For two months now I've been spending about $140 a month on once a week Chinese lessons (1 hour each time). She's been my Chinese teacher for like 5 years, and after a break of self-studying (after taking group classes with her for 2.5 years) I wanted to do 1 on 1 questions, review my characters, and focus on speaking and vocabulary. I'll probably do it for another few months and then go back to self-study - I agree you don't have to spend any money at all, there is so much free content! (I speak English, French and Spanish, and learning Chinese ✌️)
Currently learning German and the only money I have spent is on 4 books (im a book guy rather than lesson guy), I also listen to and read German media e.g music, podcasts, articles, news etc. For everything I learn I write in a notebook which I already had so I didn't need to spend any money on that. And yea. Great video, loved your video on how you learn German, very helpful. Keep it up!
Hi and thank you for the video! I actually recently realized that I can check out books in my target language from my public library. They even come as e-books! Super convenient and free
thank you so much for touching on this subject! personally, i think that the cost when learning a language is really dependent on which language. for example, i essentially learned french for free (besides the sporadic book purchase) whereas learning colloquial tibetan has been quite a bit more expensive. since there are a lot fewer resources (and extremely few online resources), i ended up dropping around €80 on the ‘manual of standard tibetan’ (which luckily ended up being an excellent resource). and especially when it comes to learning classical languages like classical tibetan, i think it becomes even more pricy since the majority of resources are physical textbooks and dictionaries, many of which i’m not able to find through my library :P
Great video. I have paid for Busuu, drops, duo, tandem and Ling in the past (not now) I use free duo, tandem and busuu now. I probably would have bought LinQ if they had a better trial. Text books from eBay are a weakness of mine (whether I use them, different story) I have 5 lang exchange partners through tandem. I love them though it took a while to weed out the horny and the horrible. I have $80 on italki. I love YT for lang learning. I consider myself a budget learner. Thanks for this video. I am not very organised.
I agree you don't need to spend money to learn languages! I didn't spend any money for a good couple years. I started taking italki lessons and that's what has been costing the most for me. I think it's worth it to practice speaking and I'm happy to support teachers! I usually try to use the free versions of apps and do what i can with them :)
I love keeping up with your videos and seeing the way you encourage everyone to creatively seek new ways to learn. You're so well spoken and elaborate without any confusion. Love you so much sis, keep it up!
Definitely important to spend money on language learning if you’re serious about it. During lockdown I took private tutor lessons for German and I spent $13-15 a lesson on Preply and I loved it!
I don't really spend that much money, and I only do occasionally when I buy a language learning book. So normally I spend £0, but this month I've spent £20.98 because I bought two books.
Super interesting video, I'm nosy af so I love hearing people talk about their finances haha but I also think being honest about money in terms of language learning is super important. I currently don't spend any money on language learning cause ya boi's in between jobs, but hopefully I'll get back onto iTalki pretty soon. Also, as a fellow hoosier, I feel your Indiana pain lmao
I do love your videos Elysse and these encourage and motivate me to keep on learning languages. I always watch your videos and if you ask me, this will make me stay here forever. Actually, I also am following some polyglot channels and believe it or not you're my favorite. You're funny, smart and look so lovely!
I feel like the internet language learning community avoids talking about money because they don't want to discourage broke people from trying to learn and/or feel like it's shameful they had to pay in order to suceed. Really, it's completly fine to invest in your hobies and give people tips on how they can improve more easily (because realistically it's much easier to improve when you pay for certain resources) but it's also good to put up a reminder that you can absolutely learn a language for free
In fact Clozemaster only lets you "play" 30 sentences per day with the free version, which kinda sucks. Paying for something in dollars while being a college student in Argentina is not always viable. But oh well, I do those 30 sentences and then move on to my other resources haha. I'm learning German and I only spent money on a grammar book, which I find essential. Then I just use a variety of free apps, TH-cam videos, and Steam games, which are way cheaper and I've found to be a great way for me to remember vocabulary and analyze grammar :)
30 new sentences per day is more than enough IMO because research has shown you can’t effectively retain more than 15 new words a day- you don’t really need to overload or practice nonstop
Education is not cheap, but you can learn languages relatively cheaply. There are just so many avenues and resources, so many more than the pre-Internet days (yes, I am dating myself). The online resources are through the compared to the old days.
Honestly learning a language completely free is rly difficult and exhausting, I feel like I could speak and understand German so much more if I was able to pay for lessons and resources. Its kinda upsetting but I’m still trying to learn, I try my best to keep at it and I’m still learning but this rly makes we wanna make like a platform that could rly help ppl to learn languages completely free, although I don’t necessarily have the skills for that it’s just nice dream that I have. it’d be very interesting to see you try and learn a language completely free for a month or something, as a challenge and update on your channel your experiences and what recommendations and recourses you’ve found, that could be interesting and refreshing to see! I feel like every polyglot online just pays for lessons which is fine but not everyone can do that and I sometimes find the advice that’s given somewhat useless if you don’t pay for lessons already
I’m newer to your channel but have you/are you currently studying languages at university? And would you say it’s worth it? I’ve been learning German independently for about two months now and I’m thinking about majoring in German + English Lit to pursue a career in translation (possibly) or publishing. Loved the video!
