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Wtf XD

Hahahaha that's such a privilege

Put on a Toga and say "pizza, pizza."

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Interesting perspective. I will definitely give it a try.

This is how I learned English. Just like you said, when learning a new word like "apple", I imagine the actual fruit, not the word in my native language. A word like "walk" I imagine myself "walking", the only problem I have found with this method is that when I learn new word, sometimes I don't bother to look up the meaning in my native language,so I end up only knowing the meaning on English.

@@miltonorellana4557 yes… I found that I spoke fluently very fast but took a lot of Mental power to act as a translator

@@StardustMonkey yes, it does take a lot of effort to translate.

That's a great tip bro thanks

Omg danke vielmals! habe als ich das erste Mal das Video gsucht hab, des Buch in Englisch gsucht! LG aus Wien

I've tried this method and it's far too abstract for my brain. Maybe it works for some people. I can only learn particles if they are close to 1:1 with an English one or once I know enough other vocab and grammar to be able to put them to use in sentences.

@@andrewdunbar828 One size never fits all! We're all wonderfully different!

Amazing point

Isn't pontian just a Greek dialect?

Sorry, I don't buy the "English native speaker have an advantage" narrative. All the evidence and the reality point to the contrary. Yes, English vocabulary rests on both romance and germanic languages so it means you don't start from zero in either of them, for that one aspect. But there's much more than that to learning a language. Verb conjugation in romance languages is a massive challenge for an English native. It's like going from 1 to 3 dimensions. Nouns and adjectives also need to be matched for gender and number, with a number of specificities, whereas English mostly just adds an -S for plural. For anything other than phonetics and correspondence between graphemes and phonemes, English is such an uncomplicated and convenient language that most other languages you look at will be harder to learn for an English native than for a native of other language.

@Vindexproeliator uP

My thoughts exactly, I even thought the thumbnail was not a real person😹

lol

He looks like a playing card soldier from alice in wonderland

True, really

Hi, you seem to be saying slightly contradictory things here and thought I should point it out for you to clarify. If you spent five years surrounded by Spanish, yet didn’t master the language, it seems to contradict the notion of learning by simple exposure without overt study. Michel Thomas disagrees rather vehemently with both traditional study (rote memorization and grammar) as well as with mere communicative strategies (Krashen). Thomas also claims to ‘give a functional use of a language in a matter of hours’, which is not generally claimed by other methods. What was the effect of Thomas’s method on yourself? How did you change your methods and what was your progress like afterwards?

@@coffeemachtspass 1. You have no idea why I was not able to take advantage of being surrounded by native speakers, but Krashen does. I agree with Krashen. 2. Michel gave me the concept that there is an immense overlap between spanish and english that I was ignorant of. I never said he told me to learn in a traditional manner. But when he made me aware that arroz was rice and azucar sugar I started to make connections that helped. Ultimately what helped me was simply having a necessity to communicate so I went out to find the language I needed. What hindered me was having native speakers who had no idea how to modify the way they spoke so that I could understand and ultimately that is what makes a good teacher. The onus of the communication is on the communicator, not the reciever. Alternatively as a language acquirer you need to know how to reduce what you hear into packets or chunks so that your brain can begin to make sense of them. If you want to know how languages are learnt go find a two year old and watch listen learn. They will be your best guide.

@@coffeemachtspass Although I was in a a spanish speaking country I was surrounded by English which prevented/reduced the need to communicate in spanish. I blame my wife.

Absolutely true. I always put every effort in my lessons to make my students go through that acquisition process, because it s the efficient way to do it AND so enjoyable, too .

Brilliant comment mate!

I found your comment in the right time. As I read your comment I went to google it and I just bought it haha thank you so much. I'm pretty excited and eager to read it.

I NEED this! Thank you very very much!

Thanks Aliesha! Were you learning any of those languages before finding the book? I'd love to know how it actually helped you in the process...

