For the question in the description, I don't want to spend the time trying to count each time a clip is shown (not to mention trying to tell shows/films apart) so I'll just guess 40 - one unique title for every day of the month. Am I anywhere close?
I'm gonna come back to this because guess what... I don't even know. I haven't actually checked but it must be somewhere close to that, so if it is... then that's amazing. I was thinking about running a competition with an actual prize, but the practicality of actually delivering the prize was tricky so maybe sometime in the future.
UPDATE: So, I have pinned this, even though, it is (annoyingly for me) ONE off being correct. The answer is 39... and if I'd considered the 40 thing you mentioned, I would have intentionally made it that. But you were closer than ME with your guess! Because when I read 40 I was like "Nah it's like 25 or something..." Even I didn't realise that I'd included 39 movies here haha. EDIT: It's still technically 39 but Ryan George is almost big enough to be considered "mainstream". I said RU-vid videos didn't count but yeah... I want to find that extra one haha. Amazing guess!
@@daysandwords informative and entertaining vid as always, Lamont. Can only begin to think how much work went into the editing alone. Is there one place you source the TV and film clips?
@@daysandwords Yeah that's pretty funny, you really should have just added another film in there to make 40. Also it appears I'm the only one who read the description - maybe more people would have seen it if you put it above all the affiliate links?
@@austin4768 "The Gentlemen" was supposed to be in there but the file wasn't working. So it's kind of amazing that without even counting, I actually did have 40.
I agree with what you said about the length of a month. We aren't good at it. That's why my month is 2 years long. I'm learning Spanish and in a month, I hope to be fluent!
@@daysandwords Have you seen how Ikenna says he has been learning a language (like Spanish) for a couple months, when in reality he uploaded his first Spanish video years ago? But of course, he is actually talking about "active learning", a really neat trick to lie and get away with it.
This is definitely one of your best videos yet! As a working, married parent, I often fantasize about how much faster I could learn my target language if I had more time and fewer responsibilities. I love how you take this absurd goal of learning a language in a month and break down the process that it would take to come close to achieving it. By the end, you've convinced, I think, most of us that it wouldn't be very much fun after all! Lol. We certainly wouldn't have time to watch your entertaining, thought-provoking videos! 😄I do wish I could find 4 hours per day, though. 🙃
There is an obsession with learning a language perfectly and quickly. Languages should be enjoyed for themselves and part of embracing a culture and way of life for that country. Each time I go to my language study it is like visiting an old friend. It should be enjoyable. Lets not forget that. That could mean 1 hour or 10 hours( if the latter is for you but not for many). Stop comparing ourselves to others online. I suppose that is social media all over though.
@@exposingfakepolyglotyoutub5007 ha ha, wow you sound completely un hinged, good grief. I just checked out one of your videos, and what is any of it to you? Literally MOST people who charge money for their efforts are helping others, in some way, while ALSO receiving money for it. The two are not mutually exclusive. My teachers do, my cleaning lady does, the guy whose cafe I go to, and so do polyglots who have created websites/teaching materials/apps. If somebody purports to speak 20 languages, they will OBVIOUSLY be at different levels of proficiency, that goes without saying, only a brain dead moron would assume otherwise.
Definitely. Life in itself is a journey and most of the things we do in our lives are in order to reach a particular goal. The best thing we can do is make sure that we are enjoying the journey to reach that goal.
@@Wandering.Homebody "only a brain dead moron would assume otherwise". Well, meet "Exposing Fake Polyglots", the most brain dead moron in the history of brain dead morons. His response when he found my two hour livestream with Svenska med Kalle was to argue ON VIDEO that we had scripted the whole thing. Oh he also says that Luca Lampariello is American. 🤣
Great video as always! Input based language learning community did a great job of showing the importance of immersion. But what I believe is, neglecting the output could be even "damaging" after a certain point. Take me as an example, I am C1 at English with years of immersion and yet I have been struggling to write this basic comment. I know people who speak more fluently and write much better than me with less immersion time compared to mine. The thing is I never practice output, I don't even want to practice output and that is the result. I think, more detailed videos, strategies on output practice could bring so much value and motivation for the learners. This is what we are lacking.
