This One Exercise Made Me Fluent In French (In 30 Days!)
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- If you want to know what the best method for language learning is or how to get fluent in french, this is a beginner-friendly method for developing speaking skills quickly. This exercise used consistently over time will help you learn to speak a foreign language faster. It is a variation of the method I used in the video How I Got Fluent In French in 30 Days (Timelapse) and is still the most important part of my language learning method. It will remain where I devote most of the time in my language learning routine for the foreseeable future. I recommend giving it a try for at least 30 Days.
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I would like to share a technique that really took my listening comprehension to the next level. I started doing this while studying for my degree in French. I don't know if this is a known method or if it sounds obvious, so apologies! I take a short (5-10 mins) recording of a native French person speaking. Could be somebody reading the news, somebody telling a telling a story, reading from a book, etc. As they are talking, I transcribe what they are saying, word for word. You will find that you need to stop the recording after each sentence, or rewind and listen to the same clip several times, or look up words you didn't know. It's a really great exercise and helps atune your ear to the French accent, and separate the words from each other.
This is a good idea too!
Thank you for sharing.
Thank you ,it really does help
This sounds really good for improving your listening comprehension - how do you guarantee accuracy if you don’t necessarily have a transcript?
@@jamescarroll7251 You can't unless you get help so just use material with transcripts.
"What's going to happen is, you're going to develop a vocabulary of YOUR life. A vocabulary of words related to your interests, your friends, your family, your job." THIS IS GOLD.
yes!!! when you are able to talk about yourself you grow in self-confidence.
This is something you have to do anyways when speaking with others, but he lays out a method for doing that.
Yeah 👍 this guy is f****** awesome!
Here's the timestamp! 5:40
You made me realise I was afraid of speaking in my targeted language
Same
Edit: my target language is Spanish and I got a teacher via italki. Now I have to speak xD
It's an almost universal fear.... it's not unusual at all.
trueee
I was afraid to talk in my mother language too
Same im really afraid of speaking french
man, I cant believe im gonna say this but I think you just cracked the code. haven't tried it yet but its the first time I feel like there's a method that is possible to help me become fluent in French. Keep doing great stuff man!
Same here... I actually have hope now
@@thelittlebean8734 It's crazy how he's good in french now, I know that because I am
@@thelittlebean8734 do it, then feedback here
Bro I totally agree!!!!!
there are videos of teachers talking about this kind of methods :)
Step #1 = Tell a story for 5 minutes
Step #2 = Write down new words & sentences
Step #3 = Repeat Step 1 & 2
Step #4 = Repeat exercise with a new story
Step #5 = Study the words you've leaned.
BONUS = Go over your story with your language partner.
Thank you :)
Thank you for this summary!!
So do we tell it 3 times a day or once a day?
@@mrstruggle4278 you tell it twice a day
@@mrstruggle4278 3 times a day on an empty stomach
I just finished doing this for 30 days. Huge improvement! I played my Day 1 and Day 30 videos for some people close to me and they heard the enormous improvement. This is not for beginners. You need a toehold in the language to do this. But if you're frustrated with your progress and want to develop with a language you *sort of* know, this method works. FWIW, highly recommended. Like the man said, don't get discouraged: "Push through!"
...and yet the guy making this said it would be tough, not that it was not, for Beginners...wonder who people will listen to...
@@dexstewart2450 He definitely knew the language before he started this. Whether it be the basics from his school days, it's a huge advantage.
I learn French at school and I'm able to decipher the beginner texts they give us and also make broken paragraphs. But that's as much as there is. Especially with listening , I find it hard to understand french. Do you think this method would work for me?
hmm , good point.. maybe i'll wait until i know a little more French to do this.. then again , i probably know enough to start telling simple stories now
me with german
I watched this video and started doing this exercise - not for 8 hours every day, but around 4 hours per week, divided into 2 days (2 hours each). And MAN, did this help? ABSOLUTELY. I can't believe how much better I'm speaking french now. Imagine the wonders this practice can do if we take it like shown in the video.
