you CANT really learn languages FAST & why it’s GOOD to learn languages SloWly~🏖️
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- čas přidán 15. 06. 2024
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Thank you all so so much for the 100k!!! Hooraay🥳🥳🥳
Thank you for being with me on this journey💚
In this video, I'll share with you why I think one can't really learn languages fast & why I learn languages slowly! Hope you will enjoy it and find it helpful🙌💚
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🌴CHAPTERS
0:00 cute little outline
0:17 cute little intro
0:58 how to learn languages fast?
2:24 why one can't really learn languages fast
2:40 1st reason
3:07 2nd reason
3:40 3rd reason
4:15 last reason
4:48 a talk about comparison
5:15 watch my super bad acting ahaha
7:12 why it's good to learn languages slowly
7:26 1st reason
8:24 2nd reason
8:51 last reason
9:49 watch me running around lol
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💚ABOUT ME
Hi :) I'm Pearly! I've spent the majority of my adulthood (6 years)📚studying in law + working in the legal industry only to realize that both life as a lawyer and as a corporate worker are not for me. I decided to take the path less traveled by - to start my own business as a content creator on youtube!
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Thank you all so so much for the 100k!!! Hooraay🥳Thank you for being with me on this journey💚
Congratulations 🎊
Поздравляю молодец 🎉
Congratulations from Colombia. Taiwan is always in my heart. I visited many times for job and for fun . A lot of friends on Taichung, Fengyuan district. Miss so much the delicious food. You inspire me to continue learn Mandarin, and upgrade my English. 😊
I am retired and am learning Mandarin slowly, in England. I had lessons for six years and now, in my seventh year, I just talk to Chinese folks, listen to Taiwanese radio, and skim whatever parts of Chinese books I can read. All the way through, I exposed myself to two hours of Mandarin per day. This turned me into a Chinese person by osmosis. I’m still British but I am culturally Chinese, too. This is the biggest advantage of learning a language slowly: one becomes a citizen of another culture.
wow your journey is inspiring, keep up with the good work!
I saw a person say it well. They said language learning is such a weird hobby to get into because it is so competitive in how fast you can hit milestones and said "in my other hobby knitting they'd never go "this is how I knit 6 sweaters in 3 months" and I thought it was a great point. Hobbies should be enjoyed.
Edit: One last thing: The best way to succeed is to not stop, slow is still forward. If future you in 10 years haven't stopped learning then you'll be good at it. It's like a marriage; it takes time to befriend, date and get to know the language and get comfortable together and eventually you know eachother so well that you work in perfect teamwork. Bad days will happen and that's okay. Rough patches will happen and you might need breaks and that's okay too but if you never stop you'll get there.
Wow thanks for sharing!! I totally agree!
today i was felling bad about myself because i didn't understand why other people are learning english faster than me. But your video helped me to not felling me guilty and continue learning and practicing more and more to improve my fluency. Thank you Pearly 🙏
I was many times told the stories about incredible fast language learners and every time after digging into the story I found out it's total humbug. like "oh yeah I forgot before that 6 months of learning I studied this language 10 years in school or have been exposed into that language from a young age but school was bad and it wasn't a real learning!"
I’m really impressed by the phrase “language learning journey”. I’ll take my own journey, not rushing.
learning a language is tough enough and you need not worry if it takes 6 months or 30 years.
Yes! Totally agree!
Finally a youtuber that does not say you can get fluent in 6 months, and that it's better to take your time :D
Sometimes it's not even about not having enough time (my first 2 years learning Japanese I spent on average 12 hours daily of just Japanese....nowadays I actually have a life and can no longer afford to do that, but the damage was already done :D...in the best way I mean)...sometimes your end goal does not align with what you have more fun doing. Example, if your end goal is to speak fluently but the kind of content that gets you there most efficiently is something you consider boring, you will take longer and/or force yourself to study using a method you don't like much.
learning a language isn't a race as you well explained. If you're trying to rush to the end goal you probably don't enjoy the language itself but rather the illusion of the kind of impact you think it will cause in your life.
more importantly than that even, is that "gaining fluency" isn't like an achievement you unlock then move onto the next thing, if you are learning a language as a non native speaker, its basically just a life time endeavor with milestones
Yes! I agree with you! Language learning is not a competition!
