Agree 100%. I walk for an hour every day listening to Spanish podcasts. I'd be bored walking without listening to them, AND I'd be bored listening to them not walking. Works great for me.

@sabbysky

3 ай бұрын

No idea how you can be bored while walking or bored while listening to something, that must be a talent of some sort.

Language learning’s most underrated learning method imo. Great video.

Damn, I just found your channel and love it beyond imagination. I am Polish and listen to Catalan, Swedish, German and French every time I skateboard. I am an English teacher living in Spain.

I love listening to podcasts while taking a walk (or driving) because the walk and podcasts are the around the same length. I listened to a lot of French this winter while shoveling snow! Doing mindless motions helps put you in the flow state, which is probably great for language acquisition! (Edited to correct a word)

I love walking and listening! Also, I enjoyed your exercise demonstration. 😂

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

Whatdya mean demonstration... I was actually doing my workout. 🤔

@EricaRayLanguage

3 жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords My bad! 😅

The 'exercise' reminds me of when Kermit The Frog would dance. 😃

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

He's probably a way better dancer TBH

I remember hearing about a study that said children at a school could remember information better if exercising close to the lesson. It was something to do with nerve connections or something. Really don't remember in detail, but there's another benefit apparently. Personally I use my spin bike (they're surprisingly cheap) while watching Netflix in my target lesson.

Finally! All 10 tips! 🙌 EDIT: okay now I gotta go back to the first video because it's been 2 mo and don't remember them all off the top of my head lol 😅

My days of French (and no Swedish) have involved listening to French audio every day at lunch while I walk. This is been for much of the past 19 months. I agree, I am able listen for longer than if I am just sitting somewhere. Sometimes I space out and think of other things, but much less than just sitting somewhere quiet. I also listen to 10 hours of French on a 1,000 km drive I have do do every 2 weeks (don't ask) and I feel that I benefit from that too. So yeah, I guess I agree with you.

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

I love a good 1000km drive but I dunno that I would if I had to do it every fortnight! I have to do about 7 hours each way every 6 to 8 weeks which is pretty much perfect. But to Melbourne every two weeks would be horrible, because it doesn't use the coast road! Great that you've been able to get so much French in so consistently!

1:04 favourite workout routine 🙏🏻

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

I do it before every video. 🤭

Since I started picking up 50% comprehension on Korean dramas I have been exercising while watching. I mostly just get out a yoga mat in front of the TV and stretch if their are subtitles. But lately because I have made ground on my Korean I have started watching Dramas from the early 2000s and 1990s that never did get English subtitles and really don't have a plot that I need to follow too closely.

@faithbwire9164

3 жыл бұрын

Could you share some titles

Such a great point - I think very few people consider the TIME cost of language learning, which might be why so few people pursue it or end up quitting early on. I wish I was better at listening to audiobooks and things while exercising. I generally do exercises with sets/reps and so it's too difficult to count/focus while listening to books. It would be great it was more comfortable to walk where I'm at right now (I actually wore earplugs on my way to work today to prevent hearing damage because the road I walk to get there is so loud). It sounds SO cool to imagine walking in a place that was similar to a setting in a story, though!

My experience is that it is absolutely helpful to be walking or running and listening to an audiobook or a podcast. Most commonly, I walk, read the ebook (usually using LingQ) and listen to the audiobook samtidigt. In 6 months of doing this every day, my comprehension is astoundingly better in both reading and listening. 8 months ago in an italki lesson I didn't understand "Hur mår du?", in the next week I will have finished "the millennium trilogy" in Swedish. I cannot recommend walking enough to help get you into a "flow state" while reading.

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

I feel like you proved your ability in Swedish when you said "samtidigt" because I know EXACTLY WHY you used that rather than the English - I do it too, it's just easier than saying "at the same time" and its meaning is more accurate than "simultaneously". But holy crap I am jealous - it took me 3 years to reach a similar level in Swedish because I tried to talk my way to fluency rather than comprehending my way there.

