Intermediate to advanced in a foreign language. How?! | Ask Ikenna
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- In this week's Ask Ikenna I answer the age old question. How do I get over the intermediate plateau in my target language?!
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Ask ikenna: what programs are most effective at learning a language
Thank you for the video, Ikenna! :) Do you have any tips for people who absolutely HATE flashcards? I've tried Anki, Memrise, Quizlet and old-school index cards but finally realized that they just aren't for me. I have ADHD and cannot focus and study in the traditional way. I did like flashcards up until I became somewhat conversational, but now they are torture. I retain new words best through more organic methods such as conversation, music, TV etc. but it's slower and I'm not learning the vocabulary that I want to learn. Please help me get out of intermediate purgatory! Any advice would be great - thank you!!
what do you think about a Wordup app?
@@AleciaLott music? Try listening to music and taking to people online that aren't tutors or something. If you wanna learn Serbian/English/German I you can talk with me :D
Just wanted to say one thing(my story basically in a nutshell). I've thought that I was at A2/B1 Level in German,but I've done like placement test in glossika and it said im B2, I'm so fu*cking happy about it cuz I wanna listen my classes in German (A2 level would also be okay, since it minimum, now quite,again, cuz you need something in between A2 and B1 for my gymnasium). I'm just so happy about it but I don't know how accurate glossika's test is and what is it based on...
1.Immersion
2.Practise
3.Vocabulary
Use it or loose it.
can you make a video on: “Beginner/Elementary to Intermediate” too please??
That's the easiest one, because you progress so fast at the beginning. Just watch movies and videos, use translator if you need and take your time.
the answer will be Pimsleur because that is what he uses to learn a language primarily as a beginner, don't just watch shows that will take a long ass time.
A bit too easy. Get Anki and a textbook. You don't even have to do that, just grind.
He a tually did many videos on how to get started just go through his content!
I am now learning russian. I started like three days ago. I begin with LingoDeer and frequency dictionary and I think this works out pretty well. I hope I can speak, speak read and write well in three months.
The immersion part is really important. For example: I’m not a native english speaker, so I had to study for years this language, but I realized that when I started watching TH-cam videos without subtitles and speaking to people in English, my language skills have improved a lot and now I can talk with anyone in English! I’m trying to do the same for Japanese, but it seems harder because I can’t find many Japanese speakers to talk with me, and I think I’m not ready yet to watch full Japanese TH-cam videos without subtitles.
Same! :D
Try Yuta Aoki on TH-cam. He's a japanese man who actually teaches japanese like it's actually spoken
Knotpye I’ve already being a subscriber from his channel for years, and even started his online course. He is a great teacher.
so you can take advantage by watching gameplays or any other type of video where the person says what they are doing at the moment (like gameplays like I said, cooking, do it yourself ...) and when you feel confident about your language skill, skip to related vlogs and videos
how’s ur japanese now?
everytime I try to use anki or any other language learning app I use it for like 2h in a row for 5 hours straight and I forget about it for like 3 months
sameee ughh
Victória the reason for that is probably because you arent communicating in that langauge regularly to the point it become auto pilot like english
like fot example you understand english right now right imagine if you didnt speak english normally for like years and only time you do is when your learning it that wont work because when you do something regularly you go into auto pilot and you do it withought needing to thinking about it like for english but for others since you havent spoken in it long enough to be in autopilot while speaking it you will just forget it in months maybe weeks.
how to fix this?
simple you use online or basic apps that allow you to speak to people face to face with different people and you do it regularly like once a week or something and yeah basically speak it more because you could easily forget english if you stoped for a few years
like how most people forget their birth langauge when they learn a new langauge
Read books out loud, if u Play video games join discords that are anyhow assosciated with the games and language Ur trying to learn, record Ur voice, watch lots of videos/movies
sameeeeee
Use duolingo. ..but not just the normal learning...they have stories...podcasts...and flashcards too..yes they have it all...use the web version tho
The thing that made everything click for me was when I realized that every word in any language isn’t just translating each word, one by one. A word is a representation of an idea, so when you hear a word, you need to associate it with that idea, so that the idea pops into your brain right when you hear it. It also helps to try to not translate every word one by one when you’re reading. You have you do the first step I said, so that you can read the sentence in one file and try to get the main idea. It really helps, because translating each word one by one and taking your time isn’t nearly as effective
This is something I'm learning too. I used to try and translate each word whenever I hear or read anything in my target language but then I started realizing that it was not effective at all. Now, I just try to get a general idea of what's being said
Ikenna : You should go to [Insert the country of the language you're learning]!
