Timestamps & Links 0:00:00 Intro 0:01:18 Step 1: Read at the Speed of Speech 0:03:00 Step 2: Analyse 0:04:46 Step 3: Repeat Aloud 0:06:02 Step 4: Recite Aloud with Vivid Imagination 0:07:16 Step 5: Tell the Story to a Child 0:08:18 Step 6: Re-Read at the Speed of Speech 0:08:53 Step 7: Re-Read at the Speed of Speech SILENTLY 0:09:27 Summary of 7 Steps, and additional steps 0:11:27 Phonological Loop: the tape recorder in the head 0:18:37 CI & Extensive Reading 0:20:46 Definitions of Extensive vs. Intensive Reading 0:29:01 Latin Demonstration of the Re-Reading Technique 0:39:17 Ancient Greek Demonstration of the Re-Reading Technique 0:47:56 Romanian Demonstration of the Re-Reading Technique 0:58:43 Portuguese Demonstration of the Re-Reading Technique 1:01:00 Lucian Pronunciation of Ancient Greek 1:07:39 Russian Demonstration of the Re-Reading Technique 🦜 Alexandros (beginner Ancient Greek book) audio: www.patreon.com/posts/41402787 🦂 Support my work on Patreon, and get access to tons of Extensive Reading audiobook in Latin & Ancient Greek! www.patreon.com/LukeRanieri 📚 Luke Ranieri Audiobooks: luke-ranieri.myshopify.com

@mamoruhikari9414

3 жыл бұрын

This is perfect! Thank you!

@corsaircaruso471

2 жыл бұрын

I’m really interested in trying this technique, now. First stop, French. Next language; who knows?

@juliusstreicher186

2 жыл бұрын

Hello,dear Friend ! I wanted to ask You : which is Your mother language ? Thanks and greetings.

@timcapes5000

2 жыл бұрын

You like E flat chords!

@dasarcanaeum

2 жыл бұрын

Well that's my journey now: I'm on an english KZreadr's video for learning latin while being a German native speaker XD Thanks for the vid!!! I completely got your very well described "deep dive"-method. I love it. Since I've (somewhat) successfully learned english I do know what you mean by the issue of this translating behaviour. I can write and speak and listen to english without doing it. Since I've done a ton of connections btw the meant thing and the language rather than the told/written word and my native language! Means your first steps gives me the substance to kinda move a bit within the language and for getting better it is better to deal with grammar later. tbh I'm not surprised that schools fail at that one as well. It is quiet the opposite LMAO. I want to get fluently in Latin before I go to University (which demands the full set of latin since I'm on to gradue in Philosophy). And I think you've made me clear how I should do it. But I didn't find ANY audio books for latin and I'm not even sure which is the correct pronounciation for my course then (it hasn't any details). :SS But I've ordered the first Book of Harry Potter in latin. I gonna try your method - THANKS AGAIN

Reading is, honestly, a very underrated form of language acquisition. In most cases, an advanced vocabulary will be got from reading a wide range of material. In fact, I once *read* in a study that the optimal number of books one ought to read if one wishes to acquire a large vocabulary is 137. Of course, that number should include books on a vast array of topics, say, from theatrical classics and provincial fables to scientific papers and business reports.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Well said!

@iberius9937

3 жыл бұрын

Polyglot Steve Kauffman is also an advocate of reading AND listening.

@TheChannelofaDisappointedMan

3 жыл бұрын

Agree, and it need not necessarily be books. I read one Spanish and one French newspaper article online each day to retain my skills and increase my knowledge. One aspect I focus on is the various ways a sentence can *begin* because grammar books never go into these formulations; they tend to be very conversation-centered, as if the only topic one might wish to speak about is oneself. Connected with this, newspapers generally report, so it's an excellent means of learning to speak in the third-person/past tense.

