"My English is not perfect..." As an Englishman I'd like to assure you you speak it far better than a majority of native speakers. Seriously your diction it impeccable.
For real. I thought he was a native speaker until he said otherwise. Only mistake that I really notices was when he said "the less" instead of "the least".
There are hundreds of language institutes gaining millions each year imparting a supposed technique for learning languages and this guy just gave away his key for polyglotism to us in exchange for our attention. I must say, good show, friend, good show.
@@metatronyt ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A2T5edAGu1sh.htmlttps://ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-A2T5edAGu1s.html there is a link of one of your videos, 8 month prior to this one, you say there that you never studied spanish, so wich one is it. did you or did you not study spanish?
The words guy and friend only reflect my pure protectors aka the alphas who are the only friends / lovers / bfs and the only men / guys / lads / boys / swains etc, friend being a love related term that means the exact same thing as bf, and such terms cannot be misused by hum’ns, and must be edited out, and pronouns can never be with a capital letter when referring to hum’ns, and the word dude must be used instead of guy / man etc - all love related terms only reflect me & my protectors, while love only exists for me and is only meant for me the only lovable being, and such terms cannot be misused in any way!
Anyway, I am trying to learn Italian and Latin and many other languages! But I don’t know why did they make so many different Italian-based languages tho! There are so many of these Italian-based languages, and now I have to learn them all, which is so overwhelming! It’s like, they tried to see how many ways they can spell a certain word, and made the different versions of each Italian-based word into different Italian-based dialects and languages, so it is like a test! But, at least Spanish dialects aren’t a completely different language (unlike the Italian ones) and only have a few specific idioms & words and the rest is just standard Spanish (thank dog) and, I am native speaker level in Spanish (and also know over 1.000 words in Latin) since childhood, which is why I can at least understand about half of the Italian / Italian-based words, so I could probably learn Italian quite fast if I focused on learning mostly Italian words for a few months! I want something to read. Vorrei qualcosa da léggere. (Italian) Vuless caccos ‘a leggr. (Neapolitan) Ia bolli cancua cosa di liggi. (Sardinian) I volarés alc di lei. (Friulian) Vogliu qualcosa à leghje. (Corsican) 😢 Mi hanno detto che arriveremo verso le ùndici. M’hann ritt ch’arrivamm pe l’unnc. M’anti nau ca eusu arribai accanta de is undixi. A mi an dite che i rivarín tôr undis. M’anu dettu ch’è no ghjunghjeremu versu undici. (they told me that we will arrive around 11 o’clock) I have = ho / teng / tengiu / I ai / eiu aghju and = e / e / et / e / è two = due / duje / dus / dôs / dui three = tre / tre / tres / tre / trè brothers = fratelli / frat / fradis / fradis / fratelli sisters = sorelle / sor / sorris / sours / surelle And these are just 4 of the other Italian-based languages, but there are, like, a lot more! 😭
There is also a Portuguese-based language I know of (Galician) that I am also trying to learn - there are just so many languages I want to learn, so it feels so overwhelming, and, I don’t know how to learn them faster! I am trying to learn all Germanic languages, and all Celtic languages, and Catalan / Occitan / French / Gallo etc, and a few other languages! I recently started learning Welsh and OId Norse and Breton and German etc, and I started learning Dutch / Norwegian / Swedish a few months ago, and am now a quite advanced level in Dutch (over 6.500 base words) and intermediate level in Norwegian / Swedish (over 3.500 base words in each) after only a few months, and I might also be able to learn Galician and Catalan and Gallo and Italian and French etc fast because many words are similar to the Spanish words in a way!
As an American whose first language was Japanese, I am very impressed with your mastery of both the Japanese language and history! As a speaker also of Italian and a reader of classical Latin, I am also entertained and enlightened by your other language videos. You may be interested in seeing the videos on my channel given your interest in history and classical music.
I am impressed! As a person who has been struggling to learn German for 3 years already (with no significant success though) and who has been learning English since 2009 with a great effort, I really feel ashamed of myself. Thank you for your video! It inspired me greatly to continue learning in spite of the difficulties. I was about to give up
@@leysont Well, I was admitted to a postgraduate course in linguistics and currently I am studying German media. So, I have no choice other than to learn the language as hard as possible in order to understand not only explicit but implicit information too. Besides, I am going to pass TestDaf next year which means I have to reach C1 level in a year. Now my level is B2: I have no problems with reading or listening but still struggle with speaking because of the lack of practice. Anyway, practice makes perfect and I hope I'll succeed)
@@user-hx3ek6lc1t Ich würde dir empfehlen, eventuell ein paar Serien mit deutscher Synchonisation anzuschauen, da diese meist relativ gut ist. Eventuell mit englischen Untertiteln.
