The app I use to learn languages -> bit.ly/3DfTJcX My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com Have you read Atomic Habits? What did you find useful?
Atomic Habits might literally be one of the most important texts ever written. It has truly been a game changer for me. It has helped me lose weight, learn Russian, get physically stronger, sleep better, etc.
On Identity. After learning Chinese for a few years, in England, a Chinese person told me I am Chinese because I have Chinese characteristics - I speak Chinese, know Chinese history and geography, and celebrate Chinese festivals. I decided that I am indeed Chinese (as well as Scottish, British, and European). Now I don’t bother with Chinese courses and curricula, I don’t bother trying to replicate my English vocabulary and skills, I just explore the Chinese that arises naturally in my Chinese life! I told one of my Chinese conversationalists about this and she decided to be English. Now, when we chat, an English person speaks Chinese really well and a Chinese person speaks English really well. It’s a blast!
Thank you for sharing your insights. The book sounds valuable. I do a minimum every day: 20 minutes of reading, an hour of listening. I haven't missed a day in 7 months. Other things might be different each day. I have not encountered any sudden breakthrough, but I notice improvement all the time: there are more words I can read, more spoken sentences I understand. Maybe I'll never be fluent. It doesn't matter. I'm a language learner.
I use the method described in the book for learning to procrastinate. I procrastinate more and more every day. Pretty soon I will procrastinate the entire time.
I read this book some years ago and I found it very useful. Three months ago I moved to Australia from Spain, and now I'm learning English. For me, the most important thing about learning a new language is to invest time and be persistent. I’ll achieve it, little by little. I always take the chance to write in forums or post a comment on RU-vid… it's very useful to practice my writing skills.
No way!! I'm currently reading the book (I got it in Portuguese), but I'm still in the initial chapters. It's super useful to have a summary by you, Steve. Thanks!
Hi Master of the languahes, I am Ashok wasnikfrom India. i am very thankful to you about your the most valuable and excellent lessons in term of a english langiage. According to me every native speaker is allready a fluent in his own language. If somebody want to become a fluent for other languages, he must become a child of those languages.
I absolutely had this "Plateau of Latent Potential" experience with talking! After reading and reading and a lot of listening, the right circumstance came for me to speak and boom. All of a sudden I was surprisingly able to articulate my thoughts. As for those who's target is to "get rich" what you lack is not atomic habits. Stop admiring assholes in the first place. That should help.
"Atomic habits" was the book that motivated me to learn Italian (with a "ten minutes a day" rule) and also to create my RU-vid channel! This book changed the way I see goals, you just need to take it one step at a time, then you will do "tiny changes" and over time get "remarkable results", as the subtitle of the book already indicates :)
@@douaabm9179 I have used the channel "Italiano Automatico" a lot, if you speak no romance language, maybe take some online lessons first to get the basics. Hope it helps :)
I really enjoyed this video and found it very inspirational. I have read most of the book and like how you tie it to language learning. I'm not trying to learn... I'm a language learner. Great way to view language acquisition!
Hello Professor Thank you so much for your help and advice, I do appreciate your job. I wish you peace and happness under the sky of prosperity. All the best. Take care and have a good time. Your Student from Algeria.
Atomic habits has helped me from learning German for 10 minutes a day to 5 hours a day until I passed my C1 Test. I read this book every 6 months. Wenn immer ich gefragt wird: Was hat dir beim Deutsch Lernen am meisten geholfen? Darauf antworte ich direkt und ohne Zweifel: Atomic Habits, oder auf Deutsch 1% Methode. By the way, I read this book as I started learning german, and after two years I read the book in German. Noch ein weiterer Punkt: In der B2 Prüfung muss man etwas präsentieren, und da ich dieses Buch so interessant fand, habe ich dieses Buch präsentiert und wie es mir beim Deutsch Lernen half. And now I'm preparing my self for IELTS and I'm applying the same methods.
I read a little each day. I am interested in what I'm reading, so it's easy to keep doing. It's possible to form habits around things that are very grueling. Some people go very hard on flashcards even when they find them exhausting. It's better to form a habit around something enjoyable if at all possible, as even a habit you've done for months will be given up if it's not interesting. Or it will make you miserable. I try to limit my commitment to what I can do on my worst days. That way I don't lose habits to lost sleep or other problems. I think it's about 10 minutes to a half hour. It's nice to do more if you have a lot of energy and enthusiasm, but it's better not to push to do a lot every day if your circumstances aren't very stable.
