How To Watch Videos For Language Learning - Most Effective Method

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I'm James, a native English speaker and I also speak Italian and Spanish. I have 11 years of experience with language learning. I help people reach a conversational level in another language.
In this video I talk about how to watch TV series and movies to learn another language most efficiently. They key is, don't look up every word that you don't know. This will disrupt your flow and take you out of the zone. It adds effort and distracts you. You'll pick up new words naturally over time with repeat exposure.
You need to be emotionally invested 'in the zone' of what you're watching - add repeat exposure to this, where you continue watching something over weeks and months and your brain will naturally understand the language.
00:00 - Introduction
00:07 - Get into the flow of what you're watching
01:08 - We learn using contexts
01:24 - How we learn as babies
02:42 - How we learn from exposure over time
03:09 - Accept that you won't know every word
05:45 - Using body language to help work out what's happening
06:16 - Having an emotional connection helps
07:00 - How the brain works out what it needs to learn
07:45 - What makes someone fluent?
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@engespress 5 месяцев назад

I think watching a video with the two methods - looking up words and not looking up words - is the most useful way to learn a language. First, watch a video right through without stopping it, with subs or without subs. Then watch the video to word-mine it, which increases your vocabulary. Watching right through helps you pick up expressions and grammar as well as good pronunciation and intonation; and looking up words helps you expand your vocabulary. You need both things to acquire a new language. I find listening without interruption to something I've studied previously is quite enjoyable and helps my subconscious mind absorb the language. Using one method exclusively - word-mining everything you watch, or alternatively, spending years watching videos you don't understand a word of - is counterproductive. Using a balanced approach is the best in my opinion.

@learnwithlingoers 4 месяца назад

Interesting ideas! Of course, you can have a mix of both - the idea is to try not to disrupt the flow of what you're watching. As you say if you watch it for the first time without stopping it but with subtitles, this is great as you don't know what to expect. It's exciting and you're in the zone because you haven't seen it before. You will have a lot of emotional investment into it for this reason. Then, if you'd like to watch it again but you already know what happens, this could be a good opportunity to allow yourself to look up a few words. Maybe limit yourself to commonly spoken words that you don't know as these will likely be most useful for you in real life. However I agree with your point, there's multiple ways to approach it :)

@engespress 4 месяца назад

@@learnwithlingoers I agree with you that watching material uninterrupted is very important for learning. Watching the same material over and over again, without breaks, is also helpful. I think a balance of word-mining to free-flow listening of about 1 hour : 4 hours is helpful. I tend to do the free-flow listening during my sleep. I don't have enough time during the day, and besides, the language might be absorbed into the subconscious better this way. Funnily enough I don't get tired in the morning doing this. Good video for generating discussion on language-learning. 😃

@learnwithlingoers 4 месяца назад

Spot on :). If there's any other topics or areas you'd like me to do a video on, let me know!@@engespress

@engespress 4 месяца назад

@@learnwithlingoers Actually I change my mind, and I think you are 100% right. I have been doing word mining and now realize it's of zero help. Learning by just watching - WITHOUT WORD LOOK UP - is the best method. I plan to watch around 2,000 episodes of around 10 minutes each, using this method. I will keep rewatching this material until I understand most of it. Then I will see if I am closer to fluency or not. Kids learn their native language this way, by watching TV and videos, and even though they don't understand a lot at the beginning, with time, they understand all of what they watch after a few years.

@kahea2018 2 месяца назад

I'd love an update.

@user-iu8oy3ql6u 3 месяца назад

I agree with u!!! Even tho i do, I've been contemplating that whether it is effective to increase vocabulary or not. I'm a Japanese who have been learning English. I'll continue watching RU-vid videos without subtitles and not looking up!! Thank u for making this great video🎉

@learnwithlingoers 3 месяца назад

Glad you find it useful! No worries :)

@williambudd2850 Месяц назад

I look up words that prevent me from understanding the sentence. For example if I read the following sentence in German: Er schlag ihn. I have to look up the word schlag to understand what er did. I find that language learning is mostly common sense. Let your instincts tell you what to do. Complicated theories are usually what they seem to be. Namely nnonsense.

@lapkrit Месяц назад

Hey, mate! I think we could easily have had an hours long conversation about languages, because we think alike here! My German comprehension improved immensely last year from watching content, reading and videogames. For one, because of the native input, but also because i was looking forward consuming the content, instead of procrastinating study material. Just finished Animal Farm in German after months of reading. Went from understanding very vaguely to most at the end. Audiobook and reading at the same time made it even more efficient and enjoyable. Except for Swedish, where I'm still a beginner, I do a combined approach of repeatedly listening new content without looking up or subtitles and i translate + repeat small texts with audio till i can mostly understand them. Was thinking of going through a new book by looking up all unknown words, but you just reminded me to simply enjoy the content instead and learn within context. Cheers! :')

@tracywright6908 12 дней назад

Paldies, great content. I am learning Latvian. Watching the cultural music on RU-vid has been a powerful tool! Especially the "Latvian Song Festival", at times making me weep. Latvian history and culture is deeply moving, having survived a myriad of occupations, war, genocide.......... Hence the emotional aspect as I recently learned my infant father and grandparents escaped Stalin's "Red Terror". Many family members were sent to Gulags.

@learnwithlingoers 12 дней назад

@@tracywright6908 Nice, glad you enjoyed it :)

@ihatekillerclowns 5 месяцев назад

I am starting my Netflix watching journey now in Spanish after years of grammar and watching podcasts with the odd italki lesson. Very hard to resist to look up words , but I think after a few months of watching these shows , my slow brain will slowly understand the process and things will eventually come together.

