Hi Robin, thank you so much for the advice, I will "take a break" from pushing forward and consolidate what I know so far. It's a strange thing because I live in Hamburg, Germany and when I learned German I think I was always forced to consolidate my knowledge by the environment, but studying a language outside the country doesn't allow for that constant and consistent consideration so passively. I'm really excited to get into more content and really immerse myself more thanks to your kind words. Thanks again for answering my question. :)
I had the same experience when I finished the Living Language series of textbooks. When I moved on to other textbooks I became frustrated because I found myself missing pieces of what I needed to continue. So I took a month or so to carefully go through the living language textbooks. Afterwards I honestly felt like a new person, things were clearer and I could start making more connections when studying new material. All the 汉子, grammar structures and pinyin came back to me. It was a well needed refresher to get back into newer more intermediate material. Keep on studying my friends
Another great video! Feeling demotivated is part of this marathon. In my view, that’s why is so important to stick to short, medium and long term goals and always revaluate the method we are following (personally I do it annually). Congratulations for your video. Professor X here. Stay safe.
Been going through videos on your Channel and I found this gem !!! Learning MSA Arabic as my first second language has been a roller coaster and I have obtained so much information but it has been a year and I’m constantly comparing my self with people who are “fluent” in 5 day lol. I’m not at all conformable with speaking the language beside basic sentences that I memorised but this video has given me hope !! I’m forever grateful!! I don’t want to let Arabic go and now I know I don’t have to and when I took some time to reflect like you mention I realised I have learned the alphabet and I can read in Arabic which I never thought was possible in the beginning !! Thank you so much
You've really been on fire with this Language Diary series! Quick question, as a polyglot, is there anything about your own particular language learning method that may differ from other polyglots? Or do you all share this same common method of learning. Cheers!
That sounds like an experience I had recenty while learning Spanish. It wasn't unclear how much I knew, I just knew that I still had a lot to learn. Then I stopped asking myself about my level os spanish and started to check my advance in all of the particular areas of the language broken down. How good I am in my comprehention? how good I am in my comprehention of native speakers talking fast? how good I am in creating sentences in spanish? how good is my vocabulary? My grammar? and so on. For each answer I elected or created a particular exercise to that specific skill. And did another thing that helped a lot, more than I was expecting: I started learning French. Yes, learning French helped me to keep learning Spanish in many ways.
شكراً لك! My way to motivate myself is listening to a video like your's, I can't believe that I could easily understand +95% of your videos without subtitle or watch it several times! Even if I didn't get a word I still able to guess the meaning depending on the context, for instance the word "consolidate" is new for me, but I guessed that it's something about reinforceing basics. For english learners there is a barrier when we improve our listening comprehansion, which is when we reach the level of understanding to the point where we could benefit from unfamous pricless content like your's. It's always nice to feel your progress, I can't thank you enough!
I grew up around German but only recently decided to actually learn it. My "knowledge" is all over the place, so this was a really helpful video, even if obviously I have no notes to look back on.
This has been an incredibly useful video to watch! Thank you very much! I feel inspired! I have had a plan to devote the whole of April to French. I have school French that I spent 2019 really working on which massively improved it but then I did one of those three months language challenges in French - and burned out and stopped completely. 2020 was devoted to learning Greek, which I’m still doing and enjoying, but my French is longing to to escape its box and be activated again. I had promised myself to devote April to French, but I hadn’t decided what I was going to do. Having watched this video, I’m going back over all my Babbel notes to thoroughly review everything during that month - I can’t wait! Thanks again.
Thank so much for sharing, it was a God send for me this video. I am right now on a big problem with French. I am in an intermediate level and for some reason I can not speak or express myself well. I have a French tutor which is very patient with me but I "feel" that I can not cross to the other level of fluency. Have you been there? or anybody.? It is very discouraging but I am not a quitter.
Maybe you should try "self-talk" at home, sort of making any grammar or vocabulary exercise, or even a monologue, on your own and aloud. Sometimes just stop thinking and tell yourself: "Could I say this what I'm thinking in French? " , and make the try. It has always worked out for me. Just be sure your family know what you are doing and why. :) Using your mp3 or any device for listening to audio exercises as helped me as well.