@lohphat

3 жыл бұрын

There’s potentially a trap here which needs to be recognized before it’s encountered. We are spoiled as English speakers as our written language mirrors our speech for the most part (not counting formal legal documents or other prescribed formats). French, as an example, has verb tenses which are only used in written French but never in spoken French - AKA the “literary tenses”. Not knowing which is which can lead to awkward (yet humorous) conversations. www.thoughtco.com/french-literary-tenses-1368875

@iriomusskopf7896

3 жыл бұрын

There's this short analysis that points to this very same number: puroh.it/reading-for-a-fine-vocabulary/ It's error prone in many assumptions and it misses a few extra ones, but I believe it's a fairly reasonable conclusion.

There are a bunch of KZreadrs sharing their "tips" for learning languages/discussing language, but your channel is the best.

@stronglytyped

3 жыл бұрын

Luke is the real deal.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Aw thanks! I’m very grateful if you find it helpful

@teresita.lozada

2 жыл бұрын

He has the best advices.

Excellent advice! Much better approach than that take with Latin when I was at school. (Fortunately I was/am bilingual: English/Spanish). Now (at 83) I’m learning classical Greek.😊😊😊😂

@polyMATHY_Luke

Жыл бұрын

That’s great! Keep up the great work

Following cognitive science research helps explain why this method is so successful. What you’re doing is training your language parser so that your brain can interpret appropriate phoneme sequences innately instead of “mechanically” (i.e. rote vocabulary and grammar study). As you listen to natural speech your brain is actually running about 7-8 parallel “execution threads” of what the next phoneme MIGHT be and immediately prunes the incorrect paths in real-time as it moves on the the next sequence. This is why just listening to your target language helps train your prediction engine. This is how infants learn to optimize their language acquisition, so why too shouldn’t we as adults? Doing so not only helps train phoneme sequence but also tone and pitch accents as well. Native speakers often aren’t aware of pitch accent but know when it’s incorrect when a foreign speaker does it; they just can’t name it. Having a “good ear” for mimicry helps a lot too. I’m often complimented on my pronunciation, but it can also get me into a bind because it signals to the listener that I am more proficient than I actually am.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Well said!

Started doing this for Spanish. An extra step I do in step 2, is to write down the sentences or phrases that include a word or grammar structure that I don’t understand. Adds time, but is worth it! This has taken my learning to the next level. Thank you!!

The “read it to a child” step is fantastic! I struggle with sounding very monotoned when reading non-native languages (sometimes in my native English as well), so the emphasized emotions and the like is helping me tremendously.

Your accent in Portuguese is really good, you can pronounce the nasal vowels perfectly (this is hard to hear from a native English Speaker) Awesome!

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

You’re very generous! Obrigado

@RafaelCavalcantePaulino

3 жыл бұрын

@@polyMATHY_Luke You don't have an English accent but a Roman one when speaking Portuguese. If you ever came here and talked to me, I'd ask if you were Italian or Sardinian or something like that.

What you said about how languages are usually taught with an emphasis on grammar translation resonates a lot. I've heard many teachers advise thinking in the language you're learning, but having been taught the standard method, I find myself always trying to translate from English. They're saying do it like this, but they teach in a way that counters it.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Right!

It’s fascinating how the technique you describe is essentially the exact same way that a child learns to speak and read. Makes one wonder how true it actually is that we get worse at learning language as we age.

@rdyt0

2 жыл бұрын

Repetition rocks!

@d.lawrence5670

Жыл бұрын

My mother learned French at 54 yrs old. Pretty fluent now. When they say you can't learn over a certain age, they lie.

@JesusOfPaign

Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure the factoid about kids being better at learning languages was proven to be false, or inaccurate.

