HOW TO LEARN A LANGUAGE AT HOME
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2018
- Do you need to take language classes or go to the country of the language you are studying? Or perhaps, maybe, just maybe, can you learn a language at home ;)?
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In this video I'll be discussing how to learn a language at home. Aka how it's possible to learn a language by yourself. I'll be going through my method and discussing what you need to do in order to ditch class.
Whether it's teaching yourself Spanish, Chinese or even Russian. It's all possible to do, in the comfort of your own home.
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Ikenna people live ten plus years in The Netherlands and do not speak dutch because they can speak english everywhere. also the average dutch person speak about 2 to 4 languages. dutch, french, german, spanish... so it's also because people are lazy to learn the language 🤣🤣
How do I get one from Nigeria, the language I want to learn is Tagalog but I don't know how to go about it because am living in Nigeria right now .
Where is your family from?
Hello im 14 years old and want to learn danish, I did the first recording but it said Inhad to pay 120 dollars and dont have that money so have any suggestions to other language learning apps like pimsleur because i think i learned a lot from pimsleur from just one lesson
Use Duolingo or Busuu. @@mazebear1626
Then there’s Canada, where were forced to learn French for 11 years.
I’m in grade 9 and No one in my class is fluent.
Samサマンサ
Really? I’m from sask, took french immersion up until grade 9, everyone in my general school division can speak french pretty well.
Russian Waffles
Really? Guess Ontario kinda sucks in that department, but I’ve always gotten bad teachers sooooo, idk what’s going on lol
In Algeria you study French for 12 years and then you use it to study in university so yeah ...
@@karinaningninggisellewinte7742 same thing in tunisia
Same in Ireland, we are forced to learn Irish which is not useful because everyone who speaks irish also speaks english
That moment when everyone in your french class is timmy, including your french teacher
Haha omg
That made me laugh, thank you!
"Including your French teacher" 😂😂😂😂
@@ainaaziz3471 In Canada pretty much all French teachers are Timmy.
What is the meaning of "timmy" ?
Damn it little Timmy! Always ruining language classes
Divy Learns 😂😂
Divy Learns my teacher was a little timmy💀
Me in my high school Spanish class
Some people really just jack up speaking hahah
I take German in the American south... yeah
Duch ? No no No you mean *Sims*
Mimicoco Cocojr it’s dutch. And i speak sims too! Nederlanders hebben een hele andere manier van volgorde in de taal. Net zoals duits. Daarom is het lastig voor buitenlanders om de taal te leren, maar ik waardeer het heel erg dat mensen de taal willen leren!
@@wakkiblobhej2799 Ek praat afrikaans. Afrikaans is baie eenders aan Nederland so ek kan Nederlands verstaan. At least for the most part.
Nederlands is 'n baie mooi taal vir my.
Ik snap niet waarom zijn Nederlands minder goed klinkt dan zijn Frans of Spaans, hij heeft het 3 maanden gestudeerd en vervolgens 2 jaar in nl gewoond, en hij is getalenteerd, is Nederlands zo lastig? Hij twijfelt veel over woorden en grammatica tijdens het spreken in Nederlands en accent is behoorlijk sterk, ik dacht nooit dat onze taal zo lastig was, misschien heeft hij het nooit veel geoefend, aangezien iedereen hier Engels spreekt 🤔
@@r0conscious Ik heb altijd gedacht dat onze taal super lastig is. De meeste Nederlanders (vooral studenten) vinden het vreselijk om te leren. Hoewel ik mijn hele leven in Nederland woon en gewoon Nederlander ben, denken de meeste dat ik toch een buitenlander ben. Ik heb ook gemerkt dat ik niet de enige ben in alle school jaren die ik heb meegemaakt.
@@purple0rainn haha ik heb hetzelfde, veel mensen denken ook dat ik buitenlands ben, komt vooral omdat ik ben opgegroeid met mensen van verschillende afkomsten, maar mijn uitspraak is duidelijk en grammatica is prima. Ik leer nu Chinees en mijn neefje spreekt Japans, ik woon in China, dat soort talen zijn toch behoorlijk pittig moet ik zeggen, ik denk dat o.a. Chinees, Japans, Russisch en Arabisch vele malen lastiger zijn dan Nederlands. Maar ik vind het wel opmerkelijk dat ik vrijwel nooit een persoon die niet is opgegroeid in nl heb ontmoet zonder buitenlands accent, terwijl er mensen zijn die dat op de een of andere manier wel voor elkaar kunnen krijgen met die pittigere talen. Wellicht is het omdat Nederlanders fantastisch zijn in Engels waardoor nl leren lastig is.
dude , you just really hyped me up , I love ur channel ! Keep going !