Sadly there's fairly strong evidence that the brain actually takes time outside of your learning time to think and re-think what you have learned...for example if you only do 1 hour per day..and so reach 600 hours in 600 days, every night your brain has time to think, re-process, re-think, even dream about what you have encountered for example, so i'd be very surprised if the results from a 40 day brain cramming binge where you flood your brain with say 6-8000 new words were anything similar to a 600 1hr day accumulation
learning and forgetting and then relearning. its all part of the cycle. how the brain is able to encode information into long term memory is important for language learning i think. 30 or 40 days is not enough to encode enough words to have them have instant recognition and recall in LTM
Wasn’t that his whole point at the end? It seemed like to me he was trying to attract people who click the “learn a language in a month” videos and slowly persuade them why it’s a silly idea.
Exactly! Personally I don’t see why some people want to rush language learning. It’s a long and difficult process, and the process is the fun part of it, not actually knowing the language. Unless you have a deadline of some sort, most of us can afford spending years on it, I guess it just seems like a scary commitment.
@@nickbowerman4028 Lamont said it was 'possible, but not probable' to acihieve a B2 level in 40 days, but he also said that using fewer hours per day, and a longer period of time, your knowledge would be higher than the 'technical B2' level. He clearly stated that the 'quick fixes' for learning a language aren't ideal. Who has 15 hours a day to spend learning a language, anyway? He said that four hours a day in a 100 days will probably get you further than 15 hours for 40 days, even though it's less hours total. The first thing Lamont told us in this video was the difference between 'possible' and 'probable'. It's possible for me to climb Mount Everest, but it sure as heck isn't probable that it'll happen!
This is a great video, Lamont! I'm in the long slog from B2 to C1 in Spanish. This has inspired me to attempt and track 2 hours per day in order to get there in a year.
If people only put as much effort and as many hours into learning a language as they put into reducing xp-waste in RuneScape, everyone would be fluent by now. 0:53 Livakivi reference 😎
You asked me about whether it takes a long time to set up the camera etc and film talking head A-roll and I think I said it evens out, or that it takes quite a while... but having just done my first Livakivi style video (all movie clips etc.)... ooof, filming A roll is faster haha.
@@daysandwords I know what you mean haha, seeing how many different clips you used, I did wonder how long it took to find all the relevant background footage. Great video btw!
that's awesome. I study a bit german everyday. Been doing it for almost 2 years or so. Since i never really study more than 20 minutes a day, you just gave me the idea to maybe during vacation work harder on learning german. Maybe study many, many hours so that I can learn the language faster. I really don't wanna be a b1 forever so I'll try to work harder during vacation so I can learn the language faster.
Great video! One factor that you briefly touched on is enjoyment. Doing 6+ hours of a language will likely lead to burnout or at least lack of motivation, in my opinion. You can learn a language in a month, but why would you want to, knowing how gruelling and unenjoyable it will get doing doing so many painful hours in one day? Plus these kind of efforts would affect sustainability and long term consistency. The long, slow, normal route (1-2 hours a day) over months and years will most likely give you a healthier mindset, a stronger drive to learn and can produce much better results than the super intense challenge of cramming it in one month. Like you said, it's POSSIBLE to learn a language in a month, but SHOULD you, is the question.
@@exposingfakepolyglotyoutub5007 There are definitely a lot of dishonest language channels on RU-vid. But I'm not sure why you would consider this to be one of them.
@@RocketBoyGames This guy has some serious issues. High anger and low intelligence are among them. Watch his videos and you will see that in 45 minutes he just says "liar fake polyglot scammer" like 170 times and THAT is his argument. (BTW: to give you a quick idea of the IQ we are talking about - he said that my TWO HOUR livestream with Svenska med Kalle was scripted. Like, yep, we wrote a script for a 2 hour chat in which there were bits that I said "Hmm, not sure if that Swedish is right..." and then Kalle said "Um, it sounds better to say this..." HAHAHA. Why would we script that part? THAT's how stupid this guy is. Also his English is hilariously bad, yet it is ME who is faking this whole thing...) Oh and he doesn't allow comments on his channel because then he might have to face reality.
@@exposingfakepolyglotyoutub5007 Threaten your life? That was YOU who did that. Holy crap your memory is bad too. Remember how you dressed up in an ape suit and waved a knife around and said you were going to hunt us down? But then RU-vid doesn't allow death threats so the videos got taken down? Yeah... I remember it. In fact I saved the videos... You're a loser dude. Keep making your stupid videos. Just don't hurt anyone.
