HOW TO LEARN ANY LANGUAGE IN 6 MONTHS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.ค. 2024
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Move you
Love you*
Ey if you ever need someone to translate something in dutch you can send me a dm via instagram :Nouk_045
love the concept behind your new video. It shows that you put a lot of work into creating it.
Japanese also uses the english alphabet so yeah, fun fun!
"Using Duolingo whenever you use the toilet is not going to help"
This hit too close to home...
I litterally was just doing duolingo and the fanfare played at the same time as his and I've never felt so hurt
I just about to go onto duolingo 😂😂
Watching this on the toilet now
same, i´m stiil hurting
same though
watched this at 2x speed. Gonna learn Spanish in 3 months
no he’s got a point
Youre a genius
How can i donate to ya?
Ok Einstein
Where is the r/I am very smart comment
@@rowdy9136 r/I am very smart
Bout to kidnap a japanese man and force him to talk to me 10+ hours a day
Lmao
I've done it to a hispanic man now I'm learning it
@@lvnarv3 so it works?
@@blueshinobi8665 100%
@Mr Suamalainen i know
My brain when i want to learn japanese: の
High Iq memes
@ r/whoosh
@ someone missed the joke
Do I still want to learn it? はい
That’s how it feelssss
Me: Having finished 2 lections in Duolingo
Me: *I'm fluent*
*apple*
I literally got the sentence ‘my parents are ugly’ today
Coffxs mañana
@@user-wf3eb3jo5g Que?
Coffxs Idk-
The whole Duolingo thing was to accurate I feel attacked 😂😂
hahahahaha áttacked´
Duolingo gets the job done perfectly fine as long as you use online resources to explain the grammatical points, phonological system, etymologies of words, etc. side by side with it.
Same😂
Kleo3392 agreed! I’m learning Spanish in school so I’m mostly past what duolingo is teaching me, at least at the moment, but I use it for practice and to learn a little extra vocab. My teacher doesn’t assign very much homework so the extra home practice helps. And even if I don’t remember the vocab, I can at least recognize it.
Elena Gibbons Yep, that’s active and passive memory, and they go side by side together- the stronger one is the stronger the other will be.
"Plants don't grow only one time a week;
they grow every day."
New mantra.
"i mean sometimes they dont grow because their being lazy"
"That language is yours"
Hearing that motivated me.
i read this comment right when he said it in the video
even tho he is an english speaker, he knows so many languages that he's starting to get an accent
THAT'S my goal here
Can help you to learn Arabic
@@tunisiamyluv5953 Is Arabian a hard language would you say? In comparison to English or other languages you know
@@Nimmka It is not hard. 28 letters but richer in vocabulary. The conception of the language is different from English, for example, objects can be either masculine or feminine not neutral as in English. There's also a masculine you and a feminine you. the ''is'' can be omitted also (i.e. He hungry) and so on...
@@tunisiamyluv5953 it doesn't sound hard bt I think you're a native right? I was born third Arab so when my parents tried teaching me, it was hard, while the vocabulary is one hard thing, the grammar is terrifying cause everything is an exception to the actual rule since it was designed to be spoken, not written
@@arianxavier3185 best strategy to learn a language is to study kinda hard that language for a year and then live in a country that speaks that language for a another year...Investing in 2 years and you will be happy for ever ;)
I literally got an ad of this guy in his own video
Yh😂
Same lmao
same haha
Sponsoring hisself loll
Same
Why am I suddenly super motivated to go and learn a bunch of new languages even though I know I’m way to lazy to do so
Thanks to this guy I've had some motivation to learn japanese
agreed
Same 😅
Lollll same😅
@@Algydi 15 b4 i die
ideally I'd wanna learn spanish, french, korean, japanese, malay, tagalog, tamil, thai, and mandarin quite an unrealistic goal but i can dream lmao
@@aviseau3883 omg I'd love to, I don't know anyone who speaks it though, but it's up there as well
@@syra1541 how many languages do you already speak?
@@Bynasf only English and Spanish
syra oh.. then you’d better start now
learn malay bro, if you can speak malay fluently you can easily understand indonesian language
Me has been learning korean for a year and is still in intermediate level: cool lets start chinese
MIDAS 할수있어요! ㅋㅋ
@@sungrae1004 谢谢!
br? kkkk
It also doesn't help when you look up tips from people on TH-cam who speak Korean fluently as a second language and ALL of them studied in Korea to learn. They're always like "study, be organized, practice, BUT I didn't get good until after moving to Korea." -_-
@@R4NJ3R omg thats true
When all the languages you’re interested in are in the “harder” category 😭
SpangeBab I only speak English unfortunately, but I want to learn Korean then Japanese then mandarin 🙈
SpangeBab uh sure why not
SpangeBab I might move to Korea for a few years so I think that would be most useful for me personally
SpangeBab I just realized I forgot to click more, sorry! Ty for the tips I’ll try it out. I actually learned hangeul already it’s pretty easy so I might try and tackle katakana next. I know mandarin is hard bc it’s tonal (right?) but you seem pretty good if you’re B2!
Duolingo ist deutsch since Ive been to Germany I’ve already been down that route of trying to learn German (idk how different Dutch is from German) but I unfortunately cannot do the throaty sounds required 😭😂
Him: listen to the lenguage you want with subtitles
Me: ah yes, Putin conferences with subtitles
Even we Russians often do not understand him .. Subtitles will not help here
Ксения Стрикова why he speaks Chinese
Аххаха смешно.
@@user-et7dc5um5k В общем-то почему трудно его речь понимаем , он вообще быстро говорил или из-за других проблем? Я тоже плохо его понимаю.
Bruh
*Here is some rare tip:*
If you're not familiar with the accent and finding it hard to understand (what is being talked on the TV/movies) even though you have practiced a language to the point where you can write good and speak good.. but the only problem you're having is you can't really keep up with the accent of the native speaker.
