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I think a combination of language learning and acquiring languages can make one become fluent pretty fast and remember the language a lot better. I combine both methods when I learn languages.

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

Very true!

@weshouldsaveourselves6780

Жыл бұрын

isnt the whole premise of language acquisition to show that active studying of something so natural like a language isnt effective in the long run. so why include studying at all if its not as effective as acquisition.

@alanshuhimeabdulmajid3973

7 ай бұрын

I m in a middle of a junction between learnong grammaire et acquiring it..french . I m so accustomed with learning via text book...its boring n french is très dificile via learning. But recently many polyglots n some french prof. Recommended comprehensible input = acquiring. Should l forget grammaire learning n totally switched to comprehensible input = acquiring?

I'm the same with Spanish, I stopped actively learning it in terms of studying with books and such. Now i just immerse myself in media meant for native speakers to acquire more vocabulary and see grammar constructs I learned in useful context. sometimes there comes a point where burying yourself in textbooks and flashcards just doesn't cut it, you need to see how the language is naturally spoken. I think the method that worked for me was learning first and then using those skills to just go with immersion suitable for my level and slowly increasing the difficulty.

I totally agree with everything you're saying! As a Linguistics student, we study how children vs. adults learn/acquire languages; I'd definitely say that at least from what I've seen, the most successful mastery over a language is always with people who "notice" grammar and syntax (i.e. acquiring!) vs. those who simply drill study. Great video!

@silverbowftw5225

3 жыл бұрын

Hello! Could you elaborate on it please? I’m currently bilingual and learning german as my third, but I’d like to know tips

Ha.. At least I acquired one, yes my mother language 🙃

@HonoreDeutsch

3 жыл бұрын

LOL, you are like me, I acquired only one language, I don't want to learn others, cz I'm American.

@USEDtoRule

3 жыл бұрын

@@HonoreDeutsch LoL that's true 😎 Actually, besides my mother language I got 3 even more, although only the local language in my country

@thinkingofthingstolearn5327

2 жыл бұрын

Winning 😂

I totally agree with Stephen Krashen. That's what I did with Spanish, from day 1 I have read and listened to simple stories, with a lot of repetitions. And a lot of listening while doing other things. I only make sure that I understand the content, and don't try to understand every single word. After six months, I am able to understand pretty interesting and fun content. I don't try to memorize words - when I see a word in several different places, I will begin to understand the word anyway, without any learning. Slowly I develop a feeling for grammar. After 6 months, I understand more Spanish than French, which I learned for 4 years at school. Soon I will be able to read longer books. I don't need to *know* the meanings of words - I want to *understand* them. I don't want to know grammar rules, but rather have a feeling of what is right and what is wrong. When I throw a few million words of comprehensible input at my brain, it will have no choice but to develop a good understanding of the language

@carloscarias6276

2 жыл бұрын

Very interesting! I’m new to the concept of acquiring a language.How can i unlearn the habit of trying to understand every single word or follow a traditional method instead of understanding the content or in other words getting the gist?

@deiongray1283

Жыл бұрын

Very encouraging

@bastianse8235

Жыл бұрын

That's good but Do you speak now?

When I was acquiring English, I had no one around to speak to. So i was just talking to myself as if there was someone in front of me. When you said silly things, I remembered that method I used. And I think it worked pretty well! Also, thank you for your amazing informative videos! Keep up the good work. Love from Turkey!

@AfroLinguo

3 жыл бұрын

I also spoke to myself when I was learning German, Though I was living in Germany, I had no one to speak to so I started speaking with myself and it made my German get a lot better.

@hizmetbes

3 жыл бұрын

@@AfroLinguo yes, it’s an effective way to learn languages. I will continue to use this method with other languages as well.

@Senacesn

3 жыл бұрын

@@hizmetbes What other languages would you like to learn?

@hizmetbes

3 жыл бұрын

@@Senacesn I am learning Spanish at the moment. Bu I would also like to learn Italian, Japanese and maybe French and German. I have a long way ahead of me but I’m eager to see my progress!

@BATOMNI

3 жыл бұрын

I might use that. Im trying to learn korean and so far i have knowone to talk to in korean.

