Starting a YouTube Channel in English as a Non-Native Speaker in 2020
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2024
- How to start a TH-cam channel in 2020? There's one thing I can tell you for sure: Do it in English! Even if you're not a native speaker. It will not only be easier to grow your channel but it will also give you confidence in life. I'm convinced that it's the best way to start your TH-cam channel...
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00:00 Intro
00:41 Why English?
02:16 Cut it out!
03:30 Write it down!
04:11 Show your stuff!
05:00 Relax!
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Just go for it! You got this! 👊🏻🔥
Questions? Comments! 👇🏻 Thanks for watching. 🙏
Joris man, my native language is Spanish, and I can tell you some of the challenges to follow a channel of a person having English as a second language is difficulties trying to understand the accent, as most of us tend to over pronounce, not the case with yours, you're perfectly understandable, you don't massacre the language using slang and yet you keep it casual and easy to follow. Keep up the good work!
You have great English, i try making a gaming channel and its in English language but no viewers more then a minute..lol probably because i am tone deaf, meaning no high or low speech and my pronounce not that good. I might try create new video but have English subs, not sure yet. >
I wanna learn about english. But confused and concerned about getting monetized or someone said my videos will not get monetized if i use english languange. Is that true ? I mean... does the english languange affect the monetizing process ?
Dude! Your English is amazing! Quit doubting.
Thanks for this! I’m also Dutch and started my channel in English: definitely feels like an additional challenge. Easy to get overly self conscious about it. I always think ‘hmm that didnt come out exactly the way I hoped’. Trying to find the line between good enough and being overly critical I guess (but I agree it builds confidence once you decide to keep growing!)
Interesting. I am learning Chinese +5 other languages and have been contemplating starting a channel where I walk through my process of learning these languages.
Your video put things into perspective. I am going to go for it.
Thanks!!!
My good man, your English is much better than many people here in North America...you have for sure a very good grasp of the language and its nuances.
Thanks! 🙏🏻👊🏻
Hey Man! Italian with a bilingual channel here, can relate to everything you say in this video :)
Same here! Congrats on your channel! Alberto
Hey, I was wondering, if youre natively speaking Italian, who do you target with your content, Italians, people from USA, or youre not that deliberate in targeting specifical region or nation? Thanks!
@@vspirit77 on my channel I teach Italian, show places and talk about language learning, so I target anyone interested in these topics, mostly Americans according to my stats :)
this is the best and my most favourite video on this platform periodt! i hope you grow and get the milestones!
Hey bud. Kudos to you for putting yourself out there and creating a successful channel in a second language! I speak Spanish as a second language and can’t imagine launching-let alone growing a channel for that matter-in Spanish. Keep killing it brother!
Thank you so much for this video!! It really made me take action!
Ty bro for all the recommendations! It encourages me to start my videos in English.
Thanks Joris, very motivational and great advices! feels like I'm one step closer to starting my own TH-cam channel now :)
I really appreciate it. Thanks for this one. I eventually almost got an idea💡
Very good advices. I like your positivity. Thx man
Just discovered your channel, great source of information! I can relate as a fellow Dutch speaker. In my (biased) opinion, Dutch English is easier to understand than most other accents!
Thanks a lot for this great content! You Made it so simple! Love It!
Super inspiring, thanks a lot!
Thanks for this! I am also Dutch, and making videos in English. Thanks for giving me the confidence boost
Thanks Joris
I struggle a lot while making videos but I wanna produce better quality videos
I know my English sounds quite broken ( especially on camera ) I’ll try to improve it
Your English is way better than mine! 🇳🇱 Sometimes I have to give presentations for a live audience but that’s no problem in Dutch. Sometimes I have a foreign delegation and then I actually have to rehearse to find my English flow again. Talking English on a daily basis sure helps!
You inspired me. Thanks.
Thanks for the video man. I'm from Germany and my English is terrible but I'm trying to improve that.
you motivate me😊😍Thank you!
Good advice man. thanks from malaysia
Love the video 🙌
Bull's Eye Joris! The same reason I made my video in English.. to reach the world! 👊😎
The Most important thing is that "You will also grow along with your youtube channel, as English is an international language & we all are supposed to make it fluent to reach more people". Thanks you have cleared my query
Thank you this video help me a lot
Many thanks for this video!!
I started this travel channel with the purpose to do everything in English but was afraid if I was going on the right path.
I have many reasons to do in English but was afraid due to having a big public that speaks Portuguese.
I live in England and I can speak anything in English, but with a broad accent.
