I am just discovering this guy although he’s been around for more than 10 years ! I wonder why I did not find him earlier because I watch a lot of language-related videos. At any rate, I just wanted to say that he is arguably the most sensible and most interesting person dealing with languages! I immediately subscribed to his channel!Congratulations !
Я рад, что ты объясняешь свои идеи по глубже и ты не просто болтаешь на иностранном языке как большинство полиглотов на Ютубе. Я рад, что они любят общаться, но считаю что было бы лучше если они общались с носителями языка. Мне интересно знать как ты изучаешь русский язык. Спасибо за информацию! Может быть я могу более эффективно изучать французский язык.
Excellent video! As i was listening to the video, I realized that i was already naturally gravitating towards the method you gave for those who learn by doing. I am a big fan of Pimsleur and found that using FSI type courses and drill books, with regular speaking practice suited my learning style quite well. I wasn't consciously aware of following the pattern you described. It was just what "felt right" to me.
I have a Pimsleur course on CDs for Spanish, which I have not used for years. To keep from getting bored in language learning, I try to use many approaches. I am now using the Pimsleur approach in learning more Swahili on desktop. I can say, I am enjoying this approach so far.
It's really great with the new camera - no more florescent light bulb hum, and I bet it's going to make text on pages way clearer. (Hopefully it has macro mode?)
Olá professor, sou um estudante brasileiro e gostaria de ouvi-lo falar português em um de seus futuros vídeos. O que você acha da idéias? Parabéns pelo seu trabalho.
8 years late but if anyone is genuinely interested in this at least for latin, go look up the Academia Vivarium Novum. You will certainly get your activation there. Another option is through something like a rusticatio (or a bunch) with SALVI or if you have to be online through Telepaideia. As Dr. Arguelles says though, massive amounts of reading are going to be key. There are plenty of highly proficient speakers of Latin who you could talk with and who you can find online if you look for them. There are also some intermediate 'novels' or readers you can read if you want like Nutting's ad alpes or translations like robinson crusoe or Harry Potter. Lots of videos online you can watch on Paideia's or the collegium latinitatis' youtube channel. There is a massive amount of resources out there.
you can, but its very possible for aspects of one language to cross into the other from time to time. i was learning german and japanese at the same time and there'd be instances where i could only think of the german word when writing in japanese. however, i was able to keep them apart 98% of the time cause theyre such different languages. but if youre learning french and spanish for example, you may get more crossing over.
Pardon me for asking..but being a polyglot; how many languages can you actually say you are fluent in? I ask this because I am now in my late 70’s and am still self studying several foreign languages (European, East. And South Asian, and African)… however I can only say that I am fluent (speak, read, and write) Spanish, German and French; having also studied them in the university. I also study languages from my hundreds of books every day like you mentioned, jumping from Russian to Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Hindi, Bengali, Japanese, Chinese, Khmer, etc… but cannot attain fluency in any others.. therefore I cannot say that I am a polyglot (?)
You sure sound like a polyglot to me! The numbers question is a really hard one to answer. Please have a look at my website and see if you find my bio interesting enough to read.
When you say you recommend 5 methods of study. Do you mean all together, or is it just as efficient to do it in an order. Ex. Do you suggest you go back and forth between say Assimil, pimsleur, rocket, teach yourself, etc. in one week or Can I just do Rocket German, finish the course, then do Pimsleur, and so on..
Well, personally, I'd recommend the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus), if you hadn't already tried there, that is (if only on the basis of convenience to me personally). Of course, it's a very large university, which may not be what you have in mind.
Professor, excellent video's with excellent advice. As a mature learner of foreign languages I find the easiest way is definitely mainly audio based. In recent years I have became very proficient in German and for that I used Germanpod101 and complimented that with Rocket German and it worked well for me. My next big challenge is to learn Lithuanian which is more difficult due to the lack of learning resources. That one is going to be the more traditional method with books, perhaps TYS?
You talk about 'mechanics', which I don't believe should be the focus. I don't think it's a matter of 'learning styles'. Every polyglot (except you) tells us to FORGET GRAMMAR, simply absorb the language. As it happens with children, the brain will naturally assemble the puzzle. The method of learning that every polyglot teach: - Read/listen a lot the language - Some advice to write/rewrite texts - Some advice to use flashcards Ex.: Loki, Laoshu, Kaufmann, Ferriss, Lampariello, Mansaray.
