If you are impatient like me, here's a summary: 6:20 Forget the grammar, don't study grammar, it will hinder you. 8:35 Learning - what happens in a classroom; acquiring - the subconscious way babies pick up a language. 10:36 The natural method (no grammar, no corrections, 90% target language in the classroom) and TPRS (hearing a story and then reading it) are the closest to the way we naturally acquire a language. 21:35 Focus on comprehensible input, listening and speaking. If you learn a language that doesn't use Roman alphabet forget about reading or writing until you are fluent. So here's how you do it: 4. 23:03 Find a language partner (family, friends, trades, apps (HelloTalk), language exchange, craigslist) 5. 25: 44 Get yourself lots of magazines with lots of pictures and children's stories (any language). 6. 27:00 Your language partner will describe the pictures and will ask you simple yes or no questions about the pictures and you will ask simple questions too. The questions are: What is this? What's that? What is she doing? and the most important one: Why? 7. 29:32 Don't speak any English. Try to explain the thing with gestures or draw. If you get stuck just use the phrase "it's not important" and move on. 8. No grammar. 9. No corrections. It's a waste of time. 10. 31:54 TPR - ask your partner to give you commands or actions that you will act out. 11. 35:19 i+1 is input that you already know and +1 is going slightly beyond that level. So your partner will describe things with greater detail or using more sophisticated words. 12. 40:56 Record your sessions and listen back to them. It's important to repeatedly hear things. 13. 42:30 Study abroad and most importantly make friends through acquiring their language. The rest of the video is a lovely documentation of Jeff Brown learning Arabic.
Can we take a minute to appreciate that this is free? Information is sadly not free most of the time, so it's nice to know that you can get some good advice like this for free.
it's free because it has no value. What is true in it, is already the part of serious educational theories. And it also has a lots of nonsense in it :)
if you dont want to sit and watch this then heres my notes. i watched the whole thing -"story telling is *_THE MOST_* powerful way to acquire any language", "80% - 90% of your acquisition language program." he also talks about having someone with you to have so that they can ask simple questions in your target language about the story and such. same with magazines. --he says the most important part of language learning is children's stories and magazines. he says 80% should be child stories and 20% magazines. start with magazines. -students who read 100-150 pages in the language per week have best results -learning style's goal is to *_LEARN LIKE A BABY DOES_* -dont worry about grammar or writing. *_FOCUS ON LISTENING AND COMMUNICATING_* -- *dont learn grammar* until you are fluent (babies dont focus on grammar when they learn their first language) -with the person that is helping you learn your language (called your "language paren" ) which is a, teacher, friend, family etc. its important they speak *NO ENGLISH.* if you arent understanding something, they should to use gestures to help you comprehend. if that doesnt work, then have them draw it. whatever is needed but the point is avoid english at all costs. only use if very needed, at most, 5% of the time -also do dont have your language parent teach you grammar. do not have them correct you at all. *_"CORRECTION IS A WASTE OF TIME"_* unless its a very simple correction that will benefit you a lot -ask your language parent to give you lists of commands or actions. etc: eat, drink, jump, sleep, complain, turn around. try to get up to 50 to 100 actions a session. you dont have to actually do the action, or leave your seat, just use your hands -learning a language, start with simple colors and clothes with your language parent -record your learning sessions and relisten to them. *REPITITION IS IMPORTANT* -*hand gestures* from language parent while talking is important - *STUDY ABROAD* if possible -online apps like duolingo is not good because its mainly just memorization. memorization is not comprehensible input. you could learn an entire dictionary and still would not learn the language. - *PEOPLE SPENT TOO MUCH TIME WRITING THE LANGUAGE instead of the comprehensible input.- big mistake.* - *LANGUAGE EXCHANGE* (find people that are trying to learn your language, that speak the language you want to learn. kind of teaching each other. one example where you can do this online like craigslist, app "HelloTalk" and "Tandem" -he focuses on *COMPREHENSIBLE IMPUT* so again like listening and speaking. you should look up on youtube "comprehensible input spanish stories"" and such like that - recommend watching movies and videos in your target language 43:58 he starts showing his journey on learning arabic from scratch.
oh my gosh, thank you very much for the summary!! sometimes I need a text or something visual (e.g. a picture) to remember some advvices after some time has passed, so you're extremely helpful here. have fun learning!
Part 1: Theory 1) 4:11 - Acquire the language, don't learn it 2) 8:48 - Don't study grammar. Acquire it. 3) 10:33 - Find the right class 4) 15:23 - Find the right instructor 5) 17:43 - Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to acquire that language 6) 23:03 - Find Language Parents (as many as you can) 7) 25:44 - The Magic 8) 31:54 - TPR 9) 33:51 - Read, read, read 10) 35:20 - i+1 37:33 - Why no corrections? 38:45 - What about Rosetta Stone and apps Part 2: Acquisition 1) 43:51 - The first day (week 1, 0 hours) 2) 44:38 - First trade (week 5, 24 hours) 3) 43:51 - A full-time Arabic tutor (week 6, 32 hours) 4) 45:10 - Meetups (week 11, 80 hours) 5) 45:35 - Actual visit to an ESL class + 4 trades (week 13, 96 hours) 6) 46:30 - Greetings, TPR, Magazines, Children's Stories, Repeat (week 18, 138 hours) Totaly 9 month, 300 hours Part 3: Study Abroad 49:56 - 500 hours of speaking in 12 weeks 54:19 - Results P.S. Hey, leave a comment below if I missed something, thank you in advance!
Sir....youve literally changed my life. I stumbled upon this video and im so glad i did. I studied German back in school and lived there for nearly 2 years and i still struggled with the language. I became so frustrated and resigned to probably neevr being proficient. But when i changed my studying from routine memorization and focused on comprehensible input via movies, tv shows, songs etc. my comprehension has doubled. Im starting to understand simpler interviews and even quickly spoken German. When im finally fluent, im gonna come back here. I feel so confident and happy that ill finally after all these years
@@OurSalvationIsNighShe has experience in German, prob didn't use subtitles. You don't have to use subtitles, just actually listen. Sit and watch something in the language you want to learn, not doing something else.
So all this "one" hour of great advices wasn't for convincing people to buy or subscribe to a service !! Thank you professor I will start doing what you said
My parents knew about those experiment and they used on me. Before I enter school I already knew 2 language, I believe in this professor. I was and is a successful experiment. I'm in my fourth language: German and I love it.
In summary because it's a long video... 1) Skip learning grammar and writing at the start Also, correcting things like grammar doesn't work effectively until you're much more fluent 2) Focus on things you hear and things you read with pictures Spend 20% on magazines and 80% on stories like in kids books 3) Get a language partner / great teacher e.g. someone you know who speaks the language or HelloTalk app Try to study abroad or, if it's appropriate, get a romance with a native speaker (I did that, it's helpful!) 4) Learn up to 500 commands by acting them out (you can use your fingers to mime them) Verbs and actions like eat, sleep, run, sing, cry, laugh, stand up, sit down... 5) Increase on the vocabulary you already know by adding extra words/actions/stories that relate to them Car > car tyre > tyres puncture at high speed > this is a blow out etc Remember it's easy to extend quickly with cognates
I can well remember 89'. I was in London for a two week conference. As a Croatian speaker I learned at school English words and grammar, but was unable to speak. I was literally crying in my room, and than I decided to forget rules and simply start to speak, no matter how many mistakes I would do. What a relief. I was born in Italy and speak Italian, but if you ask me the grammar of Italian language I wont be able to explain, since I acquired this language as a child - no rules, no words. Thanks professor.
For people who do not/cannot watch the whole thing, here is my brief summary of it: Essentially what he discussed was this: Learning VS Acquiring: Acquiring is subconscious, learning is not. Acquiring is better. What you need to acquire a language: To acquire a language, you need the following: -Language parents -Children's stories -Magazines -Mobile phone The method: Essentially, you have your language parents explain everything in the magazines and stories. You record the sessions so you can listen to the stories over and over again. Via repetition and careful explanation, you will *acquire* the language. Other things to know: -Keep your language parent sessions to 90% in the target language at least. English (or native language) is okay for help here and there, but you need to stay in the target language at least 90% of the time to get adequate comprehensible input. -Comprehensible input is messages that are made to be easily understandable. If someone is showing you a picture of a ball, and they keep saying "ball" when showing you the picture, you will understand that "ball" means what the picture is showing. -Draw and gesture at first if you cannot understand what's going on. When all fails, move on and says "it's not important" If I've made any major mistakes or something else should be added, feel free to let me know! Hope this helps!
Nice!, this method seems fascinating, the problem is with people like me, we learn in home on our home and we don't have partners, resources, materials so we need to read and take the current material
Certainly! The text outlines several steps and strategies for language acquisition. Here's a breakdown: 1. **Magazine Descriptions:** - Acquiring vocabulary from a travel magazine by having a language friend describe pictures. - Engaging in simple yes or no questions about the images. - Asking basic questions like "What is this?" or "What's happening?" and emphasizing the importance of asking "why." 2. **Children's Stories:** - Using children's stories as the primary tool for language acquisition (about 80-90% of language learning). - Focusing on stories with big pictures and small text. - Avoiding translation; instead, the language partner retells the story in the target language. - Asking simple yes or no questions about the story. 3. **Three Important Rules for Language Sessions:** - **No English:** During language sessions, avoid speaking any English. - **No Grammar:** Don't teach or focus on grammar during the sessions. - **No Corrections:** Request not to be corrected during the learning process. 4. **Total Physical Response (TPR):** - Incorporating TPR, or commands, to learn language through movement. - Creating a list of verbs or actions and using gestures or drawings to understand and communicate. 5. **Reading:** - Encouraging reading, especially tailored to personal interests. - Highlighting the role of reading in putting together grammar concepts and providing context. 6. **I Plus One (I+1):** - Requesting I+1 from language partners, which means receiving just a bit more vocabulary or complexity than what's already known. 7. **Recording Sessions:** - Using a mobile phone to record language sessions. - Listening to recordings to reinforce comprehensible input and exposure to the language. 8. **Study Abroad:** - Planning to study abroad to intensify language learning. - Emphasizing language exchange through trades and building relationships with native speakers. 9. **Language Learning Plan:** - Setting a goal of 500 hours of comprehensible input in nine months and planning to study abroad for an additional 500 hours. - Incorporating language exchange, apps, and building relationships with native speakers. 10. **Closing Thoughts:** - Encouraging a mindset of speaking naturally without overthinking. - Promoting the idea that anyone can acquire a language within a year. Overall, the approach involves a strong focus on immersive, natural language exposure through various methods, emphasizing listening and comprehension over explicit grammar instruction.
I'm a 16 years old native Arabic speaker from Algeria. I learnt English purely from TH-cam videos, movies and reading. In about 2 years I was capable of understanding almost anything. Tho I knew some basic grammar from school, and I believe knowing some grammar can be very helpful; it will clarify and simplify many things that you might find confusing in the beginning.
STEP BY STEP STEP 1 (4:10) - ACQUIRE THE LANGUAGE. DON'T LEARN IT! STEP 2 (8:48) - DON'T STUDY GRAMMAR. ACQUIRE IT! STEP 3 (10:34) - FIND THE RIGHT CLASS STEP 4 (15:23) - FIND THE RIGHT INSTRUCTOR STEP 5 (17:44) - DECIDE WICH LANGUAGE YOU WANT TO ACQUIRE AND HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO ACQUIRE THAT LANGUAGE STEP 6 (23:05) - FIND LANGUAGE PARENTS (AS MANY YOU CAN) STEP 7 (25:45) - THE MAGIC STEP 8 (31:55) - TPR STEP 9 (33:51) - READ, READ, READ STEP 10 (35:19) - I + 1 STEP 11 (40:54) - USE YOUR MOBILE PHONE STEP 12 (42:33) - STUDY ABROAD! (IF YOU CAN) ENJOY IT.
I came back to this video , to thank everbody who made this video after watching this video in 2021 i aquired Spanish and French thanks to u guys , i didn't find natives to teach me so , i did this the different way , i search on youtube ( in 2021) spanish comprensible input and i watched all 567 videos, 3 hours a day, until i was able to understand natives, movies and interviews , after 1500 hours of input i can speak spanish so i did the same with french ( in 2022 december) i spent 1057 hours with French i can understand n speak without a problem, guys discipline is all u need ❤🎉 Am currently aquiring portugués ❤
Could you let me know how you did it by yourself more specifically? Like, did you use/read English(your native language)? How could you be sure about whether some words you think are right/wrong? I wonder if this method works without language partner. Thanks!
After learning Spanish for 1 and a half years, I want to know how you felt in the first 6 months, and then after 1 year, what did you feel about your ability to read and write? listening comprehension, in addition to seeing if the input is easy to understand, do you practice speaking?
Video Summary: *Step 1:* Acquire the language. Don't learn it! *Step 2:* Don't study grammar. Acquire it. *Step 3:* Find the right class. The Natural Approach by Steven Krashen and Tracy Terrell. - No grammar - No corrections - Class is conducted in the target language Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) by Blaine Ray. An offshoot of the Natural Approach. - Storytelling augmented with reading. - Story Listening, used by Beniko Mason, an English instructor in Japan. *Step 4:* Find the right instructor. *Step 5:* Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take you to acquire that language. State Department of the United States guidelines: Level 1: 575-600 hours. Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, Afrikaans. Level 2: 750 hours. German. Level 3: 900 hours (17 hours a week in one year). Malaysian, Indonesian, Swahili. Level 4: 1100 hours (21 hours a week in one year). Huge list, the majority of languages on Earth. Level 5: 2200 hours. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic. In the beginning, don't focus on reading or writing. Just focus on speaking and listening. *Step 6:* Find Language Parents (as many as you can). Ask/beg each of your language parent(s) to help you 2 hours per week. - Family, friends, coworkers. - Trades or language exchange. English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom. - Craigslist ad - Phone apps: Tandem and Hellotalk *Step 7:* The Magic *How to language exchange:* With an exchange partner, use 20% magazines and 80% children's stories. Start with magazines. It doesn't matter what the language of the magazine is in, it just matters that the magazine has lots of pictures. Ask the language partner to lovingly explain the pictures in the target language. Both of you will ask simple questions to each other about the pictures. Language partner will ask simple yes/no questions. Language learner will ask simple "what is this, what is that, what's he doing, what's she doing and why" questions. "Why" is the most important question in any language. Storytelling is the most powerful way to acquire a language. Children's stories should have very big pictures and very small words. It doesn't matter what language the children's book is in. Language partner will not translate the story. Ask the same simple yes/no and "what's this, what's that" etc. questions as for magazines. You don't have to retell the story. Rules for language exchange: 1. No English. Use gestures or acting. Draw if you still don't understand. Bring paper and pencil. If you're still stuck, say "it's not important" in the target language. 2. No grammar rules. 3. No corrections. Corrections have been demonstrated by studies to not work. They are a waste of time. *Step 8:* TPR Total Physical Response (TPR): acquiring language through movement. Acting out commands. Eat, drink, jump, sleep, dance, turn around, sit down, look, watch tv, cry, laugh. Up to 500 commands. Start with 50 or 100 per session. Can use fingers to act out the action. *Step 9:* Read, read, read Aim to read 100-150 pages per week. Tailor the topic to your interest. This helps with grammar acquisition. *Step 10:* i+1: Input + 1. i is everything you already know, and + 1 is a little bit extra. When using magazines in language exchange, the language partner will introduce more complex words in addition to simple words in the description when describing the pictures. *Step 11:* Use your mobile phone. Record all of your interactions, especially the children's stories section. Listen to the recordings daily as well as to review later. Greetings, TPR, Magazines, Children's Stories, repeat.