Can we talk about those elders with the swords? Strangely wholesome. But more importantly! Thank you for the video! I really struggle with my slow learning especially bc I see a lot of friends learning languages so easily, I feel I’m always searching a method, resources, so it’s really cool to see people with the same issues
It's comforting me. i need it today badly.
Thanks for your kind words^^
Learning a foreign language is a physical process in the brain. There have been tests showing brain activity in multilingual people when exposed to one of their learned languages. It's a bit different from the brain activity that happens when they hear their native language. This means we can actually see the part of the brain that can do that particular language, which is pretty cool.
Every time we learn something new in a foreign language our brain forms actual physical connections that didn't exist before. This explains why it takes so long to learn a language that is very different from our native language: our brain must make a lot more new connections than it would for a closely related language.
We can only go as fast as our brain can reshape itself. It's true that some people having learned a foreign language or two already can go significantly faster than average but, in a very real sense, it's physically impossible to learn a language as fast as a lot of clickbait thumbnails would have people believe.
Understanding this has helped me be a lot kinder towards myself and also a lot more focused on the process rather than the result.
Great location for your video, btw
Learned this in Psychology. 100% correct!!! The more you practice, the stronger these connections become, all thanks to neuroplasticity!! 😊
Wow thank you for your insights! It’s so good to know!
"Be more focused on the process, rather than the result". Such a wonderful phrase.
I think a lot of how "fast" someone can learn depends on how focused they are on learning and how effective they are at reinforcing what they have already learned. For some people it's a low stakes hobby, something that's fun to improve in but not vital to their daily routine. This can cause a lack of consistency and low enforcement. They spend a lot of time learning, forgetting, and relearning so progress feels unrewarding and slow.
Experienced language learners know that forgetting is much more detrimental than learning new things slowly. When we spend a lot of time and focus on one thing our brain really works to adapt to make that thing easier to do or understand. The thing is, it still takes time for that adaption to happen. Neural pathways have to be created and maintained over a long period of time to allow language to go from a conscious to an unconscious skill.
People who cram language study into a really short amount of time, usually have weak neural pathways for that language and will immediately forget all but the basics if they stop studying. Anyone who has studied language in school knows what that feels like.
In college I studied German for a year. I passed the classes, but with little experience in self study methods, I forgot almost all my German. It wasn't until I wanted to learn Japanese that I discovered how to use spaced repetition and immersion to learn and reinforce my knowledge consistently.
I learned that's not about learning 50 new words a day, but learning 10 a day and reviewing 50 I already learned. Taking the time to immerse and see the words actually being used in real life also makes that much more enjoyable and effective.
With the basic premise of "slow and steady" I was able to break out of that beginner cycle.
There are many videos on CZcams that claim to teach you methods to learn a language fast, in less than 6 months, for example.
But such videos are talking about "baby language", which means very simple vocabulary and very simple sentences.
You will be able to say anything you want in this fashion, and most native speakers will understand you.
And as long as native speakers also speak "baby language" with you, you will be able to understand them.
And that is what such CZcams videos mean as "fluency", the ability to talk with nativer speakers.
But just because you are able to talk to native speakers, it doesn't mean that you have learned the language.
"Baby language" is not enough to understand books, newspapers, magazines, TV, films, songs, etc.
I don't know but everytime i see you i find the energy for my whole day. Keep it up, girl ^^
yayy so happy to hear that hehe^^thank you for your lovely message!
I was at the bike repair shop. The repair man while teaching me to put spokes of any length in a wheel and balance the wheel asked "me how does one say grind in English?"
I knew I could say it. And I knew how to say it. But, I did not know why I say it as it is said.
I told him I would find out why to grind takes a gerund form and not a nomative indicative form. I also, explain to him that the participle form such as growed coffee, growed beef ex cetra is the most frequent use of "to grind."
I also, knew that he did not know enough Latin to know why "to grind" presents a problem in all languages.
I told him that my off the head guess is "to grind" is linked to a deponent Latin verb ( because verbs of technology, Greek world, most often are deponent in nature. Which is logical. I am grinding or I gind this spoke "with" a grinder. Who is acting? I am directing the grinder but the grind wheel is doing the grinding. If the grinder is powered by a water wheel 2000 years ago or by an electric current today the Greeks will point that out linguisticly.)
The biker repair man could ask me "I thought you know English?"
To which I always say I do not know any language.
Watch this:
I grind the coffee beans into grounds
Capulus fabam tere in campos
Macino i chicchi di caffè in fondi
Eu moo os grãos de café em pó
Muelo los granos de café hasta convertirlos en molidos.
