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Chris, good morning, please. I am Vinicius Bantim, I am Brazilian and I live in South Africa. I have started studying about chunk of language or formulaic language and have found the subject very interesting. I would like to know more about the subject and also how to apply it in order to develop the fluency of the language. Please make a video on this subject. Strong hug from the land of lions.
Ok so how can we start learning language as a whole chunks, do you have any tips on how to implement this technique in real life learning. Thank you amazing video and channel btw
Very simplistic answer why the babies and children learn faster and fluent the language is very simple because they do not have a wife to support, they do not have to work every day to pay the bills so they only think when to eat ;learn, go to the bathroom and still learning without any worries in theirs minds....if you provide me 500k yearly and the top of that pay my bills and care my wife needs,,,I promise you that I’m going to spent at least 10 hours daily just learning the language....and a year I will become a native speaker believe me... Thank you Christian for your input but there is key factor that you have weight more beyond academic papers......Real Adult Life situation... Don’t get me wrong you have provided me very interesting point of views about language acquisition,,,,but adult needs to use others approaches to learn a second language,,,,,because the adult have a very complex life that you have to consider in the process of language acquisition.. Juan...
I took up learning 'like a baby' for a while, basically, I've been doing it for around 3 months and it has given 180 degrees change to my English, even I could say I've learnt more about English in these 3 months than what I learned in a year of English course taken in Australia. The approach I'm using is taking a piece of audio (easy to understand and no too long) some kind of stories and so on and then listen to it as much as I can for 7 days, I listen to it minimum an hour a day but it has there been days when I've done it for more than hours... yes the same audio for 7 days and spend as much time as you can doing this kinda boring activity... but it is the best thing I could do to improve my English both listening and speaking.
People need to start studying THE language and not ABOUT the language! There's no use of knowing what's a verb, a noun or everything like that. I learned how to speak English without have studied ANY grammar rule. The rules came AFTER the language, not the opposite.
At last! Someone with an accurate comment. How did you learn to ride a bike. 1. a teacher explained to you the fundamentals of balance or 2. you got on the bike and tried? Spot on Leonardo
And the children learning more easier than adults,because we are making jokes while a person make a mistakes with other language (unfortunately) and babies don't do that,the communication between children simply happens.
yeeees exactly ; and another point is when a kid starts to experience things in the world it's for the first time and every thing we do for the first time is kinda exciting and fascinating so we learn and memorize that more easily than things that we do for the 10th time : consider your first day of college in compare to 10th day of your first year in the college.... see ... you may remember your 1st day vividly but you don't even know a glimpse of your 10th day in the college
Christian, words are not enough to say how invaluable your insights on either learning or teaching a language are. They brighten my day and way of dealing with languages, even my own. Listening to your videos often pays off, indeed! Great job, sir.
It's completely incredible that people from across the world can make out ur pronunciations of English words with a vengeance. You're surely to gain ground on TH-cam channel. Thank you teacher.
Have you been to an English speaking country? If you have and you don't speak the language well, they'll see you as an idiot. You wouldn't be seen as an idiot if you were a child. However, we're adults. Therefore we have to learn proper English and speak it well with proper grammar, pronunciation and intonation!
I totally agree with you Christian, babies are prone to learn any language easier than adults because they do not have any fear like adults, they do not scare to make mistakes, they reflect what they hear.
Another superb video about learning a language, not only English but any language. Well done Christian for producing such amazing learning stuff. Thanks a million.
Hello Christian, I bumped into your channel recently and immediately I totally felt in love with you, with your way to teach and explain English. It's so amazing. And I can clearly understand you even without subtitles. You're great. You made my day. Thanks a lot.😊
I agree with the concept that early language learning (weather a child or adult learning a new language) is most effective is small chunks (short simple sentence/clause/phrase) without actually knowing about the parts of speech and how they relate to each other grammatically. That will come later. I can still recall my first reading book (as a child in school) from way back in an English-speaking country. First the whole book was mainly coloured (British not US spelling ! LOL) line drawings. Page 1 : This is Mister Joe. Page 2: Mister Joe builds a house. Page 3: Mister Joe has a dog called Dan. And so on, using the educational principle of scaffolding (Vygotsky). Of course, with coloured pictures to match. In those days, there were no preschool: LKG was age 5+. Took the whole year to learn all 64 pages, recognizing all the words independently, spelling most of them correctly from dictation, etc. By the time you got to the last few pages, only about one half of the page was picture; there were more sentences with the phrases and words used differently and repeatedly. No grammar at all in the whole first year. Year 2 built on Year 1 with a little bit of plural of nouns that you were expected to pick up transparently, that is, without making a conscious effort to do so. Most adults attempting to learn a new language want to learn too much too quickly. and they are afraid of making mistakes. Plus, if you throw in a traditional teacher into the mix, THAT spells (no pun intended) disaster. BTW, my first degree in Science Education (K-12) does have a minor component in language arts.