Thanks for the advice man.
when you listen to the USSR anthem you gain the strength of all the fallen comrades to help you finish your set.
*Finnish*
Oops sorry
You wanna know who's stronger? MURICA!
Dude, you're such a sympathetic guy :)
I just discovered your channel a few weeks ago and have really enjoyed it so far.
Also I love the fact that you put pronounciation on such a high spot. As a german I'm used to pronouncing words as natively as possible due to learning it that way in school. I often get the impression that people from other countries (especially americans) don't even try to pronounce foreign words or phrases as in the corresponding language. It's a pleasure to see (or rather hear) you talk about the importance of that and actually doing so yourself :)
Be careful - It's actually "pronunciation", NOT "pronounciation".
It's interesting you notice this. I can't speak for all Americans everywhere but where I'm from if you try to imitate a native speaker's pronunciation too much, people will think you are being snobby (or bougie - there's a little slang for anyone learning English lol) or you feel you may risk being offensive.
For instance, I have learned French for years but if I go somewhere and order a croissant, I HAVE to say it with an American accent ("Cress-ant" or "Craw-sahnt" - always with an American "r") or else I'll be teased or people will often give you a face conveying "are you serious right now, get over yourself". It's a shame but it is simply in the culture.
I don’t think that’s true because it’s better for people to understand you when you pronounce the words correctly it’s praised
@@ApertureLolerr its in the people. Youll get this anywhere
@@hoddy1368 its more of something to not care about
Ive been tryna learn languages for 5 years now, never seemed to be making any actual progress (except in state exams but they arent day to day truths of a language) and its taken me this long to figure out where i was going wrong. It honestly made me feel so shitty and low and unmotivated. But your channel always seems to boost my motivation and always gets me pumped
So I'm German and I studied English for 8 years in school and I am going to go to the US for a year and live there. I am very interested in the language but in school we don't learn how to speak the language any more. We learn how to write applications and stuff which might be useful but if you want to speak a language fluently school isn't that helpful I think. We only learn the basic vocabulary and grammar but if you want to talk to a native speaker it gets really hard. I can understand people talking in English but speaking is a lot more complicated because you can't think about what you're going to say. But I want to improve that when I'm in America
Dein Englisch ist aber eigentlich gut. Ich bin sehr beeindruckt, dass du Englisch in der Schule so gut gelernt hast. Meiner Erfahrung nach, find ich Schulen schrecklich, Sprachen beizubringen. Meine Schule ist auch nicht was besonderes, und zwar, Ich bin persönlich der Typ, der Sprachen selbst lernt, aber das ist nur etwas persönliches. Keep it up, your english is already good enough, chill out :)
It's been two years since you've commented, how was America and how did moving here effect your English?
Hi, I'm a 15 yrs old French girl. I want to have a perfect level in English, I am already quite good but it's not perfect yet you know XD also I want to get better in Spanish because I'm truly bad at this language even though I've been studying it for about 4 years at school ^^' and finally I want to learn Korean, Japanese and Kirundi (my mother's native language) so yeah there is still a long road in front of me but as it's my dream to be able to speak these 5 languages, I'll try as hard as I can !
Lee Ann putain 5 langues bonne chance
André Vésale ça va être chaud 😂 mais merci en tout cas !
hey so hows it going ?
The fact that you use contractions is great. Keep it up.
Good English!
Wow, this is so inspiring! I speak English and I have never been to the USA (I'm Brazilian). I'm also living proof that it's totally possible to learn a new language at home. I started teaching myself English when I was a kid. I make mistakes as expected but I speak better than most of my friends who've paid for expensive English classes for years and still can't speak the language. I took Italian classes and I'm at the intermediate level. Currently, I'm teaching myself French. Good luck to all of you guys who are learning languages at home. Go for it!