Your languages videos always give me motivation to continue my language's learning process. You rock💪 # club of too many taps open on the browser here!! 🤣

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

Yes!! thank God, I'm not alone hahaha

A combination of both methods seems to be working well for me. I am learning, acquiring Argentinian Spanish to help me communicate in a meaningful way with my coworkers at a large farm in California. Gracias.

@LauraMaliszewska

2 жыл бұрын

Best of luck!

I think that for start you need to learn but after it is more about acquiring.

@MarcosJunior-ms4pq

3 жыл бұрын

I believe that as well

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

yes! so true 😍 I think the best combo is to learn actively and do a lot to acquire passively, just like we did with our native languages. you're all set then!

A very informative and balanced video. In my opinion, learning and acquisition work together, but learning is more effective in the long run. Acquisition is key to producing natural speech and extending vocabulary. Ever since I began acquiring more, I am able to write in a journal using French and German, as well as understand videos. Acquiring is also important for reading. I have to force myself not to worry about unknown words while reading, as those will be acquired through context. However, I always back up my acquisition with learning. Whenever I acquire something, I deconstruct it using the tools I have gained through conscious study of a language. It's insufficient for me to simply pick things up: I have to know *why* the language is that way, why something is wrong (which children often do not know until taught), and what the rules are. When learning rules, I find it easier to be more flexible in what I can say. Learning rules also helps me when I do not have speakers of the target language around: I can spend the time drilling in the foundations, which makes acquiring much, much quicker later on. On top of that, I learn 2-3 languages at a time, often using one to learn another. For this work, having a solid basis in grammar, vocabulary, and syntax is crucial to accurate speech and writing. So for me, even though acquisition is very important, learning has the edge.

This is how I've been learning French! Especially after living in Francophone countries for the better part of three years. I also did some "learning" but most of my acquisition of French has been through creating French environments in my anglophone home (when out of France).

I've been ''learning'' English since about a year ago, at the beginning I did do some kind of studying with the intention to do comprehensible input later, now my way to learn is just to flow and to use the language as if it was my first language: I read stuff that I like, I watch tv series that I like, I watch a lot of youtube videos I also use some apps which help to improve my listening and to get used to the language itself I don't practice speaking yet because it's not a need for me at this moment, it's not my priority, in fact, to learn English for me is just something that I do for fun and that I really like comprehensible input is definitely the key to learn any language you want, and I also think each person have their own way to learn languages based on what their goals are, in my case all I want is to enjoy myself learning while I do something fun, and that's completely okay with me

Thank you for making it so clear for me. I'm only acquiring languages as I'm unfortunately too lazy to study but it's working wonderfully for me and I'm in love with the process.

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

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Je parle anglais, ma langue maternelle, et français, car j'habite le Québec! Et maintenant, j'apprends et j'acquiers l'islandais. Vive les déclinaisons! Je suis d'accord avec vos conseils. Merci et bonne continuation! :)

Perfect explanation! I'd like to add that all the methods are as good as they are worked out consistently. This is the key to good results. And if you are able to found the tools which are suited to your mind it's even better. But everyday training is the foundation of all.

Thank you Laura, I love your explanation and I stop by again to get tips, that’s how I learn Spanish and a bit Italien years ago and I didn’t even know that’s called acquiring... I’m Swiss German learned French in school and English as a young adult, went 3 month to New York and learn a lot. From my heart 💜 thanks! You definitely do only deserve thanks, really great! Greetings from Galicia Spain Nina

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Thank you for offering many good ideas. I bookmarked your page. When I start my next language, I might take your course.

oh I do it too when I learn a new word. google and youtube and youglish are so usefull to understand the meaning, seeing it in context, find exemples, pictures, its really a great way to practice. I don't use anki, instead I have my own notebook with pictures or drawings to help me understand the meaning and revewing them as I need or as I want. I create links between words. thanks for sharing

I love it!!! This was actually helpful ❤️

What a superb video! I like how you have described both approaches (learning and acquisition) and encouraged us to experiment and do what works for us. Recently, my Italian language learning has felt gruelling - hours of daily Anki flashcards and detailed text book lessons. I'm now working on cutting down my flash cards, getting my grammar lessons from easy bite size videos and starting to introduce immersion by watching entertaining Italian vlogs. 😀🎓 🇮🇹

I agree with you 100% you are absolutely Right, since i learned 5 languages plus my native one i almost acquiring not learning them and it really works ..Thanks a lot for this Great Video indeed , wish you Good Luck.