But yet that's not how native languages are taught in the schools. Native speakers get full grammar lessons all throughout their schooling, and whenever we hear someone using bad grammar it sounds awful and they tend to be immediately judged for it. I think what has happened these days, and the reason why all the learning materials are more 'watered down', is because immersion style has become very popular, and focus on common conversation, most specifically tourist conversation, has been 'chosen' for us as the 'best' method, and it's understood that "tourists will sometimes sound funny" and no one judges them for it. The problem with that approach, is that depending on the depth of the various learning materials, it will leave the new student with a lot of gaps and then they may experience conversations where the base words sound familiar, but they don't know what is actually being said. Personally, I'm of the mindset that official languages should be simplified, and ultimately certified by the governments to formalize it. Every language has unnecessary oddities and 'junk', that only serves to make the language hard for no real benefit. Unfortunately, so many people are obsessed with tradition that it makes that unlikely to happen.
First and foremost, you always post great information in your videos. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. Secondly, I have tried to find your comments about Pimsleur but have been unable to. Have you used their products and, if so, what do you think? If not I would be willing to hear other people's comments as well.
There is not an objectively fixed limit. If this is something you really want to do and you can organize your life to allow it, you can do far more than is generally supposed, however.
Dear Dr Arguelles Good Morning Sir I was searching Internet for self study language courses and I chanced upon Parlons series published by L'harmattan. They are a language lovers delight. They publish materials on several lesser studied language like Mandika Quechua Sinhala Uzbek etc. I hope you have the whole collection of parlons. Could you please tell me if there are other publishers who publish on lesser studied languages but for English speakers? I am learning French so that I could use these courses and assimil courses specifically so that I can use L'Occitan sans peine and L'Russe sans peine 1971 édition. Could you please suggest me any good comprehensive book to learn French my focus being on reading classical works and these assimil and Parlons Coursebooks with French as base language?Though assimil publishes in English also the French ones offer great diversity like L'arménien sans peine L'alsacien and L'Corse sans peine Québécois French L'hieroglyphique l'sanskrit l'tamoul etc. Thank you for everything your videos, your advices and above all your guidance. Yours Truly Rahul Mitra
I was searching for copyright free materials over the internet and i found few methods like Hugo's Simplified, Thimm Self-Taught Series, Cortina Method (Spanish) but all of them are from the early 1900s-1930s. Any tips on how i should use them? Maybe i should stick to editions after 1950s till 1970s? I really like the old ones better for all the reasons you've said before (less blank pages, more cultural and literature content) Thank you
Dear Professor, I have recently purchased, "Russian For Beginners", by Charles Duff and Dmitri Markarov, is this a good book for learning the language?
Professor, hello. I would like to ask you if there is a limit of languages that you can know in a decent level (C1 or higher in the Common European Framework). I ask because I already know Hebrew, Russian and English in a fairly fluent level (Hebrew and Russian are my native languages) and I want to learn: German (which I am already learning), Arabic, Italian, Latin, French and perhaps Spanish (No time limit except for the Arabic).
None of this "product lines" crap, there's more than enough materials online. If you are like me and realise that there's a certain standard amount of attention you need to invest in learning a language,I suggest google Books & other online sources to learn grammar (easiest part), and than TV, radio, movies, books etc. to study a language. Keep a file, write down & repeat new words. Oh, and forums. Just ask people if you don't get something. If you are looking for a shortcut, it won't suit you.
I have some basic knowledge of greek, german and french and spanish then I feel away from it when I was a teen, now I am back takeing it seriouse, I like them all but I know I can`t learn them all, but as much as I can, I allways loved going abroad and learning how cultures and they live since I was a child, now I am thinking at 36 years old and I hope I have not left it to late to start, And every time I go to the library I feel like when I try to study that language everyone is staring at me moking me saying Ill never do it or something that is why I perfer to it online, maybe because I know I have a mild learning difficulty and maybe im just being paranoid.
