Lydia Machova - The ultimate cure for the undisciplined learner: a system!
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- Polyglots are usually very good at learning languages by themselves, without teachers. This ability is often attributed to a special talent that they have, but Lýdia believes it comes down to a different quality - self-discipline. Learning a language from zero to a comfortable B2 level by yourself takes a lot of time and dedication and if you’re doing this by yourself, you need to be either extremely motivated to learn that language, or well-disciplined. That’s why most people find it so difficult and often give up after a few weeks or months. There is, however, quite a simple solution to this problem: learning systematically. If you create a plan in your learning, all you need to do is follow its simple steps, day by day, week by week, month by month. You don’t have to ask yourself “Do I feel like learning today?” over and over again. Lýdia trusts that anyone can turn into a successful autodidact (i.e. learn a language by themselves) if they find the right methods to learn and if they create a realistic plan. In her talk, she’ll give concrete examples of how such a plan may look, based on hundreds of examples of her students.
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“How do you keep yourself motivated?”
“Watching Lydia Machova on CZcams” 😅🤩
I'm a spanish native speaker, my main problem is that I'm not a talkative person so these days I'm trying to talk more, even in my native language. True fact
hi, do shadowing. Speak to yourself, repeat phrases and be positive :)
Hi Lydia. My name's Hamid. I'm from Uzbekistan. It's a Central Asian country, the former republic of USSR. I've just subscribed to your channel. You're so beautiful and of course the master of your profession. I wish you all the best and good luck.
I always learn something interesting and useful from Lydia Machova
You forgot the accent marks on her name.
Esther B. So do I! 🤓
The greatest motivation for learning a language is the just wanting to understand. Just understanding people can be really exciting.
WOW! I don't know if I would actually do it, but the Skype method is the most *hilarious* thing I've ever herd in regards to language learnig!😂👏👏👏
Petros Stefanidis Agreed! 😂
what is the Skype method?
Stick with comprehensible input and when you have digested enough you will automtically start speaking. That has been my experience. Because of subconcious mechanisms, language learning isn't as simple as, if you want to speak, practice speaking. Output uses the pattern recognition abilities establilshed by recieving comprehensive input. Trying to speak before you have digested sufficient input just doesn't work.
William Budd my English level is intermediate and i find writing so much difficult i don’t know where is the wrong although i started to read articles it just didn’t work with me my listening is good but my writing is the issue i find it hard to express about myself or leave a comment or writing anything ): i hope one day to be good a writing + i am trying not to give up also if you want to practice English with me i will be happy 🌸
@@amala1406 I find it easier to write than to speak, because I have time to think about how to conjugate my verbs and what gender each word is (a real struggle for English speakers). However, I also find comment sections intimidating! How do you do with journaling - just writing for yourself? BTW - you definitely got your point across in your comment. That is pretty good for intermediate level English.
@@amala1406 If you want to write, read. This is good advice even if you want to write in your native language: read a lot in that language. If articles in your target language aren't working for you, find material that you can and will read, FOR PLEASURE, in your target language. It doesn't have to be the same genre you want to write, especially at first.
Okay but how do you FIND comprehensible input!
I believe there is a point where, if you get to pass it then learning a language becomes easier. What I have found is that, after the second language the next ones I manage to comprehend and to assimilate them faster, because I find similarities... It's amazing how many people can't get to achieve another language with all the tools available today!! when I started learning languages around 40 years or so ago, there was no internet. So everything was by the book, with a teacher and learning was as slow as a snail, but after all I could learn two languages... thank you for sharing!!
One thing I learned by reading Edgar Schein was that we need to access our ignorance in order to obtain knowledge. Lydia is the perfect example of it to me, she is probably the most skilful person I've ever seen discussing language learning and it is possible to perceive that she has talked to many people and deepened into how other people learn languages. More than the advice she gives, it is very useful to pay attention to what active listening can do to you. It can turn you into a better person, who contributes to society in many ways.
I love this comment. Insightful
Not to mention she’s so damn beautiful. Inside and out.
Great video! Thank you Lydia
Thanks for this.
Beforehand thank you for all the support you give us.
I admire you a lot and I'm aware that those advices will help me a lot Lýdia Machová seriously it helps me a lot!
My name is Melvin I'm from El Salvador Central America and I'm currently speaking English and Portuguese, and I would like to learn more language.
I would like always to follow your advices ever because are very useful and important for me so, maybe you can create a channel on CZcams so, you can share with us your experience.
Again I really appreciate your help, keep on doing that way.
Blessings from El Salvador.
