how I'm studying 4 languages (in depth) - spanish, korean, mandarin & russian 

If you want to see exactly how I organsie my language learning here’s a video I posted more recently: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-D5PagP6svfg.html also here’s you can find my language learning Notion template here: www.annalenkovska.com/templates

"i'm learning four languages" two seconds later: "my memory is not so great" lol

it's so weird when you're a native Russian speaker and everybody is just saying how hard this language. You are just like 'Well, is it?" lol

When you're not an English native speaker and you're learning Korean (or other languages) you end up speaking more English that the actual language that you were learning

Я редко понимаю, что говорят англоязычные блогеры, но ты так хорошо произносишь слова, что я все поняла Спасибо за полезное видео 🙂

Hello from Russia

I'm trying to learn spanish and korean. I'm brazilian so spanish is pretty similar to portuguese, which makes everything more complicated, I can understand spanish a lot but I don't know where to start studying 'cause it feels like I know everything and nothing at the same time, weird feeling

I'm totally HAPPY, I'm not a native English speaker and I fully understand this video

How I learn 4 languages 1-Portuguese, my native language 2- French,i moved to France when I was 3 years 3- Spanish ,most people who speak Portuguese can understand Spanish, and my mom love telenovelas and I watched with her 4-English,I love USA movies ,during all my life I saw movies with subtitles Bonus: I can understand Italian and German but i can't speak,now I'm learning japonese and Chinese Nice video ☺

Lingodeer and "Talk to me in Korean" You can't go wrong.

I am learning English, and I am so proud of myself for understanding 90% of what you said. However, my native language is Portuguese, and someday I will study Spanish. If someone can give me tips for my English I would be glad.

For Chinese: - HSK books and textbooks - watching films/dramas/anything in chinese - listen to chinese songs (their old song are SO beautiful, and if you want to listen to smth modern - escape plan, jj lin, kris wu, wayv) - you definitely should practice your pronunciation out loud a lot of times and compare to speakers (hsk books will help) - you should write characters with your own hand to memorise them As for duolingo, it might be helpful for practicing and checking vocab (grammar isn't always right) В общем и целом - учиться, учиться и еще раз учиться, в смысле, practice :)))

Half of video i was thinking: "oh, she looks like a russian girl". And after this you said, that you from Russia. Wow.

so no one is gonna talk about the editing? its SO good

I’m learning Russian and I’d share the way I study it. Listen to music, print the lyrics (make sure is music you like so you’ll listen to it often) try to sing along you’ll see how your listening improve so quickly. I watch кухня it’s a really fun show. And it has subtitles in Russian and English. I watch an episode and select couple words (select words or phrases that you consider useful) do not try to memorize everything. Get a book. I have two Russian books , both of them are for beginners (even though they have a lot of words) it will help you to practice and the most important thing, the more mistakes I’ve made while reading the easier it’s been for me to remember/ memorize words. Find someone who’s native speaker. I share a picture of a paragraph from the books with them , have them read them for me so I know the entonation and then after one day of practicing I read it to them, they give me feed back and help me understand the context of the paragraph if I need to. I watch many RU-vid videos In Russian even if I don’t understand anything. You need to emerge yourself in the language. After all the practice you will start understanding some words, then phrases little by little. :)

Русский язык ещё та жесть. Ни за что бы не начала его учить, если бы родилась где-то в Европе. Но главный плюсом русского языка является богатый на слова мат, брань (ладно, шучу). Первый плюс это красивые и разнообразные эпитеты, метафоры, ну а второе то, о чём я писала выше:) Удачи в изучении иностранных языков!

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me too sis I'm studying 5 languages Spanish, Korean, Chinese, Japanese and German

I feel the same way with Korean. I first started because of kpop but know I just really enjoy the language and don't even listen to this kind of music anymore

Today, I learned a new word: "collocations." I have been living my life entirely in English for over 20 years and have never heard this word before, despite reading a lot.

