Hi.. thank you for your useful tips.. I am Korean..and I have been learning English for 20 years.. without living in any English speaking countries.. Actually I have already doing what you told me in this video.. Now I am learning Chinese and Japanese..Chinese is so difficult for Koreans to learn too.. And I will try Spanish next.. If we speak each other's language.. we will understand more .. And I believe the world will be able to be more peaceful.. Keep up the good work.. and so will I.. and I really love how you speak... so fast and so clearly.. ^^
I'm trying to learn Spanish. I think I've been learning for about half a year. I want to be fluent in about two and a half years. Do you speak Spanish?
I'm currently learning Spanish!!! I have a grammar lesson for at least 1 hour everyday, the rest of the time I'm talking to people through HelloTalk and watching shows and movies I'm familiar with in Spanish and listening to Spanish music. My favorite song is Obesession by Aventura.
For me, I find that (a) living in the country where the language you're learning is spoken, and (b) taking an intensive language course are two things that help me a lot when learning a language. But in a way, that boils down to practicing the language about 4-5 hours everyday and constantly getting feedback about how well you're speaking the language.
shieldgenerator7 Constant feedback and lots of practice are DEFINITELY key to learning a language! And living where it's spoken isn't always easy or possible, but I agree that it can help immensely, in ways you might never expect :)
I'm currently learning Portuguese! My girlfriend is from Portugal and I'm learning to communicate with her family and become more involved. Luckily enough my girlfriend can speak both Portuguese and English very well so I am blessed in that sense. On my first few days of learning at the moment and it is very challenging! Also some tips for people just starting a new language. When you are practicing the new language, don't be afraid to guess certain words rather than look them up in a dictionary. Chances are, you would pronounce the word correct or very close! There are so many English words that are very similar in other languages and it just takes some thinking to realize, you know more of the language than you may think! Happy learning everyone!
Hi Andrea! I stumbled upon your video regarding your experiences living in England, then saw this one. I'm from Los Angeles, California. I visited London once while I was studying in France for a year. I felt more a foreigner in London than I did in France. Strange, huh? I like your modern tips for learning a foreign language. I am fluent in French and Spanish, with some knowledge of Arabic and German. You mentioned learning songs. That's good, but I found that learning poems by heart helped, too. I recommend "La vie anterieur" by Beaudelaire. It's my favorite! For people who are shy about practicing to speak the language they're studying, they might try to assume a character for that language. I find that I have three personalities: American, French, and Spanish (mix of South American, Mexican, and Spanish). There are do's and don't in each language which are not the same as in the others. Example: swear words, fomality/informality, personal/impersonal, etc.. As you know, language is culture is language is culture..... What's rude in one place isn't necessarily so in another. Also, if you have made the effort to speak someone else's language, they tend to help you along in a conversation when you search for the right word in your limited vocabulary. One other tip: Force yourself to read aloud in the language you are learning for at least 15 minutes a day. It doesn't matter what you read. You have to get in the habit of pronouncing new words and seeing them in context. Most important is that speaking becomes a habit. While a student in France, I realized that the sum total of my utterances per day in French was only about 15 to 30 minutes. If you have a text that is recorded in the language you are studying, try to read it aloud at the same time as the speaker. Try to match their pronunciation, inflections, stresses, tones, and rhythms. Understand that most languages have some sounds that do not exist in your mother tongue. Oftentimes you cannot hear them until they are pointed out to you. Some of these sounds are difficult to learn to pronounce, but your pronouncing them correctly makes all the difference to a native speaker. That's all for now, Andrea! Good luck! I'll suscribe to you. Steve
As I don't know any language other than (American) English (unless you want to count having learned to do basic translating of Attica Greek (the Greek of Homer.)) I'll speak about how a friend became fluent in Japanese. Not native level but she still did a very good job of communicating. She taught English in Japan twice for a total of seven years. She made sure not to hang out with expats who speak English. She spent a lot of her social time with native speakers and that's how she really gained knowledge as well as becoming better versed in the culture. A funny thing about teaching English there though she told me about was that most of guys she knew had Japanese girlfriends and they picked up their knowledge of speaking Japanese from them. So, sometimes, when out with Japanese guys they'd take a bit of ribbing for speaking Japanese like a girls.
Hahahaaaa!!! The ending! Totally grammy worthy. By the way, I'm a German majoring in English, and I think listening to you speak actually improved my verbal skills. Aside from your funny and warmhearted personality, I really like the fact that you're probably the most articulate person on youtube. Keep it up:)
Hola Andrea! Me encantó tu video, esta muy útil. Yo estoy aprendiendo Inglés, y pronto empezaré a aprender Francés y Alemán:) Mi forma favorita de practicar idiomas es escuchando,ya sea con TH-cam, música, peliculas o series.También me encanta escribir es diferentes idiomas y anotar las palabras nuevas para ampliar mi vocabulario. También me ayudó un poco la aplicación Duolingo :)
It's going well , thank you, i'm taking small steps , but they are ensure , yes finnish ir really hard language , but I have a huge motivation ,so in future i'm hoping to speak fluently
Simona Merkininkaitė That's good. I know you'll be speaking it fluently in no time. Motivation, time, patience, and memorisation are key for learning a new language.
I watched a couple of your videos and I have to say your channel is pretty interesting. As someone who loves languages, gaming, tv shows and is a musician I'd say I share a lot of your interests. *And*, I really like your voice, it's almost soothing in a way. Glad I found this channel, if you're ever interested in learning italian let me know. :)
Great and helpful video! I'm from Mexico and currently I'm leaning German and Japanese, I will do all this things to improve both languages! Y gracias por el video y sigue así! Saludos!
Started learning spanish. Im using the Memrise app. Also, I set goals for myself. I am using a language frequency sheet, and the app to learn 5-15 words a day. Also, I just started the leitner system for flashcard frequency. Seems to help a lot. My goal this time, is to learn 500 words, then start learning some of the grammar.