Lydia's speeches usually inspire me and give me a new breath to hold my ground in that long way of language learning.
I'm glad that I knew her, she's an amazing woman.
❤
I ve noticed you did a small change in the first quadrant of your model, from Motivation to Patience. Nice to see these improvement.Very good Lydia! So many useful insights. You're the best!
Cheers, from Brazil!
I love your tips and videos! I'm also a self taught languages learner. It's really rewarding being able to speak and understand other languages. I do get goosebumps every time I get the chance to speak to people. Thank you Lynda! A big shout out from Brazil! ;)
Really great info, I teach English in Brazil and I think one main difference is polyglots don´t question the language and ask too many questions about why it like it is. Other things are fears of making errors and learners are mostly scared of trying
this is a fantastic presentation!
am currently learning German and really found these tips discussed here very useful, thanks a lot Lydia
I speak English natively, tengo veinte-y-cuatro años hablando Español, полгода назад я начал усиленно изучать русский язык, quattro mesi fa ho aggiunto studio dell’italiano in modo più casuale, und ich begann ungefähr drei Wochen später Deutsch. I have become an addict, and when I start getting mind-weary, I spend a few minutes studying something else. I’ve been alternating between Latin, Greek, Japanese, Hindi, and Hebrew, pretty much in that order. Language study has brought me so much joy, and studying more than one language at a time has kept it fun and new and engaging for me. It’s probably not the most effective approach for everyone, but I find myself really enjoying it. Quiero desear a todos Ustedes lo más éxito y gozo posible en sus esfuerzos lingüísticos. :)
Thanks to share your thoughts and experiences with us. It's very useful for me! I'm gonna learn my third language and I'm excited!
This was an amazing presentation, thank you very much! I am learning my first foreign language and this has been very insightful.
Woou, I spent 40 minutes learning and learning thanks a lot for that..I really appreciate it.
I'm a simple man. I see Lydia Machova and I click.
I learned some Spanish in high school and in later years I attempted Italian. I kept getting the languages mixed up. Agua, aqua, come stai, como esta....I found the mentor/buddy system helpful. My hairdresser is from Italy and he was willing to help me.
Keep up the good work Lydia. Ngā mihi ki a koe, nā Aotearoa (New Zealand).
You have said before "nothing can motivate us more than our own success"
That's truly right .. seeing my own progress is what keeps me learning 😊
Thank a lot Lydia 💗
Hi Lydia, I´m from Brazil and I´ve been much of your presentation and I´d liked its so much. Congratulation and thank so much for those. I´ve thought I´ve learned a lot with you. You are beautyfull in your soul and appearancy. Good for you...
Very impressive and informative.
Awesome conference, and great tips
36:55 this is where I am and has gotten me so confused when hearing other peoples methods of learning. So much emphasis on speaking but yet a new person to a language knows little to nothing. :D This really helped.
Excellent lecture! I used this methodology, which consists of dividing the tasks, giving each one a fixed amount of time for many years, and I can guarantee that it works perfectly! Congratulations on the video, Lydia!
This also translates over to other areas in an individuals life such as working out.
Thank you so much very nice
I love Lydia!
Bravo! ❤
Excellent 👌
Probably I heard and watched this video hundreds times, she is the best; I want to find some mentoring like she is.
One motivation is the find the people first and then learn the language. I have started learning languages because of people that live in my community. For example, the person working at the Chinese restaurant. I start just by asking them how to say "Hello, how are you" in their language and then I learn a little on my own and come back practice what I learned and ask for more phrases.
I wish i had the confidence for this lol
@@Ravi-fx6vf I am not really confident. I feel scared, but I do it because I am very interested in languages. Maybe obsessed ☺️
@KleineTaenzerin77 I'm also an introvert. But, for some reason, I feel motivated to talk to strangers who are speaking other languages 🤣
ขอบคุณมากคะ I'm from Thailand.
Thank you, really helpful
This is the best !!1
I am a fan now, hi Lidya. Love from Indonesia
Needless to say,Lydia is a truly accomplished polyglot and you can see from every video she made that she is really smart and competent..I’ve been following her for some years and she has always given useful advice to anybody who wants to learn a new language..greetings from Italy
Stahp it. Get some help.
Dziękuję za inspiracje płynące z Twoich filmów. Wĺaśnie mnie przekonałaś, że nigdy nie jest za późno na naukę nowego języka. W wieku 50 lat zaczynam naukę hiszpańskiego. Cross your fingers for me. :-)
Y qué tal te va?