@@exposingfakepolyglotyoutub5007 "You cried about it and made a drama about it". When? Where? Show me this evidence of me making a drama about something? I did not do any of that. So you know what you are? A liar. You have become everything you said you would destroy: A fake liar and scammer. The only thing that you'll never become is a polyglot because you suck at languages so much.
The main problem with the FSI numbers, if you want to generalize out of English, is that English doesn't have any SISTER language (with maybe the exception of Scots). The closer languages, like Dutch, French, Danish or German are cousins (maybe of second grade). With other cluster of actual SISTER languages, is it possible to learn a language 0-B2 in just a 40 days' month if you spend over 6 hours every day (better if you do about 10). I've done it and saw many people doing it while I was in an Erasmus exchange and with foreign students, as long as Mother and target language were romance languages. I bet this also happens with the western Slavic languages or among the eastern Slavic languages.
This is such a fun video! I almost couldn't listen to your message as I was too busy enjoying all the clips. But you've reasonably distilled modern self-language-learning ! I also enjoy experimenting with different methods and techniques for the different languages i learn. And of course a sensible conclusion. Great stuff!!
Wow, this is great. I've been pondering lately what I could do if I had the time to completely immerse in a language (i.e. not having to work for a living). I'd doing lots of immersion in Japanese but its excruciatingly slow (for me), and I keep wondering if I'd do so much better in an 'easier' language. But anyway, lots of good food for thought in this.
@@gluehfunke1547 I agree - Japanese is so fundamentally different from European languages that it really needs a different approach. Trying to break it down to grammar components just won't work - really intense immersion is needed to be able to speak even quite simple 'natural' Japanese. And of course immersion is very hard when you need to learn all those alphabets. I calculate that I've done about 1000 hours with the language but I'm nowhere near a comfortable intermediate level yet. I guess the good news is that every language will seem simple after this. If I survive it!
@@gluehfunke1547 Yes, I know what you meant, I just expressed myself badly. My experience so far is that you need both - grammar and kanji with lots of immersion of very specifically relevant material to what you are learning.
Wow Lamont! Very well thought out and brilliantly produced! After a pretty difficult breakup March last year, I dropped language learning altogether. 2 weeks ago, I started with French and been catching up on all your vids. Getting right back into it. Might be a fun idea to breakdown some of films you had clips of here and breakdown their core message(s) and how they can be applied to language learning maybe? Like Limitless, or how they don't apply and give a false narrative on learning/acquisition. Anyway loved to hear Glasgow being namedropped, we are eternally salty for not being the official capital. Much love. Gaun' yersel'
I am not a big fan of Anki, but I understand the value of spaced repetition. One problem I always have is knowing a word but being unable to recall it. So, yes, learning is hard to define.
for me, anki is more of a tool to keep uselful vocab in my subconscious. when the word actually comes up in my immersion and I know I should know the word but are not able to recall it, the real learning takes place when I look it up again and then go "AHHH YEAHHH RIGHT". After that, I most likely acquired it
That's why you don't do Native Language to Target Language cards. Only target language to native language cards - if you know the word you just move on, if not or if you hesitate, you press again, don't use any other buttons except "1" or "space"
Taking the concept of periodization of training but applying it to Language Learning. Basically ensuring you get a sufficient amount of volume over a defined period of time. It would really be interesting to compare the results of 600 hours compressed in different time frames like 3 or 6 months.
The attention to detail in this video is ridiculous. Right down to the flippant way you reeled off your name at the end. Feels a bit like listening to an intricately designed symphony, watching this. Always a treat watching your stuff. Thank you.
This was a fantastic (albeit slightly passive aggressive) video essay haha. Are you doing a less insane version of this process for all the languages your dabbling in? Would be great to get an update!
I loved this video. The choice of music and the frantic pace really convey the urgency and sense of desperation of trying to learn a language in 40 days. I listened the video without watching it and it seriously reminded me of the monologues in Fight Club, the first one especially, and when I went to re-watch it, sure enough, Ed Norton was there. Well done, sir.
awesome video, great editing, presentation and story telling. Knowing you and your content, I guess this was more of a thought experiment rather than an acutal guide (and you kind of said so at the end by pointing out that this is not a realistic thing to do), but I think its good to say to the "language-noobs" out there that wanting to learn a language in a month is the wrong approach. After a month like that, you will most likely hate your target language and, as a consequent, stop learning. Think about the long run, take your time, enjoy the process, dont burn out by overdoing it (I tend to do that myself tho). But dont go too mediocre either, you will never reach a pleasant niveau with 10 minutes a day.