4:10 Step 1: Acquire the language. Don't learn it! 8:50 Step 2: Don't study grammar. Acquire it! 10:33 Step 3: Find the right class. A) The Natural Approach a) No grammar b) No corrections c ) Only the target language (or close to) B) TPRS (Teaching proficiency through reading & storytelling) 13:18 How do we know it works? 15:22 Step 4: Find the right instructor. 17:44 Step 5: Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to do so. 21:33 Why you shouldn't necessarily worry about reading & writing at first 23:04 Step 6: Find language parents 25:45 Step 7: The magic 31:55 Step 8: TPR 33:52 Step 9: Read, read, read 35:20 Step 10: i + 1 40:55 Step 11: Use your mobile phone (to record & replay conversions) 42:33 Step 12: Study abroad (if you can) 43:45 Mr. Brown's acquisition journey! 54:18 Results 😏
@@xandercrofts for me, i dont have a choice and i dont have much money so i will dive this free apps. I mean i dont know how to learn language by myself. Last time i learn language. I need 10 years to understand . I acquire english just because i watch to many youtuber with english language. I dont even understand properly about grammar. And the sad thing , i dont understand english when i learn it at school but understand it when i dont really need it. I want to learn new language but i dont think i can wait 10 years just to understand and hear youtube video in spanish.
Step 1: Acquire the language Don't learn it! Step 2: Don't learn grammar Acquire it Steo 3: Find the right class Step 4: Find the right instructor Step 5: which language and how long Step 6: find language parent Step 7: The magic: Magazines and Children story Step 8: TPR Total physical responde Step 9: Read, Read, Read Step 10: I+1 Step 11: Use mobile phone Step 12: Study abroad
1. 4:10 Acquire the language. Don't learn it. 2. 8:49 Don't study grammar. Acquire it. 3. 10:33 Find the right class 4. 15:24 Find the right instructor 5. 17:46 Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to acquire that language 21:33 The secret. No reading/writing. Comprehensible input (listening/speaking) 6. 23:04 Find language parents 7. 25:44 The Magic 29:22 The rules going through magazines and stories 8. 31:56 TPR - Total Physical Response (Commands) 9. 33:51 Read 10. 35:21 i+1 (input +1) 11. 40:57 Use your mobile phone PART 2 43:50 PATH TO ACQUISITION 46:49 6 MONTH UPDATE PART 3 49:41 STUDY ABROAD 54:24 THE RESULT
I "learned" (acquired) Portuguese in less than a year after watching this video. I had never even been to Portugal but by the time of my first trip I was able to communicate with people on the street. Before that I was learning via apps and Grammar exercises which left me frustrated with little progress. I have shared it with probably 50 people who are either language teachers or learning themselves, because this is the best approach to learning anything, really (learning by doing).
I think this method works well with European languages. But when it comes to Chinese, Japanese, or Thai... You have to write the characters every single day to learn them.
Well , i have already acquired one language (English) and i can speak it very well and understand about 90% of what Americans saying,but i started immersing myself in that language when i was about the elementary level. And now i wanna make an experiment : I'm going to learn Turkish from the zero with the comprehensible input(no grammar,no translate,only listening and trying to understand what native speakers saying) ,by the way ,this summer I'm gonna travel to Azerbaijan and this would definitely help me in the case if i miss with my own learning. So no excuses ,never give myself up, let's just get it right now.
Hello world, currently I am undertaking the marvelous journey of learning Magyar (Hungarian) by myself. I started off with the Fluent Forever method and it has been invaluable in helping me produce a much closer sounding native accent than most beginners. However, I am now at the 3 month step ( of knowing the 625 most common words ) and haven't been making as much progress in the speaking full sentences and understanding them too. Now having watched this video, I know where I need to go next. Thank you so much for this amazing and free video! I will update via edits to this comment after 3 months to see how I've progressed
4:09 Step 1: Aquire the language, don’t learn it 8:49 Step 2: Don’t study grammar, aquire it 10:32 Step 3: Find the right class 15:23 Step 4: Find the right instructor 17:43 Step 5: Decide which language you want to aquire and how long it will take 23:02 Step 6: Find language parents 25:45 Step 7: The magic 31:54 Step 8: TPR 33:52 Step 9: Read read read 35:19 Step 10: i+1 40:55 Step 11: Use your mobile phone 42:32 Step 12: Study abroad 43:45 PART 2 Language Acquisition
4:12 1) Acquisition vs learning 8:48 2) Study vs acquire grammar 10:33 3) Find the right class 15:23 4) Find the right instructor 17:43 5) Time to acquire particular language for a native english speaker 23:04 6) Find a language partner 25:44 7) The magic (important) 31:56 8) TPR 33:52 9)Read, read, read 35:20 10) i+1 (input + 1) 40:55 11) Use your mobile phone 42:33 12) Study abroad 29:24 Rules with language partner 37:33 Corrections? 38:44 Apps and Online courses opinion 43:59 First class 46:05 Week 18 46:47 6 Month update 49:45 Study Abroad RESULT -> 54:18 55:09 Conclusion
Thank you very much for this video, I'm Italian and my target language is french. I'll try this method, I think it will be funny and challenging at the same time 🙂
Executive summary of his ideas(vid was interesting too): -5 levels of language difficulty for OG ENG speakers based on similarity to English -Do plenty of listening and speaking to start off, esp. for the higher level ones -Move onto reading, then, do tons of that, and at the point of semifluency you can start writing the level 5 languages much easier -Early on, magazines(20%), then children’s books(80%) -Action out words -Comprehensible input, reading -Studies show long term memory is after ~40 repetitions -Language parent -visit a country of that language with the intention to socialize(🗿for us introverts) -English as last resort, body language is very telling, ideal seems ~95%-99% in target lang
Geniuses are able to *learn* as many languages as they want. The average person is able to *acquire* as many languages as he/she wants. I think this will stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you.
@@poly-glot-a-lot6457 i am sorry, i had no idea of how professionally this video was going to be :D you see too much bullshit these days, but this is an outstanding video with the right values on how to approach languages. How often have I been told, that if I want to learn a language, studying it within 3 weeks is the thing to do. In this case, i have to thank you
I also didn't aquire good english through school. Our english teachers were.. Kind of okay but in 9th and 10th grade I would often see myself correcting them. That was not because of much studying (not gonna lie, I did NOTHING in fact), I rather played Far Cry 3 in english, which helped me a lot :D
@@krankerspast769 Thank you very much. I agree 100%. There is a lot of bullshit out there. Many 15 minute videos get 9 millions views. Which means, somebody worked like 15 minutes for 9 million views. I'm not buying it. This was a two year project.
@@poly-glot-a-lot6457 there are good ones, though, there's still hope :D But the worse ones often tend to get more clicks and I wish that one day people will see what's good and watch videos like this :) Have a great weekend :)
I moved to China in 2003 with NOTHING. Everyone has asked me how I learned Chinese so well (Chinese cannot hear my accent on the phone). Call it gut intuition, but all of this video is what I did. I'm not a genius nor bragging. Just affirming truth! I immediately bought children's books and watched TV for HOURS and just spent time interacting (who cares if you mess up? It's FUN). I definitely read up on grammar, but I did not make it my focus. USE CHAT APPS LIKE WHATSAPP AND FB MESSENGER! I used MSN and IRC (back then) to learn how "people talked" but I could copy/paste vocab and study the patterns. It was acquisition with a pause button. True, talent (like in sports) plays a part, but anyone can go to the gym and get in shape if they follow a good plan! SO GLAD this video is out there! I wish I had it then!
@@henriashurst-pitkanen8735 Incorrect - they were in use back in 2005. TH-cam and Google were omnipresent too. I dubbed that time "the golden age" of information and openness before the censorship crackdown and Wechat era.
"who cares if you mess up? It's FUN"....this is the most motivating, liberating statement I've ever read, and can be applied not only to language acquisition, but to life itself!!!! thank you!!!!
@@amgxpat You know since wechat arrived my previously daily improvement in Chinese has stopped dead. So many people now think it's easier to wechat translate written messages, while in the same room! Then previously we had the riotously funny and enjoyable mitsakes and misunderstanding and eventual comprehension, and another new phrase learnt. I arrived here the same year as you.
@@renatajastrzebski3081It seems actual human socialization died faster and harder with Wechat than FB and Snapchat etc. Did you experience the same? One time, I went to a bar in Nanjing with a chalkboard menu sign "Wifi broken!! Get drunk and make some f*cking friends!! 无线已坏，TM喝酒交朋友操!" I fell over laughing. Another time at the office I was so fed up with millennial employees not talking (they typed to each other in the same room too!) I forced them to put their phones in a hat and said "今晚我请大家吃饭，手机帽子放餐桌中，哪个同事拿出手机来看微信哪个同事就要买单了，从月底提成扣下来!" Unpopular. Until everyone had a beer and talked again!! 🤙🤦
I love grammar, but the fact is that the best english in my life I aquired when I didn't learn english at all (I listened to english songs, played video games, watched series though).
I copy a cmt and leave it here to remind myself. Part 1: Theory 1) 4:11 - Acquire the language, don't learn it 2) 8:48 - Don't study grammar. Acquire it. 3) 10:33 - Find the right class 4) 15:23 - Find the right instructor 5) 17:43 - Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to acquire that language 6) 23:03 - Find Language Parents (as many as you can) 7) 25:44 - The Magic 8) 31:54 - TPR 9) 33:51 - Read, read, read 10) 35:20 - i+1 37:33 - Why no corrections? 38:45 - What about Rosetta Stone and apps Part 2: Acquisition 1) 43:51 - The first day (week 1, 0 hours) 2) 44:38 - First trade (week 5, 24 hours) 3) 43:51 - A full-time Arabic tutor (week 6, 32 hours) 4) 45:10 - Meetups (week 11, 80 hours) 5) 45:35 - Actual visit to an ESL class + 4 trades (week 13, 96 hours) 6) 46:30 - Greetings, TPR, Magazines, Children's Stories, Repeat (week 18, 138 hours) Totaly 9 month, 300 hours Part 3: Study Abroad 49:56 - 500 hours of speaking in 12 weeks 54:19 - Results
4:10 - Step 1 - Acquire don't learn 15:25 - Step 3 - Find the right instructor 17:46 - Step 5 - Decide which language and how long it will take to acquire 23:05 - Step 6 - Find language parents 25:45 - Step 7 - The Magic 31:53 - Step 8 - TPR (commands, physical gestures) 35:20 - i+1 starting with what you know and giving a LITTLE bit more 40:56 - Step 11 - Use mobile phone (record and relisten to previous interactions) 42:32 - Step 12 - Study abroad (if you can)
Every single thing you just said is true. Now, I'm not a polyglot, neither am I a genius. But as a swede that never paid attention in school and missed all of my english classes, I speak english pretty darn well. And it's only thanks to music, TV, videogames, and social media. I recently started learning dutch since it's so closely related to both languages I know, and I'm using the same principles this time around. Just shower your brain in the new foreign language, absorb it, learn the words and the meaning, learn to tie them together, THEN perfect it. Learning a bunch of words will do absolutely nothing, and will more often than not just slip your mind whenever you actually want them in the future.
The nature of language is to communicate. When we speak and the other person understands, it has basically completed its task. Thank you, this video has motivated me a lot.
Wow...you've given me hope! I'm married to my husband, a Brizilian, for 27 years. Yet I don't speak Portuguese! I know he will be willing to be my language parent, and now I know how to direct him to help me effectively ~ starting with watching this video. Thank you!
wow to be honest, clicking on this video I thought it was a scam/would eventually try to sell me some kind of fix-all-your-problems- kind of product. but this turned out to be probably the best video on the topic and that they make this knowledge publicly available for free is awesome, thank you so much!
This was an hour well spent. I'm a language video junkie but this one shared simple yet brilliant methods I haven't seen and inspired me as both English teacher and foreign language learner. Thank you!
1. Не учим грамматику, как дети, которые не знают граммати, но могут говорить 2.Не исправлять ошибки, это будет потом, пока с ошибками, но говорим. 3.Занятие на 85-100 процентов на языке который учите, но при этом используя только те слова, которые уже освоили Т.е. нельзя давать информацию любую, нужно постепенно усложнять. 4.Чтение и создание историй. 5. 900 часов занятий в Год, если язык простой, схожий с вашим. 1100часов если сложный язык.
I remember, when I work in a sandwich shop owned by a Greek gentleman, one day he called out for someone to bring the cold roast meat from the refrigerator. I just called back, “I’ll get it”. But when I carried it into the kitchen, himself and the Greek ladies that worked for him, were just standing staring at me. When I asked what was wrong, they told me the boss had called out in Greek. I didn’t remember what he said or what it meant, but I must have ‘acquired’ that phrase at some point.
4:10 - Step 1: Acquire the language. Don't learn it! 8:48 - Step 2: Don't study grammar. Acquire it! 10:34 - Step 3: Find the right class 15:23 - Step 4: Find the right instructor 17:43 - Step 5: Decided which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to acquire that language 23:03 - Step 6: Find language parents (as many as you can) 25:44 - Step 7: The magic (you need magazines and children stories) 31:53 - Step 8: TPR 33: 52 - Step 9: Read, read, read 35:20 - Step 10: i+1 40:54 - Step 11: Use your mobile phone 42:33 - Step 12: Study abroad (if you can)
Wow!! My classmate sent this to me while studying abroad in Uruguay, trying to acquire spanish to make my mother proud! Im doing a lot of things right and can’t wait to continue! Awesome video
so... to sum up... You need a language partner you gotta meet them physically they gotta be able to endure at least an hour or 2 session in a day, 3-4 times a week or so you have to bring as many materials, such as children stories, magazines, as you can(start with clothing and colours) the more language partner you have the better don't learn grammar or anything, break it down once you reach street level fluency or slowly build it up while learning no English, just that they can only answer yes or no in their own tongue to you yea I'm missing just about... everything.
This was in my recommended again but I’ve already watched it. Just coming back to let you know this changed my life. I recently had a date ENTIRELY in Spanish and rocked it. Thank you again.
