How to learn a language in 1 year 

I'm looking for testers. I'm developing Fluent Falcon, an app for learning languages using audio flashcards: fluentfalcon.com/. It will be released soon, but I need some language learners to test it. Apply here to become a tester: forms.gle/WQpWb5L3nhZbKEj69 Thanks!

Native French speaker who sounds so American...? Bro. Your accent is what I want to achieve in my TL one day. Holy crap. Well done.

what I've experienced so far as a learner is that the most important criterion in learning a language is continuity. Actually, learning a language depends on many different factors like age, intelligence, will, goal, and many other factors. and I believe is not achievable in just one year. of course, you mentioned that fluency meanings differ from one to another and it's really true. this is a process that needs steadiness and a good method of learning. "slow and steady wins the race".

Loïs, SO grateful for this video. Wise guidance!

ohhhh im so thrilled for your tool this is going to change language learning forever. thanks mate

I like your science-based approach and the way you present it. Thanks a lot❤

As an ESL learner, I work hard despite challenges. Your video is truly inspiring and gives me hope. I found out about Immersive Translate from RU-vid comments and am eager to try it for improvement.

Excited to use this as I strive towards mastery of conversational Dutch

Kinda wild that this is the exact solution I ended up arriving at after decades of failing at learning languages and years of looking into how to learn languages lol. I've settled on 20 vocab words a day with grammar study, including audio on everything, and study whole sentences too. Since I'm learning Japanese I found renshuu meets my needs for this perfectly.

I hope you release it soon .

I’m about to finish up Pimsleur French. I really like the format and structure. Will language falcon be similar? If not do you have a recommendation for something similar to Pimsleur? Merci

One thing I started doing after becoming advanced was shadowing the same thing over and over but never looking at the transcript and just imitating the same sounds over and over again and I think it has really helped my pronunciation

I love your accent both in French and English mashaallah 😍

I just started learning n being surrounded with this gorgeous language 5 months ago ig, N I can say that Im in progress regarding the four essential skills.

Definitely ready for fluent falcon

I love hearing your french accent in the whole video but especially in this 13:08 ❤ Greetings from Argentina

really love your sound and subcribed your chanel, I hope my english will be better in 1 year. thanks

Hi this is my first time watching your videos and i should say that you are doing a great job, thanks for it and my goal is be as fluent as you also your pronunciation and accent are my favrite

Question: when you say watch without subtitles, do you mean turn off native language subtitles or turn off all subtitles, even in target language? Cuz in Japanese, I feel like it’s wasted to turn off Japanese subtitles when learning since it simultaneously lets you associate meanings to the kanji and also because of how contextual the language is (to the point that most Japanese TV utilizes hard coded subtitles with effects and for emphasis.). At the very least it helps me parse words and understand context before then trying it without.

Hi there, excited for your product. I've signed up for your wait-list. I'm pretty experienced with audio SRS systems having spent many hours on Pimsleur and glossika, as well as non-SRS audio sources like language transfer and FSI. Happy to give feedback when the tool launches.

Your English fluency in addition to evidence based, well research strategies puts you far above many others in the same online niche. I'm very inspired to keep going.

New sub here. I just finished a course on Primsleur and pulled up this video. I was a bit intimidated by the course but now prefer the listening style.

Thank you for your effort Sir

Good breakdown and very real in its approach. I was curious in your approach but your link doesn't work.

Got it. Before watching this video, I always learn a new language by reading articles or news and look up unfamilar words meaning by using Immersive Translate. But next time I will try the method mentioned in this video.

What would you recommend to perfect accent? Is shadowing (repeating after natives and mimicking) enough? How do you know it’s correct?

Well done

The listening and read is the key for me... but listening and read with repetition and novelty. Doing it my english has improved very well, even without an english school. As time passes you can consume contents you like and your english learning will not be boring.

Lois, my biggest challenge is to become fluent in English and master the 4 skills of this language, at the moment I can hear well, but I can't speak this language well. I think your tips are valuable and I believe I'm on the right path to achieving my goal.

