well, that is a joke, of course, he doesn't speak 75 languages. no one should be able to speak that many languages..... or by speaking he means he knows two or three words
"I whisper sentences to myself and everyone around thinks I'm crazy." Been studying russian for awhile now and this I can relate in so many levels. My co-workers would often find me whispering random russian words and they think I'm summoning some demon from other realms 😂😂😂
Yup! There's actually more German programming than you would expect. (Babylon Berlin, The Heavy Water War, Dark and Charite are the big ones I've come across.) I always watch them in German with English subtitles and try to ignore the subtitles when I can. However, I can't say how well other languages are represented in the Netflix catalog. Hopefully you'll find something you like.
This video motivated me to try shadowing. I'm beginner in Portuguese, so I found a short (under 1 min) audio dialogue with transcription. I slowed down the audio (0.6x), because it was to fast for me, and I began to repeat the words. I spend nearly an hour to master the dialogue, so I didn't stutter or get lost. I pretty much have learned it by heart. After about an hour I tried to demostrate to my SO what I've accomplished and it didn't go so well as an hour before. Till the evening I basically forgot the whole dialogue. And now the twist: the next morning I woke up and spoke out the whole dialogue by heart, with the intonation and all, without stuttering, fully automatically. I would really appreciate, Paul, if you elaborated on the topic of shadowing in a separate video, because I got excited to discover this technique and all the instant benefits of it.
TH-cam oficial I really wish you good luck! You can be sure of this: brazilians think is amazing when a foreigner learns portuguese. Vá em frente que você vai conseguir!
It's already a bit weird for western people but imagine that in Japan where people have the mentality of not acting strange and ashamed themselves in public ^^
The shadowing technique seems pretty interesting to me, I've never heard about it before. But I think that I'll have problems using it even in my mother tongue xD It's extremely hard for me to concentrate on two activities (speaking and listening) simultaneously without getting lost and confused in all these words and sounds, though I understand that it must be a very useful skill.
agreed! I would've thought that it is ipossible but apparently some people have such a skill. but maybe I should give it a shot. One friend of mine once told me that he was able to communicate in two different ways e.g. speaking + reading, writing + listening, etc if it is different languages, as though that languages are just different channels for the information. he said he could easily read an English text and listen to some russian speach and understand everything perfectly, but if the same language he would get stuck. for me it's even worse - it always takes a couple of seconds to switch the languages in my brain and parallel processing in different languages seems impossible :)
With support from the transcript it is less difficult than it sounds, keep in mind it is a repetition exercise, you will take over two dozen tries to get to a 100%, if you ever do, and that is ok, you are not trying to be a ventriloquist, you are trying to learn a language.
Twenty two years ago, the first foreign language I learned was French. At that time, all the technological tools we have available today did not exist. The learning methodology was very “academic”: a French teacher in a classroom before two dozens of students; taking lot of notes from what she wrote on the blackboard; passing daily written tests in grammar, vocabulary, spelling, reading comprehension, essays; watching VHS movies and hearing recordings in magnetic cassettes... All of that took 20 hours a week plus homework. That intense “training” was a compulsory requirement to be admitted at the French High School of Mexico City! Later on, I could improve my French written skills as all the subjects in that High School were taught by French teachers. Definitely, the biggest improvement happened when I studied mechanical engineering in France for six years: communicating every day with native speakers and being fully immersed in the French culture was an invaluable experience! The second foreign language I tried to learn was English. I considered I did not have any formal tuition. Even though I had a certain knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary, what really helped me to develop some fluency was working with American engineers in the first job position I ever had after graduating from university. Although it may have seemed tough at the beginning, that was a very enriching experience that got me used to a wide variety of accents and ways of thinking in English. Nowadays, I continue practicing by watching a lot videos in English (e.g. Langfocus channel), as well as series and films on streaming services, avoiding as much as possible any subtitling. I will seriously consider shadowing for further improvement! Thank you Paul for your amazing videos! For foreign languages lovers, they encourage us to keep learning and enhance our communication skills!
Husarz Thank you for your message. Actually, I am from Mexico! Thus, it would have seemed natural for me to learn English before French, given the proximity and cultural influence of the USA. My first contact with the English language was at the equivalent of Junior High School, but it was limited to basic words and sentences. When I completed Junior High School with “honors” (I do not really know if such words are appropriate at that education level), I was awarded a scholarship to join the French High School of Mexico City, which followed the same curricula as the High Schools in France. It was a four-year program whose first year consisted in an intensive course (20~25 hours per week) to learn French. The other three years were those of the French High School. After that, the French Government awarded me a scholarship to study mechanical engineering in France. I think this may explain why I learned French before English! Needless to say I am more fluent in French than in English!
I saw a video recently stating that subtitles in the language you're trying to learn, for example watching a movie in English with English subtitles, is more beneficial than no subtitles. But having subtitles in your native language does not increase learning at all. Here's a link to that portion of the video if you're interested th-cam.com/video/J_EQDtpYSNM/w-d-xo.html BTW if you keep watching the video a little longer, the host discusses shadowing.
Omar Ivan Rivas Miranda Omar if you are more fluent in French than in English than your French must be at the highest level possible since your English at least in written form already is impeccable! My native language also is Spanish, I am Colombian, and I was raised in the USA.
I learned French as second language since 4th grade up till high school, but I didn't get full grasp of it as the method used in teaching was fultie, All those years I had no idea about English till I got to uni and I was selected to study it as a major ,I grabed the opportunity, And here I am after 3years of full time learning at college and self-studying approach I can speak, understand and wield the language very well. However, my French language got rusty cuz I put all the efforts into English and I'm still dedicated to it. Till now,I feel blessed to learn a language that everyone in ma country wish to study.Also,the most spoken language worldwide which I had no idea of👨🔧.All in all ,my admission into the faculty of languages was a bolt out of the blue ,and my efforts put into learning paid off eventually.
Paul, thank you SO MUCH for introducing me to Anki! A little context here, I am learning Romanian with Duolingo and some other side resources since it's my Mother and her family's native language, but was never spoken with me growing up. Anki has been SO helpful learning new vocabulary so I can go through the lessons with ease! I even record myself saying the words, so I make sure I am putting the right emphasis on the correct syllables. I never new this free resource existed, and it has made my language learning journey so much easier! Mulțumesc foarte mult! (Thank you very much!)
Dude... make no excuses. You have no idea how much you've done to inspire the rest of us to learn languages. So... go on being on being you. And keep on learning on and sharing. And... kudos, because... what you do really helps the rest of us more than you can ever know.
I learned 3 languages fluently starting when I was 23. I don't come from a bilingual family nor did I grow up in a linguistically diverse environment. The way I became fluent in these languages at an older age was by doing pretty much exactly what he's saying in the video. It's pretty incredible, I was shaking my head in agreement for almost every tip he was giving. I've been doing "shadowing" for years with TV shows and movies, I just didn't know there was an actual term for it. Seriously, try to follow these methods more or less. Change slightly for your tastes.
I was somewhat discouraged by the increasing slowness with which I learn foreign languages. Your comment helped me realize it's perfectly possible, I just haven't tried the right methods.
i know this video is old now but as a language lover ive learnt how to speak 4 languages, my approach is firstly learning at least 300 words and then slowly ease into grammar and how to form sentences, then after a get a good grasp of the nature (that what i like to call it) i then spend time everyday learning 2 new verbs, 2 new complex sentences and 10 words! after 50 days of doing that you can effectively say 100 verbs, over 500 complex sentences (due to mix and match) and 500 nouns and of course while you're doing all of this i tend to listen to songs in that language and translate them, this helps train your ears to recognise sounds and keep up in speech, as well as learning new words and slang in said songs, and lastly i use you tube a lot to make sure what i am learning is correct if its available on TH-cam! i hope this helps you guys master languages like i did!
Just combine it with listening to understand what it should sound like. It's very obvious when someone has learned the pronunciation from IPA transcription but little to no listening.
I've found that the approach of Stephen Krashen about massive input and comprehensible input, and about ACQUIRING a language rather than LEARNING a language was quite usefull to me and improved A LOT my process of learning language. I strongly recomend you all to watch one of his videos. HEAR (and read), passively is more important than everything. Don't focus on try to reproduce the language, as he says. This will come NATRUALLY as soon as you are exposed to enough comprehensible input.
this word "passive" is to experiment. This something subtile, too much passive, you never get it, to much active, you loose energy and maby time. Actually, i try to find the balance, when I learn as passive as possible, it's more comfortable, but I learn faster being active. More you are attentive how you learn, time after time, you can feel the balance between active / and passive and use both as best as possible. Also we are not equal in languages. But for sure : put an audio on of a 5 seconds sentence. At the first listening, it's maybe for you only "whale speaking", you've catched nohting. But listen this phrase, just listening, not thinking, 3 times, 10 times, 15 times and you'll repeat it automatically. (sorry for unperfect english). And thank you for the name of Krashen :)
DuoLingo has updated a bit - At least for French, they have a "stories" section with conversations and questions, and they have context clues and questions for the more advanced lessons. I also appreciate the spoken word sensing feature - always feels good when the computer recognizes what you said on the first try!
2:22 Go to the vocabulary list for the lesson, and make a flashcard for every word 3:22 Listen to the audio recording of the lesson dialogue and try to shadow the speakers' voices 5:32 Make flashcards for every sentence in the dialogue 6:25 Do the Q&A drills (and other types of drills) on the audio recording This method of self-learning a new language is very useful. I am trying to practice it myself. Thank you for your sharing!
Better than Portuguese Duolingo that teaches you that the cobra, the cat, and the dog eat bread. Feel like Oprah, you have break, and you have bread, everybody has bread!
