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I’m currently just focusing on Mandarin French and Russian. Mandarin and French aren’t so knew to me so I’m very comfortable acquiring words because I’m already know the languages work. Russian is new to me and my first language that is super case based so it’s a bit of a challenge to learn those words. Since it’s case based I’m a little intimidated to know that I’ll be learning so many more words that way.
I would love to hear how you learned Ukrainian but also Russian! However, a lot of your “How you learned “X” language videos in the past, have been you just grabbing different reference material off your shelf to show us. Personally for ME, I’m much more interested in you describing your PROCESS! “When did you start? What did you do for the first 3 months? 6 months? How were you doing - how much language could you comprehend? What was the problem and got you stuck? What did you do to fix that and how long until you started noticing you understood more? What changed that made that happen? When could you speak more fluently? A year after? 2 years? And what did you do that got you there?” THATS the process I’d like to hear please 🙏🏾! Not just “this is a book classic novel about two fighting brothers and this book is outdated but useful” ….haha, paint is a picture! Thanks Steve
If you've watched his videos, you'll have heard him say that there's no one way to learning languages but he usually isay and what he did to get a hold of any language he's interested in . in whatever you're doing, just make the process an enjoyable one for you.
After years of using Anki for Japanese and going on hiatus multiple times I have finally put it aside. 6,000 known words from flash cards is more than enough to read with some basic comprehension. The best part is 1 hour of reading and listening to things I like goes by so fast compared to 20 minutes of dreadful flash cards.
There’s been a discussion going on the LingQ message boards from a guy named Peter Bormann. He says that once you get to a B1 level in a language you should go to the ultra listening and reading phase of the language acquisition by using the pomodero method. You spend 25 minutes listening and reading take a 5 minute break and do it again. You can get 8000 to 10000 words read a day. If you do 2 pomodero blocks reading and listening at the same time a day for a full year you can get to 2.5 to 3.5 million words read and 300-400 hours listened to. At this point you would be able to understand and read at high levels in the target language.
Until now, I didn’t know a video to which I could point a friend and tell them “this is what LingQ is all about”. There are just too many I could choose from. But this one is it! Not only does it emphasize how essential the learning of words is, but it also shows how LingQ supports it, even with some pretty advanced techniques (such as the advantages of sentence mode or how to use lists). Thank you Steve!
A wonderful explanation! How learners acquire words without using memorization or testing(flashcards). I'm in the "am I progressing?" phase, but I keep looking up words. I gradually learn them. More and more, I understand full sentences. It works for me, exactly as you describe in this video.
This encourages me to keep going on my vocabulary acquisition process in German. I've seen myself how the usage of lingQ in the way explained on the video, actually works. I'm looking forward to watching the coming videos!
Hello steve l'm so happy that you have aploaded a new video, l'm learning 3 lenguages english,italian, and german, you have been my inspiration that l'm still motivated about learning those lenguages, thank you so much for always be there helping those people like me who want to learn multiples lenguages, keep posting those amazing videos.
hi there Felipe, i hope you have had a good time, please i want to ask you how is the procces for learn severels languages in the same time, i am learning english but i wish to learn italian, but i am scare dont be focus and lost all the way that i have in the English, i want to ask you, to learn severels languages dont make that your brain get confused
Hello fabian, nice to meet you, all depend on what is your native language in my case my native language is spanish to me learning english was very hard at the begining but through the process l got used to it, however with italian l been feeling more confortable in just 2 months, because italian and spanish are two lenguages very similar, otherwise german have been more difficult to me to get used to due to german is a language distant from spanish, all that l do to mantain my languages learning is to practice a little of each one every day.
Following such great and successfull people will completely change our way of thinking in terms of learning the language, because we tend to be so harsh on ourselves that we should acquire it as fast as possible.
I am totally agree with you Steve: learning words is the key!... and for sure LingQ is the best tool for that ! (I really developed my knowledge and kept up the "learning pace"). I've started too Ukrainian - I love this language and I discover a culture! / I didn't start on LingQ because I have the habit to work on a "base" (Assimil...) before starting on LingQ.
Soy inglés, y me encantan mucho sus vídeos! Tendré quince años en un mes, no tengo aprendiendo español muy rápido, pero yo practico todos los dias. lo disfrusto. Tendré premium(??), dos años con LingQ en mi cumpleaños. Toma mucho tiempo escribir esto, porque no tengo acentos en mi computadora... ._.
Congrats! If you keep practising you'll speak and write like a native soon. If you don't mind I'll write some mistakes you've made. Teneré ---> Tendré ( Spanish irregular verb in future tense ) su vídeos ---> sus vídeos( 'vídeos' is plural so 'sus' must be plural too ) el idioma de español muy rápida ---> español muy rápido. The word "español" also means "the spanish language". In addition, if you use an adjective, this adjective must have the same gender and 'number'(singular/plural) of the name that it is refering to. The word "español" is masculine and singular so if you use an adjective this one should be also masculine and singular like "rápido". There are some extra mistakes but you are doing well. Keep it going!
