating in my head. You should understand interviews, presentations,... With ease before you think about speaking fluently. In my opinion what you produce is just a reflection of your input, there is no way around it.

I tried hundreds of times to learn a second language and nothing clicked for years until finally one day I understood that there's a difference between studying something and knowing something. Studying is hard and the effort can get in the way of yourself being able to acquire it through having fun and just saying "Ooh, I know this one easy". Study, be patient and don't stress. You can do it!

One interesting observation of mine is that the reason why speaking improve your language skill even though you only acquire language through input is that when you are talking, you are in an environment where you can manipulate the input in such a way that you can decipher and it also contain a large amount of information which result in both improving the quality and quantity of the input

Very important information for study a foreign language, Thanks for sharing.

Very solid advice and tips! Next time I'm asked for tips on language learning, I'll be sending them this. Btw, just got a couple of your short stories in Toki Pona: great resources for a new learner!

@FingtamLanguages

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much! I’m so glad you liked the books and this video series! Let me know if there are any specific videos you’d like to see! :)

Thank you for providing the good method! Actually, I have watched the professor's method of learning a language but this was a fantastic reminder. Currently, I learn English and I'll keep in mind the only one way of acquiring - Comprehensible input

Wow. You have described EXACTLY what I have been doing, and yes, it is the right way. In particular, I have watched Children's films with the (same language) subtitles on, so that I can compare what I hear in my new language with how it looks in text.

Nailed it. Great video, Aaron. I added it to the theory playlist on Comprehensible Thai.

@FingtamLanguages

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad you liked it!

I agree. Most of my time is spent on it. But I also find that doing the top 400 most frequent words at the same time I'm doing comprehensible input gives me a nice boost.

I started learning English by watching streamers who play better than me. I didn't even know that comprehensive input is. But I can say, it works, now I can understand 80% of this video. I'm from Russia btw)

@yookaa9562

2 жыл бұрын

I can understand speech but creating own sentences with right time(past simple etc) little hard for me.

@lukasg9031

2 жыл бұрын

Is that all you did?

@yookaa9562

2 жыл бұрын

@@lukasg9031 also I have English class at school, but it's not really work. So, yeah, that's all I did.

@lukasg9031

2 жыл бұрын

@@yookaa9562 so all you did was watch streamers, and I’m assuming English tv shows and movies and a little bit of English in school?

@yookaa9562

2 жыл бұрын

@@lukasg9031 yes

You deserve a billion likes . What a great vid !

Thank you, Fingtam, for this wonderful video. I thought I recognized a Krashen influence as soon as I read its title, & it turned out I was right. I found it very gratifying, in fact, to see him pictured & referenced right at the start. I had lunch with Stephen once at a conference he hosted at my alma mater, and we spent part of our time flipping grapes onto each other's plates! When I have this discussion with my students, I like to begin the learning vs. acquisition discussion by asking the class, "When did you learn to have shoulders, and when did you learn to have pubic hair?" This generates a bit of amusement, to be sure, but I go on to explain that one of those acquisitions occurs naturally at its own time in the womb, that the other one occurs naturally at its own time some number of years later, & further, that language, operating in exactly the same manner, occurs naturally at its own time and is no more "learned" than either of the others. To put it more succinctly : barring medical or social tragedy, every child on Earth acquires his or her native language(s) at the appropriate developmental time without overt or directed teaching or learning at all. There is first a stretch of input only, then slow movement toward output, & finally a raging torrent of output that grows rapidly & generally achieves full native acquisition around 5 or 6 years of age. This is true in all cultures, whether they actively encourage young children to speak or not. I've always been amused by one of Stephen's favorite methods of getting his learners interested in reading, that being giving them steamy romance novels to read, which he said tripled their acquisition rate. Real page-turners, eh? To this very day, it makes me laugh, just to think of it. Comprehensible input, indeed! Finally, as if this video weren't enjoyable already, you closed it out with a reference to *that* video, which I've referred people to a fair number of times over the years. If anyone reading my note here wonders whether or not it's worth 57 minutes of viewing -- IT IS. It's sheer magic. Do check it out! Again, thanks for this wonderful video. Cheers.

I studied thai for 2 years several years ago, and I focused on learning vocabulary and writing but not speech. Once I moved to live in a village and no one spoke english beside the teacher at the school I taught. I improved my thai drammatically both in speaking and listening in those 5 months.

Wow! Never heard of it before. Great tip, thank u so much!