Great video Christian. It's funny I've been learning English in the last 15 years using this method. I realized it worked best for me without knowing it ever existed. I always thought I invented it myself 😅 One of the first sentences or as I call them "big words" that I taught my wife was "what am I supposed to do?" and she learned it without knowing the grammar behind it.
Good evening, dear Christian.I remember your movie- video where you explained the phrazal verbs with " up". This was gorgeous! Many thanks for your great job. Greetings from Moscow, Russia.🇷🇺
My teacher Christian,you are right. Babies are simple in learning. Please, Take care more! You belonging to the students as big as the world,you are not just for yourself! I love you and always enjoying your classes.keep going! Best regards from Iran.
Hello Christian, I'am from Brazil and just I'd wanted you that you speak perfectly to who is learning. I have followed several teacher , but you are better than all them. Just thanks! If you gave private lessons online, I would love to do it with you, because I have studied, studied... and It seems I'll never to learn...
Asking "why" is in my opinion the approach to learning everything. A couple of years ago I changed my employer. Even it was the same type of work, they had different computer programs with which a had to get familiar. So, I annoyed my coworkers during the computertraining by asking them "why" do I have to type this, or this and not something else? Most of them couldn't answer my questions, because they just did what they were told to do 😂 At the one or other way I became answers to my questions and became more quickly used to the programm, than they did before. A mechanic can put parts together in a particular way, but if he knows, why he has to put part A on part B to get part C pulled back, it will simplify his work.
Most Grown-ups have English trauma and children don't care about being perfect, so they can learn anything so fast and easy effortlessly. Thanks, Chris!
The biggest advantage children have over adults is time. It will be years from the day they start speaking to the day they can produce a statement with clear choice of words. In their first years only their parents will understand them, unless this child is taught and corrected many times.Children learn by imitation. They say the same things over and over, just like they throw a toy on the floor ten times and still have fun when you catch it. An adult learns English with a purpose and sometimes with a " deadline ".You can avoid the grammatical terms, but not guiding the learner to the correct form. Of course there is room for more or less perfection depending on their purpose for learning that language. For fun, for tourism, for shopping or for studying at a University or a job opportunity.
¡Muy buena Lección! ¿Sabes cuál fue mi mantra para empezar a aprender ingles? "I want to become fluent, I don't want to be perfect from the start". Having that in mind I studied exactly like you said: By being at peace with not being able to comprehend everything, and at the same time being exposed to the language in my everyday life, as baby would be. Even though I have a lot of areas where I can improve, I enjoyed the whole experience of learning in chunks and then analyzing the components one by one... It'll be a lifetime of learning, but an enjoyable one. 😁Great videos!
Hello Christian, c'est la première fois que je t'adresse un commentaire. J'aurais pu le faire avant, c'est vrai. Tu as fait partie des gens qui m'ont permis de me reconstruire. J'ai pu t’écouter de nombreuses fois, je te trouve super intéressant sur la méthode que tu emploies, tu l'as en toi. En plus tu as ce coté bonheur qu'on ne trouve pas partout, comme une radiation qui attire. Merci à toi pour toutes ces bonnes choses que tu transmets et merci pour ton temps et ton travail. Je continues à apprendre, peut être un jour je parlerais couramment !!
Thank you for your video. You gave us very usuful information. I am learning French in memrise. They teach us with phrases and life situations instead of single words. Gracias saludos de México excelentes tus videos
I’m a Colombia who emigrated to Australia many years ago, when I was living in Colombia I made my living upon teaching English, and that had always been my theory, one DONT need grammar to learn a lenguaje. Guess where the word cangaroo came from,, Muchas gracias por toda esa charla tan linda que nos diste ,escuche esto estamos en 1 de octubre 2020 hoy , viajo para Bolivia el año próximo que Australia habrá los vuelos a Suramérica yo me estoy preparando anímese y nos acompañas chaooo un placer William
Woow professor!! Every time You give to us a great clase about learning and experience in this items. Thanks for share. I enjoy this videos, is a great chanel. Un abrazo fuerte desde México.
Babies associate what they hear with what happens. According to a father his baby first word was : aperitif ! Why ? Because this baby has understood that the parents give him some salty biscuit and every body was happy around him. Aperitif means for him : great time and biscuit. Babies don’t understand word but they know if you are happy, sad, or angry. People are not sad or angry when they propose an aperitif.
