9 practical lessons from learning 9 languages - Lýdia Machová | PGO 2020
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- Every language I have ever learned has given me a lot: First of all, the ability to communicate in a new language (yay!), secondly, the possibility to explore new methods of learning languages (which I’m really fascinated by) and thirdly, every single language has taught me a lot about how language learning works in general. That’s why polyglots are usually better at learning their 5th language than they were with their first one, right? In my talk, I’ll share some stories from learning all of my 9 languages (English, German, Spanish, Polish, French, Esperanto, Slovak Sign Language, Russian, Swahili) and what I have realized about language learning with each of them - and I’ll make sure to make it practical for anyone learning any language. :)
Lýdia Machová is a polyglot and language mentor whose mission in life is to help people learn languages in fun and effective ways. She has learned 9 languages so far, usually adding a new language every two years, and she keeps 7 of them at a fluent level. She believes that everyone can learn a language if they find the right combination of methods and so she created her own profession - that of a language mentor - to help people find their best methods and truly enjoy the language learning journey. Lýdia is a former main organiser of Polyglot Gathering 2017 and 2018, and she has spoken at several other language conferences. Her 10-minute long TED talk has been viewed by more than 7.5 million people.
Do you like Lýdia Machová's way of learning languages? Then you're going to love her webinar that you can watch for free here bit.ly/34SEoyr Find out how to learn to speak a foreign language - once and for all!
Want more tips on learning like a polyglot? Then visit:
💙 Lýdia's FB page where she regularly adds useful language-learning tips: / languagementoring
📸 Lýdia's Instagram @languagementoring to get motivation for your learning
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This video was recorded at the Polyglot Gathering Online 2020 (www.polyglotgathering.com/).
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1. Don't wait until you are advanced to use "authentic resources"
2. Systematic practice can make a big difference within weeks.
3. Learning with resources that are fun can make it a lot faster (and more effective?)
4. The only way to learn a language well (speaking at least) is to speak it a lot.
5. It might not always be the right time to learn a language...
6. You need to achieve comfortable fluency in order to not lose your skill.
7. Language learning is fun when you think of it as a decoding game.
8. Your results show up after the work... wait for it to pay off!
9. The beginning is always difficult, but don't give up.
The Harry Potter story reminds me of my french teacher who got angry at me, that I did not do the homework on an intermediate level. My excuse was, that I discovered Beaudelaire and was reading his poems all night. She got even angrier, since she thought I am joking. So i just started to recite some Beaudelaire. I will never forget her facial expression :-)
You right, if I like book I stay all night to read it two .any thing motivated you is good. Thank you forward.
This wonderful human being has changed many lives. Two years ago I watched that 10-minute talk in TED, and it clung to my everyday life. Now I'm almost totally fluent in English. When I look back through months and years, I realize how am I lucky that my path crossed hers when I saw that speech on CZcams. it was very hard, at that time, listening to her speech because I barely understood her. Then I listened to it tens of times till I got a grasp on what she was saying. Now I'm reading my fourth book in English. Very complicated, rich, professional books about history, literature, biology, and so on are readable if you listen to what she is saying by heart. Now I speak with an eloquent American accent and very naturally. I listen to the most difficult to understand podcasts and learn new phrases just by sounds I hear.
I won't forget about you, Lydia. With all of my love, I'll keep you deep inside my heart forever.
Yeah, i have always seen her in Ted for the first time. She is soooo wonderful and powerful!!!
now that's inspiring. I'll check Lydia's other stuff.
Since we're sharing personal stories - here's mine. I never learned english on purpose. I remember how i just started to watch Friends in english because i really liked the series and i wanted to hear actors' real voices. So i started to watch in english with russian subtitles (i'm from Russia). So then i couldn't find russian subtitles for the 2nd season and i wasn't going to listen to horrible russian dubs, so i just opened an online translator in one window on my PC and the show playing in english with english subs in another window. And i would pause a lot. I literraly would watch a 20 min episode in about 30 minutes since there was so many pauses. But then it reduced gradually. And by last seasons i would pause like 2 or 3 times an episode. Then i watched a lot of tv shows and movies in the same way - subs and translations when needed. Then i realized i should not rely on subs and just would turn them off all the time unless i don't understand completely (especially when watching something british). Then i could understand everything just by hearing it and i discovered the world of podcasts and i feel it has helped me a lot.