Thats how I learned English. I just binge watched a lot of tv shows and movies. Im learning Spanish now and using the same method but its leaning more towards the intensive style of input learning

@lukasg9031

2 жыл бұрын

What Spanish shows or movies do you recommend? You

@suchaagill7940

2 жыл бұрын

@@lukasg9031 I watch a lot of crime series. Search up best spanish crime series and there are a bunch available on netflix. Just finished Monarca, 8/10

@lukasg9031

2 жыл бұрын

@@suchaagill7940 I’ll check those out. Thanks. And is that all you did? Just watch shows and movies?

@klexiyy

2 ай бұрын

With subtitles or no?

Very well sir, thank you👍

Looking back at my 4-5 years of studying french in highschool I know basic words and a couple of phrases and my french teacher did give us things as films, tv shows, and other media to help us but I dont think it was very effective in my case. lately after discovering comprehensible input and the tprs (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling) it made me realize learning can be fun thru the use of storytelling. its more interesting to me than traditional standards of learning in general, i feel like it could be applied to other things like history, math, or science and its crazy why this wasnt used more in school when I was coming up

@aquarius4953

2 жыл бұрын

Comiccort . Schools are not here to teach students, schools are here to give a job to teachers. Some teachers can teach some can't . The ones who can't as long as they follow the school rules it's ok even if it's a waste of time for students. You haven't spent 4-5 years of studying French but maybe 3 hours per week, 12 hours per month, 100 hours per years , 500 hours more or less after five years so around twenty days . In fact less, because to be in a classroom doesn't mean you are listening to, you were not alone , generally the one who speaks the more is the teacher and it is wonderful if he/she is able to speak the language he/she supposes to teach .

@ronlugbill1400

Жыл бұрын

I am a high school French teacher and I can tell you why. 1. It didn't exist much in schools then. And 2. Even now, teachers who try to use CI in the classroom get shot down by administrators who have never learned a language or taught a language or read any language acquisition research but are in charge of schools and observe teachers.

@Noah20

7 ай бұрын

@@aquarius4953pharmacys are not there to supply medicine they are there to give jobs to pharmacists 💀🤡 are you intentionally dense

I recently started reading Bilbo: An unexpected journey in Spanish. I don't mind not understanding allot of the words cause it's a book ive read several times in English. Was interesting seeing that I could understand a surprising amount just from context alone, even if ive yet to learn the majority of the words.

I've acquired several langauages. They are all sitting on my bookshelves 😀.

🎉 Love your way! ❤ From Hungary 🇭🇺, working in 🇬🇧 I was 14 when I started learning 🇬🇧 after 🇩🇪 in the 90's, listening BBC World Service and reading books. Just ABSORB everything in 🇬🇧 😍

I love the French KZread videos of Alice Ayel. I wish I could find a video series for learning Modetn Greek using the same technique Alice uses. The content on LingQ is good but I like the way Alice uses drawing and gestures. She is awesome.

@lj2257

7 ай бұрын

Thank you i will take a look.

This is exactly how I learned English, and how I’m planning to learn new languages in the future.

Hello dear professor Your lessons are really interesting and crucial, thank you so much for your help and advice,i do appreciate your job,i wish you peace and happiness under the sky of prosperity,all the best. Take care and have a good time.

Thank you! This will help me a lot.

I grew up with 2 mother tongues since my mom only spoke spanish and I grew up in the US. The defined versiosn of aquisiton and learning processes didnt play out the way people have specified them to occur. For me learning was never in a formal manner rather it was done informally and for the reason of learning to communicate with my family which invloved me being consciously aware of my subconscious feelings. I consciously would think about what my body was piking up naturally and would use my conscious head to act on my "subconscious" needs. Its only when I went to school formally that I began to have issues with thinking about what I observed and began to focus soley on the mode of learning that school was trying to teach. School threw my subconscious into turmoil and since its a forced experience I began to avoid interacting with my bodily feelings since it only brought me trouble at home and in school. I was too outspoken about my needs and thoughts and I would anger people for questioning them and then I had to deal with their muddled emotions and attitudes that made them treat me as a teoublemaker. As a child trying to figure out how to interact with people while maintaing my sense of personhood completely stressed me out and overwhelmed me leading to a number of health mental and physical problems.