Listen to the songs and memorize them with lyrics. As more as you can.. it'd take on an average 80 or more songs (of your target language) to make the accent very naturalised to your ears.
Lets fire up Katyusha to the max volume
*Soviet anthem intensifies*
Facts tho, this is kind of a different example but, i binged the walking dead and in the show the characters have a southern American accent. So by the end of the show i nailed that souther accent. So yea you have a point
Music is great
Also, if you can find TED Talks in your target language they usually have English transcripts made by an actual human being so you can read as the guest speaks and learn how those words sound when actually spoken at full speed.
* Watch movies without subtitle
* Change your phone language to the language you want to learn
*Everyday, learn one new word of the language
* Label physical objects
S A M U E L man! Your a genius!!! Will you marry me 😂
@@user-in6ry6ze8z you're*
Whenlifegivesyoulemon MSP haha thanks maybe I should stick with English right now x
Listen French music
O dang...
“And two, not being consistent. What are you doing?!”
ATTACKED
I feel attacked
Lol I was like 🥺
Felt
The problem with italki is talking to a stranger😂as an introvert, I would never be able to, the anxiety would kill me
same
Yep 😭😭 same
Same
Do it more often to get used to it,I was also like that but then I got better
Look for a chat partner to text with you in your target language. There's plenty of language exchange apps that give you that option.
Whenever he speaks Japanese
My brain: PLAY THAT AGAIN
Me: but wh-
My brain: YOU HAVE TO
Saaamee
@@nekokkoko3181 loll
Omg me too
Don’t call me out like that…
omg is that yibo
I've watched anime for 3 or 4 years and I've learnt
Baka- idiot
Nani!!?
Sou des ka.
Kusoooooooo. Shinei ningennnnnnn. And my personal favourite. Ahhhhh Oni-channnn
yare yare daze
muda
ora
DIOOOOOOO
You probably know
Nani
Nande
Masaka
Sokka
Dajobe
Watashi wa
Nandeska
I taught myself english at 11 yrs old bc i was so distraught my favorite comic wasnt fully out in spanish so i started reading it in english out of anger, now here i am trying to put the same motivation into russian lmao
raymond uwu spite is the best motivator lol
Just in case you will want to speak to a native Russian speaker, you can dm me on instagram - tomisedits :)
@@bunnycat24 you can dm me too lol if you want:) I would like to make some Spanish speaking friends
i taught myself english because my english teacher in primary school told me i sucked at english. now i'm learning japanese
I was billingual since I was a child
i’m learning japanese so i can change windows back to english
😂😂
I once changed the language of my old nokia to arabic and I almost decided to learn Arabic just to change the language of that damn phone back. ALMOST
@@friendshipismagic7896 arabic looks so hard to learn 😅
@@Apaxetic trust me. it is
Just look up the how to guide in English, copy the motions and button placement. It'll save you time.
As an Aussie with parents from 2 different European backgrounds, the biggest factor is who is willing to help and teach you. I have one side of my family, Lithuanian, who always encouraged and politely corrected when I was wrong, and then the Croatian side, which laughed and made fun of me and called me a try-hard for wanting to learn. Guess which language I can speak?
My guess is ... Lithuanian. I know a few Lithos in Melbourne, great people.
English
Engrish ?
にほんごができますか
Fucking Croatians!!
I learned English by accident when I stumbled upon youtube when I was in 6th grade, when I started I didn't understand 80% of what was happening but I enjoyed it. I would spend hours everyday watching (not to learn just for fun) and then I naturally learned the language without even speaking, now it's as strong as my native language because I spend all day watching videos or movies in English.
Wow!! That is amazing!!
@@aangitano it's pretty normal. I learned German and English just by watching tv alone... The thing is... The language gurus will tell you you need books cd etc... Because they make money out of that. Fact is you can learn a language by listening. But that doesn't make language learning industry any money...
@@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER yeah but I wouldn't advice anyone to do it that way, maybe because I was young but learning it took me a very long time, I could've become fluent at a much faster pace if I read books (not necessarily educational) and was serious about it.
@@leyawonder2306 But it wouldn't make sense from an evolutionary stand point for you to have to read books and such.... What if you got stranded one day in a land where you don't know their language? The only solution you have is listening.... Will the body ignore learning the language because you don't have books?
I’m going to learn to understand written Russian with the Ilya Frank method and this guy’s method combined
him: *learns to speak any language halfway fluently in 1 month*
me: *took 3-4 years to speak english fluently*
MultifandomBoi ღ theres a difference between fluent and fluent ;)
Mirano Wha-
@@lex9574 think they meant that there's a difference between fluent just in everyday conversation and actually completely fluent like a native??
@@lex9574 ahh okay haha, yeah sorry i just woke up so i'm still a little stupid lmao
For me i started learning English at around 8 and was able to understand it at 10 years of age. I wouldn't be able to properly speak for another few years but despite being self taught i'm pretty decent at it. This was all mostly through tv and video games by the way which is pretty amazing looking back at it. Didn't get English lessons at school till i was 14. Being a kid made it a lot easier to learn tbh.
I'm Russian I speak English almost fluently and I'm now in 10th grade. In 8th grade I decided to start learning English on my own (I had had English classes in School since 2nd grade, but they had been complete suck tbh, and I wasn't really good in English, though I had been getting only A marks (everybody else who had had smth lower than A, didn't and don't nowadays know anything)). So I had been watching youtube in English, reading some articles and learning TONS of new words. Then after, I guess, about 6 months I decided to close my gap in tenses knowledge (at that moment I knew only 8 and not perfect yet). So I had learnt all of them, and dug more into those that I had already known at that moment. I continued watching videos and reading articles, and started to practice my pronounciation. I've been following this routine up to now, and I'm almost fluent in English. I've made a huge progress and become better then had ever been before. Self learning is SICK (FIRE FIRE FIRE)
@@TheLordoftheLollipops спасибо 🙏
Your English is pretty good!! I feel like as long as people can understand you and you can understand them, you’re already pretty good
@@talamuffy3094 your english* (a little remark 😅)
@@talamuffy3094 thank you
@@developerninja619 lol omg thank you. I’m a native lol I always make mistakes like that
Then my goal in life is to have A kid and just feed him languages since he is a baby english,spanish,japanese arabic,chinese,french,german Portuguese,Italian,korean,dutch,polish Romanian all of them I will make something that is perfect.hahahahahahhHHAa
Lol that's what I'm gonna do 🤣🤣 multilingual baby from birth!
