How To Improve Fluency In A Language - A Method! | Daily Language Diary 012
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- I LOVE talking about advanced methods for building fluency in a foreign language! In today's daily question, we explore one of my own favorite methods, step by step, and talk about how you can use it to really boost your language fluency.
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Not only do you give useful information, but you also have a pleasant and relaxing voice. Thank you.
In a 10 minute video I just got a hole new routine for my german learnings. Thank you very much
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Im trying to learn German and i have no idea how this method is supposed to work 🥲 do i watch the entire 10 minute video, or just stop after a minute and try to repeat it? Am i meant to try and write down the entire text or just a few bits? Because i will be stopping the video a lot to do this
Thank you I don't know if you see this but God bless I hope you have a great day I actually use the same method but with books so thank you 😎
Yes, yes and yes again. This is one of the all-time most effective exercises! It's a great way to start to engage with real native content at a point when we couldn't understand it without a lot of work.
Another good source of material is TedX talks. They are usually interesting - not too much slang - often with professional transcriptions and translations. They are easier than informal conversations, so a good place to start.
The commercial service Yabla also has an extensive library of graded talks and conversations with transcripts and translations.
There's an extra step that I like to add - dictation. It's bit like Prof Arguilles' Scriptorium but using audio rather than text. I write by hand which helps cement the learning, and I find you notice all kinds of detail you miss with an audio only method. Plus it helps teach the spelling, for anyone who wants to become literate in the language.
I’m actually suprised how few the views are on those kind of videos
Your channel is so good in different ways that I didn't find any where else, thank you so much for your videos.
I’ve just recently found your channel and it’s awesome! There is so much in both these daily videos as well as all the other videos on your channel that I’ve found has helped me to hone my language learning skills. You’ve helped motivate me to find alternative ways to immerse myself in the language I’m learning while still keeping things fresh and interesting to keep up my studies. Thank you for creating these 🙂
Great way to liven up the traditional flash card way of learning. Thanks for this video, I’ll give this a go!
This is WONDERFUL. Thank you for this.
Great idea. Thanks for sharing!
This is similar to my process; input - process (writing, place into SRS, etc) - study (SRS, speak etc) - output (Use)
love this guy. just subscribed!
That was another great piece of advice. Thanks a lot!
So cool. I totally do this now at an intermediate level with 3-5min audio files. Definitely helps with learning Korean.
Wow, I can’t believe I found this video! Your method is almost exactly the same as the one I’ve also slowly developed over time. Using media which has native speaking and phrases, taking lots of notes, and then putting that into a SRS. And I also tell people that too, that the handwriting and the making of the notes/SRS is part of the practice! I find if I JUST put something into a SRS system it’s a lot harder to learn than if I’ve already corm across it 2 or 3 times. I’ll even use this method for apps like Mango or Duolingo when I feel like the built-in review system just isn’t cutting it. I was just amazing watching your video how similar your system is to mine! I definitely do this with German and Arabic, but I’m also learning Bangla and it’s been really hard for me to find that authentic material which has bilingual subtitles. In fact, I can’t even find anything with a transcript 😅 so I’m making do by watching movies and pulling out phrases and just trusting that I’ve heard them right 😬 I only use the ones that I’m very sure about though. This is also less advantageous because I don’t often go back and rewatch the entire movie. But there’s not many other options. The other thing I like about this method is I have so much fun reviewing my flashcards! Often people say things with some character or some emotion, so I have fun reenacting that emotion while I review instead of doing monotonous, one-word translations!
Enjoying the daily videos! I hope it grows your channel.
Thank you Adam! I'm REALLY glad that you and others are enjoying these! I'm just having such a great time doing them and interacting more with everyone. I also hope it helps to grow my channel -- really appreciate your support!
Ohhhh I'm soo late on your videos!!! They are so good. These are good advices 💙
Robin, you inspire me so much. Me inspiras mucho!. Gracias!!.
A very enjoyable episode. Thank you! 😊👍
Woohooo I'm glad you enjoyed it polyronin!! 😄☀️
Great advice!