I graduated uni this past May :) I got a minor in Spanish and I took ASL classes all the way up to advanced when I was there. I would say it’s worth it. It may be frustrating if you’re taking classes to actually learn the language, but the composition classes and classes where you learn stuff THROUGH the language are the best. I think you have a great plan and you should do it
hey elysseeee loved the video and i am currently spending TEXAS UNIVERSITY TUITION for my Chinese learning that comes out to about $125/month and i honestly really think it’s money well spent! i learn about 50 characters every 2 weeks and work on speaking it’s so good. i also just joined the brazilians at my university club so unlike having a language partner they don’t desire to speak english so i get to practice my portuguese freely😛 i should probably start doing italki lessons for spanish as i haven’t spoken/studied the español in a WHILE but would pick a cheaper one only once every 2 weeks to start also learning chinese italki is not for me idk all the teachers were not giving me what i needed/ couldn’t figure out my weak points and they’re so expensive 🙃 after finishing all my requirements in chinese i’ll probably just travel to maintain my level and make friends
Im so jealous!! because my uni was small and the only international students were soccerheads and chads pretty much. You sound like you got it all down sister
Hi Elysse, thanks for sharing your expierence 🙋♂️👍 $65 - $85 per month doesn't seem very expensive to me, especially now when $ rate literally crashed down over here in Russia after the "hell sanctions" were announсed 🤷♂️ Anyway, in the web so many great free-of-charge materials and cources for English learners, I can listen to your podcasts for example and get real spoken English absolutely free, 24/7 😁😃 Have an amazing day! 🙌
Great video! This is the first month I’ve spent money on learning German and that’s for the Lingoda sprint. I’ve been learning for free over a year & felt basically slowing down into a rut. So, I want to pick up the pace & be more efficient with Lingoda hopefully.👍🏻
I spend about $80 a month, including 3-4 italki lessons ($10/lesson), one app ($108 for the year), and 2-3 in person language meetups ($5 each), and probably a book ($20). It does not count my subscription to Netflix, where I watch 1 or 2 foreign movies or series a month, and possibly LingoPie, which I'm considering getting. It does seem like a lot now that I think about it. But my social life runs through my language exchanges, and books get more use than a movie. If I had to drop anything, it would be my app. But then I would probably substitute lessons or another book instead.
I got a yearly mondly subscription for every language on the app, it’s pretty nice. Its like 4,95 euros a month. Spending money isn’t necessary to learn a language but it makes it easier lol
I was so curious about this tyvm for the vid and the breakdown 😄 For Q of the day I actually got very lucky and my uni paid for me to do German with lingoda for 3 months, and besides that I've never spent any cash, but I'm about to start hitting up some italki tutors 2 - 4 times a month to start with I think, so I'll only be spending max like £20 for now (idk dollars I'm sorry 😬😬😬)
I'm always learning with you Elysse. I study with videos of native speaker like you. I translate the transcript and and I watch while the person talks. Beijos Elysse.
I learn through reading and find language learning is super inexpensive. I have a solid grammar book and buy ebooks the game of thrones books which take forever to read so super cheap. Otherwise I use youtube and Quizlet, so very low cost and super enjoyable!
I got very excited when i see myself at 1:50 hahaha I spend around 20-30$ a month for speaking practice lessons other than that I'm using free materials online
I spend $4CAD a month for Japanese audio lessons and will be spending $90 for 3 months of lessons. I did French immersion for free in a scholarship and am learning French through all free resources (podcasts and library books/video lessons).
Learning languages is tiring, but as a result, you will learn a new culture My advice to you is to learn the Arabic language because of its great importance in everything you want in trade, literature, history, politics, tourism, rich culture, etc.. It is an international language and one of the 4 most important languages in the world I think that the future of Arabic and Chinese will be greater in the future Currently, I am trying to learn English, but my problem is with reluctance because of the many thoughts in my head so I can leave them .. Do you have any advice on that?
The best way to learn English - studying it THE NATURAL WAY, through fun stories, movies and songs! 😀🤗 On my channel, I've just published a new English vocab video based on "The Simpsons" show 😁
I respect that one spends money on it if one wants and can. But I have mostly studied languages from free online resources, free versions of apps, second hand textbooks and reading books and just youtube/insta/spotify/etc. content both from natives and also from teaches of that language. I just take screenshots of their free lessons content or take notes from their videos and then surround myself with the language in anything and everything I do. For some languages life has taken me to the country and made things easier, but for others I had null experience talking until I had a random opportunity with a stranger in real life and found myself being able to talk (not perfectly and not confidently but nonetheless). Talking to myself and journaling in my target languages both helped me inmensely in the process (as productive skills that are easy, free and always available). So I would like for anyone out there to feel confident that one does not need to ever spend a cent to learn languages to a decent level. From there you'll need contact to natives, but that doesn't need to require money either (depends on many factors tho).
