How to Study Effectively
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ก.ค. 2024
- Reading is the killer app for learning languages, but also for learning other things. In order to study effectively we need to work on our reading skills, and that means reading a lot. We should also take advantage of audio in order to ramp up our ability to absorb information from reading. This applies to language learning and learning other subjects as well.
0:00 - The most important thing we need to do to improve our study skills.
3:29 - The power of combining reading, listening and video.
5:18 - Why the way we are taught in schools is counterproductive.
6:05 - The brain finds patterns and learns gradually.
9:14 - How to help your brain get used to the subject.
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LingQ is the best resource for me so far. Because I believe in comprehensible input with material prepared for natives. I learned English and Spanish this way, and German is beginning to sound very clear to me. The combination of reading and listening the very same material is the best for me.
I just joined LingQ. Looking forward to seeing how much I progress this year.
I'm totally addicted to reading a book while listening to the audiobook, it's helping me a lot!
Hi Steve, I totally agree with you. I'm french and I've been learning english for 9 months and I have watched all of your videos. I spoke on italky for the first time last week and my tutor (and me) was very impressed, he didn't believe that I have never spoken before. Why? Because every day I read and I listen to videos and podcast a lot, between 2 and 4 hours per day despite I have a job and a son. You're right massive input is the best way to learn a language!! Thanks for your precious advice. Bonne journée et continuer comme ça vous etes une grande source de motivation vous et lucas.cordialement
Your writing is excellent after only 9 months. This gives me hope as I’m in month 1 learning Spanish and have a son too. I pretty much read and listen during nearly all my free time.
@@jen1963 ho thanks for your comment, if you had learned french I could have helped you! My advice : listen to a lot of interesting contents, read a lot and learn vocabulary.at the beginning I struggled and I couldn't understand but now I can watch movies and tv shows without subtitles and don't worry about speaking.good luck and keep going.
@@bertrandboddi5767 I actually studied French for 7 years and studied in Paris, but there are very few French speakers in the states compared to Spanish speakers, so my French is limited to comprehension these days. Maybe I’ll come back to it again one day. Merci bien!
@@jen1963 with pleasure! Have a nice day
@@bertrandboddi5767 Bonne journee a vous aussi 😃
After studying about the language learning process from Mr. Kaufmann's videos, I'm really proud to say that I've improved a lot at speaking my fourth language!
You get to be enrolled as a polyglot when you are in the 6th or better yet 8th language. The world record holder is of 42 !
I've found extremely useful reading in my target language, but the secret is to make a habit of reading. The easiest way of achieving that "goal" is through reading every day. Start small, maybe two or three pages a day of that novel you've always wished to read. Don't throw in the towel. Finish the book. Every book finished will give you self-confidence as a reader, and without even being cognizant your vocabulary will skyrocket.
Steve, you are an inspiration.
That is my problem, i have never finished one novell, and always on the way for another one 😂
@@lilyanna3009 Just try and finish one. It feels good 🤗
You changed my life btw Im very thankful.
4:30 It's funny to see a Brazilian meme in Steve's videos hahaha
That woman is a Brazilian actress and in this image she was playing a character in a soap opera
rachei o bico
acho q foi criação do gaveta esse meme kk
Eu vejo esse meme com frequência em vários sites e redes sociais gringas
kkkkk eu tbm vi isso kkk
I came to see it. I knew that must have commentaries about it
Thank you very much Mr. Kaufman, since i discovered your channel and your book my life has changed very positively in every aspect, specially at academy and languages.
Hi Steve, I just want to say that I admire you so much, you are an inspiration, I am 45 years old, I know is not easy, at least for me, and Spanish is my native language, I decided to study a third language, I consider important for the brain, is useful and I think I can do it, but mostly because I have watched your videos. God Bless you!
I love Lingq too! Has really accelerated my language learning!
You are a remarkable person. Your practical wisdom and learning strategy videos have helped me so much over the years!
Steve, so thanks for sharing those. Your advice is saving my English learning.
always enjoying your content.. and it's a pleasure to see you again.
It is only now in my late 60s that I have really understood the nature of learning. Studying classical languages always seemed simple and I can't recall ever struggling with anything as my fellow students did. However, in other areas of learning I would experience massive frustration because I didnt experience a similar level of ease and a sense of automatic learning. Now that I understand the role of patterns instead of blaming my own inadequacies I know I just have to stick with something and the skill or learning will be assimilated.
Love your content Steve! 4 months into studying Mandarin now. Hoping to be fluent in a few years but enjoying the journey and keeping motivated. Wishing you all the best.