Now while still improving english i decided to start learning spanish.
I am so glad for you and your success!! By the way, i am planning to learn German this summer)
You say that you are almost fluent in English now lol
I think you have arrived already my friend !
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I love that you're mentioning sign language as one of your languages.
i never new that
Me too 👍
I was hoping it was (asl) American sign language. I thought it was because the picture is an American sign for "interpret".
Lydia is one of the polyglots whom I recommend to other language learners to pay attention to. I started learning my second language at the beginning of 2019, and her videos helped keep me going during the dark times when I either lost motivation or begun to lose hope. I'm at a B2 / C1 level in my second language now. I look forward to learning a third language, probably towards the end of 2023.
We are very happy that our advice and experience were useful to you, thank you for your kind words! :)
I totally agree that you won't easily forget languages you got to after the last wave. But I think the effort on weaker languages isn't wasted either. If you happen to have a chance to relearn Slovak sign language, I'm pretty sure you will learn it much faster the second time, your knowledge will come back.
You are so inspiring it literally makes me cry. I'm in love with your presentations at this point. You made me realize how wrong my mindset regarding languages was. Watching your videos was really an eye opening experience for me. Thank you so much!
I'm Polish and sometimes I spend holidays in Slovakia with my family since those are neighbouring countries, and my parents always told me to never ever say that I'm looking for something while in Slovakia lol
Why?
@@spolch9482 so ppl won't think I'm swearing xd
@@aaronburrwaitsforit I'm missing something. The word for look for something in polish sounds like something bad in Slovakian?
@@spolch9482 15:13 in the video
@@spolch9482 correct. In Polish "Look for/seek" is "szukać" what sounds in Slovakian like vulgar word for having sex.
You're awesome Lydia! You've helped me with language learning quite a bit over the past two years. Thank you for all that you do
Such a great presentation - I love how you mention your so-called 'failures' as well. Really relatable and human - go you. I really get a lot out of your videos and not just language-learning/pedagogical tips - thank you so much.
Thank you very much Lydia! You're a wonderful mentor and a great speaker! :)
How powerful and motivating you are!!! Cannot stop being sooo happy to listen to your talks and stories how to learn languages effectively!! You are magnicent, never stop sharing your positive energy with us, with people who are truly obsessed with your talent and kindness 🤩🤩🤩💥💥💥
are you Russian
@@annabhatt996 why do you think so?
@@dariatarasenko3472 Maybe it's your name that gave them the idea?
I have watched your Ted talk and it was very inspiring. I have started to learn Spanish and am very excited and hope to be fluent in it. Your experiences are really amazing. Keep up the good work...
I'm so inspired by you, honestly. I'm also a polyglot publishing videos on my channel and trying to share my own experiences. Keep up the good job ❤️👍
Thanks a lot! Спасибо большое за чудесное и мотивирующее выступление!
35:45 summary, but strongly recommend to watch the full video;)
You're wonderful as always.🙏❤
Lydia, thanks a lot!
One thing I want to share that you have mentioned here and in some of your prior videos. I was feeling frustrated with my progress because I really wanted to learn my target language and I was not improving as fast as I thought I could be. I said to myself, "I don't need" to learn this language, I am learning this language because I have decided to make language learning a hobby, we do hobbies because we enjoy them!! When you mention decoding, I look at each grammar subject I learn as leveling up, ( kinda like a video game). It sounds simple, but it really worked for me. I really enjoy language learning now and movtivation is no longer an issue!! Presently I am learning Italian and I have 3 other languages in mind after I achieve fluency in Italian!
i remember someone giving me a tip for languages with false friends ...if you learn by watching tv you will usually get the true meaning more or it will ping in your head that this word doesn't mean what it does in your langauge
In 1975, in 6th grade, in our EXCELLENT public middle school in New Jersey, USA, learning a 2nd language was required.
