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It doesn't matter how old you are, you will always remember the thkngs your mother threw away, this is why I never threw away things without asking my child beforehand😂
I signed up for Lingq a couple weeks ago after delaying for a year with some level of skepticism, and I was proved wrong -- I absolutely love it! I can tell that it's helping me learn very quickly, and in a different way than when studying out of textbooks, where they teach you present or past tense initially, then they move into other tenses. Lingq throws everything at you all at once, but it feels like I can actually have a conversation pretty quickly, whereas previously I'd have to sit there and 1) think of my sentence in English; 2) conjugate my verbs; 3) translate the whole sentence in my head; 4) try to get my sentence out in my target language while trying not to forget the translation. Lingq is fantastic!
Steve, would you ever consider adding Gaeilge, Irish, to LingQ. I think there would be a market for it, it would definitely be a great help for myself and a few other people I know.👍
Türkiye'ye gelmenize çok sevindim. İngilizce, biraz da Almanca biliyorum. Özellikle şuan Almanca'ya çalışıyorken şunu farkediyorum: Türkçe grammer kuralları gerçekten çok standart. İstisna bildiğim kadarıyla hiç yok. Başka dillerde bu kadar istisna olmasına gerçekten çok şaşırıyorum. İstisnalar hakkında siz ne düşünüyorsunuz?
Nice Challenge, By the way, I learned English and French thanks to your app of languages, I hope you are well and greetings from México. (À bientôt!!)💯
Thank you Sir, I've recently started learning spanish on a whim. This morning (4 weeks into using lingq) I went back to review lessons 1-10 of the spanish mini stories and found only 2 or 3 brown lingq's per lesson, on otherwise white pages. I had a few well done brain moments. I had felt before reviewing that I had maybe rushed to quickly through all 60, but your video is a nice re-assurance that its okay.
This is exactly what I was waiting for. The vocab review section and how you use it is perfect. I can’t stand digital flash cards and the way you do it works for me. Thanks so much!
I was thinking of doing another video on how I do this on mobile, a little different. Also show other aspects of my study, how grammar, mini-stories and vocab building work together synergistically. I wonder if that would be of interest.
@@Thelinguist I just bought a yearly subscription on LingQ! Works perfectly. I was wondering exactly that. Looking for tutorials and tips so i can leverage it a 100%.
@@Thelinguistplease do! I have tried lots of different methods over time but I’ve found (on my own) that I ended up wanting the things that Lingq provides and I suspect that your methods and how you use Lingq work the same way with me. It would save me, and I’m sure others, a lot of time to see how you use it on mobile. Again, thank you so much!
@@Thelinguist Yes please! How-to videos like this are exactly what I need - I can’t believe I’ve been leaving so much power on the table with my existing LingQ workflow. The idea of getting more of these how-to videos, especially on mobile, is enough to motivate me here to step out of years in the RU-vid shadows and post my first-ever public RU-vid comment 🙂Thanks for the great app, videos, and inspiration
I'm currently doing around 100 words a week for learning Russian. I split them into 40 nouns, 40 verbs and the rest is for a mix of adjectives, adverbs or small expressions. Mnemonics is everything for remembering them. I split the word into 2 or 3 parts max, and try to think of a word in my native language (Portuguese) or a language that I'm fluent with (English), that rhymes with those pieces of the Russian word. Next time you're facing the challenge of trying to remember how to say X or Y word in your target language, you'll remember the rhyme words first, in that in turn, will help you bring that target language word. It's like creating a password for each word, and it's that same password that unlocks the container so you can access the new word
@absolutefreedom8035 I agree but how do you recommend doing that in LingQ? They often don’t show up in vocabulary list together for example. They probably don’t even show up in same story most of the time. I’m truly asking for ideas.
I’m in Montréal right now and I don’t feel that my vocabulary is weak but that part of my “brain muscle “ where I automatically hear and understand and readiness to respond with the words I know. This seems like a different skill than just knowing words.