I did exactly this before with my English, but for some reason I forgot about the last part (step 5) and didn't do it with German. Now you reminded me how it worked before, I'll do it again.
Woohoooo I'm glad this was a helpful reminder!! 😄
Oh, I forgot to tell you the most crucial part. When those words came out it surprised me as much as that couple, because I didn't even begin learning French until I was a freshman in high school.
Très utile 💜 Merci!
Great tips as usual! About Easy Languages, their content is very good! I’ve been watching their videos on Easy Italian and it’s been a good resource to practice my listening in the language.
Thank you Henrique! I'm really glad you enjoyed the tips and it's good to know you've had a great experience with Easy Languages, too! I loved their Italian content 😄
I think so too. I watched them as I was learning German and it helped me a lot to get fluent. Unfortunately, I am learning Mandarin now, and they have like Taiwanese Mandarin and I instead want to learn Mandarin from China.
Easy Languages is such great content, you're right. I've seen a couple of their episodes for Thai and when I did Dutch. Thanks for the tips, Robin.
Oh awesome! By the way I had a look at your channel, your Thai seems very impressive!! Keep up the amazing work, you're clearly doing a great job already and if you keep going like that, I'm going to look forward to hearing all about your experience reading The Little Prince in Thai pretty darn soon!!
ahh Ritchie you keep taking me back to the days of learning Dutch and it makes me want to spend a little time picking it back up and speaking some Dutch in one of these videos as a throw back and a tribute to how you found my channel! hahaha one day! One day I will get back to it!
Hey,Ritchie,what's the name of your channel?
@Rambling Elsewhere you can just click on his username/avatar :)
@@RobinMacPhersonFilms Thank you so much! I'm glad you think so, it takes a lot of rehearsal and I can't exactly speak so fluidly 'in real life' . I started making videos to keep myself accountable for learning Thai alone - but, I don't think I'm reviewing what I 'speak' enough to learn from it, y'know? Bit lazy!
But yeah, Little Prince is next!!!
Awesome! Thank you!
You're welcome, Ricardo! I hope you enjoyed it 😄
Tip: memorizing is your worst enemy in any learning method... might be great for getting used to the sounds...but as soon as you can, try to implement more complex techniques engaging full word networks, try to stablish relationships between the words you acquire.
Wow,beside studying languages you finding rime for making so good videos! Picture, music,like it!😊
Ben, Robin...comme d'habitude, c'était parfait ce vidéo, vraiment. Quelques derniers jours, je suis bloqué sur vos vidéos uniquement. Merci.
could you make a detailed video on how you take your notes and what your anki flash cards look like? thank you for this video!
Thanks for another great episode of your Language Diary! Have you ever considered doing a Podcast? It'd be great to hear some of your language advice on the go. Thanks again!
Thanks for this thought El Niche! It's funny because I've been dying to do a podcast for years now, and quite a few people have asked about it in recent months. I'm definitely considering starting one this year. No worries if you aren't sure but I'd love to know if you have any thoughts on what kind of format you'd really enjoy? Thanks again!
@@RobinMacPhersonFilms I absolutely enjoy these short videos full of useful information. There is a lot of insight and at the same time, digestible because of the short duration. I think a podcast with a similar _setup_ would be perfect. Just a thought! 😬
this is great!!!!!!!!!!
Great video.
Your aesthetics are perfectly fine as is, IMO. Great stock music too.
When you say that all of that stuff sounds like a lot of work - I think ALL this stuff always sounds like more work than it actually is. It's a bit like taking your running up from 6km to 10km... it sounds almost impossible but the difference isn't as big as you think. After 3 years of LL, I am finally onto Anki haha.
Thanks mate! Glad you like my aesthetics and music 😊 I just really love thinking about this stuff. For quite a long time I wanted to be a documentary film maker and used to just pour over tons of short documentaries in particular and just loved to break down and analyze shot compositions and so many different aspects of what made them so pleasing for me to watch. So for me getting the chance to finally really play and have fun with different ways I can present my videos is really fun but also takes me back to those days. But it's really helpful to know that people are already totally satisfied with the aesthetic of my content!
