Shortcut #1 - Look for similarities to your language (help you recognize patterns & understand meaning) Shortcut #2 - Keep it simple Shortcut #3 - Keep it relevant to your situation and needs. Shortcut #4 - Use 30 minutes study time a day or smaller periods more regularly Shortcut #5 - Listen to Radio, Watch Movies with English subtitles Rule 1) Live the language, own the language Rule 2) Make plenty of mistakes Rule 3) Make it fun. Friendly competition is good
I was in hawaii 3 years ago on vacation. while shopping i noticed the lady working there was korean cuz she murmered korean under her breath after dropping something. so i just started speaking to her in korean, something i studied as a hobby. i explained i was buying a gift for my moms birthday, and i ended up getting 70% off the necklace. she just took the price down because i "spoke her native language and she enjoyed the chat with me"
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It is said when people speak a different language their personality changes like a schizophrenic. I am a firm believer of this because when I speak Spanish I feel nothing like I do when I speak English.
I agree- I'm tri lingual(Idk how to spell it)- when i speak English my personality is like a bubbly and cute type. When i speak hindi I'm more confident and when i speak odia I'm shy
@@RONEFFECT Interesting... I never noticed until I read your comment. I'm german and usually a very shy introvert. But in english it's pretty much the other way around. Thank you. Another reason to explore new languages. It feels like getting to know another me.
I'm brazilian,16 years old, and I just wanna say that speaking another language is the best experience ever, I've been studying english for almost 8 years, I make mistakes for sure, but they exist to tell me that I'm capable of turning it into a different way of learning, now I'm studying korean, it is much harder for sure, but I won't give up, no matter how long it could take.
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I'd like to correct the Ukrainian saying he quoted in the end (I'm Ukrainian myself). The saying translates as: "The more language you know, the more human you are."
@@espadachin026 madarin and a mandarine too. I speak 7 languages and am currently attempting to learn Khmer. The think I mean is if we dont know the script it is extremely difficult to find links and similarities.
John's Fitness and Strength I'm from Ukraine and we grew up hearing Ukrainian and Russian languages, so I'm native in both of them (also, I can freely understand Belorussian and partly Polish, never learning them), like a majority of Ukrainians. As I know, Russians, mostly, can't understand Ukrainian, but part of them can.
"The more languages you know, the more people you are" I really agree with this quote, because language is a means of connecting to communicate. Therefore, the more languages know will make it easier for living things to relate to fellow living beings in all corners of the world.
Im learning russian by hanging out with russians and listening to russian music. Only problem is, it's hard to remember things because of the amounts of alcohol we drink...
@@CyberMachine Lots! Whats your genre? Rap: Max Korzh has a lot of good songs. Honestly I don't know what genre to put their songs sometimes. Grivina, she has cold deep house ish songs. Her music video on malchik party is awesome so is the song. Lesha svik has chill songs. Hennessy by Zomb. If you like strange groovy songs then MATRANG might be something for you.
I heard that Russian is one of the best languages to learn especially if you're into tech and the internet because half of the stuff on the net (especially dark web) is in Russian!
The last Ukrainian proverb would be literally translated as: "How many languages you know, that many times you are a human"😊 Thanks for an interesting motivational speech!
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As a spanish teacher, I can't express how amazed I felt with this speech. I totally agree with every single word he said. And I can assure you that, after being able to understand many ways of learning languages, everything he said was truth. Enjoy learning a new language!
"Скільки мов ти знаешь - стільки разів ти людина" this quote standing in my college, in my classroom for learning English! And now it's so pleasure to hear it from him!
I am Japanese, and learning English process is sometimes hard and I feel frustrated as to why I cannot speak it smoothly after years of study😢 but this video reminds me of the joys of language learning! Sometimes I feel as if I could go to a different world just by studying English in my daily life😊
We all can be like him. Some people may have a better ear or be more talented than others, but as he said this is not about perfection, it is about communication. If you put passion and work into a language, soon enough you will learn it. I wish you a happy language learning! Je vous souhaite un apprentissage heureux des langues! ¡Os deseo un felíz aprendizaje de idiomas! 祝你语言学习快乐！ Eu desejo vocês um aprendizagem de línguas muito legal! Belleza! (I would write it also in Italian, but I'm not that confident yet, I have just started this week. If you see a mistake in any of these sentences, don't hesitate and tell me!) Why don't you also add more translations of this sentence, it would be really fun!
I speak 4 languages and i'm learning german, i'm a bit affraid of it but i'm gona do my best, this guy is an inspiration for me, I want to be like him and that's why i'm gona do my best to learn german and a lot of languages !
+cakes_lollies Well to speak spanish it tooks me 8 months, but now I speak it well. You can 'understand' a language and speaks it correctly in 3 months. Good luck !
+Monique H Well honestly I don't use any methode but I have some "technics" I begin to learn the presentation; Hi my name is... I am 20 years old etc etc. Then I download 2 apps, one of conjugation and a dictionary. Then I try to learn the basics verbs; eat, drink, live, work. Yeah and don't forget; Writing is VERY important, it helps you to memorize. And don't worry for french it's a very simple language, tell ur self that when you'll learn french you can easly learn italian or spanish ;) Hope it helps =)
Not a polyglot or anything, but i've been about 4 months learning french and i've learnt a lot of vocabulary thanks to Memrise, also i'm watching a tv show in french (even though it's original language is english i managed to find it in french) and i'm reading le petit prince :) everything thanks to duolingo, memrise and alexa.
Besides my mother tongue, I have a degree in English, am fluent in Spanish and am currently learning German. I can also understand Portugese and French. I love languages and I soooooo agree on making the mistakes. I tell it to my students all the time.
A few months ago I started to learn german and for a couple of months I didn't know which day of the week i was living in till I got to learn it in german. Considering the lockdown I can assure to anyone that I didn't have the closest idea what day I was living because I didn't have to know whatsoever
I did French at school. Quickly picked up Spanish before travelling to Europe, found that I could read about 90% of Danish newspapers after about three weeks. Third trip to Europe is being planned. Also was able to get a handle on Basque. All of this in my sixties.
Conor McCormack in København, one is surrounded by Danish. Once one has a handle on such words as på og til, the rest is almost English. I cannot speak or understand it, for it has consonants not used in English b d g r sk, for example. Æ ø y are found in French and German. It's called immersion, but some study of grammar and vocabulary are necessary.
I really enjoyed this presentation. As a language teacher for more than 10 years, I have reflected many times on why I was so interested in learning the languages that I have learned, and how I could instill that interest into my students. This presentation contains many excellent ideas and points that all make complete sense. I would recommend this video to anyone who feels apprehensive about learning a new language.
Let's be honest... If you have motivation to really study everyday, you can learn a new language. It doesnt matter if it's fun or not, it depends on how dedicated you are. I believe that most people keep looking for magic in language learning, but this doesnt happen. If you can have fun, great! But you'll always need dedication!!!
Thank you a lot! Last phrase was unexpected, because I never saw phrases in TED about Ukrainian, and, because it’s my mother language, I was touched right in the heart ❤️ thanks for such inspired video 🙏🏻 with love from Ukrainian- з любов’ю від українців 🇺🇦
Well... it was interesting... I think that learning a language is not a ONE way thing and you need to learn a little of this and a little bit of that. I have been teaching for more than 20 years and I got some great results... but there is just a simple fact that people should understand... you need to learn some grammar and understand how the language is structured if you want to learn it. The vocabulary is just a question of being able to remember the words. Then after will also come the way to pronounce... and French is a challenging language! But if you put yourself into it... everything is possible!!!
You have to learn grammar but you don’t have to learn it day one to learn simple frases. I think that’s the point he’s trying to make. Dive in and worry about the rest later 🤗
From my point of view, there are some psychological problems of learning the second, third and so on languages, because a person must overcome the patterns of his own mother tongue, including pronunciation of course. I think this is the main problem. Maybe I'm wrong ..