One of my goals is to improve my English and reduce my accent and I reckon recording interesting videos and uploading on TH-cam is a great tool for learning.
Thanks for the tips and good luck everyone!!
I too have the exact same problem
thank you so much, you've helped me alot.
great tips, I save them for me for later
3:00 this is true, not only in English but also in your native language. I re-record so many sentences and when i edit i realize it was ok
Thanks for this. I'm starting my TH-cam channel and the number 1 thing I struggle with is having English as a Second Language. My solution to this was to actually own it, so I'm going to make fun of my accent and my mistakes along the way lol
Joris! You just saved my life with the first 30 seconds of this video. I am a Dutch guy, Video maker, Tiktokker, and want to restart a new TH-cam channel. Just today I thought: should I do it in English. O btw, I have two youtube channels, one capoeira channel and one that is 100% random. The last one I will stop now, Soon starting another one. English sounds like fun. Connecting all over the world has kind of been my thing. It will be about personal growth and natural health. O well, I will continue to watch your video. Love it man! A big subscriber here. O btw this is my old TH-cam account, haha. Who cares? Next time will be fresh. Enjoy your day mate!
great tips!
Love you man ❤
super helpful! sub and love from polish brother! :*
This video gives me an extra boost to go on with my plan to start a youtube channel. Thnx man👍 maybe our paths will cross one day🤷♂️ goede video, top👍
Nederlands... 🤔 Vriend of vijand... Belg of Nederlander? 😅 Neenee... altijd leuk om Nederlands te lezen hier! 🙏🏻💥
@@JorisHermans vriend, altijd😁 België, Antwerpen.
Gracias mi amigo !
Great stuff, subbed, ik ben benieuwd naar je content 👌 tot nu toe lekker to the point en geen poes pas 👍 keep it up 😁📽
Heyoooo, Nederlands! Dat gebeurt hier niet zo vaak! 😉👊🏻
Always English 👍. I learnt the hard way by growing a channel to 25k subs in my native language
Thank you!☺️
i like your channel mate. you my favourite :)
Started my channel in English too! I speak Finnish and there’s only about 5 million people speaking it haha. I agree that there’s just more possibilities on TH-cam with English! 😄
Finland! Now that’s a country I’d like to visit even though I don’t know much about it 🤔 😊
Much love🥰❤✌
Thanks! This helped me while I´m struggling to switch my channel from German to English. Hope im doing fine with the German accent?! 😊🇩🇪
Really helpful
Thank you !
yes you are right
Bro your English is great
Your English is brilliant man don't worry!
As a Spaniard, I'm struggling to decide whether to keep making little videos in English or switch to Spanish...
I was already convinced with the English option when you mentioned that Spanish would also be a good language to start, haha.
Thank you though for all your tips! :)
Well, the Spanish speaking audience is also pretty large but of course... English means the whole world is your audience.
Thanks for that!
Definitely difficult although I've been using English for long time I started just 3 months ago most of the audience is not just USA or Europe.
Planning is very important.
"Planning is very important." Yes! 👈🏻 That! 💯
TH-cam recommended this video to me, perhaps they know I was contemplating starting my channel in English :D For me talking in English felt weird, but I thought it maybe sounded even worse when I played it back in edit. And my Finnish speaking audience is 5 million people. That is quite limiting for sure. I have made English subtitles and some seem to use them.
You should ask your audience. I bet they don't mind if you do it in English.
Hey Joris !!! I am starting my channel and I was actually going to make this topic as a video, you were faster ahah! I agree with all you said. But we should always provide content in our native language in my opinion... just not on youtube.
That's a good point actually! Also, adding subtitles in your native language on TH-cam might help. It's extra work, though, and I don't know how good Google translate would do it 😉
@@JorisHermans I though about adding subtitles! But again, I'm with you on all points you mentioned. Theres so much positive in trying to speak english even if it is difficult at the beginning. We should just always remind ourselves that languages like dutch or french have a lot less visibility and therefore needs people to represent fields like yours or mine!
Great work again I really appreciate your content. Some video ideas you put online were in the back of my head for few days so I think I will relate a lot to your channel ! Have an awesome day and keep going :)
My channel I solved publishing both Italian and English videos. The same video two languages. I started English, but I noticed few people brought the modellism theme in Italian, so I added my native language.
If you're curious it's
Deynon Mod
Well I landed here for a reason! From Spanish to English. Not easy, not impossible either. But it is hard hehe.
Goeie video !👌🏻
Ey, Nederlands! komt niet vaak voor hier op mijn kanaal 😉
I've just started a channel in Portuguese. I would love to make videos in English. However, I feel so distant to the international internet community that I don't know how to promote an English speaking youtube channel.
