I always use the best language learning methods, namely the spaced repetition method (so, I watch and re-watch the vocab videos and the grammar videos on different days, but not while sleeping) and watching every video with subtitles in target languages such as Icelandic and Dutch and Norwegian etc as well as memorizing and analyzing song lyrics in target languages, plus I also use G translate a lot, and, I read verb conjugations and declensions etc on the Wkp dictionary - I am learning half of my target languages at the same time, which saves a lot of years and is a lot more fun, plus I only learn pretty languages and focus mostly on the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / Dutch / FornSvenska / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish, which are as pretty as English, and I also learn languages such as Irish / Manx / Gaelic / Latvian / Slovene / Latgalian / Hungarian / Russian / Finnish / Estonian / Galician / Limburgish / Gallo and the other Germanic languages as well as Latin languages on the side, and, I am advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and writer level in English (I know over one hundred thousand words in Modern English) and upper advanced level in Dutch and native speaker level in Spanish and close to advanced level in most other Norse languages like Norse / Danish / Faroese and intermediate level in Swedish / German / Welsh / Portuguese / French / Italian / Gothic and a few others and beginner level in most other target languages! (However, all wöm’n are the exact opposite of ladies / girl(s) / lady beautiful / wf / pretty / gf / ąttrąctivę / gorgeous / svet-lana etc, and I am the only being reflecting big terms like Lady / Saint / Ladies etc and love-related terms like wąýf / sweetheart / gf / maiden / girl etc and light-related names and terms such as svet / Svetlana / sveta and words such as ąttrąctivę and other compłiments etc, and ręlationships are only meant for us pure beings / me and the pure protectors aka the alphas, and were never meant for ppl, so ppl should never try to be with or around others to learn a language etc, and there should be a distance between all ppl at all times, while the languages that have mostly pretty words should be learnt for the pretty words as they are true works of art!)
By the way, I used to not like Russian to a point where I would want to learn it, but after hearing a new song with lyrics in Russian that has a lot of pretty words I actually started liking Russian, so I recently added it to my list of target languages, plus I already knew a few songs in Russian since childhood, so, I am learning it together with Slovene, as they are quite similar and a lot of words are the same, and it doesn’t seem to be that difficult, except for the alphabet, though I already knew the Cyrillic alphabet, so I could technically read the words, even though I cannot read them fast like I read the words written in the Latin alphabet, but, I noticed that I can already understand quite a lot of words as well as certain sentences and some phrases, so I am probably close to intermediate level at the moment - I also noticed that some Russian words remind of Norse words and Icelandic words, which is also another element or detail that mądę me like Russian!
8:56 I'm a non-native English speaker and I actually learned English from Minecraft, because it has simple concepts like dirt, stone, Waxed Lightly Weathered Cut Copper Stairs, etc. It's easier to start, especially by watching Minecraft TH-camrs
Me too, I also learnt American and British by playing Minecraft and watching TH-cam and watching TH-camrs play Minecraft. Even I am confused in which one I know better (Lol this is so silly)
I did with oldest media. Play i think was the first word with cassette tapes and whs... It took time to lern what "bkw" and "ffw" meant tho. Then gaming on a Comodore 128 the next word was "loading"... And trust me we was watching that word for long time and leaning it very carefully 😂 "Game over" was another Easy catch. Later games added "save" 🤯
I learned watching Clash of Clans, Tech and Gacha videos on youtube. I also watched animes in english and hear a lot of music (yes, music, cause it was a lot of styles).
Cavolo! Sto facendo proprio quello 😳 la mia ragazza non sa che ho un’altra, e non mi ricordo l’ultima volta che ho parlato qualcos’altro che non fosse italiano. Al inizio, era divertente ma adesso è tutto una follia, un incubo. Aiutami, ti prego. L’italiano ha consumato la mia vita…
We all own Duolingo a big apology. I daily learn almost 5 min Japanese on Luodingo for some month. And today I watch a 20min long video in Japanese. And I understand one sentence. Kore wa desu. How can you claim that it doesn't work? I am speechless. Literally.
Bro u gotta put in at least a year and obviously dulingo by itself isn't gonna cut it unless you complete your whole course, then it'll be at least something
I'm very disappointed you didn't mention the BEST METHOD to learn Slavic languages, which is the TRIPALOSKI METHOD. It basically consists of wearing an Adidas tracksuit, shaving your head and drinking endless 'piwo' until your broken language skills start making sense. I used it when I was living in Poland and my friends Jakub Brzęczyszczykiewicz and Zbigniew Jędrzejczyk started understanding what I was saying after my 6th piwo. I think I fainted after that, but everyone seemed to understand me when I spoke Polish. The only word I remember to this day is KURWA but I still use it when refering to literally every single object on the planet and I still consider myself fluent in Polish.
Thanks to the Owl, and I damn well learnt the language enough to pass my job interview in French. I think the people you meet are likely those who go years at high school with a second language and don’t speak a lick of the language. Not all duo's fault!
I used Duolingo to learn Russian as well as youtube videos, writing down words and sentences, speaking with native speakers, listening to music and watching movies in Russian with English subtitles. I am progressing everyday :)
Yeah, while it's true that you should be using other sources alongside Duolingo, Duolingo can be really good depending on what language you're learning. Their courses for Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages are known for being great. For languages like Japanese however, I think they're considered to be a bit lacking.