@LauraMaliszewska

2 жыл бұрын

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The problem is that most people do not understand the acquiring part. If you are a complete beginner, if you do not immerse yourself in comprehensible input, you will not acquire the language. Watching hours and hours of native content like K-Dramas or American sitcoms without making sense of it, will get you to the point, where you picked up very few words and phrases. Hence, makes no sense if you would like to progress. You either have to use comprehensible Input only or use approaches like the Refold method, where you to Anki wraps everyday. But we talking here about hours and hours of immersion everyday in order to progress. The more words you know the more you can go towards native content, because you will eventually pick up more at this stage. I remember that you were no beginner in French at all when you turned to this method, this is of course a total different story then, so in the case you mention, I fully agree with you. My approach is to use one beginner resource like Teach yourself, Assimil or something similar and after feeling confident with it, I turn to native content only but make sure that it is a good mix between written and visual content.

Thanks for mentioning tip #3! I often doubt myself like, "Oh no, am I learning languages wRoNg??" It's good to have a reminder that whatever works for you is good. Also, your vocab system is genius! I too am a tab hoarder ;)

very useful and motivating, thankssss!

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

You're so welcome!

Nicely explained about learning and acquiring languages. First we should understand the language

Very good!!

Bonjour Laura ! Je viens du Brésil et j'étudie les langues étrangères à l'Université. En ce moment je suis en France en échange universitaire et ce lundi je présenterai un exposé dans lequel je vais parler de l'apprentissage des langues dans un environnement numérique. Merci pour avoir fait cette vidéo ! Les informations que tu donnes sont vraiment utiles, car je ferai la distinction entre acquérir et apprendre une langue, donc ce que tu dis dans cette vidéo m'aide beaucoup. Grand merci ! Abraços🙃

Rzeczywiście wydawało mi się, że jesteś Polką, jestem Francuzem o polskich korzeniach. Mon arrière grand-mère était polonaise.

Ur awesome Laura keep it up!

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

Nice!! I'm brazilian an talk portuguese (my mother tongue) and english. I'm aiming to learn french just for fun, but I'm kinda unmotivated with the traditional way, so your video helped me! Byt he way, you have such beautiful eyes =D

THIS IS SO GOODDDDDDDDDD

Great video. I watch kiddie cartoon lessons on youtube at the same time as my granddaughter as a means of acquiring a language.

Beautiful and precise explanation, beautiful personality, beautiful voice and beautiful eyes btw. New sub here, I wish we could discuss some aspect of language acquisition some time , since I'm trying to formulate a program where I can teach English without using traditional methodology, so this information is gold. Thank you for sharing this❤️

Thank you. I am trying to acquire my mother tongue after many many years not speaking it. I also recommend finding someone you can practice having a conversation with. I am using a tutor on this platform called verbling.

Thanks so much 😍👍

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

Any time!

Great video. Thanks you :). I like the tabs idea. I also find speaking out loud while adding an emotion to words helps. Creating an emotional feeling is important because our brain remembers best when an emotion is associated to an experience. As an example, that’s why we remember our first kiss so vividly but fail to remember every kiss we ever had. So, say if I want to to learn the word ‘traurig’ in german, I would imagine the feeling of grief and sadness while speaking aloud, ‘ich bin traurig’ 😢 . I’d then use it in different contexts while having imaginary conversations. I might combine words and switch emotions. Example: ich bin traurig 😢 aber jetzt bin ich aufgeregt 😛 . Words not associated with emotion can be used in Same way by creating real life feelings/emotions and attaching them to them. I hope this is useful for anyone reading, and thanks again for the video. Very inspiring!