Gracias por los consejos son muy buenos, puedo entender todo lo que dices! yo estoy aprendiendo Ingles por mi cuenta, el Español es mi Lengua materna y bueno yo se que se necesita mucha motivación y compromiso para no quedarse a mitad del camino, pues a veces se puede poner muy complicado y en ocasiones, es frustrarte el no poder entender cuando escuchamos a los nativos hablar el idioma que estamos aprendiendo. Pero pienso que si divides en pequeñas metas el proceso del aprendizaje de un idioma las cosas resultan menos complicadas, por ejemplo empece con Ingles esencial, donde aprendí la Gramática (Por varios meses, estuve aprendiendo gramática). Ya luego quería poder entender las canciones de mis artistas favoritos,sin necesidad de ver las letras, y lo logre entonces; una vez me acostumbre al sonido de la voz de ellos y a las palabras que usan en sus canciones, pase a mi siguiente meta que era poder entender algunos talk shows, para poder ver entrevistas de mis actores/artistas preferidos, uuf mucho esfuerzo tenia que activar los subtitulos en youtube que a veces no eran tan precisos y así fui aprendiendo vocabulario, luego me aventure a leer en ingles los libros que ya había leído en español, tarde muchísimo en leer mi primer libro en ingles, pero después de ahí los demás no fueron tan complicados, luego empece a ver series en en ingles, al principio le ponía los subtitulos en español; porque no quería detener el vídeo para buscar en el diccionario las palabras que no entendía, luego cambie a subtitulos en ingles, y ya al final las veía sin subtitulos y entendía, bueno no todo pero, mucho de lo que decían. Ya que tenia mucho tiempo expuesta al Ingles y podía entender mucho, decidí empezar a usar Podcast para aprender mas vocabulario y bueno imitando lo que decían mejore mi pronunciación, y aun sigo trabajando en ella. Para poder Hablar el idioma entre a una pagina de intercambios de idiomas, donde encontré algunos nativos interesados en aprender Español, a cambio de ayudar con el Ingles pues al principio solo escribíamos unos a los otros, así es como mejore mi escritura en Ingles, porque ya yo sabia porque había aprendido gramática antes, pero ya luego empezamos a hablar Via Skype, y GOD al principio fue horrible, a parte de que entenderlos no era sencillo, primero porque no estaba acostumbrada a su acento pues algunos eran Británicos, (yo estoy aprendiendo ingles americano), otros eran de algún estado de Los Estados Unidos donde no se habla un ingles tan Neutro, como el que yo estaba acostumbrada a escuchar, etc, etc, etc,-... y también porque no podía poner en palabras (de manera oral) lo que había en mi mente, pero fui mejorando con mucha practica y paciencia, hacia shadowing, de no mas de 4 minutos, y a veces escribía lo que le quería decir a mis compañeros de idiomas y lo practicaba por varios minutos, pronuncionado cuidadosamente con la ayuda de un diccionario digital, pero en fin como este comentario se esta haciendo eterno es mejor que lo corte aquí , pero no sin antes decir que ahora ya puedo entender, leer, escribir y hablar el idioma Ingles, usando el termino divide y vencerá, cosa que estoy aplicando a otros idiomas que estoy aprendiendo también, pues es mejor aprender algo nuevo cada día, que muchas cosas en un solo día que no vas a retener!, espero poder ayudar a alguien con mi comentario, esa hasta ahora es mi experiencia aprendiendo un nuevo idioma.
A good way to practice is to use the language as much as you can, for example comment on TH-cam and read other people's comments =) tambien hablo español como lengua materna mi hermano.... saludos
I'm learning Vietnamese right now. Mostly I'm just doing simple transactional things in the language, like ordering breakfast, but I completely agree with your suggestion to watch a TV series! When I was learning Chinese, I did that and it helped quite a bit. Hopefully my Vietnamese gets good enough I can watch shows here too.
@Andrea Heckler i took German at school and hated it, but went back a couple of years ago and realised i hated it lol... i have a basic understanding of certain parts of the French language and can sort of understand, i am currently in the process of improving my Italian as i spend a lot of time in Italy and my language skills are poor, and i am also learning mandarin as i have many friends from Singapore and china. its also fairly common throughout Asia so helpful.
I am hoping to learn spanish am 27 now always wanted to learn another language when i was school i could never listen in class was always bored in every subject lol but now as i get older i have been looking online at some stuff i have found a Spanish lesson class in Glasgow which am hoping to attend. A will subsribe to your channel and look foward to seeing your other videos
I am learning Maori which is a Polynesian language native to New Zealand. I'm learning it because I am Maori and I want to learn more about my heritage and help the language survive. The number of people who can speak Maori is kinda small. My fave way to learn the language is in class. I go to night classes where everyone is my age (30) and older. We have a lot of laughs. I need to do more self-study though because I will be in full immersion classes this year eek.
I've been learning two languages in school; Irish and Spanish. Irish being my native language and Spanish being my option. I find both languages to be quite difficult as they both have different tenses, but I find listening and actually speaking the language with someone really helps! In school I have oral exams for both languages, and if you do really well you can just about pass your exam, and then you also have a listening and written test! These tips were really useful! I'm definitely going to try learning a song in Spanish & Irish :)
Hi, Andrea! Thank you for your tips. I like your speech. It's very fast, but very clear to understand for me. I learn English and I like listen to yourtubers.
Thank you very much for your video! I'm currently learning English and German wih my studies (I'm studying Applied Foreign Languages), but I'm also learning Mandarin by myself and I want to begin learning Spanish and Korean (wow!). Well, I was searching for some tips to organize myself with all these languages I want to learn and you helped me a lot by talking about your own experience I think. By the way, I'm French, so if you need something about French and France or even if you come to France, I'd be glad to help you! Byyyyye ! :)
My mother language is spanish and watching youtubers made my listening skills a lot better, along with my pronunciaton and helped me get an accent even tho I didn't understood nothing at the beggining now I can understand a 15 minutes video. and I want to learn italian sooooo bad so if you can give me other links I'll be thankful bc all the pages I've been wants me to pay for more classes :))))) xx
I've been learning English for a while and without any doubt you are the native English speaker that I could understand the most in a normal speed. where are you from? I meant which part of the USA people speak as the same accent as you?
I speak fluently Portuguese (my language) and English, I'm learning French at school and Chinese/Mandarin with a friend. I want to improve in those two languages and learn Spanish and Korean
I started learning some French on a language app a few weeks ago but I stopped and now I think I will start learning it again! :D Do you think listening to podcasts in French will help?
Sarah+ I might not be the person you were looking for but I will answer you're question,If you know some French and you think you can listen to people it would be a good practice so you can understand French. But if you're just learning French I recommend a app called duolingo it is very helpful. Thank for reading this long stuff lol hope it helped.
Gracias por los tips! :) Por el momento estoy intentando aprender chino.De alguna manera, terminé eligiéndolo en mi universidad y aunque al principio se sintió todo un desafío(no digo que no lo sea ahora xD)poco a poco estoy entendiendo algunas cosas. Si necesitas ayuda con el español(soy de Perú)please let me know :D
you inspire me to learn english Andrea. iv been watching your videos again and again everyday. i hope i can learn english one day enough to talk to you.
Really good tips! People always ask me how can I speak english (I took only basic english in school) so well without going to school or living in an english speaking country and I give similar answers. I also use youtube to listen to vloggers to refresh my rusty french. ¡No sé que decir en castellano ahora mismo! jaja ¡Solo decirte que si vienes a Barcelona tienes que hacer una quedada o algo con tus seguidores de aquí! :)
I'm learning French in school and enjoying so far! I'm only in 7th grade and stuff but I think I'm doing really good (my grade is a 99) Any specific reccomendations for movies/songs/media in French? I think I'm still beginner-level though. I wanna get as much knowledge as I can....