Me : Great. I'm learning Italian and Chinese. Should I go to Italia and China?
Corona : No. :)
"I'd love to go to Japan for uni! Being forced to use it will help my reading speed and improve what I already know, us it's cheaper."
Corona: is it really though?
@@justaperson4656 me:great i am learning english and spanish.Should ı go to U.S.A and Spain
My countries bad economy:Don't even think about that
@@gunesanacak9452 oof that's a whole mood! I don't even have a passport bc our economy is so bad
Italia?
@@justaperson4656 turkey:)
1. Ikenna could be a model, he's literally beautiful
2. The day Ikenna moves on to his next language will be a sad one for me since he'll probably stop using Mandarin in his videos 😭
Biracial Boy what ethnicities are you
I've only been a sub for a few days but I've spent almost the whole of these last 2-3 days binging you vids, and I've learned...
1. Anki
2. Pimsleur
3. No no duolingo (as a main)
Lingodeer is much better than duo, but has less languages
@@alexprus7953 I find lingodeer annoying
I cant explain it but its just an annoying app
Pimsleur and Memrise.
@@layla-fx2dp LingoDeer is better
@@alice4779 How don’t you people fall asleep to Pimsleur? It’s not really engaging at all.
I think another thing that hinders people from progressing further from the intermediate level is that they are already functionally-able in that language--meaning, they are already considered a "speaker of that language". That complacency sets them into an impasse where they are already contented and make no further attempt to progress and basically just turn to another language or even completely stop at their target language because a lot of them are like "heyyy seems like my [insert target language] is already viable, well--on to the next one"
My hardest issue is numbers in whatever language.
I think that’s why the immersion technique becomes very helpful, but you could also target practice numbers too. In Spanish, I never really knew my numbers until I handled currency in a Spanish speaking country and when I handled US currency with Spanish speakers in the US. That type of practice really helped me solifiy my numbers.
I personally feel like numbers are one of the easiest parts of a language. Most people already know some Spanish numbers, Uno dos tres cuatro cinco... Theres always a pattern. Im trying to study Japanese a bit. I already know how count up to 10,000 and ive only studied the numbers for a day or two. You just have to find the pattern.
Awesome 54 yeah in Japanese you don’t say 10*1000 (Ju sen) but you have to say 1 man 2 man for 20000 it’s a little bit weird
Awesome 54 how is your japanese right now ? I just started learning today
@@MusicChillRelax how is your japanese right now ? I just started learning today
*when your still level 1*
You’re*
Level one in English?
Im just trollin😂
I find it funny that most of the time it is native speakers that don’t use your and you’re well. As well as many and much.
@@philippebekkers3225 because we don't care about grammer but someone studying it is really gonna be trying to get it right and it's a youtube comment section who cares
@@philippebekkers3225 and a and an and ´´me and alex´´ instead of ´´alex and i´´ lol but im an English Native tho
Fun fact: My grandparents said something along the lines of "It's good that you're learning another language, those are the types of people who work for the government." Out of all the responses, that was not one I even thought of.
how old are you all
Read newspapers from your target language 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 huge tip from me😂
Thanks for these useful tips!
Man, I love you!! To find your Channel is changing my approach of learning language and the way I face some "obstacle" in my life. Seriously, I don't have words to thank you.