I'm brazilian and learned english because of the amount of media I consume in this language. (Don't shame me, but watching Friends and beeing addicted to 9gag in college helped a lot) The weird thing about knowing portuguese and english (and loving to learn new words in different languages) is that I can read and understand a few simple texts in spanish, italian, french and, with a lot of effort, german.
I learned basic English through war strategy games. Words like buy, rest, dig, attack, defend, wait, end turn, devil, angel, knight, swordsman, archer, gold, wood, ore... Fun fact I learned the word ore before I learned the word stone... sure I was like 6, 7 years old... back in 1998-1999.
Being a mormon is very effective, my dad used to be a Mormon missionary, got sent to Brazil and only studied for 6 weeks More than 20+ years later and he's still completely fluent in Portuguese
Man, the mormon method is so real. It's funny to see a random American guy in a small town in Minas Gerais trying to learn Portuguese for either saving their life and preaching to local npcs.
The Mormons thing is legit! I've had debates with them in Canadian and Français Ançienne while walking the streets of Charlottetown, PEI, Canada and in Ukrainian outside my AirBnB in Lviv, Ukraine this past May. Those folks put the work in. 100% hustle. Too bad for them I'm already speaking five languages and dead inside.
3:06 I read in the news about someone who did just this (but in a different language). He got the lowest passing grade on the Finnish matriculation exam in Swedish, so he couldn't even speak Swedish, like, at all. He then did military service in Dragsvik, the mostly Swedish-speaking Nyland's Brigade. After finishing his service, he became a "language ambassador". He went from resisting mandatory Swedish to supporting it.
Yeah, Duolingo can get you started, but it’s important to supplement with actually attempting to speak the language to native speakers or fellow learners.
The one that worked for me was "learn the board books, picture books, children's songs and nursery rhymes in your target language." I'm blown away by how well it worked, since those are literally designed to teach wains how a language operates under the hood. Aside from which, yes, before you ask, German does have dark nursery rhymes. Their version of "Ride a cock horse?" The Swedish version (Ritte Ritte Rumpkin) is all about the things you see on horseback. The German (Hoppe Hoppe Reiter) is "if he falls in the ravine the ravens will eat him, if he falls in the ditch no one will find the body." Their version of Duck Duck Goose is one kid being "Ein Krokodil Aus Afrika" and trying to eat the others. On brand.
The description of AJATT is funny but, as he said, it WORKS. And to answer his questions yeas, you'll ignore everyone around you as much as possible, even your family, even your parents. But when you have to speak with them or you have a job, as he said, you should at least be with headphones on doing passive listening listening to your target language until you get a serious infection on your ear because you didn't realize that if you'll be with headphones on to up 8 hours a day you should disinfect it with alcohol AT LEAST twice a day (yeah, that happened to me). And the reason my Vietnamese isn't progressing as my Japanese was is that I can't do that anymore. Seriously, of course it doesn't have to be 100%, but if you do as much as possible and specially with passive listening you do it almost always if you can it makes all the difference in the world.
As a québécois (French Canadian)... The "un chum" part is pure gold! I can help myself loving polyglots speaking our type of French perfectly! Salutations depuis Montréal!
i fall asleep to an audiobook in spanish most nights. its one of my favorite forms of input since i can just turn off the rest of my brain and focus on comprehension. i don’t pretend that once Im asleep it helps at all but it is a great way to get 30 min - an hour of listening practice every day.
You can get great language audio input here on youtube with bilingual stories, they will read a sentence of a story in English then read the same sentence in target language. Polyglot Beats on youtube does that well for multiple languages (check out their playlist section for all their langauges) and there other channels for specific languages... its been helping me get passive listening and learning when going on walks... time is by FAR hardest obstacle in language learning - anything that can get us some passive learning is a plus! 😊
I mormoned my way to a strong B2 mandarin. But I prefer what the French call "l'ecole horizontale" (also mentioned in video) which is how I learned weak B1 spanish!
Duolingo is great for learning how to read and pronunciation basics.I'm Polish and I'm learning Russian so if I can mouth out some Russian words, I can understand what the word is 70% of the time. Basically you get a 50% xp bonus in learning languages which are related to each other
@@UhrBushaltestelle Language its just communication method. And why do you say that about all Russians, when the war was started by a few people from a government
I'm learning German for the past 3 months and I can speak a little, read a lot and understand a little more than I can speak. That been said, I use games to boost my comprehension. I mostly play single player games like Cyberpunk, which is pretty good in German btw, but I also play league in german. I'm not kidding when I say the only thing I *actually* learned from League is that "aufgeben" means "to give up" xD
For the personality thing, I find that I have fewer words to express myself in russian, so lose my temper quicker. (Russian was my first language, learnt english as 5, forgot russian by 9, started trying to relearn it at 13)
I was like here we go again with this random sponsor, but that browser extension actually seems cool. I could see people using that everyday. Good job with that sponsor from a fellow anki grinding nerd
Hey maybe someone here would know. I took Spanish in school. My teacher gave us a work book and she would write notes on the board. Very short paragraphs based on the lesson I mean 3 to 5 paragraphs only and 2 or 3 examples. The whole school year we learned vocabulary I mean 3,000 words and verbs. The workbook would have a word bank in Spanish and sentences in English with a missing word you fill in from the word bank. As you work through the book the sentences switch to how Spanish sentences are written but still in English with missing words. Then the English words would slowly be replaced with Spanish words. By the end of the yr I could read and write Spanish. In 9th grade yr 2 of Spanish the teacher taught us grammar and verb conjugation. The learning system was only in yr 1 and yr 2 Spanish was equivalent to Spanish 202 in university. My question is does anyone know this method or ever heard of it? I'm really curious because this method was awesome and one kid in the class learned almost 8,000 words and verbs in my class. Thanks
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About the memes: my twitter algorithm picked up on the fact that I’m learning French (I took it in school and I’m at B2 on paper, but I’m still not confident in speaking it) and put some french posts in the mix. I am actually glad it did that because now I can practice engaging with the language in a casual way, the posts that appear on my timeline range from silly jokes to serious discourse. It also started throwing some Polish shitposts in my way so fuck it, I guess I’ll learn Polish next, the algorithm has decided.