This guy is a genius!! Thank you for sharing this method with the world!
Hello I would like to know how did you do this exercise for two hours you repeated the five minute session for two I would like to have more details from you please😊
How long did it take tho ?
this is going to be so much fun if you pretend you're a TH-camr doing a "sit down vlog" and tell a ridiculous story lmao this is so helpful thank you ma dude!
I’ve been doing this for a while! Haha
FR i'm excited to start lol
Yeah this is what I do *pretending to be a youtuber*
@@SHINYFUNGAMES how's it going so far?
hahaha , while you're playing , this is exactly what came to my mind.. i seriously thought about making a completely separate TH-cam account that i don't share with anyone i know offline
What's genius about this is the concept of learning and assimilating vocabulary that's actually relevant for you and for the stories you want to tell. We all have a list of words we use all the time in our own language, and we are not even aware of that. Cracking your own system of words in your mother tongue will drastically reduce the number of words you feel you have to learn in order to become fluent in another language. And once you've learned your own word system, then you can start learning someone else's, if that makes sense. Hell yeah!
what if you started using english more often than native language and now you start with french haha
you have then two default libraries and neither is used fully
when you start with new language you link it with what fits of what you know but later it becomes it's own space in brain and overwrites your original thinking and patterns
and hybrids aren't fully adapted to none of parents different environments.
my thinking and behaviour changes depending which language I use
even type of music you listens primed you differently
As a former French teacher, I fully approve! We should not be afraid of our L1 and using that to our advantage as we develop our L*
mot.
@@figgettit pas chapeau
@@TLOGhx hat on a hat
what's L1 and L*?
@@lockaaas L1 Your first language/language you use from birth, one that you acquire because you're exposed to it from a young age. This is distinguished from the target language, the one that you're learning, here for the OP is French. I use L* because whether it's your second language (L2), third (L3), etc. can be really muddy if you live in multilingual environments.
I have a variation on this: in lieu of telling stories, translate a song you know well into German. I’m working on doing 3-4 songs a day as part of my German learning routine.
You could do both 👍🏾
me too !! I went from thinking it sounded like gibberish in song to actually being able to distinguish the words. :D
Ah man I used to do this and it worked quite well. I have to start doing this again.
Erlkönig and bohemian rhapsody lol
Ill try it!
03:00 this is the major problem for everyone who struggles to learn a foreign language. we avoid it because it's painful and not uncomfortable. thank you for this golden advice it's revolutionary. I wasted a lot of time searching on the internet for a method to let me speak and express my thoughts.
Ok! I have done your method for day one. I'm going to do it for 29 more days. I added "speaking to someone in my household" after I've gone through recording 3 times and making flashcards. Here goes! No, no one in my household speaks my target language. They just have to sit and listen to me try.
lol
oooh I should try this!! I always get most nervous when I actually have to talk to someone, so it'd be good practice before working with a native speaker :D
How's your progress going?
This is brilliant! I wish you luck!
Update ?
this is so smart!! I understand french perfectly, but whenever i try to speak i get so choked up, it frustrates me. this really seems like it will work! thank you :)
do it, then feedback here about your progress, please?
My thoughts exactly. It seems like a method for those who already have an excellent passive knowledge of the language. Ive been itching to start speaking but wasn't sure of a good routine and this one will be basically the one I'll go with.
Blanca, have you tried yet? I can read Italian somewhat well, but talk like a 2 year old.
Blanca! Have you tried it? Has it worked well?
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There is a simpler one which works perfectly fine.
Just get an audio recording of someone you want to speak like and turn it on.
Now when that person speaks ,right then and there start repeating what he /she sais and try to copy it perfectly.
Trust me you'll learn. Its how we all learn as babies.
Very effective?
It does work too, but the issue with this method is you're basically repeating another person's way of talking, which most probably is way different to yours. Formulating your own story is way harder, though a lot more helpful on the long run.