@hillmanntoby

3 жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords That's high praise, but you're exactly right it was just "easier" than saying at the same time! I sometimes wonder if I can help create loanwords in English. If we can accept Schadenfreude, why not samtidigt? Though don't get me wrong, before starting with italki 8 months ago I had been using Duolingo and Memrise a year before that. One day I heard about italki and starting using it, another day I heard about "mass [compelling] input" and went to ebay and bought books. I am now technically about 2 years in, but I can say definitively that my progress began really began 6-8 months ago.

I have definitely noticed walking or playing around, dribbling with a basketball helps me remember better. I’ll have to try it with those workout moves you shared.

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

They are passed down from the Ancient Masters. 😆

I am glad🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 that you finally responded to my comment on the previous video. Now, I will write the comment I wanted to write in the other videos. For me, I am having a difficult time finding a Japanese 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵 audiobook with furginana. There are Japanese 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵 audiobooks with Kanjis but I don't know the Kanjis. I am in a completely hopeless situation.

@jahayrac8636

3 жыл бұрын

It may be somewhat painstaking way to do it but if you have the text and just listen to the audio you can figure out the readings through listening. Additionally it'll help with learning to parse the language. You can also slow down the audio a tad to give you a chance to catch it. If you're using a kindle (app or device) you can select the text and get a definition. When the dictionary doesn't help I just use the handwriting feature of my keyboard and just write the kanji into a Japanese dictionary I have on my tablet. Good luck!

@FlowUrbanFlow

3 жыл бұрын

Drill vocab with Anki

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

You're gonna have to learn kanji if you want to get good at Japanese. This is one thing that stops me from even thinking about learning a character based language at the moment. I don't use Anki and I think it's almost a necessity for those languages.

@FlowUrbanFlow

3 жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords Learning kanji independent of words is more work than necessary and doesn't really add any value. When you learn a bunch of words using the kanji you end up developing an intuition for the readings of the kanji as well as a general idea of what the meaning is. Through Anki I have been able to correctly pronounce and define words I have never seen before because I understand the kanji subconsciously. I had a kanji deck in Anki for a bit and eventually realized it didn't add any value and in fact added work. If you learn kanji by itself, you're forcing yourself to get 2+ readings and a general meaning for the kanji. This could be instead substituted for learning words that use each reading of the kanji. Therefore you learn the kanji, it's readings, it's general idea, and some vocabulary along the way. In my 3 years or learning Japanese, this has been the most efficient way of learning to read

@erikjernqvist3862

3 жыл бұрын

I would recommend you just get kanji out of the way with Remembering the Kanji and/or Kanjidamage (just google them). The fact is that the problem you are talking about, i.e. seeing the kanji and wanting to know what the readings are, is an order of magnitude easier than the reverse; just hearing a word and figuring out the meaning/what kanji are being used. If you don't want to go my recommended route you can use a pop up dictionary or read materials aimed at a younger demographic (and will thus have a generous amount of furigana).

Amazing content. Subbed.

I love doing this. Before the summer hit I was running a 5k every other day. Automatically I'd get 40-50 minutes of listening to my target language. Was a great balance where the running helped me stay focused on the audio, and the audio helped me stay distracted from running. Can't wait for the summer to end so that I can get back to it, I can't really run more than 20 minutes on a treadmill without getting super bored.

Loving the music mate!

Absolutely agree on the value of light distraction. For me that usually comes in the form of games on my phone (mostly because battery optimisation settings turn my audio off after a few minutes if the screen is off and partly because it soothes my sense of dread). Pretty sure the combination of TTS software and the light distraction of a game is the only way I am getting through my master's degree!

I’ve enjoyed your tips, these videos are very encouraging.

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

I am late in finding your channel, but this series has really encouraged me to jump back in this method more seriously and with more focus. I've made a new Spanish profile on my Netflix and dug out my handful of Spanish language children's books and cookbook. My next move is to visit the local library as I am also certain they will have a decent sized Spanish language section. I had felt soooo bogged down in Duolingo. If I never see the word "boligrafo" again it will be too soon. In all my trips to Latin America I have never had to ask for a pen! Haha I also want to thank you for your review of Busuu. It jumped me ahead to A2 and I am finally learning again.

