"Time does not equal mental energy" - YESS, I am learning this too and trying to figure out how I can organize my day so I have enough energy to complete my goals. Thanks for sharing!!
I felt this today. I want to study for Uni and revise my chinese lessons and edit a RU-vid video and so on but my brain was like " bruuuuhhhh!!!! CHILL!" haha.
"Why even plan when we live in a pandemic" 😂😂 so accurate! I kind of ended up in Spain which has never been my plan haha (im also doing language related videos in case anybody is interested😇)
YES ABOUT BEING STOPPED AFTER EVERY WORD I think that is a big reason why people that just learn in schools are so repulsed by them, and say that they are bad at them.
Correcting mistakes all the time is a horrible way to teach a language. It's better to do that in review or at least suggesting another way to say something.
This year I wasn't even planning on starting to study languages, but here I am, studying English since the quarantine start, and now starting with Korean
💕 such great points! 💕 "Time does not equal mental energy". OOF. Felt that one in my soul. This coming year I would like to set more habits, and maybe less goals, too. Also, 축하해용♡
Oh my god a person who works 10-7! Finally a video featuring someone with the same mentally draining work schedule who doesn't have 24 hours a day to dedicate to language learning. This is honestly so refreshing because by the time I punch out, cook dinner, exercise, and do the dishes, it's 9PM, I'm mentally and physically drained from the day, and I get a good 1-2 hours of Korean study *barely*. I always feel so behind comparing myself to people with a lot more structurable time.. I am really trying to maximize my time this year and keep my big study binges for weekends when I have the extra energy to spare.
1. Congrats on getting a boyfriend ! 😊😊😊😊 2 .Your point on mental energy was on point (no pun intended , sorry). I planned to read like almost a book per day because my college admissions are going on and I have a lot of free time , but I soon realised that nah , not gonna happen. I am now doing it slowly and trying not to burn out ... so , highly accurate point.
@@melekpolyglot5387 You can still study even if you're all out of mental energy. You just have to stop trying too hard. Put away your textbook, play some nice movie or something and relax. You're still learning that way.
As for my language goals My goals were -get more advance in Japanese -find great Japanese friends to practice with -learn all basic French -try out Arabic and Chinese I did get good Japanese friends and my Japanese level did get better. I got most of basic French but not all of it I tried Arabic and Chinese and had a lot of fun though didn’t get high level due to pandemic reasons. So overall successful year and glad your year was too :)
"People will come in and out of my life - This is the circle of life" I don't know why I suddenly got so emotional when you said this.... It is so true
The biggest thing I've learned from making yearly goals is that goals can change drastically over the course of a year haha. So even though every year I technically "fail" to achieve 100% of my goals, I still enjoy setting yearly goals because it's also really interesting to look back on what your past self really wanted to achieve. For the sake of actually achieving goals, though, I agree that setting goals in shorter periods is much more attainable.
I'm still a newbie language learner compared to you and still finding my feet with it, so I was really relieved to hear you say about habits over goals. I feel like so many polyglots push having a concrete goal and I've just never really jibed with that. My end goal is complete fluency, but I'd rather enjoy the journey to get there than beat myself up for not reaching X goal in however many months and make myself feel like a failure if I don't get there. I don't see how that's supposed to be encouraging, I'd rather feel like I'm chipping away at it through daily habits and keep my passion alive.
4 years ago I moved to Germany and meant to stay for a year, and well.... still here 😅. I never planned to start learning Irish this year but with free online courses and lockdown, I started! But yes my motivation changes all the time. I just stopped putting crazy pressure on myself and doing what I feel like.
This year I have given birth to my first child, which has had a huge impact on everything. My original plan was to reach N3 in Japanese and (passive) B2 in German, but I ended up taking a break from Japanese and only studying German on and off. Instead, I have fallen in love with Italian all over again and have made a ton of progress, which was totally unexpected. I am even considering studying for C1 next year.
The mental energy point is so true. I love learning languages but it is genuinely so tiring some days. I have to really balance working out and work and kids with languages to make sure it doesn't suck all my energy!