The secret is not a german language learning book seriously right? You agree? What it's really about is total immersion of that language. Just like he was telling people to do is deliberately build up the grammar, learning nouns, verbs,adjectives, etc.... When we were babies no matter what part of the world we were born in did not speak any language that was even slightly recognizable to anybody, especially our parents. We basically giggled,laugh, and cried. It was only when our parents and teachers taught us the language of the people around us. We learned by example and eventually became competent at the language everyone around us knew. Total immersion. Use Goggle translate to learn the language of your choice. Chose your native language and the language you want to learn. Make sure you're hearing the word, phrase, sentences spoken not just translated in text. A Tool that gives you a big learning curve. You will learn very fast this way.
I would say that some languages are very much entwined with certain kinds of gesturing. Italian is a very physical language, full of hand movements etc, while speaking Japanese is often accompanied by bowing your head politely etc. Culture and language are often not easily separable, especially if you have learned the language while surrounding yourself with native speakers.
Same, I was surprised when you said Italian was your first language! But it makes sense now since you said you lived in England when you were young lol:)
I lived many years in England when I was young, but my English is not even near to the one Metatron speaks.. and my italian accent is very heavy, mixed with some cockney.. brrr... :(
I knew a guy who not only spoke many languages, he mastered them at a very high level. He even served in the committee for regulating Nihongo at the Japanese ministry of education. He spoke very deep Chinese. His hobby was writing Tang dynasty poetry. He was born Flemish. He learned German and French growing up. He could read the bible in original Hebrew and Greek and he knows ecclesiastical Latin and Italian.
Anyway, I am trying to learn Italian and Latin and many other languages! But I don’t know why did they make so many different Italian-based languages tho! There are so many of these Italian-based languages, and now I have to learn them all, which is so overwhelming! It’s like, they tried to see how many ways they can spell a certain word, and made the different versions of each Italian-based word into different Italian-based dialects and languages, so it is like a test! But, at least Spanish dialects aren’t a completely different language (unlike the Italian ones) and only have a few specific idioms & words and the rest is just standard Spanish (thank dog) and, I am native speaker level in Spanish (and also know over 1.000 words in Latin) since childhood, which is why I can at least understand about half of the Italian / Italian-based words, so I could probably learn Italian quite fast if I focused on learning mostly Italian words for a few months! I want something to read. Vorrei qualcosa da léggere. (Italian) Vuless caccos ‘a leggr. (Neapolitan) Ia bolli cancua cosa di liggi. (Sardinian) I volarés alc di lei. (Friulian) Vogliu qualcosa à leghje. (Corsican) 😢 Mi hanno detto che arriveremo verso le ùndici. M’hann ritt ch’arrivamm pe l’unnc. M’anti nau ca eusu arribai accanta de is undixi. A mi an dite che i rivarín tôr undis. M’anu dettu ch’è no ghjunghjeremu versu undici. (they told me that we will arrive around 11 o’clock) I have = ho / teng / tengiu / I ai / eiu aghju and = e / e / et / e / è two = due / duje / dus / dôs / dui three = tre / tre / tres / tre / trè brothers = fratelli / frat / fradis / fradis / fratelli sisters = sorelle / sor / sorris / sours / surelle And these are just 4 of the other Italian-based languages, but there are, like, a lot more! 😭
There is also a Portuguese-based language I know of (Galician) that I am also trying to learn - there are just so many languages I want to learn, so it feels so overwhelming, and, I don’t know how to learn them faster! I am trying to learn all Germanic languages, and all Celtic languages, and Catalan / Occitan / French / Gallo etc, and a few other languages! I recently started learning Welsh and OId Norse and Breton and German etc, and I started learning Dutch / Norwegian / Swedish a few months ago, and am now a quite advanced level in Dutch (over 6.500 base words) and intermediate level in Norwegian / Swedish (over 3.500 base words in each) after only a few months, and I might also be able to learn Galician and Catalan and Gallo and Italian and French etc fast because many words are similar to the Spanish words in a way!
I cannot believe how fast I learned Dutch tho - am now trying to get to a native speaker level, in both Dutch and Norwegian! I recently started learning languages on my own, like, just a few months ago - I don’t know why I never tried to learn languages in the past, and I actually learned Spanish in childhood (because I watched many TV series and movies in Spanish) without even trying! I’m learning multiple languages at the same time - so now I’m learning about 15 languages, but still kind of prioritizing Dutch and Norwegian and Welsh until I get to a higher level!