Every native speaker thinks their language is hard. But how hard it is to learn a language depends how similar it is to your native language. Grammar is so important especially when the language is very dissimilar to yours like I’m learning Czech. You’re right you can miss half the meaning of a sentence of le.g language if you you don’t know how to decline the nouns and pronouns. You can rite learn phrases but depending on the type of learner you are.
+ use small free periods of time to learn the language (about 30 min daily) eg in train, waiting, ... or in the Moring you could listen to radio in the targeted language + learn songs + videos/ Netflix with subtitle 1. life language: sing in it, dream in it, ... 2. Make mistakes: only way to learn it 3. make it fun eg about grammar (entertaining), try get others in it -> “ the more languages you know the more people you are “
I am at pre-intermediate English level and I was wonder that I understood almost everything from this video. This is amazing. Also enjoed the sentence at the end in Ukrainian because I am from Ukraine ^_^ Thanks a lot, hope this video would help me and other to learn better and get such a great experience as I had
I moved to study in Turkey, I have been here for a month and the constant need to learn the language brought me to here (although I already speak 3 languages) He gave me the courage to learn harder, thank you TED
Same boat, but I'm learning Italian. By the way, I recommend making sure to pronounce the words a lot, because then you'll remember them. Recently I've gotten a lot better just from that.
Kaelei Olson my advice is to actually use the words you learn frequently. Even when talking to your friends try to form sentences and call certain objects by their name in that language if you know that word. I was able to learn 200 Japanese words and about the same amount of kanji in a month and a half just by doing that. Good luck :)
This is a great talk! I dedicate my channel to talking about languages and language-learning and I love watching talks like this. I don't speak 20 languages but I can converse in four! I agree with what he said and this isn't the first time I've heard this. I've heard the same advice from other successful polyglots, so I can tell you that what he said works for a lot of people. More people need to see this
The title is a bit of click bait. It is not about how to learn any language easily, but techniques to make learning more engaging and effective which is not the same thing. As someone involved in languages, I can say that individual aptitude varies greatly and highly influences how much one progresses. Most languages require a considerable commitment to get to an intermediate level of communication.
Very true. My mother who never went to school speaks nine Ghanaian languages and English. I speak seven languages including English and French. My small country Ghana has over 25 different languages because there are so many ethnicities. I learned three languages simply by living next door to native speakers and interacting with them.
A.S. 1 You can if you put in the effort. If you have Alliance Francais in your country, they may run French language courses. Or you can learn online. Use Rosetta Stone app. which is really rich in content. Give it time and practice regularly.
He's right by saying make your learning fun. I started learning how to curse in French and I used it a lot with family and friends even though they had no idea what I was saying to them.
This really inspired me. I'm a current monolinguest learning Russian,Swedish,Spanish and Portugese. Yes I do realise learning 4 languages at once is a challenge. But I have the freedom to learn it whenever and however I want. At school you're forced to learn a language which you might not be interested in and you go over useless stuff again and again. I have bought a specific notebook for each language and I study for at least 30min a day. It is very satisfying to see how many pages I have done. My motivation? the freedom of when you are fluent. I look at people who are bilingual and see them speak to others, it's amazing. Plus I just love being able to travel the world being able to speak to the locals.
If I may suggest, try to learn the romance languages first since you are already taking on Spanish and Portuguese. Adding french and Italian will be like value-add to what you already have. Bonne chance!
Oh, this feeling when you watching this video, because you try learning English language. Дякую лектору цього відео за досить цікаву подачу матеріала. Я вважаю, что людям потрібно зрозуміти, что будь-яка мова це не шкільний предмет. Язык - это прежде всего возможность взаимодействовать с окружающими тебя людьми. Да, я могу допускать кучу ошибок, которые будут смешны носителям интересующего меня языка, ну и что с того? Главное пытаться и учиться на своих ошибках)
I like him; his voice is relaxing. He speaks without exaggerating his enunciation and pronunciation. I totally agree with Youlden's shortcuts to language learning and the golden rules.
Languajes are my pasión since i was a young Guy., definetly i want to keep improving my french and German and now with thé internet it's easier . Thé key Is practice every day great vídeo full motivation thanks.👏👏
I love learning languages and yet I tend to fail. I'm currently teaching myself Japanese and started Russian a few days ago. People, learn languages! When I started understanding Japanese songs without problem I cried like a baby because I was so happy (and still am). I want everybody to have these kinds of moments. And hey, if you can't find someone to be in friendly competition with... race against yourself, it works! Whenever you think "I should be studying right now..." DO IT!!
I don't really have any of those problems he is talking about and I wasn't planning on watching this to the end... I just enjoyed his way of speaking so much :)
Very insightful. I've been studying German on and off for about a year, and probably couldn't hold a basic conversation, and if I could then I wouldn't be understandable. My biggest problem is probably keeping things relevant. This really helped, let's see how I'm doing in a month or two!
Ich lerne auch Deutsch! I only started a few months ago though, what do you use? I’m using Duolingo and some audiobooks my local library has from pimsleur
I speak three languages (Spanish, Basque/Euskera and English) and I am a teenager and I can confirm it's very easy. The most difficult one was the basque, because it's almost an independent language, but it wasn't that hard, really. Recently, I started learning japanese, and it's not that difficult, at least not as it seems. I know a pair of phrases and words already. Of course, I have a lot to learn, but I have the choice to learn what I like, and I won't fail myself. (My mother language is spanish) *EDIT:*I forgot to mention It, I have a friend who talks like seven languages, like german, french, spanish, basque, english, japanese... So guys, is not that difficult :) If I have wrote wrong any expression, let me know, please! ^^
What an adorable accent, pure and comprehensive english. I wish everyone who’s first language is English spoke like that. That would’ve been great for us, english learners. Correct me please if I did mistakes :)
I just love this presentation so much and it really hits every point right on the head. Im learning spanish currently and am doing everything that was recommended here. It helped reassure me that i am on the right path. I hope all are well on your ways in your respective language journeys!
Learning languages is a great hobby to have, its challenging but very rewarding, I did very bad in school and really only focused on English when I was there. I went 5 years after school thinking I will never speak another language and then I decided to learn German when I went to zurich, I learnt it within a year and I can now hold a conversation, I'm now learning Portuguese at a course and met a lot of like minded people. My memory and learning strategy's have got better aswell.
@@jc.nidzzzz focus on the verbs first, and der, die, and das also. Try and learn atleast 30 nouns for each gender and if your in conversation and don't know the gender off a noun then ask but sometimes you can get away with saying "d" if your not able to ask. German has alot of words that's in English you need 2 words too a full sentence to explain. Learning those gives a good impression. Try and learn a little bit each day and repeat what you learnt in the past so you don't forget anything. It helps to have a friend who speaks German to ask. You can get very creative with German once you know the basics but it's always good to ask a German if it's something that is correct to say. But yea if you are starting from scratch learn the verbs first and the structure of ich,du,er/sie/es,ihr,wir,Sie In formal situations or When speaking to someone who is older or higher in the hiarchy address them with Sie not du (sir/madem not you)
@@ASTralOasis-333 Thank you so much Oliver, it indeed helped me. I will use your tips. Let me search for German friends though. You helped a lot, Danke! :)
@@ASTralOasis-333 but Most differences between english and German you've found. Concentrate on Words that are only slight different: Bus and bus, Licht and light. They are spoken different but written similarly.
I can speak fluently 4 languages and can't possibly learn anymore, and can't imagine how anyone can realistically claim to speak more than that. In my case it's a continuous challenge to keep all of them at a decent level. Our brain in this regard is like a muscle that needs regular intensive exercise to KEEP each language. It is also like a vessel with a limited capacity shared by languages you speak. Multilingual people would understand what I mean.
Both of your points have scientific evidence against them, it's been show that we don't forget things that the memories and connections just get weak, and they have found no evidence of a limit to the amount of knowledge you can learn.