@@luis90alex Edited the comment! Thank you! Extra mistakes probably resulted from me shying away from por and para, (That stuff is a absolute mess for people learning Spanish, assuming you're a native Spanish speaker) making the sentence a bit weirder
Me da mucho gusto ver a alguien intentar aprender español 😊 mucha suerte y sigue así. I feel so content when I see someone trying to learn Spanish 😊good luck and keep going. (I hope “content” makes sense, I didn’t know how else to translate my first sentence. “Me da gusto” is to feel something like happiness but also like being glad)
@@zamooti4505 Gracias! "Content" = un poco feliz, pero es más neutral. "Happy"= Feliz! ¡"Happy" es una mejor palabra! En contexto: "I am so *happy* right now!!!" "Life can be difficult, but I am *content."*
Thank you Steve, I listening your videos to practice my listening skill, I really appreciate all your tips and I really admire you. Greetings from Guatemala.
I was thinking this morning that I might have been doing things wrong in LingQ because i felt that i was stalling in my progress (which is at the very beginning). This video was exactly what i needed to confirm that i was doing thing just fine. I'm a French Canadian learning Korean, but i use LingQ in English instead of French. Thank you for this real informative video. Have a nice day !
Yesss .... lists..... definately true!!!.... lists are just another way of exposure.... constantly getting input without wasting time.... writing words in phrases/context and reading/revising them frequently is the key to success.... and yesss!!! The power of passive vocabulary.... Passive vocabulary are the words already acquired by your brain... and they quickly become active vocabulary when you need them in enough frequency in your daily life.... reading and listening are just how brain is designed to work... we never learn words in isolation in life but in context, in phrases, in some visual/sensual connections with other things around us... brain/mind needs connections with other things so that when we need that word to use, we can easily make connections according to our own situation with appropriate vocabulary 👍
Dear Steve, I somehow just found your channel and started listening and watching your lessons. I'm from Ukraine. I am Volodymyr. I really like your presentation of the material. I plan to study your lessons and listen to your instructions as much as possible. There has been a war in Ukraine for more than a year. When the war started and the situation got worse, I sent my daughter and wife to Canada. I volunteered for almost a year, collecting food from people in villages and taking it to centers where refugees from the war zone gathered. When the war started, I lost my job. Later, my car broke down and there was no money for repairs, so I was forced to sell it. Then my wife's father had a stroke. And now I have been living with my wife's parents for a year and I help them, because they are elderly and it is very difficult for them. My wife didn't study English at school and she also has a hard time in Canada, they live in Edmonton now. But we are strong people and we don't give up. My wife Ludmila has been working and providing for her daughter and their life in Canada since the first days. She is a professional accountant and financial manager, but works as a cleaner in a hotel. Now at the Fantasyland Hotel in the West Edmonton Mall, maybe you've been there, dear Steve. Previously, she worked in another hotel, but in both positions she is the best in the team, she is highly valued, but the work is extremely difficult. My daughter Yuliya studies very well, she attends high school. We invested a lot in her development, so now she is not as difficult as it could be. But my heart is breaking, I haven't hugged or touched my girls, my dearest people in the world, for a year. I have been studying English for almost a year now, because in the future I hope to go to my family and provide for them, just live with them and love them, just cook breakfast in the morning on weekends. If, of course, I still have such an opportunity, but we will not give up. Dear Steve, I wanted to ask you if you would agree to do an English lesson with me, even for 10 minutes, so that I can feel if I am making progress? I am learning the language by myself. It would be incredible and wonderful. I bow to you for your work and creativity, it helps people a lot. Thank you very much and I wish you good health! You can write to me on Instagram under the nickname - volodymyr_sukhomud
yup, acquiring vocab with German 😊 it's awesome being able to understand and speak thanks to vocab!!! Repetition is key! Exposure! Just like you, I'm always working on improving because I want to be able to understand and communicate more effectively . Thanks for sharing 😄
Hi Ruby!! I’m also acquiring German vocabulary, I have a random house German/English English/German dictionary and I love it!! My goal is to learn all the German words from my dictionary! I can do this!! And you can too! We got this girl!! 😊😊🙌🙌🙌
This is an awesome video. It showcases how to use LingQ to learn words effectively in a natural way. I think flashcards work, but it can be boring and they lack context even if you make sentence cards. I didn’t use lists. Maybe I should try. Thanks for the tip
Yes number 1 thing important to acuire words without words we cannot learn any languanges hope i can learn new words in english offten it's quite challenging for me though.
Amen :). It’s so important to not overcomplicate things and just start by building up your vocab. Of course ideally through consuming massive amounts of comprehensible input. Further for me it has been also a game changer when I started to make my learning progress visible. It motivates a lot and helps to stick to your routine long term.
Steve what do you think of the concept- a bit different than you said- learning words in a short typical phrase, meaning for example we VERY OFTEN use words with other words as almost a short phrase. That way we have the native way of saying certain things rather than forming sentences word by word/ brick by brick. Instead sentences are formed by BLOCKS OF BRICKS if that makes sense. Taht way we have them already conjugated into the usage that is common. I'm not explaning it well.
