I remember a time when I was talking in Romanian to someone in Romania, and she bluntly told me, "Your Romanian sounds like Google Translate" I was two years into the process and this made me extremely mad, I almost blew up on her. Instead, I decided to just tell her that it wasn't a good thing to say to a learner of her language and walked away. For the next 6 months I was pretty much fueled by an intense rage stemming from that moment and made a lot of progress in Romanian. And then eventually, I got to a point where I let go of that rage fuel so I could continue learning in a more positive manner 😂 That was one of my only bad experiences with language learning, but it was one of my strongest motivators for a while as well. So two sides to every coin I guess lol
So it sounded like her criticism, hard as it was to hear at first, improved your Romanian. Will you seek out blunt criticism in the future so your other languages can improve just as much? ;P
@@abesapien9930 I don't mind blunt criticism very much when it's given to me about my language. Because I know what questions to ask after that now. But it also helps that I had this experience, because besides getting my level higher in Romanian, I was given an example of what not to do when giving someone feedback. So now I try to give helpful and constructive feedback to learners of my native language (English). So overall, it was a helpful experience, though it didn't feel like it at the time 🤣
I agree with her. I don't think there is such a thing as a difficult or easy language. It depends on the individual (native language, mindset, experience with learning languages, etc.)
Agreed! Two years ago I wanted to learn Russian, but went with Portuguese instead. But it urns out, my knowledge of português makes learning Russian so much more easy!
I agree. My friend finds Korean easy and I find it hard. But for me Japanese is easy and for her it is hard. Easy in the sense that it makes sense to me.
She's very intelligent. It comes across early in the interview when she says it's hard to define knowledge and that every language has its own difficulties and how difficult the language is is entirely dependent on the learner.
Sometimes I would think learning japanese was a waste of my time, mostly because I literally live on the opposite side of Earth (Brasil) but then I remember why I started and why I love it and then get back at it again
I really related to Sziszi’s struggle with verb conjugation and people saying that certain languages should be easy. I’ve found learning mandarin easier than learning any Romance language.
Me as well. When you are learning Mandarin, you quickly can start speaking without making a lot of mistakes. With other languages, there are so many rules you have to take into account in order to make one short sentence. How is your chinese level now?
@@AfroLinguo well I kinda just dabble in languages a bit 😅 I’m more of the type of person to learn how different languages work rather than learn them fluently so my Chinese is probably the same as a 3 year olds, sorry to disappoint 😂
me too people are always surprised that the language I find the most difficult is Spanish despite , being an Italian speaker. Chinese was and still is the easiest Asian languages i ever started learning. it's easier than Japanese and Korean
In the past I would avoid learning difficult grammar because I thought it was boring. Now that I'm actually learning, it turns out that the payoff is much much greater because I can understand some things now!
I'm from Poland and now I'm learning English and Korean(this language is sooooo special for me and with a lot of beauty also Korean culture is so intresting, but I don't know why:D) after 3 years of Korean with a teacher (and almost 5 years overall) after so many strugels I still love this language. I'm so happy to hear that someone(Sylvia)learning a Polish❤️ ,but it's so hard to find language exchange partner for longer period of time f.ex. Polish-Korean so I know that feeling. There is a proverb in Poland, but when translated into English, it loses its sense, so it will write in the original "Polak Węgier dwa bratanki :) " Greetings from Poland😉
The tips on learning Hungarian apply beautifully to learning Kurmancî - not directly from grammar rules but on the literally just refusing to give up 😂
As a Polish person I just picked up Hungarian not so long ago and tbh I'm already overhelmed by the amounts of features this language has. I kinda don't know where to start tbh. Funny thing is that even tho my own language has a case system,I have no conscious experience of learning a language with this feature (as the only other languages I know are English and French),so it's a bit weird not to have all those "smaller words" to work with,but having to worry about countless suffixes instead. But the language itself is just so wonderful and fascinating at the same time,that I REALLY want to keep on learning it. Also could someone recommend me a good book to start with Hungarian from a scratch. I was personally thinking about getting MagyarOK. Egyébként is,nagyon szép videó
I would recommend to read harry potter in hungarian. Iam hungarian and it was one of the first books that I red. Or if you are looking for some hungariad written novel, try Pál utcai fiúk. It is a youth novel.