German, French, Spanish, Russian were offered. I chose Russian SPECIFICALLY because back then,
a naive 12-year-old me believed that "Russian was the hardest language to learn".
In reality, ANY 2nd language is hard to learn. So, I wanted the challenge.
In spite of a 2nd language no longer being a requirement when I got to high school in fall 1978 (again, excellent public high school)
I wanted to continue learning + practicing Russian since I had already invested 3 years of my life learning it.
So I continued with formal Russian classes in 9th, 10th, 11th grade. Our town's one & only Russian language teacher, Mrs Hall,
retired in 1981. So, I had to continue practicing Russian on my own in 12th grade.
When I got to college, I wanted to continue taking Russian language courses, as a minor, to my major: chemical engineering.
So I did: I took Russian formally for 3 years: 1982 to 1985: freshman, sophomore, junior years.
I qualified to attend an ACTR - American Council of Teachers of Russian - workshop in the Soviet Union,
7.5 weeks - 7 weeks in Moscow, half a week in Leningrad - in summer 1985. Course credit via Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, USA.
But, I believe that I PEAKED in my Russian listening, speaking, writing + reading skills in fall of 1984 and spring of 1985,
before I went to the USSR. When I finally got to the CCCP in June 1985, I did NOT want to speak with any real Russians.
I did NOT feel comfortable communicating with them at all in realtime. My Russian language skills at best stagnated or at worst
declined a tiny bit while I was in Russia.
After my trip to CCCP in summer 1985, I essentially practically stopped all Russian language learning & practicing.
Interestingly, however, in spring 1991, as a requirement for my math PhD at Rutgers U, I had to translate a piece of mathematics
from either Russian, French, or German (obviously I chose Russian) into English.
I actually successfully translated the piece without using any dictionaries:
my decade (1975 to 1985) of intensive formal public school
& public college classroom language training, drilling, learning, experience had stuck in my brain.
This was inspired story of learning languages! I am learning now English and Spanish, but sometimes I think to begin Polish or German
I love the example related to cross the wave and be comfortable with the language.
Thank you for sharing. My secret of learning languages is traveling. I use each trip to a new destination as a motivation to learn another language and I got so much out of my trip because I could read the signs, menus, newspapers, etc. and could pick up a few words from local people chatting. It is totally a rewarding experience. :)
LYDIA BLESSINGS FOR YOUR CONFIDENCE IN LEARNING AND LOVING LANGUAGES.
A Lydia é fantástica demais! Eu aprendo muito com ela!
I failed reading harry potter in english when I was in high school. Now working on my 7th language.
What did you do, if you don't mind my asking?
Thank you for this always a joy
Dziękuję Lydia, fajnie się oglądało i zainspirowało mnie do otworzenia na nowo książki od niemieckiego!
13:40 I'm Russian and what surprised me about Polish is that it was the opposite of the experience of Lýdia. What surprised me is how few of the false friends were in the two languages, not how many they were. A lot of the times I had to think about some older Russian words which changed their meaning to the opposite (like uroda which has a general meaning of ugliness in Russian but beautiful in Polish and in Russian it also sometimes means beautiful in words like ''urodilsya'')but there very very few words that had completely different and unrelated meanings like the ''droga-road'' and ''droga-drug'' from the video.
Some years ago when I taught in a girls' school I took assembly and with the help of two 11 year olds we looked at false friends in Russian and Polish. One girl was Russian and the other Polish. Both were good at drama. My Polish neighbour, who is also fluent in Russian, helped me devise a scene in which a Russian and a Pole have a conversation, but at every turn they misunderstand one another, producing great hilarity. At the assembly the girls acted the scene through once, then repeated it and after every sentence they went into a freeze while I translated for the school and explained the misunderstanding.