Hey! I'm always super excited to see new Chinese learners so motivated, because a lot of times people are so put off by the perceived difficulty that they don't ever want to learn it. I started learning four years ago (it was my major in college), and after two exchange programs I can say I'm pretty close to fluent in everyday conversations, however I still have a lot to learn in terms of formal language and specialized vocabulary in certain situations. Anyways, with that aside, I think the two things that helped me the most when I first started learning was familiarizing myself with the sounds of the language through listening to podcasts, watching TV shows, and listening to music (though be careful with this one, because they don't use tones in music- I was actually not really able to understand songs for the most part without looking them up until the last year or so). It's impossible to imitate and make sounds in a language if you don't know what it sounds like, so try to add as much language input as you can. I find reality shows like idol producer or street dance of China to be good, because they're reality shows and showcase people speaking casually and naturally. The second tip I can give you is that with tones, for the first year or so I was learning I would move my chin as I was saying the words so I would not forget the tone (I know it sounds like it would look extremely stupid, which it probably did, but looking stupid is better than sounding stupid when no one can understand you without the right tone). I would also practice the movement of the tones in my throat when I was just chilling in class or something, so not vocalizing it but familiarizing myself with the movement. I would STRONGLY advise against ignoring tones when you first start learning and thinking that you will pick them up later, because it will not happen, you will just be learning wrong and have to relearn with the right tone. Eventually, talking to yourself in Chinese once you get to that level is also super helpful, and I do it all the time hahaha. As for characters- I've heard some people say they're going to learn how to speak Chinese but not learn how to read or write because the writing system is too hard... um. Let me just say. It will not work. The characters give you so much context, and since Chinese does not have very many sounds in the first place (which is the reason tones are used), words and their meanings are differentiated by their characters. If you don't have any context and are just reading the pinyin, you LITERALLY WILL NOT KNOW THE MEANING. I can't stress this enough. Characters are SO IMPORTANT. I know it can be daunting, but having learned this long, I can say that there are so many logical patterns to Chinese characters, and the vast majority of more complex characters are made up of simpler characters together or parts of them, along with radicals (the part of the character at the front), which helps to denote the meaning or category of the word (ie. there's a speaking radical, a question radical, a hand radical, etc. Characters with these radicals will almost always have an association with them). I read somewhere that you only need to know around 100 of the most commonly used characters in Chinese in order to be able to understand somewhere around 80% of characters, because as I said, most are made up of simpler, root or base characters that derived from classical Chinese. I know it's daunting but it's possible! Baby steps are important, so even learning five new characters each week is a super good place to start! Downloading Chinese social media like Weibo and bilibili videos helped me a lot with reading, since I was following celebrities I like anyways and would check it a couple of times a week and see if I could figure out anything that was said. There are also a lot of good, free resources online that help a lot in the beginning stages of language learning. I think having friends and peers who were learning along with me helped keep my motivation up, as we could hold each other accountable and also bond over our shared experience. Making Chinese friends was definitely when I saw one of the biggest improvements in my language skills, aside from when I went abroad to Taipei and Xi'an for language programs during the summer. Having friends who are learning Chinese but are at a higher level than you is also super helpful to both parties, and I improved a lot conversing with my friends in Chinese class who had more experience than I did. I know i wrote A LOT, but I'm just super passionate about learning Chinese and I think more people should learn it because it really is such a beautiful language and I'm completely in love with it. My friend Telix also has a youtube channel where she posts videos about Chinese language learning, so definitely check her out! Here is a video she made about self studying: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-T2GWIrfkuT0.html All in all, if you made it this far then I commend you because wow my 话 (hua2, words) really is 很多 (hen3 duo1, a lot), and tbh I have so much more to say and could go on about this forever, but yeah! That's my feature length novel with my advice for Chinese beginners! Definitely feel free to ask any questions or reply to this comment if you're interested in more resources, I can dig around in my brain archives for what I used when I was first starting out. I'm excited for you and for everyone who is starting their Chinese language journey, and I hope that y'all can enjoy it just as much as I do :D

i didn't know you speak russian) люблю смотреть твои видео спасибо за огромную мотивацию❤️

Could you maybe talk about the Spanish shows you've watched? Or maybe just music, movies and shows that you watch to practice your languages

I'm a native Spanish speaker, now I'm learning English and Chinese at university, I hope someday learn Korean and Japanese too, I love these languages. Good luck to everyone who is starting to learn a new language maybe is not easy at the beginning, but if we put a lot of effort into it we'll get it.

Best way to spend quarantine is to learn a language ❤️

for Chinese: Pleco! It's amazing! You can draw a character that you see, and it shows you the meaning, use, pronunciation, example sentences, traditional characters.. you can also only type in the pronunciation of a character and find how it's written

Despite talking cartoonish, the characters in Peppa Pig talk clearly and I understood the majority of what they're saying. It took me a while to find the playlist with both English and Mandarin subtitles - Let me know if you guys need the link.

this is really awesome, proud of you Anna! definitely an inspiration

Спасибо Ютубу за такие рекомендации😋 Буду следить за твоим каналом, чтобы тренировать английский на слух

Mucha suerte con el español😊 Me has motivado a seguir mejorando en mi inglés y francés

Yeeeees we stan an educated queen I personally speak french arabic and english and i learn Japanese

about mandarin, i would recommend a very thin book that I used to use as a kid called 三字經, the content is all based on disciplines and not really for ideal daily conversation usage, but it is extremely helpful to perfect your tones and pronunciation. the characters are fairly simple and easy, the book also has pinying so it makes everything easier, plus each page only has like a few lines and each line has 6 words. def recommend for speech practice usage and good luck on ur language journey!!

