Steve Kaufman doesn't tell folks to focus on vocabulary: he encourages them to get as much input as possible from a new language through listening and reading. He advises people not to worry about learning or memorizing vocabulary; nor to worry about learning grammar, pronunciation, etc., but to instead trust one's brain to receive and process content, then trust it to be ready for speaking in a few months after dedicated absorption.

Understanding and Reciprocating can be two different things. Also if you do not know the grammar, in certain languages like German you will end up making a fool of yourself. If you are learning online there has to be some really good ai software to clarify if you are pronouncing words correctly. Other languages like Spanish are more forgiving. The Parisians are notorious about turning their noses up against people whose pronunciation isn't perfect (I've seen this), which is why many tourists are apprehensive about visiting Paris. I've been to Paris on 4 occasions but would never visit Paris alone for that reason.

@DandoPorsaco-ho1zs

8 ай бұрын

If you don't know the grammar in German, you will end up making a food of yourself? Do you realise most Germans don't know their own grammar?

The migaku toolbar button right on top of the lingopie window in the intro killed me

I never would have guessed French is your native language...bravo. Good review.

Why I actually looked up your video, my questions regarding lingopie are: 1. is it a kind of add on? Do you have to subscribe to Netflix first within whatever subscription plan and then add lingopie on top? 2. Does it only work in tandem with Netflix or also other streaming services? Which ones, if so. 3. Do you have to choose which language you want to use lingopie for or would you theoretically have all languages available at hand? 4. Is the quality/range of content equal for all available languages or do more common languages like for example Spanish have a broader range of shows/content to pick from? 5. Does it offer Croatian? (why not improve my mediocre native language knowledge if we are at it while I want to use it for Italian) 6. Could you possibly resell a lifelong lingopie subscription if you change your mind? Thanks you for further info on that 😊

@phen-themoogle7651

8 ай бұрын

I can answer a couple of these. It does work as an extension for Netflix, but it has random tv series from the country sometimes too (sometimes a few episodes, or web series), I'm doing Portuguese and there seems to be only 100 items or less to choose from overall (maybe less than 50 hours of content but idk fully if I'm seeing everything on the catalogue, it's from what I could find, other languages probably have more content from what I see, they claim to have thousands overall). If you register for all languages you can choose between all, I did that cuz it was cheaper in the long run. I didn't see Craotian, it only has like 8-10 languages. They let you cancel if you aren't satisfied or have full refund within a certain number of days. It's probably worth it because the shows they select are easy to learn from and they have quizzes at the end of shows based on vocab you selected so you can learn through context and quiz yourself or review easily with the content. But when you get super advanced it's going to not be worth it anymore, if I get really into this I can see myself mastering all the Portuguese vocab from the series I like (like there's only 3-5 I found that I could get into, I'm picky) in a couple weeks lol, but I already added like 200 words to my vocab list just today from watching it for 30 mins?! I'm a beginner in Portuguese so it's an amazing way to study for my level. And I'm using other resources for grammar, and might ask chatgpt with screenshots from the show to explain things, cuz lingopie doesn't explain grammar in detail usually.

I heard it covers very limited stuffs from Netflix. If I choose particular language subtitles, the options are limited. Is that so?

hey, do you think translating words into native language can have negative effects ? I’m an advanced english learner, nevertheless, I always do words lookups in my native language which is portuguese

Could you compare this with Language Reactor?

As I recall, you said that FluentU's captions were created by professional translators and were of high quality. It seems, since you did not make a similar comment, that LingoPie's captions on Netflix, say, are just those of Netflix. And as we know those can be very bad.

Does Lingopie only work with Netflix?

Bro how did you learn english please ? And what helped you to become fluent ? I couldn’t guess that french was your first language.

Does it only work with Netflix or any streaming channel?

@loistalagrand

9 ай бұрын

There are lots of videos that don't come from Netflix on the LingoPie site. They are always adding new videos. However, the tool doesn't work with any streaming platform.

I want to learn Japanese, so I want to know if the subtitles will be in Romaji or in Japanese.

@loistalagrand

Жыл бұрын

I don't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it's going to be furigana. LingoPie has a free trial, so you can test this out.

I'm doing it for Portuguese, but it doesn't have a ton of content, claims to have thousands of shows/movies (but that's combined with all the other languages I think). I was able to find 2-3 series and about 1-2 hours of content that I want to learn from. Sometimes I notice a lot of the series are not complete like they have 5/12 or a certain number of episodes on lingopie and I guess that's because they just want to simplify the learning process and not overwhelm you idk I do appreciate that there's some shows I haven't seen before on the Japanese version of the site though, I'm fluent in Japanese and have seen thousands of anime and was surprised there was some anime I've never seen before lol But back on the topic of Portuguese, I wish they had a lot more content.

@shreifahmed1879

6 ай бұрын

Woow, good to know that

I strongly disagree with vocabulary being most important. I am raised bilingual (immigrants in Europe) and although I have listened and been spoken to in my native language since day one I still have huge insecurities speaking Croatian although I know all the words you'd need. Why? Because I have never been taught the grammar which is very complex and difficult. I always have to rely on how I FEEL it's said correctly but I don't KNOW. when I started learning English in school I had a badass strict English teacher who hammered the basic and later advanced English grammar into her students. Also learning "definitions" was very important to her that is if we had a new list of vocabulary there was always a sentence to explain the word. What we learned this way is that even if you don't know a certain word you learned how to describe what you mean in simple terms and CORRECT GRAMMAR. this took a lot of insecurities away to end up lost for words in a conversation if you practice this. You can always get along when you have good basic grammar to maybe explain and describe if you end up stuck. I feel like I could go work and live and have relationships in any englisch speaking country because I feel like I can express anything I want but I would strongly hesitate from my current estimation to re-migrate into my native country because of my imho mediocre ability to speak Croatian. Possible that after 6 months of being surrounded by native speakers only my "sleeper knowledge" of the language would be awakened and my insecurities would fall off but I feel way more secure with English just because I actually went through the hassle of learning the grammar. So I speak 4 languages atm and I am looking into starting with Italian but from my experience I would try to get the basic grammar whichever way possible into my head and then use tools like lingopie to expand but NOT vice versa.

Who”s lifetime? Your’s or Lingopie’s… ;-)

If one wants to improve their knowledge of say French or Spanish slang - which to go for - Lingopie, Fluentu, Yabla? I mean things like Rocket aren't going to help much with colloquial French or Spanish.

@loistalagrand

10 ай бұрын

I would go for LingoPie. But you need to have a certain base before starting.

Thanks for the video. I assume you would need a Netflix account in order to Lingopie?

@loistalagrand

Жыл бұрын

Lingopie has other videos that don't come from Netflix. But, yes, if you want to use it on Netflix, you'll need a Netflix account.

In your opinion, which is the best fit to ace a language: Rocket Language + lingopie or Pimslur + lingopie? By the way, excellent video!

@loistalagrand

Жыл бұрын

I suppose I would have to go with Rocket + lingopie. Reason being, Everything that's in Pimsleur is going to be covered in Rocket. But Rocket has the grammar lessons. Plus, one of the main advantages of Pimsleur is the spaced repetition. But you can get that with the flashcards in LingoPie.

Your english accent is remarkable. Did you use Lingopie to learn it?

so it's always on sale lol

There are not so many shows in English in lingopie actually....Disappointed :(

I didn’t like it. Not a lot of shows. And also not comprehensible.

First. Yipee.