@@davidwilliams1234 That's a very interesting story
29:00 In my I head I always have the sense that I'm crossing a stream, and the words/phrases that I understand are the rocks upon which I step, and the rushing water is the stuff that I don't understand. Sometimes the rocks are close together and my journey goes easily; sometimes they're far apart and it's more difficult. Sometimes I fall in the stream! By the way the stress of Covid has definitely slowed my progress but I just keep on, little by little. This year I started listening to podcasts every day and that has been fantastic. I'm going to steal your idea and get audible and e-versions of the Lord of the Rings.I've maxed out my favorite podcasters. Merci/bedankt/míle buíochas/Thank you!!!
I have never been curious about learning Esperanto but after watching your video I ‘m going to give it a try just for fun 😊
Thanks so much for share your process of learning, awesome
Very motivating! Where's my French textbook, where are my true podcasts? I'm back in the language learning mode!
She's pretty and delightful.
Thanks for your work.
Cool. Thank you!
Eres increíble, tus videos son muy valiosos. Saludos desde Costa Rica
Very interesting. One of the best videos on language language process. Only my conclusions are slightly different that yours: 1)there can be any emotional status as long as it is relaxed; 2)use the same books in different languages ; 3)watch TV in context (sit-com)
Hy Lydia. Now I am reading my first English book and it's amazing! I was a biginner for 12 years( I learned English at the school), but now I speak more better.
Great presentation Lydia.
thank you alot, you are the best teacher
Thank you for mentoring the world
مرحبا بعد طول الغياب
شكرا جزبلا علي المواضيع الرائعة ونصائخ القيمة
تعليم لغات شيئ رائع وممتع
تعلمي اللغة العربية
Das war wunderschön, danke vielmals!!!😍😍😍
Lidia's, you are master motivater, thank you
Большое спасибо
I've got a new ESL class starting in a few weeks. I'm thinking about how I can do something like this for my opening presentation. You're really inspiring.
Brazilian Portuguese is amazing, I'm not saying it just because is my native language haha. It really is, so full of amazing and beautiful words, such as "saudade" which means the feeling of missing something or somebody and I think this is beautiful.
También hay palabras en español -muchas- para hacer referencia a ese sentimiento: añoranza, nostalgia, melancolía.
Hello 🌻 I love your post, you explained your approach very well. I can relate to it, my experience is very similar to yours.
My mother language is slavic (serbian), and I’d learned russian at school and english and italian in the language school, because I loved them and enjoyed learning.
Major life events resulted in moving to another country, and english became the main, daily used language - the russian and italian totally forgotten.
Then another major event, I became chronically ill, I lost my job. I decided then that this was the opportunity to do what I love - learn languages. I recovered my italian snd russian, then continued with spanish, french and german. Using films, books, podcasts .. and that helps a lot. I don’t read and watch the program for the level I am. E.g. I started reading Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina to recover my russian. It took ~6 months, which I enjoyed tremendously.
I hope to continue when I decide, for now just reading, writing and talking in the languages I love - is fantastic!
Thank you for this post📚🙋🏻♀️
Svaka cast :)
27:00 esperanto seems very impressive, I wish every language would look like this :)
You might find the Ido language as interesting. it was designed to have all the same advantages but also to fix several perceived difficulties that still need not be as complicated. the creator of Esperanto did an *amazing* job. but it was not the work of a linguist. Ido had 20 years of esperanto ahead of it, and was designed by a professional linguist with the purpose of being as easy to learn as possible too. Advantage: Ido is easier & simpler & much more regular. Yes, Esperanto still has several irregularities even tho is might be 10 times easier than most natural languages. Disadvantage: Ido has far fewer speakers and far fewer internet resources. But it still has many. Welp, enuf said.