I agree haha like all these things, if you step back and try to look at them from a far the mountain looks massive, but if you just get stuck in and enjoy it day after day, that other stuff just fades away and before you know if you're half-way to the top.
Congratulations on finally making it to the Anki party! 😂
I wonder if you shouldn’t use the word “proficiency” rather than “fluency.” Isn’t being “fluent” a state of having achieved the highest level in language acquisition whereas “proficiency” implies differing levels of achievement? Just a thought. Your videos are interesting and very helpful. Thank you!
You can be fluent in a normal speech...but not proficient in a scientific one.
Lovely tips! Thank you. What is the French podcast you mention at around 5:12?
2 things
1 - Easy languages is the best!
2 - Praxis languages did sorta this exact method you're describing, they had ChinesePod, SpanishPod, FrenchPod, and ItalianPod and it was perfect. Sadly, I think they went out of business or shutdown or something.
Thanks
Great video! Do you have any more tips on note-taking, I'm wondering if I should try to transcribe whole phrases or just do simple gist notes! Do you have any examples of notes like this?
Another good thing about Easy Languages is that you will learn correct pronunciation and correct grammar as long as the pronunciation and grammar are correct.
You can't do that with English though
Your method is really similar to mine. Especially when it comes to using dead times. Congratulations for both of us. Professor X here. Stay safe.
Thank you! I think dead time is so valuable for language learning 🙂 Stay safe, too.
Robin MacPherson 🙏🏻
I’ve done this with Assimil too.
Oh, nice! How did it go? Did you do it for every chapter, or just chapters you found particularly interesting?
@@RobinMacPhersonFilms Every chapter. Plus I did bi-directional translation once I had each conversation down. Still have 15 lessons to go with Spanish, but so far it's worked well. I'm just starting this with German now.
I have a question, how would you go about making Anki flashcards? Would they be entirely in your target language or translating? What's on the front side of the card and on the backside?
yeah great question
That's kind what I'm used to do. I understand you at 1.5 plus playback speed, however I struggle with movies/tv shows and songs. Ted Talks and youtube videos I'm ok, except Scottish, some United Kingdom's accents and Irish.
Hi Robin, thanks for your wonderful videos. Well, "j'arrive après la bataille", that means a very long time since you posted this one. I'm looking for swedish podcasts....there are two or maybe three "Easy swedish". Does anybody can have a tip for this language ?
Linguistic GOLD!
How Many months does It take to reach a c2 level in a language if you're starting from scratch?
Also a coffee lover,I'm curious to know what's your favourite method for making you coffee?V60,Moka,Chemex,French Press etc...
For me dead time is DEAD TIME :D I'm against using it for studying, I need to day dream, that's actually when I get some good ideas or just think to myself about anything I want. And it's impossible for me to cook or clean or anything else and listen to a podcast, I can't concentrate on two things at once, I've never understood the community of people who drive/cook/clean/change nappies/push newborn babies out of vaginas whilst listening attentively and supposedly "enjoying" and reflecting on audiobooks. Even I'm going to listen properly or I'd prefer to not do it. I've never been into this "make use of every single second in which you're breathing" strategy. I believe that as humans we need rest between activities.
I love your account :)
What's the name of the French podcast you mention? Chemin aux something?
Does “dead time” mean “it’s my free time to listen to podcasts” ?
What's that french podcast you mentioned. I have some hard time finding stuff in frencb
Maybe you can try innerfrench podcast
Mr Robin what music you use in Background ?
Drooling over coffee right now 😂
Can you write the link you told us about it?
Will I become fluent faster learning the grammar last?
Yr accent is crazy... impossible to tell where you come from!!
where is he from ?
