Thanks so much for having me on Steve!! I had a great time talking. In a few weeks, you will see an interview I did with Steve for my Channel, and it was just fantastic! So stay tuned =)
I always enjoy what you have to say in every video you appears, eu sempre tenho algo a aprender com voçê. Grazie mille per condividere con noi le tue conoscenze! Estaré esperando el video de la entrevista con Steve en tu canal
I really appreciate you guys. I would love to watch a multilingual video from you, a kind of interaction in the languages you know. I would be fulfilled to see such a thing. Give me that privilege. By the way, I'm a Brazilian who would like to see Luca speaking a little Portuguese.
Hey Luca, I am Damian from Poland, I enjoyed your lectures on langues and polyglot talk during Expo Lingua last year. What you were supposed to come for ? I myself speak 7 languages with various degrees of fluency would love to meet you one day when you are in Poland!
Hello Luca and Steve, thanks for the video, it's very inspiring! For Luca, I have a small qustion : you have learnt and mastered many foreign languages, from various branches of language family, but why don't you try to learn Arabic which is one of the most spoken languages on earth and one of the official languages of the United Nations?
Mr Kaufamn and Lucca Lamparielo for me, are the best polyglots, and inspire me a lot. Thanks for sharing this incredible video. Stay healthy Mr Kaufamn
Luca is one of the most legit polyglots on TH-cam. The languages he claims to know are really clean and fluent, especially russian, which is rarely that good among foreign polyglots.
Luca and Steve, Steve and Luca... They motivated me to start my journey of language learning. What an inspiration! Thank you! Hope to see the two of them in other videos.
I love that he speaks of Mathematics as a language. It is my first love. I taught myself calculus and I've studied mathematics and physics topics as a hobby my entire life. Now I'm learning Russian. Much respect to you both. You are both very inspirational.
I’m amazed about his perfect pronunciation in English 😩😩😩😩 I have no question but just enjoying both of you talking with so much pasión about learning language that is enough at least to me
It was a very difficult journey when I learned English as my first foreign language in China. Now looking back, I realized that the general mentality people have in China was very discouraging. Most people think speaking without an accent & make no grammar mistakes at all are the most important criteria, irrespective of if they can actually make meaningful conversations using the language. For example, as a Chinese person now I'm doing standup comedy in Germany in front of international audiences. While there are lots of native speakers who told me that my English is pretty good and they recognize that I'm improving over time, the harshest comments regarding my accent came from Chinese people. After knowing the polyglot community and how chilled you guys are, I feel much more encouraged to carry on my language learning journey. Thank you, guys!
This is like having Superman and Batman. It's like having Captain Kirk and Captain Picard on one show. Thank both of you guys. I learn so much each time I watch these videos.
I really appreciate you guys. I would love to watch a multilingual video from you, a kind of interaction in the languages you know. I would be fulfilled to see such a thing. Give me that privilege. By the way, I'm a Brazilian who would like to see Luca speaking a little Portuguese.
It’s such a treat to watch these two guys having a conversation! I’m currently learning Russian, basically using TH-cam resources. Luca and Steve, you’re such a great inspiration. I’m looking forward to the follow-up interview on Luca’s channel.
cool...I m 38 and also starting to learn swedish....because of Avicii lol....you gotta find your motivation somewhere,right?...it sure is a long way,but it s probably worth it...
@@purplebutterfly4078 if you're outgoing and don't mind laughing at your mistakes, you'll be speaking within a couple months. I'm much shyer, so I only just had my first conversation last week, but my tutor was impressed with my pronounciation and grammar. I still need practice to get smooth, though. I don't think one is better than the other, just go with what is comfortable.
@@sharonoddlyenough thank you so much for the pep talk :) I usually don t have a problem with laughing at my own mistakes. I was thinking about brushing up on 2 of the languages I speak, but not fluently, and maybe learn something new like swedish or arabic since these 2 have been on my mind for whatever reason.I ll give it a go and see what happens.
It’s great having you Steve and Luca together! If you created a podcast, I would listen to you regularly. That would be great! A polyglot podcast where you regularly interview polyglots or you talk about different topics... If you ever consider that option, that would be awesome... saludos desde Long Island New York. You are such a source of inspiration!!!
That was an awesome interview, I really appreciate you both and what strikes me the most is that I always grasp something out of you guys, a lot of insights. And Luca, keep going, you're one of the people that got me interested in language learning and also self-education. Down here in Brazil you're already a great name. And my questions is " (how to overcome the plateau, is reading good to help overcoming it, if so, how to approach reading in a foreign language?) U guys rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks a lot
My highest goal is to bring someone with me, preferably my family. This summer I am having the Summer Language Club with my grandchildren and daughter. We are learning Russian and Spanish. My daughter and I already speak Russian, and I study Spanish, so what we do is add to this basic core. My goal is not to speak the language perfectly, but to share it with others, while I am learning!
I really like Luca and Steve as polyglots because they are really good at the languages they speak. Of course there are languages they are still learning but the ones they say they speak, they actually are quite accomplished in them.