YOU LEARN KISWAHILI 💚 finally someone who is learning a beautiful language not because of the popularity of it or economic profit. This shows that you are just loving to learn languages. Kiswahili is a great, wonderful and sweet language. You will love it ( also because it is very easy as you have maybe heard already)
Keep on doing what you do, like giving conferences and stay as open as you are
Congratulations nice to see you learning Swahili... I am Kenyan 🇰🇪 and I speak Swahili always happy to see people learning our culture
love it. And I absolutely believe it. when I fail at something, it's almost always because I didn't continue on with the discipline I started with. Systems ARE critical, I so agree!
Most of what’s being suggested are key takeaways from neuroscience and insights into learning and are already being embraced when learning an instrument - sort of “language of music” - for instance. Thanks anyhow for “stating the obvious” as you phrased it yourself at some point in the talk.
Una presentación inspiradora..
Dnt force your mind to learn language and dnt force your mind to produce the language but one thing is very important to achieve the ultimate level through listening and repeating the same thing everyday...tht produce the superb output in language learning....
I needed this. Stumbled on it. Can anyone else her all the different accents she has?
I believe that strategy is the key in the whole kind of plans you would like to realize ;) I did it, I strict the rules with my strategy in which losing weight and being in a good health were my main goals.
I was really scared about using my English for quite a long time. I know i make mistakes over and over again, but do you know what? I love English and I am prepared to achieve my goals like I did it in the gym. 💪💪
She is my favorite speaker.
actually, you don't have to speak a lot to learn to speak a language. Speaking english didn't help me learn english at all, the period during which I was making the most progress i basically didn't speak to anyone.
learn the phonetics in the beginning, go through a textbook or two, and then just consume large amounts of content you enjoy. At some point you start thinking in the language and from that point speaking becomes easy and it makes sense to polish your skills in actual conversation.
feel free to check out the All Japanes All The Time aproach (which is not as specific to Japanese as it might sound) and the Mass Immersion Aproach, both helped me a lot, maybe they will also be useful for anyone reading this
Great apresentation and tips for learning and improving languages, it will inspire me to continue learning english.
Brasil-SP
Your written English is quite good already! Keep going with your English learning journey 👍
Go Lydia Machova go ! You are so beautiful a person
Gracias, Abrigado, Thank You, Shukran, Arigato.
It’s “Obrigado”, Stephen. In Portuguese I mean 😉
*Obrigado 😏
Steve Kaufman is great mentor in learning the language..his methods are tremendously powerful..... dnt give up.. language come after lots of practice....
I have been studying English for almost three years. I have made many mistakes about how to learn languages.
At the beginning of my apprenticeship, I tried to memorize many useless words and studying English Grammar unnecessarily.
Today my English is kind of good, but I could be much better. At least I have learned how to learn Languages.
Thank you!!
Zawsze ciekawie jest rozmawiać z ludźmi, którzy mają takie same zainteresowania jak my.
You are right
Good morning miss...I am Joni from Indonesia. I am a language learner. I need to learn more language. I am now can speak English & French.
I enjoy Harry Potter. so if u get the books in ur target language you can manage to find the audio books. then you can learn and have lots of fun 😀
She speaks English perfectly and is a great public speaker.
I'm poligota and I know how amazing is speak many language 🇩🇴 🇩🇴 🇩🇴 🇩🇴 🇩🇴 🇩🇴 🇩🇴
I learn English watching this vídeos.
Define your goals clearly: It's important to have clear goals and know exactly what you want to achieve. This will help you create a plan and stay motivated.
Create a system: Create a system that works for you. This can be a schedule, a checklist, or a daily routine. The key is to create a system that is easy to follow and helps you stay on track.
Make learning a habit: Learning should be a habit just like any other activity. Incorporate it into your daily routine and make it a part of your lifestyle.
Track your progress: Keep track of your progress to see how far you've come. This will help you stay motivated and focused on your goals.
Focus on one thing at a time: Don't try to learn too many things at once. Focus on one thing at a time and master it before moving on to the next thing.
Stay motivated: Find ways to stay motivated, whether it's through rewards, accountability partners, or reminding yourself of your goals.
Embrace failure: Failure is a natural part of the learning process. Don't be afraid to fail, instead use it as an opportunity to learn and improve.
Lidia my favourite
I her voice 👍👍
ZAmercanEnglish its thé best channel to learn English in thé world.
good
真是个天仙啊！
SO USEFUL! But can anyone please give me some advice on how to actually track how much language exposure I get? Thanks!