@briban65

Жыл бұрын

@@JesusOfPaign it was

@tohaason

Жыл бұрын

I learned to read at the age of four or five (not sure exactly.. it happened when I got my glasses, I was half blind until then). I wasn't taught the letters or anything, it happened because my father used to read Donald Duck & co for me. I kept watching the pages as he read (after getting my glasses, at least). He used his finger when he read because he wasn't a good reader himself, having suffered dyslexia as a child. Anyway, I kept watching and listening.. then, my father later told me, one day I urged him to turn the page when he was only half way through. At that point I had started to read myself, and much faster than he could read to me. From then on he figured I could very well do the reading myself, he was done with it! (A much more recent example of learning to read without being taught is a little Japanese girl I know, she isn't living in Japan but she speaks Japanese - she loves to listen to and sing Japanese songs, and, as she actually has access to a mobile phone and a tablet, she watches KZread videos with Japanese songs *and* Japanese written lyrics. To the astonishment of my wife, who is also Japanese, the girl had taught herself to read Japanese (or anyway the subset available to her) purely from watching those song videos with written subtitled lyrics.) As for kids being better at learning languages.. I believe it's true to some extent. It seems that they're better at, in particular. two major things: a) Memory. Words just.. stick better. I remember elementary school, our teacher was only interested in music, he didn't bother teaching us mathematics, geography, all that stuff. Instead we were taught songs. The thing is - he repeated the song *once*, and we remembered it. To this day, now that I'm getting old, I can still remember those songs. When I got a bit older, late teens, I lost that ability. Completely. Not for lack of trying, I assure you - I play guitar. Can't remember lyrics to save my life, with any amount of practicing or repeating, however long. b) Imagination. Small children, in particular, seems to be able to quickly imagine what it's about. They quickly understand, or can guess, what you're saying. Their imagination runs wild and it works. Whereas when my wife tells me something I don't understand (as mentioned above she's Japanese) I try to imagine it, but more often than not I don't get it, but when she or I translates it it's always "of course, why didn't I see that?". And it's even worse for my wife, the other way. Children are much better at this stuff. But it's also true that in practice it doesn't mean that children are so much better than adults - the adults have a lot of other mental tools to help learning. And, after all, children have time. Years, even.

I learned a lot of Spanish by reading. I also learned to let the language wash over me and accept ambiguity. Previously it never occurred to me that the two might be interrelated in a cause and effect relationship.

This is why I always download subtitles in the language of the movie I'm watching. So German subtitles for German movies, English subtitles for English movies etc. Myself, I'm Dutch and I'm trying to learn all the Indo-European languages.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

It's very helpful!

@nathanbinns6345

3 жыл бұрын

There’s over 400 of them!

@MorusAlba1975

3 жыл бұрын

@@nathanbinns6345 The main ones still in use. Of the many Indian languages, my focus has been on Sanskrit, Hindi and Bengali.

@poshy6534

3 жыл бұрын

you can also try language learning with youtube and netflix. It is free but the paid version allows you to save words. It has double subtitling.

@romaios1609

3 жыл бұрын

I wonder when language learning will become a speedrun, with the greatest prize going to learning all Indo-European languages to fluency

I am 15 minutes into this video, at almost 1am, and I resonate with the problems with just grammar-translation. I have 6 semesters of Latin under my belt. And I feel like I know NOTHING in Latin still. I cannot read it quickly, I end up stopping at almost every word, and just slowly struggling through a sentence. I often lose track while doing this and have to begin again and again. This video has me super excited about Latin again! Latin and Greek had been a major cause of anxiety for me due to the pressure of feeling like I had to be able to see and properly translate a passage immediately. I have a 4-year-old, and I want to try this method now and see if I can even teach her some Latin in the process.

@c567591

Жыл бұрын

Amen. Me too.

@dorothy-2930

Жыл бұрын

One of the best ways to learn something is to teach someone else. Be thankful for your 4-year-old. S/he will help you!

