@sashamacdonald4278
"If you aim at nothing, you're certain to hit it." I'm writing this on my noteboard, words to live by!
@nawtmyrealnamelol
"Memory is a process of forgetting and being reminded" brilliantly put!
@daphnemacleod
I am 69 and learning French for a few reasons .... To exercise my brain and challenge myself (I am also learning to play the piano). In addition to this, I am learning because my young grandchildren are in French Imersion and I want to support their studies by being able to converse with them in French. Also, most of their lessons they sometimes want help with ie maths, socials and science are in French... having to keep stopping to look up translations is time consuming (not that I mind that particularly) but it can be frustrating for my grandchild. They are thrilled that I want to learn and are delighted that they can participate in my learning. We have had many laughs a my attempts at pronouciations.
@blotski
I laughed outloud so much at some of your witty comments that my wife came in to find out what was so funny. I told her I was just watching a linguistics channel on Youtube. She's now worrying about my having early onset dementia.
@bookie-t5p
Getting the amygdala going does help a lot. For example, I learn words 10000 times better when I embarrass myself by using the wrong one in front of a crowd. Never forget it again after that.
@bensy1704
Bindged these videos at work, been trying to learn my indigenous language(irish) for years after living near an irish speaking community and im making more progress than ever
@4chaffenel117
I'd love to watch a video about you talking about books to read for people who have an interest in learning linguistics from scratch, or something like a bookshelf review where you talk about your top picks! I've recently discovered your channel, and I'm completely in love with it. Keep up the good work! :finger-red-number-one:❤
@jssmedialangs
Oh my gosh ... The stuff you said about ADHD!! 😭 I remember trying to listen to hours of Japanese, even as I slept, because that's what someone suggested. My brain felt like mush... Passive listening however has been great for me. When having conversations, it's like all those words my brain stored while listening suddenly activates. Absolutely a huge believer of doing what works for you.
@objective4
As a French, I learnt Persian mostly by speaking with people on tandem. Took me 3 years to be fluent. I wish you much success with this beautiful language.
@nathanlaoshi8074
“ 你中文说的太棒了，是个真聪明的老外啊！” Been there. One of the most annoying parts of being a private language teacher is having parents ask you to recommend the "best" book or online resource. When they say this, I hear "I'm willing to spend a whole bunch of money to have my kid ace the tests, and if that doesn't work, it's your fault." That happened mostly in China, but here in the USA (public schools) you'll have the occasional ask as well. Your advice is really spot-on in my opinion. Thanks!
@satohime
as an autistic who speaks/studies 7 languages currently focusing on Persian, i'm almost scared how perfect this video is. i don't have the money to purchase textbooks or courses, but the recognition has me motivated to get back in my game and slobber over Hafez for 8 hours a day
@elashvili21
you're saying I can't become fluent hebrew speaker after a 30 days in duolingo?
@Dee._.Rose._.
I've been so confused and kinda upset with myself because I wasn't seeing the same progress I had in the past. I have ADHD and I was able to hyper-fixate for the longest time. But once I realized my decline of interest I panicked and took a college class. although I don't regret my decision, I again didn't see the same improvement. I am back with an old tutor and have a trip to Taiwan in three months. So this is something that I really really want but the drive isn't there. I tend to forget that ADHD can be as much a hindrance as it is a helper. I get easily distracted and lose focus super easy. Studying has been hard. But I think consistency is where I need to start. I will do my best to set a goal and work towards it. I appreciate this video it gave me a lot to think about!
@creativefierce
I'm a lazy language learner but I do really enjoy being able to hold conversations when I'm in Italy. I started with a weekly tutor and Gabe Wyner's approach to vocabulary building with Anki. Once I built a foundation, I was able to grind from A2ish to B1ish by listening to podcasts and practicing speaking. I use the bird app to keep from getting too rusty, and it works pretty well for that. I have a good ear (heard a lot of a second language when I was a baby, and I think it helped), and Wyner's stuff encouraged me to lean into that and get very focused on hearing & producing the right sounds. It makes a huge difference when you're actually in conversation.
@simonsmith8149
I've often used 'false mnemonics' / 'mnemonics that don't work' - for some weird reason they seem to work better for me than 'correct' ones. For example, way back when, I always remembered that 'tower' in French / Spanish is feminine, because it . . . um . . shouldn't be.
@speakeuropeanportuguese
Loved this video. I learned Portuguese very quickly. I was living in Portugal with a Portuguese partner and I studied at least an hour a day. The rest was background noise which eventually started to make sense. Brits would often say to me "It is not surprising you learned so quickly, you have a Portuguese husband. Like that would magically help me with the language! The truth is, one days he told me "You will never learn this language", and that was my inspiration! Took me about 6 months! I now teach it. How did I learn? Most of the time it was hearing the language. I wanted to be able to speak it, not just read it.
@aprilmunday1152
Thank you. I hadn't realised that my discontent with my own language learning was because I've achieved my first goal for Italian, even though it wasn't explicit. I can now define my new goal and what I need to do to achieve it.
@JonathanSchoreels91
I edited the template of my Anki Cards to have to type the Kanas of the Kanji I read instead of just "thinking about the word" and checking afterward if it was "more or less the same". The recall was at first a bit harder, but now I realize that actively having to write down the reading of the kanji really helps to memorize them better than just "thinking about it". Good tip :)
@alexanderkononov1862
The video starts at 5:13
@fizzyfozzy8675