I can actually see this being possible *under certain conditions*. The most important one being that the language you're trying to learn is very similar to one you already know. The other condition is that you basically spend your entire life focused on learning, 8 hours a day, like a full time job. To give an example of a case where a language can be learned much more rapidly than normal, I'll point to my personal experience with the entire family of Romance languages. For the last year and a half, I've been studying Spanish, but in the last three or so months, I've started putting time into other related languages. To my surprise, I was able to understand both Italian and Catalan at a low intermediate level after only a few hours of listening input! Portuguese and French were a bit harder to get to this point, but still much, much easier than my original experience with Spanish. The reason this worked like this isn't some great breakthrough in learning technique or prodigious ability, but simply a reflection on how closely related this family of languages is. With the partial exception of French, they're very nearly all the same language, just with very strong regional dialects. We native English-speakers don't really have a good comparison, since there simply aren't any other languages suffiently close to English. But to get a good impression of what an Italian speaker sounds like to a Spanish speaker, we might look at the Middle English used by Chaucer, or listen to some rural Scottish accent that's so strong that you can barely understand them. Mangled, but ultimately recognizable.
I'm happy somehow you mentioned Uzbek is hard to learn in a month. I agree with you, we have a little bit of a tricky language but I can assure you that if you understand Turkish, you definitely understand Uzbek. Informative video though, thank you. Keep it up.
Man... You really deserve more subscribers... What a crazy effort that video must have been to make. Thanks again for the content I really know to appreciate that, just became a patreon supporter.
This is an amazing video. Just out of curiosity, I would seriously try this if I could, but until I retire, it probably won't happen. Lol! But yeah, disciplning oneself to study daily/regularly while being able to enjoy the learning process and rest enough in between lessons is definitely the better way to go.
I would love to have the time to try it out, I think I would struggle with the "repeting sentences" part though, this sounds quite boring. I really loved the editing btw, awesome video!!! 😎
hehehe that is pretty cool :D btw, I participated in two episodes with Oskar at his podcast recently, it was pretty cool! Now I really want to focus on entonation and pronounciation :). Swedish is so much fun!!!
This is probably one of your best videos. And the average video on your channel is already very good. I feel like Lingvist would be a very suitable resource for this kind of challenge. It's time-effective, and from my experience, using it really feels like "grinding". I have not used it intensively, though.
One of your best videos to date Lamont! Your channel is a hidden gem on RU-vid, thanks for making content like this...this is the inspiring "rah-rah" stuff I love!
The Spike - the speed at which you learn increases greatly. Absolutely true, but you still hit an intermediate plateau, which lasts different times for different people. How does that work? At 14:20 'At this stage you're not going for a perfectionist accent', and Steve Kaufman gets edited into the video. A bit mean?? There is a huge amount of gold in this video I will have to watch it several times to catch it all.
Another great vid. Speaking the truth again and I like the math component. My Spanish "being comfortably understood while understanding" percentage is close to 60 and I've recently started to stack French. As you state, got to learn more of the language first. I tried a couple of conversations with native French speakers and essentially locked up. One gent "LanguageLords" has posted 3 vids on the immersive approach he took over the course of a month to achieve a decent level of fluency in French and then 1 vid for Spanish (same but in 44 days). They're worth a look, again, no BS, just show the grind....
Unfortunately they are actually BS. I could show my evidence as to why (in a video) but it basically comes down to him disappearing for 6 months and then saying "I learned Spanish in 44 days". 44 days or 180 days?
@@daysandwords Yes, I did catch that as well, and odd that he hasn't posted anything else demonstrating his retention of or progress in either language. What I meant by no BS was that the vids showed the time and effort involved. I do think the process he demonstrated was decent, but agree that the cited timeframe and his level of proficiency were off. It's one thing to be able to recall and recite one's own story, a parlor trick of sorts. Now try holding a conversation with a native speaker about various past, present, and future events, not so easy for the one-trick-ponies..........
what a joy to watch and feel the movie references... you know a way with a cinematic language too, sir! i just found your channel, but i love it already
So is this a good plan for a 4 hrs/day learning. Broke it up into 1hr chunks since learning happens in the brain during breaks. 1hr (Speakly/practice/learn) --- [ 8hrs job ] --- 1hr (practice/learn) --- [2hrs break] ---- 1hr (practice/learn) ---- [ 2hrs break] ---- 1hr (practice/learn) ---- 8hrs (sleep) Repeat everyday for 5-6 months. Maybe can do more on weekends.
this is literally one of lamonts best videos information wise (especially the ending) and production/editing wise , the overall quality is amazing this should blow up
Thank you very much! Unfortunately I think I got a few things wrong tactically in terms of getting it to blow up, and I'm still thinking about what to make the thumbnail to give me a second shot at that.