@@andrehinonmyway1809 Hi Andrea! I am a native English speaker from the USA. I have lived in Sweden and studied Swedish for 8 years. I found this book while looking for a resource for learning Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian simultaneously. I studied one year of Spanish and four years of French in high school. I am using this book to brush up on French, learn more Spanish, and learn Portuguese from scratch. I love the Romance languages and am driven to learn them to transcribe and translate genealogical records and also travel to my ancestral lands. This book is a great resource. I think it is great whether you are a beginner or have a preexisting understanding of one or more of these languages. This book really feels like a labor of love. The author provides many charts and tables and intersperses cool tidbits throughout. It is comprehensive but broken down into digestible bits. I studied the Introduction (Alphabet), and then Chapters 10 (Interjections), 7 (Numbers, Time and Dates), and 3 (Adverbs), and am now reading the remaining chapters (1 & 2, 4-6, 8 & 9) sequentially. I am currently on Chapter 5, and taking it slowly. So, the process is ongoing, and I'm sure I will return to this book time and again for reference after I've completed it.

@@alieshamay Thank you so much again. I'm a native Spanish speaker, currently studying French and this video plus your recommendation make me realize I can take full advantage of the process with this resources, so I'll give it a try ☺️ Muchas gracias y éxitos con tu proceso en español 👍

you are a genius

Really? :o

Wow Incredible. is it serious ?

I would've never expected that

Wow thank you for this useless tip. Thank you.

I saw the video and pulled it off my shelf, and am going to try it again, but for some reason I can't get the approach to stick. I would absolutely love it if somehow this approach could be broken out into lesson plans, because at some point, I just can't seem to brain it and retain it.

Scan it and release pdf onto the internet. A favour to the world.

@@Smegead ^ agree

@@Smegead i got a pdf, not sure if its the exact one though

@@sujoynath1743 please put a link op here..

Ooh, "unparalleled", I see what you did there.

Perpendicularised. Now to check if that's a real word.

@@stumbling Is it?

I'd say they're about 5° off parallel :D

Now i can't unsee it.

Yes! I believe in exposure too, but I love to call it ‘immersion' because it's the most natural way I can think of. Immersion leads to acquiring the language, not learning(and I don't care what behaviorists have to say about this😂, my experiences taught me so ) The difference: By acquiring you'll adopt tones, nonverbal cues, and language fillers unconsciously, while most learners might not get those without trying! On my 4th language now and I can differentiate between the languages I learned and those I acquired.

Idéntico en tus primeros 3, portugués quizá a la mitad por lo que decís, poca exposición a la cultura

All you need to do is learn Latin. But the Labour Party doesn't want to let children do that as they feel it's "elitist". Wouldn't be elitist if all children learned it. Then bureaucrats and administrators might recover the ability to write properly.

This is so sweet! How's it going? If it's halted, this is me encouraging you to start again! 💗

There are no bad students but there are an awful lot of bad teachers.

What helped you to make such progress, please share.

I've been working on Spanish. I'll try Latin too. Withdrew from it in college, and Americans (i.e. Thomas Jefferson) used to speak several languages. Miamians frequently do whether they're generational Americans or Cuban Americans. I understand Melania Trump speaks several languages.

Its been 2 years. You fluent yet?

Indeed he does

no he doesn't

@@user-zj2iu4lu1z yeah, you are right. He looks more like a Roman Emperor actually. He's what I imagine Julius Caesar would have looked like.

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@@Gadavillers-Panoir "he looks more like Roman emperor" No he actually in fact most truly doesn't indeed look like Roman emperor, let alone with your ridiculous "more". He looks Anatolian, Indid and Armenian.

Not a coincidence you're a Webester

Please proofread before posting you said you "taught to learning to read Chinese." Please clarify.

@@christywells2707 Please increase your reading comprehension, he meant "I taught myself to learn to read Chinese" Even though this statement still sounds awkward, you can't rely on everyone to proofread everything that they've written on the internet. It is unreasonable to expect that. The onus is on you to make sense of it.

