We are studying the same languages. I am studying Chinese, French, and Italian. I am a speaker of baby level Chinese, but am currently learning to read and write characters of words I already know. I can have easy conversations in Chinese on a child’s level. I studied French in HS and a little in college. I could read some French, so there is some review there. Italian is new. It feels the hardest! But I really love it. I just can’t stay away from Italian. I met some cousins in Italy and made some friends too, so there is a lot of motivation. Sometimes I get told that Italian and French are too close to work on simultaneously. This is what I like to do though. Advice and encouragement welcome!
I keep forgetting to include Latin. Since it is not spoken much I forget to mention it. I often take breaks from this language, but I always come back to it. I really love it and feel no pressure at all.
One of my professors at university told me that after 45 minutes it was a pain for the brain to remain focused "on the same topic" and that its capacity to receive and absorb information decreased drastically. That's why he stopped explaining his lessons for about 15 minutes before he would start again. I think that analysing text and perseverance is key to language learning. So, as long as one can read and carry out this activity on a daily basis, along with "listening" possibly to the same text one is examining, in the long run (as always) a great success is going to be there, regardless of the (realistic) number of manageable topics. I study english and french everyday, but I feel that when I've no energy left for them, strange though It may seem, I can still do a lot with a different and difficult topic like chinese characters which I've found I'm very fond of. So, I really believe in you! You're an inspiration. And for this reason I'm going to put those tricky chinese characters in my language learning activity as soon as possible..
I do this 30 min learning thing a day, so little bit every day. Sometimes more and less, thou! My teacher also said that after class 15minutes a day is a good way to keep up
Not in my case, i can keep going focusing and motivated for a couple of hours per day without any problem, how ever i just skip the language to English into French or German, Russian, some times polish and Dutch, but i don't have the same level at all.
I've been learning Chinese and Korean for past 7-8 months, ended up focusing on Chinese only, as I was struggling learning both, however, I've found that after a few days of learning Chinese, I felt myself wanting to go back to Korean.. And this actually seems to working better this way, so I've stopped imposing rules and restrictions on myself and just go with how I'm feeling.. Any learning is good.. And also if you focus on the 'shoulds' you lose the fun element of it.. So just go with how you feel.. And Enjoy it 👏🏻
Thank you so much for sharing. I’ve been recently struggling with this because there are languages I want to learn because they will be very useful to me but also a language I want to learn just because I love it. However, I hated putting off the language I love and felt that it prolonged my learning overall. I recently decided to just go for it. I’m currently learning Tagalog and Korean and will eventually revamp my Spanish studies and Arabic since I’ll be moving overseas soon.
I totally agree! I m learning german and french(both intermediate level) and i recently added Russian (beginner level) and off course english(intermediate). And i m having a lot of fun!
I quote Mr. Seve Kaufmann: "The number one rule to learn a language is enjoying it." Absolutely, I don't want to learn 100 words a day. I want to have contact with my target language and have fun with it.
I did multiple languages a day when I worked as an electrician. Jobsites were half an hour to an hour one way from shop; thus, I used the time for language-learning. I did one on the way to the jobsite and one on the way back. In addition, I also almost always helped the church with food pick-ups, and the store was about an hour away from the church. Thus, I did another language on the way up and another on the way back. Now that I'm at university, I am mostly focused on Arabic (which is for my translation major). I started it on my own, and tested into Intermediate II. I really think having studied on my own helped me in class. However, I still go to Spanish and French coffee hours at university to improve my skills in those languages.
I'm currently working, in various ways, on five different languages. I'm actively working on español, Deutsch and limba română with the intent of visiting Europe again and being able to speak to many people in their own languages. My hobby languages are nihongo and Latin, for stretching my listening skills and, perhaps, going to Japan. Also, it's nice to study Latin to understand the roots of the romance languages. I like to see the similarities and differences between all the languages. Each one has its own delightful parts, plus I can watch CZcams videos in my target languages and understand most of what's going on.
When people say you're contradicting yourself, I wonder, would they prefer you to stick with a method you've found to be less useful? I always find it weird that some folks seem to think that ideas can't (or shouldn't) evolve.
Yup, same thing with criticising a politician for "flip-flopping", as if changing one's mind is necessarily a bad thing. Always thought that was silly.
@@LanguagesWithAndrew In the case of politicians, though, often they flip flop based on who's in office or to gain votes, not out of a real change of opinion. But I do agree that they should be able to evolve their thinking process and change if genuine.
@@Re3iRtH Well, when we're talking about language learning (or any process that involves the testing of hypotheses in an environment where results can be measured in some way), the bad ideas don't flourish. As long as we maintain a critical perspective and keep questioning whether things work, good ideas will always win out over bad ones.
I am working on 3 languages a day, French, German & Spanish. Also about to start Mandarin. What I really enjoy and find challenging is to watch Spanish speakers teach French and French teachers teach Spanish. The constant switching between French & Spanish is very enjoyable and mentally stimulating for me.
Current diet: Korean (Advanced) - Listening, 1-4 hours a day Japanese (intermediate) - Reading, 1-3 hours a day Italian (Beginner) - Listening and reading at the same time, 0.5 - 2 hours a day
FB fib 10/23 I do, but listening doesn't cost time because you can do it while doing anything. And I almost never use my native language in my free time
Totally agree. Like you said, the number 1 rule is fun. I do think there is a great benefit to a level of focus, and I wish I had more of it (e.g. 2 months ago I got "distracted" trying to learn some Arabic) but yeah if you're just not going to sit down and do your say, Norwegian because you are finding it boring, then I guess it is better to do something else that you might enjoy a lot more and will still have a long term benefit. Myself, I am all about going hardcore for short periods of time, e.g. I am trying to get 250 hours of French in before 2020, so as to go from being just barely expressive in French to conversationally comfortable. I am happy not to do ANYTHING else in that time because I know it will yield a decent result. But I certainly couldn't bring myself to do that for say, 8-12 months. Thanks for a good video Steve!
Great this is what I do already. I followed the number one rule which is have fun. I'm doing several languages at one time I've got no targets except improve incrementally in each one and enjoy it.
This does give some food for thought. And I think you hit on some important points, the main ones being variety and keeping things fun. I've generally been apprehensive about the idea of learning 3 languages at once despite having 3 target languages and I've kind of staggered when choose to start to learning them, not wanting them to impact each other negatively. But really, I think what I am accepting is that consistency is best and that's hard to maintain if there's monotony and when you've been doing the same thing for a while, it can get monotonous. I've been doing Vietnamese for a year, so that feels like it has slipped to the wayside in terms of focus in favour of my Mongolian now that I've gotten start with that and yet there is that part of me that's itching to get my Tuvan going but I am holding myself back because I feel like I need my Mongolian in a certain place before I do that. So I am willing to just embrace it and subject myself everyday to 3 languages. Try about about 30 mins each a day. It's 1 hr 30 mins in total, which thanks to some of the tools out there, doesn't have to be in one sitting to be beneficial, even working full time 1hr30mins is achieve, even if it's 5 mins here, 10 mins there, sneaking some in during a lunch break, or on the toilet because let's face it that's what stuff like Duolingo and friends are for as is comprehensive input. But still reserve focused study time where I can where i might tackle new and challenging things to sharpen myself. And I'll see how I get on.