Had that problem when I was learning Spanish and was able to get through it just by using easy readers then progressing to books/news but that probably doesn't work for Japanese due to the kanji
Hi, I am a beginner at French Learning.My teacher actually does not any information about the course I can follow. As fas as I know, you are a vert good French user, could you advise some names of Frencg course books
Is this useful for jumping between two language and getting back on track with the first one❓ I studied Mandarin one year, achieved a nice conversation, writing and lecture level. Now I'm studying German and I found it so hard, that I don't know if Continue until that nice conversation level or go back to Mandarin before that.
I really would like to reach the part in french where I can start understanding short interviews, tv series and other native content, I feel like you that I would be so much fun. I think that's the hardest part of any language, to reach that kind of level, afterwards I think it's much more easy only because there is a whole bunch of material at your level.
I think we skip ahead so that we can say something authentic. Impatience with learning is the cause. I am guilty of this too! After preliminary introductions ,then what ? . You want to say something interesting . So we learn stuff ahead of where we should be . Get patience back in it's box , don't let it rule !
Oh, that could be me...I´ve been learning Japanese for I don't know how many years, but I think especially with Japanese it's difficult to achieve a high level... and I also get demotivated...because it's so much, shall I learn the grammar, vocabulary, kanji? Compared to other languages it's highly complex..but Robin´s advice was really motivating...cool 😎
I have never tried Japanese. But, reaching a high level in any language is possible. It is just that every language has it's own strategies and techniques that should be applied in order to achieve that. You might be thinking this way since, achieving fluency is taking you a long time...but, that is dependent on the amount of time you are giving it. I am being general because, my strategies don't work for most people. I usually study languages intensively and most people don't have the time to do that.
I usually focus on words I find on the novels I read and movies I watch including tv shows and words from my area of interest or area of expertise like Business vocab or social media vocab etc.
Hi Robin, thank you so much for the advice, I will "take a break" from pushing forward and consolidate what I know so far. It's a strange thing because I live in Hamburg, Germany and when I learned German I think I was always forced to consolidate my knowledge by the environment, but studying a language outside the country doesn't allow for that constant and consistent consideration so passively.
I'm really excited to get into more content and really immerse myself more thanks to your kind words.
Thanks again for answering my question. :)
I had the same experience when I finished the Living Language series of textbooks. When I moved on to other textbooks I became frustrated because I found myself missing pieces of what I needed to continue. So I took a month or so to carefully go through the living language textbooks. Afterwards I honestly felt like a new person, things were clearer and I could start making more connections when studying new material. All the 汉子, grammar structures and pinyin came back to me. It was a well needed refresher to get back into newer more intermediate material. Keep on studying my friends
Another great video! Feeling demotivated is part of this marathon. In my view, that’s why is so important to stick to short, medium and long term goals and always revaluate the method we are following (personally I do it annually).
Congratulations for your video. Professor X here. Stay safe.
Been going through videos on your Channel and I found this gem !!! Learning MSA Arabic as my first second language has been a roller coaster and I have obtained so much information but it has been a year and I’m constantly comparing my self with people who are “fluent” in 5 day lol. I’m not at all conformable with speaking the language beside basic sentences that I memorised but this video has given me hope !! I’m forever grateful!! I don’t want to let Arabic go and now I know I don’t have to and when I took some time to reflect like you mention I realised I have learned the alphabet and I can read in Arabic which I never thought was possible in the beginning !! Thank you so much
I love the blue coffee mug , it makes me feel at home. LOve the videos.
You've really been on fire with this Language Diary series! Quick question, as a polyglot, is there anything about your own particular language learning method that may differ from other polyglots? Or do you all share this same common method of learning. Cheers!
That sounds like an experience I had recenty while learning Spanish. It wasn't unclear how much I knew, I just knew that I still had a lot to learn. Then I stopped asking myself about my level os spanish and started to check my advance in all of the particular areas of the language broken down. How good I am in my comprehention? how good I am in my comprehention of native speakers talking fast? how good I am in creating sentences in spanish? how good is my vocabulary? My grammar? and so on. For each answer I elected or created a particular exercise to that specific skill. And did another thing that helped a lot, more than I was expecting: I started learning French. Yes, learning French helped me to keep learning Spanish in many ways.