Congrats on the amazing video - easily in the top 3 most impressive vids I've seen on this channel! The premise of the video is obviously pretty gimmicky (not judging just saying), and while this is very entertaining and makes for great clickbait, I do feel there's real value in asking a question like "how fast could someone learn a language operating at the absolute limits of human ability", even when doing so is utterly unrealistic, but I'm struggling to articulate it. Maybe it's just that it's inspiring to think "if a superhuman with no other responsibilities could get fluent in a (lamont) month, then if I can just do 25 percent of what the superhuman does, then I'll be fluent in four (lamont) months". Thoughts anyone?
Yeah I mean you nailed it when you guessed the intention. Basically, I think a percentage of people are going to click on videos with stupid titles like this, so there might as well be some of those videos that are actually good.
12 hours a day sounds like a hard grind. I have all the hours I wish over the winter, and I find it hard to push past 5 or 6 hours in a day. On a lighter note, I finally had my first italki lesson and immediately booked a couple more, then found an språkcafe session to join. I mostly just need real practice now!
i think 12 hours is doable for a day, maybe two, but at some point cramming without any joy or pleasure causes such a dopamine depletion that i can feel depressed and angsty. the idea that you only do one non pleasurable thing like studying new knowledge per day is only possible if its a Saw situation where you die if you fail at the task.
Even in this perfect world that Lamont setup learning a language in 30 days seems near impossible in reality I think it would be almost impossible just because of the mental drain it would put on you
I thought you were gonna say a month could be construed as 30 days having 720 hours, which would take some people, even with consistent effort, about 2 years.
Thanks for laying this out so clearly. What do you recommend for finding comprehensible input for languages where it’s not readily available? I’m struggling to find it for my target language (Tamil). I’ve found some children’s videos but it’s very limited outside of India. I’d love to hear your thoughts on this.
What I found interesting about A1, A2, B1, and B2 is that, when I took the leveling test for Danish, because I know some Norwegian, I was able to get to B2 in reading, BUT! I actually found A2 and B1 questions and exercises more difficult because the vocabulary and the situations were more everyday (so could be a bit different from what you're used to), rather than the material you find in B2, which is more the kind of stuff you'd encounter in newspapers or in standardized reading comprehension tests. The "higher-level" material is actually easier because there is a lot of shared vocabulary with the languages you already know, and the topics are also arguably more familiar.
"BUT! I actually found A2 and B1 questions and exercises more difficult because the vocabulary and the situations were more everyday (so could be a bit different from what you're used to..." Yes, this is the same with English to French. French C2 looks closer to English C2 than A1 does. And it's also why I can't understand Danish people talking to me but I can read Danish novels OK.
@@daysandwords I wonder if there could be a different skill grading scheme based on what parts of the language you can use. Perhaps, being able to read a kids' book, read a dialog from a movie (and what kind of movie?), or read an article in a newspaper shouldn't be placed on a one-dimensional scale. For example, in Italian, I can more or less comfortably listen to the audiobook about Togliatti and Stalin. But also, last night, I picked up a children's book in Italian that's been lying around my house for years (it was my husband's when he was little), and it turned out it’s perfect for my level and suitable for listening to over and over and memorizing. I’d say, it’s on the level of a Hans Christian Andersen story like The Little Match Girl. It's called /Alessandro e il topo meccanico/, and I finally read it and found videos of people reading it out loud, and I made a vocabulary list out of the words I didn't know (and it was exactly 1 notebook page's worth).
Ha, "or read an article in a newspaper shouldn't be placed on a one-dimensional scale." Yep. In the video that I shot last week and am literally editing TODAY, I said that the A1-C2 scale is a "two dimensional metric of a 50 dimensional skill".
Honestly it's more like a 1 dimensional measure, but I used "2 dimesional" because that's often thought of as being "flat" and having no depth (which is mathematically true). My maths also doesn't check out though because it's really a 1-dimensional measure, although I could argue that reading/listening vs writing/speaking were the two dimensions... But of course just saying "B2" doesn't cover that.