Thank you for the video. I have been learning English for several years with more or less motivation, and now I have begun to learn Spanish. A great benefit for me is that I have found out that the mini-stories have the same them in different languages. So I can read and listen to the mini-stories in English and then in Spain to understand the theme.
@@murilofmartins I am currently learning two languages from scratch but I was hoping to add a third one, however, I do not have the money to hire an online tutor. The languages are French and Japanese, I would love to add German.
@@williamjames212 I'm studying alone with some apps, movies, youtubers... If you want the apps, send a email murilofm@gmail.com. I share with you. Free!
Amazing content as always Steve. Thanks for producing these incredible contents. You're a mythological figure between genius and super hero. un abbraccio dall'Italia.
In principle, I am working with three languages now. I listen to English videos in CZcams every day. I have just finished reading a next story about Sherlock in Turkish, and I am repeating the new vocabulary using the Anki, my "Turkish" deck And I am reading and listening a French simple story "Un BILLET pour le Commissaire". I create my "French" Anki deck and repeat it. I have a fun.
In addition. I agree completely that one should learn a language using interesting stories. In school, children half a year study say present perfect. Maybe, the whole year, the 1st school year. The next year - simple past and so on. In the French story I read it is all simultaneously. The words of the narrator are in present, direct speach - in the past or in the future, as in the real life. Le commissaire Grasset n’a pas envie de bavarder ce matin, il fait beaucoup trop froid. (present) Je suis désolé... je n’ai qu’un billet de 200 euros. - Ça ne fait rien ! Je vais vous le changer... (future) - On contrôlera s'il manque quelque chose. (future) Mais il a toujours été de l'autre côté, du côté des policiers, des enquêteurs. Jamais du côté des victimes... (past tence) All the tences are obivous. And besides, The story is terribly interesting. I am eager to read it to the end. And thereafter - to listen and to understand. Sometimes it is difficult The "Alors, vous avez le temps de lire" sounds like "Alors, avez l' temps d' lire". But this is the real French, not school French.
My strategy is also using writing, reading, speaking, listening, learning new words, learning grammar, or anything else, where you switch around based on what you want to do in a particular language, using novelty-seeking and excitement to your advantage.
I have on mind studying : 1- English => TedX talks. + Anki learn 10 words with pictures + Grammar exercises 2- German => Busuu 30 min + Anki learn 10 words with pictures 3- French => Busuu 30 min + Write down on paper 5 words from Busuu Greetings from Argentina!
Here: 1- Japanese 2- German 3- french And not daily but on the weekends Portuguese Corean And absolutely right, this learning method keeps the curiosity and motivation ON. Greatings from Querétaro - Mexico I dare you to pronounce Querétaro, that was considered one of the most beautiful words in Spanish :)
I do only 1 language and it is French but beside that I use English and Finnish daily. The French language is the main language I focus on what comes to learning. It is also weakest and latest one. Brilliant video!
I have been thinking of the same thing. In my case I am adding Turkish and Mandarin Chinese to Korean. There are a lot of considerations that have gone into my thinking, but this video is pushing me over the edge. I will spend - I guess - about a week doing Turkish with the Korean, and then add the Chinese. I will see what happens.
Just what I needed to hear! In a bookstore looking at Chinese books I picked up a Cantonese book. I have studied Mandarin because of my Chinese daughter-in-law and decided study both side by side. Now, taking your suggestion, I'll rotate review of others each day. (Macedonian, Bulgarian, Russian, French, Spanish and Portuguese) Liked, subscribed. Thank you so much!
i do three: irish, german and spanish. it helps that they are all from different language families. and now that i am myself (mostly) fluent in english, it has become so much easier. anyways, i really enjoy these videos. you have a very conversational and casual (?) approach. it feels much more down to earth than some other youtubers.
This is so so true. I've spent the last six months or so dedicating myself to Greek and found I'm hitting a wall, like it's lost that spark, so I think I'm going to start spending some time on a new language (either Indonesian or Turkish).
I have a goal to become an English teacher and to use TPR storytelling method with mini stories in a classroom. So I need a higher level of speaking than normal grammar teachers, I shouldn't make grammar mistakes when I'm teaching English. But after that I will start learning other languages and my approach will be different, because it won't be for a job. Great thing when you're advanced is that you can always find interesting content. But as a beginner it's hard to stay focused for a long time because it gets boring.
Sir once you reference the book Daniel Tammet "embracing the wide sky" that focus on one language and make a Environment in which you listen and speak and highly focus on one language like Daniel Tammet learned the language in a week.
Alexander Arguelles was also talking about the benefits of switching between langages you are learning - however learning two dozen languages a day seems a bit much tho... :)
Thank you, I thought that I would have to choose between Korean and Spanish at school, now I see I can do it all, I just have to work hard and be consistent
I'm studying French, Spanish, Italian and Cantonese. I want to add Catalan and Mandarin. I do cheat a little but for the sake of keeping the fun factor high.
I agree with you. Learning 3 languages a day is better. It's more interesting for starters. Also, you're right about cultural immersion. It's a lot better to learn both in and outside the classroom. It makes it more fun! Great video thank you!
I think it might still be good practice to learn languages which are unrelated to each other. Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, Russian.... They're different enough that the channels in your brain might not get crossed as easily.
Hm. Before Luca said to do only one. There are many pros and cons for both sides. I've been hesitating between 1 or 2 at a time. Thanks for answering my question. I will try 2 at a time. PS: I think doing 2 is faster but 1 provides better immersion. But when I learnt Spanish after some time I became tired of it (i burnt out before completing my plan). I returned after a detour and completed it. Also it's not worth memorizing more than eg. 10-12 Chinese words a day but that's too light and leaves some time for an easy language on the side.
Why it's not worth memorizing more than 10-12 Chinese words a day? Children memorize and forget hundreds of words a day. That's how our brains work. Before we can remember anything difficult, we have to forget it a few times.
My comment disappeared. So shorter version. Learning your mother tongue is different, you do it instinctively without thinking unlike adults. Plus you have no other jobs first. Also you forget even children learn Chinese for long years to master speaking it with correct tones (plus in bad cases a word can have many homophones some of which has several meanings) and writing (4000+ characters). Why the rush? I don't think the majority of people learn this language in 1-2 years. Why aren't you happy with a nice advanced level (11-12 000 words) in 4 years time (with 3-4000 characters plus learn an easier language on the side)? It is much more than most Chinese learners achieve.