Learning french helped me to learn better my native tongue which happens to be spanish, haha.
شكراً لك!
My way to motivate myself is listening to a video like your's, I can't believe that I could easily understand +95% of your videos without subtitle or watch it several times!
Even if I didn't get a word I still able to guess the meaning depending on the context, for instance the word "consolidate" is new for me, but I guessed that it's something about reinforceing basics.
For english learners there is a barrier when we improve our listening comprehansion, which is when we reach the level of understanding to the point where we could benefit from unfamous pricless content like your's.
It's always nice to feel your progress, I can't thank you enough!
I grew up around German but only recently decided to actually learn it. My "knowledge" is all over the place, so this was a really helpful video, even if obviously I have no notes to look back on.
This has been an incredibly useful video to watch! Thank you very much! I feel inspired! I have had a plan to devote the whole of April to French. I have school French that I spent 2019 really working on which massively improved it but then I did one of those three months language challenges in French - and burned out and stopped completely. 2020 was devoted to learning Greek, which I’m still doing and enjoying, but my French is longing to to escape its box and be activated again. I had promised myself to devote April to French, but I hadn’t decided what I was going to do. Having watched this video, I’m going back over all my Babbel notes to thoroughly review everything during that month - I can’t wait! Thanks again.
Thank so much for sharing, it was a God send for me this video. I am right now on a big problem with French. I am in an intermediate level and for some reason I can not speak or express myself well. I have a French tutor which is very patient with me but I "feel" that I can not cross to the other level of fluency. Have you been there? or anybody.? It is very discouraging but I am not a quitter.
Maybe you should try "self-talk" at home, sort of making any grammar or vocabulary exercise, or even a monologue, on your own and aloud. Sometimes just stop thinking and tell yourself: "Could I say this what I'm thinking in French? " , and make the try. It has always worked out for me. Just be sure your family know what you are doing and why. :) Using your mp3 or any device for listening to audio exercises as helped me as well.
Maybe listening to French radio / tv / movie every day might help you. I can recommand you some good french series if you want ;)
I feel squeamish about halting forward movement to consolidate earlier material, even though I know it will do great things for me.
Had that problem when I was learning Spanish and was able to get through it just by using easy readers then progressing to books/news but that probably doesn't work for Japanese due to the kanji
Hi, I am a beginner at French Learning.My teacher actually does not any information about the course I can follow. As fas as I know, you are a vert good French user, could you advise some names of Frencg course books
If I could like this video a 1000 times, I would surely do it
Is this useful for jumping between two language and getting back on track with the first one❓
I studied Mandarin one year, achieved a nice conversation, writing and lecture level. Now I'm studying German and I found it so hard, that I don't know if Continue until that nice conversation level or go back to Mandarin before that.
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I really would like to reach the part in french where I can start understanding short interviews, tv series and other native content, I feel like you that I would be so much fun. I think that's the hardest part of any language, to reach that kind of level, afterwards I think it's much more easy only because there is a whole bunch of material at your level.
I think we skip ahead so that we can say something authentic. Impatience with learning is the cause. I am guilty of this too! After preliminary introductions ,then what ? . You want to say something interesting . So we learn stuff ahead of where we should be . Get patience back in it's box , don't let it rule !
Oh, that could be me...I´ve been learning Japanese for I don't know how many years, but I think especially with Japanese it's difficult to achieve a high level... and I also get demotivated...because it's so much, shall I learn the grammar, vocabulary, kanji? Compared to other languages it's highly complex..but Robin´s advice was really motivating...cool 😎
I have never tried Japanese. But, reaching a high level in any language is possible. It is just that every language has it's own strategies and techniques that should be applied in order to achieve that. You might be thinking this way since, achieving fluency is taking you a long time...but, that is dependent on the amount of time you are giving it.
I am being general because, my strategies don't work for most people. I usually study languages intensively and most people don't have the time to do that.
@@lewessays Yes, you are right. And how do you do that exactly, studying intensively...
Hey there what words should I learn?
If I see something and I know 90% which of the 10% should I concentrate on?
I usually focus on words I find on the novels I read and movies I watch including tv shows and words from my area of interest or area of expertise like Business vocab or social media vocab etc.
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