@@WHALEBOY777 you killed him, good job

I speak French and English and I always compare the two as a lot of words are almost the same. English even borrows a lot of French words. Funny anecdote, French is actually my first language, but free 5 years in England I had almost forgotten how to speak French and I had a bit of a British accent when I got back. I would also make the same typical mistakes like saying "la garçon and le fille" now I rarely make this mistake but it still happens. I also use English words in French that to me sound like they could be used in French too and people make fun of me cause to them I make no sense 😂

Dude 230 days and you can somewhat read Wikipedia articles, you are wasting your time, use Anki and learn the most frequent words and buy a book on basic grammar and try to tie french with your daily life. For example traveling, or watching movies or series in french with French subs or no subs at all

Go for it!

Hi native speaker of English here, wired is a completely different from the word weird which is what I thought you meant. Just so you know hope this helps!!

@Marta Aldama Cervantes ah, women...

It makes me mad that Churchill said that. Europe was broken after WWI. They didn’t have the means to fight the Germans. England would have fallen if we had not helped them. The Treaty of Versailles destroyed Europe economically. It is costly to fight a war.

And I guessed right.

shadrach I can understand how you think this but I could also say if it wasn’t for the British we would all be speaking German.Churchill’s quote here is how the British responded. They are amazing people. Despite the constant bombing they kept positive and that positivity allowed them to never give up. “Keep calm and carry on” We can’t imagine what it would have been like to be under such devastating destruction. And this spirit is still in the British today.

France, the only country to surrender 3 times in 1 war.

Very interesting story thanks

Your English is great!

@LetThemTalkTV Could you please summarize the video? I still don’t understand what I must do now to learn my next two languages

I am a native spanish speaker, I binge-watched a couple of years ago a series in Catalan (never heard the language before), 3 seasons, by the time I got to the last season I barely needed subtitles. It took me two weeks to get to understand like 95% of everything said. I'm still shocked at how so similar both languages are. And it for sure changed the way I think about learning similar languages

A few years ago I had a holiday in Barcelona. The friend I went with had studied Spanish (or should I say Castilian) at school. In a restaurant she ordered something in Spanish. The waiter looked at her blankly. Then I ordered the same dish in Catala. He understood at once. My friend said to me "you bastard! You never told me you could speak Catala". As an elaborate practical joke I had been studying a Catala phrasebook during my lunch breaks at work for a month before the start of our holiday.

LoL

tagalog?

Also, Singlish is a thing in Singapore and tons of Japanese words are straight up English transliterations.

[Joining the lauhging choir in Spanglish]

@@KasumiRINA Singlish is not a foreign language. It is a dialect of English, even if widely regarded as not a good form of it.

This may work with English, but it certainly won't work with harder languages like German. I tried similar approaches but failed miserably. Currently, I am learning new approaches coming from varies language experts, one aspect of it was inspired by Michel Thomas.

@@rollingdownfalling i disagree. english isn’t inherently easier or harder than german. that’s not how languages work…

@@harmandon Have you tested out with different languages. My experience in German (like most other fellow students who's learning German) is definitely the sentence structure (der Satzbau) and as a result it also affects listening comprehension. It's just very difficult to overcome the B1 barrier without some intensity, unlike English, even though I make plenty of mistakes at intermediate level, but never have I constantly having trouble forming or finishing a sentence. Not only you have to get used to constantly splitting a sentence into fragments and drastically change the verb position, some sentences required very alien forms of reflexive and preposition combo which requires memorisation. An example that is very simple can be: There is nothing to worry about. Es gibt nichts, worüber man sich Sorgen machen müsste. (Literally) It gives nothing, what over one themselves Worry making should/would have to. Only if I can overcome that without too much thinking can I get fluent like a normal B2.

@@rollingdownfalling yes i am a polyglot (i think), keep in mind i said the word "inherently". english comes easy to most people because they are constantly surrounded and bombarded by it by virtue of it being the language of the internet and global affairs. i felt this when i learnt dutch. dutch word order drove me a little crazy because i was not used to it nor had i ever encountered something similar. this doesn't mean dutch is necessarily "harder" to learn. i'm not sure if that makes sense. but in terms of the native language, a child learning dutch will have no more trouble than a child learning english, despite dutch having many more exceptions to its word order.

@@maalikserebryakov you entirely missed the point.

Voda?

@@rickgauden it's a joke.

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Net so my outie met n knerise Rum ne!!