+immercurymoonie Some of my favorite artists are Coeur de Pirate (who is from Quebec, so her accent isn't quite the same as the one from France), ZAZ, and Renan Luce. I'm also currently listening to the audiobook for The Hunger Games in French. This one I chose because I know the story really well in English and because most of the narration is in 1st-person present tense, so it isn't as complicated if you're not comfortable or familiar with the various past tenses. If you're just beginning with French, I recommend getting a copy of the book too and either just reading it alone or (even better!) listening to the audiobook while you read along, so you can hear the pronunciation :) Hope you like learning French so far, good luck!
Salut!! Maintenant, j'apprends le français et parfois je pratique l'anglais en apps qui permettent parler avec natives, comme le Tandem! J'aime bien de lire des livres qui sont écrites en la langue que j'apprends, principalement des livres pour les enfants. Merci pour cette vidéo!
I'm trying to learn Spanish and Danish but just recently I stopped Danish so that I can focus more on Spanish I use this app called duolingo it really helps if that was singing and it does speaking also writing and reading.
I've been dying to try leaning Finnish, but everyone says it's extremely difficult... I know it's certainly difficult to find teaching materials for it. But I just decided to try out Duolingo, which seems like an okay staring point for a new language - unfortunately, the number of languages offered is limited. I started learning Swedish and it's going alright. It's really hard to find time to work at it though. Work just keeps tacking on hours and by the time I get some free time I'm mentally and physically exhausted, so I turn to Netflix or a book for an hour until bed :/ I took Spanish in school for several years and I really loved it. Despite that, I never came close to fluency. I suppose part of the problem is because I focused on "structured" learning. If only I knew then what I know now. Another problem is that the curriculum barely used Speaking as a method of learning and even if it had, my voice and my speech impediment are the things I am most self concious of, so I avoid that whenever possible (even in English). Anyway, thanks for the tips!
UnfortunateFreakNo1 Although some teachers and curriculums recognize how important it is, sadly speaking is one of the things that is most often ignored in structured classes... But as long as you have access to the internet, that can be fixed ;D I love Duolingo too, especially for refreshing and learning vocabulary! I think it's best when combined with something that teaches stronger grammar concepts as well as another method that encourages more language production and creativity :)
I went to a bilingual school since I was eight and I consider myselft very fluent in English. I've noticed, though, that sometimes when I speak to native English speakers I'm not as...good and fluent as I thought I was. Like, for example, when I'm all by myself I tend to think out loud in English (yeah, a bit weird, I know, haha) and I sound really fluent and almost accentless...but when it comes to speaking with Americans I honestly don't know why it happens but my English comes out very differently. My tongue gets tied, I stutter, I mess up words...and I really don't know why is that.
I want to learn Italian and Spanish, but I've heard that it's a good idea to learn Esperanto first, since it's an easy language with no exceptions to the rules. I don't have a huge amount of time, so was thinking about doing this for now and learning Italian later. Good idea? Bad idea? I'd be delighted if someone could let me know. Thanks
I can sing (horribly) like half of Eyes Nose Lips by Taeyang And it's helped with my Korean learning but it's also hard because I don't have anyone to speak with or communicate with
Hola Andrea. Muy interesante video. Te cuento que yo estoy aprendiendo inglés y series como Charmed, una serie muy vieja pero muy buena, y ver youtuber me han ayudado mucho con el aprendizaje. Pienso que me encuentro en un nivel intermedio. Ahora estoy tomando clases online para practicar el inglés. Por cierto, la web que uso para practicar inglés es la misma en la que tú enseñas. Yo te encontré hace como un mes atrás y me emocioné mucho con la idea que fueras mi maestra de inglés pero rechazaste mi solicitud por que ya tienes muchos alumnos. Bueno por ti. Me hubiera gustado mucho que fueras mi profesora de inglés, sin embargo me alegra mucho que tengas tanto éxito como profesora de inglés. En lo personal, conseguí una buena profesora con la cual compartimos muchos temas de conversaciones en común lo cual hace cada clase sea muy interesante y amena y me ayuda a esforzarme más en expresarme en ingles. Hablando de series recientemente estuve viendo Arrow y está muy interesante. Te puedo recomendar en español el programa del “El chavo del ocho” o “El chapulín colorado” Son comedias mexicanas que todo hispanohablante conocen. Buena suerte con tu aprendizaje del español y el francés.
Elias Perez Gracias por tu mensaje! Es cierto que la web es perfecto para aprender idiomas, con clases y TH-cam y blogs y más! Es especialmente útil tener un profesor o simplemente una persona que habla la idioma con fluidez, porque las conversaciones son importantes y divertidas también :) Buena suerte a ti también!!
I'm trying to learn Irish, but it's pretty hard to find stuff for it. It's not a common language to learn, it's not even really spoken by everyone very often in Ireland. :) But I also might learn Scottish. Whichever one is more spoken is where I'll probably focus.
robert Butcher That's great! It's true that those languages aren't very widely learned, probably because they come from places where the dominant language is English, so that just takes over. But they're really beautiful!
Subscribed! You're great, watched your earlier videos, great to here you came to visit us! (England). This video has been so helpful, I am trying to learn French and German, I have never learnt German before, French is my strong point, and this has helped me sosososo much! I would recommend your channel to anyone + you're really pretty! :D
I'm trying to learn Japanese, and I'm probably just impatient but it's been a week and I still haven't figured out how to say a sentence, I think the speed you're supposed to speak Japanese compared to English plays a major part in that... I haven't found a "slow down" button on the program I am currently using.
mi madre es española asi que se hablar el español pero de momento estoy intentando de estudiar koreano - ¡es super dificil! no se donde empezar jajajaja hasta ahora solo se leer el "hangul" y si no casi nada...
Hi! I just found your videos and I love them! I learned Spanish from telenovelas a couple of years ago and I still understand quite a lot, but lately I'm really into Portuguese. This language is just so intersting to me.. so I have a question: would you recommend watching a series with or without subtitles? Each option has its ups and downs.. Thanks!
Tamar Nadir It depends on your level! If you can understand enough without the subtitles, it's better practice, but when you're watching a story it's very frustrating if you can't follow along with the plot (and somewhat unproductive if your level isn't high enough yet). In that case, I recommend using subtitles :) So far, I've always used subtitles for shows/movies but often watch vlogs and short videos without!
Hii I'm learning French and wanna know the series you've seen to study French! and how to find. Because I've heard there is just few series of 'FUNNY' dramas in France...
I’m English here’s a tip , is put a little different I will show you an example Hello, how may I help you? And this is weird if there is a vowel like there is an ant in my room! But if you say something like this there is a cat in my room! See an is before a vowel, but a is before a different letters thats not a vowel. And last, some words sound the same but, mean different things and are spelled different like there and their! Good luck!
Salut! J'apprends le français maintenant, et j'aime bien regarder les vidéos sur TH-cam. Quelques TH-camurs qui j'aime sont Cyprien, Théo Gordy, DamienandJo, Sophiaetmath. :) merci pour cette vidéo, c'était intéressant à voir quelqu'un qui aime étudier les langues aussi!
