▶︎ Pimsleur Free Trial Link: offers.pimsleur.com/free-trial-1407 ▶︎ Follow on IG plz trying to hit 10k I need your help to complete this quest: instagram.com/ikennaobi All the resources from the steps are below! 💥 Step 1: www.languagetransfer.org/ offers.pimsleur.com/free-trial-1407 or googling / youtube Step 2: TV shows, podcasts, movies, other forms of media Step 3: Google your language + anki decks and check out this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-w1vDkRcBTXg.html www.memrise.com/ Step 4: www.interpals.net/ www.tandem.net/ www.hellotalk.com/?lang=en Extra: If you are fine with spending money check out the video below: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gjZMomXs35Q.html
Hi Ikenna, I purchased your language learning guide a month or so ago in order to help me pick up French. In the guide you advise using Assimil and in some of your videos you have suggested using Anki. So I have a question... How do you suggest using the two resources together? I have uploaded all the Assimil parallel-text sentences with corresponding audio to Anki and am systematically working through the course, specifically translating from English into my target language, French (so I am engaging in the "active" phase from the beginning). However, this is a lot of work. I have been getting through roughly two lessons a day and it is taking roughly 4 hours each day to memorise the new sentences and review previously learnt content. I definitely feel like what I am doing is working, but I wonder if there is a more efficient way to go about this? When "actively" memorising the sentences in Anki, do you insist upon 100% accurate recall? I feel like I am cheating the work if I mess up a seemingly minor feature of a sentence (like a proposition) and hit "hard" or "good", even if I have recalled 95% of the sentence correctly. For example, If I recall "L'autre soir, M. Zitoun a un assiste un cocktail au bureau" incorrectly as "L'autre soir, M. Zitoun un assiste un cocktail au bureau" (the latter incorrect example omits the "a") I would insist upon hitting the "Again" button until I achieve perfection. Am I being too hard on myself? Should I be applying the 80/20 (Pareto principle) rule here? Would you strive for perfection or is this just an inefficient approach that is waisting time? Thanks for you help. Love the channel and your work. All best, Alex.
A Zhivago In my experience: It should be fun. Find your way that excites u to stay motivated. I find it pretty fun to learn with duolingo the basics of a new language. Then using Netflix Chrome LL extension or even the great LingQ Chrome extension. I even watch foreign tutorials for graphics or making music on youtube! So what are you interested in? Set future goals & make it fun the way to ur goals. Thats it!
Thanks for your very interesting article, here are a few more tips on how to learn Arabic… Set realistic goals, don’t just dive in and say “I want to be fluent Arabic within 1 year”, give yourself short term goals which lead up to long term goals. E.g. Short Term Goal = “I want to learn all about this topic in 1 month” and Long Term Goal = “I aim to be able to speak about at least 12 topics within the next 12 months Make time, you will need to set some time aside, preferably on a day to day basis, so you can achieve your goal. I highly recommend blocking out actual time on your calendar every day and really commit to this. Think of it as an appointment with your doctor that you wouldn’t consider missing. That is exactly how you should treat this task. As little as 20 minutes a day is a great start. Immerse yourself in the language, meet Arabic speaking friends, listen to the radio, watch a show on TV, and try to read the newspaper. Even if you do not fully understand the content, keep it as a daily exercise and you will eventually make sense of it all. The other great news is this listening exercise is the only way to improve your accent. Your brain will process all the information and you will notice the improvement with time. Have a practice buddy, keep yourself motivated and accountable by practicing Arabic with a friend. It is always a good strategy to practice the language with someone who is fluent and non-judgmental. I have a friend who practices Arabic with me and I practice English with her. (I discovered about these and more from Mirykal lingo guide website )
Well your English is amazing if it’s not your main language. You’ve obviously put lot of effort into learning and practicing it. I’m starting to learn Japanese TODAY!! 😄
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You bought a book that can be bought for cheaper than 40 dollars amzn.to/2OEtFyR as this has more info as well as uses the same stuff and is written by professionals anyway wish you luck
Duolingo only helps with the "memorization" of the languages, and not the "Acquisition" of it. So yes sis, keep them tabs because tax day is soon to come
Here’s how I learned dutch free: 1. watch basic vids about dutch on yt 2. continue to watch yt vids 3. create english sentences (like 70 sentences) and translate each one of them using a translator to dutch. 4 repeat step 3 until you’ve reached a good point (maybe 150 sentences translated. NOTE: step 3 takes like 3-6 months to achieve so be patient)........ 5. watch dutch youtubers (without captions. you will know half of what they are saying and will help you learn nouns) 6. watch dutch shows, etc. for a couple of months. 7. try to find a dutch speaking person online or real life and try to talk to them. If you understand them and they understand you, good job! If not repeat step 3,5,6 then try again in a month
Hi, I like your approach to learning Dutch. I learned Dutch myself, but without using a translator because that can be highly inaccurate. I find the best way, for me, to learn is by immersion. Immerse yourself and soon you'll be able to understand a lot. Also, speak at any opportunity you can! (This is harder unless you live there like I do). Keep up the great work!
