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I can't believe this is a small channel. Holy shit your videos are insane. And don't try to lose your accent; it's a symbol of your heritage, and should be worn with pride as your accent crosses over into your other languages. Your accent is even more admirable because your English is extremely proficient. Man I can't wait to learn another language, Subscribed.
losing an accent...... I'm not convinced that this is even beneficial. I mean, if an accent is so powerful that people cannot understand you, then yes....improving that is important however simply having an obvious accent but one which does not prevent people native to the target language from understanding you might not be a good use of time. I actually enjoy hearing people speak english with an accent from another language. I did work with a gentleman from Scotland who spoke english as his primary native language and his accent was so incredibly powerful that I couldn't understand a damned thing he said, while our co-workers from France, Germany, Spain and Italy.....all spoke with varying levels of accent and I could understand them completely. EDIT: I can see where a person who wishes to be a tv news journalist or an actor/actress might wish to put lots of effort into speaking each language in a very convincing accent.....but for regular people, I think time would be better spent on other things.
@@santiglot there's a story about one Turkish author who was fluent in French but his accent was a very thick Turkish accent. They asked him why didn't he speak like a French person and he said: "Well, I'm not gonna be a spy, am I, so why should I?"
Hi Santi! Loved this video. Thanks for creating such great content!! ❤️ Your technique of "dabbling >> hardcore learning" seems very practical and realistic! I am going to try it out! ☺️💪 As for me, well, I don't have a plan as such. I just expose myself to the target language(s) as much as possible and keep a journal where I write short, random things in the target language(s). (It could be a movie I watched that day or something new I saw in the supermarket...) I also try to converse with native speakers as much as possible. Well, actually, one thing I do is to set a three/six/twelve month goal to learn a language (depending on the amount of prior exposure to that language)... Let's say Russian. So in those three/six/twelve months, I'd only learn Russian. Once I reach the B1/B2 level, I move on to the next language while constantly using/practicing Russian. I personally find this method very effective! Sounds like a mixture of the direct method, audiolingual method, CLT and immersion, don't you think? 😉 Looking forward to watch your future videos! 😎☺️
Sube más videos, macho! Tienes mucho potencial, hablas idiomas muy dispares y en todos usas expresiones nativas que hacen que la gente alucine. Tu canal puede crecer muy rápido yo creo. Usa más la guitarrita jajaja
Thank you for this useful update. I’m currently studying Chinese and have been studying it for about 4 months. Lately I have been tired and frustrated because of what you say” it’s an alien language”to me. So I have realized that I need to slow down a bit. I will keep in mind your three pieces of advice. Maybe I’ll be more efficient. I already speak English, French and Norwegian ( the latter being my mod tongue), I also know German fairly well, but I hardly never use it. So I only focuse on Chinese now. Thanks for giving me motivation to go on😊👍
The most difficult language is Arabic . So many persons they will ask why and they will say Chinese language is more difficult why Arabic because we have 22 Arabic countrys and each one has a different accent and inside each country have so many different accents and many different dialogue and so many means for one word for example More than 1200 words mean lion. Although my tongue is Arabic and my mother tongue is Arabic, I do not know anything of them. Imagine that
Tengo dos preguntas: ¿A qué edad aprendiste tu segundo idioma? Estoy aprendiendo inglés y dejé de lado el estudiarlo para dedicarle más tiempo al listening (con subtítulos) porque no entiendo casi nada, pero me siento estancado ¿Que me recomiendas?
Empecé con 18 años. Está bien practicar mucho listening, pero tienes que buscar la manera de estudiar y practicar el vocabulario y la gramática nueva que vas descubriendo. Échale un vistazo a Anki y buscate un intercambio de idiomas, para practicar el habla
Hey Santi, great advice on thinking long term. I have little to no experience recognizing good source material for language learning, but I’ve found these Teach Yourself series and I would like to know if its a good source for a complete beginner like me to start a language from scratch. Thank you for your patience.