Hi, Andea. I've an issue: I'm someone who speaks American English with hardly a trace of a foreign accent, but my vocab sucks compared to that of native speakers. Because I wasn't raised in an English-speaking country, I have a vocab that's, like, totally uneducated; it's unsophisticated, it lacks refinement Do you think conversing with native speakers would improve that? And how? Since I live in Paris, what would you suggest? That I just walk up to American tourists and tell them verbatim what I just told you? Is that the way to go? Wouldn't that be a little awkward?
imi amou Ooooh, well, in my opinion, English and Korean are pretty different, so you can put up a mental wall between the two if you want to learn them simultaneously(At least that's what I'm doing at the moment.)
i'm learning English. I'm practicing every single day, I been improving my English listening to music, watching TV series, movies and video. but I really need someone with whom I can speak with and improve more my language, if someone wants to help me or give me some tip I will appreciate it.
Bon la vidéo est postée depuis un moment mais comme personne n'a laissé de commentaires en Français je vais le faire ^^ Je suis français, j’apprends le japonais et l'anglais. Bon même si pour ce qui est de l'anglais je pense avoir déjà un bon niveau et je me contente de la partie "apprentissage non formel" dont tu parles ^^ Je suis entièrement d'accord avec le fait qu'il faille parler la langue que l'on apprend avec des natifs ou au moins des personnes qui maitrisent cette langue. Également avec le fait qu'il faille regarder des vidéos, films, etc... dans la langue que l'on apprend. Je pense même que c'est de très loin le plus important. C'est personnellement ce qui m'a permis de passer d'un niveau post-scolaire en anglais (médiocre) à un niveau suffisant pour comprendre la majorité de ce j'écoute et de pouvoir communiquer. Sinon j'ai pas mal utilisé le site Lang-8 pour le japonais et le français, un site que je conseille si tu ne connais pas. Voila je ne connais pas ton niveau de français donc bonne chance pour lire ça ;)
+Chaosmulti J'ai compris tout! J'ai besoin d'écouter beaucoup plus de la langue, mais je peux lire beaucoup mieux maintenant ^_^ Merci pour ton commentaire! Je vais chercher Lang-8.
We ended up doing Magic Kingdom and Epcot instead and she got me the first two books in hardcover so I can actually know what's going on when we do do HP World. :)
Right now I'm trying to learn Korean, I'm still at the basic level so I'm kinda struggling with Hangul (the korean alphabet). It's so frustrating sometimes!
Hola! Qué buen video! Me gustan los tips que recomendaste, yo también los aplico y si que funcionan :D ...miraba en los comentarios unas de tus respuestas en español y pues lo haces muy bien! :D sigue tu también echandole ganas que sí se puede, haber cuando haces un vídeo sólo en español :D ..ah y te escribo en español para que sigas con tu practica xD hehe saludos! ^^/
Nahil Sum jaja gracias! Necesito la practica, porque he practicado mucho el francés recientemente y no quiero perder mi español! :P No sé si puedo hacer un video todo en español por el momento, pero veo muchos vloggers españoles y es alentador :D
I learn Spanish, but I don't have anyone to talk to in Spanish because there is no Spanish people where I live.. So I can't really practice speaking. If anyone here speaks spanish please let me know😄
My student Ana says ' I like the video so very much but the American teenager speaks very fast and she' s quiet' My student Denise says 'I like the video. I learn English in school. I learn English by listening to music.
Great tips ahah
I'm french, 14 years old and almost bilingual, and I learned by myself
DemilleLéa Troi That's impressive!
:)
So... you have any tips on it's own to be a bilingual? is it with apps. e.g: duolingo or..parctice day by day? Thnks....
practrice everyday, literally, think in the language you wanna learn and you'll have more vocabulary :)
Nope hmm.. Nope, are you learning the secong language to0:)?
Hi.. thank you for your useful tips..
I am Korean..and I have been learning English for 20 years.. without living in any English speaking countries..
Actually I have already doing what you told me in this video..
Now I am learning Chinese and Japanese..Chinese is so difficult for Koreans to learn too..
And I will try Spanish next..
If we speak each other's language.. we will understand more ..
And I believe the world will be able to be more peaceful..
Keep up the good work.. and so will I..
and I really love how you speak... so fast and so clearly.. ^^
I'm learning English . I'm from Colombia , I really want to improve my skills in this language . I'm 16 and I will keep going 🙊
You seem to be doing well from that comment.
I'm trying to learn Spanish. I think I've been learning for about half a year. I want to be fluent in about two and a half years. Do you speak Spanish?
+Gabi Pollard yes ! I speak Spanish .. Si , hablo español
+D Franklin34 thank you !!
+valentina villegas
De nada
I'm currently learning Spanish!!! I have a grammar lesson for at least 1 hour everyday, the rest of the time I'm talking to people through HelloTalk and watching shows and movies I'm familiar with in Spanish and listening to Spanish music. My favorite song is Obesession by Aventura.
wisecurls me too! But I don’t use HelloTalk I’m not allowed to talk to strangers!
For me, I find that (a) living in the country where the language you're learning is spoken, and (b) taking an intensive language course are two things that help me a lot when learning a language. But in a way, that boils down to practicing the language about 4-5 hours everyday and constantly getting feedback about how well you're speaking the language.
shieldgenerator7 Constant feedback and lots of practice are DEFINITELY key to learning a language! And living where it's spoken isn't always easy or possible, but I agree that it can help immensely, in ways you might never expect :)
I'm currently learning Portuguese! My girlfriend is from Portugal and I'm learning to communicate with her family and become more involved. Luckily enough my girlfriend can speak both Portuguese and English very well so I am blessed in that sense. On my first few days of learning at the moment and it is very challenging! Also some tips for people just starting a new language. When you are practicing the new language, don't be afraid to guess certain words rather than look them up in a dictionary. Chances are, you would pronounce the word correct or very close! There are so many English words that are very similar in other languages and it just takes some thinking to realize, you know more of the language than you may think!
Happy learning everyone!
Hi Andrea! I stumbled upon your video regarding your experiences living in England, then saw this one. I'm from Los Angeles, California. I visited London once while I was studying in France for a year. I felt more a foreigner in London than I did in France. Strange, huh?
I like your modern tips for learning a foreign language. I am fluent in French and Spanish, with some knowledge of Arabic and German. You mentioned learning songs. That's good, but I found that learning poems by heart helped, too. I recommend "La vie anterieur" by Beaudelaire. It's my favorite!
For people who are shy about practicing to speak the language they're studying, they might try to assume a character for that language. I find that I have three personalities: American, French, and Spanish (mix of South American, Mexican, and Spanish). There are do's and don't in each language which are not the same as in the others. Example: swear words, fomality/informality, personal/impersonal, etc.. As you know, language is culture is language is culture..... What's rude in one place isn't necessarily so in another. Also, if you have made the effort to speak someone else's language, they tend to help you along in a conversation when you search for the right word in your limited vocabulary.
