Talking Our Way to Fluency 

I always have the same short conversations, in specific situations of my day by day life in my native language (Spanish), like when I go to the market to buy my groceries, when I take a taxi, when I choose the meal in a restaurant, protocols in places like the airport, and so on. Every day the same conventions and chunks. I believe that if someone made short videos about his/her high frequently interactions in a normal week it would be great helpful for people learning that language, especially beginners and tourist (on student books you always see the extremely formal way to the the things and not real people in real life interactions)

I am a native Arabic speaker and I just wanna thank you sir. you really inspired me to complete my "learning English" journey,you didn't just did that sir. you inspired me to learn other languages such as frensh and German,too. I'm so grateful. i happend to know that you are learning Arabic.i just wanna say keep learning I am sure it will get easier as far as you go with it(an advice which I learnt from you).i realise that it may be difficult at first ,especially because it isn't familiar to you yet,but the most important advice I can provide is that learning Arabic acquires Continuity At the end I wanna thank you for being such a great teacher and adviser. the world needs more honest people like you sir.

Hello Steve, my admiration for mastering several languages, and thanks for your advice to achieve fluency, greetings

Fully support this. Sometimes it feels like you can spend longer looking for content than you spend listening to content, so anything like this would greatly help.

I’m all about it Steve! Following your advice with learning this way led me to fluency in German. I think Lingq should consider paying people a small amount for creating good content. Something to consider.

Exactly, listening to the language more and more is the only way. Using LingQ doesn't seem so easy as I thought it would be but hopefully I can get the hang of it and make use of its courses like the one you mentioned.

I really enjoy your broadcasts, Steve. I've made a RU-vid collection of you interviewing your French guests in French. I play them again and again. As you say it is the language going over the brain and I've learnt so much from you and your fellow polyglots. I've also become a fan of Stephen Krashen and a firm believer in Comprehensive Input.. French is the first language that I've language I learned other than English and I'm at an Intermediate Level with it, I have been doing it for two years. I started it after I spent five months of speech therapy, 3 hours a day recovering from a stroke that nearly killed me so I could go back to teaching full time. I'm a high school teacher of history and geography. Thanks for all the work you've done with people learning languages.

Hi Steve! I've been following your channel since 2012 and I'm adamant that my listening comprehension improved a great deal since I started watching your videos (over and over again). Thank you so much!

Just STARTING TO OPEN MY MOUTH AND TALK was my greatest fear and I used excuses for ages... it’s not been enough time, I’m not ready, dont have enough vocab in the bank... etc... just fears talking... as soon as I started (with language partners now on italki) it CHANGED EVERYTHING!! Just gotta do it!

This man always fills me with motivation to learn languages. Now I'm in my 2 language (Russian) it's kind of hard at the beginning but eventually I'll get through it. Great content mr Kaufman!

Hi Steve! It was such a good and interesting topic, thanks! We are programmed to listen stories. Today's technology helps us a lot. Other people's output is our input and when it is comprehensible, then we acquire the language. Happy new year 2021!

Typo in the title (just in case you didn't realize)! Thanks for the amazing insight as always!

Hi Steve, these are good points, thanks. And with the transcriptions, I have found that upper intermediate students of a language can to some extent punctuate the text as well. In fact, it is good practice to listen to the intonation to indicate ends of sentences. I have done that with some of my Spanish lessons (in LingQ) if I have time. A very Merry Christmas to you too, and a blessed new year. Regards from South Africa.

This sounds a lot like what's happening on the "Dreaming Spanish" RU-vid Channel and a few other channels are popping up like it too. Cool stuff! I first heard about this from the AUA school in Bangkok, Thailand and went more in depth on the subject by reading the book "From the Outside In" by Dr. J. Marvin Brown. How they have named it is "crosstalk" so that it's not confused with "language exchange" haha

A great idea. I'm lucky that in my current target language there is a lot of conversational content. But for other languages there is not so much.

Very nice vid! I teach Greek to foreigners, I'd love to give LingQ a hand, my time and knowledge allowing.

I wish we have the same series for korean ,japanese and turkish.But man I'm addicted to steave's videos

Hello, Steve! Thanks a lot! It's great to see and listen your videos!

