The app I use to learn languages -> bit.ly/3GikD5H My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com How do you study vocabulary in your target language?
You are my idol. I would like to learn german ... but i have problems with the vocabulary acquisition. I heard about some kinds of techniques like the transformation of the phonetics into images in our language. What do you think about that ?
Steve, how do you learn multiple Slavic languages without confusing them. My Russian is much stronger than my Polish so whenever I speak Polish, Russian words just start coming out of my mouth
First I find the meaning. Next time the same word appears and it clicks. Thats how I have been able to built my vocabulary inter alia. Moreover I am a Polyglot. I know Pahari, Hindi, English, Urdu, Punjabi, Gojari, Arabic and also working on a new script which would revolutionize the writing system I hope. Sir, Do you have anything to suggest me concering Script ?
Love the point about "attitude" "time spent with the language" and "ability to notice." This makes so much sense. Made a video recently about when exposed to language input, don't just "hear," take a few moments to "observe/notice." Being deliberate about this is huge.
can reading and listening help me learn new words without looking up for the meaning of the words that i don't know like to see some words repeatedly in different contexts while reading , is it the way? or should i stop reading every time i see a word that i don't know and search for it's meaning? this is laborious and kills the passion i have to continue reading and learning
@@tramonto1965 Here's a suggestion so you don't look up words all the time: only look up words you see more than once. If you see a word once and never again, it might not be as important.
@@tramonto1965 look up words that stop you from knowing what the sentence is about or if they catch your attention. At the beginning that's a lot of words and that's necessary. As you go along it gets less and less
This man is a source of motivation for all the language learners who're fighting and struggeling to aquire the language by gaining new words,expressions every single day. THANK YOU !
Thanks so much Steve. There is no better program than LingQ. Wish I could have you a hug and buy you some coffee or something. LingQ has truly revolutionized my way of learning languages.
Thank you Steve, I have been learning German now for 2.5 years and have achieved a B2 - C1 level. Your videos have helped me so much to keep on the right track.
The fourth and fifth books that I read in Russian were sci-fis by the same author. It was pleasantly easy to read the second novel. This is now my pattern. Two books by the same author. The first of the first book I might need to look up 3 words a page ( or whatever). The second half of the first book perhaps 1 or 2 words. However, by the second half of the second book…maybe a word every 2 pages but more importantly I’m no longer translating in my head.and simply enjoying the story.
Cześć, this video came at the PERFECT TIME! I started studying Polish about 2 weeks ago because I'll be in Warsaw next week and Kraków around late summer.
سلام گرم مرا از ایران پذیرا باشید. به خاطر سپاری و مرور مکرر لغات همیشه عامل بازدارنده‌ای برای من در یادگیری انگلیسی بوده. خوشحالم از اینکه با شما و کانال بسیار مفیدتان آشنا شدم. با راهنمایی شما اکنون راحت تر زبان می‌خوانم و سریعتر جلو می‌روم. خیلی ممنون❤
Me encanta como lo explica. Yo lo oigo e intentó introducirme. No he reñido mucha posibilidad de aprender inglés, pero siempre ha sido mi lucha. Escuchar inglés. Oir canciones en ingles toda mi vida. Muchas gracias.
Pozdrowienia z Polski Steve.dziękuję za Twoje interesujące filmy i rady.Twoje podejście do nauki języka jest bardzo dobre,czerpanie przyjemności z nauki,dużo kontaktu z językiem w czytaniu i sluchaniu oraz mowa,komunikacja z ludźmi,bez nadmiernej gramatyki,po prostu stosunki międzyludzkie.warto być ciekawym języka,kultury oraz ludzi i po prostu korzystać z języka,to pomaga się uczyć.dziękuję👍🍀
I recently used the word "confabulate", which I picked up many years ago from an Oliver Sacks book, in the sense "make something up". I then looked it up and found that it also has other meanings, like "converse". Spanish is my third language; I'm a heritage speaker, which is a sort of native speaker. I sometimes find out that I know words (usually names of plants) that first-language Spanish speakers don't.
You are such an inspiration. As a Pole, I'm excited about you learning Polish and reading about our history. Thanks for your valuable tips. You have motivated me to start learning Japanese. If you started later in life, maybe I can make it too in my fourties I speak Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, and some rusty French where I know many words but have trouble recalling some. But I always dreamed of some more exotic and Asian language. I absolutely agree about attitude, exposure to lot of input.
At least that's not 100% cases. How about the children then? They often can't sit down for 20 mins doing maths but somehow accuire two or even three languages just being in the environment.
@@igronus Children have a crazy high level of neuroplasticity. Their neural connections are not as hardened as adults'. After the age of 24-25, the level of neuroplasticity starts going significantly down, and thereafter any learning requires focus, effort, and discipline. We keep learning, but much less loosely than kids.
This video was very interesting because now I'm listening to podcast and speak with local in my target language. Sometimes I write down a word and in the future I will often remember how many Times I've already met that word. Now I think that I can start using deliberately a word after 4/5 active encounters
If you want to learn new vocabulary, then get exposure to the language. How do you get exposure to the language? Listen to people making conversation with other. Listen to stories. Reading or listening to a random list of words or a random list of sentences is not an effective way to get exposure to the language.