@@Kukasauto Thanks for the advice! I moved on with the language a bit since then and I'm much less lost. Getting a book worked miracles (altho in the end I got Hungarolingua instead of Magyarok,but I'm really happy with it). I actually found an amazing level-fitted series of crime novels for French,with more complex expressions or rarely used words explained on the side of each page and I wonder if I'll be able to find sth like that for Hungarian. If not,I'll surely try some Hungarian youth novels
I took a break from Czech, but now I'm back with my studies. I am also learning Norwegian. I really feel a connection with those languages. You're an inspiration for me Lindie. PS: I'm looking forward to your video with Luca Lampariello. 🤗
She watches workout videos and I watch BTS Run episodes :) I first watch them without subtitles to force me to listen. I am not seriously learning Korean. I passively study it like doing drops, Korean Unnie and TTMIK. I just want to get a feel for it for now. My target language is Japanese. But, passively study Korean and French from time to time.
Ooooh Holaaaa :)))) Muchas gracias!!! :)) We filmed this in April :D Though I still don't think it's 'so good' but I feel the progress:)) Thanks for motivation!
@@LindieBotes hi lindie maam i want to know about arabic language because there are lot of struggles as well as a person x place in an arab's arabic is different from other if i want to learn which arabic i mean which place's arabic should i learn? its 🤔🤔🤔
I’m learning more and more that repetition and doing a little bit every day with learning a language is key. It may not feel like you’re making that much progress, but when you look back even after a few weeks, you can really see a difference in my experience!
Awesome conversation! I specially loved Sziszi's Language Challenge, I've already visited your website and downloaded the task list to enrich my own language learning practice and my students'. Thank you so much for sharing!
For me as a Hungarian, wovel harmony in Hungarian seems something like the present-past-third form triads of English verbs. As a new learner it is just cramming them into your head, but if you repeat them enough, you discover similiarities and patterns that will help later to guess the different forms of a word met outside of classroom.
I am currently studying Korean and I have had to restart many times because I got in the habit of only using lingodeer and duolingo to learn Korean. But now I do my studying a lot differently and efficiently all thanks to you Lindie!
Similarities between Hungarian and Spanish: ny=ñ (Catalans write ny) and ly=ll. Hungarian and German both have separable prefixes. My mom told me about a Hungarian kid who recited, over and over, "ül le, leülni" (sitzt herunter, heruntersitzen). If you speak Hungarian, you know some Russian words (or close relatives): медведь, четверг, пятница, колбаса, баран. El uno es perro, el otro es can. El uno es diecinueve, el otro es undeveinte. In German there's a pair of words "Wachstube" in which "s" is pronounced differently because they're split differently as compounds. Is there such a pair in Hungarian? See ya! (Or is it szia?)
I do from time to time workout vids too on Korean lol that’s how I started to use the numbers!! I think the most challenging part is when I think I’m learning slow and don’t see any progress I feel kinda disappointed and be hard on myself and then I stopped studying it but after a year break I thought about my reasons to study again and noticed how I know a bit of Korean I just needed to restructure and be more consistent 💜
It's because she's smart and aware of what a truly excellent level in a language is that she says Spanish is difficult. People who say that English and Spanish are easy languages usually speak them at a mediocre level.
It’s just such a huge difference to talk with native speakers in English. And I think people forget this cause it’s very common to speak in English with everyone and you get used to it. But it took me 15 years of learning to be able to enjoy a book in English for example. :D
Greetings from a Bulgarian who thinks that Hungarian and Polish are very cool languages. 😅 Also watching work out videos in foreign languages is a great idea. That would motivate me to start working out again. 🏋🏻♀️🤸🏻♀️
I relish learning languages! Just the sheer novelty of a foreign language switches something on in my brain. But although I'd been focusing a lot on the high-population languages like Spanish and Italian, I've come back to study the languages of my own country, the Philippines! The archipelago is so linguistically diverse; I'm learning Binukid, Tausug, Higaonon, and Ilonggo. It's much harder to talk about learning the ''big'' languages because people will think you're showing off. I want none of the disproportionate standards for speaking that's on YT. With our native languages, it's just talking and chillin'. Love Lindie Botes!