Indeed. That is why podcasts, in whatever area people are interested in is super important. Some learners put this down! can you believe it?

Thanks for your advice. I'm a french native speaker. Everyday I listen people talking in english (postcast Netflix..). My understanding is quite good without subtitles. Unfortunately my speaking and writting skills are not so good especially because I don't have anyone to talk with in english

Hi Steve.I made self talk from a small start for half a year.I am happy i made a lot progress than doing nothing.

Thank you so much for that information, I’d like you to know that you really inspire me to keep going on my leanguages learning. I love leanguages and I proposed myself to learn Italian, French and Chinese. Greetings from Dominican Republic 🇩🇴!!!

Happy New Year, Steve! Частлывий новий год! from Pittsburgh

That's true, I'm native spanish and I have learnt english listening to you also

Listen sir, i wish for you all the best because you are really so particulate and completely crisp understandable. I am an Egyptian guy and i am looking forward to your help to assess me in English if you can. I just need to send you a video i'm talking in to evaluate my spoken language and may more further to have a call with you sir. I am a fresh graduated and i need to assess myself to work in a multinational company. I don't care about TOEFL or IELTS because i can't afford its bund and i need to know am i really B1 as the british council online test says or not. Your help will put me on the nine cloud and as well as your prompt reply is highly appreciated. Many thanks. Regards, Muhammad

Thanks

I find Gglot to be good at transcribing things. It costs about 9 cents per minute of transcribed text. It covers many languages.

Hi there I’m Iranian and appreciate that you wanna know about farsi

Thank you I m studying Farsi so I will check it out ! Useful video 🙂

Great video ! Thanks I’m learning Spanish

I love your videos.

3:15 Yalda is the longest night of year in persian calture

Hey Steve, I'm a native Persian speaker and I would like to contribute to the Iranians series, but I couldn't quite find it on Linq, can you make video about how to upload voices to the series? also do I need to write my speech in text format? thanks!

Great stuff. Yap, I agree. I think Steve once said that that's exactly what one can do for language learners.

Great video ! I would like to do a recording and share in Lingq for people to practice. Spanish is my native language so I would do it on that. What would be the procedure to give it in LingQ?

Steve先生，您的视频很棒！

As an enjoyment learner who can always go back to improve on languages of the past, I still don't see what the problem is with doing what Lindie does, which is focusing on a couple of languages for a few months and then switch and do the same for the next set, instead of focusing on like 2 for several months or a year on end which is how you miss out. Sorry to say this Steve but we're not getting any younger, so is setting yourself up to feel the regret of lost chances really a good Idea? Lindie also says we should have other activities besides language learning to really have engaging conversations which I completely agree with, but something tells me you barely have anything significant in life worth sharing if all your interactions with native speakers are one-off and never see them again. Very surprising coming from a pensioner to have so few social connections in life

Hi my name is Ali I'm from syria but Now I live in Canada I Saw your videos and I feel excited to learn English if you need any help to practicing Arabic I'm glad to practicing t with you. Thanks,

Yalda is the longest day🤗

Fantastic idea. I’m going to try and create this with my target language (Filipino).

Merry Christmas Teacher.

Thank you ☺️ you a good man

یلدا مبارک. yalda mobarak

I am Iranian and Persian is my mother tongue. If you need help learning Persian, I'm here.

Steve the G.O.A.T. now speaking

Good morning Steve, I love your videos! I have a question for you, I think it's probably a stupid one however I often ask myself when you say you notice when they use formal speech versus informal that you just listen to hear the differences in conversation but you don't look up grammar. How do you know the difference then how are you able to recognize the differences? Maybe this is with experience of the many languages you have acquired? Thank's for your point of view on learning languages, it always reassures me in one way or another when I feel frustrated.

Our title Steve is very miss leading. Perhaps you are confused? What you seem to really mean is listening your way to fluency.

I opened RU-vid just to see if you uploaded a video. and yeah it's been 3minutes.

Im Iranian😀

I'm getting a Tandem partner right now!

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I have been learning English without interruption since 2005, and I still cannot fully understand this video.

Perhaps title it “listening our way to fluency” and you won’t have to explain it?

你好啊！

سلام کافمن جان دوستت دارم..من اهل ایرانم ..love you jaufman

wow handsome