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Hey steve, I am currently learning finnish, and I actually live here now because I am studying. My mother tongue is english and i must admit it is a pretty hard language. Thank you for your tips and I will definitely pay for the full version of linq when i am on summer holidays.
Keep watching your favourite series with subtitles, after finishing off, give it a break. Get back to watch it from the very beginning without subtitles, keep doing so and you'll be more comfortable watching them. Just saying, a simple and humble opinion.
i can not give any advice just the way it works for me. i watch a movie the first time with subs in my native language or english. then i let some time pass and watch again. now wth subtitles in the target language, so i can listen and read. after some weeks i will watch again. now without any subtitles.......you will be surprised how much you understand in the third round🙂
Could be that the action in the movie is fast, so they're talking fast. (Some people on both YT and podcasts speak quite slowly; I listen to everything on YT at 1.5 speed.) If you have Netflix (or on YT), you can slow the speed down to .75. Try that and see if it's easier to understand.
Thank you Mr. Steve, One thing I don't figure out is how you arrange/ organize that amount of words you learn. I'd like to have a reliable method to not forget so much that is the trouble I find at the end. You might explain this in one video!! I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.
Steve, thanks for wonderful videos. I would love to know something about your learning Croatian. I've read somewhere that you learned that language too.
Looks like a great system you have there. Shame is not available in Thai. For me expat living in Thailand flashcards are my lifeline. Because the language is tonal one word can have many meanings. I need to learn the word in the structure of a sentence to give it meaning. And that way I learn some grammar as well.
Estaría bien poder usar el sistema de lingQ: cambiar las palabras de color, listas de vocabulario, ... sin que necesariamente el idioma tenga que estar en lingQ, ya que los idiomas que estudio no están. ¿Sería muy dificil hacerlo? ¿os lo habéis planteado?
Hi, Steve. Have you ever tried to learn Hungarian? I've heard that it's a really difficult language to learn. I wondered in case you have studied it, how was your journey in that? Could you please make a video explaining about this language?
Writing is a crucial part of learning. If you don't know how to write with language you are learning then you are more likely to be uncapable to learn the language.
At 9:37 it would be nice if that vocabulary view was available in the app and not just on the website. Took me a LONG time to find that because I was looking for it in the app.
I'm up to 12,000 know words in french on LingQ. but I still understand very little spoken content above a A2 level, Even if the 90+% of the page is white.
LingQ emphasizes learning long lists of words without having any real specific purpose in mind other than creating a means of effortless, passive acquisition. It's Learning French for Dummies. I quickly grew tired of it when from 3 to 5 months in I showed little to no progress in the acquisition of the French language itself. Still, I wasn't entirely sure if my instincts were correct. Steve's comment that it took him ten years to get past reading French in elementary thru high school to learning how to speak and converse in French was the first wake up call. Then when I heard him speaking in French I was dumbstruck by his lack in mastering fluency. He knew the language, but he often hesitated in retrieving the right words, and he didn't have the prosody down. That's when light dawned on Marblehead. I went back, started over and here's what I know now. Much had been intuited before, and I think we all can grasp whatever we have learned from those lessons we learned in the school of hard knocks. I went thru high school and never needed to crack a book in any of the mathematical disciplines. I was the class clown who got straight A's, until I hit college and flunked Integral and differential calculus and analytical geometry. Number one, we do have to make a concerted effort in order to get past the first level of learning any new language, and for me calculus was a very different language, but what I couldn't see was the work my aunts had put in teaching me how to count, add and subtract, multiply and divide, and then how to apply it all to playing cards like poker, gin rummy and canasta, and how to make change from our Saturday night winnings. I went into 1st grade with a 5th grade education. When I got to college everyone was smart and most all the kids had already learned calculus and could even write their own equations. I was the only dumb one. I hadn't learned how to apply myself to learning just for the sake of learning or in being a part of something bigger than myself. I was correct to assume it's far more important to learn how to speak the language first before we learn how to write it or read it. That is the modern way it is taught today in pre-grade school in many countries. They begin with the phonetics of the alphabet, then progress to the orthographies of sounds made with vowels and consonants commonly located adjacent to each other in words, and how and why the sounds of vowels change. Learning the proper pronunciations of words accelerates in recognizing and learning the meanings of words, which in turn accelerates our ability to self-learn by reading sentences and long paragraphs. That also greatly increases our understanding of sophisticated concepts beyond the meanings of mere words and phrases.
I save phrases and words, which I am sure most people do. I use multiple choice but as I advance the word up to known, I don't look at the choices, I try to remember what the words translate to, before I mark it as know. Seems to work for me.
What about GoldLists ( where you make sentences on a Note book and revise them after every 15 days , kinda of like a Spaced Repetition but of words in context instead of just single words ) ?
I wanted to point out that lingQ is close to being a perfect tool for reading in a foreign language. If lingQ worked on any e-book reader device, it'd be perfect. Btw. does anyone know a tablet with an eyes friendly screen where lingQ would function well?