Justin Lee Miller raises a very important point about access to texts of interest. A former Classics professor suggested this to me when learning another language. And it speaks to Polýᴍᴀᴛʜʏ's initial comment about not needing to know the text initially. I humbly disagree. For my professor said that a good way to learn a language is precisely to go for that familiar genre (who-dunnits, sci-fi, religious, poetry, etc.), or even a selfsame favorite book (Αlice in Wonderland, the Little Prince, Harry Potter, poems of Catullus, the Bible, etc.), or a piece of a book ( a book from the Bible, a chapter from a favorite novel, a cherished poem) in the target language. That way, one already knows what the text means, and then it becomes a string of aha-moments whereby you learn the structures, vocab and nuances of the language through how the story is told in the target language. It makes it easier, I ween, to move through a text in a more native-speaker pace. You can't get more 'comprehensible input' than that, I think, and it would help each of the seven steps, IMHO. 👍 ἔρρωσο

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely!

Luke, you really surprised me. Many Romanian language learners have trouble pronouncing the "i" at the end of the words like "cărți", "astăzi" because it's whispered. But you pronounced it naturally, like a Romanian. I also noticed that you pronounced "el/este", "iel/ieste", which is the correct way of saying it despite how it is written. Just be mindful of the fact that this invisible "i" before the "e" is only pronounced in the pronouns (ieu/iel/iele/iei) and verbs like “ieste, iera” but not in regular nouns that begin with "e". Like you don't pronounce "engleza" or "elefant" with an "i" in front because these are just regular nouns, so they should be pronounced exactly as written. Glad you decided to learn Romanian.

@tundra5171

2 жыл бұрын

Nice comment Octavian, agree with you. Glad you took the time to explain this concept to others who might not know. I've noticed a trend throughout most people that have not had an interaction with the Romanian language, in which they assume it is pronounced and enunciated the same as Italian due to the many similarities between the two, although that could not be further from the truth. Ai dat sfaturi foarte bune si tangibile! With that being said, I'd like to mention to everyone else that this is not perpetually applicable, as the whispery "i" phenomenon has, to my knowledge, predominantly become popular through, and generally used, in colloquial contexts. Natural, flowing Romanian conversation might feature the "i" or not. I use both "este" and "ieste" depending on how I feel or what want to convey. "Este" is formal and correct, clean, and "Roman," while "ieste" is organic and more emotional. They're both the same. It's simply a matter of accent or dialect.

@dimitalle3530

2 жыл бұрын

I agree that you can use either "este" or "ieste" depending on what you want. But I do think that "ieste" is actually the actual way to pronounce it, and "este" comes from how people started pronouncing it, due to its spelling. It's kinda how we say "eu sunt" instead of "eu sânt". "sânt" was always the pronunciation of the word, but because of the spelling reform, people started to shift the â into a u. But again, the way you decide to speak is your unique way, and we apreciate it :)

@octaviantimisoreanu5810

2 жыл бұрын

@@dimitalle3530 I was taught that the pronunciation of “sunt” is actually more archaic than saying “sânt” as it comes from Latin “sunt”. Therefore, it makes more sense that “sunt” is the older pronunciation. It’s worth pointing out that there is no one “correct” way of pronunciation. It depends on the region. But I think that with respect to “ieu/iel/ieste” this is fairly standard. Maybe there are regions that I’m not aware of that don’t pronounce the “I”.

I just realized that i did the step one accidentally by watching KZread in English but with captions, around 10y ago.

Your comment about ambiguity being fun reminds me of something CS Lewis said in his essay On Stories: I happened to remark to a man who was sitting beside me at dinner the other night that I was reading Grimm in German of an evening but never bothered to look up a word I didn't know, 'so that it is often great fun' (I added) 'guessing what it was that the old woman gave to the prince which he afterwards lost in the wood'.

@marmeemarch7080

23 күн бұрын

That is such a great essay!

He trained so hard and the hair fall out just like the one punch man.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

👊

@Komatik_

6 ай бұрын

Ten new words, some grammar drills and an essay a day.

@BrunoCampos0122

3 ай бұрын

I'm laughing a lot man 😂

As always, it was a pleasure listening to you. All the best!

Excellent!! Really good, practical methods.

Very helpful, thank you, I'm gonna try this method!