That is so smart
@@kia7189 or he will mix them all
My parents did that. At the age of 2 i was fluent in arabic (native) and frensh and at the age of 10 i learned English now im 17 and learning Spanish wish me luck.
@@yasminaziz4802 i doubt this is true, but if it is, you have good parents, keep going and good luck.
Like if you’re a Duolingo Toilet student.
(wheeze)
hahaha :D
800+ day streak XD
C'est moi!! 🇭🇳🇫🇷
I felt personally attacked
this lockdown i am determined to learn french
How is your progresse afer a month??? Or did you give up?
I am doing the same thing
Lol I've been learning French for 8 years in school and I still don't know shit
@@heydud8611 bc its school
@@heydud8611 school is pretty shit for learning new languages.
Ikenna: "not being consistent"
Me: **nervous, guilty laughter**
YEP! I feel that... been learning Japanese for a couple months and although ive learnt the entire hirigana alphabet and how write and read it, and a lottt of new words. i dont practice/study as much as I should T-T
As a polyglot I can tell, you're very good in what you do! The main problem is to make people have the right mindset to learn
the duolingo on the toilet made me laugh so harddddddd hahahhahahahah
Hahaha Same 😂😂
i know its so relatable hahaha @@brrrr5638
ME with German and French
Guess where I am 😂
Same too 😂😂😂
Me: **is learning japanese**
Ikenna: you need to watch shows with subtitles in the language you are learning.
Me: oh yes anime
頑張って！
69 likes amirite
元気？ははは。あなたがすぐに学ぶことを心配しないでください。
@@kiavra1789 I typed some words I know and then I asked a friend to translate. I know it dosen't make total sense -w-'
I have over a year since i watch kdramas and i still don't know korean
Is that Hisoka’s theme?
THANK YOU!! I THOUGHT I WAS GOING INSANE AHHHH
@@addieleveridge2649 SAME💀
I WAS SEARCHING FOR A COMMENT LIKE THIS I THOUGHT I WAS LOSING IT
OMG I HEARD THAT AND AS SOON AS I DID I LIKED THIS VID OMGGGGGG
Weebs
I’m Norwegian and I’m trying to learn Japanese. Wish me luck!
You and me both
@@user-wf7je8di9t kankoku jin desu ka ?
Eyyy brunost gang
@@Lea-fw5ht, oh Jesus, brunost!
Det gjør jeg og
No one:
Me: *try to focus*
My brain: "can't trust him. He is killmonger"
Yoo i was abt to comment that he looks like him💀💀💀💀
Lmaoooo
I’m weak 😭😭😭
Hoa Pham Cam I am SCREAMING
Omg he also sounds like him
me: learning french for 5 years by now in school and all I know is how to introduce myself
this dude:
* *I can speak french after 6 month* *
how do you pass any exams like that?
@@altenberg-greifenstein putting everything I have to know for the exam in my short term memory one night before the exam
This experience is soo common! I experienced this in high school also. Got a lot better once I started reading books I already loved in my target languages.
@@vavibab how'd you get so good at English then?
without listening you are not gonna learn, i’m a polish native speaker and i was learning english in school since i was like idk 4/5 years old (now im turning 16 in july), but i wasnt able to understand a lot and especially talk until i started to watch tv shows in english in summer 2019. now its 2021 obvs and as you can see i am able to talk to you and fully understand you right away (ofc i make mistakes and i dont know all the words but that even happens in polish). so u know, you just gotta listen and you will learn
Bombed Spanish in high school,..making a run at it again at age 48. Thanks for the boost brother 👍
"that language is yours" this is so what I needed to hear. I just started with italki last week and already I am seeing a huge jump in my progression. I wish I had not waited. I have been in beginners spanish since high school. Finally, about 20 years later, I am making breakthroughs. I just started learning hebrew and won't make the same mistake. Signed up for Italki and a hebrew tutor right away.
Did you just label finnish as a medium difficult language?
Holy shit the bread boys
I saw that 😂🇫🇮
Bread Boys do you speak Latin
th-cam.com/video/zVjlRMGVV74/w-d-xo.html
How ya doin dad and son?
I change my phone's language to Japanese. Wish me luck
Good luck pal
lmfao hows that gone for you
How did it go?
I think he can't even enter in youtube anymore lol
@@satoshi4021 shit
He : how u can learn a language in 6 months
Chinese: haha there are 80,000lettrs u can't even beat me in 1 year
That langauage scares me
@@fannyyyyyyyy lol same there are more than 200,000 letters
there are no letters. chinese uses a pictographic system of symbols.
@@danceproject7849 oh ok but that is also a lot
@@shilpa1333 i know, i’m a native speaker. i was just pointing out that “letters” is not a thing in the chinese language.
To all the weebs out there:
Y‘all hear the background music? 👀⭐️💧
Yo 🤩 for real 🤣!!!
Meh
Yes! I thought I was hearing things😂
YESS
You're basically saying to watch Anime to learn Japanese...
I like that
I know right lmao?! But I want to say it before anyone else says it. The way they speak japanese in anime is not exactly how japanese people really speak. So watching actualy japanese shows is probably rrecomended
@@yungjoshi7246 Sure, I'm for example learning from books, but as TV-Shows I'm watching Takeshi's Castle aaannd Anime (I'd still watch it if I wouldn't learn Japanese)
@@bubifracihd Same brother
A good show for learning if you have Netflix is terrace house. Really helps me
@@yungjoshi7246 that depends on the type of anime you are watching if you fantastical type of anime then no but if you watch alot of serious adult drama that were adapted from hard book literature or slice of life anime .
