Do THIS to keep improving in a language 

For advanced, my technique is to think all day in the language I'm learning.

FAILURE. I used it after being assured I would see a difference. I did more each day than expected for more than three months. It failed. So now I feel much worse. I have begged and am willing to pay someone to explain what is wrong. I spent $5,000.00 on conventional lessons and more on the storytelling method for several years. Then in 2023 I joined LingQ thinking it would take me to where I have been unable to achieve. I want conversational fluency. I still cannot understand talk and I cannot speak. Prof. Brown of Poly-glot-a-lot was kind enough to speak to me twice. Sadly the storytelling method a part of the general method of Natural Learning has failed. I have literally spent several hundred hours online searching for an answer as to whatnis wrong. I have taken an increase in supplements and listened to hypnosis audios to see if those would help. Nothing improved. The staff of LingQ finally gave me suggested instructions that leave me even more confused. I have been doing these things on each lesson in order. Nothing happened. I though it would. I have commented on various polyglot posts and no suggestions. I don't care what is sounds like, I am now convinced Kaufman and others do and/or know something that got them in the proper mode to acquire language but they are not disclosing it. The amount of time I have spent on Tagalog and commenting on this entire 13 year venture has been absurd. I sit in Metro Manila alone, lonely and isolated unable to attend functions sincenI end up alone in a crowd speaking Tagalog. Do you or anyone know what is wrong?

Hi Steve, I am new to your channel! Thanks for the great content. I am native Turkish and I am learning Dutch. I also speak advanced English. Should I use Turkish while learning Dutch or English, which is much similar. (Edit. Grammar)

Don't think that way, just have a goal like I'm gonna listen to this audio from lingq 10 times and at the end delete it. It's just volume of listening over time that you will start to understand I couldnt understand stuff till like 900 hours on lingq

Thank you Steve, you always give me refreshing ideas, and really appreciate this video, because learning the same material you get stuck, plus your mind wanders 👌

As a self-taught English speaker and German learner I absolutely agree with you.

Bruno Gonzalez 🎯 Yeah exactly, have same and other similar problematic approaches

I think the focus in correct language particular based on grammar is the problem of many countries when it comes to learning language. This behaviour lead to the problem in the ability of being able to speak and use language naturally

I am exactly in the same place as you were. I just finished a course up to B1 level, but need to start hearing it spoken to link what I learned and really apply it. Looking for ideas. Other than games as I am not interested in them. My 20-yr old son is.

Maybe tv shows and songs

한국어는 엄청 어렵습니다.

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Buena suerte con el español ✨

@@DatosDeslumbrantes ¡gracias mucho! bien noche a tu 🕺

Estoy aprendiendo español también, es difícil aprender un segundo idioma especialmente porque no lo hago durante mucho tiempo cada día o semana. Pero espero que mi conocimiento mejorará lentamente con el paso del tiempo 🦜 i hope that makes sense lol

@@ghostly2.3​​si yo aprender poco. yo estoy solo nueve días en así yo solo entender una poco. ¡bien suerte a tu!

Is furigana manga a good way to learn?

@@ltlosaol7144 it can be good but if your goal is to understand speech then it doesnt really add up. If you check the 1000 most common words for both books and movies/shows. You will notice that books use alot of reading only vocabulary that you will never hear in day to day speech. So i think in Japanese if you want to understand speech you can read transcripts and if you want to read books then read books.

@@ltlosaol7144 mb i miss read brother. I was just out of bed when i responded. Yes it's a good way because it is generally the speech dialogue or thought of someone or something.

Best of luck with your English 🎉

@@Jess-737 thanks

@@andrewdonnelly4187 thank you

I can relate to you, i'm frequently posting comments in english under videos in german )

hey, im learning russian btw =p

The problem with productive skills is that they are difficult to get right without a teacher, when you're still a beginner. For people who study alone, it's easier to focus on input first, so you could "feel" later, which of your phrases don't sound right.

It’s a little weird. Steve is very much pro input over output and yet at the same time he sometimes posts videos of himself speaking a language he’s not yet fluent in. He does this way more than any other RU-vidr I follow. I personally think output can be very beneficial but only if it’s meaningful. Being in a classroom can work well sometimes. Or living abroad or traveling abroad. Or intending to go abroad in the near future even. But if you’re like me and you’re in America and self studying and don’t really know any Korean speakers. Focusing on all input because it’s the only meaningful activity seems to make sense. Do you think you should try to force the output to improve your overall level?