Wanting to start learning mandarin as my 4th language, zero experience with non-European languages. Any advice, something you wish you knew 4 months ago? 🤗 Xie Xie!
@@ditav5283 4th language!!! I'm not sure you should be taking lessons from haha I only know English! Congratulations. I suppose I'm still early into it around hsk3/4 level so not deep enough to truly provide any tips unique to Mandarin. If you can speak three other languages then the best policy would be to implement the same strategy that aided you in achieving fluency in the other languages. Good luck.
Fun fact:
My English got rather worse than better at school. I live in Germany by the way. The reason for this is all the grammar instructions and standardization of certain things. We are also expected to translate vocabulay and sentences basically word by word in tests.
Another fun fact:
One of the best education systems in the world is in Finnland. And it's apparently like "Who needs tests anyway".
Genau, in Finnland es gibt keine Prüfungen, außer für die Ausnahmeprüfungen. Ich liebe die Idee, mit wem das System da arbeitet, jedoch andere Lände werden das nicht nutzen, weil sie so altmodisch in ihren Ideen sind, dass etwas so gegen den Status Quo ist, ist nicht leicht bekommen.
Ich probiere hier etwas zu schreiben, sodass ich mein Niveau auf Deutsch prüfen kann. Ein bisschen Ironisch, ich weiss, aber was kann man tun haha
@@thetakeover51 Ich glaube nicht, dass es mit altmodisch sein oder nicht zu tun hat. In der Vergangenheit wahren Schüler mehr auf wenige Fächer spezialisiert und sie wahren in viel kleineren Klassen. Aufgrund der Modernisierung wurden die Klassen deutlich größer, es gab mehr Fächer, Schulzeit wurde verlängert, Prüfungen wurde als Standard zum Bewerten von Menschen und das neueste der großen Erweiterungen war das Einführen von Hausaufgaben.
I'm modernen Ideal vieler Länder sind Menschen zu eine Ware geworden, bei welchem man die Qualität mit dem Zeugnis überprüft, wenn man sie in einem Beruf oder Universität aufnimmt. Man hat als Mensch auch keinen Einfluss was man in der Schule lernt, obwohl wir 95% der Sachen vergessen von denen ohnehin die Meisten unnötig für das Leben sind.
Und dann wundern sich Staaten, warum das finnische Schulsystem so gut funktioniert.
I'm Brazilian and I love your videos. It's congratulations!
Been reading novels in my target language lately and my comprehension(even listening comprehension) has gone up by a lot.
The novel reading brain and the movie watching brain seem to be connected in your case !!
When you read you actually are speaking with your mind is like whispering.
Thanks for the subtitles 🙏🏼❤️
really needed to hear this today ! thank youu
To understand something effectively, we'd rather refer to many resources explaining from many points of view. Thank you for reminding me of the good point !!!
Me asombra mucho el hecho de que aún no llegues al millón , tu contenido es de lo mejor , saludos desde Guadalajara 👍👍
Thank you Steve!! 🙏🏾
Thanks, it really helps, and I have learned a lot from you.
Appreciate a lot. I agree your most points of views. I remmended you to my friends. Helps me a lot. Thx
Very useful advices uncle Steve!! Thanks ♥
Steven thanks a lot for your english class god bless you bye best wish
Steve, continue falando sobre o LINGQ o quanto o senhor desejar! Obrigado pelo conteúdo maravilhoso :D
Hi Steve, I've listened to your videos for some months now and have taken a lot of your advice. I feel that I'm making good progress in my learning of Polish. I also started on Lingq a couple weeks ago. I'm enjoying it and finding it very helpful, thanks.
I just started LingQ a few weeks ago and I'm learning Polish as well. I've been learning it for over a year and a half, but I'm just now starting to really read. I hope to get good progress soon. I feel like I've been spinning my wheels while trying to find a learning method that works well for me. I am a visual learner and love reading, so I think I am finally on the right track.
@@kerim.peardon5551 Awesome, I hope it works out for you. Why are you learning Polish?
Thanks, Steve. You're my favourite youtuber.
Have a nice day.
Yes, Steve! Thank you. I remind myself every time I go to French class that my primary goal is to learn the language, not to get a good grade. Luckily, because I am not going to grad school or anything like that the only thing I care about is LEARNING the language. I don't beat myself up about a grade at all because the end goal is far, far more important than the short term goal. It's a shame that language learners are constrained by the grading system, but I guess nothing's perfect.