Luke, this was one of your best videos! I am currently learning Russian as a hobby and It seems like I've been unconsciously using similar (albeit less refined) techniques to study it, however, your approach makes so much more sense and I can't wait to test it on my Russian studies!

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! Yes I find this technique really helpful as well for Russian, which has stubbornly remained rather opaque to me for many years.

@helloworld5256

2 жыл бұрын

Russian is such a fun language to learn! It's challenging but totally worth it.

I used to go to Barnes and Noble to buy the "Corriere della Sera" (an Italian newspaper) to read it. I would read an article in Italian and a word that I didn't understand I would write it and translate it; then I would read the article again with the new word I've learned to understand the article better and at the same time I acquired a new word for my Italian vocabulary. Luke tu sei molto bravo, stammi bene amico.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Grazie a te!

Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge and techniques with us!

Thank you so much. This video totally inspired me.

Thank you so much!, exactly what I wanted

As a Romanian I can confirm that your accent is much better than the general American accent. Many people have trouble with our ș, ț, ă and especially â.

I am learning Romanian and I think it is limba cea mai frumoasa. I like this idea for getting away from the internal translation that can happen when you try to learn through vocabulary and grammar studies. Thank you for sharing and demonstrating your method.

Loved this all! I want to learn ancient Greek, then ancient Hebrew. This video was a great intro. I think I can do this!

Very helpful! I'm trying to learn German at the moment. I'd heard of comprehensible input theory from the 'What I've Learned' channel, but I really appreciate you breaking it down here into actionable steps.

Interesting technique, and I appreciate the examples.

I, as a Russian speaker, am impressed that you included it in this video. If it be of some help to you, your pronunciation is good as far as nuances of vowel reduction and intonation go, although foreigners' biggest struggle (i.e. hard-soft-consonants distinction) remains. Many thanks for sharing the method. Btw, I'm not criticising you as overall it was great especially the 5th step, I am just pointing out the small things you yourself might not notice you might want to improve.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

You’re absolutely right! 😊 Another helpful thing when learning a language is to record oneself, as I did here, because then I was able to catch the same things. Great points.

THERE ARE WEB VIDEOS THAT DESERVE A DOUBLE AND TRIPLE LIKE, WHICH KZread (ANYONE FOR THAT MATTER) DONT HAVE. YOURS DESERVE IT. INSPIRED.

Thanks so much for taking the time to do this!

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Of course, Beth! Thanks for watching! 😊

this is awesome thank you!

I love the video! Thanks for the mention! Much appreciated :)

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I can't wait till the French and Italian series are done! I'm going to binge watch them.

Thank you for this. I never thought about it this way before.

Wow congrats man , you sounded almost native in Romanian ,it not everyday you see a foreigner read our language so correctly!👏👏

This was very useful, thanks!

Excellent video. Thank you so much for the hard work!

@polyMATHY_Luke

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for watching and sharing!

Thanks for the tips ✌

I just love all your Latin videos. How I wish someone would do this with the Icelandic and Old Norse Sagas, too! The extensive reading method is absolutely the best way to truly aquire a language.

excellent technique, i love it

I feel blessed by having found your channel. Totally agree with your method, happy to see you mentioning Dr. Arguelles and here in the comments people remembering Steve Kaufmann's advocacy for reading and listening. This is the way to go, this is the way Lomb Kato and Stephen Krashen would like the word to be spread. :))) Happy to see the language I yearned to learn since I was 6 being taught by someone so passionate and well informed as you.

Thank you Luke for your recommendation of the Familia Romana series. I've been using it with success!

Thank you 🙏so much for sharing useful information!

@polyMATHY_Luke

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you found it useful

Truly wonderful!

I do this using a Modern Greek Reader from Routledge and it's a really exciting way to feel a language! Thank you for this video!

Tu canal es el mejor Luke! Perfectamente entendible✍🏼

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Gracias 😄

Thank you for sharing!

