These tips are actually so helpful. I’m currently learning Japanese and sometimes it feels like I don’t know what to study and how to progress so I’ll definitely be trying out these tips 🙏🏽

I had a similar experience in France. I never learned a word of French, but on the plane trip over I learned a couple of basic words/phrases like 'hello' and 'do you speak english?' and I never met a single rude Parisian or French person. It's incredible how much people appreciate you attempting to speak their language and will respond in kind. I now treat the plane trip to any country the same. It's a challenge to learn as many useful phrases and words as I can (asking for the receipt, asking for food, asking for directions to the airport and bathrooms, how to apologise, get attention, yes/no, etc) and it's always been a great hit.

I can safely say that learning sentences and phrases are way more efficient than learning grammar. I could actually hold conversations when I disregarded grammar totally and just googled and memorised real life conversations

Thank you Ryan. I was so frustrated with my english. Though my level is B2, I couldn't sound as native english speaker, and it's even worst when you need it for work. I'll comeback to my roots when I was learning english, reading, listening and practice, over and over. Now to get practice ! Greetings from Chile.

My way with English language was exactly the same as yours with Mandarine. It was in 90's. First phrases - I learned them just myself, without any teacher, listenning and reading a lot of English language content (TV, music and so on). Then I went to the school for 2 years to get some more vocabulary and grammar. After this my level was like intermediate or so. Then I studied only myself and I talked to many foreigners during my trips all around the Europe. I know I'm not perfect at English (British version) but I can communicate with all English using people, no matter if they come from the US, Australia, UK or Canada. Very good tips - I agree with you totally. Phrases, full sentences - this should always go as first. Greetings from Poland Bro!

I love you Ryan 🥰 Since i watch you I got Inspired to learn Mandarin Currently I'm on 40 days Of Learning And it's so Amazing 🤩

these are great tips!! thanks so much for sharing your experiences

Woow...this is really amazing !! I'm learning spanish right now.. these tips will really help..I'll work on them

This is exactly what I'm doing with Japanese and it's working great! For a couple months I was really feeling that I wasn't improving much, so I started with this app called Anki. Anki is a flashcard software system that uses recall and spaced repetition to help you Sentences. It's a lot more efficient than traditional study methods, and you can either greatly decrease your time spent studying or greatly increase the amount that you learn. So I used Anki and wrote down hundreds of sentences and Anki basically made me able to remember those sentences. And now I am at a level where I can comfortably speak Japanese with people, of course I am still not perfect and I am still somewhat lacking in vocabulary, but I am much better than I would have been if I just studied individual words.

Glad I found this video. Been learning Spanish for a few years now. Really adding in Comprehensible Input a lot, and I suppose I’ve suspected I needed to add in a lot more sentences and phrases as memorization and speaking practice, but after seeing your videos and hearing your methods here I think it solidifies it.

You're amazing buddy, you've really inspired me to restart my Spanish Learning and well I'm more motivated than ever. So thanks a lot!!

(my level of English is between B1 and B2, so for now I used a translator to speed things up) Personally, I learn English with the help of my hyperfixations. I tried to make sure that my KZfaq would be filled with videos in the language that I am learning - English. and when I gain a new hyperfixation, I rush to KZfaq, where, even if I search for content in my native language, it will later appear in English - and there will be even more of it. although I'm still looking in English) and songs also help. When you want to learn your favorite song, you memorize word combinations and phrases from it. and you want to understand what you are singing - that’s why you translate it. Besides this, it is much easier to remember a word through association through a song - through context. for example, this is how I easily remembered the word “addicted”. when my English level was still A2-B1, I really fell in love with the song “addiction” - and I will never forget this word. The book by Reki Kawahara, the accelerated world, was also very useful - the nicknames in English motivated me to study it further and replenished my vocabulary with several unusual names of flowers.

I love this new direction your channel is going

Thank you so much Ryan, I really appreciate it. Because of you now I know how to speak korean like a native speaker…… thank you your tips are so helpful.

Thanks for these tips. You are such a great tutor for learning languages. I would be happy to see you speaking and learning Thai language! 5555 🤩

You're absolutely right, i used to play dota2 and dota has a lot of russian players that made me to learn some russian phrases to communicate with them and funny enough, that made me love russian language BTW, You're content is amazing i'm loving it much love from Iran brother 💜

Great Tips Ryan! Thanks

Great tips! Thank you!

Great video, thanks for the tips!