I believe both techniques should be combined.
Damn , Im french , and this guy know wat he's doin 4 real
When learning a language, fast is not important. Being through is.
Oh the irony. I think you mean "thorough", friend. :)
@@chrisdevine4848 he must be joking because there is no way he isnt
Depends if u need it quickly or not haha
You can never be thorough enough. You need to keep trying and not give up
Straight up, this method words. I've been using it for French every day since 20 July 2023. My French has gotten so much better in that short amount of time. It's uncomfortable at first, but you get used to it after the first few days. It becomes easier and easier the more you continue to tell your stories and the more you watch and critique yourself. The feedback that this exercise gives you is second only to getting feedback from a native speaker and/or a tutor. The feedback is so valuable. Respect to you for sharing this, my brother!
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I guess im dumb af then. Lol
@@gil_7038 lol
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Cool trick! Just, so you know, we don't say "ce magnifique exercice". "Magnifique" is only for visually beautiful things. Common mistake from foreigners. Keep it up!
Et toutes mes félicitations !
No I am French and certainly the word magnificent means beautiful visually but also for certain expression of the genre magnifique jeu vidéo ».
je suis français et certe mot magnifique veux signifier beau visuellement mais aussi pour certaine expression du genre « magnifique jeu vidéo »
@@mahermeursault9652 i'm french too. je suis française aussi. "'magnifique" ne s'applique pas dans le cas qu'il utilise. Tu peux dire "c'est magnifique!" Pour "that's amazing" à la rigueur. Mais "ce magnifique jeu vidéo" ça sonne mal. Ca s'entend qu'il l'a traduit de l'anglais
@@sofitocyn100 oui mais on peut dire un magnifique histoire
@@mahermeursault9652 déjà, on dit UNE* histoire. Ensuite, l'adjectif se placerait après le mot histoire. Enfin, on dirait "une histoire magnifique" moins volontiers que "une très belle histoire".
@@sofitocyn100 ce magnifique jeu vidéo sutilise quand on parle de lapparence de celui-ci.
I've watched this several times, and the line that always gets me is, "You're going to develop a vocabulary of your life."
I need to know the time you woke up in an ambulance story now 😂😂
I need to know how the dog was still alive!
this technique + comprehensible input = a great combination !!! 😃
Thanks for sharing!
100% je suis d'accord avec toi. merci beaucoup.
Would you agree that he's basically doing self-stimulation as described by Krashen in Principles and Practice in Second Language Acquisiton p. 84?
"The trivial sense in which a conscious rule might 'help' language acquisition is if the performer used a rule as a Monitor, and consistently applied it to his own output. Since we understand our own output, part of that performer's comprehensible input would include utterances with that structure. When the day came when that performer was 'ready' to acquire this already learned rule, his own performance of it would qualify as comprehensible input at 'i + 1'. In other words, self-stimulation!"
I think what Krashen means by trivial is that this phenomenon is of negligible importance in a class-based language teaching scenario. On the other hand a highly motivated solo learner is in a position to take this as far as it can go.
I am using Tandem to find language partners. Your can choose messaging, audio clips, phone, or video as means for chatting and practicing. It was quite intimidating for me at first, but everyone I've chatted with has been super friendly! I am wanting to learn French, Spanish, Korean, and I would like to use your technique in learning how to sign ASL. Thanks for your videos!
thank you for sharing this, i've never heard of tandem and i'm def looking into it!
(also i know this is an older comment but i would practice ASL with you! been teaching myself on and off for a couple years, and it's way easier when studying with another person who's also trying to learn!)
@@phoeniceae hey have u studied French?
@@phoeniceae i grew to love ASL after watching SWITCHED AT BIRTH series.. I would be doing that after i do French and spanish 😅
I was praying for an app like TANDEM. thank you so much!! Im going to give it a try!
Hello, I am french, I feel like improving my english. I will use your process. Thanks a lot.