Great video, steve! It really starts to make sense to me that a proper knowledge and acquisition of words requires many repetitions and encounters in different situations
this is how i learned english just read and listen to the words that u didn't know Translate that words and read and listen over and over again with different contexts and it automatically sticks to the brain
Do you learn only translated meaning? Or meanings from dictionary too ? I mean if you see dictionary then they give 4,5 meanings of a word while in translation there exists only 1
Just watching your videos because of your vibe. And I really like your accent. English is not my native, and you help me a lot with comprehension fluent voice
Thanks for the amazing content you create🙏 Would it be possible to create a video where you'd break down the phases and time required to reach a fluency level where you can operate effortlessly in a native environment (Probably C1 in CEFR scale). Ollie Richards did quite a good video where he estimated it'd take a good 31 months if you put a lot of effort into it (A1 1m, A2 3m, B1 7m, B2 15m, C1 31m). You are the best! Your methods have helped me a lot on my way to becoming fluent in swedish💪
There are so many factors that it is difficult to predict how long. I intend to do a video on different strategies depending on where you are in the language.
@@Thelinguist Steve I’m starting Icelandic, from scratch, being a Portuguese native speaker I don’t get anything. There are many great content on learning languages, you’re one of the tops, but with so much info on the topic I’m kind of lost. I have one year for learning Icelandic 😂a summarized video on do this dont do that would help a lottttttt . thanks for all of your content 👍🏻
Yes you're as always talking about really wonderful things and methods which allow to different people learning different languages in no time, particularly about words, yes that true that you should do all consistently just reading, watching and talking with different people in yourself target language and then you can achieve really awesome results at all thanks for such good video again.
Steve, I lately found out one thing that twist my understanding... people always say, don't translate thing when you think... but.... I started to translate things in my anki.... and ...I started to learn more and more things in a more consolidated way.
Language learning is a lot like cooking pasta. You're basically throwing words and phrases like pasta at the wall hoping they'll stick. Speaking a foreign language sometimes isn't so easy. I've been learning Norwegian since February of last year, I have few chances to speak it beyond with my tutor, so reading, listening and watching are my main contact with that language.
However, languages have unique values from each other For example Common expressions in Indonesian such as disaster: “meat the lives of the dead” (memakan korban jiwa ) may seem odd in English, but in Indonesian they are common.
老師調整了講話的狀態，聲音舒服了很多，真棒！👍👍 J'ai l'impression que vous avez changé la façon de parler, y'a plus de soutiens profonde. Votre voix est plus ronde , plus agréable ! Bravo 👍👍
From my experience high frequency words like a few to several thousand words can be learned through reading and listening and output with minimal deliberate memorization. But more than that like 10,000 to 20,000 to 30,000? You need to do deliberate memorization in addition to tremendous amount of input
to prawda, jeśli uczymy się z treści które są dla nas interesujące, to słowa w zasadzie same zostają w głowie - ja na przykład tak uczę się języka niemieckiego - oglądam podcasty po niemiecku z treściami które mnie interesują. Z angielskim było dokładnie tak samo. Steve if you're interested in history of Poland I would recommend you a podcast on TH-cam - "Zakazane historie"- mostly stories from the 20th century, very interesting and guy is speaking Polish very, very clear (sometimes too slow for me :) ) See you in Poland ;)
Szybko można nazbierać tyle słów gdy każde słowo ma pierdyliard odmian ;) A na LingQ każda odmiana będzie liczona jako pojedyncze słowo. Steve przeczytał 660k słów po polsku, także jedynie 10-20 książek. W porównaniu do perskiego gdzie przeczytał 835k słów, "zna" zaledwie 13k słów. Wszystko zależy jak język jest zbudowany.
@@kjgolden7516 AFAIK Polish does not have the dual, but Slovene does. In Russian, which does not have a dual number, some plurals (напр. очи, глаза) are dual forms, and 2,3,4 use what were originally dual forms but are now considered genitive.
Linq is incredibly generous with "number of words." It includes words that differ only in inflectional stuff as separate words. Ditto with derivational stuff.
Hello Steve, I was wondering, if it is any chance to meet you at the Polyglot Gathering in Poland this year? It vould be great to thank you in person for encouraging us to language learning.
I tried LingQ but found it really complicated to learn korean with it. Maybe I don't understand the website. But that I have to choose a meaning of a word on my own is somehow confusing, also I think the system don't understand words/verbs like "(word)할 뻔했다" which has its own meaning, but because there is a space in between those words, the system of LingQ does not realize the grammar. So I can't learn as a beginner on LingQ if I want to learn korean. At least it's my experience so far.
Yes. I had the same problem. I came back to it after I was on the cusp or intermediate and now I find it great. I'm learning korean too. It's great for importing content. But tou do need a grasp of the language first. My vocabulary was at 1500 words before I found any use if linq
Greetings from Poland Steve! Im very happy You learning my languange. Im impressed with your person and your mind. I would recommend You books famous author Bogusław Wołoszański and podcast Sensacje XX Wieku if You are intrested history of Poland and Europe. Especially the twentieth century. Powodzenia w nauce! Trzymaj sie! Take care!
