Can Writing By Hand Help You Learn A Language Faster?

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Writing is a great way to improve your skills and comprehension, but particularly your ability to output, to speak. To write you need to look words up, so it’s an assist to get to speaking. Do you agree?
0:00 Writing is an excellent language learning strategy.
2:24 Why I rarely write in the languages I am learning today.
4:24 Integrated review on LingQ.
9:50 Writing by hand is more effective than typing.
11:38 Is writing in a new language a neglected activity?
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@Ellary_Rosewood Год назад

I have ALWAYS preferred to write by hand, no matter what I'm doing. Whenever I type on a keyboard, things just don't stick into my brain as well as they do when I write it out slowly by hand. Many studies have also shown that you retain more when you write by hand.

@holmes426 Год назад

Me the same. I write ✍️ new vocabulary every day. I think it helps a lot.

@holmes426 Год назад

Do you write the whole sentences Ellary?

@Rudolphhhhhh Год назад

About writing, I like doing dictation exercice (by hand) whereas I am focusing on listening comprehension, because: - I can focus more on listening; - It improves my spelling; - I can visualise what I heard, so that I can understand better the sentence's structure. The dictation exercice works the three ways of memorizing: vision, audition, and kinesthetic, so it is very efficient to me.

@Skiis44 Год назад

Works for me

@thought2007 Год назад

For studying, writing by hand is the appropriate tool. Yes, it's slow. For speed, learn to touch-type on a comfortable keyboard (with practice you can output faster than speaking this way). But study is not about output speed, it's more like absorption. And to absorb something you need a slower, deliberate process sometimes.

@successcollege4283 Год назад

Writing when learning lanuages is paramountly meaningful. Writing by hand is definitely beneficial learning Chinese & Japanese to my case. I fully agree with my Guru. Thank you very much. I do appreciate it. Respect from Korea.

@user-mu4qw5dv5m 4 месяца назад

can i get some advices and experience from you how to practice your writing skill in the target language.i am a mandarin native,i used to try to write something in my target language,nut the question is that i don't know to write down what on the paper,you know what I'm saying maybe.it is exactly a big trouble for my language learning.

@italyanskiykuzen Год назад

I am 56 , learning russian, self taught. I love Cyrillic and I love also fountain pens, so I write by hands in beautiful notebooks with good quality paper, made in Italy, in Japan or in Germany. I know: I am too much "old school" .... today nobody uses fountain pens and almost nobody uses handwriting

@purplebutterfly4078 Год назад

wow congrats....I d love to learn russian,too, I don t agree on how everyone sees Russia now just because of Putin...you have a good approach not everything digital is perfect....good luck!

@italyanskiykuzen Год назад

Thanks!

@purplebutterfly4078 Год назад

@@italyanskiykuzen the secret to being successful at learning in today s world is probably combining traditional methods like you said you re using with modern ones...we need to use technology as a tool and not be controlled by it...

@Ashikawahong Год назад

I have been studying Japanese for years now and I can read a lot of Kanji by now, but I have never had to write by hand. At the moment I am studying abroad and last semester I took part in a course about practising writing by hand. I felt like a beginner again because I wasn't able to write even easy Kanji from memory. I had to cram a lot but in the end I was able to at least remember enough Kanji to sit an exam about a passage of text we had to learn by heart. It is such a good feeling to be able to write out a sentence like a native would and I have the impression it helped me understand the passage on a deeper level because I had to write it out many times in order to remember. This way I spent a lot more time with the phrases and I could think about the radicals and compounds a lot more than I normally do when rapidly reading through a text and just recognizing the overall meaning. I will definitely incorporate this into my study routine from now on.

@michelgolabaigne595 Год назад

Oh..., Je ne pouvais même pas rêver que mon modeste commentaire serait une impulsion pour la nouvelle vidéo que tu as réalisée. Maintenant, je ne peux qu'admettre que tu as raison à 100%. Merci beaucoup, Steve, pour ton "annexe" très importante ! Mes meilleures salutations Michel

@anajovanovic265 Год назад

I've always found that writing by hand helps me memorize things to the point that I don't even need to go back and review them. In fact, we had a history teacher back in middle school that always gave us very nieche questions in exams that were covered nowhere in the textbooks. I always had that random information in the back page of my notebook, words on top of words, making it impossible to read anything, but I had written them once so I could remember.