That’s fantastic to learn all those Philippine languages, great idea. But for me i feel the opposite about what sound impressive, learning smaller languages impresses me more because there are fewer resources. It’s more like what it was to learn languages 20 year ago- which I tried and failed at.
Not to sound smug or anything, but I've never had much difficulty with Hungarian. To me it's much more direct and regular than my first self-taught language (Russian).
I'm learning Urdu and have tried using Hello Talk. Its pretty good, but I wonder if you have any tips about apportioning your time between your two languages? One of my partners told me that there are only 40 English speaking Urdu learners on Hello Talk, so you can imagine how many people are messaging me every day (of course that can be a good thing, but I feel bad for not being able to reply to them all!)
Who are your polyglot inspirations? Mine are Lindie Botes, Michael and Matthew Youlden, Vladimir Skultety, Robin MacPhearson, Steve Kaufmann, Bella Devyatkina, Tim Doner and Richard Simcott
Steve Kaufmann embodies the fact that language learning is a marathon and not a sprint. Looking at him, I know that if it takes me 5 years to learn a language, then it is not a big deal, because I still have like 40 more years before I am 60 years old which means from now till then, I could learn 8 languages.
I’m currently learning Korean and French And I’m going into Norwegian next Do you have any tutors suggestions in the first two languages especially korean because I might be heading there for university Love your channel by the way
Thank you, Lindie! I am still loving SpanishDict, which you recommended and it's great. Also, I'm using your Spanish tutor from iTalki, Diego Ivan, that you recommended and he's great, too! I am A1, maybe barely dancing with A2 level, but I find that the lessons help keep me motivated and provide an additional opportunity for me to ask questions. Have you got any recent thoughts on online flashcards? I watched your video from 2018 and I know you said flashcards were not your thing and that's fine. I just didn't know if you had any new thoughts on the topic. I am really thinking about Anki mobile app, which is $25. So just looking for pointers. I may go with just paper cards. I like the idea of portability (hence, an app) and a way to easily key in words I encounter as I am reading graded readers through Kindle on Amazon.
@@NataliaNNS thank you so much! I am going to check this out for sure based on your response and @Chocolate Rain too. So helpful. I believe in the research too on spaced repetition.
Hi Lindie, I was wondering if you have any advice on how I should go about learning Hindi? I have the “teach yourself Hindi” by Rupert snell book and am planning on using Pimsleur to learn the Hindi script, but beyond learning the script I’m not really sure what I should be doing to learn?
While I understand her mindset of "all languages have hard..." one can still say for say English...this other language will be harder...I mean the difference in the language makes it harder. Seems factual to me. Of course factors like ability, how many one knows etc do matter. But all things being equal one could say Spanish is easier than Hungarian for a Native English speaker.
love the videos Linda. I myself am learning French, Italian and German, but I sometimes get confused between Italian and French for example, Ill say Bonjourno instead of Bonjour..... any tips/advice? I think the trick is to think and speak slowly so that way you can get it right? good luck with the Korean!
Try watching with subtitles on, English ones or in your language. And it is easier to start with little films about your hobbies. Don't give up completely!
Hi Lindie thank you so much you are always helping me with my language learning btw can you recommend me some good apps for jpn✨greetings from Bosnia🇧🇦💗
Hi lindie, By the way I really love your channel. I have watched many of your videos and I loved them all.currently I am learning German so which language should I learn next in your opinion? Please reply. Thanks a lot!!!!