*is Filipino and Watches Dora*
Me: *Yes I am Fluent in spanish*
Hola soy *DORA*
Chit chirit chi chi dora
@@unknownbeaver3069 And I'm boots!
i liked this
*para* stop *andar* go
There's one series named Coffee Break French, it actually helped me a lot in my French learning. J'ai écouté le podcast pour un longtemps, et il m'aide beaucoup. ❤️
I've learned korean for like 3-4 years. I started learning it when I was 12 and now I'm 18, I wasn't really committed to it those times, I was never consistent until one day I thought of continuing it. Now I'm improving my vocabulary not really fluent but I can already understand the basics and watch videos without subtitles, can write and read and type fast enough. Some say I have a good korean handwriting tho haha I never knew my reason for studying it lol. Now I'm learning French, Russian, Japanese and Chinese because I was advised to make busy times because of some mental health issues. I thought one is not enough so I challenged myself with four haha.
*Me, a Spanish student who is told by their teacher to use Duolingo.*
“Que demonios-“
How many times u use the app each day?
¡Que clase de demonios!
I feel so proud I actually understood
@@apolo6002 je utilisé ce chaque jour! C'est très difficile, mais, je veux apprendre ! Sorry if all that is wrong but like i said, i want to work on it!
No recomiendo Duolingo para nada, por mas de que uses duolingo por 4 años vas a terminar sin haber aprendido nada
when you're learning Japanese and everyone assumes you're just a weeaboo, but you really just want to learn the language and mover there one day, it's really hard to try to self teach yourself because you don't have any support because they just laugh and ask, 'oh is it so you can watch anime? haha lol'
Soo relatible
Yeah, how often I've been called a weeaboo as an attack on Twitter when having a discussion with someone just because I indicate I can speak Japanese on my profile, when I don't even like Anime at all (with few exceptions like DB, I prefer Manga if at all) .
Fr there’s a difference between a weaboo, a person who actually wants to learn about japan, and a person who just wants to watch anime.
yes, i'm learning Korean and all i get asked is "ArE yOu A kOReAbOo?" people also say "sO Um iS it To UnDerStaNd kPoP?" no, bruh, it isn't, i genuinely like the lnagauge and kpop _may_ have inspired me to learn it but it doesn't mean i'm doing it just for that reason.
I get called a koreaboo for wanting to learn Korean. Like bro I already speak 4 languages, this is just another language I’m trying to learn??? Am I frenchboo for learning French?
This was the most helpful video i have ever seen on learning a language!!! Thank you sooo much!!! Im so mug more confident and excited to learn!
Time to watch Coco in Spanish a billion times until I can understand the songs...
Me listening this and thinking “but how can u learn just by listening and using subtitles- like that’s so random u’ll never learn the words because convos usually go fast” AND THEN REALIZING that I’ve basically learned most of my English (which is in no way similar to my native tongue) by watching TH-cam and following my fave ones on Instagram
Same
same!!!!!!!!! but i’ve learning through tv shows this is insane
That's how I'm learning Russian 😂 Through YT and Instagram
lol when your brain hits you back with the comeback
Suomalainen?
FRENCH TRANSFORMATION: 2 YEARS
9/7/20
Week 1: (An edit from further down the line) can't remember what it was like.
Week 2: (Another edit from further down the line) can't remember what this was like either.
2 weeks into learning french, Will keep u updated weekly. (Original first post)
Week 3: one more week of pimsleur and then moving on to assimil finally. Starting to pick up more words from watching loads of series and films etc...
Week 4: Final week of pimsleur so hyped to get onto Assimil for a change of things.
Week 5: Found some cool music, movies/series seem to have become clearer as I am comprehending much more of what I hear.
Week 6: Found an intermediate podcast that i can understand the gist of. Gave me a huge boost in confidence as i continue to progress through assimil. (InnerFrench is the name of the podcast)
Week 7: Still going, motivation kinda going up and down. Still consistent tho. 2 month (roughly) milestone coming up.
Week 8: had a conversation with a tutor online to get my speaking going a bit. 2 months (roughly) in to the 6-7 months journey.
Week 9: Yes. Still going.
Week 10: (1 day early) Closing in on the end of Assimil (2 more weeks to go).
Week 11: (un jour plutot encore) The usual...
Week 12: Really found this week hard. Really losing motivation, not really learning vocabulary and generally slacking. However I’m still getting at least an hour of french in a day, whether it be a film podcast or work. Hopefully I will find the courage to tighten up on my work, review the past lessons and learn the past vocabulary next week. I knew this stage would come, however, and I’m prepared to get out of it. Basically life’s getting in the way.
Week 12.5 Goal reached. Assimil finished. Glossika and vocab grinding next. Next goal is to have spent 6 months learning.
Week 13: Glossika started.
Week 14: Continuing to feel like I'm getting nowhere.
Week 15: The weeks really are going fast now. I've started to notice some things that people call "early signs of fluency". Things like dreaming in french (I have had three in the past two weeks) and when speaking in english saying random french words by accident. Also watching more TV now as i realized i needed to immerse myself as much as I could.
Week 16: Had a tough phase of feeling like I'm making no progress. I have now moved on from glossika as I found it pretty useless. Now, taking sources from more native content, using (for the first half-hour of the day) a book in french and then adding it to Anki, and then (second half-hour of the day) taking vocab from a film in french and adding it to Anki. Not forgetting to do the weekly meeting on Italki and an hour of TV watching (not adding to Anki) every day. This feels better as I'm spending at least two hours of French contact every day (compared to one and a half hours).
Week 17: Need to watch more TV. For some reason, I find it harder than doing the work for the day.