One of the issues with lingq is that learning isolated words will create issues in some languages. For instance, in French one needs to learn the gender of nouns (le/la) and the different prepositions (avec, à, sur, de etc.) of verbs
That’s an interesting statement to make about Lingq. I would say it does the opposite and teaches words in context. It is traditional learning environments that teach words in isolation.
Il marche autour de la tour. Le mathématicien est allé au lit pour faire des sommes. I haven't tried LingQ, but words like "tour" and "somme" and Spanish "pez" should be counted as two words each.
Sometimes the gender is in the translation description. Alternatively, I tend to highlight the noun with its gendered grammatical article (this means that when it appears again I will notice the gender)
this is why I wish Steve would talk about one of the best features of LingQ, the ability to highlight up to 9 words. It's one of the reasons I keep coming back to LingQ after trying other apps. I can't tell you how many word chunks/slang and difficult idioms I acquired in my Spanish and now beginning French by being able to select any part of a sentence that doesn't make sense by the individual words alone.
@@jks234 I was specifically referring to the way Steven learned the vocabulary in this video. If you want to learn market vocabulary before reading a text, you will run into this problem.
@pterodactylman136 That would be great. I was using Audacity for a long time and that was always a great benefit. LingQ is massively better but that is one feature I miss. Looping would also be nice. If you do sentence view, you can expand below so you can see both but it’s slow. It would be nice to be able to select show translation as well as be able to turn off.
Personally not a big fan of double language subtitles. My native language draws my eye more than the target language and keeps me in the translate mode vs acquire mode. But I suppose having the option to choose would solve the problem
You have great personality. You know to speak 20 languages and İt is interesting condition I have ever seen. I'm turkish and I've learned English for 1 year Also, I study at Yaşar Üniversity in İzmir.
Hi Steve- Two features that I would love to see implemented in lingq: First, a way to trace an isolated word back to its context (or contexts). I.e. I see the word Разумеется in my work list and I can click through and see a list of material where I have previously found this word. Secondly, for highly agglutinative languages like Turkish, or words with many conjugations, it would be great to be able to link the present word with a list of all of the conjugations. For example, авария context to аварии, аварийная and so on
AS for drilling back to the original context, I think we used to have that but stopped. Not much used. I used this a bit but stopped. Better to go forward to new content. You can also listen again or read again, As for getting all the conjugations, you can select a conjugating dictionary as one of your dictionaries at LingQ and see the full conjugation whenever you look up the word.
Greetings from Germany, I have an idea for the dev team. How about a possible widget for your home screen? Would help me a lot to remember to practice daily if i had it more visible. Keep up the good work👍🏻 PS: if anybody has good courses for japanese beginners similar to the short storys hit me up
I don't study 100 words a day. I add them to my reservoir of words that I can recognize. This enables me to read more, listen to more and eventually my knowledge of these words will improve. You do not learn words and just put them away and then think you know them.
Thanks. Useful tips. I am pretty good at Russian but just waiting to encounter new words was becoming frustratingly slow. I have read lots of Russian, just not on here yet.
I remember getting into Greek and thinking it was difficult remembering the meanings to some of those really long words, difficult until I started messing with Hindi and Arabic a year later. I don't know if it's just because they are even further from English or I was so used to Greek it became much easier to pick up the words. Perhaps both.
For me, when studying Spanish, I will move words to "known" if I can recall and use them while speaking. For Mandarin, this is level 4. I move words to "known", only if I can write them from memory. For me level 3 is when I "might" be able to recall the word when talking. Once I hit my goals for the day, I often shift over to RU-vid to study to change things up. In the end, the way I study Mandarin and Spanish is totally different. What are your methods.
Well, Steve here is probably considering each different version of the word as a different word, when people who use anki usually consider just the base word as a word.
Anki is the fastest way to learn new words. Input helps them stick, but anki brings them into your passive vocabulary that through input can turn into active vocabulary.
