Es realmente impresionante tu capacidad para aprender lenguas sin ser nativo. Yo hablo 5,pero pq mi familia es multicultural. Los otros idiomas q hablo y aprendi como adulta, me costaron un gran esfuerzo. Tu canal ha sido todo un descubrimiento! Espero llegues pronto al merecido millon de subscriptores. Te mando amor y buena vibra desde Australia. 🎈❤️
For anyone learning a new language and getting frustrated by what you see as a lack of progress: I was in Paris before the pandemic shut everything down. Hung out with a French friend, went to a party where I listened to her have a conversation in French with two other people. I didn’t catch everything they said but I *understood* enough to know they were talking business and she was giving them advice. They kept turning to me to apologize about not including me but I was more than happy listening in and realizing I understood more than I thought I would. Understanding is the first step! Keep going in whatever endeavor you’re taking on.
Mas o título é sensacionalista mesmo, o vídeo dele sobre italiano tem umas críticas no TH-cam justamente por isso. Não se realmente aprende uma língua em 7 dias, mas dá pra tentar absorver o máximo que der nesse tempo
I'm Brazilian and I've been learning English for 7 months and I can understand perfectly what he speaks and you can learn Portuguese too because it requires dedication and exposure of this language, if you persist you can achieve this
You are very kind to say this - thank you. As a 63 year old man who has only ever spoken English, I found this video somewhat overwhelming. Congratulations on your being able to understand this video after just 7 months of learning English. I think that is amazing. Blessings upon blessings to you today and always.
I already know portuguese, german, english, french (only a little) and would like to be able to either speak Spanish since I already understand most of it or learn a new language like swedish since I follow swedish influencers and would like to understand what they're saying. EDIT: or maybe improve my german since I lost some vocab it's my second language btw, learned with 3 years of age.
Considering Greek is not necessarily the most popular language to learn, I'm excited to see someone else who wants to too. Θέλω να μάθω αλλά είναι δύσκολο και δεν μιλάω καλό!
Learning a new language is like discovering a whole new planet with own culture, traditions, quarks and small nuances. It consumes you entirely, feeling totally reborn.
I'm learning Chinese right now, the sentence structure is really easy to pick up it's just the pronunciation and grammar like measure words are extremely difficult
@Lluna Buades Gutierrez I am studying alone, I am following a online course which teaches me the basics once I finish with that I will advanced with my own method depending on how confident I feel after the basics
I've always thought the most important part in learning a language (or anything really) is actually taking the first step. It doesn't have to be boring or technical, once you have a small basis it gets a lot more fun, cause language is always cultural and once you get to that, there is no stopping the learning process. Loved this video!
wow you learned a whole language in 7 days, you're so good, you're better than everyone, you're like god, becausde learning a language in 7 days is completely possible
eu to estudAndo frances e peguei uma lista de vocabulario que nem os próprios franceses usam no dia a dia ou seja... tudo que sabemos e utilizar meras repeticoes de palavras eu li num livro que 80% de um pensamento e constituido por palavras entao quanto mais palavras maior sera a capacidade de pensamento
For anyone that doesn't have connections with people that speak the language they want to learn, I would highly recommend HelloTalk. It's an app where you have conversations with people specifically looking to learn languages.
A quick recap Step 0: *Finding Your Mission* - list down your reasons for learning a language Step 1: *Gathering the Building Blocks* - get to the core of the most common conversational vocabulary Step 2: *The Glue* - time to make sentences and entire ideas! (i.e. conjugations, verbs, and tenses) Step 3: *Enter the Bubble* - enter the [language youre learning]-speaking world and their culture to learn how they speak the language Wishing all of the people here that's currently trying to learn a language well! Personally trying to learn Spanish right now ❤
For step 1; when gathering the lists (Like Nathaniel, I too am creating the lists on a spreadsheet on my laptop) should I copy and paste the words in, or actually write them into the table? Wondering if it's a good chance to learn the words, or just a waste of time? Thanks!
@@DSF141 I'm not an expert at language learning lol but i prefer writing each word down because i get a chance to "get to know" each word. Honestly it can get time consuming but do whatever works for you.
I am just in so much awe of your cinematography skills, the beauty & depth in your footage editing, your eloquence & ability to communicate every thought with so much clarity & efficiency, and the fact that you can capture so much wisdom & value within 1 video. I kept rewinding just to soak in all of the stunning footage you've captured of the world (sooo many jaw drop moments over here). Thank you thank you (I'm so honored to have found your channel!).
One tip for you Nathaniel: When you can, get the first plane to Brazil and start making videos. Your brain will explode with our culture and your channel will stantly get a ton of more views (cause we love people talking about brazil, yeah we are that childish hahaahha)
I truly wish that someday soon, I will have an audience as mature and warm as you do now Nathaniel. It's awesome to see so many mindful people at one virtual place. :)
Que experiência linda. Parabéns pelo seu aprendizado, eu professora de inglês, e também estou tentando aprender italiano, francês e ter a proficiência em inglês. Seu exemplo compartilhado com todos é uma inspiração. Gratidão!
I have a feeling that this video may go viral here in Brazil, it's a part of our culture to behave positively when we talk/see foreigners trying to speak Portuguese (sometimes it's a little overwhelming 🤣). Wish you good luck in your journey dude. I'm learning Spanish right now and what I realized is that we, as Portuguese speakers, can understand what Spanish speakers say, but they can't understand us most of the time, so I suppose that we mess the pronunciation up 100% haha. I'm really excited to check out the next videos, pls keep up the good work.
The podcast you mentioned (Mamilos) is very popular here in Brasil. The name references an old local meme where a kid said "nipples are polemic!", due to women nipples being censored on social media. Soooo, the podcast covers very controversial topics in Brazilian society :D Big fan from Brasil!
Other podcast you would like is Nerdcast, it covers a whole bunch of topics, from history to pop culture, and it is the most listened in Brazil, btw thanks for the content. ✌
Uau! Sou brasileira e amei sua técnica para aprender o nosso idioma , farei o mesmo para aprender o inglês, sua didática foi tão simples e objetiva , te esperamos no Brasil para viver uma experiência única de cultura, comida e principalmente recepção como em nenhum outro país. Nossa energia contagia e vc se apaixona pelo nosso país .
As a Brazilian, I feel so humbled that you took the time to learn our language. As a language learner myself, I always keep thinking about how foreigners would learn Portuguese, and the amount of ambiguities that our language has. For instance, some years ago, the "trema" (umlaut) was abolished, and so it became frustratingly hard to know when "gue/que" is pronounced as in "guerra (guerra)" or as in "pinguim (pingüim)"... so yeah, sorry about that; I myself only learned to appreciate it when I learned Spanish and saw why it even existed in the first place. Also, I really feel like Portuguese is one of the hardest languages to really appear as a native while speaking it. Maybe it's because people usually just try to be cool and use a lot of slangs (if unsure, use them sparingly!); I don't know. Maybe I'm just guilty of it being my mother-language! Anyway, there is a lot of great things in Portuguese: there are many video-essay channels popping up these days (Mimimidias, Quebrando a Caixa, Ludoviajante, just to name a few), many great bands (classics like Legião Urbana, Titãs, etc etc the list goes on), novelas (not really a fan, but Avenida Brasil is the greatest novela, fkn fight me), and so on and so forth. We usually don't give it all much value, but I personally put much of it in perspective after beginning to learn other languages (God, I just want some good German/Italian video-essay channels to follow!). But I digress :D
I'm Brazilian and I'm going to say just one thing: if you have the motivation to continue on your trek to fluency in Portuguese, do it. You're going to need a lot of dedication to start understanding conversations, because we speak so fast. I wish you luck on your journey.
Before I moved to Portugal, I used to talk a lot with a Brazilian girl - so that I could start practicing the language. Then when I finally moved, Portuguese people were like: "Why do you speak Brazilian"? 😂
I am brazilian and I speak for all of us.. i think we are like chinese when we see someone willing to learn our language and speaking it or trying to speak it.. we get amazed and we need to check it out.
I just finished reading a book called "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes" by Daniel Everett. He is a linguistic anthropologist who has done much of his work in the amazon with the Pirahá tribe. He learned how to speak Pirahá and Portuguese while expressing the importance of respecting and learning different languages.
"Why" is actually written "por que", separated, and "because" is written "porque", together. There are actually four written variations of that word that mean different things. It's not that important, most people don't care and will understand you no matter what, but I wanted you to know.
Porque - Because (why) Por qué - interrogative(why) and exclamation (what) Porqué - (what) cause or reason Por que - concerning (which or by the) If you need help this is my Instagram jing.csar 🙋
*Porque* : because *Por que* : used on direct interrogative frases - _Por que_ você fez isso? ( _Why_ did you do this?) - and in indirect interrogative frases - Eu quero saber _por que_ você fez isso. (I wanna know _why_ you did this.) *Por quê* : used on the end of frases - Eu ouvi falar que você saiu da escola. _Por quê?_ (I heard you quit school. _Why?_) *Porquê* : when used as a noun - Esse é o _porquê_ de eu ter saído da escola. (That's the _reason_ I left school.)