Thank for sharing your thoughts about learning languages 💪👍❤ While you mentioned Arabic language, you referred to algerian flag .. Actually,there most of them don't speak Arabic ...it's a kind of algerian dialect and tamazight(kabyle) language ,which is spoken along the Mediterranean coast... ✌ Me too I'm a polyglot. I'm learning Malay,Indonesian ,Chinese and Korean Currently, I'm speaking 8 languages
Hey man! I dont know if u remember me but I was the 12 year old kurdish kid who tried to teach u kurdish on omegle! When I subscribed to you you only had 4k subscribers, and you have grown so much, im really happy for you, keep your content going!
Those influencers claimed that "Being fluent in 7 days". That sounds too good to be true 🤣 It made me realized that how hard it is and I keep appreciating my learning process. Anyway Todavía hago lo mejor que puedo para aprender español. Nada es fácil pero disfrutaré mi proceso, Gracias por tu video Santi 😁
Hola Santi! En este momento sé hablar Español, Portugués e Inglés a un nivel avanzado y me gustaria aprender Francés e Italiano. Como has mencionado en el video, al ser todos de la misma familia (menos el Inglés) se hace mucho más facil aprender y mantener, pero me podrías decir tu rutina/metodologia para aprender el francés? Los 3 idiomas los aprendi creciendo, con familia, amigos y el entorno, por lo que nunca tuve la necesidad de desarrollar una estrategia.
En mi Patreon respondo a preguntas largas y complejas como esa. Pero si quieres un principio a serguir, olvidate de rutinas y practica todos los días. Mucha suerte y un saludo!!
For me it was the Lockdown(s) ' wot done it. ' I loved languages at school, a long time ago that was, where we did Latin, French and German ; add a little Spanish ( Time in Argentina.) and Italian ( Friends) and I had something to work with . So I got busy with leaning ..... Mandarin ! Loved it so much , I got the Romance languages out of mothballs and added a few more. The more I do the more I want to do. I find vlogs like yours very encouraging and insightful, thank you very much for posting them.
For arabic dont ever start with dialect, learn first Arabic standard. The dialect will become easy when u know the real arabic. Im learning Portuguese and i swear my brain is💀 cuz i speak Arabic French and English. I also started Spanish but i stoped it so now can anyone gives me tips? Thx in advance.
Have you thought about learning greek? I noticed not many of the polyglot RU-vidrs speak it. I am Greek American and am trying to learn it now and it’s extremely difficult.
I would like to have a video on why you learned Tagalog? And what are your motivations with the language and how you studied it at ilang taon o buwan mo nang pinag-aralan
wish me luck, i’ve been studying spanish for no reason (aside from it’s such a pretty romantic language lol) at all as my third language xD. i’m very young and cannot afford books so i’m sticking to duolingo for now. also working on improving my english!
Hi ! Just discovered your channel and I really like it. I'm currently learning Dutch and your experience is giving me even more motivation. Do you have tips for learning a few languages at the same time ? I did some German in the past but I feel like studying both together makes me so mixed up so I did put German on the side for now. Cheers from Belgium !!!
Have you considered looking into the celtic languages? They are an entire endangered language family and could really use every speaker and every bit of exposure they can get. Tapadh leibh a charaid :)
I find them interesting but I'm not that motivated yet to study them, as I was for example motivated to study Neapolitan. There are thousands of minority languages out there, I have to choose my battles.
@@andrewjennings7306 It's just a dialect of Occitan, so it's closer to Catalan. But yes not very difficult. Also it's only spoken in a ver small region.
Question: What are you doing your PhD in? I didn't know that you were doing a PhD. As a grad student, I don't know how you have so much free time to learn languages. I barely have the time and I'm only working on my MSc. I'm trying to work on my Portuguese, Italian, and German the most. Those are the languages I'm most interested in working on for now. My Spanish is eh, but once I get my Portuguese and Italian under control, I'll be able to speak/understand my Spanish better again. I lived in Florida for 8 years and my best friend's parents didn't speak English, so I had to learn Spanish to communicate with them. Let's just say that my Spanish is pretty basic still. After Portuguese, Italian, and German (which I speak at probably around a B1 level because of formal education), I need to learn Vietnamese. Dating someone from Vietnam has made me want to learn the language to better express my love for them and show how dedicated I am to keeping our relationship alive even though they speak English. Finally, my ultimate goals are to learn Arabic, Greek, Russian, and potentially Farsi (all for no specific reason other than they seem fun to learn and surprise people with).