I also use luodingo, but i also use memrise and try to read children's story books to learn japanese. And i recently also joined a taiko dojo which incidentally makes me interact with some of the people in japanese. This last one is just a happy accident
I was actually about to write a comment asking you to teach us your own language learning techniques and lo and behold, you're making an eBook! I should've asked for a billion dollars tbh😂
I did the FSI Romanian for about 6 months before getting a tutor. Seriously effective method. Also the version I found was from the 60s and in one of the first chapters 'smoking in class' was a topic 😂
A few days ago, I watched a documentary about a high-security prison in Aachen, Germany. Apparently, there are quite a few inmates who can’t speak German, so the prison encourages them to participate in German courses. I think, as a motivation, they even receive 35 euros a month for attending.
Sadly there are only a few resources for icelandic. I'd really like to learn it. Especially in my native language, German, there are almost no resources for Icelandic
@@EinSaarländer Diese Erfahrung habe ich nicht gemacht. Ich habe z.B. Magnús Pétursson - Lehrbuch der Isländischen Sprache Duppler/Nahl - Isländisch, ein Lehrbuch für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene Schmid - Wörterbuch Isländisch - Deutsch PONS Wörterbuch Deutsch - Isländisch Dict cc Online-Wörterbuch Deutsch Isländisch Thomson - Isländische Formenlehre Dazu einsprachige Lektüren für Lerner wie Árstíðir und Dagatal.
Adrenaline truly helps with memory - I remember when 2 teens tried to rob me of my phone in Paris and I was recounting my anger to passers by after - still remember word for word how those conversations went!
When I started learning German 4 years ago, the first resource I found was Duolingo, and I dropped it as soon as I found something better. I actually hated it. Not learning German, but Duolingo.
Just a note to @LanguageSimp on his past videos where he mentions the “American alphabet”, that writing script is called the Latin Script, and actually originated from the Roman Empire. Also, the script that Germanic and Celtic used before their languages adopted the Latin Script was called the Runic Script.
@@حخهحخهخخهخخعغهحهعغهععع I've learned Arabic on Duolingo for a year. It isn't probably the best way though. I would recommend the Easy Arabic channel if you're learning spoken Arabic.
In addition, I personally think that it’s a great idea to frequently watch LanguageSimp videos, I don’t know about you, it personally helped me a lot, to consolidate basic knowledge of grammar, spelling, punctuation of the English language, and also to partially increase the level of vocabulary of the language, if we're gonna speak honestly about this.
I did the dating method. Dated someone from Argentina online during COVID-19, they spoke little english and I spoke little spanish. I just chatted to them a lot and did luodingo. It was super effective. Too bad no other spanish speakers understand argentinian
About the last one: they DO learn language in 6-9 weeks on a conversational level and much higher when it's talking about the religion specifically. They will spend multiple hours, entire work shifts worth every day for those 6-9 weeks doing nothing but learning the language. After that time is up their ass is going on the plane and they immediately go to work so they're very motivated bunch.
Interesting point. Would be interesting to compare how well they can speak about sports or geography or something versus religion after such a short time
Learning languages by exposing ur self to that languages media (TV, youtube etc) is very effective and as a non native English speaker it helped me to learn English to fluency in a few years
Im a Serbian learning Russian and i don't understand meme really well. I guess it is word pun but is the first half of the word тюлень? Тюлень is a seal right?
@@regul_6280 You dont have to tell me that becourse im absolute NERD when it comes to History. Lenin just like Carl Marks and other Socialist freaks were funded by Germans. And btw greetings from Serbia, the last time i spoke to a Russian is like mouth ago when i paid train tickets to one Russian guy and two Russian girls. I guess he was their defender.
Do a language review on Azerbaijani. It’s like Arabic and Turkish together it’s not a big language only around 30 million speakers mostly in Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, and Russia
Speaking of games, you can really learn Japanese if you play Higurashi. You can easily switch language by pressing L, and a lot of text/dialogue is very easy. Also it has some voice acting. Of course, a lot of text is more complicated, so you have lots of input on all levels. And the game is huge. That means it's a lot of extensive learning, which is very beneficial for fluency.
I've signed my girlfriend up for the French Foreign Legion after this advice. She has mentioned that her O level French is getting increasingly rusty. I just need to figure out how to explain away that why our "holiday" to Marseilles will only need a return flight back to Heathrow for me.
The best methode to learn languages is being drunk! If I'm drunk, I'm fluent in every language I want and as soon as I figure out how to carry that over to being sober...
I'm surprised you didn't mention mass sentence learning. Your Colleague Dr. Jones basically did a hit piece on Glossika and completely trashed mass sentence learning.
