How to memorize THOUSANDS of words in any foreign Language 

For example, the mistake in the title of this video: With this ONE Tool I have learned -a- 1M words in 14 Foreign Languages It's "1M words," not "a 1M words."

Luca, our methods differ. I use SAMPLE SENTENCES in target language, lists of synonyms, lists of paired synonym-antonym pairs, and above all the search for cognates and link words. though, root expansion from clues like a list of First Letters Only, a method similar to yours, works because it keys in on our curiosity. I never write things out by hand in a notebook nor do i translate into my own language. I try to get into the target language and stay there, learning my target language with materials in the target language.

i do however translate poems song lyrics sutras from target language into native language since these are often unknown in native language and the above materials often have advanced vocabulary yet are brief enough to be worked through in a day.

@@QuizmasterLaw I don't understand your need to write this here. He is selling his knowledge and experience. Why trying to compete? I think your approach is brilliant and very interesting and worth to be shared! However, the way you write it and the choice to comment here are just out of place, sorry.

@@alwaysuseless Was it necessary to write this here? Either you are completely unable to think or you are literally wearing yourself out with envy. It only shows how miserable you are.

Great summary 👍🏼I'm going to paste it into an Osbsedian note ;) But I would also put my short texts on a flashcard. That would help me revise them more regularly.

Is this an IA? LOL

Seems chat gpt answer to me lol

@@fulvia1454 pleasant to hear you are an Obsidian user :-)

This is definitely from chatgpt 😂

I speak the same languages, I'm a Mexican speaker and I agree with your methology. I think you must record common vocabulary at the beginning and then about your realm of expertisse.

I speak the same languages, I'm a Mexican speaker and I agree with your methology. I think you must record common vocabulary at the beginning and then about your realm of expertisse.

I used to do the same with German. I was so curious, that I looked up every word. Another strategy is to look up as few words as possible to see how much you understand from context.

Paula, as a native English speaker, may I offer you 2 suggestions for your reading pleasure? 'The Kite Runner' & 'To Kill a Mockingbird.' Two classics and easy to read.

@@tonyodonnell9655 Hi Tony I love those two books. I used to teach Spanish in a "Classical Education" High School, therefore always have been interested in literature.

I feel you, I too once enrolled in Jim Kwik's memory course. I mean the coarse is substantial, but he is just giving it away for free in small chunks on youtube, and you can easily find the same information somewhere else. (And, you know what. Only 1/10 of his content was worth it) As you have just mentioned, as I also noticed. “Bruh, did I seriously just spend money on this coarse and he or she is just gonna give away for free. Ain’t cool.” But, you know what, you have just upgraded your Hold Up meter. With that I mean if you are considering about investing in yourself by taking these type of courses. Then you can just easily find it on youtube.

A ski instructor can sells you a ski lesson. Nonetheless, the same teacher may have a youtube channel where he teaches the same things (or almost). Despite this, people keep buying ski lessons and watch ski instructional videos. In conclusion, for several people both things can be worth it. Moreover, most of RU-vid teachers about everything follow the same policy, publishing on line....little by little...their very own know how. So, many congrats to Luca Lampariello for what he's doing, in any way he is doing it.

Never buy online courses. 99% of the time you will find passionate people who make far better content for free. And if not, you will find a book with better content for very little money.

@@danketsu-seyo Yeah I totally agree with you on that. 100% But you know what, it sounds quite funny when I say it. There is just something about enrolling on a coarse and finishing it. Give yourself 3-6 months, then you clearly see how that same information is ubiquitous. And you think to yourself with a climbs disappointment on how you were persuaded by the their Image and specially their effort that human had accomplished. With that experienced, you just really know that other courses are gonna be build in similar fashion.

@@matteoallegretti1663 that makes perfect sense. Thx!

Thanks for the excellent tip! 😊 I like this way too. Do you know any softwares we can create flascards in to print them later?

@@elainer8288 sorry i dont know any softwares 😔. I found it really easy just writing the words/sentences on my precut flashcards literally on the day i decide to add mord to the exercise

did you any digital flashcards? can you elaborate more on listening to audio? did you also improve your speaking simultaneously?

@@saufiilyas7381 no i used small paper cards. For listening to audio- watching a tv episode daily such as a casual sitcom in the language i found was good. The audio part should only be done after you have spent good time on the flashcards for building your vocabulary first. My speaking part only really improves afterwards when im directly speaking to a person of that language on a consistent basis.....living in the country/video calling/phone calling etc.

​@@stephenY96 thank you for you response and provide tips to learn a language. I appreciate it.

Indeed. Bringing back my rusty from to my former top form nowadays is kind of a challenge. But on the other hand I'm amazed at how fast I'm able to do very detailed revisions of quite complex issues, so I suppose human brain does not forget as easily as we think. And with Internet everywhere I would say we live in best times for maintaining the language easily.