Listen and reading are perfect way to learn new words in Englis however, i love listening than reading. What is your method to learn new words? Reply me please.😁
Hi Steve, this is a brilliant video. You say you are reading about history in that language. I am learning Spanish and for example would like to read about the history of costa rica but where you do find books like this in the language that you want? thank you so much.
Do tej pory (po pięciu latach nauki ) znam 130000 "słów", ale nadal jest mnóstwo slów, których nigdy nie widzałem. :) Ponadto mój słownictwo czynne jest raczej ograniczone :(
Might this format help with languages that have unfamiliar script characters like Chinese or Japanese? I'm interested in Japanese and kind of accept standard study methods like writing practice or flash cards will be necessary, but I also wonder if the LingQ method will help a lot in retention of the characters as much as the words. EDIT: I guess what I mean is if this can help move passed that Flashcard / Copy - Write phase faster and not worry so much about perfecting the script before tackling language.
Sure its the same thing... Dont worry about learning individual Kanjis... Just read book after book on lingq and things will stick in your brain automatically.
I think that when it comes to Kanji a separate deliberate effort to learn them is necessary at the beginning and for a while. Then as you continue reading and listening, you will reinforce your familiarity wit them and learn new ones. It will be come less necessary to deliberately learn them
@Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Thanks for the reply. I think one can get stuck in a rote memorization mode feeling like 'part 1' needs to be finished before tackling 'part 2'. Kind of a school workbook progression habit.
When I'd just started learning Japanese many years ago, I didn't know about Lingq. But basically I did the similar thing. I've just been reading many visual novels, first using text grabber and Rikaichan, than without them. I haven't ever done a writing practice. While I was using Anki for a while in the start and even tried to learn 1000 separate kanjis at once, I'm not really sure if it was so helpful. I think the reading itself did more for me, and kanji are better be studied just as parts of words. There was a time I was reading for a three hours in a day, for several months, and then the language somehow "clicked" with me. I felt being immersed and forgot I was reading in a foreign language
can reading and listening help me learn new words without looking up for the meaning of the words that i don't know like to see some words repeatedly in different contexts while reading , is it the way? or should i stop reading every time i see a word that i don't know and search for it's meaning? this is laborious and kills the passion i have to continue reading and learning , oh God the English language gets harder the more you cut the path
With French I write down new words while listening to podcasts. Later on I research them and add them to Anki. It takes me a while to learn them, but they often come up again, and gradually they sink in. Looking them up at the time breaks the flow, and means you go back to your native language.
@@StillAliveAndKicking_ but don't you think this is a slow way like it will take more than four years to master the language ,if i learn an average of 10 English words a day it will take me 5 years to know 18,000 words and that's still not the number of words that an adult native English speaker knows according to a google search i did however it's easier in your case because it takes a fewer amount of vocabulary to get to fluency in French
@@tramonto1965 You are right about French. It does take a long while to become fluent. Perhaps four years is right, but long before that you’ll be understanding many words. In German a lot of words are compound, for example. In French , if you know salle and bain, you understand la salle de bain. If you know rouge, you can guess rougeatre.
Hi Steve. Thanks for the video. If the number of words we need to know to be at an average native level is 20000-25000, then why in some languages you know more than that? What’s the need to know that amount of words like 60000?
Binjour steve ! Je voulais savoir comment faire pour les mots sortent de manière inconsciente sans que ca soit un puzzle dans ma tete pour créer une phrase ?
Currently, I am learning german through a class in a classroom course. And I have a little difficulty, because even though I know I can't, I end up translating the words.
Great video! Question, does this work (as well) for languages with pictographic alphabets, like Kanji in Japanese? I find very tough to memorize or absorb new words when I'm reading new material in the native language, since thousands of symbols and how very detailed they are will make me retain very few words :/ Thanks 🙏
I think that when it comes to Kanji a separate deliberate effort to learn them is necessary at the beginning and for a while. Then as you continue reading and listening, you will reinforce your familiarity wit them and learn new ones. It will be come less necessary to deliberately learn them
Well, with the lastest add-ons one can now speak French with Chat GPT no problem. I mean, no hands mom. My question is: does such practice essentially break one's will and wish to suspend output? Or does conversing only with humans constitute true outputting?
Polscy entuzjaści języków czekają na Ciebie Steve. If you know many words, you can communicate. If you only just know grammar & your vocab is poor, you’re gonna struggle. And hey, there is no learning words without grammar when you study sentences.
Hey Paul, I have a question. I'm learning two writing systems and three languages (one for leisure, one for academics, and one for another purpose) and while doing that, I found myself being sometimes dyslexic. In English, I sometimes fail to recognize a word properly. While in other languages, I recognize individual letters simply by recognizing the whole word. If I were to read by reading the letters, I would comprehend less in a language other than English. I'm pondering about dyslexia and polylingualism and I thought to ask you.
