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I'm enjoying Lingq a lot with my Portuguese, the thing is that I'd rather repeat a story until I know everything by heart, the advantage I have now over when I was in school for Mandarin is that I can stay with one story for however long I want and if I get bored (which I usually don't because I don't get bored until I know the story inside out) then I move on to another story. Thank you for this motivating video. 🙏
I couldn't agree more with Steve, because I love learning languages and don't understand is just the obstacle, besides that, when it comes to language learning we need to find a system to just enjoy the process.
Thanks, coach! When I’m fresh, I listen with TL subtitles, when I’m getting tired, I listen with English subtitles, and when I’m really burnt, I listen to you encourage me.
Consistency is key. Discipline and habits beat motivation. Set a time of the day in which you'll read and listen to language learning material, and do it every day, whether you feel like doing it or not. In a few months, you'll be glad you forced yourself to do it. As for what to listen/read: Phase 1 should be short, simple stories. LingQ, Assimil, etc. Read and listened over and over again until you know basic grammar and vocab. Phase 2 should be the interesting stuff, audiobooks, podcasts, etc. But in order to be able to enjoy these, you need to understand at least enough to get the gist.
I'd agree discipline is vital but motivation is still the driver for most people. I mean long term, not " how I feel today stuff ". But definitely consistently chipping at it us needed.. it's nearly impossible to feel progress on a short time frame, so that makes that lack of positive reinforcement via " reward of success" a demotivation " if you are not aware of it. I found it generally takes a few months to look back n see progress.. so, with other things too, a lot of beginners give up in frustration by month 3 and we'll that's the end of that. Krashen talked about kind of motivation , just for " extrinsic " things it's hard for most to keep going with " discipline" ( some can ..) personal or " intrinsic " motivations he claimed to be better indicators of success .. basically I'd agree with that, that was my experience... I can "diligence" my ass off if it's important to me, if not, meh. ...
@@kpopandotherplaylists2518 habit building is key. Instead of "learning every day", make it "learn every day, after doing X, in Y place, with Z system". You're way more likely to do it.
The main thing I always take away from your videos is to not worry too much and just keep going, and videos where you reply to comments like this are really motivating because we can see that all these doubts and issues we face are just common parts of the process of language acquisition. Thanks for another great video
Learning a language is like learning how to dance, focus in rhythm and flow, in few words, mimic the speaker gestures and expressions, more like being an actor, for example; imitating "Jack Sparrow", it's fun and it never gets bored, at the end it gives you a good laugh 😃.
@@heyvincevlogs4151 : Nice, sounds like you’re really dedicated. I also immerse myself fully in my language. Reshaped my life so that my target language is even a necessity to use it daily life. The thing is though, I speak quite often but not every single day but my conversation are always very long, I do this 4-5 times a week. What are your thoughts on this? Is it enough speaking time?
Learning langugaes is usually seen sports. We need to put knowledge about lenguage into unconsciousness. We gradually don't have to pay attention to structure. dance is good examples:)
I feel initially listening without understanding is my motivation to continue the search for understanding. I am working on Deutsch and Spanish at the same time. I live near the border in Arizona and served in Germany 50 years ago; both of which I have found to be useful. Thanks for your podcasts Steve as they offer encouragement. I
@@williambudd2850 I don't think the statement of Dr Krashen is you *only* learn from comprehensible input, but it certainly is most efficient. If you have followed some of the experiences of Matt vs Japan, you will have seen that he initially listened without comprehending but still was able to infer meaning and with repetition to infer more and more. Don't underestimate your ability to infer meaning from context (in a film for instance). But, comprehensible input is faster. I use both, comprehensible input for understanding (from lingq) and listening to podcasts or tv-shows for which I do not always have a script or translation. For me they serve different purposes. Lingq expands my understanding of new words, the podcasts and tv shows help me understand speech better, distinguish spoken words and in time hopefully help with automatic understanding of speech and writing.
I have been learning Italian for 10 months. Repetition has been the key to my understanding 80-90 percent of native content. Lingq has also been a a great source of learning my vocabulary. I stopped using it for 2 months, only to come back to it and it really has helped me. 👍🏼
I do believe these Q&A's are useful. I always seem to struggle in the 3-4 month period after I started. The start goes great, I pick up certain parts of the language well and others a bit less and after a while motivation just disappears. I had this learning Russian, Spanish and German.