Looking back, tips #1 & #2 were probably why I got a decent grasp on Japanese (only lacking real life practice). I learned from both anime shows and a travel handbook I happened to pick up. The travel handbook was important so I learn grammar, but anime helped me pick up pronunciations & less common vocabularies. More nuanced grammar comes in other Japanese media like dramas, movies & KZfaq videos.

I love these tips they are really useful thank you Ryan you are one of the best teacher and I've learned a lot from you

Great video man, inspiring!

You are very inportant in my Chinese learning process Your tips and motivation keep me on learning thanks Brayan 🤩👍🇲🇽

Thanks man, you are great 👍

Finally! I found a useful video content in youtube trush :)) Thank you for ur vid. From Turkey 🙂

Thanks for the tips Ryan enjoy your weekend 😊

Thank you so much Ryan I want to learn Spanish and Chinese I will remember your tips when learning these languages I love your videos ❤️🫶

Thanks a lot teacher Ryan ... i hope you always make this effective video like this. Terima kasih banyak semangat membuat kontennya ya! Salam dari Indonesia ^^

Your content is simply amazing. I truly inspire myself in you!

I really wanted to learn Photoshop and there was very few teaching videos in my language. So nothing else to do than learn english in a way I never learnt in school. Together with the Photoshop teaching. And I needed zoomlesson in music and the teacher I could find doesnt speak my language. Im old compare to you Ryan. No computergames in my youth, not even computers. But my language (swedish) have very few speakers in the world. So you have to learn even in my age. Dont be afraid, people are kind. They dont care if your grammar are of.

Omg thank u i really need that

Ahh....An awesome Self-Improvement from Ryan!!!Sweet!

it makes sense that focusing on sentences and phrases would help with learning. I think the context clues just are a much more efficient way to sus out meaning than to learn words one by one.

Thanku Ryan For these suggestions ✌️

im korean but i grew up without the language around me.. ive learned how to read hangul and i know basic phrases and words!! this is gonna help me so much thank you ryan..!

I am bilingual, I can speak English and Spanish but ive always loved the idea of adding a new language to my roster. I tried french during middle school which is supposedly easy for native spanish speakers but I flunked that course so bad, I barely passed. Ive been thinking mandarin would be a good one to go with, ill have a go at it hopefully next semester as my college offers an entire course for learning mandarin though im not sure if its only accesible if you study a particular major. Hopefully not

You are totally right Ryan! :)

well I'm living in Thailand (I'm Argentinian) so I'm going to start applying your tips because I think you are totally right.! Thanks for the tips ;)

Absolutely people from all around appreciate when you try to learn their language. People are more understanding then you can believe. However, it is a different story when you are a native but forgot the language (or you forgot it growing up in a diff country). I’m one of those and there isn’t a single time I’ve not been scolded for, “you’re [nationality]! you should know the language.” I could not help but feel envious of seeing others welcome you and be understanding of your learning of the tongue. I love seeing it actually. And it gives me hope and courage to try again.

Brilliant tips!! My own advice (learning Japanese, have LOTS to learn still!) is... 1. Be passionate. If you ENJOY learning a language you will want to keep learning, and it will be a lot easier to learn too. Obviously it'll be hard still, but if you truly WANT to learn, you will do it! 2. Don't give up. It can be incredibly frustrating, hard and draining, but don't give up. Find a way that works for you, use multiple methods, not every way will be best for you. And 3. Be around the language. This one is KEY, in my opinion. Be around the language as much as you want, whether that's through lessons, radio and music, KZfaq, TV, whatever it may be. The more you're around it, the more you will pick up. Combining the above with this tip will ingrain the language into your brain. Do not force yourself, you'll end up getting sick of it, and then you'll give up or not make as much progress as you sought out to make. But yeah, if you love what you learn, be consistent and not give up, and BE AROUND THE LANGUAGE, you can absolutely archive your language learning goals. At least, I sure hope so, because my Japanese needs a hell of a lot of work! Good luck to all. Learning a new language is a gateway to people's hearts and broadens our world views dramatically.

Do you think you could also review all the learning apps, rate them, and suggest what your would prefer for beginners??

Great tips!

i am trying to learn more chinese because in nyc in my places has a lot of chinese people so these tips was very helpful!!

1. Focus on pharases and sentences (grammer and pronunciation follows "naturally") 2. Repetition 3. Actually use the language

ty for the tips! i was born in germany, but when i moved to america school completely obliterated my ability to speak german. and when i do speak german it’s very hesitantly and i have to use a translator. trying to re-learn now and I’ll use these tips :))

Laoshu! My inspiration! Your my inspiration too Ryan. Thank you pal!