@@carlosochoa4715 I am currently checking my hypothesis but I think it is better to first get acquainted with huge portions of vocabulary, even if not learning how to use it, but just familiarizing oneself with it. We have most of the instincts that children have. I suppose that the source of the biggest problem of the language-learning of the 20th and the 21st century is the obscenely limited amount of vocabulary provided for students. I think I understand why it is so - it is easier to test your students en masse if you expect that they learn a particular small set of words, sometimes not exceeding a mere thousand words in many years. That is how you can guarantee that your students will learn at least 900 words and pass the exams, with a person that managed to learn 4000 words being considered a genius. I think our brains can instinctively suck in tons and tons of words over the years. Children's brains have more plasticity but I doubt that the lesser levels of plasticity in adults can affect the memorization of words. I think it can slow down the memorization of sounds, not of words. By the way, I don't know about you but for me deliberately memorizing 10 words a day potentially in the same context during many days and remembering roughly 200 new words by the end of the month is worse than getting limitedly acquainted with 50 new words a day in many different contexts, remembering the same 200 new words by the end of the month, but also having the additional possibility of recalling the lost words later on.
@@carlosochoa4715 Also children don't learn how to write characters until they reach a certain age. Trying to learn characters in the beginning slows down learning substantially.
I agree with you in most things but I think I am also right. It's only a question of choice/preference (eg. 4 characters a day plus 10-12 words is very feasible if you follow the long route plus another language). As long as it works and gives you motivation it's fine. With English and Spanish I learnt a lot of vocabulary (my experience agrees with Bartosz Czekala's opinion "How many words you should know" about 15-20 000+ dictionary headwords ~ 10 000 lemma), then I re-learnt some of them upon exposure to books/dictionary revision (which agrees with your opinion). I considered Chinese differently from European languages simply because it takes much more time to memorize a Chinese word than eg. a German one. It's also true if you learn too little you might lose motivation. If you check Lindie Botes, Vladimir Skultety etc. also spent a long time with these kind of Asian languages (4-5+ years to reach a high/er level). I saw you try to learn many languages at the same time. I wish you much luck with that. I will also start experimenting myself.
Now I'm focusing on the German and the Russian, some times i pickup some new sentences in polish or Dutch, i can said just a preparation, because after the 1 st January i must to start seriously with the polish and the Dutch, but i must revising all at the same time, but I'm studying every single day at least 6 or 7 hours. I don't want to forget what I've learnt.
Interesting! I speak/study 9 languages, so I have to study more than 1 per day. I don’t fix any alounts of time, I just study the language that I feel like that day ... and that works well for,me. All a matter of personal preference! (By the way, my next language will be Turkish)
I agree that it makes sense to study more than one language a day. Certainly, two or three languages a day is manageable. However, studying more than three languages a day will limit the amount of time you can devote to each language dramatically. Therefore, two or three languages a day is probably best. Thanks.
we're up to the same adventure, steve :) i want to learn russian and just began a few weeks ago but i cannot leave icelandic alone, i cant speak it, but i love to explore it for the sake of it and thereby i begin to pick things up :)
@@srovorake6626 Hey Viktor, ja das ist so eine sache... ich hab auch keine ressourcen, ich habe die app des radio/tv-senders Rúv, da gibt es einige sendungen mit untertiteln und radio. desweiteren habe ich jetzt schon immer mal aus spaß ohne dabei jetzt unbedingt lernen zu wollen, isländisch gelesen, auch liedtexte z.b. solstafir. und jetzt lese ich immer mal wieder gern diese altisländischen sagen, die prosa edda z.b. und versuche ein bisschen was aufzuschnappen. es kommt in mir gerade die gleiche motivation wie beim norwegisxhen auf, als deutscher versteht man da nämlich einige brocken und das macht deshalb riesen spaß, und dank meiner norwegisch kenntnisse kann ich jetzt mit ähnlichem spaß an isländisch ran gehen. also meine ressourcen: radio, sagas (nebenher wörter nachschlagen mit dict.cc), tv mit untertiteln mehr hab ich nicht. spiele aber mit dem gedanken mal einfach ein buch zu kaufen und zu probieren. lernst du auch eine sprache oder kommst du gerade erst rein? wie machst/ planst du es?
Sonnenhafen Danke für die schnelle Antwort :) Ja, ich lerne aktiv Niederländisch, bin bereits auf einem guten, fortgeschrittenen Level und habe vor kurzem mit dem Norwegischen begonnen ;) Die germanischen Sprachen faszinieren mich!
@@srovorake6626 ey ja cool, also (nord)germanisch find ich auch super spaßig, niederländisch hat mich jetzt noch nicht so fasziniert (zu nah ggf.) norwegisch hab ich radio gehört und vokabeln mit anki gelernt. jeden tag nrk p2 (kulturkanal) da sprechen sie verhältnismäßig langsam und artikuliert.. dann viel erfolg dabei noch! tipp: färöisch ist wie so ein zwischending zw. norwegisch und isländisch (jedenfalls geschrieben), ist super interessant wenn man dann ma norwegisch versteht
Thank you Steve! Do you think studying Spanish and French at the same time would be problematic - being from the same language family - if I am a B1 in Spanish and currently learning on LingQ and took French years ago in school?
I'm Italian so I can help you if u want, I'm tryin to improve my bad english-speaking, we can def help each other out, feel free to contact me anytime :)
I designed the 2 for 1 Method where you learn one week language in a stronger second language. It's effective. I live in Shanghai and watch Chinese tutorials in French... my fourth language. It works!
Wow I’ve been doing the same with Spanish/ Arabic/ Egyptian Arabic! What kind of helps me is I use spanish as my base language and try to translate everything in learning I’m Arabic into Spanish and vice versa. It keeps things fun and helps me think in other languages besides English while also learning another language :)
In my case, I rlly want to learn English first. It'd be my first foreign language that i've been learning 2 months ago. I'm not able to learn many languages a day but i'm gonna try it someday if I'm ready.
I have to maintain the ones I already have, so these days I do them all briefly, and alternate them constantly. On the apps, I do them in different combinations. I don't recommend this for anyone. It's just the way I like doing it lately. "The number one rule is to enjoy it." -Steve Kaufmann, in this video
As we learn more languages, we have to struggle more and more with maintaining languages, and eventually we get tired of being rusty in too many of our languages. We eventually reach the point where focusing on one language becomes almost unsustainable.
I personally don't think you need to keep it up for too long unless you're really preparing for something. Because even if you don't learn anything, your brain still continues to learn from the material it already received in the past. Steve even mentioned such phenomena in one of his videos.