You are very great person. You are too old, but you try to teach persons. How to speak foreign language. I will be proud myself. If I so smart like you. I very respect you. Thank you for you made good video. 🙏🙏🙏
It doesnt work with me. I watch movies, listen to songs but I cannot catch the words that I dont know already. Just when I use a new word when I use it in a sentence or something, that word sticks with me.
@@Thelinguist irish is maybe 3 or 4 thousand years old. One of the oldest extant languages In Europe. Steve, if you could crack this language, you would get enormous respect and prestige among the Irish community in Canada , the US Australia and even In Dublin !
@@Thelinguist have a look at "langfocus on youtube" he explains the curious links between the celtic languages and the semitic languages. Maybe it's cos the celts came out of Anatolia 20,000 years ago. Conjugated prepositions are a curious feature. 😅 anyway , an advantage of irish is its extreme wealth n of phrases and imagery.....and the disadvantage is its extreme wealth of words makes it a nightmare for schoolkids. And then lenition & eclipsis makes their head explode ! Also the mathematics of numbers is totally bonkers. ...explained well by the langfocus fella. The expression "forty shades of green" is probably a celtic borrowing. Double the number of all your fingers and toes. SVO reversed into VSO ..... "eats man sandwich" ...note the absence of the indefinite article. ANYWAY Steve, I would love to hear your thoughts on irish as a language.. its dying cos it is so difficult. "May the road rise up to meet you, and the wind always be at your back" Go n-eiri an bothar leat. Bóthair = cow track = motorway.....maybe basque ( euskera) is more paleolithic....but irish has an English language community & infrastructure to help to your journey.....plus the last few remaining native speakers in our retirement homes. And the break-off from Welsh was maybe 10,000 years ago or more....still echoes in the two languages....head = ceann = Penn. Many regular transpositions between q celtic and p celtic.
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How do you study vocabulary in your target language?
You are my idol. I would like to learn german ... but i have problems with the vocabulary acquisition. I heard about some kinds of techniques like the transformation of the phonetics into images in our language. What do you think about that ?
Steve, how do you learn multiple Slavic languages without confusing them. My Russian is much stronger than my Polish so whenever I speak Polish, Russian words just start coming out of my mouth
First I find the meaning. Next time the same word appears and it clicks. Thats how I have been able to built my vocabulary inter alia.
Moreover I am a Polyglot. I know Pahari, Hindi, English, Urdu, Punjabi, Gojari, Arabic and also working on a new script which would revolutionize the writing system I hope. Sir, Do you have anything to suggest me concering Script ?
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Love the point about "attitude" "time spent with the language" and "ability to notice." This makes so much sense. Made a video recently about when exposed to language input, don't just "hear," take a few moments to "observe/notice." Being deliberate about this is huge.
Steve is Legend
Yes,he has been updating his video over ten years
More than a legend!
I agree
Absolutely agree my friend!
The greater polyglot ever lived !
Greetings from Poland
You hit the nail on the head when you said the more you read and the more you listen, the more words you know.
can reading and listening help me learn new words without looking up for the meaning of the words that i don't know like to see some words repeatedly in different contexts while reading , is it the way? or should i stop reading every time i see a word that i don't know and search for it's meaning? this is laborious and kills the passion i have to continue reading and learning
@@tramonto1965 Here's a suggestion so you don't look up words all the time: only look up words you see more than once. If you see a word once and never again, it might not be as important.
@@tramonto1965 from my limited experience... ideally, somewhere in the middle.
@@tramonto1965 look up words that stop you from knowing what the sentence is about or if they catch your attention.
At the beginning that's a lot of words and that's necessary. As you go along it gets less and less
This man is a source of motivation for all the language learners who're fighting and struggeling to aquire the language by gaining new words,expressions every single day. THANK YOU !
Thanks so much Steve. There is no better program than LingQ. Wish I could have you a hug and buy you some coffee or something. LingQ has truly revolutionized my way of learning languages.
Another great video, Steve! I have found that reading has really built my vocabulary and understanding in my target language.
What language are you learning?
I get excited for your videos every Tuesday and Thursday. Thank you, Steve!
Дякуємо Вам, Стів!!! Дуже хороші поради!!! Люблю дивитися ваші відео 💙💛❤👍
Thank you Steve, I have been learning German now for 2.5 years and have achieved a B2 - C1 level. Your videos have helped me so much to keep on the right track.
Which video do you mean?
@@77n53 I guess all of them
Damn you progressed quickly. That would have taken many hours of regular immersion to reach that level in 2.5 years.
How do I test if I'm a1 or b1 or c1 or whatever?
@@scriptshamanji5400 You're the best judge of where you're at on the framework. Read the descriptions.
The fourth and fifth books that I read in Russian were sci-fis by the same author. It was pleasantly easy to read the second novel. This is now my pattern. Two books by the same author. The first of the first book I might need to look up 3 words a page ( or whatever). The second half of the first book perhaps 1 or 2 words. However, by the second half of the second book…maybe a word every 2 pages but more importantly I’m no longer translating in my head.and simply enjoying the story.