Week 18: rien comme d'habitude
Week 19: I am now doing an hour and a half of work every day and trying to watch more TV. Motivation fluctuating. Not seeing progress at all.
Week 19.5: Joyeux Noel tout le monde!!
Week 20: downloaded HelloTalk which is a massive help for my spelling (my big issue)
Week 20.5: Bonne annee tout le monde!!!
Week 21: Il faut que je retrouve mon routine encore car recement j'ai fait tout mon francais le soir.
Week 22: Ive been dropping to half an hour of day for vocab and grammaire and watching much more content instead.
Week 23: I've watched wayyyy more tv which feels good as I feel more immersed. Trying to get back into my routine of 1 hr a day. Thanks for all the likes eveeryone 👍 3 weeks until 6 month landmark.
Week 24: Two weeks away from 6 months. I've been slacking and not doing enough . I am going to try and maintain a routine through the next two weeks and then I will write a short essay so you can see my progress and the end of 6 months etc etc
Week 25: Awful. haven't done any review this week. I'm gonna try and push to do half an hour a day this last week and then I have to start revising for the DELF B1. 6 months in 1 week.
Week 26: See below
- 6 MONTHS -
Lets goooooooo! I guess this is the end of the initially proposed time to learn the language, and let's just say I did. I'll write a bit in French now so you can see what 6 months has done to me starting from A1 Level of French and turning it into a middle B1 Level.
( I am going to continue with half an hour of french a day and input of course, however I won't update anymore )
( If you google translate it and swap it round a few times it will give you different results, this is how you know that this whole thing is legit )
Finalement c'est le fin de ce longue voyage d'apprentissage du francais, je veux dire tout simplement que c'est bien passe et je me suis beaucoup ameliore. Pour chaque un/une d'entre vous qui apprendre accun langue, je vais maintnent vous donner des conseils a mon avis. Surtout quittez pas. C'est la chose que je te recommend a faire. C'est vachement dur au debut mais si vous essayez bien, vous allez reussir sans doubt. Faites confiance en vous, c'est pas impossible mais honetmment, pout avoir commence, c'etait la partie la plus dur. Vous connaissez que ca va etre dur, mais vous inquietez pas, Vous serez pas parfait jusqu'au vous l'avez fait depuis les annees. Chui pas de tout parfait. Du coup, j'espere que vous croyez tous que vous pouvez tous le faire. Ceci va etre la dernier fois que je vous tiendrai informer mais je vais partager avec vous quand j'atteinds le niveau de DELF B1 ( je vais prendre l'epreuve). Bonne chance a tout le monde, et quel plaisir a partager cette experience avec vous.
Au revoir.
Fin.
- 12 MONTHS -
I haven't done any French for 6 months now, however i have managed to retain the ability to speak and listen and read to the level I did before, if not better. I did the DELF B1 exam and passed. This is just letting you know once the language clicks, you really dont forget it (until many years have passed). I even think in French subconsciously sometimes which is maybe why I've managed to retain most of the knowledge. Sure there are some words that can't be revisited frequently enough as they aren't used in conversation. Anyway, ill give future updates in the months to come.
- 2 YEARS -
Ca fait longetemps depuis j'ai fait du francais parce que je l'ai arrete pour un peu de temps, mais ca ne veut pas dire que je l'ai oublie. Il y a deux ans j'ai commencer, j'ai pris du temps pour apprendre quelque chose qui m'a interesse, et ca valait la peine. Ce que j'ai apris ces derniers deux annees, c'etait que c'est bien facile de mantenir une langue quand tu l'a appris, alors si vous l'apprenez, ne quitte pas! Je veux bien croire que je me suis un peu ameliorer parce que si non c'est un peu inquietant, mais pour l'avenir pour vous tous, je vous souhaite bonne chance.
- 3 YEARS -
Je vais peut-etre aller a l'université a Paris, une reve dont j'ai eu depuis le moment out j'ai commence d'en apprendre, y a trois ans. Je sais pas pourquoi je continue a commenter ici surtout quand personne ne le lit pas, mais je le ferai quand meme mdr. Bonnce chance a tout le monde!!
keep goin champ
Commenting to keep tabs on this
Keep going you got this!
You got it bro! keep it up
So proud of you!
I followed your FME method, and it worked like a charm. I can't believe I have a good grasp of French🇨🇵 after only 1 year. Thanks for motivating me to learn a language Ikenna 🙌 gonna brush up 1 more year before I move on to Arabic! 💪
Heyo man, I’ve only just picked up french and tried to start learning really recently, i’d be interested if you had any tips or specific things that really helped you? or even your process of learning - just genuinely curious how i can maximise my learning haha thanks
@@paxtonhayes7822 Ikenna did the same, 1 Pimsleur lesson per day really helped effectively!
One of the most helpful and inspiring language videos I've ever watched, great job!!
I am going to start learning Japanese from tomorrow. I’ll be back in a year!
I started- what? 10 months ago?
DON’T BE LIKE ME.
I was Lazy and took really long breaks.
I learned a lot when I actually studied.
But then lost like- everything lol.
So yeah. Good luck! :)
I’ll be back in a year also.
BluBellah thank you!! And goodlcuk to you too!!
Itachi Naruto you made decent progress?
Big Man no lol, right after I said that they announced I had to still make exams.. I wasn’t able to work much but I did make some progress
It's been 2 months? How's it going?
Everyone in the comments saying you can learn a language just by listening but that only works if you study the language
You need to understand something,like the way that leanguage Works,rules,the way to write,all of this can help
you have to understand 80% of what you are listening otherwise that method won't work.
I learned bulgarian by watching tv , english by watching youtube videos, french by moving to belgium when I was 5, and turkish by it just being my native language.
I didn't study anything at all to learn these languages I just listened, what do you mean ?
Manannan anam so basically be conscious of what i’m listening to? cuz now that i think about i do tend to block out any and all noise while i read LMAO
@@ichbinhier355 but you get to that by listening and google translating the words u dont know tho...
