Successful language learning requires a balanced and holistic approach. By avoiding common pitfalls-such as over-focusing on grammar, neglecting listening and speaking, fearing mistakes, lacking consistency, not expanding vocabulary, translating directly, and ignoring cultural context-you can enhance your learning experience. Embrace practical application, immerse yourself in the language, and maintain regular practice. Remember, language learning is a journey that involves making mistakes and learning from them. Stay consistent, stay curious, and engage with both the language and its cultural nuances for a more enriching and effective learning process. Online Arabic Language ....Syed

You're right, I definitely think I need to set up a system of learning and attainable goals. Otherwise, I can't even tell if I'm improving or not. Thanks for the video!

Continuation 3. In my experience, motivation is the main measure of success. Learning even the most 'simple' language (simple being whatever is easiest for you personally to master) is still a tremendous undertaking. Being able to give a semi-memorised speech (like a Trump campaign speech) or ask for directions is not the same as fluency where you conduct your life in that language and that language alone. For the latter, pretty much it takes two things: love (of a person, place, and/or thing) and an inability to use a language you already know. Many English speakers never learn the local language because so many locals already speak English well enough for the newcomer to continue doing other things dearer to his or her heart. Obviously, other factors like an inability to assimilate the information can contribute to failure. Without simplification, Lithuanian has over 1000 (one thousand) endings and that will give you cause to pause. (They simplify to far less.) 4. Returning to previous topics. You were also not specific about input. A graded reader uses artificial grammar and vocabulary. You mention French. The actual French used (pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary) differs between graded readers, published novels, films, and on the street, esp. in specific communities. I expect the same is true to some degree for every language on the planet. So, if you are going to recommend using graded readers in order to reach a 5 min. conversation goal, I have trouble seeing that latter happening outside a classroom. And if you can only use the language inside a classroom, what motivation is there to learn it? The love of your life is not going to stay in that classroom forever, unless there is Fallout... 5. Shyness is a result of classroom instruction. In the classroom, every mistake costs you points and is the basis of your grade. Most locals ignore much of grammar as the sentence accents are on the chief words, not the grammatical structures. If grades were based on vocabulary instead of grammar, maybe things might be different. But this is a reason NOT to start a language with grammar instruction.

I always thought that my main mistake is not being shy enough 😂

Thank you for these useful tips! I'll try to pay attention to them.

Question: how can you measure your own knowledge? How do you know how much you know about a certain subject like a foreign language for example? You can take language proficiency tests but you need to pay for them, and they are usually offered only a few times a year. There may be free tests, quizzes, exams on the internet, but the quality of these tests may be suspicious. Even if you could get high scores on these tests, that may mean very little. I have been studying Swedish for the past 3 years every day for an hour, mostly by translating song lyrics. I keep track of the number of songs I can translate in one hour. Right now on average I can translate 8 songs per hour. Even though I am mostly reviewing songs that I had translated before, there are always words that I don't remember or I am not sure and I want to check in the dictionary. My goal is to become faster and faster to a point that I can read entire texts without consulting the dictionary. But there should be a better way to test or measure my own knowledge. I am against using ANKI or flashcards to learn a language. But at the same time, tests like flashcards seem to be the only way to measure your knowledge of a certain subject. How can you measure your knowledge without using tests, quizzes or exams? For example, many youtubers claim to be fluent in a foreign language. But they may offer no concrete or objective evidence or proof of that claim They may say a few sentences in the foreign language, but that doesn't mean they are fluent, it just means that they memorized those few sentences. How can you objectively and precisely measure someone's knowledge without using tests, quizzes or exams? Is that even possible?

continuation 2 6. Translation. After nearly three decades of using Lithuanian, I still think only in English, I just substitute Lithuanian words for the English ones very fast. I catch signs of it from time to time. My daughter is bilingual from birth and thinks in both languages and hence, makes foreign language mistakes in both, using Lithuanian grammar in English and vice versa. Thus, thinking in a foreign language is something of a dream, at least for most. What is really meant? A. Instantaneous recognition and recall. To hold a normal conversation, in many cultures, one has to speak and listen very rapidly and the translation process has to be invisible 99 percent of the time. Want proof you are translating? Take a person speaking very rapidly in the target language and another speaking at the same exact speed in your native language. Your retention and perhaps even comprehension will be greater in the latter. That is the result of instantaneous translation. B. Flexibility. One of the joys of fluency is being able to create in a language. Without that, you are just a parrot. Obviously, you need authentic input to create relevant material. (A joke based on a rule in a grammar book, which rule the locals do not use, is not valid outside the classroom.) But it also takes familiarity with the material. To put it another way, when a local imitates a foreigner speaking, like when 'cook' is pronounced 'kook', it can be funny. It rarely is when the foreigner himself or herself makes the same mistake. So, by all means, try to absorb content without consciously translating it and try to speak doing the same. Grammar books rarely assist in that. For example, they will give you a table for noun declensions in one chapter, adjective declensions in another, and perhaps determiner declensions in a third. Better books use fewer chapters, worse, more. But they are still separate tables. And that means that to express yourself, you have to assemble info from various tables. When you 'think' in the language, then you know the sentence or phrase pattern, i.e., ending (a) means the next word takes ending (b) and the word after that ending (c). Where it gets fun is where elements that are joined together in your native language become separated in a foreign language, like putting the noun at the beginning of sentence and its modifier at the end (saw that done in German this week). Well, I hope that helps with your efforts going forward and good luck with Arabic.

My 2 cents worth. I am learning french. People do not need a marine drill sargent of regimentation to achieve goals. We are not robots, androids, or AI machines. Start simple, study several times a week, have general goals, study at small intervals and build upon that. Learn the alphabet, write down 3 to 5 words for each letter of the alphabet that you think you can recite back quickly, learn a few catch phrases, do some role playing for basic situations. Be able to recite the letters of the alphabet, plus be able to recite the letters of your name. Practice speaking where you live, give the number and be able to recite the letters of the name where you live. A general goal would be to be conversant in french to speak to french Canadians, and a little more specific, attain A1 proficiency in 1 year. I recommended having 1 or 2 favorite books to study from, (French in 10 minutes a day), and the (Oxford picture dictionary)1 app, Learn french for example which has text tutorials and quizzes. The roadmap to study is a syllabus for a1 to c2 learning. I submit the table is set!

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Thank you so much❤❤ 8:28 do you know an app or website for that?? Please give me it if you know🥰 . And also i can't speak with a native speaker but i recored my self evry day and tyr to practice it (15minut)and also practice it with my friend(she is also learning ) is that helpful??

I don't really agree with #2 because language learning is different than most other skills. In fact, Krashen says it's really not a skill that can be practiced. Because of this, I would say "I want to improve my French" is a perfectly fine goal, as long as you stick to #3, and come up with a plan. Like, for example, "listen to 2 hours of easy French podcasts per day." At any rate, that is what I did, and it got me to around a B2+ / C1.

Interesting.

The bottom line is paying someone? There is too much sales pitch to pick the pockets of the viewers. My 2 cents worth only suggests a viewer get a book or two and an app and I receive nothing for any book suggestions.Thank you. Merci.