Nice, thank you 😊
at the fact, I want to send to you many thanks for a lot of advice given to us, and motives also. so I see it's a less thing l can give you it's a thank you so much,🙏
Wonderful video. Very interesting. Learning a tonal language is (Mandarin, Cantonese, Vietnamese) is much more difficult.
thanks so much, Lydia! I do think you give much more credit to your TED talk than i think you give credit to yourself. They asked you to talk for them because they saw greatness in you. Seriously, Lydia, TED recognized that you were so good, they wanted you. And you still think the other way around. But it's okay. It is quite an accomplishment. I am not at all saying that it is not a great accomplishment. But what i am saying is: 'Between you and TED, which is seriously A-maz-ing?' I vote you, Lydia. But TED is still VERY cool too! But it doesn't hold a candle to you. I hope you learn this at the same time that you keep your humility.
Thanks for sharing all those incredible experiences!
Unfortunately, subtitles are not activated...
Bravo!!!
Great talk! :)
what you explain about your Russian experience happened to a friend of mine who is Breton, Soazig. She speaks Breton (a Celtic language and sister language of Welsh). She lived with my (Welsh-speaking) family for a month and would sort-of speak Welsh with the kids because they could only speak Welsh (and she wanted to learn Welsh) but she would tend to speak English with my wife and I, and also sometimes French with my wife as she had a degree in French. The girl (she was an auper) would study some Welsh by book during the day, but not much. We then went to the National Eisteddfod where everything was only in Welsh and was exciting because of all the music and stalls and events, within the first day she was speaking Welsh and by the end of the week was almost fluent! As if by magic.
Welsh and Breton are related but, not mutually intelligible - Breton sounds like Middle (medieval) Welsh with a strong French accent to us. The nouns are almost identical, they have mutations etc etc, but it's a different language - maybe like Polish and Bulgarian would be a Slavic context. Soazig had made an effort to learn the language and had tried speaking but only being in a totally Welsh-speaking environment (though our house was also only Welsh-speaking) gave her the confidence and impetuse to actually speak the language. And it clicker with her. Everything she knew came alive. From then on we only speak Welsh to her even 12 years after she left Wales.
I love HP book three as well!!! Okay given that English is also an official language here people don't really speak it well they usually interject Filipino words but I grew up reading a lot of English books from Rowling, Sidney Sheldon, Paulo Coelho, Meg Cabot, then later on Rick Riordan I love all his books, so I can express myself in English best. Oh okay now I'm going to purchase one of his books in Portuguese.
False friends in slavic languages - it's tricky business but looking at my journey with Czech (as a Pole) it's actually beneficial because even if it has different meaning it's easy to connect it with something that you already know in your native language. I struggle a lot with that in Korean right now.
For me it makes it more fun
Hey! Great video!
you are roleee model for meeee😍😍😍😘
One nightI was woken by a dream ."Shelley its time for you to learn Portuguese." The visual was just white and nothing else. This was about 5 years ago. From time to time I think of it and want to get started but am so afraid to fail that I don't even really give it an honest try. This is 2021. I'm viewing this as the beginning of the Portuguese language experience. Thank you so much so much for sharing your knowledge on this platform.
一つ一つの言語から大切なことを学んでいて、とても参考になりました。
特にロシア語の話が大切だなと思います。
She learns important things from each language and these tips are really useful for me.
Especially the advice from Russian was important to me.
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Lýdia, really very interesting you studying method.and also I can speak Russian, English, Chinese, and Czech , languages
Bolo to super👏
I learn Esperanto too. It's very amazing and helps learning another languages.
Jes :)
I agree 100% with you that you should focus on the words that you do know. For example, say that you're learning English, and you hear the sentence, " Next Thursday, I will be working there." Say that you have no idea of the future tense, and the meaning of the word "working." You do know, however, the words, "next," "Thursday," "there" and "work." With a little decoding you realize that the speaker said, "next Thursday," so the action must take place in the future at some place and you know that "working" must have something to do with "work." Therefore, not only do you understand, but also you have just learned the future tense.