Best of luck! Bonne chance!
How's it going?
That sounds like a genius approach, I'm gonna try this with Arabic!!
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@@barittos5585 dont be rude lol stfu
@@KokomiyaSangonomi youre the one whos being rude
same
Probably one of the best tips I’ve found on language learning TH-cam in over a year! Bravo 👏🏾
Great discovery! Your self-story-telling method is absolutely the key to quick fluency.
rly good idea! I feel like it would be helpful to expand stories to also talking about your dreams (ex. where do you want to travel and why, where you see yourself in 10 years, etc.) so that you can have balance between learning past tense, present and future
Helpful this
Man, I'm so blown away at your progress, I started uploading videos of myself learning French on my channel, but this 5 minute story is just what I was looking for. I subbed, You're awesome dude!
Wow I absolutely love how functional and accessible this method is!! Thank you for sharing!!
Thank you. You have helped me not give up(again). Speaking and listening have been my downfall (especially speaking,it terrifies me). I am trying to PUSH THROUGH! THANKS AGAIN.
This was an amazing, well thought out and creative language learning exercise that I plan on implementing in my language learning journey(s) in the future!! So glad this video showed up into my feed! Have a good one!
Excellent video. This is a brilliant idea: it's something every language learner does from time to time - but the key is doing it systematically and repeatedly.
You know what I appreciate about this guy? He doesn't skip over the things like "you probably won't tell the story with the exact same words". It's small things like that that make people feel more comfortable.
Can I just say that this is absolutely revolutionary? Thank you for imparting your knowledge with us. You're a legend.
You can also achieve this by thinking about the kind of topics that you enjoy talking about in your target language and homing in on those areas :)
Cool. I'm gonna give that a try as well and maybe add it to my routine. Talking about things we like does conversation a lot easier as well!
What I'm gonna do is also tell current stories to get present tenses down too and do future stories of what I want to do or what I think will happen
@@languagelords can we write the story down before telling the story?
Amazing method. Felt like I've been stuck at an upper-intermediate plateau for so long and this should really help to push further! Merci beaucoup.
OMG. AT LAST!! I've been looking for a detailed method that made sense to me and that was explained in a way that made it easy to understand. You gave me both-excellently. Thank you so much!!
This is such an amazing concept and process. Thanks for sharing with others. I’ve been teaching myself Spanish for about 3.5 years, and have an advanced level of knowledge, but I still struggle with speaking fluently, mainly because I continue to translate from English to Spanish in my head as I’m speaking, and sometimes I just mix things up. I’m going to try this and see how it works for me. I hope I have the patience and discipline to keep at it.
I’ve not seen a tip like this before. Sounds like a great idea.
After doing courses and exams at Alliance Francaise, I've been listening to and learning from native French speakers which has been good and I am progressing. What's refreshing about your channel is that you're not a native speaker but you hacked it! I'd never heard of Anki and DeepL before. Going for it and looking to be completely fluent (able to present and facilitate meetings) by the end of the year. Your dedication also says a lot. I can't afford 8 hours daily but I'll definitely put in the time and expect faster results. Thanks a bunch for these posts. Most useful!
Excellent.
I've been watching language learning vids for like 4.5 years. I've seen tons of methods, but I've never heard of this approach.
Makes sense.
Seems very, very solid.
Good job
This seems like the most practical language learning advice I've come across. I'm going to give it a try with my Polish studies.
I attribute my success learning German to my lack of fear of embarrassment for getting things wrong. Your technique seems great for someone more prone to embarrassment, or with less opportunity to practice with other people than I had. I will recommend it to a friend and when I come back to French, I think I will try it myself.
this method provides precision. people don't. germans are the only exception.
This is a highly autonomous and effective way to learn a language! Thank you for the great input!
I’m definitely going to try this! I’ve been wanting to learn French for years. Thanks for sharing!!