Cześć, this video came at the PERFECT TIME! I started studying Polish about 2 weeks ago because I'll be in Warsaw next week and Kraków around late summer.
Greetings from Poland!;)
@@julkahalczak5643 Dzień Dobry! Co u pani słychać?
@@SunnyOfficialYT Wszystko dobrze, a tam?
@@julkahalczak5643 Dziękuję, wszystko w proządku. I got back from Warsaw Wednesday night. I miss it already.
سلام گرم مرا از ایران پذیرا باشید. به خاطر سپاری و مرور مکرر لغات همیشه عامل بازدارنده‌ای برای من در یادگیری انگلیسی بوده. خوشحالم از اینکه با شما و کانال بسیار مفیدتان آشنا شدم. با راهنمایی شما اکنون راحت تر زبان می‌خوانم و سریعتر جلو می‌روم. خیلی ممنون❤
I believe in Steve's strategy of learning a language. I've learned our national language Urdu through listening.
Me encanta como lo explica. Yo lo oigo e intentó introducirme. No he reñido mucha posibilidad de aprender inglés, pero siempre ha sido mi lucha. Escuchar inglés. Oir canciones en ingles toda mi vida. Muchas gracias.
Pozdrowienia z Polski Steve.dziękuję za Twoje interesujące filmy i rady.Twoje podejście do nauki języka jest bardzo dobre,czerpanie przyjemności z nauki,dużo kontaktu z językiem w czytaniu i sluchaniu oraz mowa,komunikacja z ludźmi,bez nadmiernej gramatyki,po prostu stosunki międzyludzkie.warto być ciekawym języka,kultury oraz ludzi i po prostu korzystać z języka,to pomaga się uczyć.dziękuję👍🍀
I recently used the word "confabulate", which I picked up many years ago from an Oliver Sacks book, in the sense "make something up". I then looked it up and found that it also has other meanings, like "converse".
Spanish is my third language; I'm a heritage speaker, which is a sort of native speaker. I sometimes find out that I know words (usually names of plants) that first-language Spanish speakers don't.
You are such an inspiration. As a Pole, I'm excited about you learning Polish and reading about our history. Thanks for your valuable tips. You have motivated me to start learning Japanese. If you started later in life, maybe I can make it too in my fourties I speak Polish, Spanish, Portuguese, and some rusty French where I know many words but have trouble recalling some. But I always dreamed of some more exotic and Asian language. I absolutely agree about attitude, exposure to lot of input.
So inspiring your channel. I will follow your advices. No either person dominates 9 languages
On a side note, that must be the best background I have ever seen on TH-cam! LOL
سلامی پر از محبت و احترام، از طرف یک ایرانیِ فارسی زبان😌 خوشحالم که تاریخ و فرهنگ ما رو میخونی😍
Pozdrawiam z Chicago i życzę sukcesów w nauce języka polskiego😊.
Robisz wspaniałą robotę!
Dziękuję i pozdrawiam.
There is no easy way to learn a foreign language: it is always about systemization, discipline and endurance.
At least that's not 100% cases. How about the children then? They often can't sit down for 20 mins doing maths but somehow accuire two or even three languages just being in the environment.
@@igronus For children, there is education. Many animals can learn but only humans can teach.
@@igronus Children have a crazy high level of neuroplasticity. Their neural connections are not as hardened as adults'. After the age of 24-25, the level of neuroplasticity starts going significantly down, and thereafter any learning requires focus, effort, and discipline.
We keep learning, but much less loosely than kids.
@@zybergisthis is completely false and has been proven by research
Did you not watch the man's video?
This video was very interesting because now I'm listening to podcast and speak with local in my target language. Sometimes I write down a word and in the future I will often remember how many Times I've already met that word. Now I think that I can start using deliberately a word after 4/5 active encounters
If you want to learn new vocabulary, then get exposure to the language. How do you get exposure to the language? Listen to people making conversation with other. Listen to stories. Reading or listening to a random list of words or a random list of sentences is not an effective way to get exposure to the language.
Great video, steve! It really starts to make sense to me that a proper knowledge and acquisition of words requires many repetitions and encounters in different situations
this is how i learned english just read and listen to the words that u didn't know Translate that words and read and listen over and over again with different contexts and it automatically sticks to the brain
Do you learn only translated meaning? Or meanings from dictionary too ?
I mean if you see dictionary then they give 4,5 meanings of a word while in translation there exists only 1
@@juliuscaesar1573learn 1 vocabulary, interpret it with translation and learn the meaning or use of that vocabulary
Thank you very much Steve for sharing your experience
Wow, awesome! Powodzenia! 🔥
True inspiration for us
We love you Steve
Peace ✌️
Just watching your videos because of your vibe. And I really like your accent. English is not my native, and you help me a lot with comprehension fluent voice
Thanks for the amazing content you create🙏 Would it be possible to create a video where you'd break down the phases and time required to reach a fluency level where you can operate effortlessly in a native environment (Probably C1 in CEFR scale). Ollie Richards did quite a good video where he estimated it'd take a good 31 months if you put a lot of effort into it (A1 1m, A2 3m, B1 7m, B2 15m, C1 31m). You are the best! Your methods have helped me a lot on my way to becoming fluent in swedish💪
There are so many factors that it is difficult to predict how long. I intend to do a video on different strategies depending on where you are in the language.