Very true! You just need to expose yourself a lot to the language, sure you need to concentrate and look up words ;)

Thank you

Great tips thanks! I've organically moved towards a lot of these ideas. I love the Jeff Brown Method and the ULAT. I've been noting new words on paper but love your explanation on using Anki so I've just created an account and will add that to my method going forwards! Thanks for this and all the other great tips °¬)

Comprehensible input is by far the best way to learn grammar and vocabulary.

Très bien

If you are a Dr. Krashen's follower Laura, you and I are cut of the same cloth 😃 Also, the same is true about opening many tabs in a web browser for checking the meaning of words and phrases. Not gonna lie, I was hoping I was the originator of that method, but looks like I was wrong 🥴 Well, I don't have 120 tabs opened, maybe 20 of them, maybe 30, okay ;-) And also, I use them kinda differently, but it works, that's for sure. Great job, take care 👍

Hugo from cottongue podcast talk about this theme in his first podcast

I am from Malaysia and my first language at home is English and I learnt 2 more languages which are Malay (official language of Malaysia) and Mandarin Chinese so I am pretty fluent in these languages. If you know Malay, Indonesian will be easier. Then, I learnt Japanese for two semesters in college because it's closer to Chinese and I am learning Russian on my own now. I also know a bit of Spanish and German. :)

@Musicienne-DAB1995

3 жыл бұрын

That is really good.

@AfroLinguo

3 жыл бұрын

Wow!!!! I love Malaysia. I have a malaysian who is like the coolest person I know. I will be travelling to Malaysia with him in the summer. He also speaks Mandarin Chinese and he helps me practice speaking chinese. Now my chinese is quite good thanks to him. Malaysian people are amazing. My friend can five languages. That's crazy

@adrianchiam6773

3 жыл бұрын

@@Musicienne-DAB1995 Thank you. :)

@adrianchiam6773

3 жыл бұрын

@@AfroLinguo Thank you for your kind words, bro. I know, it's worth the effort to learn languages though. I hope you have fun in Malaysia. Our accent is not as great as Mainland Chinese or Taiwanese. My favourite Chinese accent is Taiwanese. Hahaha

@AfroLinguo

3 жыл бұрын

@@adrianchiam6773 really? I personally don’t see any difference. I have spoken with people from China, Taiwan and Malaysia and I feel like the accent is not that different. Only the expressions change

I ALSO DO THE TABS! That’s why I reached 500 the maximum 😭

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

hahaha I love that!

Were an adult to learn a foreign language in the same way that a child learns, they would take years to get the basics. It take very many hours everyday for years for a child to learn. So for an adult spending one hour a day, it would take roughly ten years. The term acquiring is too woolly in my view. Acquiring is in fact a form of learning. Many people now use the terms explicit and implicit learning. When I was young, I learnt a lot of words in my native language explicitly. We all do. Both methods work, but Krashen is correct that huge amounts of comprehensible input is crucial. From what I have read, Krashen takes a hard core approach, and linguists consider his ideas to be in essence correct, but too hard core. Incidentally Indid try to acquire a language, French, when I lived in Montreal. I failed. 18 months ago I decided to learn French using implicit and explicit methods. I have had far more success in less time. I am incapable of acquiring grammar without some explicit learning. So when you learn a language, you don’t read any courses books? You don’t do any grammar study? You just listen, nothing more? BTW that you speak so many languages is impressive.

Merci bien

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

de rien!

Spanish is beautiful for me

your eyes are so beautiful

Very nice madam

From my point of view and my experience learning English ''acquiring'' a language is not that effective when you start learning the language, you must have a very strong grammar foundation (minimum the basis) for the acquiring process to work, there are some grammar structures that you cannot acquire just for listening or trying to imitate the way a baby learns his/her mother tongue.

Hello Laura, thank you for the video! I am curious, if we want to acquire a language from scratch like a child, which is the Comprehensible Input you mentioned, how do we do that? Because I tried, but I don't understand what's going on in videos and the podcasts I listen to, so I'm not sure how do we eventually equip ourselves with the language if what we listen to does not make sense? Your reply will be highly appreciated, thank you! :)

As a quadrilingual person and starting the 5th one I can tell you that yes some acquire without memorization but this is not the reality for many other people ... They are a lot of researches about it. It's a mix of them... And also some brain shapes has also something to due with it.