Thank you. Great advice. We spend so much time learning languages from / in books and don't speak aloud enough. Your exercise is a great way to advance your comfort level and get used to hearing yourself speak in another language : )
awesome!!!! thank you for sharing this method. I've been learning French for about 2 months now and I think I'm progressing quite quickly but this will definitely help!
I came across this channel. i been using duo lingo for a week but i really want faster results with french. i feel ur ways will help with those results. thanks for this videos. keep uploading 👍🏼
ABSOLUTELY loved it! Testing yout method ASAP! Thanks heaps
amazing! i have a lot of faith in this. im intermediate in french right now & i’m going to try for a month and see how much i can improve. i’ll update
This is awesome. I’ve been studying for about 5 months and I’m still heavily focused on listening and reading. To break out of that, I’ve been reading mini stories on LingQ and then writing a version based on my own life. Something similar to what you’re doing.
The problem I’m encountering with personal stories is that I place too much stress on “I” and “we” conjugations and I’m not practicing enough of the others. Your method sounds amazing. I’m gonna give it a go, but I have to make sure to insert all the different person conjugations, as well as questions using both vous and tu.
Thanks for your work!
This is brilliant! When you think about it, this is what conversation is. Just sharing the events of your life. Learning how to talk about your own life story... is so good that it seems really obvious but for some reason it isn't.
I'm watching this video every day to push me. Just started today with this method to learn French, my 3rd language. I believe this is the best way to learn. I will give my thoughts as I go! THANK YOU!
This is the MOST helpful tip I have received for my language learning. You are a GENIUS
This sounds like the PERFECT thing to do to take what you know in any foreign language to the next level. We learn so much but if we don't use it by speaking, do we really know it? And actual practice is what makes perfect, right? This sounds like the step that is missing in most (all?) language courses - going to try it next! Great video!!
You're definitely on to something, bruh. I took German up to C1.1 and then stopped to go back to graduate school. I'm back down to B2.1, but I'm gonna try it again! I'll need this method when I return to the States. Thanks.
So happy I found this channel and methodology for language learning. This is awesome. Can't wait to start.
Well done.
I am a hyperpolyglot and I found this simple instructive video very practical and sensible. You communicated your technique rather well.
bruh this is the best video i've seen in a while... it's concise, to the point, and most importantly it provides structure and actionable steps that one can take to achieve fluency! keep up the good work.
Dude, I saw your video on reddit and damn, it's such a good idea! You just got a new follower!
Dude! This is GENIUS!! Thank you so much for sharing!! Totally going to try this.😁👍🏻
Genuinly a method I've never heard before but is soooo useful, thank you for this!
Just wanted to say that I appreciate the time and effort you've taken in making this video. Love the approach to learning French also!
What a great plan! Our everyday conversations are about the things we are most familiar with (ourselves) so great idea to start with learning how to say those things!! Thanks! Love the channel name!!! Subscribed @ 2.23k - Bonne chance!!!
This video is gold! Thank you so much, I’m starting this today.
Just found your channel today, and I have to say, I'm impressed! As a language teacher AND a language learner, I'm very inspired by your content. Your methodology is great. I'm excited to see you learn more languages 🙂
I've been doing this with German for a whole week and I can already see some improvements, mostly related to how i approach the whole"speaking" deal. I'm not as uncomfortable as before and I feel way less awkward while I talk
Also my vocabulary is already vastly improven
Thank you some much for this amazing method
This sounds great. I think a lot of fluency is being able to use the words and phrases that describe your everyday life. Thanks for sharing this.
You the real MVP😊
That honestly sounds like something that works well! I’ll try that with my languages. Thank you so much for sharing!
Thank you so much!! This is the type of exercise I have been looking for!!
You are amazing! Just listening to this I got anxious and excited. I could feel the excitement in my stomach. I'm going to set a goal to do this for 66 days straight. Thank you
How did it go?
@@alexanderhill5206 he didnt commit lol
Did you commit?
Did you do it?