I took 3 years of German in high school. I didn't do much with it. Didn't use it outside of school. I forget most of it. I found laoshu in 2018 and I absolutely loved the way people would light up when he would switch to their language. I just found your channel about an hour ago and I'm addicted. You're doing great things and this year I should actually learn a language. I have a question. If I were to sign up for a few different language corses, does it make any sense at all to learn the same phrase in a few different languages? Learn like 1, 2 or 3 languages in parallel? Let me know if it either makes a little bit of sense or it's completely wrong and dont even try it! Rip Moses

Hi Ryan, I am currently learning Chinese. I use Hellotalk to speak with natives from China, and it has helped a lot. I am also learning Pinyin, the writing style used in China. I was just curious if you could read and write Pinyin

i am starting to find new ways to learn languages so i can bring to the native speakers of my channels. But first i will try it myself. There is always room to improve and learn from others.

Thank you Ryan much appreciated..it's really helping me learn Japanese 🙂

Wow this is so helpful!

Thank you/감사합니다!!! That was really helpful. I have struggled with learning phrases and always stuck to learning grammar and words. Felt more confident learning parts of speech than a whole phrase. BUT your right on! And it was so comforting hearing you say “Your NOT going to learn it nor remember if you don’t at least hear it about 20 times” And walk around talking to yourself with what you learned!!!! This was just what I needed to hear. Learning Korean has been a huge challenge to me. I could NOT even pronounce 안녕하세요 when I first started. Just pronouncing that word was a bit of a tongue twister for me. Seriously! You are right also about going to places where you can practice the language your learning. There is a HUGE Korean population in Dallas Texas and a little Korea town like area in Carrollton Texas. I just need to get the gumption and just go for it! I WILL thanks to your encouragement! Blessings, 안녕하세요- Stefanie.

Dude, I like you very muchhh..... I'm interested in learning Korean ( Only for k-dramas/pop) 💜💜💜💜

Teacher Ryan❤ Thank you so much bro

I started learning Japanese in HS and continued in Uni but I never progressed to fluency because I became lazy or didn't have time for it, so now I frequently feel sad and mad with myself for not keeping up with it because I could be fluent by now but instead I'm still at the same intermediate stage I was 6 years ago T.T And I end up feeling bad that I'm in my late 20s and still not fluent in more than 2 languages and feel I wasted so much time 😢 But ig there's no point in regretting the past, I should aim to get better in the present. I'll use your tips to work on my languages. Cos my goal is to be a translator of some sort lol But your video got me motivated to go back to learning so that I can finally get better conversationally and also to learn other languages I've wanted to learn but was too lazy or didn't have time for. I'm giving myself a goal of becoming conversational in 3 languages this year and also get better with my Japanese.

these tips sounds useful, im going to try these out on german, thank you so much (◍•ᴗ•◍)❤️ one of my favourite method is to just watch foreign movies, yt videos etc of the language you want to learn, in fact it's actually how i learned english, i wasnt really interested in learning english at that time, i just watch the videos and i also turned on captions, later down the line i adapted to be able to speak almost-fluent english, its still a hypothesis bc i dotn knoe if it will work with other languages but theres a chance! ｡◕‿◕｡

Kaixo Ryan! i was hoping you might be able to help with a language. I found a few websites to learn Basque (i found out im part of this culture recently) and id REALLY love to find something like iTalki for it (with a Native Speaker) but i don't think it exists(the websites i found seem to just be text mostly or a few on KZfaq with a few small lessons). Basque is considered the oldest know language and has no ties to any other language on Earth. Anyway, i figured if anyone could help, it would be you. I love your content and thanks for all the wonderful entertainment! Youre terrific!

Thanks for the advice Tom Holland i like ur movies too

Thankyou somuch bro!!