Ive always wanted to be a polyglot. My family is monolingual and I am the first person to get a College degree in my family. I learned my second language at the age of 20 when i migrated to the US. a year later I was in College. I lived there for 11 years then moved back home. I am now 42 and 3 years ago I began to study portuguese and Italian. Now, I am quarantined and studying 3 hours a day. I am planing to speak 4 languages by the end f this year 2020. Then I m not sure what other language to study, maybe Esperanto, maybe French. I love Japanese culture, but I am a chicken when it comes to Japanese. But I can tell you this, it is never too late to learn a language. Also, each language is a lot easier than the previous one. Adults can learn language as well, it is way harder, but posible. I even dream in English. There is somethign on your brain that suddenly awakens one day and you just take it all in. I dont know what it is
9:19 My friend and I spent a summer in Madrid before our senior year in high school. I was an excellent Spanish student and thought my Spanish was excellent; he was mediocre and I thought his Spanish sucked. But he always had an easier time conversing with Spaniards than I did. I always tried to say things correctly, whereas my friend just said things. I would cringe at his grammatical errors, but those errors made no difference from a communication standpoint - his interlocutors always understood him. So he would get words out more quickly than I did, and it made communicating easier for him. I think this was the Monitor Hypothesis in action.
As a German I found out that the classic school lessons in learning English (here in Germany) is good for grammar and building sentences, but to understand English better and better I simply dicided watching English speaking TH-cam videos and the results are great!
I’m dutch and basically fluent in English since 12 years old and I realise now playing Pokemon and always watching English shows was my comprehensible input. When I got English as a class in school I generally didn’t care about or found the grammar confusing. I just said whatever sounded right to me and it was always right. Only problem is the mix between all different English accents my accent now is.
I actually waited whole video when he'll start to sell a book or special advanced course with extra discount but it didn't happen. Great great video! And great great method! Also if someone of you wants to trade language with me (I'm native russian speaker) just let me know in a comment below)
@@ancientartrevived Hi Oscar! Nice to meet you. Could i ask what's your local time? Could we talk via WhatsApp or Facebook? Привет! Рад знакомству. Можешь подсказать твоё локальное время? Могли бы мы поговорить в WhatsApp'е или Facebook'е?
I live in Russia at the moment and would you believe, it has been more difficult finding a partner here than back home? All the Russian I've learned is self taught and its quite noticeable unfortunately .
There is other ways, for example: watching a TH-cam video, a TV series, magazines, Comics, music, a story game/videogame with a story *in the target language*
4:07 Step 1 5:19 What is comprehensible input? 6:22 what is wrong with grammar? 7:30 When we learn grammar? 8:49 Step 2 10:34 Step 3 13:19: How do we know that natural approach works? 15:24 Step 5 23:04 step 6 25:45 step 7 29:23 rules 31:57 step 8 33:51 step 9 35:21 step 10 36:51 online courses? 38:47 apps 40:57 use your phone 42:34 step 12 43:45 part 2: Acquisition 55:12 Final through
In Germany, of course, we learn English at school. But I first became really familiar with the language when I started watching series and movies only in the original language. 2 years ago I was confirmed C1 level, which is almost native speaker level. And that, without active learning. I saw this video just now and I'm surprised that I did it right without even knowing.
I completely agree with you, learning a language only produces stress, crispation, inhibition on the students and after years learning at school they aren’t able to build any sentence) above all they hadn’t any fun while those lessons. I heard so often people say :”I have no no talent, I am not gifted to speak a foreign langage!” But they actually almost never spoke it! And I always said to them that they were able to learn their mother language, why wouldn’t they be able to learn another one? There were though others like me, who instinctual heard the langage out of the school on TV, radio, Assimil … (at this time 1980 there weren’t applications which are specially made for this goal and that’ s what made the difference! ) Those more talented students tried very early to speak very actively. Teenagers are very lucky today with the applications! But for that, the best is to stay in the language’s country. Grammar cannot be learned intellectually but by hearing syntax and trying to repeat it. Thank for your work, it’s a very good idea to have crated this method!
I learned more in 3 months using this (with a bit of adaptation) for my Mandarin than I did with 8 years living in China and using Duo-lingo, Pimsleur, and Rosetta. He's absolutely right, those programs are boring to the point of painful. But chatting with real humans is fun and exciting. After 8 years of struggling I felt like I could cry tears of joy after I finally started to be able to have conversations on interesting, albeit silly, topics.
Others: (pay me x dollars and i will teach u how to learn a language) Jeff Brown: (nah, makes a youtube video helping tens of thousands of people) I'm super fortunate to be born into acquiring one of the hardest languages, Arabic, then I acquired English from my parents, learned French in school and with the help of my father, and now I'm learning Chinese and Russian, using very similar approaches, from watching movies with translations, and rewinding to hear the lines and repeating them as said, to reading or listening to simple stories, thanks for the video anyway
My first language was Arabic too, and I kept thinking that when I was watching this video too, I'm so glad I didn't have to learn it. I acquired English when we moved to Canada when I was 3 years old. I learned French from grades 4-9 in school, but it was in the exact method he said doesn't work, so my French is very basic. I learned Spanish for a mission trip with my church and the instructor was very good, not 90% Spanish like you suggested, but tried his best to immerse us in it and didn't focus much on grammar. Also going to a place where people only spoke Spanish helped a lot too, so my Spanish is actually better than my French even though I spent much more time learning the latter (both are pretty basic though). I love learning languages, I'm going to try his suggestions
@@Hyperventilacion No, but Arabic is my main language, English is very important to learn, I had to learn French for school altho i didn't like it, and I enjoy the challenge and fun of memorizing the chinese characters, and I fell in love with the Russian language very easily and I still don't know why, it just speaks to my heart
tl:dr Find someone who speaks the language you want to learn. Read children's stories together in that language and ask them questions a child would (in the target language) such as 'What is that', 'What are they doing', 'Why?', etc. This is to pick up the language as a child would. You can find people who speak languages on apps like HelloTalk. (And I would suggest an app called Beelinguapp if you want to read/hear children's stories in your target language on your own) Increase the reading level/material as you go. Basically imagine you're a child growing up in the target country and then move through the stages of language/reading comprehension as a child would as they got older.
I learn whole sentences saying them aloud. 5 days - 300 repetitions per day at least. Later I don't need to translate. I know the meaning of words straight away like in my native language. And also I remember the meaning longer than by learning separate words. This method is called: chunking. It was a real game changer in my learning process and communication skills in English and other languages.😊
When i first opened the video i was mentally prepared that he would speak English but I was shocked that he was speaking Arabic and more specifically Egyptian dialect and couldn't hold my muscles. it was sooo precious that he's using commonly used words in egypt that aren't necessarily structurally correct hahaha when said " ana mesh abkarino" I was like dude how did you know this. it's that word that you can't pick from a dictionary" Abkarino is derived from the word 3abkari ( abkari) which means intelligent and it's some sort of a nickname to the word. And that proved how he knows the features of our language and how we joke. Btw i haven't completed the vid but i really wanted to write that
Like an introvert, I find socializing a really hard thing (incredibly hard years ago), but enjoyable, because I feel like I'm improving my life and surpassing myself when I do it
Blaming a personality trait that everyone possesses is not an exscuse to not be able to come out of your shell. Social anxiety is an underlying problem in this day and age, like any fear/phobia, the steps you have to take in order to overcome them have to be small. But here's the thing, it's *YOUR*-*CHOICE* to take them.
My 9th grade Spanish teacher used the natural approach method. He spoke Spanish to us all the time. In fact, we didn't even know he could speak English until about October. He rolled some grammar into because he needed to meet standards, but we primarily learned through acquisition. Needless to say, our Spanish was much better than the kids from other schools in the area.
Yeah I'm going to try to improve my french more and convert from a good reader and writer to better speaking and listening. Good luck to all of you out there! Let me know about any good french movies.
I totally agree with this video because I can speak 3 languages fluently including Kazakh, Russian and English. My native language is Kazakh and my second language is Russian. I know Kazakh language because my whole family speak in it. When it comes to Russian language, I learned by just watching movies, tv-series and cartoons when I was a kid. As for English, I went to an English course when I was 17.
I agree with what they said about grammar. It's like... you don't learn to swim by reading books about "swimming theory". You learn by jumping into the pool as often as you can; and little by little you unconsciously learn how coordinate your limbs and swim. The most effective way to learn a language is to be exposed to it and produce output, jumping into the pool so to speak, instead of dedicating too much effort to learn grammar rules.
I learned Iraqi Arabic the same way, except I was in a War. You did such a great job showing people how to learn a language and also explained that you don’t have to have a language aptitude or whatever excuse people use. Great job you should get millions of views because you deserve it.
This is the first video that is an hour long that I have completely watched and finished in TH-cam. I absolutely love and understand all of the narrator have said. Everything started to makes sense no matter how I try to learn the language of my choice it never works. Now today marks my first day learning a language and maybe if I can remember I will try to come back here and see how much I have change or did I even improve, etc. Once again thank you for this video! :)))
Excellent point: “We make students monitor everything and they acquire very little.” So true. I just finished 2 semesters in Spanish in community college and I can give grammar rules off the top of my head. I really like grammar, so I took right to it, but my conversational Spanish is full of hesitation as I check grammar as I speak! I’m a grammar robot!
this is so trueee! i'm almost 21 and ever since elementary we've been taught English, i can read, and write very well but i have a problem with my speaking skills i always hesitate because of the criticisms i guess that's why i have a hard time. I guess i just really have to embrace those criticisms for my own benefit.
@@kylepatrickgutlay8188 I get that. The Russians have an expression to cover that - it's use a 'liquid dictionary', i.e. drink alcohol. It's advice I followed when learning and I can now speak 12 languages. Forget about making mistakes. Confucius, he say - "man who never makes mistakes makes nothing".
@@Li.Siyuan 12 languages, wow. I hope i can achieve that someday. Thanks for the advice tho, i do make it a mantra everytime i have to speak in front of people to nevermind the mistakes, because gradually you'll get better at it.
English is my second language, and I have a high fluency in it. I was taught English in my country from kindergarten to high school. But I only really became fluent in English after the age of 23. Now that I think back, I never remembered any grammar that the teachers taught me in school. I only focused on immersing myself in the language by watching tons of movies and TV shows and just subconsciously picked up everything, including the accent.
I speak swahili and mother tongue. Also speak English. Learned French grammar in high school but couldn’t speak . Went to France and where I lived no one spoke English. I was forced to speak the most broken French ever lol... after 2 months I spoke fluently like a native. People always asked which part of France do you come from ? 😆 Then moved to Germany woah I was shocked at how confusing the grammar was🤪but now I speak it perfectly and natives would be in awe .... what helped me was speaking to kids and a lot of tv watching. When I watch Spanish movies I kinda understand what they are saying.... strange but possible. Acquiring is truly key not learning
Am Besten man schaut sich massenhaft TH-cam-Videos oder Komödien in der Sprache an, die man lernen will. Dann braucht man nichts lernen und hat dabei noch Spaß. Am Ende kann man dann die Sprache sprechen 😊
jhgjhgj hgjhgdj genau! Ich stimme das zu!. Am anfang war es schwieriger, weil ich nur auf gramatik aufgepasst habe LoL . Wenn man spass hat dann ist es einfacher zu lernen 😊
There is a few methods regarding the speaking . You can basically speak to yourself for 5 at least in any topic, do this and record yourself everyday until you see a development there (It's not as good as speaking with others but it will normalize speaking with another language)
The way you acquired your languages is how I learned to play music. I didn’t focus on learning how to read/write sheet music, but I focused on playing what I heard.
Some of this content is contrary to advice I have been given in acquring the Thai language. In particular I have been advised elsewhere to learn to read and write the language early since many of the sounds of the vowels and consonants cannot be duplicated using the romanized script. Learning to read is therefore important. People learn to speak without learning the Thai script, but Thai natives say that they make far more pronunciation errors than those people who have learned the Thai scipt. Of course Thai children cannot do this, but they face different difficulties compared to people coming from another language. It could be suggested that you learn to read after learning to speak, but there is the danger that bad habits would have developed. For every argument there will be a counter argument, but in the end I will have to learn to speak, understand, read and write Thai and whichever way I go it will take a long time and shortcuts will be of limited use. 1100 hours on average, as is pointed out.
I learned English in second grade because I came from Korea. I didn't study hard or the teacher try to put me in special class. Somehow I learned at the end of the year just by being there. I think it's similar to this.
Total immersion in the language is the absolute best way to acquire that language. Of course, not everyone that wants to learn Chinese can just pick up and move to China. I truly think the method described here is the next best way to acquire a language.
Step 1: find a person who already speaks the language, they are your language parent. Step 2: read children's books and ask what is that, what's going on, why are they doing it. Step 3: read magazines and ask questions. Step 4: read news and internet articles. Step 5: have your language parent give you commands. Use hand expressions, total physical response. Learning a language through movement. (Stand up, sit down, turn around, laugh, jump, walk, etc.) Step 6: Read, read, read. Especially subjects your passionate about. Step 7: input+1. When going over material you know have your language parent add a little bit extra. Step 8: record the children story explanation on your phone and listen to it again during the week. Step 9: study abroad if you can. Rules: 1. No using native language 2. No grammar 3. No corrections
SUMMARY : Do not learn a language by learning grammar rules, learn it "naturally", like a baby would. The "natural approach" was proven to be more efficient. Teachers may find it easier to teach using grammar but using the target language in a way students can understand is better. Languages can be more or less difficult to understand depending on how similar they are to your native language. The US has devised a chart for English speakers that goes from 1 (575-600h to learn, ex : French) to 5 (2200h, ex : Chinese). The main speaker will learn Arabic (level 5) over a year and does not attempt to read or write, again mimicking how a baby would learn their first language. This allows more time for listening and speaking. It's important to find a "language parent" − for example, a family member, friend or coworker, to help you learn. You can also do language exchange : search somewhere people learn english as a second language, Craigslist or apps (Tandem and HelloTalk). Here is the IMPORTANT PART : sit down with your language parent with lots of magazines and children's stories with pictures(20% magazines, 80% stories, start with magazines). You describe the pictures in a simple way, and ask simple questions about them. You will acquire language through listening. 3 rules : 1) no english. If you don't understand something ask the person to act it out or draw it, or move on. 2) no grammar. 3) no corrections - it doesn't work. Do lists of commands/actions and act them out. Read a lot, especially things you are passionate about. The more the read the better results you'll have. [This contradicts advice above, I guess reading is good for when you can't listen.] i+1 : a basis of what you know, and a little more you don't know. Online courses : no group interaction and no non-verbal interaction, so not as good. Correction : ineffective, only works with simple rules and doesn't last. Rosetta stone : it's boring and there is no interaction, but it's better than nothing. Duolingo : it's just memorization, you're not learning long-term like you would with acquisition. Use your phone and record lots of stuff - children's stories especially. Listen to it a few more times. You can use that to keep fluency too. Study abroad and/or make friends that speak that language. [Last part is a montage of the main speaker taking lessons or talking to people.]