Hello there. I am just figuring out how to use TH-cam again after a long hiatus. I only just now learned how to see "all comments" together regardless of the videos they are posted upon -- otherwise I would likely have missed this. I am very glad pleased to see that people find this still useful 9 years later. If you would like me to do an update of it, please post that request both on the video you like from the past, and again on my most recent one so that I am sure to see it. If you would like to see written steps, I actually enjoy making power-point type videos, but they don't seem to be as popular as my all talking ones. What to do?
@@ProfASAr Hello Prof. Alexander Arguelles. Thank you for taking the time to answer. I suggest that you combine the two modes. This format that I describe is applied in the following video: th-cam.com/video/m_0lDnW-WD0/w-d-xo.html Regarding your proposal to do updates, I would indeed really like one for the present video.
What accents do you get on the FSI course? Why aren't these good accents to model? To my understanding they are supposed to be similar to news reporter accents in the 1960s.
As far as I know, news reporter accents can sound very "inauthentic" because they're artificial affectations and don't sound as if they're from anywhere.
Just delete his comment. I'm almost certain it is an impolite inappropriate sarcastic way of telling you that in the videos you often sound so intensive as to sound nervous/out of breath. Actually it makes me a bit nervous, but I'm overjoyed to have the videos in the first place so it's rude for him to...
i have versions of Assimil, Linguaphone, Teach Yourself, Colloquial, Living Language of many languages, i'd like to study with all of them but don't know which one to begin with, could u please make a list from the first to the last (the fifth) ? thanks
Bullet Craft it doesn't matter which one you pick first, you're eventually going to use them all anyway. it's difficult to start and maintain your motivation but once you have made a certain amount of clearly evident progress, clearly evident meaning that you see yourself able to express your thoughts and feelings and thus being able to talk to people in that particular language, your motivation will most certainly persist. this process may very well take a few months, (it depends on the language), but it's worth the effort, so don't let your motivation fade away without taking advantage of it.
Speaking of different learning styles you may wish to add some diversity into these sort of "talking head" videos that you make. This is the worst one I have seen of yours because you are way too close to the camera, and one soon gets eyesore staring into your face, with the added discomfort that the video is terribly framed in that you have a vertical line going straight through the top of your head to the bottom and another vertical line going straight through your head starting below one ear.
I am just discovering this guy although he’s been around for more than 10 years ! I wonder why I did not find him earlier because I watch a lot of language-related videos. At any rate, I just wanted to say that he is arguably the most sensible and most interesting person dealing with languages! I immediately subscribed to his channel!Congratulations !
Thank you so much for the kind words of appreciation! I hope to provide more and more such content going forward.
Nice video Professor.
Thanks for commenting.
I know you don't read these or reply, but thank you Alexander. You are helping me realise my dreams of becoming a hyperpolyglot like no other.
You are very welcome. I am answering VERY belatedly now that I have reactivated my channel, and will do so promptly on my current videos.
This is the most helpful video I have found on TH-cam, Thank you
Thank you so much!
such a great speaker. not a single malformed sentence.
Thank you!
Я рад, что ты объясняешь свои идеи по глубже и ты не просто болтаешь на иностранном языке как большинство полиглотов на Ютубе. Я рад, что они любят общаться, но считаю что было бы лучше если они общались с носителями языка. Мне интересно знать как ты изучаешь русский язык. Спасибо за информацию! Может быть я могу более эффективно изучать французский язык.
Большое спасибо!
Thanks Professor Alexander, I'm on my way to beginning to learn French and Portuguese.
Best of luck!
3:57 best tip EVER! (about reviewing vs new material)
Glad it was helpful!
Excellent video! As i was listening to the video, I realized that i was already naturally gravitating towards the method you gave for those who learn by doing. I am a big fan of Pimsleur and found that using FSI type courses and drill books, with regular speaking practice suited my learning style quite well. I wasn't consciously aware of following the pattern you described. It was just what "felt right" to me.
I have a Pimsleur course on CDs for Spanish, which I have not used for years. To keep from getting bored in language learning, I try to use many approaches. I am now using the Pimsleur approach in learning more Swahili on desktop. I can say, I am enjoying this approach so far.
Thanks for commenting.
It's really great with the new camera - no more florescent light bulb hum, and I bet it's going to make text on pages way clearer. (Hopefully it has macro mode?)
Thanks for commenting.
Thank you again for your content-rich videos. I'm looking forward to your future offerings.
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i cant express how helpful this video has been for me. thank you so much, i really appreciate it.