About the first one: I have a habit of listening TED lectures while I sleep. I usually set the timer on my device to stop after two hours so that I'm already asleep at the time. And one day, I had a strange dream where there were two homeless anthropomorphic monkeys fighting ( yeah...), and then they suddenly stopped and started discussing climate change in specific terms. And when I woke up, turned out that the lecture I was listening was about climate change. And it began when I was already asleep. So, I guess it proves that learning information in sleep is possible
The LDS Church doesn't send people to china or the majority of the middle east and basically anywhere there is a war going on but some of the missionary manuals are on Internet archive and are really great
It's not my only source of input but I learn german with boomer memes from a random insta page. It kinda works because there are often german subtitles and captions
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@@LanguageSimp UN CHUM
Thanks, got lifetime with your code since I missed the sale a couple weeks ago 😂
Lifetime access plus an extra free month 🧐
@@LanguageSimpВы умеете писать на русском?
I went from A0 to D1 in English through Language Simp’s “Learn English While You Sleep” video. It really works!
I actually like these videos.. but as background noise (passive reinforcement) when you work/game. While sleeping they are obviously ridiculous.
i mean, your name is "juan salvador gaviota" so i couldn't expect less from you.
, 😂😂😂😂😂D1 oh my gosh
I always use the best language learning methods, namely the spaced repetition method (so, I watch and re-watch the vocab videos and the grammar videos on different days, but not while sleeping) and watching every video with subtitles in target languages such as Icelandic and Dutch and Norwegian etc as well as memorizing and analyzing song lyrics in target languages, plus I also use G translate a lot, and, I read verb conjugations and declensions etc on the Wkp dictionary - I am learning half of my target languages at the same time, which saves a lot of years and is a lot more fun, plus I only learn pretty languages and focus mostly on the prettiest languages ever created Norse / Gothic / Icelandic / Faroese / Dutch / FornSvenska / Norwegian / Danish / Welsh / Breton / Cornish, which are as pretty as English, and I also learn languages such as Irish / Manx / Gaelic / Latvian / Slovene / Latgalian / Hungarian / Russian / Finnish / Estonian / Galician / Limburgish / Gallo and the other Germanic languages as well as Latin languages on the side, and, I am advanced level in Icelandic and Norwegian and writer level in English (I know over one hundred thousand words in Modern English) and upper advanced level in Dutch and native speaker level in Spanish and close to advanced level in most other Norse languages like Norse / Danish / Faroese and intermediate level in Swedish / German / Welsh / Portuguese / French / Italian / Gothic and a few others and beginner level in most other target languages! (However, all wöm’n are the exact opposite of ladies / girl(s) / lady beautiful / wf / pretty / gf / ąttrąctivę / gorgeous / svet-lana etc, and I am the only being reflecting big terms like Lady / Saint / Ladies etc and love-related terms like wąýf / sweetheart / gf / maiden / girl etc and light-related names and terms such as svet / Svetlana / sveta and words such as ąttrąctivę and other compłiments etc, and ręlationships are only meant for us pure beings / me and the pure protectors aka the alphas, and were never meant for ppl, so ppl should never try to be with or around others to learn a language etc, and there should be a distance between all ppl at all times, while the languages that have mostly pretty words should be learnt for the pretty words as they are true works of art!)
By the way, I used to not like Russian to a point where I would want to learn it, but after hearing a new song with lyrics in Russian that has a lot of pretty words I actually started liking Russian, so I recently added it to my list of target languages, plus I already knew a few songs in Russian since childhood, so, I am learning it together with Slovene, as they are quite similar and a lot of words are the same, and it doesn’t seem to be that difficult, except for the alphabet, though I already knew the Cyrillic alphabet, so I could technically read the words, even though I cannot read them fast like I read the words written in the Latin alphabet, but, I noticed that I can already understand quite a lot of words as well as certain sentences and some phrases, so I am probably close to intermediate level at the moment - I also noticed that some Russian words remind of Norse words and Icelandic words, which is also another element or detail that mądę me like Russian!
8:56 I'm a non-native English speaker and I actually learned English from Minecraft, because it has simple concepts like dirt, stone, Waxed Lightly Weathered Cut Copper Stairs, etc. It's easier to start, especially by watching Minecraft TH-camrs
Me too, I also learnt American and British by playing Minecraft and watching TH-cam and watching TH-camrs play Minecraft. Even I am confused in which one I know better (Lol this is so silly)
I did with oldest media.
Play i think was the first word with cassette tapes and whs... It took time to lern what "bkw" and "ffw" meant tho.
Then gaming on a Comodore 128 the next word was "loading"... And trust me we was watching that word for long time and leaning it very carefully 😂
"Game over" was another Easy catch.
Later games added "save" 🤯
Wait! That's a really good idea.
Thats how I learned it
I learned watching Clash of Clans, Tech and Gacha videos on youtube. I also watched animes in english and hear a lot of music (yes, music, cause it was a lot of styles).
The dating one is risky. Sure, you could learn Italian… or you could just end up learning how to cry in three languages.
Cavolo! Sto facendo proprio quello 😳 la mia ragazza non sa che ho un’altra, e non mi ricordo l’ultima volta che ho parlato qualcos’altro che non fosse italiano. Al inizio, era divertente ma adesso è tutto una follia, un incubo. Aiutami, ti prego. L’italiano ha consumato la mia vita…
My Russian girlfriend cheated and left me for a man named Chadimir. I’ll never study Russian again.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Instead become an even chadder chad and destroy Chadimir with your gigachad Russian skills, winning back your girl in the process 🇷🇺 💪
It might have been Ukranian. How will you choose?