One other tip: Force yourself to read aloud in the language you are learning for at least 15 minutes a day. It doesn't matter what you read. You have to get in the habit of pronouncing new words and seeing them in context. Most important is that speaking becomes a habit. While a student in France, I realized that the sum total of my utterances per day in French was only about 15 to 30 minutes.
If you have a text that is recorded in the language you are studying, try to read it aloud at the same time as the speaker. Try to match their pronunciation, inflections, stresses, tones, and rhythms. Understand that most languages have some sounds that do not exist in your mother tongue. Oftentimes you cannot hear them until they are pointed out to you. Some of these sounds are difficult to learn to pronounce, but your pronouncing them correctly makes all the difference to a native speaker.
That's all for now, Andrea! Good luck! I'll suscribe to you.
Steve
GREAT ADVICE!!THANKS,ANDREA!
As I don't know any language other than (American) English (unless you want to count having learned to do basic translating of Attica Greek (the Greek of Homer.)) I'll speak about how a friend became fluent in Japanese. Not native level but she still did a very good job of communicating.
She taught English in Japan twice for a total of seven years. She made sure not to hang out with expats who speak English. She spent a lot of her social time with native speakers and that's how she really gained knowledge as well as becoming better versed in the culture.
A funny thing about teaching English there though she told me about was that most of guys she knew had Japanese girlfriends and they picked up their knowledge of speaking Japanese from them. So, sometimes, when out with Japanese guys they'd take a bit of ribbing for speaking Japanese like a girls.
Thank you! You are a very friendly speaker.
Hahahaaaa!!! The ending! Totally grammy worthy. By the way, I'm a German majoring in English, and I think listening to you speak actually improved my verbal skills. Aside from your funny and warmhearted personality, I really like the fact that you're probably the most articulate person on youtube. Keep it up:)
thejukebox705 This comment has made my day :D Thank you!!
Hola Andrea! Me encantó tu video, esta muy útil. Yo estoy aprendiendo Inglés, y pronto empezaré a aprender Francés y Alemán:) Mi forma favorita de practicar idiomas es escuchando,ya sea con TH-cam, música, peliculas o series.También me encanta escribir es diferentes idiomas y anotar las palabras nuevas para ampliar mi vocabulario. También me ayudó un poco la aplicación Duolingo :)
Very good tips! Helpful! Trying to learn Polish in an area of the country where few speak Polish! Thank you for the help!
Im learning finnish , and I love listen to and sing finnish songs , and it really help me a lot
Simona Merkininkaitė Passion motivates, beauty creates passion.
+Simona Merkininkaitė How is that going? Finnish is considered one of the most difficult languages to learn.
It's going well , thank you, i'm taking small steps , but they are ensure , yes finnish ir really hard language , but I have a huge motivation ,so in future i'm hoping to speak fluently
Simona Merkininkaitė That's good. I know you'll be speaking it fluently in no time. Motivation, time, patience, and memorisation are key for learning a new language.
Thank you :)
I'm learning Chinese, but I'm still not at a high enough level to understand day to day speaking.
Linn Ing How’s your Chinese now after four years?
I watched a couple of your videos and I have to say your channel is pretty interesting. As someone who loves languages, gaming, tv shows and is a musician I'd say I share a lot of your interests. *And*, I really like your voice, it's almost soothing in a way. Glad I found this channel, if you're ever interested in learning italian let me know. :)
Great and helpful video! I'm from Mexico and currently I'm leaning German and Japanese, I will do all this things to improve both languages!
Y gracias por el video y sigue así!
Saludos!
I’m French and I’m beginning to learn Japanese ! But it is much more difficult than learning English since it’s not the same alphabet and so on
Started learning spanish. Im using the Memrise app. Also, I set goals for myself. I am using a language frequency sheet, and the app to learn 5-15 words a day. Also, I just started the leitner system for flashcard frequency. Seems to help a lot. My goal this time, is to learn 500 words, then start learning some of the grammar.
Gracias por los consejos son muy buenos, puedo entender todo lo que dices! yo estoy aprendiendo Ingles por mi cuenta, el Español es mi Lengua materna y bueno yo se que se necesita mucha motivación y compromiso para no quedarse a mitad del camino, pues a veces se puede poner muy complicado y en ocasiones, es frustrarte el no poder entender cuando escuchamos a los nativos hablar el idioma que estamos aprendiendo. Pero pienso que si divides en pequeñas metas el proceso del aprendizaje de un idioma las cosas resultan menos complicadas, por ejemplo empece con Ingles esencial, donde aprendí la Gramática (Por varios meses, estuve aprendiendo gramática). Ya luego quería poder entender las canciones de mis artistas favoritos,sin necesidad de ver las letras, y lo logre entonces; una vez me acostumbre al sonido de la voz de ellos y a las palabras que usan en sus canciones, pase a mi siguiente meta que era poder entender algunos talk shows, para poder ver entrevistas de mis actores/artistas preferidos, uuf mucho esfuerzo tenia que activar los subtitulos en youtube que a veces no eran tan precisos y así fui aprendiendo vocabulario, luego me aventure a leer en ingles los libros que ya había leído en español, tarde muchísimo en leer mi primer libro en ingles, pero después de ahí los demás no fueron tan complicados, luego empece a ver series en en ingles, al principio le ponía los subtitulos en español; porque no quería detener el vídeo para buscar en el diccionario las palabras que no entendía, luego cambie a subtitulos en ingles, y ya al final las veía sin subtitulos y entendía, bueno no todo pero, mucho de lo que decían. Ya que tenia mucho tiempo expuesta al Ingles y podía entender mucho, decidí empezar a usar Podcast para aprender mas vocabulario y bueno imitando lo que decían mejore mi pronunciación, y aun sigo trabajando en ella. Para poder Hablar el idioma entre a una pagina de intercambios de idiomas, donde encontré algunos nativos interesados en aprender Español, a cambio de ayudar con el Ingles pues al principio solo escribíamos unos a los otros, así es como mejore mi escritura en Ingles, porque ya yo sabia porque había aprendido gramática antes, pero ya luego empezamos a hablar Via Skype, y GOD al principio fue horrible, a parte de que entenderlos no era sencillo, primero porque no estaba acostumbrada a su acento pues algunos eran Británicos, (yo estoy aprendiendo ingles americano), otros eran de algún estado de Los Estados Unidos donde no se habla un ingles tan Neutro, como el que yo estaba acostumbrada a escuchar, etc, etc, etc,-... y también porque no podía poner en palabras (de manera oral) lo que había en mi mente, pero fui mejorando con mucha practica y paciencia, hacia shadowing, de no mas de 4 minutos, y a veces escribía lo que le quería decir a mis compañeros de idiomas y lo practicaba por varios minutos, pronuncionado cuidadosamente con la ayuda de un diccionario digital, pero en fin como este comentario se esta haciendo eterno es mejor que lo corte aquí , pero no sin antes decir que ahora ya puedo entender, leer, escribir y hablar el idioma Ingles, usando el termino divide y vencerá, cosa que estoy aplicando a otros idiomas que estoy aprendiendo también, pues es mejor aprender algo nuevo cada día, que muchas cosas en un solo día que no vas a retener!, espero poder ayudar a alguien con mi comentario, esa hasta ahora es mi experiencia aprendiendo un nuevo idioma.