At the start of 2020, I planned to spend 1hr on Korean and 1hr on Japanese. But that fell through very quickly. Now I’m just focusing on 30m of Japanese a day because something is better than nothing.
the whole habits over goals is such a great mindset! I noticed it myself as well, I had much smaller goals than u. But I found it hard to stick to it when it's a goal - smth so far off in the future "read a whole book in German", and things were working out much nicer when I had enough time and energy for reading a few pages twice a week. I had a much better feeling about the whole thing even thought I wasnt moving along faster with the book. also your point about time not equaling mental energy. thats so true, ive been working from home since march and i feel like i get done less than i would have last year around this time. even tho i finish work at 6-7 (much later than i would at the office), i dont have energy to sit down to do a german lesson/read. the only thing that i kept is watching tv shows in german on netflix (at least smth)
Thanks for making this video! One of my favorite recent ones. And the advice on habits vs goals and hobbies outside of languages are great languages and breaking the year apart. All this will help all us Lindie. Thanks for being a great language advisor for all us 😇 very successful
As I’m a beginner learning just Japanese at the moment, I’m focusing on very small time frames e.g. a week, a month and at most 3 months for my language learning goals and because I’m using memrise I’m able to make very tangible goals like I want to finish each of the courses. I don’t know how it will change as I become more advanced and I finish all of the memrise courses but I’m excited to see where it goes.
I am majoring at Japanese and I am learning other 4 languages at the moment. I can recommend you to get some books. For me Minna no nihongo and Japanese for busy people are total gem. Also Dictionary of basic japanese grammar is great for grammar studies. And for improving the language you can watch a lot of videos on ytb, watch japanese series (you can watch anime, but anime Japanese is kinda different from the real Japanese) and listen to podcast.
OMG!!! Your nails look really nice. I love em. You inspire me to learn Korean too. I have HSK level 3 in Chinese now and I love I will soon be able to move on to Korean.
I started seriously learning French this year and I can honestly say watching your videos has really helped boost my motivation when it dipped low! I'm not near as far as I would have hoped but I've made a great friend in my tutor and I'm proud of how far I've come along.
Congratulations on your boyfriend! I rang in 2020 with my wife's family in South Korea, and decided to make learning Korean a focus this year. I was anticipating a grand 2020 as an "annus mirabilis." You're right: the pandemic messed with everybody's plans. Working from home drained energy from language studies. I ended up spending more time (re-)learning Spanish than studying Korean. Other hobbies (Toastmasters, bicycling) took time away from language studies. Etc., etc. Thank you for the lessons. I will apply them to my language studies, and life.
Congratulations on your big life news! It is so wonderful that God prepared the way with you already starting to learn Tagalog before you even met your boyfriend and how sweet that your boyfriend is learning Afrikaans as a way to share more fully in your life.
Aw so happy for you to find someone that wants to learn your language! It’s a good sign! ❤️ still working on getting language friends, hopefully polyglot conference next year will help that too!
From what I hear, I think, you became more mature this year. Having more realistic goals and being more human regarding your language learning experience. So nice to hear, and I relate a lot with what you said :)
In regards to your teacher over correcting you, that immediately made me think of my driving instructor. I'm finally getting around to learning and when I drive with my dad it's mostly enjoyable and I'm pretty confident driving around town with him. But when I got around to doing proper lessons the instructor would call out every single last mistake, not matter how minor, and it honestly made me not wanna drive for a little bit. I was coming out of the classes feeling like I couldn't actually drive well when just the day before I was driving all over the city with my dad and feeling entirely at ease and confident.
Such a crazy year that taught us so much. I felt like "time does not equal mental energy" was directed to me lol. You thanked us but we also thank you for continuing to do youtube even though this year was so hectic. Love from Brazil 🇧🇷💜
Wahh it's so cool that you've learning Tagalog! Huwag sumuko! Madaming mga magagandang pelikula sa Netflix na maaaring makatulong sa'yo :) Good luck!! Halos walong buwan na ako nag-aaral ng Korean, at salamat sa inspirasyon na binibigay mo sa akin palagi
So happy to hear about your big life update ❤️❤️❤️ Enjoy the butterflies and I am sure you will be doing great learning your boyfriends language even better. Have a wonderful rest of the year and looking forward to seeing more videos in 2021 of yours.
Your videos are so inspiring! This year has been crazy for me too. I was planning on starting Japanese and German and getting my C1 on Catalan, but everything got really hard and I wasn't able to focus on anything. Japanese is so difficult, but so fun... And it makes me think that German is actually quite easy because I can, at least, read it out loud! Hahaha Thank you for your videos and I wish you a great 2021!