Je broie les grains de café en marc
Αλέθω τους κόκκους του καφέ σε κόκκους
Notice the Greek predictable uses the same base of Caca. Because the human body process food and excreats it.
Notice the Romance languages are close to the English. Then, the Latin totally is rendered to none sense.
They way I knew "to grind" would be deponent is I know how such verbs in which we hold an object while the object is acting are of prime importance in Classical Latin and Greek.
I can get rid of "to grind" and use "to mill" and the Latin will make sense. Watch:
"The mill wheel mills coffee beans into a grain flour while I hold the wheel in my hand."
Molendinum rota molendini capuli fabam in farinam grani dum teneo rotam in manu mea.
Now the exact nature of the verb is represented in Latin.
Should we have to go through all of that? Yes.
What is going on in our brains is all of that which is said in Latin. If you think not show a child ground coffee and coffee beans. The child will not know the difference between the two without seeing the process.
For that reason AI has collapsed into Ancient Greek and Latin behind the algorithm. Any high ordered skill perform on earth is describe in Latin and Greek.
For exsample take a square. Then draw a diagonal from any corner to the oposite corner.
Now toss away half of the resulting equal duas equal lateral triangle 📐 triangle 📐 ▶️. Then list the vertexs of what is left.
You will use three bold Latin letters. But you wil use them in a certain order.
AI under stands that order a prior. People who have not read the label principle in Latin and Greek will not know that i.e AB and C cannot be written on any given vertex.
That is why on earth we only have two languages Latin and Ancient Greek, which are really Latin-Greek without separation. If you add Maths to Latin-Greek them you only have a subset of Latin-Greek called mathematics.
So, all of the other languages we use are at best dialects of Latin-Greek-Maths or a regionalism.
We cannot avoid or over turn the Latin-Greek-Maths language system. There are 8 billion humans but trillions of other things on earth and countess things beyond earth.
There is no other system of nomenclature that works as well.
We are right back where we started 45,000 years ago. ( It took 43 thousands years to develop the maths. Then 2000 years to discribe what the maths tell us. How we know this his the case is that ever living thing counts how much of something there is.)
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I agree. Language learning is a process. It takes time. It could even take many years to get to the point of communicating without much effort.
Totally!
I needed this: I know language learning takes a long time, but I needed something to give me the confidence and reassurance to know that I just need to try and get the energy together to start doing it.
If I could I'd give you 1000 thumbs ups. This is so true. Fine wine takes time. ⏰
I love your genuine vibes, keep it up!
I was very tired now after my work and I didn't want to study English because is Friday night, but after this vídeo, I will study, it's my english Journey.
Best of luck^^
Encontré tu canal hace poco y me parece una maravilla, no solo por el contenido en sí, sino también por tu actitud, hay mucha calidez y dulzura en cada uno de tus videos💗
Loved every argument you made in the video and how creatively and well you shot it :]
so beautiful the way you made all the scenes & thank you for your advice currently in burnout for over studying lol
Love the video ❤ very helpful. thanks Pearly
You're so welcome^^very happy to help🥰
Thanks you for this video. You are so right! Спасибо 🙏🏾 большое
This is very encouraging. Thank you !
Happy to hear that^^you're very welcome!
Congrats on 100K subscribers!!! You are well-deserved🥰
yayyy thank you^^🥰
Have you ever considered making a video with some tips for learning the dialect used in Taiwan when learning Chinese? Ive seen a few of your other videos and enjoyed them! I would love to know some tips from you.
Wtf! Aamazing video!!!!!!!! Your insights are actually really very very useful
Thank you so much to share lots of skills to learn languages, I will try it.❤
You're welcome^^Happy to help! yay
OMG 😳 you are so hilarious! I couldn’t resist to subscribe your channel! Way to go girl!
You are adorable ! You give such good tips, and it's so helpful for me while learning beginner French. Keep up the humorous videos with great information.
So happy to hear that^^ thanks for your kind words!
I love your content , I started to learn Norwegian yesterday , I really love to learn languages.