@totesmagotes3688 Год назад

I’ve found whenever I do my errands, from shopping , to groceries, to tasks around the house, I have always preferred to write it down on a notepad. When it’s written down, I can immediately look at it and mark a task or item, write a note next to it, etc. I already think I spend too much time on my phone, so it’s nice having a simple notepad to refer to things and not stare at a screen. I thoroughly enjoy your content and LingQ along with a few other channels and apps. Merry Christmas and happy holidays!

@FOXMAN09 Год назад

Niiice. Glad to see this feature coming out for the new year!

@slimytoad1447 Год назад

I can't see how writing in a new language is anything but helpful

@Thelinguist Год назад

The app I use to learn languages -> bit.ly/3Wz9fHA My 10 FREE secrets to language learning -> www.thelinguist.com Do you write in your target language?

@PurpleDrac Год назад

So glad you decided to comment on this. I actually find myself doing this quite a bit using Google translate or itranslate as a tool. it does help considerably I think it's important as Steve said in the video to practice by hand but to do it in a way that makes sense. though I couldn't agree more that I hardly write in my spoken language (English) in fact, the last time I even wrote anything was an update letter sent to a bank with all my information on it. but that was the first time I actually had to write anything in a longtime. nowadays as Steve said again in the video everything is done online by device or both. So it's very seldom required to ever have to write but am closely following Steve and recommend anyone learning a language to also follow Steve as he gives out the most useful tips and suggestions on how to pick it up in a way that you can learn it better. And so far just about everything he's said has come into frame. And this I know firsthand cause I'm studying Spanish and often find myself reciting his helpful advice and feedback one tip for example he's suggested surrounding yourself with the language. embellishing in it and after studying it for so long am actually beginning to understand words spoken in the language. So everything he says virtually goes hand and hand with everything I picked up and am actually beginning to understand it. Big shout out to Steve for his insightful feedback. So much of what he's had to say has helped a lot in the process and can't thank him enough for the videos. They're 👍🏽a great help 😎

@jpknijff Год назад

Fascinating and as far as I can tell from experience absolutely true. Thanks!

@alexanderjamesl4868 Год назад

The lighting in this video is nice Steve :) thanks for sharing your thoughts

@johnjustice8478 Год назад

Great subject for discussion, Steve. Writing by hand is definitely beneficial learning a language. Fortunately, when I was learning languages about twenty years ago, computers were still fairly primitive, so handwriting was par for the course for Greek, Latin, Sanskrit and Old Norse, since non-English fonts were more difficult to use, on the one hand, and on the other hand, the academics, who had to mark the papers, were just as comfortable marking hand written papers. Writing by hand permits one to take time to get things right in orthography and composition, the shape of the letters, if they differ from English, the thoughtfulness used in sentence structure and grammatical constructions. Whether the brain better remembers spelling, exempli gratia, if the word is hand written I don't know, but it would seem likely, given time spent handwriting forms and the cnstant re-reading done in the process. Anyway, I'm new.to your great channel and it's very enjoyable. Keep up the good work, John

@southernbelle27203 Год назад

I'm learning Russian and knowing how to write the words helps me to remember them. Sometimes I can't remember how to say a word but I can see it in my head and that helps a lot. I do sorry of keep a journal. I just wrote a few sentences about day. Helps me to identify gaps in my vocabulary since we talk about our day a lot.

@kathleenkrause4800 Год назад

Alexander Arguelles has a good video on his writing method he calls Scriptorium. I have found it to be extremely helpful.

@valentinaegorova-vg7tb Год назад

Agree with you completely. I always write new words by hand

@slimytoad1447 Год назад

I have always believed that writing a new language by hand helps new vocab stick

@jackbombay1423 Год назад

My experiencie: I was learning arabic last year for a couple of months and then I had to stop for job and time matters. I've started back again this year, but this time I'm trying to write it by hand every word I learn. It´s obviously slower but now I can really read arabic and I make less mistakes than I used to before not writing anything down. If you can, I encourage you to try it out and you will see a huge difference. Even more if the language you learn is not based upon the same alphabet you already know, as it´s in this case of my own from spanish to arabic.