Why not use a calendar or diary? Just mark the minutes and what you did. 10 minutes reading text, 15 minutes listening to podcast, 5 minutes writing vocabulary, 10 minutes flashcards, etc. You can even write it in a plain notebook, or use a note taking app like Google Keep. Or use a spreadsheet so you can add it all up. Make it easy enough to do daily, but giving enough feedback to keep it interesting to do.
Just try to get exposed to your target language as much as possible. Try to watch videos in your target language on a daily basis. It will work wonders after a while.
Regarding finding a learning buddy. One thing that would DE-motivate me would be to have to join with others to learn. I am not an extrovert, so social situations stress me out.
Just find one.
Use apps, or discord, where people don't see you. It's very helpful sometimes.
Well, if you want to learn how to speak a language (assuming that you do), at some point you'll have to start speaking right?
Devon can I practice English with you my english level is intermediate i really appreciate it Thank you
@@amala1406 What language do you speak Amal?
So thanks for the video, I'm Brazilian and i've learn english for 3~4 months, i understood almost 80% that you spoke in this video and i dont used subtitle on that, so i think my listening is going great, but i really need to improve my writing/speaking so i need someone to talk to me in english :( but i dont know anyone who speak english fluently, so i'm a little sad about that, but i'll keep studing and listening as much as possible until i meet someone who can talk to me and make me find out wich mistakes a usually do, and help me to correct them
You can just use Skype or some other communicator! I wanted to learn Portuguese myself, because I know Spanish quite well already, and I bet many people are in the same situation. Don't give up and ask around! :)
@@mariusamber3237 thanks for the tips mate
If you still need someone I could help you bro, I also need someone to practice
It’s weird when you suddenly know words out of nowhere. I’m learning my first ever language that’s not English and I am only about a month into it and I am suddenly understanding words that I learned 3 weeks ago and then I can sort of guess what they are saying and at least 8/10 times I get it correct. Then when I get them wrong it somehow makes me go over mistakes and then it’s 10/10 all the time. It’s about filling gaps in my opinion. It’s tricky tho. It’s my first none fluent language i’m learning so it’s tricky to connect my brain to my tongue because I’m my mind I can say the phrase beautiful but in reality it is a big mess! I always end up swearing 😂 I’ll hopefully get better at it and not offend anyone.
29:57 i heard about this somewhere,cant remember where,does anyone knw or heard or read abt this anywhere ?
Learning quickly comes with studying more, but if you try to make it a really short shortcut, you might have a burnout as well.
How can I contact you for the mentor program online?
Go to her website, it's in the description box
Slečna ci pani Lýdia, kde Vám môžem zavolať...? ĎAKUJEM
But how do you know if the sentence structure is correct when you speak?
It seems like common sense now but I spent so long thinking my speaking would improve just by learning new vocabulary (in Duolingo). How wrong I was... 😂
My dream is to be com polyglot now I learn english and then I will start to learn frensh
12:54 - in case you're looking for the gist
you can write in differents languages?
I've heard you need to understand input before being able to output well, and that forcing your speaking before being able to listen and understand input is a waste of time and can actually hurt yourself because you are learning incorrect speech patterns and pronunciation. Thoughts?
Not exactly. You are talking about Stephen Krashen's hypothesis, but there are several crucial points that should be clarified. 1 - It's a hypothesis, a theory. There's some evidence supporting it, but it is still not "the proven truth" about how language learning occurs. 2. The problem is not that you might learn wrong speech pattern or poor pronunciation - the problem with "early speaking" (again - according to Krashen's theory) is that our brain simply doesn't work that way. You can't and you won't speak well, until you accumulate enough input, until your brain processes sufficient amount of language in "passive", perceiving way - only then will you be able to produce language, fluently.
Listening goes first , always. This input is the foundation of all other skills. Passive learning such as vast reading and writting which teaches how to narrate stories and how to compose coherent narration in all times do for sure precede fluent speaking phase.
One might try to skip those phases but in practice sooner or later needs to obey natural order of things in foreign language learning. Especially if one does need to reach real fluency. What always takes years. Fast track is possible only for very narrow scope of usage. For any serious job involving linguistic skills people do get tested on fluency of all skills anyway. In a very scrutinized way. So yes, it's good idea to learn languages but it's long term time investment. Saying this while revising and working towards 3 difficult C1 level exams in languages from one linguistic family. Sadly sooner or later any attempt at any time saving shorcuts ends with " let's not rush things and get down to serious work on this one aspect". As for your question- brain needs to atune to the sounds of a new language what takes human brain about a year of life each time when it happens. And it goes for just passive listening phase, with very rudimentary level of understanding the content of this input.