Amazing realization at the age of 12 wanting to be a life-long learner! It came to me but a bit later in life. I think it is a key quality for success in life in general and in language learning in particular
Steve is a great person, I learned you, relentless pursuit of words, the key to speak other language and inhance your English skills or learning any language. Thanks
No questions, but a great interview. Mostly info from Luca, which makes sense here on Steve's channel. I'll watch Luca's interview of Steve, and I look forward to other convrsattions.
Some words in Gearman that i dont understsnd...im serching an explanation not in my language but in German i love to hear German explanation of that word..and than i can better remembet it..it is the same case in English...im Ivana from Croatia ..im learning German,..imrooving my English and im allso interestst in French and Spanish....thank you for this video..and wish you all the best...🤗🤗🤗.
Thanks for inspiring both of you Luca and Steve! Besides of many methods I've been learnig some languages by translating LinkQ-stories by means of the Lucas translation method.
Question: I'm an English teacher and we'll generally be handed a textbook and told to get through that and we're expected to teach things like past simple vs present perfect and so on. But I also teach myself languages (Spanish, Chinese and Russian) and I have a method more similar to that of Steve Kaufmann, which is to read/listen a lot, consistently (at least 5 days a week) and not focus too much on any specific grammar. So how would you suggest I implement those kinds of ideals into my teaching, to teach more effectively? (Class sizes usually 5-20 students, about 2-3 hours together per week, all age groups and levels are possible.)
I know you're probably expecting an answer from Steve, but I would also like to answer it 🤣. I think your idea is amazing and it makes me remenber of my first english teacher (I'm Brazilian, by the way); I used to have classes with her twice a week for about 3:30 hours per day. She managed to teach us grammar and she also talked a lot to us, everything was so natural and sometimes I was so into the conversation, it was so insteresting that, at the time, I forgot I wasn't speaking portuguese. Your question made me think about it. What she basically did was to talk about things the students liked and about things that were happening to our city, for example; things that affected us as humans living in the same society. As a conclusion, if I would give one tip, is: Always keep your students insterested on what you're saying, make the conversations natural.
Wish my teacher had thought of this. We just learned some grammar, that's all. I know English only because I consumed thousands of hours of media. Not on purpose, of course. It just happened so that all games I wanted to play were in English only. Anyway, you're a great teacher for trying to improve your way of teaching! Your students are so lucky! I wish you good luck.
I'm teaching English as well. I see what you mean.. I feel really frustrated when I don't see much progress in my students. I'm also analysing a lot... trying to find a better, more productive way to teach my students, but unfortunately I feel like unless the student is really eager to learn, there is little we can do. We definitely shouldn't blame ourselves excessively for their lack of progress... I'm highlighting that because I've spent so much time suffering from doubting myself as a teacher... We are not magicians for God's sake. Sorry for getting it off my chest and not addressing your question.
This was a great conversation, I look forward to seeing the complimentary conversation on Luca's channel. You are both so inspiring. I am simultaneously learning 5 languages(Spanish[Mexican], German, Romanian, Japanese, Latin). I find by comparing and contrasting each of them, it is helping me learn all of them. I am roughly conversational in Spanish. The German and Romanian are at a point where I understand most things I consume. Japanese and Latin are my hobby languages. Am I tackling too many languages at once?
Magyarországon van egy ilyen fordító lecke a neve Gaál Ottó kreativ nyelvtanulás de már ezt én neked le írtam. Genau mit deiner Methode lernt man da. Sehr realistisches Video! Danke
A question for next video: how people from different nationalities react to you speaking their language? I'm really curious about how one's culture influence our perception of foreginers speaking our own language. I believe that you could give us some profound insights. I have heard that people from some countries tend to correct your speech more than in others and so on, so maybe you could both talk a bit about the subject. Thanks!
Hi, Steve and Luca! I have a question: is speaking a lot in the target language what helps us increase our level of fluency or is it when we are listening to the other person we are talking to? At first, I believed that talking to myself on a daily basis was the best way to get me speaking fluently. But I soon realized that was not the case. What I basically do now, is something similar to Luca's method. The difference is that I record myself saying the sentences, expressions, etc. that are new to me (as long as I understand them), and I listen to those audios while I am doing house hold chores or any other activity that does not require much focus (also some daily reading). My listening and speaking skills have seemed to improve, even though I haven't spoken much (my mother tongue is Spanish, and I am learning German now). So I do not know if what I am doing is correct. By the way, thank you so much for talking about the myth of learning a foreign language to fluency in 3 months, 3 weeks, etc. I was subconsciously starting to believe this myth was true because of all the videos that claim it to be, even though it is not. Sorry this was too long haha.
I'd like to ask about how to achieve accuracy in a target language, specially when it comes to a Slavic language. Stephen Krashen has told at some previous conferences that it is possible to achieve accuracy just by massive (and comprehensible) input, but I'm not sure yet about it. In his examples, I've seen a strong correlation, but not a causal relationship.
Thank you for the video. I love learning languages too. I'm Ukrainian and I've learned Polish by myself. I used my technique called "simultaneous reading in both languages". I read a book in Russian or Ukrainian and listened to it in Polish, then vise versa. My vocabulary expanded every day and I stared to make sentences without thinking. Surely I read some basic rules first to understand the difference between my native language and Polish but later I worked only reading and listening. I think that this method is really effective learning similar languages. What do you think about it? I also tried it reading in Russian and listening in German. It's a bit more difficult but still exciting when you are aware of the target language. I'm learning Spanish now, I also hope to learn Czech someday. I'm not perfect at any language I've learned. I make mistakes but I like the process of education as Luca said. It's amazing. Many people say that it's a nonsense and I must improve my English first but I can't just stop because every new language is like a new world for me. Hope you'll read my comment and give me some advice on how I should do next. Thank you for this inspirational video. You're wise and modest what is really beautiful.
