Do All Polyglots Learn Languages The Same Way? | Daily Language Diary 021 

This is cool! Thanks for answering my question! What actually brought it to mind is because I follow Luca, Olly Richards & you very closely. I really enjoy the advice that all 3 of you have to give. And I was curious to know how you approached a new language differently than other Polyglots. Thanks again and keep up the amazing work!

Back before I studied Japanese I only learned languages through extensive reading similar to Steve Kaufman and I was convinced this was the only way to really learn a language and get an extensive vocabulary. But I got most of my Japanese vocabulary from using Anki over several years. I would never have thought rote learning could have worked. Now I’m more open to the idea that there’s many ways to learn languages.

Good tips, thanks! I have been imputing a lot of content before starting to speak. I dont know if it will work but I will continue.

Oh no I have to sleep! ... Okay there's no chance, got to watch this 😅

Such an enriching video! Language Diary killing it!

Nice to hear your different approach compared to the kind of consensus in the world of polyglots

Hi there Robin! Thanks for uploading and inspiring people! Personally I follow you because we have similar approaches (searching each word in details and using dead time a lot). Interesting all the different approaches you exposed in your video. X here. Stay safe.

Oh wow we have the same way of inputting! I love extracting every single words out and squeezing all the juice out of the text too! But while doing so and memorising new vocabs, I also quite value the quantity too☺️☺️

I haven't done any scientific research on this but I do get the impression that one thing a lot of the well known polyglots have in common is how few of them seem to have young children or regular 9-5 jobs.

I’ve had success with a hybrid approach. I try to get new content everyday to keep things interesting but also take time to really dig into an Assimil lesson, podcast, tv show or song until I know what every word means, and I can recite it from memory. If you think about, that’s what young children do when they watch the same Disney movie over and over. I think some much of speaking fluently is saying things you’ve already said or read thousands of times with small variations.

I enjoy doing both intensive and extensive reading and listening. Since I'm studying Hebrew there isn't a whole lot of learner material. So I was kind of forced to do intensive reading and listening. Now I can finally listen to podcasts. I haven't found any podcasts with transcripts, so I can only really listen extensively. I think extensive listening just practices different skills. I am getting better at inferring the general meaning, being quicker to understand things and just feeling more fluent in general. So I'm definitely learning things I couldn't learn by intensive reading. Intensive reading for me is better for picking up more vocabulary and having more time to think about what something means. I think it broadens my range and I often pick out things that are above my level. I think it expands my range more. While extensive listening mostly practices what I already know and helps me slowly pick things up.

Great video! I am the same as you, I also like to dive into challenging texts from the get-go (if it's a language similar to English or my native Slovak, as I don't think this would work with Japanese, for example! At least I'm unable to make it work with Japanese 😅).

I like Kaufmans approach to extensive reading. Getting the most input seems to be working for me. I have tried the other methods, and they don't seem to work as well. I am learning Spanish, Russian, UkranianFrench by reading the Bible. Since I know the words in English, it is not difficult to learn the new foreign words.

Eu tambem misturo leitura extensiva e intensiva, como sou ansiosa.... vou lendo e relendo ao mesmo tempo, acabo o livro e ainda estou no inicio do mesmo 🤣🤣🤣🤣 mas pra nao perder a vontade continuar lendo começo outra leitura e vou ficando com varios livros abertos ao mesmo tempo... nesse momento 4!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

my language learning method ---- South Park* *but works only for languages that have it dubbed :)

I guess the goal is the same. Some take 2 years and others 3 years to reach fluency...so who cares really.Ye both get there in the end and most of all try at least to enjoy the process. Comparison is the killer of all joy. Thanks for sending me off to bed thinking I can't wait till tomorrow so I can continue my language journey.

Which books would you say have had a big impact not only on your language learning experiences but in the way you organize your day? Besides Hábitos Atômicos (sim, eu estou lendo-lo em português!)

Again nice video. Once I read something like this: "spend most of the time doing active learning and add passive in deadtime". You have not phrased it like this but I did hear say something like "fill the dead time with listening" which is actually kind of on the same. So, if you have the energy the way to go is intensive reading BUT for someone like me I can do so little because reading is not my strong point, I do consume tons of content but reading is the hardest for me so I would just go for intensive reading/listening and extensive listening and not so much reading as the core concept is still intact. I do struggle to do what I would like to do to improve at a faster rate but I have always been a bad student so it is kind of 2 steps forward, one back, and so on but damn, I used to have 1-2/10 in English so fuck me, I am great haha. Just kidding but it is a matter of keep trying a lot of the times and this is one of them.

I have great respect for Luca, Richard and Steve, but Benny Lewis shouldn't be put in the same line as them. He is a big scam artist

@Robin MacPherson ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UyjsJwbaviA.html&feature=emb_logo Heres just the video