Ps: if I wrote something wrong, sorry. I'm not fluent English yet haha
Thanks!! 👊
I want to thank you cuz i really am stuck in that intermidiate hell on my target language and now that you mentioned it i never really kept track of my vocab so I really thank you for pointing it out 😊
full discretion - haven't watched the vid yet. but i got the notification and had to watch. i have to say, the jump from intermediate to advanced takes sooooooo much longer than it did from beginner to intermediate. this is where the "long haul" aspect of language learning takes place. will come back after the vid to see if ikenna says something similar
Steve Kaufmann also talks about this when he refers to the language "hockey stick". The curve of the stick at the bottom is the beginner to intermediate stage, it's short and you move up quickly. Then, once you hit intermediate, you're on the "shaft" of the hockey stick, which is a long, steady, and slower grind. :)
Depends ob the language
This is extremely useful, THANK YOU SO MUCH!
Just came upon your channel yesterday. Great advice and content! 👍
Practical and informative! Thank you!
This was so helpful! Thank You so much!
Dude, why don't u try Portuguese? Since ya know French and Spanish, learning Portuguese it'll be easier.
Well, if you do, please make a step by step.
Charles de Souza he said Portuguese was one of the 5 next languages in addition to Spanish (that he is currently learning) for the 3 next years.
Isn’t harder to learn a language once you already know a bunch of languages in the same branch? Like obviously if you know French learning Spanish will be easier because they’re both Romance languages. However, once you start learning more don’t you begin to mix up the languages?
Water Bottle No, it’s easier because since the languages are similar the meaning of words that look and sound alike are easier to retain. And on top of that you can connect the new words you are learning to a language you already know.
If you speak English, you can probably pick up one of those Caribbean languages easily. It’s not English, but it’s close enough to where someone who does speak English can understand them even if they don’t know the language.
If you’re not at fluency level, yeah, you can mix them up. Say you don’t remember a word in a certain language, but you remember the word in a different language. You’ll mix them up in that context
I grew up speaking Spanish (as a second language) and I have been distancing myself from the particulars because I really want to master Català, and it's close enough for confusion, if I don't really prioritize it as distinct. Mixing languages is absolutely an issue, when languages become too close. However, I do think the level of phonological difference between German and Dutch, say, make them harder to confuse than Spanish and Italian. I would say European or African Portuguese is probably distinct enough from Spanish to fall somewhere between these examples. I do confuse Brazilian Portuguese, though. My brain treats it too much like Spanish, and listening to it for extended periods frequently messes up my Spanish.
@@NewBlueTrue It is easier to begin but there are many "trick" words between Portuguese and Spanish, currently learning Portuguese has taught me it ain't that easy.
Hey Ikenna,
I hope life is good. Happy new year.
I’ve been learning Spanish for quite a while now. I did a year studying at night school but decided to learn from home after that I keep stopping and starting. I bought your e book a few months ago read it all and I’ve been subscribed to pimsleur for the last 3 months too. I’m struggling with discipline and really think I should be at a better level than I am. I’ve watched a lot of your videos and know I’m doing the right things I think it’s just consistency. X
What you stated is so true Ikenna, so I'm about to immerse myself in my language again, which is Korean. I had kind of immersed myself before, by just listening to music and watching shows, that it got to the point I started dreaming in Korean. I want to see how much Korean I can absorb with immersion this time, so wish me luck!!!! ^_^
Love the thumbnail btw. This video is for me with French. Trying to keep up my current level while trying to pass intermediate level.
Ouais, moi aussi xD
@@b3nny357 ooh cool. French buddies😆
Rehannah Baptiste bonne chance avec le français 👍
@@user-cy6xl3vd3f merci et bonne chance á toi aussi 😊
Rehannah Baptiste merci 😊 for me it’s currently English I’m getting better pretty fast 💪
I’m early but can’t think of a decent comment, what language are you gonna learn next.
I think he is learning Spanish rn
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@@zuriirose he did videos saying he is going to try to learn the language he failed at in school
Rule Britannia, sorry I thought that he had finished😦
I found this helpful. Especially the anki part. Especially hearing about anki so much. But I realize that's a good way to measure ones lexicon.
What's up you are the best as the usual
very useful tips, thanks!