Thank so much! 🙏

Thank you so much! ❤

Another great video 👍

Booooooom!!! Such a great explanation! Thank you

Hello dear professor What you present is really interesting and crucial,i do appreciate your job,i wish you peace and happiness under the sky of prosperity,all the best, take care and have a good time. Your Student from Algeria

Thanks so much

I am an English language teacher. I basically tell any parents that seek my help to teach their kids that we are not dealing with a school subject, we are dealing with a language, and the difference is huge. I also tell them that I can teach it as both a language and a subject, but the latter is just for tests, and they will not acquire a language from it at all.

I find hauls are very good for comprehensible input because they talk about things you can see.

@FingtamLanguages

3 жыл бұрын

What are hauls?

@bunnyteeth365

3 жыл бұрын

@@FingtamLanguages Videos where people talk about things they bought. I think it's usually clothing and makeup, but it could be anything. Even bananas. So if you're not into clothing and makeup you can find them for other stuff. It's great for comprehensible input and far more enjoyable than children's shows. It feels good to watch things that are targeted at to my age that are fairly easy to understand.

Thank u for this video :) I agree with u totally. When i started to study English, I started with the grammar and vocabulary. So now, When I want to say something in English I have to use kinda formula in my brain. I think it’s not a good phenomenon.. so I will listen and read many English stuffs much time :) thank u

This explains why Luca’s BDT method works so well!

Excellent Information, it worked

English is not my mother tongue language so for me reading a English book, novels, plays, etc is always almost a challenge and I have to confess I like that challenge very much. I think my English vocabulary is big enough to enjoy the reading. My advice could be:read only the stuff you enjoy reading, Never stop to look the words up that you don't understand, just underlying them and after reading some chapters look them up and write some examples with the news words. The same with listening: keep on listening as much as you can. And enjoy the learning. Greetings from Spain

@aquarius4953

2 жыл бұрын

Jose Benito . Comprehensible means you understand at 80% 90 % 100%. If you try to read as a beginner Shakespeare Sonnets or Ulysse by James Joyce you will have too many difficulties to understand anything . That is not comprehensible input but a waste of time . So yes read books you enjoy but read books you are able to understand because even if you enjoy reading James Hadley Chase's books in your mother tongue doesn't mean you will be able to read his books in English .

@josebenito15

2 жыл бұрын

@@aquarius4953 Thanks so much for your information. Reading this week "David Copperfield" and enjoy it very much indeed. Sometimes some adjectives and verbs are a little tricky.. But the book is so witty and entertaining that I don't see the point to put it down. Keep on reading and Greetings from Spain 📖📖📖📖

@tohaason

9 ай бұрын

When I learned English I would choose stuff that I was close to understanding (mind, I didn't do this because I wanted to learn English, I was choosing material that I intensely wanted to read and hoped I had found something that I would actually be able to read and chose the material with that in mind). Notably, I did *not* stop my reading to underline words I didn't understand. I believe stopping is bad - it stops the movie in your mind (I found that the learning starts the moment the story starts unfolding in your mind (which _can_ happen with technical material too, not just novels), and you don't as much see words as see a story. This typically happens a few pages in). If you stop, to underline words, or whatever, it's like turning off the TV and unload the DVD or VCR. You have to re-start the whole thing. So, don't do that. Just go on. If you at that point have a scene in your mind, maybe your mind gives you an idea (right or wrong) about what the word is (say, the word for water flowing between an island and the mainland), or maybe it's blurred. Never mind, just go on, at later points you will come across the word again, and your mind will give it another unconscious try. When your book is finished you'll have learned a lot of new words that you didn't know at the beginning. If the book was good, read it again. But don't stop. (AddEdit: As to the video's comment "every second you spend in a dictionary is one second less on comprehensible input" - no, it's much worse. Much worse. One second in a dictionary equals minutes if not more of less comprehensible input, because of what I described above - stopping to look up a word takes you out of the mode where the story is unfolding in your mind, and it takes time to get back in. And I firmly believe that the real learning happens when you live the story, not when you just see words printed on a page).

I look at every single word in the dictionary and it is helpful. Slow though but understanding the content is important for me

@tohaason

9 ай бұрын

I definitely don't recommend that method. I've seen so many books lent to me where the reader has underlined every word they didn't understand and just given up after after a while. You never get to see the story of the book in your mind that way. Never. And thus you don't really learn. Just read. If it's interesting and the comprehensibility level is at the right point then the story _will_ start showing in your mind (and that's when the words just become background) and that's when you start learning. If you don't stop, the unconscious mind will work on those words when you come across them again, and if you don't consciously try to understand a word, then the word will eventually resolve itself _because_ there's a story in your mind. Your internal video. The context. If you just stare at sentences the context will not be there and you can't learn. If you have a whole context going then you can learn by association, which is a much more powerful method than a dictionary can ever be. You'll learn usage and nuances, for one.

