How to study languages consistently: a step-by-step guide to making habits

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  • čas přidán 6. 06. 2024
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    📧 30 Days of Better Habits by James Clear: jamesclear.com/30-days
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    0:00 intro
    1:22 Week 1: choosing the right habit
    3:16 starting small
    5:39 finding time and place for the habit
    6:52 Week 2: designing your environment
    10:40 Week 3: staying motivated
    13:04 the importance of rewards
    14:34 Week 4: the role of community
    15:28 habit graduation
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    Hi and welcome! I'm Tanya and the only thing I like more than learning languages is probably talking about learning languages (well, that and hoarding language books).
    My native language is Russian and I'm currently in different stages of learning English, Spanish, Polish, Italian, Korean, and Japanese.

Komentáře • 59

  • @tbenavente
    @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci +9

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  • @joreneelanguages
    @joreneelanguages Před 11 měsíci +83

    I really like the identity-based concept, specifically because it focuses on what you usually do vs whether you miss a day. I feel like it helps avoid the pitfall of missing a day or so and feeling like you might as well give up.

  • @feline8765
    @feline8765 Před 11 měsíci +9

    i saw your thumbnail and I FELT like i must comment , i was waking up for 400 days or more at 5 am with consistency , when i noticed the number of the days and how much days a person could improve his consistency in your picture , i start saying how i began at the first , along with solving my procrastination , i found that everything came from your mind . if you want do it or no , if you've a huge reason which motivate u or no

  • @ayinesk5205
    @ayinesk5205 Před 11 měsíci +1

    LingQ was a really nice discovery, thanks for that!

  • @adventureswithmadison
    @adventureswithmadison Před 11 měsíci +25

    I am trying to become more consistent in language learning 😢 its difficult with school because all I want to do when I finish my classes is read fanfiction in English haha

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci +1

      I know it’s probably suuuper obvious but have you tried reading fan faction in one of your target languages?

    • @adventureswithmadison
      @adventureswithmadison Před 11 měsíci

      @@tbenavente yes... but I'm not skilled enough in it yet. I have tried using LingQ but I found it took me 30 minutes to read page one, I just gotta get my level there 💪🏻

    • @olivia5030
      @olivia5030 Před 10 měsíci +3

      Fanfic novels are how I learned Korean lol (I read 1,000,000+ words of fanfic in Korean). It's worth the struggle required in the beginning though it does require a great deal of patience :)

    • @adventureswithmadison
      @adventureswithmadison Před 10 měsíci

      @@olivia5030 okay, I'll read them then LMAO. It did not take much to convince me

    • @examenesinternacionalesaf3576
      @examenesinternacionalesaf3576 Před 10 měsíci

      Ohhh, yeah. I love this hack, i actually recomend AO3 because you can download the fic and read it in your kindle/e-reader. And always try to give some comments to the author 🥰

  • @keichangg
    @keichangg Před 3 dny +1

    really enjoyed this video! your voice is so calming and your points are concise but well-explained and impactful. thank you for sharing this!

  • @autumnteacozy
    @autumnteacozy Před 11 měsíci +22

    Thank you for this video, Tanya 😊 I have a list of identity-based habits already on my phone and I think it's a much better mindset. I think the obstacles I always hit were being too ambitious at the start and then falling off when week 3 started. I appreciate the tips you gave for some strategies that might help. Good luck with your languages! ❤

  • @ot7and239
    @ot7and239 Před 11 měsíci +4

    can u do a tour on the gadgets u use?? love ur vids ao muchhh❤❤❤

  • @snowandinksoul
    @snowandinksoul Před 9 měsíci +1

    I use the temptation bundling technique not only for language learning but also for doing exercise regularly. I often find it hard to start exercising and then I start doing a 'Netflix' workout (those are specifically designed so that you can watch something while doing the exercises) and continue watching CZcams or a series. And while doing that I get into the exercise flow and then continue to exercise without watching something else during it.

  • @FC-BS
    @FC-BS Před 11 měsíci +1

    Thanks for the tips

  • @ywen783
    @ywen783 Před 11 měsíci +9

    Very informative! I especially love the mindset shift of identity-based habits :D
    I'll be following the advice in this vid to help me finally become a conversationalist in Welsh, starting small with listening to a few minutes of a podcast each day
    Pob lwc i chi i gyd, good luck to you all :)

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci +1

      Best of luck with Welsh :)

  • @nandenayo3_catsandraw
    @nandenayo3_catsandraw Před 10 měsíci

    Greetings from Turkiye I love your voice and videos so calming❤

  • @claucemicro1080
    @claucemicro1080 Před 10 měsíci

    Thank you!

  • @eaindraywin9269
    @eaindraywin9269 Před 10 měsíci

    Thanks for sharing ❤

  • @GloriaJerez-xw3wh
    @GloriaJerez-xw3wh Před 11 měsíci

    Gracias por tus consejos. Tomo nota y e into aplicarlo quiero pasar de pre intermedio a intermedio pronto.

  • @Daviddaze
    @Daviddaze Před 11 měsíci +6

    In the menu , captions, autotranslate , there's 16 language choices to read along with the video

  • @JF-wp2rz
    @JF-wp2rz Před 10 měsíci +5

    I will write one sentence in Hebrew about a topic of my choice daily (I have already made a small list of topics) and then I want to write around 75 words in Italian about that sentence, so basically I want to use the Hebrew as some form of a headline for my text.