John Wick I speak 5 fluently. I can tell u why. My mother tongue is Czech (1. Czech). I was born and grew up in Switzerland (2. Swiss-german). In Swiss schools you are thought in german (3. German). At the age of 14 I started to binge english TH-camrs/series and made lots of english speaking friends (4. English). In Switzerland french is obligatory from the age of 11. I’m now 19 years old. I know live in Paris since a month and will for 5 more (5. French). There you go. I rly rly wanna learn more languages; Currently learning Chinese. It also seems impossible to me but Im not gonna give up
Alexandr Martynov actually, not. It means that with every single language you learn you get the same amount of different visions of life which feels like you have this number of personalities in yourself who can think one thing in all these different ways.
I'm so glad I watched this video, my previous experience with a TED Talk was more of a product than educational and it's made me wary of clicking on the videos. I'm trying to learn Finnish and while some of these rules are great for languages that are more popular, it's hard to find the resources and media needed to gain experience in that language. I've put a Finnish option on my computer and I follow Finnish tags on social media (namely suomipaskaa lol)but as far as music and video, that's going to be a bit harder to run into. I appreciate the video and your time immensely, it's given me some things to mull over and think about while on my own polyglot adventure. Hyvää päivää!
Language learning is brain improvement for me , if we know more languages it is mean more perspective we can look, go out to the routine of your life. it is mean also learn another culture and therefore realize your culture more. Thanks for nice videos.
I am a Laotion American living in america. Currently I only speak English, not Lao which is technically my native language and I am now trying to learn it! I've always felt kind of ashamed of not speaking my native language and with no one to teach me today I am going to try to learn Lao. I wish anyone who has had the same experience luck 😀
When it comes to languages, some polyglots like Moses McCormick & Steve Kaufmann don't have perfect pronunciation in all the languages they speak. The main focus is to be able to speak and be understood by native speakers.
Exactly. I've heard Steve K speak French and I cringe. And considering he has spoken French for a number of years I'm a bit surprised that he doesn't sound better. However, in his defense, he can be understood but it does sound like he's butchering the language. :)
Learning to read & white a language fluently can be mastered in school but when it comes to speaking, some people will show their foreign accents. They need to make a conscious effort to get a language tutor to tone-down or eliminate some of their foreign accents. Just as an example a man Gregory Rivers from Australia who lived in Hong Kong for over 20 years. He worked mostly as an actor in Cantonese for TVB. He married a local Chinese, speaks, read & write in Chinese as well as in English. Being a TV actor he had to read scripts in Chinese and learned many characters along the way. When he first landed in Hong Kong, his Cantonese was understandable but not as fluent. Listening to his TV interviews in Cantonese you can't really tell him from a native-speaker with many local expressions in his speech. Compared to someone born in Hong Kong or a person who moved to the city as a young child, there is definitely a hint of foreign accent since he relocated in his early 20s.
shk00design Yes, agreed, but like you said, a person has to make a conscious effort to find a tutor, or even travel to the country and spend some time there. I am learning French and Dutch right now but I plan on spending next summer in both countries. One month in the south of France and one month immersed in Dutch in the Netherlands. Me and my boys will be going. And heck, I'll bet you if I take a trip up to Paris after my time in the South the Parisians will laugh at my southern accent. LOL. I'll say this. I do admire all of these people for learning languages. There something amazing that happens when you learn a new language. Beyond that fact that your brain grows larger, it just happens to be a lot of fun. So on this, we who call ourselves Bilingual, Trilingual, or beyond, have much larger brains that the average person walking around and this has been scientifically proven. And this gives us one up on everyone else.
@@shk00design I see nothing wrong with a slight accent when someone speaks. For example Germans and Swedes learn English at 5 years old until adults and still have an accent but their pronunciation is perfect and that's what matters, unlike someone from China who say words like aluminum like aruminum and thousand like wousand. That's when its butchering the language and seriously needs practicing but idk if you can change that.
I'm Brazilian and learned English by playing online games with Americans in FPS servers. This was when I was around 12 years old. It was fast, quick and easy. Now, at 24, I'm trying to learn Russian and I was about to drop out of the course. This video inspired me to keep on pushing and try to find the joy of learning this beautiful language once again. Thank you!
He has a strong accent, and the sound is very low, besides not everyone can listen to this in a quiet, peaceful environment. For example if someone has little children who are yelling a lot, or if someone is in a bus, a lot of passangers chatting around him/her... Guys, have some empathy and understanding!
I strongly believe that it is possible to learn English (just as an example, because I teach English here in Brazil) very fast. If you need to communicate in a good way both in grammar and in pronunciation in your day by day life, you need to learn and practice smoothly To be verb, regular past, future (will and going to), interrogative (start with a auxiliary verb, Be, Do, Will, Have ...) and two or three more itens, About vocabulary, it will naturally came as the learner practices. If the person need to deal with a specific area so it must be studied little more.
Hey Matthew :) that's a pretty cool talk and inspiring. I'm actually on the way to learn my fourth language and I can say that it has been one of the most fulfilling things I have ever done in life. Will start following you guys on Social Media.
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so inspired person he talks about most important things in life which is comuniction..... with anther culture ,people or learning new experience and by learning new languages you will get them ❤
I'm making fun of my suffering when i don't know the best way to put something in my sentence. Have to say it's quite working beside my decreasing confidence to speak with anybody every day
Learn the basics then move to the real fun content, there you will experience more unknown grammar rules, learn some, forget others but dont get too stuck on it, keep going. It's bloody hard in the beginning but the content, your fluency and understanding keep getting better, even if you learnt one word a day.
I'm from India, and I want to tell you guys that it's almost impossible to find a person who knows only one language in India. That's the advantage of being born in a nation of a thousand languages.
The way I remember vocabulary in a Hungarian, which I'm learning now, is to try and associate a situation or memory to that word - usually something to do with how or where I first learnt that word, so whenever I hear it I don't think of the English translation but rather that one specific memory related to it. It helps with listening as hearing a word then translating it into English takes to long and isn't effective due to how fast normal speech is, the listening part of a language has always been the part that I have struggled with but now I'm starting to break through and finally starting to think in Hungarian, I hope someone can find this method useful (I'm not the first to use it nor recommend it, and I actually got it from a comment on a TedTalk about learning languages).
That's a good idea. I am from Hungary, and I would like to seize the opportunity to thank you for your efforts in learning our language. It is considered one of the most difficult languages of the world. 🙂
@@june.w.1288 Hungarian is very difficult, but that is why I like it. I'm learning German as well and I get bored because it is too similar to English so Hungarian is a really nice challenge.
@@szinpad_kezedet that's nice. I speak German too, and currently I am learning Italian. I love learning languages too. Do you know the channel Easy German? That is on TH-cam and they always discuss very interesting topics.
When I was 12 years old, I could have said exactly the same. The only difference would have been that I wouldn't have repeated n times the same and that I would have given you practical advice. The very first thing I'd have told the audience would've been to take a look at the table of contents of a grammar textbook of their native language and thoroughly review its structure. Only after having reviewed the glossary of grammatical terms in their native language, they are ready to start acquiring the new language. I'd finish my Bernard-talk by reminding everyone that speaking a second or third language only makes sense if they really need it. When people only invest time and efforts in it for the sake of being a polyglot, I wouldn't see the use of learning it. In that case it might be wiser to study a subject that adds or improves a skill that increases your value as a specialist in the careers people have chosen.
I speak English, Japanese and French to a decent fluency; German and Indonesian I studied in High School and can understand when spoken to, but can’t really speak; and I’ve never had a lesson in Spanish, but can read and understand about 70% of what’s going on. I’m an English teacher in Japan, and I’m always saying how “I don’t speak any language, I just speak words.” My brain is like alphabet soup. There’s stuff floating around, but not much of it makes sense,
Shortcut #1 - Look for similarities to your language (help you recognize patterns & understand meaning)
Shortcut #2 - Keep it simple
Shortcut #3 - Keep it relevant to your situation and needs.