You're completely right lol

UberOcelot Conversely, I have also met people afraid to speak multiple languages in front of infants and toddlers. Babies sort things out very easily and if there is any language delay, it will be weeks or a few months and hey will jump to the level of their peers and also surpass them. I have known many bilingual children and a few multilingual ones. Don’t let anyone make you afraid to give this gift to your child. Also, any child who is slow to verbalize can be taught sign language - this is a legitimate language and also has many benefits for brain development.

You're extremely right, our education is so often unified to the low-medium level, all the stuff you read online and all the stuff you are told by the teachers and all these experts from online schools and stuff are suitable for the average person, having problems with language learning, but there are definitely part of these average people with language learning problems, who are perfectly able to learn languages easily. I myself learned English with no connection with native speakers and other stuff, I had good understanding of grammar, thank to my school teacher, basic vocabulary and nothing more by the end of the school, now I can perfectly communicate with anybody in English and there's no any language barrier

Well, I think I'm reasonably smart, got a couple of degrees, but I was never able to learn a foreign language. Failed at French, got thrown out of the Latin class because I was so hopeless. Since then I had another go at Latin -- that didn't last long -- tried a course using audio tapes for Spanish, managed quite well at first, learned nearly a thousand words, but then I hit a Spanish tense that has no correspondence with English, gave up for a couple of weeks, decided to try again then found I'd forgotten all of those words apart from two! It would have to be an uncannily brilliant book to help me learn another language, never mind two at the same time!

@@carlgrove8793 learn Scots as a foreign language :)

@@user-vn2on9tz9g When I was doing canvassing calls for a charity I found I could do quite good Scots and not bad Northern. However, I spoke to one guy in Glasgow, and he had no idea what I was saying.

Eu também achei muito bacana, um dia vou começar o alemão também, pena que os idiomas asiáticos são completamente a parte desses padrões.

O mesmo para mim. Ainda quero aprender o Holandês também, que tem semelhanças com ambos o inglês e o alemão

Right but there's a problem when it comes to asian languages, they are so different that not even knowing English really facilitates the process. I'm learning japanese and I wish that applied here too :(

@@JoseSantos-el8nj maybe this will get better after the first Asian language you learn. Imagine if you knew Chinese, the Japanese kanji would get easier and also the Korean lang

@@alissanrocklove acho que depois de chegar no b2 do alemão, devo voltar pras línguas latinas e recuperar meu frances

Intresting, the dutch word for "deer/hart" is "hert" and the dutch word for animal is indeed "dier" pronounced as "deer".

"Tier" is animal in German

I'm so happy you subscribed.

Speechless! 😁😁😁

Being speechless isn't going to help you speak languages better!

Completely agree. This blew my mind.

Yes but what exactly ARE particles and where can I find a list of them (I'm trying to learn French )

@@weave4247 they're your words for articles, connectives that sort of stuff. In English for example, some particles would be: the; a; an; this; that; here; there; they; those; these etc. In French, to learn particles, learn thise equivalents and more. K believe French has three words for definite articles and two for indefinite articles, meaning 3 words for 'the' (le, la, les) and two words for 'a/an' (un, une).

Hi sir, I m a friend speaker But I m learning English since 2 years but it isn't able to speak what is my problem.

So true, I'm a Portuguese native speaker trying to learn German and can understand and/or guess verbs and subjects pretty easily (based on English), but get seriously stuck in the "particles".

@@gaelledveleumen5346 you need to surround yourself in an English environment. Go live in an English speaking country for a few months to a year

Keep going!

Duolingo app has helped me immensely with French. First year of high school, an honour in French. 2nd year-failed, due to a different teacher. So never bothered till I found 3 years ago and 50 odd years later, my heritage is french. And found a French relative. But the real winner is Alexa. She is the most amazing online Google teacher. I have learnt more from her Google podcasts, than having private French lessons.