IDK WHY I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THE HIPPIES PART. Maybe it's because I didn't expect to listen my own native language in this video and maybe it's the way they speak it. lmao
@@ляпетитморт to put it on perpective in english, its kinda like hearing how people in the 90s speaks english that you hear on TV which makes sense because the audio that he uses is pretty old
I've been studying Mandarin for 6 months, the last two of which I have been living in China. My daily study regimen has been about 2-6 hours per day depending on my schedule. I use a cocktail of the HSK workbook (HSK 3 currently), Pimsleur's audio tracks, and Anki. I need to start doing shadowing! My reading has improved considerably since arriving in China, but listening comprehension and automaticity have still been huge barriers, in spite of hearing the language around me all day and speaking it when I can. Thanks for the helpful suggestions!
My Current Approach- First Day, I watch some videos, listen to audios and songs and also read some text(without caring about the meaning) to just get familiar with the langugae. Next, I study many common phrases, greetings and many common words by making flashcards for next 2-3 days. Then I study the grammar using good books and simultaneously learn 10 new words every day. For a simple language like Spanish, it will barely take 2-3 months. After that, I listen to podcasts, make flashcards of new vocabulary, practice listening and speaing. Then I chat with native speakers on Speaky App or Website (It's free). Then when I am done with whole process in 1 year, I watch a lot of movies, keep learning new words and revising the older words, have talk with native speakers. After this, tour to that country is perfect(though I've never done it but will do when I grow up). In this way, I can learn a language within 1 - 2 years.
This shadowing approach reminds me of what I did when I learnt English. I memorized songs and it became a bit like shadowing. I also thought in English most of the time and I still do. Watching videos constantly and talking to people also helped me a lot. :-)
Wow I've been watching you for years but never realized that you are all the way up to 500k subscribers! So congrats and we appreciate your hard work, Paul!
Thanks! Well, 560,000 people have clicked on the subscribe button but most of then don’t watch regularly. I’d say there are 50,000 real fans who watch everything, so it’s still a fairly small tribe.
@@Langfocus planning on watching all the videos. So interesting. I teach languages and have shown the Romance Languages video to my students. Loved the dialect and continuum parts. Your channel and the "Geography Now" Channel, and Wikipedia are some of the great blessings of the Internet age, fast, fun access to knowledge that makes us better global citizens.
1:52 "These old Linguophone courses can be pretty gangster though" Me: Oh I think he means these courses are hard to follow Proceeds to talk about smoking in airplanes, reckless gambling, gold diggers and ridiculing hippies Me: Oh
I did Linguaphone German when I was about 13. I remember the dialogue between a couple of teenage cousins: "Was, rauchst du auch?" (What, you smoke as well) "Ja, aber nicht vor Vater und Mutter." (Yes, but not in front of mother and father) "Das kann ich gut verstehen." (I can understand that) I can remember a lot of the texts from the French and German courses even though it is over 40 years since I did them so that validates their effectiveness.
For flashcards, I use Memrise. I honestly don't have the time or the patience to use something like Anki where I have to produce the flashcards myself. Memrise has been incredibly good for me to learn German.
Tiefe dunkle Mitternacht, try using memrise with quizlet, I am learning Finnish and quizlet makes the experience “game-like” and there are “spelling” tests which are super helpful for listening comprehension
Shadowing, huh?? Never thought of it, GREAT IDEA! Years of consistent great content and now such a useful practical tip! Thanks! That's absolutely worth a monthly coffee! See you on Patron!
Hmmm...Men jag lär mig svenska med Duolingo och det fungerar.Well at least it helps a little.You obviously cannot really learn a language with Duolingo but it is an acceptable tool for studying.
@@Knute360cool It also works for Swedish and English.Assumingly because these languages are not that hard to learn.Also bei mir funktionierts zumindest mak.
I haven't learned a language for years, but I have a hunch. At 9 or 10 I learned a bunch of songs on an album by a popular folksinger. The words were written out in the languages in question if they used Roman letters, and were transliterated if not. They were also translated, so I had a picture of what I was saying. I can still sing them to some extent in Russian, Hebrew, Spanish, French and Serbian. I did poorly in high school Spanish (failing 3rd year), but a trip to Peru that summer as an exchange student gave me a good insight: Since I already had sounds and sentences in muscle memory, all I had to do was substitute the appropriate word in a pre-existing structure. When I got back home, I garnered a 98 on our statewide (Regents) examination, and in the next year, I managed a 798 (out of 800) on the national achievement test. (This was especially useful in the area of accent and vowels, since I didn't rely on preconceived notions of what the letters signify. I just sang what I heard.) Understanding was, and remains, more difficult than speaking -- but I don't get to practice much. A project on my bucket list -- probably something I'll never get around to -- is to go on a trip to the north European countries and learn lullabyes in the various languages. I'd start in eastern England, learn a bunch, then go to the Netherlands and find if I could get people to teach me the words in Frisian to the melodies I already knew. I'll bet there are many in common. Then down south to standard Dutch, across to Germany, up to Scandinavia, and finally to Iceland. My guess is that all those languages have some common baby songs with basic sounds, grammar and vocabulary. (Though they might be poetic or archaic.) The hunch is that I could, even late in life, use those seed sentences to "build out" a working knowledge of the language. It brings to mind the phrase from the Wonderland (or Looking glass) caterpillar who, fooling with an old adage, said "Take care of the sounds and the sense will take care of itself." BTW, a friend who knows lots of arias in Italian and Russian uses the same method when speaking those languages. Of course, the project depends on the notion that an old American coot can walk into a bar in Denmark with his guitar, look for people to teach him cradle songs, and get the desired results. That might be a stretch. I don't imagine that opera singers are generally polyglot, but I'll bet you those who pursue it are pretty good at it, since they have a good portion of the job already done.
I've improved my English dramatically since I started to learn it through TH-cam videos. I think I will never be so patient as to learn it through courses.
A huge like for the shadowing technique. I've been practicing it for around a year, first with English and then with French. I'm so grateful to my university professor to have adviced me to do it. I'm no longer ashamed of my English pronunciation and I became much more confident and fluent in both languages. The only drawback of it for me is that you need to have at least A2-B1 level, beginners would find it too hard.
Anki is fantastic. I’ve used it for studying Japanese, and studying for a promotional exam at work. I’m moving on to another language and Anki will be part of it.
In my case, I focused mostly on grammars, and begun to make all kind of sentences, no matter the meaning or un-meaning of the phrase as long the "blocks" were on the "right spot", thus "The closed cat was meowing in green" is grammtically "right", but since it has no rational meaning, your brain tried to imagine that closed cat thus more areas of your brain got involved in the learning process (imagination, emotions), it was like replicating my childhood process to learn my mother language. The next step was begining to read, write and talk about my most beloved hobbies, in english of course, because without emotional content and commitment, there's no real learning. BTW, my hobbies were, and still are, genetics and D&D.
@以蔵岡田 In my case, I focused mostly on grammars, and begun to make all kind of sentences, no matter the meaning or un-meaning of the phrase as long the "blocks" were on the "right spot", thus "The closed cat was meowing in green" is grammtically "right", but since it has no rational meaning, your brain tried to imagine that closed cat with the additional outcome of more areas of your brain getting involved in the learning process (imagination, emotions), it was like replicating my childhood's process to learn my mother language. The next step was begining to read, write and talk about my most beloved hobbies, in english of course, because without emotional content and commitment (imho), there's no real learning. BTW, my hobbies were, and still are, genetics and D&D. I followed with Old Spanish, then Latin, and now trying Italian and Portuguese.
@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 It's like the common English learning system in country. Teachers always over focus on grammar formulae without encouraging their students to practice the language. That's why only a few people can speak English here although they may have been learning English for over 10 year (from elementary school to high school).
I shadowed the entire video! I agree, this technique is super efficient, it really helps to improve your listening comprehension and pronunciation skills. I've been doing this while watching series without knowing this technique actually had a name or exist. Greetings from Puebla, Mexico.
Firstly I love this channel and your videos - so thank you so much! I would just like to share my experience. I started using Duolingo to teach myself Spanish almost a year ago. I finished the tree within three months, and then now I feel I don't use it anymore because it's just too easy. I'm possibly around a B1 speaking/writing/listening but a B2 with reading. However, I have to say it definitely helped me so much to get started. For the first couple of months Duolingo was all I used to help build up vocab and understand simple grammar. And then I would start incorporating books and other mediums. I still think it's a fantastic (free!) app and great for easing you into language learning! Now I'm about to start French, and will be using both Duolingo and trying out the new Fluent Forever app. Lots of love to all you other language learners!!
I guess this is the best way to learn any language as a salf-study. I use this same way and it fited on me perfectly. I use shadowing, aki and a lot of extensive reading. Thanks for this channel.
I've been to two extremes when it comes to Anki. There was a time when my language study was exclusively making and studying flashcards. I didn't realize that when a word is "well known" in Anki, it's still just in your short-term memory. Then I started to just read texts, watch videos, and practice with native speakers, figuring that I could just soak up the language purely through exposure and context. But with that approach, only the most common words and grammatical structures really stuck, and my vocabulary was really lacking. Recently I found a good balance between Anki and context (texts, videos, speaking practice), I seem to be making progress faster. For my listening exercise I usually watch movies and try to pick out words that I know. It's exciting when I can understand a whole sentence. Shadowing sounds like an interesting idea though.
The shadowing technique was so much useful to me when I was learning Turkish. And I haven’t used it with English language, so I have been studying English since two years. Actually after this video I am excited to back to the shadowing technique and use it for English this time.
One thing that's helped me immensely is memorizing songs in the target language...you get the native enunciation but often at a more measurable pace, so you can really digest the details, both sonically & grammatically. Plus it hits your brain in a slightly different way than normal daily conversation.
Hi, Paul! When I learn a language and go deeper in, I also get a try with a neighbouring language. For instance, I m learning Russian, so learning Ukrainian is also interesting and allows me to match grammar and vocabulary. I do as well with German: I m getting a try with Yiddish. This process is very interesting and efficient. I m surprised to switch from one to another, each language seems to help each other!
Your advice about reading along with the audio is a godsend! I actually felt my brain understanding and hearing more Spanish when I read along with the natives! Sounds I could barely recognise before are now as clear as day after just one attempt... thank you so much!