I appreciate that i understand your english,i believe you speak slowly for letting everybody comprehension of your discussion, but i want to say for an italian or spanish and so on, is also difficult to learn english because it has differences for example between speak and talk,and then many types of future or past ,in my language that is italian,there aren't so many differences😮
Wow, Christian, You're the best. I'm agree. When you learn languages you must know, why it's needed for you. Sometimes I had a problem with words, which have more than one meaning. But then I started to understand general meaning of words. 谢谢您，老师。 (Thank you, teacher). 😁😁😁👍👍👍
Hy sir , after a long time I'm re touching your platform of English...you are an incredible teacher of English language...the reason why we are following you is your good attitude...& cordiality
Hello everyone, Hi Christian, I understand that you don't like grammar but I don't quite agree. I was raised by Spaniards, so I learned Spanish like a baby, without learning anything, just with the sounds. I was in contact with them until I was twenty years old. I spoke Spanish as well as French. But unfortunately, I stopped meeting my parents by proxy and I don't have many opportunities to speak Spanish, even though I live nearby. I understand it, but I don't have the basics because I never learned it.Therefore, I don't know either the rules of the verbs or the sequence of tenses. I miss Spanish grammar. I miss the Spanish backbone
Hi Brigitte saint-pé! I understand your opinion and I'm sure that grammar is very important in the process of learning a language. However I think that, in this video, Christian is trying to focus on someone who is learning a language in the very beginning. In this case it is better to learn full sentences instead of breaking the language in small words, like verbs or nouns. But of course I think that at some point in the process of learning, this person is going to need to study grammar. What do you think?
@@mairtonferreira1952 Hello Yes. I have learned English grammar within sentences. Currently, there are books for learning English that are not so boring as they were fifty years ago...(My Tailor is rich 🙂 ugh) I have been learning English by my own for 3 years now, therefore, I never been to school, I have learned through free online English courses. I can assure you that, right now, there are many free online English courses for learning grammar that are very fun. For this very reason , I am hooked on Christian's courses. At first, I didn't understand everything he said but I realized Christian was a cut above the rest, very genuine and cultured. His course about phrasal verbs and the cookies is delirious but, at the same time, very informative. What I meant is : no matter how you learn a language but we must learn grammar. it is the spin.
@@brigittesaint-pe2604 It's good to know about your process of learning English. I totally agree with you. Today, with the internet, everybody can learn a foreign language. I'm learning english all by myself too. Formal education didn't work for me because of the emphasis on grammar above all, and I prefer to learn in a contextualized way, according to the things that interest me (watching videos, movies and reading books). This is the reason why I agree with the perspective of Christian's videos. However I hope we could keep learning in the best way for each one of us. It was good to talk to you. Greetings from Brazil!
@@mairtonferreira1952 Hello Reading your lines, I guess you practice English very well. Both of us have been learning English by our own. It seems that it works like a charm. The only thing I miss is someone to talk to. I would like to converse with an English native speakers but I haven't find anyone to do that. ( I am looking for someone in the flesh to talk to, not on the phone) .That way, my English is a bit formal...It was great talking with you. Keep up the great work.
Christian, you really are the most realistic teacher that a found in internet. I´m graduated in Psychology and I have a goal to test a hypotesis that acquisition another language can change it a personality. But I have a think a little different of you when you say that the knowledge of adult is the most problem. I suppose that emotional issues has more impact than that. People are most tolerant to mistakes of children mistakes than adults. Adults don’t like feel shy or be intimidated (I don´t have found a word in english to define that) or feels humiliation on that point. Childrens, don´t. Generally that a lot of people around a children and interested to teach than, not to judge you. There´s some aspects about culture. If you want to a find a language partner to speak brazilian portuguese for instance you realize is that easy, because the people in this coutry have a spontaneous tendency to speak with you and to know about you. Different to English speakers that generally ignore you if you don´t speak correct (there are exceptions of course) and don´t care about you. I think that the interactions is the point to aquisition another language. Greetings from a brazilian guy 56 years old that decided to speaks fluently in English.
I am a English learner, and I noticed that many native speaker baby or children can speak a complete sentence more smoothly than me. I have learnt English many years from elementary school to university. And I can't speak in a normal pace in English, which made me very exhausted, but I am not stopping to question the potential reason. At the same time, is base the current situation, how to change the bad studying habit to help us taking right paths. (I use app to translate some part in this answer. So maybe people will think my language strange)
A very interesting video. Lately, I've been searching a method for learning a language called comprehensive input. What I could understand was this method is associated with reading and listening. The more a person reads and listens, the easier a language will be acquired. But, unfortunately I haven't found yet some tips for using it on my own in the learning process. Thank you!!. Greets from Argentina!!.
Esto es mu cierto. Mi sobrina cuando estaba aprendiendo a hablar decía "donde está tu mamá" para referirse a su mamá. Y se nos armaba un lio queriendole explicar que la forma correcta era "donde esta mi mamá"😅 al final lo dejamos así y supongo que un día de tantos lo comprendió por si sola. 🎉
I always try to give that kind of example to my friends who are learning english, if they want to learn another language it will take then the same time they took to learn their own language
I doubt that any native speaker could explain to me all my "why" about English :) Only a teacher who knows all the specifics can do that :) I need to process everything in my brain to understand and memorize if I want to know it properly but not superficially. But thank you very much Christian though, your videos re always incredibly interesting!