Wow! I hop they are related languages

@@LetThemTalkTV Not really 😅 Arabic, French (or Portuguese), Norwegian, Latin, ancient Greek, old Slavonic, and English(I know it pretty well) ( Oh, seven😸) and Russian as my native language To tell the truth, I doubt I can handle it😬

@@Moonlight-px6sz Where this university is?

this gives me hopes to learn my 3rd one ... super hard

@@Aalpine001 St.-Petersburg

Try to learn actual Portuguese instead of Brazilian Portuguese, it is much better in sentence construction, vocabulary and verbs and so on. Brazilians actually recommend learning Original Portuguese because it is how it is meant to be spoken :) Have a nice day ;)

Italiano? Anch'io, perchè hai imparato l'italiano?

@@ricardoandrade3014 " original " but brazilian portuguese is more traditional the European Portugueses changed more than Brazilian Portuguese bc the Spanish influence.

Te desejo boa sorte. Saudações do 🇧🇷 PS: Wouldn't say that European Portuguese is easier. It may actually be harder for you to learn due to the accents.

I'm Brazilian and I never heard any other Brazilian giving the advice of learn the "original" portuguese. If you want to learn Brazilian Portuguese then you should learn it instead of other Portuguese, of course. There is many speakers out there and so much content, you aren't going to worry about finding material in our language at all.

Não desista do português, bro! No RU-vid há o canal "Curso em Vídeo" com inúmeras aulas de programação.

Si te chamuyo yo no cazas una no cazas ma que español habla boncha ? Has comprendido ? 😃

xD

Simpson you're diabolical.

Absolute madgars

Looool

Lolllll

then you aren"t

@@liverpooldublin9317 You know, pointing out the obvious doesn't make one smart, either.

@@mikel4879 With the unintended risk of disrespecting the rest of the commentators, a smart person doesn't search on youtube how to learn a second language (become a polyglot). They usually are polyglots already. So no, Mike, I am not a smart person.

@@mikel4879 "Mike" poti alege sa nu iei in serios/personal tot ce se spune pe net/youtube...dar ca sa fii tu mai impacat iti promit un lucru: daca se va adopta vreodata in Romani(c)a modelul de social credit score precum cel chinez, atunci imi voi masura cuvintele cu mai multa atentie. Pana atunci vorbele raman vorbe. Stii tu vorba aia celebra: "Why so serious?".

@@mikel4879 Asa este, "Mike". Ai dreptate. Nu stiu ce a fost in capul meu. Promit ca ma voi redresa. O zi buna!

exactly what I thought hahah

Street < Old English stret < Late Latin (via) strata = paved road Source: www.etymonline.com/search?q=street

Surrender is not a french word.. it's an English word on a 1,000 years old Norman basis. That doesn't make it a French word. By the way: "Despite our overwhelming superiority in men and hardware numbers, the french troops are counter-attacking in several places. I can't understand how those soldiers, sometimes fighting at one versus ten (or even one versus thirty in some areas), can find enough strength to assault us: this is simply amazing ! I see in those french soldiers the same energy than with the veterans of Verdun in 1916. For several days now, hundreds of bombers and guns are pounding the french defence. But, it's always the same thing: our infantry and panzers can't break through, despite some local and ephemeral successes. Dunkirk brings the proof that the french soldier is one of the best in the world. The french artillery, already dreaded in 1914, demonstrates once more its efficiency. Our losses are terrifying: numerous battallions have lost 60% of their men, sometimes even more ! By resisting ten days or more to our much bigger forces, the french army has accomplished, in Dunkirk, a superb achievement that you must pay tribute to. They have certainly saved Great-Britain from the defeat, by allowing the british professional army to reach the british coast." General Von Küchler commandant of the XVIII army during the last stand of the french army to cover the british at Dunkirk. “The Dunkirk episode was far worse than was ever realized … The men getting back to England were so demoralized they threw their rifles & equipment out of the windows of railway-carriages. Some sent for their wives & their civilian clothes, changed into these & walked home.” General Mason-Macfarlane, the head of military intelligence, summoned journalists & told them that they were to inform the British public to blame the French for “not fighting,” & to proclaim that the B.E.F. was “undefeated.” On May 30, 1940, the BBC announced that “men of the undefeated B.E.F. have been coming home from France. They did not come back in triumph, they have come back in glory.” Given the early British determination to discontinue the fighting & prepare for evacuation, the very low levels of casualties, it is a complete distortion of truth to “mock” the courage & commitment of the French forces to say they did not fight - particularly when they were fighting a completely new form of mobile warfare which the French High Command was completely un-prepared for. Hard to see how 90,000 killed meant “not fighting.” The British Expeditionary Force : 3,500 killed

VAN GORP doesn’t norman basis mean French?