I am on disability due to liver issues that I've had since I was in my teens. My wife works and so I spend a lot of time at home with my two cats and one dog. As such, I started changing things I normally would say to them in English (such as "get off the counter" or "do you want to go outside") to my target language. I also try to think in my target language when I'm by myself, or when I talk to myself. I've also found it helpful, oddly enough, to learn about my health issues in my target language (such as medication names, disease names, procedure names, etc).
When I was in 5th grade, I started learning Japanese on my own. I watched a lot of anime and listened to a lot of Japanese songs. My dad was like, "how do you know you're not saying any weird stuff in those songs?!" so that challenged me to translate the songs to English from the kanji/kana lyrics. I learned a lot! That's pretty much all I did to study Japanese. Got busy with life after highschool and didn't really pursue language-learning until recently again. When I finally went to Japan last year, the people I met in Japan said I sound good. I took Hebrew classes last year and that's the same approach I did. Helped me excel at my Hebrew vocabulary too.
That seems kinda unlikely, as you would’ve forgotten a lot of the words unless you used some sort of revision method like an SRS or something. Also I’m pretty sure if Japanese people say 「日本語上手」they sometimes don’t mean it...
This is helpful to me to hear what other people do learn and maintain second and third etc. languages. I use shadowing--I watch movies and initially try to shadow using the subtitles. I find it helps me to get the verb forms in context and pronunciation and prosidy. When I find an actor or actress whose diction and pronunciation I like, I search for more of their films.
I really like your videos. We can really learn about languages. We can see that you do a long research about the language before and it adds a lot of value for us. Good job!
To their credit, Duolingo has improved and provides much more 'realistic' sentances. I am using it to learn Spanish, but I find LingQ to be a much richer resource
Another excellent video. I learned Spanish by studying it from 7th grade till my third year of college (when you start to learn a language before the age of 13, you can still acquire a native-speaker accent). Along the way, I studied other Romance languages, either by myself, or, in the classroom. This reinforced those words in Spanish which had cognates in those other neo-Latin tongues. Later, I lived in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods in upstate New York, and, in New York City. In particular, I lived in a Colombian neighborhood in Queens, while teaching Latin American immigrants English. On the weekends, I wouldn't even speak English at all. Even when I wasn't conversing with anyone in Spanish, I'd subconsciously hear Spanish being spoken around me, and, this reinforcement by osmosis, as it were, also helped me become fluent (and, this kind of osmosis is a tool which I've not heard much about). In addition, I'd read publications in Spanish, and, watch television programming in the language. The years I spent living in Queens, in that Colombian neighborhood, were the next best thing to living in a foreign country, in a part of that country in which few people speak English. The end result of all this was that, one day, when I went to inquire about an apartment being rented by a Colombian lady, that lady thought that I was Colombian myself. After having learned Spanish, I learned Portuguese, and, I did so by first concentrating on the points of grammar in Portuguese which were different from those of Spanish, as well as knowing the sound differences between the two languages (for instance, if I already knew that the word for "son" in Spanish was "hijo," then, I'd know that, in the Portuguese word for "son," probably, the "h" would be substituted by an "f," and, the "j" would be substituted by the letter combination "lh", so that I could expect that the Portuguese word for "son" would be "filho"-- which it is). Also, regarding the Portuguese lexicon, I would concentrate on those words which were different from their equivalents in Spanish: for example, the word for "window" is "janela" in Portuguese, while it's "ventana" in Spanish. When one formally studies a foreign language, one gets to know the grammar of one's native language even better. My having studied other languages helped me when I wrote prose, either in newspaper articles on local history, or, in my public relations work. Now, regarding shadowing, I'm going to try that.
Thanks for the video, Paul. I use a mix a of approaches, but once I know the basics of a language, the best self-learning approach for me is learning song lyrics. It's incredible how well the words stick when there's an association with rhymes and music. Then of course you need to dare using the language, even if you're likely not to understand what your interlocutor is saying. I've just returned from Poland and made a dunce out of myself more than once with concierges and waiters using my pidgin polish and woeful pronunciation, but that's just a phase that you have to pull through. Will give your approach a try, now.
@@ayinstrumentals7731 Duolingo does well for what it hopes to achieve, not as a standalone tool. Besides this, I have a single complaint: the CG pronunciation for generated sentences ranges from great (Dutch) to okay (French) to often unintelligible (Italian.) Seriously, sometimes the words at the end of a clause will be inaudible or fade out quickly.
I love it! But I use it specifically to keep up with the 3 languages I speak other than English. I recommend it to everyone who asks me how I can speak four languages. I would never try to learn a completely new language with it. It is quite simply a great tool.
I learned Koine Greek using Anki. I highly recommend it. It made me feel like I was making progress because I knew it was keeping track of both my successes and failures.
Just my experience here: Personally I took english classes when I was young, like from 12 to 17 and I also had english in my school, still my english was poor. Then I did something, I needed to learn how to use certain programs (adobe after effects, maya, etc) so I started watching tutorials, trying to understand what they were saying. Eventually, I did understood, and because I understood enough, I was able to leave the video playing on the background while I was working, that way I could follow the tutorial. This allowed me to understand what they were saying, and that lead me to watching youtube videos in english, I did look up for some words I didn't know, but little by little I got pretty decent.
Cool approach. I've studied language a little over the years and have come across some interesting or different ideas. Some people don't try to translate the target language into their native language while learning a new language. This way they get use to thinking in the target language and skip over the translation idea. This saves time in translating while speaking or thinking in the target language. Some people feel that learning to speak is more important than leaning to read, so the focus is on speaking first and this to me seems right unless you need or really want to know how to read a new language right away, but often the way something is written is not how it is pronounced.. Motivation is also really important, find a way to get motivated and stay motivated to learn. Also, have a goal to your learning - this way you can map out what you want to know and know when you have reached your goal, other wise you may learn bits and pieces but never really tie it all together. Total immersion is best when learning anything really - especially language. Just a few things I've encountered over the years.
One of my favorite things to do is learn to read the language( out loud to practice pronunciation a bit) so i can watch videos/movies in the language I'm learning with subtitles in that language. I match the words i hear with the subtitles and eventually eliminate the subtitles. At that point i can usually read it very well, understand it spoken fairly well, speak it okey, and write it fairly okey.
Bahasa Indonesia itu lebih mudah dipelajari ketimbang bahasa-bahasa lain, seperti bahasa Inggris dan lain². Sebagai orang Indonesia, aku bangga aja karena ada yang tertarik mempelajari bahasa Indonesia. Semoga sukses!!
Haha I love the part about people thinking you're crazy on the subway. When I lived in NYC I stopped doing the spoken part of my pimsleurs lessons and then just stopped doing it altogether but looking back, who cares if someone is speaking a random language to themselves, many other people are on the phone anyway or talking to themselves because they're crazy. Keep studying hard Paul, you're awesome!
I've almost never tried shadowing except for some languages classes when teacher asked us to repeat a dialogue and paused it and also when I used to use Pimsleur for Swedish. but now that you have mentioned it again, I think it could be an excellent method to accelerate the flunecy or automaticity as you say. I'd give it a try as soon as possible. I think SRS is a very effective method for memorizing words and phrases. I have been using apps like Memrise and another app for memorizing words and also other stuff and it does help a lot. I had never heard of Anki and I feel like I might give it a try as well. I usually love to attend language courses and classes, to me that is the most effective way to start a language, but since I don't always have enough time to attend classes and with accessibility of apps and videos nowadays, I tend to kickstart my language learning with duolingo and memrise and I try to watch series and vids in the target language and I also try to find grammar books for the language which sometimes is hard especially for less common languages such as Danish and some other languages. Thanks for sharing yoyr methods Paul, they were somewhat new and more useful comparing to some other videos I have recently watched on language learning methods.
There's a channel named JOLLY and they used this Korean social app that's kind of like Tinder but instead of matching via a visual profile, you talk (audio only) to a random person for a short while, only after talking you can decide to "match" them or not. They used it to help the one of them to practice Korean in terms of structuring sentence, doing back and forths, etc. (the other guy is already fluent)
I love shadowing and do it all the time. I started doing it when I heard dialogue in anime that sounded cool to me, and wanted to repeat it and sound like the character. It was only recently I found this fun activity for me was called shadowing. I'll be putting in more of an effort now to do this more as now I know it is also a studying technique!
Hi Paul. Making Flashcards for whole sentences or chunks makes a lot of sense and it’s something I am now doing regularly. I had no idea the method you described was called shadowing. I have been doing it but not as intensely; but that is now going to change! Also thanks for mentioning Anki; I’ll give it a try. Schönen Tag noch.
This is so fascinating! I had never heard the term "shadowing" before, but it turns out to be the instinctive way I learn a new language. I have a background in music, and sound is the most accessible (and appealing) feature for me and is often why I get interested in a given language in the first place, rather than a practical reason such as an upcoming visit or business connection to country where that language is spoken. (To give you an idea, recent interests include Portuguese, Icelandic, and Tamazigh.) In the languages I have actually studied, my weakness is the usually the written component. I speak more languages than I read, and I passively understand more languages than I can speak. I have a hard time retaining comprehension in multiple languages simultaneously. I think 3 is my limit. And with two of them I will have trouble retaining vocabulary. I sometimes find I can follow the topic of a conversation but because I miss key vocabulary, don't actually know what specific points are being made on the subject. This tends to limit my ability to contribute anything worthwhile to the conversation (although whatever I do say tends to sound "authentic" if a bit peculiar). So I like your suggestion of ANKI cards and will look into using them for future study. Let me also add that I love your videos and look forward to each one! Thank you so much for all your work!!!
To learn Nepali, I went for 5 months to Nepal, bought a book and lived with a family that does not speak English. It forced me to speak Nepali to communicate. It took me 1 month to understand the basics, 3 months to be conversational, a total of 9 months to be fluent (I live in Nepal now).