I believe there are monitors you can buy that are the same idea as the ones on a kindle (looks like paper). I'm not sure if I just made that up or if it's real but you'd have to look into that
Hello, I have some questions Do you have any advice on what to do when you want to buy with a native? If you only know a few words, how to acquire with a native? How would the session with a native be? How should I learn with a native during a session with him/her? Thank you in advance
I’m curious to know more about your Russian learning process. I had begun teaching myself a year ago but have had to take a pause as I’m studying for the certified public accounting exams. I hope to return to learning afterwards as it’s my first language I’m taking the liberty of teaching myself whereas I took classes in school for Spanish and spoke it growing up. I understand Russian is much more difficult that most languages so how did you go about the grammar?
I usually buy a beginner book which provides and overview of some of the aspects of the grammar. Mostly I listen and read to get more experience with the language, start noticing some things, and the go back to the grammar when I'm curious. I don't worry about making mistakes.
Start with learning hangeul, then learn to read syllables, then pronouncing ending Consonants known as batchim. I am currently learning simple verb conjugations and using the various types of particles. Started in February. There are lots of great resources available here on TH-cam. Goodluck!
Quick question: after I have reviewed and classified them in or out of the new word backlog, do I mark this lesson as completed (the "complete" button at the last page of the lesson)? Since I still have to listen this lesson for many times, what does it mean by "completed"? Please shed some light, thanks.
How could a microphone be a distraction if it is i can't see how you could learn a new language your mind is easily distracted i would like to see your Microphone please.
@@omestredetodaaslendas que dahora eu faço o método comecei a fase de mar e mineração esse ano Vc faz o curso ou por conta própria? É já tá estudando quanto tempo com o método??
A known word can be a learned word, in other words a word that you once looked up and which gradually became know. But most known words are words that you never needed to look up. They naturally became known.
How do you go about learning words?
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I would love to see how I've learned french and Chinese because these languages for me are confusing
I’m currently just focusing on Mandarin French and Russian. Mandarin and French aren’t so knew to me so I’m very comfortable acquiring words because I’m already know the languages work. Russian is new to me and my first language that is super case based so it’s a bit of a challenge to learn those words. Since it’s case based I’m a little intimidated to know that I’ll be learning so many more words that way.
I keeeep learning from your videos! Thansk! WL Teacher here! 🙋🏻
Moi Steve! Mitä kuuluu? If you want learn Finnish then I can help you. We can talk sur Zoom Finnish and English :)
Steve, can you do a review of the app Lingopie for learning through movies and TV shows
I would love to hear how you learned Ukrainian but also Russian! However, a lot of your “How you learned “X” language videos in the past, have been you just grabbing different reference material off your shelf to show us. Personally for ME, I’m much more interested in you describing your PROCESS! “When did you start? What did you do for the first 3 months? 6 months? How were you doing - how much language could you comprehend? What was the problem and got you stuck? What did you do to fix that and how long until you started noticing you understood more? What changed that made that happen? When could you speak more fluently? A year after? 2 years? And what did you do that got you there?” THATS the process I’d like to hear please 🙏🏾! Not just “this is a book classic novel about two fighting brothers and this book is outdated but useful” ….haha, paint is a picture! Thanks Steve
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With Steve it is more about enjoying the process than the end goal. But I think he said it took him 3 years to learn Russian.
Agreed 10000%
If you've watched his videos, you'll have heard him say that there's no one way to learning languages but he usually isay and what he did to get a hold of any language he's interested in . in whatever you're doing, just make the process an enjoyable one for you.
@@bisanachi7013 I have never heard of your name before, i searched it and it means God lol
After years of using Anki for Japanese and going on hiatus multiple times I have finally put it aside. 6,000 known words from flash cards is more than enough to read with some basic comprehension. The best part is 1 hour of reading and listening to things I like goes by so fast compared to 20 minutes of dreadful flash cards.
There’s been a discussion going on the LingQ message boards from a guy named Peter Bormann. He says that once you get to a B1 level in a language you should go to the ultra listening and reading phase of the language acquisition by using the pomodero method. You spend 25 minutes listening and reading take a 5 minute break and do it again. You can get 8000 to 10000 words read a day. If you do 2 pomodero blocks reading and listening at the same time a day for a full year you can get to 2.5 to 3.5 million words read and 300-400 hours listened to. At this point you would be able to understand and read at high levels in the target language.
the main thing is lots of exposure to the language. I'm sure this works. People should do what they enjoy doing and what they have time for.
Hold up, 2 25 minute sessions of reading and you can get 8,000 words? Assuming I’m understanding that correctly, that sounds doubtful
@@Herp234 yes you can. It depends on the speed of the person talking and if you’re at intermediate to advanced levels you can even increase the speed.
When you "do it again", do you read/listen to the same thing again?
@@BryanAJParry no it’s just another 25 minutes reading something else.
Greeting from Tajikistan to polyglot. I'm a master of these languages 🇹🇯🇺🇸🇷🇺🇩🇪🇸🇦🇮🇷. I hope one day, we'll meet!