3:40 Grazing is a nice way to describe this strategy. I enjoy watching soaps with subtitles when I reach A2 level onwards in my target language and I notice how similar phrases are repeated over and over in slightly different contexts.
04:26 this is quite my listening routine with Arabic. I listen more than at least 1h a day to the Arabic-language BBC Radio. I listen to the language as if I was listening to music, and often in news you will acquire certain words by context and repetition (for example, during elections the word "election" will pop up so many times that it will be easy to memorize). Apart from those "seasonal" words, news tend to feature the same vocab over and over, so I search for these terms on Google translate (formerly on Wikitionary, also great source, but slower) and vocab gets acquired steadily.
Watching 5 seasons of LOST without subtitles helped me to improve my English pretty much. The thing about watching TV series is that you get familiar with the pronunciation of the main characters and get introduced to that of the supporting ones, also during the development of the events the main characters repeat many words in their dialogues and say new words too.
Great points about repetition but adding new. It is a system that we have to formulate which works for us. Thank you for what you're doing with this. I'm loving LingQ and have a LONG way to go. Keep up the good work you're doing!
I think learning to Understand what things are needed , then adding tools for those seperate tasks is A key. Being actively involved in controlling your learning is vital. Learning a language has multiple smaller tasks. Gaining a variety of opinions and perspectives is also well worth it, without agreeing to all they say. As the japanese phrase goes, keeping going is power. If you stop you lose, if you don't stop you will learn a language eventually.
Hey Steve. In 8 years ago I started from scratch I didn't speak english and nowadays I made it but I continue to practice every day and I included it in my life as to watch netflix , youtube , podcast, everything in english and I have been reading the text after that I listen to compare with native english and I'm improving day by day just by trial and error. Take care .
Good effort, we can't acquire language within months. You can access to the Internet, so it helps you learn english. I am one of the learners of English. Let's keep studying!
Thank you for this video. I struggle with LingQ sometimes motivation-wise because I find myself getting frustrated re-reading entire bodies of text I already know quite well just to encounter the odd word or two I may or may not remember.
I haven't even finished the stories in my target lang, but moved straight to ebook import. First book was slow, but im 6 months in and almost reading for the story rather than the language. Am suffering from a lack of romanian audiobooks. Podcasts and youtubers without subtitles are not as effective. But i am enjoying the journey. Edit, forgot the point - import an ebook and ditch the repetition
@@williambudd2850 I'm also reading Harry Potter in Portuguese. on top of the Lingqs, kindle does give me the English translation if I wanted to know a particular word. it's so much fun
What I find really is the willingness to learn a language. My high-school taught us English Filipino and Mandarin Chinese all through elementary and high school I retained a lot of Mandarin simply because we watch a lot of Chinese Kung fu series and I want the upper hand of knowing it. Now I'm learning Portuguese then I also plan to learn Russian, Arabic, and French next time if given the time 🤣
I agree with you Steve that excessive repetition of the same content is extremely boring, however I will repeat my content in Russian 2000 times because the Russian language is so hard to learn because its alphabet is Cyrillic and I've noticed that there so many long words in Russian language.
I major in second language acquisition, we need to repeat same content in order to put langauge knowledge into unconciousness. What you have done is great. Keep it up.
There must be a place in Brazil that sells glasses like this, because my professor had the exact same glasses (and they were awesome!) Best of luck finding a cheap and nice one :)
Always enjoy watching your videos, Steve! Definitely appreciate the short videos over sifting through the comment section every time! In a similar topic: do you have any particular methods to deal with those days where you suddenly can’t seem to form any sentences or complete thoughts in another language? It’s frustrating to be reading one day, then wake up the next and the text feels like a brand-new language. I’m currently studying Japanese, and sometimes the characters look natural to me, and other times I can’t read a thing. Perhaps I just need more practice hitting these walls and get used to pushing through.
this is what I tweeted today on that subject.I keep reminding myself that language learning isn't like an escalator constantly moving up. It's more like a slippery slope where you often feel you're slipping yet before you know it you reach, if not the top, at least a comfortable resting spot.
Thanks Steve! You're a big inspiration for language learners. 💪 How can you convince someone that frustration will appear and it's part of the process? (this person doesn't believe in the language learning process also) ¡Muchas gracias! 🙏
It is very difficult to convince anyone of anything. People have to find these things out by themselves. Only people who have shared some of the experience that I have had can identify with what I am saying. Maybe it's just a question of motivation.