@@nendoakuma7451 I have observed it on at least 5-10 occasions, maybe even more. With English a few times, with French a couple of times, with Spanish, with Portuguese, with Italian. Even with Norwegian and with Chinese to some extent. That is how children learn. They memorize words in one context in their native language and then don't return to the given context for a few years but their brains still process the information. The biggest difference between children and adults, in my opinion, is that children learn constantly and in huge quantities, their brains are stimulated while they have fun learning new things. Adults, on the other hand, usually have to endure some boring learning materials. I suppose the brain thinks ''oh-ooh, this crap is boring and therefore probably useless, I'd better forget it''. I mean, let's compare the way I was learning French. When I was 12, I tried to learn French ''as an adult would'', with verb conjugations and word lists. When I was 20, however, I tried learning the language ''as a child would do'', just listening to tons of material - audiobooks, youtube videos, videogames. At first, I couldn't understand anything, having to ask ''my daddy Google Translate'' what every single word means. But after a couple of years, my brain started to create relatively complicated sentences in French just by itself. It is very similar to what happens in the brain of a child.
@@TypicalRussianGuy my kids are learning french and mandarin. I notice that they just speak without worrying if they are right or wrong or grammar. They just want to communicate. They are not worried about exactness and I think that makes the difference. Also their minds seem quicker and their recall is faster than mine though I'm better able to use mnemonics to help remembers.
In my opinion it's okey to learn more than one language but only if you already know other languages from the same family. For instance, in Lucas case, he's learning Danish beside 2 other languages because he already speaks Swedish, so it would be easier for him than if the 3 languages were all new and don't relate to other ones he learnt before.
Just in time! Hahaha I've just started learning 3 languages a day, French Spanish and German, sometimes also Portuguese and Italian. I used to be very afraid of it, even so as I would delay studying Spanish and French for my Italian and delaying German for my Norwegian and delaying Polish for Chinese but now I kinda see it is all bullshit. Even 1-year-old kids can learn 3 languages simultaneously. And if they can, having no background, having no logic, just instincts, why can't I, using both my logic, my background AND my instincts? Now it's out of the question that I combine learning several languages in one day.
You just realized the usefulness of this strategy recently? I've always been doing this and have been urging you to take up this strategy for a while to no avail until now. The only difference is I shuffle the languages from time to time because you never know who you'll meet and when it happens. It's good to be prepared to say at least something, even saying one or a few words to native speakers can make the motivation to continue learning a certain language skyrocket. Mangan kayo nga buto.
No, a maximum of two languages at the same time and one of them has already got to be at an intermediate level. If others have to the time to manage more than two, be my guest. I'll stick to a maximum of two, even if Luca and Steve encourage learning three simultaneously.
Learning several languages at once will increase the time you need for every language. But, and this but is very important, it will increase the quality of your language skills. What counts as language learning? Is it enough to learn words and short phrases for the pronunciation and basic grammer?
Perhaps one needs to focus on a new language for a few weeks or months to get the basics down then add the other languages. Initially, getting the sounds, basic vocabulary and grammar require total absorption for me.
Totally agree. I learned English and French as a child. Then continued with English, abandoned French, began with German for 4 years. 3 years ago began with Arabic, but my teacher left the country. Tried to follow through internet, but found it difficult, and now I'm learning Turkish, all by myself, willing some day to visit that country. As soon I can achieve a reasonable level, I' m going to go back and review the other languages.
I hate learning in the classroom. When I'm in a classroom, I feel as if I'm wasting my lime, listening to non-native speakers talk and therefore memorizing incorrect patterns of speech. Not to mention the stress of being graded on your performance! And not no mention that you need to be humble and very careful if you notice a teacher make a mistake. I mean, you don't wanna offend him or her in front of the class, do you? Sure, I am learning the grammar but I could've learnt it on the internet almost as effectively. But in terms of the vocabulary and confidence acquisition, they don't even stand together!
I'll try this strategy when Hebrew gets stale, but after several months of studying it never gets stale. Probably because I'm more interested in Judaism than general language learning. I've experimented with studying some German, but whenever I was studying German I wanted to be studying Hebrew as well.
Hi Steve, I was planning to go to Fukuoka this week but I won't be able to make it - most unfortunately ! So I take you at your word : can we meet in Tokyo in the coming days ? I'd tell you more about myself but this is not the best place. I didn't know where else to 連絡 you. There doesn't seem to be an option for private messages on CZcams. All the best, Sébastien Bonnet - enthusiast polyglot with big ambitions
A linguist is not someone who speaks multiple languages. Linguistics is a scientific discipline concerning the study of languages with many different subcategories. A linguist might only speak one language and be very accomplished in their field.
Definitions from Oxford Languages · Learn more Search for a word lin·guist /ˈliNGɡwəst/ Learn to pronounce noun 1. a person skilled in foreign languages. 2. a person who studies linguistics.
Just goes to show that for every piece of super polyglot advice on the internet, there is the opposite piece of advice from a different (or even the same) polyglot.
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Sorry but it seems to me that are some falacies on this. Eventually you gonna hit that place of boredom. And doing this you better hope dont get in it in all 3 languages at the same time! And also the smoothly level when become easier understand a language will delay trice to get. Really it doesnt seem advantageous to me.
I've switched to 2 languages a day recently -- having way more fun, highly recommend.
It's, I've done that
Rob _rrb - I’m studying *French* and Japanese, too.
I'm learning 4 a day:
1- Mandarin;
2- French;
3- Italian &
4- Hebrew.
Thanks steve for always be here to inspire us all!..
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We are studying the same languages. I am studying Chinese, French, and Italian. I am a speaker of baby level Chinese, but am currently learning to read and write characters of words I already know. I can have easy conversations in Chinese on a child’s level. I studied French in HS and a little in college. I could read some French, so there is some review there. Italian is new. It feels the hardest! But I really love it. I just can’t stay away from Italian. I met some cousins in Italy and made some friends too, so there is a lot of motivation. Sometimes I get told that Italian and French are too close to work on simultaneously. This is what I like to do though. Advice and encouragement welcome!
I keep forgetting to include Latin. Since it is not spoken much I forget to mention it. I often take breaks from this language, but I always come back to it. I really love it and feel no pressure at all.
great job,welcome to china
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One of my professors at university told me that after 45 minutes it was a pain for the brain to remain focused "on the same topic" and that its capacity to receive and absorb information decreased drastically. That's why he stopped explaining his lessons for about 15 minutes before he would start again.
I think that analysing text and perseverance is key to language learning. So, as long as one can read and carry out this activity on a daily basis, along with "listening" possibly to the same text one is examining, in the long run (as always) a great success is going to be there, regardless of the (realistic) number of manageable topics.
I study english and french everyday, but I feel that when I've no energy left for them, strange though It may seem, I can still do a lot with a different and difficult topic like chinese characters which I've found I'm very fond of.
So, I really believe in you! You're an inspiration.
And for this reason I'm going to put those tricky chinese characters in my language learning activity as soon as possible..
I do this 30 min learning thing a day, so little bit every day. Sometimes more and less, thou! My teacher also said that after class 15minutes a day is a good way to keep up
Not in my case, i can keep going focusing and motivated for a couple of hours per day without any problem, how ever i just skip the language to English into French or German, Russian, some times polish and Dutch, but i don't have the same level at all.
