【Trilingual Q&A】 No need to study vocab? What materials to use when learning a language? 

I am portuguese native speaker that speaks spanish as a second language and english as a third language It is so unbelivable see that you put the articles "Lo and La" 100% CORRECTLY and your native language (chinese) does not have articles like english so it must be difficult to use portuguese or spanish articles correctly. It is so amazing. The only thing that make us realize that you are a foreigner is your pronunciation speed, usualy in portuguese and spanish we speak so fast. But your pronunciation is perfect so I gotta say you are very smart.

Whats truly awesome about this man is he changes voice tones when he switches language! Which not many foreign language teachers teach you. Great catch!

Hi Phoenix, thanks for sharing. A lot of useful information. I just want to point out one thing, the Belgium speaks Dutch and French, not German and French. The north part of Belgium was part of the Netherlands before, that is why they speak Dutch. But they may call it flamish. The differences between Netherlands Dutch and Belgium Dutch is bit like mainland Chinese vs Taiwanese Chinese.

It’s just unbelievable, that your American accent is so great! I am from indonesia speaking Indonesian as my native, English, Spanish, learning Portuguese now because my partner is Portuguese and thinking of mastering Arabic or Chinese language( I had a Chinese class when I was kid). I have to say, to some extent , it’s not easy to master a new language, I am pretty much skeptical with most of polyglot videos, especially on RU-vid. It took me at least 2- 5 years to master a new language, of course depending on certain aspects. However, I think your fluency on your videos is convincing and honest.

Ugh, you're so eloquent and thoughtful in your replies, it's evident that you're widely read. I feel you on the boring hobbies, whenever someone asks me I reply "I study Korean" and then there's the awkward silence of "That's it?" And I'm like "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH EFFORT IT REQUIRES TO LEARN A LANGUAGE?" (the greatest effort being that you're constantly tempted to buy alllll the books)

Awesome video! I find myself picking up Chinese words in context because I know some Korean and Japanese and recognize commonalities when coupled with English subtitles. Very motivating video, so I think I will study when I get home today!

I am a Tibetan, I've been a fan of your videos for a while. I love different cultures and languages, I see so much beauty in it. I speak Tibetan, Mandarin and English. I'm learning French atm, and would love to learn Spanish and Japanese in the future. I remembered you mentioned in another video that you're interested in Buddhism as well, any interests learning Tibetan - people say it's the language that opens the door to Buddha Darma wisdom. haha. So awesome you are learning Uyghur as well, keen to hear more of your learning experience! Scott Young has a theory of "Ultra Learning" a new language where you literally soak your brain in the target language for 3 months and you'll achieve daily communicational level, thought it might interests you as well. Cheers.

your spanish accent is incredible! it's really nice to hear foreign speakers that have "el acento español" ;) keep it up!

Tu español es excelente, me encanta como suena tu voz. Estoy tratando de aprender koreano por mi cuenta, también quiero aprender muchos idiomas. Me inspiras mucho

Thank you so much for all of your videos! I already speak 4 languages and I'm trying to improve them while learning my 5th language, and each time I feel stuck I just watch one of your videos and my motivation comes back to me. You're an inspiration ✨️

It's fascinating how "familiar" Uyghur sounds to a German person, since Turkish is so prevalent here and both languages share an early common root. I just love that stuff, just like when my wife has a conversation in Korean, I can piece quite a few things together through Japanese (and thus sometimes Chinese) cognates like 가족/家族, 약속/約束, 소개/紹介. También estoy de acuerdo en que la elección del material de aprendizaje es muy personal. Me gustan mucho los dramas de crimen, por lo que las narconovelas como El Chapo o Patrón del Mal son perfectas para mí.

Ich bin aus Österreich und lerne gerade Spanisch, Chinesisch und Französisch gleichzeitig in der Schule. Zumindest versuche ich es. Französisch habe ich schon ein Jahr länger in der Schule. Rückblickend würd ich mir wünschen, dass ich die Sprachen hintereinander gelernt hätte (z.B. durch selbstständiges Lernen), weil es leicht frustrierend ist, oft nicht genug Zeit zu haben sich komplett in eine Sprache hinein zu fühlen. Andererseits ist es angenehm jetzt schon einen Grundstock aufzubauen, weil ich weiß, dass ich danach noch mein ganzes Leben lang Zeit habe zum Lernen. Gott sei Dank sind jetzt Sommerferien. Selbstständig lernen fühlt sich nämlich viel besser für mich an, als in der (und für die) Schule zu lernen. I'm from Austria and I'm currently trying to learn Spanish, Chinese and French in school at the same time. Emphasis on trying. I've been learning French for one year longer though. Looking back, I wish I wouldn't have taken that many language courses at once. Because it's kind of frustrating to not be able to immerse myself into the languages fully, more often than not. However, I am grateful for the opportunity to built a strong basis for language learning already. In the end I have my whole life to properly study languages. Additionally it's the holidays right now. It's the first time I am studying on my own and it actually turned out to be more comfortable for me than studying in and for school.

I've been learning Japanese for years as a hobby, but 敬語 and ビジネス日本語 is something else. I want to be able to use my language skills in my career too, but not sure how to motivate myself to learn that stuff or read boring textbooks.. Ps. Your eloquence makes this video so useful for Chinese listening, I find myself rewatching it for the second time. So if you're not sure whether anyone would watch your Chinese videos, here I am.

