I have successfully kept my LingQ streak for 153 days since I subscribed the premium last September(Although it takes some 'extra effort' to use it as normal in mainland China). Great thanks to Steve! It really helps me to enjoy the pleasure of reading and learning English at the same time. What's more you inspires me to learn another new language and help me a lot in building a proper, not frustrated attitude in the process of learning a language.
2 of my favourite english maker people together, speaking with each other in 1 video. What can be better? Like a dream come true! Thank you a lot Luke and Steve!
Dear Luke, I am so happy for you and this interview was inspirating with this gentleman. Your tone is very pleasant and I appreciate that you always bring us exciting topics.🙂 Your guest is pretty intelligent, and diligent, I have been learning English for almost 15 years but I still haven't claimed my goal, to be fluent. Our teachers in the school were not too qualified, because they were Russian teachers and they were retrained to English teachers in the 90s, so they were almost learning the English with us, with plenty of mistakes in the language, but this is not their fault, they tried their best. Today is so much easier for kids.🙂 When I went to the U.K.to get some job and I picked up the language very quickly. I also had German in high school but I did not like it, so I was not able to learn it properly. I think you have to love the language if you would like to learn it properly. Since I am not there in the U.K, I am listening podcasts and reading articles and comments on English sites. I learn 3 or 4 hours a day and I really enjoy it. I do not need it to my work or anything, just for fun. Keep it up, Luke, take care.🙂
Thanks, dear Luke and Steve, for the podcast and the video and all your efforts. As a languages lover and a Persian native speaker, I really enjoyed it. Best wishes. ❤❤❤
Im native Arabic speaker and i speak english, i have tried to learn another language (Spanish) but it i have noticed it effected my english in negative way!!
Hello! I'm excited about this conversation. I wanted to add this comment before starting to listen to the conversation, because I know that this is going to be very useful program for learners of English as a second language. I first watched a few episodes of Kaufman's presentations in early 2020. His ideas about the acquisition of English language are innovative, novel and result oriented. Hopefully, this episode is full of ideas that every lepster is certain to be satisfied with!
It's really amazing, this gentleman speaks 20 languages, but there are people who struggle to learn only one language, so where the problem lies in? We, the language learners are expecting more from him.
I've done that kind of intensive courses at home (self-study) and I noticed that works for me, however, I prefer not to do it beacuse I feel like I'm a machine absorbing things without any pleasure. In my case I'm not in a hurry with English and also love the language, so I try to enjoy the process of learning. Luke's channel is one of my faves to practise listening as well as learning new words, expressions, different accents, etc. I'm at the moment that I'm noticing better comprehension of music and films, and I'm very grateful for the effort that Luke makes to do these videos/podcasts. Thanks a lot Luke!
I've been watching some of Steve's countless number of collaboration with other RU-vidrs the past 2 days and here you are coming up with a collaboration with him yourself 😂 Was an absolute blast watching you two speak and could well say it was a one hour worth of english listening material.
46:05 As a Persian I feel like I should mention that the Persian language is 1 language in 3 countries (at least officially) with three standard varieties that are slightly different from each other (mostly just in pronunciation but also some vocabulary). The colloquial dialects in each country, namely Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan can be quite a bit more different from each other, though not much more than American English and British English, Iranians just aren't usually exposed to Tajik or Dari speakers much at all, so they usually have a harder time understanding people outside of Iran than Tajiks or Afghans do Iranians or each other
Hey. I am speaking natively Persian and I teach it. It's hellot difficult than other languages, some of my students say that it's kinda a extraterrestrial language.
What's the best compliment I can give for this video? Well, I almost want to say 'Luke, your haircut is perfect,' but I assure you that wouldn't be entirely accurate. Btw., it's a dream to see Luke and Steve together in a video. And Luke, don't forget, you'll have to try even harder next time ;-)!" Have a nice time..
Can you learn two languages at the same time? Let’s say my native language is Spanish, l’ve been studying English for a long time and I think I have an intermediate level. I would like to learn Italian also. Do I must dominate English first?
Ha! that's what i find out ,learn a language as an art, u feel,u comprehend,u use it to express yourself. also,as a beginner ,we do need some english listening meterial to 泡脑子，thank you so
Why are you saying "Persian and TurkiSH" instead of TurkiC: The Turkic languages are a language family of over 35 documented languages, spoken by the Turkic peoples of Eurasia from Eastern Europe and Southern Europe to Central Asia, East Asia, North Asia (Siberia), and Western Asia. Turkic doesn't mean only Turkish it's a family group of languages also ethnic group. Greetings from Kyrgyzstan !
Hi Simsoner.I don’t understand your comment. You group Persian and Turkish in the same sentence as if they were from the same language family. Is that what you’re saying?
@@pierre5307 Hi, actually I was just trying to explain that turkic is not only turkish. Why I wrote about Persian because Steve says " Persian and Turkish" he mentions Persian group but not Turkic group instead he says Turkish and it's a big mistake even an insult for turkic language speaker.
Thank you for your answer. You should listen again. He used the word Turkic several times, which is why I didn’t understand your comment. And he did not say "the Persian group" but the Persian language and He explained that Persian is part of the Indo-European languages. Here are two examples where he used the word turkic: "the Mughal Empire those were essentially turkic"(it’s true). "the sort of interaction between the Turks and the Persian speakers and the turkic language".