Alseny Conte Salut Steve. Il y a juste 3 mois depuis que j'ai commencé à apprendre l'anglais, mais j'ai préféré votre méthode qui consiste à lire et à écouter des contenus qui nous intéresse. Qu'est ce que je fais : j'ai pris 3 dialogues que j'écoute simultanément, et chaque dialogue à une durée d'une minutes, donc au total 3 mn. C'est ce dialogue que j'écoute du lundi au dimanche, et je fais 6 heures d'écouter par jours, c'est à dire 3 heures le matin et 3 heures le soir. Dans la semaine je fais 42 heures d'écoute seulement pour 3 dialogues. Et ça fait 3 mois que je fais ça, mais franchement j'ai l'impression que je n'apprend rien. Par ce que je ne me rappelle même pas dès fois ce que j'apprends. Dès fois j'essaie de me remémorer ce que j'ai appris, mais rien ne vient dans ma tête et sur ma langue. Dès fois aussi en écoutant je me perd, c'est à dire que mon esprit va ailleurs et après je le tire. À votre avis est-ce que je suis entrain d'apprendre comme ça ? Est-ce que je dois changer quelque chose dans ma manière d'étudier (l'écoute). Selon vous qu'est ce qui ne va pas dans mon apprentissage ? Franchement je suis confus et, je ne sais plus quoi faire?
il est mieux de ne pas être trop conscient de soi pendant ce processus d'apprentissage ni trop impatient. Il ne faut pas non plus écouter toujours les mêmes contenus. L'important c'est de laisser la langue entrer dans son cerveau. Écouter un contenu donné puis ensuite continuer avec quelque chose d'autre pour ensuite retourner à des contenus antérieurs. Le cerveau a besoin de répétition et de nouveauté. Et bien sûr je recommande notre site LingQ.
Repetition does work and has helped me learned French to a high level. Does Spanish get mixed up with French as easily as it does with Italian or Portuguese, or is it more distinct due to the pronunciation?
I can tell you that i never mix spanish and portuguese. If its any help, never think of them being equal or similar, and your brain will focus more on separating them.
For me it does, but both parents spoke French, my mother spoke Spanish, and I grew up hearing both languages. I use words like "corriel" and "robinete" when speaking Spanish, and I might say "auchancer" in French if I had someone to speak French with.
Hi Steve, what advice might you have for someone who has been studying a foreign language for many years but tends to spend more of their study time studying how we learn languages instead of actually studying their target language? Thanks in advance 🙏
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I'm enjoying Lingq a lot with my Portuguese, the thing is that I'd rather repeat a story until I know everything by heart, the advantage I have now over when I was in school for Mandarin is that I can stay with one story for however long I want and if I get bored (which I usually don't because I don't get bored until I know the story inside out) then I move on to another story. Thank you for this motivating video. 🙏
"If you understood everything, you wouldn't need to learn the language", I like that line!
I couldn't agree more with Steve, because I love learning languages and don't understand is just the obstacle, besides that, when it comes to language learning we need to find a system to just enjoy the process.
@@lukecooper3820 Just read bro.
🤣🤣🤣 when frustration sets in, I remind myself that I'm still learning new words in the other languages that I've been speaking for 25 years!
Thanks, coach! When I’m fresh, I listen with TL subtitles, when I’m getting tired, I listen with English subtitles, and when I’m really burnt, I listen to you encourage me.
Consistency is key. Discipline and habits beat motivation. Set a time of the day in which you'll read and listen to language learning material, and do it every day, whether you feel like doing it or not. In a few months, you'll be glad you forced yourself to do it.
As for what to listen/read:
Phase 1 should be short, simple stories. LingQ, Assimil, etc. Read and listened over and over again until you know basic grammar and vocab.
Phase 2 should be the interesting stuff, audiobooks, podcasts, etc. But in order to be able to enjoy these, you need to understand at least enough to get the gist.