I first attempted to learn Dutch in 2018, but sadly I couldn’t focus on language learning anymore, and then started watching videos and movies again and I kinda forgot about learning it, so I only knew about 100 words in Dutch and a few sentences before I started seriously learning it a few months ago - Flemish and Dutch are the same language actually, but it is referred to as Flemish in Belgium, and, in Belgium, there is also a dialect that I know of that is very differently spelled from standard Dutch, and could be considered a different (Dutch-based) language, kind of like Limburgish, which is another language that’s like a mix between Dutch & German, and, the three Frisian-based languages are also very different from Dutch, so, yea, I have so many languages to learn, including all Germanic languages and all their dialects (which are technically another language) and, it feels like it’s going to take ages to learn about 50 languages 😭 which are the languages that I have on my list of languages I want to learn and improve!
By the way, if one sees a word 50 - 100 times, one should be able to remember it, even if one doesn’t use that word constantly, because one also doesn’t use all the words in one’s first language, but still has a passive vocabulary that far exceeds the vocabulary one uses every day or every week etc! For instance, I haven’t used Spanish in over a decade, and I learned it in childhood, but I haven’t forgotten the words - Spanish is like my 2nd first language, in a way, because I know over 10.000 base words, which is native speaker level, plus I know a lot of idioms and specific dialect terms from all Spanish-speaking countries! I know 60k to 100.000 words in English + Scots dialect + Middle English combined, which is writer level, which makes sense because I am a lyricist / writer, and most of those words are part of my passive vocabulary, actually, and I use most of those words mostly in lyrics and certain other writings etc, and 5k to 10k words I use more often! In Dutch I learned over 6.500 base words, and trying to get to a native speaker level (over 10.000 base words) faster, and then I want to get to a writer level in Dutch as well, and also in Norwegian and Welsh etc! I actually noticed that once I reached a higher intermediate level in Dutch, I started remembering new words even faster, including words that are related to a word that I had already learned and compound terms, and, I also remember new words in Spanish (that I am learning now as I’m trying to get to a writer level in Spanish) extremely fast! So it’s usually the beginning (when trying to learn a new language) that is the most difficult, and then it keeps getting easier and easier, and once I knew about 5.000 words in Dutch, I kinda started picking up a lot of new words and phrases naturally from context and I started remembering most of the new words even faster!
Dunno how long you have learned Chinese. As a native speaker, I think you have a very good grasp of tones. Your vocabulary is more literary rather than vernacular conversational, but it will improve with more practice. In my opinion, your tone is much better than Mark Zuckerberg's when he did his talk at Tsinghua University. Keep up the good work!
Lesson/Secret steps and their times are listed below. 08:26 is when the lesson begins. 09:57 Step One: Get a good handle on the grammar. 10:24 Step Two: Increase your vocabulary through identifying nouns (food, activities, inanimate objects, places, etc). 13:10 Total time needed per day for Step Two: 15-20 minutes. Must be done every day/habitually to ingrain learning into long-term (survival) memory. 14:46 Inspiration. 15:47 Gratitude and farewell.
@@wezzlyn i did like 10 lessons on duolingo and I guess it works for some people but I didn't want to wait until the end of the "tree" to get sentences that are more complicated than "La ragazza ha una mela." (= The girl has an apple.) I found memrise doing a better job but it was incredibly boring.
superbarnie I'm neither and I am happily teaching Japanese and English for living. I don't think you can consider me a fool for having learnt Japanese since it has paved my whole carrer as a linguist.
I love your English accent, you can hear the Italian but also the London/townie/chav highlights on certain words, it's so unique and natural. My kids have the strangest accents. I'm English, their dad is Irish and we live in France so they have voices very personal to them. Makes life more enjoyable to have variety ☺️
All I can say is that you must have a lot of love to give. To "know" a language is to "marry" a language. It needs planning, dedication, money, time, patience, care and of course love.
Time Stamp for the languages he speaks Italian 3:36 - 3:42 Mandarin 3:50 - 5:00 Japanese 5:00 - 6:14 French 6:17 - 7:18 Spanish 7:19 - 7:45 Greek 8:07 - 8:26
He is so right, though. When I decided to learn Japanese I got -"Yeah, you`ve been weird all your life, haven't you?" -"It is so impossible, why do you even try" or my favourite -"If you gotta study a useless and impossible language, at least study Chinese because that is where the money lies" When I decided to study a year abroad in Japan the same shit intensified. As I am now back in my home country - you won`t believe it - people try to discredit what I did. - "Wait, you are not fluent yet? So all you did the last years was in vain, huh" - "Well, it was not that hard to get there. All you needed was money." (Which I worked 3x nightshift [12h] at a petrol station for one almost 2 years and it was def. not the only thing, but okay) My point is, just like Raff`s: Fuck what they think and do your shit. My theory is that it is self-projection. I only get this shit from people who lack passion and ambition for something they desire and mostly follow "the norm", if you get what I mean.