Sorry for answering instead of Lindie, but I think it really depends on what you want. I learned German too and now I am learning Chinese cuz it will create good job opportunities for me. If you are looking for a language similar to German, you could learn Dutch or Afrikaans. If you are looking for a language to help you with more job opportunities, then maybe French, Spanish or Chinese. It all depends on what you want. There are a lot of dope languages out there.
@@AfroLinguo Yeah no problem,but yes that depends on me but I was just asking for lindie Mam's suggestion. Thanks for your reply. Bye the way I really like your suggestion Thanks again for it!!!
Recently I was speaking with someone in spanish and they asked me if I was using a translator to speak with them (I wasn't lol) and I playfully asked why do you think that do I sound like translation apps and they said yes, haha it was such a shaking experience but I started to work on my sentences structure hopefully I would sound like humans some time soon
@@LindieBotes Damn. 😂😂😭😭 I thought I had seen the hardest grammar in the world but nope I was just being delusional. 😂😂😂 Love your content Lindie. You are truly awesome 👏
I am sure, because Englsih and German have super easy grammar compared to many other European languages (yeah English is easier but still German isn't bad, Danish grammar is not complicated either because there are other aspects that make Danish hard). If you're an English native speaker you may find the grammar hard, but don't worry! It's relatively easy🤣❤️❤️
Hi Lindie! Hola! Soy de México y me encanta aprender idiomas. Te sigo desde hace unos años pero nunca me he animado a compartir mi experiencia. Gracias por compartir con la comunidad lo que haces, me inspiras a seguir con esta pasión que tengo por los idiomas. Hace unos dias empece a subir videos para prácticar. Intentando hablar en varios idiomas, en formato de podcast. Y me siento muy nerviosa.th-cam.com/video/zEwpxxBpoqo/w-d-xo.html Saludos desde México!
honest talks like these keep me going
Same
I remember a time when I was talking in Romanian to someone in Romania, and she bluntly told me, "Your Romanian sounds like Google Translate"
I was two years into the process and this made me extremely mad, I almost blew up on her. Instead, I decided to just tell her that it wasn't a good thing to say to a learner of her language and walked away.
For the next 6 months I was pretty much fueled by an intense rage stemming from that moment and made a lot of progress in Romanian. And then eventually, I got to a point where I let go of that rage fuel so I could continue learning in a more positive manner 😂
That was one of my only bad experiences with language learning, but it was one of my strongest motivators for a while as well. So two sides to every coin I guess lol
So it sounded like her criticism, hard as it was to hear at first, improved your Romanian. Will you seek out blunt criticism in the future so your other languages can improve just as much? ;P
@@abesapien9930 I don't mind blunt criticism very much when it's given to me about my language. Because I know what questions to ask after that now.
But it also helps that I had this experience, because besides getting my level higher in Romanian, I was given an example of what not to do when giving someone feedback. So now I try to give helpful and constructive feedback to learners of my native language (English).
So overall, it was a helpful experience, though it didn't feel like it at the time 🤣
@@janeartworks mulțumesc mult!)) Și nu-ți face griji, mai greșesc un pic dar nimeni nu mi-a zis că vorbeam că google translate din nou.))
Terrific that you channeled your emotions into improving your Romanian!
She could have said it in a nicer way...more to be helpful- you used it well though.
I agree with her. I don't think there is such a thing as a difficult or easy language. It depends on the individual (native language, mindset, experience with learning languages, etc.)
#faxx Anything feels difficult if you don't have a strong enough Why.
Agreed! Two years ago I wanted to learn Russian, but went with Portuguese instead. But it urns out, my knowledge of português makes learning Russian so much more easy!
I agree. My friend finds Korean easy and I find it hard. But for me Japanese is easy and for her it is hard. Easy in the sense that it makes sense to me.
She's very intelligent. It comes across early in the interview when she says it's hard to define knowledge and that every language has its own difficulties and how difficult the language is is entirely dependent on the learner.
Have you ever had a bad experience learning a language? What kept you going? Rooting for you guys!
Yes, i did. I had to restart learning languages to make sure I am learning the right things.