I am an arabic native speaker,i watched all the video(just the part of studying abroad maybe i will return to it if i travel one day😅) and i decided to improve my english, frensh and maybe acquire spanish too , ask me after a year ❤
This is exactly how I feel as a language instructor and have used the principles you covered both in my teaching and in my own learning of languages. This was a fantastic video, very well put together and complete. I will be keeping this on hand to share with people. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this.
As I was watching the video I was thinking “huh... why does this guy seem familiar?” Then I saw he’s a professor at my school 😂😂 I went to his language exchange club once at OCC and we did that “no english” exercise where you describe everything in the illustrations. It was such a cool club and I was looking forward to going every week. Unfortunately the first meeting was in March 2020 :(
hey man, I just saw that you were online a while ago. What I did not understand in the video, so your language partner should ask you simple yes or no questions and you ask him questions back, but he schould do the talking (90%) right? :) I did not understand that part entirely.
You speek Arabic very well masha allah! As an Arabic person familiar with other languages like English, French, Spanish, Italian and Indian,, let me clarify that Arabic is very accurate language to express something in a way that can not be translated to other language without losing a lot of it's sophistication,, we have an expression for every single meaning,, the word love for example in Arabic has more than 5 love expression each expresses a different level or kind of love feeling,, hob, garam, eshg, hayam, hawa, mail, Arabic really takes dialogue to a hole new level, that's why it is considered a very difficult language.
@@poly-glot-a-lot6457 Don't put them in your consideration, they don't know how bad their accent is when they speak other languages, bullies are everywhere just like insects don't pay any attention to them, for a non Arabic person successfully delivering what he wants to express in a language he learned in just one year the way you did is nothing less than a miracle 💪💪💪💪
For 2 years.. and because how long ur video is ... i just added on my watching later and kept jumping around trying to find a way to relearn my 4 languages that i hade learned and unfortunately forgotten YOU ARE AMAZING... I am Egyptian... and i was just stunned by your atabic at the beginning of the video... u speaks luke one of us... u had learned to speak the Slang... to express ur self luke us... U R AMAZING Thank you... by ur academic knowledge and experience helped me to figure out a way for me... i am not behind.. i just i did not know the way This video must have 50m view... that must be an academic study for how to acquire a language Thank yoy again... we ta3ala tany masr😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉❤❤
I love the fact that most of the comments are from hours or minutes ago or at least 2 days max, seems like we all got this recommended at the Same time
I do not understand why some people are upset that he is speaking Egyptian Arabic. How is that different from learning American English vs. British English vs. Australian English? I don't freak out when I talk to someone from Texas and their accent is different from mine. And with Spanish, you have 10 possible dialects - Castilian vs. Andalusian vs. Latin American. Seriously? All languages have this issue. The goal is not perfection. The goal is to be understood. And to be understood by the people around you. I will speak Latin American Spanish because that is what is spoken around me here in Florida.
Thank you! I couldn't have said it better. It's so funny, that people tell me I "should learn Classical Arabic because it's the real Arabic." Ridiculous. All Arabics are Arabic. No one is better than the other.
@@poly-glot-a-lot6457 I think it's amazing that you can speak Egyptian Arabic this well in just a year, but it's hard to agree with the statement "all arabics are arabic" Im from syria, and I can't understand the arabic of a Morrocan as well as I can understand the Arabic of a Lebanese, and even Egyptian arabic is harder. It's not a different language, it's a different dialect, so I don't agree with the hate you're receiving, but I couldn't help not correcting "All Arabics are Arabic" It's just a bit too general for a topic so overlooked and misunderstood
@@poly-glot-a-lot6457 The problem is that Arabic dialects have a different grammar and vocabulary than classical Arabic, so by Arabe world standard you are an illiterate person, because you can't understand news or read a book or do any official activity, you can only understand music, movies and what people speaks in the street.
Amy J. Harris, Sorry but Arabic dialects are not like American accent and British accent. Arabic is the oldest standrise language ever (around the 6th centery) so once upon a time Arabic dialects were like English accents but they are not any more, English is just standardised in the 19th century, so Arabic to Arabic dialects are barely comprehensive they are nearly like Latin to romantic languages, we Arabe just keep ourselves in contact by music movies chat and Arabic standard form, therfore we keep understand each others, and by the way most eastern Arabs can't understand western Arabs anymore so we western Arabs do switch to an eastern dialect or standard Arabic to be understood. But keeps in mind that some dialects still near to the standard form but no one speak the standard form in the street.
@@walaa9262 الأخت أنا من الجزائر و اتفق معكي، المشكل عميق و يتعمق و قد ننفصل يوما ما إلى عدة لغات في ظل امتناع الجامعة العربية و مجالس اللغة العربية في الوطن العربي عن صيانة اللغة العربية و الدفاع عنها، و هكذا سيزداد الشرخ بين الفصحى و العامية إلى ما لا يحمد عقباه.
This is a great video, but saying "don't learn to read or write" until you understand a language makes no sense when one of the basic steps you recommend is reading children's books and magazines. That why they first thing I do on target languages is learn how to read them, because even if I don't understand, it gives me endless amounts of material to absorb. With languages like Hebrew and Russian, I taught myself how to read them in a few weeks, even though they have little in common (especially Hebrew) with the English alphabet. All in all, though, I love the method. It's exactly what I've used and will continue to use. Treat all new languages as if you are a toddler, because in that language, you are! Good stuff.
He didn't say get the children books or mags in the language you want to learn. He said get lots of magazines and children books because of the pictures. You can learn words and phrases of your chosen languge by the pics.
😂😂😅Здравствуйте, разумеется русский не имеет исходной с английским азбуки. У нас кириллица, а у вас латиница. Как и у многих языков: китайский, санскрит и т. д.
@@constantine752 You misunderstand. You cannot learn the words if you cannot pronounce the language. It is on thing if it is Spanish and you are an English speaker, because you can recognize the word as the letters are the same, and eventually will associate the word with the picture. If it is Russian, for example, the alphabet is not the same as English, and therefore, you cannot associate the word with the picture if you cannot even do a basic pronunciation of the word because you do not know the alphabet.
Summary in English: 1. Understand the difference between language acquisition and language learning. 2. Recognize the effectiveness of language acquisition through natural approaches. 3. Prioritize oral comprehension and communication over focusing solely on grammar. 4. Avoid constant corrections during language practice sessions. 5. Familiarize yourself with the TPRS method (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling). 6. Use magazines with plenty of images to practice language comprehension. 7. Employ gestures and drawings to communicate when encountering unfamiliar words. 8. Focus on understanding stories rather than worrying about retelling them. 9. Dedicate regular time to reading to acquire vocabulary and improve grammatical understanding. 10. Find language partners to practice conversation and language acquisition. 11. Value storytelling as a powerful way to acquire language, especially children's stories. 12. Allocate a significant portion of time to practicing children's stories for more efficient language acquisition. 13. Avoid literal translation during conversational practice in a foreign language. 14. Be aware that language acquisition involves more listening and less speaking. 15. During language practice sessions, minimize the use of your native language (e.g., English). 16. Avoid excessive focus on grammar during practice sessions, giving priority to overall comprehension. 17. Utilize Total Physical Response (TPR), an effective technique involving physical responses to acquire language. 18. Take advantage of language learning apps like "Rosetta Stone" and "Duolingo," but do not rely on them as substitutes for conversation and oral comprehension. 19. Stay motivated and dedicated to language learning, even when facing challenges. 20. Believe in yourself and know that it is possible to acquire any language within a year with consistent practice and dedication.
Loved your video, I am also a polyglot (8 languages) and would like to add a little trick that helped me a lot acquiring my languages, I would select some movies that I have already seen and will look them up in the target language with subtitles and just watch them without making any effort and my subconscious mind will automatically link the sounds to the written subs... Hope it adds to your advices...greetings from Antibes / France.
This video absolutely didn't need to be an hour long. In summary: - Studying grammar with textbooks or apps takes much longer than "acquiring" like a baby - Talk with fluent speakers, 90% of the lesson should be in the language you're learning - Use children's books and magazines in any language, ignore the text, point to the pictures and have your teacher say what things are, what people are doing, and why they're doing it - Have them start extremely basic (baby level) but push just a bit beyond what you know so you learn more each time - Teachers shouldn't bother to correct you, it won't stick and you'll pick things up if you push forward - Record these sessions and review them later - Do this for a lot of hours
To be fair: 1. If he just listed all that out without indepth explanation, I doubt people would got the point. 2. You're very good in getting the main point!
@Lifuu You don’t need a teacher, you could acquire a language without one, get a lot of input, which means watch shows in your target language, read books, listen to podcasts, etc.
To be honest
This is the best video Ive seen on languages
Why did it take me so long to find it lol
Thank you so much!
This is up to TH-cam when to give it to you.
yourtv bro I was searching so long I basically watched every video on languages but i guess youre right
Showed up in my recommendations today. 🙌🏾
There's plenty of stuff like it out there. But it doesn't sell as well as ineffective methods.
Yes. By watching Star Wars, learned English I did. A problem, it was not.
Ahahah, it's important to learn from "serious" movies and cartoons (in language)
The world would be a better place if more of us studied the teachings of Master Yoda 😂🤣🖖
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i read this in yodas voice
Honestly that's not bad English.
If you are impatient like me, here's a summary:
6:20 Forget the grammar, don't study grammar, it will hinder you.
8:35 Learning - what happens in a classroom; acquiring - the subconscious way babies pick up a language.
10:36 The natural method (no grammar, no corrections, 90% target language in the classroom) and TPRS (hearing a story and then reading it) are the closest to the way we naturally acquire a language.
21:35 Focus on comprehensible input, listening and speaking. If you learn a language that doesn't use Roman alphabet forget about reading or writing until you are fluent.
So here's how you do it:
4. 23:03 Find a language partner (family, friends, trades, apps (HelloTalk), language exchange, craigslist)
5. 25: 44 Get yourself lots of magazines with lots of pictures and children's stories (any language).
6. 27:00 Your language partner will describe the pictures and will ask you simple yes or no questions about the pictures and you will ask simple questions too. The questions are: What is this? What's that? What is she doing? and the most important one: Why?
7. 29:32 Don't speak any English. Try to explain the thing with gestures or draw. If you get stuck just use the phrase "it's not important" and move on.
8. No grammar.
9. No corrections. It's a waste of time.
10. 31:54 TPR - ask your partner to give you commands or actions that you will act out.
11. 35:19 i+1 is input that you already know and +1 is going slightly beyond that level. So your partner will describe things with greater detail or using more sophisticated words.
12. 40:56 Record your sessions and listen back to them. It's important to repeatedly hear things.
13. 42:30 Study abroad and most importantly make friends through acquiring their language.
The rest of the video is a lovely documentation of Jeff Brown learning Arabic.
@Weronika I enjoyed watching the entire video...but certainly appreciate your shortcut notes for review. Thank you!
Wielkie dzięki za podsumowanie! :)
Mah man!
Thank you for the summary :)
Thank you I was looking exactly for that in the comments
Can we take a minute to appreciate that this is free? Information is sadly not free most of the time, so it's nice to know that you can get some good advice like this for free.
Don't tell anyone but the tax payers of Orange County, CA paid for it :)
AMEN! This is so wonderful! I'm so happy we got to see this and money didn't have to be a hindrance for any of us.
Chinese and Google spies: ehh... yeah it’s free 👀 (😏)
it's free because it has no value. What is true in it, is already the part of serious educational theories. And it also has a lots of nonsense in it :)
You are so correct, my friend. That's why there are 3 million views. 😅😆
if you dont want to sit and watch this then heres my notes. i watched the whole thing
-"story telling is *_THE MOST_* powerful way to acquire any language", "80% - 90% of your acquisition language program." he also talks about having someone with you to have so that they can ask simple questions in your target language about the story and such. same with magazines.
--he says the most important part of language learning is children's stories and magazines. he says 80% should be child stories and 20% magazines. start with magazines.
-students who read 100-150 pages in the language per week have best results
-learning style's goal is to *_LEARN LIKE A BABY DOES_*
-dont worry about grammar or writing. *_FOCUS ON LISTENING AND COMMUNICATING_*
-- *dont learn grammar* until you are fluent (babies dont focus on grammar when they learn their first language)
-with the person that is helping you learn your language (called your "language paren" ) which is a, teacher, friend, family etc. its important they speak *NO ENGLISH.* if you arent understanding something, they should to use gestures to help you comprehend. if that doesnt work, then have them draw it. whatever is needed but the point is avoid english at all costs. only use if very needed, at most, 5% of the time
-also do dont have your language parent teach you grammar. do not have them correct you at all. *_"CORRECTION IS A WASTE OF TIME"_* unless its a very simple correction that will benefit you a lot
-ask your language parent to give you lists of commands or actions. etc: eat, drink, jump, sleep, complain, turn around. try to get up to 50 to 100 actions a session. you dont have to actually do the action, or leave your seat, just use your hands
-learning a language, start with simple colors and clothes with your language parent
-record your learning sessions and relisten to them. *REPITITION IS IMPORTANT*
-*hand gestures* from language parent while talking is important
- *STUDY ABROAD* if possible
-online apps like duolingo is not good because its mainly just memorization. memorization is not comprehensible input. you could learn an entire dictionary and still would not learn the language.
- *PEOPLE SPENT TOO MUCH TIME WRITING THE LANGUAGE instead of the comprehensible input.- big mistake.*
- *LANGUAGE EXCHANGE* (find people that are trying to learn your language, that speak the language you want to learn. kind of teaching each other. one example where you can do this online like craigslist, app "HelloTalk" and "Tandem"
-he focuses on *COMPREHENSIBLE IMPUT* so again like listening and speaking. you should look up on youtube "comprehensible input spanish stories"" and such like that
- recommend watching movies and videos in your target language
43:58 he starts showing his journey on learning arabic from scratch.
oh my gosh, thank you very much for the summary!! sometimes I need a text or something visual (e.g. a picture) to remember some advvices after some time has passed, so you're extremely helpful here. have fun learning!
You're an angel, THX🫶🏽🫶🏽
Wow thank you
Part 1: Theory
1) 4:11 - Acquire the language, don't learn it
2) 8:48 - Don't study grammar. Acquire it.
3) 10:33 - Find the right class
4) 15:23 - Find the right instructor
5) 17:43 - Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to acquire that language
6) 23:03 - Find Language Parents (as many as you can)
7) 25:44 - The Magic
8) 31:54 - TPR
9) 33:51 - Read, read, read
10) 35:20 - i+1
37:33 - Why no corrections?
38:45 - What about Rosetta Stone and apps
Part 2: Acquisition
1) 43:51 - The first day (week 1, 0 hours)
2) 44:38 - First trade (week 5, 24 hours)
3) 43:51 - A full-time Arabic tutor (week 6, 32 hours)
4) 45:10 - Meetups (week 11, 80 hours)
5) 45:35 - Actual visit to an ESL class + 4 trades (week 13, 96 hours)
6) 46:30 - Greetings, TPR, Magazines, Children's Stories, Repeat (week 18, 138 hours)
Totaly 9 month, 300 hours
Part 3: Study Abroad
49:56 - 500 hours of speaking in 12 weeks
54:19 - Results
P.S. Hey, leave a comment below if I missed something, thank you in advance!