A good way to practice is to use the language as much as you can, for example comment on TH-cam and read other people's comments =) tambien hablo español como lengua materna mi hermano.... saludos
I'm learning Vietnamese right now. Mostly I'm just doing simple transactional things in the language, like ordering breakfast, but I completely agree with your suggestion to watch a TV series! When I was learning Chinese, I did that and it helped quite a bit. Hopefully my Vietnamese gets good enough I can watch shows here too.
Lovely video, and thanks (danke!) so much for the shoutout! I really want to master German. :)
@Andrea Heckler i took German at school and hated it, but went back a couple of years ago and realised i hated it lol... i have a basic understanding of certain parts of the French language and can sort of understand, i am currently in the process of improving my Italian as i spend a lot of time in Italy and my language skills are poor, and i am also learning mandarin as i have many friends from Singapore and china. its also fairly common throughout Asia so helpful.
glennismade Wow, you sound like you just like languages! Good luck with whatever one you decide you like best :D
I am hoping to learn spanish am 27 now always wanted to learn another language when i was school i could never listen in class was always bored in every subject lol but now as i get older i have been looking online at some stuff i have found a Spanish lesson class in Glasgow which am hoping to attend. A will subsribe to your channel and look foward to seeing your other videos
I am learning Maori which is a Polynesian language native to New Zealand. I'm learning it because I am Maori and I want to learn more about my heritage and help the language survive. The number of people who can speak Maori is kinda small. My fave way to learn the language is in class. I go to night classes where everyone is my age (30) and older. We have a lot of laughs. I need to do more self-study though because I will be in full immersion classes this year eek.
I've been learning two languages in school; Irish and Spanish. Irish being my native language and Spanish being my option. I find both languages to be quite difficult as they both have different tenses, but I find listening and actually speaking the language with someone really helps! In school I have oral exams for both languages, and if you do really well you can just about pass your exam, and then you also have a listening and written test! These tips were really useful! I'm definitely going to try learning a song in Spanish & Irish :)
Rebekah1O7 Yay, I'm glad! Good luck :D
Hi, Andrea! Thank you for your tips. I like your speech. It's very fast, but very clear to understand for me. I learn English and I like listen to yourtubers.
Great tips, Andrea! I majored in Spanish in college, but I haven't practiced in a while. ¿Puedas recomendar algunos vloggers que hablan español?
rukbat3 Yo adoro RoEnLaRed! También me gustan JPelirrojo (el novio de RoEnLaRed), laspalabrasdefa, y LuzuVlogs :)
Thank you very much for your video!
I'm currently learning English and German wih my studies (I'm studying Applied Foreign Languages), but I'm also learning Mandarin by myself and I want to begin learning Spanish and Korean (wow!). Well, I was searching for some tips to organize myself with all these languages I want to learn and you helped me a lot by talking about your own experience I think.
By the way, I'm French, so if you need something about French and France or even if you come to France, I'd be glad to help you! Byyyyye ! :)
+Chocc- late Wow, so many languages!! Good luck -- and thank you! :)
My mother language is spanish and watching youtubers made my listening skills a lot better, along with my pronunciaton and helped me get an accent even tho I didn't understood nothing at the beggining now I can understand a 15 minutes video. and I want to learn italian sooooo bad so if you can give me other links I'll be thankful bc all the pages I've been wants me to pay for more classes :))))) xx
Que Simpática!!! Yo ya hablo ingles y español pero quiero aprender francés😋
I've been learning English for a while and without any doubt you are the native English speaker that I could understand the most in a normal speed. where are you from? I meant which part of the USA people speak as the same accent as you?
Awesome as always, Andrea!
James Geppert Thank you!
Just found your channel and really liked your videos :) any tips for new youtubers?
Ryan Ds Thank you! My advice is to keep posting videos, watch lots of content, and post lots of comments :D
I speak fluently Portuguese (my language) and English, I'm learning French at school and Chinese/Mandarin with a friend. I want to improve in those two languages and learn Spanish and Korean
Filipina learning Swedish here. ♡
I started learning some French on a language app a few weeks ago but I stopped and now I think I will start learning it again! :D Do you think listening to podcasts in French will help?
Sarah+ I might not be the person you were looking for but I will answer you're question,If you know some French and you think you can listen to people it would be a good practice so you can understand French. But if you're just learning French I recommend a app called duolingo it is very helpful.
Thank for reading this long stuff lol hope it helped.
nickyah vales
Yes, thank you! I do use duolingo :)
Sarah+ Happy that I was able to help! ;)
Gracias por los tips! :) Por el momento estoy intentando aprender chino.De alguna manera, terminé eligiéndolo en mi universidad y aunque al principio se sintió todo un desafío(no digo que no lo sea ahora xD)poco a poco estoy entendiendo algunas cosas. Si necesitas ayuda con el español(soy de Perú)please let me know :D
Ok cool this has helped a lot I'm going to learn Spanish currently using an app. U have a really nice speaking voice
Great stuff....pluz u vry confident n vibrant
you inspire me to learn english Andrea. iv been watching your videos again and again everyday. i hope i can learn english one day enough to talk to you.
Yasin Ak That makes me so glad to hear! Keep practicing and you'll get better and better every day!
Really good tips! People always ask me how can I speak english (I took only basic english in school) so well without going to school or living in an english speaking country and I give similar answers. I also use youtube to listen to vloggers to refresh my rusty french. ¡No sé que decir en castellano ahora mismo! jaja ¡Solo decirte que si vienes a Barcelona tienes que hacer una quedada o algo con tus seguidores de aquí! :)
Bambu ¡Ayyy perdona! Me he liado y pensaba que aún estabas en España.¡Bueno si alguna vez vuelves!
Bambu Quisiera volver si puedo, alguna vez en el futuro! Hay todavía MUCHO allí que quiero ver :)
I'm learning french and korean :)
+Laura Marotta I wanna learn Korean too :)
cool!!
same here 😊
저도요! ㅋㅋㅋ
+Amanda Igwegbu 예
I'm learning English and I'm using youtube to practice English.
Your tips are helpful and your channel is perfect for my unstructured learning!
***** I'm glad! Good luck :D
I'm learning French in school and enjoying so far! I'm only in 7th grade and stuff but I think I'm doing really good (my grade is a 99) Any specific reccomendations for movies/songs/media in French? I think I'm still beginner-level though. I wanna get as much knowledge as I can....
+immercurymoonie Some of my favorite artists are Coeur de Pirate (who is from Quebec, so her accent isn't quite the same as the one from France), ZAZ, and Renan Luce. I'm also currently listening to the audiobook for The Hunger Games in French. This one I chose because I know the story really well in English and because most of the narration is in 1st-person present tense, so it isn't as complicated if you're not comfortable or familiar with the various past tenses. If you're just beginning with French, I recommend getting a copy of the book too and either just reading it alone or (even better!) listening to the audiobook while you read along, so you can hear the pronunciation :) Hope you like learning French so far, good luck!