I’m studying English Linguistics with communication and I’m also the Vice President for my faculty and to collab with you for a program would be soooo cool

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much! I'm always open to collaborations with students and universities - if you ever wanna do something together, email me (hello@lauramaliszewska.com) 😊 Thank you for being a subscriber for 11 months now! It means so much to me ❤

Thank you for your amazing vedio, but I am wondering about did you expose yourself with comprehensied input? Because movies and music is something I can’t understand in my own language???

Using flashcards to put them off either later is not acquisition IT is learning. The technique used here is learning

I think is not necessary to have a combination of language learning and acquisition, because language acquisition is already responsible for accuracy and fluency. Language learning only creates something that Stephen Krashen called "Monitor" or "Editor". Conscious learning only helps to correct possible errors when the form of a sentence pops into our mind. So, it kinda works as an editor or a monitor. It is not effective when we are speaking a foreign language because we usually don't have time to think about grammatical aspects. The words just come out of our mouth effortlessly. The process should be the same in the target language.

@bofbob1

2 жыл бұрын

Well, even if you believe in Krashen's model of language acquisition, you may not want to minimise the role of the so-called "monitor", at least not if you want to master more formal and higher registers. Why? Because the higher the register, the more likely you are to have to use aspects of the language that aren't "acquirable" at all. Usually it's because they are aspects of language that survive from an other era. They are no longer acquirable naturally because they're just too rare and too weird. For instance, could you "correctly" use lie vs lay in all verbal tenses? Not without consciously thinking about it you couldn't. No native speaker can. Transitive/intransitive verb pairs used to be common in English. Today there are only four left. So it's just too rare to acquire and use without conscious application, and it's further complicated by the nature of the verbs themselves. (it's honestly stupid... the past tense of the intransitive verb "lie" is "lay", i.e. the same as the present tense of the transitive verb "lay".... like who comes up with this shit! ^^). Anyway, there are plenty of similar examples. You can decide that you don't care about formal registers and leave it at that. That's fine. It does come at a social cost though. If you have to speak in a formal setting and you don't master those registers, you may be perceived as uneducated, etc. So best to at least be aware of that. And if you do want to be able to use those registers, your only option is some degree of "learning" and conscious application of those rules.

el tiempo se me pasa volando con esta hermosura de mujer , los ojos mas lindos qe he visto!,thanks so much for your class baby G b youuuuu, i follow you from mexico...

I think this is a very useful information, but In my opinion (in my case) the background music interfer with understanding of pronunciation, I think without that music, the class could be so more eficient

So do you use translation when acquiring

so we acquire language from listening and look up words we listen too for the most part?

i'd like you to react to spanish music........ greetings from Mexico

You are so pretty 🤩

Hi Melissa

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How long is this silent period?, especially for adult foreign language learners?

Her accent sounds a lot like Lydia's

I acquired two languages (bilingual since birth), I can do it again for my third language and beyond💪🏽

@bastianse8235

Жыл бұрын

What's.ur second language? And you're learn the third one, right?

Тhank you for all the useful information, but the music is annoying and unnecessary.

You've got such lovely eyes!

@itachiuchiha-xj8ov

3 жыл бұрын

simp

A christian guy name P.C nelson could speak and write 32 languages in his time omg I want to acquire that many languages myself.

For me I acquired English by watching movies but somehow I couldn’t acquire Japanese through I have been watching Japanese content since I was 11 and I acquired English just a few months after watching English content , I still don’t get it

is there someone else who has no problem learning vocab of a super different language? I feel like its weird bc I just remember words so easily. i hadn't the same with French, but now it's just sooo easy to remember vocab. does anyone know why?

@AfroLinguo

3 жыл бұрын

For me, it is the same with chinese. I have been learning chinese for the past two years and I learn vocabulary quite easily.

