Fix These Bad Habits to Finally Learn a Language (so easy) 

Thanks man. Appreciate the support 🙏

@@matt_brooks-green Hey Matt, check your inbox for a collaboration idea I sent over. Excited to hear what you think!

Hahaha... my wife came up with the word "dogling" as in to look at dogs when you're out and about. That's most of our holidays. Thanks man. Yeah, 50% of filming is mostly tidying up!

Здравствуйте 😄 я русская, и мне всегда очень приятно слышать когда иностранцы учат русский язык! Я всегда удивляюсь, почему они его изучают? 🙈

@@anastasiya256 Let me respond in English, if you don’t mind. There are several reasons why I love to learn Russian. 1.) My favorite authors are Russian: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Chekhov. Though I enjoy reading English translations, my hope is to read the original versions some day. 2.) I’ve always been fascinated by Russian history, primarily World War II. 3.) Russian is an enormously complex though beautiful language for English speakers. I love the mental challenge of learning Russian.

@@todesque awesome! thanks for responding :) I have yet to read much of the Russian classics … but I’ve read Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina in Russian. I moved to Canada at 13, so I didn’t get the chance to finish high school in Russia, which means I missed the time that they go through the classics in their literature curriculum. But it might be for the best because it would be a rushed reading experience. Also, it’s a shame, but I find that the most famous parts of Anna Karenina are the ones about her, not the ones about Levin. I liked the parts about Levin much better.

@@anastasiya256 Interesting! Feel free to respond in Russian, by the way. Yes I totally understand where you’re coming from with Anna. I actually don’t find her a likable character at all. War and Peace is by far my favorite novel. The Anthony Briggs translation is a delight.

Try comprehensible input for 8-10 hrs / day for a few days in a row? You should get to a state where your brain pops random words in your target language into your head 💬 that’s when you know that your brain is learning. After some more time, it will start to pop real phrases and then real sentences, and eventually, you’ll start to think in your target language!

To get to the top in RU-vid, you have to have click bait titles, along the lines of “You mustn’t do this” or “This is the one secret you need to know”. I agree, with German I am slowly working out what works FOR ME.

Yes, different people have different precesses for learning a language. I have found that understanding other people's processes will help me develop my own. Hence, videos by Matt and other RU-vidrs have a valuable role to play. No, you don't always need to look up words that you don't know. I will get clues from the context, and after seeing the word 10, 20, 30 times, I'll have a pretty good idea of what the word means. I'm glad you've found a process that works for you. But as you said, everybody has a different path.

They just tell you how to do it, give you all the dos and dons, this is not a video to actually learn a language from. It not a teaching video. You have to quit listening to all the, how to videos and start watching shows and listening to stories.

@@scottnathan2912 never said this was a language video. I said it is a waste of time. The video gives you zero new advice. Zero real information. You would get more from watching one movie or television show in Spanish. These videos are worthless. Most of these people can’t even speak at an intermediate level. If they could, they would do it instead of this ridiculous nonsense.

​@@scottnathan2912 If you've watched any of Matt's videos, you know that his method involves watching shows and listening to stories. He even provides a link to Lingopie, for God's sake! He's in the "comprehensible input" school. Watching a few ten-minute videos isn't going to keep anybody from devouring large amounts of comprehensible input, and some of these tips about time management and the like might be helpful.

I don't know why anybody would want to learn just 2000 words.

@@stevesmith291 1. Officially, that is minimum fluency level. Count the words in the average textbook and you are likely to see 1000. I disagree. I think it is more like a minimum of 6000 words. One expert in Russian wrote that it was 9000 for Russian, 18000 for English. In order to read a novel, you are going to need at least 6000 words. 2. But it is not just vocabulary. There are many small words that are very common in everyday language that never get included in grammar and vocabulary books, like the real use of 'net' and buna in Lithuanian. German will teach you all sorts of moods and tenses when colloquial German uses just present and present perfect. (Presumably with a smattering of subjunctive) So, the textbooks teach too little and too much at the same time. That is why I read first and supplement with grammar as needed. Then, all the vocabulary and grammar goes towards that one book, not a multitude of subjects and authors. But most find that too shocking.

@@aSnailCyclopsNamedSteve I think I ought to know how to say "shirt" in any language I'm studying.

@@stevesmith291 Why??? When is the last time you used the term in your native language? Mostly it is used in store adverts where one can see a picture or the item. I can tell someone they look nice or spilled a bit of food without using the word. On top of that, routinely seeing the word in adverts with a picture ID means that memorising it is a waste of my time. Bye

@@aSnailCyclopsNamedSteve I wear a shirt every day. Sometimes, I talk about it.

Excellent! It’s probably high quality then.