@learnwithlingoers 5 месяцев назад

Good luck! And yes it's vary hard to resist the urge to look words up that you don't understand :)

@pfikurum 4 месяца назад

So, from what I could understand from the video, we, the learners, should be learning like "living in the moment while learning a new meaning with the new words we encounter, and incorporate them as much as we interpret what really means upon context". I don't know if I am not mistaken with this, but, in my own words, this is what I get.

@learnwithlingoers 4 месяца назад

Exactly. That's spot on :)

@learnwithlingoers 4 месяца назад

Thanks for the comments everyone! My goal is to make more useful, practical videos on language learning. Let me know any struggles you have, what you'd like to improve and what you'd like to see more of from this channel! Every suggestion helps :)

@hcm9999 22 дня назад

To read books or texts I follow some strategies: 1. I try to read as fast as possible without using the dictionary. I call this "fast reading". I try to guess the meaning of unknown words from the context. I simply ignore whatever I don't understand. 2. I read the book again consulting the dictionary for every unknown word. By unknown word I mean any word whose meaning or pronunciation or inflection or conjugation I don't know or don't remember. This is the "slow reading". Even though it is much slower than the first reading, I don't read the entire book again, I only read the interesting or important parts of the book. So the second reading may actually be faster than the first reading.

@ImMrAdam 5 месяцев назад

Good stuff James! I'm learning Chinese (not only from) youtube videos and it's frustrating when a 10min video takes you over 30mins to finish because I'm constantly pausing it to look up words.

@learnwithlingoers 4 месяца назад

That's it. It can become annoying having to pause the video as it takes much longer to finish it. Thanks for sharing and good luck with your Chinese!

@grunntalll 3 месяца назад

im doing the same in japanese but i think taking your time is actually very rewarding (so far at least) . theres no point in trying to rushing through learning.

@leenasipponen8958 3 месяца назад

I recently watched a movie in Russian language. It was subtitled in English, but English is not my mother tongue. I only had time to read some of the texts. I have only studied Russian for a short time and only knew a small part of the words. However, I understood the movie very well and was able to enjoy it. Even though I didn't understand most of the words, I still understood what was being said. Weird!

@learnwithlingoers 3 месяца назад

Ah interesting - thanks for sharing!

@IHateEveryone 5 месяцев назад

I agree and disagree. The german words and phrases i know the best are ones ive never looked up. Like “du bist dicht“ or „was laberst du“ or „lass mich endlich in Ruhe mann“. I know those and a lot of other stuff as if it’s english, because i never looked them up and because of the emotional weight of the scenes i learned them from. But, on the other hand, i wouldn’t have had enough context to understand those phrases had i not looked up some words in the sentences before and after. So good principle, but in practice, i think it should be a mix, and you could get the same effect. For example, at first i only knew “fertig” because i looked it up, but now ive heard it so many times that i dont have to translate it to “finished” anymore, fertig is just fertig. Something that interesting that supports his point though is that there are no direct translations between languages. “Fertig” doesn’t mean exactly “fertig” and if you are leaning on translation, you’re less likely to pick up on the subtle differences between the words that seem to be equivalent on the surface. Learning words and phrases his way is ideal for getting that kind of nuance.

@learnwithlingoers 4 месяца назад

True! Depends how much exposure you think you'll have to the language. You need exposure to be able to hear new words and phrases enough times to understand what they mean. That comes as part of the journey of learning a new language though - you need lots of exposure :). Good points!

@TahaKhanali-py4ij 2 месяца назад

I liked your content 👍

@learnwithlingoers 2 месяца назад

Thanks!

@MsTranthihai71 4 месяца назад

Thanks

@learnwithlingoers 4 месяца назад

No problem. Glad you liked it :)

@learnwithlingoers 4 месяца назад

If there's any other topics you feel you'd like me to cover, please let me know! Thanks

@llewlloyd3832 3 месяца назад

I'm going through the Spanish LanguageTransfer course. What would you recommend I do after finishing that?

@learnwithlingoers 3 месяца назад

That's cool - once you're able to say a few basic phrases, enough to have a simple conversation then look for a native speaker to practice with. You have two options with this; find a language exchange partner which is free (trading your time for their time) or you can pay for online lessons (it can be as little as $5 per hour though so it's not too expensive). I use Preply for this. It means you can build confidence and actually put to use what you've learnt. For Preply, you can use my referral link if you want to have 70% off your first lesson:preply.com/en/?pref=NDY3MzU2NQ==&id=1712666886.780919. No worries either way though, that's my advice! Good luck whatever option you choose :)

@MrWackydoodles 3 месяца назад

this japanese learning shit is making me more fluent in english because all i watch is how to acquire language in english. smh

@learnwithlingoers 3 месяца назад

haha fair enough!

@thesifuchannel6906 2 месяца назад

Is this the same advice for reading as well?

@learnwithlingoers 2 месяца назад

Very good question! I'd say if you're wanting to real for entertainment/pleasure then you'll be more in the flow if you're able to keep reading without interruption. Without stopping to look up words. If you understand the jist of what you're reading but there's a few words you don't understand, just keep reading. This is because if you stop reading, pause, look up the word etc, this will add friction to the process of reading. It may feel more like 'a chore' or 'homework' rather than entertainment. If that makes sense. Alternatively, if you don't understand what you're reading at all, then it makes sense to look up the words because you couldn't progress without knowing what you're reading about. Hope that makes sense :)

@captainpugwash2317 4 месяца назад

I am currently learning Italian ,well trying because I just can’t find the right resources and structure any suggestions

@learnwithlingoers 4 месяца назад

Hey, yes so "Italy made Easy" is a great podcast for people new to Italian. They speak slowly so it's easier to understand them. They're on Spotify and RU-vid :)

@captainpugwash2317 4 месяца назад

@@learnwithlingoers much appreciated, thanks for that.