Well, I am very loyal and faithful when it comes to learn my second foreign language Spanish (my first foreign language is English, but I stopped learning that). This year I read two books in Spanish. So, I am more or less satisfied with my progress. But when it comes to my third foreign language I have a lot of on-off relationsships with French, Arabic or Russian. My plan was to put an end to this and I failed :D. I will try it next year again, I promise, really.
i know i don't comment that much.. but I just wanna say that you're the only "language-learning RU-vidr" that I've consistently watched and enjoyed.. your videos are just the best and I never leave a video feeling like I didn't learn something from you... you're great! love from south africa :))
Love your content as always. As for myself, I'm starting to slowly dig out the parasite that I call doubt from my body and I actively started to speak more Russian with my wife. I'm very much self-deprecating but I decided to change it for the better. Heck, I'm even considering doing a review series for different Russian RU-vid educators on what kind of content, resources, and experience they offer. Something else that helped me was writing down what I achieved in regards to language learning and looked at my progress daily. It was somewhat like game, like "leveling up" if I had to use a phrase for it. So, that's my comment. Happy language learning to all, and stay safe!
Finding a good teacher online is so difficult! On italki, I usually enjoy classes with community tutors rather than the "professional" teachers. Most of my teachers have focused strictly on grammar and either teach material that's too difficult or too easy even after I have communicated my needs. I've learned that I prefer to study alone or in meaningful interactions with native speakers that adjust to my level.
I totally agree with U , especially when you said we should focus on habits and systems instead of the goal itself (sorry for my English, I'm learning it) One of my 2021 goals is learning French so I'll divide my study plan in 3 months as you said. Thank U a million for this video😍
Thank you soooooo much for this video... I've never been able to set up 12month goals and I never understood how other people achieve it, but your vid gives me "hope"😉 take care!
I must happily admit that your videos really helped me with my language learning path. Unfortunately, I discovered you and your videos just a few months ago but even with such a short amount of time, I was motivated by you to pick back up my French, from High school, and even start learning Chinese. Thank you so much for this, you make such amazing content which makes me always work harder. I would be even happier if I could find more videos about Chinese on your channel. :)
That was so cute how you both are just happening to be learning each other's native languages. I definitely agree that planning doesn't really work but it is better to have smaller goals set but not as a set thing like levels etc.
Thank you for the video Lindie! I just started to learn Chinese (simplified and traditional), Korean and Japanese and listening to you... and just finding myself in the same situations as you described. Thank you for the tips and for sharing your experience! I recommended your channel for different native speakers as well as for English teachers. Greetings from Hungary. Your language skills are so excellent! :)
Yay Tagalog! Congrats. I stopped learning Italian after 2 years to focus on Russian because I got a girlfriend. Then I stopped learning Russian after 8 months because we broke up and I lost all motivation. However, I returned to Spanish and was going to stop because I was comfortable at my B1+. But then I discovered Élite (through Season 1) and I want to study all the slang expressions to understand everyone. I've also gone back to listening to German in preparation to converse work my other friend when we exercise. It will take at least 3 months to get confident to speak, but it's my only language plan for now.
There were many ups and downs this year in my Korean learning journey. I registered for TOPIK II (which I should have taken in May, but ended up taking in October). I had trouble staying motivated but I discovered last Friday that I passed the test (3급) which was my goal for this first try. Now I'd like to pass level 4, I'll have to work a lot more in order to make it :-)
This was so insightful, thank you! I started seriously self-studying Spanish this year (it was the only thing my brain could focus on for several months - my entire industry was shut down because of the pandemic). Now I have higher aspirations with my language learning, but I'm also starting a new job next year, so your tips on goal setting and managing time and energy are really helpful. Hello from the UK!
congrats on the BF! i'm so excited for you! being stopped after every word- i think you explained it well. this was literally my korean teacher! i'd volunteer in class but he'd stop me/others after 1-3 words and point out the mistake. i just kind of stopped volunteering after a while. so i know a lot of grammar but cannot use it cause i didn't want to practice and use it.
I started the year with just one goal - to try to learn Chinese every day, and now my streak on Memrise is 327 days (I'm going for 365!), then this October I joined Indonesian A1 class and even had time for Korean practice every few weeks. I feel like this year has been great in terms of language learning but I never learned 2 languages at the same time this is why I came to your channel for motivation and some tips :) btw - if you are still interested in Indonesian - there's a free Zoom course organized by the Indonesian embassy, it's just 1 hour per week so it's not very time-consuming. We're currently in the middle of it but I'm sure next year they'll start again :)
This is so true ! Thanks for your input on this. You need a goal and tranform it into habits then enhance the habits every time you need to. That is the only way to make all of it works.