If I wrote something wrong, please let me know because I'm always trying to improve. Thanks in advance. :)
I just found really interesting how you translated the expression "Prova viva" into English, btw eu sou br tb xD xD
@@taehan_ É curioso mesmo, mas os falantes nativos de inglês usam. Já tinha visto essa expressão usada assim, em inglês? E que massa que você é BR. De que cidade? :D
@@Sweet_Treat_ That was me thinking like a Brazilian. Haha
It's always good to learn something. Thanks for the note. :)
your english is pretty good
Samanta Carvalho I’m trying to improve my English output skills ‘cause I think they’re actually worse than my input ones.
Anyway text me if you desire some help with your italian (it’s my native language).
Buona fortuna😬
1. Find interesting films and music
2. Find good beginner program, work on pronunciation
3. Once you advance a bit, find a program to take u from beginner to intermediate
3. Be sure to research which apps to do!!
4. Take note on repeated phrases in the media u r watching
5. Intermediate once you no longer need subtitles
6. Once you're intermediate, talk to a tutor and practice speaking. Make some friends!
I watch cartoons in the language im trying to learn. I've been learning french for about 3 weeks now and I watch PEPPA PIG in french. The show has very basic sentence structures which is awesome for beginners. I'm watching it without subtitles because there aren't any (i'd prefer it WITH, but what can you do), but I can already understand i'd say 40% of it. I watch it all the time, and when i go to bed I listen to it until i fall asleep.
RememberRox great tip! Then Peppa pig it is!
Great tip ! Merci.
That sounds like torture.
There is ONE french/English subbed episode on youtube. Pathetic...
I like how you personality changes a bit when you speak different languages
I’m definitely little Timmy. Darn it! But this motivated me to learn Spanish. I think I’m gonna go for it.
Te deseo buena suerte
How are you doing so far
69 nice
Bonjour, je suis française et j'adore tes vidéos j'espère que tu liras ce commentaire et je pense que tu comprendras tout tu parles très bien français et les françaises adore l'accent américain en français c'est cute ! Je commenterais plus souvent tes vidéos car tu es un de mes youtubeurs préférés. Au revoir !
I actually understood some of that wow. But just the basic words but still
Omg I'm learning French with duolingo almost two months and I totally can understand!!😊😊
HAPPINESS 😍
I’m so happy I understood all of it.
alv , entendí todo (every single word) omg
I learn French in school and could never understand but now I read the whole thing and I feel very accomplished :)
I took 4 years of Spanish in High School, and I'm about to start college and continue, and even after 4 years I feel like I know so little. I've never really known how to continue at home and become more fluent (which is my ultimate goal) but this is very helpful! The fact that you know so many languages is so inspirational.
peyton t I would really recommend my book www.fluencymadeeasy.com in order to best learn how to become fluent as fast, fun and easy as possible. It would really help! Also check out my french transformation video as well :) th-cam.com/video/X8gno6Uzuo8/w-d-xo.html
Cómo te ha ido en tu aprendizaje de esta bella lengua llamada español
I’m learning German right now, and I’m so glad that the show Stranger Things has German audio because it’s very helpful and it’s a great show.
To everybody watching Netflix use "language learning with Netflix" then you don't have to take notes with words or sentences you don't understand.
Learning language netflix?
blackdeth 72904 it's a chrome extension that allows you to have subtitles in two languages when you are on the netflix webbpage.
this is definitely great advice. people often think learning the words is enough
I challenge you to learn Arabic!
damn arabic, its such a beautiful language only learning the new alphabet is hard
@@DragonSkaterrr yeah and It's a hard one as well.
there is الفصحى wich all arabic people speaks and understand but dont in their daily lives.
and there like 20 different arabic dialect used in each country.
ليس بالصعوبة التي قد تفكر بها
@@creme_egg8107 I mean I hope it is for you. cuz I am a native arabic speaker anyway xD I can speak all kinds of arabic dialects as well as English French and some german
Arbic arbic taktakbklawa
Dign this channel!❤️🙌🏽 whenever I feel like giving up...I’ll most likely watch ur vids👍🏽 support all the way from Hawaii😊🤙🏽
Very good tips! I agree with you on every point.
It's 2:36am and I'm so worked up I can't imagine falling asleep now.thank you so much for sharing your techniques
I want to learn French
Good luck! French is my main language and I still suck at it xD (not at speaking tho obv)
Im french and if you want I can help you for your learning my english is not perfect Im sorry
pop-up ASMR i really want to learn french too
Chanèle ROUSSEAU I’m trying to learn French and I’d love your help!! :)
pop-up ASMR i speak German and English and i litterily only speak Germanic languages except im learning french and spanish :D
You help me so much motivating myself! I already know two langauges and I plan to learn at least 3 more with your tips
thank you for the input! i really appreciate what you're doing on your channel!