Sounds like jealousy at its finest, fuck those people. People who actively try to discredit others are usually the people who've accomplished the least I've found from experience
Native English speaker here, your English *is* perfect! You even have a well spoken accent going on. Excellent video, I am currently learning Dutch and found this very informative. Thanks Metatron.
"People thought I was weird, but now I speak many languages and they don't"-Metatron for ultimate diss 2016. We should photoshop you with the fedora and weed joint and the 'deal with it' glasses for that one. But in seriousness, thanks for the tips! I plan on learning Spainish myself, my girlfriend and her family speak Spainish, but I barely know it myself. Now I have something to work off of.
+ONII-CHAN!! My aunt was from Madrid and she only approved of Colombian Spanish as far as the Americas were concerned. At least she had a good sense of humor about it.
rich5562000 I have a Colombian friend who speaks like someone from the south of Spain. The first time I heard him talk I thought he was from La Mancha and some of my friends from here thought the same XD
As someone whose native tongue is spanish, i can confirm... Technically the most neutral spanish is the Centroamerican-Colombian one... Still i think the worst one is mexican with a heavy accent... xD
@@TimmacTR Yeah, I had such a hard time learning French from Czech, but learning French from English was so much easier! Half of the words is almost identical.
Bro, i am spanish speaker and I have to admit that you don't even have an accent. IT'S IMPRESSIVE, I SWEAR IT LOOKED AS IF YOU WERE 100% SPANISH. Very good.
what I've noticed about Metaton is he's very good at incorporating accent into his learning of language, which I think is the best way to learn language, basing it on correct pronunciation
El tono de su voz suena extranjero. Cometió un error cuando dijo “te compriendo” en vez de “te comprendo” (un error que niños nativo-parlantes cometen xd ). Aún así, su español es muy bueno.
I do believe that learning different languages does improve your capacity to comprehend things since each language carries with it an entire body of knowledge and memetic coding that pretty much helps to shape the way you think. If you really know an extra language, really understand it, you see the world through a different memetic coding, a different point of view, and this can bring all kinds of improvements. No wonder this guy is so smart ...
No, I know linguists and people with knowledge and talent for languages, and doesn't matter how many languages one speak, there is no causality with intelligence, actually, the ego may grow more/faster (because considered knowledgeable by others) and make you even more miserable in the end.
@@DS-nv2ni Then you have spoken to narrow-minded 'power learners'. Learning offers potential, accepting it is personal responsibility. Things like having many words for snow or having chain of evidence baked into a language or such things can be very enlightening.
Knowing several languages also gives you a different understanding of the nuance of meaning expressed by those languages. I always struggle with this, because the most precise word to describe a concept I'm trying to deliver enters my mind in whatever language that has the most accurate expression of it, and then I just look stupid trying to find an appropriate expression in the language I'm actually having a conversation in😅
As an Italian, I'm also learning modern Greek, and is super fun and not that difficult. .. it seem that you are way ahead of me. Your method is Inspiring.
It's easy to see the geographical influences on language. Dutch is also relatively easy to understand for Germans. And of course Latin languages have a vast pool of similarities.
I am starting to re-learn German (knw it on high school), this is quite a good method. I'll definitely use it, thank you very much! Steps: 1) Learn grammar and basic sentence structure. 2) Name everything you do in your life (morning, afternoon, evening, food, utensils, clothes) and learn those words. 3) Speak everything out loud. 4) Sum your day in the evening. 5) Prepare shortly for next day. 6) Repeat daily.
I just found your channel via Shadiversity, and absolutely love your videos. I really appreciate how clear, concise and thorough you are with your information, while still being respectful and open to other views or ideas. I also really like how diverse some of your topics are. While there are a lot of fantastic channels who put out quality videos, normally the 'trending videos are garbage, fake celebrity gossip/news/drama. I really wish more RU-vidrs made content to the standard of you and shad.
"now i speak 7 languages and they dont" *turn down for what!?* now seriously... ive learned english by playing videogames in english, watching movies in english and singing songs in english... now i have a weird pronunciation because singing and speaking is not that similar... i mean, when james hetfield talks he doesnt say YEAH every 2 sentences, and he doesnt ad an eah after every word he can as he does while singing ...can you imagine it? "hello-eah, im gonna be late-eah, i should take the bus-eah! oh yeah yeah!"