It seems a very useful technique cause you practice very actively the two most important skills! I kinda do it when I watch videos in Russian with Polish subtitles, but with not that similar languages doesn't work good for me cause they have different structure. Anyway for the first stages of any language looks great 😁 It'd be great to know your experience with it in Spanish.
@@urtzi_221 I'm learning Spanish using applications with pictures to learn new words without translation (naturally, I understand the meaning from pictures, from time to time I translate some expressions of course) and a simple grammar book to understand its structure. I haven't tried this technique in Spanish but sometimes I listen to English-Spanish podcasts. To my mind they're the most similar from languages I understand. I know that French is very close to Spanish but unfortunately I don't understand French at all. Great that you watch videos in the same way. Videos help us like pictures, we can figure out the situation looking at it. Thank you for the comment.
You guys have inspired me a lot !! I extremely like the sentence" To speak WELL, you have to speak a lot, and in the low-stress environment with - Meaningful conversation! Besides that, reading these comments below your videos is also a great way to gain comprehensible Inputs from those who have the same IDEALs, interesting! Great day!
Thanks a lot for this type of videos, siempre me ha motivado mucho ver lo que tanto Luca como Steve y otros poligotas hacen, e eu tenho certeza que voçês inspiram muitas pessoas com o seu trabalho. Grazie mille per il tuo lavoro Steve!
I would like to ask to those people who want to learn a language in three months or less : did a doctor tell you that you have only three months left to live ? Where is the rush ? In my German study program, we need the full three years of the baccalaureate to learn the language. It is true that after one year of learning German, I was able to have a 40 min conversation in German with the taxi driver on my arrival in Berlin for a stay -- the first conversation we have in a new language with someone who is not a teacher is always an unforgetable experience. I aim at speaking my three languages well - French, English and German - more than at learning many others. That's a choice I make because I want to read the highest literature in each of these languages and that requires both a high level of mastery in each of them and a lot of time to read those great works. I am too much of a procrastinator to be wholly autodidact in my study, so I need to attend classes. However, the tips I hear on the "polyglottosphere" are very helpful to me. They help me monitoring my progress or lack thereof. I watch, for example, if I need more reading or more listening in the language and if that listening must be, let's say sitcoms, in order to strenghten my everyday vocabulary, or the news or novels for other parts of the vocabulary. Also I use the subtitles on the videos, but sometimes I don't need them. My autodidactic study is an important complement to my class learning.
I think the 3 months mark that people give themselves is to create a feeling of emergency or urgency which they think will lead to motivation to learn the language.
As always an orgasm for language enthusiasts, having such amazing and experienced polyglots talking about language acquisition. My question for Luca is how to approach bridging the gap between B2 to C1 and then to C1 to C2 in a target language.
I'm not Luca but my advice would be to not think it out too much, strong basics and consequent work will take you up to C2 in shorter than you think. Just be consequent and pay no attention to B1,C2, Z6.
Steve and Luca, You are both an inspiration to all language learners and adult learnings in general. I have watched both your TH-cam channels with interest. My question: Where can I find good intermediate learning material? For example I looked for intermediate learning material in English / Spanish in a certain well known French brand of language learning books and found that English / French courses offered for sale ranged from A1 to C 1/ 2. But!! All the other languages learning books were only English / beginner levels. I am currently using a French / Spanish textbook(B2), so I guess the problems stem from the bookseller, not the publisher!
Question for Steve & Luca - have you heard about a concept called 'language trauma'? And if so, what are your thoughts on language trauma and how people can overcome those obstacles to learn a language? Background - In New Zealand, we have been trying to revitalise the Māori language for about 40 years. The Māori language is the heritage language of the indigenous Māori population of NZ. In the mid to late 19th century, NZ was colonised by Britain based on the 'doctrine of discovery' where European settlers were privileged at the expense of Māori. During this time, the NZ government in their wisdom decided to outlaw the use of Māori language in schools. The language eventually declined, became endangered, until the 1970s when social activists decided to revitalise the Māori language. Today, approximately 3% of the NZ population speak the language well. Something that I've heard being discussed amongst the Māori language learning experts, is the theme of 'language trauma'. For many Māori people who are learning the Māori language, they need to firstly confront psychological, emotional and spiritual obstacles before they even start engaging in the language. I'd love to hear your thoughts about the idea of 'language trauma'.
Question: What is the nº 1 polyglot that has influenced and inspired each of you? To me that would be Kató Lomb, from the things I've read about her and her book on language learning. A second question if I may would be: are you familiar with Kató Lomb, and have thoughts on her ideas on language learning?
I know I cannot learn Japanese in 6 months.... and yes I found out that I learn better if I learn less each day but regularly for a longer period of time, my brain needs time to adapt to the new things.