@@Thelinguist Steve I’m starting Icelandic, from scratch, being a Portuguese native speaker I don’t get anything. There are many great content on learning languages, you’re one of the tops, but with so much info on the topic I’m kind of lost. I have one year for learning Icelandic 😂a summarized video on do this dont do that would help a lottttttt . thanks for all of your content 👍🏻
Thank you Steve .Greetings from Poland
One trick that I found helps me learn fast (at least new English words) is memorizing whether a word is positive or negative.
Yes you're as always talking about really wonderful things and methods which allow to different people learning different languages in no time, particularly about words, yes that true that you should do all consistently just reading, watching and talking with different people in yourself target language and then you can achieve really awesome results at all thanks for such good video again.
Thanks Steve for covering countless various languages related topics.
Gracias por sus consejos es usted un hombre muy inteligente ¡ admirable!!
Steve, I lately found out one thing that twist my understanding... people always say, don't translate thing when you think... but.... I started to translate things in my anki.... and ...I started to learn more and more things in a more consolidated way.
Good video. I'm learning a lot from you.
Thank you Mr. Kaufmann, my best regards from Brazil 😊
Thanks a lot for help us to improve our language skills!
fluency is the ability to ask and answer questions and understand what's said without having to think about every word.
Great video! I’ll buy the plan in the app, it seems to be very efficient
Language learning is a lot like cooking pasta. You're basically throwing words and phrases like pasta at the wall hoping they'll stick. Speaking a foreign language sometimes isn't so easy. I've been learning Norwegian since February of last year, I have few chances to speak it beyond with my tutor, so reading, listening and watching are my main contact with that language.
That’s great and all, but I don’t think you know how to cook pasta 😂
I like parmesan cheese a lot, so that suggests I should be good at learning languages. Time will tell.
I don't think pasta is meant to be thrown at the wall.
@@russianlearning5817 Be gentle, he’s American, they haven’t yet learnt how to eat exotic foodstuffs.
@@russianlearning5817 we do it to check if it sticks if it does then it's done.
I've always struggled around with vocabulary alottttttttt, and I always got burnt out when I couldn't remember a certain vocab 😅
However, languages have unique values from each other For example Common expressions in Indonesian such as disaster: “meat the lives of the dead” (memakan korban jiwa )
may seem odd in English, but in Indonesian they are common.
老師調整了講話的狀態，聲音舒服了很多，真棒！👍👍
J'ai l'impression que vous avez changé la façon de parler, y'a plus de soutiens profonde. Votre voix est plus ronde , plus agréable ! Bravo 👍👍
I love that, Thanks "Mister"
Brilliant as always Steve, thank you.
From my experience high frequency words like a few to several thousand words can be learned through reading and listening and output with minimal deliberate memorization. But more than that like 10,000 to 20,000 to 30,000? You need to do deliberate memorization in addition to tremendous amount of input
to prawda, jeśli uczymy się z treści które są dla nas interesujące, to słowa w zasadzie same zostają w głowie - ja na przykład tak uczę się języka niemieckiego - oglądam podcasty po niemiecku z treściami które mnie interesują. Z angielskim było dokładnie tak samo.
Steve if you're interested in history of Poland I would recommend you a podcast on TH-cam - "Zakazane historie"- mostly stories from the 20th century, very interesting and guy is speaking Polish very, very clear (sometimes too slow for me :) ) See you in Poland ;)
Great video! Many thanks.
Excellent video!
Sir your teaching is very useful for us👌👌
Oo gratulacje! Bardzo ciekawe.
Wow It's hard to imagine even for me as a Polish native speaker to know 36000 words in this language
Szybko można nazbierać tyle słów gdy każde słowo ma pierdyliard odmian ;) A na LingQ każda odmiana będzie liczona jako pojedyncze słowo. Steve przeczytał 660k słów po polsku, także jedynie 10-20 książek. W porównaniu do perskiego gdzie przeczytał 835k słów, "zna" zaledwie 13k słów. Wszystko zależy jak język jest zbudowany.
@@kjgolden7516 AFAIK Polish does not have the dual, but Slovene does. In Russian, which does not have a dual number, some plurals (напр. очи, глаза) are dual forms, and 2,3,4 use what were originally dual forms but are now considered genitive.
Linq is incredibly generous with "number of words." It includes words that differ only in inflectional stuff as separate words. Ditto with derivational stuff.
These are word forms. Even the word "one" has over 20 forms in polish i believe.
@KJG Olden it has, but they are part of the collective numbers.
Polish is the hardest language to aquire! You are madman mr. Steve 👹🐗
try to learn arabisk
Hello Steve,
I was wondering, if it is any chance to meet you at the Polyglot Gathering in Poland this year? It vould be great to thank you in person for encouraging us to language learning.
