Sharing my journey, thoughts and ideas on Language learning and the different things that I learn and projects that I undertake...
My main passions are skill development, coaching, languages, self development, music and philosophy, and I have a background in Fitness, Calisthenics and Aerial Acrobatics
interesting video. I'm currently learning japanese and have just started having italki lessons with a teacher, who doesn't speak English. It is definitely challenging, but i do feel that I'm learning more, by not having the crutch of falling back on English.
Спасибо за большое и интересное интервью!! Нашего дорогого учителя много никогда не бывает, всегда интересно слушать !! Его манера преподования уникальна и сам он очень тёплый, солнечный как его Родина❤ Gracias mil veces Shane ! Удачи тебе в изучении русского 🎉
My target languages is only offered by 5-6 teachers. First I tried the best rated one than the cheapest. Stayed with the cheapest and luckily she’s the best!! I used italki before for Spanish, French, Thai and sign language. She’s the best! To be fair i never had this big intrinsic motivation for any language before and I am willing to study the vocab in my free time.
la cuestión de talento es clara para mí porque tenía una novia de China y su inglés era excelente. para mí, la cosa más impresionante fue su intonación que es completamente diferente entre chino y inglés obviamente pero ella podia cambiarla completamente y suena como un nativo. No creo que es posible para todo el mundo hacer eso, es talento puro.
I watched this video 18 months ago and now i'm 600 hours of CI into spanish. I can now see how true this video is. The point where you have listened to so much input that you become comfortable with ambiguity and just let the things you don't understand pass is a real magic moment.
I am a Korean community teacher.But I didn't try to upgrade to a special teacher today.I got a Korean teacher credentials last month.So I want to upgrade to professional teacher today.Do you have any special teachers who are working as a community now?Do you have to wait and wait?Help me!
It's interesting what you said about looking up vocabulary. I did the same at the start, I think you kind of have to a bit just to start communicating but of course as you say, you don't retain most of it, or at least so i thought, BUT something strange started happening me about 2 years in, those words that I had looked up near the beginning started to come out automatically when I was speaking or writing. I am sure these words weren't ones I had just absorbed via imersion because the words that were coming to me were quite rarely used, words I would use maybe once or twice a year. I can't be alone in experiencing this.
Hola. Enhorabuena,hablas muy bien español.soy italiano y te escucho casi siempre,tienes un nivel de idioma muy alto. Yo también llevo casi un año que estudio espańol. empezé en septiembre de 2023 escuchando todo cómo las peliculas,los documentales y haciendo ejercicios de gramática. Un saluto dall' Italia.
Unfortunately I cannot recommend italki anymore. 4 years ago this was a better platform. Nowadays teachers and pupils have to run after their money. As a teacher I am not paid for all my lessons due to italkis caprice and when a lesson cannot be done because of sickness of the teacher, the pupils won't get their money back, because it is stored in an online-wallet by italki to be used for another appointment. The conditions have gotten worse for teachers during the last 4 years and this process is going on and on. Each month they show up with another idea to make the conditions worse for the teachers, it's insane.
Grammar be damned. Look it up once you're intermediate to advanced, but so many things are idiomatic. "It's about time"/ "at last" = finally . "So many" = a multitude. These are phrases that don't make sense grammatically and there are lots of them in all languages that you only learn via immersion.
I love Juan. First time watching this channel. Personally, I don't liker listening to English people who kinda speak Spanish. It feels like I'm learning bad habits, because they repeat so many phrases rather than having diversity. The phrase, no sé was said Ssssoooooo many times. I just to stop listening
@9:00 subtitles - I don't trust them. Having used them quite a number of times I have noticed that subtitles can sometimes be shorter than the spoken language. Or, if you are watching a show where the dialogue was originally in a different language that they one you are watching it in, the subtitles can be vastly different. Like the subtitles are based on the script while the spoken dialogue has to be aligned with the timing of the characters mouths talking, thus you can end up with a long subtitle that is three times too long for the spoken word. I get this effect from Netflix and Amazon. If you use subtitles, do with with a program that is in your language target natively so the subs do match. Best is Closed Captions as those are supposed to be word for word.
it is unbelievable that she has gone from 32k subscribers when this was done to 338k subscribers and climbing now . I should tell people that she has been gone so long because she bought her Dream Van and is currently making it liveable . As she has said in some of her videos , her Dream is to live in a van and Travel. Hopefully she will make that part of her channel
I'm a little slower than you, my target is 2000 hours listening and 1 million words reading. My plan is 2 hours a day, every day for 3 years. I'm at 1040 hours and 20,000 words so far, and I understood every word of your interview with the god who is Juan.
Great tips, very articulate. As far as subtitles (at least for beginners) just watch out for those automated subtitles. I've seen some really weird stuff with that even in my native language: English, so I can only imagine the errors it produces in Spanish. The thought of it just makes me shudder!
Thanks for this video! I am both looking to start with a tutor and also become a tutor, I've been told over the years that my english is very easy to understand.
Muchas gracias, Shane, por esta bella de verdad conversación! Sé de tu canal exactamente gracias a estas entrevistas con Elena y Guada, a quien las quiero mucho! Estoy encantada también que estés aprendiendo mi lengua nativa, el ruso, que es sí que complejo, pero muy maravilloso)) 💖
Una entrevista superguay! Y no solo por la energía que fluye desde ambos lados, sino por qué informativa es! Muchas gracias, Shane, por invitar a nuestra hermosa Elena @Linguriosa, y muchas gracias, Elena, por acetar la invitación!❤️💖❤️
La pregunta, “¿Por qué quieres aprender español?” para mí no es fácil de contestar pero parece que algunos piensan que es muy importante tener una muy buena razón para aprender otro idioma y que casi debe ser un requisito para aprender otro idioma. En mi caso simplemente me encanta el español y no puedo explicarlo. Cuando era niño los vecinos de al lado eran una familia mexicana y me fascinaba oírles hablar español y deseaba desesperadamente saber lo que estaban diciendo. No aprendí nada de los chicos pero la hermana mayor ya era adulta en aquel entonces y ella me enseñó un par de frases. Tuve que esperar hasta el grado noveno de la secundaria antes de empezar mis estudios del español. En el primer año gané el galardón de español y eso me inspiró muchísimo. Pero cuando me enteré de que no podría ganarlo otra vez el año siguiente perdí un poco mi entusiasmo. Solo ofrecieron dos años de español en aquel entonces. Pero después de cumplir mi obligación militar me matriculé en “junior college” y después de eso en la universidad por dos años más de estudios del español. Me gradué de la universidad en 1975 y desde entonces he aprendido mucho más por mi cuenta y la internet ha sido un recurso tremendo. Paso mucho tiempo cada día en Facebook y RU-vid con vídeos en español y también muchas publicaciones de Facebook. El problema es que no hablo con nadie. Algunas veces respondo por texto a vídeos o publicaciones como estoy haciendo ahora.