You inspire me to be a polyglot. I really love your channel.
Greetings from Brazil 🇧🇷
When the Dutch came out of no where, impressed 😲💯. Need this vibe to learn Arabic | subscribed 💥
Love your take on approaching languages!
I agree %100 make your day nearly fully immersed in that language. For me Netflix with subtitles on helps me tremendously and turns out it's really entertaining and I learn about their culture a bit as well. And mix it up with some games, music, podcast, and youtube classes, I even tried the learn while you sleep videos, not sure if it helps though. One mistake people make is they don't focus on all areas of the language, speaking, writing, listening all matter. Great video!
I speak English, Swedish and German and understood 95% of your dutch while closing my eyes. If you spoke a bit slower, I bet it would be closer to 100%. So to conclude: FREE LANGUAGE ACQUIRED!
😂
ja man zeker weten
Oh boy i watch all the video without subs (im trying to learn engllish and im colombian) and i undertstant almost all you said , so exited :D , ty for all your advices ikeenna(ahh and i try to write this without translate too :) )
"juh parlayy..la france-ayy... that's not good for your ears" I DIED lol
the best language learning advie video i have ever watched, thank you.
Thanks so much for making this!
Really loved this!! Really useful! 🔥🙏
Omg thanks so much for telling us about Pimsleur i've never heard of it before and now it really helps me!🌸^^
very helpful video. Thanks, Ikenna.
Never been outside my country but I can understand what you're saying bec I learnt it myself. We definitely have Eng but it's just our 2nd language and we don't speak it all the time or at all esp home/school/with friends but now I use it and I find it easier express my thoughts than in my own language. Although learning a bit of Korean with my best friend before I got to be fluent def helped better my pronunciation in English. I know weird. But it's just awesome, knowing when I was in 2nd grade, I was "speaking" to myself in giberrish native English accent and when my classmate's driver saw me, I pretended I was on the phone. 😂 It's not perfect, but now, I use English grammar, phonetics, and vocabs to learn other languages. When watching videos, whatever it is about, no matter how low the volume is, just as long as I hear few english words, I'm good. I grew up monolingual but I can learn new languages by doing what I did in learning Kr/Ger/Eng for the first time and make the time frame shorter.
Omg you're so kind! 😗 I'm learning English at school (and I'm very sorry if my English is bad) and everything you said is true! I am thus going to try to learn at home so but watch your videos already helps me a lot! Thank you so much for all your advice 😙
You sir, are an inspiration. Merci.
for me listening to spanish music, watching news kinda effective coz its the real time of whats happening in the country of your target language, watching movies and telenovelas where u can hear and know their expressions and other words that they used in real life. following them on facebook ang instagram is helpful also. keep going. Buena suerte!
Thank you so much! I was worried that learning at home would not be possible since I couldn't even do it in school (I now know that was because they decided to teach the languages grammar before being able to speak it -_-). I am now going to try my luck at Mandarin.
Wow that gave me motavition to learn languages! Thank you.
Cool! I speak four languages and am actually self taught and am learning my 5th language which happens to be french at home and am starting to getting it. your advise is so right because I was there too.
cool !! what are those language ?? I am self taught for 3 languages and I am learning my 4th now at home !!
@@GalaSalv Amharic, English, Korean and Indian now am studying French too!
cool keep it up!
@@BlackDiamond548 cool !! i speak french ! maybe i could help u out !! check out my french youtube vids and we can chat on Instagram to practice your french @galasalv !!
@@GalaSalv Thanks!
@@BlackDiamond548 When you say Indian, which Indian language? There's 22 official languages in India
🔑 Great informative video. Thank you.
Love your videos
Damn I talk like little Timmy 😔 the struggle
How do you talk now?
Something that might help is learning the IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet). It structures all the sounds based on how they are created (where you place your tongue and how you make the sound). It's the script that you see in dictionaries to help with pronunciation. Learning the IPA and focusing on the sounds in your target language can be super helpful!
short haired ikenna is a strange nostalgia trip
He looks like Prince
Thank you for your advice. Hugs from Peru.