I've been learning Chinese and Korean for past 7-8 months, ended up focusing on Chinese only, as I was struggling learning both, however, I've found that after a few days of learning Chinese, I felt myself wanting to go back to Korean.. And this actually seems to working better this way, so I've stopped imposing rules and restrictions on myself and just go with how I'm feeling.. Any learning is good.. And also if you focus on the 'shoulds' you lose the fun element of it.. So just go with how you feel.. And Enjoy it 👏🏻
Fantastic!
We need to fight to put the world's 3rd most spoken language in Lingq
Hindi/Urdu
Thank you so much for sharing. I’ve been recently struggling with this because there are languages I want to learn because they will be very useful to me but also a language I want to learn just because I love it. However, I hated putting off the language I love and felt that it prolonged my learning overall. I recently decided to just go for it. I’m currently learning Tagalog and Korean and will eventually revamp my Spanish studies and Arabic since I’ll be moving overseas soon.
Me too! 👍🏾 Why wait to study something you love
kamusta naman yun Filipino niyo?
I totally agree! I m learning german and french(both intermediate level) and i recently added Russian (beginner level) and off course english(intermediate). And i m having a lot of fun!
hey im learning german, french and russian too thats pretty cool
Was ist deine Muttersprache
I quote Mr. Seve Kaufmann: "The number one rule to learn a language is enjoying it." Absolutely, I don't want to learn 100 words a day. I want to have contact with my target language and have fun with it.
I did multiple languages a day when I worked as an electrician. Jobsites were half an hour to an hour one way from shop; thus, I used the time for language-learning. I did one on the way to the jobsite and one on the way back.
In addition, I also almost always helped the church with food pick-ups, and the store was about an hour away from the church. Thus, I did another language on the way up and another on the way back.
Now that I'm at university, I am mostly focused on Arabic (which is for my translation major). I started it on my own, and tested into Intermediate II. I really think having studied on my own helped me in class. However, I still go to Spanish and French coffee hours at university to improve my skills in those languages.
I'm currently working, in various ways, on five different languages. I'm actively working on español, Deutsch and limba română with the intent of visiting Europe again and being able to speak to many people in their own languages. My hobby languages are nihongo and Latin, for stretching my listening skills and, perhaps, going to Japan. Also, it's nice to study Latin to understand the roots of the romance languages. I like to see the similarities and differences between all the languages. Each one has its own delightful parts, plus I can watch CZcams videos in my target languages and understand most of what's going on.
When people say you're contradicting yourself, I wonder, would they prefer you to stick with a method you've found to be less useful? I always find it weird that some folks seem to think that ideas can't (or shouldn't) evolve.
Yup, same thing with criticising a politician for "flip-flopping", as if changing one's mind is necessarily a bad thing. Always thought that was silly.
@@LanguagesWithAndrew In the case of politicians, though, often they flip flop based on who's in office or to gain votes, not out of a real change of opinion. But I do agree that they should be able to evolve their thinking process and change if genuine.
They can evolve, as long as they don't evolve to the wrong ideas.. :P
@@Re3iRtH Well, when we're talking about language learning (or any process that involves the testing of hypotheses in an environment where results can be measured in some way), the bad ideas don't flourish. As long as we maintain a critical perspective and keep questioning whether things work, good ideas will always win out over bad ones.
He has been doing this method for two days he has no idea how useful it is
I am working on 3 languages a day, French, German & Spanish. Also about to start Mandarin. What I really enjoy and find challenging is to watch Spanish speakers teach French and French teachers teach Spanish. The constant switching between French & Spanish is very enjoyable and mentally stimulating for me.
Current diet:
Korean (Advanced) - Listening, 1-4 hours a day
Japanese (intermediate) - Reading, 1-3 hours a day
Italian (Beginner) - Listening and reading at the same time, 0.5 - 2 hours a day
FB fib 10/23 I do, but listening doesn't cost time because you can do it while doing anything. And I almost never use my native language in my free time
Lee Foo I wait a year to add a new language. Did 1 year just Korean, 1 year Korean + Japanese, and just started Italian
Ohhh I'm learning Korean too but I'm still a beginner, I'm Italian so feel free to contact me anytime ^^
im always impressed by people who get out of there comfort zone
I'm doing Japanese, Spanish and French each day. I still do mainly Japanese but I switch to the other two for a break xD
Totally agree. Like you said, the number 1 rule is fun. I do think there is a great benefit to a level of focus, and I wish I had more of it (e.g. 2 months ago I got "distracted" trying to learn some Arabic) but yeah if you're just not going to sit down and do your say, Norwegian because you are finding it boring, then I guess it is better to do something else that you might enjoy a lot more and will still have a long term benefit.
Myself, I am all about going hardcore for short periods of time, e.g. I am trying to get 250 hours of French in before 2020, so as to go from being just barely expressive in French to conversationally comfortable. I am happy not to do ANYTHING else in that time because I know it will yield a decent result. But I certainly couldn't bring myself to do that for say, 8-12 months.
Thanks for a good video Steve!
Great this is what I do already. I followed the number one rule which is have fun. I'm doing several languages at one time I've got no targets except improve incrementally in each one and enjoy it.
This does give some food for thought. And I think you hit on some important points, the main ones being variety and keeping things fun. I've generally been apprehensive about the idea of learning 3 languages at once despite having 3 target languages and I've kind of staggered when choose to start to learning them, not wanting them to impact each other negatively. But really, I think what I am accepting is that consistency is best and that's hard to maintain if there's monotony and when you've been doing the same thing for a while, it can get monotonous. I've been doing Vietnamese for a year, so that feels like it has slipped to the wayside in terms of focus in favour of my Mongolian now that I've gotten start with that and yet there is that part of me that's itching to get my Tuvan going but I am holding myself back because I feel like I need my Mongolian in a certain place before I do that.
So I am willing to just embrace it and subject myself everyday to 3 languages. Try about about 30 mins each a day. It's 1 hr 30 mins in total, which thanks to some of the tools out there, doesn't have to be in one sitting to be beneficial, even working full time 1hr30mins is achieve, even if it's 5 mins here, 10 mins there, sneaking some in during a lunch break, or on the toilet because let's face it that's what stuff like Duolingo and friends are for as is comprehensive input. But still reserve focused study time where I can where i might tackle new and challenging things to sharpen myself. And I'll see how I get on.
Hi Steve. I will also be in Fukuoka (my first Polyglot Conference). I'm so excited about it. Hope to see and meet you there.
I taught myself Arabic and now I’m learning German. I also have a desire to learn Chinese, Japanese, and Turkish. Your points are well taken. شكرا
Im glad this works for you. I can see why becoming very proficient in one language is fun for some people.
Thank you for the video. I have been learning English for several years with more or less motivation, and now I have begun to learn Spanish. A great benefit for me is that I have found out that the mini-stories have the same them in different languages. So I can read and listen to the mini-stories in English and then in Spain to understand the theme.
I'm native in 🇧🇷 and learning 🇩🇪 🇪🇦 🇬🇧 every day. 30+ minutes each one.