I can't wait until I can do this! I currently still need the gestures and facial expressions in easy youtube videos. But I'm really looking forward to listening while I walk.

Very unique channel. Nice style, humor, combined with solid info. ✨✨✨

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

I appreciate you saying so.

This is absolutely worthy of being kept updated! It is such good advice! You know the ancient Greeks advocated some mnemotechnics very akin to this, only they of course would tell something to themselves, and Demosthenes - the famous orator - walked on the beach where he wanted to be able to talk louder than the noise of the storm, to practice is voice and speech, because he had some handicap in that sphere, if it was a lisp or a stammer? So of course you help others with something very functional here. This is also akin to how children pick up language and stories from adults who think a child is just playing with something in his/her hand, but it turns out s/he heard and remembers every interesting word! We have wonderful props at hand nowadays! And I for my part also pick up English from your videos!

I'm still early in learning Spanish, but one thing I've done is I've started listening to Dreaming Spanish videos I have already seen. One of the remarkable things I've noticed is that because I've already seen the video, simply listening to it will bring up pictures in my head of what I previously saw. This obviously works better with his beginner videos because he draws, but I imagine the same thing can be done by listening to a a TV show you've already seen, for example. I don't know if retriggering these mental images you helps acquire the language any better, but I have found it makes comprehending the words that much easier.

I started doing your exercise exclusively and I'm happy to report I'm now shredded

I tried this this morning and it worked well. Walking while listening seems to help. I'm sure associating different places with different words will be a big help.

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome!

Totally. Listening to podcasts in Persian is the only positive thing about cycling to/from work for me hahaha

One draw back to jogging/running or making myself do more intense exercise (I'm not really fit though) is that I can't listen to audio books. I've tried. Walking works really well though. Thanks for the reminder.

Incoming contrarian ^^ : to me suggesting to do something else to better pay attention is essentially trying to avoid what the actual problem is. Namely, you have trouble concentrating/focusing. I guess we don't have to try to improve that, but there may be a very real sense in which we're putting a hard limit on ourselves by just ignoring that problem and trying to find tricks to get around it. If you go back in 2 years and try to listen to an audiobook while doing nothing else, you'll struggle just as much to keep the "superficial level" of the mind from taking over than you do today, because you will have done nothing to try and improve that. Ultimately, for me the lack of time is really the only reason I listen to stuff while doing something else. But it comes at a cost. At the very least, when you go walking in the woods listening to an audiobook, you're depriving yourself of the auditory experience of being there. No attention to the birds singing, the sound of the wind in the trees, or even just the silence of being there. Then I guess you have to weigh how much that experience is worth to you vs. putting more time into language learning. And you have to decide for yourself whether training your mind to be able to focus better is something you want to do or not. Because you certainly won't train it to do that by multitasking. So yeah, maybe you find that you can pay better attention by doing something else than your default. But your default won't improve at all if you never work on it. This message was sponsored by team meditate 40min a day. ^^ Anyway, just my opinion.

hey man looking at your videos from Qatar , great content , i would like to know where i can get books with audio learning swedish

Me, having a hobby of both, sailing and language learning, now not having money neither time 👀

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

That's rough - like the ocean on a windy day. 😄

Я это попробую. Думаю что это очень интересно упражнение ! :)

At what level (A1, A2, etc.) should I be before listening to books in my target language? Sorry, I’m new to the input method. Where would be the best place to get easier French audiobooks? Thank you for your videos.

Lamont! Har du sett Snabba Cash än (netflix serien)? Stort tips!

Lol love the last part because it's true.

the end is the best part of the video 😂

Hello honourable gentleman. When are you going to do longer videos, as you used to do several months ago? Nice video.

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

Coming this Saturday! Be there!

@stevencarr4002

3 жыл бұрын

Shorter videos are great! I really enjoy the short length format. I think they are much better as they force the maker to find the best way of expressing their ideas.

