How language learning really be... 

Wow.....hats off...how I wish

It's my eighth month of learning French but I just can't get it.... do you think I got a problem?

How many languages do u know?

​@@monsieur6029 Oui, je detest Francais! "had to duble check French" Francias est dure. but hey-ho, what can ya do.

It’s 中国人（zhong guo ren) not 中人（zhong ren)

@Sagacious Explains The Joke *w h e e z e*

@Cheezit Police F

No need to imagine as Asian it happens to me many times already😅And normally it’s people from China who ask me this question

😂😂😂

Hahahahah

This sentence killed me 😂

Lel

Real talk tho, can you actually learn a language off Duolingo?

Well... Does it work?!?

For everybody asking if Duolingo works, it can. But you can't rely solely on five minute lessons a day. You have to be willing to write down the words and study them later on things like Quizlet. It probably won't make you fluent, but it'll be a great start.

It can be embarrassing but also imo 100% worth it. Making bonds with other people through a language you don’t even fully understand is really an eye opening experience tbh

Oh god I feel this.

.....yet.

Yes.

Once I passed by two women. One said (with an accent) that she did not speak my country's language and the other quietly called her a liar after she left because she was able to say those words in my language. I was like... bruh XD Apparently, if you speak a few words you must speak the entire language, otherwise you are lying to avoid a conversation lmao

😂😂

That's what I learn first

English is pretty much the first language you should learn. English is not my first language and here i am

i reLATE- my grandmother's native was thai and she'd start to tell me storys and i just- 🤠

My mother does it too, but she says the idiom in English and it doesn’t make any sense. Like, “If the goat doesn’t “bah”, how will you know that it is hungry?”

@@NewBlueTrue you put food in front of them and see how they react.

The_Greatest_Unicorn 😂 I get what you’re saying, but that’s not the solution to the idiom.

@@NewBlueTrue That makes perfect sense.

Every time I find a native to speak to I forget everything, i feel pressured to speak well cause I’m speaking to a native so I forget everything out of nerves 😂😂😂

Shimiphew don't give up tho!! ты молодец) greetings from russia :)

Yes

I feel you

Same happened to me 🤣 by the way, давно ты учишь русский?

Same, but I'm learning korean

Bro I was once in a restaurant and there was this japanese lady speaking to her son, (I had been learning Japanese for three months at that time) and she said one word I understood ONE WORD AND I FUCKING CRIED CAUSE HOLY SHIT

Legit

Mirai Drawz For me the hardest part sometimes is telling the separation between words and also I have limited vocab still ;-; it's very hard trying to learn a language with totally different roots from the one you naturally speak haha

頑張ろう☺️

Truuu

Your username thou... 🤩

It do be like that, though. When I lived in Mexico, I just awkwardly smiled, shook my head, and shrugged my shoulders because I had no clue what was said

Lol i relate 😭

BlueberryPie 100% I just realize I’m not as good as I thought I was 😂😂

@@aedurr yeah same

Yeah... yeah... 😭

Watching with subtitles has close to 0 effect on learning.

U almost fluent?

@@StrikeA1G nope far from it... i'm kind of at an intermediate level

@@venus-qk5iy oh man, watch Matt vs Japan u should be good rn unless you just started following ikenna's method

@@StrikeA1G I'd say I'm in a similar position to the OP, intermediate level, years of learning off an on . I would have loved to do ikennas method but Ive already come this way with a bunch of different ways. Ikenna said he struggled with different methods before becoming fluent in Japanese, too, we all have our journeys.

@@neon_wombat I feel you I tried ikenna's approach but I've been following the mia approach these last few months

which german programs do you find work well for beginners? im trying to teach some korean kids german and im notthat good at korean yet lol

Watching kids shows is a great idea, I should try that

Cool, dass du deutsch lernst 😁 Viel erfolg!

@@violettaschmieder2096 BuzzFeed had a list of German cartoons on their websiteI think but I could be mistaken

That was me watching a french show that takes place in a small town. Apparently anywhere that's not Paris speaks another type of french...

So parlare inglese e italiano

Charlie b Sí y Español.