From the very beginning, "我是意大利人", 人should be skimmed over. Then instead of "认识你很高兴", it was supposed to be 很高兴认识你。Instead of 你的老家在哪儿，we say 你老家是哪里的。晚上看中文电影看一个小时，it should be 看一个小时中文电影... so on and so forth. Good luck with your journey of learning all the rest of the languages.
Are you Chinese? because I don't understand what you mean by "Skimming over the word "ren", that I should pronounce it less intensively? At university they taught me both "认识你很高兴", and 很高兴认识你 are fine, my teachers are from Beijing. "Instead of 你的老家在哪儿，we say 你老家是哪里的" thank you for that. The sentence about me watching a film in Chinese everyday again was taught to me by a Chinese, and I then found a Chinese youtuber who teaches English who says it exactly the same way as I do, so I can actually prove that to you, if you want I can give you the link to her video where she teaches that exact same phrase the way I say it. Thanks for watching.
Though I would point out an important difference: when you learn languages which are closer to your native one you don't really need to spend time on grammar - it is better to jump straight to learning vocabulary and practicing, as the grammar system would be very similar. For instance, it took me, being a native Ukrainian speaker, many years to become fluent in English and get a proficiency level, while I just learned Russian reading books and watching movies and youtube videos. Now i am doing the same with Polish. You can then come back to grammar in the end, when you get a grasp on the language - to study specifities. I am also learning Norwegian and it is way easier due to the fact that I know English and a little bit of German, as they are all Germanic, hence, similar in structure and roots. However, learning Mandarin is way harder for me - I have started 9 months ago and even though i practive every day, I am still on the basic leverl and mainly work on pronunciation and listening(learning pin-yin). How I will transition to reading and writing is an open question to me.
I'm usually embarrassed to practice my Spanish because I'm surrounded by proficient bilinguals. But god damn it, man. I'm gonna start this tomorrow! Thanks for the vid
Sounds like a great technique. I've always had an interest for languages, so I've tried learning a few. I'm Norwegian, Norwegian is pretty similar to Swedish and Danish, thus I know three languages fluently. I'd say my English is decent, and I also speak a little Spanish and French. Recently I've been learning mandarin Chinese, and it's going pretty good. So that's seven languages! The technique I use involves using the bathroom mirror. I put post-it notes up on the mirror with phrases and words I want to learn, and so every time I end up in front of the mirror, I try to have a conversation with myself using the current words and phrases there. When I feel confident in using the phrases already there, I change them out with new ones. I find this working pretty good for me, and maybe it will benefit someone else to try this out too.
You don't know 4 languages just because you're Norwegian lol what about nynorsk? I know norsk dansk svensk nynorsk and english so i speak 5 languages? Gtfo
I'm basically self-taught in English, and I can read, write and understand English fluently, but one of my biggest problems is pronounciation, and overall speaking, because I don't speak it in my daily life. I'll start using your tips to improve my pronunciation.
It doesn't help that the pronunciation rules for English basically don't exist. Everything has to be taken on a word by word basis. Even as a native English speaker, I find it infuriating. I suspect literacy rates would improve considerably if spelling and pronunciation rules were standardized.
@@InfernosReaper the reason it can't really be standardised is due to the overstandardisation, the only solid rule in English grammar is that there is always exceptions 😂
@@lewiitoons4227 no, they can making *spelling* rules actually be consistent. they just refuse to. it's not even that hard. --no silent letters --single vowels have 1 pronunciation --2 vowels have a different one Ideally, adding in a few new letters to cover the remaining vowel sounds would be nice, but will have to settle for vowel + vowel combinations for that due to existing keyboards and printing methods. Maybe vowel + another set letter could work. it's a pity really, because I'd also love to have letters replace "sh" "ch" "kw"/"qu" "zw" & "th" maybe also "ks"/"cks"
@@InfernosReaper it has been standardised but English has a nasty habit of changing alot in a little time not to mention the main reason for the huge dialectal shift in Britain at least is from populations simply refusing to accept the newer standard, for example I can type in standard English but struggle speaking it for my Scots vocabulary which is more akin to old English with the vowel system etc so I don't really think spelling reformation would do much and alot of the common spelling reforms get rejected because of the ambiguity again most of English' current problems come from previous standardisations like the silent letters you speak of are either there for etymological reasons which Is common in all languages, that'd why the "ê" exists in French and why alot of Spanish words start with a H
@@lewiitoons4227 No, it never really was standardized *spelling*. That's the problem. There have been efforts made to do things like make the language conform more to Latin(which is why we get weird things like "island"), but no real effort to standardize spelling As for your example, that's because you're leaving the realm of *English* and going into a mashup of that and another language(which you already should know about, because Gaelic. yes, even though it's mainly spoken in communities that are rife with incest, it still influences the dialect considerably)
One thing I just found it really interesting: I've been studying Italian (as long as Latin) at school. My mother tongue is German, nevertheless I unterstood nearly every single word you said in Spanish, haha.👌🏼 So yeah, it's truly very similiar to Italian as even I - as a non-native Italian - could unterstand it.