Yes, it's always hard to find the time, especially when you have responsibilities. My PhD has to do with language learning so it's not completely unrelated. I like your plan, good luck and keep working hard!!
Knowing Cantonese would be easy to learn Hakka and even (Northern)Vietnamese. Little tip : "厲害" in Cantonese is "犀利"or "好勁".☺️ Recently I'm learning Indonesian(A2) and Hakka(A2~B1), i will start to learn Shanghainese(A0) and relearn Finnish(A1) when my Indonesian and Hakka reach to a solid B1 level, and then dabble in Fillipino/Tagalot(A0). I've heard that Indonesian and Filipino are somewhat similar, but i know the grammars are quite different....can't wait to see their similarities and differences 😃
Felicitaciones por tus vídeos, estoy estudiando cuatro idiomas y escucho varios consejos de como planificarme para estudiarlos , saludos para ti desde Cuba.
I am dedicated and really needy to learn German till B2 , what source to choose to achieve my goal beside a German speaking environment and books ? Is Goethe schule good for this time constraint of 5 months if I already know till A1 in German ? I learnt 4 languages - hindi , English, punjabi and marathi but for these I had a lot of time or no time constraint was their for me , anything would be beneficial if u could help me with that🙏
From A1 to B2 in 5 month?? Wow, you don't need resources you need complete and absolute immersion. I were you and I was comminted, I would just spend all my time consuming German content (whatever kind of content you like) and speaking German.
Hmmmm, I never think in terms of giving up, just in terms of being or not being a priority. For example I stopped studying Swedish, but that doesn't mean I won't study it in the future. It all depends on what my needs and interests are. Maybe someday I'll study Turkish so I can explore that language family, yes.
A few months back I started learning Russian. Cuesta bastante acostumbrarse al nuevo abecedario y ni hablar de intentarlo en cursiva. También me resulta complejo saber cuando debo pronunciar o escribir una "o" o una "a" (supongo que es saber el vocabulario). May I ask, warum wollen Sie nicht Deutsch lernen? Lo mismo sucede con el japonés (aunque quizás luego del chino puedas aprovechar la estructura de los kanjis, como así también para el coreano). Merci beaucoup!
Wow, I've been focusing on my studies some months and your Channel has exploded! I'm so happy for you, my man! I've picked up chinese where I left It and will consume language's youtubers again (RIP Laoshu btw :( ) So I'm going to be watching every vídeo you upload ^^ 祝你一切顺利
I am learning Chinese (Mandarin) for HSK 3 rn...and I want to improve my tones...Can you please give me tips to do that. Cuz I think I sound like an idiot talking in Mandarin :/
Hey Santi, I'm a fluent speaker of three languages and I'm trying to learn Spanish! Some things are easier than others but overall I don't have difficulty understanding it. And it's easy for me to pronounce stuff as well because well I speak Urdu and Sindhi. But I often times get distracted or don't have time so I would do maybe two lessons every 3 or 4 days and in the time in between I'm trying to look at some way to practice. I saw that you were watching Filipino telenovelas so I wanted to ask, what kind of stuff like that can I do to practice and improve? Btw some of my favorite artist song in Spanish or Spanglish.
I watch telenovelas because there is not much interesting Filipino content, at least telenovelas are funny. However, for Spanish you have sooo many options. If you want series or movies, just get Netflix or go on YT, there you'll find all kind of stuff that you will enjoy and be able to learn from
@@santiglot Will do👍 I did enjoy Narcos tho And I forgot to say thank you because your videos sparked my interest in learning more languages! Great vid!
"⚠️ If you are reading this... you are different... I like you~" Olá, Santi. Eu fiquei curioso em saber por que você decidiu aprender napolitano. Você é o primeiro não-italiano que eu soube que teve o interesse de aprender um dialeto (posso chamá-lo assim?) italiano, e não (só) a língua italiana. E de qual país você é? Um abraço.
