The Main Thing That Keeps You From Reaching Fluency (Interview with Sziszi)
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- čas přidán 27. 12. 2023
- A powerful interview with language creator Sziszi about how to overcome our limiting beliefs in language learning
Timestamps:
00:01 - What is Sziszi's YT channel about?
02:57 - Limiting beliefs about language learning and how to overcome them
05:58 - How overcoming limiting beliefs can help you become a better language instructor
08:29 - Top 3 limiting beliefs
11:40 - How to approach grammar when learning a language
15:24 - How has your mindset influenced your language learning journey and business?
20:43 - How to overcome self-doubt?
25:05 - What to do if you think you're not good at languages?
29:45 - How to learn Hungarian with Sziszi
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My pleasure Sziszi^^ Always lovely to talk to you and keep producing amazing content for Hungarian learners!
@@LucaLamparielloHi Luca, I am very thankful for your amazing and effective teaching strategies; I'm just finished interacting in your live program, it was great, to say the least. How could I get into your courses?, how much they could cost? (hopefullt they may not be too expensive); I'm particularly interested in Italian and French. Greetings.
One of the things that keeps me from becoming fluent is watching CZcams videos instead of actually studying.
in brief: The video features an interview with Sziszi, a language creator and teacher. The discussion revolves around overcoming limiting beliefs in language learning.
1. **Introduction of Sziszi**: Sziszi is a Hungarian as a second language teacher who creates materials for self-study. She shares her journey of learning languages, including Spanish, Polish, and Russian.
2. **Overcoming Limiting Beliefs**: The conversation delves into how Sziszi overcame her limiting beliefs, such as feeling she couldn't speak until she was fluent. She emphasizes the importance of communication over grammatical perfection and shares personal experiences that helped her overcome these beliefs.
3. **Approach to Grammar and Language Learning**: Sziszi discusses her approach to teaching and learning languages, emphasizing the importance of learning the language first and then the grammar. She reflects on her own experiences with language learning and how they influenced her teaching style.
4. **Creating Engaging Language Learning Material**: Sziszi talks about her approach to creating language learning content, focusing on making it interesting and relevant to learners. She shares insights into how her mindset and belief system influenced the content she creates for her CZcams channel.
5. **Dealing with Self-Doubt in Language Learning**: The video addresses strategies to overcome self-doubt, such as positive self-talk and doing things despite doubts. Sziszi emphasizes the importance of not letting feelings of doubt define one's abilities in language learning.
6. **Challenging the Belief of 'Not Being Good at Languages'**: The conversation touches on how to challenge this common belief among language learners. Sziszi suggests reframing thoughts and asking oneself constructive questions to overcome this mindset.
7. **Addressing the Difficulty of Learning Hungarian**: Sziszi and Luca discuss the common belief that Hungarian is a difficult language to learn. They suggest focusing on finding solutions and strategies rather than dwelling on the difficulty of the language.
8. **Conclusion and Where to Find Sziszi**: The video concludes with Sziszi sharing where viewers can find her content, including her CZcams channel and social media platforms.
Throughout the interview, both Luca and Sziszi emphasize the importance of mindset, practical strategies, and the joy of language learning in overcoming challenges and limiting beliefs.gpt4
Thanks a lot for saving my time . I got key points in 1 minute or more.
What is her native language I wonder
Great conversation!😊 Limiting beliefs are something that I also touch on in my videos.👍 It’s not that some people can’t learn a foreign language, it’s just that they don’t believe that they can and that’s the problem.🤷♂️
Greetings from Poland!😁🇵🇱
Sziszi, köszönöm szépen! Gyönyörű vagy! Szeretlek!
This interview gave me so much motivation to keep going with my learning journey. Great work Luca 😊
Danke Luca, you are one of my best self help book sellers so far. Change your brain change your life added to my reading list.. And also thank you to Sziszi for these helpful tips. (I still lovee grammar and grammar explanations in the early stages of learning, but only for my own fun, not expecting to understand them then)
Ringrazio e ripeto=... ti sono sinceramente grato!🎄 Grazie Emanuele.
Limiting believes are the karma created by the educational system for impeding you get independent and free your mind. It's so powerful, that even you are able of communicating well, you continue thinking you're not good enough in your target language. Thanks both of you for sharing your valuable insights.