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Why did I not find this before wasting 2+ years spinning my wheels? Great advice!
I am happy to have been of assistance!
Olá professor, sou um estudante brasileiro e gostaria de ouvi-lo falar português em um de seus futuros vídeos. O que você acha da idéias? Parabéns pelo seu trabalho.
Thanks for commenting.
Please also share with us your skincare routine
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I have a quick question, how does one get past an intermediate level of a dead language, such as latina or even Ænglisc?
8 years late but if anyone is genuinely interested in this at least for latin, go look up the Academia Vivarium Novum. You will certainly get your activation there. Another option is through something like a rusticatio (or a bunch) with SALVI or if you have to be online through Telepaideia. As Dr. Arguelles says though, massive amounts of reading are going to be key. There are plenty of highly proficient speakers of Latin who you could talk with and who you can find online if you look for them.
There are also some intermediate 'novels' or readers you can read if you want like Nutting's ad alpes or translations like robinson crusoe or Harry Potter. Lots of videos online you can watch on Paideia's or the collegium latinitatis' youtube channel. There is a massive amount of resources out there.
Thanks for commenting.
you can, but its very possible for aspects of one language to cross into the other from time to time. i was learning german and japanese at the same time and there'd be instances where i could only think of the german word when writing in japanese. however, i was able to keep them apart 98% of the time cause theyre such different languages. but if youre learning french and spanish for example, you may get more crossing over.
Thanks for commenting.
Helpful video.
Is that copy of سیاستنامه in the back? I recognised the logo of the publisher. It's so cool.
Yes it is, thanks for commenting.
Bonjour,
Merci pour toutes ces vidéos. J'ai beaucoup appris ces derniers jours en vous écoutant.
Auriez-vous des conseils pour la langue arabe ?
Absolument. La collection Assimil pour l'arabe est excellente, en particulier le livre avancé.
@@ProfASAr Merci beaucoup.
@@ProfASAr Y aurait-il un livre d'exercices (avec la correction) pour la grammaire arabe? Bilingue Anglais/Arabe ou Français/Arabe.
Pardon me for asking..but being a polyglot; how many languages can you actually say you are fluent in? I ask this because I am now in my late 70’s and am still self studying several foreign languages (European, East. And South Asian, and African)… however I can only say that I am fluent (speak, read, and write) Spanish, German and French; having also studied them in the university. I also study languages from my hundreds of books every day like you mentioned, jumping from Russian to Arabic, Hebrew, Greek, Hindi, Bengali, Japanese, Chinese, Khmer, etc… but cannot attain fluency in any others.. therefore I cannot say that I am a polyglot (?)
You sure sound like a polyglot to me! The numbers question is a really hard one to answer. Please have a look at my website and see if you find my bio interesting enough to read.
100% true -- they are far too slow, and it becomes a major pain to use them when written resources are so much more efficient overall.
Thanks for commenting.
When you say you recommend 5 methods of study. Do you mean all together, or is it just as efficient to do it in an order. Ex. Do you suggest you go back and forth between say Assimil, pimsleur, rocket, teach yourself, etc. in one week or Can I just do Rocket German, finish the course, then do Pimsleur, and so on..
Thanks for commenting.
Well, personally, I'd recommend the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities campus), if you hadn't already tried there, that is (if only on the basis of convenience to me personally). Of course, it's a very large university, which may not be what you have in mind.
Thanks for commenting.
Professor, excellent video's with excellent advice. As a mature learner of foreign languages I find the easiest way is definitely mainly audio based. In recent years I have became very proficient in German and for that I used Germanpod101 and complimented that with Rocket German and it worked well for me.
My next big challenge is to learn Lithuanian which is more difficult due to the lack of learning resources. That one is going to be the more traditional method with books, perhaps TYS?
how did you use german pod exactly,i am quite new there, und kann mich nicht so gut zurechtfinden!
Thanks for commenting.
I am happy to watch it.
Thanks for commenting.
You talk about 'mechanics', which I don't believe should be the focus. I don't think it's a matter of 'learning styles'. Every polyglot (except you) tells us to FORGET GRAMMAR, simply absorb the language. As it happens with children, the brain will naturally assemble the puzzle.