Não é bem assim em Português de Portugal.Se eu digo "Porque é que usaste o vestido verde?" a palavra "Porque" tem função de "WHY" (Why did you wear the green dress?) Por que (por- preposiçao // que -pronome relativo) "Por QUE razão me ligaste?" aqui o "QUE" refere-se à razão, é "what" (For WHAT reason did you call me?) ciberduvidas.iscte-iul.pt/consultorio/perguntas/porque-por-que-e-porque/243
Hi Nathaniel, I am struggling to learn Portuguese being a native Spanish speaker. As you said, it's a lot of unlearning, you would guess that it would be easier because these languages have similar words but it is not. And I wanted to find inspiration to keep going. So thank you for making this video, it's good to see that others struggle too. And if it was easy everyone would do it
I get this, too! I’m grateful for all the Spanish vocabulary I learned in high school but need to disassociate myself from the pronunciations. I close my eyes and listen several times before I allow myself to “read” the words. It’s helping since as I’m trying to recall the new Portuguese word the Spanish takes a backseat. Nathaniel offers great advice. I just started learning Portuguese in my spare time as I plan a caminho de Santiago adventure….and now I’m obsessed. Brazilian Portuguese is different, of course, but I’m hoping I can tweak pronunciations while I’m there and the people of Portugal will be forgiving. Boa sorte!
I must have watched Italian version of this like a HUNDRED times and every time it was enough to motivate me. Seeing another version... I am the happiest person on earth right now.
I'm brazilian and for me, the hardest part of learning a new language is becoming free of the fear of committing mistakes. I know how to speak, but fear is something big inside of me. Speaking and writing are hard bc I don't wanna people making fun of me. I loved your video and your approach to language.
I'm carioca (a person who was born in Rio de Janeiro) and THIS VIDEO IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING For cultural reference, I recommend listening to Bossa Nova, MPB and Tim Maia.
@@gabrieltomaz6034 eu fico até que chateado com pessoas que ficam flnd ''aaa nem eu sei minha língua'', isso passa uma má impressão da gente, como se fossemos burros.
I’m portuguese (from Portugal 🇵🇹) so you can imagine how I felt when saw the title! Portuguese is a beautiful language, we have a unique word that can’t be describe in any language - “saudade”. I really hope that you come to Portugal, we have a lot of beautiful places! Don’t forget to visit the bookshops ❤️ Amo os seus vídeos! (Translation: I love your videos!) 😂
Moisés Oh for sure! Most of the portuguese people don’t see the beautiful things that we have: music, literature, beautiful places and good food! Portugal is a good country ❤️
Getting my Portuguese citizenship and moving to Portugal has been one of the most impactful events in my life. I highly recommend moving to Portugal, Aveiro and Coimbra are very nice cities and highly underrated. Also keep in mind there are some differences in grammar between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.
Branden Moço Acho que o português europeu é muito diferente com o brasileiro. I suggest studying both the Portuguese & Brazillian pronounciations simultaneously, especially that his goal is to move to Portugal. Aside from different words like o trem and o comboio, a menina and a rapariga, etc. The grammar does differ a bit, but not much. Here are the biggest differences for me when I was learning European Portuguese from Brazillian: Phonetics wise: 1. Heavy use of S-chiado, almost all instances of the letter S are pronounced as ‘sh’ 2. Heavy reduction, almost all the unstressed syllables are barely pronounced. 3. Dark & deep pronounciation of L, sadly it’s a feature foreign to English 4. Different pronunciations of stressed E, the Portuguese have a more open voice for stressed E. Something like the A in ‘Apple’. 5. Almost all unstressed vowels are barely pronounced. 6. So many more, which is why I think Portuguese is such an interesting language to study on. Grammar wise: 1. The continuous tense is ‘estar a + verb infinitive’ E.g.: (PTBR) Eu estou escrevendo uma carta para você. (PTEU) Eu estou a escrever uma carta para ti. 2. Using the definite articles (o que, o meu, a minha) more properly, Brazillians tend to lax it a bit. 3. The use of other pronouns to refer to ‘you’, like ‘tu’ & ‘o senhor’ E.g.: (PTBR) Você é minha namorada. (PTEU) Tu és a minha namorada.
Jason Kaloh “você é a minha namorada”, “tu és a minha namorada”, ambas as frases podem possuir ou não o artigo “A”. No sul do Brasil, o pronome “tu” também é utilizado. E em que sentido que os artigos definidos ( o que, o meu e a minha) são utilizados incorretamente por brasileiros ? Além disso, no sotaque carioca, a letra “S” é pronunciada com o som chiado.
Cara, eu poderia escrever em inglês mas vou te ajudar a treinar o português. Vc tá de parabéns pela iniciativa. Eu também amo estudar línguas, sei falar inglês fluente e estou aprendendo italiano. É incrível o quanto uma nova língua pode mudar nossa forma de ver o mundo. Quando tiver mais confiante no português dá uma pesquisada nos sotaques, nas gírias brasileiras porque você vai se surpreender com a riqueza da nossa língua!!
It's really interesting that you're learning portuguese. I was not expecting this. I found your channel because of Matt D'Avella and I enjoy your content a lot. It's really nice to see people learning our language, especially considering that is not that popular. Anyhow, bem vindo ao mundo do português. Things will never be the same again - the best memes of all! Boa sorte!
unrelated but was anyone else watching this guys video and going: “omg the EDITING IS AMAZINGGG” and was completely baffled by his skills?- no? just me? okay..
Wasn't "baffled", but did notice he has excellent editing skills, for sure. I get the impression he's a very motivated individual who applies himself 100% to whatever interests him. Kind of person I'd like to have a long chat with over coffee. Preferably in a sunny piazza.
Uma das minhas motivações é pensar como as crianças aprendem a falar e como esse processo leva tempo até se tornar algo que fazemos de forma espontânea
Aí já é coisa pra minha noiva, doutora em linguística e a única do mundo q sabe a língua da tribo pkyjabe gavião (devo ter escrito errado) explica. Ela diz q até uma certa idade a criança consegue aprender a fala. Se não aprender e envelhecer antes tá fudida. Por isso ela me zoava qdo tava brava por eu encher a cara de cachaça e whisky. Me chamava de Mogli. Lembra o Mogli da Disney? O cara existiu de verdade. Mas a história real é mto triste. Ela tava brava com eu enchendo a cara ( na época eu até fazia whisky caseiro) e me chamava de moglinho na raiva dela. O Mogli, q realmente foi criado por lobos, ele não aprendeu a falar e até andar era difícil p ele. Morreu cedo, aliás. História triste. Pelo menos, apesar de ser o moglinho e um semi-alfabeto pra quem é uma doutora da USP, ainda ganho mto mais kkkkk. Ela diz q não entende como uma doutora com 2 empregos ganha menos . Tô ganhando agora 12 mil por mês. Mas... Falei p ela q vou fazer mestrado e doutorado rs. Então vai ser doutor Mogli kkkk
Hey, I'm writing this to give you some feedback in your tecniques, and also to thank you for sharing this with the world. I'm Brazilian and I teach Portuguese to immigrants, it's a volunteer work (I'm a lawyer, not a teacher hahaha) and the students are from differents countries and speak different languages (Haiti, Syria, Venezuela, Egypt are some examples), so we don't have a common language. I watched your video about learning Italian and tried to apply this in classroom, and it's working! Of course, I had to do some adaptations, we only have classes once a week and most of them have extenuating work hours, so I can't expect them to study at home. But I searched the most used verbs and the translation to their languages, we're doing flashcards, learning one verb per week. We did more things, but this text is already too long hahahaha (We had to stop because of the pandemic, but it was working)
I love how his video is put together! The edits of sceneries, the city, the background music, the little doodles, title animations, the maps! It also motivated me to learn Spanish. I've been so attracted to the language ever since I watched La casa de Papel. Maybe it's time I get to it. Thank you so much. Ps. If anybody has any suggestions for sources to learn Spanish, pls let me know
Hell yeah, I also want to learn Spanish! Maybe then I can understand all the popular songs I hear in the radio :D We can do it! I wish you a wonderful journey :)
Loooove this Nathaniel....I am a citizen of the World - currently watching your video because I am learning Persian (the motivation: I will get married to my Iranian Love!) - so I am not a patriot, but it warmed my heart that you want to become Portuguese and live in either Portugal or Brazil. I am Portuguese, have lost touch to the country due to being born abroad, but love the people, the history, the rich cultural heritage, the food, the sun and warmth of nature in both countries. Good luck my dear Amigo!!!
There's a MEME in Brazil where a guy say "Mamilos são polêmicos" that means "nipples are controversial " - Thats why the podcast have this name(Nipples) because they talk about controversial subjects. Beijo do Brasil kkkkk
Fiquei TÃO feliz quando ele citou, amo o podcast! E ri mt com a parte que ele fala q n tem ideia do pq do nome ahhaha nunca tinha me tocado do quão local, brasileiro esses conteúdos podem ser xD O próprio nome do podcast é algo que só br entende!