I just wanna play with the chinese peeps on VR chat cus they are the only ones up at 5am.
I like your videos. it's helping me a lot. I can clearly understand you.
I'm Brazilian and trying learn some german as well that's a hobby for me.
Always so helpfull, thanks so much
I forgot almost every word I learned in Spanish at school, so Anki is helping me out a lot.
thanks for this video! I just made my first video in Italian and i feel stuck tbhh, I need to move to italy for a few months to get it more advancedd haha but si far I been journaling in italian and working with native speakers to see how to say what I wrote in a more natural way its definitely been helping!
Wow finally you replied to my requests! The video I kept waiting for!
Ok edit after watching: Thanks for the video I really wanted to have your insight on this. I feel really confirmed in my approach. I really did feel like ai got stuck for a long time and now did go back to the good physical classic flashcard box system. It took way too long to creat them all but so happy it is done I am now on my deck of HSK 5 vocabulary 🙏🏼 The further I get the more I struggle thou to keep memorizing new words while repeating old ones. I when I feel safe about a word I do move it in a "wait 1 / 2 /5 / 8 weeks later" box but the more I continue the more I have to review and notice I also forget sometimes until they are solid enough to put away for 8 weeks etc. But like you mention there is no use of it if you forget previously learned ones.. 🤷♀️
I guess slow but steady wins the race... I'm still impressed by you being able to handle ohone calls in Mandarin! Like damn I still ended up getting the chills when my didi (uber) would call to confirm my location when I was in China 🤦♀️ Was so proud when I managed to confirm that I will come to the school gate to pick up my delivery food 🤣 But then at least I knew the topic!
It's besond me that you picked up on this language so fast.. I did invest a lot into studying how to text / read which I know you didn't but still... Envy you!
I relate so much to the thing about the 外卖 guy. Don't be too hard on yourself, Ikenna has made learning languages his career, if Chinese is just a hobby or side interest you can't hold yourself to the same standard. 加油！
Neon Wombat Well I do take my language learning pretty seriously actally and I have been in China for a decent amount of time too actually so it's still kinda harsh seeing someone becoming fluent so fast who has never been in China even!
But I mean I have always struggled with languages. I know most people say that but it's really true for me I first started creating sentences at 3 and only became alright in my mothertongue once I learned reading around 6-7yo! Had a hearing problem which was not diagnosed early enough. And was put into the German extra classes with all foreign kids that had to catch up with the local language 🤦♀️ Without my diagnose I really just felt treated like a mentally challenged kid so yey me chosing a TONAL LANGUAGE to learn how to pick up languages 😂😂😂
@@JustLIkerapunzel Fair enough, we each have our own challenges. I find being consistent the hardest haha, anyway, keep it up, I'm sure you'll get there :)
@@neon_wombat Thanks :) I hope so too! At least I am now at the stage that I can start to watch shows just using Mandarin subtitles so that's exciting!
This is super helpful, thank you Ikenna, I have bee studying french for the past 7 years, I lived in Normandy for 5 months in 2014, and I’ve been stuck in this intermediate level for so long. I watch movies and shows in French, but I need to more often. My biggest issue is I don’t know anyone who speaks french here where I live.
There are apps where you can find people to talk with but I’ve forgotten their names
thank you ikenna!
thank you for this video this is exactly where I am! I don't know exactly but I think I am A2 or B1 in Spanish and I am living in Madrid for the year but I feel like I am not progressing. I recently started using Anki though so that is good. Practicing is difficult cause I don't know anyone
Yo, I'm in a similar spot. Been in Madrid a few months and am having a hard time finding people that aren't expecting me to be their "English speaking friend".
Brandon Armstrong kinda same. I have been going to uni in Madrid and been here in Spain in general since July and I feel like I speak so infrequently without people switching to English on me that I am honestly losing my ability to speak as well as I could before.
maybe go on an app like hellotalk find ppl from the same area in Madrid as you, meet up and have a language exchange
im just entering B2 spanish.. hoping for C1 by the end of the year and a trip to a Spanish speaking country as well.. good luck
I love you ikenna ♥️youre so helpful and intellectual
Finally youtube is not drunk.