This is similar to how verbs work in Indonesian
Hello, I'm Brazilian and I love your videos. I got so excited when you said you want to learn brazilian portuguese 😍 you gonna love it. Come up to visit us 🇧🇷
The secret of lamguage learning is a strong will and the capacity to overcome frustration.
I liked first and now I am listening.
Really interesting, as usual.
I love your videossssss
Muy interesantes propuestas a partir de tus propias experiencias! Me ha parecido muy útil la de tener un cuadro de tareas concretas diarias, parece algo muy simple pero creo que puede tener resultados 👍
Es ist wichtig auch zu benutzen, alles die Möglichkeiten um zu anwenden. Und ist es egal, obs du Fehler machst.
Veľmi rad ťa sledujem Lýdia. Przy okazji zawsze się czegoś ciekawego dowiem. Es ist lustig, dass wir (ausser Swahili ;)) ähnliche Sprachen sprechen.
Hugs from Switzerland.
"Sprachen" is Spanish?
@@PaddingtonSoul idiomas ;). gracias NYSpanish
That's curious. When youread the question about the next language I thought "could be Brazilian Portuguese", because it's my language. It seems Brazilian Portuguese is becaming very popular among poliglots, it's amazing because I can find more easily people to talk to when I'm learning their languages and I love helping people with mine. I can't wait to see you starting to speak Portuguese.
I wish more people would start learning Portuguese so I could actually offer something in exchange for help in the languages that I learn.
Most of the time, it's like "Hey, wanna practice together? You help me with French and I help you with..." NOTHING, because nobody wants to learn Portuguese 😭
@@pedrovictorbritocordeiro9168 That's not true, Portuguese is one of the best sounding languages in the world according to my perception. But the problem is the exposure, you'd be surprised that alot of people don't even know Portuguese exists despite the fact that it's spoken in a lot of countries around the world. There aren't a lot of Portuguese tv programs in countries that don''t speak Portuguese. Compare that to French, Chinese and Spanish which have alot of tv programs in almost every country with subtitles.
I personally heard Portuguese when I was already an adult and I had to learn it.
@@anythinggoes2800 That makes sense. I wish our government would invest more to propagate our TV shows around the globe 😪
Btw, where are you from?
@@pedrovictorbritocordeiro9168 I'm from Kenya, we speak Swahili and English over here. Although English is reserved for more formal situations. I love Portuguese and Portuguese speaking countries esp Brazil. I love samba music and whenever I watch the dance, I feel so much alive. It's so amazing!
I also speak Spanish and French and I'm in the process of learning Korean. I love Korea, it has such a rich culture and amazing food and my Korean friends help me a lot to learn the language.
I love "medikamento" with k in the Spanish column last row of minute-26 chart
That was so much helpful thank you so much for sharing your journey, it really really helps a lot, I am also studying different languages and wanna be polyglot, and I truly don't know any better mentor or someone I can relate than you.. thank you
Hello can we practice English together
@@zakariyaeblal4603 sure Instagram? Hellotalk?
Instagram. ...... Zakariyae_blal I'm waiting you ☺️☺️
I have 9 publication okey
@@zakariyaeblal4603 I followed, adityalightrex6
hola te veo desde Colombia y me encantan tus videos
"Me Tarzan, you Jane" 🤣 nice analogy. Wonder why it's not used more often.
Raising my hand for Esperanto
*Raising
@@someoneelse6934 Thanks
hi sorry for being annoying but... As a language learner, sometimes we need support from people. And many times its hard to find this support in our family or friends. So I created a discord server for all language learners: discord.gg/8MN8Xz5uXA
I hope you will find it useful and we can all help each other ❤️ Thanks if anyone is joining :)))
My third language was also German but before I learned it became interested in French. That's where I still am today. Still working on the third language. I don't really speak French but know many words and becoming comfortable with it. Stlll hard to understand but at least it doesn't sound like complete gibberish.