Depends on the language and the languages you know, how motivated you are and how many hours a day you put in.

Hi, it's nice to know that anyone is learning Portuguese. I'm from Brazil, maybe we could help each other. I speak English, but I haven't done it in a long time, so, if you wanna learn Portuguese more, and are willing to help me with English, maybe we could talk to one another.

@@msteajuda2218 sim, por favor. Não tenho ninguém que quer falar ao telefone. É isso que você quis dizer? Se sim, gostaria de falar com você e trocar contatos. Tenho um WhatsApp mas não quero dar minha número de telefone aqui no público 😂. Ahh sorry, that was rough. I haven't talked in this specific context before so it was really bad 😅 we can do a language exchange if you'd like, just find a way to contact each other without everyone knowing ☺️

Interesting, I better in listening and speaking compare to the reading

@@aidagholampour100 what is your native language? Maybe it is easier to understand spoken English for you than it is for me to understand spoken Portuguese. OR maybe you have spent more time listening than reading. For me It's the opposite. A lot more time reading, and so my reading is naturally better.

@@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157 while the native language does play a part. You have to consider the various ways someone might study a language. There is a hypothesis that says we have two ways of acquiring a language, solid and fuzzy. Someone who learned through methods that facilitate a solid idea of the language, mainly reading and writing, will have a strong sense of what every word means and is in a sentence. Someone who learned through methods that facilitate a soft idea of the language, mainly speaking and listening, only know what then sentence means by feeling. Soft is how we learned our native language. The pure amount of exposure is what makes our native language so solid. To recap you can learn in two ways a hard way and a soft way. Hard starts from the bottom and learns a definite idea of the language. While a soft starts from the top down and learns a loose idea that hardens with expose to the language

Try Turkish resources. Turkish and Azeri are the same languages with different dialects.

@@Jess-737 oky don 👍🏿👍🏿😁😁😍😍🥰🥰😍😍

What do you want out of studying English. for example, do you want to have a conversation or do you want to understand everything?

Also what anime/manga is your profile picture from? It looks super cute. I might want to read it

@@tannisjett1308 Understand to see movie, read books, talk with the people and play videogames, i like the english

@@tannisjett1308 i don't know, i searched in google images

@@Xbolu16 aaahhh I see. I'm glad that you are following the right guy then (Steve). Depending on what you said I would have recommended faster routes, but if you want a everything then this is the right RU-vidr to be watching.

Try to find podcasts that are at your level or just above it. Say your level is A2 [ for listening ] listen to podcasts at A2 / B1. Listen at B1 to challenge yourself. If it's too difficult then stay at A2 for a while. Just keep listening as much as you can. Get the transcripts of the podcasts if you can and read those as well, some words you miss you can check them on the transcripts. Personally, I listen to podcasts but read the transcripts separately, I don't read and listen at the same time because I believe it takes the concentration away from the listening. I'll use the transcripts to connect the words I miss though. I'm learning Spanish and what I found after a lot of listening was the audio seems to sound a little slower and the words become more separate and clearer. The audio hasn't slowed down really, it has been my comprehension that has got better. It does take time for this to happen, but it will do. I listen to podcasts at level B1 - C1 and understand maybe 80% or more. When I watch Spanish films and series I have problems understanding. The movies and series are super native advanced though so it will take a lot more listening to eventually understand them. Not many people think about this but think about how you learnt your native language. Think about how a baby learns his/her native language. We all learnt/acquired our native language through input and plenty of it. Keep going Keideezy, you'll get there.

@@Davey441 that makes sense! it would probably slow down my progression if i kept listening to more advance stuff so ill try to find the right topic thats more on my level. also im gonna follow that technique that you use when you separate listening and reading the transcript. anyways thank you so much for the advice!

I'd say try to introduce more reading into your learning process, it's easier to "mine" new words from it. For me it's easier to hear words I already know, rather to learn new words from the speech. But, basically, you should analyze why don't you understand what is spoken. If you already know most of the used words, then my advice is useless.