Yes definitely! When I realised Polish had cases I was so confused and wanted to give up but now I'm able to use them properly a lot more!
I love learning languages and find lost smooth but Kurmancî consistently trips me up - mostly because of the lack of great resources.
@@epicdjyoshi648 Cool, why do you actually learn Polish? I'm a native and just wondering.. :P
Sometimes I would think learning japanese was a waste of my time, mostly because I literally live on the opposite side of Earth (Brasil) but then I remember why I started and why I love it and then get back at it again
I really related to Sziszi’s struggle with
verb conjugation and people saying that
certain languages should be easy.
I’ve found learning mandarin easier than learning any Romance language.
Me as well. When you are learning Mandarin, you quickly can start speaking without making a lot of mistakes. With other languages, there are so many rules you have to take into account in order to make one short sentence. How is your chinese level now?
@@AfroLinguo well I kinda just dabble in languages a bit 😅 I’m more of the type of person to learn how different languages work rather than learn them fluently so my Chinese is probably the same as a 3 year olds, sorry to disappoint 😂
me too
people are always surprised that the language I find the most difficult is Spanish despite , being an Italian speaker.
Chinese was and still is the easiest Asian languages i ever started learning.
it's easier than Japanese and Korean
@@theholywater no problem. 👍😊
REally are an English speaker- as that seems odd....unless you are coming from Korean or Japanese?
In the past I would avoid learning difficult grammar because I thought it was boring. Now that I'm actually learning, it turns out that the payoff is much much greater because I can understand some things now!
I'm from Poland and now I'm learning English and Korean(this language is sooooo special for me and with a lot of beauty also Korean culture is so intresting, but I don't know why:D) after 3 years of Korean with a teacher (and almost 5 years overall)
after so many strugels I still love this language.
I'm so happy to hear that someone(Sylvia)learning a Polish❤️ ,but it's so hard to find language exchange partner for longer period of time f.ex. Polish-Korean so I know that feeling. There is a proverb in Poland, but when translated into English, it loses its sense, so it will write in the original "Polak Węgier dwa bratanki :) "
Greetings from Poland😉
Lindie, thank you for being consistent in providing contents for us 🥺
That’s so interesting that she watches workout videos!!! I like to watch Masterchef Brasil to practice my listening so I guess it’s similar!
The tips on learning Hungarian apply beautifully to learning Kurmancî - not directly from grammar rules but on the literally just refusing to give up 😂
ergativity and circumpositions killed my drive :(
As a Polish person I just picked up Hungarian not so long ago and tbh I'm already overhelmed by the amounts of features this language has. I kinda don't know where to start tbh. Funny thing is that even tho my own language has a case system,I have no conscious experience of learning a language with this feature (as the only other languages I know are English and French),so it's a bit weird not to have all those "smaller words" to work with,but having to worry about countless suffixes instead. But the language itself is just so wonderful and fascinating at the same time,that I REALLY want to keep on learning it. Also could someone recommend me a good book to start with Hungarian from a scratch. I was personally thinking about getting MagyarOK.
Egyébként is,nagyon szép videó
I would recommend to read harry potter in hungarian. Iam hungarian and it was one of the first books that I red. Or if you are looking for some hungariad written novel, try Pál utcai fiúk. It is a youth novel.
@@Kukasauto Thanks for the advice! I moved on with the language a bit since then and I'm much less lost. Getting a book worked miracles (altho in the end I got Hungarolingua instead of Magyarok,but I'm really happy with it). I actually found an amazing level-fitted series of crime novels for French,with more complex expressions or rarely used words explained on the side of each page and I wonder if I'll be able to find sth like that for Hungarian. If not,I'll surely try some Hungarian youth novels
I took a break from Czech, but now I'm back with my studies. I am also learning Norwegian. I really feel a connection with those languages. You're an inspiration for me Lindie.
PS: I'm looking forward to your video with Luca Lampariello. 🤗
Nice to see someone else learning Czech 😊
@@NataliaNNS Jeg lærer norsk også!