But you already know English so it's not from scratch.
@@williamjames212 You're right. In my case, studying the three together helps in the same way.
@@murilofmartins I am currently learning two languages from scratch but I was hoping to add a third one, however, I do not have the money to hire an online tutor. The languages are French and Japanese, I would love to add German.
@@williamjames212 I'm studying alone with some apps, movies, youtubers... If you want the apps, send a email murilofm@gmail.com. I share with you. Free!
@@murilofmartins thanks alot anyways but I will wait until I get the funds to hire a tutor. I want to be able to write properly.
Amazing content as always Steve.
Thanks for producing these incredible contents.
You're a mythological figure between genius and super hero.
un abbraccio dall'Italia.
That sounds fun.I am so excited to see your progress.
In principle, I am working with three languages now. I listen to English videos in CZcams every day.
I have just finished reading a next story about Sherlock in Turkish, and I am repeating the new vocabulary using the Anki, my "Turkish" deck
And I am reading and listening a French simple story "Un BILLET pour le Commissaire".
I create my "French" Anki deck and repeat it.
I have a fun.
In addition. I agree completely that one should learn a language using interesting stories.
In school, children half a year study say present perfect. Maybe, the whole year, the 1st school year. The next year - simple past and so on.
In the French story I read it is all simultaneously.
The words of the narrator are in present, direct speach - in the past or in the future, as in the real life.
Le commissaire Grasset n’a pas envie de bavarder ce matin, il fait beaucoup trop froid. (present)
Je suis désolé... je n’ai qu’un billet de 200 euros.
- Ça ne fait rien ! Je vais vous le changer... (future)
- On contrôlera s'il manque quelque chose. (future)
Mais il a toujours été de l'autre côté, du côté des policiers, des enquêteurs. Jamais du côté des victimes... (past tence)
All the tences are obivous. And besides, The story is terribly interesting. I am eager to read it to the end.
And thereafter - to listen and to understand.
Sometimes it is difficult
The "Alors, vous avez le temps de lire" sounds like "Alors, avez l' temps d' lire". But this is the real French, not school French.
My strategy is also using writing, reading, speaking, listening, learning new words, learning grammar, or anything else, where you switch around based on what you want to do in a particular language, using novelty-seeking and excitement to your advantage.
I have on mind studying :
1- English => TedX talks. + Anki learn 10 words with pictures + Grammar exercises
2- German => Busuu 30 min + Anki learn 10 words with pictures
3- French => Busuu 30 min + Write down on paper 5 words from Busuu
Greetings from Argentina!
Here:
1- Japanese
2- German
3- french
And not daily but on the weekends
Portuguese
Corean
And absolutely right, this learning method keeps the curiosity and motivation ON.
Greatings from Querétaro - Mexico
I dare you to pronounce Querétaro, that was considered one of the most beautiful words in Spanish :)
I do only 1 language and it is French but beside that I use English and Finnish daily. The French language is the main language I focus on what comes to learning. It is also weakest and latest one. Brilliant video!
I have been thinking of the same thing. In my case I am adding Turkish and Mandarin Chinese to Korean. There are a lot of considerations that have gone into my thinking, but this video is pushing me over the edge. I will spend - I guess - about a week doing Turkish with the Korean, and then add the Chinese. I will see what happens.
Just what I needed to hear! In a bookstore looking at Chinese books I picked up a Cantonese book. I have studied Mandarin because of my Chinese daughter-in-law and decided study both side by side. Now, taking your suggestion, I'll rotate review of others each day. (Macedonian, Bulgarian, Russian, French, Spanish and Portuguese) Liked, subscribed. Thank you so much!
i do three: irish, german and spanish. it helps that they are all from different language families. and now that i am myself (mostly) fluent in english, it has become so much easier.
anyways, i really enjoy these videos. you have a very conversational and casual (?) approach. it feels much more down to earth than some other youtubers.
I also started learning more languages at the same time recently. Russian, Portuguese, French with Linq, and Estonian with Speakly
This is so so true. I've spent the last six months or so dedicating myself to Greek and found I'm hitting a wall, like it's lost that spark, so I think I'm going to start spending some time on a new language (either Indonesian or Turkish).
Interesting advice which I am definitely going to try.
Thanks for your thoughts on this subject.
Education and experience do lead to the evolution in ideas.
Steve! see You in Fukuoka Japan.
I will join polyglot conference.
스티브 선생님 감사합니다
Jeju, Korea. Simon
I have a goal to become an English teacher and to use TPR storytelling method with mini stories in a classroom. So I need a higher level of speaking than normal grammar teachers, I shouldn't make grammar mistakes when I'm teaching English. But after that I will start learning other languages and my approach will be different, because it won't be for a job.
Great thing when you're advanced is that you can always find interesting content. But as a beginner it's hard to stay focused for a long time because it gets boring.
I’m learning Japanese & Esperanto at the same time!
頑張ろう！
Sir once you reference the book Daniel Tammet "embracing the wide sky" that focus on one language and make a Environment in which you listen and speak and highly focus on one language like Daniel Tammet learned the language in a week.
Alexander Arguelles was also talking about the benefits of switching between langages you are learning - however learning two dozen languages a day seems a bit much tho... :)
Thank you, I thought that I would have to choose between Korean and Spanish at school, now I see I can do it all, I just have to work hard and be consistent
I'm studying French, Spanish, Italian and Cantonese. I want to add Catalan and Mandarin. I do cheat a little but for the sake of keeping the fun factor high.
learn Mandarin before Cantonese
This is so true, working on 5 a day
I agree with you. Learning 3 languages a day is better. It's more interesting for starters. Also, you're right about cultural immersion. It's a lot better to learn both in and outside the classroom. It makes it more fun!
Great video thank you!
I think it might still be good practice to learn languages which are unrelated to each other. Japanese, Spanish, Arabic, Russian.... They're different enough that the channels in your brain might not get crossed as easily.
Hm. Before Luca said to do only one. There are many pros and cons for both sides. I've been hesitating between 1 or 2 at a time. Thanks for answering my question. I will try 2 at a time. PS: I think doing 2 is faster but 1 provides better immersion. But when I learnt Spanish after some time I became tired of it (i burnt out before completing my plan). I returned after a detour and completed it. Also it's not worth memorizing more than eg. 10-12 Chinese words a day but that's too light and leaves some time for an easy language on the side.
Why it's not worth memorizing more than 10-12 Chinese words a day? Children memorize and forget hundreds of words a day. That's how our brains work. Before we can remember anything difficult, we have to forget it a few times.
My comment disappeared. So shorter version. Learning your mother tongue is different, you do it instinctively without thinking unlike adults. Plus you have no other jobs first. Also you forget even children learn Chinese for long years to master speaking it with correct tones (plus in bad cases a word can have many homophones some of which has several meanings) and writing (4000+ characters). Why the rush? I don't think the majority of people learn this language in 1-2 years. Why aren't you happy with a nice advanced level (11-12 000 words) in 4 years time (with 3-4000 characters plus learn an easier language on the side)? It is much more than most Chinese learners achieve.