​@@Keideezy I remember when I first started learning Spanish. I used to listen to podcasts that were just too difficult to understand. This is a mistake that a lot of language learners make. Another mistake is listening to audio and trying to analyse the audio too much by trying to listen to each and every word, trying to single out the words. It's better to listen to the full context surrounding the words. It's called listening in chunks. When we speak/listen in our native languages we don't try to listen to singular words, we listen to the context as a whole. If someone said '' I'm going to the shop to buy some milk'' you wouldn't try to listen to every single word, you'd listen to the full context. This is something one needs to do when listening to a language they're learning. Another method I use is to read transcripts in a loud voice. This isn't for comprehension, it's to practice pronunciation and to get the mouth used to speaking in the language. Pick a transcript from a podcast that you already fully understand and use it to practice speaking in a loud voice. When you do it you'll be only concentrating on the pronunciation and not trying to understand the text, again the brain can't concentrate on both at the same time, the concentration is solely on pronunciation and the rhythm. You'll find that even only after a week of doing this exercise you'll be pronouncing better and the words and sentences will flow out of your mouth so much easier. Start off slowly and you'll eventually get faster. It's quite difficult at first and your mouth will be all over the place 😂 but stick with it. You'll be shocked at how quick you'll progress. One last thing. You can still watch movies in your target language just don't treat them as an exercise for learning. Put the subtitles on and just watch them if you're interested in them or you'll think you'll enjoy the movies. Even though they're advanced, you're still getting some input. Happy Studying.

I'm learning French, it's my 3rd language. English is not my native language, now it's something like a B2 level. I had an issue with English: while I was listening to music, I almost couldn't understand the lyrics at all, but when I opened the lyrics, I saw that all the words were familiar to me. Now I got what the obstacle was - I didn't spend enough time for listening. Yes, it's a trivial thing, but it was hard to understand. When I started learning French, I started by watching RU-vid teachers in French and always used subtitles. After all, it's not difficult for me to understand French if it contains most of the words which I already know. So, I can recommend you to concentrate more exactly on RU-vid language learning videos for several reasons: 1. You can see subtitles, and thus it will make it easier for you to comprehend speech; 2. Teachers make their speech very easy for students to comprehend; 3. You will constantly encounter the most frequently used words on your way and over time you will comprehend them automatically.

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Do you start by learning the top 500 most frequent words or something. I have only studied languages with characters (so far 汉字, 漢字) so I havent had an opportunity to try something like that.

@@tannisjett1308 I've usually used some beginner course content to get my feet under me and then found that I could progress from there. But in fairness the languages that I've studied (German, French, Italian) all have a significant degree of lexical similarity with English which makes it a lot easier to get off the ground floor, so to speak. I think it would take a lot more basic study for something like Chinese.

@@tannisjett1308 I don't concentrate deliberately on learning some basic list of words. I prefer to engage into some meaningful activity right from the start. One method I've used successfully with different languages to "kickstart" them, is taking some beginner textbook and just reading all the main texts from it using Lingq, along with the grammar explanations from the same textbook.

@@KnightOfEternity13 ok that makea sense. Personally I've only attempted learn by memorize 500+ then jump into interesting easy and less than 10 minutes native content.

It depends on your disponilility and your will. Im currently learning french and korean, but with more focus in korean. Nobody can tell you an objective answer, analyze yourself and decide it. However you should nonetheless give a try before.

I try studying multiple languages but one seems to just take over my time eventually. It just happens. I am impressed by people who can stay motivated to learn several languages at once.

Is it even possible to read Chinese characters without writing them? If you know just a few characters you can surely recognize them, even when you can't write them. But a few hundred? Very difficult. A few thousand? Impossible!

Totally unnecessary in my opinion. Some think that attaching a physical action to language learning (Like speaking sentences as you read them, or writing Chinese characters) helps but the evidence is inconclusive

Right now I am learning mandarin I only focus on reading and understanding

@@Hofer2304 That's totally possible and that's how I did it myself. I'd say more, even native Japanese these days sometimes forget how to write characters correctly, because they are too used to typing them using phonetic methods.

@@KnightOfEternity13 They have learned to write the most important kanji in school. Their wrongly written kanji are probably recognizable by other Japanese people.

Self taught (a foreign language, presumably Mandarin Chinese) n fluency in 6 months.. rather clickbait statement... I would say that depends on how you define "speak fluently". You assess based on what criteria? Definitely not cefr which this video refers to

@@wanjingtan3530 self taught and fluent Yes can speak fairly well amazing a native speaker that criteria Any have a great day my friend

Yes. You can find videos here at my channel of me speaking Ukrainian.

That would happen if you were a student of English. If English is your first language and you are trying to learn French, German, Chinese or any language other than English, this is very useful. Also, if you are a language teacher, there is a lot to learn and reflect on from this video.

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Sorry to hear that, I'll adjust it in my next video