That's so fucking meticulous. I am in awe of the effort and dedication you put into it. I need to adopt some of these techniques when I go back to studying Swedish. I didn't develop a system for the first two levels of my course, so that's a huge bummer in terms of adding structure, but I hope to change that going into the higher levels.
Thanks to your other video (didn't remember the title) I learned about italki. I found some interesting teacher (and some are not interesting at all) but I have choices of teachers with italki. I brushed up my German (getting better little by little although I still make a lot of mistakes but gaining confidence to speak German during 30 minutes with very limited English vocabs only when I don't know the German words), trying to be better in Japanese but kanji gets in the way. Now I'm learning Norwegian and loving it. I have to say that your video change my life. I'm also passionate about foreign language and the ability to get to know some languages from your channel (that I didn't even know it existed before) is wonderful. I haven't tried your method (with anki) but that sounds interesting. Unfortunately (or should I say fortunately), I drive to work and it takes only 10 minutes. Oh, btw my mother tongue is Bahasa Indonesia. Selamat belajar Bahasa Indonesia, Paul.
When you have the basics and around 2000 of the key-words down, then my own preferable method of expanding on this is simple - find the good book in whatever field you are intrested in sci-fi/history/romance/fantasy/detective/autobiography/etc and translate it (don't forgte to write down the translation, preferably in a txt-file). If you are reading the book you are intrested in - your motivation will increase and also your brain will engage the new words with enthusiasm, which will allow you to remember them better. When you are done - don't forget to re-read the book without using a dictionary. Use your translation as a hint if you are stuck. For example i'v been reading english version of the Harry Potter like this, and by the end of the book 5 my knowledge of the language has been good enough to avoid using a dictionary almost entirely.
hmm, never heard of shadowing before, sounds interesting though. I'll definitely try it out for my Japanese language study. I'm not that far into language self study, but as far as I can tell, Anki (which I've been using for vocab) is pretty neat - and I think I personally prefer textbooks over apps, too.
Anki gets pretty spooky sometimes. Sometimes I remember words that I have no memory of ever learning. The context is long gone from my memory, but because of the spaced repetitions I remember the word.
@@Langfocus I've stopped using Anki because I realized that when I wasn't using it, I couldn't remember words I always remember on Anki... That's probably because when I speak a foreign language, I never fall into the translation phase... I think it lets you commit too many errors by trying to translate sentences literally and it also slows down your speech a lot imo... So as I begin feeling comfortable enough with the language, I skip translation, as I said before...this means that when I use Anki, I'm actually training a process I never come across because I would match the (e.g.) Japanese word with the English word, whereas, if I'm speaking, I match it with the thing itself .. Maybe creating image/word flashcards could help, but it seems like too much work...
Shadowing is part of the training of professional interpreters, I think that's a good indication of how effective it is. If not shadowing, even listening and repeating sentences is proven to be very effective.
This was just great. I used flashcards (not digital ones) to self study german and believe thats the reason I passed my B2 exam. Now Im studying danish and I would definitely give shadowing a try. Thank you so much. I think once one masters self studying one language it just gets easier to go to the next one.
I totally get what you're saying at 0:24 lolll I also have a language channel and I try to stay clear of titles like that. I usually say "languages I study" or "introducing myself in X languages" so as to not deceive anyone. To answer your questions: 1. We had to do shadowing in grad school in my interpreting program. It was fun, but I don't really do it when learning languages. I probably should because it can be helpful from time to time. 2. I love Memrise, when it comes to spaced repetition systems! 3. My preferred method is to start out by taking a class to learn all the basic grammar that I'd need to know, then I move into self-study and trying to find people to converse with. I've been a fan of your channel for years. Keep up the good work!
I wanted to thank you so much for putting this video up. I watched it the day it came out and I started using AnkiDroid the very next day and I haven't missed a single day! I find that I am motivated so much more and I am more reliable with this app than with previous ones that I've tried, such as Duolingo etc. I see lots of improvements in my vocabulary and I've even been able to use it to start learning some new tenses! Thanks for introducing me to it!
@@Matheus_Braz lmafo XD But you are the animal from the space inside the nipple, so your bones have hair and you have itch in you lungs which are inside your heart
Paul, you’re basically describing what the Nemo language apps do so very well: shadowing + Anki. Forget Duolinguo, Babble, etc. I’ve used Nemo French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian with great success. All Nemo apps are wonderful, with native speakers in Anki-like functions (English target language), variable speeds, “if you only want to learn 10/50/100/500 things”, phrase book categories, etc., etc. I do my (full-voice) Nemo shadowing in my car, while around at home, etc.
Hi Paul, I've become addicted to your wonderful videos 😁 I think that every person should try, and see which method or which methods work best for them, according to their habits, their age, and the way they learnt to study. I wish I had started learning foreign languages before. Anyway, I'm really enjoying the process
I just realized I’ve been kind of shadowing Korean for the past 7 years. I just haven’t invested the time to learn vocabulary and grammar. I just love to repeat whatever I’m listening to the language is lovely.
Anki sounds really cool. I'm speaking french and german as my mother language and learn english, italian and at least a bit dutch. What helps me is watching videos or films, studying the language like in school like grammar, conjugations, ect, doing flashcards with vocabulary and just trying speaking or thinking in the language. Thank you, you have really good advices
For all that it's worth, Duolingo has taught me how to say "the bear drinks beer" in four different languages 😎
El oso bebe cerveza.
L’orso beve birraaaaa
@@karunakar2229 oso*
@@josegabrielsolanopaniagua5395 Sí. Gracias .
L'ours boit de la bière
“Male model speaks 75 Languages” LMFAOOOO THE SHADE
@Sander Skovly OMG, sarcasm?
Sander Skovly r/whoooosh
Who's he shading?
He does not speak every language he makes vids about. Many are just introductory lessons or lingual history.
well, that is a joke, of course, he doesn't speak 75 languages. no one should be able to speak that many languages..... or by speaking he means he knows two or three words
"I whisper sentences to myself and everyone around thinks I'm crazy."
Been studying russian for awhile now and this I can relate in so many levels. My co-workers would often find me whispering random russian words and they think I'm summoning some demon from other realms 😂😂😂
how's your russian studies going?
Jajajaa
Very funny!
I have the same situation in metro.
My language learning process these days can be summed up in this phrase: "What new German shows are on Netflix?"
Is that the US version of Netflix?
Yup! There's actually more German programming than you would expect. (Babylon Berlin, The Heavy Water War, Dark and Charite are the big ones I've come across.) I always watch them in German with English subtitles and try to ignore the subtitles when I can. However, I can't say how well other languages are represented in the Netflix catalog. Hopefully you'll find something you like.
Actually, my wife watches a lot of Chinese and Korean shows on Netflix so I can say that there are a fair amount of shows in those languages.
I'd kill for more french programming on netflix 😢 (btw, Mexican netflix here)
@@Monkeywe you can find a french show called mafiosa on youtube. I watch friends in french now a days
This video motivated me to try shadowing. I'm beginner in Portuguese, so I found a short (under 1 min) audio dialogue with transcription. I slowed down the audio (0.6x), because it was to fast for me, and I began to repeat the words. I spend nearly an hour to master the dialogue, so I didn't stutter or get lost. I pretty much have learned it by heart. After about an hour I tried to demostrate to my SO what I've accomplished and it didn't go so well as an hour before. Till the evening I basically forgot the whole dialogue. And now the twist: the next morning I woke up and spoke out the whole dialogue by heart, with the intonation and all, without stuttering, fully automatically. I would really appreciate, Paul, if you elaborated on the topic of shadowing in a separate video, because I got excited to discover this technique and all the instant benefits of it.
Interesting.
Are you learning brazilian portuguese or portuguese from Portugal?
@@RenzoGualberto I'm learning Portuguese from Brazil, are u learning Portuguese?
TH-cam oficial I’m brazilian, brazilian portuguese is my mother language haha. Actually, I’m learning russian
TH-cam oficial I really wish you good luck! You can be sure of this: brazilians think is amazing when a foreigner learns portuguese. Vá em frente que você vai conseguir!
"I whisper the sentences to myself, and everyone around me probably thinks that I'm crazy"
... I feel ya man 😂😂😂
Charles Denney people think I’m possessed hahaha
Haha I’m like Paul, I don’t care
It's already a bit weird for western people but imagine that in Japan where people have the mentality of not acting strange and ashamed themselves in public ^^
for a better effect try it with Latin :)
My mom when I try to speak French. She gets so damn mad and idk why XD
When you hear him with the background music you feel like he's rapping 😂
Lol thanks for that. Now that is all I think when he talks 😂
😂😂😂
That's true, I don't notice it before.
NO!!!! You’ve ruined me!!
😂😂😂😂😂
NEVER STOP INTRODUCING YOURSELF BY NAME!!!!
I spend most of my time talking in Chinese saying that I don't know Chinese.
Yep. In both of the languages I’ve learned/ am learning, it’s my most available sentence (or to say that I don’t speak it well)
He is Paul
日本語を分かりません
His videos 2021 onwards: Your Intro is no longer needed
The shadowing technique seems pretty interesting to me, I've never heard about it before.
But I think that I'll have problems using it even in my mother tongue xD
It's extremely hard for me to concentrate on two activities (speaking and listening) simultaneously without getting lost and confused in all these words and sounds, though I understand that it must be a very useful skill.
agreed! I would've thought that it is ipossible but apparently some people have such a skill. but maybe I should give it a shot.
One friend of mine once told me that he was able to communicate in two different ways e.g. speaking + reading, writing + listening, etc if it is different languages, as though that languages are just different channels for the information. he said he could easily read an English text and listen to some russian speach and understand everything perfectly, but if the same language he would get stuck.
for me it's even worse - it always takes a couple of seconds to switch the languages in my brain and parallel processing in different languages seems impossible :)
забавное совпадение что вы выпустили видео почти на одну тему - странные способы изучения языка - с перерывом в день :)
With support from the transcript it is less difficult than it sounds, keep in mind it is a repetition exercise, you will take over two dozen tries to get to a 100%, if you ever do, and that is ok, you are not trying to be a ventriloquist, you are trying to learn a language.