I agree with you you are an awesome guy you know how can you learn the language dr. Steven Krashan found that can we acquire language just comprehensible input but 90 % of people are following the traditional method they think learning another language should be learned as a second language you tell me you would have not learned your native language translate it into another language however the second thing you should learn any language your target language whatever that is you must learn as a first language, for example, vocabulary word it doesn't means by itself when you connect that word situation and getting many examples of that words from different speakers or the same topic that time you understand like a native speakers this method is phenomenon you can improve your accent pronunciation listening by different speakers those same word or same topic you know what I am saying this method is called " naturally varied review " thanks your videos are going to helpful for the learner because you got that secret of learning language further I'm learning English from 4 years I was learning traditional way when I listened and watched my favourite coach videos that I got amaze fluency doesn't come repeating the words or translate in your head fluency comes from when you getting many examples from the different speakers the same topic or same words traditional way of learning language is just wasting our times thanks I found your channel.

0:33 - 0:52 most important kept secret in language learning 2:28 we only acquire a language by understanding messages 2:58 - 34 Stephen Krashen comprehensible input lesson

This is very interesting - I think I started to learn English by watching Muzzy In Gondoland when I was a little kid. It really helped me learn basic words without any effort and after that, I used movies and games to learn basic English.

I studied German for 2 months in school but I learned more about German through self-learning (for 4 years now). I surprised myself when I went to germany last year and traveled alone many times using trains, buses, maps and occasionally asking random people for directions. 😊

My wife speaks a different language and I am now learning it with my 2 year old, reading Children’s books and watching children shows. At the same time I have books for learning the language and they help answer the “why?” questions I sometimes have about the language. This makes the learning like a puzzle and all activities fill in the missing pieces. I already speak 3 languages fluently because I moved to a different country when I was a child so now I am just repeating what I did as a kid which is “comprehensive input”. The graphic novel tip is a good one, I will give it a try.

I am a Spanish native speaker, grew up surrounded by english speaking people but didn't utter a word of it until I was in the US surrounded by American folks of all the accents😅😅 took me about 6 months to actually have a conversation. I'm fluent in both languages and now at 54 found love again in Japanese ❤❤❤ jaane

@adamlevine2046

2 ай бұрын

i am learning spanish now. A beginner. So any tips from a native speaker ?? That would be very helpful

Years ago I took one semester of German in college. The textbook contained no English translation, but lots of pictures. The instructor started right off the bat in German. I loved it, but apparently most of the other students were baffled. There weren’t enough students registered for the 2nd semester, so it got canceled. I drove all the way to another college to buy the 2nd & 3rd level books, and continued to self instruct…er… acquire! I still have those books today, more than 40 years later.

This is fabulous! Well put together and fun to watch. The sheer RELIEF at getting "permission" to read and listen to things I like instead of 80 textbooks is *palpable* Do you have any thoughts for how someone could best apply this to learning ASL (and other sign languages)? That one is high on my list!

I really like your video. I'm learning English through videos and tv shows

One example of how to implement this strategy is to search for a KZread video (my target language is Spanish) about something you already know a bit about, turn on closed captioning if available, and watch the video while reading the text and hearing it spoken. You can also lower the speed of the video with settings in KZread. I sometimes slow it down to 75 percent speed.

Agree 100%!!

Very good advice 👏

@IkarosDC

2 жыл бұрын

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Great idea. Thanks

This man need to be famous🔥

Awesome....profound !

wow is very good thank. is very interesting. Now reading and listening every day for 10 or 15 hours to the day. is very good.

You are wonder!ful!

I'm glad this video reenforces making sure you are doing what you enjoy while learning an language, but Japanese on video games is extremely hard without furigana on some games 😅

You know Pablo from Dreaming Spanish lives in Bangkok and went through the ALG programme for a year there.Maybe he can help you find resources.He did nothing but CI and reached a decent fluency level according to him.I'm doing Spanish now through his content.

@alwayslearning7672

2 жыл бұрын

Also check out Stu Jay Raj wh recently started making videos again. He's a legend with tonal languages.

thank u I'm learning Korean I study a lot of grammar since it's something enjoy but listening and reading is how I've learned English so I want to try it for Korean too so I hope I can do it and ur tips are very useful 🎉

It is the same way that i used to learn English language without attending any courses and managed to make a huge jump, unlike my friends who been through conversational courses and studying grammmar and stuff, are now at point 4/10, and can barely speak one sentence without stuttering, this is another proof that adds weight to the theory in this video.