@@aNDY-rj4sy yeah 66 days is way too long, he should've tried 1-2 weeks lol
I moved to France 5 weeks ago with my French wife. I have finally found a process that makes sense for me, thank you! We've been together nearly 6 years and I feel so ashamed that I never learnt enough French to speak comfortably with her dad and sister who both can't speak English. So hopefully with your method I'll make much faster progress. Your videos are so well produced. Have subscribed. Thank you.
My wife and me have been together since 1998 and I still cannot speak French to my eternal shame. It has meant I cannot communicate properly when there and with her family too ( now sadly deceased). I am in my early fifties and finally putting it right. I have spent just over a week learning 200 words from a book with the most common words in the language. Many I already knew and to my amazement I have made significant progress by recording them on a dictaphone and listening repeatedly as well as listening and writing them down as I go. On the basis of the idea of 10,000 hours needed to perfect a skill, it is going to take me a while to crack it but I have the foundation of enough words. I only want enough for conversational French and to understand documents when we are there/ hopefully relocate as I am probably won't need it for anything else like work. Or at least I hope not. We have always spoken in English at home and work in jobs that took up at least 60 hours a week has always meant I have been too tired to learn ( though still a poor excuse). Now I am no longer working ( career break), I can devote hours to it in order to achieve fluency. Having a foothold in the language anyway has helped, of course. I hope your French is progressing well.
You’re absolutely amazing man! I’m a fan already!
You should be recognized and paid for your method and discoveries... Incredible!!! THANK YOU! Started your Routine today!
As a french, I can say that to you: this is impressive!
You get passed from an incomprehensible french to a clear one. I should probably try it too for my english and german.
Wish me luck!
lets do it together
bon chance!
I get it!! Cool. I’d summarize this as: Force yourself to speak by practicing little stories of you life. This make is both relevant to you and makes you ready for conversation. I’m going to try this. I think first I need to focus a bit more on my basic beginner level - but I can just tell very simple stories to start with.
This is super helpful! I genuinely feel like there’s hope to me learning a new language ! Thank you so much
That is absolutely excellent! I can’t wait to try it :)
discord is a good place to practice with a language partner too
I use Omegle! Some creeps on there, but I just put my target language as the tag and it’s mostly people around my age (17) who just wanna talk.
@@randomworkings3600 you can use HelloTalk too
I’ve been trying to figure out how to join a French discord server I’m new to discord and I failed
@@evangelineeden342 there's this discord server called Le Salon Français it's an amazing server you should join!
@@evangelineeden342 go onto a language learning or French subreddit and ask if anyone would wanna help you practice. I’m sure there are lots of French students learning English who would love to have someone to learn English from and teach French to.
Wow dude THANK YOU. my Italian has just moved a ahead in days.
Im trying to learn italian as well, any tips?
@@nylon6240 I'm learning it now too. Do you have any tips?
@@comradeabby3141 Not really,I guess listening and repeating , writing,reading talking,texting and getting correction on those,learn words that you don't understand that you've come across,that kind of thing
Super job! So simple yet so efficient. I recommend this to all my French students of all levels and always share your video!
This was more helpful than anything else I have read or heard regarding language proficiency. Thank you!
God bless you man, this is absolutely BRILLIANT. I’m trying to learn German and I think this will get me there🙏🏾
Ich lerne Deutsch auch. Ich finde "German Demystified" sehr hilfreich. Duo Übungen und Online Geschichte.
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Get this dude more subscribers. this is actual no bs advice. ive learnt four languages and this is a max efficiency method.
this is extremely useful for people who are learning french for business. Telling stories about things that are related to your field of work can really help you finetune that portion of the language.
Bro thank you for this I am going to start tomorrow. Also, get that Merch up because once I become fluent I wanna have a Language Lord shirt
Bonjour Cameron, je te félicite pour ta résilience dans l'apprentissage de langue française, je me suis remise à l'apprentissage de l'anglais, je n'arrête pas de traduire du français à l'anglais, ma motivation n'est pas régulière, ma prononciation est juste horrible, je regarde pas mal de vidéos pour progresser, peut-être que cette année j'y arriverai, I hope so !