I'm learning russian,
Learn Ukrainian to spite her
My favourite language learning method is spending 14 hours a day on r/languagelearning rather than interacting with my TL
This is the way
Lmaoo
@@dancampbell5068 I agree
This was me 😭😭😭
This is me 😂
I learned a lot of English vocab while playing Sims 2 because it has words about everyday life, family, friends, jobs etc, so it was really nice
Now i know words like „Werderfloop foof“ and „plankabu“
I learned by playing civilization 3 with dictionary 😂
same but with the sims 3 on xbox
I played world of warcraft classic, translating every quest on my way and using the addon wow-voiceover to learn how to pronounce English words
That’s so smart
I’ve done language Chicken in Yemen, North Korea, Mali, and Afghanistan, and I HIGHLY suggest those countries
were you elected for something?
@@namesurname7332 yes for sigma boy (сигма бой)
@ Yes. I became a member of the Kim Regime and am now the second richest and most privileged person in The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea!
@@Jackg7711you're truely a great human
@@TotallyAnEarthlingthx
We all own Duolingo a big apology. I daily learn almost 5 min Japanese on Luodingo for some month. And today I watch a 20min long video in Japanese. And I understand one sentence. Kore wa desu. How can you claim that it doesn't work? I am speechless. Literally.
One month
Bro u gotta put in at least a year and obviously dulingo by itself isn't gonna cut it unless you complete your whole course, then it'll be at least something
You studied ONLY for 5 mins, and only for a month...
Yeah you wouldn't be much far even with a good book
at least 49 people understood me. I can not see how could I've been more obvious.
I'm very disappointed you didn't mention the BEST METHOD to learn Slavic languages, which is the TRIPALOSKI METHOD.
It basically consists of wearing an Adidas tracksuit, shaving your head and drinking endless 'piwo' until your broken language skills start making sense. I used it when I was living in Poland and my friends Jakub Brzęczyszczykiewicz and Zbigniew Jędrzejczyk started understanding what I was saying after my 6th piwo. I think I fainted after that, but everyone seemed to understand me when I spoke Polish. The only word I remember to this day is KURWA but I still use it when refering to literally every single object on the planet and I still consider myself fluent in Polish.
Bruh 😂😂😂
Wow I think I’ll try it !! Thank you for your tips
@@saaaaaanviiiii me too
LOLOL
Sorry i cant resist!
Pedro, Pedro, Pedro, Pedro, Pè
Praticamente il meglio di Santa Fè
Saw a Mormon speaking perfect Vietnamese. It was mind blowing
In the 90s if a white guy did this, it caused some brain malfunction in the person listening making them unable to comprehend or respond
😂the power of faith
@full-timepog6844 or the power of the Rosetta Stone 🤔
;)
fr like my pastor knows how to speak arabic, just so she can go and spread the faith
Thanks to the Owl, and I damn well learnt the language enough to pass my job interview in French. I think the people you meet are likely those who go years at high school with a second language and don’t speak a lick of the language. Not all duo's fault!
I'm learning Chinese on Duolingo and I just keep getting better
I used Duolingo to learn Russian as well as youtube videos, writing down words and sentences, speaking with native speakers, listening to music and watching movies in Russian with English subtitles. I am progressing everyday :)
Yeah, while it's true that you should be using other sources alongside Duolingo, Duolingo can be really good depending on what language you're learning. Their courses for Romance, Germanic, and Slavic languages are known for being great. For languages like Japanese however, I think they're considered to be a bit lacking.
finally, we get the language simp and bolsanaro connection revealed
Oi
I'm brazilian and learned english because of the amount of media I consume in this language.
(Don't shame me, but watching Friends and beeing addicted to 9gag in college helped a lot)
The weird thing about knowing portuguese and english (and loving to learn new words in different languages) is that I can read and understand a few simple texts in spanish, italian, french and, with a lot of effort, german.
Some people are sexually aroused by being shamed, Id say don’t block your potential blessing, 😉
I learned basic English through war strategy games. Words like buy, rest, dig, attack, defend, wait, end turn, devil, angel, knight, swordsman, archer, gold, wood, ore...
Fun fact I learned the word ore before I learned the word stone... sure I was like 6, 7 years old... back in 1998-1999.
So, that's Heroes 2-3, I presume?
Being a mormon is very effective, my dad used to be a Mormon missionary, got sent to Brazil and only studied for 6 weeks
More than 20+ years later and he's still completely fluent in Portuguese
mormons lie
Port is quite easy too, very nice.
Replace with Vietnamese , tell me how that goes
@@cmendoza1094 Those weird sounds they have, they have me clucking like a chicken.
@@cmendoza1094yes, Mormons have missionaries in Vietnam too
Man, the mormon method is so real. It's funny to see a random American guy in a small town in Minas Gerais trying to learn Portuguese for either saving their life and preaching to local npcs.
I just started learning French, literally just googled the entry requirements for the French foreign Legion because of this video…
One important one that they tend to omit is a deathwish
haha same. Either that or language chicken in the DRC. Both would be more fun than moving to Quebec. Or reading.