+immercurymoonie les aventures de adele blanc sec. I love that film!
I'm getting into french music for my studies, I love Cœur de Pirate too! And Stromae ^_^
Salut!! Maintenant, j'apprends le français et parfois je pratique l'anglais en apps qui permettent parler avec natives, comme le Tandem! J'aime bien de lire des livres qui sont écrites en la langue que j'apprends, principalement des livres pour les enfants. Merci pour cette vidéo!
I'm trying to learn Spanish and Danish but just recently I stopped Danish so that I can focus more on Spanish I use this app called duolingo it really helps if that was singing and it does speaking also writing and reading.
I can help you with Spanish and you teach me english 😉
I've been dying to try leaning Finnish, but everyone says it's extremely difficult... I know it's certainly difficult to find teaching materials for it.
But I just decided to try out Duolingo, which seems like an okay staring point for a new language - unfortunately, the number of languages offered is limited. I started learning Swedish and it's going alright. It's really hard to find time to work at it though. Work just keeps tacking on hours and by the time I get some free time I'm mentally and physically exhausted, so I turn to Netflix or a book for an hour until bed :/
I took Spanish in school for several years and I really loved it. Despite that, I never came close to fluency. I suppose part of the problem is because I focused on "structured" learning. If only I knew then what I know now. Another problem is that the curriculum barely used Speaking as a method of learning and even if it had, my voice and my speech impediment are the things I am most self concious of, so I avoid that whenever possible (even in English).
Anyway, thanks for the tips!
UnfortunateFreakNo1 Although some teachers and curriculums recognize how important it is, sadly speaking is one of the things that is most often ignored in structured classes... But as long as you have access to the internet, that can be fixed ;D I love Duolingo too, especially for refreshing and learning vocabulary! I think it's best when combined with something that teaches stronger grammar concepts as well as another method that encourages more language production and creativity :)
I went to a bilingual school since I was eight and I consider myselft very fluent in English. I've noticed, though, that sometimes when I speak to native English speakers I'm not as...good and fluent as I thought I was. Like, for example, when I'm all by myself I tend to think out loud in English (yeah, a bit weird, I know, haha) and I sound really fluent and almost accentless...but when it comes to speaking with Americans I honestly don't know why it happens but my English comes out very differently. My tongue gets tied, I stutter, I mess up words...and I really don't know why is that.
I want to learn Italian and Spanish, but I've heard that it's a good idea to learn Esperanto first, since it's an easy language with no exceptions to the rules. I don't have a huge amount of time, so was thinking about doing this for now and learning Italian later. Good idea? Bad idea? I'd be delighted if someone could let me know. Thanks
I'm learning French and I loved this video! You should do more of these!
Esprit Unnique Merci beaucoup! :)
I can sing (horribly) like half of Eyes Nose Lips by Taeyang
And it's helped with my Korean learning but it's also hard because I don't have anyone to speak with or communicate with
Hola Andrea. Muy interesante video. Te cuento que yo estoy aprendiendo inglés y series como Charmed, una serie muy vieja pero muy buena, y ver youtuber me han ayudado mucho con el aprendizaje. Pienso que me encuentro en un nivel intermedio. Ahora estoy tomando clases online para practicar el inglés. Por cierto, la web que uso para practicar inglés es la misma en la que tú enseñas. Yo te encontré hace como un mes atrás y me emocioné mucho con la idea que fueras mi maestra de inglés pero rechazaste mi solicitud por que ya tienes muchos alumnos. Bueno por ti. Me hubiera gustado mucho que fueras mi profesora de inglés, sin embargo me alegra mucho que tengas tanto éxito como profesora de inglés. En lo personal, conseguí una buena profesora con la cual compartimos muchos temas de conversaciones en común lo cual hace cada clase sea muy interesante y amena y me ayuda a esforzarme más en expresarme en ingles. Hablando de series recientemente estuve viendo Arrow y está muy interesante. Te puedo recomendar en español el programa del “El chavo del ocho” o “El chapulín colorado” Son comedias mexicanas que todo hispanohablante conocen. Buena suerte con tu aprendizaje del español y el francés.
Elias Perez Gracias por tu mensaje! Es cierto que la web es perfecto para aprender idiomas, con clases y TH-cam y blogs y más! Es especialmente útil tener un profesor o simplemente una persona que habla la idioma con fluidez, porque las conversaciones son importantes y divertidas también :) Buena suerte a ti también!!
Great tips...Tenho dois videos em Português. E similar de Espanhol e França mas não exatamente.
Porque você estudando suas idomas?
I'm trying to learn Irish, but it's pretty hard to find stuff for it. It's not a common language to learn, it's not even really spoken by everyone very often in Ireland. :)
But I also might learn Scottish.
Whichever one is more spoken is where I'll probably focus.
Irish is actually available on Duolingo! It's a free app/websource that's kinda nifty. I've just started using it myself but at least it's something?
robert Butcher That's great! It's true that those languages aren't very widely learned, probably because they come from places where the dominant language is English, so that just takes over. But they're really beautiful!
Subscribed! You're great, watched your earlier videos, great to here you came to visit us! (England). This video has been so helpful, I am trying to learn French and German, I have never learnt German before, French is my strong point, and this has helped me sosososo much! I would recommend your channel to anyone + you're really pretty! :D
+Habbo Tabble Thank you!! Good luck with French and German!
+Andrea Heckler Thank you!!
Andrea Heckler
learning a bunch of rulers won't help I can learn ever single ruler doesn't matter if I don't know vocabulary words
I'm trying to learn Japanese, and I'm probably just impatient but it's been a week and I still haven't figured out how to say a sentence, I think the speed you're supposed to speak Japanese compared to English plays a major part in that...
I haven't found a "slow down" button on the program I am currently using.
YES! Ikr? When I memorized the "Con to fisica, y tu quimica, tambien tu anatomia" part, it was like VICTORY.
Ciao, this was a great video. I relate to everything when I was just starting to learn Italian. I can communicate well and oh the relief!
mi madre es española asi que se hablar el español pero de momento estoy intentando de estudiar koreano - ¡es super dificil! no se donde empezar jajajaja hasta ahora solo se leer el "hangul" y si no casi nada...
you're such an interesting person. new subscriber 😊👍
Great advice!
Hi! I just found your videos and I love them! I learned Spanish from telenovelas a couple of years ago and I still understand quite a lot, but lately I'm really into Portuguese. This language is just so intersting to me.. so I have a question: would you recommend watching a series with or without subtitles? Each option has its ups and downs..
Thanks!
Tamar Nadir It depends on your level! If you can understand enough without the subtitles, it's better practice, but when you're watching a story it's very frustrating if you can't follow along with the plot (and somewhat unproductive if your level isn't high enough yet). In that case, I recommend using subtitles :) So far, I've always used subtitles for shows/movies but often watch vlogs and short videos without!