Your method is pretty similar to what I did with Spanish before I really refined my method. I think it took a lot longer, so I started spending where I could to help the process! I hope it continues to work for you
In my case (with Spanish), I only spend about $5 a month on Hispanic / Latin American streaming services that host a vast library of Spanish-language tv shows & movies.
I had the same thought and I am not rich at all. So for me I don't want to take lessons because I think it's too expensive.I did when I had more money but now I can't spend as much as before and I want to learn more languages so I had to choose. So this year I spent 280 euros on the babbel total app for life.I think that's worth it because there is a lot of course and you can learn the grammar as well and I spent 50 euros as well in an advance German assimil book and also a grammar German book who was like 12 euros. So for the year so far I am like 350 euros.
I decided to try doing lessons with a quality language teacher I found on Verbling for about $28 CAD an hour. I got 10 lessons total over the course of two and a half months for $280 CAD (about $205 USD) Outside of the language-learning community, people spend money on languages all the time. Whether it’s immersion programs, signing up for lessons, buying expensive textbooks, and so on.
Elysse, do you already thought about learning Italian? It's a very beautiful language for me, and since I'm Brazilian, and studied Spanish a while some years ago, it looks pretty easy to understand and get (actually, how do I revive my Spanish? It's 4 years without contact with it, I forgot basically everything! 😭). Enfim, abraços brasileiros, amo seu canal ❤️
this is a video i didn’t know i needed! as i still don’t have my own source of income, i’m very hesitant to spent money on apps and online resources. i started learning german by myself last year and i had to drop it bc it was too hard. this year i picked up italian and after this video i’m considering looking into books to study! like you said, it might be expensive, but i can be worth it. i’ve been subscribed to your channel for a week and i already watched a bunch of your videos, you’re definitely motivating me to keep going with my language learning journey! abraços do brasil
I spend 0 pesos (coz I live in Mexico) on languages, I don't pay for monthly subscriptions or speaking courses, I very much use free books and resources I find on-line, like tik tok for example, pinterest, TH-cam, Facebook can even work; the only thing that I've paid for was an English book, I had to buy it because I was having an important university exam; honestly it wasn't bought in a library, I found it online and printed it, I only spent like 400 pesos in that book. I try to learn languages for free, maybe I'm right maybe I'm wrong, but that's everything I can do for now. Hope this was useful, loved your video 💝
Currently i am taking a lot of lessons on italki. Around 3per week which are around 15$ each. And thats a ton. But i also give german lessons to afford my language learning 😅
I’ve done Lingoda for the sprint, but never went back, and I’m too scared to try italki cause it’s private lessons and I know I’ll spend too much on it then lol. I didn’t know you also live in Indiana. You poor soul, I understand. LOL 😂
Personally, I spend between $100-200 a month for private italki lessons, as well I’m paying around $50 a year for a Lingopie subscription. In short, yes I spend quite a lot on languages, but as you said, it’s my main hobby and for me it’s worth it. But as you mentioned yes, absolutely it’s 100% possible to learn a language for free. However, paying some kind of money does give you a slight advantage - gaining access to extra features in an app, private tutors (which have been the best source for me), etc. Super interesting video! Love your content, keep it up 😃😃
I do not spend any money on learning a language. I learn French and English in school so I do not have to pay for it. In my free time, I learn Dutch, Japanese and Spanish. I use apps like Duolingo and Closemaster and sometimes textbooks, for example, I spent around 50€ for textbooks and grammar for Dutch. My parents still have old Spanish grammar and my school (in collaboration with another school) offers free japanese lessons for 2 years and we didn't have to buy any materials. I am a more 'silent viewer' but I have to say that I really appreciate your videos and your work. They help me so much with developping my own strategies and trying out new apps, like Clozemaster.
I'm in the beginning of learning brazilian portuguese, so far spent 12 dollars/month on the app Rossetta stone, but planning on taking language lessons soon, and considering I'm traveling next summer I will spend a lot more. Definitely want to recommend the app, it does not have any translation (best part), everything is learnt by pictures and context, and all the sentences are spoken so it gets easy to listen and repeat.
12 lessons a month here right now (8 in Ukrainian and 4 in French). My spending right now is similar. I don't really use apps though. Great video, Elysse!
I am 13 and I’ve been learning languages off and on for 3 years. I have spent MAYBE 30 dollars total. And that was from a kanji app and kanji textbook.
At the moment I am learning German . and I am doing it through Lingard Sprint.so it’s not costing me anything yet, but if I do fail it will cost me $380 euros per month
I don't know how much I spend, but it's mainly Italki for lessons in two languages, lots more books than I ever get to, and Lingq. And I only watch movies in target languages, so Netflix is also a language expense.