@@vladthemagnificent9052 Тоже заметил)
Look up Alexander Arguelles for more information
Duolingo taught me to say 'The horse eats rice". Now I am fluent!
Yeah, that’s all you need! 😄
El caballo come arroz.
@@danial9864 Sí, es verdad, a los caballos les gusta mucho el arroz.
@@kimaya.3563 jajaja gracias para la repily
הסוס אוכל אורז.
Twenty two years ago, the first foreign language I learned was French. At that time, all the technological tools we have available today did not exist. The learning methodology was very “academic”: a French teacher in a classroom before two dozens of students; taking lot of notes from what she wrote on the blackboard; passing daily written tests in grammar, vocabulary, spelling, reading comprehension, essays; watching VHS movies and hearing recordings in magnetic cassettes... All of that took 20 hours a week plus homework. That intense “training” was a compulsory requirement to be admitted at the French High School of Mexico City! Later on, I could improve my French written skills as all the subjects in that High School were taught by French teachers. Definitely, the biggest improvement happened when I studied mechanical engineering in France for six years: communicating every day with native speakers and being fully immersed in the French culture was an invaluable experience!
The second foreign language I tried to learn was English. I considered I did not have any formal tuition. Even though I had a certain knowledge of English grammar and vocabulary, what really helped me to develop some fluency was working with American engineers in the first job position I ever had after graduating from university. Although it may have seemed tough at the beginning, that was a very enriching experience that got me used to a wide variety of accents and ways of thinking in English. Nowadays, I continue practicing by watching a lot videos in English (e.g. Langfocus channel), as well as series and films on streaming services, avoiding as much as possible any subtitling. I will seriously consider shadowing for further improvement!
Thank you Paul for your amazing videos! For foreign languages lovers, they encourage us to keep learning and enhance our communication skills!
Husarz Thank you for your message. Actually, I am from Mexico! Thus, it would have seemed natural for me to learn English before French, given the proximity and cultural influence of the USA.
My first contact with the English language was at the equivalent of Junior High School, but it was limited to basic words and sentences. When I completed Junior High School with “honors” (I do not really know if such words are appropriate at that education level), I was awarded a scholarship to join the French High School of Mexico City, which followed the same curricula as the High Schools in France. It was a four-year program whose first year consisted in an intensive course (20~25 hours per week) to learn French. The other three years were those of the French High School.
After that, the French Government awarded me a scholarship to study mechanical engineering in France. I think this may explain why I learned French before English! Needless to say I am more fluent in French than in English!
I saw a video recently stating that subtitles in the language you're trying to learn, for example watching a movie in English with English subtitles, is more beneficial than no subtitles. But having subtitles in your native language does not increase learning at all. Here's a link to that portion of the video if you're interested th-cam.com/video/J_EQDtpYSNM/w-d-xo.html
BTW if you keep watching the video a little longer, the host discusses shadowing.
Omar Ivan Rivas Miranda Omar if you are more fluent in French than in English than your French must be at the highest level possible since your English at least in written form already is impeccable! My native language also is Spanish, I am Colombian, and I was raised in the USA.
I learned French as second language since 4th grade up till high school, but I didn't get full grasp of it as the method used in teaching was fultie, All those years I had no idea about English till I got to uni and I was selected to study it as a major ,I grabed the opportunity, And here I am after 3years of full time learning at college and self-studying approach I can speak, understand and wield the language very well. However, my French language got rusty cuz I put all the efforts into English and I'm still dedicated to it. Till now,I feel blessed to learn a language that everyone in ma country wish to study.Also,the most spoken language worldwide which I had no idea of👨🔧.All in all ,my admission into the faculty of languages was a bolt out of the blue ,and my efforts put into learning paid off eventually.
@@ankskwk1980 I had never heard of such a program. It seems it opened doors for you and you took full advantage of it. Congratulations!
Paul, thank you SO MUCH for introducing me to Anki! A little context here, I am learning Romanian with Duolingo and some other side resources since it's my Mother and her family's native language, but was never spoken with me growing up. Anki has been SO helpful learning new vocabulary so I can go through the lessons with ease! I even record myself saying the words, so I make sure I am putting the right emphasis on the correct syllables. I never new this free resource existed, and it has made my language learning journey so much easier! Mulțumesc foarte mult! (Thank you very much!)
My pleasure! I’m glad it helped!
Dude... make no excuses. You have no idea how much you've done to inspire the rest of us to learn languages. So... go on being on being you. And keep on learning on and sharing. And... kudos, because... what you do really helps the rest of us more than you can ever know.
I learned 3 languages fluently starting when I was 23. I don't come from a bilingual family nor did I grow up in a linguistically diverse environment. The way I became fluent in these languages at an older age was by doing pretty much exactly what he's saying in the video. It's pretty incredible, I was shaking my head in agreement for almost every tip he was giving. I've been doing "shadowing" for years with TV shows and movies, I just didn't know there was an actual term for it. Seriously, try to follow these methods more or less. Change slightly for your tastes.
This is inspiring
I was somewhat discouraged by the increasing slowness with which I learn foreign languages. Your comment helped me realize it's perfectly possible, I just haven't tried the right methods.
i know this video is old now but as a language lover ive learnt how to speak 4 languages, my approach is firstly learning at least 300 words and then slowly ease into grammar and how to form sentences, then after a get a good grasp of the nature (that what i like to call it) i then spend time everyday learning 2 new verbs, 2 new complex sentences and 10 words! after 50 days of doing that you can effectively say 100 verbs, over 500 complex sentences (due to mix and match) and 500 nouns and of course while you're doing all of this i tend to listen to songs in that language and translate them, this helps train your ears to recognise sounds and keep up in speech, as well as learning new words and slang in said songs, and lastly i use you tube a lot to make sure what i am learning is correct if its available on TH-cam!
i hope this helps you guys master languages like i did!
@Profit Tracker I'm glad! I'm curious tho, what language are u learning?!
The Number1 your comment inspired me to learn Spanish
@@randomguy6843 ohhh wow I'm so glad I have :) please update on how it goes :)
Thanks so much for sharing with us your journey! I’ll definitely be trying this for my language learning
@thenumber1 how do you chose which words and verbs you want to start from and learn next
Read the Wikipedia page on your languages phonology before starting it, really helps give your pronunciation a bit of accuracy from the get go
Just combine it with listening to understand what it should sound like.
It's very obvious when someone has learned the pronunciation from IPA transcription but little to no listening.
@@Hwyadylaw I think both listening to lots of audio and being aware of some troublesome aspects of the language's phonology are crucial.
I started doing this with french to get a firm base to start
Its very interesting
Omniglot is another good resource.
I've found that the approach of Stephen Krashen about massive input and comprehensible input, and about ACQUIRING a language rather than LEARNING a language was quite usefull to me and improved A LOT my process of learning language.
I strongly recomend you all to watch one of his videos. HEAR (and read), passively is more important than everything. Don't focus on try to reproduce the language, as he says. This will come NATRUALLY as soon as you are exposed to enough comprehensible input.
this word "passive" is to experiment. This something subtile, too much passive, you never get it, to much active, you loose energy and maby time.
Actually, i try to find the balance, when I learn as passive as possible, it's more comfortable, but I learn faster being active.
More you are attentive how you learn, time after time, you can feel the balance between active / and passive and use both as best as possible.
Also we are not equal in languages.
But for sure : put an audio on of a 5 seconds sentence. At the first listening, it's maybe for you only "whale speaking", you've catched nohting. But listen this phrase, just listening, not thinking, 3 times, 10 times, 15 times and you'll repeat it automatically.
(sorry for unperfect english). And thank you for the name of Krashen :)
@@bafouilleetcharabia1814 *imperfect
Other than that, English was good.
This is how I learned english, reading fanfictions and whatching shows without subtitles.
@@millymoreira9407 nice
Yup
DuoLingo has updated a bit - At least for French, they have a "stories" section with conversations and questions, and they have context clues and questions for the more advanced lessons. I also appreciate the spoken word sensing feature - always feels good when the computer recognizes what you said on the first try!
Spanish has also added stories. In general Duolingo is improving.
I just laughed at that Indonesian Linguaphone dialogue, it is so 80s (or maybe early 90s) style Indonesian speaking style.
It was made in 1977.
@@elliotvernon7971 this course is ahead of its time.
@@LordOfBrownies lmao :)
yeah it's so funny, reminds me of old warkop movies of speaking style.
Is it appropriate for me to say "Ok boomer" here
2:22 Go to the vocabulary list for the lesson, and make a flashcard for every word
3:22 Listen to the audio recording of the lesson dialogue and try to shadow the speakers' voices
5:32 Make flashcards for every sentence in the dialogue
6:25 Do the Q&A drills (and other types of drills) on the audio recording
This method of self-learning a new language is very useful. I am trying to practice it myself. Thank you for your sharing!
Duolingo taught me: すみません私はりんごです which literally means, Excuse me I am an Apple
Same here, "pardon, ik ben een appel"
me too! xD
Same but french 😭
Better than Portuguese Duolingo that teaches you that the cobra, the cat, and the dog eat bread. Feel like Oprah, you have break, and you have bread, everybody has bread!
Извините я яблоко😓
IDK WHY I LAUGHED SO HARD AT THE HIPPIES PART. Maybe it's because I didn't expect to listen my own native language in this video and maybe it's the way they speak it. lmao
does this part sound unnatural or wrong to you as a native?
@@ляпетитморт another person in the comments said it sounded old fashioned so there ya go lol
@@ляпетитморт It's natural but it's too formal.
@@ляпетитморт i'm a native. It doesn't sound unnatural...more like a conversation between mafia bosses in movies or between higher ups in goverment.
@@ляпетитморт to put it on perpective in english, its kinda like hearing how people in the 90s speaks english that you hear on TV which makes sense because the audio that he uses is pretty old
I've been studying Mandarin for 6 months, the last two of which I have been living in China. My daily study regimen has been about 2-6 hours per day depending on my schedule. I use a cocktail of the HSK workbook (HSK 3 currently), Pimsleur's audio tracks, and Anki.