Hello from Uzbekistan, I have really appreciate to Mr. Steve's knowledge about Movarounnahr's(Uzb) and Xuroson's(Afg) history. In fact, these regions produced many scholars who were responsible for the first and second renaissance of the world after the AD.
Nice metaphors and similies, especially the one with a cow. I also have one metaphor and I'd like you to know Luke. It goes like this: Learning a language is like a magic. Being able to speak and understand people from completely different part(s) of the world is something incredible, like magic. Nowadays, in many countries people learn English by using textbooks, videos , films and podcasts. Most of these learners don't get the chance to talk to native speakers and yet when they meet a native speaker (English in this case) ( or any other language one is learning), these people can understand each other easily without any trouble. thanks to the podcasts and especially for Luke's English podcast. I like the diversity of the content of your work, especially the ones where you teach different accents across the UK and british expressions only brits know. When I talk to my British friend, she often gets surprised by some vocabularies I use which I learned through listening to your work. I now know English and Korean and little Russian and I feel like a magician too. Overall, teacher Luke, you are a magician maker/producer I'd say. You are also a magician in terms of French and Japanese(not sure about the second one but anyway). Have a good day and keep up the good work. All the best. Your long-term ninja magician l, Isroilov Muslimbek. 😅
It´s taken me ages to learn English and I´ve felt frustrated several times but nowadays I´ve found a new encouragement that has allowed me to develop the intensity that Mr. Kaufmann says and spite the fact I´m still feeling in the plateau, I´m learning a lot listening podcasts of my interests and reading, the only thing is I haven´t found nobody to talk to
You both are the great teachers , all your suggestions and experiences are inspirational . To be honest when i watch your episodes , you make me feel easy on this way. Thank you so much and keep it up 👍👍👍 i am the one who is waiting to your new episodes always 🤩
Steve is an amazing gentleman. I have some Swiss friends in Switzerland who learnt Chinese but they only could read and recognised Chinese pinyin (kind of Chinese phonic, no words). Compare to Steve, I am such a stupid lady, although I had lived in London more than 3 years, I couldn't watch BBC without subtle 😅
Kudos to Steve for having learned and/or keeping on learning languages with a different alphabet. Respect! Incidentally, your remark about the importance of repetition reminded me of a very dear English language teacher of mine who used to tell us that one should learn "by dint of repetition". Now I see it may not be everybody's cup of tea, but it certainly did work for me. Thank you!
Just like Steve has said I've always believed the most important thing is understanding the person you're talking to, because if you don't understand him you can't talk but if you understand him you can pass to other person what you want to say in some way, so the key is listen a lot and being acquainted with words
I thought I m good for speaking 5 languages...Steve s a whole different level...he s motivated me to improve the languages I already speak and maybe learn something new...he s awesome!
He was born in Sweden to Czech( jewish) parents and lived there for 5 years.He was surrounded by Swedish, Czech( slavic) Yiddish ( German+ hebrew) , English since he's been conceived in his mother's womb....then moving to Montreal ( Canada) added french to that mix . That multilingual environment/ genetic mix shaped his brain differently. His parents , grandparents , great great grandparents were all multilingual.
Hello from Russia. Peace and Love ❤. Thank you Luke for the inspiring conversation and the video ! Keep it up! I live in Russia and I love and respect Ukraine 🇺🇦, you will definitely win... I hope it will be very soon....
@@Ihor_Abit’s so weird to ask someone who doesn’t support this war, who didn’t start this war, about the reasons of this war… People in Russia are the same as everywhere. Not every US citizen bombed Hiroshima and Nagasaki, for example. There were also many innocent people who died without any reason.. The reason is unprofessionalism of politicians of all countries…
I actually disagree with the argument being made here that people allegedly ascribe too much importance to acquiring a native-like accent in their target language. While it can be safely said, as Steve correctly points out, that an 'accent doesn't impede communication', pronunciation, in the same way as many other areas of language learning, including grammar, vocabulary, and idiomaticity, does play a vital role. In fact, there have been linguistic studies which suggested that native speakers, in that case of English, tend to rate learners' level of English significantly higher if those people had a native-like pronunciation. This does not, by any means, imply that language learners should get bogged down in unnecessary details when developing 'their' accents, but native speakers of English have got British / American / Canadian / Australian / etc. accents, so why would I want to retain my own accent when speaking English? With that said, I fully acknowledge that I might be making a very controversial point, mainly because not everyone has got an ear for accents, but this doesn't mean there is no point in trying to pick up the accent of the language you're trying to learn. After all, we wouldn't suggest using structures in English that are considered to be ungrammatical, just because people can still understand what you're saying.
I stand corrected: Steve actually goes on to emphasize that the ultimate goal was to sound like a native speaker of English, which is basically the gist of what I was trying say in my first comment. Sorry, I paused the video too early, without watching the full lenghts of his explainations.
Hi Luke, Thank you so much for this interview, Steve is very encouraging for People who are learning à langage whatever it is. You must stay positive and motivated and the progress will come at the end.
Hi Teacher Luke, Glad I found you on the podcast. I still have been searching for the way practicing my English. Having finished your podcast, I feel more motivation to keep practicing my English which is being my obstacle. Thanks so much.
Well,I’m Chinese guy and I really obsessed in George Orwell’s book so I spent a millions of time like Steve said over and over again practice till you exhausted!I feelings good while I’m in processing in learning English.By the way,Thanks both of you ❤