Thanks for showing this method to people. I always learned languages that way as a child - that is the intuitive and most effective way, as you've explained, too. A few years ago I worked on a project discussing language learning, among others. What I found backed up what I always felt about languages. Thinking you have to perfect grammar first, before even being frequently exposed to the target language is so backwards, tidious and uninspiring...
That's how schools do it. I was going nowhere whenever I started learning a new language in school. Only when I made my own effort of watching and listening to mostly entertainment, leading up to debates or speeches with more advanced narration, I actually made significant progress, both in grades AND passion for the language.
I'm learning Estonian... This is gonna be a tough journey
Not really related but the Estonian flag looks stunning
I'm actually from Estonia👋
@@Ji-yoo why tf is your name korean then 🧐
1:22 harder languages will at least takes 12 months
Me: cries in Chinese when learning Korean
IKR, I'm learning Japanese, guess it's going to take me a while. Good luck learning Korean😊
Me confused between Chinese or japanese 🤧
Ora Parker 頑張って to all of you!
@@kamuikanna6922 sameee
I'm intermediate in korean, now i want to learn French and Italian. Korean is a little hard but worth it because i can understand kdramas a little bit
For most if not all people:
Learn a language. Not only will it boost your ability of memory it is also something you can do to relieve stress. I've been learning languages lately, not only that but the culture i want to speak. You will feel so fascinated with the world around you. You feel like you can see in the eyes of a different person. I've been struggling in life but teaching myself these things makes me a lot happier. I feel like I'm seeing my home as a person who's never seen it. What they would think of our cities, houses, and overall what our world is like. In a new light.
Then again this could just be me. I think you should give it a shot and see what you think about it. I think you'll enjoy it.
Nope, it's not just you! YES learning a new language and culture makes you see everything in a new light, keeps you motivated and it's fascinating indeed!!! My native language is Greek and I am self-taught in English (fluent) and for 2 months now, I'm learning a third one which is Spanish (''light'' conversations ..so far). I think it's that sense of accomplishment along with the new info about a different culture, that makes me so much happier :D
It's the same thing for me but with history. It's so refreshing and learning new things and discussing history puts a smile on my face.
I can't tell if you overact, but it's indeed amazing to learn a language and watching the ability of using the language growing every week and so on. What I wanted to say is, one of the best things about learning foreign languages is when a stranger hears her\his native language. It also connects people
@@19MJ58 how did you learn Spanish
@@disease9674 Ι learned with Duolingo! It's been 7 months now (222 days in a row, on an average of 15mins per day) and I'm able to have plenty of more complex conversations in Spanish now! Some Spanish customers at work are very impressed every time we talk, but I would't say I'm fluent ..I'm getting there though ;)
I already learned how to say few things in 2 days, which are:
I, You, She, He, It, eat, house, there is and well a few basics
Thank you so much!! I’m trying to learn Spanish because everyone thinks I’m Hispanic and I live in an area with high Latin population so instead of saying I don’t speak Spanish I’m going to learn it XD
This comment is for anyone who is learning a language and is lacking motivation: You 👏 can 👏 do 👏 it 👏
It may seem impossible, but you're getting there step by step. I've been learning Spanish for 2 years and I'm not even conversationally fluent, but after taking Ikenna's advice and immersing myself, I'm slowly getting better. Keep going guys. I wish you luck.
suerte! y gracias
I've been learning spanish in school for four years and I'm not even conversationally fluent
I'm trying to learn Korean and Korean is SO HARD. I can read it yes, but I still can't fully understand it, so I guess I will go with the input stage and then just dismiss the subtitles
감사합니다!
Спасибо!
3:56 And Frozen is dubbed into 50+ languages, I watched it in different language all the time and that helped me to learn some vocabs
Omg, I watched frozen in english (first time for fun), then in Arabic (to understand more words), then on French (cause I'm studying French) and now I'm for frozen in Korean(haven't started yet but I will) , Japanese (already started but deciding if I actually want to learn it anymore) and Italian (fluent).
My family is sick of frozen and frozen 2 because of me
Thats baka
Ok this is genius
Wait how to you do that
Really enjoy your video! Thanks
Soooo many language learning video's on TH-cam. But THIS ONE my dude. This one is actually helpful! I just watched you talk for 8 minutes and not one moment I was distracted. The way you bring this information is just so talented. Thanks
“Watch shows in the language youre trying to learn with subtitles.”
Dub watchers: **punching the air**
Well good think I don't like dub😊
lmao I watch both
jaden sucks I watch
None, anime is boring imo
NicE pfP 😳
Me
Challenge: Finish Primsler learning before the free trial is up.
Ashlyn Currie or just download it from piratebay and have unlimited acces how about that?
@@ashrafnimr3388 whaat how to do that please teach me master
Raluca Ioana Grigoraș well you need to go on the website thepiratebay from there on you can search for anything you want get utorrent and you can download any Language you want
@@ashrafnimr3388 True, but that eliminates the sense of urgency and could led to procrastination because "i have it forever for free." The free trial challenge is where its at for me
download a free VPN (I used riseup vpn) + torrenting client (I use qBitTorrent cause it’s free and open source). PirateBay is ok but a lot of the torrents are dead, so try lots of different newer torrent sites (for Japanese I recommend nyaa dot si cause they have some mega packs of learning resources)
Thank you so much man, this is Hella helpful
Hey, this litteraly helped me, thanks
Me: 14 yr old freshman with no money
You: says app that cost money
Me:😭
(Edit/update )I am now a 15 year old sophomore who is interested in Other languages such as Korean , Japanese, Chinese and Hebrew 🤗😪😫 My attention span on one thing sucks ..... welp On to new things ....😬
Pastel Dunes I feel you. I’m thirteen lol 😭
Using Duolingo, Memrise, and watching shows/movies in your target language should be a good enough start! I'm doing that with Romanian right now and making time for it every day. No need to dish out money xD
†花 I’m trying to learn German, any tips???