Bro finally someone said it.
Brilliant! My sister-in-law in studying Hungarian. I’ll pass it on!❤
Сизи очень милая, я бы с удовольствием с ней поговорила на русском:)Видно, что она достаточно молодая и не готовилась по теме, но ее милое лицо и искреность сделали это видео!Спасибо Люке за его терпение и выдержку и наводящие вопросы, он - преекрасный интервьюер.
Hey Luca, a hug from Brazil. You’re the best! 👊🏻
Thanks for the kind words!
Thank you a lot for this interview, it was very interesting and informative! 😄 And thank you Sziszi for all the amazing materials that you created 🤩🇭🇺, they help me learn a lot every day! 😊
Köszi, hogy megnézted 🥰❤️
Definitely agree. Grammar is given too much emphasis in language learning. It’s important, but it shouldn’t be the focus or the first thing a student learns.
Grazie per questo video, Luca! É sempre un piacere!
There is actually some Polish heritage in Texas, with a few communities where some people might still speak the Silesian dilect (Ino niy pultejcie siy hanysy. Przaja Ślunskowi :*)
I had been waiting for this collab for a long time, I hoped you were going to speak Hungarian together but it's fine😅
Great! Where's the Guzman link, please? Thank you so much!
This was a very eye opening video . My own limiting beliefs revolve around the courage to expose my linguistic inadequacies. I do have the discipline to study regularly and do so consistently. To overcome this, I remind myself how difficult it was to go out on a first date or to get up and speak in public. Both are terrifying and remembering those hurdles is helping me personally. Thank you for your heartfelt insights.
I have to admit that I have two limiting beliefs that I may or may not be able to overcome in the future: 1. I can't learn languages that don't use the Latin alphabet. 2. I'm only good at learning Romance languages.
For me the most important decision I took was to move from a lesson based approach, as practised by Duolingo, Babbel and so on, to an input based approach. I was struggling with German, as I couldn’t remember the words, as they so different from English e.g. etwas Besonderes. Once I switched, I started to remember words, and then form sentences with correct grammar. The brain evolved to learn language, and it does so by massive exposure to spoken language. It is a pattern recognition device, and has to be trained with real language. Once you listen, you start to understand speech, and your learning accelerates. Language is so complex, and nuanced, that you cannot learn by lessons, be they in a class, or on an app with a malevolent owl or some other marketing emblem.
I think you need both. Lessons plus input. Because if input based approach really only worked, then any immigrants that moved to the States would already be speaking English (or German for Germany). Yet after years of "input" they don't really know English or x language. Same would be for heritage speakers being unable to speak the language of their parents/family but “understanding”.
@@MrSea123456 The reason why some immigrants either don’t learn to speak, or never speak well, is because they are exposed to input that is too complex and spoken too rapidly. Children start out with simple words, then simple sentences, gradually moving on to more difficult language over many years. The second language learner needs to listen to and read input that is at an appropriate level i.e. mostly at their current level but with some unknown words and grammar thrown in. That way they progress. Throw at them input that is well beyond their level, and they can’t assimilate it, as it is largely unintelligible.
@@StillAliveAndKicking_ Spot on!
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Luca, Sziszi:
Any ideas about CZcams content for learning English? I study French, Spanish and Italian using comprehensible input mostly on CZcams. What a rich an amazing world of language learners! With French I listen to books on tape. I just found Le Hobbit! My problem is that I’m tutoring a Peruvian woman in English but everything I’ve found has been worthless. Any ideas for interesting, respectful beginner content in English? Much appreciated.
How do you define the Deliberate Practice in Speaking?
It is a great feeling when you overcome a limiting belief in language learning, you can also overcome other limiting beliefs in your life and make your life better.
But!
How you convince your student that he/she has a limiting belief and what thinks about himself/herself is not the reality? 😅
I think grammar lessons can work well if you study it before learning the lesson in a classroom with a good teacher and if you’re really excited to learn the language. It worked well for me and Japanese. I know grammar is boring and if you can skip it and just read books or have conversations then go for it. I keep trying to skip it but get frustrated and go back to the grammar books or CZcams or something. It’s really a catch 22. Dreaming Spanish says you can just learn grammar through comprehensible input. Not even written input but videos. I love their content but I think the students benefitting the most from it either already studied grammar or are studying it while watching the videos. I would like to be wrong. I know if a language’s grammar is similar to your own language it is easier and you can skip things other learners can’t. A French speaker maybe doesn’t need any grammar at all to start learning Spanish. But a Japanese person probably will.