This is what I've been saying, to learn something we need to repetitively say something over and over again until you get it to sound right, I've learned english & it's accents (like aussie, american, british, etc) this way

Thanks 💖

Great information. Have you considered updating this a bit since Omegle is now gone with other apps that you can use to do voice and video chat with potential language partners? Again, great content, Ryan. I'm in the midst of learning Tagalog myself. -- One old guy in Texas

I'm fluent in only 2 languages ​​and these days I'm learning Spanish. Your videos are very helpful to improve my language knowledge and thank you very much for these helpful tips. You're a GOAT, Ryan.😍

Hi ,Ryan!! How are you doing?? Like you,I also love to learn new languages. I know hindi . Recently i started learning Korean. Love you 💜💜 Much love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🇧🇩

great advice :))

Don't have to add anything, it's literally the base of learning a language. Nicely done and explained ;)

I absolutely loved PUBG for so many years! Crazy that you started to learn Chinese to play the game lol so cool

Thanks alot for these tips, I'm currently learning Arabic. Next in list is Korean, Japanese and fr Chinese is one of my most wanted to learn language. Cause Chinese is one of the most complicated language it feels hard to start on it.

best advice 1. be patient with language leaning because it won't happen overnight literally if you want to be fluent in a language and you're serious about it. 2. read a lot because that's the best way to attain new words in your target language from short stories, news, children books, comics, etc. and you must understand whats going on not just reading per se, but actually comprehending the context. 3. Listen a lot in your target language from music podcast etc. and it must be comprehensible input meaning content that you understand and not just listening passively cause you will not acquire the language you're intending to learn passively. You must understand the context. 4. don't start speaking till you have 4000 words in your memory bank because the point speaking when you only know a few words and phrases. Speaking more doesn't mean you'll get better at the language by the way. It is via input or enough exposure to your target language and that only happens over long period of time I should say several years. 5. stay consistent for prolong period of time cause it's not going to happen in a month or even a YEAR. It takes time to speak a language at high level.

Thankyou for this

Its a grate video. What's you're opinion about the Pimsleur Language?

Can you make a lot of videos are related to the English phrases or expression that used by native speaker?

Chat GPT is free and will be super patient because it’s AI if you’re afraid to talk to a real person. It will translate it for u if you don’t get it. You can hold a conversation with it and talk about whatever you want! So much better if you’re new and nervous to talk to someone.

DUDE! I don’t know what it is but I LOVE learning languages and absorbing everything I can about the different cultures around the world! Do you wanna go to France with me???

Bro...i really want to be like you..!!!!!!!

I’d love to have a friend I can chat with in languages I try to learn. A lot of this makes me think like “you’re playing games where you can talk to ppl and short phrases are useful” and having friends who can speak that and want to play something or legit chat with u in the language u wanna learn is really useful… anyone wanna be language buddies? What languages do y’all wanna learn?

As a native romanian i started learning english back in 2014-2015 when i was like 6-7 and i like i was in first grades. And when i watched minecraft videos in english i though they were speaking romanian but i was wrong. That is how i got to know english as of today! Edit: And at nr 2 to repeat, well by watching a lot of english videos about minecraft kinda repeated the basic words and it was really logical for me!

You need to learn Portuguese my boy, i love your videos 🙃

Wow wasn't expecting a pubg mention XD I was wondering how I could remember phrases I learned from people in the game so well, or how people in the game could remember how to say I love you in more than 10 languages. It really is all about how often you think you will use it. Our brain always focuses on the usefulness of an information, and whether we will need it soon or not.

In example one seems you acquired the language as Chris Lonsdale describes in his video it is like you were on the train ride in China with him except you were in a PUBG !

damn this might help

Hello Ryan, how many phrases a day do you recommend learning in each language so as not to get overwhelmed and how many languages ​​can you learn a day?

thanks :D

ryan started the fire :))

Yes bro me also learnt one language in pubg ❤️ Love from India 🇮🇳

Your BG music was also used on the podcast I'm listening to are you by any chance a part of it? 😅 Mandarin from the ground up

Hello! I was wondering if PUBG still has mostly Chinese speakers? I would like to start playing for language practice. Thank you for this video!

Thank you

So useful

Universal tip . Try to mend in environment. Like if u want to learn japanese u should at least visit once there. Literal hindi and hindi we use are different

I'm improving my english language❤ thank you

Real good!

RIP laoshu mentioned. He was so much encouragement for me

Thanks Ryan your videos always motivate me🤍

Superbe vidéo ❤

So quick question...if you know how the grammar for a language and how to form sentences but can't think of the words to say, should you still learn phrases?

nice job

I want to go on Omegle and on video games to practice but I’ve always been nervous talking to people

I'm thinking all these advices also applicable when studying programming language as well)

Hey Ryan, i have been having a problem learning a third language. I have a strong feeling that my English is going to decay if I pursue another one 😢 Does it happen to you as well? (If so, any tips?) I a Brazilian trying to learn japanese.