@joachim1006

3 жыл бұрын

@@stevencarr4002 I personally prefer longer videos. Short videos are okay though.

Hey, I started doing this yersterday, it was my first time listening to an audibook in english, but there are sometimes that I got a bit distracted or I don't understand a part. Should I go back or just continuing with the audibook?

Do you read or listen to it in advance before you go for a walk? What if there are some words or even sentences you can't understand do you just keep listening and come back to it later? I notice that the majority of my time is spent in studying the grammar of my target language which is Spanish and not enough immersion i.e listening and reading. I want to completely change this and spend like 90% immersion and only about 10% deliberate study. When I read something for a beginner I understand it because I have time to analyze and think about a sentence. On the other hand, just listening to the story without pausing makes me miss a lot of words and at times not follow the story that well.

What pood did you mean !I cuddent recognize what you talking abaut !Thank you Lamont you are number one !Good luck with Swedish !You giving so mutch are positiv!!Yes love English what a language yea like it !Have in my childhood difecultis to learn English!But now it beter on !What abaut babbel?Yes I shall study English English yes to read English and written !Good good it is Rosetta stone is not good it is boring And Link is not what I need

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

Vilken pod?? Jag pratade inte om någon pod, tror jag. Du menar kanske Nextory, appen som jag använder för att lyssna på ljudböcker på svenska (och ibland engleska). Det går bra att skriva på svenska till mig förresten.

I would agree... if my comprehension was more than 2 words in a minute of audio. I work a very boring job that I can do thoughtlessly, so I’ve been listening to my target language for 9 hours a day. It hasn’t seemed to do much.

@daysandwords

2 жыл бұрын

What language? (And what languages or languages do you already speak?)

@EmpressEris

2 жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords French is the target language. I natively speak English, I have piss poor German, and I tried Norwegian and Japanese awhile ago. My main hurdle is finding the time to study and grow in French when I'm working as much as I am. If I could find a way to properly harness the 9 hours I have at work where I can listen but not look, I'd be in good shape. ATM I've just been using the time to immerse myself with live news streams in French, as well as spending time listening to grammar lessons and phrase/key word videos.

If you are moving, you are exercising. So, yes, as a white guy, I have "exercised" like that.

If that was a real workout, I would totally exercise more. 😂

Where can I find/buy audiobooks in Swedish? Lättläst ljudböcker. I have found a couple of websites but Im not sure if they are legit specially because they have membership and ask for your card info right from the beginning

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

Nextory, Storytel, Book Beats - they are all legit. Nextory is the only one I've actually paid for but I've seen Swedish reviews of all three.

How do I download swedish audio books though? Audible wont let me select it as the default langiage6

@daysandwords

2 жыл бұрын

Audible is garbage, I wouldn't touch it with a envoy raven, letalone my own hands. Storytel is the way to go, or maybe Nextory. When you sign up with Storytel (on a browser) make sure to choose Sweden or one of the 4 Nordic mainland countries so as to make sure you're offered Swedish. It's easiest just to choose Sweden.

@skoe3251

2 жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords tack!

Linkkvist you mean that you prefer

How many do you figure you'll have read by the end of the year?

@daysandwords

2 жыл бұрын

Oh well the "number" has significantly decreased since I started paying more attention to WHAT I read or listen to rather than just reading a lot. e.g. I listened to Kampen om Järntronen (Game of Thrones) twice through. That's like 75 hours there, so that would be 7 normal books. But I have read or listened to 30 unique books in Swedish (not counting anything that would be a short story), and 23 of those were this year. I should try to get to 25 by the end of the year actually (I would say like 28 but then I'll just start choosing short ones again). Honestly I don't read as much as I really should, in any language.

Lamont, I have a question regarding how you get audiobooks. Perhaps you have already answered this, but how do you get your audiobooks? The only platform I know of is Audible and those tend to be pricey. Are there other places you use that are most cost effective? Also, thanks for your content. Iy really helps me stay motivated in my language journey. Clay Mathews

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

Audible is not only pricey but garbage also. I get them from Nextory which is amazing, but Storytel is another option and Book Beats if you live in Europe. It will depend on your TL but for Swedish any of those is are fine.