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

thank you for watching!

This is a legitimately great approach.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

This is a wonderful technique. VERY WELL DONE-THANK YOU for this post!!!!

@polyMATHY_Luke

Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Enjoy

I've applied this method and re-read Familia Romana in this manner. It is amazing! Definitely learnt a lot more than my first run and I'm starting to understand Latin as it is instead of trying to figure out what it means in English first.

@rdyt0

2 жыл бұрын

Familia Romana, using pictures and context, gives you a lot information about not only meanings of words in Latin, but also many nuances of meaning that cannot be translated accurately into other languages.

Great video, Luke. I have just recently started to teach myself Latin and having recently received my copy of LLPSI I find myself translating it into English in my mind, which I know from your videos is not a good method to use. So I started listening to your LLPSI readings as I follow along in the book. Those videos are gold btw - hearing the words pronounced correctly is great. Especially since I’m more interested in speaking Latin fluently more than reading/writing fluently. Thanks for inspiring me to learn a second language.

Ranieri eu gostei muito das suas dicas, obrigado amigo !

One of my favourite channels for sure

@polyMATHY_Luke

Жыл бұрын

Very kind

A suggestion I have for learning your target language's pronunciation if you dont have an audiobook is to listen to songs in the language and sing along to them. I've been doing it the past 3-4 months and it's superbly helpful.

Thanks this helps a lot. It also really helps with songs

The 7 steps are amarvellous idea...I'm almost finished with Olberg 1, and now I will go back with the method. Thanks, Patrick PS the course by Satura Lanx is pure genius.

Luke - this was very helpful to me. Unfortunately, I learned Koine Greek in Seminary (2 years) but only from a grammatical standpoint. Thus, I never really “learned” it. Now I am “re-Learning” the proper way. I appreciate you and your work!

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

And I appreciate your support!

such a quality amazing content !! thank you for this

@polyMATHY_Luke

8 ай бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Thank you!

A valid method!! I'll follow it

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Let us know how it goes!

Wonderful video, some great 💡 ideas

I'm all about the full-mersion experience! :-) Thanks for your great videos.

Sō true!;) Look, listen, read, and imagine, all at once! I did this with Greek and now Anton Tasos seems slow! The Bible can be your Rosetta Stone. Once you basically memorize the text, you can pick it up in multiple languages using this technique! I used to walk listening to 1st John recorded in 7 languages! I am def not a polyglot, but once you've memorized the text it's easy! (Doing this now with John in Lucian!!! 😊)

For an amateur philologist like myself, a reading method such as yours is invaluable to apply!

Coming back to languages, particularly Latin and Koine Greek, after a few years hiatus, I'm getting a jolt of inspiration to dive into your method - such an insight-filled video, thank you for all your work!

@polyMATHY_Luke

4 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching!

i absolutely love this guy

Awesome technique!

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Wow, I have no words, I am completely speechless for this gigantic help that you've given us. This website you mentioned is just AMAZING as well as Storybooks Canada that someone commented here. I don't know how to thank enough! Wow!!!Wow!!! Wow!!! Thank you and you have a new subscriber! I`m going to share your channel as well as the websites you provide on your video. Just amazing!!!!!

Einfach nur brilliant! Ich liebe diese Technik (und dein Buch RRR)! Als Person mit extrem bildhafter, fast comicartiger, Vorstellungskraft, ist Schritt 4 natürlich das Schönste für mich! 😅 Du repräsentierst die Technik in deinen Videos absolut perfekt, sodass man einfach gebannt zuhört, auch ohne anfangs jedes Wort zu verstehen! Wunderschön! Besonders dich auch in den anderen Sprachen zu hören! 😍 Meine Teddys und Fetty klatschen laut Beifall! 😁😻

It reminds me of having spent three years studying Koine Greek from 11 to 14 years old. I couldn't actually read the New Testament until I started to listen to the audio recording from both the Erasmian and modern pronunciation. That's how I picked up Greek. That was 10 years ago. Now I'm 24 and a junior at the University of Evansville in Classics with Language and Literature Concentration, double major in Religion. I have a long ways to go to get to the level of proficiency in this video. But simultaneously, I do have a very good plan and also agree with what he's saying. Speak Greek. Speak Latin. Speak Russian, German, English, Sanskrit, whatever. Speaking is the key. That's how I picked up both Modern Hebrew and also German and Russian.