5:00 Also the very very big, often-missed caveat of FSI rankings is that it's X many hours if you **HAVE ABOVE AVERAGE CAPABILITY FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING**
What a fantastic video, Lamont, sur la forme Et le fond... on dirait une symphonie en format vidéo essay.. Speaking of music, I assume you yourself applied twosetviolin's ling ling 40 hours a day practice method to produce such an oeuvre ? Art, humour and a coherent sense of logic.. worth rewatching for sure
I think the clip from Inception of them drawing the concentric circles must be a callback to Nathaniel Drew's diagram and I'm here for the passive aggression lol
Hello Lamont, it's the one who thinks you're brilliant again here. Apart from Catalan, I am now going daily after a few other very low hanging fruit languages (bloody similar / lived there as a kid / 7 years at school..) You really do stress the need for rest here at one point. Please, tell my stubborn ass a bit more, I believe I truly need to hear it. Is it just common sense speaking through you here, or something more? You sound so convinced. I have even started streaming scientific lectures in my target language in my >falling asleep
@@exposingfakepolyglotyoutub5007 I clicked on a random video of yours. The one about Steve Kaufmann. 20:16 Your endlessly illiterate ass says "He DO this in every language". For almost 25 years I have been telling my students there is no more appalling English error than the 3rd person -s error. "Pathetic" does not even start to describe what you are. The one that does not have to be exposed is you. It's all out there already.
@@autentyk5735 He is the most incredible combination of stupid and negative that I've ever seen. Some people are stupid, some people are negative. Most people are not both in these amounts. But yeah, this guy is.
@@daysandwords Insane. How long ago did you guys become aware of his existence? He doesn't, and will never realize that no one would ever bat an eyelid over his ____ (insert inexistent word). If anything, a stalker situation like this can only further validate you all who happen to be in the limelight. You've made it to that level. Congrats!!
@@autentyk5735 I think Luca told me about him like 6 or 7 months ago. He found me because I commented on Language Come Up's video about the Fake Polyglot Exposer guy. I actually hoped he'd do a video about me, and it was indeed as stupid as I had imagined and more.
Yes. B2 should cover almost all grammar and a lot of words. 'Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for either party.' 40% is a strain. 40% is B1. I regard C1 as B2 done properly. You do the same stuff at C1 as you do at B2, but flowingly. Fluently, if you will. C1 says 'Can express ideas fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions.' At B2 you have to search for expressions, but you will find them eventually. At C1, you find them straight away.
Nup. I am going to try to be brief (there were literally paragraphs cut from this video) but the key word you're downplaying is COMFORTABLY. When I say comfortably comprehensible 40% of the time, I mean that for 4 out of every 10 seconds, you can be in total autopilot. This is actually a very high standard. I am an easy C1 in Swedish, although I'm still nearer to B2 than I am to C2, if you get me... but anyway I am a C1 and I am only comfortably saying my stuff about 80-85% of the time. That means that 10-15% of the time I might say the right thing or get my point across, but I had that moment of "hm, wait... I guess you could say this? Do they say that?" I am not saying a B2 student can only understand 40% of what they hear. They probably understand 97% of what they hear, but that other 57% has the brain turning over at high revs. People can question this all they like but I have felt it, measured and seen it. I have had English students who are doing a university degree in teaching or something, in English, and they would measure C1 on an English test, but at least 10% of the time, you see their brain revving higher. They can do it... they can keep up with everything I say... but I am like a racing car compared to their Toyota. A B2 student is like a Toyota that has dropped a cylinder. Again, they CAN keep up but it's tough, it's going to wear them out.
Great video, which I watched with a smile on my face. And after the video I saw a thumbnail of a 1 month challenge in Spanisch. I smiled because despite nearly all of what you have said is questionable, except the 40 day/month of course, but the thing is: if you are wrong, in the most cases it get's worse and not better for the people who wants to be fluent in one month. I only critizise your photo of day 32. You look way to fresh and well rested after 31 15h study days . :D I also use B2 as rule of thumb for fluency. But as any other rules of thumb, it has its exceptions.
5:05 Georgian is easier than German? The verbs are a horror show wrapped up in another horror show and then set on fire. Split ergativity is just the beginning.
Yeah those videos are complete garbage. For starters, they are just a very easily made summary of information already out there, but in this case... they're not even remotely close to correct.