Personally how I have been doing things all my life as a non-monolingual person. However, I hear often that it's boring, tedious and time consuming. Yes, it's slower than flashcards and requires deeper focus, probably why it does help with memorizing these words better for a longer time, but sadly many people do not want to do it becuase it's slow, no hi-tech approach and because it takes more time than a deck of flashcards. However, I do prefer it and really cannot complain. Key thing I would say is also selection of a content. To select it well we have to first plan for what we want to learn and for what purpose. And I would say this is the biggest hurdle to overcome for most people. There are simply too many choices and people simply cannot think in strict terms about how and why and in which types of situations they are going to be using their target language. And this is why many people do not have the foggiest idea where to start from with such approach.

It seems a lot of additional work to me, you have to learn how to use the database system first. I'm old [school] and using my phone is not a reflex, so I prefer paper. It is discreet, and more suited to me. I have a problem: I never go back to what I've already noted, the notebook makes revision easier in my case because it's immediately and always available. Each one his own, what is important, as always, is what we like.

@@AlinefromToulouse I can't disagree with anything you say - we should all use what we enjoy and that works for us. I'm not trying to convince anyone, just to put another option on the table for people to consider.

@@tullochgorum6323 I didn't reproach you with that, your method has a lot of advantages, but it takes a bit of time to learn how to use, as well as to make filters, as a disadvantage. I must admit that after a while, I'm lost because of the important number of layers. In fact, the best way could be to use both devices, but nowadays, paper is not an option people tend to think about, which is a shame. I would add that the reasons why we learn a language are an important factor in the balance, it dictates what we have to concentrate on and devote time to.

@@AlinefromToulouse I love paper too. But I'm also a coder and enjoy tinkering with technology. Now I've set up this system (which took a couple of hours to figure out) I'll be able to use it for all my language projects. The main aim is to accelerate the mastery of the first 2000 - 3000 words and phrases needed to begin engaging comfortably with real native materials and conversations. I calculate that it will take around 1 working day to enter the data as I work through my introductory courses, but that's not wasted. I'm actively engaging with the word as I figure out how to classify it, and this will help encode it into memory.

Paraphrasing and summarizing force you to determine the real meaning, usually looking at the content a second time, and more deeply. The handwriting aspect also causes you to spend more time internalizing the content and adds another sense to your memory (the physical feeling of your hand drawing the words). P.S. I haven't seen your channel in a while. I'll check out what you've been up to!

Well said 👌🏾

Thanks for the kind words Anthony! You da man. When are we going to meet in Prague again? =) I will be spending 3 months in Poland in the summer, and it is not far =)

You are most welcome Maria =)

Great stuff! As I always say: do what you like, and you will keep doing it

Wow,is there a tutorial how to do this stuff? Sounds amazing. I'm usually writing them on my phone and then rewriting in the exercise book later, but your method seems even better

Thank YOU for the kind comment! :-)

Muchas gracias Flor, me alegra de que el video te haya gustado!

You are welcome! =)

Pretty much lol

That never works

Pedro you are right ! Don’t get me wrong. I love Luca who is a great inspiration and someone I’d love to have as a friend. But all this makes me think of the joke that went as follows : Consultants are guys who take your watch to tell you the time…. Another one was : Jack, meneate le culo !

and waste 1 year stagnating at the same basic level all because you chose some poor methods straight from the beginning. Luca's giving some great tips

De rien =)

Interesting idea. I love the bit about seeing red words throughout the document after going through the first paragraph. This would feel like progress was being made straight away and, as you progress through the book, the remainder of it becomes steadily more red.

@@kryzondaan1855 Exactly! And if I don't remember the word from before, it is a good reminder that I should!

Wow! I love it! This is fantastic! Thank you for this tip! I will do the same for my German! I never thought of starting books in 2 languages so early! Excellent!

But how is it possible to the red word thing? Does anybody know? I love it!

Me too! =)

Always

Prego!

Good tips ! And 4 languages is alot !

I'm happy that I'm not just the one doing this. As a 16 years old I'm speaking 7 languages fluently for this is my method. I tend to be sharper in mind when I don't translate it to my language than when translated. Since there were no native speakers available. I only talk to myself aloud for minutes until soon I feel effortlessly thinking and speaking on that language😊 💯

But even children cannot learn everything with intuition. A child learns only easy words and grammar structures (and by taking more time than adults). Then, they have to go to school or read/listen to different contents that explain them complex things. It is definitely not as a child that I learned the meanings of some words like "entropy", "copula", etc.

