Which language did Lingopie helped you the most?

​@@nsevvSpanish. I've really only learned Spanish (of the ones thet offer).

@WVW Their French materials are also very good. The Spanish stuff is good. The Korean materials are sparse, but fun. Haven't tried any Germanic languages, yet

Could you tell me what your father really did for a living?

@@jsoulas He already did, 'drug king-pin' 👍

Days of Klingon and Bogan is eating tacos right now.

Languages Down Under has a nice ring to it.

I was not able to find any channel under this name

​​​@@Amaling It's a joke. This channel was called Days of French and Swedish and then changed to the acronym DFNS because the previous title was too long (presumably), but now you can take all sorts of other meanings out of the acronym. Like, well.. days of Farsi and Swahili.

Days of Indonesian and Hindi. That one might be.... Me.

I agree, Luca lamperiello is great though, a genuine polyglot. I thought he was American until he said he was Italian. He even says that English isn't his second language, genuinely incredible grasp of the language

I agree, Luca lamperiello is great though, a genuine polyglot. I thought he was American until he said he was Italian. He even says that English isn't his second language, genuinely incredible grasp of the language

I highly recommend learning the pretty languages that are less known like Old Norse / Dutch / Norwegian / Welsh / Breton / Gothic / Hungarian / Gallo / Icelandic / Danish / Faroese / Galician etc and the other pretty languages that are on my list of languages I want to learn and improve, and Old Norse / Dutch / Norwegian are just as gorgeous as English, so all should learn these gorgeous languages, and, I’ve been prioritizing them a lot, but I am actually learning over 15 languages at the same time (and I want to learn over 50 languages) because it saves many years and many decades, and learning multiple languages at the same time is the best way to go about learning new languages, especially if one wants to learn many languages like I do, because one’s hern needs to see many different things and needs time to absorb the new words from a certain language, so it’s way more efficient and effective to learn multiple languages at the same time and to constantly switch to learning a different language after learning new words in one language and become fluent in multiple languages in a few years, as opposed to only learning one languages at a time and waiting for years to become fluent in that one language, to start learning another, which takes a lot more years and is way less motivating than doing multiple languages at the same time!

It takes a lot of éxpòsure to the new language to become truly fluent in that language, and one must know at least 10.000 base words (over 15.000 words) really well and must be able to instantly process and use them to get to a native speaker level, and over 30.000 words to get to a writer level, so one must develop an automatic mode in the new language, which is only possible if one sees each word / phrase / sentence etc many times over a period of! Honestly, only in English am I writer level at the moment, so I cannot express things in any other languages the way I do in English, as I know a lot more words and phrases in English than I do in any other languages as I’ve always been éxpòsed to the English language and I use English every single day basically, and I know at least 100.000 words in English, but probably a lot more than that because I almost never see a new word in English, and one of my goals is, to get to a writer level in Dutch and in Old Norse and Norwegian and Icelandic and Gothic as fast as possible, because I want to know all the words that exist in these languages that I want to use the most, just like English, and I am native speaker level in Spanish as I learned it in childhood 100% passively, but since I started learning languages on my own, I also started learning new words in Spanish as well, including regional terms and rare descriptive verbs and technical terms etc that I hadn’t heard before, and I know Dutch, having gotten to an advanced level in Dutch after only focusing on it for 3 months, so I learned Dutch faster than any other languages, and am now trying to get to a native speaker level and then to a writer level in Dutch, and in Norwegian I am also close to an advanced level, while in German / Swedish and Portuguese / French / Italian I am intermediate level and know over 3.000 words in each, and I am close to intermediate level in Old Norse & Icelandic & Welsh as I’ve been learning a lot of new words over the past few months, so I will probably get to an intermediate level by the end of this year, and I am beginner level in Breton / Galician / Latin / Faroese / Danish / Hungarian / Slovene / Gothic, so I know a few hundred words in these and over 1.000 words in Latin, and in most other languages I am learning I am total beginner as I only know a few words and I haven’t even started properly learning them yet, and some of them aren’t easy to learn because there aren’t many resources and yt videos teaching them, so hopefully more ppl will start making videos teaching them in the near future, and hopefully all the pretty languages that are on Google translate yet are also added to Google translate in the near future, because Google translate also helps a lot, especially when checking individual words and their meanings and the articles for certain nouns etc, so it’s definitely a lot easier to learn a language if it’s on Google translate!