Than you!
like your thinking 🌼🌼
Thanks for this video. I went through the same thought process and I'm getting more comfortable as the process gets easier and easier. Are you going to make more of these or continue with camera and photo/video techniques or both? Just curious because I'll watch anyway.. - Alberto
The focus will always be on photo/video but I’ll keep throwing these kind if videos too once in a while. It’s a different perspective compared to channels that only do these kind of videos so I think they’re useful 😊👊🏻
Volg je kanaal al een tijdje, wist niet dat je Nederlands was!
Verrassing! 😄
I can read and write in english but i find it difficult when it's comes to speeking especially when i want to speek fast! I will start reading laud hoping to improve my speech thanks for positive vibes!
You can do it! The more you practice, the easier it will be 💥👊🏻
i am an norwegian and i have tried to make a youtube channel in my language and its really hard. I maid videoes for like 3-4 years and got 100 subs. and when i see these other english speaking youtubers they get like 10k in their first month
Hey there! I'm a native Spanish speaker, and I uploaded a video 2 years ago, unfortunately, my bachelor degree and also insecurities blocked me from keeping uploading content. It's been half a year since I finished university, and I was thinking of continuing uploading videos, I have a bachelor degree in Political Science, but I have also being involved in tech since I was 7yo because of my dad, I also have a lot of interest for mystery and horror storyies.
Anyway, to not make this thing large, I recently took the time to analyse if I want to keep with my idea of creating content, and I was wondering whether I should upload content in English as it is my second language, or Spanish as my native, and even tho I know Spanish is the 3rd most spoken language or so, and it's a market in continuous growth, I was considering focusing the content in English in order to reach more people and improve my English skills at the same time.
Thank you for this video, it really helped me a lot to clear up my mind.
Helpful!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching 💥👊🏻
The background music is awesome. What is its name?
Awesome advice, Joris. I'm a well known speaker and author in The Netherlands and next year I'll focus more on TH-cam. I'm really in doubt if I should switch to English because my main audience speaks Dutch, but my dream is to become an international speaker about business. I have some traction on my Dutch channel (80+ organic subs p/month) and I'm afraid that I'll loose that if I switch to english on my channel.
Would you advice me to create a new English channel, to combine the channel or to keep creating content in Dutch?
I'm portuguese and i prefer to see videos in english. Good luck with your channel! Keep up the great work! Next video just say "Olá amigos" (Hello Friends) to your portuguese and spanish subscribers! ;)
My girlfriens is from the Dominican Republic. She would definitely like that too 😄
dank je wel!
Graag gedaan 🫡💯
Omg hahaha i like your channel so much since i watched m50 video 😝
What setting I should do to make my English videos available for English speaking countries. I m in Asia.
So, I would like to know if there's something I need to do so the content is properly distributed. I'm from Brazil. I already have a channel in portuguese, but I took as a personal challenge to start one in english. So, here I am. Any tips about that?
I have basically decided i am a fan of yourself and your channel. So i am going to comment on every video you post to show support. (word of warning)
You are like an up and coming peter McKinnon but the advice you give is more practical and hands on. Also your accent is cool, i hear British people all day. It is nice to hear your slant on it and i would encourage any non English speaking TH-camr to give it a go.
As a native British speaker i will always give someone a lot of slack if they are taking the time to impart their wisdom in a manner i can understand.
Does my accent sound like anything? I mean, if you wouldn't know I was from Belgium? Would be interesting to know 😊
@@JorisHermans When i first watched your content. my initial thought was you were European but you had probably lived in the UK for a while as your English is perfect. If you asked me to place where in Europe i would have guessed at the Netherlands. So pretty close i guess... But i was surprised to hear you struggle with English as from my perspective you have got it down! You definitely have an accent, But everyone in the UK has an accent! myself i am from Birmingham so i have that peaky blinders vibe and people would probably find it harder to understand me at times than they would you! For my content i have to focus on speaking clearly and removing alot of slang.
Have you ever heard a drunken scouser speak? (someone from Liverpool) now that is its own language! I think people in the UK are so use to hearing all sorts of people speak English. that no one should be worried about giving it a go on youtube.
I would want to start , but am worried that my english is not good.Thank you for this
If people can understand you there's nothing to worry about. Every video it will get better,
A question I asked myself multiple times... I went for English, but sometimes I'm wonderibg if I should start a channel in Dutch (as well). But for now just focussing on one channel.