Samee
Saltyyy Boi label every object in your house with its German counterpart, watch German tv shows, I watch the good place on Netflix with German dub and English subtitles, and listen to German music ❤️
But what if you go to the toilet A LOT?
Toilet study works, though.
you should see a doctor lol
@@XelaShade doctors should not get in the way of life challenges)
🤣
Omg, your background lofi Howl's Castle is just amazing
i'm currently learning Thai (i am a spanish speaker) and this video encourage me to don't give up yet 😂 it is a bit hard. i also speak italian and english and i learnt both by myself. so if i could, anyone can do it too for sure
How’s it going? What resources are you using?
I’m Thai and so impressed that you are learning my native language! Good luck Samantha! 👏👏🎉
can you do a timelapse of you learning Korean (if you do choose to learn it)
Definitely
YAS learning it rn
i currently learning it i use duolingo and a webstie or book you can by called korean from zero i also and making my own workbook for it so when i finish it can help others for example in my work book i write each word five times in korean to help me memerize and it actually helps and also mini quizes for each section
저도요!😍😍💖💖😊😊
안녕하세요
I'm so frustrated that i'm starting to lose my motivation
@DBangz I can help you to learn Russian, I'm a native speaker. And you could help me with my English.
Do you have instagram? I'm learning russian too
Remember why you started and what motivated you in the first place !
@@floif9942 yep instagram.com/grand_stay_morning/?hl=ru
@@snuppl512 We can learn languages together by helping each other
You are smart, goodlooking, helpful and I love your necklace. Thank you!
Thank you! That's literally what I came up with myself during self learning of English. But I didn't know about Pimsleur or Glossilka. I Will surely try that out when I start learning Spanish.
P. S. Added few words to my vocabulary from this vid
Your french is improving so rapidly i like it
@unknown Rapidly exist in english ??
@unknown Thank you to learn me new english words ^^
@@FunnyParadox thankyou for making me learn * or to teach me new words would be the correct sentence :)
@@pragyagoel1020 Thank you for your correction ^^ :D
@@FunnyParadox It's my pleasure.Where are you from btw :)?
Well I have 5 months off of school so I’m going to learn french, and I’ll be back when I’m done just to prove that I can do it
keep us updated
Lol im doing the same thing but with italian
I'm doing the same thing but with korean
I’m doing the same thing with Spanish.
Hey, I’m French :) If you have anything that confuses you or if you have questions about French, you can ask me 😄
Great video. Thanks.
Thank you Ikenna!
THE PART WITH “this means dog , now give me 10$ “ GOT ME ON THE FLOOR
Eli M. 2:43 if anyone is wondering !
Yeah, but it was Chinese dollars so around a buck 50
@@klas67memes92 bro he said dollars not Yuan. A dollar is a dollar
I am polyglot and It's the first time I hear a true advice "All begin by listening and listening and listening". Without noticing, you begin to apprehend some words here and there that when you grasp the whole meaning and after that you are being curious like "Oh that was used here and there why ?" and you look for an answer one by one. To the level where two native are speaking beside you and you are like "holy s* did I really understand their discussions !" - that was my case lol And it's really effortless and fun but the key is being passionate about the language you want to learn
The funny thing is when you read the subtitle and you're like "Oh this not really what they are trying to convey"
Great video
Greeting From France
this is what im doing.
6 months arabic challenge
listening alot, n study 1 hour a day
i will be fluent in arabic at the end june 2019
@@ICanSpeakArabic It's seems too ambitious but setting a goal would not hurt you ^^
May I know what attract you to learn Arabic ?
once upon a time "china's great wall" attracted me. n now i acheived chinese.
when i was in school
i remember "geoghraphy" class about egypt's pyramid , sphinx etc
this hv been akways attracted me.
but 2019 i told myself its time to get ready.
ofcus i dont need arabic to visit any arabs countries, but if i can speak their language , they would be more happy. n as a polyglot why not to open another door ?.
yes, indeed, within 6 months i will definately come out good result.
bcus i m devout on it.
comme on dit ...
cest la vie !
on fait ce que on aime . alors cest l heure ! ^^
@@ICanSpeakArabic Oh that great
Je vois si tu es dévoué à la tâche, tu arriveras tôt ou tard ^^
So حظا سعيدا (good luck)
@@himerobine
شكرا يا صديقي.
وانت كذلك ^^
Thanks you such for showing me these apps I just finished my first lesson in Japanese and I never knew it wasn't too difficult to learn! They explain everything so well! Nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu!
When you gotta learn french for school but you wanna learn Japanese ✋😔
French is cool ... Not saying it because i am French.... or anything 👀 B-baka
@@teachkeemo1572 seriously man French is cool af
All Canadians must relate.
Me but w German in school I dropped French. I had to take French and German for 2 years then chose one or both for GCSE ugh
same. i want to learn italian but i have spanish at school which im not that much interested in
"plants don't grow every single day,maybe sometimes they are lazy so most of the days" cracked me 😂😂 you really seem to understand plants
Ila Jung hey Army 😂☺️💜
STEP 1: watch TV shows or TH-cam videos in that language
Me: *watches Anime almost everyday* YOSH STEP ONE COMPLETE
I don't watch anime anymore but I used to watch it a lot and I never learnt more than 10 words. However, I have a sister that obsessively watches K-dramas and never took a language learning class but she says she can understand half of it without subtitles (but can't speak it). Was very surprised when she said that. Maybe she's lying or I just don't understand life.
@@sarban1653 watching TV shows, listening to music, etc. just help in pronunciation and intonation 😂😂😂 your sister may or may not be bullshitting but hey, nothing's impossible
Sarban lol when you watch things like K-Dramas kind of obsessively, you actually do pick up a lot of phrases and responses. Also, you become used to the tone people have so you can kind of guess stuff. A lot of the people I know that watch anime know almost no Japanese, but I’ve picked up a bit of Thai and Korean from watching dramas in those languages. Maybe it has to do with the tone of Japanese and the characters, or because it’s more fast paced when they’re talking?