My Arabic ass when i studied Spanish alone 5yrs ago...but as the years went by I've grown to love Italian because of Marzia.🐦

Italian sounds so beautiful, another language I wish to learn, I've taught myself how to speak English as well, we learned it at school but I only ever learned it through self study.

Tbh if I didn't speak English I'd look at the language and ask which old drunk hobo wrote this? Like we have "there, their, and they're" and they all sound the same but mean different things.

Pana Barzani 4 out of 35 lol!

This is me but spanish

YAS!!! 😂 It's so me watching K-dramas.

@@eklectiktoni atleast you know some words

Ha get on my level I’m 4 out of 8000 words understood

Yeah, if you can "drive" the conversation where you want then you may also achieve to understand most of it but if you don't... you can be killed by all the new vocabulary haha

YES

Same here .

for me its: me: *speaks good with all the words i know but goes to google translate to check my grammar* native: *says words ive already learned and one new one* me:

对

French person: "salut une femme manges, laisse va!" Me: *flashbacks* m-m-m-mange??or... ... m-m-m-MANGES!

@The Movement facts

Winters Sunshine Same fam. Keep up the good work! 💪💚

@@templerose2471 Haha that´s so nice of you, thx! You too :)

Yea cause it shows you that we all go through this lol

Wow I watch your hair videos didn’t know you liked learning languages too

star puppy awayyyyy (:

Hey hey

I'm learning tigrinya too! But i'm eritrean. I just spoke to my grandmother in tigrinya and managed to get by with a whole conversation, i'm so happy how far i've come!

@@Jordan-xg4pn oh wow!! That's awesome!! I bet your abaye was proud!!!

Yo am Somali what's up ma ppl

白狗做事来我家里 They probably grew up in a different country. You would be surprised of how much first generation immigrants in the west don’t know their mothers tongue including a LOT of Chinese kids.

i barely can get through small talk, tigrinya is brutal :'(

@BMO HAAHHAHAHAHSDBKAFBKSHABFLSBFSAL

Yasssss

That's honestly not your fault. Schools generally have some of the worst methods for language learning.

longbeachgriffith referance

哇!没想到你在这儿:)

@@vincentsigmund7414 我也没想到他会来到这里

So accurate for me, lol

same but make it speaking

want a tip? speak with other people who isn't english either but knows the language i do this while practicing the accent so i can look more like an native speaker

Lit_DemiGod me too. But listening comprehension for me is hard for some reason.

What methods and materials do you use to learn Chinese?

@@davenacampbell3234 alot of audio and visuals... i use everydaychinese and pimsleur.I go through their lessons, make notecards for each new word i come across aswell as phrases/sentences...Sometimes i use youtube to find children shows in mandarin or even movies, just to see if i can pick up anything plus get used to regular conversation speed

@@gamingiv910 ya, the lessons i use are slowed down so that i can comprehend but when i click on a tv show or movie in mandarin, im like these ppl are talking way too fast lol

@Lit_DemiGod @davena campbell i use drops and watch chinese youtubers with subtitles. I also watch Mandarin movies as well. I also have a notebook with all of the words and phrases i used and practicing writing the characters too. Im trying my best not to spend money for anything though. I liked pimsleur but i cant get the whole thing. I have a friend that is taiwanese so she helps me out too with pronouncing and if its current and stuff like that. But when she speaks with her mother for an example is waaaay faster than how she is with me.

Golden wprds

Fax.

Duolingo is great, ive been learning for 5 months now and I am far ahead of most beginners.

@@JackTheAwesomeKnot I would guess after 5 month you are with nearly any tool ahead of most beginners. The problem with Duolingo is not, that it doesn't work at all. It is its efficiency. For that reason I only used it 15 min per day. Another problem is that **some** courses have lack of explanation and even worse have a lot of mistakes.

@@JackTheAwesomeKnot the problem with Duolingo is that they don't really explain grammar they just show you examples of whatever you're trying to learn and expect you to get it.

I learned Korean Using lingo deer and talk to me in Korean sometimes but learned most from Pinterest and especially kdramas

It just can't be your only source thats all hell I learn from some of my español amigos

Keep working,con esfuerzo todo se consigue!