Het probleem is dat ik het gevoel heb dat TH-cam hier niet veel betekent. Mensen snappen het niet als ik er over begin. Zeker als ik probeer uit te leggen dat het niet vloggen of 'Fail compilations' is 😂 Het hangt er ook een beetje vanaf wat de bedoeling is van het kanaal...
@@JorisHermans klopt, TH-cam wordt hier nog niet serieus genomen. Je tips kloppen zeker. Maar bij de stap om de mening van anderen te vragen kreeg ik dus de suggestie om het eens in het Nederlands te proberen. Wie weet probeer ik dat wel eens. Maar nog even Engels volhouden en proberen te groeien, dat is al moeilijk genoeg :-). Succes nog!
Joris , its my travel youtube channel , my native language is URDU/Hindi , which language you recommend ? native language or english
Oh interesting, I suspected you were Portuguese, or from Brazil. Great channel!
astudios Interesting! When I travel, people usually think I’m from Spain🤷🏻♂️😄
@@JorisHermans sure! Can totally see it hehe. I'm from Puerto Rico, myself. Just to offer audience context. Thanks for the videos.
Cool, my girlfriend is Dominican... 😉
Hi m8! I wanted to get my english better in long run :D But i'll do silimiar content with Finnish and English. Do i need to have seperate channels for both languages?
Not sure... I guess it would make sense. I don't know how the algorithm will deal with two languages on one channel 🤔
@@JorisHermans so time will only tell =D
i feel you man, i'm from malaysia and speaking non native language is so hard in my brain. especially the mentality here is like, oh you forget your national toungue.
you become that guy that seems like wants to be classy while you just trying other language man urrghhh
It it like that with the younger generation too?
@@JorisHermans yup, you're right. seems like you have the same problem too hahaha. especially i'm still a student
Hey bro im from malaysia too. I totally can relate what you had said about malaysian mentality. If you're looking for someone to practice your english. Lets connect!
Hey Joris, so if youre from Netherland, and you have chosen English as your primary content language, who do you target as an audience? Do you specifically tatget one nation, one region, or who comes, comes?
Btw, Im from Croatia, and right now im using part Croatian part English in my content, I do podcast. When I use Facebook ads for example, who should I target?
Thanks!
Hey Vinko! I’m from Belgium. Same language but different country. 😉 Anyway, I don’t target a specific region. Basically anyone who speaks English. To give you an idea, my analytics say that my audience right now is: 20% USA, 14% India, 5% UK and 5% Canada. Then some European countries at 2% and then the rest of the world...
@@JorisHermans You dont use paid promotion to grow your brand? For example Facebook or Google ads?
Not anymore. I used it a few times to get to 1,000 subs but once I reached that I stopped using it.
I wanna learn about english. But confused and concerned about getting monetized or someone said my videos will not get monetized if i use english languange. Is that true ? I mean... does the english languange affect the monetizing process ?
I was not sure if i should make english or german videos but i feel like i wanna reach as much people as possible so this video convinced me, even tho it's a bit strange and uncomfortable talking to my camera in english. But that kinda is the point of personal growth am i right? 😂
100%. And as long as people can understand you it's fine, doesn't matter if you have a big accent in the beginning 💥
Hello. I have started creating shorts (people's problems, animals that use certain strategy to solve that problem and the third day a famous person using that same principle) and monday, tuesday, and thursday I post them un Spanish, and then thursday, friday, and saturaday in English and sunday a random one. Si far I have posted without missing a day for a month but My numbers are growing slowly. Could the multilanguage be affecting the reach or is it the normal process?
I think it would be better to create two channels because that'll make it easier for YT to figure out your audience.
@@JorisHermans thanks, Guess I will do that
Thank you for this video. It made me motivated to start a channel in english. But I still need to study english") I had a youtube channel with 15k subscribers. I know youtube doesn't support our country but I tried. I got a lot of views. one of my video is over 100k views. but I only got 1$ or 2$ i don't remember exactly. That was hilarious 😂😂 I stopped making content on that channel but I will never regret the time I spent on that channel because I learned a lot💪
You speak English very well. I don’t live far from you and a lot of our countrymen (myself included) have a serious ‘accent’ when speaking English.
Just a small remark, you’ve got your Union Jack wrong, unless you speak English like Shakespeare. The one you show was introduced in 1606 until 1801. The diagonal red stripes of Ireland are not included in the old one. The current Union Jack are the flags of England, Scotland and Ireland merged.
R. Beelen how about that! I didn’t even notice 🤔😄
Goed man Joris, ik dacht de eerste paar seconden dat je een Amerikaan was:)
Thanks! 😄 Belg of Nederlander, jij?