@@lauren808 I had to Google translate that because I don't know norwegian 😅
@@NataliaNNS haha I meant to respond to the original lol
Omg you two together ❤️ bonita conversación! Un abrazo 🤗
She watches workout videos and I watch BTS Run episodes :) I first watch them without subtitles to force me to listen. I am not seriously learning Korean. I passively study it like doing drops, Korean Unnie and TTMIK. I just want to get a feel for it for now. My target language is Japanese. But, passively study Korean and French from time to time.
Sziszi you're so modest, your Spanish is already so good! 😉
Ooooh Holaaaa :)))) Muchas gracias!!! :)) We filmed this in April :D Though I still don't think it's 'so good' but I feel the progress:)) Thanks for motivation!
Nice conversation ❤️❤️ Thanks this will help me in learning Japanese and Spanish
I am currently learning Arabic on Duolingo. I use it also to learn Spanish, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese and Korean.
That's great! Keep going
@@LindieBotes hi lindie maam i want to know about arabic language because there are lot of struggles as well as a person x place in an arab's arabic is different from other if i want to learn which arabic i mean which place's arabic should i learn? its 🤔🤔🤔
@@goldhd6321 Just learn MSA, or decide if you want to travel to an arab speaking country and decide to learn a dialect based on that.
@@mirai2275 i'd glad to learn MSA but what is MSA? please confirm that 🙏🙏
Gold hd Modern Standard Arabic , I think it is like fusHa
Such a lovely chat between the two of you. Always nice to see people who enjoy learning languages. You two are so sweet. 🤩
Hi lindie! Just wanted to say that as a language nerd you’re a huge inspiration of mine, and I hope you have a great day :D
4:45 its always refreshing to see such accomplished learners share struggles that relative beginners like me have!
I’m learning more and more that repetition and doing a little bit every day with learning a language is key. It may not feel like you’re making that much progress, but when you look back even after a few weeks, you can really see a difference in my experience!
thankyou for these conversations!! im learning arabic but many people in my classes can already read and write so sometimes I feel like I’m not enough
You girls are awesome! What a great video. 👏🏽👏🏽
Awesome conversation! I specially loved Sziszi's Language Challenge, I've already visited your website and downloaded the task list to enrich my own language learning practice and my students'. Thank you so much for sharing!
Yaaayy I'm so happy that you can use it :))
For me as a Hungarian, wovel harmony in Hungarian seems something like the present-past-third form triads of English verbs. As a new learner it is just cramming them into your head, but if you repeat them enough, you discover similiarities and patterns that will help later to guess the different forms of a word met outside of classroom.
I am currently studying Korean and I have had to restart many times because I got in the habit of only using lingodeer and duolingo to learn Korean. But now I do my studying a lot differently and efficiently all thanks to you Lindie!
videos like this keep me motivated...thank you for sharing this with us
Similarities between Hungarian and Spanish: ny=ñ (Catalans write ny) and ly=ll.
Hungarian and German both have separable prefixes. My mom told me about a Hungarian kid who recited, over and over, "ül le, leülni" (sitzt herunter, heruntersitzen).
If you speak Hungarian, you know some Russian words (or close relatives): медведь, четверг, пятница, колбаса, баран.
El uno es perro, el otro es can. El uno es diecinueve, el otro es undeveinte.
In German there's a pair of words "Wachstube" in which "s" is pronounced differently because they're split differently as compounds. Is there such a pair in Hungarian?
See ya! (Or is it szia?)
I do from time to time workout vids too on Korean lol that’s how I started to use the numbers!! I think the most challenging part is when I think I’m learning slow and don’t see any progress I feel kinda disappointed and be hard on myself and then I stopped studying it but after a year break I thought about my reasons to study again and noticed how I know a bit of Korean I just needed to restructure and be more consistent 💜
Most interesting discussion between two great language learners. My grandma was Hungarian and was a great cook who never measured anything.
Great interview as always!