It's a really worth watching Q&A, I feel your passion. I'm also from North East China, in Germany now

muchas gracias por compartir mi pregunta. ❤

等了好久的Q&A哈哈 被侯大哥的知识面震惊到🤯 之前提的问题没有被选中有点伤心🥲 jk lol 但还是想顶一下，特别希望可以出现在下次Q&A里！（在quarantine那一期, from Eli Wang

謝謝大哥用心回答及精辟見解。自問語言天份低，當正被韓語入門文法弄至頭昏腦脹之時，這視頻來得正好！給了鼓勵及意見，我決定還是先認真學習多一點韓語單字😊🙏🏼

太太太酷了！！！！！！！像你学习！！！！！我最近也发现功利性的做某件成功率很低的事情对我来说成功率就是零，但是如果是从兴趣角度来做这件很难的事情，也许就能以轻松、享受的心态做好它，且可能会成功。。。。我也是对各个国家语言文化都很感兴趣的人，像你学习，把这些兴趣捡起来。另外你高中就看论语了，一看就是学霸呀，我现在快四十了才看论语，呵呵看的很开心，感觉活到老学到老，什么时候都不晚

you have a good spanish!!

我也有一些问题想问博主。看到博主能把这么多门语言学得这么好，说得这么好，真的很佩服。我也很喜欢学习外语，目前大四，从中学英语就不错，然后大学有认真学英语除了专业学习，但大概也就B2的水平，感觉自己没有什么环境说，除了自己跟别人联系过的场景或者写东西写过的东西能够经常被调用起来，其他很多时候感觉词汇的长期积累是最困难的，然后我就觉得现在提高的方法就只能慢慢积累但又很慢。同样我也大二开始学习了法语，现在学习到了大概B1水平，但和英语同样的问题，感觉虽然掌握语法不太难，但是总需要很久很久来积累提高。总感觉自己学不到很高级的水平也没有很多环境。但是自己也很想把英语和法语都能学到一个较好的水平。所以想问博主在这样不确定什么时候才能有一个质的提高的情况下，应该遵循什么方向去继续努力，有效地慢慢提高自己英法的综合的语言能力和水平。感谢博主！感谢🙏

I’m learning some Korean and Chinese and the chinese language is beautiful and korean good job

我选要学的一门语言的标准只有一个：读原著。

明朝的书推荐当年明月的《明朝那点事》非常有趣哈哈哈😆

Ελπίζω να αγαπήσεις την Ελληνική γλώσσα επίσης!

Thank you for your video! It answers a lot of my questions. I want to ask you a few more though if that’s okay with you :D I’m an Indonesian and I’d say I’m pretty good with English language, however I’m trying to learn Chinese. In my environment unfortunately Chinese isn’t used, and I find difficulty trying to find people I can talk in daily basis in Chinese to practice. Also, I’m confused how to start learning Chinese as I’ve learnt it a little during middle school, bu I’ve forgotten some if not most of the vocabularies I’ve learnt. I did try to take private classes but it didn’t really improve my Chinese much, maybe because I’m a quite forgetful person. Do you have any advices for me? Thank you in advance

Another great video! Why is it that you don’t speak with an English accent? Is it because you spent some time in the us ?

Could I ask you a question, teacher(I call you because you are teaching me, sorry!) I want to check my language level to start learning the other language. How can I check my language level? I've heard the advice that before starting to learn third language, you should be able to be intermediate in second language. Thank you so much! Xie xie lao shi!

等很久了

好認真的問答

Great Q&A Video. I wonder if you've ever interested in German in some time of your life?

意大利语是我认为最简单发言的语言，和法语有点像，如果学单词的话可能需要花上点时间

I am just wondering. Do we need to learn to read and write if the goal is just to speak the language?

老师好，我特别喜欢英语，自己也有点基础，但是总觉得自己一桶水不满的感觉。求指导啊

對你的書單很感興趣阿 ! 英文中文都可以，不過我更想看中文的 !

5:05 :D

天才

请问候哥，关于你在视频中说到背单词的重要性。有无推荐的英文单词书？谢谢！

我想問下你通常會係同一個時期只Focus 係學習一種語言？或多種語言？ 另外想問下你， 東北話同京片子有沒有好明顯的唔同？ 同埋仲想問下你是大概怎麼年歲搬去US., bec you sound like a native to me, so just curious

我很想知道你读的中文书

请问一下您的外语资料一般是全外的native,还是一半外语一半中文？谢谢！

Rome is calling you... ITALIANO

老弟你好👋，我是一个双语母语者，什么时候挑战一下泰语^_^

我觉得你可以做一期ome tv的视频。那上面很多外国人，你会说这么多外语，一定会震惊到很多人的。

你好， 我是一个意大利人学生。我在大学学习了英语和汉语。我很爱中国以及中文。你可以表示你的汉语书吗。 谢谢你

what age did you start learning languages?

没说怎么学外语效率最好，说说您日常学习需要的步骤，为什么我感觉自己怎么学都学不会呢？

give us your Chinese books immediately

請問你學一門語言大概花多久時間？你會同時學習多門語言，還是一門學完再換下一個？對於學習時記憶力下降或不專注的狀態有甚麼建議呢？謝謝

Cual accento en esp?

之前在uw学什么？

为什么会想学维吾尔语

在领英搜到过你

学阿拉伯语吗 多拉一人受折磨哈哈哈🤣

你在被封城中么？ 你都好吗？