I did NOT watch the video, I ACQUIRED the video.
😂 😂 😂 Great comment
Underrated comment. Big pp
Genius comment!
Yay. 🤣 🤣
@@poly-glot-a-lot6457
acquire persian too
It’s delightful,
Rumi, Hafiz, Sa’di poetries... 🕊
Sir....youve literally changed my life. I stumbled upon this video and im so glad i did. I studied German back in school and lived there for nearly 2 years and i still struggled with the language. I became so frustrated and resigned to probably neevr being proficient.
But when i changed my studying from routine memorization and focused on comprehensible input via movies, tv shows, songs etc. my comprehension has doubled. Im starting to understand simpler interviews and even quickly spoken German.
When im finally fluent, im gonna come back here. I feel so confident and happy that ill finally after all these years
How do you do it. Do you hear it in German with English subtitles or German subtitles?
@@OurSalvationIsNighShe has experience in German, prob didn't use subtitles.
You don't have to use subtitles, just actually listen. Sit and watch something in the language you want to learn, not doing something else.
Any updates after 8 months?
I'm studying english now, just 3 months I can understand this video and I'm learning in this way,acquire it.
Good job.
Como você está fazendo?
But, u can't make a good redaction
First acquire it, then grammar.
Good to know where are you from?
So all this "one" hour of great advices wasn't for convincing people to buy or subscribe to a service !! Thank you professor I will start doing what you said
Well said, well said...
fact
My parents knew about those experiment and they used on me. Before I enter school I already knew 2 language, I believe in this professor. I was and is a successful experiment. I'm in my fourth language: German and I love it.
If you're passionate about something, you'll sell it...and if it's truly valuable, no one will ask for a refund.
In summary because it's a long video...
1) Skip learning grammar and writing at the start
Also, correcting things like grammar doesn't work effectively until you're much more fluent
2) Focus on things you hear and things you read with pictures
Spend 20% on magazines and 80% on stories like in kids books
3) Get a language partner / great teacher
e.g. someone you know who speaks the language or HelloTalk app
Try to study abroad or, if it's appropriate, get a romance with a native speaker (I did that, it's helpful!)
4) Learn up to 500 commands by acting them out (you can use your fingers to mime them)
Verbs and actions like eat, sleep, run, sing, cry, laugh, stand up, sit down...
5) Increase on the vocabulary you already know by adding extra words/actions/stories that relate to them
Car > car tyre > tyres puncture at high speed > this is a blow out etc
Remember it's easy to extend quickly with cognates
Thank you , you saved me from that annoying piano in the background :)
@@OdnaCopty You're very welcome, although you have reminded me I need to start learning the piano as one of my New Year's resolutions :-)
@@NeilWhelan good luck, hope you make better musical choices than the musical background of this video :)
I can well remember 89'. I was in London for a two week conference. As a Croatian speaker I learned at school English words and grammar, but was unable to speak. I was literally crying in my room, and than I decided to forget rules and simply start to speak, no matter how many mistakes I would do. What a relief. I was born in Italy and speak Italian, but if you ask me the grammar of Italian language I wont be able to explain, since I acquired this language as a child - no rules, no words.
Thanks professor.
randomly everyone was recommended this, time to acquire Japanese.
weebs when they go to japan: wheres the subtitles
papa franku
marcodxd Neonazis when they go to Germany: Where are all of the slurs??? I don’t know what they mean! REEEE!!!
La Francis for me...le Francis...?? Ughh I had two years of French courses at the magnet level in high school but I guess it's time to learn again😅🤯📚📚
sameeee looking for a partner tho :(
@@CalamityInAction offended weeb identified
I kept waiting for the sales pitch for a book or course, etc. And there was nothing, just excellent information that makes sense. Very impressive.
I wasnt going to watch for this reason. But now I am, I hate sales pitches, i always feel like the video is a waste and i didnt get all the info.
@@ladybirdstarshine4692 yeah😂 grate information to know for free.
For people who do not/cannot watch the whole thing, here is my brief summary of it:
Essentially what he discussed was this:
Learning VS Acquiring:
Acquiring is subconscious, learning is not. Acquiring is better.
What you need to acquire a language:
To acquire a language, you need the following:
-Language parents
-Children's stories
-Magazines
-Mobile phone
The method:
Essentially, you have your language parents explain everything in the magazines and stories. You record the sessions so you can listen to the stories over and over again. Via repetition and careful explanation, you will *acquire* the language.
Other things to know:
-Keep your language parent sessions to 90% in the target language at least. English (or native language) is okay for help here and there, but you need to stay in the target language at least 90% of the time to get adequate comprehensible input.
-Comprehensible input is messages that are made to be easily understandable. If someone is showing you a picture of a ball, and they keep saying "ball" when showing you the picture, you will understand that "ball" means what the picture is showing.
-Draw and gesture at first if you cannot understand what's going on. When all fails, move on and says "it's not important"
If I've made any major mistakes or something else should be added, feel free to let me know! Hope this helps!
Thanks 💜
Nice!, this method seems fascinating, the problem is with people like me, we learn in home on our home and we don't have partners, resources, materials so we need to read and take the current material
Certainly! The text outlines several steps and strategies for language acquisition. Here's a breakdown:
1. **Magazine Descriptions:**
- Acquiring vocabulary from a travel magazine by having a language friend describe pictures.
- Engaging in simple yes or no questions about the images.
- Asking basic questions like "What is this?" or "What's happening?" and emphasizing the importance of asking "why."
2. **Children's Stories:**
- Using children's stories as the primary tool for language acquisition (about 80-90% of language learning).
- Focusing on stories with big pictures and small text.
- Avoiding translation; instead, the language partner retells the story in the target language.
- Asking simple yes or no questions about the story.
3. **Three Important Rules for Language Sessions:**
- **No English:** During language sessions, avoid speaking any English.
- **No Grammar:** Don't teach or focus on grammar during the sessions.
- **No Corrections:** Request not to be corrected during the learning process.
4. **Total Physical Response (TPR):**
- Incorporating TPR, or commands, to learn language through movement.
- Creating a list of verbs or actions and using gestures or drawings to understand and communicate.
5. **Reading:**
- Encouraging reading, especially tailored to personal interests.
- Highlighting the role of reading in putting together grammar concepts and providing context.
6. **I Plus One (I+1):**
- Requesting I+1 from language partners, which means receiving just a bit more vocabulary or complexity than what's already known.
7. **Recording Sessions:**
- Using a mobile phone to record language sessions.
- Listening to recordings to reinforce comprehensible input and exposure to the language.
8. **Study Abroad:**
- Planning to study abroad to intensify language learning.
- Emphasizing language exchange through trades and building relationships with native speakers.
9. **Language Learning Plan:**
- Setting a goal of 500 hours of comprehensible input in nine months and planning to study abroad for an additional 500 hours.
- Incorporating language exchange, apps, and building relationships with native speakers.
10. **Closing Thoughts:**
- Encouraging a mindset of speaking naturally without overthinking.
- Promoting the idea that anyone can acquire a language within a year.
Overall, the approach involves a strong focus on immersive, natural language exposure through various methods, emphasizing listening and comprehension over explicit grammar instruction.
Thanks
bro asked Chat GPT to summarize the video and just commented it. Holy shit.
I'm a 16 years old native Arabic speaker from Algeria. I learnt English purely from TH-cam videos, movies and reading. In about 2 years I was capable of understanding almost anything.
Tho I knew some basic grammar from school, and I believe knowing some grammar can be very helpful; it will clarify and simplify many things that you might find confusing in the beginning.
Step 1: Be patient and enthusiastic enough to click on a 57 min video
that is so freaking true, right now im watching this video like im in a online-class
That's what the 1.25x/1.5x/2x playback settings are for!
@The Creature 911 I think I may have warped my brain a lil because now some videos are weird to watch at normal speed. O_o
Oh, these millennials and their attention span... :P
I agree with the 1.5x speed and I made the video 😂. I speed things up all the time.
STEP BY STEP
STEP 1 (4:10) - ACQUIRE THE LANGUAGE. DON'T LEARN IT!
STEP 2 (8:48) - DON'T STUDY GRAMMAR. ACQUIRE IT!
STEP 3 (10:34) - FIND THE RIGHT CLASS
STEP 4 (15:23) - FIND THE RIGHT INSTRUCTOR
STEP 5 (17:44) - DECIDE WICH LANGUAGE YOU WANT TO ACQUIRE AND HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO ACQUIRE THAT LANGUAGE
STEP 6 (23:05) - FIND LANGUAGE PARENTS (AS MANY YOU CAN)
STEP 7 (25:45) - THE MAGIC
STEP 8 (31:55) - TPR
STEP 9 (33:51) - READ, READ, READ
STEP 10 (35:19) - I + 1
STEP 11 (40:54) - USE YOUR MOBILE PHONE
STEP 12 (42:33) - STUDY ABROAD! (IF YOU CAN)
ENJOY IT.
Thank you for the timestamps
@@CarthagoMike YOU'RE WELCOME.
Thank you
Thanks a lot!
Thanks bro
I came back to this video , to thank everbody who made this video after watching this video in 2021 i aquired Spanish and French thanks to u guys , i didn't find natives to teach me so , i did this the different way , i search on youtube ( in 2021) spanish comprensible input and i watched all 567 videos, 3 hours a day, until i was able to understand natives, movies and interviews , after 1500 hours of input i can speak spanish so i did the same with french ( in 2022 december) i spent 1057 hours with French i can understand n speak without a problem, guys discipline is all u need ❤🎉 Am currently aquiring portugués ❤
Could you let me know how you did it by yourself more specifically? Like, did you use/read English(your native language)? How could you be sure about whether some words you think are right/wrong? I wonder if this method works without language partner. Thanks!
After learning Spanish for 1 and a half years, I want to know how you felt in the first 6 months, and then after 1 year, what did you feel about your ability to read and write? listening comprehension, in addition to seeing if the input is easy to understand, do you practice speaking?
Ficarei feliz se puder te ajudar com o portugues.
Video Summary:
*Step 1:* Acquire the language. Don't learn it!
*Step 2:* Don't study grammar. Acquire it.
*Step 3:* Find the right class.
The Natural Approach by Steven Krashen and Tracy Terrell.
- No grammar
- No corrections
- Class is conducted in the target language
Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) by Blaine Ray. An offshoot of the Natural Approach.
- Storytelling augmented with reading.
- Story Listening, used by Beniko Mason, an English instructor in Japan.
*Step 4:* Find the right instructor.
*Step 5:* Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take you to acquire that language.
State Department of the United States guidelines:
Level 1: 575-600 hours. Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, Afrikaans.
Level 2: 750 hours. German.
Level 3: 900 hours (17 hours a week in one year). Malaysian, Indonesian, Swahili.
Level 4: 1100 hours (21 hours a week in one year). Huge list, the majority of languages on Earth.
Level 5: 2200 hours. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic.
In the beginning, don't focus on reading or writing. Just focus on speaking and listening.
*Step 6:* Find Language Parents (as many as you can). Ask/beg each of your language parent(s) to help you 2 hours per week.
- Family, friends, coworkers.
- Trades or language exchange. English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom.
- Craigslist ad
- Phone apps: Tandem and Hellotalk
*Step 7:* The Magic
*How to language exchange:*
With an exchange partner, use 20% magazines and 80% children's stories. Start with magazines.
It doesn't matter what the language of the magazine is in, it just matters that the magazine has lots of pictures.
Ask the language partner to lovingly explain the pictures in the target language.
Both of you will ask simple questions to each other about the pictures.
Language partner will ask simple yes/no questions.
Language learner will ask simple "what is this, what is that, what's he doing, what's she doing and why" questions.
"Why" is the most important question in any language.
Storytelling is the most powerful way to acquire a language.
Children's stories should have very big pictures and very small words.
It doesn't matter what language the children's book is in.
Language partner will not translate the story.
Ask the same simple yes/no and "what's this, what's that" etc. questions as for magazines.
You don't have to retell the story.
Rules for language exchange:
1. No English. Use gestures or acting. Draw if you still don't understand. Bring paper and pencil. If you're still stuck, say "it's not important" in the target language.
2. No grammar rules.
3. No corrections. Corrections have been demonstrated by studies to not work. They are a waste of time.
*Step 8:* TPR
Total Physical Response (TPR): acquiring language through movement. Acting out commands. Eat, drink, jump, sleep, dance, turn around, sit down, look, watch tv, cry, laugh. Up to 500 commands. Start with 50 or 100 per session. Can use fingers to act out the action.
*Step 9:* Read, read, read
Aim to read 100-150 pages per week. Tailor the topic to your interest. This helps with grammar acquisition.
*Step 10:* i+1: Input + 1. i is everything you already know, and + 1 is a little bit extra.
When using magazines in language exchange, the language partner will introduce more complex words in addition to simple words in the description when describing the pictures.
*Step 11:* Use your mobile phone. Record all of your interactions, especially the children's stories section. Listen to the recordings daily as well as to review later.
Greetings, TPR, Magazines, Children's Stories, repeat.
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Legend!
Ty
Wow awesome notes! Thanks!
The secret is you have to love what u want to learn, he said "I am a lover of languages "
Well said
Yes David that's true
Simple
4:10 Step 1: Acquire the language. Don't learn it!
8:50 Step 2: Don't study grammar. Acquire it!
10:33 Step 3: Find the right class.
A) The Natural Approach
a) No grammar
b) No corrections
c ) Only the target language (or close to)
B) TPRS (Teaching proficiency through reading & storytelling)
13:18 How do we know it works?
15:22 Step 4: Find the right instructor.
17:44 Step 5: Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to do so.
21:33 Why you shouldn't necessarily worry about reading & writing at first
23:04 Step 6: Find language parents
25:45 Step 7: The magic
31:55 Step 8: TPR
33:52 Step 9: Read, read, read
35:20 Step 10: i + 1
40:55 Step 11: Use your mobile phone (to record & replay conversions)
42:33 Step 12: Study abroad (if you can)
43:45 Mr. Brown's acquisition journey!
54:18 Results 😏
They're great teachers because they don't teach you anything! How cool's that!
In short. Duolingo. 🤣 learning without learning grammar.
@@barasantoso1846 38:45 I don't really like Duolingo tbh yo
@@xandercrofts for me, i dont have a choice and i dont have much money so i will dive this free apps. I mean i dont know how to learn language by myself. Last time i learn language. I need 10 years to understand . I acquire english just because i watch to many youtuber with english language. I dont even understand properly about grammar.
And the sad thing , i dont understand english when i learn it at school but understand it when i dont really need it.
I want to learn new language but i dont think i can wait 10 years just to understand and hear youtube video in spanish.