0. Encontre sua missão: motivação 1. Pegando os blocos de construção: maximizar o foco nos aspectos mais essenciais --> vocabulário essencial 2. Cola: juntas as palavras e formar frases --> principais verbos, conjugações, tempos verbais... 3. Entrando na bolha: contato com a língua falada na vida real *São mais ou menos essas as dicas que ele passou no vídeo, tentei pegar o essencial
mermão, brasileiro é quase uma praga: we're everywhere and "brazilian/portuguese" in the title of the video is enough for bringing us together loll. It never fails to amaze me
Thank you so much for this!!! It is exactly what I need to hear and much more! I have been living in portugal for an embarrassingly long time and my Portuguese is terrible. You have just given me the inspiration I need to get the hell on with learning the language properly.
Honestly, I came here to take notes on learning a language and instead I fell in love with the editing and effort that was put into making this video. AMAZING work Nathaniel! Keep it up!
I’d really like to see you do a video like this for a non-romance language to see how it compares to the other languages you learned and how you figure out the best ways to tackle completely new alphabets and grammar structures. Something like Japanese or Russian.
Why does everyone either learn Spanish or Japanese lol I'm sick of it at this point I get it's cool but try something different jeez like pick up Dutch or Luxembourgish sorry for the rant and lack of punctuation it's just annoying
Nathaniel: Here's a list of Portuguese words I've picked up from my Brazilian friends. Me: First word I saw on the list was caralho hahahah you've got your essential vocabulary right there.
Love it! Thanks dude. I’m in Fortaleza now, completely lost! My wife is Brazilian and here I am. I may be living here full time in the near future. Gotta learn quick! Your struggle with the pronunciation was comforting to me lol it’s been difficult for me too. Thanks again!
Get all of the resources for learning Portuguese that I compiled throughout this challenge. You can easily adapt much of it whatever language you're learning → www.nathanieldrew.com/language-learning-resources
Hi. I see your video’s to get inspired in life. E acho fantástico que estejas a aprender a falar Português. Keep in touch se quiseres fazer um “test” para veres como está a correr a aprendizagem :)
That was so nice of you to include all of your work!! And such an excellent reward for subscribing- I’ve never seen a youtuber do that before. Kudos for always being original. Have you heard of Netflix for Language Learners? It’s an extension that allows you to have both your native language and the language you are learning’s subtitles up, and allows you to click on the (foreign language’s) words for a definition! I’ve found it extremely helpful, though admittedly it is not good at slang. (It’s also free so follows your rules.) ~warm wishes from another gen z-er trying to learn languages for fun and to fill time and avoid a quarter life crisis!
Some people would not be able to learn your way because of the affective filter. They cannot even imagine being face to face with a native not knowing much of the language.
I did some research on the affective filter and it’s so interesting!! Here’s to hoping I can learn enough about it so that I fight it. Thanks for introducing it :)
1. Gathering the building blocks Pareto Words list (write it down) nouns/verbs conversation vocabulary Spreadsheet Flashcards (Anki) 2. Glue Connection words The most important conjugation / verbs / tenses Don't focus on grammar now 3. Enter the bubble Art and culture Movies, music, podcasts, etc Train your ears identifying what you've learned Repeat the phrases out loud 4. Talk
The quality of this video is on another level. The footage, the animation, the music and soundeffects. Its crazy, great work Nathaniel, excited to see your next videos :)
I am learning four languages at once using a method given to me by my first English tutor. The concept is very simple: we take the first 5 words and practice them in all possible variations, making 50 sentences. In the second lesson, we add 5 new words to these and practice them along with the old ones, and so on. Gradually, very slowly, we add new elements, tenses, constructions, etc. I also record these sentences with a professional narrator and listen to the correct speech, making sure to say them aloud, trying to pronounce them correctly like the narrator, and then quickly like a native speaker, swallowing some sounds. I study multiple languages like this: I translate these sentences from my native language to a more familiar one, in my case English, then from English to an easier one, and so on, mixing all these languages. It turns into 20 videos for one lesson. It's a colossal amount of work, but the result is fantastic. If you're interested, you can check it out; I upload the voice recordings with the narrator on TH-cam and listen to them there. Maybe it will be useful to someone else too."
Eu tenho uma série de vídeos seus em “Assistir mais tarde” porque estou tentando administrar o meu tempo, aí chega notificação de que tá aprendendo minha língua, tive que vir né haha Seus vídeos são demais
Sempre admirei seu trabalho, e o primeiro video seu que assisti foi "I learned Italian in 7 days". Um ano depois, você começa a aprender minha lingua materna haha (good luck with that btw). Você é foda Nate, te admiro demais bro!!! Um abraço from Brazil !!
Matheus Vasconcelos okay but I’m lowkey proud I could still understand that just knowing Spanish 😂 however eu estou aprendendo portuguesa! so maybe one day I won’t have to depend on my spanish, espero que você tenha um bom dia! tchau! 😂
Hi, I’m a Brazilian and also a Portuguese and English teacher. I can speak English, Portuguese, Spanish, a little bit of Japanese and I’m learning Korean. I understand the point of your video, but I dot not like at all the title and the message that you can learn a language from the 0 in 7 days. If you do like that you are only reproducing the sentences not actually understanding it. And since you have other experiences speaking other Roman languages it becomes easier to learn Portuguese, something that someone that do not have your background cannot achieve. As a language teacher I did not like the message in you title, but I liked the message that anyone can learn a new language if they put their mind into it. I just hope that you did not put such a tittle that makes people believe and get their hopes up that they can learn a language in seven days and if they can not do it they would be frustrated and maybe never want to learn another language again.
Moça acho que todo mundo sabe que não é possível aprender a língua inteira em 7 dias, eu entendi o seu ponto de vista em frustar as pessoas e tals, mas o que ele pode estar querendo passar é um desafio, com esse desafio a pessoa pode se interessar pela língua e começar a estudar por anos e se tornar fluente, mas se tornar fluente em um país ao qual a língua materna não é a mesma que você está estudando sempre é complicado. A pessoa tem que fazer uma total imersão, e foi assim que você aprendeu as línguas que fala hoje em dia.
Eu próprio aprendi inglês em um total de 6 meses atrás, creio que sou avançado já mas mesmo assim tenho dificuldades, é como se eu fosse um analfabeto funcional no ingles. Tá que eu fiz 4 anos de inglês em escolas, mas eu não queria aprender, hoje em dia eu busquei porque quero estudar fora e necessito aprender a língua. Qualquer idioma é possível aprender em um curto tempo, se eu fui de elementar para avançado em 6 meses qlqr um pode tbm ou até menos tempo
Luis Malaquias sim, concordo. Mas o título dele induz ao que eu disse. E infelizmente, mesmo que o intuito dele seja apenas de fazer com que as pessoas se interessem pela língua, pode fazer o contrário. Justamente pq o título fala que ele aprendeu em 7 dias. É um título enganoso sim. E eu como professora de línguas, não vou passar pano pra isso.
Luis Malaquias E para complementar eu aprendi todas as línguas em um país no meu próprio país, então eu não passei pelo processo de imersão. Eu aprendi as línguas como língua estrangeira (quando você aprende em um país não nativo da língua desejada) e não como segunda língua (quando você aprende no país nativo da língua).
I can't prove it, it's just a theory I have, and perhaps it's a function of being part of a generation that was in high school just before the internet arrived, but . . . I think the fact that you start out writing lists *by hand* is really important. There is something about the physical activity of writing out words that I have found to be a profound aid to memory. I think there's a neural connection being made there that makes retention and retrieval easier later on. My experience-I started to learn my first foreign language in high school (Spanish). Everything written out by hand. Didn't have laptops or use computers except to type papers sometimes. Though I didn't use the language for decades, I still retain a lot of what I learned and a great deal of vocab-which is sometimes comically frustrating when speaking Italian and a Spanish word pops out instead. Fast forward to the last ten years or so (the decade of my 40s) in which I studied numerous languages, especially Italian. I'm essentially fluent now in italian, but I still find myself looking up the same words over and over, and my grammar isn't as developed as it could be. And no, it's not because I'm older now. I'm of sound mind. I think the main difference is that I used software and apps to study Italian/French/Dutch/Croatian, etc. Just tapping a screen or a keyboard isn't creating those neural connections the way writing did. I've gone back to that method. Time will tell if I start to retain things better.
There are articles on that matter, I'm sorry but I don't remember the source, but a while ago I read some papers about the influence of handwriting on learning. But basically, you are creating a motor patter that connects to the letters and the words. When you just type your brain only 'reads' the key and hit it. But when you write, your brain has to recall and actively output the letters, which is a deeper process. So your experience and observation are accurate! Hope you can find the articles and use this knowledge to practice the new languages you've learned.
Absolutely!! When I started, I wrote numbers (digits) in pen and the written out form in pencil so I can erase and keep rewriting it. Helped me immensely
Nathaniel, I just wanted to thank you so much for posting these language videos. I was born in Canada and my parents were born in the Philippines. Because of this I never learned how to speak Tagalog (my parents put me in French immersion school instead) . I have recently uploaded a video where I challenged myself to learn Tagalog in 7 days and I used your study methods to make this happen. And honestly YOUR STRATEGIES WORK. Thank you so much for sharing your process with us and I'm so glad I stumbled across your channel. Without you, I wouldn't have taken the leap to learn more about my history. Take care, and stay healthy!