One year later answer from me lol. I'd say that actually nobody could do it for you. Just think how much time, care and effort your parrenst and society around you at your early years had contributed to make you fluent in your native language. We pretty sure about mechanism of learning but one thing everybody strugle with is building same attitude, motivation and curiousity babies do.
@@franzengold Babies have to be motivated to acquire their mother tongue to be able to communicate with their parents:) Kids need a few years to speak properly. What I meant is that a native speaker who is a teacher at the same time is the best opportunaty for a learner. A teacher can explain WHY they say like this or like that. I mean grammar. It differs a lot from my language.
I've studied English by myself since 2020 (I'm Brazilian) and I listen to lots of class in English and I understand almost all ones. But, my difficult is in speaking, so I thought, How do the babies learning and here I am!!!! 😊
Same here! I mostly understand everything,I'm also good at writing and reading but when I'm about to speak I feel like I have never learned English lol.
Hi, I really enjoy with yours videos, probably there was many mistakes in this commentary, but I would like to say to you Thanks Christian, finally I feel I'm moving on, with the way I learning English.
Hello Man I do like to watch yours videos because I´m learnig english alone and you show to everybody that is possible,and when I watch your videos I feel more motivated to keep learning more and more so thank a lot,because you help us all the time,good to know see ya take care Mister.
Hola Cristian soy Jose desde Benidorm España me gusta mucho tus videos y me gustaria aprender a escuchar y entender Ingles estoy en A2 en la escuela de idiomas pero me es muy dificil LISTEN. Gracias BEST WISHES
Hi Chris 3 advices in this simple class...Be curious, thing big not small and the question ¨Why?¨ Always be more interesting the life... today I´ll have a Job Interview though, subscribed.
I try to learn english about 5 years ago and i have dificult to writing but i now how to sayed and learning but some times i think that I will never be fluent i dont know why but her is brazil is commun perso people who don't be fluente. However this video is wonderful .
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This looks like a fascinating video. Thanks for sharing Christian. I’ll check it out.
I guess if the students should 'learn big', then efl teachers should 'teach big'.
I can get behind that.
Chris, good morning, please.
I am Vinicius Bantim, I am Brazilian and I live in South Africa.
I have started studying about chunk of language or formulaic language and have found the subject very interesting. I would like to know more about the subject and also how to apply it in order to develop the fluency of the language.
Please make a video on this subject.
Strong hug from the land of lions.
Ok so how can we start learning language as a whole chunks, do you have any tips on how to implement this technique in real life learning.
Thank you amazing video and channel btw
Very simplistic answer why the babies and children learn faster and fluent the language is very simple because they do not have a wife to support, they do not have to work every day to pay the bills so they only think when to eat ;learn, go to the bathroom and still learning without any worries in theirs minds....if you provide me 500k yearly and the top of that pay my bills and care my wife needs,,,I promise you that I’m going to spent at least 10 hours daily just learning the language....and a year I will become a native speaker believe me...
Thank you Christian for your input but there is key factor that you have weight more beyond academic papers......Real Adult Life situation...
Don’t get me wrong you have provided me very interesting point of views about language acquisition,,,,but adult needs to use others approaches to learn a second language,,,,,because the adult have a very complex life that you have to consider in the process of language acquisition..
Juan...
I took up learning 'like a baby' for a while, basically, I've been doing it for around 3 months and it has given 180 degrees change to my English, even I could say I've learnt more about English in these 3 months than what I learned in a year of English course taken in Australia. The approach I'm using is taking a piece of audio (easy to understand and no too long) some kind of stories and so on and then listen to it as much as I can for 7 days, I listen to it minimum an hour a day but it has there been days when I've done it for more than hours... yes the same audio for 7 days and spend as much time as you can doing this kinda boring activity... but it is the best thing I could do to improve my English both listening and speaking.
Very interesting!!
Mam still are you applying this technique in order to improve eng? If yes then how much u improved?
Mam plz reply 🙏
I will do it ❤
Christian: you're not only a teacher, but a philosopher too. Thank you for your teachings.
People need to start studying THE language and not ABOUT the language! There's no use of knowing what's a verb, a noun or everything like that. I learned how to speak English without have studied ANY grammar rule. The rules came AFTER the language, not the opposite.
At last! Someone with an accurate comment. How did you learn to ride a bike. 1. a teacher explained to you the fundamentals of balance or 2. you got on the bike and tried? Spot on Leonardo
@@englishtoolbox Thanks, man! I'm talking from my own experience with the language. That's it!
Such a underated comment
Could you explain how you did that?