Thanks for useful advice on how to learn and remember! In fact, by pausing the video, fetching some coffee and then watching the rest half an hour later, I believe I now remember more from the video than I would otherwise. It is sort of like "grazing" and returning later - which Steve talks about in the video.
I love your video and accent, and now I'm beginning to learn French.
Great advice, thank you
Thanks Steve!
This video was very helpful !
That was very useful, thank you
This was exactly what I needed to hear right now in my spanish learning journey.
suerte!
Bring up linq as much as you like. You need to promote the product that you worked hard to make. Your success with linq is all the proof we need. I am looking forward to subscribing when I'm out of school.
@Riviera Rick But wouldn't it be dishonest for Steve not to talk about when it's a huge part of his methods? Surely most of us are here to learn how Steve learns and emulate him.
Steve is a real polyglot. I'm more than happy to hear him promote his product.
Thank you so much for this
I agree. Apart from that from my experience as a mainlan chinese and now have been in hk for several years, I find that learning from the direct sources of mother language speakers would be Also important.
Steve soy principiante este video es excelente!! Gracias .Lima Peru'
Thank you Steve 🥰
Thank you sir!
Keep going you are giving us the gold 🙂
Bueno, soy aprendiente del Ingles y el poder entender lo que ha dicho sin utilizar subtitulos me hace ver que realmente estoy avanzando bastante sin darme cuenta.
thank you for sharing this
your app is most useful tool ive ever encountered to develop my passion for languages, thanks for it, ive been struglling to learn english and portuguese to a great level, its been really hard work, with linqg everything is made easier, so a SINCERE thank you, it motivated me learning romanian :)) started in january, i can listen about 15 hours a month of content in romanian, which is tremendously accelerating my learning. your videos are useful too.
Quick questions: as im planning to learn japenese next, will romanji be visible on linqg (smartphone version)? i know its available on tablet and computer, but im lazy when i learn, i use link on my phone ;)
I used to read news on Google every single day, and such method is how I've been learning new words and sentences. All websites which I like the most i use to turn the notification on, so i get news notifications about the thing I like the most like technology etc. It's a great way to learn new words, sentences etc. Even in your native language you need to read if you want to improve and increase your vocabulary :')
スティーブさん
いろんな役に立つテクニックを教えてくださって、どうもありがとうございました。
本当に助かりました。
私も生徒たちに読書と聴解は一番大切だと伝えています。
今度も新しいビデオを楽しみにしています。
宜しくお願いします。✍️🙇
Hi Steve! NEVER apologise for plugging LingQ. What you've built and your continued positive messages are AWESOME. The people who complain aren't your customers anyway. Instead you need to get BETTER at promoting LingQ and put a 5 second animated banner advert at the start of every video you make, and a longer 30 second LingQ advert showing various benefits at the end of each video. Be proud of all that you do - you're a force for good. The people who love you will only applaud you more. And the people who don't like it - well, there are plenty of other channels on TH-cam for them. Rock On!
Nice video! thanks :)
شكرا جزيلا
Obrigado Steve, o senhor é um grande professor para mim.
7:00 Agreed: What was taught yesterday may not click in for another six months. So it's kind of meaningless to test us immediately on what's in our short-term memory.
I love these kind of videos Sir, i hope you make videos in spanish.
I rarely look at the video. Mostly I use sentence mode and audio in Lingq. Video can help provide context and I have a very expressive teacher who does TPRS and makes excellent videos.
But from the point of view of English learners, I think it is better to read with audiobooks because otherwise we will read according to our pronunciation and that would make our mind learn the mispronounced word.
Thanks Steve. Happy Ramadan to all muslims.
I'm hoping for a video tour of the bookshelf behind you.
Thanks
Hello Steve. I think that although people shouldn't get hung up or frustrated about test results, a learner shouldn't be averse to tests or learning assessment in general. In fact, one should seek out every opportunity to be tested (self-assessment specially). And allow oneself to make mistakes- lots of mistakes.
Thank
You are great
I have a question ,i'm learning english and i wanna know ,how i must learn vocabulary , to learn with list of words , verbs ,phrasal verbs or all that learn listening and reading? Sorry my englis is not very well😋
Until I find a good book for Russian, i like reading Russian tweets from multiple accounts. I learn a lot of new words and test how much I’m able to understand and apply from what I know
I like Lingo Mastery’s “Russian Short Stories for Beginners” books (they also have Intermediate versions) because the stories are short enough to not be overwhelming and the subject matter is interesting, in my opinion. If you can get the audio books, they come with a PDF you can read along with while listening too.