That's essentially what I did. I began translating Minoes while listening to a narration of it and also Dutch tv shows. In a few months I could understand part of Minoes I had not translated, like 80% and around 50% of some TV shows, depending on the show. I did no word list nor flash card drills.
@@jentedekker5829 Thank goodness for youtube also having Zeg ns Aaa for me to watch :) But Matthijs van Nieuwkerk on De Wereld Draait Door, OMG I so cannot understand anything he says lol.
Mister Gaming he talks really fast, difficult Dutch and not really how you talk in real life. So if you ever need some one to talk to my Instagram is @jente_dekker you can always send me a dm if you want.
im attempting to learn Korean as well and also want to live there when I'm older so we've got that much in common. what resources do you use? I'm curious
AtypicalWeirdo Well yeah, but if you think about it, a lot of teenagers (like me) are busy and stressed with school, so maybe he can talk about things like learning a lnaguge while being busy with school.
If you can check for this book in your library amzn.to/2OEtFyR its a lot cheaper than the book he sells and has more info than his book as well as written by a professional.
Funny cause his book is over priced amzn.to/2OEtFyR and you can probably find this book in your lib and has more info has been written by professionals
I started with Duolingo free and watching videos in my target languages. Then I got a bit more serious and have paid for a few apps premium services, bought some books. I will look into the language exchange sites, that's what I'm missing now, the output part. I am still so timid to approach any person that speaks any of my target languages, that I don't practice that part. Thank you for the tips. Arigatou. Danke. Gracias. Mulțumesc.
Me pasa lo mismo pero escribirle a otros ayuda bastante. Después de ganar confianza con un lenguaje podrías mandar audios/llamar a otra persona. Hellotalk es una buena app para hacer eso. Mucha suerte 🙌
Learning a language for free to fluency is possible! English is my second language and I managed to become fluent and have conversations with people! I believe in all of you guys, you can do it!
Ikenna when you mentioned language transfer and said there were 6/7 language I was thinking pfft no way there’s Arabic and then bam you said Arabic so eyyyyy 🙌🏼
Hey this is a reminder and when i figured this out it saved me so much money. They usually have all the pimsleur courses in libraries to borrow for free and a lot of other resorces you're welcome
For Japanese, I use YomiKata Z. (It's a free app, I use it for learning Kanji! Even says pronunciation. ) And just a general mix of things. Still learning but have made more progress then Ibdid in highdchool. Also thanks for the tips and Stuff Ikenna, been giving me mad motivation and have been going on apps and stuff to keep on learning on my breaks at work! :) イッケナ先生. ありがとごさいます! (I'm not 100% sure that is the right way of putting that sentence together, but non of the less ^-^)
Ahahah I like the keyboard allegory. I'll use it with my students next time 😂😂. Learning languages for free is a very interesting video topic. You might have just inspired me :D But I agree that not spending any money at all on language learning is tricky. Especially for language learning beginners. But even me I'd find it tricky.
@@justakathings yeah I have been looking for some time now. RU-vid does have the auto generated captions to English but like most languages the words that are being translated have different meanings which makes it difficult to follow.
For you cheap folks, you can go on Gen Lib Rus (Learned about it on Tumblr) if you want to get textbooks for free, this includes language books (and expensive ones you need for college)! You can search for the language, company name, author, title, ISBN, etc. Or on google, you can search the name of a book and type PDF and you might be able to find it that way. Was able to get PDFs of textbooks that aren't even that old this way for Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish! (the site is in English and Russian!) If you want audios, sometimes the publishers will post the audios on their website. Or if that doesn't work, you can try and find it on PirateBay.... Also don't forget about your local library! Sometimes they will have free access to language programs like Mango Languages, Pronunciator :)), or Rocket Languages! You can even get Pimsleur there, check it out, then just download the files lmao. You're welcome.
If you have a library card, make sure to check out what language resources your local library, look for a resources/research/tools page on their website. Most libraries have subscriptions to services/apps that you have to pay for, but are FREE if you have a library card. My LIB I think has 3 language services.
