Learn German and French first 

I definitely like this kind of video, I also loved the Friedrich's paintings you've picked out .

Thanks for this video. I never knew that German and French had better language resources. I can read and write French but I never thought about using it to learn other languages. It was a real eye-opener. Thanks for the video. I look forward to your next videos

I am so glad you're back. I was thinking about learning French before Persian and this video made things clear to me. Thank you.

My native language is Malay language ( Bahasa Melayu ). I learnt English since school days. Later i learnt Arabic. At a local university. French i learnt at Alliance Française de KL. After pension i learnt Russian . Now in the third year. I had started to learn German.

French and German are, simplistically, the parent languages of English. The German tribes the Angles and the Saxons, who invaded England about 1200 year ago, contributed the most to the AngloSaxon or old English language. Before that Celtic was the language of Britain. By the invasion of Norman William the Conqueror, a similar phenomenon occurred twice, now giving our modern English a mother, basically French, as I exists today. I like your files And have subscribed. I just discovered your RU-vid file on BDNF as a recovering stroke patient. I am thus trying to nurture the Neurogenesis process in myself. I am also a linguist. I have attended classroom courses, mostly high school and college, in French, German, Latin, Spanish, Italian, Arabic and Hebrew. I can read Portuguese without difficulty, but do not yet speak Portuguese. I am a retired high school French teacher. I am very excited to have discovered your RU-vid site and wish you the best!!!

I am currently learning both along with Italian and Modern Greek, as well as Latin. I am on my way to polyglottery and polyliteracy, no matter that it may take me about 3-5 years to become fluent in these languages and then move on to possibly three or four more! I am in no hurry.

Nice, I am German and put my most effort in school on French, jackpot I guess

Any idea on when you'll be uploading the video for spoken fluency that you mentioned here?

I was raised a monolingual anglophone and now I have a fairly high level of fluency in Spanish. I’m curious about your insights on the learning materials available for that

Why not Latin and Greek first? Classical education seems to prioritise these languages because of the learning curve it gives its students. It also improves your English.

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Quelle bonne vidéo ! How would you recommend reading a text? I am a high school Latin III student and I am also currently learning French using Assimil's Using French course as I worked through the first one. I would like to discover la littérature française so if you have a preferred method of reading, would you mind at all to share it?

Nice, I just happened to learn those two languages as my foreign languages - lots of materials for each language even though French I learned French during my Master's here in France. I guess I lucked out!

Could you please post links to lists of some of the best language learning resources (books, courses, etc) in German and French? I learned some Koine Greek and Biblical Hebrew and now I want to read fluently as well as read classical Homeric Greek, so I'm following your advice to learn modern Greer and modern Hebrew. I'm fairly proficient in French and German too.

Oh boy are you right about english materials

If I am really aching to read Latin and Ancient Greek Texts, would you still state that I should learn German and French first?

Hm, in my case French and German lack books for my TL (Gulf Arabic) whereas English has several books.

I know Assimil is outstanding, but what about German textbooks? Any recommendations?

Did you consider Esperanto? It is the sixth foreign language I have attempted to learn, and now having started it, I find myself wishing it had been the first.

I was taught Sanskrit along with my mother tongue while growing up as a child and school student. And in the school, add English and my country's official language aka Hindi. By the end of school (10th), I had huge advantage over other pupil because of years of proficiency in Sanskrit. That skill helped me to learn quickly some European languages such as German, Russian etc. Later, I went on to learn a few Asian languages too.

I know Russian and English and should I learn German with English materials?

French is definitely a great first language to learn. There are a great wealth of beautiful literature, not to mention the searing existential philosophy, which is something that the German language shares with.

Spanish is my native language and english has been mandatory in school/university as a second language. So that means: Should I learn French from English then?.

I learned Esperanto first, and I've dabbled in French German Welsh and Russian. I think I'm sticking at Russian now.

Italian before spanish?

My actual problem is dabbling in every single language. But this time I will target German and French.

Russian has plethora of books dedicated to language learning. French and German lack decent books when it comes to languages of former USSR . If you are interested especially in eastern European & Asian languages, then better learn Russian too.

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