Netflix is super useful! If you ever watch on your laptop and use Google Chrome, you should download the Language Reactor extension to get double subtitles
I only started learning Czech seriously two months ago. I have lessons at uni so they are basically for free lol I did buy two books tho. Those were like over 50€ Besides of that I plan to take italki lessons during the semester break
As a language lover person living in Iran with Terrible terrible economic situation and your country's sanctions I spend 0 dollar on learning languages , by the way I gotta say 80 dollar is a loooot of money here and can't be spend on any kind of hobby
I'm having iTalki lessons for spanish every other week sooo about 25$ per month.. and every 3-4 month I'm investing in a new textbook, that's between 10-50€ each.. as soon as I get a well-paid job, I will probably increase my lessons per month immediately hehehe.. but for now I can't really afford more
Don't unplug the fridge hahaha, it's bad for the fridge if you do it too often. Other than that... I admire you and keep doing what you do and love! Thank you!
I don’t spend anything because I make my parents pay 🤩 no but I only have a few books and don’t use subscriptions so I’ve spent probably around 50$ ish for my 4 Korean books and my German books are hand me downs 🤩 I have one from before the wall fell so… anyways yeah TH-cam, TTMIK and their textbooks, also hello talk are all really good for me (I say not being above beginner in either language so that might chnage when I need more than what that can give me) also thinking of going abroad to study the languages in their countries so that would be a lot. I’m definitely not apposed to buying subscriptions but I don’t have any income as a 17yo so… just can’t
Hi there ) I think, at the beginning , anyways you gonna spend some money for a language learning. Personally, I spend money for each language that I have learned, but of course, the range differs depending on the factors such as the language itself and the duration of classes & materials that you use. I believe that a language learning is an investment which means that it requires a financial input :)
You don't want to know how much I've spent throughout my life in japanese... By the way, have you ever thought of learning catalan? With your knowledge on spanish and french you could figure out most of it very easily without much effort.
Pleasseee help me I am learning German Im a beginner but not complete beginner I have bought all the gsce and stimmt study books with flash cards and German diary of a wimpy kid books I just need tips on how to fully make progress.I have all i need I just can’t get around on how to do it
@@elyssespeaks LMAO what an ignorant language "learner" . If you don't like books you don't like language. Show me somebody who likes for example german and hates reading in german, the weirdest thing.
Hey, Elysse. You should do a video about how to make friends of others countries and how to get in polyglot communities. Would be great.
Great idea! i'll put it on the list haha
Hey 👋 im from Egypt can to be friends
Thanks for being so transparent. I felt weird spending money to learn languages, but it's nice to know it's normal
If you like it, its warranted to spend some cash on it!
Everything cost money.
For two months now I've been spending about $140 a month on once a week Chinese lessons (1 hour each time). She's been my Chinese teacher for like 5 years, and after a break of self-studying (after taking group classes with her for 2.5 years) I wanted to do 1 on 1 questions, review my characters, and focus on speaking and vocabulary. I'll probably do it for another few months and then go back to self-study - I agree you don't have to spend any money at all, there is so much free content! (I speak English, French and Spanish, and learning Chinese ✌️)
oh wow, cool! i hope the classes are worth it 🤠
Currently learning German and the only money I have spent is on 4 books (im a book guy rather than lesson guy), I also listen to and read German media e.g music, podcasts, articles, news etc. For everything I learn I write in a notebook which I already had so I didn't need to spend any money on that. And yea. Great video, loved your video on how you learn German, very helpful. Keep it up!
Solid!! i wish ya luck :) 🍀
Hi and thank you for the video! I actually recently realized that I can check out books in my target language from my public library. They even come as e-books! Super convenient and free
awesome!! i love that, nobody goes to the library anymore 😭 dammit
thank you so much for touching on this subject! personally, i think that the cost when learning a language is really dependent on which language. for example, i essentially learned french for free (besides the sporadic book purchase) whereas learning colloquial tibetan has been quite a bit more expensive. since there are a lot fewer resources (and extremely few online resources), i ended up dropping around €80 on the ‘manual of standard tibetan’ (which luckily ended up being an excellent resource). and especially when it comes to learning classical languages like classical tibetan, i think it becomes even more pricy since the majority of resources are physical textbooks and dictionaries, many of which i’m not able to find through my library :P
Great video. I have paid for Busuu, drops, duo, tandem and Ling in the past (not now) I use free duo, tandem and busuu now. I probably would have bought LinQ if they had a better trial. Text books from eBay are a weakness of mine (whether I use them, different story) I have 5 lang exchange partners through tandem. I love them though it took a while to weed out the horny and the horrible. I have $80 on italki. I love YT for lang learning. I consider myself a budget learner. Thanks for this video. I am not very organised.
Glad you've found out which apps work for you! "the horny and the horrible" HAHAH
It’s amazing to meet people who also love learning languages, encontrei você! Seus vídeos são muitos bons!! xoxo from Brasil 💖🤩
I agree you don't need to spend money to learn languages! I didn't spend any money for a good couple years.
I started taking italki lessons and that's what has been costing the most for me. I think it's worth it to practice speaking and I'm happy to support teachers!
I usually try to use the free versions of apps and do what i can with them :)
yeah, there’s so much you can do with free versions of apps, especially if you take the content and study it in your own ways :)
I love keeping up with your videos and seeing the way you encourage everyone to creatively seek new ways to learn. You're so well spoken and elaborate without any confusion. Love you so much sis, keep it up!
thank you sis
Definitely important to spend money on language learning if you’re serious about it. During lockdown I took private tutor lessons for German and I spent $13-15 a lesson on Preply and I loved it!