I would. love to visit your country. So much history, I can get by in Farsi and can read Cyrillic so it should be a wonderful experience.
@@Thelinguist Once you're here just lemme know, we'll share everything!
Until now, I didn’t know a video to which I could point a friend and tell them “this is what LingQ is all about”. There are just too many I could choose from. But this one is it! Not only does it emphasize how essential the learning of words is, but it also shows how LingQ supports it, even with some pretty advanced techniques (such as the advantages of sentence mode or how to use lists). Thank you Steve!
A wonderful explanation! How learners acquire words without using memorization or testing(flashcards). I'm in the "am I progressing?" phase, but I keep looking up words. I gradually learn them. More and more, I understand full sentences. It works for me, exactly as you describe in this video.
This encourages me to keep going on my vocabulary acquisition process in German. I've seen myself how the usage of lingQ in the way explained on the video, actually works. I'm looking forward to watching the coming videos!
Viel Erfolg - und vor allem Spaß dabei! 😊👍
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Hello steve l'm so happy that you have aploaded a new video, l'm learning 3 lenguages english,italian, and german, you have been my inspiration that l'm still motivated about learning those lenguages, thank you so much for always be there helping those people like me who want to learn multiples lenguages, keep posting those amazing videos.
hi there Felipe, i hope you have had a good time, please i want to ask you how is the procces for learn severels languages in the same time, i am learning english but i wish to learn italian, but i am scare dont be focus and lost all the way that i have in the English, i want to ask you, to learn severels languages dont make that your brain get confused
Hello fabian, nice to meet you, all depend on what is your native language in my case my native language is spanish to me learning english was very hard at the begining but through the process l got used to it, however with italian l been feeling more confortable in just 2 months, because italian and spanish are two lenguages very similar, otherwise german have been more difficult to me to get used to due to german is a language distant from spanish, all that l do to mantain my languages learning is to practice a little of each one every day.
Following such great and successfull people will completely change our way of thinking in terms of learning the language, because we tend to be so harsh on ourselves that we should acquire it as fast as possible.
I downloaded the LingQ. First impression is amazing
I am totally agree with you Steve: learning words is the key!... and for sure LingQ is the best tool for that !
(I really developed my knowledge and kept up the "learning pace").
I've started too Ukrainian - I love this language and I discover a culture! / I didn't start on LingQ because I have the habit to work on a "base" (Assimil...) before starting on LingQ.
Soy inglés, y me encantan mucho sus vídeos! Tendré quince años en un mes, no tengo aprendiendo español muy rápido, pero yo practico todos los dias. lo disfrusto. Tendré premium(??), dos años con LingQ en mi cumpleaños. Toma mucho tiempo escribir esto, porque no tengo acentos en mi computadora... ._.
Congrats! If you keep practising you'll speak and write like a native soon. If you don't mind I'll write some mistakes you've made.
Teneré ---> Tendré ( Spanish irregular verb in future tense )
su vídeos ---> sus vídeos( 'vídeos' is plural so 'sus' must be plural too )
el idioma de español muy rápida --->
español muy rápido.
The word "español" also means "the spanish language". In addition, if you use an adjective, this adjective must have the same gender and 'number'(singular/plural) of the name that it is refering to. The word "español" is masculine and singular so if you use an adjective this one should be also masculine and singular like "rápido".
There are some extra mistakes but you are doing well. Keep it going!
@@luis90alex Edited the comment! Thank you! Extra mistakes probably resulted from me shying away from por and para, (That stuff is a absolute mess for people learning Spanish, assuming you're a native Spanish speaker) making the sentence a bit weirder
Me da mucho gusto ver a alguien intentar aprender español 😊 mucha suerte y sigue así.
I feel so content when I see someone trying to learn Spanish 😊good luck and keep going.
(I hope “content” makes sense, I didn’t know how else to translate my first sentence. “Me da gusto” is to feel something like happiness but also like being glad)
@@zamooti4505
Gracias!
"Content" = un poco feliz, pero es más neutral. "Happy"= Feliz!
¡"Happy" es una mejor palabra!
En contexto:
"I am so *happy* right now!!!"
"Life can be difficult, but I am *content."*
@@concentrateddarkmatter7991 I see! Thank you for teaching me :)
Thank you Steve, I listening your videos to practice my listening skill, I really appreciate all your tips and I really admire you. Greetings from Guatemala.
I was thinking this morning that I might have been doing things wrong in LingQ because i felt that i was stalling in my progress (which is at the very beginning). This video was exactly what i needed to confirm that i was doing thing just fine.
I'm a French Canadian learning Korean, but i use LingQ in English instead of French.
Thank you for this real informative video.
Have a nice day !