Agree.
And the children learning more easier than adults,because we are making jokes while a person make a mistakes with other language (unfortunately) and babies don't do that,the communication between children simply happens.
yeeees exactly ; and another point is when a kid starts to experience things in the world it's for the first time and every thing we do for the first time is kinda exciting and fascinating so we learn and memorize that more easily than things that we do for the 10th time : consider your first day of college in compare to 10th day of your first year in the college.... see ... you may remember your 1st day vividly but you don't even know a glimpse of your 10th day in the college
_"Your advantage of knowing more stuff, of understanding the categories of nouns and verbs, is actually your huge disadvantage"._ 🤯
Thank you,Christian! You are the best teacher.I'am a old woman and I like to study English. Your way to teach is very special! Thousand thinks!
Start big, English in chunks! I loved it. The more curious we are the deeper we get. Thank you Christian
Christian, words are not enough to say how invaluable your insights on either learning or teaching a language are. They brighten my day and way of dealing with languages, even my own. Listening to your videos often pays off, indeed! Great job, sir.
It's completely incredible that people from across the world can make out ur pronunciations of English words with a vengeance. You're surely to gain ground on TH-cam channel. Thank you teacher.
Your teaching way is more likable
I wonder why you have so little subscribers? Your channel deserves much more subscribers.
Thanks, Christian for your work, you're amazing! Your approach to teaching English is unique! Thanks so much!!! Greetings from Brazil
Have you been to an English speaking country? If you have and you don't speak the language well, they'll see you as an idiot. You wouldn't be seen as an idiot if you were a child. However, we're adults. Therefore we have to learn proper English and speak it well with proper grammar, pronunciation and intonation!
@@lutchbizin6420speak for yourself.
I really enjoy listening to you. Thank you for sharing your time with us. Curious is the key word for day.
Chistian, You´re a genius teachar. Very interesting report. Thanks a lot. Regards from Argentina.
I totally agree with you Christian, babies are prone to learn any language easier than adults because they do not have any fear like adults, they do not scare to make mistakes, they reflect what they hear.
Another superb video about learning a language, not only English but any language. Well done Christian for producing such amazing learning stuff. Thanks a million.
Hello Christian, I bumped into your channel recently and immediately I totally felt in love with you, with your way to teach and explain English. It's so amazing. And I can clearly understand you even without subtitles. You're great. You made my day. Thanks a lot.😊
Chrys, PLEASE make videos with more frequency.
I am waiting for your videos for training my listening e broken each time more myths
You are really unique with your concepts. I learned more about languages and improved my English as well.
💜 comprehension always wins!!
I agree with the concept that early language learning (weather a child or adult learning a new language) is most effective is small chunks (short simple sentence/clause/phrase) without actually knowing about the parts of speech and how they relate to each other grammatically. That will come later. I can still recall my first reading book (as a child in school) from way back in an English-speaking country. First the whole book was mainly coloured (British not US spelling ! LOL) line drawings. Page 1 : This is Mister Joe. Page 2: Mister Joe builds a house. Page 3: Mister Joe has a dog called Dan. And so on, using the educational principle of scaffolding (Vygotsky). Of course, with coloured pictures to match. In those days, there were no preschool: LKG was age 5+. Took the whole year to learn all 64 pages, recognizing all the words independently, spelling most of them correctly from dictation, etc. By the time you got to the last few pages, only about one half of the page was picture; there were more sentences with the phrases and words used differently and repeatedly. No grammar at all in the whole first year. Year 2 built on Year 1 with a little bit of plural of nouns that you were expected to pick up transparently, that is, without making a conscious effort to do so.
Most adults attempting to learn a new language want to learn too much too quickly. and they are afraid of making mistakes. Plus, if you throw in a traditional teacher into the mix, THAT spells (no pun intended) disaster. BTW, my first degree in Science Education (K-12) does have a minor component in language arts.
It is all about comprehensive input, it is exciting to see it from another angle
understanding is the key here not superficial memorization
Great video Christian. It's funny I've been learning English in the last 15 years using this method. I realized it worked best for me without knowing it ever existed. I always thought I invented it myself 😅
One of the first sentences or as I call them "big words" that I taught my wife was "what am I supposed to do?" and she learned it without knowing the grammar behind it.
Me too, but without the wife part. I taught it to my mum 😂
Good evening, dear Christian.I remember your movie- video where you explained the phrazal verbs with " up".
This was gorgeous!
Many thanks for your great job.
Greetings from Moscow, Russia.🇷🇺
I think Comprehensible Input is most correct definition for the whole idea.
My teacher Christian,you are right.
Babies are simple in learning.
Please,
Take care more! You belonging to the students as big as the world,you are not just for yourself!
I love you and always enjoying your classes.keep going!
Best regards from Iran.