I am italian, I started learning french during high school then learned english, portuguese, chinese mandarin , cantonese, now learning tagalog e hope by mid year start learning german . I think if you study only one new language every year you can reach the level C2 in one year, but need study every day at least 2 hours. Bye take care.
I would like to ask both of you. Do you aim for C1 or C2 ? I think I'm about B1 or B2 in spanish after many years. I might be considered on a plateau but I'm retired and I don't care. I'm now learning italian and portuguese, I will probably get to the same level as my spanish but I don't worry or get hung up about this " plateau " business. So I advise people not to let themselves get screwed up about it. Keep the videos coming, they are very helpful and great ! . Thank you
Great stuff - cheers lads. My question is about what Richard Simcott calls 'language anchors' - the strongest of one's languages from a particular language family; to what level of proficiency is it prudent to learn a language anchor before moving onto a second language from that family + does learning languages from a particular family generally strengthen your ability in that family?
As someone who learned Japanese, I think so. It was easier for me to force myself to learn the readings through recognition than looking at the hiragana many a times.
Hey guys! I have watched many, many videos from both of your channels and always enjoy them. I'd be interested in hearing: 1) How many languages do you think the "average person" can speak at a B2 level or higher? 2) About how many languages are you able to speak at a B2 level or higher (excluding any of those that you rarely use which may have slightly deteriorated to B1 or lower)? Thanks again for the interesting videos!
How? By learning more language stuff?? How do you think it happens? Reading, listening, writing essays, interacting with foreigners all the good stuff.
I can't creat an account on LingQ, when trying to make a account it just says "an error as occured". Tryed switching the site language or my email but nothing worked. Help ?
Hello dear Steve, From what number of languages, we can say a personne is a polyglot? Thanks a lot for what you do for sharing what you do with us. God bless you
Why does it seem so hard to learn new words and expressions (in German in my case) at an intermediate level? In French I have no problem blasting through vocab but German just seems so strenuous to me
Hello Steve and Luca! I've found this video very interesting and instructive. I have a question for you both: given that you have more than 10 languages under your belt, what do you do on a daily basis to keep them? I mean, which activities do you engage in or in which way you keep in contact with all those languages. I'd be glad to hear your answers and recommendations about this. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷
Luca! Hello! My question is regarding your translation method. I'm wondering what the purpose is in first translating to your native language by hand. It seems like a rather lengthy task and of course you already know your native language well. Is it not enough to simply translate it in your head? Translating back to the target language, what do you do if your translation is wrong or you don't know how to translate something? Can you cheat and peek at the text? Thanks!
Thanks so much for having me on Steve!! I had a great time talking. In a few weeks, you will see an interview I did with Steve for my Channel, and it was just fantastic! So stay tuned =)
I always enjoy what you have to say in every video you appears, eu sempre tenho algo a aprender com voçê. Grazie mille per condividere con noi le tue conoscenze!
Estaré esperando el video de la entrevista con Steve en tu canal
Hi Luca. Would you talk more about fluent in three months in a single video on your channel?
I really appreciate you guys. I would love to watch a multilingual video from you, a kind of interaction in the languages you know. I would be fulfilled to see such a thing. Give me that privilege. By the way, I'm a Brazilian who would like to see Luca speaking a little Portuguese.
Hey Luca, I am Damian from Poland, I enjoyed your lectures on langues and polyglot talk during Expo Lingua last year. What you were supposed to come for ? I myself speak 7 languages with various degrees of fluency would love to meet you one day when you are in Poland!
Hello Luca and Steve, thanks for the video, it's very inspiring! For Luca, I have a small qustion : you have learnt and mastered many foreign languages, from various branches of language family, but why don't you try to learn Arabic which is one of the most spoken languages on earth and one of the official languages of the United Nations?
Mr Kaufamn and Lucca Lamparielo for me, are the best polyglots, and inspire me a lot. Thanks for sharing this incredible video. Stay healthy Mr Kaufamn
"We learn from each other that's the beauty of internet." - Luca Lampariello, Thank you !
Luca is one of the most legit polyglots on TH-cam. The languages he claims to know are really clean and fluent, especially russian, which is rarely that good among foreign polyglots.
Luca and Steve are the most honest and no-BS popular polyglots on the web, imo. So they both deserve their popularity and success within this field.
@@juancpgo They don't sell snake oil ! I agree with you guys
his dutch is also really good
His Polish is also really good
And his spanish is better than a lot of natives
Luca and Steve, Steve and Luca... They motivated me to start my journey of language learning. What an inspiration! Thank you! Hope to see the two of them in other videos.
Luca is the best. He speaks those languages at a higher level
Glad to see Luca here, thanks for inviting him, Steve! Always a pleasure to listen to your guests, such a huge inspiration!
You are the two polyglots to whom I have the most respect 🙏🏻 please keep making videos together
Luca, along with Lindie Botes and Steve, is easily one of the most legit and helpful TH-cam polyglots.
Agreed. Among a lot of show-offs (who will stay unnamed :) ) those three are definitely pretty advanced in the languages they claim to know.
By far.
Oh absolutely agree
Agree. And Olly Richards as well
Luca is the best. He speaks those languages at a higher level
I love that he speaks of Mathematics as a language. It is my first love. I taught myself calculus and I've studied mathematics and physics topics as a hobby my entire life.