He was very good with words

Boa sorte e bom proveito a aprender todas as quatro línguas!

Alex Eru obrigado, eu gosto muito!

Igualmente. Sabendo português de forma nativa (br tmbm) italiano é muito fácil assim como espanhol. E sabendo tmbm inglês, a estrutura do alemão pra mim é algo quase que nativo em mim. Quem me desafia mais é o Russo que é totalmente diferente, mas possível claro.

I think it does when the languages are closely related but less so the more distant the relationship or when they're not related at all. Since my conversational but not fluent Spanish has helped me many times in French, Italian, and Portuguese, I thought it would be fun to tackle Romanian. But spending three summers in Romania with all Romanian friends didn't get me to the level I am in French just off the back of my Spanish. And then trying something like Vietnamese or Khmer takes way more effort for way smaller results.

@@joseluizdurigon8893 Verdade. Alemão pra mim assusta um pouco rsrsrs, mas está na minha lista de futuros idiomas a aprender...

@@andrewdunbar828 I can barely understand anything at all in Romanian. On the other side, listening to and reading Catalan for me was kind of intelligible.

I am not sure that your progress would be faster learning a few Roman languages at the same time. It is usually not recommended. Instead, unsimilar languages could be studied at the same rime. The reason? To avoid language transfer. I did Portuguese and Italian at the same time (I was proficient in French and Soanish before it). Portuguese is my weakest, and I think it was because I took it with Italian. I am a qualified language teacher and an experienced translator and interpreter with a few other than Roman languages.

But you should beware of "false friends," there are heaps of them between Slavic languages.

Hello! I also like to learn foreign languages so much! I add different videos on my channel that relate to Russian language. And I want to add more videos about other languages in the future. I also add videos with my other hobbies: piano playing and skateboarding. Maybe if you find something interesting and helpful on my channel you can subscribe :)

I've heard of Arabic in English, specifically algebra. I've heard that once you learn a foreign language, specifically in the same family, subsequent languages become easier with each addition

You are amazing. I'm happy you enjoy them.

Hmm... you called Latin your ancestor. How is Latin related to Polish?

@@CrabTastingMan I think the original poster is not talking about grammar but rather about vocabulary

WOW....that is fantastic, good for you !

You can pick your German too, to get used to its sound and acquire some vocabulary subconsciously while you focus on French.

Did you know that every time you watch videos on language learning, you're stealing yourself opportunities from actually interacting with the language you want to learn?

Please explain to me how you can infer the meanings of words that surround a conjunction.

@@floepiejane exactly. There is no language 70% similar to English and so I find it hard to below she rarely has to use her dictionary.

I hope you enjoy it. Let us know.

You are correct it is the best book on the study of languages have read it for many years

Good point: friendly = amicable (Spanish "amigable"), often = frequently (frecuentemente), in love = enamored (enamorado), loving = amorous (amoroso), weapons = arms (armas), fair = just (justo), feeling = sentiment (sentimiento), punish = castigate (castigar), rich = prosperous (próspero), bad = malicious (malicioso), good = benevolent (benévolo), angry = furious (furioso), shy = timid (tímido), etc. There are literally hundreds, maybe thousands of examples like this.

That's because they (usually) come from French. French-derived words and the older Anglo-Saxon words, coexisting in the same place and time, got striated by social class, hence you could say "urine" to be polite or "piss" to be earthy.

Read a story about a child, recently immigrated to USA from a Latin American country, doing very well in an english test, mostly vocabulary, despite barely knowing the language, while his classmates, didn't do so well. That was because, the test was mostly about words of Romance origin, which he knew better because of his background.

Monty Python, really?

btw do you know the episode they were all talking german? ;)