5 items to learn languages faster

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Five items under $20 that will help you reach fluency in a foreign language.
My videos are typically made available in an extended cut that is also released a few days earlier to channel members:
/ @daysandwords
Learn everything you need to about learning a language by immersion with Refold:
refold.link/refold-course-lamont.
Japanese deck: refold.link/refold-jp1k-lamont
Spanish deck: refold.link/refold-es1k-lamont
The sounds of Spanish deck: refold.link/refold-essounds-l...
Korean deck: refold.link/refold-ko1k-lamont
French deck: refold.link/refold-fr1k-lamont
German deck: refold.link/refold-de1k-lamont
Italian deck: refold.link/refold-it1k-lamont
English (in Spanish) deck: refold.link/refold-en-mil-lamont
Sounds of English (in Spanish) deck: refold.link/refold-ensounds-l...
Japanese (in Spanish) deck: refold.link/refold-jp-mil-lamont
Korean (in Spanish) deck: refold.link/refold-ko-mil-lamont
German (in Spanish) deck: refold.link/refold-de-mil-lamont
Italian (in Spanish) deck: refold.link/refold-it-mil-lamont
All decks: refold.link/refold-decks-lamont
Pick up a other StoryLearning course:
learn.storylearning.com/uncov...
Below I've listed the stuff I've talked about in the video. I actually never got to be a part of the Amazon affiliates program (oh well) so these links do nothing for me but I hope they get you to where you want to go:
Microphone:
amzn.to/472MfH2
The over-ear hook-on earbuds. These were a lot better for running that my trusty 2022 ones (I did go for a run after recording this video):
amzn.to/466hGit
Home use bluetooth adapter (there are lots of sorts but here is one I actually bought):
amzn.to/477UYIe
Car bluetooth adapter (there are lots of styles):
amzn.to/40xyspy
My balance board was $7 from Kmart but if you want it from Amazon, here is one:
amzn.to/3QRJLWh
Subscribe for more awesome language learning content: / @daysandwords
TIMESTAMPS:
00:00 This makes life easier
01:18 Get an extra hour of immersion with this
02:35 This blew my mind
06:45 An oldie but a goodie
07:54 Bonus 6th item
08:25 You have one of these already
Thanks for watching.

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@daysandwords 6 ай бұрын

Tjena chicos. Did this video give you any ideas for your language learning (or anything else)?

@acampos8422 6 ай бұрын

Yes. I use my old iPhones as a mp3 player to listen to my language lessons while cooking, running, etc

@technomancer_066 6 ай бұрын

Ahh time to do my daily 10 minutes of watching language learning vids instead of learning a language

@daysandwords 6 ай бұрын

Don't get into making them. Days spent editing about how I should be doing more immersion. 😂 (And yes, for anyone reading this, that is part of life. You also have a job that takes you away from time spent on things you'd rather be doing.)

@jyjyjyj3 5 ай бұрын

I'm lucky because the language I'm learning is English

@Komatik_ 5 ай бұрын

I am in this comment and I don't like it.

@garrettwilliams6246 5 ай бұрын

This comment wins 🏆 🥇

@Skiis44 6 ай бұрын

In the US Spring and Fall library book sales. One library had 9 boxes of foreign language books. I held onto the a Spanish box while dealers fought over the others. Got as many as my bag would hold. Made the rounds this Fall and set until Spring. Now to get that microphone for reading practice.Thanks Lamont.

@ClowdyHowdy 5 ай бұрын

Lol I cracked up about the microphone coming with a novella in 5 languages. Now that's value!

@Charlotte-ti2yk 6 ай бұрын

Earphones/ headphones was an absolute game changer for my learning, you’re right. I have a set of the bone conductor ones, just because I find them to be comfortable enough to wear all day, meaning I don’t even have to think about putting them on/in. When you can quite literally press a button on the side of your head anytime you have some ‘dead time’ and immediately have your target language in your ear it’s amazing how many hours a day you can get in. Removing even the tiny barriers to consume the language can make a massive difference.

@berkanathurisa 6 ай бұрын

I've been searching forever for earbuds that don't irritate me after 20 minutes. The bone conductor ones seem fairly expensive, but at this rate, I've probably spent more than double on various earbuds that are now just collecting dust in a drawer. Maybe Santa will bring me some bone conductor earphones this year...

@Charlotte-ti2yk 6 ай бұрын

@@berkanathurisa Write a nice letter to Santa. Tell him they’re 100% worth the price! A stranger on the internet highly recommends them. 😂

@berkanathurisa 6 ай бұрын

@@Charlotte-ti2yk Totally going to do that! Santa is already used to me randomly asking for or suggesting things I "heard from Lamont" so I don't think he'll argue much. But the "stranger from the internet recommends" will surely clinch it!