Wow, it's an impressive combo! I don't want this to sound strange, but as a Polish person obsessed with languages I am impressed you picked up my language! If you're still learning it, powodzenia i dobrej zabawy!
I’m currently juggling three languages and can relate to school work clashing with my home life and at times feeling drained to study haha. This was helpful, almost a year later.. thank you 😊
I agree so much with the part of time is not equal to energy! My energy levels have fluctuated a lot, a few months ago I was studying german a lot and now I'm doing like the bare minimum, but as you say, I've learned to kind to myself.
I have taken up Korean and you're such a big motivation! I'm also learning French as I work for a French company and I have to improve my level and would love to learn Greek. I understood all your points as I also work all day and sometimes you just don't have the energy or rather just watch Netflix. Fun fact - my other hobby is also painting! And finally congrats for the 5 topik level X
omg I've been watching your channel for a while and I got the SHOCK of my life when you mentioned you're in Singapore! that is so cool hope you're enjoying this city! I would love to see how your life is in Singapore now :-D
AAAAAAAAHHHHH I’VE NEVER FELT SO HAPPY!!! LINDIE IS FINALLY STUDYING TAGALOGGG YAYYY~~~!!! 🥰🥳 Also! About people being able to converse in your native language, IKRRR! IT’STHE BEST FEELING EVERRR ❤️
I started with Czech in March, I thought that it would be easy to learn during Lockdown. I had motivation problems as well. A surprise was Hungarian. I live in Vienna and many Hungarians live here. I found very nice people, speaking partners. Other slavic languages were also on my plans but my Italian friends helped me to become a better cook and a better Italian speaker!
와, 남자 친구가 필리핀 사람 이에요? 대박! 축하해요! 제가 감사하기를 줄 싶었어요. 왜냐면 Lindie-씨가 저를 영감을 줐었요. 그레서 육개달전에 한국말을 공부하기 시작했습니다. :) Sorry for my broken Korean haha. But, I really wanted to share that you have been an actual inspiration for me to really start learning, ESPECIALLY during a pandemic. I was going through some mental difficulties earlier this year, and I can say with full confidence that learning Korean steered me back to stability and yes, fun. And your videos documenting your journey has been 100% a major part of that. It's been life changing to say the least--starting from the fact that I even typed and understood my chicken scratch above. I hope we keep moving towards our respective language journeys (not goals any more!) together from on. Also, if you DO need a Filipino language partner (I'm sure among countless others), I'm happy to exchange my Tagalog for your Korean. XD PS. Sana po mag-ingat kayo lagi, and patuloy ko pong papatnubayan ang iyong mga video.
Hi Lindie! I am very happy to hear your updates! :) I am also happy to know about your thoughts on language goals ‘’cause I’m like a person who will just study based on what current situation am I in, I never really make goals and I thought it’s a bad thing. Thank you Lindie! :) Please do update us with your Tagalog lessons!
A great motivating video as usual! Good luck with Tagalog and Hungarian (etc) in 2021 😁 I don't expect anyone to read the below but it was helpful to think about it & review, so thanks Lindie! - - - - For me in 2020 I learnt more business Japanese from work and got more advanced at reading, typing and listening (I highly recommend " シノブとナルミの毒舌アメリカンライフ" which a chat podcast by 2 funny Japanese women living in Texas), but my spoken Japanese level (because I haven't done much) plummeted :( Also I didn't do any Mandarin until October/November which was lazy. For 2021, at least the first half while still at home because of restrictions, I aim to go from zero to become comfortable at basic Spanish conversation, and get back into the swing of Mandarin! And keep French and Japanese on maintenance 😁 Good luck everyone!
I'm brazilian and I've been studying english since 2nd grade (I'm in 8th grade now hehe) and it's so good to say that I understood everything you just said without any subtitles and the fact that I'm only 13yo! I think I always had interesting in learning languages but I am just discovering it now! Hahaha 😂 Speaking portuguese and English and also learning korean (that I really hope I can speak fluently someday) has been something that I know will impact my future and change it completely, and you are a person who motivates me! Knowing all those hard languages, it makes me happy, 'cause I know it's not impossible, so thank you!