Shortcut #4 - Use 30 minutes study time a day or smaller periods more regularly
Shortcut #5 - Listen to Radio, Watch Movies with English subtitles
Rule 1) Live the language, own the language
Rule 2) Make plenty of mistakes
Rule 3) Make it fun. Friendly competition is good
Good summation: 8:13 Begins talking about how to learn - with suggestions and methods.
MrBaiLiE7 bless you 🙏
yes that's It, no need to watch the video.. he is awfully boring
No he is not boring. YOU find him boring. I actually find his voice soothing. To each his own.
thanks man
I was in hawaii 3 years ago on vacation. while shopping i noticed the lady working there was korean cuz she murmered korean under her breath after dropping something. so i just started speaking to her in korean, something i studied as a hobby. i explained i was buying a gift for my moms birthday, and i ended up getting 70% off the necklace. she just took the price down because i "spoke her native language and she enjoyed the chat with me"
Lovely episode!
Korean move
yup..Koreans are really nice to you when you Converse with them in their language.. currently I'm also studying Korean..hope to get fluent
Quantos anos voce demorou para aprender ingles ?
This is the gems that he talkin about!
"The more languages you know, the more people you are".
Brilliant
❤Notice to diverse language lover :Hello there!Are you looking for a different language speaking partner? I'm a native Bengali speaker,you know what!Bangladeshi people sacrifices theirs life to save theirs beloved language on 21 feb 2020 and this is the reason why 21 feb is called international mother language day.I think a lot of story that we Bengalis have to share with outsiders and the same way all the outsiders have. I'm trying to learn English and to be more fluent like a native English speaker.I'm also a good known Hindi and Urdu language. If anybody who is interested to learn Bengali,Hindi or Urdu language and to teach me English language or other language. pls contact me over whatsapp +8801307320559.
It is said when people speak a different language their personality changes like a schizophrenic. I am a firm believer of this because when I speak Spanish I feel nothing like I do when I speak English.
I agree- I'm tri lingual(Idk how to spell it)- when i speak English my personality is like a bubbly and cute type. When i speak hindi I'm more confident and when i speak odia I'm shy
@@RONEFFECT Interesting... I never noticed until I read your comment. I'm german and usually a very shy introvert. But in english it's pretty much the other way around. Thank you.
Another reason to explore new languages. It feels like getting to know another me.
I want to be a polygot and I want to learn new cultures and lifes. This is my biggest dream
I'm brazilian,16 years old, and I just wanna say that speaking another language is the best experience ever, I've been studying english for almost 8 years, I make mistakes for sure, but they exist to tell me that I'm capable of turning it into a different way of learning, now I'm studying korean, it is much harder for sure, but I won't give up, no matter how long it could take.
Keep going!
Keep going!!!
❤Notice to diverse language lover :Hello there!Are you looking for a different language speaking partner? I'm a native Bengali speaker,you know what!Bangladeshi people sacrifices theirs life to save theirs beloved language on 21 feb 2020 and this is the reason why 21 feb is called international mother language day.I think a lot of story that we Bengalis have to share with outsiders and the same way all the outsiders have. I'm trying to learn English and to be more fluent like a native English speaker.I'm also a good known Hindi and Urdu language. If anybody who is interested to learn Bengali,Hindi or Urdu language and to teach me English language or other language. pls contact me over whatsapp +8801307320559.
stick to it iveness
힘내요
I'd like to correct the Ukrainian saying he quoted in the end (I'm Ukrainian myself). The saying translates as: "The more language you know, the more human you are."
I've become a big fan of Oleksander Usyk!
Makes more sense
Tome cuidado com a Ucrânia , Rússia e china está quase em guerra , provavelmente vc já deve saber porém estou alertando
nice one einstein
I’m trying to learn Ukrainian right now. That’s why I’m watching this video!
This video had me constantly checking my volume settings
Exactly 🤣
Lol
Same here 🤣🤣🤣🤣
inukag9 Me, too...
Haha I had to crank mine up
“Look for similarities in your language”
*Laughs in Cantonese*
yes, I want to learn Mandarin but I dont think I can find similarities very easily
@@vsgunning mandarin=madarina in spanish there you go
@@espadachin026 madarin and a mandarine too. I speak 7 languages and am currently attempting to learn Khmer. The think I mean is if we dont know the script it is extremely difficult to find links and similarities.
wa vietnamese?
@@alejrandom6592 im trying to learn vietnamese its very difficult
I am Ukrainian and I was so surprised when he spoke Ukranian in the end. Huge respect! :) Greetings from Ukraine
Katherine Roman how easy is it for a Russian to understand a Ukrainian and vice versa?
Yes!!!
John's Fitness and Strength I'm from Ukraine and we grew up hearing Ukrainian and Russian languages, so I'm native in both of them (also, I can freely understand Belorussian and partly Polish, never learning them), like a majority of Ukrainians. As I know, Russians, mostly, can't understand Ukrainian, but part of them can.
I'm really sorry, but Ukrainian is not a language...
Alexandr A. P. agreed. It's basically a RU dialect with some addition of Polish words.
"The more languages you know, the more people you are" I really agree with this quote, because language is a means of connecting to communicate. Therefore, the more languages know will make it easier for living things to relate to fellow living beings in all corners of the world.
True, I want to learn Spanish and I want to talk Spanish with Latin America's people
The more languages you know, the more people you are.
😅😢👏👏👏 Beautiful !
I wander if it does have same meaning in English) "more people you are" as "better as human" because more things makes you human.
+Alexandr Martynov I suppose, though it does depend on how you compare the two.
I speak only French and I can assert you there are many people in my head, though.
yes 😀
Are you skizofrenic? Or just a polyartist like Mystique/Raven Darkholm?
“Learn a language, and you’ll avoid a war.” ― Arab proverb
my instagram name = sule_mese ı want to improve my english . could you talk with me ? please :)
So ironic.The Arabs are always fighting!😂
@@alwayslearning7672 so ironic, misunderstanding idiots like you are always commenting xD
@@alwayslearning7672
I think It was two world wars between European countries and America not the Arabs.
@@lmarshy9120 I said nothing about wars.I said fighting!
"Don't be afraid to make mistakes." Seems to be a common theme in a lot of these language Ted Talks and other videos. Noted. 👍
You can't commit mistakes if you don't know anything
It is a fear children don't have and they grow up to master the language of their culture.
I ask myself, why do I keep watching these ted talks about language learning when they are all virtually identical
@@mcmerry2846 You can: you just don't know what are the mistakes.
I followed this rule of thumb closely until I attempted to speak the language I'm learning to strangers and they mocked me.
Im learning russian by hanging out with russians and listening to russian music.
Only problem is, it's hard to remember things because of the amounts of alcohol we drink...
Do you have any recommendations for music?
@@CyberMachine Lots! Whats your genre?
Rap: Max Korzh has a lot of good songs.
Honestly I don't know what genre to put their songs sometimes.
Grivina, she has cold deep house ish songs.
Her music video on malchik party is awesome so is the song.
Lesha svik has chill songs.
Hennessy by Zomb.
If you like strange groovy songs then MATRANG might be something for you.
@@RocketLR OMG! I prefer rap and I'm already in love with Max Korzh. Thank you so much!!
I heard that Russian is one of the best languages to learn especially if you're into tech and the internet because half of the stuff on the net (especially dark web) is in Russian!
@@minuit6305 indeed.. That's why I'm learning Russian too
The last Ukrainian proverb would be literally translated as: "How many languages you know, that many times you are a human"😊
Thanks for an interesting motivational speech!
Actually, yes!