Anything studied before and after a lesson is more than useful. Generally time in lessons is not enough, unless those were life lessons, and even then one should think over such lessons. It is not the teacher who is supposed to learn but the learner. So the learner has to be responsable and take actions accordingly. Many people want to learn but not actively get involved in the process.
That being said, let us get back to grammar.
Firstly, grammar is boring or not depending on how it is learned and what one's likes and dislikes are.
Secondly, there's no such a language learning without grammar, as whatever is said or written is grammar in the sense that it is the way a language is use (in the right form if it is prescriptive grammar, or in any way it is used if it is descriptive grammar).
Finally, recognizing linguistic patterns is finding out the grammar implicit in the language. Some things are better learn by discovey than simply being told. But depending on the target language, as well as the mother tongue or other previously known languages, such a process could be easy or really painful, as you smartly mentioned.
I totally agree with your point of view. I have just wanted to elaborate a little bit your clever remark.
@@Sprachliebhaber-Languagelover That’s a wise comment, in my view. I often get confused when some well known polyglots say don’t learn grammar. Grammar is as you say inherent in the language. I think what they mean is don’t memorise tables of grammar, such as case and verb endings. These are best learnt with input, and some guidance.
I have never found classroom study that useful, though admittedly I’ve only studied French and German. I tend to listen to the advice of well known ployglots, they may not always be right, you might prefer other approaches, but they do talk sense based on significant experience. For me huge amounts of input, with a small grammar book to look at from time to time, seems to work. But as I said, I’ve not studied Japanese.
Grown up people learn deductively. You analyse, discover the pattern and then you try to apply it.
@@nionwg8sv Not in my experience of 37 years teaching at one university and 25 at another. Most students generally want everything already digested and pass exams rather than learn.
I'm learning Dutch. In the last 5 years I've only come across 2, maybe 3 Dutch people who couldn't speak English at a high level.
This means I'm always afraid of making a single mistake in Dutch because they'll just switch to English, which is terrible for your confidence and reinforces those limiting beliefs.
How do you get past that?
Why not in Hungarian? Missed input opportunity 🇭🇺
We'll do one in Hungarian as well for Sziszi's channel, talking about..grammar!
Omg spoiler ❤😍
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great
i been learning spanish for 8 years and am still not fluent i dont know what to do its all i want in lifw at the moment
7:44 did the video get interrupted?
We had to stop for a moment because the Church bell in front of my apartment was driving us crazy 😀
Hi Luca, my biggest problem is adding words in my knowledge. I can be fluent in a new language but it depends which topic I'm going to talk about but I don't understand why whit a new language I have problem to remember new words and then in my mother tongue I can recognize and remember a lots of word that I don't use for a months, why are they in my brain and in another language I forget them?
How long and how often have you been exposed to your mother tongue and how much in your new language? Can it help you with the answer? Does it make sense?
@@Sprachliebhaber-Languagelover Yes I know what you mean but in my mother tongue as well there are a lots of word that I never use and for example in a new languages I read a "common" word and I don't remember it
@@ale839Yes, but in your mother tongue you have a huge framework to support infrequent words, what you do not have in a new language to support "common" words. It took me ages to remember the meaning of "however", as a conjunction, even reading it again and again. Now, with a bigger background, I even remember its meaning as an adverb!
mAMA MIA, would say the italian guy
If I wanted to learn Hungarian, it would probably be to read math. Adott a siknak három pontja ...
Teria ficado bom se ela não estivesse tentando falar como uma menina americana de 15 anos
Yaaay, you think I sound American? Obrigada 😄❤
@@HungarianwithSziszi Desculpe o comentário. Você não me deve satisfações!
You can't just believe in yourself, you must have the experience to know how to do this, it takes years when you want to do this task but not many achieve it
Luca, do you have any limiting beliefs about any of the future languages you want to learn? I saw you mention Arabic, Hebrew and Turkish in one of your recent InstaGram posts.
Yes my dear Serbian friend 😀 Especially when it comes to Turkish and Japanese, but I am confident I know how to tackle both now 😀