@@barasantoso1846 Tiene subtítulos en español amigo
Step 1: Acquire the language
Don't learn it!
Step 2: Don't learn grammar
Acquire it
Steo 3: Find the right class
Step 4: Find the right instructor
Step 5: which language and how long
Step 6: find language parent
Step 7: The magic: Magazines and Children story
Step 8: TPR Total physical responde
Step 9: Read, Read, Read
Step 10: I+1
Step 11: Use mobile phone
Step 12: Study abroad
1. 4:10 Acquire the language. Don't learn it.
2. 8:49 Don't study grammar. Acquire it.
3. 10:33 Find the right class
4. 15:24 Find the right instructor
5. 17:46 Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to acquire that language
21:33 The secret. No reading/writing. Comprehensible input (listening/speaking)
6. 23:04 Find language parents
7. 25:44 The Magic
29:22 The rules going through magazines and stories
8. 31:56 TPR - Total Physical Response (Commands)
9. 33:51 Read
10. 35:21 i+1 (input +1)
11. 40:57 Use your mobile phone
PART 2
43:50 PATH TO ACQUISITION
46:49 6 MONTH UPDATE
PART 3
49:41 STUDY ABROAD
54:24 THE RESULT
5. "THAT'S NOTHING"
THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
I "learned" (acquired) Portuguese in less than a year after watching this video. I had never even been to Portugal but by the time of my first trip I was able to communicate with people on the street. Before that I was learning via apps and Grammar exercises which left me frustrated with little progress. I have shared it with probably 50 people who are either language teachers or learning themselves, because this is the best approach to learning anything, really (learning by doing).
I think this method works well with European languages. But when it comes to Chinese, Japanese, or Thai... You have to write the characters every single day to learn them.
Ahhh. Thank you. Great news.
Well , i have already acquired one language (English) and i can speak it very well and understand about 90% of what Americans saying,but i started immersing myself in that language when i was about the elementary level. And now i wanna make an experiment : I'm going to learn Turkish from the zero with the comprehensible input(no grammar,no translate,only listening and trying to understand what native speakers saying) ,by the way ,this summer I'm gonna travel to Azerbaijan and this would definitely help me in the case if i miss with my own learning.
So no excuses ,never give myself up, let's just get it right now.
so is everybody just finding this video in 2021
👀👀
Dude, we're in the moddle of a pandemic, of course we are.
Yep
Yeah I found it in 2021 .. I cried when I saw this video ...
It's my first time
Hello world, currently I am undertaking the marvelous journey of learning Magyar (Hungarian) by myself. I started off with the Fluent Forever method and it has been invaluable in helping me produce a much closer sounding native accent than most beginners. However, I am now at the 3 month step ( of knowing the 625 most common words ) and haven't been making as much progress in the speaking full sentences and understanding them too.
Now having watched this video, I know where I need to go next. Thank you so much for this amazing and free video! I will update via edits to this comment after 3 months to see how I've progressed
Magyar, huh?!
This is on my wishing list to AQCUIRE: Hungarian
Him: Find a language partner.
My social anxiety: Maybe I DON'T need to learn another language
hah, yea, i feel same sometimes
what language are you trying to learn?
true feels there
THIS IS MEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
This is me trying to learn Spanish haha
4:09 Step 1: Aquire the language, don’t learn it
8:49 Step 2: Don’t study grammar, aquire it
10:32 Step 3: Find the right class
15:23 Step 4: Find the right instructor
17:43 Step 5: Decide which language you want to aquire and how long it will take
23:02 Step 6: Find language parents
25:45 Step 7: The magic
31:54 Step 8: TPR
33:52 Step 9: Read read read
35:19 Step 10: i+1
40:55 Step 11: Use your mobile phone
42:32 Step 12: Study abroad
43:45 PART 2 Language Acquisition
Thanks for this comment! Upvoted for usefulness
Black: Good summary of entire video!! hahaha
4:12 1) Acquisition vs learning
8:48 2) Study vs acquire grammar
10:33 3) Find the right class
15:23 4) Find the right instructor
17:43 5) Time to acquire particular language for a native english speaker
23:04 6) Find a language partner
25:44 7) The magic (important)
31:56 8) TPR
33:52 9)Read, read, read
35:20 10) i+1 (input + 1)
40:55 11) Use your mobile phone
42:33 12) Study abroad
29:24 Rules with language partner
37:33 Corrections?
38:44 Apps and Online courses opinion
43:59 First class
46:05 Week 18
46:47 6 Month update
49:45 Study Abroad
RESULT -> 54:18
55:09 Conclusion
Thank you very much for this video, I'm Italian and my target language is french. I'll try this method, I think it will be funny and challenging at the same time 🙂
감사합니다
thanks so much!!!!
@@hannahhoang5160 You're welcome :)
Executive summary of his ideas(vid was interesting too):
-5 levels of language difficulty for OG ENG speakers based on similarity to English
-Do plenty of listening and speaking to start off, esp. for the higher level ones
-Move onto reading, then, do tons of that, and at the point of semifluency you can start writing the level 5 languages much easier
-Early on, magazines(20%), then children’s books(80%)
-Action out words
-Comprehensible input, reading
-Studies show long term memory is after ~40 repetitions
-Language parent
-visit a country of that language with the intention to socialize(🗿for us introverts)
-English as last resort, body language is very telling, ideal seems ~95%-99% in target lang
Geniuses are able to *learn* as many languages as they want. The average person is able to *acquire* as many languages as he/she wants.
I think this will stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you.
He just pit me on the right spot.. Going to my 5th language. 😁
whats the differebce
I smell clickbait. Let's look at this.
Edit: alright this is actually authentic
Lol. Thanks. I only spent 4000 hours and $10k working on it.
@@poly-glot-a-lot6457 i am sorry, i had no idea of how professionally this video was going to be :D you see too much bullshit these days, but this is an outstanding video with the right values on how to approach languages.
How often have I been told, that if I want to learn a language, studying it within 3 weeks is the thing to do.
In this case, i have to thank you
I also didn't aquire good english through school. Our english teachers were.. Kind of okay but in 9th and 10th grade I would often see myself correcting them. That was not because of much studying (not gonna lie, I did NOTHING in fact), I rather played Far Cry 3 in english, which helped me a lot :D
@@krankerspast769 Thank you very much. I agree 100%. There is a lot of bullshit out there. Many 15 minute videos get 9 millions views. Which means, somebody worked like 15 minutes for 9 million views. I'm not buying it. This was a two year project.
@@poly-glot-a-lot6457 there are good ones, though, there's still hope :D
But the worse ones often tend to get more clicks and I wish that one day people will see what's good and watch videos like this :)
Have a great weekend :)
I moved to China in 2003 with NOTHING. Everyone has asked me how I learned Chinese so well (Chinese cannot hear my accent on the phone). Call it gut intuition, but all of this video is what I did. I'm not a genius nor bragging. Just affirming truth! I immediately bought children's books and watched TV for HOURS and just spent time interacting (who cares if you mess up? It's FUN). I definitely read up on grammar, but I did not make it my focus. USE CHAT APPS LIKE WHATSAPP AND FB MESSENGER! I used MSN and IRC (back then) to learn how "people talked" but I could copy/paste vocab and study the patterns. It was acquisition with a pause button. True, talent (like in sports) plays a part, but anyone can go to the gym and get in shape if they follow a good plan! SO GLAD this video is out there! I wish I had it then!
MSN and IRC aren't used in China...
@@henriashurst-pitkanen8735 Incorrect - they were in use back in 2005. TH-cam and Google were omnipresent too. I dubbed that time "the golden age" of information and openness before the censorship crackdown and Wechat era.
"who cares if you mess up? It's FUN"....this is the most motivating, liberating statement I've ever read, and can be applied not only to language acquisition, but to life itself!!!! thank you!!!!
@@amgxpat You know since wechat arrived my previously daily improvement in Chinese has stopped dead. So many people now think it's easier to wechat translate written messages, while in the same room! Then previously we had the riotously funny and enjoyable mitsakes and misunderstanding and eventual comprehension, and another new phrase learnt. I arrived here the same year as you.
@@renatajastrzebski3081It seems actual human socialization died faster and harder with Wechat than FB and Snapchat etc. Did you experience the same? One time, I went to a bar in Nanjing with a chalkboard menu sign "Wifi broken!! Get drunk and make some f*cking friends!! 无线已坏，TM喝酒交朋友操!" I fell over laughing. Another time at the office I was so fed up with millennial employees not talking (they typed to each other in the same room too!) I forced them to put their phones in a hat and said "今晚我请大家吃饭，手机帽子放餐桌中，哪个同事拿出手机来看微信哪个同事就要买单了，从月底提成扣下来!" Unpopular. Until everyone had a beer and talked again!! 🤙🤦
I love grammar, but the fact is that the best english in my life I aquired when I didn't learn english at all (I listened to english songs, played video games, watched series though).
I copy a cmt and leave it here to remind myself.
Part 1: Theory
1) 4:11 - Acquire the language, don't learn it
2) 8:48 - Don't study grammar. Acquire it.
3) 10:33 - Find the right class
4) 15:23 - Find the right instructor
5) 17:43 - Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to acquire that language
6) 23:03 - Find Language Parents (as many as you can)
7) 25:44 - The Magic
8) 31:54 - TPR
9) 33:51 - Read, read, read
10) 35:20 - i+1
37:33 - Why no corrections?
38:45 - What about Rosetta Stone and apps
Part 2: Acquisition
1) 43:51 - The first day (week 1, 0 hours)
2) 44:38 - First trade (week 5, 24 hours)
3) 43:51 - A full-time Arabic tutor (week 6, 32 hours)
4) 45:10 - Meetups (week 11, 80 hours)
5) 45:35 - Actual visit to an ESL class + 4 trades (week 13, 96 hours)
6) 46:30 - Greetings, TPR, Magazines, Children's Stories, Repeat (week 18, 138 hours)
Totaly 9 month, 300 hours
Part 3: Study Abroad
49:56 - 500 hours of speaking in 12 weeks
54:19 - Results
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Thank you so much. I was looking for this comment
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4:10 - Step 1 - Acquire don't learn
15:25 - Step 3 - Find the right instructor
17:46 - Step 5 - Decide which language and how long it will take to acquire
23:05 - Step 6 - Find language parents
25:45 - Step 7 - The Magic
31:53 - Step 8 - TPR (commands, physical gestures)
35:20 - i+1 starting with what you know and giving a LITTLE bit more
40:56 - Step 11 - Use mobile phone (record and relisten to previous interactions)
42:32 - Step 12 - Study abroad (if you can)
8:49 - Don’t study grammar, acquire it!
@@alionabiss impossible, you have to study the rules at some point.
@@DaveW-zi2jv wrong.
@@Carusme How am I wrong? So you wouldn't study the difference between ser and estar? It would just happen with enough input?
Step-9 Read, read, read.
Every single thing you just said is true. Now, I'm not a polyglot, neither am I a genius. But as a swede that never paid attention in school and missed all of my english classes, I speak english pretty darn well. And it's only thanks to music, TV, videogames, and social media. I recently started learning dutch since it's so closely related to both languages I know, and I'm using the same principles this time around. Just shower your brain in the new foreign language, absorb it, learn the words and the meaning, learn to tie them together, THEN perfect it.
Learning a bunch of words will do absolutely nothing, and will more often than not just slip your mind whenever you actually want them in the future.
And what did you do to learn German though?
The nature of language is to communicate. When we speak and the other person understands, it has basically completed its task. Thank you, this video has motivated me a lot.
Wow...you've given me hope! I'm married to my husband, a Brizilian, for 27 years. Yet I don't speak Portuguese! I know he will be willing to be my language parent, and now I know how to direct him to help me effectively ~ starting with watching this video. Thank you!
Carole Warner probably he was a bad teacher like me (also Brazilian) that was put Portuguese grammar first 😂😂😂
How is it going so far?
You bring out a great point that was only implicit in the video. The learner must be in control.
wow to be honest, clicking on this video I thought it was a scam/would eventually try to sell me some kind of fix-all-your-problems- kind of product. but this turned out to be probably the best video on the topic and that they make this knowledge publicly available for free is awesome, thank you so much!
This was an hour well spent. I'm a language video junkie but this one shared simple yet brilliant methods I haven't seen and inspired me as both English teacher and foreign language learner. Thank you!
1. Не учим грамматику, как дети, которые не знают граммати, но могут говорить 2.Не исправлять ошибки, это будет потом, пока с ошибками, но говорим. 3.Занятие на 85-100 процентов на языке который учите, но при этом используя только те слова, которые уже освоили Т.е. нельзя давать информацию любую, нужно постепенно усложнять. 4.Чтение и создание историй. 5. 900 часов занятий в Год, если язык простой, схожий с вашим. 1100часов если сложный язык.
I remember, when I work in a sandwich shop owned by a Greek gentleman, one day he called out for someone to bring the cold roast meat from the refrigerator.
I just called back, “I’ll get it”. But when I carried it into the kitchen, himself and the Greek ladies that worked for him, were just standing staring at me. When I asked what was wrong, they told me the boss had called out in Greek.
I didn’t remember what he said or what it meant, but I must have ‘acquired’ that phrase at some point.
"I don't want to think. I just want to speak it."
Probably the best part of the video.
4:10 - Step 1: Acquire the language. Don't learn it!
8:48 - Step 2: Don't study grammar. Acquire it!
10:34 - Step 3: Find the right class
15:23 - Step 4: Find the right instructor
17:43 - Step 5: Decided which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to acquire that language
23:03 - Step 6: Find language parents (as many as you can)
25:44 - Step 7: The magic (you need magazines and children stories)
31:53 - Step 8: TPR
33: 52 - Step 9: Read, read, read
35:20 - Step 10: i+1
40:54 - Step 11: Use your mobile phone
42:33 - Step 12: Study abroad (if you can)
Cheers @Matheus Felipe
Thank you for listing!
Wow!! My classmate sent this to me while studying abroad in Uruguay, trying to acquire spanish to make my mother proud! Im doing a lot of things right and can’t wait to continue! Awesome video
so... to sum up...
You need a language partner
you gotta meet them physically
they gotta be able to endure at least an hour or 2 session in a day, 3-4 times a week or so
you have to bring as many materials, such as children stories, magazines, as you can(start with clothing and colours)
the more language partner you have the better
don't learn grammar or anything, break it down once you reach street level fluency or slowly build it up while learning
no English, just that they can only answer yes or no in their own tongue to you
yea I'm missing just about... everything.
This was in my recommended again but I’ve already watched it. Just coming back to let you know this changed my life. I recently had a date ENTIRELY in Spanish and rocked it. Thank you again.
You are so welcome. I made this video for people like you.