To me he sounds like he's from the UK. Given that I'm from the UK I hope I'm right XD
@@MobWave wait what really? I'm american and I think maybe 70% of his accent sounds American/Canadian and then the other 30% sounds like he has another mother tongue -- I don't know, turkish? iranian? isreali? many other possibilities -- but is a fluent english speaker, like maybe he lived for a lot of his youth in the UK or, like, more like Australia. His accent sounds inconsistent to me, but I definitely wouldn't have said he sounds British even though I think maybe you happen to be right that he did grow up there or something? I don't know
@@user-zr9hu3tf1y yeah, there are a large variety of accents here in the UK but he has the distinctive features. Some of the features of American and Canadian accents do appear in accents here too. But you can tell a British accent since we don't pronounce the letter "r" a lot of times particularly with words ending in "er" such as "water". The other explanation is that he has a different native tongue but I don't think so. In his videos speaking in multiple languages he never says anything like that
@@MobWave Just a heads up that this comment is gonna analyze his accent, so if you're not in the mood for potentially tiresome pedantry, you don't have to read it or engage in that with me, and I appreciate the reply you already made, lol.
To be clear, I know Robin's definitely said English is his first language, and while I haven't heard him say where he's from, he was talking with someone who mentioned something about England, and the guy stopped and went "hey, hey," in a knowing way, like England meant something to Robin, maybe implying he's from there, so I would guess you're right.
But still I don't know, I say again that there feels like there's something inconsistent in his accent cause I'm not hearing that softness with the "r" that you are. Listen to the first 15 seconds of the vid. In "almost there. One more day." would you not say there's a clear "r" sound in "there" and "more"? I could keep going, I'm hearing a lot of those r noises where I'd expect an Englishman not to make them. And when he says "an amazing episode", in "episode", I sort of hear that kind of Australian thing where there's a bit of an r noise creeping into the "o", also in the word "videos" at 0:52 and at other times.
A couple of times he says words with "a" noises in them the way that I'd call British/English sounding, where it sounds more like an "o" than we say it and 1:13 he says "half" in a totally English sounding way to me. But at 0:46 the "o" sound when he says "on the fly", that sounds totallyyyy American to me, like how the o sounds flatter and less round, and just his accent in that whole phrase sounds American.
An example of something he often does that confuses me is at 2:34, the word "demonstrated" where he really annunciates the "t" in "ted," which sounds inconsistent with the rest of his accent, especially given that at 2:39, he says the same word but with the second "t" sounding more like a "d" like I'd expect most Americans/Canadians to say it.
I'm also just now realizing how unclear I am about what makes his accent sound like a non-western native speaker's accent, but I'm still of the opinion that some of the sounds give that air. I admit I really can't put my finger on which sounds though.
I'm aware that there's an enormous variety of accents in the UK, but is there an accent that has that particular combination of traits? I think it's way more unclear than you're saying, either way imo. But anyway, I appreciate you reading this long ass comment if you got this far lol.
Hey robin when do you stop using anki when learning a language
Not sure if you're only interested in Robin's answer specifically, but Matt vs Japan talks about this.
Hey Lelouch! It's funny because to be honest, it comes in waves depending on what I'm doing at that time.
For example, even in languages where I reached a possibly C2 level at one point (Japanese and French), if I were just enjoying the language and coasting along happily, I wouldn't be using a tool like anki at that level. However, if I then decided that I wanted to really drill down on a particular thing such as coffee vocabulary and phrases, I'd be quite happy to create a consolidation-expansion loop using a tool like anki even then.
In Spanish, even when I had about a low C1 level perhaps, I remember making an awesome anki deck with tons of really fun Spanish idioms and it was great. So there are times when I do go away from these tools, but they tend to come back in times like those.
I also like how they help me organize things I've done and they go hand-in-hand with my activity tracking sheets as like an archive of things I've done and can revive/review at any time. I still have my original Little Prince anki deck in French ♥️ and I also still have a gigantic anki deck with every word, phrase, and idiom from an entire season of a Japanese drama which was one of the most pivotal periods of learning Japanese for me before going to Japan.
where to find episodes in German languages with subtitles?
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Jealous ahahahhahaa
Woooo great job Alex!! 🎉
Hey there's always tomorrow Ritchie! ahaha 😂
Junko ruined that boy's life??? I wanted to punch his mom's face. It's unbelievable after her own son committed that crime.
Wherever you're Junko rest in peace
i always like you but backround music is annoying man.