I'd agree discipline is vital but motivation is still the driver for most people. I mean long term, not " how I feel today stuff ". But definitely consistently chipping at it us needed.. it's nearly impossible to feel progress on a short time frame, so that makes that lack of positive reinforcement via " reward of success" a demotivation " if you are not aware of it. I found it generally takes a few months to look back n see progress.. so, with other things too, a lot of beginners give up in frustration by month 3 and we'll that's the end of that. Krashen talked about kind of motivation , just for " extrinsic " things it's hard for most to keep going with " discipline" ( some can ..) personal or " intrinsic " motivations he claimed to be better indicators of success .. basically I'd agree with that, that was my experience... I can "diligence" my ass off if it's important to me, if not, meh. ...
@@kpopandotherplaylists2518 habit building is key. Instead of "learning every day", make it "learn every day, after doing X, in Y place, with Z system". You're way more likely to do it.
Sure! i've experienced this way based on many repetition.
The main thing I always take away from your videos is to not worry too much and just keep going, and videos where you reply to comments like this are really motivating because we can see that all these doubts and issues we face are just common parts of the process of language acquisition. Thanks for another great video
Learning a language is like learning how to dance, focus in rhythm and flow, in few words, mimic the speaker gestures and expressions, more like being an actor, for example; imitating "Jack Sparrow", it's fun and it never gets bored, at the end it gives you a good laugh 😃.
Hi, just curious, how often per week do you speak in your target language?
@@louisronan5903 every single day. Read, listen and talk. And get immersed into the culture and daily life of the target language.
@@heyvincevlogs4151 : Nice, sounds like you’re really dedicated. I also immerse myself fully in my language. Reshaped my life so that my target language is even a necessity to use it daily life. The thing is though, I speak quite often but not every single day but my conversation are always very long, I do this 4-5 times a week. What are your thoughts on this? Is it enough speaking time?
@@louisronan5903 you're doing an excellent work,, because you don't pressuring yourself and making a natural way to learn.
Learning langugaes is usually seen sports. We need to put knowledge about lenguage into unconsciousness.
We gradually don't have to pay attention to structure. dance is good examples:)
I feel initially listening without understanding is my motivation to continue the search for understanding. I am working on Deutsch and Spanish at the same time. I live near the border in Arizona and served in Germany 50 years ago; both of which I have found to be useful.
Thanks for your podcasts Steve as they offer encouragement. I
I listened extensively from the start and didn’t understand anything but I swear by extensive listening.
@@williambudd2850 I don't think the statement of Dr Krashen is you *only* learn from comprehensible input, but it certainly is most efficient. If you have followed some of the experiences of Matt vs Japan, you will have seen that he initially listened without comprehending but still was able to infer meaning and with repetition to infer more and more. Don't underestimate your ability to infer meaning from context (in a film for instance). But, comprehensible input is faster. I use both, comprehensible input for understanding (from lingq) and listening to podcasts or tv-shows for which I do not always have a script or translation. For me they serve different purposes. Lingq expands my understanding of new words, the podcasts and tv shows help me understand speech better, distinguish spoken words and in time hopefully help with automatic understanding of speech and writing.
There I was struggling, up pops a Steve K video about motivation and I’m motivated again. 😎👍🏴
I have been learning Italian for 10 months. Repetition has been the key to my understanding 80-90 percent of native content. Lingq has also been a a great source of learning my vocabulary. I stopped using it for 2 months, only to come back to it and it really has helped me. 👍🏼
A true mentor and inspiration for all of us.
Feels good to have someone answer my questions! Cheers from Hungary!
that is so true about repetition, thank you for the video.
I do believe these Q&A's are useful.
I always seem to struggle in the 3-4 month period after I started. The start goes great, I pick up certain parts of the language well and others a bit less and after a while motivation just disappears. I had this learning Russian, Spanish and German.
I find Q&A even more interesting than the previous videos.
Thanks for all those advice
3:40 Grazing is a nice way to describe this strategy. I enjoy watching soaps with subtitles when I reach A2 level onwards in my target language and I notice how similar phrases are repeated over and over in slightly different contexts.
What is A2 level.?
Great advice as always! Thanks Steve!
04:26 this is quite my listening routine with Arabic. I listen more than at least 1h a day to the Arabic-language BBC Radio. I listen to the language as if I was listening to music, and often in news you will acquire certain words by context and repetition (for example, during elections the word "election" will pop up so many times that it will be easy to memorize). Apart from those "seasonal" words, news tend to feature the same vocab over and over, so I search for these terms on Google translate (formerly on Wikitionary, also great source, but slower) and vocab gets acquired steadily.