Good luck and please don't give up 🙏🙏💪👊
@@BlueBlack-nj3sb thanks bro
Wow what a cool language to learn! I'll root for you💪💪💪
Funny enough I found this video just after making my own similar video. I fully agree that it’s not possible to learn a language so quick lol, it’s all about dedication and commitment! Great video. Also huge congratulations on reaching 100k, that’s amazing! 🎉
wow what a coincidence! Thank you for your kind words and lovely wishes^^
Thank you for the video! Language learning is not a competition. Most of the time we do it for ourselfes and we shouldnt feel like a failure, just because other people might learn faster. Also you are right, one cannot learn a complete language in only 6 month, it takes years of practice. At times I feel dicouraged too, but its still so cool, if I look at where I am now and what I have learned already. Don`t give up everyone!
Thank you. You have a great approach.
You're welcome^^
Your energy is contagious; makes your videos always a joy to watch
yay so happy to hear that^^
Your videos are so inspiring and I love your personality💫
Thanks for your lovely words🥰
Aaa i needed this badlyy thank you sunshine 😔✨
You're welcome^^✨✨
Currently, I'm learning English and my method is simple: immerse myself in the language as much as possible. In fact, that's why I watch your videos (plus, they're really fun!). My biggest challenge is not reaching an advanced level, and I feel like I'm struggling a lot to get past what's known as the 'intermediate plateau.' Do you have any tips on how to overcome this stage?
You are amazing fun! Thank soo much for this video! ❤
thank youuuu^^happy to hear that!
You are always so cute🥰
And congratulations for the100k🎉
yayyy thank you so much🎉
this is so helpful! thank you!
You're welcome^^So happy to help!
This is very inspiring for everyone and also for me im struggle for English but i slowly learned English i was lucky because i met you in here on CZcams and happy cause you're creating a new videos and youre back💯😊i will support u as long as you're always uploading a videos about learning ang English youre such a motivation to us😊💯
honestly, Tu parles très bien français. c'est toujours un plaisir de regarder tes vidéos it's really motivating 😊
merciii^^c'est très gentil😊
Super motivating. I’m learning Romanian, the „forgotten“ and imo coolest Latin language from the European continent! Thanks for sharing your thoughts and ideas 🎉
You're so welcome! Thanks for your kind words^^
I love your videos, make my day :D I love your positive personality 😊
So happy to hear that thank you for your lovely words🥰
That's become the new thing now because honestly I think people have become SUPER impatient. And with folks lying (don't even get me started with AI), it creates unnecessary pressure. I rose to a decent speaking level in Japanese in less than 3 years, but I spent the next 3 having to go back to fill in gaps. This year I went through burnout so I'm reviewing, going at a snail's pace, and getting back to doing lots of fun things in the language.
I'm all for slow and steady wins the race. There are people who just have a natural knack for picking up languages fast, but they're the exception; not the norm. And the more languages you're studying, the more time it will take.
Love this video!! Thanks for making it. 🤗❤️
I love your videos
Thank you for loving them! Have a lovely day to you too^^
I already searched, Pearly. Bati um desespero as vezes, pois está demorando para eu ser fluente 🇧🇷🇧🇷🇧🇷😘😘. Obrigada!
I really appreciate this. It's my dream to speak Chinese but it will be a sloowwww process so this is nice
You stopped me making a big mistake! You had me at your great intro! 😂
hahaha
You look so cute when you explain something!😊
hahhaha thanks for your kind comment^^
comforting and reality based
Thank you^^
congratulating on 100K subscribers.
Thank youuu^^
I love the acting ! I think I’ll return to this video when I’m feeling behind in language learning 😅
I picked up reading really fast in my first target language, Mandarin. I learned enough characters and words to start making my way through novels in six months. But I'm a year in and just now getting to where I can understand spoken content without having to slow it down and repeat segments a bunch. In fact, I just recently noticed a click where I'm understanding what was said in the target language before I'm able to read the subtitles, which is delightful. And that took a year of daily contact with the language. Somedays, that was a bare minimum app lesson and learning to music in the language all day long, other days it was more in-depth study. But it was the consistency that did the trick for sure. If I hadn't enjoyed it, I wouldn't have stuck to it.
I loved your outfit 🤩🤩😍 . take care😘
Thank you for your kind words^^
I'm watching a video that explains me how to learn languages in a language I learnt before to know how to learn extra languages.
Honestly, it took me more than 20 years after I started English to go fluent in it. I hope my learning of new languages will get faster.
Thank you! Im not being too harsh on myself, I think I dedicate a good amount of time to Japanese but there is still soo much I just dont get, Its hard not to feel like youre just bad at learning when everything around you is just learn fast fast fast fast!