I loved this video so much! I really agree with the input from friends, as this year I have finally started learning a couple languages with one of my friends, allowing me to more quickly learn. Also, I am currently planning out my next year, and was wondering if you could show how you plan out everything. This quadrant system sounds interesting. No pressure, I understand that if you don't want to make a video on it, you don't have to. Love you!
My language learning has really been a mess this whole year. I already struggle with depression, anxiety, self-doubt (sometimes even self-loathing and self-hatred if I'm completely honest) and loneliness in the best of times, so this year has been an absolutely shitshow piled on top of all those issues. I've had a lot of struggle with finding the motivation and energy to do *anything* productive, even things I like, such as learning languages. There have been weeks when I just didn't do anything active and often delayed even passive maintenance stuff like watching RU-vid videos in target languages. Then it gets better for a few days before I feel once again like I don't have the energy for it. As an example, I had thought of focusing entirely on Spanish in August, keeping other languages on the maintenance backburner, I planned to study from the ASSIMIL Spanish in practice book (B2->C1), consuming news broadcasts and articles solely in Spanish, watch RU-vid almost exclusively in Spanish (i.e. set RU-vid to Spanish and watch mainly Spanish language content), read books in Spanish, etc. That lasted maybe a week where I did it consistently before it all crashed down and I spent the rest of the month trying to get back on track with it, but it never lasted more than a day or two at best. SPent the rest of the time feeling guilty about it. I also tried to get back into Portuguese, which I started learning a whole three times now, yet always quit fairly quickly for various reasons (getting a job and no longer having the time, getting another depressive episode,...). I got motivated by Nathaniel Drew's video about his studies of Portuguese, and with my Spanish knowledge I really understood a lot more then I did previously, so I thought it would be easier. I started doing it and it lasted maybe a week if that. Starting to wonder if I should get a different course to study with as I am starting to consider maybe the coursebook isn't right for me. Also starting considering yielding and just do Brazilian Portuguese instead of the European Portuguese I have so far focused on exclusively. Or that maybe Portuguese just isn't for me and I should give up trying to learn it. Finally, with Greek, I just don't really know what I want to do. My motivation for learning it is religious, I am a Hellenic polytheist and want to be able to converse with fellow practitioners from Greece in their native language, I feel like having a grasp of the modern language will help me get closer to the Gods by learning the language of the culture that worshipped Them long ago, I really want to learn it to an advanced level. But I don't really know how to translate that motivation into practical goals to work towards. Ever since I finished my ASSIMIL course I have been kind of directionless. I'm mucking about by watching RU-vid videos in the languages, cooking videos, Masterchef Greece, news, etc., but it's mostly maintenance. I harvest new words from various sources, though mainly Easy Greek videos. But I feel like I have reached the dreaded Intermediate Plateau and just don't know how I can proceed to overcome this plateau. Or, I have thought of a few things I can try, but still have to actually find the energy to do them. So that's where I am at, and I am not really happy with it.
Hey! Just saw your comment and wanted to leave some nice words. I am in sort of a similar position, this year has been really bad for me too (lost my apartment, death in the family etc.) and I haven't reached many of my language goals as well. You are not alone! I hope things are looking better for you soon! PS: I hope it's okay for me to say but it's cool to meet another Hellenic polytheist! A good friend of mine is one as well!
Thank you for being so vulnerable and sharing your thoughts and struggles. I'm sorry to hear that it's been difficult to find motivation. Remember to go easy on yourself - there's no need to feel guilty about anything. Take it easy!
Yes bro, this year was a complete mess. But things could have been even worse. Don't you worry, you at least tried to learn something. Sometimes we set big goals, be flexible with your goals, it's okay them not be completed.
Sort of same for me. I used to love making plans, and never stuck to them. But I made a new sort of "plan" this year in July. Somewhere I read you overestimate what you can achieve in one year and underestimate what you can do in five years. So I made a plan for ten years and eleven languages. I estimated how many hours I'd need to reach the level I'd like to have in 2030, and then I divided the sum by 3650 (365 days in a year x 10). The result is that if I'm studying one hour and 45 minutes per day (on average, but no matter which language) I'll reach my goal. This plan is still motivating me now, five months later :D And yes, people do play a very important role in language learning, I'm very thankful to my Slovak language partner!