Duolingo is a very good language learning platform, and it’s Spanish is one of the best and most used. When and if you complete all of the Spanish course you will speak a really good amount of Spanish, but not all. You need to find a dictionary or watch movies and find another platform to learn Spanish. Because Duolingo teacher you up to medium fluency, you just need to learn all the extra slang and uncommon words that wouldn’t be on the Duolingo course

@@floightoficarusw4329 That is true and the real motivation about duolingo is that if you dont do the lesson he's gonna find u and kill u

Russian Pianist Oh my god thanks! I forgot to mention, yeah don’t stop practicing Spanish if you want to a normal life.

CN Elise 头像警告

Fake Harrystyles 爬

good luck dude, i'm polish and this language is so fucked up sometimes

Yeah, I've heard about how difficult is the Polish grammar. Good luck! :)

Polish is actually really beautiful, but dumb sometimes.

deli deli I’m gonna need it 😂😂😂

Boglárka Mile thanks I’m gonna need it 😂

Kookies and Tae OH MY GOD ME NEITHER LOL (btw do you like ATEEZ 👀)

Temple Rose atEEZ

Relatable.

Same. I've been around Spanish my whole life and I can't even speak a whole sentence

@@giovonemendoza6531 Can you understand tho?

Study more.

Do you feel like studying abroad changed the game for your language skills?? I plan on studying abroad too, so just curious how it went for you!

mojona yes most definitely. As soon as I left the airport I heard french people speaking at their regular fast speed, with all their verlan(slang) and realised that I could barley understand a thing. I’m so used to learning via reading writing and practicing grammar but when listening and completely immersed it’s completely different. There’s also so many cultural differences that you notice and appreciate. Like les bisous ( giving kisses on each cheek upon meeting. Some are so subtle. Eg I noticed that men in France are so forward when approaching women. For the most part, people are really nice.

@@seraphina2293 thanks for explaining, It sounds like you had a fun experience! Native speakers' regular speed of talking is something that scares me... lol. I usually do the same thing, almost all written material and barely any real convo practice... trying to break that habit!

Same, I can talk to someone online in there language without feeling as bad, but in real life I feel ashamed haha

Them: 어제 나는 콘서트를 하고 노래를 불렀다. Me:okay, yesterday I concert something song something something something Wow, practically fluent (and one of the three words is because its konglish)

頑張れ！

And l have the same problem in English ..but it's normal..we're learning 😁

I feel bad for anyone that’s learning English. It can be so fucked up sometimes it’s crazy

@@cat_goose9592 I feel the same for people who learn Arabic 🤣😂

@@shahdamjad267 Yeah!😂 doesn't matter

أنفال أنفال I’ll kill it with my Arabic skills one of these days 😎🔪✊ 💚

But writes witty comment in perfect English...

@@KHRN2014 thanks dude❤️

I’m doing very yes too.

Gabriel hahahahahaha damn true

yesn't

Gay Lemon bruh same

That is scary bro. I've been learning Chinese for a year and a half now. I hope that "what the heck moment doesn't hit me hard"

I feel the same when it comes to English to be honest. The more I know, the longer it takes for me to respond. But the weirdest part of it is that I only need the stuff I'm learning in school when we start learning about it. People always tell me my English is great, but in reality I can't even read the first page of a normal book because I don't know what 30% of the words mean.

@@AfroLinguo has it hit you yet? Haha

@@iogamer9844 I find graded readers are awesome for that, I’ve finished 2 books in chinese already.

日本語上手

Bahareh i FELT THIS SO HARD

that hurts

This but japanese

Do you know what is even more frustrating, It is when they just switch to English. That happened to me so often learning German, eventhough I was in Germany. And now that I am learning Chinese, same thing happens again.

Victor W. Gaaaaaah me too! What did I get myself into 😬😬😬

So true. I hate learning languages with apps. I just prefer old school, learning with a tutor and using textbooks and watching native content. it worked for me when I learned German and it is working for me now, learning Chinese.

No, costs money. I’d rather immerse.

@@Acro_LangLearn too expensive where I am (Australia)

@@friendlyneighbourhoodbridg1354 Huh? Immersion is free lol.