Yesss .... lists..... definately true!!!.... lists are just another way of exposure.... constantly getting input without wasting time.... writing words in phrases/context and reading/revising them frequently is the key to success.... and yesss!!! The power of passive vocabulary.... Passive vocabulary are the words already acquired by your brain... and they quickly become active vocabulary when you need them in enough frequency in your daily life.... reading and listening are just how brain is designed to work... we never learn words in isolation in life but in context, in phrases, in some visual/sensual connections with other things around us... brain/mind needs connections with other things so that when we need that word to use, we can easily make connections according to our own situation with appropriate vocabulary 👍
Dear Steve, I somehow just found your channel and started listening and watching your lessons. I'm from Ukraine. I am Volodymyr. I really like your presentation of the material. I plan to study your lessons and listen to your instructions as much as possible. There has been a war in Ukraine for more than a year. When the war started and the situation got worse, I sent my daughter and wife to Canada. I volunteered for almost a year, collecting food from people in villages and taking it to centers where refugees from the war zone gathered. When the war started, I lost my job. Later, my car broke down and there was no money for repairs, so I was forced to sell it. Then my wife's father had a stroke. And now I have been living with my wife's parents for a year and I help them, because they are elderly and it is very difficult for them. My wife didn't study English at school and she also has a hard time in Canada, they live in Edmonton now. But we are strong people and we don't give up. My wife Ludmila has been working and providing for her daughter and their life in Canada since the first days. She is a professional accountant and financial manager, but works as a cleaner in a hotel. Now at the Fantasyland Hotel in the West Edmonton Mall, maybe you've been there, dear Steve. Previously, she worked in another hotel, but in both positions she is the best in the team, she is highly valued, but the work is extremely difficult. My daughter Yuliya studies very well, she attends high school. We invested a lot in her development, so now she is not as difficult as it could be. But my heart is breaking, I haven't hugged or touched my girls, my dearest people in the world, for a year. I have been studying English for almost a year now, because in the future I hope to go to my family and provide for them, just live with them and love them, just cook breakfast in the morning on weekends. If, of course, I still have such an opportunity, but we will not give up. Dear Steve, I wanted to ask you if you would agree to do an English lesson with me, even for 10 minutes, so that I can feel if I am making progress? I am learning the language by myself. It would be incredible and wonderful. I bow to you for your work and creativity, it helps people a lot. Thank you very much and I wish you good health! You can write to me on Instagram under the nickname - volodymyr_sukhomud
Sure. You can send me an email at steve at lingq dot com and we can set something up.
yup, acquiring vocab with German 😊 it's awesome being able to understand and speak thanks to vocab!!! Repetition is key! Exposure! Just like you, I'm always working on improving because I want to be able to understand and communicate more effectively . Thanks for sharing 😄
Hi Ruby!! I’m also acquiring German vocabulary, I have a random house German/English
English/German dictionary and I love it!! My goal is to learn all the German words from my dictionary! I can do this!! And you can too! We got this girl!! 😊😊🙌🙌🙌
@@kikithedisneyfan5607 That's so awesome!!! Yes, we can! We got this! Let me know how things go 😊
@@RubyDuran I sure will!! :) is it okay for us to talk here??
@@kikithedisneyfan5607 yes, of course! feel free to also comment on my page! Always love hearing how others are doing on their journey 😄
@@RubyDuran thank you!! 😊😊
This is an awesome video. It showcases how to use LingQ to learn words effectively in a natural way. I think flashcards work, but it can be boring and they lack context even if you make sentence cards. I didn’t use lists. Maybe I should try. Thanks for the tip
No way !! Your microphone is so cool 😎..
I respect you grandpa be safe god always here for you 💕 and thank you for teaching everyone different language be safe ❤️
Yes number 1 thing important to acuire words without words we cannot learn any languanges hope i can learn new words in english offten it's quite challenging for me though.
Great video Steve. You've got me thinking about using lists more and flashcards less now. I guess it's easier to see the patterns in word lists.
Amen :). It’s so important to not overcomplicate things and just start by building up your vocab. Of course ideally through consuming massive amounts of comprehensible input.
Further for me it has been also a game changer when I started to make my learning progress visible. It motivates a lot and helps to stick to your routine long term.
That sounds great. How do you keep your progress visible? Do you use any sort of app that keeps track of your progress?
Steve what do you think of the concept- a bit different than you said- learning words in a short typical phrase, meaning for example we VERY OFTEN use words with other words as almost a short phrase. That way we have the native way of saying certain things rather than forming sentences word by word/ brick by brick. Instead sentences are formed by BLOCKS OF BRICKS if that makes sense. Taht way we have them already conjugated into the usage that is common. I'm not explaning it well.
Yes, I agree we should learn phrases as building blocks which we can use.
Great perspective... thank you Steve!
I love the microphone, Steve
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I'm hoping you make one video about how you learned Korean, I love so much your videos and your inspire me everyday
That’s a great start if the series. Looking forward to it. Thx a lot.
I like your work with languages. Congratulations 👍👏
Hey steve, I am currently learning finnish, and I actually live here now because I am studying. My mother tongue is english and i must admit it is a pretty hard language. Thank you for your tips and I will definitely pay for the full version of linq when i am on summer holidays.
Hi man thanks for all the videos 📸
Everything is perfect ☺️
Another excellent video, thanks.
Your videos are helping me a lot, thank you so much for uploading valuable contents ❤
I understand almost every video I find on TH-cam or podcast but when I watch a movie I understand very little any advice?