Ive always wanted to be a polyglot. My family is monolingual and I am the first person to get a College degree in my family. I learned my second language at the age of 20 when i migrated to the US. a year later I was in College. I lived there for 11 years then moved back home. I am now 42 and 3 years ago I began to study portuguese and Italian. Now, I am quarantined and studying 3 hours a day. I am planing to speak 4 languages by the end f this year 2020. Then I m not sure what other language to study, maybe Esperanto, maybe French. I love Japanese culture, but I am a chicken when it comes to Japanese. But I can tell you this, it is never too late to learn a language. Also, each language is a lot easier than the previous one. Adults can learn language as well, it is way harder, but posible. I even dream in English. There is somethign on your brain that suddenly awakens one day and you just take it all in. I dont know what it is
9:19 My friend and I spent a summer in Madrid before our senior year in high school. I was an excellent Spanish student and thought my Spanish was excellent; he was mediocre and I thought his Spanish sucked. But he always had an easier time conversing with Spaniards than I did. I always tried to say things correctly, whereas my friend just said things. I would cringe at his grammatical errors, but those errors made no difference from a communication standpoint - his interlocutors always understood him. So he would get words out more quickly than I did, and it made communicating easier for him. I think this was the Monitor Hypothesis in action.
As a German I found out that the classic school lessons in learning English (here in Germany) is good for grammar and building sentences, but to understand English better and better I simply dicided watching English speaking TH-cam videos and the results are great!
Yeah, me too that's how I learned English too, sounds crazy, but is effective.
With or without subtitles ?
@@100Jim
Without any subtitles
I’m dutch and basically fluent in English since 12 years old and I realise now playing Pokemon and always watching English shows was my comprehensible input. When I got English as a class in school I generally didn’t care about or found the grammar confusing. I just said whatever sounded right to me and it was always right. Only problem is the mix between all different English accents my accent now is.
I actually waited whole video when he'll start to sell a book or special advanced course with extra discount but it didn't happen. Great great video! And great great method! Also if someone of you wants to trade language with me (I'm native russian speaker) just let me know in a comment below)
@@ancientartrevived Hi Oscar! Nice to meet you. Could i ask what's your local time? Could we talk via WhatsApp or Facebook? Привет! Рад знакомству. Можешь подсказать твоё локальное время? Могли бы мы поговорить в WhatsApp'е или Facebook'е?
Hello! I'm a native Malay speaker. I'd love to trade language with you. But i don't know anything about Russian language. I just love languages. :)
LOL me too! When he said "where are you gonna find this people?" at 24:25 I was sure he was going to promote some language exchange website
I live in Russia at the moment and would you believe, it has been more difficult finding a partner here than back home? All the Russian I've learned is self taught and its quite noticeable unfortunately .
Привет.
I want to trade English for Русский)
Critique:
1. Finding language parent is difficult / expensive / not possible;
2. Reading magazines / children books as an adult is extreamely boring.
ok genius solve it
There is other ways, for example: watching a TH-cam video, a TV series, magazines, Comics, music, a story game/videogame with a story *in the target language*
I learned English by listening ALOT, reading and focusing on sentence patterns then increasing my vocabulary.
Same goes with me. I couldn’t write a single sentence few months back. Listening is essential to learn a language, any language.
How long ago did you start learning English?
4:07 Step 1
5:19 What is comprehensible input?
6:22 what is wrong with grammar?
7:30 When we learn grammar?
8:49 Step 2
10:34 Step 3
13:19: How do we know that natural approach works?
15:24 Step 5
23:04 step 6
25:45 step 7
29:23 rules
31:57 step 8
33:51 step 9
35:21 step 10
36:51 online courses?
38:47 apps
40:57 use your phone
42:34 step 12
43:45 part 2: Acquisition
55:12 Final through
In Germany, of course, we learn English at school. But I first became really familiar with the language when I started watching series and movies only in the original language. 2 years ago I was confirmed C1 level, which is almost native speaker level. And that, without active learning. I saw this video just now and I'm surprised that I did it right without even knowing.
Immersion 👍
I wouldn't place you in the C1 category. You forgot about articles which are very important in English...
Did you need translation when watching it
@@xxxxxxxyyyyyyy Listen to a lot of English native speakers and you will hear much worse. He's functional and at a high level - that counts for a lot.
I completely agree with you, learning a language only produces stress, crispation, inhibition on the students and after years learning at school they aren’t able to build any sentence) above all they hadn’t any fun while those lessons. I heard so often people say :”I have no no talent, I am not gifted to speak a foreign langage!” But they actually almost never spoke it! And I always said to them that they were able to learn their mother language, why wouldn’t they be able to learn another one? There were though others like me, who instinctual heard the langage out of the school on TV, radio, Assimil … (at this time 1980 there weren’t applications which are specially made for this goal and that’ s what made the difference! ) Those more talented students tried very early to speak very actively. Teenagers are very lucky today with the applications! But for that, the best is to stay in the language’s country. Grammar cannot be learned intellectually but by hearing syntax and trying to repeat it. Thank for your work, it’s a very good idea to have crated this method!
I learned more in 3 months using this (with a bit of adaptation) for my Mandarin than I did with 8 years living in China and using Duo-lingo, Pimsleur, and Rosetta. He's absolutely right, those programs are boring to the point of painful. But chatting with real humans is fun and exciting. After 8 years of struggling I felt like I could cry tears of joy after I finally started to be able to have conversations on interesting, albeit silly, topics.
Others: (pay me x dollars and i will teach u how to learn a language)
Jeff Brown: (nah, makes a youtube video helping tens of thousands of people)
I'm super fortunate to be born into acquiring one of the hardest languages, Arabic, then I acquired English from my parents, learned French in school and with the help of my father, and now I'm learning Chinese and Russian, using very similar approaches, from watching movies with translations, and rewinding to hear the lines and repeating them as said, to reading or listening to simple stories, thanks for the video anyway
My first language was Arabic too, and I kept thinking that when I was watching this video too, I'm so glad I didn't have to learn it. I acquired English when we moved to Canada when I was 3 years old. I learned French from grades 4-9 in school, but it was in the exact method he said doesn't work, so my French is very basic. I learned Spanish for a mission trip with my church and the instructor was very good, not 90% Spanish like you suggested, but tried his best to immerse us in it and didn't focus much on grammar. Also going to a place where people only spoke Spanish helped a lot too, so my Spanish is actually better than my French even though I spent much more time learning the latter (both are pretty basic though). I love learning languages, I'm going to try his suggestions
Are you from Maghreb? Every maghrebian I've met knows at least 4 languages
@@Hyperventilacion No, but Arabic is my main language, English is very important to learn, I had to learn French for school altho i didn't like it, and I enjoy the challenge and fun of memorizing the chinese characters, and I fell in love with the Russian language very easily and I still don't know why, it just speaks to my heart
@@Hyperventilacion I think you were talking to the OP but I'm Egyptian :)
English is actually very difficult to become really fluent in. Anyone can speak basic English,
tl:dr Find someone who speaks the language you want to learn. Read children's stories together in that language and ask them questions a child would (in the target language) such as 'What is that', 'What are they doing', 'Why?', etc. This is to pick up the language as a child would. You can find people who speak languages on apps like HelloTalk. (And I would suggest an app called Beelinguapp if you want to read/hear children's stories in your target language on your own)
Increase the reading level/material as you go. Basically imagine you're a child growing up in the target country and then move through the stages of language/reading comprehension as a child would as they got older.
I learn whole sentences saying them aloud. 5 days - 300 repetitions per day at least. Later I don't need to translate. I know the meaning of words straight away like in my native language. And also I remember the meaning longer than by learning separate words. This method is called: chunking. It was a real game changer in my learning process and communication skills in English and other languages.😊
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This sounds interesting. Probably it's much easier to stay motivated without tiring your poor brain with grammar rules, phrases, idioms, etc
@@yes12337nope, those people who say grammar is not important are just making excuses to avoid it.
When i first opened the video i was mentally prepared that he would speak English but I was shocked that he was speaking Arabic and more specifically Egyptian dialect and couldn't hold my muscles. it was sooo precious that he's using commonly used words in egypt that aren't necessarily structurally correct hahaha when said " ana mesh abkarino" I was like dude how did you know this. it's that word that you can't pick from a dictionary"
Abkarino is derived from the word 3abkari ( abkari) which means intelligent and it's some sort of a nickname to the word.
And that proved how he knows the features of our language and how we joke.
Btw i haven't completed the vid but i really wanted to write that
Like an introvert, I find socializing a really hard thing (incredibly hard years ago), but enjoyable, because I feel like I'm improving my life and surpassing myself when I do it
Youre not an introvert you have social issues
There is a study related, just increase the amount of interactions.
Blaming a personality trait that everyone possesses is not an exscuse to not be able to come out of your shell. Social anxiety is an underlying problem in this day and age, like any fear/phobia, the steps you have to take in order to overcome them have to be small. But here's the thing, it's *YOUR*-*CHOICE* to take them.
My 9th grade Spanish teacher used the natural approach method. He spoke Spanish to us all the time. In fact, we didn't even know he could speak English until about October. He rolled some grammar into because he needed to meet standards, but we primarily learned through acquisition. Needless to say, our Spanish was much better than the kids from other schools in the area.
¡Felicidades! Ojalá y continúes mejorando tu español. Meanwhile, I'm focusing on improving both my English and French.
That's the best way.
Did he teach grammar in Spanish?
Genial
Wow! How many hours a week were you taught Spanish and for how long? Do you consider yourself fluent? If yes, at what point in time? Muchas gracias
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01:48 📚 最重要的句子是 "我的朋友会付钱"，并不是询问洗手间的位置等。
03:14 🗣️ 视频介绍如何在一年内掌握自己梦想的语言，并展示作者学习阿拉伯语的过程。
04:45 🧠 学习与习得的区别，习得更为强大，类似婴儿自然习得母语。
07:19 📚 婴儿习得语法而非学习，成人在六七岁时学习语法，但大部分语法来自阅读和听力。
09:08 ⚡ 学习过多的语法可能妨碍自然流利地说话，不应在非常流利后才学习语法。
11:27 🏫 自然方法和TPRS（通过阅读和讲故事教授语言）是最接近婴儿学习语言的教学方法。
13:33 📊 自然方法测试表明，学生使用该方法在记忆单词和说话方面表现更好。
14:50 🌐 在语言交换中，寻找家人、朋友、同事或在线平台，强化自然输入和口语。
19:46 💬 对于最困难的语言（如中文、日语等），不建议早期过多关注阅读和写作，而应专注听力和口语。
23:52 📚 利用杂志和儿童故事进行语言交流，重点是通过图片描述，增强自然输入和听力。
27:09 🗣️ 以图片杂志为例，用简单的是非问题互动，发问“这是什么？”“他在做什么？”以及“为什么”是学习任何语言的关键。
28:01 📚 通过儿童故事学习语言，重要的是图片要大而文字要小，不需要翻译，只需听取和提问。
29:26 🙅♂️ 学习期间避免使用英语，使用手势、画图、及用目标语言表达“不重要”的情况。
31:04 🔣 避免语法和纠正，语法和纠正不如自然习得的方式有效。
33:05 💃 使用“总体身体反应”(TPR)方法，学习动作动词等，以动作和运动进行语言习得。
36:14 📖 阅读是强大的，通过阅读来提升语法和理解，可选用i+1（新词汇和旧知识结合）原则。
41:04 📱 利用手机录制和重听自己与语伴的互动，提供大量可理解输入，强化语言学习效果。
43:16 🚶♂️ 在埃及学习期间，通过交流、交换语言来加速学习，实际的互动和人际关系是语言习得的关键。
55:28 🗣️ 不要思考而直接自然地用新语言表达，自然地说出来是成功的关键，避免过度思考。
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This was so well done. I'm very impressed but also inspired to try this out. 2021 is the year I'll acquire my third language. Thank you!
Yeah I'm going to try to improve my french more and convert from a good reader and writer to better speaking and listening. Good luck to all of you out there! Let me know about any good french movies.
I totally agree with this video because I can speak 3 languages fluently including Kazakh, Russian and English. My native language is Kazakh and my second language is Russian. I know Kazakh language because my whole family speak in it. When it comes to Russian language, I learned by just watching movies, tv-series and cartoons when I was a kid. As for English, I went to an English course when I was 17.
I agree with what they said about grammar. It's like... you don't learn to swim by reading books about "swimming theory". You learn by jumping into the pool as often as you can; and little by little you unconsciously learn how coordinate your limbs and swim. The most effective way to learn a language is to be exposed to it and produce output, jumping into the pool so to speak, instead of dedicating too much effort to learn grammar rules.
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@Random dude I definitely didn't expect such plot twist
@Random dude wish you happy life with her
@Random dude long happy life ofc)
Yes, you embrace the language and its smell, sight, sound. :)
I learned Iraqi Arabic the same way, except I was in a War. You did such a great job showing people how to learn a language and also explained that you don’t have to have a language aptitude or whatever excuse people use.
Great job you should get millions of views because you deserve it.
I didn't think I would finish the whole thing but before I knew it, it has already ended. This is truly inspiring! Thanks so much!
This is the first video that is an hour long that I have completely watched and finished in TH-cam. I absolutely love and understand all of the narrator have said. Everything started to makes sense no matter how I try to learn the language of my choice it never works. Now today marks my first day learning a language and maybe if I can remember I will try to come back here and see how much I have change or did I even improve, etc. Once again thank you for this video! :)))
Excellent point: “We make students monitor everything and they acquire very little.” So true. I just finished 2 semesters in Spanish in community college and I can give grammar rules off the top of my head. I really like grammar, so I took right to it, but my conversational Spanish is full of hesitation as I check grammar as I speak! I’m a grammar robot!
Love this comment! My favorite.
this is so trueee! i'm almost 21 and ever since elementary we've been taught English, i can read, and write very well but i have a problem with my speaking skills i always hesitate because of the criticisms i guess that's why i have a hard time. I guess i just really have to embrace those criticisms for my own benefit.
If you want some conversation I'm from Spain.
@@kylepatrickgutlay8188 I get that. The Russians have an expression to cover that - it's use a 'liquid dictionary', i.e. drink alcohol. It's advice I followed when learning and I can now speak 12 languages. Forget about making mistakes. Confucius, he say - "man who never makes mistakes makes nothing".
@@Li.Siyuan 12 languages, wow. I hope i can achieve that someday. Thanks for the advice tho, i do make it a mantra everytime i have to speak in front of people to nevermind the mistakes, because gradually you'll get better at it.
I come back to this video every so often. It's one of the best language learning videos on youtube.
English is my second language, and I have a high fluency in it. I was taught English in my country from kindergarten to high school. But I only really became fluent in English after the age of 23.
Now that I think back, I never remembered any grammar that the teachers taught me in school. I only focused on immersing myself in the language by watching tons of movies and TV shows and just subconsciously picked up everything, including the accent.
This guy:
Level 1: "That's noooothiiing!!"
Level 2: "That's noooothiiing!!"
Level 3: "That's noooothiiing!!"
Level 4: "That's noooothiiing!!"
