You deserve more subscribers! This is a very useful and comprehensive guide to start a new language❤❤As a Chinese native speaker I must say that learning English really broadened my horizons to the world, and I think it’s a good way to eliminate stereotypes, ignorance and even prejudices due to different cultural backgrounds. Now I am learning Japanese and Spanish, feeling kinda excited to study them when I wake up Lmao🤣
谢谢你的鼓励啊！ You're right. I think even if translation technologies become better, learning a new language will always be useful to better understand others.
Changing the word for an image was a game changer for me. Before then, I would try to translate in my head. When I changed to images, the translating stops and I process things much quicker.
I've been trying to learn my third language, and since when I learned my first two with a mushy baby brain, I have no idea how to learn a language and this video was finally able to help. Thank you so much!
10:11 How do you use the anki deck to learn vocabulary through context and storytelling? I love Duo stories, but they don’t use the new vocabulary words in the practice runs. Thank you! ❤
I would suggest reading stories, articles or transcripts in the language that you are learning. Then, every time that you encounter a word that you don't know, copy-paste the sentence into your Anki deck, replace the word with a blank space and put an image above it. For me, since I have a language learning partner that I regularly talk to, before putting the words into my Anki Deck, I store them into a note document. I then ask that person what does the word exactly mean and in what other context can it be used. Hope this helps! :)
This was an amazing guide, you really deserve more sub. By the way, in addition to this, I would still use Duolingo every now or then for just a bit of additional vocabulary. (Maybe bc I am addicted to Duolingo lol)
Thank you! With Duolingo, you will make progress. However, if you took all the time that you spent on Duolingo and spent it on building an anki deck instead, I think you would make progress faster. Our main goal when learning a language is to be able to understand when someone speak and then have the other person understand when we speak. The faster you can achieve this, the less likely you're going to quit.
I have mixed feelings about this. There are some good takeaways, especially learning the most frequently used vocab and focusing comprehensible input. However, I think some of these tips aren’t very helpful. For the time it would take me to build my own Anki deck, I think my time would be better spent studying an existing deck. It may not have the audio, an image, and an example sentence, but sourcing and compiling all of those would take more time than I typically have to study. Same with the grammar-rather than making flashcards for every grammar rule, I’d rather learn the basic rules and then start exposing myself to lots of comprehensible input. If you were to follow all of this advice, you’d spent many hours making your own language resources, when there are many good ones you can use for free. Also, for steps 1 and 2, apps like Duolingo teach you the sound and pronunciation before anything else-it’s a great tool. To be fair, I strongly prefer a “lazy” approach to language learning. Rather than doing a lot of research and exercises, I’ll use something like Duolingo to get started and supplement it with podcasts, vocab flashcards, and graded readers. I think I would’ve been more open to this approach as university student, but now that I am balancing work, family, and other hobbies, I need my language study habits to be low enough effort for me to actually stick to them.
That’s a nice video Michael so I will give you an example of irony. The only word you mispronounced was “pronunciation”, which has the NUN sound in the middle rather than the NOUN sound. This is a common mistake even among native speakers so don’t feel too discouraged. Best wishes from Australia.
What is a good way to learn a Language that has very different grammar than your own language and that has a vocabulary where there are no shared words? Going from one European language to another European language is easier than going from, say, French to Navaho or Intuit. I think you answered my questions.
Learning a language with almost no words similar to your native language is more difficult. However, since it is more difficult, the feeling of accomplishment that you get when you're finally able to understand native speakers is a lot bigger. To learn a language like this, the general process is the same, it's just a lot harder. 😅
Being a portuguese native speaker, I would recommend portuguese learners to not put too much effort in learning gendered nouns. It's actually a bit hard and it changes between languages. It's very rare to find foreigners who get these right, but we can still understand and have good conversation. I'd say it really comes with practice. Just pay attention, use a lot and keep going. With time, you will just get that: "this sounds wrong" effect. It's also common to be like "a tv (question face). a? o?" and the interlocutor helps you out. This is kinda ok even between natives, specially conjugating deffective verbs. I would only study it the minimal to pass exams. I hope this comment helps people out.
I read it just after publishing this video. If I had to change any of the advice that I gave in this video in light of the information in Ultralearning I would put more emphasis on the fact that, after learning the fundamentals of the language, you should find ways to always push yourself outside of your comfort zone and also preferably do it in an active manner rather than a passive one.