It's because she's smart and aware of what a truly excellent level in a language is that she says Spanish is difficult. People who say that English and Spanish are easy languages usually speak them at a mediocre level.
It’s just such a huge difference to talk with native speakers in English. And I think people forget this cause it’s very common to speak in English with everyone and you get used to it. But it took me 15 years of learning to be able to enjoy a book in English for example. :D
Thanks for another great video Lindie! Might see you at polyglot conference soon!
Greetings from a Bulgarian who thinks that Hungarian and Polish are very cool languages. 😅 Also watching work out videos in foreign languages is a great idea. That would motivate me to start working out again. 🏋🏻♀️🤸🏻♀️
your videos are so inspiring, love you ☺️
Thank you so much for this. I am currently learning Spanish, Korean, and Bulgarian. 😊
I relish learning languages! Just the sheer novelty of a foreign language switches something on in my brain. But although I'd been focusing a lot on the high-population languages like Spanish and Italian, I've come back to study the languages of my own country, the Philippines! The archipelago is so linguistically diverse; I'm learning Binukid, Tausug, Higaonon, and Ilonggo. It's much harder to talk about learning the ''big'' languages because people will think you're showing off. I want none of the disproportionate standards for speaking that's on YT. With our native languages, it's just talking and chillin'. Love Lindie Botes!
That’s fantastic to learn all those Philippine languages, great idea. But for me i feel the opposite about what sound impressive, learning smaller languages impresses me more because there are fewer resources. It’s more like what it was to learn languages 20 year ago- which I tried and failed at.
I love the workout video idea!
Polak Węgier dwa bratanki
Hi lindie! I love your videos! Your videos inspire me to learn Korean!
Not to sound smug or anything, but I've never had much difficulty with Hungarian. To me it's much more direct and regular than my first self-taught language (Russian).
As somebody who has used Russian before I even tried Hungarian, I find Hungarian easy to pronounce coming from Russian. There's some similarity there.
@@jeffkardosjr.3825 Exactly, Russian is more of a tongue twister to me (native Brazilian Portuguese speaker) than Hungarian is.
I love hearing this, thanks for sharing! :)
I'm learning Urdu and have tried using Hello Talk. Its pretty good, but I wonder if you have any tips about apportioning your time between your two languages? One of my partners told me that there are only 40 English speaking Urdu learners on Hello Talk, so you can imagine how many people are messaging me every day (of course that can be a good thing, but I feel bad for not being able to reply to them all!)
Who are your polyglot inspirations? Mine are Lindie Botes, Michael and Matthew Youlden, Vladimir Skultety, Robin MacPhearson, Steve Kaufmann, Bella Devyatkina, Tim Doner and Richard Simcott
Mine are really just lindie botes and tim Doner lmao, I don’t know that many
Steve Kaufmann embodies the fact that language learning is a marathon and not a sprint. Looking at him, I know that if it takes me 5 years to learn a language, then it is not a big deal, because I still have like 40 more years before I am 60 years old which means from now till then, I could learn 8 languages.
Who disliked this video?? I just want to talk.... 😅
I’m currently learning Korean and French
And I’m going into Norwegian next
Do you have any tutors suggestions in the first two languages especially korean because I might be heading there for university
Love your channel by the way
Hi! For Korean resources, you can check out my resource list here: www.lindiebotes.com/korean-resources. Best of luck with French and Norwegian!
@@LindieBotes Thank you ❤️
Thank you, Lindie! I am still loving SpanishDict, which you recommended and it's great. Also, I'm using your Spanish tutor from iTalki, Diego Ivan, that you recommended and he's great, too! I am A1, maybe barely dancing with A2 level, but I find that the lessons help keep me motivated and provide an additional opportunity for me to ask questions. Have you got any recent thoughts on online flashcards? I watched your video from 2018 and I know you said flashcards were not your thing and that's fine. I just didn't know if you had any new thoughts on the topic. I am really thinking about Anki mobile app, which is $25. So just looking for pointers. I may go with just paper cards. I like the idea of portability (hence, an app) and a way to easily key in words I encounter as I am reading graded readers through Kindle on Amazon.