Hi Steve, great videos, I'd like to point out a topic I haven't seen covered anywhere about language learning. I have struggled with procrastination for years, I do creative work (architect) and the only good solution that works for me in the fight against procrastination is the so-called controlled procrastination (I invented the term for myself :)) It consists in the fact that every time I procrastinate, I do it at least purposefully and by learning a language, currently Spanish. And I have to say that I'm making fast progress (I study for two or three hours a day) ... and therefore Spanish is becoming my first procrastinated language :) Just as a suggestion for a possible topic ... have a nice day, Pavel
Absolutely dr. I hered about this book even I didn't read it but you represent me a good full summary of it, and the most crucial thing by your side is to do slight things, and that good against to do nothing, thus, I do my four basic skills of English every day , they become like habits for me as this book told such are: reading, listening, writing, and speaking
Studying flashcards daily 20 minutes for 10 years hasn't been enough for me to understand spoken Korean. I live in Korea, married to a Korean, and can basically order food and shop here. The only time I really made noticeable progress was in classes where the teacher spoke a lot and required students to speak a lot while focusing on grammar. A loquacious teacher who writes on the board is helpful.
It’s a great book. I’d like to sit here and say I’ve applied it all, but the biggest takeaway that I have applied is consistent effort no matter how small is useful. I could stand to give it a re-read and perhaps little by little apply more of it to my process.
Yes! This has very much been my experience with language acquisition. It's important to develop study habits that work for us and to stick with it, learning a little bit at a time for a long time. Thomas Monson once said, "When performance is measured, performance improves. When performance is measured and reported, the rate of improvement accelerates."
What an amazing and fantastic video, full of insightful strategies for learning and improving habits. Thanks a lot Steve. Greetings from the underground.🤝🍀
One of the most amazing books I have read indeed. James Clear really wrote a masterpiece 😍 Good habits are the cornerstone of every success. That works for language learning as well, just like you said.
Salut Steve, merci d'avoir mentionné ce livre que je possède depuis au moins 4 ans et que je n'ai jamais lu... :) Dans ce livre, l'auteur vend une ancienne vérité d'Aristote, Lao Tse, Confucius etc. que la sagesse vient de l'habitude et non de l'effort intellectuel... C'est un fait incontestable, mais un problème fondamental demeure, à savoir la qualité de ces habitudes... Pourriez-vous s'il vous plaît soulever ce problème un jour ? Merci pour vos précieuses vidéos Salutations de Vienne très nuageuse...
TIME (Spelled backwards is EMIT) Learning takes time, much time, but we may feel it is a CLICK away. (Our CELL Phone absorb information almost instantly, so why can we? It's nuts!) NUTS spelled backwards is STUN. We wish we could stun people with instant learning!
Nice Steve!! That's just what I do with my Serbian/Croatian, Dakota, Tagalog, Eastern Armenian and Classical Armenian, Kannada, Turkish, Catalan and Hebrew^^. "Consistency-Habits-Patterns-Everyday"
Muito Bom!! o seu inglês não é muito complicado de entender. O meu inglês é de "padaria"/ruim, tenho bastante dificuldade em entender.. mas aos pouquinhos vai indo. Espero pode conversar com outras pessoas em inglês, daqui 2~3 anos por aí.
I made a habit of reading graded reader books on tadoku for 1-2 hours a day. Felt like I was making no progress after two weeks, and then I looked at my download history. Basically, I went from 1-2 books at level 0 per day to around 3-5 books at level 1 per day. I'm expecting an insanely intense plateau any moment now for various boring, Japanese specific reasons, but that's fine because that's how it is when you do something that's difficult. Anyways, point is that habits are powerful because they allow you to do less hard work. The cost is spending energy into discipline, but that's a great deal because it's cheaper overall.
This could have been much more specific in terms of discussing the mechanism of language learning rather than simply detailing Clear's theory while saying "language learning" every second or third sentence.
Creat a positive habits by watching or reading in the languange that we learning in my case, i'm an English learner so, i always watching youtube videos that is good habit.😁
2:00 small habits practiced consistently every day = key to success. 8:00 a lower level of activity consistently practiced every day is much better than binging mutiple hours after missing a couple of days. the cumulative affect of small actions is very large.
Thanks Steve for the explanation of the book in relation to atomic habits This might be a little off topic But could you elaborate on how you read nonfiction and how to remember it?
We read fiction for enjoyment Non-fiction we understand as we read it, and then forge a lot of the details. As with language learning, we have to cover the same material via many different sources and from different angles. Eventually the picture becomes clearer.
@@Thelinguist thank you so much for the reply much appreciated that fits perfectly in what the learning scientist’s say Just was curious about your reading process
I agree that we don't suddenly jump to fluency, but there have been two or three times when I go to read something or watch a show and all of a sudden, a lot more makes sense to me than yesterday. It's not a jump to the finish line, but, for me at least, there have definitely been moments when I seem to take a great leap forward suddenly.