I like Lingq, I want to use it but its a little complicated to get going on the app.
Break the path to your global goal in terms of learning something into small segments and go through them one by one. The elephant will only be eaten in pieces.
A constant sense of even a small, but progress, moving forward is very important in order not to lose motivation over a long learning distance.
Steve, yo are absolutly right!¡¡¡
Esta informacion vale millones… 💕
Es lo mismo que iba a comentar jajaja
Cierto !
Hi i have been study english on my own for 5 years i can communicate perfectly but some times i hesitate in conversation what can i do to eradicate the hesitation
Hey steve, you might have made a video on this. Can you point me to it? I am having trouble understand other languages but can learn to speak near fluent. Whats my issue?
To answer my own question. You have to listen, practice watching movies with subtitles and learning commonly used words. I now understand both Russian and Spanish fairly well
Steve Kaufmann, I have a question. Should I speak a language at a slow to medium pace?
There's a phrase I learned as a kid in karate lessons, "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast." Go at the pace you need to become smooth, then the speed will come later.
this was #1, what is the name of the other three??
What should I do if I don't understand what is written? Some English sentences that I don't understand for example, put it into a notebook and below it put the translation is a good way?
I started to read and find that I understand quite a bit. However I still find it hard to speak as well as I read. When reading I can guess the word or infer from context which I am not able to do when speaking. My parents spent their lifetime reading newspaper everyday. But they never spoke as well as a newscaster or attained the ability to write a news report. They finished up to elementary school only btw. So I really don’t understand why reading is so importantly. For me, I recall I needed to read, and also write and also speak and also listen to really bring it to the next level. I needed to be tested, memorize interesting phrases etc etc also. Activities like debate and all helps. So I am skeptical and wonder if I can really give up all other aspects of language like listening, writing, speaking and just focus 100% on reading.
Reading isn't the only thing you should do, it's just the foundation of everything else. Steve advocates for comprehensible input, which includes listening/watching activities, as well as reading. It's just that reading is faster than listening/watching because everyone can read more words than a person can speak in the same amount of time. (Significantly more. Maybe twice as many?) But for people with learning disabilities or people who are just wired to learn better aurally than visually, listening/watching is a perfectly valid method for comprehensible input.
If you understand what you read really well, you should pick up listening to the language very quickly. And once you can understand what you hear, then you can talk to people successfully. Steve said in an older video that you can get by with a limited speaking vocabulary if you can understand what's being said to you really well. A lot of people have horror stories of speaking really well because they learned to in school, but being completely unable to understand a native speaker when spoken to. But a native speaker can understand a foreigner who speaks with bad grammar most of the time (provided the accent is not too thick; good pronunciation is a better skill to have than good grammar). So it's better to have good listening comprehension first before speaking. (A study in Thailand actually found that students who just listened to compelling stories acted out by the teacher ended up speaking better Thai with less accent when they started speaking later than the people who tried to speak immediately--and apparently got their bad pronunciations and grammar stuck in their heads.)
Also, your parents sound like they did a good job of learning the language, especially as they had very little formal education. Most native speakers can't speak as well as a newscaster or write a news report--especially if they have had very little formal education. I have a cousin who didn't finish school and her written and spoken English is terrible and she probably can't read and understand a typical newspaper. So your parents were probably ahead of natives with a comparable level of education. And think about all the things they learned by reading the newspaper. Even if their spoken language was never great, they were able to self-educate in many subjects just by reading.
Hallo Steve Am learning German language and l sat for exam and I didn't like the grade and it has discourse me alot
Hey How are you guys doing I've been learning English by myself and I have been study this language for around 4 months And I know that learn foreign language is hard but I do not want to give up and I'm practice with my friends everyday that's good I've been learning slangs and different stuff anyways so let me go to the point why when I missed up with something I push my self so hard and When I fail in something I disappointed my self 🤔🤔🤔 The human braid is incredible.
If you guys know any tips to get better at my pronuciation let me know please I will love you for the rest of my life.
Also you guys can correct me please correct me please.
Be safe,wear maks
This to shall pass
Hello. I'm not sure how to get better at pronounciation but i will be happy to correct some of the mistakes you have made.
Hey. How are you guys doing I've been learning English by myself and I have been (studying) this language for around 4 months (now.) I know that (learning) (a) foreign language is hard but I do not want to give up(*1), I practice with my friends everyday, so I've been learning slang(*2) and (a lot of) different stuff. Anyway let me get(*3) to the point, When I (mess) up something I push myself so hard(*4) and when I fail in something I disappoint myself. 🤔🤔🤔
(However)(*5) The human (brain) is incredible.