The Mormons thing is legit! I've had debates with them in Canadian and Français Ançienne while walking the streets of Charlottetown, PEI, Canada and in Ukrainian outside my AirBnB in Lviv, Ukraine this past May. Those folks put the work in. 100% hustle.
Too bad for them I'm already speaking five languages and dead inside.
3:06 I read in the news about someone who did just this (but in a different language). He got the lowest passing grade on the Finnish matriculation exam in Swedish, so he couldn't even speak Swedish, like, at all. He then did military service in Dragsvik, the mostly Swedish-speaking Nyland's Brigade. After finishing his service, he became a "language ambassador". He went from resisting mandatory Swedish to supporting it.
Yeah, Duolingo can get you started, but it’s important to supplement with actually attempting to speak the language to native speakers or fellow learners.
But I ain't got nobody to talk to :(
The one that worked for me was "learn the board books, picture books, children's songs and nursery rhymes in your target language." I'm blown away by how well it worked, since those are literally designed to teach wains how a language operates under the hood.
Aside from which, yes, before you ask, German does have dark nursery rhymes. Their version of "Ride a cock horse?" The Swedish version (Ritte Ritte Rumpkin) is all about the things you see on horseback. The German (Hoppe Hoppe Reiter) is "if he falls in the ravine the ravens will eat him, if he falls in the ditch no one will find the body." Their version of Duck Duck Goose is one kid being "Ein Krokodil Aus Afrika" and trying to eat the others. On brand.
I mean, of course it worked for you. It's how we all start learning our native language when we're little.
The description of AJATT is funny but, as he said, it WORKS. And to answer his questions yeas, you'll ignore everyone around you as much as possible, even your family, even your parents. But when you have to speak with them or you have a job, as he said, you should at least be with headphones on doing passive listening listening to your target language until you get a serious infection on your ear because you didn't realize that if you'll be with headphones on to up 8 hours a day you should disinfect it with alcohol AT LEAST twice a day (yeah, that happened to me). And the reason my Vietnamese isn't progressing as my Japanese was is that I can't do that anymore. Seriously, of course it doesn't have to be 100%, but if you do as much as possible and specially with passive listening you do it almost always if you can it makes all the difference in the world.
loved the québéc ref haha
BOYFRIEND
UN CHUM
BOYFRIEND
UN CHUM
2:43 nah bro got so hypnotized his eye went off 💀
Nah he's a fellow lazy eye gigachad 😎😎
As a québécois (French Canadian)... The "un chum" part is pure gold! I can help myself loving polyglots speaking our type of French perfectly! Salutations depuis Montréal!
Moi, je vois Montréal depuis mon balcon. J'habite Saint-Lambert ! 😁
As a german, I can definetly confirm that we're watching a wall 24/7, just with a hoibe in our right hand if bavarian.
Hallo,Ich lerne jetzt Deutsch
i fall asleep to an audiobook in spanish most nights. its one of my favorite forms of input since i can just turn off the rest of my brain and focus on comprehension. i don’t pretend that once Im asleep it helps at all but it is a great way to get 30 min - an hour of listening practice every day.
You can get great language audio input here on youtube with bilingual stories, they will read a sentence of a story in English then read the same sentence in target language. Polyglot Beats on youtube does that well for multiple languages (check out their playlist section for all their langauges) and there other channels for specific languages... its been helping me get passive listening and learning when going on walks... time is by FAR hardest obstacle in language learning - anything that can get us some passive learning is a plus! 😊
Germans play stuff like Gothic and simulation games like Farming/Train Simulators
As a german I can confirm it runs in our bloodline I love farming games
Can confirm, my German friend only plays Farming Simulator
me who's learning german from valorant lol
... My family is German (Oma was born in Chemnitz) and I know why I enjoy Euro Truck Simulator 2 so much.
I mormoned my way to a strong B2 mandarin. But I prefer what the French call "l'ecole horizontale" (also mentioned in video) which is how I learned weak B1 spanish!
Imaging trying to play Language Chicken in Canadia…
You: "I am sorry, I do not speak Canadian."
Canadian: "Oh yes, you do."
Duolingo is great for learning how to read and pronunciation basics.I'm Polish and I'm learning Russian so if I can mouth out some Russian words, I can understand what the word is 70% of the time. Basically you get a 50% xp bonus in learning languages which are related to each other
Why learn babaric Russian that starts wars?
@@UhrBushaltestelle Language its just communication method. And why do you say that about all Russians, when the war was started by a few people from a government
I'm learning German for the past 3 months and I can speak a little, read a lot and understand a little more than I can speak. That been said, I use games to boost my comprehension. I mostly play single player games like Cyberpunk, which is pretty good in German btw, but I also play league in german.
I'm not kidding when I say the only thing I *actually* learned from League is that "aufgeben" means "to give up" xD
„Die Vasallen sind erschienen!“
8:30 this is actually content for C1. If you understand any of those memes - congratz!
For the personality thing, I find that I have fewer words to express myself in russian, so lose my temper quicker. (Russian was my first language, learnt english as 5, forgot russian by 9, started trying to relearn it at 13)
I was like here we go again with this random sponsor, but that browser extension actually seems cool. I could see people using that everyday. Good job with that sponsor from a fellow anki grinding nerd
Hey maybe someone here would know. I took Spanish in school. My teacher gave us a work book and she would write notes on the board. Very short paragraphs based on the lesson I mean 3 to 5 paragraphs only and 2 or 3 examples.
The whole school year we learned vocabulary I mean 3,000 words and verbs.