Hello Christian, I'am from Brazil and just I'd wanted you that you speak perfectly to who is learning. I have followed several teacher , but you are better than all them. Just thanks! If you gave private lessons online, I would love to do it with you, because I have studied, studied... and It seems I'll never to learn...
Thank you so much for your useful videos. You're the best teacher ever.
Asking "why" is in my opinion the approach to learning everything. A couple of years ago I changed my employer. Even it was the same type of work, they had different computer programs with which a had to get familiar. So, I annoyed my coworkers during the computertraining by asking them "why" do I have to type this, or this and not something else? Most of them couldn't answer my questions, because they just did what they were told to do 😂 At the one or other way I became answers to my questions and became more quickly used to the programm, than they did before. A mechanic can put parts together in a particular way, but if he knows, why he has to put part A on part B to get part C pulled back, it will simplify his work.
Finally, soemone who explains better than me those simple basics that too many people do not try to understand.
I really enjoy work my listening with yours videos. Thanks so much.
Most Grown-ups have English trauma and children don't care about being perfect, so they can learn anything so fast and easy effortlessly. Thanks, Chris!
It's called the Monitor (see Krashen)
The biggest advantage children have over adults is time. It will be years from the day they start speaking to the day they can produce a statement with clear choice of words. In their first years only their parents will understand them, unless this child is taught and corrected many times.Children learn by imitation. They say the same things over and over, just like they throw a toy on the floor ten times and still have fun when you catch it. An adult learns English with a purpose and sometimes with a " deadline ".You can avoid the grammatical terms, but not guiding the learner to the correct form. Of course there is room for more or less perfection depending on their purpose for learning that language. For fun, for tourism, for shopping or for studying at a University or a job opportunity.
i couldn t have said it better
I believe Christian has just given an essential information to learn a langage efficently. Thank you for "START BIG NOT SMALL"
This approach makes a lot of sense and is very productive. Nice listening to a research-based, engaging talk.
Thank you for your videos, i love your way of teaching English ... Muslim Abbas from Karbala, Iraq 🇮🇶🇮🇶
¡Muy buena Lección! ¿Sabes cuál fue mi mantra para empezar a aprender ingles? "I want to become fluent, I don't want to be perfect from the start". Having that in mind I studied exactly like you said: By being at peace with not being able to comprehend everything, and at the same time being exposed to the language in my everyday life, as baby would be.
Even though I have a lot of areas where I can improve, I enjoyed the whole experience of learning in chunks and then analyzing the components one by one...
It'll be a lifetime of learning, but an enjoyable one. 😁Great videos!
Always wonderful. Thank you so much. Maybe you don't know how huge is the impact that you have. God bless you and your family. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
Hello Christian, c'est la première fois que je t'adresse un commentaire. J'aurais pu le faire avant, c'est vrai. Tu as fait partie des gens qui m'ont permis de me reconstruire. J'ai pu t’écouter de nombreuses fois, je te trouve super intéressant sur la méthode que tu emploies, tu l'as en toi. En plus tu as ce coté bonheur qu'on ne trouve pas partout, comme une radiation qui attire. Merci à toi pour toutes ces bonnes choses que tu transmets et merci pour ton temps et ton travail. Je continues à apprendre, peut être un jour je parlerais couramment !!
Thank you for your video. You gave us very usuful information. I am learning French in memrise. They teach us with phrases and life situations instead of single words. Gracias saludos de México excelentes tus videos
I’m a Colombia who emigrated to Australia many years ago, when I was living in Colombia I made my living upon teaching English, and that had always been my theory, one DONT need grammar to learn a lenguaje.
Guess where the word cangaroo came from,,
Muchas gracias por toda esa charla tan linda que nos diste ,escuche esto estamos en 1 de octubre 2020 hoy , viajo para Bolivia el año próximo que Australia habrá los vuelos a Suramérica yo me estoy preparando anímese y nos acompañas chaooo un placer William
Excellent video Christian!
I like that start bigger not small!!! Thank you
Appreciate all of your talk, and it's all true, yet you didn't talk about the way that we can do it in details.
The core of all basic learning... thank you Christian
Woow professor!! Every time You give to us a great clase about learning and experience in this items. Thanks for share. I enjoy this videos, is a great chanel. Un abrazo fuerte desde México.
Thank you for so interesting view. I really enjoyed it.
You are a great teacher and man, i appreciate your style of teaching
Babies associate what they hear with what happens. According to a father his baby first word was : aperitif ! Why ? Because this baby has understood that the parents give him some salty biscuit and every body was happy around him. Aperitif means for him : great time and biscuit. Babies don’t understand word but they know if you are happy, sad, or angry. People are not sad or angry when they propose an aperitif.