@@JorisHermans Ik ben een Nederlander:).
@@babo5684 Ieuw, bah! 😅 Haha, neenee, leuk dat er meer en meer Nederlandstaligen hun weg naar m'n kanaal vinden! 💥👊🏻
Trilingual here. Even harder to decide. I am afraid of using English because I have a very strong accent, but at the same time the topic I want to discuss on my channel is not very popular between the Italian and Romanian speakers, so that's risky too.
help!
I would definitely suggest English!
Im planning to do travel blogs in english and other personal blogs in Indian language. Is that ok to do both the language in a single channel? Will that affect my growth
I would go for just one language. It might be confusing for the algorithm otherwise.
Imagine being Greek. We are like 12 million worldwide, so i must go with English. Thank you very much for this video, helps a lot
So, I started in my native language, now I switched because I wanna learn and evolve. Question, should I delete old clips in my native?
I did the same, but didn't delete old videos.
I'm dutch to but I'm a bit nervous to start speaking English on youtube i don't know if it will work out...
Just give it a try! If it doesn't work for you, you can always switch back to Dutch no problem! Just keep in mind that it takes a while before you start feeling a bit comfortable... it took me at least 20 videos...
Good contect
Jeje, same issue here. I started mine in Spanish.
I think Spanish is actually OK because there are so many Spanish speaking countries...
Hi from Turkey!! I have a Turkish youtube channel and ıt is very hard to grow up:(I want to start English youtube channel. How often should I upload videos?is it Ideal for growing up twice a week?
I think twice a week is perfect! 👌🏻
@@JorisHermans thanks a lot 🙏🔥
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I disagree. A lot of people will watch videos in a language they don't speak. There are channels in Korean, Japanese and Russian that have huge international audiences who use subtitles. I'm French Canadian and that is a peculiar situation. My 1st language is French but i speak English perfectly. I can't choose because we live in both languages. We speak both languages, sometimes in the same sentence. i pick the language most appropriate according to the topic of the video and i subtitle in the other language. Subtitling is a lot of work though, ugh ... but i cannot leave one language behind. That's just how we live here.
Maybe a lot but definitely not nearly as many. That's a fact for most cases, especially less popular languages
I still want to hear your native Dutch language 😁
Goede video man! Ik overweeg om een tweede TH-cam account te starten (waarop ik m'n huidige content naar het Engels vertaal). Alle content die ik online bekijk, is Engels dus m'n Engels is goed. Ik spreek alleen nooit Engels dus daar zie ik een beetje tegen op. Heb je tips over hoe jij je Engelse uitspraak hebt verbeterd? Ik ben namelijk onder de indruk van hoe goed je Engels is voor iemand waarvan het niet de moedertaal is. Alvast bedankt!
Hey! Gewoon videos in het Engels beginnen maken. Kijkers vinden het noet erg als je met een accent spreekt zolang ze je kunnen verstaan en het is de beste manier om te verbeteren. Gewoon jezelf ff mentaal over het feit zetten dat het niet perfect zal zijn in het begin maar dat hoeft ook niet. Je bent ook altijd veel kritischer voor jezelf. Da’s menselijk. Maar gewoon doen!
@@JorisHermans Daar heb je helemaal gelijk in. Bedankt man, ik ga ermee aan de slag!
In het begin maakte ik altijd volledig uitgeschreven scripts omdat het dan nog wat moeilijker is om spontaan te spreken voor de camera. Ik las die niet letterlijk af maar dan is het makkelijker om je gedachten te “ver-Engelsen”. Hangtver natuurlijk vanaf wat soort video’s je maakt.
@@JorisHermans Dat is inderdaad erg handig om mee te beginnen, dat verlaagd de drempel om te beginnen toch weer een beetje. Het enige andere waar ik een klein beetje tegenop zie is de hoeveelheid concurrentie. Heb jij het idee dat je daar veel last van hebt gehad of valt dat mee door de hoeveelheid vraag naar Engelse content?
Da’s inderdaad een tweesnijdend zwaard. Minder concurrentie in het Nederlands maar ook een veel kleiner publiek. Ik denk toch dat het makkelijker is om te groeien in het Engels. Ik heb alleen maar voordelen ondervonden.
Who's Joanna ?
The best girlfriend in the world!
Chers from Poland! Pozdrowienia z Polski. 😊 My English its very poor🤔😜
It can only improve! 😉
@@JorisHermans Eh.. Maybe.. 😊😉🤔