Now I'm learning Russian.
Much respect to you both. You are both very inspirational.
I appreciate both of you guys
Duas Feras da lingugem, obrigado Mr Steve. Meu objetivo para os proximos anos é adquirir so cinco idiomas, comecei pelo ingles vamos que vamos
Isso aí. guerreiro.
I’m amazed about his perfect pronunciation in English 😩😩😩😩
I have no question but just enjoying both of you talking with so much pasión about learning language that is enough at least to me
It was a very difficult journey when I learned English as my first foreign language in China. Now looking back, I realized that the general mentality people have in China was very discouraging. Most people think speaking without an accent & make no grammar mistakes at all are the most important criteria, irrespective of if they can actually make meaningful conversations using the language. For example, as a Chinese person now I'm doing standup comedy in Germany in front of international audiences. While there are lots of native speakers who told me that my English is pretty good and they recognize that I'm improving over time, the harshest comments regarding my accent came from Chinese people.
After knowing the polyglot community and how chilled you guys are, I feel much more encouraged to carry on my language learning journey. Thank you, guys!
这都不是那个李阳疯狂英语惹的祸。 一大早成千上万个大叔大嫂们大广场举高右手大喊‘’ aaaa oooooo you " 那个场景十分幽默，可以做个段子。😅
Excelente conversación , simplemente ustedes son los mejores. Felicidades por su gran labor y gracias por motivarnos a ser mejores cada día.
HEY STEVE AND LUCA!!!!! YALL ARE AWESOME!!!!
Luca and Steve. Both of you are my Idols and inspire me to learn languages. Hat off!
Please continue the conversation because so many people benefit from the knowledge and experience of both you gentlemen.
This is like having Superman and Batman. It's like having Captain Kirk and Captain Picard on one show. Thank both of you guys. I learn so much each time I watch these videos.
I really appreciate you guys. I would love to watch a multilingual video from you, a kind of interaction in the languages you know. I would be fulfilled to see such a thing. Give me that privilege. By the way, I'm a Brazilian who would like to see Luca speaking a little Portuguese.
It’s such a treat to watch these two guys having a conversation! I’m currently learning Russian, basically using TH-cam resources. Luca and Steve, you’re such a great inspiration. I’m looking forward to the follow-up interview on Luca’s channel.
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Two legends. It's always great to see and hear these guys.
This was fantastic, especially the last part when Luca was talking about his mission and the power of education and learning. One of my heroes!
happy to see you steve
Steve, interview Vladimir Skultety too! I saw him in Polyglot Conference, and he speaks 20 languages
This video is exactly what I needed during quarantine
At 39, I'm learning Swedish. As a Canadian, I have some French, but not a lot
I have a long way to go to catch up!
cool...I m 38 and also starting to learn swedish....because of Avicii lol....you gotta find your motivation somewhere,right?...it sure is a long way,but it s probably worth it...
@@purplebutterfly4078 the time flies when you're having fun! 🍀 lycka till!
@@sharonoddlyenough thank you so much, the same to you as well! I hope I ll be able to be speak at least at a beginner level soon...
@@purplebutterfly4078 if you're outgoing and don't mind laughing at your mistakes, you'll be speaking within a couple months. I'm much shyer, so I only just had my first conversation last week, but my tutor was impressed with my pronounciation and grammar. I still need practice to get smooth, though. I don't think one is better than the other, just go with what is comfortable.
@@sharonoddlyenough thank you so much for the pep talk :) I usually don t have a problem with laughing at my own mistakes. I was thinking about brushing up on 2 of the languages I speak, but not fluently, and maybe learn something new like swedish or arabic since these 2 have been on my mind for whatever reason.I ll give it a go and see what happens.
Luca and Steve are a great source of inspiration. Thank you.
It’s great having you Steve and Luca together! If you created a podcast, I would listen to you regularly. That would be great! A polyglot podcast where you regularly interview polyglots or you talk about different topics... If you ever consider that option, that would be awesome... saludos desde Long Island New York. You are such a source of inspiration!!!
Certainly one of the most accomplished polyglots!
I could listen to these dudes talk all day. Thanks again Steve :)
Great interview!
I’d love to see an interview with Richard Simcott!
Amazing talking, two of the best polyglots on the internet, have learnt a lot from you both in the last 10 years, would like to think you all ...
An awesome interview, like always. You guys were and still are a big inspiration to me!
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That was an awesome interview, I really appreciate you both and what strikes me the most is that I always grasp something out of you guys, a lot of insights. And Luca, keep going, you're one of the people that got me interested in language learning and also self-education. Down here in Brazil you're already a great name. And my questions is " (how to overcome the plateau, is reading good to help overcoming it, if so, how to approach reading in a foreign language?) U guys rock!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! thanks a lot
My highest goal is to bring someone with me, preferably my family. This summer I am having the Summer Language Club with my grandchildren and daughter. We are learning Russian and Spanish. My daughter and I already speak Russian, and I study Spanish, so what we do is add to this basic core. My goal is not to speak the language perfectly, but to share it with others, while I am learning!
Great interview guys!
Great interview! I would have loved to listen to a full hour
I really like Luca and Steve as polyglots because they are really good at the languages they speak. Of course there are languages they are still learning but the ones they say they speak, they actually are quite accomplished in them.