Tu dois te donner à fond
This is fantastic!! Next level to have language partners that speak the language you’re trying to learn but from different countries because they all have their own idiosyncrasies, idioms and slang.
Hi bro !! I really like the simplicity with wich you explain your method of learning french. I' m a native French speaker and my target language is English.
I noticed that a lot of people who want to learn a language tend to do all types of exercises except speaking exercises. We learn how to speak by actually doing so, just like children do.
It might not be perfect at the first try, but this is, I think, the natural way to learn anything, by reducing mistakes one after the other: Repetition is the key.
You also mention something very important about the use of words coming from our own life and interest. This is also the best way to build yourself a level of language matching who you really are and that you can use comfortably ( like an old jean)
You are on the right track, you can feel it yourself.
BIG UP !! from Paris.
I'm going to try this.
Merci,
Au revoir
For now 🙂
6:10 "Many of us think that reaching fluency means you have to learn a hundred thousand words and that's not true, fluency is actually just how well you use the words that you know in different contexts” Beautiful statement and not to be ignored. I'm way less impressed with someone learning English that knows a a rare word than I am if they can use grammar effectively with the most basic everyday words e.g. "I would have had to have gone there already" etc
being fluent is objective it isnt just know fewer words and use less words = fluency
@@Black-Circle No, he was right in what he said. It's not about knowing a certain number of words.
@@loot6 so when did he pass the c-1 french test then? I'll wait
@@loot6 having a grasp on the basics is not fluency!
@@Black-Circle Not sure what you're talking about. You're trying to say his personal level of fluency decides whether he is correct or not about what fluency really is about? I've seen ad hominem used often but never seen it used in such a blatant manner.
This is absolute gold. Thank you so much!!!
This is absolutely brilliant. I have just started (as in, less than a week ago) learning Persian and I’m going to add this as a key part of my method and try it out!
So how was the approach? Also, if you don't mind sharing, how did you start? The storytelling aspect on day 1, when you know nothing? How do you tell a story in your target language when you know nothing yet?
Brilliant!! I’m a language learning junkie who’s watched tons of videos on the subject. This is a novel approach! Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to more videos. Quick question - before launching into this method how do you acquire your baseline grammar and vocab?
I'd say that basic apps like Mondly orDuoling should do the trick
Find and study grammar rules that are only necessary in daily life for targeted language, example for german : fälle, präsens, präteritum, perfekt (youtube videos and - grammar book). Then just do this method until you’re used to the grammar by heart
For vocab, I personally used duolingo and a Spanish book for kids that I had a long time ago to start, but it took quite some time. For grammar, I just googled specific grammar tenses and bow they're formed: present, past, future, subjunctive, and command. And I would just speak and record myself and have Google translate in front of me to translate the words I don't know(Google translate works better for United Nations official languages like Spanish, French, etc).
I'd also like to add that I would start listening earlier. It's quite difficult to understand speech at first, so that's something that has to be worked on. When I started using this method, I already knew a bit about grammar and words. I opened subtitles and watched real Spanish channels like HolaSoyGerman, and Google translated the words I didn't know. After some Time I would stop using subtitles.
I ended up going with Pimsleur for my language intro.
Starting today! I'm in Marseille and with Covid - let's just say random convo's aren't being had. It's Ramadan - so I got nothing but time, space and opportunity. Inshallah the next message I type will be in French! Thanks I really like the method.
Any updates?
How is your progress going?
What they asked ^^^
I fell off...cause I hate to study and starting again. I didn't push thru. but I'm still in France. The bakery is tired of my sh*t.
OMG! These points are gold. Thank you.
Bro, this is some absolutely incredible advise, thank you. I've been learning Swedish for a few months, but have not found speaking exercises that work at all for me until this one. This really is a game changer