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@@johnxd5116 😂
| Thank you for the motivation!
so sweet your mom finding people for you to practice Chinese with
Your great person and useful so thanks
I've been learning Japanese for 6 or 7 months and just learning kanji, some vocab and grammar so for next year I can study hard and get immersed 😀
Wish you all the best with your Japanese journey! I want to learn it as well :)
頑張って！
@@coolpenguin5863 what does that mean ?
@@monicaant.1422 it means goodluck
@@coolpenguin5863 あなたは日本人ですか
You’re an inspiration, hope you know this
Finished the video, then your own ad started playing xd
I normally do active Anki in these steps:
See the card and then, recorder yourself using it in other ways/contexts.
It helps me a lot!
If there's someone else who has the same goal on achieving C1, here i am :)
Thanks for the video. I will check out Anki
Speaking of Anki, do you know of a way to keep separate Anki decks for different languages, while avoiding the risk of having "double" cards because the languages happen to have a word in common or even a word that just happens to be written the same? Because I haven't found a way to do that easily, other than maybe adding the initials of the language between brackets after the word so Anki thinks they are different. To give a specific example, I have been studying Spanish (and will be for the foreseeable future), but what if I want to improve my French or pick up Portuguese? What can I do to keep their vocabularies fully separate in the eyes of Anki, other than what I already described?
This is insane. I went on youtube to look up taking a step from intermediate to advanced and this video is the first thing i see.
Hi. Thank you for information.
In all seriousness, I don't believe anyone can achieve a C1 without complete immersion. B2, yep, but not C1.
Me a teenager, 😭
I don’t think so tbh
This was a nice video to watch. I'm doing Swedish and struggling to get from intermediate to a more advanced level and today was one of those days where I was like "do I have a learning disability?" 😅
My goal for next year is to push past my intermediate plateaus in a couple important languages. I've been gathering videos on just this topic, and here you released one for me, right on my birthday! 🙃
@Alfredo Müller Etxeberria Respectfully, I believe my plateaus arise from a different source, which is shared by many (especially in less commonly taught languages or nonstandard dialectical varieties of a language). Most accessible formal resources for these languages are aimed at providing the rough equivalent of two years' college study in a language. Pedagogy has a way of standardizing what people have access to and what they have not. They may provide additional grammar resources, beyond this point, but grammar is hardly the be all and end all of comprehension. As a person who began in Sanskritics and has many dead languages under her belt, I can attest to the difference between what it is to "know" a language and to actually understand it, as it passes in real time (even in reading).
@Alfredo Müller Etxeberria One of the most important things to do, in cases like this, is to change one's frame of reference and motivation, to rely on more primary source material and to focus on mastering different kinds of things than one began with.
Great Video.
非常 好 tips 大 人.
muy bein.
I have been stuck at lower advanced level in English for a while now. I have never been to an English speaking country and I have been teaching myself. Movies, books and talking to native speakers have helped a lot.(My cousins are native English speakers).
The other problem I have been facing is I am not able to apply the tactics I used to learn English on the other languages I am learning which are Spanish(A2-B1) and Chinese(A2). I think it is because I reached a long time ago; I reached B1 level by the time I was 11 or 12 and B2 by the age of 15 or 16, now I am about 20 something. And I started this languages about 2 years and few months ago.(On and off though).
Your video definitely helps. Gracias . 谢谢 你 大人.
I love your channel and can't wait for mine to be like yours or better!
I'm learning english and I'm immersed in your channel
thank you so much for this im learning french for tis
Ayat Sabil do everything he says in the video. Et tu pourras aisément parler la langue de Molière. Ahah I’m learning English I’m intermediate, and also learning Japanese since, TODAY.