I'm from Portugal so this video warmed up my heart in a special way! 😄 It's hilarious that one word you already knew is ''caralho'', people in Porto are known for saying it as ''carago'' with a different accent 😂 Unlearning and re-learning accents is a bummer, I have Brazilian friends that moved to Portugal for university and nowadays their accents have changed to iberian portuguese, it's wild! The reasons you wrote as to why you're learning portuguese, the effort and commitment you put into this and seeing your progress is so inspiring. I can't wait to for Part 2, I bet my jaw is gonna drop at how good you are already. Boa sorte! P.s. A beautiful word you should know that doesn't have direct translation in english is ''saudade'' :)
I'm from Cabo Verde 🇨🇻, and seeing my country's flag in the intro was an awesome surprise. It is really cool that you're learning Portuguese as your next language. It's not an easy language, mas vais conseguir tirar de letra (but you will pull it off like a pro.). Btw, come to Cabo Verde and try some Katxupa and also learn Creole, our mother tongue. Boa sorte aprendendo Português!
Jo is an angel, I just love her. I would like to see you trying to learn a language that has a completely different characters and sounds, like japanese or korean. That would be great.
I can’t thank you enough for sharing all your work with so many of us who want to learn a new language ♥️ Thank you so so much, Nathaniel. Just subbed and signed up for the newsletter :)
Part 2 is out now! → th-cam.com/video/i8kAKcpYEEQ/w-d-xo.html
Love this learning Portuguese videos! Parabéns! Sua pronúncia está muito boa. Já era seu fã, agora então.. abraços from Brazil! ✌🏼🙃
Bem vindo broooo
Es realmente impresionante tu capacidad para aprender lenguas sin ser nativo. Yo hablo 5,pero pq mi familia es multicultural. Los otros idiomas q hablo y aprendi como adulta, me costaron un gran esfuerzo. Tu canal ha sido todo un descubrimiento!
Espero llegues pronto al merecido millon de subscriptores.
Te mando amor y buena vibra desde Australia. 🎈❤️
Have you got a video/tips about how to learn French, please? 🙏🏻☺️
Tu forma de editar los videos es de otros mundo, well done, Good Job
Welcome to the brazillian side of the internet, there’s no turning back...
That's a major truth
Hahahaha
Good luck to him!!
hahahahahah it's true
Huehuehuehue
I literally read the title and said out loud “oh my gosh he’s back at it again”
So relatable 😂
Elise Silvestri hahahah I said ‘oh my gosh he’s done it again’ 😂😂😂
Você É demaisss! I’m just waiting for jaws to drop when the next video shows how damn good you got. 🇧🇷🥳
Jo Franco you are such an inspiration Jo! You inspired me to learn a new language. ❤️
perfeita ❤
Que surpresa boa quando vc apareceu no vídeo!!
Acabei de te conhecer - sim, através de um canal estrangeiro, o que é um pouco embaraçoso - e ja te adoro. Obrigado @Nathaniel kkkk
Te acompanho sempre que posso 👏 👏 👏
For anyone learning a new language and getting frustrated by what you see as a lack of progress: I was in Paris before the pandemic shut everything down. Hung out with a French friend, went to a party where I listened to her have a conversation in French with two other people. I didn’t catch everything they said but I *understood* enough to know they were talking business and she was giving them advice. They kept turning to me to apologize about not including me but I was more than happy listening in and realizing I understood more than I thought I would. Understanding is the first step! Keep going in whatever endeavor you’re taking on.
Thank you for sharing this, it is a great encouragement.
when he wrote "saudade " and there was no translation, i felt that
Miss u
@@godofredo019 yes, but there isn't a noun to say it, only the verb with almost the meaning
Arrepiei!
I had this exact same thought two nights ago. That’s so sad
Isabel Pozzo eu tbm kakakaka
Nathaniel: I'm gonna learn Portuguese in 7 DAYS
Me: nem fodendo
né?! rs
Mas o título é sensacionalista mesmo, o vídeo dele sobre italiano tem umas críticas no TH-cam justamente por isso.
Não se realmente aprende uma língua em 7 dias, mas dá pra tentar absorver o máximo que der nesse tempo
EU KKKKKKKKKKK
real
vai levar 7 dias só pra aprender a conjugar os verbos 😂
Brasileiro é um povo simples: se ele vê no título de um vídeo as palavras Brasil, português e brasileiro, ele clica.
kkkkkkkkkk e vem ensinar palavrão pro cara
@@BzNCrisS kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
sim. Na verdade, somos bem emocionadas quando dão atenção pra gente.
brasileiro é carente
Exatamente 😂😂
I'm Brazilian and I've been learning English for 7 months and I can understand perfectly what he speaks and you can learn Portuguese too because it requires dedication and exposure of this language, if you persist you can achieve this
Duvido mt
You are very kind to say this - thank you. As a 63 year old man who has only ever spoken English, I found this video somewhat overwhelming. Congratulations on your being able to understand this video after just 7 months of learning English. I think that is amazing. Blessings upon blessings to you today and always.
@@suchisthismystery2814 thank you very much
@@vicentecalandrini6173 é vrdd. E é por você duvidar que não faz acontecer.
Confia
The last time I was this early, Nathaniel Drew only knew English
Wait...this video was posted an hour ago 😅
Good one 😂
Lol!
Has anyone else been twiddling their thumbs waiting for another video from Nathaniel the past few weeks?
YES
A. The man is such an inspiration to aspiring content creators! He was busy learning a language so I’ll cut him some slack on taking a while to upload
What's your nationality?
Nathaniel: Yes
😂😂
Br é foda. 😅💜
Why does this have to be so motivating?! Now I'm gonna go learn Greek cause why the heck not lol.
good luck :D just watched the video and im hopping on spanish!
Καλή τύχη - Good luck!
How has it gone?
I already know portuguese, german, english, french (only a little) and would like to be able to either speak Spanish since I already understand most of it or learn a new language like swedish since I follow swedish influencers and would like to understand what they're saying.
EDIT: or maybe improve my german since I lost some vocab it's my second language btw, learned with 3 years of age.
Considering Greek is not necessarily the most popular language to learn, I'm excited to see someone else who wants to too. Θέλω να μάθω αλλά είναι δύσκολο και δεν μιλάω καλό!
Learning a new language is like discovering a whole new planet with own culture, traditions, quarks and small nuances.
It consumes you entirely, feeling totally reborn.
That's one hell of a fine encouragement to learn a language, Sir 🙏
Especially with English, it opens your world 10x times
It sounds so inspiring.....(power of words)😅😅
well I mean you only know so little of the planet, soo that makes sense right
Wow I see your comments all the time on Mrs Midwest's channel it's cool to see you here as well
Nathaniel sometime soon: "I decoded alien signals from space in 7 days - Part 1"
Lmao😹
Lol
If he were to make such a claim, it would be just as valid as him saying he’s honestly “learned” any foreign language in a week. Total BS.
😂😂😂👏🏼
menino do Acre
Nathaniel in 4 years: *I Learned Chinese in 7 Days - Part 1
I am learning chinese at the moment , I find quite easy but the most difficult is the pronunciation
I'm learning Chinese right now, the sentence structure is really easy to pick up it's just the pronunciation and grammar like measure words are extremely difficult
@Lluna Buades Gutierrez I am studying alone, I am following a online course which teaches me the basics once I finish with that I will advanced with my own method depending on how confident I feel after the basics
@Lluna Buades Gutierrez I'm using www.coursera.org
Nathaniel next Tuesday: *I Learned Chinese in 2 Hours - Part 1
I've always thought the most important part in learning a language (or anything really) is actually taking the first step. It doesn't have to be boring or technical, once you have a small basis it gets a lot more fun, cause language is always cultural and once you get to that, there is no stopping the learning process. Loved this video!
This material has 15 minutes, but watching it you feel that it only takes 5 minutes. IT'S SO WELL MADE!
Thank you for making this material. Thanks to this I feel much more confident to start learning Korean :)
Not really but well to each their own
Omg I didn't even notice it was that long!
Is he trying to beat his grandma in the number of languages they speak?
It seems like that. 😄
Never! My grandmother is one of a kind.
“I transcended the physical realm in 7 days: part 1”
Hahahaha
wow you learned a whole language in 7 days, you're so good, you're better than everyone, you're like god, becausde learning a language in 7 days is completely possible
I'm brazilian and I'm 28 years old. I haven't learned portuguese yet, good luck with your seven days. *ironic*
KAKAKAKAK boa
Se você ainda nao aprendeu, deve ser burro pra caralho.
