How to Study Effectively 

LingQ is the best resource for me so far. Because I believe in comprehensible input with material prepared for natives. I learned English and Spanish this way, and German is beginning to sound very clear to me. The combination of reading and listening the very same material is the best for me.

I just joined LingQ. Looking forward to seeing how much I progress this year.

You get to be enrolled as a polyglot when you are in the 6th or better yet 8th language. The world record holder is of 42 !

Your writing is excellent after only 9 months. This gives me hope as I’m in month 1 learning Spanish and have a son too. I pretty much read and listen during nearly all my free time.

@@jen1963 ho thanks for your comment, if you had learned french I could have helped you! My advice : listen to a lot of interesting contents, read a lot and learn vocabulary.at the beginning I struggled and I couldn't understand but now I can watch movies and tv shows without subtitles and don't worry about speaking.good luck and keep going.

@@bertrandboddi5767 I actually studied French for 7 years and studied in Paris, but there are very few French speakers in the states compared to Spanish speakers, so my French is limited to comprehension these days. Maybe I’ll come back to it again one day. Merci bien!

@@jen1963 with pleasure! Have a nice day

@@bertrandboddi5767 Bonne journee a vous aussi 😃

That is my problem, i have never finished one novell, and always on the way for another one 😂

@@lilyanna3009 Just try and finish one. It feels good 🤗

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acho q foi criação do gaveta esse meme kk

Eu vejo esse meme com frequência em vários sites e redes sociais gringas

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I came to see it. I knew that must have commentaries about it

The novel reading brain and the movie watching brain seem to be connected in your case !!

When you read you actually are speaking with your mind is like whispering.

Genau, in Finnland es gibt keine Prüfungen, außer für die Ausnahmeprüfungen. Ich liebe die Idee, mit wem das System da arbeitet, jedoch andere Lände werden das nicht nutzen, weil sie so altmodisch in ihren Ideen sind, dass etwas so gegen den Status Quo ist, ist nicht leicht bekommen. Ich probiere hier etwas zu schreiben, sodass ich mein Niveau auf Deutsch prüfen kann. Ein bisschen Ironisch, ich weiss, aber was kann man tun haha

@@thetakeover51 Ich glaube nicht, dass es mit altmodisch sein oder nicht zu tun hat. In der Vergangenheit wahren Schüler mehr auf wenige Fächer spezialisiert und sie wahren in viel kleineren Klassen. Aufgrund der Modernisierung wurden die Klassen deutlich größer, es gab mehr Fächer, Schulzeit wurde verlängert, Prüfungen wurde als Standard zum Bewerten von Menschen und das neueste der großen Erweiterungen war das Einführen von Hausaufgaben. I'm modernen Ideal vieler Länder sind Menschen zu eine Ware geworden, bei welchem man die Qualität mit dem Zeugnis überprüft, wenn man sie in einem Beruf oder Universität aufnimmt. Man hat als Mensch auch keinen Einfluss was man in der Schule lernt, obwohl wir 95% der Sachen vergessen von denen ohnehin die Meisten unnötig für das Leben sind. Und dann wundern sich Staaten, warum das finnische Schulsystem so gut funktioniert.

Wanting to start learning mandarin as my 4th language, zero experience with non-European languages. Any advice, something you wish you knew 4 months ago? 🤗 Xie Xie!

@@ditav5283 4th language!!! I'm not sure you should be taking lessons from haha I only know English! Congratulations. I suppose I'm still early into it around hsk3/4 level so not deep enough to truly provide any tips unique to Mandarin. If you can speak three other languages then the best policy would be to implement the same strategy that aided you in achieving fluency in the other languages. Good luck.

I just started LingQ a few weeks ago and I'm learning Polish as well. I've been learning it for over a year and a half, but I'm just now starting to really read. I hope to get good progress soon. I feel like I've been spinning my wheels while trying to find a learning method that works well for me. I am a visual learner and love reading, so I think I am finally on the right track.

@@kerim.peardon5551 Awesome, I hope it works out for you. Why are you learning Polish?

suerte!

@Riviera Rick But wouldn't it be dishonest for Steve not to talk about when it's a huge part of his methods? Surely most of us are here to learn how Steve learns and emulate him.

Steve is a real polyglot. I'm more than happy to hear him promote his product.

I like Lingo Mastery’s “Russian Short Stories for Beginners” books (they also have Intermediate versions) because the stories are short enough to not be overwhelming and the subject matter is interesting, in my opinion. If you can get the audio books, they come with a PDF you can read along with while listening too.

Es lo mismo que iba a comentar jajaja

Cierto !

There's a phrase I learned as a kid in karate lessons, "Slow is smooth and smooth is fast." Go at the pace you need to become smooth, then the speed will come later.