@Ikenna Please look Vera Birkenbihl and her method to learn a language. Thats basically to decode the text with the language you want to learn to your language then hearing the text with a audio every day. The idea is with this decode(word by word translation) method to think in this language and not just to learn vocabs and to learn like newborns. They are hearing the language like english every time by their mothers or whatever and step by step learn the language
Yes immersion, surround yourself with that language to the point you're sick of it 😁. Is like going to gym the next thing u know your muscles pops off before u even realize it
Thanks man
Do you recommend to list ALL vocabulary which you learned or heard and put them in ONE deck or would you build decks for different topics or even situations in which you heard them. For instance, you heard the word „guilty“ in a movie and some others and put them in a category „movie xyz“
It's all about living that language, not 'studying' it. Improving all 4 skills, not just speaking, but reading obsessively, going after the low-frequency words and phrases.
Heyy thanks! Downloaded anki.
Do you recommend the front to be the foreign language or english? (Or maybe mixed? - though then it will be hard to count)
Awesome
Thx for the vid! I’m curious, how is it possible to observe all the words in anki if there are a lot? Im referring only to numbers like 2-3k (mentioned in the vid) that’s surely difficult to seize all of them even in a regular practice and it’s like the never ending thing 🥸 or just do little by little and it doesn’t matter if person can’t manage going through all 2-3k?
I liked this video. Actualy the language that i´m learning is english. I can hear quite well peaple speaking, but when im gonna talk, i just cant remeber the right words to say it on that context. And i speak to slow. So im gonna try to do this.
I’ve got 200 words in my Anki deck so far, which I feel pretty good about because I’ve only started a few days ago
thanks to the notification
i've taken chinese for this semester i am now scared lmao
leila nemma If it helps I thinknitnis better than french 🤣
@@JustLIkerapunzel wow, do you think French is harder than Chinese? But they (English and French) have the same alphabet, even if the worst thing when it comes to learning it sure it will be the pronunciation, though :/
@@PedroHenrique-zz7ko There's no language that is harder bro :)
@@JustLIkerapunzel lmao I'm french so ....
@@joses.4078 it's true that french is difficult but as a french girl I find it easy!
You looks like a litle The Wayne Rock Jhonson , Nice ✌
What are you're thought on learning two languages at the same time.For some reason my brain is picking up Spanish and Japanese. Huge fan Ikenna keep doing your thing.
He has a video on this my friend. Just type "ikenna 2 languages at a time" into TH-cam and you'll find it.
I clicked as soon as I saw de notification
I do forget a lot of words.when learning languages. Now it is time for me to practice my digital flash cards. I do like to forget the words that are so uncommon though.
Is there some kind of an app or stuff where you can take an exam or quiz of sort and gauge how many words you know this particular language?
your videos are very helpful. I want to reach from b2 to c1 and find it very hard what should I do. I read books sometimes I ask myself. I need these words to know them?
It seems that I am actually in the middle of the intermediate level by the moment.
Great video, and how many languages can you speak? And how many languages can you write in?
How about memrise? It is esentiell to learn by active recalling insread of just active remembering. I use memrise for few days now and I‘m not sure if it is the eight system to get rhe vocab in the correct way in your mind. What‘s your experience?
By the way: The app for anki is exorditornary expensive, memrise is free (almost)
Have you watched the video from @MattvsJapan about when to retire words on Anki? He’s a big Anki fan but talks about the tyranny of flash cards when you reach a higher fluency and large vocabulary. Because of all the reviews, he was reaching a point where Anki was taking up too much of his day and interfering with general immersion. He realized once the review time for the word was longer than the frequency he’d be exposed to it in regular use of the language, it was time to retire that Anki card. This is all to say Anki is a tool to improve efficiency in memory but the goal should be to eventually retire all your cards and learn through the language.
Sono d’accordo oppure potresti usare LingQ. Una delle mie applicazioni preferite per imparare le lingue.
thanks, i needed this
wow im 2nd
Honestly, the real thing that got me to fluency was to watch youtube videos in my target language without subtitles. And if you want to only watch videos in your target language, let's say Russian, then what you need to do is to create a new Google account and when you first connect on TH-cam, with this new Google account you need to subscribe to a channel from the country from which you want to learn from. For example, if I'm learning Russian, then i would create a new google account, and then i would first subscribe to a Russian youtube channel. I would then only have russian youtube videos. So, yeah, do this and in 9 months to 1 year, you can get pretty freaking fluent i swear. That's what i did and it worked. Hope this helps :).