That's what I use it for

And sometimes for getting used to sentence structure

Yeah it's good to bulk up your vocabulary count and show you basic sentence structure but after a couple months of it you need something like Assimil and too watch movies and google the few things you don't understand and key words your missing.

Please elaborate

HONESTLY. if you don’t want to learn a language, duolingo isn’t going to help. If you truly want to learn, it helps out soooo much. Of course you shouldn’t use it as your only source of learning, but I am anyway and have learned so much in the past two months. I’m far af from fluent but I’m happy to at least know some words (duolingo says I’ve learned almost 500 words so far so idk)

@@blazereho811 As I said, duolingo is decent and by that I meant it helps but in real life situation I'd personally recommend taking actual lessons from professional teachers or an immersive experience directly in the country you're trying to assimilate the culture/languages, this is way much more useful and legit (IMO).

@@MegumiHayashida But not everybody can afford that. So duolingo is fine.

Duolingo really helps me with Spanish, but I don't solely rely on it, I also play League of Legends on Latin servers where I get a chance to communicate with natives (and also send them to hell, because... League of legends :P) But overall, I'd say Doulingo is pretty bueno.

There's actually some dialects in which "tree" and "three" are pronounced exactly the same!

Had the same problem when I was in your age. I do still sometimes struggle with it.

@@sapphiregold4195 I've gotten way better at English, since I love to read, also I am 17, so I'm older now:)

YES BRO. i practice everyday in fortnite

Motivators is a word yeah

Endgame gives me life what’s your method bro ? I only listen

​@@cultofpunktionality3302 So: 1. Duolingo - haha jokes on u Ikenna - it helped my vocabulary a lot. I`ve done one third ish so far. But I`m not rushing myself 2. I`m watching this channel: ru-vid.com/show-UCIdFcLCIJQ_YMrormG_nU8w Somehow, it is pretty easy to understand her, not like other native speakers, so it`s great for begginers (aka: ME). Another good suggestion: SuperHolly ( ru-vid.com ) - but its not that easy to understand her. Always when I`m taking a shower I turn on the video to listen passively. 3. languagetransfer ( www.languagetransfer.org/free-courses-1 ). Ikenna talked about this in one of his episodes. It`s pretty cool - helped with understanding tenses in Spanish 4. My current main resource: Rocket Spanish I`ve bought a course for 110$ (it seems like a lot maybe, but the course is very professional so I enjoy every lesson) I tried stuff like `300 hundred most common words` but its not effective, cause I had problems with putting the words into the right context. I never rush myself. I am doing my best to learn something new every day, but it doesnt necessarily mean that I`m learning new words every day, because it would be tiring for my brain and I dont want to lose my enthusiasm to this language. I wanted to mention something else but I forgot. ok, I remember now lol There is a book `Włam się do mózgu` - which translates as `Break into your brain`. Its about learning methods, mostly remembering. Learning through associations - that`s how I do it, for example: puedo oír - I can hear. I already knew the word `puedo`, but how to remember `oír`? It`s like `Rio`(de janeiro) backwards, and that`s how I rememberd this word. bonito - pretty. I rememberd that cause Shawn Mendes alter ego is Benito. so: bonito - pretty --- Benito - Shawn Mendes (Shawn is pretty) simple math Being bilingual is also helpful while learning new words, for example: boleto - ticket - it doesnt seem similar at all. But in my native language `ticket` is `bilet`. So... boleto - bilet - looks pretty similar (I guess) And of course there are tons of words in English which are similar to spanish ones like: importante, estudiar etc. So I highly recommend beeing bilingual while learning a new language My biggest issue is writing in spanish, but first I`m focusing on understanding and speaking Sorry for writing so much. Love Siga practicando!

@@subtolifeoflukeandkellybec2219 I also use duolingo for vocabulary but I still can't remember most of the word I am learning. When I was learning english it was easy since I was exposing myself to it eaveryday but with Spanish is different

When you get 異世界’d into another world, and you become an apple

@@Acro_LangLearn reasonable🤔

Ryan Satterfield same here. The struggle is REAL

Gute Wahl

VATI ICH MÖCHTE KÄSE

I have learned German before and now I am learning Chinese. How is it going for you?

Bestimmt kannst du nach 3 Jahren die Sprache sehr gut