I will say you will learn a language if you do two things: 1) You are truly motivated and stay motivated!! and 2) you put in the training hours. If you do both of these things you will learn. Methods beyond this are IMO all around staying motivated and putting in the hours (regardless if you are on a 1 year, 2 year, 4 year, or longer plan). With some methods being more "efficient" than others -- meaning efficient methods will give you slightly better results. But believe me "motivation" is king!!
Great video! Lots of great points! Yes -- I classify Elysse as a learner who puts a super high emphasis on speaking. And looks like that is her main goal -- so a great goal for her (based on her goals and what she likes to do). IMO the main thing is motivation -- keeping yourself motivated to log the training hours you need to learn the language. On my end I like reading (and I consider it the most "efficient" method to increase your vocab) so I put more time using reading to learn languages than listening or speaking -- although will say if you do have to put time into listening to be good at listening, and you have to put time into speaking if you want to be good at speaking. I do love your logging hours idea. Yeah, I wish I'd done that, I can only roughly estimate the hours I've put in -- it's work to log hours (and you have to be consistent about it) -- but it would be so cool to have my hours logged.
Some libraries even have volunteer organizations that run a book store for the libraries in the county or area. In my area - staffed by total volunteers -- there is a used book store that is all old library books. Advantage in general, is books are typically cheaper than a normal used book store.
I’m so grateful to you for this video! After you shared your own experience I finally realized that I’m not only one who struggles with the problem of gaining confidence in a foreign language❤️🩹
I just started learning Bulgarian with Assimil's course with French as the language of instruction. If you know Spanish, there's also "Lengua Búlgara. Curso completo", parts 1-5. Parts 1, 2, and 5 are available for Kindle, but parts 3 and 4 are not. There doesn't seem to be any recordings or even stress indicators in the books, but Google Translate sounds good in Bulgarian. Bulgarian's a nice language. I took 2 years of Russian at uni, and Bulgarian orthography is a lot simpler. Grammar too. It's just that there aren't a lot of resources for learning it as opposed to Russian.
This is amazing thanks! I am a half-bulgarian who unfortunately never learned bulgarian as a child. I've been trying to really improve my bulgarian as an adult and am probably at a B1/B2 level. I have mostly used the website Bulgaro which is great and covers all the core grammatical concepts but ultimately is a little thin. What would be your recommendations for resources for a B1/B2 speaker to improve their vocabulary as well as reading and listening skills? I'm defo checking out some of the stuff you mentioned in this video but wanted to identify if there are resources better suited to my level?
Hello, I'm bulgarian and I live in Ireland, I can help with the language, in return you can straighten my mistakes in english. I speak intemediate level. Best way to learn is native speaker to correct you. Regards
Great video!! Agree with everything you said. And like that you place roughly equal enphasis on ER and IR. You pretty much said this but when I'm just starting, I really focus on IR because I know so little vocab (in the beginning) -- I really don't like doing ER until I have a vocab of at least 2000 words (in the target language) -- and then I do what you do -- try to find stuff that has 10-15% words I don't already know for ER. For intensive reading I use comic books -- which are actually pretty hard -- lthey are ike a 10-12 year plus reading level. I like them because they are short and I can read them over and over until I know every single word in the comic book. I also find that as I get more advanced in a language I start really understanding nuances in the text -- which is super cool.
This is such a helpful video! I have been learning languages for many years and I still struggle with speaking anxiety because I make it so much bigger in my head than it actually is! I have my first Portuguese lesson today and I am going to use your tips to get relaxed about it. Thank you for sharing these great tips!
Anybody learning Romanian ? Just starting learning, and I've found a good course on udemy that is quite intensive on grammar which I like as it's the mechanics of the language.I need to find some reading material however.
For me something important would be speaking a related language that I speak. For example, I'd like an Arabic tutor to speak Hebrew, because they can use the similarities between Hebrew and Arabic, and they'd be less likely to be hostile to Israelis like me. For learning another Slavic language, I'd like someone who speaks Russian. Some stuff that is completely new to someone who doesn't speak any Slavic language I already know, and I don't want to waste time going over that anew.
I am argentinian, and my grandmother was bulgarian, I never got the chance to talk to her and learn the language, but for some reason I just feel so connected to her and that´s what made me investigate her culture and study her language
My dad is having grown up in the States and my dad working all the time I was never able to learn it as a young child beyond some extremelybasic phrases. I've been trying to teach myself recently and been very unsuccessful with finding resources, so thank you so much for making this video! It's so much easier with some sort of jumping off point ❤ Благодаря!
While LingoPie seems to be a really good app, it’s not free. A free resource that I’d like to share with you is Immersive Translate. I use it to watch my shows and movies on Netflix every day, and this has really helped me improve my language skills. I’d already learned a lot so far, and am quite happy with the progress I’m making with the app.
Immersive Translate is a free resource that I recently came across. It has done wonders to my language learning journey. I personally use it to watch my shows and movies on Netflix, and this has been a great way for me to become immersed in my target language.
While italki seems like a pretty app, I personally like to use Immersive Translate to supplement my language learning process. It’s a browser extension that supports over 100+ languages. I use it to translate webpages and documents, and even to watch my shows and movies on Netflix every day, which has really helped me improve my language skills. I like how I get to use it daily and how there are other uses for it beyond translation.
I’m reading a graphic novel adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep" in Spanish. It’s more of an intensive study, but the assistance of the images helps me to read it expansively on the first go.
Hello! I was wondering would it be possible either to send me the free ones (the first link) or change the link in the description because it does not work. Thank you ❤
I have found that a conversation based lesson is best for me if I am at least an A2 in the language. I haven’t found anything that really works for me in the lower levels. (A1 and absolute beginner.) It’s probably best to wait until you are closer to an A2 level, in my opinion. Italki doesn’t really seem appropriate for persons of less than an A2 level. I have been using iTalki for several languages over several years, and have dropped most as a result. I will probably only use iTalki for Spanish until my German level is high enough.
Thank you for changing my perspective. ❤ Been watching you since 2018 and so happy to see you still doing what you love and making your people happy! Much love Abigail and thank you again for motivating me!😊
Love your videos!! My favourite books are the trylogy of Manel Loureiro called "Apocalipsis Z" I read it in my native lenguage, spanish, but it is because it was originally published in Spanish so... Hope you like it! 💗 🇪🇦
I'm currently in this process with studying german. I took a break during the holiday season and than came back full force because I was preparing for proficiency exam. I got the certificate in february and haven't studied ever since. I tried to engage in reviewing lessons but I'm struggling to make it a habit again 😥 It's tempting to be critical with myself but I'm trying to take it easy and acknowledge that there's too many things happennig right now in my life 😅