This video clearly outlines how to go about learning another language. I liked how you explained the method, and how you demonstrated the method in the 2nd half of the video. I always feel like I need to look up every unknown word, but I'd still like to try out this method! Thank you for making and posting the video!

@polyMATHY_Luke

7 ай бұрын

You’re quite welcome! Give it a try, and come back here to let us know how it went. Not every method words for everyone, but this method works for me.

You truly are a genius. This research you've done on languages is so beneficial. I'm going to try this method. I've never tried a method like this before. I try to learn by brute force, but it never works. Thank you for sharing !

@polyMATHY_Luke

2 жыл бұрын

Try it!

This was the first time I’ve heard you speak English and I’m shook

I'm very happy for having found this video, because I started using a somehow similar method to learn German reading Die Unendliche Geschichte, loosely based on what Ranciere explains in The Ignorant Schoolmaster and on other feedback. Although I had some German classes before coming to Germany (I understood the basic grammar), when I arrived I realized I couldn't effectively communicate with other people. I started reading slowly aloud, then used deepl to give me a (roughly) translated version of the paragraph whenever I felt I needed it, and as I was living with a German speaker, she corrected me whenever she heard something odd. At the begining I put a lot of emphasis on remembering words (I usually wrote them down and looked for them in the dictionary), but after a while a could go on more or less fluidly, looking for words less and less (I used almost 20 pages to write vocabulary and notes for the first chapter, and not even half a page for the last one). I wish I would have seen your video sooner.

@luiscortesvergara

2 жыл бұрын

Is there a similar method (and set of videos, if possible) for learning Arabic?

Thank you for thoroughly explaining the method, I appreciate the ample examples and also the length of the video! I will definitely try this, but definitely not with the book I'm currently reading, as War and Peace would then become the last book I will have read in my lifetime. But it does seem like the perfect method for reading short stories, which most of the time even in their own right deserve to be read a couple of times in one sitting. One experience I found interesting and fun was trying to read at a pace even faster than the rate one would speak: Because there's no time to vocalise the words in my head, it's like the mind goes straight to processing images from the text itself. The level of comprehension naturally goes down a bit as you don't have time to figure out specific words from morphological clues (which is actually really fun especially with Russian), but because doing so helps 'imagine' scenes it can become even easier to figure them out based on context. I understand this is what people do when speed-reading in their native languages, but doing it for the first time in the process of learning a foreign language with comprehensible input added a new layer of enjoyment to language-learning for me. It could even be inserted somewhere among the 7 steps of reading :)

Luke, i can't express how grateful I am to you for creating and sharing this technique. Absolutely brilliant information on the aspects of acquiring a language. And your content is unique among everything around. I find your method so suitable for myself and positively effective. Thank you so much! Спасибо от всей души!

@polyMATHY_Luke

2 жыл бұрын

I'm really glad to hear that!

I’ve used similar methods. The most difficult part is getting your hands on interesting texts. I think it’s one of the reasons people think you have to go to the country. It’s just easier to find interesting media.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Well said!

Thank you of this video! You give me motivation for learning " linguam Anglicam et linguam Latinam"!!!

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

I’m delighted to hear that!

I already do like 3 of those steps at a given time. I maybe add more steps when I am comfortable those 3 steps are working for me right now.

Brazilian portuguese speaker over here and I just wanted to thank you for the tips and congrats you for your great Brazilian accent and pronunciation. Keep going dude ;)!

you are very educated and articulate.

How come I didn't get any recommendations from YT to this phenomenal channel? Thank you very much for the free content!