Keep watching your favourite series with subtitles, after finishing off, give it a break. Get back to watch it from the very beginning without subtitles, keep doing so and you'll be more comfortable watching them. Just saying, a simple and humble opinion.
Watch and read everything in English
You'll get there eventually it's just a matter of time mate
i can not give any advice just the way it works for me. i watch a movie the first time with subs in my native language or english. then i let some time pass and watch again. now wth subtitles in the target language, so i can listen and read. after some weeks i will watch again. now without any subtitles.......you will be surprised how much you understand in the third round🙂
We are in the same boat brother
Could be that the action in the movie is fast, so they're talking fast. (Some people on both YT and podcasts speak quite slowly; I listen to everything on YT at 1.5 speed.) If you have Netflix (or on YT), you can slow the speed down to .75. Try that and see if it's easier to understand.
I've subscribed to your channel recently and I'm very glad :) Thank you for your teaching!
Дякую Вам :)
thank you, i admire to you, i am learning english and i love to watch your videos.
I confess LingQ is incredibly useful for learning Spanish.
Thank you for this video! I have been on Lingq for 9 months now and only have seen a lot of the other functions today! Meu deus LOL
Thank you Mr. Steve,
One thing I don't figure out is how you arrange/ organize that amount of words you learn. I'd like to have a reliable method to not forget so much that is the trouble I find at the end.
You might explain this in one video!! I'd really appreciate it. Thank you.
Steve, thanks for wonderful videos. I would love to know something about your learning Croatian. I've read somewhere that you learned that language too.
Looks like a great system you have there. Shame is not available in Thai. For me expat living in Thailand flashcards are my lifeline. Because the language is tonal one word can have many meanings. I need to learn the word in the structure of a sentence to give it meaning. And that way I learn some grammar as well.
Please make more videos about Persian and Finnish
hi steve, I have been following your videos
How are you learning Farsi!✨Would love a video on that.
Really I want to learn English but I don't know how🤔. Congratulations Steve
Hello. What is your native language?
@@rebeccamcfarlin8199 arabic
I’m interested in how you acquired Turkish. Thank you!
Estaría bien poder usar el sistema de lingQ: cambiar las palabras de color, listas de vocabulario, ... sin que necesariamente el idioma tenga que estar en lingQ, ya que los idiomas que estudio no están. ¿Sería muy dificil hacerlo? ¿os lo habéis planteado?
awe man. i like the funky mic
Hi, Steve. Have you ever tried to learn Hungarian? I've heard that it's a really difficult language to learn. I wondered in case you have studied it, how was your journey in that? Could you please make a video explaining about this language?
Not yet, but we have Hungarian at LingQ so I may try one day.
Thanks a lot for supporting Ukranian people and free access to the premium account for us!!!
I was thinking about if I need to upgrade my LingQ to premium or not need. In this video you got me saving the words will be funny
Hey Steve, could you make some more videos for Ukrainian or Russian speakers on how to use LingQ to learn new languages?
Sure
Flashcards are good for active vocabulary.
you're a genious
Writing is a crucial part of learning. If you don't know how to write with language you are learning then you are more likely to be uncapable to learn the language.
At 9:37 it would be nice if that vocabulary view was available in the app and not just on the website. Took me a LONG time to find that because I was looking for it in the app.
I'm up to 12,000 know words in french on LingQ. but I still understand very little spoken content above a A2 level, Even if the 90+% of the page is white.
LingQ emphasizes learning long lists of words without having any real specific purpose in mind other than creating a means of effortless, passive acquisition. It's Learning French for Dummies. I quickly grew tired of it when from 3 to 5 months in I showed little to no progress in the acquisition of the French language itself. Still, I wasn't entirely sure if my instincts were correct. Steve's comment that it took him ten years to get past reading French in elementary thru high school to learning how to speak and converse in French was the first wake up call. Then when I heard him speaking in French I was dumbstruck by his lack in mastering fluency. He knew the language, but he often hesitated in retrieving the right words, and he didn't have the prosody down. That's when light dawned on Marblehead.
I went back, started over and here's what I know now. Much had been intuited before, and I think we all can grasp whatever we have learned from those lessons we learned in the school of hard knocks. I went thru high school and never needed to crack a book in any of the mathematical disciplines. I was the class clown who got straight A's, until I hit college and flunked Integral and differential calculus and analytical geometry.
Number one, we do have to make a concerted effort in order to get past the first level of learning any new language, and for me calculus was a very different language, but what I couldn't see was the work my aunts had put in teaching me how to count, add and subtract, multiply and divide, and then how to apply it all to playing cards like poker, gin rummy and canasta, and how to make change from our Saturday night winnings. I went into 1st grade with a 5th grade education. When I got to college everyone was smart and most all the kids had already learned calculus and could even write their own equations. I was the only dumb one. I hadn't learned how to apply myself to learning just for the sake of learning or in being a part of something bigger than myself.