I need to start doing shadowing! My reading has improved considerably since arriving in China, but listening comprehension and automaticity have still been huge barriers, in spite of hearing the language around me all day and speaking it when I can. Thanks for the helpful suggestions!
My Current Approach-
First Day, I watch some videos, listen to audios and songs and also read some text(without caring about the meaning) to just get familiar with the langugae.
Next, I study many common phrases, greetings and many common words by making flashcards for next 2-3 days.
Then I study the grammar using good books and simultaneously learn 10 new words every day. For a simple language like Spanish, it will barely take 2-3 months.
After that, I listen to podcasts, make flashcards of new vocabulary, practice listening and speaing.
Then I chat with native speakers on Speaky App or Website (It's free).
Then when I am done with whole process in 1 year, I watch a lot of movies, keep learning new words and revising the older words, have talk with native speakers.
After this, tour to that country is perfect(though I've never done it but will do when I grow up).
In this way, I can learn a language within 1 - 2 years.
This is a decent approach ngl. I especially liked how you do lots of input.
Great ideas!
This shadowing approach reminds me of what I did when I learnt English. I memorized songs and it became a bit like shadowing. I also thought in English most of the time and I still do. Watching videos constantly and talking to people also helped me a lot. :-)
Wow I've been watching you for years but never realized that you are all the way up to 500k subscribers! So congrats and we appreciate your hard work, Paul!
Thanks! Well, 560,000 people have clicked on the subscribe button but most of then don’t watch regularly. I’d say there are 50,000 real fans who watch everything, so it’s still a fairly small tribe.
@@Langfocus planning on watching all the videos. So interesting. I teach languages and have shown the Romance Languages video to my students. Loved the dialect and continuum parts. Your channel and the "Geography Now" Channel, and Wikipedia are some of the great blessings of the Internet age, fast, fun access to knowledge that makes us better global citizens.
1:52 "These old Linguophone courses can be pretty gangster though"
Me: Oh I think he means these courses are hard to follow
Proceeds to talk about smoking in airplanes, reckless gambling, gold diggers and ridiculing hippies
Me: Oh
I want to learn all of that in french! isnt that awesome
I did Linguaphone German when I was about 13. I remember the dialogue between a couple of teenage cousins:
"Was, rauchst du auch?" (What, you smoke as well)
"Ja, aber nicht vor Vater und Mutter." (Yes, but not in front of mother and father)
"Das kann ich gut verstehen." (I can understand that)
I can remember a lot of the texts from the French and German courses even though it is over 40 years since I did them so that validates their effectiveness.
For flashcards, I use Memrise. I honestly don't have the time or the patience to use something like Anki where I have to produce the flashcards myself. Memrise has been incredibly good for me to learn German.
Tiefe dunkle Mitternacht, try using memrise with quizlet, I am learning Finnish and quizlet makes the experience “game-like” and there are “spelling” tests which are super helpful for listening comprehension
Thanks for the tip.
Yeah. I use Memrise for all the languages I'm currently learning. It's really been helpful for vocabulary
i also use memrise for japanese mandain korean and when i can mongolian and french and vietnamese...
Tiefe dunkle Mitternacht I use Memrise for learning Hebrew
Paul! You are truly an incredible guy since you are able to elocute your points so well!
Shadowing, huh?? Never thought of it, GREAT IDEA! Years of consistent great content and now such a useful practical tip! Thanks! That's absolutely worth a monthly coffee! See you on Patron!
Thank you for this video, I can't rely on that green owl anymore
No Budget Movies Duolingo is the best
Hmmm...Men jag lär mig svenska med Duolingo och det fungerar.Well at least it helps a little.You obviously cannot really learn a language with Duolingo but it is an acceptable tool for studying.
No Budget Movies, duolingo is good for spanish and pretty much nothing else
The owl turns gold when u complete a tree ~
@@Knute360cool It also works for Swedish and English.Assumingly because these languages are not that hard to learn.Also bei mir funktionierts zumindest mak.
I haven't learned a language for years, but I have a hunch.
At 9 or 10 I learned a bunch of songs on an album by a popular folksinger. The words were written out in the languages in question if they used Roman letters, and were transliterated if not. They were also translated, so I had a picture of what I was saying. I can still sing them to some extent in Russian, Hebrew, Spanish, French and Serbian. I did poorly in high school Spanish (failing 3rd year), but a trip to Peru that summer as an exchange student gave me a good insight: Since I already had sounds and sentences in muscle memory, all I had to do was substitute the appropriate word in a pre-existing structure. When I got back home, I garnered a 98 on our statewide (Regents) examination, and in the next year, I managed a 798 (out of 800) on the national achievement test. (This was especially useful in the area of accent and vowels, since I didn't rely on preconceived notions of what the letters signify. I just sang what I heard.)
Understanding was, and remains, more difficult than speaking -- but I don't get to practice much.
A project on my bucket list -- probably something I'll never get around to -- is to go on a trip to the north European countries and learn lullabyes in the various languages. I'd start in eastern England, learn a bunch, then go to the Netherlands and find if I could get people to teach me the words in Frisian to the melodies I already knew. I'll bet there are many in common. Then down south to standard Dutch, across to Germany, up to Scandinavia, and finally to Iceland. My guess is that all those languages have some common baby songs with basic sounds, grammar and vocabulary. (Though they might be poetic or archaic.)
The hunch is that I could, even late in life, use those seed sentences to "build out" a working knowledge of the language. It brings to mind the phrase from the Wonderland (or Looking glass) caterpillar who, fooling with an old adage, said "Take care of the sounds and the sense will take care of itself." BTW, a friend who knows lots of arias in Italian and Russian uses the same method when speaking those languages.
Of course, the project depends on the notion that an old American coot can walk into a bar in Denmark with his guitar, look for people to teach him cradle songs, and get the desired results. That might be a stretch.
I don't imagine that opera singers are generally polyglot, but I'll bet you those who pursue it are pretty good at it, since they have a good portion of the job already done.
I've improved my English dramatically since I started to learn it through TH-cam videos. I think I will never be so patient as to learn it through courses.
Дмитрий Ященко your English is really good
Not to spoil, but wouldn't drastically be a better word choice than dramatically?
@@tyshadonyxs2008 no
I've heard both variants in such context, so I think they are often interchangeable, "dramatically" is even more suitable.
@@tyshadonyxs2008 not to spoil, but wouldn't "choice of word" be a better choice of word than "word choice"? Just kidding, bro. You're right.
Thanks for your clear discussion of shadowing!
A huge like for the shadowing technique. I've been practicing it for around a year, first with English and then with French. I'm so grateful to my university professor to have adviced me to do it. I'm no longer ashamed of my English pronunciation and I became much more confident and fluent in both languages. The only drawback of it for me is that you need to have at least A2-B1 level, beginners would find it too hard.
Anki is fantastic. I’ve used it for studying Japanese, and studying for a promotional exam at work. I’m moving on to another language and Anki will be part of it.
I had to learn english by myself, because my country's teaching system sucks. I had to develop my own way.
In my case, I focused mostly on grammars, and begun to make all kind of sentences, no matter the meaning or un-meaning of the phrase as long the "blocks" were on the "right spot", thus "The closed cat was meowing in green" is grammtically "right", but since it has no rational meaning, your brain tried to imagine that closed cat thus more areas of your brain got involved in the learning process (imagination, emotions), it was like replicating my childhood process to learn my mother language. The next step was begining to read, write and talk about my most beloved hobbies, in english of course, because without emotional content and commitment, there's no real learning. BTW, my hobbies were, and still are, genetics and D&D.
@forwatchingu2ubeclip
It became an addiction, my friend.
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In my case, I focused mostly on grammars, and begun to make all kind of sentences, no matter the meaning or un-meaning of the phrase as long the "blocks" were on the "right spot", thus "The closed cat was meowing in green" is grammtically "right", but since it has no rational meaning, your brain tried to imagine that closed cat with the additional outcome of more areas of your brain getting involved in the learning process (imagination, emotions), it was like replicating my childhood's process to learn my mother language. The next step was begining to read, write and talk about my most beloved hobbies, in english of course, because without emotional content and commitment (imho), there's no real learning. BTW, my hobbies were, and still are, genetics and D&D. I followed with Old Spanish, then Latin, and now trying Italian and Portuguese.
@@nosotrosloslobosestamosreg4115 It's like the common English learning system in country. Teachers always over focus on grammar formulae without encouraging their students to practice the language. That's why only a few people can speak English here although they may have been learning English for over 10 year (from elementary school to high school).
instead of using the word sucks, use deficient
Thank you so much for suggesting Anki! It's great!
I shadowed the entire video!
I agree, this technique is super efficient, it really helps to improve your listening comprehension and pronunciation skills.
I've been doing this while watching series without knowing this technique actually had a name or exist.
Greetings from Puebla, Mexico.
Firstly I love this channel and your videos - so thank you so much! I would just like to share my experience. I started using Duolingo to teach myself Spanish almost a year ago. I finished the tree within three months, and then now I feel I don't use it anymore because it's just too easy. I'm possibly around a B1 speaking/writing/listening but a B2 with reading. However, I have to say it definitely helped me so much to get started. For the first couple of months Duolingo was all I used to help build up vocab and understand simple grammar. And then I would start incorporating books and other mediums. I still think it's a fantastic (free!) app and great for easing you into language learning! Now I'm about to start French, and will be using both Duolingo and trying out the new Fluent Forever app.
Lots of love to all you other language learners!!
I guess this is the best way to learn any language as a salf-study. I use this same way and it fited on me perfectly.
I use shadowing, aki and a lot of extensive reading.
Thanks for this channel.