The method of learning that every polyglot teach:
- Read/listen a lot the language
- Some advice to write/rewrite texts
- Some advice to use flashcards
Ex.: Loki, Laoshu, Kaufmann, Ferriss, Lampariello, Mansaray.
But yet that's not how native languages are taught in the schools. Native speakers get full grammar lessons all throughout their schooling, and whenever we hear someone using bad grammar it sounds awful and they tend to be immediately judged for it.
I think what has happened these days, and the reason why all the learning materials are more 'watered down', is because immersion style has become very popular, and focus on common conversation, most specifically tourist conversation, has been 'chosen' for us as the 'best' method, and it's understood that "tourists will sometimes sound funny" and no one judges them for it.
The problem with that approach, is that depending on the depth of the various learning materials, it will leave the new student with a lot of gaps and then they may experience conversations where the base words sound familiar, but they don't know what is actually being said.
Personally, I'm of the mindset that official languages should be simplified, and ultimately certified by the governments to formalize it. Every language has unnecessary oddities and 'junk', that only serves to make the language hard for no real benefit. Unfortunately, so many people are obsessed with tradition that it makes that unlikely to happen.
absorb through context
@@lebong4606 How? Please elaborate!
Thanks. :)
Thanks for commenting.
First and foremost, you always post great information in your videos. Thanks for taking the time to share your knowledge with us. Secondly, I have tried to find your comments about Pimsleur but have been unable to. Have you used their products and, if so, what do you think? If not I would be willing to hear other people's comments as well.
Thanks for commenting.
Thanks for the video, can't wait for the next one :)
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Can you learn two languages at the same time?
Hard but not impossible
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Hi Dr. Alexander. Would you say there is a maximum number of languages that one can study/learn simultaneously?
There is not an objectively fixed limit. If this is something you really want to do and you can organize your life to allow it, you can do far more than is generally supposed, however.
asmr voice honestly ik that has nothing to do with the content
Great advice AND asmr; the perfect blend.
Thank you!
Dear Dr Arguelles Good Morning Sir I was searching Internet for self study language courses and I chanced upon Parlons series published by L'harmattan. They are a language lovers delight. They publish materials on several lesser studied language like Mandika Quechua Sinhala Uzbek etc. I hope you have the whole collection of parlons. Could you please tell me if there are other publishers who publish on lesser studied languages but for English speakers? I am learning French so that I could use these courses and assimil courses specifically so that I can use L'Occitan sans peine and L'Russe sans peine 1971 édition. Could you please suggest me any good comprehensive book to learn French my focus being on reading classical works and these assimil and Parlons Coursebooks with French as base language?Though assimil publishes in English also the French ones offer great diversity like L'arménien sans peine L'alsacien and L'Corse sans peine Québécois French L'hieroglyphique l'sanskrit l'tamoul etc. Thank you for everything your videos, your advices and above all
your guidance. Yours Truly Rahul Mitra
Dunwoody Press existed precisely to publish books for lesser studied languages. Please have a look at their catalog.
What are your thoughts on learning materials such as Rosetta Stone(sp)?
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Professor U r soo COOL!!!
i would like meet u one day:(
May Allah be with u
Just use the word 'God' idiot. Do not bring up your gay god every time.
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I was searching for copyright free materials over the internet and i found few methods like Hugo's Simplified, Thimm Self-Taught Series, Cortina Method (Spanish) but all of them are from the early 1900s-1930s. Any tips on how i should use them? Maybe i should stick to editions after 1950s till 1970s? I really like the old ones better for all the reasons you've said before (less blank pages, more cultural and literature content) Thank you
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Thank you, learned a great deal!
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Thank you.
You're welcome!
Dear Professor,
I have recently purchased, "Russian For Beginners", by Charles Duff and Dmitri Markarov, is this a good book for learning the language?
Thanks for commenting.
Maybe I should learn german and slovake, and italian, get used to them in order to learn romance, germanic and slovakian language?
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Professor, hello.
I would like to ask you if there is a limit of languages that you can know in a decent level (C1 or higher in the Common European Framework).
I ask because I already know Hebrew, Russian and English in a fairly fluent level (Hebrew and Russian are my native languages) and I want to learn: German (which I am already learning), Arabic, Italian, Latin, French and perhaps Spanish (No time limit except for the Arabic).