The workbook would have a word bank in Spanish and sentences in English with a missing word you fill in from the word bank.
As you work through the book the sentences switch to how Spanish sentences are written but still in English with missing words.
Then the English words would slowly be replaced with Spanish words.
By the end of the yr I could read and write Spanish.
In 9th grade yr 2 of Spanish the teacher taught us grammar and verb conjugation.
The learning system was only in yr 1 and yr 2 Spanish was equivalent to Spanish 202 in university.
My question is does anyone know this method or ever heard of it?
I'm really curious because this method was awesome and one kid in the class learned almost 8,000 words and verbs in my class.
Thanks
Dating apps and using the target language filter to unlock the ultimate NPC with benefits
You need to have a high level to unlock theses npcs though
Thanks to you i am learning Esperanto.
You are the best from north east south and west.
NO!!!!!!!!!!! NO NO NO DONT DO IT!!! DONT DO IT!! DONT DO IT! DONT DO IT! OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!! NOO!!!!!! PLEASE PLEASE IM BEGGING YOU!! DONT DO IT!! PLEASE!!! PLEASE!!!! PLEASE!!!!!!!
@@SolaceSystem 不兑换 !
I hate sleep videos that have ads. It’s like “Je suis” and then “Download this new French learning language app” super loud.
10:57 had me laughing so hard. "Young age of 79" 😂 hilariously
11:00 not the Steve Kauffman wig 😭😭😭
About the memes: my twitter algorithm picked up on the fact that I’m learning French (I took it in school and I’m at B2 on paper, but I’m still not confident in speaking it) and put some french posts in the mix. I am actually glad it did that because now I can practice engaging with the language in a casual way, the posts that appear on my timeline range from silly jokes to serious discourse. It also started throwing some Polish shitposts in my way so fuck it, I guess I’ll learn Polish next, the algorithm has decided.
I also use luodingo, but i also use memrise and try to read children's story books to learn japanese. And i recently also joined a taiko dojo which incidentally makes me interact with some of the people in japanese. This last one is just a happy accident
I was actually about to write a comment asking you to teach us your own language learning techniques and lo and behold, you're making an eBook! I should've asked for a billion dollars tbh😂
8:27 The first one is something like Curdibbit
The second one I won't even bother to translate
8:38 "Excuse me for bothering you, but it's a Sealenin"
Signed up for the wait list, can’t wait!
Surprised you brought up the French Foreign Legion but didn't mention the American FSI programs
I did the FSI Romanian for about 6 months before getting a tutor. Seriously effective method. Also the version I found was from the 60s and in one of the first chapters 'smoking in class' was a topic 😂
He made a similar video before where he did
Best learning models out there for sure. I mastered Icelandic just by typing it in Humanese
your videos always make my day, just wanted to say that, thanks man
7:42 the fact that that is literally me
Learn a language
This transitions in this video are on point, just wanted to say that 🙏
I got E4 in Russian just for joining the Patreon!!!
A few days ago, I watched a documentary about a high-security prison in Aachen, Germany. Apparently, there are quite a few inmates who can’t speak German, so the prison encourages them to participate in German courses. I think, as a motivation, they even receive 35 euros a month for attending.
learn icelandic
Sadly there are only a few resources for icelandic. I'd really like to learn it. Especially in my native language, German, there are almost no resources for Icelandic
@@EinSaarländer Diese Erfahrung habe ich nicht gemacht. Ich habe z.B.
Magnús Pétursson - Lehrbuch der Isländischen Sprache
Duppler/Nahl - Isländisch, ein Lehrbuch für Anfänger und Fortgeschrittene
Schmid - Wörterbuch Isländisch - Deutsch
PONS Wörterbuch Deutsch - Isländisch
Dict cc Online-Wörterbuch Deutsch Isländisch
Thomson - Isländische Formenlehre
Dazu einsprachige Lektüren für Lerner wie Árstíðir und Dagatal.
Mér finnst íslenska mjög áhugavert. Áfram Ísland líka! 🇮🇸
🇨🇦 The highest failure rate for learning a language is in Canada, French. It's so bad, only francophones can become PM or work for federal govt.
Adrenaline truly helps with memory - I remember when 2 teens tried to rob me of my phone in Paris and I was recounting my anger to passers by after - still remember word for word how those conversations went!
When I started learning German 4 years ago, the first resource I found was Duolingo, and I dropped it as soon as I found something better. I actually hated it. Not learning German, but Duolingo.
Before TH-cam, ~24 years ago, I learned German partly with Rammstein CDs and Werner Herzog films. Now I'm an underpaid German translator lol
What do you do now
Just a note to @LanguageSimp on his past videos where he mentions the “American alphabet”, that writing script is called the Latin Script, and actually originated from the Roman Empire. Also, the script that Germanic and Celtic used before their languages adopted the Latin Script was called the Runic Script.
signed up for the waiting list!
thank your for saying miGAWku correctly, you're doing your country proud saluting emoji
in the middle of the video appears an add and suddenly, you wake up scared
Мужик, спасибо за контент, каждый видос это шик и ты гигочад
I LIKE THE DELUSIONAL APPROACH THE MOST
OMG, Lingosteve y tú son "como dos gotas de agua" con esa peluca! 😂
I like how most Polyglots I know speak with their eyes closed to a language they're not born with speaking y'know?
Lets go bro, im trying to learn Arabic so this is perfect for me
whats the obsession with leftists and "Arabic"?
