@asdgagasgga
This is going to make my work so much easier, thanks!
@shaunalynn2997
I’m learning Finnish (I’m a half Finn from the US), & actually being consistent for 254 days straight on Duolingo for as little as 10 minutes has made me conversational in Finnish. I just added Quizlet to the mix yesterday which helps.
@LamiaKnighton
This is the approach I’ve been waiting for! Real strategies from a linguist — finally something practical
@themusicactor
Going on a 689 day streak for German on Duo... 🙌🏾
@RASHIDMINHAS-l5f
You’ve earned a loyal subscriber, thanks for the amazing content!
@JahariHaberman
This video really opened my eyes! I’ve been studying for years, but now I finally see what I was doing wrong.
@j69then99
Every video is better than the last, keep it up!
@cornygrogan
Thank you for this video.I happened upon it by chance. Odd coincidence, my wife is Persian and I was able to learn Persian very quickly, I wonder now if that was due to the emotional connection we share. I have also lived in Japan and I would say it took me a year to be able to get to the point where if I was speaking in Japanese on the phone a native speaker could not pick me as a foreigner and I was able to read a newspaper and scientific literature. On the other hand I feel I have gotten nowhere with German despite now a couple of years study, many many late nights trying different means and methods and probably a million tears shed in frustration. I realise now that despite me not being aware of it I did have clear objectives and goals when I was learning Persian and Japanese whereas my goal in learning German has kinda been yolo. Thanks very much for your advice, I will have to watch more of your content. On a serious note though on one occasion I was returning from Iran and had to transit through the UAE where I was stopped and interrogated. They thought I was potentially a terrorist. I became extremely anxious. They tricked me by interrogating me in English but then halfway through presented me with documents written in Farsi which I read through and refused to sign thus inadvertently confirming to them I understood Farsi, I also made the mistake of telling them I had been to the Iran-Afghanistan border and they upped the pressure on me considerably. Horrible experience, probably/hopefully not a common one though.
@الناصح-ص8ك
I never thought I could do this, but now I feel confident!
@safialocke1990
I'm so glad I came across this video. I'm trying to learn Farsi also as some of my family is Persian however I've been really struggling to find resources so this was super lucky for me to find so thank you so so so much
@sleepykitty1745
My goal is to be able to talk to my family in their language. I don't care so much about reading in that language, but it would be neat. I want to be able to write letters home. I want to be able to do smalltalk, but eventually I also want to be able to dive into the deep topics. I also want to be able to tell people about me and ask them about them when I meet them for the first time. And what is also important to me: I want to really learn the Grammar! Icelandic is a freaking hard language and many people that go there know some vocabs, but don't actually care about using the verbs in the right form for example or the different cases like dative etc. They really get impressed when you study the grammar and not just learn words. So grammar and being able to form sentences and describing things I might not know the vocabulary off the top of my head is the most important to me.
@Salimaleikum
My goals in French learning are First and most practical - to be able to communicate with waiters, store clerks etc. when I cross the river here in Ottawa and during my other trips to Quebec Second - be able to apply for jobs that require some level of French (but not actually use it for work) Third - to show off my français to non-francophones
@todesque
In May 2020 I set myself the task of learning Russian from scratch and being able to read classic Russian literature such as War and Peace, Chekhov's short stories, etc, etc in approximately 4 or 5 years. Fast forward to 2024. Am pleased to say after almost 4 years of daily work (one hour in the morning, plus one hour in the evening) I can read and understand the classics albeit very slowly, and with the help of a dictionary. Immensely rewarding however. Going from B2 to C1 is like swimming across the Pacific Ocean -- a seemingly endless travail of tears with few signs of actual improvement (I still haven't arrived at C1). Few people realize how much work is involved in making such an enormous jump. No regrets, mind you. But at the same time I'm glad I went into this crazy quixotic venture somewhat naively.
@tportela123
Goals to learn dutch, (I live in amsterdam): Make dutch friends, be able to read and understand signs/labels and everything in my surroundings, experiencing the culture, and to get a job more easily :)
@kuau_Queen-kiki-4652
ive been learning german through school the past 4 years pretty passively and i am just reaching B1 level, i want to try to learn more, i Learned the language not only because its a part of my middle school caricilum here in east Europe, but because i Want to learn it, it Will be useful for future jobs
@ebouwens
I'm a non-serious learner of Catalan in preparation to travel to Catalonia. Of course I could ( and probably will) just speak Spanish. I'm using Duolingo, which offers Catalán from Spanish only as there are few other programs, or even books in my library, addressing Catalan. My goal is to have some insight into the language and the culture, cultural appreciation. So many empires have conquered and then fallen inthe region that the language seems like a card game of 52 card pickup of Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian -- and even German. German?? Yes, the Visigoths were a Germanic tribe from East Europe that fled the Huns and were in Catalonia. So crazy to see the word "oncle" for uncle and the Romance "tia"for aunt. The feminine article "La" like Spanish switches to "les" in plural( reminiscent of French) but the vowel "e" is uninflected schwa and sounds very close to "las" in Spanish. For me this is an example of extending the pleasure of travel to the prepartion phase , without a serious desire or need to try to be fluent , or not be recognized as a visitor. The weirdest element? Two forms of "ll" , the normal one and the one L.l with the dot raised half way up.
@jadonclifton
My goal with Croatian is to talk with native speakers about virtually every subject, understand them, and be understood by them. I don’t care about perfect grammar, extensive vocabulary, reading, or understanding audio books or movies.
@sylvi_app
We'd love to throw our hat into the ring! 🙋♀
@bogdanstamenic2836
My main motivator when learning a language is understanding a foreign culture! That's why I know such a variety (Serbian, Arabic, Korean, German) and I don't especially care if I'm fluent, but maybe I'll try to be more conversational in Arabic for vacation.😊
@4chaffenel117