Any chance you could share your Anki decks?
ikenna, could you summarize onlinetutormaster in a few words please? Many thanks, Andy.
Ikenna have you used novels for language learning?
I wonder too...
I just wanna be able to speak like this dude! 😭
I've been learning Dutch as an American for several years, with the last year or so being the most active and disciplined. I currently use Duolingo, talk to native speakers (family) and just got Anki. What other programs or methods will help me get into the B1 area? I assume I'm A2, and A1 for sure.
Devan Douwes Duolingo is definitely much better than not doing anything, but something more structured like Pimsleur or Assimil is much better if you can spend some money. He recommends these two programs all the time.
I'm French i try to learn English (first and Japanese then), but i don't know where find a "good native speaker" for learn me as good away. That make sense? Anyway you give me more motivation for learn more faster.
So, how do you track those words, if you don't wanna learn single words? I mean, when I use anki, I put in these short phrases. I've always been taught that learning singular words is a very bad idea, because the meaning could be slightly different and it can have different meanings, depending on the context.
Hi !!
Firstly I would like to tell how much I like your video's ! It's truly talk to me and I like them all, keep going on your work and I wish you the best 😃.
Secondly this one talk to me a lot because I'm in a really weird situation... I a French guy from the Caribbean Sea in A small island who's name is (Guadeloupe). I have learned English.. "passively"(series, video games...) And now I can clearly "understood"(or understand?) Native people. So I can read and understand clearly but when I wan to express my self... It's... Pure hell and nightmare... T.T
I want to improve my skills but just don't now where to start...
how if i have learned this language for quiet a while without anki, so what do i do? should i just use it and just write some new words or i write first every word i remember or what? grazie...
I've thought that I was at A2/B1 Level in German,but I've done like placement test in glossika and it said im B2, I'm so fu*cking happy about it cuz I wanna listen my classes in German (A2 level would also be okay, since it minimum, now quite,again, cuz you need something in between A2 and B1 for my gymnasium). I'm just so happy about it but I don't know how accurate glossika's test is and what is it based on...
I'm currently learning french and the most difficult thing is keeping up with the speed of french people. By the time I understand one sentence they've already said 2 more. Has anyone else experienced this when learning french and any tips to overcome it??
Thank you for this video
I'm from Russia and I can't visit another country. My family and my friends can't speak English. So sometimes I just imagine that I'm famous dancer/signer and talking with myself. Another way of practice is notebook where I write only on English. And I always watch videos on language I learn.
Хаширама Сенджу Я чувствую то же самое, а Я Американец хотящий научать русский
Based on your comment, your English seems to be coming along quite nicely! Keep up the good work, support from America.
Hey who is also learning japanese, do yall have any good japanese youtubers/vloggers (who vlog in japanese)? Also, if anyone has any good indie/ harder rock or even metal japanese artists that would be awesome. I have a hard time finding good japanese music that's not jpop/anime songs. Or if anyone knows any good folk artists too that shit is my jam
Hi Ikenna, I need you help man, I'm nature speak brazilliam portuguese and study english but I don't know speak good. I can understand 80 porcents what do you say, but to me speak is so hard. Do you have any recomandations for me? Sorry about my writing, I do my best
Is Babbel a good substitute for Pimsleur at a beginner level?
Are your Anki decks English > Mandarin or Mandarin > English? And do you put in sentences or single words?
Well.. I was in an international School. So, I had to know at least 3 or 4 languages. The hardest languages i know were Arabic, English, Urdu. English wasn't hard but then I transferred to another country which was France. Then I had to learn français and man it was the easiest out of all. I even forget some words of my own mother language. I'm native speaker in Arabic and English (U.S). I can understand french and write it too but speak it.. is just not right..