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

As thanks so much!

Very cool. I've been studying Italian for a year starting with Duolingo then KZread learning some solid A1 skills. I then started approaching my studies using some of the elements you outline here. I will be tweaking my approach to better match your system. I often "act out" the Pimsleur audio lessons or yell at my kids in Italian. I also write out sentences and things I want to talk to my online instructor about. I transcribed a lot of videos including a lengthy one recounting the history of Caraffa using the closed caption in Italian. Thanks for the great videos, from one rotorhead to another.

So glad I came across this video. I just picked up the Japanese audio version of the Sorcerer's Stone the other day and planned to listen to that alongside the copy of the book I bought ages ago but only ever got through the first few pages. I imagine I'll be in reading pain for a while but I'm glad I found a methodology to work through and hopefully make more progress this time around. Your mention of the brand of reader that you use for Romanian allowed me to find a book in the same brand for Japanese! So I'll be picking that up at some point soon as well. Heck, if I like the book then I might consider grabbing it for French too as that's something I've been wanting to start up sometime this year. Thank you so much for your in depth explanation of your method but also you actually going through the steps as an example. I think there's a lot of language learning channels out there that talk about how to learn a language or the theory behind their practice but they never actually show exactly what it is they're suggesting. This has been really helpful.

@polyMATHY_Luke

2 жыл бұрын

I’m really glad you liked it! Thanks

Thanks!

I have been using this technique with scorpios videos, and magister craft, videos. I am also doing the same on Satura Lanx’s videos. Also it REALLY helps having the Latin translation to help read along with the videos.

I'm learning English right now listening to you, with such a sweet voice❤️‍🔥 Luuukeeee

Luke, I stumbled across your channel recently and I love it! You inspired me to relearn Latin. Also, you really, REALLY need to look into Classical Arabic. You don’t know what you’re missing, trust me. A highly inflected and poetic language with crazy mathematical morphology and phonology, unbelievably large and wacky vocabulary and an ancient tradition that is mostly unknown to western audiences. It would be right up your alley. Try it, you won’t regret it! I would be interested to hear your thoughts on it.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

I adore Fusha! I only know very little. I promise I’ll learn it! Thanks for being here 😃

Thanks, that helped me a LOT. I really apreciated it, Lex Luthor.

I use a very similar method. It helped me tremendously improve my Spanish. I used Harry Potter and finished the first 5 books. Very helpful! I am using almost the same method with French using Assimil and some Olly Richards books. This is legit! Thanks for sharing!

Great suggestions Luke, thank you. Personally , when I am learning a new language, I like to listen to songs and read illustrated stories for children, so that I take andvantage of music and illustrations to memorize new words.

I'm sharing this video with literally everyone I know

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Aw thank you!

You look exactly how I imagine an elite Roman from the third century AD to look like.

I’ve been copying this technique exactly to learn Russian via LingQ and it has helped immensely. You learn words, learn how to pronounce them, and learn how they work in different contexts all at the same time.

Dear Luke, thank you for this content. It really is a blessing to be able to access all this information for free. As a student myself I always have to look for the cheapest option in order to acquire knowledge or practice my hobbies, so this is just perfect for me. Greetings from Germany.

@polyMATHY_Luke

3 жыл бұрын

Ich danke dir für dein Kommentar! The pleasure is mine. Thanks for watching and sharing my video!

Salve! I’ve started doing this with some of the texts from Latinitium and have been really enjoying it, my pronunciation has improved so much. But I’d love for someone to release an audiobook of Harrius Potter because I’d love to try this with it too.

@apolloniaiuliaaureliana3361

3 жыл бұрын

ITA! Esset tam mirum si aliquis audiobook facere posset🥳

So I went and applied this to my learning Hebrew on LangQ and immediately started seeing results more quickly. Thanks for your time and quality advice! שלם

@teresita.lozada

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yessss. I was thinking of doing is with LingQ.