The colour of the frame throughout the video....Very vibrant
Definitely find / have a strong driving force / motivation (or multiple) for learning your target language(s), make it / them a passion, develop a big (maybe life-changing) goal (or multiple) for why you want to achieve this!
I'm learn english in my house,alone,i think possible learn in your house,thanks man.
I'm from brazil
Hey guys! Got a lot of a requests on how I learn the languages I know so I made this vid!
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- INTERMEDIATE - ADVANCED - ITalki: www.italki.com/i/BeFdEf?hl=en_us (Great website to find affordable teachers/tutors to have 1on1 talks with. I've used this site for every language I know)
Hey good video, but could you react to The voice of Holland? There are 2 really good singers Jim and Kimberly.
Maybe you could make a series of reacting to the voice in different countries. Oh and if you react to kimberly I would recommend her Earth song version
ThQ for this video. Really helpful.
Geweldige channel!!!!!! Laat een keer je boekenkast zien, ik denk die is vol taalboeken:P
I Started study french yesterday.
Yo! I’m girl french girl, I very love your video!! Your french accent is very well! Goodbye
Yo! je suis fille française fille, je très adore ton video!! Ton française accent est très bien! Au rouvoir
I want to make language learning my hobby. Language have always been something I’ve been interested in. My main list that I want to learn includes, German, Russian, Spanish, and French
I became fluent in English at home :3
GG bro same here
@@user-jh5qz7wc1r How did You do it ?
Same
How did you do it?
@@Hillary_Official_1
It was by constant exposure to the language on TH-cam/TV at a very young age. And I also spoke to a lot of English speaker through video games :P
Wow! Je kanaal is erg inspirerend. Momenteel studeer ik Russisch en ik ben Nederlandstalig opgevoed. Op mijn kanaal maak ik momenteel reactie filmpjes op Russische muziek. Mijn Russisch is niet perfect maar ik werk er dagelijks hard aan.
Thank you so much for this because I was about to only use duolingo but now I know.
You hyped me up , I'll go and learn some Spanish :))
чувак, спасибо за видео!
Even though it's something so simple, but i feel so happy and proud of myself when I'm listening to music in korean, or something, and I find that I'm understanding more words or sentences subconsciously that I didn't understand before, any one else?
And make sure you know what country's dialect you're learning too
I changed my phone's language from Eng to Spanish😁
Moiz Dossaji Beat of luck learning Spanish!
Update????
Thanks so much for this inspiring content!
I was wondering if you have any advice for learning a language with many cases, such as Russian, Serbian, etc?
I am learning Irish and have been doing it mostly through school but a lot of it outside of school too. For GCSE (I am from Northern Ireland which is in the UK so we do UK qualifications, GCSEs are done when you are 16) i got an A*, highest in my year and highest in my schools record in terms of marks. My teacher was veryyyy particular about pronunciation and i absolutely loved her. I had to mive schools to do A Levels (UK Qualification which is used for entry into University, done when you sre 18) and my Irish teachers at my new school werent very particular about the pronunciation of their students, they were more focused on their students being understood. This led to my pronunciation being completely muddled by my fellow classmates. And it was seriously frustrating cause i could hear the mistakes in their pronunciation that they just never ever got corrected on. It started to change my pronunciation
What about also changing your phone's language to the one you want to learn , I myself am on my phone 24/7.
There is not too many words that can be used for a fluent conversation with natives.
I actually tried that, more of an inconvenience than a tool
Versace When i was learning english (i am from Russia) i changed my siri to english so you can play around with basic phrases & stuff & you can learn her responses which you know shes going to say but in a different language. so you will eventually understand what you’re hearing so you’re speaking in that language gets better. I do not know if this is good for others but this was a good thing for me.
Idk Idk You’ll get used to it! Put it back to your native language & memorize almost everything you would normally ask siri in your language, then put it in French. You can do it trust me моя друг!
Idk Idk To keep motivation, think of why you want to learn French. Why do you want to? How will it benefit you? I learned English because i moved to America a while ago. Play games in French, watch movies, tv shows, write notes over & over again & read them over again until its imbedded into your brain. You’ll do it.
Your ad appearded before your video made me happy
Hey ikenna what a good chance if you can share how to learn dutch ,, btw your videos just awesome ,, is an opportunity and inspiring a lot people incl me to learn different language, 🤙🏻 keep it up !