Comprehensible input is great, but only as a passive alternative and only at higher levels when you can understand the context, but it's useless for beginner levels. For example I acquired Russian to around C1 because my native is Serbian, which shares half the vocab and grammar, so I was able to get into tv shows, forums and other content right away and accumulate words over years with almost no active learning, however, I spent hundreds of hours watching shows in other languages I was a beginner with, with and without subtitles, and I didn't really learn anything out of it, because you can't learn through context if there is no context that you understand yet. Instead you should learn as many words and grammar as you can with frequency lists and once you get to a level where you start understanding stuff, then you can start picking up on secondary stuff that way.

@StrikeA1G

5 ай бұрын

yikes…

Great video and education

Thanks!

Lol، this video is a one of kind! ldk why I didn’t see it before, plz keep the nice work up :)

Wow u said it all thanks man

This is about the same idea of the inductive contextual method of Hans Orberg, used in his Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata (LLPSI).

@rollingball9536

7 ай бұрын

Roma in Italia est

Fully agree!

Thanks for this wonderful channel. You mentioned learning Thai... which I am trying to do as I will be moving to Bangkok in 6 months to live indefinitely. But I was extremely disappointed to find that the Lingq app does not support Thai. So how do you recommend I learn it via Comprehensible Input? Is there another app or ?? Thanks so much!

Been enjoying your content. I see that your books are not available where I live and can’t be bought on kindle either.

One of the ways I like to make my materials comprehensible is watch videos on KZread that interest me, then I pause the video and use the mouse (arrow) to point to objects in that video. I make sentences when I am doing this. My comprehension rate is much higher compared to other methods. Later I will make flashcards for the words i forgot by me listening to those words. I will remember those words because they will be in context.

I dont even know how i understand english, i just played some games and read some kids books in english, now i can read anything and even watch movies or tv shows with the original english language, without subtitles, it just came

keep going man!

Sure, the French that I learnt in the early sixties has never left me. When I retired, I went to France several times and loved it. Abd Spain, Bosnia and Romania. All good 👍I have met few people who got their English from television

Great video.

I copy short sentences from the internet and create MP4 videos in Canva. I add text and graphics related to the context, then download it to my PC to use as a wallpaper. The wallpaper changes every 15 seconds and repeats. This method works for me.

i've been learning french at school for 5 years, and for the longest time i couldn't understand a thing. i had spent so much time trying to memorise verb conjugations, memorise different tenses, memorise when to use 'du' and 'de' and 'le', and yet i couldn't understand anything i heard or read. it wasn't until i started watching the french pokemon dub that i actually started to understand this language!!!

It might be more effective to acquire a language rather than learning it, but if you have limited time and can't wait as long as it takes to acquire a language, then you'll have to learn it, if you want to become proficient in it in any reasonable amount of time.

@Syssn3ck

7 ай бұрын

learning might be a better in the short run, that's true, but I don't think learning will ever get you to a point of proficiency without sufficient comprehensible input.

@davidbrisbane7206

7 ай бұрын

@@Syssn3ck Clearly there is no substitute for being immersed in language you understand, or can understand, but it would be wrong in my humble opinion to think comprehensible input is the only way to "acquire" a language. I think learning, if you have to skills, would speed the process up of becoming fluent in the language. I studied maths at two universities in two different counties and although I have actually "acquired" maths from watching tons of maths videos, I wouldn't even have been able to understand them or go beyond them without studying and practising (i.e. output) myself.

Loved it! Really well done! Danke

@chimanruler15

2 жыл бұрын

Wow, I wasn't expecting you to be here! I love your videos!

Good reason to get back to reading :)

@Sbrh13

3 жыл бұрын

You just reading without understanding ?

@LinguaSerbia

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sbrh13 no

very good❤❤❤

For learning Portuguese you can try the book "Learn Portuguese with Immersive Short Stories: Sombras do Passado"

i couldn't agree with u more about the effectiveness of this method. Languages are no longer intimidating once you find something genuinely interest u in that language, and you use that language as a tool to further explore the topic. I myself don't usually put deliberate effort into learning English. I adopt the accent, the way native speakers articulate verbally their ideas by consuming English content that specifically resonate with me. And I strongly urge you to do the same if you for the most part still rely on monogous piles of textbooks to acquire grammar or vocab. Turn English into a part of your life and figure out something fun that motivates you to pick up the langauge every day!