@fahadhussain66 Год назад

Ich stimmt zu dir! Ich habe auf Deutsch seit 9 Monate geschrieben. Schreiben hat mir in meinen andere fähigkeiten verbessern geholfen.

@squaretriangle9208 4 месяца назад

I think writing per hand is very important but also very hard, I think the hand/brain connection gives you additional insight

@AJBonnema Год назад

If I translate your words freely, then what you are saying is that when acquiring vocab is the first priority, then writing takes a second place. From this I deduce that once vocab is at a very acceptable level and you really need to improve your output, writing is actually one of the tools besides speaking. Also, I find that writing words is very confronting when one discovers that a word- image that has been in mind for all that time is partially or in whole wrong i.e. the word is spelt differently. In my personal experience, I find that word-image helps consolidate words that I know but maybe not as well as I think. Writing actually improves understanding where words sound alike but are written differently. Engraining the right spelling helps me be more confident. Well, that is my view. Thank you very much for the video!

@floryvelasco6422 2 месяца назад

Agree

@ginabee1212 Год назад

Yesterday was the first day that I spent time writing out words and phrases in Russian. I felt it was going to be a game-changer as I did it, then I came across this and other related videos. It makes perfect sense though...this is how we teach children how to write and read. Writing by hand involves all different parts of language learning: reading, writing, speaking as we write and listening as we say each word out loud as we write out them on the paper.

@Salah_-_Uddin 8 дней назад

I should write English as I can to improve my English.

@saeeddargahi4750 Год назад

Yes personally I like writing and when I write it really helps me to learn better,sometimes I don't even notice that when I read or hear an intresting phrase or word in english,I immediately like to grab a pen and write it down,plus it's just fun to write either your language or in other languages.

@JCtheMusicMan_ Год назад

I have been learning Ukrainian this year and can read it well. I am still learning the nuances of how writing is different than the typed text. I also memorized and can sing the UA Anthem as well as the Prayer for Ukraine. Even though I memorized them, I don’t comprehend all of the songs lyrics. I appreciate all you share! ❤

@ApexMark2002 10 месяцев назад

As a beginner in Spanish I love to copy graded readers onto blank printer paper. I find that the process of looking back & forth builds up my memory, as I slowly graduate from copying a single word, to multiple words, to phrases. I also use a pencil which, just as with teaching math with chalk, forces me to go more slowly and with greater deliberation. I think it's a wonderful practice.

@DustinSchermaul Год назад

I really never write by hand and try to do all my learning digital, but going forward I might consider doing some handwriting again. I can imagine the use of it, and it's different to come up with stuff on paper than in front of a screen. Especially if we want to do some focused work without getting interrupted it's a great thing, I think. Probably this can be combined in a very good way with some Assimil learning.

@muskadobbit Год назад

I’ve combined practicing calligraphy with learning Russian including learning cursive. It’s so absorbing! Getting up close and personal with each word with its correct spelling really makes it stick.

@corinna4jmjt938 Год назад

My experience, both with Spanish and especially with Ukrainian is yes, it is much easier to remember something I've learned if I write it out by hand.

@thenaturalyogi5934 Год назад

I learned Cyrillic and I can read online texts and I write by hand when I can, but I have always liked to write, I even only use fountain pens because I write as meditation and relaxation.

@razorrabone4098 Год назад

Hi Steve - I have an idea for LingQ. If you read some text and you have words that are yellow, then perhaps in the review section the software could automate 5 new sentences with that yellow word in multiple and the same contexts

@JustinG1057 Год назад

The issue is that that would require hundreds of thousands of examples per language.

@bettyrichter95 Год назад

That would be amazing!

@JustinG1057 Год назад

@@bettyrichter95 You guys can just use Glosbe while you use LingQ.

@estrafalario5612 Год назад

It already does it with words that you lingqed and appeared more than once in the texts you're reading. I mean, when I'm reviewing, the questions of the "fill the blank space" type are sentences and it doesn't always repeat the sentence where I first lingqed that word. The problem with NEW sentences would be that the word may have a different meaning in those sentences. But yes, you could have a "show me the sentences that include this word that I lingqed".

@deutschmitpurple2918 Год назад

Wonderful video ❤❤🥰🥰

@luna00278 Год назад

Way of presentation is great

@randykenderguillenroca5712 11 месяцев назад

I might try it.