I've been to two extremes when it comes to Anki. There was a time when my language study was exclusively making and studying flashcards. I didn't realize that when a word is "well known" in Anki, it's still just in your short-term memory. Then I started to just read texts, watch videos, and practice with native speakers, figuring that I could just soak up the language purely through exposure and context. But with that approach, only the most common words and grammatical structures really stuck, and my vocabulary was really lacking. Recently I found a good balance between Anki and context (texts, videos, speaking practice), I seem to be making progress faster. For my listening exercise I usually watch movies and try to pick out words that I know. It's exciting when I can understand a whole sentence. Shadowing sounds like an interesting idea though.
The shadowing technique was so much useful to me when I was learning Turkish. And I haven’t used it with English language, so I have been studying English since two years. Actually after this video I am excited to back to the shadowing technique and use it for English this time.
Thanks Paul! The way you describe your method of study sounds like it would be right up my alley.
One thing that's helped me immensely is memorizing songs in the target language...you get the native enunciation but often at a more measurable pace, so you can really digest the details, both sonically & grammatically. Plus it hits your brain in a slightly different way than normal daily conversation.
You are crazy, Paul--- crazy genius! Love your videos. I always learn something from them.
"...is pretty gangster."
I cackled until I realized it was literal.
Hi, Paul! When I learn a language and go deeper in, I also get a try with a neighbouring language. For instance, I m learning Russian, so learning Ukrainian is also interesting and allows me to match grammar and vocabulary. I do as well with German: I m getting a try with Yiddish. This process is very interesting and efficient. I m surprised to switch from one to another, each language seems to help each other!
Your advice about reading along with the audio is a godsend! I actually felt my brain understanding and hearing more Spanish when I read along with the natives! Sounds I could barely recognise before are now as clear as day after just one attempt... thank you so much!
Your speech is so clear so even I, not native speaker, can understand it, that's cool.
I am on disability due to liver issues that I've had since I was in my teens. My wife works and so I spend a lot of time at home with my two cats and one dog. As such, I started changing things I normally would say to them in English (such as "get off the counter" or "do you want to go outside") to my target language. I also try to think in my target language when I'm by myself, or when I talk to myself. I've also found it helpful, oddly enough, to learn about my health issues in my target language (such as medication names, disease names, procedure names, etc).
When I was in 5th grade, I started learning Japanese on my own. I watched a lot of anime and listened to a lot of Japanese songs. My dad was like, "how do you know you're not saying any weird stuff in those songs?!" so that challenged me to translate the songs to English from the kanji/kana lyrics. I learned a lot! That's pretty much all I did to study Japanese. Got busy with life after highschool and didn't really pursue language-learning until recently again. When I finally went to Japan last year, the people I met in Japan said I sound good. I took Hebrew classes last year and that's the same approach I did. Helped me excel at my Hebrew vocabulary too.
That seems kinda unlikely, as you would’ve forgotten a lot of the words unless you used some sort of revision method like an SRS or something. Also I’m pretty sure if Japanese people say 「日本語上手」they sometimes don’t mean it...
I'm studying spanish interpretation in my college and our drill practices involve shadowing, it's really really helpful.
This is helpful to me to hear what other people do learn and maintain second and third etc. languages. I use shadowing--I watch movies and initially try to shadow using the subtitles. I find it helps me to get the verb forms in context and pronunciation and prosidy. When I find an actor or actress whose diction and pronunciation I like, I search for more of their films.
Shadowing is a great advice. Thank You Paul. Very good as always.
I really like your videos. We can really learn about languages. We can see that you do a long research about the language before and it adds a lot of value for us. Good job!
I've been studying German and Korean, this video is helpful.
if you need a native speaker to practice German with let me know! :D
Very nice 😊
Never understood why people actually want to learn german...I mean we literally have sentences like "Ist mir Wurst".
Josh xD what does that sentence mean ik not german
It means "I don't care", literally translated it is "It is sausage to me". Very wierd.
Duolingo taught me to say: ” are you a horse?” I couldnt answer NO...
The Language Lab same this also happend to me, i got offended because duolingo called me a american in french class.
¿Tu eres un caballo?
ты лошадь?
Historyboi 1492 No, soy yegua :)
To their credit, Duolingo has improved and provides much more 'realistic' sentances. I am using it to learn Spanish, but I find LingQ to be a much richer resource
Another excellent video. I learned Spanish by studying it from 7th grade till my third year of college (when you start to learn a language before the age of 13, you can still acquire a native-speaker accent). Along the way, I studied other Romance languages, either by myself, or, in the classroom. This reinforced those words in Spanish which had cognates in those other neo-Latin tongues. Later, I lived in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods in upstate New York, and, in New York City. In particular, I lived in a Colombian neighborhood in Queens, while teaching Latin American immigrants English. On the weekends, I wouldn't even speak English at all. Even when I wasn't conversing with anyone in Spanish, I'd subconsciously hear Spanish being spoken around me, and, this reinforcement by osmosis, as it were, also helped me become fluent (and, this kind of osmosis is a tool which I've not heard much about). In addition, I'd read publications in Spanish, and, watch television programming in the language. The years I spent living in Queens, in that Colombian neighborhood, were the next best thing to living in a foreign country, in a part of that country in which few people speak English. The end result of all this was that, one day, when I went to inquire about an apartment being rented by a Colombian lady, that lady thought that I was Colombian myself. After having learned Spanish, I learned Portuguese, and, I did so by first concentrating on the points of grammar in Portuguese which were different from those of Spanish, as well as knowing the sound differences between the two languages (for instance, if I already knew that the word for "son" in Spanish was "hijo," then, I'd know that, in the Portuguese word for "son," probably, the "h" would be substituted by an "f," and, the "j" would be substituted by the letter combination "lh", so that I could expect that the Portuguese word for "son" would be "filho"-- which it is). Also, regarding the Portuguese lexicon, I would concentrate on those words which were different from their equivalents in Spanish: for example, the word for "window" is "janela" in Portuguese, while it's "ventana" in Spanish. When one formally studies a foreign language, one gets to know the grammar of one's native language even better. My having studied other languages helped me when I wrote prose, either in newspaper articles on local history, or, in my public relations work. Now, regarding shadowing, I'm going to try that.
Thanks for the video, Paul. I use a mix a of approaches, but once I know the basics of a language, the best self-learning approach for me is learning song lyrics. It's incredible how well the words stick when there's an association with rhymes and music. Then of course you need to dare using the language, even if you're likely not to understand what your interlocutor is saying. I've just returned from Poland and made a dunce out of myself more than once with concierges and waiters using my pidgin polish and woeful pronunciation, but that's just a phase that you have to pull through. Will give your approach a try, now.
I think that Duolingo is a very good support when you are learning a language. I've completed the Swedish tree and it helped me lot.
Not by itself though
@@ayinstrumentals7731 Duolingo does well for what it hopes to achieve, not as a standalone tool. Besides this, I have a single complaint: the CG pronunciation for generated sentences ranges from great (Dutch) to okay (French) to often unintelligible (Italian.) Seriously, sometimes the words at the end of a clause will be inaudible or fade out quickly.
@@heartsthekitteh6239yeah, same, heck, the audio won't even work for me
I love it! But I use it specifically to keep up with the 3 languages I speak other than English. I recommend it to everyone who asks me how I can speak four languages. I would never try to learn a completely new language with it. It is quite simply a great tool.
@@deniaridley What do you use on the sidelines with duolingo?
I learned Koine Greek using Anki. I highly recommend it. It made me feel like I was making progress because I knew it was keeping track of both my successes and failures.
Just my experience here: Personally I took english classes when I was young, like from 12 to 17 and I also had english in my school, still my english was poor.
Then I did something, I needed to learn how to use certain programs (adobe after effects, maya, etc) so I started watching tutorials, trying to understand what they were saying. Eventually, I did understood, and because I understood enough, I was able to leave the video playing on the background while I was working, that way I could follow the tutorial.
This allowed me to understand what they were saying, and that lead me to watching youtube videos in english, I did look up for some words I didn't know, but little by little I got pretty decent.
Cool approach. I've studied language a little over the years and have come across some interesting or different ideas. Some people don't try to translate the target language into their native language while learning a new language. This way they get use to thinking in the target language and skip over the translation idea. This saves time in translating while speaking or thinking in the target language. Some people feel that learning to speak is more important than leaning to read, so the focus is on speaking first and this to me seems right unless you need or really want to know how to read a new language right away, but often the way something is written is not how it is pronounced.. Motivation is also really important, find a way to get motivated and stay motivated to learn. Also, have a goal to your learning - this way you can map out what you want to know and know when you have reached your goal, other wise you may learn bits and pieces but never really tie it all together. Total immersion is best when learning anything really - especially language. Just a few things I've encountered over the years.
One of my favorite things to do is learn to read the language( out loud to practice pronunciation a bit) so i can watch videos/movies in the language I'm learning with subtitles in that language. I match the words i hear with the subtitles and eventually eliminate the subtitles. At that point i can usually read it very well, understand it spoken fairly well, speak it okey, and write it fairly okey.
Thanks for sharing your technique.
Bahasa Indonesia itu lebih mudah dipelajari ketimbang bahasa-bahasa lain, seperti bahasa Inggris dan lain². Sebagai orang Indonesia, aku bangga aja karena ada yang tertarik mempelajari bahasa Indonesia. Semoga sukses!!
Your channel is great, I really appreciate your videos and content, thanks a lot and keep going!
this,is a pure jewel of an individual experience that we all have to considere when Learning languages.
Haha I love the part about people thinking you're crazy on the subway. When I lived in NYC I stopped doing the spoken part of my pimsleurs lessons and then just stopped doing it altogether but looking back, who cares if someone is speaking a random language to themselves, many other people are on the phone anyway or talking to themselves because they're crazy. Keep studying hard Paul, you're awesome!
I've almost never tried shadowing except for some languages classes when teacher asked us to repeat a dialogue and paused it and also when I used to use Pimsleur for Swedish. but now that you have mentioned it again, I think it could be an excellent method to accelerate the flunecy or automaticity as you say. I'd give it a try as soon as possible.