@@anthracite9253 For sure you can learn a whole lot of complex vocabulary / grammar structures at school. But without the essential input of those first formative years, everything else will be practically useless.- Even at school, children learn a great deal simply by listening to their teachers, before they formally learn to read and write. Generally speaking - if parents read to their children, I mean quality children's literature - children can learn practically enough to sustain them throughout life... but they do need this input, especially if good education is not guaranteed (as happens in some poorer countries) And personally I think, while words like entropy are nice to know, we can also live without them... I also learnt 3 foreign languages as an adult through intuition: without dictionary or translation, without teachers or coursebooks, apps or software. Many people do....

@@1sola1verita Sure, children can "learn" (well? I think an adult forgets a lot of things he was supposed to have learned as a child) a lot of things. But is it really worth it? When a child learns in one year what an adult learns in one day, is it really worth it? I think I can communicate and understand things much, much, MUCH BETTER as in my childhood, not only thanks to "intuition". When you learned 3 languages (until which level? C2? ), what if you could have learned 6 languages in the same duration but not only thanks to intuition? Yes, we could live without knowing the concept of "entropy". But: - very long ago, in prehistoric times, mankind could live without knowing almost any word, so, where is the limit about "unneccesarily words" we could live well without them? Is it really worth it? - imagine we could have never talked the same way we do now on Internet, if there was no people thinking about such a complex concept like "entropy" and more? Anyway, I genuinely congratulate you for learning 3 languages. As long as your learning method is suitable to you , that is the most important thing. :-)

You can use English or Farsi, I don't think it makes that much of a difference - as long as you speak English well

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We need an entire new video for that ,-)

Ebbinghaus is (was) the man!

@@LucaLampariello You can say that again!

We need an entire different video to reply to this question ;-)

Check The Ebbinghaus's Forgetting Curve, you will get a good grasp of it.

@@LucaLampariello It's a great content. I actually think the next phase is equally of even more important than the one showed in the video. Hopefully you can work on it for a future video. Thanks.

@@LucaLampariello so plz make that video 😁🙏🏻

@@King-Park I agree with you. Luca, show us the tricks of the trade, fino in fondo ;-)

If I learned Chinese, I think I would do the same thing I do in Japanese: writing only in Chinese characters if I know pronunciation very well, or writing both with Chinese characters and phonetic transcription if their pronunciation is unknown to me. In any case, writing Chinese characters seems important to me.

Danke!

Just for the matter of the video, normally I use Italian (my native language)

@@LucaLampariello Good to know. Thanks for answering.

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@@AJ-fo2pl I am not saying you that Japanese cannot be translated into English, perhaps you should have read my comment more carefully, I am saying that his method, which mostly relies on word for word translation, creates in a lot of instances a warped view of your TL, regardles of your TL. With Japanese it's just more extreme. Yes entire novels have been translated, but it always lacks nuance, not just a little, ofcourse it's good enough that translations are worth reading for the majority of people, but bear in mind that professional translator have made that possible, this does not only require being fluent in both languages but is an entire skill on its one and I don't think this skill is useful or necessary for people who do not want to become translators. My example is not an abbrevation, this is a valide sentences on its own as it has all that a valid sentence requires in Japanese, namely a 動詞 (verb) and yes in traditional Japanese grammar (学校文法) です is considered a 動詞. "There is nothing too deep or philosophical to draw from this in terms of conclusions about the structure and nature of translation in particular and language in general." No clue where you got that absurd idea from, but again, learning a language by translation between languages completely different to one another will lead to a very warped view and missunderstandings, THIS does however not imply that it is impossible to accurately translate between these two languages. The difference is that a learner cannot yet accuretly translate as he wouldn't be a learner if he could. Let me give you another example sentence: 携帯知らない？ which literally translates to: "Don't you know my phone" but actually means "Do you know where my phone is/ Have you seen my phone?" As I just demonstrated, the meaning can be translated accuretaly, but the problem starts when you begin translating word for word. Honestly if you have read entire books in Japanase, as have I, you should be very aware that the way both languages express ideas is very different. An English thought is just fundemantly different than a Japanese thought, this is nothing deep nor philosophical, it just means the languages don't share much in common with eachother.

You don't need to transcribe the video itself. There are free websites that allow to extract subtitles just by inserting there a link to a video

It's a good method. Depends on a level but if you have no better idea and if you are not very advanced doing such things with daily news, especially if you know what the piece of news is about , since it's some internationally known daily event, is a good starting point. For more advanced learners shorter TED TALKS might be a good idea. For very advanced people- longer podcasts or tv or radio shows on the matters of their interests. Or academic lectures.

I would not transcribe an entire video, THAT is too much work (in my humble opinion) and you "get more buck for your bang" by printing a script and working on it by highlighting, circling, adding your own notes to it.

But "faster" does not necessarily means "better". Besides, there is no kinaesthetic advantage in typying rather than handwriting.

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