Very useful video, great job

i love that u re more active in your youtube channel 🥳🥰

i don't know what you're going to say in this video but i do know that i am failing to even learn one language so i am IMPRESSED

for korean I really recommend the 'sejong korean conversation' series! it's more of a structured course, but it is centered on a webdrama (the plot was kinda silly but lol). each "class" is based on an episode of the drama and they have short videos explaining the main grammar points, vocab etc. and it's completely free :DD

Ты большая молодец! Видео о языках - лучшее, что может быть!

i’ve been seeing so many language learning videos in my recommendations today it’s probably a sign that i should start learning korean and chinese again bc i always get unmotivated at stop

this is inspiring ! I'm currently learning Spanish and I've set my phone's language on Spanish and it's really helpful

Hola Senorita! I am beginning learning Spanish prior to visiting Mexico for the third time. I love you so much for your passion to share and encourage others no matter where they are on their journey. Bless you always and Gracias😀

Lenkssss ily- keep going this couldn’t have come at a better time I was struggling with finding language resources just last night 👏

your video = everything to me

Thanks for sharing, it was really helpful:-)

I speak 4 languages but i understand 5 :) - speaks Indonesian as i live in Indonesia. - speaks Mandarin since, i’m ethnically chinese. - speaks english because i went to International school. - speaks hokkien (福建话) because i live somewhere in Indonesia which chinese people here speaks hokkien. - i'm able to understand melayu because indonesian and melayu are basically very similar and some of the words are exactly the same and means the same as well.

İ ve been waiting for this a lot time

You're my role model when it comes to being productive during these times. You deserve all the happiness in the world .xoxo

Omg Anna! I’m learning these exact same languages, never thought I’d find anyone else doing the same. I started learning Spanish & Korean 4 years ago at 14, I just started learning Chinese and I’ll be taking Russian & linguistics at uni. I was worrying that it would all be too much but seeing someone else do the same is very motivating!

the editing is quite on point, nice vid

You are just extremely inspiring and so productive, in truth your videos help me remain productive throughout the day

I'm learning spanish and french. I tried learning russian but it's so hard. Idk how you can learn different languages with different scripts.

Idk how, but your video just popped and it's so useful. Tnx❤️

This is a really useful video, i love your energy

I turned my phone to German, and ended up deleting my Netflix account. You can't recover a Netflix account... you have to start anew ...😔

Liked the video before watching it cause I already know it's gonna be a amazing

Can I just say that you are AMAZING and so inspiring! 🤍🤍🤍 I've recently started studying Korean and I love watching Korean RU-vidrs and movies to learn more. Thank you for telling us your story and sharing your tips. Sending love ~

thank you so much. ive been using many ways to learn english but i havent this idea about to read a book that i already know, only for improve my skills or learn more vocabulary. Buena suerte con tu español!!

It’s kinda of scary how I get recommended this after finally starting my language notebooks but I’m not complaining! I need all the tips I can get

I’ve been using Peppa Pig for Korean! 😂 I’m so used to babysitting that watching kids shows is honestly pretty enjoyable and the simple language keeps you from getting discouraged so it’s a win win

Se entiende perfectamente lo que dice, que pronunciación tan clara

The more immersion, the better. Turning your phone and computer to the target language is actually huge.

productivity idol💗💗💗💖💖💖

ahhh i needed this video!! i’m currently learning spanish, thai, ISL and italian, it’s so enjoyable to study but hard!

This was great, thanks

Thank You sm! i love your video

Imagine being able to travel... can’t relate haha

It would be cool if you did make your channel more about languages, even if it was the odd progress update now and then I'd love to see it, I love languages so I get excited when people talk about them, even if I can only speak English myself. I've been taking my Japanese and Korean more seriously this year than previous years, so I feel pretty good about it right now.