I think SRS is a very effective method for memorizing words and phrases. I have been using apps like Memrise and another app for memorizing words and also other stuff and it does help a lot. I had never heard of Anki and I feel like I might give it a try as well.
I usually love to attend language courses and classes, to me that is the most effective way to start a language, but since I don't always have enough time to attend classes and with accessibility of apps and videos nowadays, I tend to kickstart my language learning with duolingo and memrise and I try to watch series and vids in the target language and I also try to find grammar books for the language which sometimes is hard especially for less common languages such as Danish and some other languages.
Thanks for sharing yoyr methods Paul, they were somewhat new and more useful comparing to some other videos I have recently watched on language learning methods.
There's a channel named JOLLY and they used this Korean social app that's kind of like Tinder but instead of matching via a visual profile, you talk (audio only) to a random person for a short while, only after talking you can decide to "match" them or not.
They used it to help the one of them to practice Korean in terms of structuring sentence, doing back and forths, etc. (the other guy is already fluent)
I love shadowing and do it all the time. I started doing it when I heard dialogue in anime that sounded cool to me, and wanted to repeat it and sound like the character. It was only recently I found this fun activity for me was called shadowing. I'll be putting in more of an effort now to do this more as now I know it is also a studying technique!
Hi Paul. Making Flashcards for whole sentences or chunks makes a lot of sense and it’s something I am now doing regularly. I had no idea the method you described was called shadowing. I have been doing it but not as intensely; but that is now going to change! Also thanks for mentioning Anki; I’ll give it a try. Schönen Tag noch.
This is so fascinating! I had never heard the term "shadowing" before, but it turns out to be the instinctive way I learn a new language. I have a background in music, and sound is the most accessible (and appealing) feature for me and is often why I get interested in a given language in the first place, rather than a practical reason such as an upcoming visit or business connection to country where that language is spoken. (To give you an idea, recent interests include Portuguese, Icelandic, and Tamazigh.)
In the languages I have actually studied, my weakness is the usually the written component. I speak more languages than I read, and I passively understand more languages than I can speak.
I have a hard time retaining comprehension in multiple languages simultaneously. I think 3 is my limit. And with two of them I will have trouble retaining vocabulary. I sometimes find I can follow the topic of a conversation but because I miss key vocabulary, don't actually know what specific points are being made on the subject. This tends to limit my ability to contribute anything worthwhile to the conversation (although whatever I do say tends to sound "authentic" if a bit peculiar). So I like your suggestion of ANKI cards and will look into using them for future study.
Let me also add that I love your videos and look forward to each one! Thank you so much for all your work!!!
"Living in the country where people speak the language you want to learn"
This is the best and fastest way to obtain foreign language IMO
Not always possible though
The best way...
The hard thing is affording it :"v
I used to translate rammstein songs to learn Deutsch of course that's not enough but it s funny.
Fun or funny? My gf always get them mixed up (she's Andalusian) haha
LoL IDK
Yes, me too hahahaha
Ich Will
Translating song lyrics is how I started off learning English :)
To learn Nepali, I went for 5 months to Nepal, bought a book and lived with a family that does not speak English. It forced me to speak Nepali to communicate. It took me 1 month to understand the basics, 3 months to be conversational, a total of 9 months to be fluent (I live in Nepal now).
Being fluent in Nepali was your baby
@@seid3366 😂😂
That's so fucking meticulous. I am in awe of the effort and dedication you put into it. I need to adopt some of these techniques when I go back to studying Swedish. I didn't develop a system for the first two levels of my course, so that's a huge bummer in terms of adding structure, but I hope to change that going into the higher levels.
Thanks to your other video (didn't remember the title) I learned about italki. I found some interesting teacher (and some are not interesting at all) but I have choices of teachers with italki. I brushed up my German (getting better little by little although I still make a lot of mistakes but gaining confidence to speak German during 30 minutes with very limited English vocabs only when I don't know the German words), trying to be better in Japanese but kanji gets in the way. Now I'm learning Norwegian and loving it. I have to say that your video change my life. I'm also passionate about foreign language and the ability to get to know some languages from your channel (that I didn't even know it existed before) is wonderful.
I haven't tried your method (with anki) but that sounds interesting. Unfortunately (or should I say fortunately), I drive to work and it takes only 10 minutes. Oh, btw my mother tongue is Bahasa Indonesia. Selamat belajar Bahasa Indonesia, Paul.
Seems like a cool and effective method, I think I'll give it a go
When you have the basics and around 2000 of the key-words down, then my own preferable method of expanding on this is simple - find the good book in whatever field you are intrested in sci-fi/history/romance/fantasy/detective/autobiography/etc and translate it (don't forgte to write down the translation, preferably in a txt-file). If you are reading the book you are intrested in - your motivation will increase and also your brain will engage the new words with enthusiasm, which will allow you to remember them better. When you are done - don't forget to re-read the book without using a dictionary. Use your translation as a hint if you are stuck.
For example i'v been reading english version of the Harry Potter like this, and by the end of the book 5 my knowledge of the language has been good enough to avoid using a dictionary almost entirely.
hmm, never heard of shadowing before, sounds interesting though. I'll definitely try it out for my Japanese language study.
I'm not that far into language self study, but as far as I can tell, Anki (which I've been using for vocab) is pretty neat - and I think I personally prefer textbooks over apps, too.
Anki gets pretty spooky sometimes. Sometimes I remember words that I have no memory of ever learning. The context is long gone from my memory, but because of the spaced repetitions I remember the word.
@@Langfocus I've stopped using Anki because I realized that when I wasn't using it, I couldn't remember words I always remember on Anki...
That's probably because when I speak a foreign language, I never fall into the translation phase... I think it lets you commit too many errors by trying to translate sentences literally and it also slows down your speech a lot imo... So as I begin feeling comfortable enough with the language, I skip translation, as I said before...this means that when I use Anki, I'm actually training a process I never come across because I would match the (e.g.) Japanese word with the English word, whereas, if I'm speaking, I match it with the thing itself ..
Maybe creating image/word flashcards could help, but it seems like too much work...
Frank: You apparently do not have children. More than three decades past, that "game" was their favorite annoyance to use on me.
I see, apparently they know how to practice their language skills :D
- yes, indeed, being in my early 20s I don't have children (yet)
Shadowing is part of the training of professional interpreters, I think that's a good indication of how effective it is. If not shadowing, even listening and repeating sentences is proven to be very effective.
This was just great. I used flashcards (not digital ones) to self study german and believe thats the reason I passed my B2 exam. Now Im studying danish and I would definitely give shadowing a try. Thank you so much. I think once one masters self studying one language it just gets easier to go to the next one.
I totally get what you're saying at 0:24 lolll I also have a language channel and I try to stay clear of titles like that. I usually say "languages I study" or "introducing myself in X languages" so as to not deceive anyone.
To answer your questions:
1. We had to do shadowing in grad school in my interpreting program. It was fun, but I don't really do it when learning languages. I probably should because it can be helpful from time to time.
2. I love Memrise, when it comes to spaced repetition systems!
3. My preferred method is to start out by taking a class to learn all the basic grammar that I'd need to know, then I move into self-study and trying to find people to converse with.
I've been a fan of your channel for years. Keep up the good work!
Got a duolingo ad in the middle of this
Yeah i also learned languages from linguaphone its really useful
Especially the old courses from 50's and 60's.
If Linguaphone is politically incorrect and gives you words beyond the phrasebook approach, I'll have to check them out.
When I saw those cassettes it reminded me of hooked on phonics.
LOL
Well , i did not watch the video to the end but , i can see how much effort you are putting out there . Hard work is a very important thing to do .
I wanted to thank you so much for putting this video up. I watched it the day it came out and I started using AnkiDroid the very next day and I haven't missed a single day! I find that I am motivated so much more and I am more reliable with this app than with previous ones that I've tried, such as Duolingo etc. I see lots of improvements in my vocabulary and I've even been able to use it to start learning some new tenses!
Thanks for introducing me to it!
Duolingo taught me "The dental feet of my ears are brainly focused to do homework" bang dude!
Colorless green ideas sleep furiously
@@Matheus_Braz lmafo XD
But you are the animal from the space inside the nipple, so your bones have hair and you have itch in you lungs which are inside your heart
what a great video, Paul!
תודה רבה
Good video. It helps a lot.
Paul, you’re basically describing what the Nemo language apps do so very well: shadowing + Anki. Forget Duolinguo, Babble, etc. I’ve used Nemo French, Italian, Spanish, German, Russian with great success. All Nemo apps are wonderful, with native speakers in Anki-like functions (English target language), variable speeds, “if you only want to learn 10/50/100/500 things”, phrase book categories, etc., etc. I do my (full-voice) Nemo shadowing in my car, while around at home, etc.
Hi Paul, I've become addicted to your wonderful videos 😁
I think that every person should try, and see which method or which methods work best for them, according to their habits, their age, and the way they learnt to study. I wish I had started learning foreign languages before. Anyway, I'm really enjoying the process
I just realized I’ve been kind of shadowing Korean for the past 7 years. I just haven’t invested the time to learn vocabulary and grammar. I just love to repeat whatever I’m listening to the language is lovely.
Can't even shadow English. Let alone another language.
Many Western languages link their words together while talking naturally → "I played on my phone" will sound kind of like "I play d'on my phone".
Semangat ya belajar bahasa Indonesianya, Paul!
- An Indonesian Native
Y-y-y-you too
@Huckleberry Finn What about a dick?
*Semangat dalam mempelajari Bahasa Indonesianya, ya Paul!
Go learn some Indo grammar, please 😂
@@neneklampir6664 mungkin itu bahasa gaul, bukan bahasa formal bro 😅
Salah grammar itu gak gaul :D
I think for most people the most important thing is to make it entertaining. Most don't have the energy to do active learning sessions.
Anki sounds really cool. I'm speaking french and german as my mother language and learn english, italian and at least a bit dutch. What helps me is watching videos or films, studying the language like in school like grammar, conjugations, ect, doing flashcards with vocabulary and just trying speaking or thinking in the language. Thank you, you have really good advices