Amazing realization at the age of 12 wanting to be a life-long learner! It came to me but a bit later in life. I think it is a key quality for success in life in general and in language learning in particular
Steve is a great person, I learned you, relentless pursuit of words, the key to speak other language and inhance your English skills or learning any language. Thanks
Hi, Luca. Thanks for your ideas, your insights, your tips and your time. Now I am very motivated.
Saludos!
look at steve face expression at 6:09 it was hilarious 😂😂
Hahahaha he's just thinking "these youngsters never change"
My favorite polyglots dropping some valuable knowledge, thanks.
Maybe advice would be: have several methods of learning at hand and pick those which you enjoy.
What a beautiful video!
Las 2 personas que mas admiro juntas!!!
You both are so inspiring! 🤓
Wonderful video.
No questions, but a great interview. Mostly info from Luca, which makes sense here on Steve's channel. I'll watch Luca's interview of Steve, and I look forward to other convrsattions.
very nice talk guys!
Some words in Gearman that i dont understsnd...im serching an explanation not in my language but in German i love to hear German explanation of that word..and than i can better remembet it..it is the same case in English...im Ivana from Croatia ..im learning German,..imrooving my English and im allso interestst in French and Spanish....thank you for this video..and wish you all the best...🤗🤗🤗.
Thanks for inspiring both of you Luca and Steve!
Besides of many methods I've been learnig some languages by translating LinkQ-stories by means of the Lucas translation method.
Question: I'm an English teacher and we'll generally be handed a textbook and told to get through that and we're expected to teach things like past simple vs present perfect and so on. But I also teach myself languages (Spanish, Chinese and Russian) and I have a method more similar to that of Steve Kaufmann, which is to read/listen a lot, consistently (at least 5 days a week) and not focus too much on any specific grammar. So how would you suggest I implement those kinds of ideals into my teaching, to teach more effectively? (Class sizes usually 5-20 students, about 2-3 hours together per week, all age groups and levels are possible.)
I know you're probably expecting an answer from Steve, but I would also like to answer it 🤣. I think your idea is amazing and it makes me remenber of my first english teacher (I'm Brazilian, by the way); I used to have classes with her twice a week for about 3:30 hours per day. She managed to teach us grammar and she also talked a lot to us, everything was so natural and sometimes I was so into the conversation, it was so insteresting that, at the time, I forgot I wasn't speaking portuguese. Your question made me think about it. What she basically did was to talk about things the students liked and about things that were happening to our city, for example; things that affected us as humans living in the same society.
As a conclusion, if I would give one tip, is: Always keep your students insterested on what you're saying, make the conversations natural.
We could listen, speak and she used to recommend a book to every single student, based on the topics they liked more
Wish my teacher had thought of this. We just learned some grammar, that's all. I know English only because I consumed thousands of hours of media. Not on purpose, of course. It just happened so that all games I wanted to play were in English only. Anyway, you're a great teacher for trying to improve your way of teaching! Your students are so lucky! I wish you good luck.
I'm teaching English as well. I see what you mean.. I feel really frustrated when I don't see much progress in my students. I'm also analysing a lot... trying to find a better, more productive way to teach my students, but unfortunately I feel like unless the student is really eager to learn, there is little we can do. We definitely shouldn't blame ourselves excessively for their lack of progress... I'm highlighting that because I've spent so much time suffering from doubting myself as a teacher... We are not magicians for God's sake. Sorry for getting it off my chest and not addressing your question.
By making the class as communicative as possible.
This was a great conversation, I look forward to seeing the complimentary conversation on Luca's channel. You are both so inspiring. I am simultaneously learning 5 languages(Spanish[Mexican], German, Romanian, Japanese, Latin). I find by comparing and contrasting each of them, it is helping me learn all of them. I am roughly conversational in Spanish. The German and Romanian are at a point where I understand most things I consume. Japanese and Latin are my hobby languages. Am I tackling too many languages at once?
Magyarországon van egy ilyen fordító lecke a neve Gaál Ottó kreativ nyelvtanulás de már ezt én neked le írtam. Genau mit deiner Methode lernt man da. Sehr realistisches Video! Danke
Great ✌🏼
A question for next video: how people from different nationalities react to you speaking their language? I'm really curious about how one's culture influence our perception of foreginers speaking our own language. I believe that you could give us some profound insights. I have heard that people from some countries tend to correct your speech more than in others and so on, so maybe you could both talk a bit about the subject. Thanks!
He opened my mind
I'll try Lucas's method with song translating from German to Spanish. I've been studying German for a long time but I feel very stuck 😣
Imagine having a video with Steve Kaufmann, Luca, Gabriel Poliglota and Wouter Corduwener, now that is something I would look for.
Hi, Steve and Luca!
I have a question: is speaking a lot in the target language what helps us increase our level of fluency or is it when we are listening to the other person we are talking to?
At first, I believed that talking to myself on a daily basis was the best way to get me speaking fluently. But I soon realized that was not the case. What I basically do now, is something similar to Luca's method. The difference is that I record myself saying the sentences, expressions, etc. that are new to me (as long as I understand them), and I listen to those audios while I am doing house hold chores or any other activity that does not require much focus (also some daily reading).