For concrete verbs like "To catch" or "To eat" it is easy to find images that relate to these actions. For more abstract verbs like "To relate" or "To Impress" you probably won't be able to find an image that conveys the exact meaning of these verbs. However, the goal is not for someone else to be able to guess what verb the image represent, the goal is for you to remember the association. So just find a "Good enough" image and I guarantee you you will be able to remember the association. Hope this helps :)
You can use Gifs for verbs, since they're animated and show movement you can actually see what the person is doing and relate the verb with the action itself. Works pretty good for me
I also would like to find minimal pairs for korean. Never heard about it and trying to have contact with the language for the first time, I find it extremely confusing.
I'm currently working on a video on how to reach your learning goals. In the meantime, what you can do is separate your end-goal into 50-200 smaller goals and then plan how you will achieve each of them. This will take a lot of time, but the planning phase should take about 5-10% of the total time it will take you to achieve your end-goal. Hope this helps :) If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail.
I've been using Anki for years. Feels nice seeing someone talk about it 🙂
Finally, a video that answers my lenguage learning questions, thank you
My pleasure! Glad I could help :)
You deserve more subscribers! This is a very useful and comprehensive guide to start a new language❤❤As a Chinese native speaker I must say that learning English really broadened my horizons to the world, and I think it’s a good way to eliminate stereotypes, ignorance and even prejudices due to different cultural backgrounds. Now I am learning Japanese and Spanish, feeling kinda excited to study them when I wake up Lmao🤣
谢谢你的鼓励啊！
You're right. I think even if translation technologies become better, learning a new language will always be useful to better understand others.
Changing the word for an image was a game changer for me. Before then, I would try to translate in my head. When I changed to images, the translating stops and I process things much quicker.
How don't you translate words like "he", "my", "in", "mom", "feel", "weight", "third"...?
@@putinisakiller8093 I wanna know too
@@putinisakiller8093For mom, use a picture of your mother.
Actually Drops is using images and it works. So take a look. ;)
I've been trying to learn my third language, and since when I learned my first two with a mushy baby brain, I have no idea how to learn a language and this video was finally able to help. Thank you so much!
My pleasure, I'm glad I could help :)
This is such a valuable video, thank you so much! I will definitely be saving it 😁
My pleasure! Glad I could help :)
@@MichaelSeguinTH-cam I can't believe you have less than 400 subs! I subscribed, if you keep going your channel will get big
With that kind of encouragement, I will definitely keep going! :)
Weird to see a well scripted video and edit on such a small channel. Good luck on your journey man
Thanks! I'm always trying to improve the quality even if it is just by 1% :)
no bullshit guide, very much appreciated
Thank you 🙏 I’m glad I was able to help
10:11
How do you use the anki deck to learn vocabulary through context and storytelling?
I love Duo stories, but they don’t use the new vocabulary words in the practice runs.
Thank you! ❤
I would suggest reading stories, articles or transcripts in the language that you are learning. Then, every time that you encounter a word that you don't know, copy-paste the sentence into your Anki deck, replace the word with a blank space and put an image above it.
For me, since I have a language learning partner that I regularly talk to, before putting the words into my Anki Deck, I store them into a note document. I then ask that person what does the word exactly mean and in what other context can it be used.
Hope this helps! :)
This was such a helpful video, thank you
Id subscribe twice if i could. We need more people like you in the world ❤❤ I hope you keep at it. You remind me of grade a under a or this old Tony
Comments like these motivate me to keep working hard. Thank you 😁
Sorry, but this was the best language video I ever saw
Thank you! 🙏
Top content ❤
Thanks!!
This was an amazing guide, you really deserve more sub. By the way, in addition to this, I would still use Duolingo every now or then for just a bit of additional vocabulary. (Maybe bc I am addicted to Duolingo lol)
Thank you!
With Duolingo, you will make progress. However, if you took all the time that you spent on Duolingo and spent it on building an anki deck instead, I think you would make progress faster.
Our main goal when learning a language is to be able to understand when someone speak and then have the other person understand when we speak. The faster you can achieve this, the less likely you're going to quit.
I have mixed feelings about this. There are some good takeaways, especially learning the most frequently used vocab and focusing comprehensible input. However, I think some of these tips aren’t very helpful.