    • @Monada19
      @Monada19 Před 10 měsíci +2

      Here is an awesome way to keep our languages hot. Nice, JF.

  • @mylksiie
    @mylksiie Před 11 měsíci +13

    This was super helpful! I’m planning to learn Japanese and I’m glad I found your channel :)

    • @mylksiie
      @mylksiie Před 11 měsíci

      Also at 15:19 you show a document you share with an accountability partner, is there any way you could share the doc (or a blank copy of it, possibly through email or something similar) so that I could see how to set one up myself? If you’re comfortable with sharing it, that is

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@mylksiie Hi! I'm talking to my accountability partner about making a video on this topic, and I'm sure we'll share the template in some capacity, but I would need to discuss it with him first

    • @mylksiie
      @mylksiie Před 11 měsíci

      @@tbenavente I understand, privacy first :)

  • @jimbagsh9569
    @jimbagsh9569 Před 8 měsíci

    Nice video. Any chance you could share your topics for daily writing prompts?

    • @jimbagsh9569
      @jimbagsh9569 Před 8 měsíci

      And could say more about "language twitter' you talked about in the video?

  • @dinasaad8528
    @dinasaad8528 Před 11 měsíci +6

    Tell us more about accountability partners

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci +3

      A video about this will be coming soon!

  • @coolbrotherf127
    @coolbrotherf127 Před 11 měsíci +5

    Easy, just be obsessive compulsive like me and never stop 😅 Take out the garage? No, I've got to study more kanji before bed.

  • @W0llie1340
    @W0llie1340 Před 11 měsíci +5

    Can you make a video on how you study Greek?
    I've recently been interested in studying Greek but don't know how to

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci +4

      Yeah, I’m planning to make one, potentially next month

    • @W0llie1340
      @W0llie1340 Před 11 měsíci +2

      @@tbenavente I'm looking forward

  • @tayintokyo
    @tayintokyo Před 11 měsíci +1

    what are the textbooks in 1:52 and 3:20 called? they seem very fun

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci

      They are this amzn.to/3r7p7Ho and this one amzn.to/3r3zDPX

  • @solaramazin3704
    @solaramazin3704 Před 11 měsíci

    please what the program you are using for double subtitles at 1:56?

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci

      it’s a browser extension called Inkah

  • @Nichachucha
    @Nichachucha Před 11 měsíci +3

    how many languages do you study now?

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci +2

      I’m focusing on two right now - Spanish and Greek, but I also have Polish, Korean, Italian and Japanese, all at different levels waiting for their turn to come

  • @enory5983
    @enory5983 Před 11 měsíci +4

    i think review think is really important ,what do you think about it? becaus i know some people don’t review what they learned however i feel is less effective
    thank you for the video

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci +2

      I think reviewing what you've learned is really important, but it doesn't have to come in the form of just re-reading your book or notes or even taking quizzes. Reading and watching things in your target language can be a great form of review, in my opinion

    • @enory5983
      @enory5983 Před 11 měsíci +1

      @@tbenavente thank you 😊

  • @VanillaVixen18
    @VanillaVixen18 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I have tried using LinQ and end up highlighting practically every single word. Am I using it wrong or do I need to have more vocabulary before I can use LinQ effectively?

    • @Charlotte-ti2yk
      @Charlotte-ti2yk Před 11 měsíci +10

      I use LingQ. In the beginning you do highlight every word. All the words start out as blue, meaning you’ve never seen the word and you don’t know it, so you highlight it and it becomes a ‘LingQ’. A LingQ is essentially a word you’ve seen before, you’ve looked up the meaning before, but it’s not a word you consider known. Eventually though you’ll see the yellow word enough times that you don’t need to look it up again. You now know it, so you mark the word as known (unhighlight it). In the beginning everything is either blue or yellow. It’s normal. Eventually, there are less blue words, and more yellow and white. And eventually you’ll get a whole page of white words with the odd yellow smattered in there. But it’s completely normal to start off with a page of highlighted words.

  • @langdinish
    @langdinish Před 11 měsíci +4

    Not the pun at the end djfsdkjfsdlkj
    Loved the video, as always!

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci +1

      ahah I’m so glad you noticed 😅

  • @languagelearningdabbler
    @languagelearningdabbler Před 10 měsíci

    Great video! Thank you! What is your native language?

  • @AldonaAnna89
    @AldonaAnna89 Před 11 měsíci +6

    Hi 🎉 Does anyone looking for an accountability partner in learning Brazilian Portuguese?

    • @anacarolinamicheli
      @anacarolinamicheli Před měsícem

      hi!! I'm Brazilian, we can chat if you like to train your portuguese

  • @Fulanito163
    @Fulanito163 Před 11 měsíci

    Estas leyendo a García Márquez? Sus libros a veces tienen partes difíciles de entender

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 11 měsíci +1

      No, este es un libro de mi pareja. Todavía no he leído nada de García Márquez pero está en mis planes

  • @O-Demi
    @O-Demi Před 10 měsíci

    In this video I see that you're watching a Korean drama with Korean and English subtitles. Can you recommend me a site/app like that?

    • @tbenavente
      @tbenavente  Před 10 měsíci +2

      It's a browser extension called Inkah, it works with Netflix and CZcams

  • @joonfanatic2140
    @joonfanatic2140 Před 9 měsíci

    Exactly what I needed to see.. I’ve been slacking with my language studies 🥲