@@carlosochoa4715 I am currently checking my hypothesis but I think it is better to first get acquainted with huge portions of vocabulary, even if not learning how to use it, but just familiarizing oneself with it. We have most of the instincts that children have.
I suppose that the source of the biggest problem of the language-learning of the 20th and the 21st century is the obscenely limited amount of vocabulary provided for students.
I think I understand why it is so - it is easier to test your students en masse if you expect that they learn a particular small set of words, sometimes not exceeding a mere thousand words in many years. That is how you can guarantee that your students will learn at least 900 words and pass the exams, with a person that managed to learn 4000 words being considered a genius.
I think our brains can instinctively suck in tons and tons of words over the years. Children's brains have more plasticity but I doubt that the lesser levels of plasticity in adults can affect the memorization of words. I think it can slow down the memorization of sounds, not of words.
By the way, I don't know about you but for me deliberately memorizing 10 words a day potentially in the same context during many days and remembering roughly 200 new words by the end of the month is worse than getting limitedly acquainted with 50 new words a day in many different contexts, remembering the same 200 new words by the end of the month, but also having the additional possibility of recalling the lost words later on.
@@carlosochoa4715 Also children don't learn how to write characters until they reach a certain age. Trying to learn characters in the beginning slows down learning substantially.
I agree with you in most things but I think I am also right. It's only a question of choice/preference (eg. 4 characters a day plus 10-12 words is very feasible if you follow the long route plus another language). As long as it works and gives you motivation it's fine. With English and Spanish I learnt a lot of vocabulary (my experience agrees with Bartosz Czekala's opinion "How many words you should know" about 15-20 000+ dictionary headwords ~ 10 000 lemma), then I re-learnt some of them upon exposure to books/dictionary revision (which agrees with your opinion). I considered Chinese differently from European languages simply because it takes much more time to memorize a Chinese word than eg. a German one. It's also true if you learn too little you might lose motivation. If you check Lindie Botes, Vladimir Skultety etc. also spent a long time with these kind of Asian languages (4-5+ years to reach a high/er level). I saw you try to learn many languages at the same time. I wish you much luck with that. I will also start experimenting myself.
Now I'm focusing on the German and the Russian, some times i pickup some new sentences in polish or Dutch, i can said just a preparation, because after the 1 st January i must to start seriously with the polish and the Dutch, but i must revising all at the same time, but I'm studying every single day at least 6 or 7 hours. I don't want to forget what I've learnt.
Interesting! I speak/study 9 languages, so I have to study more than 1 per day. I don’t fix any alounts of time, I just study the language that I feel like that day ... and that works well for,me. All a matter of personal preference! (By the way, my next language will be Turkish)
Whoooooaaaaa
I agree that it makes sense to study more than one language a day. Certainly, two or three languages a day is manageable. However, studying more than three languages a day will limit the amount of time you can devote to each language dramatically. Therefore, two or three languages a day is probably best. Thanks.
I was learning French and English and German at the same time, it was very helpful because all this 3 languages have many shared vocabulary
we're up to the same adventure, steve :)
i want to learn russian and just began a few weeks ago but i cannot leave icelandic alone, i cant speak it, but i love to explore it for the sake of it and thereby i begin to pick things up :)
Sonnenhafen Isländisch? 😅 Geil! Wie findet man da Ressourcen am besten?
@@srovorake6626
Hey Viktor, ja das ist so eine sache... ich hab auch keine ressourcen, ich habe die app des radio/tv-senders Rúv, da gibt es einige sendungen mit untertiteln und radio. desweiteren habe ich jetzt schon immer mal aus spaß ohne dabei jetzt unbedingt lernen zu wollen, isländisch gelesen, auch liedtexte z.b. solstafir.
und jetzt lese ich immer mal wieder gern diese altisländischen sagen, die prosa edda z.b. und versuche ein bisschen was aufzuschnappen. es kommt in mir gerade die gleiche motivation wie beim norwegisxhen auf, als deutscher versteht man da nämlich einige brocken und das macht deshalb riesen spaß, und dank meiner norwegisch kenntnisse kann ich jetzt mit ähnlichem spaß an isländisch ran gehen.
also meine ressourcen:
radio, sagas (nebenher wörter nachschlagen mit dict.cc), tv mit untertiteln
mehr hab ich nicht. spiele aber mit dem gedanken mal einfach ein buch zu kaufen und zu probieren.
lernst du auch eine sprache oder kommst du gerade erst rein? wie machst/ planst du es?
Sonnenhafen Danke für die schnelle Antwort :) Ja, ich lerne aktiv Niederländisch, bin bereits auf einem guten, fortgeschrittenen Level und habe vor kurzem mit dem Norwegischen begonnen ;) Die germanischen Sprachen faszinieren mich!
@@srovorake6626
ey ja cool, also (nord)germanisch find ich auch super spaßig, niederländisch hat mich jetzt noch nicht so fasziniert (zu nah ggf.)
norwegisch hab ich radio gehört und vokabeln mit anki gelernt. jeden tag nrk p2 (kulturkanal) da sprechen sie verhältnismäßig langsam und artikuliert..
dann viel erfolg dabei noch!
tipp: färöisch ist wie so ein zwischending zw. norwegisch und isländisch (jedenfalls geschrieben), ist super interessant wenn man dann ma norwegisch versteht
Thank you Steve!
Do you think studying Spanish and French at the same time would be problematic - being from the same language family - if I am a B1 in Spanish and currently learning on LingQ and took French years ago in school?
So inspiring
I'm Italian so I can help you if u want, I'm tryin to improve my bad english-speaking, we can def help each other out, feel free to contact me anytime :)
I designed the 2 for 1 Method where you learn one week language in a stronger second language. It's effective. I live in Shanghai and watch Chinese tutorials in French... my fourth language. It works!
Weak language
Wow I’ve been doing the same with Spanish/ Arabic/ Egyptian Arabic! What kind of helps me is I use spanish as my base language and try to translate everything in learning I’m Arabic into Spanish and vice versa. It keeps things fun and helps me think in other languages besides English while also learning another language :)
In my case, I rlly want to learn English first. It'd be my first foreign language that i've been learning 2 months ago. I'm not able to learn many languages a day but i'm gonna try it someday if I'm ready.
Mandarin and Latin/the Romance languages for me. I also work on conlangs for fun which I find really helps lock in concepts that I've studied.
I have to maintain the ones I already have, so these days I do them all briefly, and alternate them constantly. On the apps, I do them in different combinations. I don't recommend this for anyone. It's just the way I like doing it lately. "The number one rule is to enjoy it." -Steve Kaufmann, in this video
I've been learning Sanskrit and Spanish with a dash of French and Portuguese.
Hello,what materials do you use to learn sanskrit? And how hard is sanskrit?