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

maybe it's just that you're talented! I feel the same way😍

@snowflake4099

3 жыл бұрын

@@AfroLinguo great to hear I'm not alone!! usually people assume that French is easier than Finnish but for me it's the opposite bc of that haha

@snowflake4099

3 жыл бұрын

@@LauraMaliszewska oh thanks! great to hear, does it depend which language you're learning?

@AfroLinguo

3 жыл бұрын

@@snowflake4099 i think it might depend on how many languages you know. Also, I think it depends on whether you learn the vocab organically or you try hard to memorize them

How to go from intermediate to advance level in English?

@LauraMaliszewska

3 жыл бұрын

Hi! It all depends on the student. I have a free course called 'Advanced in 5 days' - I think this could help. Link is in the description 😊

It takes a child about 10 year to learn a language

I am using this technique with French (using Lingq). It has massively helped my reading ability but I feel that I am not making much progress with listening. I find myself being able to read every word in a transcript, but when I hear the sentence (evening being able to hear the words), I find myself recognising the words but not understanding what I am hearing.. It feels like I am trying to juggle, but can't catch the balls. Is this normal, and how long does it take to understand? I am currently on about 70 to 80 hours of listening.

@nicklordx9280

3 жыл бұрын

I feel the same way and I'm 8 month's into learning Spanish

@Jademoonx

2 жыл бұрын

You need to watch English shows dubbed in your target language and with the subtitles in your target language. A great one is the show 24. And for Spanish, telenovelas are great. Reading will help you acquire vocab and grammatica but not really with communication. You need to actually see how people communicate with each other and then do it yourself so by watch shows in your target language a couple of hours a day will help greatly with that.

@Jademoonx

2 жыл бұрын

Also after you read a paragraph and you understood it completely try to listen to at without reading the transcript and see if you still understand it. If not that means you need to read to again with sound and after try again without script till you understood everything.

The vidio is about learning without study but look up the mean of words and do flash cards is study. I don't understand some youtube videos 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

what beautiful blue eyes

Do you watch TV shows in Italian ?????

If your computer becomes slow turn it off and on lol

In the beginning you say you don’t do spaced repetition but later you say you make flash cards when you close tabs. Sounds like you are very confused.

@LauraMaliszewska

2 жыл бұрын

I don't follow the "traditional" application of this system - I've found a way to make it work for me. I've never seen anyone teach this method in this way. I mean, who would tell you that you could successfully learn vocabulary by opening and closing hundreds of tabs in your browser 😂

Nice to know that there are other language enthusiasts who are vegan!

That music makes it sound like you’re rappin’

Is this like Bruce Lee saying, the art of fighting without fighting?

welp

Honestly I think it's a bit mad that you think surrounding yourself with a foreign language doesn't require as much motivation/willpower as studying. Most people have absolutely no desire to sit and watch instagram reels in a language they can't understand. I believe you're essentially just describing your preference

ffs just cut throw the chase The vid starts at 7:00

You have the most beautiful eyes. It was difficult to concentrate on the video because of that. ;-)

@LauraMaliszewska

2 жыл бұрын

you can listen to it in the background then! thank you😊

Acquiring languages is the best way to speak a language. It's easier than learn languages

@Musicienne-DAB1995

3 жыл бұрын

Is ease really the best proof, though? I would certainly say that acquiring is quicker than learning, but there are drawbacks to only acquiring and not learning. I find acquiring far more effective when I have learned something, because I can use the tools (grammar, etc.) to help decode what I have just picked up in a video, or in a book.

Are everyone mad?do any of u know how many hours of input kid get.before starting to speak? Plus,it's born into The family speaking that lànguage whole damn day?kid gets 10s of 1000 of hours of input! Amazing thing is if you can get 1h of ci per day-thats only 365h PER YEAR!!!!!! U will need like 30 years to 'aquire' any language because ur not a kid born into an family speaking target language.please don't listen to people saying u just need ci....it's only small small parr

Please keep practicing your "American accent".... I am hearing "Amurr-ican" when you attempt to say "American," Laura. In this video, there were several instances where you attempted this proper noun, and you missed it every time!..... Maybe you are not hearing it properly.....One cannot reproduce a word they are not hearing. Think "very, merry, berry, Terry -- rather than "furry, slurry, Surrey."