For the time it would take me to build my own Anki deck, I think my time would be better spent studying an existing deck. It may not have the audio, an image, and an example sentence, but sourcing and compiling all of those would take more time than I typically have to study. Same with the grammar-rather than making flashcards for every grammar rule, I’d rather learn the basic rules and then start exposing myself to lots of comprehensible input. If you were to follow all of this advice, you’d spent many hours making your own language resources, when there are many good ones you can use for free. Also, for steps 1 and 2, apps like Duolingo teach you the sound and pronunciation before anything else-it’s a great tool.
To be fair, I strongly prefer a “lazy” approach to language learning. Rather than doing a lot of research and exercises, I’ll use something like Duolingo to get started and supplement it with podcasts, vocab flashcards, and graded readers. I think I would’ve been more open to this approach as university student, but now that I am balancing work, family, and other hobbies, I need my language study habits to be low enough effort for me to actually stick to them.
That’s a nice video Michael so I will give you an example of irony. The only word you mispronounced was “pronunciation”, which has the NUN sound in the middle rather than the NOUN sound. This is a common mistake even among native speakers so don’t feel too discouraged. Best wishes from Australia.
Thank you for the correction :)
Very good tips,t Thank you!
My pleasure :)
reason I like friends
because Iam be slowly
What is a good way to learn a Language that has very different grammar than your own language and that has a vocabulary where there are no shared words? Going from one European language to another European language is easier than going from, say, French to Navaho or Intuit.
I think you answered my questions.
Learning a language with almost no words similar to your native language is more difficult. However, since it is more difficult, the feeling of accomplishment that you get when you're finally able to understand native speakers is a lot bigger.
To learn a language like this, the general process is the same, it's just a lot harder. 😅
Try Finnish or Hungarian. :)
Being a portuguese native speaker, I would recommend portuguese learners to not put too much effort in learning gendered nouns.
It's actually a bit hard and it changes between languages.
It's very rare to find foreigners who get these right, but we can still understand and have good conversation.
I'd say it really comes with practice. Just pay attention, use a lot and keep going. With time, you will just get that: "this sounds wrong" effect.
It's also common to be like "a tv (question face). a? o?" and the interlocutor helps you out.
This is kinda ok even between natives, specially conjugating deffective verbs.
I would only study it the minimal to pass exams.
I hope this comment helps people out.
Not really but thanks ahah
This is very helpful but my native language is english but want to learn spanish
Have you ever read Ultralearning by Scott H.Young?
I read it just after publishing this video. If I had to change any of the advice that I gave in this video in light of the information in Ultralearning I would put more emphasis on the fact that, after learning the fundamentals of the language, you should find ways to always push yourself outside of your comfort zone and also preferably do it in an active manner rather than a passive one.
how on earth do you put an image down for a verb?
For concrete verbs like "To catch" or "To eat" it is easy to find images that relate to these actions. For more abstract verbs like "To relate" or "To Impress" you probably won't be able to find an image that conveys the exact meaning of these verbs.
However, the goal is not for someone else to be able to guess what verb the image represent, the goal is for you to remember the association. So just find a "Good enough" image and I guarantee you you will be able to remember the association.
Hope this helps :)
You can use Gifs for verbs, since they're animated and show movement you can actually see what the person is doing and relate the verb with the action itself. Works pretty good for me
What image is for word "a verb"? :)
The link to the 625 word list DOES NOT WORK!
fluent-forever.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/625-List-Alphabetical.pdf
Here's the link, I also changed it in the description
And I understand
Subscribed for quaity content👍
I also would like to find minimal pairs for korean.
Never heard about it and trying to have contact with the language for the first time, I find it extremely confusing.
www.reddit.com/r/Korean/comments/3o1sji/minimal_pairs_in_korean/
Here’s a good reddit post that I found for Korean Minimal pairs
how to concentrate on goals
Make a vid, thank you
I'm currently working on a video on how to reach your learning goals.
In the meantime, what you can do is separate your end-goal into 50-200 smaller goals and then plan how you will achieve each of them. This will take a lot of time, but the planning phase should take about 5-10% of the total time it will take you to achieve your end-goal.
Hope this helps :)
If you fail to plan, you're planning to fail.
Are you a native French speaker ?
Yes I am :)
Duolingo is the goat
IMO, time spent on DuoLingo could be better spent elsewhere.
Duolingo loves to translate images into words. 😆