That's nice. As a Scandinavian knowing German as well as Portuguese and Spanish I noticed the same. Danish, Norwegian, Swedish are all quite similar. With some difficulty we can usually understand eachother. German is more distant to us; we can understand a bit but would need a translator to speak with eachother. Italian, Portuguese, Spanish are all quite similar. With some difficulty they can usually understand eachother. French is more distant; the four can understand a bit but would need a translator to speak with eachother. Knowing Portuguese and Spanish I as well can understand a good deal Italian when written or if they speak slowly. English, though being a North Sea Germanic language, seems like a a mixture of them all: Latin, Saxon, Danish, French. My friend tells me it's the same with the languages of Southern China, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand. He's learning them all.
The biggest obstacle to me learning a second language is that I just keep forgetting to actually learn the darned language. a couple months ago, I decided I wanted to learn German, but I quickly forgot to actually continue doing so, and probably would have continued forgetting for a few more months if I hadn't seen this video which mentions language learning in the title.
I heard learning German is really painful if you didn't grow up with it (which is what I did). So it's probably kind of hard to get the moments of success you need to keep going...
from my experience (native Italian), it is very hard to achieve a high level of proficiency in German (e.g. writing properly in formal business situations or at an academic level), but becoming able to communicate relatively clearly in everyday situations is something manageable. Personally I sometimes still make some mistakes with articles, prepositions or Akk/Dat, but overall the message normally gets across without problems.
It helps a lot to find stuff you're interested in in that language. Music, for example. I learned a lot of German from listening to bands such as BlutEngel and Faun, and I learned quite a bit of Spanish listening to Shakira. Now while I'm figuring out Japanese, I've been watching anime and listening to J-Pop music.
Thanks, Metatron! I have been a student of languages for many years. Russian, German, and Spanish are the ones I continue to study. I have used a variation of your method. I pretty much have conversations with myself throughout the day learning how to say whatever pops into my mind. But, I do like the targeted method you use and will start using it myself.
The first time I heard him I guessed he was Italian, but after a while I wasn't sure anymore Now I need to step up my language learning; French, German and Italian
A native English speaker can tell he is not a native English speaker. Of course his English is excellent, but it is obvious, or should be, that he is not a native speaker.
@@correodechris kind of not necessarily, because there is also the possibility of English speakers who have lived in different countries for a lot of years.
As an EFL teacher, I can confirm this is golden advice. Language isn't something you learn through good instruction and a brain that's smart; it's something you learn through diligence and and a brain that's convinced. The biggest step for me was choosing to communicate instead of avoiding. Russian was easy because it was necessity. It was much more difficult to have conversations with a deaf, elderly gentleman in Spanish sign language, learning on the fly, or to try reading labels in Georgian or Ukrainian instead of Russian or English. It's the step of letting go of your ego long enough to make mistakes, but short enough to avoid repeating them. You've inspired me to take up my Georgian studies.
This is seriously one of the best videos I have seen on language learning because it is practical. Your Spanish is really amazing. You got the speed down. I guess this is due to speaking each and everyday. I love the tip on practicing a different topic each day or each week. I'm going to try these tips for the three languages I am learning.
Italian detected - speaking with hands even when speaking japaneese! :-D Big respect! I´m glad that i discovered your channel. It´s probably the best history- connected channel on YT!
I'm impressed. You have a gift for picking up languages. Years ago I met a USA woman who learned to speak fluent Farsi while living with her Persian boy friend and meeting his friends.
Ha sido realmente una sorpresa verte hablar en español. Hace tiempo que sigo tu canal. Como español puedo decir que tu español suena muy bien (good job with your spanish). Comme j'habite en France je peux vérifier le fait que tu parles très bien le français aussi (really nice french too).
I agree- even his English is very fast. Also, I like that he breaks down how well he knows each language. A lot of people just claim to know languages when they only know a couple words or phrases.
It is absolutely phenomenal that you speak both Mandarin AND Japanese fluently. I need to learn Spanish (I'm 69) and I'm definitely going to use your method. I think it makes perfect sense ! Love your videos...how about doing some more videos on the ancient Hebrews (Yahweh, El and the Elohim) and if present day Christians are actually worshipping the "right" god ??