Se VC sabe falar Portugues,VC sabe Portugues, só n sabe todas as palavras e regras.
eu to estudAndo frances e peguei uma lista de vocabulario que nem os próprios franceses usam no dia a dia
ou seja...
tudo que sabemos e utilizar meras repeticoes de palavras
eu li num livro que 80% de um pensamento e constituido por palavras
entao quanto mais palavras maior sera a capacidade de pensamento
@@paoladi0405 great !!! I hope you get fluent in french soon ;)
I also want to learn Portuguese because the culture's literature is so rich. Thank you, Drew!
Boa sorte!
@@gabrielfonseca8814 Obrigado 🙏🥂
double o-seven I’m Brazilian and also I’m trying to learn English. We can practice together dude! 😂
@LucasViniciusSchonrock Yes, why?
@@samuelaraujo97 we'll succeed, trust me😂
42 seconds in and I want to cry because he included all the flags of all the countries that speak Portuguese
Mozambique🤘
I thought Equatorial Guinea spoke Spanish
Creating a "brainstorm" using different colours for each word/phrase is a better way to learn than writing lists.
For anyone that doesn't have connections with people that speak the language they want to learn, I would highly recommend HelloTalk. It's an app where you have conversations with people specifically looking to learn languages.
Ty!
You can also try the app Tandem
Miglena is it free?
@@elenaspano5067 yes. It's
This is so cool. Thank you.
Algum gringo: 🇧🇷
Nós: HORA DE ASSISTIR
Nossa os br ta em todo lugar vey q isso😂😂😂😂
@@whosc4ssia haahahahahah né
Eu pensei a mesma coisa kakkakak, bora ver o gringo tentando falar português kskskksksksk
Hora de barbar ovo de gringo, and that's okay!😂❤️
kkk
A quick recap
Step 0: *Finding Your Mission*
- list down your reasons for learning a language
Step 1: *Gathering the Building Blocks*
- get to the core of the most common conversational vocabulary
Step 2: *The Glue*
- time to make sentences and entire ideas! (i.e. conjugations, verbs, and tenses)
Step 3: *Enter the Bubble*
- enter the [language youre learning]-speaking world and their culture to learn how they speak the language
Wishing all of the people here that's currently trying to learn a language well! Personally trying to learn Spanish right now ❤
For step 1; when gathering the lists (Like Nathaniel, I too am creating the lists on a spreadsheet on my laptop) should I copy and paste the words in, or actually write them into the table? Wondering if it's a good chance to learn the words, or just a waste of time? Thanks!
@@DSF141 I'm not an expert at language learning lol but i prefer writing each word down because i get a chance to "get to know" each word. Honestly it can get time consuming but do whatever works for you.
Same . How is it going?
I am just in so much awe of your cinematography skills, the beauty & depth in your footage editing, your eloquence & ability to communicate every thought with so much clarity & efficiency, and the fact that you can capture so much wisdom & value within 1 video. I kept rewinding just to soak in all of the stunning footage you've captured of the world (sooo many jaw drop moments over here). Thank you thank you (I'm so honored to have found your channel!).
One tip for you Nathaniel: When you can, get the first plane to Brazil and start making videos. Your brain will explode with our culture and your channel will stantly get a ton of more views (cause we love people talking about brazil, yeah we are that childish hahaahha)
Só li verdades. 💛
SIM
This is so true!
KKKKKKK essa é a dica de ouro
Vai explodir literalmente kkkk
I truly wish that someday soon, I will have an audience as mature and warm as you do now Nathaniel. It's awesome to see so many mindful people at one virtual place.
:)
Nice channel. Work smart and consistently, I'm sure you'll get there.
Just subbed. Nice work :)
@@hughscott766 agreed, we should support more ppl like them
Help create a more thoughtful online place
"... in one virtual place."
"Aprendi português em 7 dias"
Eu: Só acredito vendo
Eu vendo: Num acredito
Já aprende espanhol (não fluente), já tô começando a aprender italiano e até agr não aprende inglês. 😂😂😂 Já estudei e estudei e num aprendo. kkkk
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kkkkkkk
eu: quer mentir pra mentiroso né??NANSNAKSNAKA
Eu tô aprendendo já faz 15 anos e até agora n aprendi kkkkkk
Que experiência linda. Parabéns pelo seu aprendizado, eu professora de inglês, e também estou tentando aprender italiano, francês e ter a proficiência em inglês. Seu exemplo compartilhado com todos é uma inspiração. Gratidão!
I have a feeling that this video may go viral here in Brazil, it's a part of our culture to behave positively when we talk/see foreigners trying to speak Portuguese (sometimes it's a little overwhelming 🤣). Wish you good luck in your journey dude. I'm learning Spanish right now and what I realized is that we, as Portuguese speakers, can understand what Spanish speakers say, but they can't understand us most of the time, so I suppose that we mess the pronunciation up 100% haha. I'm really excited to check out the next videos, pls keep up the good work.
The podcast you mentioned (Mamilos) is very popular here in Brasil. The name references an old local meme where a kid said "nipples are polemic!", due to women nipples being censored on social media.
Soooo, the podcast covers very controversial topics in Brazilian society :D
Big fan from Brasil!
Oh that's good to know, thanks for sharing!!
engraçado explicar expressões específicas aqui pra um gringo haha
Que interação maravilhosa, hahahaha.
@Guilherme Boseja Yeah, Xadrez Verbal is one of the best we've got. I, too, highly recommend it :)
Other podcast you would like is Nerdcast, it covers a whole bunch of topics, from history to pop culture, and it is the most listened in Brazil, btw thanks for the content. ✌
HE'S SO CUTE i've being replaying the part he said '' excelente pergunta'' a billion times
hi, i'm brazilian and i can help you with english. I'm wanting to learn English, maybe you can help me too
hahahahahaha..
Lol
@@eduardohan7294 you should try hellotalk
yes he is.
Uau! Sou brasileira e amei sua técnica para aprender o nosso idioma , farei o mesmo para aprender o inglês, sua didática foi tão simples e objetiva , te esperamos no Brasil para viver uma experiência única de cultura, comida e principalmente recepção como em nenhum outro país. Nossa energia contagia e vc se apaixona pelo nosso país .
As a Brazilian I've been extra excited for this video and it's here on my birthday! YAY🥳🎉
Happy birthday
Feliz aniversário!!!
Feliz aniversário 🎂
Feliz aniversário :)
Feliz aniversário!!
As a Brazillian i can affirm that "Caralho" it´s the word u will be using the most here
Very true in my experience. My first day in Rio consisted of learning the words feijoada, caralho and foda se.
@@teodora9280 Hahaha, feijoada in your first day?! That's good!
verdade, quando vi essa palavra na lista dele, pensei uau ele já ta aprendendo isso kkkk
@@raposo2712 yeah, a friend of mine cooked feijoada a and we had caipirinhas too! It was great having a local guide
imagina como deve ser dificil explicar os xinganentos sendo que basicamente em ingles é tudo "fuck" kkkkkkkk
As a Brazilian, I feel so humbled that you took the time to learn our language.
As a language learner myself, I always keep thinking about how foreigners would learn Portuguese, and the amount of ambiguities that our language has. For instance, some years ago, the "trema" (umlaut) was abolished, and so it became frustratingly hard to know when "gue/que" is pronounced as in "guerra (guerra)" or as in "pinguim (pingüim)"... so yeah, sorry about that; I myself only learned to appreciate it when I learned Spanish and saw why it even existed in the first place.
Also, I really feel like Portuguese is one of the hardest languages to really appear as a native while speaking it. Maybe it's because people usually just try to be cool and use a lot of slangs (if unsure, use them sparingly!); I don't know. Maybe I'm just guilty of it being my mother-language!
Anyway, there is a lot of great things in Portuguese: there are many video-essay channels popping up these days (Mimimidias, Quebrando a Caixa, Ludoviajante, just to name a few), many great bands (classics like Legião Urbana, Titãs, etc etc the list goes on), novelas (not really a fan, but Avenida Brasil is the greatest novela, fkn fight me), and so on and so forth. We usually don't give it all much value, but I personally put much of it in perspective after beginning to learn other languages (God, I just want some good German/Italian video-essay channels to follow!). But I digress :D
I totally agree with you,finally someone noticed that Portuguese is a pretty language.Anyway,I'm learning English by myself too
Should I recommend you some great German video essay channels?
@cacerpop I'm probably jumping abruptly in the conversation hahaha But I'd be thankful if you could suggest some 😊
@@laratahm8124 oh please do!
@@laratahm8124 Bitte!
I'm Brazilian and I'm going to say just one thing: if you have the motivation to continue on your trek to fluency in Portuguese, do it. You're going to need a lot of dedication to start understanding conversations, because we speak so fast. I wish you luck on your journey.
On that first list he made, the word CARALHO was essential.
pse kkkk
Specially if he wants to visit Porto!!
kkkkkkkkk
Kkkkkkkkkkk minha nossa
omg xD
Is this guy gonna stop at some point I hope he never stops truly inspirational .....