Every teacher keeps saying watching movies in the target language, but I think it's the hardest thing to do it's like main boss to overcome

Je viens de découvrir votre chaine and lt's just wonderful, thanks for the. Video

Thank you for this informative video, Loïs. As a French learner myself, I would love to have this level of fluency one day. Un vrai défi ! But besides your impressive English, the info you gave was really helpful. I agree that a lot of online language learners make the process seem easy; however, they don't always show the grueling process of listening non-stop to TL content and the time it takes to learn new vocabulary. Do you have any experience with Glossika? I recently subscribed to it for C1 French and some beginning Russian. I lost my motivation to continue with Anki and wanted an all-in-one audio + sentence structure, which Glossika seems to provide. Lastly, as a native English speaker (American English), I just wanted to help out and say that when it comes to the word "motivation" -- think of the first "o" as the sound of "eau" rather than "à". Your English is absolutely amazing and I'm about to binge-watch your other videos! Great info. Merci beaucoup. About to join the waitlist for Fluent Falcon.

Mashallah thanks

14.00 Repetition is boring and some people think that will take so much time to master a decent level of language for speaking, at least daily usage. But, I am so glad that I've been more than a year learning French with Duo, accomplishing level A1 and working on A2 level. Now, I am taking course in Udemy starting from 0 and it makes me easier to follow the lesson, even better! Now, I am pursuing my B1 Level for this year in Duo, and hopefully finishing B1 level from Udemy course. And, I am gong to take conversation class next year to get myself comfortable with speaking in French! InsyaAllah

Thank you. I enjoyed your Lecture… of which i also have learned a lot. I’m going now to look for the space repetition system apps .

I study English every single day, because my studies of English doesn't depend of my motivation, I just include in my daily routine. It's suck sometimes, but I naturally wake up, turn on my laptop and starting study. And sorry for my English, I'm not advanced yet, but I'm working on it.

Great Video . I just subscribed

the website is not accessible it tells me that its trying to steal my private info... how can I sign in?

The website from your descripcion doesn't work anymore,does it?

Is there a accent course you advise or recommend it bro?

My mother language is kurdish and i live in Denmark and born in Türkiye. İm 48 years old and not fluent in kurmanji because i speak a variant that isnt written so i can only learn if with my people. There are 5000 dialects in kurdish and is a cousin to Farsi a language easy for me to learn and also Dari. Kurdish is also not only dialects but very different languages. Not like danish, swedish, norwegian. Or turkic languages. İn school i didnt listen to german, and spanish was too hard but french was easy for me. İ remember all i learned in the two hours i had french. Today i only learn Arabic. İ use earphones now and youtube playlists to learn also Modern Standard Arabic that will make it easy for me learn a dialect. İ love the idea of flashcards, İ wish i had a box full of them and some in my pocket all the time, that i can read when not listening. İ havent opened a book yet other than the Quran, that i almost understand all words of. Dont aak how i learned. İt was so easy learn MSA i kept on learning so fast. And i have tons of good cartoons with subtitles, only a matter of time before i become good. İ have lists of vocaboulary, i gathered books to study. İ see arabs all the time i can practice on and the teachers here are very kind. İ also have arabic keyboard, i even know how to write in classic arabic only have to press the dot. Writing is very important in Arabic, or nowadays typing.. İ need to think in arabic not in latin. Then im somewhere. İ need to focus on words, many words, its said a muslim learned Syrianic in 14 days. İ try learn arabic mostly by turkish teachers then i learn two languages at the same time. Finally i would like learn ottomanic

Great video! Really appreciate the advice! Do you by chance know where we can find these free anki decks?

I hope you make it work for arabic and persian

I would have never known you were not a native English speaker until you said the word motivation. 😜amazing job!!!!!🎉🎉🎉

I have been going back n forth between the tradisional-learning based to acquisition-based when teaching. Kindly reinforce my inclination toward the acquisition based approaches. The thing is my environment in Indonesia is still heavily tradisional, grammar based thinking n practicing.

Hi there. I would like to share my experiences in English. I ave known a lot of English words but when it comes to watch movies I have a problem. Because I do not understsnd linki words or they use the phrases which si have never heard before. I can watch tv news or about politician but I still struggle with it. 😊

Quantas você aprendeu?