I agree, at some point you should invest $$ if you're able to. I'm glad it worked out for you!
I don't really spend that much money, and I only do occasionally when I buy a language learning book. So normally I spend £0, but this month I've spent £20.98 because I bought two books.
The accuracy 😅 I have spent so much money perfecting my Spanish. People don’t realize the effort but also how much money it takes!
Super interesting video, I'm nosy af so I love hearing people talk about their finances haha but I also think being honest about money in terms of language learning is super important. I currently don't spend any money on language learning cause ya boi's in between jobs, but hopefully I'll get back onto iTalki pretty soon. Also, as a fellow hoosier, I feel your Indiana pain lmao
Floridian by heart, Hoosier by choice 😔 and you don’t gotta spend money to be dedicated! i wish you luck :P
Amazing video!in my opinion people do not necessarily need to spend money in order to reach certain level in a language but it's very helpful.
I do love your videos Elysse and these encourage and motivate me to keep on learning languages. I always watch your videos and if you ask me, this will make me stay here forever. Actually, I also am following some polyglot channels and believe it or not you're my favorite. You're funny, smart and look so lovely!
What a nice comment 🥹 thanks Adrian! i'm glad I can help you and entertain at the same time, haha 💘
@@elyssespeaks sweet! Haha
I feel like the internet language learning community avoids talking about money because they don't want to discourage broke people from trying to learn and/or feel like it's shameful they had to pay in order to suceed. Really, it's completly fine to invest in your hobies and give people tips on how they can improve more easily (because realistically it's much easier to improve when you pay for certain resources) but it's also good to put up a reminder that you can absolutely learn a language for free
In fact Clozemaster only lets you "play" 30 sentences per day with the free version, which kinda sucks. Paying for something in dollars while being a college student in Argentina is not always viable. But oh well, I do those 30 sentences and then move on to my other resources haha.
I'm learning German and I only spent money on a grammar book, which I find essential. Then I just use a variety of free apps, TH-cam videos, and Steam games, which are way cheaper and I've found to be a great way for me to remember vocabulary and analyze grammar :)
30 new sentences per day is more than enough IMO because research has shown you can’t effectively retain more than 15 new words a day- you don’t really need to overload or practice nonstop
Education is not cheap, but you can learn languages relatively cheaply. There are just so many avenues and resources, so many more than the pre-Internet days (yes, I am dating myself). The online resources are through the compared to the old days.
Honestly learning a language completely free is rly difficult and exhausting, I feel like I could speak and understand German so much more if I was able to pay for lessons and resources. Its kinda upsetting but I’m still trying to learn, I try my best to keep at it and I’m still learning but this rly makes we wanna make like a platform that could rly help ppl to learn languages completely free, although I don’t necessarily have the skills for that it’s just nice dream that I have.
it’d be very interesting to see you try and learn a language completely free for a month or something, as a challenge and update on your channel your experiences and what recommendations and recourses you’ve found, that could be interesting and refreshing to see!
I feel like every polyglot online just pays for lessons which is fine but not everyone can do that and I sometimes find the advice that’s given somewhat useless if you don’t pay for lessons already
I’m newer to your channel but have you/are you currently studying languages at university? And would you say it’s worth it? I’ve been learning German independently for about two months now and I’m thinking about majoring in German + English Lit to pursue a career in translation (possibly) or publishing. Loved the video!
I graduated uni this past May :) I got a minor in Spanish and I took ASL classes all the way up to advanced when I was there. I would say it’s worth it. It may be frustrating if you’re taking classes to actually learn the language, but the composition classes and classes where you learn stuff THROUGH the language are the best. I think you have a great plan and you should do it
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hey elysseeee loved the video and i am currently spending TEXAS UNIVERSITY TUITION for my Chinese learning that comes out to about $125/month and i honestly really think it’s money well spent! i learn about 50 characters every 2 weeks and work on speaking it’s so good. i also just joined the brazilians at my university club so unlike having a language partner they don’t desire to speak english so i get to practice my portuguese freely😛 i should probably start doing italki lessons for spanish as i haven’t spoken/studied the español in a WHILE but would pick a cheaper one only once every 2 weeks to start
also learning chinese italki is not for me idk all the teachers were not giving me what i needed/ couldn’t figure out my weak points and they’re so expensive 🙃 after finishing all my requirements in chinese i’ll probably just travel to maintain my level and make friends
Im so jealous!! because my uni was small and the only international students were soccerheads and chads pretty much. You sound like you got it all down sister
Hi Elysse, thanks for sharing your expierence 🙋♂️👍 $65 - $85 per month doesn't seem very expensive to me, especially now when $ rate literally crashed down over here in Russia after the "hell sanctions" were announсed 🤷♂️ Anyway, in the web so many great free-of-charge materials and cources for English learners, I can listen to your podcasts for example and get real spoken English absolutely free, 24/7 😁😃
Have an amazing day! 🙌
thanks for watching Dennis!!