@nsevv 6 ай бұрын

Bone conducter earphone with built-in mp3 player FTW, it makes bluetooth, toothless.

@daysandwords 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, sorry I forgot to mention bone conducting headphones to you... Matt Brooks-Green mentions them often. I've never tried them.

@jacey261 6 ай бұрын

I ended up buying two pairs of headphones and the car adapter pretty much for the purpose of language learning. I got a nice comfy pair of headphones to use the majority of the time, and then a cheap pair of ear buds that I keep in my purse. So I basically have no excuse not to be listening to something at all times. That plus being at a level where I can understand audiobooks and podcasts means I'm easily getting in 1-2 hours a day of listening practice.

@SeaboltSpeaks 5 ай бұрын

Great video. Seeing Babbel in the thumbnail cracked me up. I get an email daily from them about how "today is the last day for 60% off". Their marketing is soooooo intense. Also if your product is always 60% off, it's not 60% off, that's the normal cost. Anyway, great video!

@daysandwords 5 ай бұрын

Honestly I think I stuffed up by putting Babbel in the title... I just wanted something that was recognisable as a "symbol" for language learning, but it seems to have not worked at all, given the views on this video.

@Stephanie-gv8rh 6 ай бұрын

The car Bluetooth one is brilliant! I need it 😅

@jphilly1261 5 ай бұрын

You gotta stop being so helpful and charismatic bro, how am I supposed to do work when you keep releasing bangers 😂😂😂

@straytonox1492 5 ай бұрын

im sure you already do something similar but a video on how to find proper comprehensible input audio (books/podcast) in our target language would be good, thats where im strugling the most

@ErykKrzeminski 6 ай бұрын

Nice vid as always. I wonder if it's possible to take the extra step and use noise cancelling headphones, in order to really hear yourself from the 3rd person. Might be great for improving accent.

@daysandwords 6 ай бұрын

Yeah, you definitely could use noise cancelling headphones, which is what Matt actually suggests in his video, but I just find this to be a 1% improvement for a lot of expense (if you don't already have them), and they could even be a hindrance. The problem I have with them is that since they are "judging" which sounds to cancel, you get this weird effect that somehow feels artificial. You can also NEVER fully cancel how your voice sounds to you, because the sound obviously goes through your throat and mouth, which are connected to your ears. The in between headphones would just be isolated ones that are not actually active noise cancelling, like good DJ headphones. I find just ordinary headphones to be a nice balance of being able to tell what sounds I am really uttering, whilst still feeling like it I who am controlling that sound. I guess I would say that normal headphones feel a little bit like driving a car with real time feedback, whilst noise cancelling ones feel a little bit like you can't actually feel what gear you're in anymore.

@alite_2200 6 ай бұрын

Very good video. Point on books was very unexpected as was balance board.

@brucehoyer9890 5 ай бұрын

I use my second language phone for tandem and hello talk. When I don't understand an audio message from a native speaker I turn on Google translate on my primary phone and hit the mic button. And play the audio from the message from my secondary phone. That way if they can't explain it in my native language I can still understand what they're saying.

@jenniferlink7520 6 ай бұрын

“Logan Paul’s credibility” 😂

@straytonox1492 5 ай бұрын

6:11 lol pretty good video with advice i never think about

@TheDjmaster1997 6 ай бұрын

tack för idén med mobilen!

@nomerz 5 ай бұрын

How much should you be understanding to utilize audiobooks?

@daysandwords 5 ай бұрын

Personally I don't feel that very much is necessary. Some people find less than 80% to be painful but I actually don't mind, because it's just on the background anyway. Less than 10% would not really be doing much but it's still better than NOT listening to the language. At some point you have to go from 5% to 6% so you might as well just keep listening.

@SvengelskaBlondie 3 ай бұрын

7:20 Ive bought some books off of Ebay, got really lucky with some russian books that I got for less than 19USD (195SEK). Got 9 books in total, half of that price was shipping so I paid basically a single dollar per book (unless you add shipping, then it goes to 2 bucks per book 🙂)

@julbombning4204 6 ай бұрын

Grok fun mode will revolutionize language learning🤘

@daysandwords 6 ай бұрын

Honestly, most of AI's involvement with language learning bores me to tears. It certainly has its place, especially in endangered languages and the like, but anywhere that I could take a story written by a human, I will.