I wont be at the Polyglot gathering but will be in Warsaw and Krakow. It would be nice to organize a meet up if people are interested.
I tried LingQ but found it really complicated to learn korean with it. Maybe I don't understand the website. But that I have to choose a meaning of a word on my own is somehow confusing, also I think the system don't understand words/verbs like "(word)할 뻔했다" which has its own meaning, but because there is a space in between those words, the system of LingQ does not realize the grammar. So I can't learn as a beginner on LingQ if I want to learn korean. At least it's my experience so far.
The same LinQ experience with Chinese .too complicated for begginers
Yes. I had the same problem. I came back to it after I was on the cusp or intermediate and now I find it great. I'm learning korean too. It's great for importing content. But tou do need a grasp of the language first. My vocabulary was at 1500 words before I found any use if linq
@@tatianarusmade336 I am glad that I am not the only one.
My inspirer👏👏
Y si no puedo pagar la parte premium de linq? Como hago para apreder vocabulario?
Good Tips 👏🏼
Greetings from Poland Steve!
Im very happy You learning my languange.
Im impressed with your person and your mind.
I would recommend You books famous author Bogusław Wołoszański and podcast Sensacje XX Wieku if You are intrested history of Poland and Europe. Especially the twentieth century.
Powodzenia w nauce! Trzymaj sie!
Take care!
Great video
Listen and reading are perfect way to learn new words in Englis however, i love listening than reading. What is your method to learn new words? Reply me please.😁
Hi Steve, this is a brilliant video. You say you are reading about history in that language. I am learning Spanish and for example would like to read about the history of costa rica but where you do find books like this in the language that you want? thank you so much.
Hi Steve, I admire You.
1- How many words I must know for to get English B-2 Level?
Do tej pory (po pięciu latach nauki ) znam 130000 "słów", ale nadal jest mnóstwo slów, których nigdy nie widzałem. :) Ponadto mój słownictwo czynne jest raczej ograniczone :(
Might this format help with languages that have unfamiliar script characters like Chinese or Japanese? I'm interested in Japanese and kind of accept standard study methods like writing practice or flash cards will be necessary, but I also wonder if the LingQ method will help a lot in retention of the characters as much as the words. EDIT: I guess what I mean is if this can help move passed that Flashcard / Copy - Write phase faster and not worry so much about perfecting the script before tackling language.
Sure its the same thing... Dont worry about learning individual Kanjis... Just read book after book on lingq and things will stick in your brain automatically.
I think that when it comes to Kanji a separate deliberate effort to learn them is necessary at the beginning and for a while. Then as you continue reading and listening, you will reinforce your familiarity wit them and learn new ones. It will be come less necessary to deliberately learn them
@Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve Thanks for the reply. I think one can get stuck in a rote memorization mode feeling like 'part 1' needs to be finished before tackling 'part 2'. Kind of a school workbook progression habit.
Wanikani is your friend!
When I'd just started learning Japanese many years ago, I didn't know about Lingq.
But basically I did the similar thing. I've just been reading many visual novels, first using text grabber and Rikaichan, than without them.
I haven't ever done a writing practice. While I was using Anki for a while in the start and even tried to learn 1000 separate kanjis at once, I'm not really sure if it was so helpful.
I think the reading itself did more for me, and kanji are better be studied just as parts of words. There was a time I was reading for a three hours in a day, for several months, and then the language somehow "clicked" with me. I felt being immersed and forgot I was reading in a foreign language
Thanks
Thank you ❤
As a student 13€ is too much for me but the application which youre the founder of looks very effective. Good luck grandpa
Can a beginner thrive using LingQ Japanese? I know hiragana and katakana, but no kangi…. Do you have readings just in hiragana and katakana?
Steve I got a question, how many languages do you know?
can reading and listening help me learn new words without looking up for the meaning of the words that i don't know like to see some words repeatedly in different contexts while reading , is it the way? or should i stop reading every time i see a word that i don't know and search for it's meaning? this is laborious and kills the passion i have to continue reading and learning , oh God the English language gets harder the more you cut the path
With French I write down new words while listening to podcasts. Later on I research them and add them to Anki. It takes me a while to learn them, but they often come up again, and gradually they sink in. Looking them up at the time breaks the flow, and means you go back to your native language.
@@StillAliveAndKicking_
but don't you think this is a slow way like it will take more than four years to master the language ,if i learn an average of 10 English words a day it will take me 5 years to know 18,000 words and that's still not the number of words that an adult native English speaker knows according to a google search i did however it's easier in your case because it takes a fewer amount of vocabulary to get to fluency in French
@@tramonto1965 You are right about French. It does take a long while to become fluent. Perhaps four years is right, but long before that you’ll be understanding many words. In German a lot of words are compound, for example. In French , if you know salle and bain, you understand la salle de bain. If you know rouge, you can guess rougeatre.
Definitely don't stop for every word. Only for those, you feel you absolutely must look for.
Hi Steve. Thanks for the video. If the number of words we need to know to be at an average native level is 20000-25000, then why in some languages you know more than that? What’s the need to know that amount of words like 60000?