I learned english for free and on my own, my parents are not English speakers and I've only been to the States once when I was little, the thing is.. I HAVE NO IDEA HOW I DID IT, like it just happened? and I can't remember what i did to start learning
I checked the Pimsleur app and it's actually really good. But man, it's so goddamn expensive. I am currently learning japanese and I'm brazilian, and the monthly subscription is 72 reais, witch is not that much when converted to dollars, but for us is like 72 dollars monthly. I know you probably don't have to worry about it, because you are obviously sponsored by this app, but if you are going to make a video just to discourage people who are trying to learn a language on their own and say it's practically impossible if they don't have the app that sponsors you, then just don't do it. I am not trying to make a mean comment or anything like that. It's just that when you see this gap between actually trying to help people learn and trying to sell an app so badly is really frustrating and disappointing. You're a really good youtuber and I really like your videos, but I think this one is just a disservice for people who are trying to learn a language on their own and it just discourages them.
for anyone learning russian, id strongly recommend Real Russian Club on youtube and the website. loads of free professional lessons on youtube and high quality paid and free resources on the website
I'm a Filipino and I've heard that Bahasa Indonesia is fairly easier for Filipinos since they come down from the same ancestral language roots (though Filipino has lexical ties with Spanish.). Would it be easy for me? I'd really love communicate with my southeast asian fellowmen, also with the consideration that it's also one of the most spoken languages in the world!
Aku juga hhah Tetapi bahasa Indonesia aku hanya gak baik-baik karena aku orang Jepang, nggak orang Indo 😅 Aku cinta bahasa Indonesia karena itu cantik dan mudah hhah Maaf jika aku melakukan kesalahan .... aku belajar sejak 1 bulan lalu 😅
I'm trying to learn italian and currently use daily Duolingo, Memrise and drops! And occasionally listen to the podcast coffee break italian and sometimes youtube videos of italian. Seeing progress actually! Around 2.5 months in!
I'm 14 and my native languge is super hard i'ts oldest in europe and has alot of similar words to oldest languges in wrold so i alredy had a rough start then my second languge is english its so f easy but i learn it kinda in school but i became fluent when i started to watch yt AND I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND ENYTHING ET THAT TIME!!! But YT helped alot. Then i'm learning freanch and i need to start to learn it et home. Now i m learning korean and i m kinda better then freanch by now 😂😂😂( i studied freanch for about 2 years now ... i know its not fuuny! )and i m learning russian by my mom cuz she had to learn it et school :)
Does anyone have a pimsleur account that has all Russian lessons I can use? I really love Russian and am passionate about it. I'd love to learn with pimsleur.
Short Stories by Olly Richards et al. is an absolutely fantastic resource. You can study one chapter every day for 30m (depending on your level) and eventually work through all 8 stories in 8 weeks. Perfect core study time and progress is very visible.
Hello! I was reading your book and watching your RU-vid videos and had a question about Pimsleur. For Asian languages, do you still suggest using Pimsleur for the first 60 lessons and then moving on to Assimil?
Asian languages can be more tricky, the first 90 lessons would suffice. Unless you feel very comfortable and not too challenged by thePimsleur material then you can move on ahead at around 60.
Ikenna: Speaks Japanese fluently Also Ikenna: Says the Japanese word "Anki"(暗記) like Ay-nkee instead of on-kee (あんき) when referring to the app in English. I used to say I-kaiwa instead of Aykaiwa so it's not just him. Just find it funny.
@@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER why? they can teach you basics and just because they are boring, they aren't useless. You can always complement your learning with other resources, the book provides you with the structure Ikenna has been preaching about
Me learning German and maybe French later because I'm interested in studying abroad: mum/dad/auntie can you get me a grammar textbook? Them: worry about getting into a good college, you barely study for the SATs.
I like to listen to *TV* shows with korean or english captions (usually english for german because they share similar captions but i can’t do that if i’m half awake aha)... I also like to use germanpod101.com and i recommend just like Ikenna stated learn the basics of the language + pronunciations in the language. Also, though it sounds like a hassle to do all this free, i learned english no money at all. and i’m not smart nor dumb, it’s possible with effort + motivation.
i am a spanish native speaker and i am able to easely understand english, i learned it by myself, the thing that i lack on is the hability to speak fluently, and that is mainly because i do not have anybody to talk to. i am also studying german by myself, so i´ll be happy if a reach the level that i have in english, being hable to understand videos and everything.