@rebeccamiko9156 Год назад

@ 4:15- I get you Steve! I can't read Russian cursive very well at all, and my writing in Russian is kinda a mix of print and cursive-ish. To be fair, so is my writing in English. I do write by hand sometimes in Russian, and I've noticed that it helps me with verb conjugations and cases. In university, I did a lot of typing in Spanish and English, but not so much handwriting. I mostly had to type reports and research papers, so of course I did all of those on a computer. My next language is gonna be Japanese, and my goal is to be able to read and write hiragana and katakana, as well as develop some basic conversation skills. Writing kanji might be too big a goal for me now, although I can recognize some kanji in the names of Japanese cities (I'm an American who currently lives in Japan, although my living situation doesn't really require me to know much Japanese). I really enjoy your channel Steve, and you're an inspiration to an aspiring polyglot like myself!

@italyanskiykuzen Год назад

With a right pen (fountain pen), a good paper at least 90g/mq and a good ink, handwriting can be an additional pleasure learning languages

@timothydouglas9474 Год назад

Writing as a bridge to speaking - I agree. Texting is good preparation for speaking

@user-be3uh2qv3d Год назад

Thank you

@MDobri-sy1ce Год назад

I do all three writing, typing, listening, and reading. However, listening and reading I do more by the end of the week.

@efefarfal Год назад

When learning a new language I write by hand since the beggining. You're living the language immediatly.

@Skiis44 Год назад

I write things out. In class I tend to take notes in Spanish or practice dictation. I make notes for myself. Helps me recall.

@sharonoddlyenough Год назад

In the early stages of my tl I wrote a lot if notes by hand, but I have almost entirely stopped due to being able to read fairly well. I have tried to start daily journaling by using a one-line-a-day journal, but it hasn't become habit. I suspect that my ADHD hinders me, because I have difficulties firming habits in general. I hope that it might be helpful for others, though

@undekagon2264 5 месяцев назад

I love handwriting, in my own language and also in the languages I am learning. that is for me the greatest fun in language learning. when I copy texts I dont even have to exactly understand what I am writing. its like shadowing only in written.

@Thelinguist 5 месяцев назад

Writing is a powerful way to improve. Takes discipline. You're lucky you enjoy it.

@tedcrowley6080 Год назад

I am learning Chinese. I have never tried to write the characters by hand. But I did learn how to type them on a computer. Characters are typed phonetically, then the computer displays all the characters that sound like what you typed, and you pick one. So typing requires (and reinforces) both the sound and the written character.

@anthracite9253 Год назад

In my case, I am learning Japanese and I prefered getting the benefits of both writing by hand and typing on PC and phone.

@krissifadwa Год назад

Je le crois. Pour moi, Ça un bien technique-il aider moi plus! When writing, it advocates my memory for a language and specific events while speaking the language. I lie to my brain; by telling it that it already has, can speak and understand the language 😅

@brancoprofuntar Год назад

Hi, mister Steve I 'm passionate learner of languages,I'm concentrated in reading classic book.So now I learn italian since one year :I 'm interesting in Lingq but I would subscribe if there is italian monolinugual dictionary integrated.Because all languages than I read I use monlolingual dictionary.Thank you

@timiddrake Год назад

There is even a big difference when writing on paper and writing on a screen. Paper has a WAY bigger learning effects. It's not just the motor skills but the different channels that are involved: touch, sounds of pencil on paper, pressure and feedback from paper, etc. etc.

@menatawfeek2168 Год назад

مرحبا ستيف أنا أتعلم الألمانية و الإنجليزية و أتابع فيديوهاتك باستمرار و أستفدت كثيرا منها لو احتجت مساعدة في اللغة العربية و اللهجة المصرية أنا هنا

@Kira-np1df Год назад

Danke Steve sama

@fabiothebest89lu Месяц назад

The language I’m studying is Chinese. Writing would be very beneficial to me, but I’m not very good at remembering the strokes, maybe also because I’m not constant enough, anyway apart from learning Chinese characters, I would like to use writing as an alternative to speaking, but writing pinyin is not something I wanna do, so I may resort to typing at the computer, I’d still have to recognize characters that way.