Omg there is a Turkish proverb which means the exact same thing. That's fascinating :d
" As many languages you know, as many times you are a human being " but its not a Ukrainian proverb but Goether's quotation.
we have the exact same one in Czech! I guess it's a slavic thing :D
❤Notice to diverse language lover :Hello there!Are you looking for a different language speaking partner? I'm a native Bengali speaker,you know what!Bangladeshi people sacrifices theirs life to save theirs beloved language on 21 feb 2020 and this is the reason why 21 feb is called international mother language day.I think a lot of story that we Bengalis have to share with outsiders and the same way all the outsiders have. I'm trying to learn English and to be more fluent like a native English speaker.I'm also a good known Hindi and Urdu language. If anybody who is interested to learn Bengali,Hindi or Urdu language and to teach me English language or other language. pls contact me over whatsapp +8801307320559.
As a spanish teacher, I can't express how amazed I felt with this speech. I totally agree with every single word he said. And I can assure you that, after being able to understand many ways of learning languages, everything he said was truth. Enjoy learning a new language!
You should be ashamed of yourself. I can’t say what I really think, or I’ll get kicked off TH-cam.
@@LesserMoffHootkins and you should get off youtube until youre 13
@@LesserMoffHootkins i think this is not your spot and you must apologize
@@hatimhatimo1954yes for sure he should apologize
i frigging cant because french is so hard that i feel like i am gonna get a frigging stroke
"Скільки мов ти знаешь - стільки разів ти людина" this quote standing in my college, in my classroom for learning English! And now it's so pleasure to hear it from him!
I can speak English and French and I just started to learn Norwegian. Language is cool
Hi, Where are you learning Norwegian from?
Hi
i just now day in norwegian like mandag,tursdag,torsdag,fredag
@@Alia-cm4zv are you can speak fluently or in just daily conversation?
@@Alia-cm4zv and how long you mastered every other language?
I am Japanese, and learning English process is sometimes hard and I feel frustrated as to why I cannot speak it smoothly after years of study😢 but this video reminds me of the joys of language learning! Sometimes I feel as if I could go to a different world just by studying English in my daily life😊
Ganbatte!
言語を勉強するって結構難しいですよね。でも諦めないでね！言語の中に他の国と文化が入っている！それはすごく楽しいから諦めないで！
Ganbatte!
Your English is perfect!
Your written English is excellent. You've got your idioms down!
Perfection is over rated. Im happy just to communicate.
ただいま50歳。今までの人生で日本語以外の言語（＝英語）習得できませんでした。この歳になりフランス語を習得したいと思っています。しかし成功体験ないので踏み出せない、自信がない‥
そんな時に「外国語を習得するとホテルの部屋がアップグレードされるかも」「自分に関係あるものだけを学ぶ（＝私の場合はグルメと買い物なので観光会話できればOK）」この２つの言葉で頑張ってみようと思えるようになりました。
あと、「助けてー」「道に迷いました」も習得しようと思います。
Why is the audio so quiet?
I have the same question
me2
Guess I have to turn on the [CC] for close captions to pick up most of the dialog.
I would rather download this video and convert into mp3 to listen louder. It is too quite so that can not concentrate listening to it.
Hieu Nguyen turn up the volume then. 😎👌
Watch at 1.5 speed, press your ear to the speaker. You're welcome
Thanks
lol....gracias.
We all can be like him. Some people may have a better ear or be more talented than others, but as he said this is not about perfection, it is about communication. If you put passion and work into a language, soon enough you will learn it.
I wish you a happy language learning!
Je vous souhaite un apprentissage heureux des langues!
¡Os deseo un felíz aprendizaje de idiomas!
祝你语言学习快乐！
Eu desejo vocês um aprendizagem de línguas muito legal! Belleza!
(I would write it also in Italian, but I'm not that confident yet, I have just started this week. If you see a mistake in any of these sentences, don't hesitate and tell me!) Why don't you also add more translations of this sentence, it would be really fun!
Thank you!!!
About the portuguese: " desejo a vocês um aprendizado de línguas legal."
Lucas Avelar Obrigado! :D
Ich wünsche euch glückliches Fremdsprechenlernen! ;)
(my German is kinda rusty, feel free to correct me)
Życzę radosnej nauki języków obcych! (Polish)
Σας εύχομα καλή εκμάθηση ξένων γλωσσών! :D (Greek)
btw Anhohine,I think it is called FremndsprAchenlernen :3
I speak 4 languages and i'm learning german, i'm a bit affraid of it but i'm gona do my best, this guy is an inspiration for me, I want to be like him and that's why i'm gona do my best to learn german and a lot of languages !
i know this is a typical question but on average how long has it taken you? i'm learning french and about a month in and still building vocabulary.
+cakes_lollies Well to speak spanish it tooks me 8 months, but now I speak it well. You can 'understand' a language and speaks it correctly in 3 months. Good luck !
+sherif matt thank you!
What methods were you using? I'm find French hard cause natives just push it all together
+Monique H Well honestly I don't use any methode but I have some "technics" I begin to learn the presentation; Hi my name is... I am 20 years old etc etc. Then I download 2 apps, one of conjugation and a dictionary. Then I try to learn the basics verbs; eat, drink, live, work. Yeah and don't forget; Writing is VERY important, it helps you to memorize. And don't worry for french it's a very simple language, tell ur self that when you'll learn french you can easly learn italian or spanish ;) Hope it helps =)
Not a polyglot or anything, but i've been about 4 months learning french and i've learnt a lot of vocabulary thanks to Memrise, also i'm watching a tv show in french (even though it's original language is english i managed to find it in french) and i'm reading le petit prince :) everything thanks to duolingo, memrise and alexa.
I'm currently learning spanish language, Thank you for the words, it motivates me a lot. ❤️
Hows the Spanish coming along?
Besides my mother tongue, I have a degree in English, am fluent in Spanish and am currently learning German. I can also understand Portugese and French. I love languages and I soooooo agree on making the mistakes. I tell it to my students all the time.
Alors est-ce que tu comprends cette phrase ? :D
❤
I did change my phone's language to spanish
Now I don't read anything on my phone
I did that too and in the process I got my Twitter account suspended/blocked because I kept pressing on buttons without knowing its meaning.
Samir Timilsina 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I changed mine to French and now I’m a croissant
A few months ago I started to learn german and for a couple of months I didn't know which day of the week i was living in till I got to learn it in german. Considering the lockdown I can assure to anyone that I didn't have the closest idea what day I was living because I didn't have to know whatsoever
Copelandia I did the same, but changed it to swedish. I couldn’t even know for how long I hadn’t respond a message
he speaks 20 languages half of them fluently, wow this is staggeringly amazing wow.
True 👍👍👍
I did French at school. Quickly picked up Spanish before travelling to Europe, found that I could read about 90% of Danish newspapers after about three weeks. Third trip to Europe is being planned. Also was able to get a handle on Basque. All of this in my sixties.
Christopher Ellis how did you learn danish so quickly?
Conor McCormack in København, one is surrounded by Danish. Once one has a handle on such words as på og til, the rest is almost English. I cannot speak or understand it, for it has consonants not used in English b d g r sk, for example. Æ ø y are found in French and German. It's called immersion, but some study of grammar and vocabulary are necessary.
woow hvordan går du
You were born talented, unlike most people. Or you’re lying.
I loved this so much I'm crying. "The more languages you know, the more people you are" was the best quote i've ever heard of.
yes, but the speaker generally says the same only pretending to be very clever.
Get out more often. There are many excellent quotes to top this one. When the pandemic is done of course.
I think learning a new language is like a brilliant adventure that everyone can have in Life.
Everyone can fail.
I totally agree with you. This is great adventure for me
I really enjoyed this presentation. As a language teacher for more than 10 years, I have reflected many times on why I was so interested in learning the languages that I have learned, and how I could instill that interest into my students. This presentation contains many excellent ideas and points that all make complete sense. I would recommend this video to anyone who feels apprehensive about learning a new language.
Let's be honest... If you have motivation to really study everyday, you can learn a new language. It doesnt matter if it's fun or not, it depends on how dedicated you are. I believe that most people keep looking for magic in language learning, but this doesnt happen. If you can have fun, great! But you'll always need dedication!!!