Ah it would be so awesome if we could do Indonesian-Korean exchange since I want to focus more on my Korean this year and take TOPIK until Level 3-4! I'm also currently learning Tagalog, it would be awesome if we could link up 🥺 Thanks again for the amazing video ❤️
I totally agree!at the beginning of thid year I read rhe book "atomic habits" by James Clear and IT CHANGED ME! No literally. I am so much more focused on maintaining habits than thriving for goals. By maintaining a habit you automatically will reach your goals without the worry of not keeping up. Also, i wanted to thank you for this nice insight and for all the work you're doing! It really helps me! 😊
At the beginning of the year I wasn't even expecting to start learning a new language 😂 But here I am, learning italian and japanese because the opportunity came to me and I decided to take it ;)
I also started planning quarterly goals instead of yearly goals. It makes more sense lol. My plans and focus changed so much throughout the year. Congrats on the boyfriend! That's so touching that he's learning Afrikaans!
This was a very complicated year to me. I got in college in another country and couldn'd travel cause the corona virus. Laguage-wise I feel like I did a lot but i could have done more you know, but Im not mad at all. Felt great progress in Korean, my interest for spanish grew and I learnt a lot from watching spanish shows on netflix. Also started Japanese but kinda let loose cause my classes had begun and I lost focus. French has always been a pain in the ass I might say haha it's not my favorite language and there's so much that you have to know. Looking foward to 2021.
It looks like you learned a lot this year, if not the actual languages definitely the process and environmental changes impacting around learning them. Best regards to your boyfriend!
Reading the comments im glad to know im not the only one that got burned out by the pandemic which slowed down my language learning. I did a few lessons of Swedish and German on Italki and I figured that I actually don't learn best with a teacher I prefer teaching myself with textbooks and then immersion so now I am learning from textbooks and surrounding myself by watching various shows such as old Disney shows/movies but with Swedish or German audio or some netlfix shows. I also learnt that I need to set a schedule for myself but one thats flexible because vague goals do not work for me at all🤕🤕 I also bought new intermediate textbooks for Korean and I hope in 2021 I can finally learn some new grammar and improve my speaking a lot as I either keep getting bored of cramming grammar from online resources. Watching k dramas throughout this year has helped me retain the language though! Hopefully next year I got to B2/C2 Korean, B2 for Swedish and German 🤗 i am writing my university dissertation at the same time so I will give myself some props for staying motivated 💪🏽
I also did't have any plan to learn a new language at the start of 2020. But then the pandemic happens and my college is closed. During this time, I started watching Chinese dramas and listening to Chinese songs a lot and fell in love with this language. And now here I am, learning Chinese and being happy about it.❤️
This year has been pretty unpredictable. I have done a lot of online Vietnamese lessons focusing a lot on culture, history, and some famous children’s stories. I really started to feel a little more confident with my listening abilities in Cantonese, but I still have a long way to go. I feel like I spent more of my free time trying to improve Mandarin than I have in several years. I’m getting more and more to wear I can understand it while I’m doing other things like English.
On the beginning of 2020 I started learning Japanese but it was too big challenge form me now, so I started learning Korean about month ago and I still have a motivation. I always had wanted big results after short period of time so I started changing my mindset and telling myself that language learning take a lot of time and it’s a process. Thank you for your videos, those really help me stay motivated and keep going hah. Btw. Sorry for all my mistakes in this “message”, English is my second language and I’m still a Lerner 😅
Fantastic review of your language learning plans and how they unfolded. So excited to share your story with our Chinese language learners for more motivation and realistic execution 😊
I think it's so important to emphasize that time does not equal mental energy. I used to say 'once I finish X' or 'once X period is over I'll finally have time to buckle down and learn this language' when in reality, I just wanted to relax and do nothing. AND THAT IS OKAY. Letting go of this idea that we MUST use our free time on languages can just add toxic pressure to what should be a fun process. Don't study if you're not feeling it, period. Your input will suffer and you'll lose motivation quickly.
Oh God. I really should learn my parents native tongue. I wonder if you will ever have a video on studying Tagalog for all the second generation Filipinos. Thanks for your inspiring videos.
I'm a native speaker of tagalog and from the snippet of your study notebook i can say that the words are right and all but that's just not how we talk everyday. It is quite formal. Edit: It is how we compose a sentence or a paragraph in school. I can definitely say that tagalog writing and speaking is very different.
Thank you so much for this!! Love postings with so much reality check and actual struggles.. learned a lot from it! 😘 Ps. Happy about your happy news!!
"Why even plan when we live in a pandemic". So true! If I knew I would be locked inside my house because a ranging pandemic, I'd have planned to study 3 languages at the same time 😂😂😂