Level 5: 😐
I speak swahili and mother tongue. Also speak English. Learned French grammar in high school but couldn’t speak . Went to France and where I lived no one spoke English. I was forced to speak the most broken French ever lol... after 2 months I spoke fluently like a native. People always asked which part of France do you come from ? 😆 Then moved to Germany woah I was shocked at how confusing the grammar was🤪but now I speak it perfectly and natives would be in awe .... what helped me was speaking to kids and a lot of tv watching. When I watch Spanish movies I kinda understand what they are saying.... strange but possible. Acquiring is truly key not learning
Am Besten man schaut sich massenhaft TH-cam-Videos oder Komödien in der Sprache an, die man lernen will. Dann braucht man nichts lernen und hat dabei noch Spaß. Am Ende kann man dann die Sprache sprechen 😊
jhgjhgj hgjhgdj genau! Ich stimme das zu!. Am anfang war es schwieriger, weil ich nur auf gramatik aufgepasst habe LoL . Wenn man spass hat dann ist es einfacher zu lernen 😊
The hardest part of this method isn’t the language, but for an introvert it’s the requirement of meeting so many new people.
Eres introvertido? O te consideras tal?
Cuál es tu idioma nativo?
There is a few methods regarding the speaking . You can basically speak to yourself for 5 at least in any topic, do this and record yourself everyday until you see a development there (It's not as good as speaking with others but it will normalize speaking with another language)
And yeah it's normal thing if you couldn't say a whole sentence without stammering and stuttering or forgetting on or two words or even more.
I’m so glad TH-cam recommended/forced this video to me until I watched it!! Thanks TH-cam and thanks professor!
I learned korean and chinese on my own. Honestly all you need to have is motivation.
What did use to learn korean?
The way you acquired your languages is how I learned to play music. I didn’t focus on learning how to read/write sheet music, but I focused on playing what I heard.
That's awesome. I've always thought about that. It makes sense.
Some of this content is contrary to advice I have been given in acquring the Thai language. In particular I have been advised elsewhere to learn to read and write the language early since many of the sounds of the vowels and consonants cannot be duplicated using the romanized script. Learning to read is therefore important. People learn to speak without learning the Thai script, but Thai natives say that they make far more pronunciation errors than those people who have learned the Thai scipt. Of course Thai children cannot do this, but they face different difficulties compared to people coming from another language. It could be suggested that you learn to read after learning to speak, but there is the danger that bad habits would have developed. For every argument there will be a counter argument, but in the end I will have to learn to speak, understand, read and write Thai and whichever way I go it will take a long time and shortcuts will be of limited use. 1100 hours on average, as is pointed out.
I learned English in second grade because I came from Korea. I didn't study hard or the teacher try to put me in special class. Somehow I learned at the end of the year just by being there. I think it's similar to this.
This!!!!!!!💪🏾💕
Total immersion in the language is the absolute best way to acquire that language. Of course, not everyone that wants to learn Chinese can just pick up and move to China. I truly think the method described here is the next best way to acquire a language.
Step 1: find a person who already speaks the language, they are your language parent.
Step 2: read children's books and ask what is that, what's going on, why are they doing it.
Step 3: read magazines and ask questions.
Step 4: read news and internet articles.
Step 5: have your language parent give you commands. Use hand expressions, total physical response.
Learning a language through movement. (Stand up, sit down, turn around, laugh, jump, walk, etc.)
Step 6: Read, read, read. Especially subjects your passionate about.
Step 7: input+1. When going over material you know have your language parent add a little bit extra.
Step 8: record the children story explanation on your phone and listen to it again during the week.
Step 9: study abroad if you can.
Rules: 1. No using native language
2. No grammar
3. No corrections
SUMMARY : Do not learn a language by learning grammar rules, learn it "naturally", like a baby would.
The "natural approach" was proven to be more efficient.
Teachers may find it easier to teach using grammar but using the target language in a way students can understand is better.
Languages can be more or less difficult to understand depending on how similar they are to your native language. The US has devised a chart for English speakers that goes from 1 (575-600h to learn, ex : French) to 5 (2200h, ex : Chinese).
The main speaker will learn Arabic (level 5) over a year and does not attempt to read or write, again mimicking how a baby would learn their first language. This allows more time for listening and speaking.
It's important to find a "language parent" − for example, a family member, friend or coworker, to help you learn. You can also do language exchange : search somewhere people learn english as a second language, Craigslist or apps (Tandem and HelloTalk).
Here is the IMPORTANT PART : sit down with your language parent with lots of magazines and children's stories with pictures(20% magazines, 80% stories, start with magazines). You describe the pictures in a simple way, and ask simple questions about them. You will acquire language through listening.
3 rules : 1) no english. If you don't understand something ask the person to act it out or draw it, or move on. 2) no grammar. 3) no corrections - it doesn't work.
Do lists of commands/actions and act them out.
Read a lot, especially things you are passionate about. The more the read the better results you'll have. [This contradicts advice above, I guess reading is good for when you can't listen.]
i+1 : a basis of what you know, and a little more you don't know.
Online courses : no group interaction and no non-verbal interaction, so not as good.
Correction : ineffective, only works with simple rules and doesn't last.
Rosetta stone : it's boring and there is no interaction, but it's better than nothing.
Duolingo : it's just memorization, you're not learning long-term like you would with acquisition.
Use your phone and record lots of stuff - children's stories especially. Listen to it a few more times. You can use that to keep fluency too.
Study abroad and/or make friends that speak that language.
[Last part is a montage of the main speaker taking lessons or talking to people.]
I am an arabic native speaker,i watched all the video(just the part of studying abroad maybe i will return to it if i travel one day😅) and i decided to improve my english, frensh and maybe acquire spanish too , ask me after a year ❤
This is exactly how I feel as a language instructor and have used the principles you covered both in my teaching and in my own learning of languages.
This was a fantastic video, very well put together and complete. I will be keeping this on hand to share with people. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this.
As I was watching the video I was thinking “huh... why does this guy seem familiar?”
Then I saw he’s a professor at my school 😂😂
I went to his language exchange club once at OCC and we did that “no english” exercise where you describe everything in the illustrations.
It was such a cool club and I was looking forward to going every week. Unfortunately the first meeting was in March 2020 :(
hey man, I just saw that you were online a while ago. What I did not understand in the video, so your language partner should ask you simple yes or no questions and you ask him questions back, but he schould do the talking (90%) right? :) I did not understand that part entirely.
@@erikrothe2823 he asks you questions. You don't need to ask him any questions. After about twenty hours sure start asking simple yes or no questions
You speek Arabic very well masha allah! As an Arabic person familiar with other languages like English, French, Spanish, Italian and Indian,, let me clarify that Arabic is very accurate language to express something in a way that can not be translated to other language without losing a lot of it's sophistication,, we have an expression for every single meaning,, the word love for example in Arabic has more than 5 love expression each expresses a different level or kind of love feeling,, hob, garam, eshg, hayam, hawa, mail, Arabic really takes dialogue to a hole new level, that's why it is considered a very difficult language.
Please tell that to the other trolls who are telling me my accent is bad.
@@poly-glot-a-lot6457 Don't put them in your consideration, they don't know how bad their accent is when they speak other languages, bullies are everywhere just like insects don't pay any attention to them, for a non Arabic person successfully delivering what he wants to express in a language he learned in just one year the way you did is nothing less than a miracle 💪💪💪💪
For 2 years.. and because how long ur video is ... i just added on my watching later and kept jumping around trying to find a way to relearn my 4 languages that i hade learned and unfortunately forgotten
YOU ARE AMAZING...
I am Egyptian... and i was just stunned by your atabic at the beginning of the video... u speaks luke one of us... u had learned to speak the Slang... to express ur self luke us... U R AMAZING
Thank you... by ur academic knowledge and experience helped me to figure out a way for me... i am not behind.. i just i did not know the way
This video must have 50m view... that must be an academic study for how to acquire a language
Thank yoy again... we ta3ala tany masr😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉❤❤
Usually I can't finish a 5 minutes video but I decided to. Finish this video.
The same :O
@@sal_strazzullo i got it completely along 2 times, and thinking to see the third, it's being very useful for me
I love the fact that most of the comments are from hours or minutes ago or at least 2 days max, seems like we all got this recommended at the Same time
crazy, ain't it?
It seems to make the rounds every year in time for New Year's resolutions to learn a new language
I do not understand why some people are upset that he is speaking Egyptian Arabic. How is that different from learning American English vs. British English vs. Australian English? I don't freak out when I talk to someone from Texas and their accent is different from mine. And with Spanish, you have 10 possible dialects - Castilian vs. Andalusian vs. Latin American. Seriously? All languages have this issue. The goal is not perfection. The goal is to be understood. And to be understood by the people around you. I will speak Latin American Spanish because that is what is spoken around me here in Florida.
Thank you! I couldn't have said it better. It's so funny, that people tell me I "should learn Classical Arabic because it's the real Arabic." Ridiculous. All Arabics are Arabic. No one is better than the other.
@@poly-glot-a-lot6457 I think it's amazing that you can speak Egyptian Arabic this well in just a year, but it's hard to agree with the statement "all arabics are arabic" Im from syria, and I can't understand the arabic of a Morrocan as well as I can understand the Arabic of a Lebanese, and even Egyptian arabic is harder. It's not a different language, it's a different dialect, so I don't agree with the hate you're receiving, but I couldn't help not correcting "All Arabics are Arabic" It's just a bit too general for a topic so overlooked and misunderstood
@@poly-glot-a-lot6457
The problem is that Arabic dialects have a different grammar and vocabulary than classical Arabic, so by Arabe world standard you are an illiterate person, because you can't understand news or read a book or do any official activity, you can only understand music, movies and what people speaks in the street.
Amy J. Harris, Sorry but Arabic dialects are not like American accent and British accent. Arabic is the oldest standrise language ever (around the 6th centery) so once upon a time Arabic dialects were like English accents but they are not any more, English is just standardised in the 19th century, so Arabic to Arabic dialects are barely comprehensive they are nearly like Latin to romantic languages, we Arabe just keep ourselves in contact by music movies chat and Arabic standard form, therfore we keep understand each others, and by the way most eastern Arabs can't understand western Arabs anymore so we western Arabs do switch to an eastern dialect or standard Arabic to be understood. But keeps in mind that some dialects still near to the standard form but no one speak the standard form in the street.
@@walaa9262
الأخت أنا من الجزائر و اتفق معكي، المشكل عميق و يتعمق و قد ننفصل يوما ما إلى عدة لغات في ظل امتناع الجامعة العربية و مجالس اللغة العربية في الوطن العربي عن صيانة اللغة العربية و الدفاع عنها، و هكذا سيزداد الشرخ بين الفصحى و العامية إلى ما لا يحمد عقباه.
This is a great video, but saying "don't learn to read or write" until you understand a language makes no sense when one of the basic steps you recommend is reading children's books and magazines. That why they first thing I do on target languages is learn how to read them, because even if I don't understand, it gives me endless amounts of material to absorb. With languages like Hebrew and Russian, I taught myself how to read them in a few weeks, even though they have little in common (especially Hebrew) with the English alphabet. All in all, though, I love the method. It's exactly what I've used and will continue to use. Treat all new languages as if you are a toddler, because in that language, you are! Good stuff.
He didn't say get the children books or mags in the language you want to learn. He said get lots of magazines and children books because of the pictures. You can learn words and phrases of your chosen languge by the pics.
😂😂😅Здравствуйте, разумеется русский не имеет исходной с английским азбуки. У нас кириллица, а у вас латиница. Как и у многих языков: китайский, санскрит и т. д.
@@Антон-ы3ф7щ Нет, вы не поняли моего первоначального заявления. Пожалуйста, прочитайте еще раз.
@@constantine752 You misunderstand. You cannot learn the words if you cannot pronounce the language. It is on thing if it is Spanish and you are an English speaker, because you can recognize the word as the letters are the same, and eventually will associate the word with the picture.
If it is Russian, for example, the alphabet is not the same as English, and therefore, you cannot associate the word with the picture if you cannot even do a basic pronunciation of the word because you do not know the alphabet.
Summary in English:
1. Understand the difference between language acquisition and language learning.
2. Recognize the effectiveness of language acquisition through natural approaches.
3. Prioritize oral comprehension and communication over focusing solely on grammar.
4. Avoid constant corrections during language practice sessions.
5. Familiarize yourself with the TPRS method (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling).
6. Use magazines with plenty of images to practice language comprehension.
7. Employ gestures and drawings to communicate when encountering unfamiliar words.
8. Focus on understanding stories rather than worrying about retelling them.
9. Dedicate regular time to reading to acquire vocabulary and improve grammatical understanding.
10. Find language partners to practice conversation and language acquisition.
11. Value storytelling as a powerful way to acquire language, especially children's stories.
12. Allocate a significant portion of time to practicing children's stories for more efficient language acquisition.
13. Avoid literal translation during conversational practice in a foreign language.
14. Be aware that language acquisition involves more listening and less speaking.
15. During language practice sessions, minimize the use of your native language (e.g., English).
16. Avoid excessive focus on grammar during practice sessions, giving priority to overall comprehension.
17. Utilize Total Physical Response (TPR), an effective technique involving physical responses to acquire language.
18. Take advantage of language learning apps like "Rosetta Stone" and "Duolingo," but do not rely on them as substitutes for conversation and oral comprehension.
19. Stay motivated and dedicated to language learning, even when facing challenges.
20. Believe in yourself and know that it is possible to acquire any language within a year with consistent practice and dedication.
Thank you!!
Nicely laid out!
Thank you so much for this!
Thanks a lot
Thank you!!!
Loved your video, I am also a polyglot (8 languages) and would like to add a little trick that helped me a lot acquiring my languages, I would select some movies that I have already seen and will look them up in the target language with subtitles and just watch them without making any effort and my subconscious mind will automatically link the sounds to the written subs... Hope it adds to your advices...greetings from Antibes / France.
Merci!
Do you find it very necessary to have a language partner/parent?
This video absolutely didn't need to be an hour long. In summary:
- Studying grammar with textbooks or apps takes much longer than "acquiring" like a baby
- Talk with fluent speakers, 90% of the lesson should be in the language you're learning
- Use children's books and magazines in any language, ignore the text, point to the pictures and have your teacher say what things are, what people are doing, and why they're doing it
- Have them start extremely basic (baby level) but push just a bit beyond what you know so you learn more each time
- Teachers shouldn't bother to correct you, it won't stick and you'll pick things up if you push forward
- Record these sessions and review them later
- Do this for a lot of hours
Thanks for summarizing the video bro!!
To be fair:
1. If he just listed all that out without indepth explanation, I doubt people would got the point.
2. You're very good in getting the main point!
@Lifuu You don’t need a teacher, you could acquire a language without one, get a lot of input, which means watch shows in your target language, read books, listen to podcasts, etc.
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Good summary. I would add one: Read a lot in the target language, especially in the topics you already know.
I like that the people in the comments are very kind and friendly, and that they want to help each other with learning. It's valuable