@50gramsof Год назад

Not a fan of the matching pairs review exercise because you can’t get it wrong and it feels like duo. Looking forward to the addition of sentence completion though although it also feels like duo, for LingQ I think it might be a great idea.

@Thelinguist Год назад

Matching pairs is forgiving and fast. That is its strength. The pairs and the sentence completion at LingQ, unlike at duolingo, come from content of interest to you that you have chosen. Big difference. Language learning is about exposure, to content of interest, not scratching your head trying to remember. I look forward to hearing from you after you do it on LingQ.

@peterwosny1104 Год назад

Writing by hand is a strange thing. One is used to write because of the time in School and University, but after this - in the job - it disapears. I write on PC, on my phone, but I have no real need fot habdwriting although I always liked it…

@anthracite9253 Год назад

It depends on people. In my job, I absolutely need to write by hand everyday (and I have to pay a not so small amount of money in paper, notebooks, pencils, pens, erasers...).

@meo8256 11 месяцев назад

I used a method listen and reading than writing. I mean it's more easy for me to learn and understand that language. But it's my way to learn and I still respect to other who can learn language in writing. I mean it's not easy for me to do but it easy to other to do it. For me writing, reading and listening have a good benefits in learning language. You can choose which method you can use to make you learning language more easy guys!...

@bhutchin1996 Год назад

Writing by hand doesn't help one learn faster, but the language will tend to stick that way. I started learning French in 1988 and I didn't really have a choice but to write by hand. Nowadays, however, I prefer to type instead of write by hand. I started learning Russian in 1996 and I learned how to write out the alphabet, including cursive letters. Nowadays, I think even the Chinese will use pinyin to type on their phones, and then what they write will show up in hanzi. Even so, it would be best to learn how to write out those characters by hand.

@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157 10 месяцев назад

If any non English native sees this, is (or was) English easy to understand in terms of listening comprehension? I feel like the grammar would be difficult.. but listening would be easy or much EASIER since we talk relatively slow compared to any other language.

@maufernandez4270 Год назад

That's the why he's the GOAT

@marknofsinger91 Год назад

I much prefer to write my Spanish by hand because using alt codes to type the accents is a pain 😅

@belstar1128 Год назад

I wanted to write some russian on papier but its annoying because my pens keep failing.

@italyanskiykuzen Год назад

Change your pen instead of giving up

@tedcrowley6080 Год назад

I have watched many of Steve's videos. He never pushes LingQ. He occasionally shows a feature in LingQ that is useful for some purpose (it might be exactly what someone needs), but he always emphasizes that different methods are best for different people.

@gonkong5638 Год назад

Try to write with my left hand. Stupidly fun.

@rinkerd3575 Год назад

it sounds like the sentence speaking dutch guy is from belgium, maybe try to get a dutch speaker who speaks standard dutch if possible

@murattaha2532 Год назад

"oğlumun" kelimesini çok komik söylüyorsunuz :D

@421sap Год назад

In King Lord Master Friend and my Father Jesus`, Name, Amen.

@ImeldaFagin Год назад

Your bookcase is wrinkled. You need to iron it.

@kevinyang7585 Год назад

Steve 您好我也喜歡學外語，我也學了很多種外語。之前有看到你跟好一些直播主的訪談，覺得你想傳達學習外語的重點在於input,大量的input，然後透過熟悉而學會一門語言，這點我非常同意，最近一年就是透過此方式更熟習俄文，我看常的俄文直播主有兩三個， ru-vid.com?search_query=easy+russian+with+max ru-vid.com?search_query=amazing+russian www.youtube.com/@EasyRussianVideos 另外我有看過你看haru老師的訪談，跟韓國直播主，台灣直播主，土耳其直播主的訪談。其中和土耳其直播主的訪談更用好幾個語言對答，真的很厲害。我之前也有學過阿拉伯文、波斯文，你曾說過這兩種語言是你最近在學習的語言。想請教你一個問題，也是今天留言的目的。網路上學習波斯文的資源較少而且沒有那種類似google翻譯有文字可以對應發出聲音的APP或是網頁(有找到一個叫做Persian eSpeak，可是品質不太好)，加上尚未發現較有趣的教授波斯文的版主或是節目。所以想請問你的波斯文學習資源是從何而來，或是你知道有哪些可幫助學習波斯文的網路資源，再請分享提供給我。萬分感謝。