我很喜欢你的小电影。Soy un medio de mexicano. Pero mi familia en los Estados Unidos y mi español es muy mal. 我学习普通话三年在中学和一点儿在大学。明年我学习法语。我在加拿大。Of course I grew up in a very English speaking environment. 私はアメリカ人です。(I took one semester of Japanese but my Chinese practice made kanji very confusing). I plan to learn a bit of Malay/Bahasa Indonesia and Tagalog with some kababayans of mine. Todo mis madres familia habla español con fluidez sin mi. Yo mucho gusto estudiar más español. Tu videos es muy bien. Hoping to get to a level of fluency in Spanish and HSK3-4 in Mandarin in the next two years. Thanks for the motivation.
You keep saying Chinese, but there are multiple "Chinese" languages. It's Mandarin (if you speak this specific one). Cause it feels weird when you refer to it like that, it's like calling Dutch Hollandian language, or calling Hindi Indian, idk, it just stuck in my mind cause of that. P.S. Dude if you learn Georgian I'll personally guide you around if you ever visit this God forgotten country.
Cunden els videos, es nota que li poses ganes. Es curiós però per alguna cosa els videos de gent aprenent idiomes i interactuant instàniament amb desconeguts son molt gratificants, i sens dubte ets un dels millors canals que he vist del tema. Segueix així! En res explotaràs a la fama jo crec, almenys hauries.
Hey Santi! So I studied Spanish in school for 10 years. I feel like my vocabulary and conjugation is okay when speaking. In the US our Spanish teachers always taught in English, so there was no immersion. Therefore I have really bad listening skills. What is the best way to improve my listening? Thanks!
By listening more.... I know, it's obvious, but that's the way it works. Other things you can do is learn about phonetics and connected speech, that will help too! Mucha suerte!!
Well done. You are amazing. I am learning Japanese at the moment. Can you teach me how you are learning Tagalog. I want my daughter to learn my mother tongue. But, I cannot find much resources for Filipino language.
Hey man, I started learning 普通话 March 1st and i must say its an amazing language! I also want to learn Cantonese in the future. I have a question for when you started to studying Mandarin, Did you focus on Hanzi first or did you just learn thru the latin alphabet first then the hanzi? And if you have any advice it would greatly be appreciated! Many thanks :)
Pinyin is for learning how to pronounce things and for typing characters. It is very important you learn to read and (at least) type characters on a computer. Writing by hand is not that important if you are not going to do that. But yea, pinyin is a crutch and you shouldn't become dependent on it.
Hey santi i appreciate your videos that's awesome 👍 I am going to study abroad in Turkey and I must study the language so can you help me with your amazing tips please 🙏🙏
Санти, привет! Посоветуй, пожалуйста, бразильских сериалов. Есть такие, не мыльные оперы? Или интересные мультфильмы как «Время приключений» или «Рик и Морти».
please staawwwwwwp 😳 you're right tho, not even gonna lie, that is some truth you be spitting around. Trust yourself and say it out loud king, cause you are damn right.
Could you try and balance the audio on the Omegle vids? You are always very loud and the other party very low... Just a friendly recommendation from a guy that enjoys your content.
@@samrobin233 I read when I can and want. I listen to all kind of stuff, because that's my learning style. I study grammar when I need to, only. I don't like wasting money, I get language partners
But what are the resources that you are suggesting us to use to learn our targeted language ? I mean you made a video about duolingo and you told us not to use it but what is the replacement ?
If you watch carefully the Duo video, I tell you there what good resources and learning materials are, you just need to find them. But if you are asking for apps, I recommend Anki. It's free and actually works
Hey, would you also be considering learning a second Slavic language after you get Russian, like Polish? And also, what's the hardest thing for you in Russian? Thanks for a great video!
Thanks! Yes, that' sort of the plan... however Idk with other Slavic language I will be interested in, maybe Polish who knows, after all it's the second Slavic language I'm more familiar with. The hardest thing for me so far is writting and typing in Russian. Russian script is not 100% phonetic, so I have to get used to that.