А я думаю, что самое прикольное в русском языке, что можно создать новые слова из имеющихся приставок, корней и суффиксов, чтобы передать любой смысл, если ты этого захочешь

This is so great. What a wonderful, positive personality ! Would you do a video on how you do your Anki cards with languages?

finally🥺🧚🏼‍♀️

I am from Argentina and I am learning English. I never took it seriously until a few days ago, when I realized that I really knew a lot about the language. I remember when I was 10 years old, we had an English assessment at school, and I put it off for several days because I was frustrated not knowing what to answer. I asked my cousin for help, who knew more about the subject than I did, she helped me with the evaluation and was the first person who explained it in such a beautiful and easy way for me, that it really made me interested in language. From there I learned it unconsciously, watching only movies in English with subtitles, listening to music in English, watching videos on RU-vid, etc. Now, I'm happy to say, that at 18, my youtube feed is full of English videos, and I can watch them without subtitles. Or listen to a song and enjoy it without having to search for the lyrics. A few days ago I started to take it seriously and I am learning grammar, since I can speak quite fluently, but only by imitating others. I really don't know how it works. But if you are just starting out, I really recommend surrounding yourself with the language, even if you don't understand it yet.

your English is sooo understandable! Thank you!!!!

Ik im a year late but I havent seen anybody mention this. There is this one Russian cartoon that I grew up watching (im a native Russian speaker) that is lowkey good quality. Its called “Fixiki”. It teaches kids about tech and nutritional stuff and the songs are a BOP. I’d recommend it if you like watching cartoons like this young woman here.

You're so inspiring I'm french, fluent in english and currently learning spanish and korean (I'm way better at spanish tho'), and you motivated me sm 🥰

Как здорово! Удачи в изучении русского, у тебя все получится! Спасибо за советы!

Удачного обучения! Надеюсь у тебя все получится.

I love this video. Thanx for sharing your tips ^^

I love your channel 💕 I'm Dominican (spanish native speaker) and I started my journey to learn english but I took so long to finally speak. Now, I finally did it this year, and I'm looking forward to improve everyday.

as someone learning Spanish and Russian this video makes my heart happy😌🧡🤍Спасибо‼️

THANK U SO MUCH FOR THIS

This video was the most helpful 💖thank you

Is this a miracle, Lenks is liking everyone's comment, Glad xD Anyways I am trying to learn korean, hindi, English, French, Spanish and Italian as I feel these are some languages I should and I need to learn however I don't know how to start, I am thankful for this video

got the instagram countdown notif faster than youtubes *nice*

I felt encouraged to learn languages again after watching this . Thank you 🥰

You are sooo inspirational!! One of my fav Polygots

It's interesting how your accent got mixed and sometimes you sound super American and at one point you sounded Irish. Kinda cool

hey, I really enjoyed the video! I'm a Russian speaker and I find your advices very beneficial 😊 I presume, that Duolingo is useful for beginners too. It helps to learn the alphabet quicker and just to get used to a new language. Thank you for your informative video. I wish everyone good luck with learning languages!

All the best, thank ❤

вау, ты большая молодец ❤️

I’m learning French, German and Swedish the difficulty is that French is really different from the other two and German and Swedish are very similar I sometimes mix both languages. I’m Mexican so I already speak Spanish and English which really helped me, people say that when you speak 3 languages the fourth one is really simple but I’m still fighting with learning three new languages. Thanks for the tips

I'm only learning Korean💭💕

thank u so much this popped up in my recommended and im currently learning 4 languages as well: korean, italian, turkish and greek

Очень приятно тебя слушать). 💕

I'm learning Spanish and Chinese too🤭❤️

here’s a mandarin tip: learn the four sounds first and memorise the characters? not sure what they’re called in english but you have to memorise them

Thank you!

Вы - умница!

I used HelloChinese a few years ago and it was great. I'm not almost Hsk6! My tip is to rote-learn the first couple hundred characters- once you know them really well, basically all characters after that are just things you already know combined.

I have been learning chinese for over 3 years now and I really recommend you books from ''mandarin companion'' they have a lot of easy short stories on different levels. Also from YT channels I can recommend everyday chinese and mandarin corner, good luck!

im fluent in spanish and english, but i like the idea of learning new languages and exploring the cultures that come with it. im currently learning french, i can read and understand a LOT (obviously with some words i dont know, and i can write quite a bit (pronounciation is a bit difficult). i also really want to learn korean, thai, or mandarin. my korean is pretty basic but i am able to understand a LOT but have no idea how to read or write. this was pretty useful, so thank u! good luck to everyone out there learning !

加油! Hope you achieve your language goals in 2021😊