As we learn more languages, we have to struggle more and more with maintaining languages, and eventually we get tired of being rusty in too many of our languages. We eventually reach the point where focusing on one language becomes almost unsustainable.
I can't do more than 2 per day on a regular basis. I've tried, but I can never keep it up for long.
I personally don't think you need to keep it up for too long unless you're really preparing for something. Because even if you don't learn anything, your brain still continues to learn from the material it already received in the past. Steve even mentioned such phenomena in one of his videos.
@@TypicalRussianGuy I've seen him say that on several occasions, but I haven't observed that in my own learning.
@@nendoakuma7451 I have observed it on at least 5-10 occasions, maybe even more.
With English a few times, with French a couple of times, with Spanish, with Portuguese, with Italian. Even with Norwegian and with Chinese to some extent.
That is how children learn. They memorize words in one context in their native language and then don't return to the given context for a few years but their brains still process the information.
The biggest difference between children and adults, in my opinion, is that children learn constantly and in huge quantities, their brains are stimulated while they have fun learning new things.
Adults, on the other hand, usually have to endure some boring learning materials. I suppose the brain thinks ''oh-ooh, this crap is boring and therefore probably useless, I'd better forget it''.
I mean, let's compare the way I was learning French.
When I was 12, I tried to learn French ''as an adult would'', with verb conjugations and word lists.
When I was 20, however, I tried learning the language ''as a child would do'', just listening to tons of material - audiobooks, youtube videos, videogames. At first, I couldn't understand anything, having to ask ''my daddy Google Translate'' what every single word means. But after a couple of years, my brain started to create relatively complicated sentences in French just by itself. It is very similar to what happens in the brain of a child.
@@TypicalRussianGuy my kids are learning french and mandarin. I notice that they just speak without worrying if they are right or wrong or grammar. They just want to communicate. They are not worried about exactness and I think that makes the difference. Also their minds seem quicker and their recall is faster than mine though I'm better able to use mnemonics to help remembers.
@@pumpkinsandme6238 They just enjoy the process while the brain does anything for them, hehe :)
In my opinion it's okey to learn more than one language but only if you already know other languages from the same family. For instance, in Lucas case, he's learning Danish beside 2 other languages because he already speaks Swedish, so it would be easier for him than if the 3 languages were all new and don't relate to other ones he learnt before.
Just in time! Hahaha
I've just started learning 3 languages a day, French Spanish and German, sometimes also Portuguese and Italian.
I used to be very afraid of it, even so as I would delay studying Spanish and French for my Italian and delaying German for my Norwegian and delaying Polish for Chinese but now I kinda see it is all bullshit.
Even 1-year-old kids can learn 3 languages simultaneously. And if they can, having no background, having no logic, just instincts, why can't I, using both my logic, my background AND my instincts?
Now it's out of the question that I combine learning several languages in one day.
It's about brain plasticity, long term potentation and perfect pitch... Yoir brain started to pruning in your late adolescence.
Steve if youre in Tokyo tomorrow or Wednesday please let me know. I'd love to meet up. Thanks!
You just realized the usefulness of this strategy recently? I've always been doing this and have been urging you to take up this strategy for a while to no avail until now. The only difference is I shuffle the languages from time to time because you never know who you'll meet and when it happens. It's good to be prepared to say at least something, even saying one or a few words to native speakers can make the motivation to continue learning a certain language skyrocket. Mangan kayo nga buto.
No, a maximum of two languages at the same time and one of them has already got to be at an intermediate level. If others have to the time to manage more than two, be my guest. I'll stick to a maximum of two, even if Luca and Steve encourage learning three simultaneously.
How do I learn English and Turkish at the same time, please answer and thank you
Learning several languages at once will increase the time you need for every language. But, and this but is very important, it will increase the quality of your language skills.
What counts as language learning? Is it enough to learn words and short phrases for the pronunciation and basic grammer?
Perhaps one needs to focus on a new language for a few weeks or months to get the basics down then add the other languages. Initially, getting the sounds, basic vocabulary and grammar require total absorption for me.
Totally agree. I learned English and French as a child. Then continued with English, abandoned French, began with German for 4 years. 3 years ago began with Arabic, but my teacher left the country. Tried to follow through internet, but found it difficult, and now I'm learning Turkish, all by myself, willing some day to visit that country. As soon I can achieve a reasonable level, I' m going to go back and review the other languages.
I hate learning in the classroom. When I'm in a classroom, I feel as if I'm wasting my lime, listening to non-native speakers talk and therefore memorizing incorrect patterns of speech. Not to mention the stress of being graded on your performance! And not no mention that you need to be humble and very careful if you notice a teacher make a mistake. I mean, you don't wanna offend him or her in front of the class, do you?
Sure, I am learning the grammar but I could've learnt it on the internet almost as effectively. But in terms of the vocabulary and confidence acquisition, they don't even stand together!
Man in ushanka Really depends on the teacher. I almost only had natives, therefore I consider it a good addition.
I'll try this strategy when Hebrew gets stale, but after several months of studying it never gets stale. Probably because I'm more interested in Judaism than general language learning. I've experimented with studying some German, but whenever I was studying German I wanted to be studying Hebrew as well.
As a Malaysian this is the norm :))) Everyone learns three languages in school
Hi Steve, I was planning to go to Fukuoka this week but I won't be able to make it - most unfortunately !
So I take you at your word : can we meet in Tokyo in the coming days ?
I'd tell you more about myself but this is not the best place. I didn't know where else to 連絡 you. There doesn't seem to be an option for private messages on CZcams.
All the best,
Sébastien Bonnet - enthusiast polyglot with big ambitions
Can I ask what camera are you using? It has very good quality
Hey, I am new here. Does anyone know how many languages Steve can speak? I am just curious :D
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Does anyone know what’s the video Steve is talking about? The one about Luca
A linguist is not someone who speaks multiple languages. Linguistics is a scientific discipline concerning the study of languages with many different subcategories. A linguist might only speak one language and be very accomplished in their field.
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@@Thelinguist I guess I stand corrected. But I don't like that definition. Oxford be a harsh mistress.
PS, love the channel!
The fact is that few English speakers, other than those interested in linguistics, know what a polyglot is nor what linguistics is. So usage rules.
Can you tell us how to learn finnish 😭pleas
Just goes to show that for every piece of super polyglot advice on the internet, there is the opposite piece of advice from a different (or even the same) polyglot.
I thought you were learning three whole different languages from scratch in one day
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America vs Europe/ Europe Tolkien hingls or French or Spanish en German don't worry the most important it's the comers $$$/ I don't know with linwech you Spoke. Let's go meaque aDEAL it's the battle line .BINGO$$$$Mrt PAUL 😎
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You're such a chatterbox (in a good way)
Sorry but it seems to me that are some falacies on this. Eventually you gonna hit that place of boredom. And doing this you better hope dont get in it in all 3 languages at the same time!
And also the smoothly level when become easier understand a language will delay trice to get.
Really it doesnt seem advantageous to me.
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First one to watching