Amazing command of American English for neing non-native. Only thing I couldn't understand at first was your pronunciation of "motivation".

Great vid

🎉🎉

When will fluent falcon be launched?

Hello, löis. I have to be honest but you speak very well my friend, congratulations your English is very good.

My girlfriend is a native French woman she learned to speak English on her one by watching TV in English and imitating English speakers. She never read an English book or did any grammar. To date, she can't read in English and can only write a few words yet she is extremely fluent in English and can have a conversation on any topic. If you just want to be conversational in a language a lot of the advice given on the internet is great but all of it is not necessary

Why I didn't find this video before 😅😂? Thank you so much 🤝

00:01:00 i wouldn't have guessed you were from France or it was your first language 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

It is pretty interesting video, hovewer i forgot if you have mentioned up to which level it is possible to learn a language in one year?

Native English speaker here and Interestingly I’m very good at imitating sounds and words in other languages and my pronunciation of Korean is very good according to locals here and my teachers but I’ve never studied it and I don’t really watch any Korean dramas or movies however my listening comprehension skills are horribleeeee but my reading and writing are good ??? Lmao it’s so weird to me

Brazilian guy here: You did a great job, so good!

i'm a Japanese english biginer listening and reading most important rather than speaking? right?

The truth is that people who learn languages fast either are talented or have a lot of time to learn the language.

I understead a little this video ,I study English on 2 site and 1 book ,I know I am begginer but I spend too much time this topic maybe I need a regular program

I’m currently learning English, and frankly, I’ve been learning it my whole life and I am still on the B1 level, I understand almost everything I hear because I watch different English videos every single day (the reason for this is also that I am studying software development and therefore everything I watch and read is in English). But I am really bad at speaking and the problem is that I have NObody to speak with in English. No native speakers. No people who at least know how to speak English as I do. And you know, I almost gave up learning it cause I have some assumptions that I will never be able to speak English fluently until I live in an English-speaking country. That's really frustrating. (please If I have some mistakes, correct me, this will help me a lot)

How many language do you speak?i want to speak 5 language next 5 years and now i can speak two language

Hi,this is Nikhil Gautam,it's been 3 month's I seriously started learning English language,I am doing excellent infact I am already working on the three pillars you talked about which are like pronunciation,vocabulary,grammar.I daily learn 17 to 20 new common words in English language,I daily practice with diff video to improve fluency,I daily read novel for atleast 30 minutes.You are 100 percent right that learning new vocabulary is the most difficult task,it takes time,it takes energy,especially when you revisit all vocabulary from beginning.I played this video because I wanted to know to answer of few question how much time it will take me to reach level which I call "upper intermediate level",I also got to know that atleast how much words you need to know to understand basic English conversation and to have conversation in English language. Finally, if I have made grammatical mistakes, I am sorry from the bottom of my heart,I didn't do that intentionally.

Good english, and good accent

He possesses all the launguages I want to acquire lol

srs is gold

love from u pakistan

When I click on the link for Fluent Falcon, I keep getting an error message. :(

Does this app exist? Your link goes to a wait list and the website doesn't load. Kinda bummed out

Currently using Pimsleur (33 days) and rocket Spanish (63 days). Six lessons on italkie. Struggling still. Interested

Sir are those possible to do ? O my god within 7 days or 6 months become fluent .

Wow j’aurais jamais cru que tu étais francophone. Ton accent est incroyablement American

As steve kaufman says: language is not learned through grammar, grammar is learned to language.

I have a question. How is it possible to calculate how many words you know? I didn't count them even in my native language.

Hi! Nice vidéo. French native speaker here too. I fail to understand why the "R" in "Paris" and "Rouge" is pronounced differently. For me they are both vocalized. in "Paris" and "Quatre" the pronunciation is different as it isn't vocalized in "Quatre". Let me know please!

link won't work

where can i find the most important 6000 words in any language? so i do not learn any other unnecessary words. or should i learn any new word i meet ?