I was correct to assume it's far more important to learn how to speak the language first before we learn how to write it or read it. That is the modern way it is taught today in pre-grade school in many countries. They begin with the phonetics of the alphabet, then progress to the orthographies of sounds made with vowels and consonants commonly located adjacent to each other in words, and how and why the sounds of vowels change. Learning the proper pronunciations of words accelerates in recognizing and learning the meanings of words, which in turn accelerates our ability to self-learn by reading sentences and long paragraphs. That also greatly increases our understanding of sophisticated concepts beyond the meanings of mere words and phrases.
You need to listen more. Simple as that
Thank you Steve
I save phrases and words, which I am sure most people do. I use multiple choice but as I advance the word up to known, I don't look at the choices, I try to remember what the words translate to, before I mark it as know. Seems to work for me.
You are great
What about GoldLists ( where you make sentences on a Note book and revise them after every 15 days , kinda of like a Spaced Repetition but of words in context instead of just single words ) ?
He has done videos on this. Check them out.
I wanted to point out that lingQ is close to being a perfect tool for reading in a foreign language. If lingQ worked on any e-book reader device, it'd be perfect. Btw. does anyone know a tablet with an eyes friendly screen where lingQ would function well?
I believe there are monitors you can buy that are the same idea as the ones on a kindle (looks like paper). I'm not sure if I just made that up or if it's real but you'd have to look into that
Very good!
nice
Hello, I have some questions
Do you have any advice on what to do when you want to buy with a native?
If you only know a few words, how to acquire with a native?
How would the session with a native be?
How should I learn with a native during a session with him/her?
Thank you in advance
Is Linq a free app? Or what are the plans and prices? Thanks.
If you know Hebrew I’d love to know how you learned that. So overwhelming the different alphabet and sentence structure 😅
I’m curious to know more about your Russian learning process. I had begun teaching myself a year ago but have had to take a pause as I’m studying for the certified public accounting exams. I hope to return to learning afterwards as it’s my first language I’m taking the liberty of teaching myself whereas I took classes in school for Spanish and spoke it growing up. I understand Russian is much more difficult that most languages so how did you go about the grammar?
I usually buy a beginner book which provides and overview of some of the aspects of the grammar. Mostly I listen and read to get more experience with the language, start noticing some things, and the go back to the grammar when I'm curious. I don't worry about making mistakes.
I would love to know about how to learn Italian language
Thank you so so much for this video! I really want to korean but I am stuck on where to begin :P
Just start anywhere. It’s all the same in the end!
Start with learning hangeul, then learn to read syllables, then pronouncing ending Consonants known as batchim. I am currently learning simple verb conjugations and using the various types of particles. Started in February. There are lots of great resources available here on TH-cam. Goodluck!
Start it off with alphabet or whatever that system of writing is called
I just checked out LinQ, unfortunately, it seemed extremely confusing to me.
i wanna get this series seminar.
but it's too hard to understand for me.
hey,i hope someone trancelate that😭
Im Swedish, just started learning Ukrainian. Looking forward to following you.
¿aprender palabras traduciéndolas a nuestro idioma materno?
how did you learn french? I am bad at learning languages
Quick question: after I have reviewed and classified them in or out of the new word backlog, do I mark this lesson as completed (the "complete" button at the last page of the lesson)? Since I still have to listen this lesson for many times, what does it mean by "completed"? Please shed some light, thanks.
Completed means you have gone through it once.
Japanese!! I don't know how start to learn Kanji...
Love to learn Russian…how did you do that?
I seem to have a glitch that LingQ won't load even though my internet is fine and I updated to the latest version.
Could I ask you to email support@lingq.com
Greetings from Ukrainians
💙💛
Did you learn Hebrew? or not? if not, why did you stop?
How can I use your method if lingQ hasn't the target language I learn ? I'm learning Hungarian
LingQ has Hungarian
How could a microphone
be a distraction if it is i can't
see how you could learn a new
language your mind is easily
distracted i would like to see your
Microphone please.
This video is an advertisement for LingQ
Ok
I want more on Russian
What specifically would you like me to talk about.
@@Thelinguist memorizing words with similar roots
The video gets stuck at 7.03 I skipped forward I am not sure at which point it normalizes. Thank you uncle Steve 👍
I have 8k of cards in my anki, has been dificuldade to add more, because I already know a lot. What I should do?
Segue qual método?
Já tem um listening e reading avançado?
@@di048 método vergara, me considerado fluente
@@omestredetodaaslendas que dahora eu faço o método comecei a fase de mar e mineração esse ano
Vc faz o curso ou por conta própria?
É já tá estudando quanto tempo com o método??
@@di048 faço desde o ano passado
Sem curso
That mic is cool
Steve might be from the older generation, but his technical accessories are all modern and really,really cool lol
👍❤🇧🇷
我在学汉语, 是个很难的语言!
Torille :)))
video marketing!
Lol the microphone!
So silly microphone is a distracting. Lol
B''H, Christ, Jesus, Amen.
The mic is not out of view.
What’s the difference between the learned words and known words?
A known word can be a learned word, in other words a word that you once looked up and which gradually became know. But most known words are words that you never needed to look up. They naturally became known.