My listening and speaking skills have seemed to improve, even though I haven't spoken much (my mother tongue is Spanish, and I am learning German now).
So I do not know if what I am doing is correct.
By the way, thank you so much for talking about the myth of learning a foreign language to fluency in 3 months, 3 weeks, etc.
I was subconsciously starting to believe this myth was true because of all the videos that claim it to be, even though it is not.
Sorry this was too long haha.
I'd like to ask about how to achieve accuracy in a target language, specially when it comes to a Slavic language. Stephen Krashen has told at some previous conferences that it is possible to achieve accuracy just by massive (and comprehensible) input, but I'm not sure yet about it. In his examples, I've seen a strong correlation, but not a causal relationship.
いつも勉強になります！
Thank you for the video. I love learning languages too. I'm Ukrainian and I've learned Polish by myself. I used my technique called "simultaneous reading in both languages". I read a book in Russian or Ukrainian and listened to it in Polish, then vise versa. My vocabulary expanded every day and I stared to make sentences without thinking. Surely I read some basic rules first to understand the difference between my native language and Polish but later I worked only reading and listening. I think that this method is really effective learning similar languages. What do you think about it?
I also tried it reading in Russian and listening in German. It's a bit more difficult but still exciting when you are aware of the target language.
I'm learning Spanish now, I also hope to learn Czech someday.
I'm not perfect at any language I've learned. I make mistakes but I like the process of education as Luca said. It's amazing.
Many people say that it's a nonsense and I must improve my English first but I can't just stop because every new language is like a new world for me.
Hope you'll read my comment and give me some advice on how I should do next.
Thank you for this inspirational video. You're wise and modest what is really beautiful.
It seems a very useful technique cause you practice very actively the two most important skills! I kinda do it when I watch videos in Russian with Polish subtitles, but with not that similar languages doesn't work good for me cause they have different structure. Anyway for the first stages of any language looks great 😁 It'd be great to know your experience with it in Spanish.
@@urtzi_221 I'm learning Spanish using applications with pictures to learn new words without translation (naturally, I understand the meaning from pictures, from time to time I translate some expressions of course) and a simple grammar book to understand its structure. I haven't tried this technique in Spanish but sometimes I listen to English-Spanish podcasts. To my mind they're the most similar from languages I understand. I know that French is very close to Spanish but unfortunately I don't understand French at all.
Great that you watch videos in the same way. Videos help us like pictures, we can figure out the situation looking at it.
Thank you for the comment.
@Antek Policmajster w jaki sposób się uczysz ukraińskiego?
You guys have inspired me a lot !! I extremely like the sentence" To speak WELL, you have to speak a lot, and in the low-stress environment with - Meaningful conversation!
Besides that, reading these comments below your videos is also a great way to gain comprehensible Inputs from those who have the same IDEALs, interesting!
Great day!
This is great.
Thanks a lot for this type of videos, siempre me ha motivado mucho ver lo que tanto Luca como Steve y otros poligotas hacen, e eu tenho certeza que voçês inspiram muitas pessoas com o seu trabalho. Grazie mille per il tuo lavoro Steve!
Awesome!
I would like to ask to those people who want to learn a language in three months or less : did a doctor tell you that you have only three months left to live ? Where is the rush ?
In my German study program, we need the full three years of the baccalaureate to learn the language. It is true that after one year of learning German, I was able to have a 40 min conversation in German with the taxi driver on my arrival in Berlin for a stay -- the first conversation we have in a new language with someone who is not a teacher is always an unforgetable experience.
I aim at speaking my three languages well - French, English and German - more than at learning many others. That's a choice I make because I want to read the highest literature in each of these languages and that requires both a high level of mastery in each of them and a lot of time to read those great works.
I am too much of a procrastinator to be wholly autodidact in my study, so I need to attend classes. However, the tips I hear on the "polyglottosphere" are very helpful to me. They help me monitoring my progress or lack thereof. I watch, for example, if I need more reading or more listening in the language and if that listening must be, let's say sitcoms, in order to strenghten my everyday vocabulary, or the news or novels for other parts of the vocabulary. Also I use the subtitles on the videos, but sometimes I don't need them. My autodidactic study is an important complement to my class learning.
I think the 3 months mark that people give themselves is to create a feeling of emergency or urgency which they think will lead to motivation to learn the language.
I agree. I want to really master Spanish and French more than I want to just add another language at a mediocre level to an ever growing list.
Dream team Polyglot!!!! 😎
As always an orgasm for language enthusiasts, having such amazing and experienced polyglots talking about language acquisition. My question for Luca is how to approach bridging the gap between B2 to C1 and then to C1 to C2 in a target language.
I'm not Luca but my advice would be to not think it out too much, strong basics and consequent work will take you up to C2 in shorter than you think. Just be consequent and pay no attention to B1,C2, Z6.
Steve and Luca, You are both an inspiration to all language learners and adult learnings in general. I have watched both your TH-cam channels with interest. My question: Where can I find good intermediate learning material? For example I looked for intermediate learning material in English / Spanish in a certain well known French brand of language learning books and found that English / French courses offered for sale ranged from A1 to C 1/ 2. But!! All the other languages learning books were only English / beginner levels. I am currently using a French / Spanish textbook(B2), so I guess the problems stem from the bookseller, not the publisher!