25:33 , you do technically have the "correct" translation for Russian as "больница" however there's also a borrowed word in Russian which is exactly the same "госпиталь", for example you can hear it in the iconic Russian movie "Brat 2" here on youtube - timestamp would be 1:19:51 where Danila says "Ноу Госпиталь", as he understands that word correctly as "больница".
Actually I can read and I understand most of the words just by knowing Russian really well especially Slavic languages:
SK
Zdravy = Здравый
Zdravie = Здравие
Chory = Хворый
Choroba = Хворь ( Хворьба)
Nemocnica = Немочница (not to get confused with неможница)
Uzdravit' = выздороветь (оздравиться etc)
Ochoriet = захереть (охереть is usually used a slang curse)
etc etc etc
You're amazing, Lydia! I think you have an inborn quality as to languages that no one else has.
Statistics show that 45.3% of all Harry Potter sales are to people learning foreign languages.
Harry Potter needs to be published in more languages. I want to get it in Tagalog but it went out of print.
Is that true? If so, I wonder why that's the go-to book.
@@JR-rf9sq It's fun, and I assume, many people know the story well enough to be familiar with what should be happening around certain points.
Steven Carr, I find this very interesting, I'd have thought of about 5%. Where did you find that information?
yep... I bought HP in English, German, French, Spanish :)
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Thanks for posting! There is some good information here. I believe I will use the bible. I can find it in any language with audio. Thanks a lot. I hope I can find some books on leadership in other languages also.
Many thanks for this very helpful video...During your time in learning German when you were 15, as a complete beginner not knowing german words in the beginning, did you watch the german movies with or without subtitle? Would you advise to watch movies with or without a subtitle? The challenge is I keep on reading the english subtitle to understand the movie, and not really focusing on my target language like spanish or french. My question is how you were able to have a comfortable grasp of German in just watching the movies in two weeks, unless you are talented? This is a bit frustrating cuz I don't think I have this skill in learning a language.
Thanks you! Hope it'll help me with my French)))
7:58 Lydia! Phonetics. Also very important to distinguished long and short vowels in language to avoid any misunderstandings! As the 'Italian who went to Malta' had found out! 😀
Endless enigmatic book in all languages. You can write a book with mirrors in all languages of the world. You can speak two languages at once, you just need to find the perfect reflection, same content, different translation. Infinite Mirrors:)
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Awsome!
I have always admired those who can master another language. I have been struggling with French for over 50 years and I STILL cant speak it! My problem can be summed up in one word... MEMORY!! I simply can't remember the verbs, nouns, adjectives etc. I can normally have a go at the elementary, beginners stuff, but I have never been able to advance beyond that. So, my question to you is how on earth DO you remember so many different languages!!
Do you learn/practice regularly? And by regularly I mean almost daily...
Others speak of intermediate level
block that many encounter.See for
example, Zoe.languages, Steve Kaufmann, Luca Lampariello, etc
polyglots
Viktor Huliganov - best intro to Russian с нуля !!!
Thank you so much for vorrm vorrds
Thank you very much for sharing your experience! I'm a native speaker of Russian. I can also speak English quite well. Currently I am
learning German and I'd like to take up Spanish. Could you give me some advice how to learn several language at once and not to confuse them. Thanks a lot.
I saw once Lucas and other awesomes polyglots saying that if you don't want to get confused, the better thing to do is learn the basic of one language at first, get familiar with it and afterwards you start to learn the second one. in this way you won't get confused with grammar etc
Yekaterina Abramova
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“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.”
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Literature-base language acquisition is the best way to learn any language.
came here to share with my learners in brazil
there is a typo in the Spanish column (Esperanto sheet). It's not *medikamento, but medicamento
Awesome talk.
What level would you class as comfortable fluency please before moving on to learn another language? I know you mentioned spending one hour per day on your new language, please could you share how long you carry this on for on average? Thank you so much, your video is tremendous. All of the time translating Tony Robins has most definitely rubbed off on you hadn’t it, your use of metaphors is superb. 😎👍
Sorry I’m now at the point where you explain that you learn a language roughly every two years. 😁