@Chocolate Rain thank you!!!!
Memrise is really good for vocab, especially since it combines spaced repetition with learning the words
@@NataliaNNS thank you so much! I am going to check this out for sure based on your response and @Chocolate Rain too. So helpful. I believe in the research too on spaced repetition.
Hi Lindie, I was wondering if you have any advice on how I should go about learning Hindi? I have the “teach yourself Hindi” by Rupert snell book and am planning on using Pimsleur to learn the Hindi script, but beyond learning the script I’m not really sure what I should be doing to learn?
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While I understand her mindset of "all languages have hard..." one can still say for say English...this other language will be harder...I mean the difference in the language makes it harder. Seems factual to me. Of course factors like ability, how many one knows etc do matter. But all things being equal one could say Spanish is easier than Hungarian for a Native English speaker.
Mind a ketötöket szoktalak nézni.
love the videos Linda. I myself am learning French, Italian and German, but I sometimes get confused between Italian and French for example, Ill say Bonjourno instead of Bonjour..... any tips/advice? I think the trick is to think and speak slowly so that way you can get it right? good luck with the Korean!
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Actually, im taking a break of learning english, i feel so stuck cuz i can't understand movies/tv movies
Try watching with subtitles on, English ones or in your language. And it is easier to start with little films about your hobbies. Don't give up completely!
@@ChrisBadges thanks bro!
Hi Lindie thank you so much you are always helping me with my language learning btw can you recommend me some good apps for jpn✨greetings from Bosnia🇧🇦💗
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Hi lindie,
By the way I really love your channel. I have watched many of your videos and I loved them all.currently I am learning German so which language should I learn next in your opinion? Please reply.
Thanks a lot!!!!
Lindie Mam please reply
Sorry for answering instead of Lindie, but I think it really depends on what you want. I learned German too and now I am learning Chinese cuz it will create good job opportunities for me. If you are looking for a language similar to German, you could learn Dutch or Afrikaans. If you are looking for a language to help you with more job opportunities, then maybe French, Spanish or Chinese. It all depends on what you want. There are a lot of dope languages out there.
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Yeah no problem,but yes that depends on me but I was just asking for lindie Mam's suggestion. Thanks for your reply.
Bye the way I really like your suggestion
Thanks again for it!!!
@@ragjos3805 you are welcome.
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Recently I was speaking with someone in spanish and they asked me if I was using a translator to speak with them (I wasn't lol) and I playfully asked why do you think that do I sound like translation apps and they said yes, haha it was such a shaking experience but I started to work on my sentences structure hopefully I would sound like humans some time soon
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Is Hungarian grammar harder compared to German grammar?
I haven't studied German extensively but I am inclined to say yes hahaha
@@LindieBotes Damn. 😂😂😭😭 I thought I had seen the hardest grammar in the world but nope I was just being delusional. 😂😂😂 Love your content Lindie. You are truly awesome 👏
@@LindieBotes Heeey 😭😂❤️
I am sure, because Englsih and German have super easy grammar compared to many other European languages (yeah English is easier but still German isn't bad, Danish grammar is not complicated either because there are other aspects that make Danish hard). If you're an English native speaker you may find the grammar hard, but don't worry! It's relatively easy🤣❤️❤️
@@Ola-pe7zn Thanks. 😅😅 I thought German had like the hardest grammar ever and now I discover that I was just delusional haha. 😂😂
Hi Lindie! Hola! Soy de México y me encanta aprender idiomas. Te sigo desde hace unos años pero nunca me he animado a compartir mi experiencia. Gracias por compartir con la comunidad lo que haces, me inspiras a seguir con esta pasión que tengo por los idiomas. Hace unos dias empece a subir videos para prácticar. Intentando hablar en varios idiomas, en formato de podcast. Y me siento muy nerviosa.th-cam.com/video/zEwpxxBpoqo/w-d-xo.html
Saludos desde México!
Połlisz, łel, Ajm nat ymprest:P