I appreciate that i understand your english,i believe you speak slowly for letting everybody comprehension of your discussion, but i want to say for an italian or spanish and so on, is also difficult to learn english because it has differences for example between speak and talk,and then many types of future or past ,in my language that is italian,there aren't so many differences😮
Hi christain! I love your style of English speaking, your way of speaking is easy and understandable.
Wow, Christian, You're the best. I'm agree. When you learn languages you must know, why it's needed for you. Sometimes I had a problem with words, which have more than one meaning. But then I started to understand general meaning of words. 谢谢您，老师。 (Thank you, teacher). 😁😁😁👍👍👍
I agree*
Great listening to you, Christian. Thanks a lot.Antonio from Sevilla.
Хочу от души поблагодарить Вас! Ваши уроки понятны на слух даже начинающим обучение!
Thanks for sharing your toughts with us.
All your videos are the best and more useful thank you so much to giving us your time.
PARSA from Afghanistan
This is probably the best english-theory learning I've ever seen. Thanks Canguro! I'll burn all my studybooks! haha
It's a great tips mate,let's to learn like a baby,it's a better way to improve english or others languages.
Hy sir , after a long time I'm re touching your platform of English...you are an incredible teacher of English language...the reason why we are following you is your good attitude...& cordiality
Hello everyone, Hi Christian,
I understand that you don't like grammar but I don't quite agree. I was raised by Spaniards, so I learned Spanish like a baby, without learning anything, just with the sounds. I was in contact with them until I was twenty years old. I spoke Spanish as well as French. But unfortunately, I stopped meeting my parents by proxy and I don't have many opportunities to speak Spanish, even though I live nearby. I understand it, but I don't have the basics because I never learned it.Therefore, I don't know either the rules of the verbs or the sequence of tenses. I miss Spanish grammar. I miss the Spanish backbone
Hi Brigitte saint-pé! I understand your opinion and I'm sure that grammar is very important in the process of learning a language. However I think that, in this video, Christian is trying to focus on someone who is learning a language in the very beginning. In this case it is better to learn full sentences instead of breaking the language in small words, like verbs or nouns. But of course I think that at some point in the process of learning, this person is going to need to study grammar. What do you think?
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Hello
Yes. I have learned English grammar within sentences. Currently, there are books for learning English that are not so boring as they were fifty years ago...(My Tailor is rich 🙂 ugh)
I have been learning English by my own for 3 years now, therefore, I never been to school, I have learned through free online English courses. I can assure you that, right now, there are many free online English courses for learning grammar that are very fun. For this very reason , I am hooked on Christian's courses. At first, I didn't understand everything he said but I realized Christian was a cut above the rest, very genuine and cultured. His course about phrasal verbs and the cookies is delirious but, at the same time, very informative. What I meant is : no matter how you learn a language but we must learn grammar. it is the spin.
@@brigittesaint-pe2604 It's good to know about your process of learning English. I totally agree with you. Today, with the internet, everybody can learn a foreign language. I'm learning english all by myself too. Formal education didn't work for me because of the emphasis on grammar above all, and I prefer to learn in a contextualized way, according to the things that interest me (watching videos, movies and reading books). This is the reason why I agree with the perspective of Christian's videos. However I hope we could keep learning in the best way for each one of us. It was good to talk to you. Greetings from Brazil!
@@mairtonferreira1952
Hello
Reading your lines, I guess you practice English very well. Both of us have been learning English by our own. It seems that it works like a charm. The only thing I miss is someone to talk to. I would like to converse with an English native speakers but I haven't find anyone to do that. ( I am looking for someone in the flesh to talk to, not on the phone) .That way, my English is a bit formal...It was great talking with you. Keep up the great work.
Christian, you really are the most realistic teacher that a found in internet. I´m graduated in Psychology and I have a goal to test a hypotesis that acquisition another language can change it a personality.
But I have a think a little different of you when you say that the knowledge of adult is the most problem. I suppose that emotional issues has more impact than that. People are most tolerant to mistakes of children mistakes than adults.
Adults don’t like feel shy or be intimidated (I don´t have found a word in english to define that) or feels humiliation on that point. Childrens, don´t.
Generally that a lot of people around a children and interested to teach than, not to judge you.
There´s some aspects about culture. If you want to a find a language partner to speak brazilian portuguese for instance you realize is that easy, because the people in this coutry have a spontaneous tendency to speak with you and to know about you. Different to English speakers that generally ignore you if you don´t speak correct (there are exceptions of course) and don´t care about you.
I think that the interactions is the point to aquisition another language.
Greetings from a brazilian guy 56 years old that decided to speaks fluently in English.
Hi Chris, first of all I wanna say thanks for your amazing work, here in Brasil we have our Indian linguage, one example is TUPI.