Great video! This is the first month I’ve spent money on learning German and that’s for the Lingoda sprint. I’ve been learning for free over a year & felt basically slowing down into a rut. So, I want to pick up the pace & be more efficient with Lingoda hopefully.👍🏻
sounds like a plan, i wish you all the luck ~
You're my favorite language youtuber!! :)
😭 that's so sweet!! thanks for watching my vids!
I spend about $80 a month, including 3-4 italki lessons ($10/lesson), one app ($108 for the year), and 2-3 in person language meetups ($5 each), and probably a book ($20). It does not count my subscription to Netflix, where I watch 1 or 2 foreign movies or series a month, and possibly LingoPie, which I'm considering getting. It does seem like a lot now that I think about it. But my social life runs through my language exchanges, and books get more use than a movie.
If I had to drop anything, it would be my app. But then I would probably substitute lessons or another book instead.
seems all very sensible!!
I am learning english using your vídeos here thanks. Estou aprendendo inglês usando os seus vídeos aqui, obrigado do Brasil.
Awesome, good luck with English! thanks for watching :)
I got a yearly mondly subscription for every language on the app, it’s pretty nice. Its like 4,95 euros a month. Spending money isn’t necessary to learn a language but it makes it easier lol
i've paid for in-person lessons and a handful of textbooks and i regret nothing. it's def a good investment!
I was so curious about this tyvm for the vid and the breakdown 😄
For Q of the day I actually got very lucky and my uni paid for me to do German with lingoda for 3 months, and besides that I've never spent any cash, but I'm about to start hitting up some italki tutors 2 - 4 times a month to start with I think, so I'll only be spending max like £20 for now (idk dollars I'm sorry 😬😬😬)
thanks for watching! and hey, that sounds like a great plan :)
I'm always learning with you Elysse. I study with videos of native speaker like you. I translate the transcript and and I watch while the person talks. Beijos Elysse.
I'm glad my videos can help you :)
@@elyssespeaks Beijo..
I learn through reading and find language learning is super inexpensive. I have a solid grammar book and buy ebooks the game of thrones books which take forever to read so super cheap. Otherwise I use youtube and Quizlet, so very low cost and super enjoyable!
I got very excited when i see myself at 1:50 hahaha
I spend around 20-30$ a month for speaking practice lessons other than that I'm using free materials online
HAHAHA thats awesome! I just saved your profile, i’ll take a lesson with you soon :)
@@elyssespeaks Harika! I'd love to help you!
I spend $4CAD a month for Japanese audio lessons and will be spending $90 for 3 months of lessons. I did French immersion for free in a scholarship and am learning French through all free resources (podcasts and library books/video lessons).
seems really balanced, i respect the hustle
Learning languages is tiring, but as a result, you will learn a new culture
My advice to you is to learn the Arabic language because of its great importance in everything you want in trade, literature, history, politics, tourism, rich culture, etc..
It is an international language and one of the 4 most important languages in the world
I think that the future of Arabic and Chinese will be greater in the future
Currently, I am trying to learn English, but my problem is with reluctance because of the many thoughts in my head so I can leave them .. Do you have any advice on that?
The best way to learn English - studying it THE NATURAL WAY, through fun stories, movies and songs! 😀🤗
On my channel, I've just published a new English vocab video based on "The Simpsons" show 😁
I respect that one spends money on it if one wants and can. But I have mostly studied languages from free online resources, free versions of apps, second hand textbooks and reading books and just youtube/insta/spotify/etc. content both from natives and also from teaches of that language. I just take screenshots of their free lessons content or take notes from their videos and then surround myself with the language in anything and everything I do. For some languages life has taken me to the country and made things easier, but for others I had null experience talking until I had a random opportunity with a stranger in real life and found myself being able to talk (not perfectly and not confidently but nonetheless). Talking to myself and journaling in my target languages both helped me inmensely in the process (as productive skills that are easy, free and always available). So I would like for anyone out there to feel confident that one does not need to ever spend a cent to learn languages to a decent level. From there you'll need contact to natives, but that doesn't need to require money either (depends on many factors tho).
Your method is pretty similar to what I did with Spanish before I really refined my method. I think it took a lot longer, so I started spending where I could to help the process! I hope it continues to work for you
In my case (with Spanish), I only spend about $5 a month on Hispanic / Latin American streaming services that host a vast library of Spanish-language tv shows & movies.
thats epic!! keep on keepin on
I had the same thought and I am not rich at all. So for me I don't want to take lessons because I think it's too expensive.I did when I had more money but now I can't spend as much as before and I want to learn more languages so I had to choose. So this year I spent 280 euros on the babbel total app for life.I think that's worth it because there is a lot of course and you can learn the grammar as well and I spent 50 euros as well in an advance German assimil book and also a grammar German book who was like 12 euros. So for the year so far I am like 350 euros.
I decided to try doing lessons with a quality language teacher I found on Verbling for about $28 CAD an hour. I got 10 lessons total over the course of two and a half months for $280 CAD (about $205 USD)
Outside of the language-learning community, people spend money on languages all the time. Whether it’s immersion programs, signing up for lessons, buying expensive textbooks, and so on.