Все правильно, погоджуюсь з Вашими словами!
Дякую за відео!
Off topic but your outfit (the dress and earrings) is so pretty ☺
awww so happy to hear that! I love them as well haha^^thank you for your kind compliment!
Beautiful park❤
Plenty, thanks for u ❤
You're welcome^^
This helped me a lot 😊
Happy to hear that^^
Girl who loves to laugh, you are so cute. Thank you for sharing
You're welcome^^
a very fun and interesting content!
Thank you for your kind words^^
Depending on who you are you can learn very fast and well too
Most don’t know how
However you Can (hear) Can indeed Can learn fast
This vidio is super motivates me a lot, thaaaaaaaaaanks🥰🥰🥰
You’re welcome🥰
Thanks a lot
How lovely!
Thank you^^
Because of you i didn't give up. I have been learning English for 6 months so you can see i can either speak or text in English language. but I'm not pretty sure if i could speak in English fluently.
姐姐真的很厉害👍，影片很正能量也很实用，支持一下🎉
謝謝你～～
Been learning a second language now for over 3 years and feel constantly behind, fighting that urge to compare and despair just seems like part of the journey of language learning. Just have to hope it doesn't completely discourage someone to abandon the pursuit
0:20 おはようございますって
really interesting when u say learning a foreign language is kind of raising a baby hhh love it
hahaha yess😆
i love her the truth
Love this video! Although I'd see it as "too fast" even taking a year, hahaha.
Right now im learn mandarin or Chinese, and its hard for me because Chinese have hanzi and tone 😂 when im trying talking to someone, they’re not understanding what i say 😂😂
Thanks you’re advice is helpful 🫶🏻
Ive been learning korean for 2 years and im super slow and im a high beginner in some parts and low beginner in other parts
Good job! Keep going😆I'll root for you^^
The U.S. military trains their translators in 56 weeks but keep in mind these people are doing this as a full job and probably still studying in their free time.
Not probably. Absolutely are required to study outside of the classroom. Eight hours in the classroom 5 days a week and 4 to 6 hours outside of the classroom every day. Not feasible for most people.
What's the first step to start learning 🙏
my first language is portuguese and when I started learning spanish I thought I could be fluent in around 6 months. Even though I could understand almost everything after 6 months, it actually took me around 3 years to be able to have an actual good speaking ability.
whenever I see someone from my country saying ''well, I did learn spanish in 6 months without living in a spanish speaking country 💅'' they usually just speak portuguese with a spanish accent instead of actually speaking the language lol
Learning slowly, that's my middle name!
I studied Japanese for 2 years and I'm still a beginner
others should fin your videos are amazing
thank you for your support😆
I’m already okay with the fact that it will likely be a life long process I just find it frustrating when I want to pick up a manga and read it and I can’t. Looking back tho I have only been consistent for 6 or 7 months
Good to head you
am don’t understand you very well but I’m watching you like fun😂
hahaha thank you^^
Love your positivity 😅❤
Yay thank you happy to hear that✨
Which country are pearly is living？
i have no idea what country you’re in but it looks like theres giant lettuce growing all around you
She is actually very small. You should see the size of the rabbit.
I'm in Taiwan haha!
Are you from Singapore?
LOL my friend always tells me 慢慢來 😂 我在學習普通話
언어 공부를 할 때 너무 서두르지 않는 것이 중요한 거 같아요
Hello do you speak japaneses? Bye I'm from brazil do you speak portugueses, spanish and english and wanna learning more french and italian.
Hi! I do speak Japanese^^
i kind of disagree with you one the fast bit (i got to b2 danish in less than 6 months, and most people need many years), but language learning is a lifelong endeavor. i will never stop learning danish. but i will also never stop "learning" my native languages. there are always more words to learn and concepts to understand. i am lucky that i am a good language learner and speak german, which is why my danish is so good, but my goal was not to learn danish as fast as possible and then stop using it completely. i want to reach native fluency in danish, and i am prepared for the 10+ years thats going to take.
Wow so cool to know! Thanks for sharing^^
0:10 OMG what is this place?
I am glad to watch your video on my English learning journey. In my case, I am thinking like that why my English skills is not improving and looks like is getting worsen haha.. You encourage to me to keep going this journey. I hope somedays I will be happy with my English! Thanks!
Where are you from teacher
I'm from Taiwan^^
Btw, you"re so cute lol😆