Well I think you mean Nextory but it's not very multilingual, they only have Swedish, English and Finnish. Storytel really is very multilingual. The language to sign up in that gives you the most OTHER languages in Finnish. It gives you 6: Finnish, English, Swedish, Russian, Spanish, Italian.
Around 5:40 seconds there was a time for Croatian and for Bosnian. For Croatian it said 3.7 years and for Bosnian it said 4.1 years. Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian and Montenegrian are the same language which are now called differently for political reason. All of these languages are actually Serbo-Croatian.
Hello, Mr swedish man. I'm trying to learn French because I'm going to have a couple of French students this summer at my job. What is your advice for someone trying to learn French?
Interesting video. I've been focusing on Korean with the plan to go to Japanese one day because I want a job in Japan but things have been locked down so long I have waited. I thought I'd just wait until things open and the job I want starts hiring again then I would switch to Japanese because if hired I would have 6 months before going over I could study hardcore and get paid to do do but I have been feeling anxious and decided I will start now and if I can get intermediate by the time of an interview then I will be a more attractive candidate then in the next 6 months I can work on getting to a good conversational fluency. That's my plan. Maybe the job won't exist post covid or I wont get chosen but no downside to uploading new language skills :D
I don't know if you have made a video about it yet. I'm debating if I should try to learn at the same time two relative similar languages or if it's better learning one and then the other. What do you think about it?
learning a language is wrong, you need to integrate it! watch manga in japanese with sub in the language you want to learn for 1 hour then watch a 1 hour of a film in vo and the sub of your choice , then read lot of word and don't learn them just read them until you are able to recognize some in the anime and movie you have been watching , the next step is starting to read, it's the most importante step because its the most difficult, find a comics in language of your choice start reading and look in the dictionnaire every word and expressions you don't understand, this will make you learn faster to avoid loosing time searching everytime for translation. now you are ready to practice , go in a bar get 2 beer start speaking
What sources do you get vocabulary from in your target language? I spend most of my time trying to gather vocab and looking for words to learn...rather than actually learning them.
@@daysandwords It's for French, but soon also Spanish and Swedish. I suppose books are a good source, though I feel like it leaves me lacking in certain areas (ie I'd have to read dozrns of books to get a well rounded vocabulary).
I don't think it is going to be any useful to force yourself to study 15h a day for 40 days. The time spent between study sessions is super useful; yet alone the concept of spaced repetition wouldn't work if you were to just speed it up. Your subconscious mind would in fact keep processing the language when you're not studying. I've learnt three Category I/II foreign languages in two years each, spending about five hours a week learning them (and achieved B2 in all of them). That's 500 hours in total, per language. I don't think I would have managed that much if I forced myself to study that much over the span of "one" month or so. Alone because I believe I actually spent much more than those 500 hours, because anytime I've been idly thinking, I had this mindset of "what is it called in X language". Possibly even when not sleeping, my subconscious may have continued figuring out the language I was occupied with. However, there is one thing we agree with each other on: your video's description: "...With this insane method. Pain is guaranteed. Success is not."
I haven't practiced French for like 2 or 3 years. By practice I mean never really listened to anything or read in the language. When I went back to it, first I remembered some words but then I realized that maybe my comprehension is even better than it was before. Though my speaking and writing are terrible as I translate thoughts from English to French so it's like more Fringlish
I have only tried Pimsleur for Swedish and I'll give you my thoughts on the whole: - The most unnatural conversations I've heard in ANY language learning program EVER. Like a 10 minute discussion about the square meterage of one's kitchen. - Very prescriptive, i.e. "You need to do it this way in order for it to work." Hmm, strange because many people have done it totally differently and it worked fine. - Worrying affiliate programs. I say worrying because there is a very very strong correlation between how much companies will pay people to advertise their product and how much of a scam that product is. Skillshare is one example, the recent bust FTX is another. Suffice to say that I could have done basically one video for Pimsleur and not worked ALL YEAR (assuming enough people used my free trial link... but I would have been paid whether they became a customer or not. That's pretty incentivising.)
Yeah but that's just it. No one is going to click on a video that says "An indepth explanation of language learning over 6 years" when there is a video that says "How to learn a language in a month", so this video is the former disguised as the latter.
i'm going to do 10 to 14 hours a day for the next year. TL : French Current level : pretty damn BAD , hardly understand 3 words each minute ( still not used to the phonetic system). i'll come back to this comment after a year.