Really cool glasses Steve! I’d love a pair like that!
I was thinking the same thing. I've never seen that style before!
Watching 5 seasons of LOST without subtitles helped me to improve my English pretty much. The thing about watching TV series is that you get familiar with the pronunciation of the main characters and get introduced to that of the supporting ones, also during the development of the events the main characters repeat many words in their dialogues and say new words too.
Great points about repetition but adding new. It is a system that we have to formulate which works for us. Thank you for what you're doing with this. I'm loving LingQ and have a LONG way to go. Keep up the good work you're doing!
thank you and I'm glad you're enjoying LingQ.
I think learning to Understand what things are needed , then adding tools for those seperate tasks is A key. Being actively involved in controlling your learning is vital. Learning a language has multiple smaller tasks. Gaining a variety of opinions and perspectives is also well worth it, without agreeing to all they say. As the japanese phrase goes, keeping going is power. If you stop you lose, if you don't stop you will learn a language eventually.
( keizoku ha chikara nari. )
Hey Steve. In 8 years ago I started from scratch I didn't speak english and nowadays I made it but I continue to practice every day and I included it in my life as to watch netflix , youtube , podcast, everything in english and I have been reading the text after that I listen to compare with native english and I'm improving day by day just by trial and error. Take care .
Good effort, we can't acquire language within months. You can access to the Internet, so it helps you learn english.
I am one of the learners of English. Let's keep studying!
"the voice, the excitement, these were nude- uh, heh nude - NEWS broadcasts" hhahahahahaahhaah 4:55
Thank you for this video. I struggle with LingQ sometimes motivation-wise because I find myself getting frustrated re-reading entire bodies of text I already know quite well just to encounter the odd word or two I may or may not remember.
I haven't even finished the stories in my target lang, but moved straight to ebook import. First book was slow, but im 6 months in and almost reading for the story rather than the language. Am suffering from a lack of romanian audiobooks. Podcasts and youtubers without subtitles are not as effective.
But i am enjoying the journey.
Edit, forgot the point - import an ebook and ditch the repetition
I agree with Albert below here. As soon as I can I move onto material that I can import and which has more new or unknown words.
@@williambudd2850 I'm also reading Harry Potter in Portuguese. on top of the Lingqs, kindle does give me the English translation if I wanted to know a particular word. it's so much fun
thanks.steave its great to hear your voice
Hello, sir. I like this way that you answer through a video. Thanks for the video. Always helpful.
Welcome to check your Level and improve your English listening and understanding skills ❤
What I find really is the willingness to learn a language. My high-school taught us English Filipino and Mandarin Chinese all through elementary and high school I retained a lot of Mandarin simply because we watch a lot of Chinese Kung fu series and I want the upper hand of knowing it. Now I'm learning Portuguese then I also plan to learn Russian, Arabic, and French next time if given the time 🤣
Thanks 😊
Mr. Bob the canadian said:
We should learn any languanges by:
Listening, reading, learn new words writing, and speaking.😊
I agree with you Steve that excessive repetition of the same content is extremely boring, however I will repeat my content in Russian 2000 times because the Russian language is so hard to learn because its alphabet is Cyrillic and I've noticed that there so many long words in Russian language.
I major in second language acquisition, we need to repeat same content in order to put langauge knowledge into unconciousness. What you have done is great. Keep it up.
Thanks.
I wish I could speak more than one language like you
nice glasses Steve! i will try to find a place here in Brazil in order to buy a pair of glasses like this one.
There must be a place in Brazil that sells glasses like this, because my professor had the exact same glasses (and they were awesome!)
Best of luck finding a cheap and nice one :)
@@Makiyavel ok, I have been wearing glasses since 1987, i think will be nice to have a pair of glasses like this one, it should be good.
Try searching online for example www.clicmagneticglasses.com/clic-reading-glasses/
@@Thelinguist thanks Steve, i Will search for it.
Always enjoy watching your videos, Steve! Definitely appreciate the short videos over sifting through the comment section every time! In a similar topic: do you have any particular methods to deal with those days where you suddenly can’t seem to form any sentences or complete thoughts in another language? It’s frustrating to be reading one day, then wake up the next and the text feels like a brand-new language. I’m currently studying Japanese, and sometimes the characters look natural to me, and other times I can’t read a thing. Perhaps I just need more practice hitting these walls and get used to pushing through.
this is what I tweeted today on that subject.I keep reminding myself that language learning isn't like an escalator constantly moving up. It's more like a slippery slope where you often feel you're slipping yet before you know it you reach, if not the top, at least a comfortable resting spot.