To answer my own question. You have to listen, practice watching movies with subtitles and learning commonly used words. I now understand both Russian and Spanish fairly well

Reading isn't the only thing you should do, it's just the foundation of everything else. Steve advocates for comprehensible input, which includes listening/watching activities, as well as reading. It's just that reading is faster than listening/watching because everyone can read more words than a person can speak in the same amount of time. (Significantly more. Maybe twice as many?) But for people with learning disabilities or people who are just wired to learn better aurally than visually, listening/watching is a perfectly valid method for comprehensible input. If you understand what you read really well, you should pick up listening to the language very quickly. And once you can understand what you hear, then you can talk to people successfully. Steve said in an older video that you can get by with a limited speaking vocabulary if you can understand what's being said to you really well. A lot of people have horror stories of speaking really well because they learned to in school, but being completely unable to understand a native speaker when spoken to. But a native speaker can understand a foreigner who speaks with bad grammar most of the time (provided the accent is not too thick; good pronunciation is a better skill to have than good grammar). So it's better to have good listening comprehension first before speaking. (A study in Thailand actually found that students who just listened to compelling stories acted out by the teacher ended up speaking better Thai with less accent when they started speaking later than the people who tried to speak immediately--and apparently got their bad pronunciations and grammar stuck in their heads.) Also, your parents sound like they did a good job of learning the language, especially as they had very little formal education. Most native speakers can't speak as well as a newscaster or write a news report--especially if they have had very little formal education. I have a cousin who didn't finish school and her written and spoken English is terrible and she probably can't read and understand a typical newspaper. So your parents were probably ahead of natives with a comparable level of education. And think about all the things they learned by reading the newspaper. Even if their spoken language was never great, they were able to self-educate in many subjects just by reading.

Hello. I'm not sure how to get better at pronounciation but i will be happy to correct some of the mistakes you have made. Hey. How are you guys doing I've been learning English by myself and I have been (studying) this language for around 4 months (now.) I know that (learning) (a) foreign language is hard but I do not want to give up(*1), I practice with my friends everyday, so I've been learning slang(*2) and (a lot of) different stuff. Anyway let me get(*3) to the point, When I (mess) up something I push myself so hard(*4) and when I fail in something I disappoint myself. 🤔🤔🤔 (However)(*5) The human (brain) is incredible. If you guys know any tips to get better at my pronuciation (would you please) let me know. I will love you for the rest of my life. *1 I do not want to give up is ok but i think saying I will not give up is more natural. *2 You do not need the s on the end of slang *3 Get not go *4 I not really sure about what you mean here but to push yourself means to try your best, challenge yourself. If you are meaning that when you fail you are hard on yourself or upset about yourself, then you should say (When i mess up something i am hard/very hard on myself) or something like (When i mess up something i get angry at myself. ) *5 however makes the last sentence seem positive. Seperates the negative sentences from the last positive one. For 4 months learning English, your English is very good. Even without me correcting the mistakes I could understand the majority of the things you said. I am very impressed. Keep up the good work!

@@user-ic9pl5uo4q thank you ❤

Listen to kids shows like peppa pig even tho u might not even understand that just like a kid doesn’t he picks it up. Ur main source of learning will be learning the most common words as u learn more of them and keep hearing them ur comprehension will get better. The more words u know and can hear them etc the better.

If you’re learning Latin, I would strongly recommend Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata by Hans Ørberg. It is designed to give you a complete understanding of Latin grammar through comprehensible input, and is suitable for total beginners.

@@kenny5577 they have it in Latin? That would be wonderful! Part of my struggle is that typing “Latin” into a search engine comes up with Latin America... which, while that is next on my interest list, it is the 2000 year old Latin I’m hunting! There are no native speakers! LinQ will be wonderful if I can get just a little further in the comprehension quest. There are some good resources but not at my level.

@@ronanzaletel6517 ah! Thankyou! I’ll go look for this right now! After looking it up I realized I have spent time on this in LingQ. I’m thinking LinQ really is going to be my best bet, it’ll just be slow gathering momentum. Anyway, thanks!

@@rainastor4789 idk if they have it in Latin tbh. May I ask why are you even learning a dead language?

A lot. I am 37 and I can not remember me finishing any book. Fortunately i do speak 3 languages. Listening helps me a lot

Does reading while listening help? I don't have a hearing problem in my native language, but I struggle with listening to Polish. I know everyone says listen to podcasts repeatedly, but I can't understand enough to know what's being talked about and that drives me crazy. I'm such a visual learner that even when I am speaking, if I am struggling for a word, I will visualize it and then "read" it.

Try audiobooks!