Great video. How much home study did you do? Outside of listening how much actuslly studying. Great video once again, really helpful
makes it seem so easy
You are amazing! Okay I'm going to learn French. My Mum spoke fluent French and my Dad was Italian but I only speak English. Shameful! I tell you something. Years ago I had a friend staying with me for a few months. He was learning Chinese and he was always listening to Chinese tapes and I actually started to learn some words! I had no desire to learn the language but it was just in my face all day long! So I guess anything is possible!
Heeey you finally did it 😁
Thank you :)
Hi, thanks for this cool video. Right know I can speak four languages: Japanese and German from my parents, English and French from school and studying in Quebec. I also took Latin in school even before English but I can only translate it into German. Now I wanted to start with Korean. I am at the very beginning right now. Would you recommend the program duo lingo and if so when exactly. Thanks in advance.
Filmed 1 take, excellent
Omg the Red Choir outta nowhere hahaha. il n'y a pas de doute c'est une musique inspirante. Especially for working out hahaha, for the motherland.
A few years ago I tried to learn Russian on my own but it didn't work very well but now I'm learning Spanish and I'm hoping that i can keep at it this time
I’m trying to learn Khmai. I’m already good at pronouncing the words before trying to learn it so it was helpful.
Can u please make a video about learning Khmai
I really like you. You motivated me to learn Latin. I try it... Thanks to you
learn french is not the same than learn latin (by the way i’m belgian and 14 so... yes perhaps my english isn’t perfect) You can’t speak latin for real because nobody speak this language anymore (just some people in Vatican) so you can’t just listen to latin and learn about it. Actually we don’t even know how they were talking for real... Ànd it’s still very different when you learn english, french,... and when you learn latin... You have to get a teacher to learn Latin in my opinion :) But do it and then you are going to learn french, spanish, and some other languages easier! I think that’s a very good idea
IKENNA tu vas refaire une vidéo sur le rap français? Si oui je te conseille vald «DÉSACORDÉE»
I took Spanish for 4 years at high school. For the past 2.5 years, I've been unlearning what I've heard and relearning how people really talk and the real pronunciation. High school definitely helped with grammar and vocab but definitely hurt me in the long run when it comes to actually using the language instead of just filling out worksheets
Oh my God Dutch is so cool. I speak afrikaans and it's extraordinarily similar to Dutch. I think I'll pick up Dutch too!
Thanks mate this actually really helped cause I wanna learn Portuguese at the moment (then obliviously more in the future). So I can’t just go to Brazil and my whole family is Mexican and my friends are lazy so I can’t learn with anyone
Melina Portugal is the way to go
Try to talk back😃 ik vind dat je heel goed nederlands spreekt en je hebt veel talent ik heb respect voor je❤️ jij maakt mijn dag beter...🌸
I spoke Spanish fluently for the first 4-6 years of my life until my 1st grade teacher told my parents to not speak to me and my brother in Spanish anymore, but now that I’m in high school I take Spanish and my teacher lets the kids pronounce it how ever they want and I noticed that ever since I started taking Spanish in school my pronunciation, which was perfect has now degraded. I am. Planning on learning French and Spanish hopefully before next year so like in November or December
Your teacher was a POS. They had no right to tell your parents to not speak to you in Spanish
That dutch tho😂, nice job m8. Love ur accent
Yo Dutch sounds weird, some phrases are basically English that sound so weird
“Look for entertainment and media in that language”
Me: Daechwita 24 hour loop
XDDD
You are fuckin amazing.
Get an enceclopedia in the language. Maybe even a kids one. It can help with learning words
Yup I am Turing my phone language to Japanese so I can try to let in some of that
As an English speaker, Dutch makes me feel like I'm having a stroke.
I need to try Pimslur. I’ve been teaching myself Italian by using TH-cam and Duolingo for about 9 months. I’m building vocabulary for sure, but if I got dropped in Rome tomorrow I’d probably have the Italian communication skills of a toddler.
It is very possible. i do it alot as a hobby but i never get good at it because i lack motivation
In fact I’m really surprised that Ive understood what you said in English! That’s hilarious! Maybe that’s your accent . Now I got motivated
Tmr is the last day of my semester exam and I should be studying by this time.. lol but this is more interesting xD
yeah I think I'll be able to learn russian before we fly there too! My mother is teaching me russian so we can fly to our home country and be able to speak there.