I can't help but just imagine how that would look to someone on the outside. A 6 foot person of obvious Scandinavian descent waking up in the morning and saying "Morning, afternoon, evening" in a sleepy Japanese tone, saying "Underpants", "Coffee" and "Cigarette" and "Processed crap" at lunch time.
Japanese: I've been studying for 1 year- could understand a few words, couldn't catch a lot of them. Chinese: I've been studying for 1 week- could understand 75% of the words, and could guess 15% of the remaining 25%. Bagel Logic.
Tanti Saluti!Salutamu!Great video!You are an inspiration!I speak english and spanish(my first language).Iam a latino guy of spanish,sicilian,and german ancestry.Always wanted to speak italian,sicilian,german because of my heritage.I started studying german in January and Italian two weeks ago.IYour videos I have seen so far on language learning are wonderful!!IAlot better than many so called language gurus!!!You are a humble intellectualThank you so much,Metatron!
He is wearing an adidas shirt so he is surely a secret slavic spy. I bet if we raid his fridge we will find many jars of mayonez and kompot his babushka made
I love learning foreign languages and what metatron says definitely works: I have been doing it for twenty years across one, two and then three languages. I am looking forward to add a fourth one and I hesitate between Japanese and Chinese.
+fdsdh1 Uhm... well... we do have some languages in school. It probably helps but it doesn't mean people actually remeber much of the stuff 30 years later.
You're so smart. It just radiates. Amazing. I'm learning latin and Spanish. I'm more proficient in Spanish and basic in latin. I speak English as a native. I need to become fluent in Spanish since it's very popular here and important. Latin just for fun but I'd like to become proficient. You've perfected the accents in the languages you're learning. That shows true understanding and proficiency. I understood all ur Spanish. I do ur method as well. English was once not my native language. It was Russian. When my mom taught me English, she would walk me through the house and point to items and ask me what it was. She made it fun. I become fluent in English in 6 months. Granted, I did live in America as well. Point is ur method works and you can make it so fun.
Who said I can't read Chinese? ;) 我会读 :p You wrote: 小朋友 xiao peng you (little friend, usually used for children you don't know the name of), 他 ta (he, masculine form because it has the radical "person" instead of "woman") 不 bu (cannot/negative of verbs and adjectives, exception the verb to have which uses "mei") 懂 dong (understand) 中文zhongwen (Chinese, written, but sometimes used also for the spoken language instead of hanyu) 啊 ah! (exclamation) 你 ni (you, normal, formal version has "xin" as a radical at the bottom and is pronounced nin) 应该 yonghai (should) 用 yong (use) 英语 ying yu (English) 写出来 xie chu lai (write down/out) I know around 2.000 hanzi, I can't read everything, but I can normally read most things and when I don't know a hanzi I can just look it up on the dictionary. For your message I didn't need to look up any hanzi on the disciontary. For our xiao peng you's message there were just a couple of characters I didn't remember and I had to look up :)
This is some great advice!! I have a tip as well that's helped me with better pronunciation: study some basics of phonetics and phonology to gain an understanding of how different sounds are produced, by your vocal cords, mouth and nasal cavities, placement of your tongue etc.
Ciao Metatron! Great advice on learning a new language! I have 2 questions: In your opinion, for a foreigner which Italian dialect is the easiest to learn? I lived in Torino for a few months, spent some time in Venezia and in a small coastal town in Veneto called Caorle. Naturally, all 3 have a different dialect, but interestingly I found it much easier to converse with friends who were native of Calabria and spoke with a Cilentano dialect. I'm bilingual (Hungarian and English) and in school I did study standard Italian like everyone else, but I found it for a lack of a better word 'dry'. Those dull lessons totally killed the beauty of the language for me. So, when I traveled to Italy for the first time I was completely enchanted by the unique melody of all the different accents, intonations and dialects that I found in every place I visited. My second question is, how hard is it to learn to write Kanji? How long did it take for you to be comfortable reading and writing in Japanese? Learning to speak in another language by speaking with native speakers was always easy for me, but writing is a whole different ballgame! I have no problem speaking in full, short sentences in a new foreign language within weeks and I'm good with accents, but if you ask me to write down what I just said, I would be very hesitant.. How can I improve on that? Mille grazie! 💓
Wow you are phenomenal... I too am bilingual.... my first language was American Sign Language because my parents are deaf and around the same time I started learning sign language I learned English. Now, I’m learning Spanish and I hope to learn a fourth language too. I’ve always had a dream to know lots of languages like you... so cool!!