Thank you a lot! Last phrase was unexpected, because I never saw phrases in TED about Ukrainian, and, because it’s my mother language, I was touched right in the heart ❤️ thanks for such inspired video 🙏🏻 with love from Ukrainian- з любов’ю від українців 🇺🇦
Well... it was interesting... I think that learning a language is not a ONE way thing and you need to learn a little of this and a little bit of that. I have been teaching for more than 20 years and I got some great results... but there is just a simple fact that people should understand... you need to learn some grammar and understand how the language is structured if you want to learn it. The vocabulary is just a question of being able to remember the words. Then after will also come the way to pronounce... and French is a challenging language! But if you put yourself into it... everything is possible!!!
Hey ! Vincent. I follow your videos :) Haha !
You have to learn grammar but you don’t have to learn it day one to learn simple frases. I think that’s the point he’s trying to make. Dive in and worry about the rest later 🤗
You dont just adopt the language easily ,it takes time for you to actually speak out the languange you're trying to learn
From my point of view, there are some psychological problems of learning the second, third and so on languages, because a person must overcome the patterns of his own mother tongue, including pronunciation of course. I think this is the main problem. Maybe I'm wrong ..
Every native speaker thinks their language is hard. But how hard it is to learn a language depends how similar it is to your native language.
Grammar is so important especially when the language is very dissimilar to yours like I’m learning Czech.
You’re right you can miss half the meaning of a sentence of le.g language if you you don’t know how to decline the nouns and pronouns. You can rite learn phrases but depending on the type of learner you are.
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use small free periods of time to learn the language (about 30 min daily) eg in train, waiting, ...
or in the Moring you could listen to radio in the targeted language + learn songs + videos/ Netflix with subtitle
1. life language: sing in it, dream in it, ...
2. Make mistakes: only way to learn it
3. make it fun eg about grammar (entertaining), try get others in it
-> “ the more languages you know the more people you are “
I was impressed that he spoke Ukrainian! I didn't know people even learn it outside Ukraine.
Why ? I'd like to learn this language.
Ukrainian is very beautiful :)
Ukrainian language is beautiful but I never met people who speak it really good (I'm Ukrainian)
Saying one sentence is not speaking.
I am at pre-intermediate English level and I was wonder that I understood almost everything from this video. This is amazing. Also enjoed the sentence at the end in Ukrainian because I am from Ukraine ^_^ Thanks a lot, hope this video would help me and other to learn better and get such a great experience as I had
I moved to study in Turkey, I have been here for a month and the constant need to learn the language brought me to here (although I already speak 3 languages)
He gave me the courage to learn harder, thank you TED
you got this!! iyi şanslar
I only speak English fluently now but I'm learning spanish and I want to become a polyglot
Same boat, but I'm learning Italian.
By the way, I recommend making sure to pronounce the words a lot, because then you'll remember them. Recently I've gotten a lot better just from that.
Jelly Squid same here!
Kaelei Olson my advice is to actually use the words you learn frequently. Even when talking to your friends try to form sentences and call certain objects by their name in that language if you know that word. I was able to learn 200 Japanese words and about the same amount of kanji in a month and a half just by doing that. Good luck :)
Christopher Agha up
I know a good amount of words in Spanish, Italian, and I'm trying to learn slovene
This is a great talk! I dedicate my channel to talking about languages and language-learning and I love watching talks like this. I don't speak 20 languages but I can converse in four! I agree with what he said and this isn't the first time I've heard this. I've heard the same advice from other successful polyglots, so I can tell you that what he said works for a lot of people. More people need to see this
1似ている部分を探してそこに注目する
2シンプルに徹する
最初は学習中の外国語と自分の言語との間には共通点が少ないように感じるかもしれない。しかし、容易な部分に注目すれば習得が早くなる。全ての言語には易しい要素があるから。
3自分の関係のあるものだけ学ぶ
特に学習を始めたばかりの頃は必ず自分の関わりのある内容にするべき。現在自分が置かれた状況のなかで意義のあるものに集中する。
言語を習得するにあたって極めて重要な要素は「時間」だ。定期的に短時間の学習を繰り返すことで言語に対する抵抗感がなくなる上、より効率的に習得できる。
The title is a bit of click bait. It is not about how to learn any language easily, but techniques to make learning more engaging and effective which is not the same thing. As someone involved in languages, I can say that individual aptitude varies greatly and highly influences how much one progresses. Most languages require a considerable commitment to get to an intermediate level of communication.
in Africa it's standard to speak more than one language.
KimsonJohn also in INDIA 😉
I think that's the standard in the most of the world tbh - in Europe it's the same I think the average is close to 3 langueges
Very true. My mother who never went to school speaks nine Ghanaian languages and English.
I speak seven languages including English and French. My small country Ghana has over 25 different languages because there are so many ethnicities. I learned three languages simply by living next door to native speakers and interacting with them.
Ben Nartey im so jealous of u 😅 all i wanna do is learn french 🤦♂️
A.S. 1 You can if you put in the effort. If you have Alliance Francais in your country, they may run French language courses. Or you can learn online. Use Rosetta Stone app. which is really rich in content. Give it time and practice regularly.
He's right by saying make your learning fun. I started learning how to curse in French and I used it a lot with family and friends even though they had no idea what I was saying to them.
I loved this. I'm learning Danish at the moment. I absolutely love the language. Just switched my phone to Danish. Hope I don't get lost with it
This really inspired me. I'm a current monolinguest learning Russian,Swedish,Spanish and Portugese. Yes I do realise learning 4 languages at once is a challenge. But I have the freedom to learn it whenever and however I want. At school you're forced to learn a language which you might not be interested in and you go over useless stuff again and again. I have bought a specific notebook for each language and I study for at least 30min a day. It is very satisfying to see how many pages I have done. My motivation? the freedom of when you are fluent. I look at people who are bilingual and see them speak to others, it's amazing. Plus I just love being able to travel the world being able to speak to the locals.
I bet you failed miserably.
If I may suggest, try to learn the romance languages first since you are already taking on Spanish and Portuguese. Adding french and Italian will be like value-add to what you already have. Bonne chance!
well?
Oh, this feeling when you watching this video, because you try learning English language.
Дякую лектору цього відео за досить цікаву подачу матеріала. Я вважаю, что людям потрібно зрозуміти, что будь-яка мова це не шкільний предмет.
Язык - это прежде всего возможность взаимодействовать с окружающими тебя людьми. Да, я могу допускать кучу ошибок, которые будут смешны носителям интересующего меня языка, ну и что с того? Главное пытаться и учиться на своих ошибках)
Thank you! Very insightful The 30 minutes to study each day is such a game changer!
I almost cried when I heard these words in Ukrainian. Thanks for learning our language❤
I like him; his voice is relaxing. He speaks without exaggerating his enunciation and pronunciation. I totally agree with Youlden's shortcuts to language learning and the golden rules.
Languajes are my pasión since i was a young Guy., definetly i want to keep improving my french and German and now with thé internet it's easier . Thé key Is practice every day great vídeo full motivation thanks.👏👏
I love learning languages and yet I tend to fail.
I'm currently teaching myself Japanese and started Russian a few days ago.
People, learn languages! When I started understanding Japanese songs without problem I cried like a baby because I was so happy (and still am). I want everybody to have these kinds of moments.
And hey, if you can't find someone to be in friendly competition with... race against yourself, it works! Whenever you think "I should be studying right now..." DO IT!!
I want to ask you a question. How did you manage to do that?? And how’s it going with your language learning now?:D
No
Thanks for amazing time!
Recently,I have started learning English again.
So, This video was so useful!
Thank you from Japan!
"The more languages you know, the more people you are." I like that 👍
❤️🥰❤️🥰
I don't really have any of those problems he is talking about and I wasn't planning on watching this to the end... I just enjoyed his way of speaking so much :)
I have been learning Turkish for about two weeks now! This is a very useful video thank you!