It is like playing golf. One day every shot seems good and then the next day you cannot make a swing
Thanks Steve! You're a big inspiration for language learners. 💪 How can you convince someone that frustration will appear and it's part of the process? (this person doesn't believe in the language learning process also) ¡Muchas gracias! 🙏
It is very difficult to convince anyone of anything. People have to find these things out by themselves. Only people who have shared some of the experience that I have had can identify with what I am saying. Maybe it's just a question of motivation.
¿Qué servicio de transcripción automática usas?
www.happyscribe.com/
@@Thelinguist 🌹👏💐
Alseny Conte
Salut Steve. Il y a juste 3 mois depuis que j'ai commencé à apprendre l'anglais, mais j'ai préféré votre méthode qui consiste à lire et à écouter des contenus qui nous intéresse. Qu'est ce que je fais : j'ai pris 3 dialogues que j'écoute simultanément, et chaque dialogue à une durée d'une minutes, donc au total 3 mn. C'est ce dialogue que j'écoute du lundi au dimanche, et je fais 6 heures d'écouter par jours, c'est à dire 3 heures le matin et 3 heures le soir. Dans la semaine je fais 42 heures d'écoute seulement pour 3 dialogues. Et ça fait 3 mois que je fais ça, mais franchement j'ai l'impression que je n'apprend rien. Par ce que je ne me rappelle même pas dès fois ce que j'apprends. Dès fois j'essaie de me remémorer ce que j'ai appris, mais rien ne vient dans ma tête et sur ma langue. Dès fois aussi en écoutant je me perd, c'est à dire que mon esprit va ailleurs et après je le tire. À votre avis est-ce que je suis entrain d'apprendre comme ça ? Est-ce que je dois changer quelque chose dans ma manière d'étudier (l'écoute). Selon vous qu'est ce qui ne va pas dans mon apprentissage ? Franchement je suis confus et, je ne sais plus quoi faire?
il est mieux de ne pas être trop conscient de soi pendant ce processus d'apprentissage ni trop impatient. Il ne faut pas non plus écouter toujours les mêmes contenus. L'important c'est de laisser la langue entrer dans son cerveau. Écouter un contenu donné puis ensuite continuer avec quelque chose d'autre pour ensuite retourner à des contenus antérieurs. Le cerveau a besoin de répétition et de nouveauté. Et bien sûr je recommande notre site LingQ.
The moment when you had the slip of the tongue saying 'nude' instead of 'new' and the smile which follows are very cute.
😂
Steve, are you a polyglot?
I one day will be speaking french fluently 😁
Be clear . Spaced repetition is better than rote repetition
Hello Steve! About frustration, there are times when I feel stuck, I'm tired and I'm going nowhere.
just like anything else in life, just endure and the progress will come. It's not linear.
Repetition does work and has helped me learned French to a high level. Does Spanish get mixed up with French as easily as it does with Italian or Portuguese, or is it more distinct due to the pronunciation?
I can tell you that i never mix spanish and portuguese. If its any help, never think of them being equal or similar, and your brain will focus more on separating them.
For me it does, but both parents spoke French, my mother spoke Spanish, and I grew up hearing both languages. I use words like "corriel" and "robinete" when speaking Spanish, and I might say "auchancer" in French if I had someone to speak French with.
I have been listening and watching to Thai language videos repetitively, but it's not working for me.
Steve, what transcription service do you use?
happyscribe.com
What books do you recommend on the topic of learning languages
I recommend you read second language acquisition. You will understand how we acquire languages scientifically. It's kind defficult though,,,
Do you find after repeatedly listening away from the transcript that you learn the audio material without understanding it.
I consider understanding the meaning, at least some of it, is essential to learning
04:58🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😊
Dear uncle Steve help me please .I wanna improve my english skilss. I just need someone who make practic with me.
Mr. Kaufmann....
Hi Steve, what advice might you have for someone who has been studying a foreign language for many years but tends to spend more of their study time studying how we learn languages instead of actually studying their target language? Thanks in advance 🙏