I tried lingq but I got fed up being bombarded by depressing news stories about war. I tried to unpin news but it was showing up in every category even food
Can you define "learn?" you don't mean "know" them to the extent that you can recite them with proper meaning with or without context do you? As in I can tell you what an apple is and use it in a sentence without a prompt.
recognize in context and continue reading or listening, and if the next time I come across it I have to look it up again I move it back to unknown. Passive vocabulary, not the ability to use it, not necessary. You need a large passive vocabulary to develop a smaller usable active vocabulary. That is how it works.
What are 'known' words... really? Recognized words, I guess, but this is a subjective measure of progress, right? Do you know it in isolation or is it familiar in context? I guess apps that use badging, colors and positive reinforcement are helpful, but quantifying language progress seems less useful than assessing this through communication with others, right? Words are forgotten, discovered in a new context or changed with evolving meanings or expressions.
Dear Steve, many thanks for your highly useful video and great inspiration you give us! MANY THANKS!!! I am always astonished and amazed by your scale. 100 new words a day, WOW! My aim was 10 and I thought it's great 🙃 Your videos lift me up to a new level of self educating! BRAVO!!!
I was reasearching about you a bit online and I saw that your parents orginally cam from a small city in the czeck republic. I was wondering you were a part of the czeck inhibatans or Sudetengermans? I'm not sure if that's to personal but I just got very curious
Eventually more and more, but always only a smaller portion of these words. But the first goal is comprehension. Comprehension is the base from which all things develop.
@@Thelinguist currently i learn english and i'm A2 level,for me it's very hard on me to learn more 40 Words between nouns and verbs and it's conjugate with tenses😄.
I don't understand, when I Google how many words you need to know to have a specific level, I see that for Spanish with 3,500 - 5,000 words it is already B2, and with 10,000+ words it would be C2. How can this be?
This. Typically words are count in terms of so called lemmas. This means, that different grammatical variations (different cases, singular plural, tense, etc...) are counted as on word. This makes sense as once you understood the fundamentals of the grammar of a language you will be able to link the different variations. So when learning English for example you will be able to guess that "moving" and "moved" comes from "move". LingQ on the other side counts strings. So each minor variation is counted as a seperate word. This causes those high numbers, especially in languages where syllables get attached to words to denote their grammatical function in the sentence. Note though that even when counting lemmas the word count necessary to reach a certain proficiency differs from language to language and that you have to differentiate between active and passive vocabulary.
I've watched other of your videos in which you say "Don't try to memorize vocabulary". So what exactly do you mean here by "learn 100 words every day"? I'm confused! 🙂
I read, look them up, add them to my memory reserve, start to recognize them when I read, can't necessarily recall them when I speak, and slowly they sink in.
11:18 When learning Czech, you learned 400 words per day?? How much time per day did you spend learning? 400 minutes (6.67 hours) would give you one minute per word to learn.... I do not understand.
Don't forget that I had already a lot of vocabulary from Russian, and there are many forms of the essentially the same word in Czech and all Slavic languages. At LingQ they are all counted separately. I mostly read and listened a lot. 1-2 hours a day,.
Hay otras formas que lingq, es interesante y seguramente es de ayuda pero puedes leer libros y buscar palabras, también series y películas, irás adquiriendo y puedes añadir cualquier palabra a tus flashcards A mi también me llama la atención pero nunca lo he usado
Steve Kaufmann, the guy who says everything and its opposite just for the sake of views and promoting his app. In some videos, he basically said it’s useless to learn vocabulary, but now he wants to learn 100 words a day. We’ve seen through your game. Always the same process, buzz, bad for the community of learners.
I dont know why this man's videos are more difficult to listen to compared to other english contents which make me a little frustrated about my english skill ~
He uses really advanced vocabulary sometimes. He doesn't say "interesting", but uses "compelling", to just give you one example straight from this video.