I´m learning english with vlogs, thanks for the tips!
I would like watch a lots of videos on TH-cam as well as I love songs they are my best ever
Theres an app lirica that teaches you the worrd to music lyrics, quizzes you and has the lyrics as the son/video plays.
thanks.. 😍
I'm learning Hawaiian since I've danced Hula for so long and I really want to know what the songs and dances are about(:
+Summer Lynn Wow! It's so rare you hear someone who is learning Hawaiian! Do you like the language? :)
I love it! And I love the culture
+Summer Lynn That's great!
I've done these things for Spanish, I can confirm that all of these are excellent tips...
Hii I'm learning French and wanna know the series you've seen to study French! and how to find. Because I've heard there is just few series of 'FUNNY' dramas in France...
im Arabic and I learned English and I want to learn French
I'm Arabic too , and considering learning french , my English isn't that good though . any tips ?!
I’m English here’s a tip , is put a little different I will show you an example Hello, how may I help you? And this is weird if there is a vowel like there is an ant in my room! But if you say something like this there is a cat in my room! See an is before a vowel, but a is before a different letters thats not a vowel. And last, some words sound the same but, mean different things and are spelled different like there and their! Good luck!
An Arab is people,Arabic is the language.
Could you put links to the things you mentioned in the description? That would be very helpful.
Great video, I have a similar method
Salut! J'apprends le français maintenant, et j'aime bien regarder les vidéos sur TH-cam. Quelques TH-camurs qui j'aime sont Cyprien, Théo Gordy, DamienandJo, Sophiaetmath. :) merci pour cette vidéo, c'était intéressant à voir quelqu'un qui aime étudier les langues aussi!
Hi, Andea.
I've an issue: I'm someone who speaks American English with hardly a trace of a foreign accent, but my vocab sucks compared to that of native speakers. Because I wasn't raised in an English-speaking country, I have a vocab that's, like, totally uneducated; it's unsophisticated, it lacks refinement
Do you think conversing with native speakers would improve that? And how?
Since I live in Paris, what would you suggest? That I just walk up to American tourists and tell them verbatim what I just told you? Is that the way to go? Wouldn't that be a little awkward?
I'm pretty fluent in French and I'm a beginner in learning Korean! 😄
Ive been trying to learn japanese for four years but it hasnt been too successful so I will have to use some tricks
I'm supposed to be learning Arabic buuuuuut I kiinda sorta started learning both Japanese and Korean(I blame Anime and K-Dramas) hehe
Yeeeessss!!!!
im an arabic nd i supposed to learn english but im in love with korean so im kinda confuse @.@
imi amou
Ooooh, well, in my opinion, English and Korean are pretty different, so you can put up a mental wall between the two if you want to learn them simultaneously(At least that's what I'm doing at the moment.)
+IdkReader good tip bout the way u seem good in english nd what r u learning
imi amou
Thanks! I'm currently studying Korean and Arabic. :)
i'm learning English. I'm practicing every single day, I been improving my English listening to music, watching TV series, movies and video. but I really need someone with whom I can speak with and improve more my language, if someone wants to help me or give me some tip I will appreciate it.
Do you have any suggestions on a french series that's on Netflix?
And how's your French learning going? I know our grammar is sometimes pretty messed up haha
Extr@ series for spanish, English and other languages are good..
Bon la vidéo est postée depuis un moment mais comme personne n'a laissé de commentaires en Français je vais le faire ^^
Je suis français, j’apprends le japonais et l'anglais. Bon même si pour ce qui est de l'anglais je pense avoir déjà un bon niveau et je me contente de la partie "apprentissage non formel" dont tu parles ^^
Je suis entièrement d'accord avec le fait qu'il faille parler la langue que l'on apprend avec des natifs ou au moins des personnes qui maitrisent cette langue. Également avec le fait qu'il faille regarder des vidéos, films, etc... dans la langue que l'on apprend. Je pense même que c'est de très loin le plus important. C'est personnellement ce qui m'a permis de passer d'un niveau post-scolaire en anglais (médiocre) à un niveau suffisant pour comprendre la majorité de ce j'écoute et de pouvoir communiquer.
Sinon j'ai pas mal utilisé le site Lang-8 pour le japonais et le français, un site que je conseille si tu ne connais pas.
Voila je ne connais pas ton niveau de français donc bonne chance pour lire ça ;)
+Chaosmulti J'ai compris tout! J'ai besoin d'écouter beaucoup plus de la langue, mais je peux lire beaucoup mieux maintenant ^_^ Merci pour ton commentaire! Je vais chercher Lang-8.
Salutations de la Suisse et félicitations pour la jolie vidéo
When you want to start studying japanese call me for us improve our japanese together 👍
Harry Potter World this weekend with my GF who is a huge HP-geek... Never read or saw the books/films, sure Ill have fun though :)
Chris Turton I hope it was fun!
We ended up doing Magic Kingdom and Epcot instead and she got me the first two books in hardcover so I can actually know what's going on when we do do HP World. :)
Right now I'm trying to learn Korean, I'm still at the basic level so I'm kinda struggling with Hangul (the korean alphabet). It's so frustrating sometimes!
Already know talktomeinkorean and howtostudykorean?
Great Ressources!:-D
Hola! Qué buen video! Me gustan los tips que recomendaste, yo también los aplico y si que funcionan :D ...miraba en los comentarios unas de tus respuestas en español y pues lo haces muy bien! :D sigue tu también echandole ganas que sí se puede, haber cuando haces un vídeo sólo en español :D ..ah y te escribo en español para que sigas con tu practica xD hehe saludos! ^^/
Nahil Sum jaja gracias! Necesito la practica, porque he practicado mucho el francés recientemente y no quiero perder mi español! :P No sé si puedo hacer un video todo en español por el momento, pero veo muchos vloggers españoles y es alentador :D
Lol yo he ententido almost todos los sentences
i'm german and i'm learning french, english, italian, latin and portuguese :)
Steffi May Wow, that's ambitious! Good luck :D
+Andrea Heckler thank you so much!:)
I learn Spanish, but I don't have anyone to talk to in Spanish because there is no Spanish people where I live.. So I can't really practice speaking.
If anyone here speaks spanish please let me know😄
My student Ana says ' I like the video so very much but the American teenager speaks very fast and she' s quiet'
My student Denise says 'I like the video. I learn English in school. I learn English by listening to music.
I'm learning American English so can u pls give a tip to improve my English?
I'm from Brazil. I'm learning English for about 2 years.
could you plz help?
to learn Spanish and french
Im from indonesia, im asian. you're good really american in top speed love.
Ojibway (Canadian first nations language )
Je suis étudé la français! Je ne peut pas parle beacoup mais la pratique rend parfait!! Merci pour la vidéo génial!!!
Summ125 Merci, je suis heureuse que tu l'as aimé! :D
When would you say that one becomes fluent in another language? Like, my English is pretty good, but am I fluent yet? haha :D
Bien fait, fille!
im learning japanese and korean atm :D