I learned English by my own. I still learning it, by the way. But I never paid for any course or whatever, It all comes naturally when you have good resources -- and there is a lot of fine free resources online.
You recommend Pimsleur. But in Russia 90$ is 5500 roubles. It's a big money to pay for month. For me, working class teenager from Moskow, the middle amount of income from part-time jobs (if I work during summer holidays, there's no way to work during school year, fuck westernized schooling model) is 3000-5000 per month, and for teenager not from Moskow, this is no way to get too much money. I saw a video recently, comparing Muskowite bourgeois son of businessman, who gets a lot of money and spends it for shitty clothes, and a Ryazanskaya Oblast's girl, who live in a village and who's family gets only 600 roubles per month (БЛЯТЬ, ДЕСЯТЬ БАКСОВ, ТЫ ПРЕДСТАВЬ!), and can not let her buy something (i'm not speaking about learning languages, lol). The main problem of learning languages is MONEY, and you won't avoid it. Your advises are useful, but... it's not practical. I know, your videos are mostly for american audithory, but I wanted to tell you our situation. Hope you'll read it and make conclusions. In addition I want to say, fuck capitalism, seriously. I WANT TO LEARN FUCKING JAPANESE AND KOREAN FOR 2 YEARS ALREADY, BUT I CAN'T GO FURTHER THAN LEARNING BASICS, LIKE HIRAGANA AND HAN... *coughs* CHOESONGUL, УУУУУУУУУ СУКА ЖОПА ГОРИТ АААААААААА БЛЯЯЯЯЯЯЯЯТЬ
Also for input you can fond discord servers where groups of people belonging to two languages help learn each other's language. To find them search for that language and discord server. Ex: Spanish/English learning discord server.
It definitely possible english is my 3rd language but I learned EVERYTHING by emersion (watching tv shows, movies and english youtubers) also even though my school does teach english the thing is most grammar topics I already knew before we were taught.
I mean I learned English for free to fluency, fast and easy, I just sat around playing video games, and when I wasn't allowed to sit play video games, I thought about how to improve my gaming, and then suddenly one day, I was fluent. When did that Everquest Champions of Norrath game come out... 2004, okay, I spoke fluent English then at age 12, and I started playing games in 1997, at age 5. Mind you, I hardly spoke my native language back then either, I mean after all, my best friend's family spoke Danish and my family Swedish, so at such early age, splitting learning into 3 languages, was probably not the best thing, but as a kid, who knows about efficient planning...
@ikenna As a third word country inhabitant, where buying anything in dollars is expensive af (like u$1=$67Arg plus 21% tax and 30% dollar tax (yes, 51% in taxes over anything bought in any foreign coin)) and actually you need like 140ars to eat a day, then you really appreciate any free tool... i remember joining a Steam Group for languages but ended up chatting with only one guy that really wanted to practice, the others just vanished... I would love to meet new ppl and now I'll try to save to buy a VRdevice since I saw your videos and that seems awesome and a big opportunity of practicing languages and also learning some (like the sing languages, that video was mindblowing) Any how, I'm a Spanish (Argentinian) native speaker, and can speak English and sort of fluent Portuguese, a bit of German, I would love to practice any of these languages or teach you Spanish. Hugs from here, hope to eventually find you in vrchat.
Always wanted to learn a second language but unfortunately I just can’t afford to be paying $20 US a month for Pimsleur. (Especially during Covid)😔. Based on my position it would be irresponsible to spend money on anything that isn’t 100% necessary. I hope everyone else feared better than me.
I was using Pimsleur during the pandemic and was getting to Level 3, but after losing my job and still trying to find work with no success as of January, I had to stop doing lessons. I can't afford paid services. :(
Forvo is a great free resource for native audio especially when making your own Anki or Memrise decks (memrise is great for learning spelling). Happy to see language transfer mentioned :)
Listen to podcast, watch videos in the language .... always the same advice but how the fuck does it help if you don't understand jack shit??? I know some russian because my mother and my brothers were born in russia but for most videos, songs etc pp I NEED a subtitle in either my native language or english. Without it I will barely understand anything.
I have seen you mention pimsleur a few times but I am trying to learn one of the indian languages, Marathi. Pimsleur unfortunately doesn't have Marathi availible. Anything similar you could recomend? I did buy a Udemy course but I think it's not the best way to learn. Any help appreciated, thanks!
I don't mind paying to learn, but everything is catered to Americans and at decent prices in USD but currency conversations, here in the south, I pay like 8 times a much. As much as I want to learn, as a uni student, I cant justify an $80 monthly subscription with a $120 app and this that and the other.