Devam ediyor musun öğrenmeye? :)
The more languages you know, the more HUMAN you are.
Interesting, so people who only speak one language are....less human? Sorry, I mean, less HUMAN?
John Roberts yes
I don’t understand this logic but high 5
NANI!?
@@johnroberts8088:
yay, i'm sub-human!
・楽しむ
・間違える
・日常に落とし込む、習慣化する
Very insightful. I've been studying German on and off for about a year, and probably couldn't hold a basic conversation, and if I could then I wouldn't be understandable. My biggest problem is probably keeping things relevant. This really helped, let's see how I'm doing in a month or two!
And how you did it?
howd you do
Ich lerne auch Deutsch! I only started a few months ago though, what do you use? I’m using Duolingo and some audiobooks my local library has from pimsleur
I speak three languages (Spanish, Basque/Euskera and English) and I am a teenager and I can confirm it's very easy. The most difficult one was the basque, because it's almost an independent language, but it wasn't that hard, really. Recently, I started learning japanese, and it's not that difficult, at least not as it seems. I know a pair of phrases and words already. Of course, I have a lot to learn, but I have the choice to learn what I like, and I won't fail myself. (My mother language is spanish)
*EDIT:*I forgot to mention It, I have a friend who talks like seven languages, like german, french, spanish, basque, english, japanese... So guys, is not that difficult :)
If I have wrote wrong any expression, let me know, please! ^^
Can you help me in learning English
What an adorable accent, pure and comprehensive english. I wish everyone who’s first language is English spoke like that. That would’ve been great for us, english learners.
Correct me please if I did mistakes :)
Since i was a kid i have been speaking Turkish, Arabic, and English. I am now learning Italian, French, and Japanese! :D anything is possible yall
Maybe take one at a time?
I just love this presentation so much and it really hits every point right on the head. Im learning spanish currently and am doing everything that was recommended here. It helped reassure me that i am on the right path. I hope all are well on your ways in your respective language journeys!
Update?
Can you speak Spanish now? Are u fluent?
Hey guys! Yes my Spanish is probably around a C1 level and I'm even dating a Mexican girl! Thanks for the interest!!
@@tjb8158 thanks for the update! All the best
I'm a student. I have been leaning English for 3 years ago. I try my best with it. Thank you for this video
I don't know it's just me who found the audio too low. But, this video has giving me a lot of tips for my knowledge about English!
Very good English! Keep up the good work!
How to learn any language easily ?
Step 1: stop viewing this video, instead, start studying languages.
HAHAHA
Not really, because for people who want to learn english watching this video is a way of learning.
Love it! Thank you for acknowledging the truth
Отличная подача, реклама настоящая захватывающая, хочется использовать Ваши правила, не бояться ошибок!!! Вы ТАЛАНТ!!!
hey they're the guys from babel
yesss
really? o.O
yeap,they did a video on Babel about how they learned the languages and they spoke on each language :3
Margarita M Cool! I am from Brazil and I speak Three languages.
XD that is why i am here :)
I`m brazilian, i speak english fluently, and last monday, i started to study french!
Parabens cara!
Matheus Souza how it’s going(French)? One year has passed..
*And LAST monday...
And, did you succeed in learning French?
How long you take to learn english? @Math SC
Learning languages is a great hobby to have, its challenging but very rewarding, I did very bad in school and really only focused on English when I was there. I went 5 years after school thinking I will never speak another language and then I decided to learn German when I went to zurich, I learnt it within a year and I can now hold a conversation, I'm now learning Portuguese at a course and met a lot of like minded people. My memory and learning strategy's have got better aswell.
Hey I want to learn German too.
I would love to hear some tips from you. :)
@@jc.nidzzzz focus on the verbs first, and der, die, and das also. Try and learn atleast 30 nouns for each gender and if your in conversation and don't know the gender off a noun then ask but sometimes you can get away with saying "d" if your not able to ask.
German has alot of words that's in English you need 2 words too a full sentence to explain. Learning those gives a good impression.
Try and learn a little bit each day and repeat what you learnt in the past so you don't forget anything. It helps to have a friend who speaks German to ask. You can get very creative with German once you know the basics but it's always good to ask a German if it's something that is correct to say. But yea if you are starting from scratch learn the verbs first and the structure of ich,du,er/sie/es,ihr,wir,Sie
In formal situations or When speaking to someone who is older or higher in the hiarchy address them with Sie not du (sir/madem not you)
I wrote that a bit scattered and unordelly but I hope it helps you atleast a little
@@ASTralOasis-333 Thank you so much Oliver, it indeed helped me. I will use your tips. Let me search for German friends though.
You helped a lot, Danke! :)
@@ASTralOasis-333 but Most differences between english and German you've found. Concentrate on Words that are only slight different: Bus and bus, Licht and light. They are spoken different but written similarly.
Wow, this is one of the best learn language explanations I ever heard. Thank you very much Sir, you show us the way.
I can speak fluently 4 languages and can't possibly learn anymore, and can't imagine how anyone can realistically claim to speak more than that. In my case it's a continuous challenge to keep all of them at a decent level. Our brain in this regard is like a muscle that needs regular intensive exercise to KEEP each language. It is also like a vessel with a limited capacity shared by languages you speak. Multilingual people would understand what I mean.
Both of your points have scientific evidence against them, it's been show that we don't forget things that the memories and connections just get weak, and they have found no evidence of a limit to the amount of knowledge you can learn.
I get you. The biggest problem I have is not to swap words or syntax from one language to another.
Bro, do you even youtube ?
Look at lingualtraveler he speaks 12
John Wick I speak 5 fluently. I can tell u why. My mother tongue is Czech (1. Czech). I was born and grew up in Switzerland (2. Swiss-german). In Swiss schools you are thought in german (3. German). At the age of 14 I started to binge english TH-camrs/series and made lots of english speaking friends (4. English). In Switzerland french is obligatory from the age of 11. I’m now 19 years old. I know live in Paris since a month and will for 5 more (5. French). There you go. I rly rly wanna learn more languages; Currently learning Chinese. It also seems impossible to me but Im not gonna give up
Matthew Youlden!!! THANK YOU VERY MUCH! YOU INSPIRED ME!
In Ukrainian it means more like: the more languages you know the better human you are.
Alexandr Martynov shut up
Alexandr Martynov actually, not. It means that with every single language you learn you get the same amount of different visions of life which feels like you have this number of personalities in yourself who can think one thing in all these different ways.
there's no ukranian language, it's just screwed russian
Oleg Ushakov Russian is screwed up, because of Bulgarian influence. Probably old-Russian sounded more like Belarusian and/or Ukrainian.
Aris кто дебил?)
I'm so glad I watched this video, my previous experience with a TED Talk was more of a product than educational and it's made me wary of clicking on the videos. I'm trying to learn Finnish and while some of these rules are great for languages that are more popular, it's hard to find the resources and media needed to gain experience in that language. I've put a Finnish option on my computer and I follow Finnish tags on social media (namely suomipaskaa lol)but as far as music and video, that's going to be a bit harder to run into.
I appreciate the video and your time immensely, it's given me some things to mull over and think about while on my own polyglot adventure. Hyvää päivää!
Kirkendauhl do you know it now?
I’m trying to learn Finnish too! Maybe we could be partners in learning the language?
Language learning is brain improvement for me , if we know more languages it is mean more perspective we can look, go out to the routine of your life. it is mean also learn another culture and therefore realize your culture more. Thanks for nice videos.
I am a Laotion American living in america. Currently I only speak English, not Lao which is technically my native language and I am now trying to learn it! I've always felt kind of ashamed of not speaking my native language and with no one to teach me today I am going to try to learn Lao. I wish anyone who has had the same experience luck 😀
Hey can you help me in learning English i am from India and my native language is hindi
When it comes to languages, some polyglots like Moses McCormick & Steve Kaufmann don't have perfect pronunciation in all the languages they speak. The main focus is to be able to speak and be understood by native speakers.