Why Kaufman never learnt dutch ? I always wondered time to time
Question for Steve & Luca - have you heard about a concept called 'language trauma'? And if so, what are your thoughts on language trauma and how people can overcome those obstacles to learn a language?
Background - In New Zealand, we have been trying to revitalise the Māori language for about 40 years. The Māori language is the heritage language of the indigenous Māori population of NZ. In the mid to late 19th century, NZ was colonised by Britain based on the 'doctrine of discovery' where European settlers were privileged at the expense of Māori. During this time, the NZ government in their wisdom decided to outlaw the use of Māori language in schools. The language eventually declined, became endangered, until the 1970s when social activists decided to revitalise the Māori language. Today, approximately 3% of the NZ population speak the language well.
Something that I've heard being discussed amongst the Māori language learning experts, is the theme of 'language trauma'. For many Māori people who are learning the Māori language, they need to firstly confront psychological, emotional and spiritual obstacles before they even start engaging in the language. I'd love to hear your thoughts about the idea of 'language trauma'.
Question: What is the nº 1 polyglot that has influenced and inspired each of you? To me that would be Kató Lomb, from the things I've read about her and her book on language learning. A second question if I may would be: are you familiar with Kató Lomb, and have thoughts on her ideas on language learning?
I know I cannot learn Japanese in 6 months.... and yes I found out that I learn better if I learn less each day but regularly for a longer period of time, my brain needs time to adapt to the new things.
I am italian, I started learning french during high school then learned english, portuguese, chinese mandarin , cantonese, now learning tagalog e hope by mid year start learning german . I think if you study only one new language every year you can reach the level C2 in one year, but need study every day at least 2 hours. Bye take care.
I would like to ask both of you. Do you aim for C1 or C2 ? I think I'm about B1 or B2 in spanish after many years. I might be considered on a plateau but I'm retired and I don't care. I'm now learning italian and portuguese, I will probably get to the same level as my spanish but I don't worry or get hung up about this " plateau " business. So I advise people not to let themselves get screwed up about it. Keep the videos coming, they are very helpful and great ! . Thank you
Great stuff - cheers lads. My question is about what Richard Simcott calls 'language anchors' - the strongest of one's languages from a particular language family; to what level of proficiency is it prudent to learn a language anchor before moving onto a second language from that family + does learning languages from a particular family generally strengthen your ability in that family?
Where can i get discount for LingQ premium? I am from Ukraine and not have mach money. Sorry for my english. Steve say error is good)))
When learning Japanese how important is it to disable hiragana subtext for kanji? Should the focus be purely on recognizing the kanji?
As someone who learned Japanese, I think so. It was easier for me to force myself to learn the readings through recognition than looking at the hiragana many a times.
39? Damn bro he's maintaining himself alright hahah
Hey guys! I have watched many, many videos from both of your channels and always enjoy them. I'd be interested in hearing:
1) How many languages do you think the "average person" can speak at a B2 level or higher?
2) About how many languages are you able to speak at a B2 level or higher (excluding any of those that you rarely use which may have slightly deteriorated to B1 or lower)?
Thanks again for the interesting videos!
Hey Steve, I was just wondering, do you think LinQ will be adding Icelandic anytime soon?
@Luca what do you do to improve intonation and pronunciation in a foreign language?
Inspiring people :)
Was Steve channeling his inner Larry King on the intro!!
Hi, one question, how do you improve from an intermedial to advanced level in a language??
How? By learning more language stuff?? How do you think it happens? Reading, listening, writing essays, interacting with foreigners all the good stuff.
I can't creat an account on LingQ, when trying to make a account it just says "an error as occured". Tryed switching the site language or my email but nothing worked. Help ?
OnTheCorniche are you in China? If in China you need a vpn
14:35 listen carefully, Cthulhu is awakening...
Hello dear Steve, From what number of languages, we can say a personne is a polyglot? Thanks a lot for what you do for sharing what you do with us. God bless you
If you have a FLUENT master of 5 languages or more. Youre consider polygot
How do you deal with languages from the emotional aspect? Do you ever have a conflict between the different cultural norms of the languages you speak?
Why does it seem so hard to learn new words and expressions (in German in my case) at an intermediate level? In French I have no problem blasting through vocab but German just seems so strenuous to me
Root words. English has many french/latin root words, not as many in German
Does Luca have any books published?
Hello Steve and Luca! I've found this video very interesting and instructive. I have a question for you both: given that you have more than 10 languages under your belt, what do you do on a daily basis to keep them? I mean, which activities do you engage in or in which way you keep in contact with all those languages. I'd be glad to hear your answers and recommendations about this. Greetings from Argentina 🇦🇷
A true bromance.
Okay, here’s a fun one - if you could only speak one language for the next 12 months, which would it be and why?
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Oznerol Navi you are a legend
Is it just me, or anyone want to fix Luca's twisted earphone? :P
Luca! Hello! My question is regarding your translation method. I'm wondering what the purpose is in first translating to your native language by hand. It seems like a rather lengthy task and of course you already know your native language well. Is it not enough to simply translate it in your head? Translating back to the target language, what do you do if your translation is wrong or you don't know how to translate something? Can you cheat and peek at the text? Thanks!