False. You’re not learning incorrect speech patterns if you study and repeat correct speech patterns or if you have people correcting you. You can do that without having good listening skills yet
I speak Spanish, Portuguese, English, and right now i'm focus in German and Japanese, what can i do? Spend my Time only in german ,or both??? By the way i always wear a black t shirt AND jeans...
Boa sorte no seu aprendizado
Saudações do Brasil👍
Nice! I speak English and German, I'm learning Japanese and Spanish now :) I'm learning both, but I'm putting more time into Japanese because it's much more difficult than Spanish. I'd say it's a 80/20 split of my time.
How?
Hi everyone! I would like to know if there is someone in order to practice speaking with me, I am a beginner. thank you
My native lenguaje is Spanish and im studing english by myself , so i'd like to practice with an english native speaker somebody who wants to learn spanish from México city ,
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@@soldeverano.905 Hi ! I'm from Brazil, I believe that is more difficult for someone native practice with us, but we can speak and help each other
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The key form México is 52 after the ten digits
I enjoy listening to Lydia speak, and I agree with almost all of what she says. However, I am not convinced by her first point, which is that time is the only variable as regards how long it will take to learn a language. Surely efficiency comes into play. If a good method is twice as efficient as a poor method, then the time it would take would be halved.
That's true, but I think that every method works for someone, it's just difficult to figure out which one (or more) works *best* for you personally. It's definitely not helpful to jump around from method to method or course to course, because you aren't actually reaching the final levels that one teaches. You get stuck in beginner mode of a dozen various courses. BTDT Sometimes I think the do-it-yourself mentality and plethora of options available in our internet-connected world has made us perpetual chasers of something "more efficient" instead of settling down to do the work and put in the time. And I think that's part of what she was trying to convey in her presentation. Certainly, if you find what you feel is a more efficient course or come to prefer a certain method, you can recommend that to others.
Eight hours a day _Matt v Japan enters the chat_
Is any of you polyglots a mother with a busy life? I just wonder with all that I hear and read where do you have time for intense studying? Also nobody mentions families in their lectures. I would really appreciate some input on that subject. Thank you
m.y. Try an audio course to start with. Listen with one headphone in while you're doing something else. Talk to yourself in the other language. Talk to your kids in it. Get up or stay up an extra 30 minutes for reading time. You just need input, it doesn't necessarily need to be intensive study.
I'd love for Lydia to attempt Mandarin or Japanese studying only 1 hour per day. Let's see in one to two years the result.
The result will be deffrent cuz that's dopend's on the difficult the language
@@mikadreceliny645 not difficulty but conceptual differences between the languages.
Who in hell would dislike this vedio? 🤔
illiterate people
I am very curious how you speak French and other Roman languages
I’m motivated to learn languages and can learn them fast, but i dont have anyone correct me... how can i know if i express the language right or wrong?
Try italki, you can find a language exchange or a paid tutor for speaking practice and you can write and people will correct you.
You can write posts on Journaly and native speakers will correct your mistakes. You can also correct those who learn your native language. I really like it, besides it's free😊
Why do so many people quickly become fluent in English? Its my native language, ,and Ive witnessed people going from zero to fluent in two years in Chicago. I've been to 94 countries and lived in dozens, and I rarely meet any expat who has become fluent in those languages. Is English just very easy? Is it because theyve been exposed to English all their lives before taking up learning the language?
Many young people in Western Europe listen to English music. So you cannot practically avoid English when you switch on the radio. There are many cultural pull factors that enhance people's motivation to learn English. There is a general feeling that you are only "with it" when you understand the terms for the newest trends, which are all English(even though loanwords might change in their meaning sometimes).
So all that leads to a massive passive vocabulary build-up, which often is enough for (very) basic communication. So even if grammar is not a person's strong point, some kind of pidgin will always come out. And this might indeed make learning the local language something some expats do not bother with... Of course there might also be another disadvantage in not having an obligatory foreign language course in the secondary education of some English speaking countries.
Ahahahah, I also tell them that they have to speak. I don't understand why it doesn't seem that obvious ahahah.
לִידִיָה מָצ׳וֹוָה, אָנִי רוֹצֶה לִלְמוֹד הָעִבְרִית, אָבָל אָנִי עָצְלָן.
Walas João Ribeiro da Silva It's Hebrew! :)
why don't u learn Arabic...??amazing language i guess..i've been following u a few days a go and I really enjoyed all what you has given to us ..greetings from algeria..
14:33
I want absolutely NOTHING to do with other people while learning a language.
I am interested ONLY in reading and writing in that other language for the purposes of translating all my political mathematical ideas into as many other languages as possible and upload them to my website.