@Zenik506 5 ай бұрын

1:26 I was ready for a Raycon ad

@daysandwords 5 ай бұрын

No such luck for me. Amazon kicked me out of the affiliate program too 😆 - so it's just the ad sense on 9000 views.

@straytonox1492 5 ай бұрын

8:16 you can buy tiny trampoline too, its very effective for musular and cardio while listening with headphones

@daysandwords 5 ай бұрын

Yeah I've got a Yoga-doughnut that is actually better than the balance board but you get the idea.

@SailorStudent 5 ай бұрын

Personally, listening to podcasts in my target language and music lyrics would help a lot on language learning. Btw, love all of your videos.🩵

@tinywest 6 ай бұрын

Days and words dont miss

@daysandwords 6 ай бұрын

Cheers!

@TheStickCollector 6 ай бұрын

I would only use these if i ever got serious, since i still have yet to stick to one fully yet.

@daysandwords 6 ай бұрын

That sort of sounds fair, but I would argue that the bluetooth headphones or adapters just make daily immersion so much easier that it makes it more likely that you'll stick to one fully.

@TheStickCollector 6 ай бұрын

@@daysandwords makes sense. For me it isn't the amount of resources but being able to talk to people. Unless I move to France for a study abroad trip or something I have no external reason to learn it. Doesn't help I had no foreign language in school to go off of.

@rh1587 6 ай бұрын

There are plenty of reasons to learn a language aside from visiting the country in question. What about French/Belgian comics that haven't been translated to English? Books? Movies? There is a ton out there that hasn't been translated to English or the English translations are very bad. If not French, then German, Italian, Swedish, Spanish... tons of culture out there, waiting to be unlocked.

@sae2705 6 ай бұрын

lmao, I have that exact mic, I didn't think of trying that feature out.

@daysandwords 6 ай бұрын

The HyperX?

@zoeamy290 2 ай бұрын

Hey I was trying to use your refold deck link and it's 404. Are you still an affiliate? Can you send me A link please?

@daysandwords 2 ай бұрын

Oh, sorry! I must not have copied over the new links because this video was definitely after they updated. Anyway, I don't know which language you're learning so here are ALL of them haha: Japanese deck: refold.link/refold-jp1k-lamont Spanish deck: refold.link/refold-es1k-lamont The sounds of Spanish deck: refold.link/refold-essounds-lamont Korean deck: refold.link/refold-ko1k-lamont French deck: refold.link/refold-fr1k-lamont German deck: refold.link/refold-de1k-lamont Italian deck: refold.link/refold-it1k-lamont Japanese (in Spanish) deck: refold.link/refold-jp-mil-lamont Korean (in Spanish) deck: refold.link/refold-ko-mil-lamont German (in Spanish) deck: refold.link/refold-de-mil-lamont Italian (in Spanish) deck: refold.link/refold-it-mil-lamont All decks: refold.link/refold-decks-lamont Immersion course: refold.link/refold-course-lamont

@thesunrising4982 5 ай бұрын

Comment to support the channel.

@CarolineJacovine 4 ай бұрын

Earbuds: check ✅ A microphone with an usb output: no, but I use to record myself while practicing shadowing and then I listen to the audio while carefully analysing my pronunciation. Even though it isn't 20 USD, I'd also recommend having a tablet or an Ipad with a pen (it can be of tremendous help if you study by taking notes and also for "carrying" a busload of ebooks with you. By the way, my thing is the Finnish language 😅

@dreamervanroom 5 ай бұрын

The wobble board is $16 American Nov 2023, 2 weeks after you posted this video.

@daysandwords 5 ай бұрын

OK... I'm not sure exactly what you're point is.

@jeffreybarker357 5 ай бұрын

All you need in a thumb nail of yourself beating up the Duolingo owl... Ohhhhh my gawwwd! I'm laughing way, WAY too hard at that comment. And the sound effect of you punching Duo immediately after! Lmaooooo Thank you for that, Lamont. That was a gift you've just given me. I feel terrible because I didn't get you anything. Please accept my apologies and thank you again for this.

@vbph2011 5 ай бұрын

I was two seconds late but audibly laughed at the novella joke. Hilarious. Subscribed with notifications on. Oh i am learning German. Just downloaded Duolingo last week, gonna uninstall it again soon haha

@daysandwords 5 ай бұрын

Cheers! Sounds like you're probably a beginner, in which case the microphone isn't really a big deal, but yeah, let me know if I can help!