It all depends on how much inflection, changes in the form of words, there is in a language. LingQ counts every form of a word separately.
Legend!
the terrable of lingQ is every word need create from zreo, maybe can read some artitle and just select unknown words.
Use the setting "Paging move words to known" and just look for unknown ones
Do you subvocalize when you read in languages you aren't fluent in?
Binjour steve ! Je voulais savoir comment faire pour les mots sortent de manière inconsciente sans que ca soit un puzzle dans ma tete pour créer une phrase ?
I see the real bookshelf behind the poster version. 😆
Steve, how about learning Chinese? how do you acquire without knowing how to read the characters yet?
Currently, I am learning german through a class in a classroom course. And I have a little difficulty, because even though I know I can't, I end up translating the words.
You can't do that bro. It's for asshole. Just do it fluently.
Great video! Question, does this work (as well) for languages with pictographic alphabets, like Kanji in Japanese? I find very tough to memorize or absorb new words when I'm reading new material in the native language, since thousands of symbols and how very detailed they are will make me retain very few words :/
Thanks 🙏
I think that when it comes to Kanji a separate deliberate effort to learn them is necessary at the beginning and for a while. Then as you continue reading and listening, you will reinforce your familiarity wit them and learn new ones. It will be come less necessary to deliberately learn them
@@Thelinguist Thank you so much for the answer! I will keep at it! 😁
thank you
Legendary
Well, with the lastest add-ons one can now speak French with Chat GPT no problem. I mean, no hands mom.
My question is: does such practice essentially break one's will and wish to suspend output? Or does conversing only with humans constitute true outputting?
I have difficult some things in English and even spanish too.
so, when lingq calculates known words, does it count all the conjugations and noun cases as seperate words, or is it just root words?
all cases, forms, plurals etc, all inflections count as separate words
Are there any free apps to learn languages?
Plase came to Turkey🥰♥️
can I use your techniques to learn technical vocabulary in English? Specifically programming languages
It should work, and throw the audio in with it when you can.
Здравствуйте. Можете кто нибудь объяснить мне эту систему, что он рассказывал
Polscy entuzjaści języków czekają na Ciebie Steve. If you know many words, you can communicate. If you only just know grammar & your vocab is poor, you’re gonna struggle. And hey, there is no learning words without grammar when you study sentences.
Hey Paul, I have a question. I'm learning two writing systems and three languages (one for leisure, one for academics, and one for another purpose) and while doing that, I found myself being sometimes dyslexic. In English, I sometimes fail to recognize a word properly. While in other languages, I recognize individual letters simply by recognizing the whole word. If I were to read by reading the letters, I would comprehend less in a language other than English. I'm pondering about dyslexia and polylingualism and I thought to ask you.
You are very great person.
You are too old, but you try to teach persons.
How to speak foreign language.
I will be proud myself.
If I so smart like you.
I very respect you.
Thank you for you made good video.
🙏🙏🙏
He’s not too old. When they nail the lid on the coffin, then he is too old. That goes for all of us.
@@StillAliveAndKicking_ what a cheek
He is too old
like you say the only time you
are too old is when they close the
lid on your coffin.
"Too old" is a rude expression in English.
You've probably meant very old.
It doesnt work with me. I watch movies, listen to songs but I cannot catch the words that I dont know already. Just when I use a new word when I use it in a sentence or something, that word sticks with me.
Hi Steve, did you ever learn irish ? That is gaeilge. In my opinion , the whole language is problematic and needs a modern overhaul. Any thoughts ?
Not yet.
@@Thelinguist irish is maybe 3 or 4 thousand years old. One of the oldest extant languages In Europe. Steve, if you could crack this language, you would get enormous respect and prestige among the Irish community in Canada , the US Australia and even In Dublin !
@@Thelinguist have a look at "langfocus on youtube" he explains the curious links between the celtic languages and the semitic languages. Maybe it's cos the celts came out of Anatolia 20,000 years ago. Conjugated prepositions are a curious feature. 😅 anyway , an advantage of irish is its extreme wealth n of phrases and imagery.....and the disadvantage is its extreme wealth of words makes it a nightmare for schoolkids. And then lenition & eclipsis makes their head explode ! Also the mathematics of numbers is totally bonkers. ...explained well by the langfocus fella. The expression "forty shades of green" is probably a celtic borrowing. Double the number of all your fingers and toes. SVO reversed into VSO ..... "eats man sandwich" ...note the absence of the indefinite article. ANYWAY Steve, I would love to hear your thoughts on irish as a language.. its dying cos it is so difficult. "May the road rise up to meet you, and the wind always be at your back" Go n-eiri an bothar leat. Bóthair = cow track = motorway.....maybe basque ( euskera) is more paleolithic....but irish has an English language community & infrastructure to help to your journey.....plus the last few remaining native speakers in our retirement homes. And the break-off from Welsh was maybe 10,000 years ago or more....still echoes in the two languages....head = ceann = Penn. Many regular transpositions between q celtic and p celtic.
Ich stimme zu dir.