Exactly. I've heard Steve K speak French and I cringe. And considering he has spoken French for a number of years I'm a bit surprised that he doesn't sound better. However, in his defense, he can be understood but it does sound like he's butchering the language. :)
Learning to read & white a language fluently can be mastered in school but when it comes to speaking, some people will show their foreign accents. They need to make a conscious effort to get a language tutor to tone-down or eliminate some of their foreign accents.
Just as an example a man Gregory Rivers from Australia who lived in Hong Kong for over 20 years. He worked mostly as an actor in Cantonese for TVB. He married a local Chinese, speaks, read & write in Chinese as well as in English. Being a TV actor he had to read scripts in Chinese and learned many characters along the way. When he first landed in Hong Kong, his Cantonese was understandable but not as fluent. Listening to his TV interviews in Cantonese you can't really tell him from a native-speaker with many local expressions in his speech. Compared to someone born in Hong Kong or a person who moved to the city as a young child, there is definitely a hint of foreign accent since he relocated in his early 20s.
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Yes, agreed, but like you said, a person has to make a conscious effort to find a tutor, or even travel to the country and spend some time there. I am learning French and Dutch right now but I plan on spending next summer in both countries. One month in the south of France and one month immersed in Dutch in the Netherlands. Me and my boys will be going. And heck, I'll bet you if I take a trip up to Paris after my time in the South the Parisians will laugh at my southern accent. LOL.
I'll say this. I do admire all of these people for learning languages. There something amazing that happens when you learn a new language. Beyond that fact that your brain grows larger, it just happens to be a lot of fun.
So on this, we who call ourselves Bilingual, Trilingual, or beyond, have much larger brains that the average person walking around and this has been scientifically proven. And this gives us one up on everyone else.
@@shk00design I see nothing wrong with a slight accent when someone speaks. For example Germans and Swedes learn English at 5 years old until adults and still have an accent but their pronunciation is perfect and that's what matters, unlike someone from China who say words like aluminum like aruminum and thousand like wousand. That's when its butchering the language and seriously needs practicing but idk if you can change that.
I'm Brazilian and learned English by playing online games with Americans in FPS servers. This was when I was around 12 years old. It was fast, quick and easy. Now, at 24, I'm trying to learn Russian and I was about to drop out of the course. This video inspired me to keep on pushing and try to find the joy of learning this beautiful language once again. Thank you!
ロシア語をわかるのは無理だ。あなたがその考えを諦めたほうがいいかも。
Ironically, I need subtitles in order to know what he is saying.
Didn't you understand anything ?
How is your English today ?
Do you know English now?
Me too! Only cause the microphone isn't very loud.
He has a strong accent, and the sound is very low, besides not everyone can listen to this in a quiet, peaceful environment. For example if someone has little children who are yelling a lot, or if someone is in a bus, a lot of passangers chatting around him/her... Guys, have some empathy and understanding!
5:57 Weebs: Don't do that.... don't give me hope.
cries*
Lmaooo 😭😭😭
Way too close lol. I'm trying to learn Japanese, hoping that I can do it well.
I strongly believe that it is possible to learn English (just as an example, because I teach English here in Brazil) very fast. If you need to communicate in a good way both in grammar and in pronunciation in your day by day life, you need to learn and practice smoothly To be verb, regular past, future (will and going to), interrogative (start with a auxiliary verb, Be, Do, Will, Have ...) and two or three more itens, About vocabulary, it will naturally came as the learner practices. If the person need to deal with a specific area so it must be studied little more.
I lived in United States, and I have this really cool Russian co-worker and we have been teaching eachother Russian and English.
Hey Matthew :) that's a pretty cool talk and inspiring. I'm actually on the way to learn my fourth language and I can say that it has been one of the most fulfilling things I have ever done in life. Will start following you guys on Social Media.
This has motivated me even more to continue my Slovenian language learning
The more languages you know the more people you are
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This was encouraging. I am trying to learn a second language. It’s not been easy but I know I can do it!
so inspired person he talks about most important things in life which is comuniction..... with anther culture ,people or learning new experience and by learning new languages you will get them ❤
When he said "Aurélia" he truly sounded Portuguese, im impressed
"make grammar fun" um, TELL US HOW lol
motivation is the key, keep in your mind the reason why you're studying that language...remember your goals
think of grammar as a series of elements and just playing around with it
I'm making fun of my suffering when i don't know the best way to put something in my sentence. Have to say it's quite working beside my decreasing confidence to speak with anybody every day
Lmao yesss!
Learn the basics then move to the real fun content, there you will experience more unknown grammar rules, learn some, forget others but dont get too stuck on it, keep going. It's bloody hard in the beginning but the content, your fluency and understanding keep getting better, even if you learnt one word a day.
Прекрасный английский, интеллигентный спикер. ЗАРАЖАЕТ ЛИЧНЫМ ПРИМЕРОМ!Пойду совершенствовать английский.
Him: Languages are beautiful!
Him earlier: *_D I E_*
I'm from India, and I want to tell you guys that it's almost impossible to find a person who knows only one language in India. That's the advantage of being born in a nation of a thousand languages.
Same here in the Philippines.
I'm indian i know almost 5-6 language Hindi english urdu marathi etc.
This was a great talk! Great speaker with a funny yet effective and to-the-point presentation! Well done, sir!
The way I remember vocabulary in a Hungarian, which I'm learning now, is to try and associate a situation or memory to that word - usually something to do with how or where I first learnt that word, so whenever I hear it I don't think of the English translation but rather that one specific memory related to it. It helps with listening as hearing a word then translating it into English takes to long and isn't effective due to how fast normal speech is, the listening part of a language has always been the part that I have struggled with but now I'm starting to break through and finally starting to think in Hungarian, I hope someone can find this method useful (I'm not the first to use it nor recommend it, and I actually got it from a comment on a TedTalk about learning languages).
That's a good idea. I am from Hungary, and I would like to seize the opportunity to thank you for your efforts in learning our language. It is considered one of the most difficult languages of the world. 🙂
@@june.w.1288 Hungarian is very difficult, but that is why I like it. I'm learning German as well and I get bored because it is too similar to English so Hungarian is a really nice challenge.
@@szinpad_kezedet that's nice. I speak German too, and currently I am learning Italian. I love learning languages too. Do you know the channel Easy German? That is on TH-cam and they always discuss very interesting topics.
It was so inspiring, especially when I heard Ukrainian 😍
When I was 12 years old, I could have said exactly the same. The only difference would have been that I wouldn't have repeated n times the same and that I would have given you practical advice. The very first thing I'd have told the audience would've been to take a look at the table of contents of a grammar textbook of their native language and thoroughly review its structure.
Only after having reviewed the glossary of grammatical terms in their native language, they are ready to start acquiring the new language.
I'd finish my Bernard-talk by reminding everyone that speaking a second or third language only makes sense if they really need it. When people only invest time and efforts in it for the sake of being a polyglot, I wouldn't see the use of learning it.
In that case it might be wiser to study a subject that adds or improves a skill that increases your value as a specialist in the careers people have chosen.
Exselent expositione, i´m putting on practique the advice numbe 3: cometing mistakes. Than u matthe
Bravo ! 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I speak English, Japanese and French to a decent fluency; German and Indonesian I studied in High School and can understand when spoken to, but can’t really speak; and I’ve never had a lesson in Spanish, but can read and understand about 70% of what’s going on. I’m an English teacher in Japan, and I’m always saying how “I don’t speak any language, I just speak words.” My brain is like alphabet soup. There’s stuff floating around, but not much of it makes sense,
yooo big congrats on learning indonesian, its rare to find people who are willing to learn our language eheheh :))
such a cool way to see it haha. i will only intent to spice up my alphabet soup from now on :))
I want to learn English can you help me
One of the key points of learning another language is how you will you treat other people who are learning yours.