I am a English learner, and I noticed that many native speaker baby or children can speak a complete sentence more smoothly than me. I have learnt English many years from elementary school to university. And I can't speak in a normal pace in English, which made me very exhausted, but I am not stopping to question the potential reason. At the same time, is base the current situation, how to change the bad studying habit to help us taking right paths. (I use app to translate some part in this answer. So maybe people will think my language strange)
Be curious and learn the construction, not the individual pieces. Thank you.
Could you make a video about overcome stuttering please?
"Be curios and start big not small" I will Try. Thanks for the tip!!
A very interesting video. Lately, I've been searching a method for learning a language called comprehensive input. What I could understand was this method is associated with reading and listening. The more a person reads and listens, the easier a language will be acquired. But, unfortunately I haven't found yet some tips for using it on my own in the learning process. Thank you!!. Greets from Argentina!!.
Esto es mu cierto. Mi sobrina cuando estaba aprendiendo a hablar decía "donde está tu mamá" para referirse a su mamá. Y se nos armaba un lio queriendole explicar que la forma correcta era "donde esta mi mamá"😅 al final lo dejamos así y supongo que un día de tantos lo comprendió por si sola. 🎉
Thanks from Egypt 🇪🇬🌹❤️👏
I always try to give that kind of example to my friends who are learning english, if they want to learn another language it will take then the same time they took to learn their own language
You are the greatest teacher on TH-cam.i love your video.
I doubt that any native speaker could explain to me all my "why" about English :) Only a teacher who knows all the specifics can do that :) I need to process everything in my brain to understand and memorize if I want to know it properly but not superficially.
But thank you very much Christian though, your videos re always incredibly interesting!
это относится ко всем языкам))
One year later answer from me lol.
I'd say that actually nobody could do it for you. Just think how much time, care and effort your parrenst and society around you at your early years had contributed to make you fluent in your native language. We pretty sure about mechanism of learning but one thing everybody strugle with is building same attitude, motivation and curiousity babies do.
@@franzengold Babies have to be motivated to acquire their mother tongue to be able to communicate with their parents:) Kids need a few years to speak properly.
What I meant is that a native speaker who is a teacher at the same time is the best opportunaty for a learner. A teacher can explain WHY they say like this or like that. I mean grammar. It differs a lot from my language.
¿Còmo podria hacer para ver todos los videos subidos hasta ahora, porque por lo general siempre aprecen los mismos ya vistos?
Hi, I'm from Brazil! I watch your videos and I learn everyday ! Thanks
I've studied English by myself since 2020 (I'm Brazilian) and I listen to lots of class in English and I understand almost all ones. But, my difficult is in speaking, so I thought, How do the babies learning and here I am!!!! 😊
Same here! I mostly understand everything,I'm also good at writing and reading but when I'm about to speak I feel like I have never learned English lol.
"Be curious and start big not small"
Thanks, Christian.😊
Hello Christian I enjoy your channel. Regards from Mexico
This is very important information, thank you, Christian!
Thank you, Christian!
Yes the Why question is un active to our generations of lerarning techhniques on nowdays.
The Curiosity is really important more and more
Your philosophies are incredible mate!
In my humble opinion this is the best way for beginners
I really like your well thought out, big-picture approach. Cheers!
Start big! Thanks! Great idea.
Hi, I really enjoy with yours videos, probably there was many mistakes in this commentary, but I would like to say to you Thanks Christian, finally I feel I'm moving on, with the way I learning English.
Hello Man I do like to watch yours videos because I´m learnig english alone and you show to everybody that is possible,and when I watch your videos I feel more motivated to keep learning more and more so thank a lot,because you help us all the time,good to know see ya take care Mister.
You're the best teacher on TH-cam. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. I appreciate your efforts to teach us.
Hola Cristian soy Jose desde Benidorm España me gusta mucho tus videos y me gustaria aprender a escuchar y entender
Ingles estoy en A2 en la escuela de idiomas pero me es muy dificil LISTEN. Gracias BEST WISHES
Stand master: okuyasu nijimura
Stand name: 9:35
Hi Chris 3 advices in this simple class...Be curious, thing big not small and the question ¨Why?¨ Always be more interesting the life... today I´ll have a Job Interview though, subscribed.
Thanks, teacher Cristhian. I' m learning.
I try to learn english about 5 years ago and i have dificult to writing but i now how to sayed and learning but some times i think that I will never be fluent i dont know why but her is brazil is commun perso people who don't be fluente. However this video is wonderful .
Thank you Christian
The problem is that people don't expect intelligent speech from a child but they do expect it from an adult.
Thank you so much for this advice, it really helps me to understand about to see the idiom learning more in general and deeper.
Thank you for incredible sharing ！
Thank you, Christian! You are great! 😊
Cool👍. My husband said the same, I was disagree. But, you are right👍
I not fluent but i understand almost every in your Channel is dificult to me why i use portuguese every day but i was to London alone was incredible
I always think you’re talking directly to myself ^^ Keep going those interesting videos !