Love from Nepal
Imagine him coming to Portugal with the brasilian slang xD
spectral spectra he wouldn't get shit. Like I'm Mozambican and we can't understand somethings 😂😂
@@lea9720 He couldn't understand a thing that we say, but we could understand him well because Brazil is conquering Portugal ahahaha
@@lea9720 your mozambican? Same man 😂
I was expecting to see this video in portuguese lol
Before I moved to Portugal, I used to talk a lot with a Brazilian girl - so that I could start practicing the language. Then when I finally moved, Portuguese people were like: "Why do you speak Brazilian"? 😂
I am brazilian and I speak for all of us.. i think we are like chinese when we see someone willing to learn our language and speaking it or trying to speak it.. we get amazed and we need to check it out.
Nathaniel: I learned Portuguese in 7 days
Eu: quer mentir pra mentiroso
AUhsaudhsuadhsuhdu
Kkkkkk boa, Pra cima de nós??
Duvidei tbm
Kkkkkkkk
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK pensei o mesmo
I just finished reading a book called "Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes" by Daniel Everett. He is a linguistic anthropologist who has done much of his work in the amazon with the Pirahá tribe. He learned how to speak Pirahá and Portuguese while expressing the importance of respecting and learning different languages.
"Why" is actually written "por que", separated, and "because" is written "porque", together. There are actually four written variations of that word that mean different things. It's not that important, most people don't care and will understand you no matter what, but I wanted you to know.
Porque - Because (why)
Por qué - interrogative(why) and exclamation (what)
Porqué - (what) cause or reason
Por que - concerning (which or by the)
If you need help this is my Instagram jing.csar 🙋
*Porque* : because
*Por que* : used on direct interrogative frases - _Por que_ você fez isso? ( _Why_ did you do this?) - and in indirect interrogative frases - Eu quero saber _por que_ você fez isso. (I wanna know _why_ you did this.)
*Por quê* : used on the end of frases - Eu ouvi falar que você saiu da escola. _Por quê?_ (I heard you quit school. _Why?_)
*Porquê* : when used as a noun - Esse é o _porquê_ de eu ter saído da escola. (That's the _reason_ I left school.)
Não é bem assim em Português de Portugal.Se eu digo "Porque é que usaste o vestido verde?" a palavra "Porque" tem função de "WHY" (Why did you wear the green dress?)
Por que (por- preposiçao // que -pronome relativo)
"Por QUE razão me ligaste?" aqui o "QUE" refere-se à razão, é "what" (For WHAT reason did you call me?)
ciberduvidas.iscte-iul.pt/consultorio/perguntas/porque-por-que-e-porque/243
@@tiaprocelius2226 Exactly .
Could you pls explain more about it
Hi Nathaniel, I am struggling to learn Portuguese being a native Spanish speaker. As you said, it's a lot of unlearning, you would guess that it would be easier because these languages have similar words but it is not. And I wanted to find inspiration to keep going. So thank you for making this video, it's good to see that others struggle too. And if it was easy everyone would do it
Você consegue😉
I get this, too! I’m grateful for all the Spanish vocabulary I learned in high school but need to disassociate myself from the pronunciations.
I close my eyes and listen several times before I allow myself to “read” the words. It’s helping since as I’m trying to recall the new Portuguese word the Spanish takes a backseat.
Nathaniel offers great advice. I just started learning Portuguese in my spare time as I plan a caminho de Santiago adventure….and now I’m obsessed. Brazilian Portuguese is different, of course, but I’m hoping I can tweak pronunciations while I’m there and the people of Portugal will be forgiving.
Boa sorte!
@@roseofsharon7551 Same 😁😏
I must have watched Italian version of this like a HUNDRED times and every time it was enough to motivate me. Seeing another version... I am the happiest person on earth right now.
Not only the content and quality, but the editing in this video is INCREDIBLE!
Parabéns, cara! Bom trabalho :D
Why learn Portuguese? Os memes cara, os melhores memes.
Cringe
😅
Concordo! 😂 são os melhores
Cringe
Oh...bolinha de gorfe kkkkkk
I'm brazilian and for me, the hardest part of learning a new language is becoming free of the fear of committing mistakes. I know how to speak, but fear is something big inside of me. Speaking and writing are hard bc I don't wanna people making fun of me. I loved your video and your approach to language.
I'm carioca (a person who was born in Rio de Janeiro) and THIS VIDEO IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
For cultural reference, I recommend listening to Bossa Nova, MPB and Tim Maia.
Tá ai um comentário que eu poderia ter escrito!
TIM MAIAAAAAAAAAAAA
Let's not forget about the one and only Elis Regina ❤️
@@analuizacosta357 yesss and I will also include Renato Russo
djavannnn
"Eu aprendi português em 7 dias"
Eu estou aprendendo português já fazem 15 anos e até agora n aprendi kkkkkkkkkk
KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
I actually I understood what you wrote because I speak other 6 languages 😁
@@mnaod2882 just the fact that you wrote this means you're stupid.
então o que você escreveu é o que?? Mds gnt chata, até uma criança analfabeta já fala português
@@gabrieltomaz6034 eu fico até que chateado com pessoas que ficam flnd ''aaa nem eu sei minha língua'', isso passa uma má impressão da gente, como se fossemos burros.
I’m portuguese (from Portugal 🇵🇹) so you can imagine how I felt when saw the title! Portuguese is a beautiful language, we have a unique word that can’t be describe in any language - “saudade”. I really hope that you come to Portugal, we have a lot of beautiful places! Don’t forget to visit the bookshops ❤️
Amo os seus vídeos!
(Translation: I love your videos!) 😂
He would totally blow his mind reading Saramago, even I did and I'm a native speaker hahah
Moisés Oh for sure! Most of the portuguese people don’t see the beautiful things that we have: music, literature, beautiful places and good food! Portugal is a good country ❤️
“Seus” vídeos ? Usando o pronome você ?
Your editing is amazing brother
His editing evolves at an alarming rate. O.o
Does he pay someone to edit his videos?
Thought I was the only one to notice
20 words in Portuguese and one of them is "caralho"
Com isso, já podemos dizer que ele não aprendeu português kkkk
vueiKKKKKKK
@@euph0ria_aesthetics328 Ué, mas é uma das palavras mais usadas
e as outras 19 são sinônimos de caralho! >.
pooaaaaaaaa
Getting my Portuguese citizenship and moving to Portugal has been one of the most impactful events in my life. I highly recommend moving to Portugal, Aveiro and Coimbra are very nice cities and highly underrated. Also keep in mind there are some differences in grammar between European Portuguese and Brazilian Portuguese.
Branden Moço
Acho que o português europeu é muito diferente com o brasileiro. I suggest studying both the Portuguese & Brazillian pronounciations simultaneously, especially that his goal is to move to Portugal.
Aside from different words like o trem and o comboio, a menina and a rapariga, etc. The grammar does differ a bit, but not much. Here are the biggest differences for me when I was learning European Portuguese from Brazillian:
Phonetics wise:
1. Heavy use of S-chiado, almost all instances of the letter S are pronounced as ‘sh’
2. Heavy reduction, almost all the unstressed syllables are barely pronounced.
3. Dark & deep pronounciation of L, sadly it’s a feature foreign to English
4. Different pronunciations of stressed E, the Portuguese have a more open voice for stressed E. Something like the A in ‘Apple’.
5. Almost all unstressed vowels are barely pronounced.
6. So many more, which is why I think Portuguese is such an interesting language to study on.
Grammar wise:
1. The continuous tense is ‘estar a + verb infinitive’
E.g.: (PTBR) Eu estou escrevendo uma carta para você. (PTEU) Eu estou a escrever uma carta para ti.
2. Using the definite articles (o que, o meu, a minha) more properly, Brazillians tend to lax it a bit.
3. The use of other pronouns to refer to ‘you’, like ‘tu’ & ‘o senhor’
E.g.: (PTBR) Você é minha namorada. (PTEU) Tu és a minha namorada.
Jason Kaloh “você é a minha namorada”, “tu és a minha namorada”, ambas as frases podem possuir ou não o artigo “A”. No sul do Brasil, o pronome “tu” também é utilizado. E em que sentido que os artigos definidos ( o que, o meu e a minha) são utilizados incorretamente por brasileiros ?
Além disso, no sotaque carioca, a letra “S” é pronunciada com o som chiado.
Cara, eu poderia escrever em inglês mas vou te ajudar a treinar o português. Vc tá de parabéns pela iniciativa. Eu também amo estudar línguas, sei falar inglês fluente e estou aprendendo italiano. É incrível o quanto uma nova língua pode mudar nossa forma de ver o mundo. Quando tiver mais confiante no português dá uma pesquisada nos sotaques, nas gírias brasileiras porque você vai se surpreender com a riqueza da nossa língua!!
It's really interesting that you're learning portuguese. I was not expecting this. I found your channel because of Matt D'Avella and I enjoy your content a lot. It's really nice to see people learning our language, especially considering that is not that popular. Anyhow, bem vindo ao mundo do português. Things will never be the same again - the best memes of all! Boa sorte!
unrelated but was anyone else watching this guys video and going: “omg the EDITING IS AMAZINGGG” and was completely baffled by his skills?- no? just me? okay..
wish I knew how to do that
Wasn't "baffled", but did notice he has excellent editing skills, for sure. I get the impression he's a very motivated individual who applies himself 100% to whatever interests him. Kind of person I'd like to have a long chat with over coffee. Preferably in a sunny piazza.