@DoingEvil01

3 жыл бұрын

Audible really is garbage. I signed up, and had to dig and dig for French language books. I even engaged customer service to find them. They had 9... and all at an additional cost.

@cheryl184

Жыл бұрын

Hi Clay: You could try checking your local library. My local library has quite a lot of audiobooks in other languages. Of course, it will depend on the language you are learning and the size of your library. 🙂

I have such a hard time studying in any form. My mind wonders and within minutes im not paying attention and my memory sucks.

@pooppoop5161

2 жыл бұрын

Meditation

I have an excellent collection of doorknobs

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure that'll open a lot of doors for you.

Anders Hansen?

These audio books of today are almost a form of "bringing back the radio" (all you need to have is a few radio dramas to add to the menu - might be a good study resource, actually? - Didn't Sweden have its own version of The Men From the Ministry, back in the days of the ox wagons?) I had what turns out to be the unintended benefit of that: No TV. Our old regime spent years maintaining that TV was a thing of the Devil, so long after the world had moved on from all gathering around the radio to listen to the shows, to potating over to the couch in front of the TV set, we had radio. The benefit is that the scene is something you make in your own mind, as you're doing with the audio books. Here's an example of why some radio drama might be a nice variation on audio books: kzread.info/dash/bejne/nYOb1bCRY5bIqc4.html

Where do you find audiobooks in your target language?

@daysandwords

2 жыл бұрын

I mostly use Storytel which has like 16 languages (sign up for it by choosing the country you want, otherwise that language won't necessarily be an option for you) but I have to say, in Swedish, it's CRAZY easy. Like Swedish would be in the top 5 audiobook languages in the world in terms of how much material there is (beaten only by languages with hundreds of times the number native speakers).

@Purpleeest

2 жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords thanks, I'll check it out, if it doesn't have the language I'm looking for (Korean) after watching some of you other videos I realised I should just look for an audio book service in my native language anyway so fingers crossed I'll find something. Worse case maybe I can find audiobooks on KZread in Korean

@Purpleeest

2 жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords it has Korean 💖✨

Jag är så glad för dina KZread-bidrag, Lamont! Tack för dem alla! Om jag skriver på svenska, svarar du mig på svenska då? Det hoppas jag att du gör! Du har så rätt, att ha språk som hobby kan vara mycket billigt i pengar räknat och man kan hålla på med sina språk mycket självständigt - samtidigt som man i tankarna har en upplyftande kontakt med dem som har skrivit texter, gjort filmer eller skapat KZread-material, och med dem som kommenterar och delar med sig av sina erfarenheter. Det finns ett Sverige för varje individ, och det finns svenska texter för all smaker, och det finns ett sätt att lära sig språk för varje inlärningsstil. Nu har jag börjat föreställa mig att du kommer till Sverige och blir språklärare här i någon form, i åtminstone svenska och engelska. För trots alla mina idéer om att man kan klara sig utan kurser och bli mycket bra på ett språk ändå, så finns det många fördelar med att delta i undervisning också. Tänk om just du skulle testa att ge en sommarkurs på en folkhögskola att börja med? Var inte rädd för att skriva och erbjuda dig som lärare - att få en första erfarenhet kan kräva en liten extra insats. Men får du napp, så kan det bli givande för alla parter! Kolla här: www.folkhogskola.nu/om-folkhogskola/faq---vanliga-fragor-och-svar/fragor-om-kurser/hur-hittar-jag-alla-sommarkurser-som-ges-pa-folkhogskolorna/

AND you dont even feel tired or the time passing, when you do jogging without listening anything is kinda boring and can demotivate you to do it again.

@daysandwords

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, although when I was seriously into running, I used to run for almost 2 hours without any music or anything.

fist bump

geez that sucks

@furretar6484

3 жыл бұрын

You're wrong

@kirklingthegypsy8068

3 жыл бұрын

@@furretar6484 u r stupid