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Very clear and easy to listen to. I found this very helpful,,and I thank
you! Best wishes.
Thank you. Your information is extremely helpful to me as I am learning a
language at this time. You have laid it out plainly and easily. I agree
with Joseph, that last tip is a big one. I just want to learn languages.
I enjoy learning and being able to speak to people in their own language,
I hope this will be enough motivation.
Yeah drink that water
That is a very good video. Very good tips, thanks a mill Konstantin :-)
Im learning portuguese and hindi by myself and its going great. All depends
on how well the person learns aswell.!:D
When I was in school, a number of people I know took French. However, there
was no expectation from anyone in class they will be able to communicate
outside the classroom. Out of a class of 30, only 2 were comfortable enough
to speak the language.
The only way to improve fluency in a language is not to rely on phrase
books but to spend a lot of time watching videos, listening to broadcasts
on TV or the radio. Every word or phrase you come across you write it down
and look it up.
An adult sounding like a native is difficult but not impossible. A Canadian
from Ottawa Mark Rowswell became a Chinese actor in Beijing and goes by the
name Dashan. He learned Chinese while in university.
#languages Great lecture about languages and learning a new language as
an adult.
I recently came across this book and found it not only quite interesting
but also very helpful to understand how we learn.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1494882965/ref=mp_s_a_1_7?qid=1389833158&sr=1-7&pi=AC_SX110_SY165_QL70
Pretty good read. I’d recommend it and I have been teaching English for 5
years now and never heard the learning process explained like this.
great, learn with RosetaStone
I think that last tip is a big one. My motivation for learning languages
has varied from travel, reading original literature,
scientific/mathematical research, cultural interest, linguistic interest,
etc., but there has always been a very profound reason (or multiple
reasons) for learning any given language, which has helped me a lot in the
past and persists to today.
“……university [K]nowledge?!…….”
Simply Fantastic. Simplesmente Fantástico. #GoodJob
Try to have fun with it like have colorful pens or something and that’s
when it becomes more fun , also sticky notes and flash cards can help i
noticed. But don’t stress of course you’re not going to learn everything so
fast!
great. thank you.
I’m learning Potuguese. My motivation? I met and became engaged to a
Brazilian woman. She speaks 4 languages fluently (Portuguese, English,
Spanish, Japanese)…but she simply cannot teach. Whenever i ask “how do I
say….?”come se fala…?”], she always speaks too quickly….even when i
ask her to slow down. Then she “defaults” to english! So, i’m using Rosetta
Stone. But, the tips on this video were very good, very helpful.
hahaha, i’m just too tired of people’s perception in learning japanese for
manga is somehow ‘wrong’ or i’m american for loving manga. manga is
universal.
Hi, Portuguese is my first language and I can say that even in Brazil, e.g:
a person from south (Rio Grande do Sul) don’t understand clearly what
someone from northeast (Ceara) are saying and vice versa. So don’t worry my
friend, Portuguese is confusing even for Brazilians!
Useful and true. It isn’t easy, our brain tend to forget everything that
isn’t used.
haha good one!
Excellent video!! I was just having a conversation with a girl from my
Spanish 1B class the other day about this. She’s very frustrated because
she took Spanish 1A a few years ago and got an A, but now feels like she
can’t remember anything. She’s a good student, so she doesn’t like
struggling in a subject. I told her language was more like exercise than a
school subject. If you worked out really hard in the gun three years ago,
it’s not going to have any effect on you today. You have to keep
exercising.
EXCELLENT video !!!! There is a distinction between STUDY and LEARNING. U
just gave me the key to succes..
seat* of the bike, not saddle 🙂 Thanks!
This kind of “eureka” moment occured to me envolving inglish. One day I was
watching a video with a friend and when the video ended i stopped and talk
to myself “did i understand it 90% or most of the video or it was fantasy?”
And then i said to my friend to replay the video and then i realized “omg,
i have listening fluency”.
But as you can see, I don’t have this fluency in writing YET.
masz piekne oczy 🙂
Fai quello che fanno i maestri e diventerai un maestro.
Yes I definitely had such a “eureka moment” 🙂 L
I wish I found this video much sooner to improve my French. I may not be a
language learning expert, but I am constantly improving my French on my
own. Thanks to you and all the other polyglots on YouTube, all of you
helped me enjoy language learning. Merci beaucoup ! Bonne chance !
你好 我是中国人 英文很差 所以基本上不知道你说什么 我听过你跟steve的普通话对话觉得你很厉害 我想问问你
你能不能用汉语来具体、详细说说你是怎样从0开始到现在可以‘说的不错’的 最好能说的具体点、每一个步骤都说清楚 另外我有些问题想问你
1，你现在轻松听懂普通话新闻、普通话电影、或其他普通话对话吗？
You have been a great inspiration. I found you months ago but I didn’t have
the money to purchase the Assimil books. I’m going to learn Italian as the
3rd Language (I already speak English/Spanish, both fluent but could brush
up on the Spanish). I may have to take your advice on having conversations
with myself. Although native Italians do live next door to me, I’d be too
shy to ask them to converse with me! lol I just wanted to thank you again!
@FluentCzech Ciao Antony 😉 Yes, excellent analogy! I also wanted to talk
about guitar playing and language learnig in this video but I saved it for
my book 🙂 Thanks for swinging by! 🙂 L
You’re too cute for words – no matter what language.
In my opinion, you are one of the most beautiful, sexy men on Youtube.
Luca! I want to say you! your russian fucking good!!! really! i’m russian
and i know what i saying 😀 sorry for my english =)
I think you are on the right track with terminology; however, I would
recommend the term ‘acquiring’ a language instead of ‘learning’ a language.
Within the field of second language acquisition (SLA), this is a huge
distinction. What you call language ‘learning’, SLA terms language
‘acquisition’. What you call language study, SLA calls language ‘learning’
or ‘study’.
you are very good! you swedish is great! i love languages as well, i speak
spanish italian swedish russian english and im working on my german, french
and bulgarian… i just found out about all this polyglot community and
thats a great inspiration! I want to learn more now and turn up the gear.
Grazie !
Thank you Luca, I have just found the website.
Luca, j’adore vos vidéos. Je pense que vous êtes très beau et j’utilise
votre analogie quand j’explique aux gens pourquoi je refuse d’obtenir un
diplôme dans une langue. La plupart des gens que je prends des cours
françaises avec sont terribles. La façon dont nous sommes
“enseignés”(guillemet) les langues n’est pas très pratique. Ma prof
française n’a pas utilisé un livre de texte dans notre classe. Je trouve
q’il est plus pratique d’être capable de parler une langue que de l’écrire.