I never tought you would be learning my native language, it's so hearthwarming.
Uma das minhas motivações é pensar como as crianças aprendem a falar e como esse processo leva tempo até se tornar algo que fazemos de forma espontânea
Aí já é coisa pra minha noiva, doutora em linguística e a única do mundo q sabe a língua da tribo pkyjabe gavião (devo ter escrito errado) explica. Ela diz q até uma certa idade a criança consegue aprender a fala. Se não aprender e envelhecer antes tá fudida. Por isso ela me zoava qdo tava brava por eu encher a cara de cachaça e whisky. Me chamava de Mogli. Lembra o Mogli da Disney? O cara existiu de verdade. Mas a história real é mto triste. Ela tava brava com eu enchendo a cara ( na época eu até fazia whisky caseiro) e me chamava de moglinho na raiva dela. O Mogli, q realmente foi criado por lobos, ele não aprendeu a falar e até andar era difícil p ele. Morreu cedo, aliás. História triste. Pelo menos, apesar de ser o moglinho e um semi-alfabeto pra quem é uma doutora da USP, ainda ganho mto mais kkkkk. Ela diz q não entende como uma doutora com 2 empregos ganha menos . Tô ganhando agora 12 mil por mês. Mas... Falei p ela q vou fazer mestrado e doutorado rs. Então vai ser doutor Mogli kkkk
Hey, I'm writing this to give you some feedback in your tecniques, and also to thank you for sharing this with the world. I'm Brazilian and I teach Portuguese to immigrants, it's a volunteer work (I'm a lawyer, not a teacher hahaha) and the students are from differents countries and speak different languages (Haiti, Syria, Venezuela, Egypt are some examples), so we don't have a common language. I watched your video about learning Italian and tried to apply this in classroom, and it's working!
Of course, I had to do some adaptations, we only have classes once a week and most of them have extenuating work hours, so I can't expect them to study at home. But I searched the most used verbs and the translation to their languages, we're doing flashcards, learning one verb per week. We did more things, but this text is already too long hahahaha
(We had to stop because of the pandemic, but it was working)
I love how his video is put together! The edits of sceneries, the city, the background music, the little doodles, title animations, the maps!
It also motivated me to learn Spanish. I've been so attracted to the language ever since I watched La casa de Papel. Maybe it's time I get to it.
Thank you so much.
Ps. If anybody has any suggestions for sources to learn Spanish, pls let me know
Hell yeah, I also want to learn Spanish! Maybe then I can understand all the popular songs I hear in the radio :D We can do it! I wish you a wonderful journey :)
buena suerte
(Good luck)
@@jakubjaeger7016 buena suerte (good luck)
buena suerte
(Good luck)
@@jakubjaeger7016 buena suerte (good luck)
Moçambique, o português está nos nossos corações. 🥰🇲🇿
Com certeza
obrigado
todo mundo fala português aí? ou apenas em alguns lugares?
@@BitcoinBoys obvio q fala né. É o idioma oficial do país
parabuens
Loooove this Nathaniel....I am a citizen of the World - currently watching your video because I am learning Persian (the motivation: I will get married to my Iranian Love!) - so I am not a patriot, but it warmed my heart that you want to become Portuguese and live in either Portugal or Brazil. I am Portuguese, have lost touch to the country due to being born abroad, but love the people, the history, the rich cultural heritage, the food, the sun and warmth of nature in both countries. Good luck my dear Amigo!!!
There's a MEME in Brazil where a guy say "Mamilos são polêmicos" that means "nipples are controversial
" - Thats why the podcast have this name(Nipples) because they talk about controversial
subjects.
Beijo do Brasil kkkkk
MAMILOS
Fiquei TÃO feliz quando ele citou, amo o podcast! E ri mt com a parte que ele fala q n tem ideia do pq do nome ahhaha nunca tinha me tocado do quão local, brasileiro esses conteúdos podem ser xD O próprio nome do podcast é algo que só br entende!
0. Encontre sua missão: motivação
1. Pegando os blocos de construção: maximizar o foco nos aspectos mais essenciais --> vocabulário essencial
2. Cola: juntas as palavras e formar frases --> principais verbos, conjugações, tempos verbais...
3. Entrando na bolha: contato com a língua falada na vida real
*São mais ou menos essas as dicas que ele passou no vídeo, tentei pegar o essencial
obrigado amiga, vc é uma amiga
Obrigado pela versão trauduzida
Aquele momento que você descobre pelos comentários que tem muitos brasileiros que acompanham o Nathaniel Drew. Fico feliz por isso
Guilherme Claudino canal dele é muito bom
Hahaha pensei nisso tbm!
Rafael Sousa verdade
mermão, brasileiro é quase uma praga: we're everywhere and "brazilian/portuguese" in the title of the video is enough for bringing us together loll. It never fails to amaze me
De fato dude. Hahahahaha
Thank you so much for this!!! It is exactly what I need to hear and much more! I have been living in portugal for an embarrassingly long time and my Portuguese is terrible. You have just given me the inspiration I need to get the hell on with learning the language properly.
Honestly, I came here to take notes on learning a language and instead I fell in love with the editing and effort that was put into making this video. AMAZING work Nathaniel! Keep it up!
I’d really like to see you do a video like this for a non-romance language to see how it compares to the other languages you learned and how you figure out the best ways to tackle completely new alphabets and grammar structures. Something like Japanese or Russian.
maybe Turkish bc those are v difficult languages
Why does everyone either learn Spanish or Japanese lol I'm sick of it at this point I get it's cool but try something different jeez like pick up Dutch or Luxembourgish sorry for the rant and lack of punctuation it's just annoying
Nathaniel: Here's a list of Portuguese words I've picked up from my Brazilian friends.
Me: First word I saw on the list was caralho hahahah you've got your essential vocabulary right there.
People do have their priorities 😂
Caralho hahahahahahahah this a bad word
hey does that mean a**hole?
@@rohitb405 it means d*ck, but it's used to swear like "damn"
Rohit B sometimes it means fuck! too
Love it! Thanks dude. I’m in Fortaleza now, completely lost! My wife is Brazilian and here I am. I may be living here full time in the near future. Gotta learn quick! Your struggle with the pronunciation was comforting to me lol it’s been difficult for me too. Thanks again!
My city! I hope you have a great time there.
How is your Portuguese?
I hope you learn and have a good time,
Brasil is lo máximo.,
Get all of the resources for learning Portuguese that I compiled throughout this challenge. You can easily adapt much of it whatever language you're learning → www.nathanieldrew.com/language-learning-resources
Grande video!Abraço de Portugal
Hi. I see your video’s to get inspired in life. E acho fantástico que estejas a aprender a falar Português. Keep in touch se quiseres fazer um “test” para veres como está a correr a aprendizagem :)
how about the french or italian one?
This is amazing, thank you so much!!
That was so nice of you to include all of your work!! And such an excellent reward for subscribing- I’ve never seen a youtuber do that before. Kudos for always being original. Have you heard of Netflix for Language Learners? It’s an extension that allows you to have both your native language and the language you are learning’s subtitles up, and allows you to click on the (foreign language’s) words for a definition! I’ve found it extremely helpful, though admittedly it is not good at slang. (It’s also free so follows your rules.) ~warm wishes from another gen z-er trying to learn languages for fun and to fill time and avoid a quarter life crisis!
"Até mais galera" amo o sotaque de alguém cuja língua nativa é o inglês tentando falar português, as palavras saem muito fofas, sei la.
Some people would not be able to learn your way because of the affective filter. They cannot even imagine being face to face with a native not knowing much of the language.
I did some research on the affective filter and it’s so interesting!! Here’s to hoping I can learn enough about it so that I fight it.
Thanks for introducing it :)
@Ace Ar Jr lol fr
Japanese is easier than Portugese omg
Of course you're wrong
@Ace Ar Jr you're justo one among many other people on the internet.
1. Gathering the building blocks
Pareto
Words list (write it down) nouns/verbs
conversation vocabulary
Spreadsheet
Flashcards (Anki)
2. Glue
Connection words
The most important conjugation / verbs / tenses
Don't focus on grammar now
3. Enter the bubble
Art and culture
Movies, music, podcasts, etc
Train your ears identifying what you've learned
Repeat the phrases out loud
4. Talk
My boyfriend speaks Portuguese and I've never been able to properly express myself around his mother.. This really motivated me, thank you :)
Sua capacidade e habilidade com línguas é impressionante ! Greetings from Brazil ! 🇧🇷
Verdade
Sua=his/hers
Mas as tuas não são as melhores 🤔
@@afonsoferreira2652 não entendi sua comparação com a língua inglesa kkkk gramaticalmente, em português (brasileiro), tá certo.