If you guys know any tips to get better at my pronuciation (would you please) let me know. I will love you for the rest of my life.
*1 I do not want to give up is ok but i think saying I will not give up is more natural.
*2 You do not need the s on the end of slang
*3 Get not go
*4 I not really sure about what you mean here but to push yourself means to try your best, challenge yourself.
If you are meaning that when you fail you are hard on yourself or upset about yourself, then you should say (When i mess up something i am hard/very hard on myself) or something like (When i mess up something i get angry at myself. )
*5 however makes the last sentence seem positive. Seperates the negative sentences from the last positive one.
For 4 months learning English, your English is very good. Even without me correcting the mistakes I could understand the majority of the things you said. I am very impressed. Keep up the good work!
@@user-ic9pl5uo4q thank you ❤
I have read (and finished) about 10 000 books in several languagues in my life. Is it a lot or not? Im 35.
A lot. I am 37 and I can not remember me finishing any book. Fortunately i do speak 3 languages. Listening helps me a lot
I'm learning Spanish. And I'd have to say the hardest part was just getting myself to speak the damn language. I eventually did it. But just removing the.. speak English thought in my head was the hardest part. No one cares. Or they will really enjoy it. Speak people. As soon as possible
I love LingQ too, and joined about a month ago. I’m a raw beginner in Latin and where “comprehensible input” is not possible no matter how basic the material is. Even Duolingo is lacking where it comes to Latin. What do people do when they really don’t know anything at all when they start a language?
Listen to kids shows like peppa pig even tho u might not even understand that just like a kid doesn’t he picks it up. Ur main source of learning will be learning the most common words as u learn more of them and keep hearing them ur comprehension will get better. The more words u know and can hear them etc the better.
If you’re learning Latin, I would strongly recommend Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata by Hans Ørberg. It is designed to give you a complete understanding of Latin grammar through comprehensible input, and is suitable for total beginners.
@@kenny5577 they have it in Latin? That would be wonderful! Part of my struggle is that typing “Latin” into a search engine comes up with Latin America... which, while that is next on my interest list, it is the 2000 year old Latin I’m hunting! There are no native speakers! LinQ will be wonderful if I can get just a little further in the comprehension quest. There are some good resources but not at my level.
@@ronanzaletel6517 ah! Thankyou! I’ll go look for this right now!
After looking it up I realized I have spent time on this in LingQ. I’m thinking LinQ really is going to be my best bet, it’ll just be slow gathering momentum. Anyway, thanks!
@@rainastor4789 idk if they have it in Latin tbh. May I ask why are you even learning a dead language?
Holden Caulfield (Catcher In The Rye) would not have hated school if they had been teaching him to learn instead of to pass tests. In a way, Steve reminds me of a Caulfield who figured it all out years later.
2:14
buenas tarde
I am way better at reading in my target language than I am at hearing it. I have a hard time hearing with my native language so it's frustrating but I'm trying to get used to hearing it.
Does reading while listening help?
I don't have a hearing problem in my native language, but I struggle with listening to Polish. I know everyone says listen to podcasts repeatedly, but I can't understand enough to know what's being talked about and that drives me crazy. I'm such a visual learner that even when I am speaking, if I am struggling for a word, I will visualize it and then "read" it.
Try audiobooks!
9:44
4:32 Nazaré Tedesco.
4:30 Brazilian memes 😂🇧🇷
Caramba Nazaré Tedesco na história.
When he said dhayigitha... I was like mahn it's korean👀👀👀 even though i don't know much korean i jz identified the word coz in mpst of the kdramas i have heard it 😁
4:30 the fact that this meme it's brazilian is so mindblowing hahahahah anyways
Nazaré there kkkk
Laypeople ALERT ! Please be aware that Steve is a linguistic genius and a legend. What works for him may not necessarily work for us commoners who are not superpolyglots. we are still left to our own means. Steve professes to be big cough man but no one has ever seen him cough What is the story?
so funny to see the Brazilian meme in 4:32
Plis someone ask me😊
Wow, a Brazilian Meme went International. Now I'm impressed...
Мир вам.
I've learnt SO MUCH about learning in general from learning languages! One thing that has been confirmed over and over again has been how useless and inefficient the school system is!
Yeah, we're too cool for school.
❤🫶👍🇧🇷
Thanks