JAJAJAJA I really loved your “Salaaaaaa vrga vuela o que”
I must have said this before but you. are. so. cool! Happy 2023. Guten Rutsch, wie man so sagt! Mach's gut!
Elysse, do you already thought about learning Italian? It's a very beautiful language for me, and since I'm Brazilian, and studied Spanish a while some years ago, it looks pretty easy to understand and get (actually, how do I revive my Spanish? It's 4 years without contact with it, I forgot basically everything! 😭). Enfim, abraços brasileiros, amo seu canal ❤️
I actually made a video dabbling in Italian around May 2020! it’s a pretty fun one, you should watch it. i don’t feel like learning it though :P
I also take my Turkish lessons on italki and I love my teacher so much!
this is a video i didn’t know i needed! as i still don’t have my own source of income, i’m very hesitant to spent money on apps and online resources.
i started learning german by myself last year and i had to drop it bc it was too hard. this year i picked up italian and after this video i’m considering looking into books to study! like you said, it might be expensive, but i can be worth it.
i’ve been subscribed to your channel for a week and i already watched a bunch of your videos, you’re definitely motivating me to keep going with my language learning journey! abraços do brasil
Awww thanks for the nice comment!! yeah, I hope maybe this can motivate people in a way. 🧐 Behind the scenes hahaha. Thanks for subbing!
Look into ouino
I spend 0 pesos (coz I live in Mexico) on languages, I don't pay for monthly subscriptions or speaking courses, I very much use free books and resources I find on-line, like tik tok for example, pinterest, TH-cam, Facebook can even work; the only thing that I've paid for was an English book, I had to buy it because I was having an important university exam; honestly it wasn't bought in a library, I found it online and printed it, I only spent like 400 pesos in that book. I try to learn languages for free, maybe I'm right maybe I'm wrong, but that's everything I can do for now. Hope this was useful, loved your video 💝
Thats awesome!! and yeah, social media is sooo useful. one of my favorite ways to practice comprehension
Currently i am taking a lot of lessons on italki. Around 3per week which are around 15$ each. And thats a ton. But i also give german lessons to afford my language learning 😅
I fr just need a roommate who doesn’t speak my native language but speaks my target language lol, that’s what is ideal
HAA yeah, this works for tutors as well! Sometimes I'll intentionally try to find tutors that don't speak English so that I have no option
I’ve done Lingoda for the sprint, but never went back, and I’m too scared to try italki cause it’s private lessons and I know I’ll spend too much on it then lol.
I didn’t know you also live in Indiana. You poor soul, I understand. LOL 😂
Personally, I spend between $100-200 a month for private italki lessons, as well I’m paying around $50 a year for a Lingopie subscription. In short, yes I spend quite a lot on languages, but as you said, it’s my main hobby and for me it’s worth it. But as you mentioned yes, absolutely it’s 100% possible to learn a language for free. However, paying some kind of money does give you a slight advantage - gaining access to extra features in an app, private tutors (which have been the best source for me), etc. Super interesting video! Love your content, keep it up 😃😃
What I spend seems minimal next to yours 😅 I gotta get my money up and then I can level up!! hahaha
I do not spend any money on learning a language. I learn French and English in school so I do not have to pay for it. In my free time, I learn Dutch, Japanese and Spanish. I use apps like Duolingo and Closemaster and sometimes textbooks, for example, I spent around 50€ for textbooks and grammar for Dutch. My parents still have old Spanish grammar and my school (in collaboration with another school) offers free japanese lessons for 2 years and we didn't have to buy any materials.
I am a more 'silent viewer' but I have to say that I really appreciate your videos and your work. They help me so much with developping my own strategies and trying out new apps, like Clozemaster.
i respect ur method a lot! Now that I don’t have any classes at uni though, it really changed my method. I wonder if yours will too
@@elyssespeaks I think, I will still have some time until I finish school :) Around 5 years + uni. Mais on verra
I'm in the beginning of learning brazilian portuguese, so far spent 12 dollars/month on the app Rossetta stone, but planning on taking language lessons soon, and considering I'm traveling next summer I will spend a lot more. Definitely want to recommend the app, it does not have any translation (best part), everything is learnt by pictures and context, and all the sentences are spoken so it gets easy to listen and repeat.
12 lessons a month here right now (8 in Ukrainian and 4 in French). My spending right now is similar.
I don't really use apps though.
Great video, Elysse!
I am 13 and I’ve been learning languages off and on for 3 years. I have spent MAYBE 30 dollars total. And that was from a kanji app and kanji textbook.
At the moment I am learning German . and I am doing it through Lingard Sprint.so it’s not costing me anything yet, but if I do fail it will cost me $380 euros per month
Love your videos!
I don't know how much I spend, but it's mainly Italki for lessons in two languages, lots more books than I ever get to, and Lingq. And I only watch movies in target languages, so Netflix is also a language expense.