Thanks for commenting.
None of this "product lines" crap, there's more than enough materials online.
If you are like me and realise that there's a certain standard amount of attention you need to invest in learning a language,I suggest google Books & other online sources to learn grammar (easiest part), and than TV, radio, movies, books etc. to study a language. Keep a file, write down & repeat new words. Oh, and forums. Just ask people if you don't get something.
If you are looking for a shortcut, it won't suit you.
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the prof could easily have been a male model
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prof, what about hebrew?
engraver52 יברית לא ספה קש
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I love persian ,arabic,hebrew ,turkish hindi ,russian,french ,portuguese english,spanish language
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Nice
Thank you.
What’s your favorite material?
Assimil. He loves "Linguaphone" also.
Thanks for answering for me!
I have some basic knowledge of greek, german and french and spanish then I feel away from it when I was a teen, now I am back takeing it seriouse, I like them all but I know I can`t learn them all, but as much as I can, I allways loved going abroad and learning how cultures and they live since I was a child, now I am thinking at 36 years old and I hope I have not left it to late to start, And every time I go to the library I feel like when I try to study that language everyone is staring at me moking me saying Ill never do it or something that is why I perfer to it online, maybe because I know I have a mild learning difficulty and maybe im just being paranoid.
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@jceja24 se ve que las clases no te sirvieron mucho igual.
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Could someone write a brief summary of the steps he recommends to follow ? I think many people would appreciate that. Thanks in advance.
Hello there. I am just figuring out how to use TH-cam again after a long hiatus. I only just now learned how to see "all comments" together regardless of the videos they are posted upon -- otherwise I would likely have missed this. I am very glad pleased to see that people find this still useful 9 years later. If you would like me to do an update of it, please post that request both on the video you like from the past, and again on my most recent one so that I am sure to see it. If you would like to see written steps, I actually enjoy making power-point type videos, but they don't seem to be as popular as my all talking ones. What to do?
@@ProfASAr Hello Prof. Alexander Arguelles. Thank you for taking the time to answer. I suggest that you combine the two modes. This format that I describe is applied in the following video: th-cam.com/video/m_0lDnW-WD0/w-d-xo.html
Regarding your proposal to do updates, I would indeed really like one for the present video.
@@ProfASAr Hi Alexander, I think PowerPoint can be engaging and I'm sure most of us will appreciate that. Thank you!
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What accents do you get on the FSI course? Why aren't these good accents to model? To my understanding they are supposed to be similar to news reporter accents in the 1960s.
Exactly.
As far as I know, news reporter accents can sound very "inauthentic" because they're artificial affectations and don't sound as if they're from anywhere.
Thanks for commenting.
Sensible but a bit on the boring side, God help me...
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Just delete his comment. I'm almost certain it is an impolite inappropriate sarcastic way of telling you that in the videos you often sound so intensive as to sound nervous/out of breath. Actually it makes me a bit nervous, but I'm overjoyed to have the videos in the first place so it's rude for him to...
Thanks for commenting.
i have versions of Assimil, Linguaphone, Teach Yourself, Colloquial, Living Language of many languages, i'd like to study with all of them but don't know which one to begin with, could u please make a list from the first to the last (the fifth) ? thanks
Rocco111087 Did you ever decide? I'm having the same problem right now haha
no, i never did ahaha
Bullet Craft it doesn't matter which one you pick first, you're eventually going to use them all anyway. it's difficult to start and maintain your motivation but once you have made a certain amount of clearly evident progress, clearly evident meaning that you see yourself able to express your thoughts and feelings and thus being able to talk to people in that particular language, your motivation will most certainly persist. this process may very well take a few months, (it depends on the language), but it's worth the effort, so don't let your motivation fade away without taking advantage of it.
Kevin Twardawski Thanks for your words of motivation! I'm currently learning Chinese with a teacher, and Russian by myself.
I love teach yourself books
Porquê?
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Speaking of different learning styles you may wish to add some diversity into these sort of "talking head" videos that you make. This is the worst one I have seen of yours because you are way too close to the camera, and one soon gets eyesore staring into your face, with the added discomfort that the video is terribly framed in that you have a vertical line going straight through the top of your head to the bottom and another vertical line going straight through your head starting below one ear.
Thanks for commenting.