"6,000 words if you actually understand a movie" that's just very subjective and depends on genre and also the language. For example, in a language based on the latin alphabet like Spanish or English, it is mainly vocab based on genre. If you watch a sci-fi film, just knowing 6k common words will mean you probably are having a hard time understanding sci-fi related vocab. Throw in a more difficult language like Japanese and now you have a very versatile language which can be both a blessing and a curse, like 10 different words that all mean the same thing but are used in completely different contexts.... Even knowing the most common words will not get you watching a movie comfortably. I know close to 30k words in Japanese and am just know getting comfortable watching a movie or show mostly without pausing (but usually have jsubs on) . This may also be a good time to mention, as I'm sure you know, there is a difference between active vocab and passive vocab. I know 30k words and have almost no issue understanding the language....but when it comes to speaking it I am basically a toddler, mainly because I only focused on input and close to no output....so I would say I can use less than 1k words in conversation. Understanding and knowing how to use it are 2 different things ;) Although, while most learners of a language seem to have the mistaken idea that having an accent is a bad thing and that they should always strive to "sound" like a native, I actually think the opposite: people should embrace their accent. Everyone has an accent, that's unavoidable. If you learn American English, you think you may not have an accent, but listen to someone from New York, Texas, or Alabama...they all sound very different. Not to mention if you compare English from different countries like the UK or Australia.

It's so easy. You may acquire language in max 6 months by living English speaking country.

I found SRS doesn't really work for me, but I am currently going through an ADHD diagnosis so perhaps ADHD has something to do with the system not working.

Very nice accent

When you say, we need at least 6,000 words my question is how did you measured the exact quantity of words?

Why would you announce a product 6 months before it's available

Estoy aprendiendo español

Peut-on apprendre deux langues simultanément ?

The easiest to learn was english, i cant talk english like a pro but writing and reading was sufficient

Currently i learning in Korean but it's really hard, i don't know how to focus and i don't know how i start,it make me draining

Used both Pimsleur and Rocket for Latin American Spanish…I prefer Rocket though Pimsleur is excellent as well but painfully boring to death

Great video, thank you. How much will your Fluent Falcon tool cost? I have access to Pimsleur audio books free at my local library which has been awesome. Up to level 1 chapter 4 and I’m already struggling a bit. The add on words to add more detail like but, yet and good or bad I still get mixed up.

how many hours need to listen English to become fluent? Is it possible to be fluent in English by only listening English, without writing ,reading n speaking.

I have been commenting on many polyglot and language sites about the fact that all known language programs and classes at all schools fail. After 13 years of failure to become basically conversationally fluent in Tagalog and during that time spending several hundred hours searching for methods, I realized the truth. Think about it, any exam with less than 60% success is a failure. Imagine classes failing up to 60% continually. No language program or classes achieve greater than 60% basic fluency. Why? Something has been wrong for a long time. I contend no program or classes even get to 5%. Learners or acquirers drop out due to hopeless failure. Very short-term tests give a false impression of accomplishment since the ultimate goal fails. Question all programs and classes. Any rationalizations are hiding failure. The polyglots had better all get together and figure out what has been and is wrong. If any other subject had such failure an immediate fix would be attempted. Not so with languages. It just continues as it has for over a hundred years never achieving over 60% much less 5% for all those attempting basic fluency.

I’m an English native speaker. Your English is excellent. I hear a little Japanese accent?

Id assume going to other countries and emerse yourself in the culture and slang of the environment would make one fluent

Which language is most easy to speak

It’s “moh-tah-vah-tion”. Not “mah”. Great video. Subbed.

Yes it's hard to learn some language in 6 month but it's possible I have an experience

Your accent was good

i though this guy was american, why does his english sound so good?

I was looking for a tutorial like this for so long. How to learn a language in one year has never been covered before, but there are so many clickbait titles saying “LeaRn a LAnGuAGe in a mONtH” or “learn a language in 2 weeks” or “learn a language in your sleep”. I was looking for a tutorial like this for over a year and wished I had seen it sooner, cheers! And by the way, this video dove deep into the topic unlike the rest.