Netflix is super useful! If you ever watch on your laptop and use Google Chrome, you should download the Language Reactor extension to get double subtitles
This girl is gorgeous! 🌹
thank ya! ;P
I only started learning Czech seriously two months ago. I have lessons at uni so they are basically for free lol I did buy two books tho. Those were like over 50€
Besides of that I plan to take italki lessons during the semester break
As a language lover person living in Iran with Terrible terrible economic situation and your country's sanctions I spend 0 dollar on learning languages , by the way I gotta say 80 dollar is a loooot of money here and can't be spend on any kind of hobby
we all have different tendencies of course
I'm having iTalki lessons for spanish every other week sooo about 25$ per month.. and every 3-4 month I'm investing in a new textbook, that's between 10-50€ each.. as soon as I get a well-paid job, I will probably increase my lessons per month immediately hehehe.. but for now I can't really afford more
That seems like a sensible language learning budget! whatever works for you :)
When busuu was having trees you would grow😍 when i tried busuu again i was confused if it was the same i used years ago
Yeah, i wish they still did that :(
Yep, it's an investment.. now I'd like to have friends to try my speaking and that stuff
HAHA #langtwt on twitter and language exchange apps are great for that
En cambio and in the other hand that's a good one thanks good video vielen.dank
Right on!
Elysse, I'm paying $30 USD a year for Busuu, I got it as a promo at the beginning of the pandemic. See if you can a discount too.
Seus canal é muito bom, também amoo aprender idiomas
Or free if you learn by your own
depends on what you use but sure! I said at the end that Ikenna has made a video about this
Привет из России. Ты очень красивая.
Don't unplug the fridge hahaha, it's bad for the fridge if you do it too often.
Other than that... I admire you and keep doing what you do and love! Thank you!
Hahaha I never unplug it, i used to when i had a mini fridge. And thanks so much for watching, I appreciate you right back!
I don’t spend anything because I make my parents pay 🤩 no but I only have a few books and don’t use subscriptions so I’ve spent probably around 50$ ish for my 4 Korean books and my German books are hand me downs 🤩 I have one from before the wall fell so… anyways yeah TH-cam, TTMIK and their textbooks, also hello talk are all really good for me (I say not being above beginner in either language so that might chnage when I need more than what that can give me) also thinking of going abroad to study the languages in their countries so that would be a lot. I’m definitely not apposed to buying subscriptions but I don’t have any income as a 17yo so… just can’t
Must be nice 😭 lmfao
5:43 jajaja qué onda xD
¡¡Elysse regresa pronto a México, necesitamos ir al cine juntos, lindura! ¡Un abrazo!😊❤
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I think, at the beginning , anyways you gonna spend some money for a language learning. Personally, I spend money for each language that I have learned, but of course, the range differs depending on the factors such as the language itself and the duration of classes & materials that you use. I believe that a language learning is an investment which means that it requires a financial input :)
01:50 It’s sad that I don’t appear on that list 🤓
Ich lerne Deutsch und mein Deutsch ist nicht sehr gut, aber ich kann ein bisschen Deutsch sprechen. Deine Videos sind sehr gut ..
Dein Deutsch ist gut! 👍 Viel Glück :)
I spend 30-40$ per month for learning languages;(
I've learned languages without spending money at all just on notebooks 😇
❤️
5:43 no mames jaja pensaba que decías algo en un idioma africano o algo así
Question
What is brain memory role during learning a language
You don't want to know how much I've spent throughout my life in japanese... By the way, have you ever thought of learning catalan? With your knowledge on spanish and french you could figure out most of it very easily without much effort.
Ehhh it being too easy makes it boring to learn
Eres demasiado comica con tus groserias.
Nunca dejes de existir.
😭😭 que bueno que lo dices, antes alguien me regañaba por eso JAJAJ
Olá!
I only pay the internet.
Legendary
With your talent, you will definitely have a lot of money later on because you were smart enough to invest in yourself.
Pleasseee help me I am learning German Im a beginner but not complete beginner I have bought all the gsce and stimmt study books with flash cards and German diary of a wimpy kid books I just need tips on how to fully make progress.I have all i need I just can’t get around on how to do it
I have a video from 2019 about how i learn it/my routine :)
@@elyssespeaks I watched it but can I ask how long it took to get to a solid level
You can speak Brazilian Portuguese with me for free 😉
Damn all the German teachers I looked at on italki cost a lot more than yours. How do you find a good teacher for a cheaper price?
Community tutors instead of professional. I couldn't find a professional German tutor for under $25 sheeeesh so i went with casual tutoring instead
10 dollars per month, I just pay the internet.
Você e muito linda 😊
0$
!Halo! Hermosa, si no mucha molestia como esta...
pls dont use bad words in middle
If you don’t like how I talk don’t watch my channel
@@elyssespeaks ok np , I Asked as my kids are watching it , i will customize the controls , asked small help thats it
Reading a novel in foreign language is just the most magical thing. You are just lazy :D
LMAO what a dumb comment
@@elyssespeaks LMAO what an ignorant language "learner" . If you don't like books you don't like language. Show me somebody who likes for example german and hates reading in german, the weirdest thing.