E sua = your
The quality of this video is on another level. The footage, the animation, the music and soundeffects. Its crazy, great work Nathaniel, excited to see your next videos :)
I am learning four languages at once using a method given to me by my first English tutor. The concept is very simple: we take the first 5 words and practice them in all possible variations, making 50 sentences. In the second lesson, we add 5 new words to these and practice them along with the old ones, and so on. Gradually, very slowly, we add new elements, tenses, constructions, etc. I also record these sentences with a professional narrator and listen to the correct speech, making sure to say them aloud, trying to pronounce them correctly like the narrator, and then quickly like a native speaker, swallowing some sounds. I study multiple languages like this: I translate these sentences from my native language to a more familiar one, in my case English, then from English to an easier one, and so on, mixing all these languages. It turns into 20 videos for one lesson. It's a colossal amount of work, but the result is fantastic. If you're interested, you can check it out; I upload the voice recordings with the narrator on TH-cam and listen to them there. Maybe it will be useful to someone else too."
Eu tenho uma série de vídeos seus em “Assistir mais tarde” porque estou tentando administrar o meu tempo, aí chega notificação de que tá aprendendo minha língua, tive que vir né haha Seus vídeos são demais
Mano eu tambem tive o sentimento, porque estou aprendendo inglês e agora me sinto conectado com ele. É muito legal.
Fiz o mesmo, achei um máximo quando vi a notificação kkkk
Sempre admirei seu trabalho, e o primeiro video seu que assisti foi "I learned Italian in 7 days". Um ano depois, você começa a aprender minha lingua materna haha (good luck with that btw). Você é foda Nate, te admiro demais bro!!!
Um abraço from Brazil !!
E chega ser inspirador para nós também!
Esse foi o primeiro q assisti também! Desde então, I've been hooked.
Matheus Vasconcelos okay but I’m lowkey proud I could still understand that just knowing Spanish 😂 however eu estou aprendendo portuguesa! so maybe one day I won’t have to depend on my spanish, espero que você tenha um bom dia! tchau! 😂
Hi, I’m a Brazilian and also a Portuguese and English teacher. I can speak English, Portuguese, Spanish, a little bit of Japanese and I’m learning Korean. I understand the point of your video, but I dot not like at all the title and the message that you can learn a language from the 0 in 7 days. If you do like that you are only reproducing the sentences not actually understanding it. And since you have other experiences speaking other Roman languages it becomes easier to learn Portuguese, something that someone that do not have your background cannot achieve. As a language teacher I did not like the message in you title, but I liked the message that anyone can learn a new language if they put their mind into it. I just hope that you did not put such a tittle that makes people believe and get their hopes up that they can learn a language in seven days and if they can not do it they would be frustrated and maybe never want to learn another language again.
Moça acho que todo mundo sabe que não é possível aprender a língua inteira em 7 dias, eu entendi o seu ponto de vista em frustar as pessoas e tals, mas o que ele pode estar querendo passar é um desafio, com esse desafio a pessoa pode se interessar pela língua e começar a estudar por anos e se tornar fluente, mas se tornar fluente em um país ao qual a língua materna não é a mesma que você está estudando sempre é complicado. A pessoa tem que fazer uma total imersão, e foi assim que você aprendeu as línguas que fala hoje em dia.
Eu próprio aprendi inglês em um total de 6 meses atrás, creio que sou avançado já mas mesmo assim tenho dificuldades, é como se eu fosse um analfabeto funcional no ingles. Tá que eu fiz 4 anos de inglês em escolas, mas eu não queria aprender, hoje em dia eu busquei porque quero estudar fora e necessito aprender a língua. Qualquer idioma é possível aprender em um curto tempo, se eu fui de elementar para avançado em 6 meses qlqr um pode tbm ou até menos tempo
Luis Malaquias sim, concordo. Mas o título dele induz ao que eu disse. E infelizmente, mesmo que o intuito dele seja apenas de fazer com que as pessoas se interessem pela língua, pode fazer o contrário. Justamente pq o título fala que ele aprendeu em 7 dias. É um título enganoso sim. E eu como professora de línguas, não vou passar pano pra isso.
Luis Malaquias E para complementar eu aprendi todas as línguas em um país no meu próprio país, então eu não passei pelo processo de imersão. Eu aprendi as línguas como língua estrangeira (quando você aprende em um país não nativo da língua desejada) e não como segunda língua (quando você aprende no país nativo da língua).
Concordo plenamente.
I can't prove it, it's just a theory I have, and perhaps it's a function of being part of a generation that was in high school just before the internet arrived, but . . . I think the fact that you start out writing lists *by hand* is really important. There is something about the physical activity of writing out words that I have found to be a profound aid to memory. I think there's a neural connection being made there that makes retention and retrieval easier later on.
My experience-I started to learn my first foreign language in high school (Spanish). Everything written out by hand. Didn't have laptops or use computers except to type papers sometimes. Though I didn't use the language for decades, I still retain a lot of what I learned and a great deal of vocab-which is sometimes comically frustrating when speaking Italian and a Spanish word pops out instead.
Fast forward to the last ten years or so (the decade of my 40s) in which I studied numerous languages, especially Italian. I'm essentially fluent now in italian, but I still find myself looking up the same words over and over, and my grammar isn't as developed as it could be. And no, it's not because I'm older now. I'm of sound mind. I think the main difference is that I used software and apps to study Italian/French/Dutch/Croatian, etc. Just tapping a screen or a keyboard isn't creating those neural connections the way writing did. I've gone back to that method. Time will tell if I start to retain things better.
There are articles on that matter, I'm sorry but I don't remember the source, but a while ago I read some papers about the influence of handwriting on learning. But basically, you are creating a motor patter that connects to the letters and the words. When you just type your brain only 'reads' the key and hit it. But when you write, your brain has to recall and actively output the letters, which is a deeper process. So your experience and observation are accurate! Hope you can find the articles and use this knowledge to practice the new languages you've learned.
Absolutely!! When I started, I wrote numbers (digits) in pen and the written out form in pencil so I can erase and keep rewriting it. Helped me immensely
underrated comment 100% fax
Nathaniel, I just wanted to thank you so much for posting these language videos. I was born in Canada and my parents were born in the Philippines. Because of this I never learned how to speak Tagalog (my parents put me in French immersion school instead) . I have recently uploaded a video where I challenged myself to learn Tagalog in 7 days and I used your study methods to make this happen. And honestly YOUR STRATEGIES WORK. Thank you so much for sharing your process with us and I'm so glad I stumbled across your channel. Without you, I wouldn't have taken the leap to learn more about my history. Take care, and stay healthy!
Nathaniel: aprende português do Brasil.
Eu, que nasci em Portugal: *confused bacalhau noises*
Verdade 😅
Mesmo! Ahah
és tu e eu, pá xD
não sei que possa alegrar-te, mas sou de Polónia e eu aprendo o sotaque de Portugal.
Estou mesmo não muito entusiasmado com o escolho dele.
@@survivalfun7420 O mais interessante é a forma como a fonética portuguesa e polaca são tão semelhantes apesar de a gramática não ter nada a ver
I'm from Portugal so this video warmed up my heart in a special way! 😄 It's hilarious that one word you already knew is ''caralho'', people in Porto are known for saying it as ''carago'' with a different accent 😂 Unlearning and re-learning accents is a bummer, I have Brazilian friends that moved to Portugal for university and nowadays their accents have changed to iberian portuguese, it's wild! The reasons you wrote as to why you're learning portuguese, the effort and commitment you put into this and seeing your progress is so inspiring. I can't wait to for Part 2, I bet my jaw is gonna drop at how good you are already. Boa sorte!
P.s. A beautiful word you should know that doesn't have direct translation in english is ''saudade'' :)
Some real gems in here! Loved the way you documented your process.
I'm from Cabo Verde 🇨🇻, and seeing my country's flag in the intro was an awesome surprise. It is really cool that you're learning Portuguese as your next language. It's not an easy language, mas vais conseguir tirar de letra (but you will pull it off like a pro.).
Btw, come to Cabo Verde and try some Katxupa and also learn Creole, our mother tongue. Boa sorte aprendendo Português!
Savage Detective I love Cabo Verde. I really want to visit after lockdown 😭
Come to Brazil, it’s an amazing experience, tip: Conheça várias partes, não somente Rio ou São Paulo
Salvador......vim p passear e agora faz 5 anos. Adoroooooo!!!!!
Jo is an angel, I just love her.
I would like to see you trying to learn a language that has a completely different characters and sounds, like japanese or korean. That would be great.
I can’t thank you enough for sharing all your work with so many of us who want to learn a new language ♥️ Thank you so so much, Nathaniel. Just subbed and signed up for the newsletter :)
vc é uma lenda velho! Seu canal é demais!
mds eu li lerda kkkkkkkkkkk
Dois cara que me inspiro muito
nathaniel: Brazilian people are attractive
me: ótimo, mas uma oportunidade para eu me iludir!
Hahaha! Este comentário não tem a atenção que merece ;)
mais*
Hahahaha melhor comentário!
Mais* vai confundir o menino com essa gramática kkkkk
Kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkl DEMAIS!!!!
jesus cristo!!!! a sua voz quando fala português fica taaao lindaaa!!! AAAAAA CRUSH CRUSH CRUSH
socorro simmmm