انا أيضا me too
How do I learn arabic?????
@@حخهحخهخخهخخعغهحهعغهععع I've learned Arabic on Duolingo for a year. It isn't probably the best way though. I would recommend the Easy Arabic channel if you're learning spoken Arabic.
@@حخهحخهخخهخخعغهحهعغهععع Language chicken?
In addition, I personally think that it’s a great idea to frequently watch LanguageSimp videos, I don’t know about you, it personally helped me a lot, to consolidate basic knowledge of grammar, spelling, punctuation of the English language, and also to partially increase the level of vocabulary of the language, if we're gonna speak honestly about this.
10:55
I navigated to your channel from a comment of yours at his video!
I did the dating method. Dated someone from Argentina online during COVID-19, they spoke little english and I spoke little spanish. I just chatted to them a lot and did luodingo. It was super effective. Too bad no other spanish speakers understand argentinian
About the last one: they DO learn language in 6-9 weeks on a conversational level and much higher when it's talking about the religion specifically.
They will spend multiple hours, entire work shifts worth every day for those 6-9 weeks doing nothing but learning the language.
After that time is up their ass is going on the plane and they immediately go to work so they're very motivated bunch.
Interesting point. Would be interesting to compare how well they can speak about sports or geography or something versus religion after such a short time
My life is a so shitty situation that I found becoming french kinda attractive
Learning languages by exposing ur self to that languages media (TV, youtube etc) is very effective and as a non native English speaker it helped me to learn English to fluency in a few years
14:21 yes, sir
Same
Absolutely
Im a volunteer aha aha (im a hyperpolyglot chad)
+1
@@ainathekhajiit also me aha aha
hy there, love your vids, never been here so early :)
I once used Pimsleur's speaking practice for Russian, and I literally said "Cardboard" in English and it counted it as right
8:38 that’s actually really funny
Im a Serbian learning Russian and i don't understand meme really well.
I guess it is word pun but is the first half of the word тюлень?
Тюлень is a seal right?
@@aglassofwater7931yes, it is, and the other half is Lenin (a politician)
@@regul_6280 You dont have to tell me that becourse im absolute NERD when it comes to History.
Lenin just like Carl Marks and other Socialist freaks were funded by Germans.
And btw greetings from Serbia, the last time i spoke to a Russian is like mouth ago when i paid train tickets to one Russian guy and two Russian girls.
I guess he was their defender.
@@aglassofwater7931what🤯
@@regul_6280 Bro i know who is Lenin
Best way to learn a language, watching videos in that language
Do a language review on Azerbaijani. It’s like Arabic and Turkish together it’s not a big language only around 30 million speakers mostly in Azerbaijan, Iran, Turkey, and Russia
1:00 "formichiere" 🤣 i spent thirty years being an Italian mothertongue and I must have said this world out loud twice I suppose
Hes back
Understand thank you for ❤
Speaking of games, you can really learn Japanese if you play Higurashi. You can easily switch language by pressing L, and a lot of text/dialogue is very easy. Also it has some voice acting. Of course, a lot of text is more complicated, so you have lots of input on all levels. And the game is huge. That means it's a lot of extensive learning, which is very beneficial for fluency.
I've signed my girlfriend up for the French Foreign Legion after this advice.
She has mentioned that her O level French is getting increasingly rusty.
I just need to figure out how to explain away that why our "holiday" to Marseilles will only need a return flight back to Heathrow for me.
Tbh memes are pretty good when you’re already advanced. You learn culture and how natives break their language rules.
The best methode to learn languages is being drunk! If I'm drunk, I'm fluent in every language I want and as soon as I figure out how to carry that over to being sober...
I'm surprised you didn't mention mass sentence learning. Your Colleague Dr. Jones basically did a hit piece on Glossika and completely trashed mass sentence learning.
I heard playing online multiplayer games with people who speak your target language is a very effective way to learn.
My target language in games is Noscoping.
About the first one:
I have a habit of listening TED lectures while I sleep. I usually set the timer on my device to stop after two hours so that I'm already asleep at the time.
And one day, I had a strange dream where there were two homeless anthropomorphic monkeys fighting ( yeah...), and then they suddenly stopped and started discussing climate change in specific terms. And when I woke up, turned out that the lecture I was listening was about climate change. And it began when I was already asleep.
So, I guess it proves that learning information in sleep is possible
6:10 the way he said the "ع" flawlessly shocked me
I am gonna take this personal :”yes i am talking about you”
I learned Russian by learning how to say dumbf*** and then evolving my sentences from simple to complicated while revolving around the word dumbf***
The LDS Church doesn't send people to china or the majority of the middle east and basically anywhere there is a war going on but some of the missionary manuals are on Internet archive and are really great
My man missed a lot of opportunities to throw Omelette du fromage jokes at the beginning of the video.
It's not my only source of input but I learn german with boomer memes from a random insta page. It kinda works because there are often german subtitles and captions
No eBooks! Publish the thing! I like to read hard copies :)
Print it and then send me one, no i will not pay for the delivery. Im broke and insane
i thought the dating one was because you get motivation to learn it quickly to be able to speak to your partner
I have found that a mix of babble, podcasts, and independent study tends to work well for me.
6:08
"WESH" 🤣🤣🤣
0:12 is it just me or was that assalamu 3alaykum way too accurate
As someone who is Somali I say it is the accurate pronunciation (I use it in daily life)