I used the same system you do....I speak four languages fluently..... But I think You must have a better memory and retention than me !! Congratulations, and good video. Thank you !!
+Anatolie Cazacu I speak Portuguese and for me too, except from the words "imparare" and "anche" I understood everything even if I don't know anything in Italian yet.
I’m proud to say that after 10 months of study, I could understand most of the Japanese words you used in your dialogue, however at that speed I couldn’t keep track of what you were actually saying. Only the individual words. I definitely need to prioritize listening practice.
Thank you. This is what I do. Today, I was in West Los Angeles donating blood. I always engage people in conversations. Today, it was a radio station promotion in a blood drive and the young man was from Canada, so I switched to speaking French. It doesn't mean that I am fluent in French, just willing to make mistakes. At home, I ran through a lesson of Duolingo. A month ago, I was picking up a girl friend who was finalizing a car lease. The greeter had clothing characteristics telling me he was not from Los Angeles. He was from Hungary, so the language in common was German. Years ago, I spent 4 hours speaking to the late wife's relative in the hills of Sicily. Afterwards, I asked what language i was speaking and why. I didn't remember. All I knew was that I would keep trying to formulate words that I did not know. The answer was I was speaking Spanish as the relative had lived in Venezuela for 8 years. NO, I am not fluent - just willing to make mistakes.
Oh my god! I've fallen in love! I'm fascinated by language and excited by language learning. I'm learning Italian at the moment, slowly. I wish I'd started earlier and tried more languages. My first language was Japanese. My second was English, which I spoke with an American accent until I had to learn a BBC accent to be accepted in 1950s Melbourne's eastern suburbs. I stopped being bilingual and dropped the posh accent in order to survive the school ground in the outer suburbs. I learnt to be a chameleon. In high school I studied French for six years, but can't remember much. I grew up refusing to speak English, which is apparently not uncommon for immigrant children, but continued to understand Japanese as my parents' more interesting conversations were conducted in their strongest common language. In my 40s decided to go back to university to study Japanese - spoken and written. I was annoyed that everyone had come to embrace Japanese culture and were learning Japanese and frankly, I was bitter, feeling I'd been robbed of my mother tongue. You might imagine it would have been easier for me than my classmates, but interestingly it was not, at first. It was so interesting - the speaking part of my brain could not utter a word no matter how hard I tried, but the comprehending brain that knew how Japanese should sound, kept saying (in English) "No, no no! You stupid, stupid person." Very discouraging. I felt a bit crazy with two voices arguing. "OK. Tell me what to say", but the comprehending brain didn't have command of the vocal chords and tongue. So interesting - I almost felt the neural network rearranging itself in the weeks that followed. And then the intuitive knowledge of sentence structures etc kicked in, and it was a joy to be able to talk to my mother in our native language.
7:40 I studied the language many years ago, and I was surprised at how much I understood. I really could get a good grasp of what you were saying! I, however, would be unable to reply. (I truly need to pick up my language studied again. I love learning languages. Why did I stop??? Seriously, what is wrong with me?) 12:53 I will totally try this for Welsh :D Thank you Byddaf yn ceisio dysgu Cymraeg 15:30 I'm a Welshwoman and I understand your English perfectly, you speak English better than some Englishman I know. It is very impressive. My knowledge of Italian is purely music based. (Allegro, Crescendo, Piano, Forte, etc, etc). If I was to learn Italian I would first need to work on sentence structure, I think. It is certainly something I will do one day. First, however, is Welsh. It is the native language of my country and I don't know it. Unacceptable, I say!
Your greek isn't terrible.Try fixing up the spacing between words so it becomes more comprehensible.I could only say bongiorno when i went to italy for a week. You also used complicated words which ia a good sign.
I am 51 yrs old now and so glad I found this video after discovering your channel for the first time yesterday. Normally, upon a new subscription, I begin watching from the oldest moving forward. Helps me learn how the channel owner has progressed over however many years it's been produced. My last foray into foreign language was high school French class for only 1.5 years. I had to quit part way through verb conjugation because it couldn't sink in. Now, fast-forward from 17yo, I now have a dear friend in Romania and I hope this technique of yours will help me and I suspect it might since a college teacher of mine was helping me with another elusive concept and after class made me repeat it continuously until I was angry and sobbing. I've never forgotten that little tidbit. Wish me luck and thanks. Aszneth PS: figure out the origins of my name and you get one virtual hug. 😃👍🤗
Yes, the same happened to me when I came to The Netherlands. The Dutch people will always say that it was difficult to learn their language and were not really encouraging. Today I speak it. It is all a matter of practice and not to listen to people who think they are the only ones who can do it and you can't. Good video!