@@mugensgeta1125 A theory: babies don't learn a language only by listening to people. They are also observing people. I've read somewhere that they need to see your face to learn better. I think that it is plausible that observing mouth movement helps to assimilate a language. So on that front, watching animated characters who are notorious for having unrealistic mouth movement might be why the results are so poor, while watching live action shows or videos seems to fare better.
Serge Lévesque yeah, I completely agree. I think associating sounds with movement and facial changes is really important cause it makes you focus more on the words + teaches you how to mimic. Just being able to look at actual humans speaking in a realistic way helps a lot. ❤️
I just bought the book last night and I’m excited!
Great info 💕thanks Bravo a book very impressive
"Do you not remember Spanish class in high school??" OOF I FELT THAT
Me: learning Italian
Also me: downloads every language learning app that's not even about learning Italian
Lol. It's exactly me. Too much passion for learning languages...
Buona fortuna! È bello conoscere nuove lingue.
Io anche sto studiando italiano mà è molto difficile per non avere con chi parlarlo 😭
No worry, even for us italians our language is difficult
@@Lorena-io9sl hi! in from italy and italian is my native language... we always make A LOT of mistakes while speaking and italian with a high level of fluency are so rare. ik, it's sad but it is.
just 15 or 20 years ago italian was so different bc italian speakers always try to simplify their own language, so don't worry too much about being perfect while you're speaking.
verb tense is the most difficult thing to learn but you can communicate and be understandable even you don't know how to conjugate verbs... try to focus on sentence structure bc it's so flexible and a single word in the wrong order can change the meaning of the sentence.
Idrk why people want to learn Italian sincerely😅 but I really appreciate that🥰💜
I'm still learning English so sorry if I made some mistakes, I promise I will be better.
oh and I'm trying to learn Korean too and I'm really motivated
Its so nice to have a sincere person sharing their experiences
Thanks for the confidence. 👍
Lol I don’t understand why Korean is grouped with the hard languages. I have experience studying 21 languages and coming from an English native background, I wouldn’t rate Korean any harder than European languages like Spanish or French. First, it has a very easy alphabet. Second, to understand sentence structure you just have to think like Yoda. Not difficult to get used to. Third, you don’t have to learn an accent. And yes, it’s based off of Chinese, but you don’t need any knowledge of Chinese to learn Korean. Verb conjugations aren’t any harder than with other languages.. in fact, I think learning French, German, or even English (as a second language) would be harder than Korean as far as conjugations. Korean is super simple to pick up on. The only hard part is the number system, and that’s strictly memorization and practice, just like anything else. To me, the middle languages that I’ve tried (Greek, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Hindi) are much harder than Korean ever gets. (Honestly Russian isn’t that hard though.) so yeah, I would rate Korean as a easy language if anything, and move Hebrew to the hard languages, based off of the fact that you’re literally reading and writing backwards which is soooo hard to get used to. Not just word order, letter order too. Sounding stuff out backwards. And tbh maybe Polish should be rated as hard too, since their words and the way the words were pronounced literally I swear have no connection rofl (I’m joking but seriously who thought that was ok)
Lexicon 95 so true! I studied abroad in South Korea for a summer and I went from only knowing how to say my name to understanding and having basic conversations. Like you mentioned, the alphabet is super easy considering it is derived from Chinese. I think people get scared because of the Hangul characters. They are so easy to read though.
The language system includes writing that's why the Asian languages and arabic are rated harder
Lexicon 95 I'm just wondering: what was difficult for you in learning Polish words? Coming from Poland myself, me and my friends that also like learning languages, we came to the conclusion that learning pronounciation of Polish words is way easier than English ones. Because you literally pronounce the words as the letters in Polish alphabet. You can't say the same word in few different ways (e.g "tear" and "tear") or write it differently but always pronounce it the same (e.g: name Isla/Ayla/Illa etc.). Of course, you need to learn typical Polish sounds (sz, rz, dż, ź, ch, dzi, ł, ą, ę, ć, ń etc) but once you master them, they always stay the same. I'm just wondering why do you think there's no connection in pronouncing and writing words in Polish? Is it because of the harsh sounds or overall hardship in saying the words out loud?
Ori Gotchi I was mostly joking about my understanding of letters pronunciation coming from English. I’m still not used to reading a polish word and pronouncing it because I don’t have a strong sense of Polish phonetics. It probably makes a lot more sense to a native speaker, and like you said, I need to master reading the way it sounds, which is completely foreign to me. I completely understand how English must be really hard for someone coming from a different language background lol... but yeah again it just makes sense to me because it’s my first language
Dave Hauthorn sounds great! I’m still a beginner in Hindi myself so I don’t have a ton of advice to offer but it sounds like you’ve started off well. Just remember to stay consistent and pace yourself well. If you start wanting another way to practice, there’s some great language apps out there!! I recommend Duolingo, and if Drops has a Hindi course, it’s a great vocabulary tool. I also like to make Quizlets of new words I learn so I don’t forget them. Hope this helps!
i learned english this way without even knowing
i started watching english yt videos and over time i learned the language lol
Really and yolu can understand everything and speak it very well
Same on me. I had English class since third grade and didn't really learn anything. I used to have bad marks all the time but through talking to strangers in video games and watching english content on TH-cam I learned to speak the language fluently.
Florian Sauer Just by that??
@@djanu6154 I had a very basic understanding of the language because of school but I didn't know much. The most of it comes from TH-cam. I started watching English yt videos about 4 years ago so I'm not sure if this really is a very effective way of learning but it worked for me.
Same! I'm french native and I studied English for 3 years at college. I still don't know how I learned to speak English so well.. 😂
Love how the song your using is the background music for a song called “drank en drugs” or drink and drugs.