@vbph2011 5 ай бұрын

@daysandwords @daysandwords I actually spent half my elementary school years in Germany. American, dad was US Air Force, so I was in Ramstien Air base for 3ish years off and on. Buuuut I don't remember most of it. But I am attracted to learning German, not just wanting to learn a foreign language, which you talk about. This is my third try learning, but I'll actually do it this time. Bought German Harry Potter #1 on audible, so I'll start listening to that a lot, and find some basic German podcasts. ....... now my only issue is actually learning vocab, and grammar (genders, tenses, whatever a subjunctive is, etc). Any tips??

@daysandwords 5 ай бұрын

Well learning vocab will take care of itself with enough reading and listening. Genders as well. The only thing you might need to deliberately check about genders is when nouns SEEM to shift gender, but it's actually just that they are changing case (cases basically refers to a noun's position in the sentence, e.g. a woollen jumper... is made out of wool... not woollen.) But German has them more often and is more picky about them being right. For this reason, genders can get confusing. BUT, as long as you understand that that can happen and you do enough listening and reading, then you will pick it up. Subjunctive and various verb tenses that English doesn't have, you can just learn a bit about it and then again, pick it up. In short: most things will be picked up in 2000 hours of exposure, but some things will be picked up much BETTER if you first check an explanation of them. BTW, the subjunctive is easy enough to understand as in the English, "If I were to tell you..." - it COULD be "was" because "I was" but in that case it's "If I were / if he were / if it were like that..." etc. Only in other European languages, a lot, if not ALL verbs have them. In English it's only "to be" that gets a subjunctive. Listen listen listen listen. Read read read. Listen. Read. Speak. Repeat.

@eduardoortegagonzalez1161 6 ай бұрын

Eh... You can "hear to yourself in real time through your headphones while talking to the mic" with any mic... You just need to connect your headphones to the computer and use a software that allows you to listen to the system not disabling your own input device, like with Pulsemeter, for example.

@daysandwords 6 ай бұрын

Nah I find that to cause a delay. Even if it doesn't, it's just better and gives you more options if it has it's own headphone outlet.

@_ao101 6 ай бұрын

the best item for language learning is some device with youtube on it so I can watch your videos

@filoreykjavik 6 ай бұрын

REAL TIME SHADOWING

@danfarm 6 ай бұрын

A novella in five languages 🤣

@foxmccloud9609 5 ай бұрын

I don't have a phone...Damn it

@DianaB4dawn 6 ай бұрын

What's the reason for the microphone? I really have no clue even after your ten minute monologue. If I want to hear myself talking, I'll just talk to myself, in the living room, or the kitchen.. really couldn't grasp what you tried to explain here..

@stevencarr4002 6 ай бұрын

If you record your voice and play it back, it sounds different to what you hear through your ears. Your ears are behind your mouth, so the sound you hear is different to what people standing in front of you hear. With a microphone, you can listen to how you actually do sound.

@fuwa7358 6 ай бұрын

You don't hear your voice like it actually sounds, so in order to objectively measure how well you're speaking it needs to be recorded or played back to you, but most ways of playing back your microphone in realtime introduce delay that makes it almost impossible to speak(look up speech jammer to see what I mean) so being able to have no delay realtime monitoring means you can try to mimic someone's speech and adjust in realtime

@DianaB4dawn 6 ай бұрын

@@stevencarr4002 I could just record a voice message then. Still don't get the point...

@DianaB4dawn 6 ай бұрын

@@fuwa7358 well I can still hear my pronunciation correctly simply talking. Even if my voice sounds a bit different when recorded.

@paulwalther5237 6 ай бұрын

It helps with shadowing real time. Look for more detailed videos on it (the one by Matt versus Japan is good). Most people can’t hear their own voice so well when they’re taking. Having the mic project it into your ears real time helps that. Not a must have but if you’re working on pronunciation it’s very useful.

@francegamble1 6 ай бұрын

Yeah. You forgot that the US dollar is infating horribly. Its okay. We forgive you. We forget until we go shopping, too.

@daysandwords 6 ай бұрын

Ours is too, but weirdly, a lot of these things are still cheaper in Australia. By quite a long way for some of them.

@JuanMartinez-se2dp 5 ай бұрын

I don't understand your last sentence "lo quiero". What do you want? Or maybe you are trying to say "los quiero".

@daysandwords 5 ай бұрын

Nah I'm saying "I love you" to a police officer who is also my dad, but he doesn't know that.

@JuanMartinez-se2dp 5 ай бұрын

@@daysandwords ahh ok, the best phrase I think is "te quiero". On the other hand, I am a Spanish speaker, but in your website I don't see any English course.

@phylocybe_ 5 ай бұрын

@@daysandwordsinto the spanishverse