Honestly, with English, it’s kinda different, because English is super easy to use / learn, it’s the easiest language ever created, so it doesn’t matter if it’s the 2nd or the 3rd etc language one’s learnt, one is probably going to be able to express things better in English than one can in any other languages (including the first language one was made to learn) because English is so flexible and so expressive and so easy to use / read / type / learn / pronounce etc, a language cannot even get any easier than that - it’s naturally way easier to use in general, so if one learns English to a native speaker level and gets a lot of éxpòsure to it, like, constant éxpòsure, and uses it every day, one will naturally feel very comfortable using it, even more comfortable than one would feel using the first language one was made to learn, so I see on yt English learners that can express ideas better in English than they can in the first language they were made to learn all the time! English has been oversimplified to the maximum on purpose, so that it could easily become an universal language, plus English has more words and more slang and more idioms and more descriptive verbs and more descriptive terms in general etc than any other language, so one can express ideas in very detailed ways in English that aren’t possible in other languages, and many times, one cannot even translate certain words in other languages because the other languages don’t have specific terms that mean the exact same thing as the English word, and even the colors, like, there are words in English for every single shade, not just for the primary colors, and that’s just an example, but all other groups of words are like that as well, which makes it very easy to express ideas in English in very detailed ways - so, even if one knows all the words in another language and in the first language one was made to learn, one will never be able to express ideas in those languages as well as one can express them in English, due to the way each language was constructed and due to the number of words and descriptive terms / verbs each language has! I am learning many languages myself, and I am writer level in English, and even if I will get to a writer level in Old Norse and Dutch and Norwegian, I know I will never be able to express ideas in those languages as well as I can express them in English because I am aware of those differences in the ways each one of them has been constructed and also aware of the fact that English has a lot more descriptive terms and verbs and slang etc than any other languages, so I know that there are many things that I can only say in English, because there aren’t words in the other languages that mean the exact same thing - by the way, I am the only great being!

The key is keep calmly taking in tons of comprehensible input. So, mainly read stuff you can understand at a decent level and look some of the words up and keep taking in material you find interesting. Add to that, watch stuff you can understand at least 70%. Main thing is calmly reading to keep increasing your vocabulary. If you keep increasing vocabulary, you'll have access to more words and then at some point it'll turn into the ability to understand and speak better. Keep juggling between reading, listening and even sometimes write stuff out. If you do all that, your skills will improve. Watch Luca Lampariello videos, he explains it all extremely well. Definitely one of the best out there.

Is it the local slang and abbreviations that throws you off? Because if they are telling you that you speak well, I could only imagine that this might be the cause.? Hope you get over that obstacle.

Thank you. Yeah, I think starting a new language is a bit like starting a new fad diet because it always feels like THIS is the one that will work, when in reality, the only one that works is whatever you stick to for about 3 to 4 years (languages vary a bit more obviously).

I am in similar situation but vice versa. Have been trying to learning Spanish for a year, sometimes being able to put 30min a day but most of the time just 10-15 minutes of learning unfortunately. Latest weeks I am slowly started a bit with German but now I, instead, gonna go full in on Spanish, more time spend and watch a tv show etc. Thanks to Days and Words for motivation and advice!

It's my experience too with Japanese and Spanish.

What books do you read in Portuguese? I am learning Portuguese and would like to start reading regularly

@@burkhousehold8880 I think it's technically a graphic novel, but currently I'm going through a series called "o amuleto" by Kazu Kibuishi. The books are pretty short, and physical copies are pretty expensive, but as long as that's not an issue, I think it's worth the investment. If that's not your cup of tea, plenty of people recommend the Harry Potter series and I had my Portuguese teacher recommend the Narnia books, though they'll probably have the same price issues as o amuleto.

​@@seekthuth2817that's very good, I'm Brazilian and now I'm putting more effort in English and I don't know why, but japanese books are such an attractive thing, so I'm learn English by japanese books lol. I'm not a good reader yet, so my approach was read whatever i wanted to. By the way I can recommend some Brazilian books to learn Portuguese.

@@matheusgomessoares6180 Shoot man, I'm not gonna promise I'll get to them very soon, but that'd be awesome to hear if you're still willing to share.

el chavo del ocho

I think you agree with me, but it seems you misunderstood what I was saying.

Exactly where I am with Danish. I can converse with people, but when they go full speed Danish with each other I get lost quickly. I’m going to commit myself to immersing more, and hoping I get results like Lamont.

@@amerikanskdansker8771 native dane here, you're brave to try learning danish. I am myself learning japanese since one year. Japanese is like danish in many ways: pronunciation of words/kanji is inconsistent, you can put words/kanji together to add properties like in danish. Håber at et og en og upålidelige udtale ift. skreven. Also here are some tips, they are not official just some patterns I have noticed in the danish language(I am writing a book in the style of "grammar guide" by tae kim) hvilken/hvilken depends on if the noun this pronoun refers to is et/en hviken ugedag er det i dag ? (en ugedag, if you did not know, for combined words the last word takes et/en precedence uge+ *dag* ) "at,vil,må,skal" voluntary or request or an act. sets a verb to stamform Det er kedeligt *at fiske* the act/activity of fishing is boring vil du løbe væk med mig ? do you want to run away with me ? du løber væk med mig ? you are running away with me ?(interpretation could be a command or a surprised statement ) Many danes cannot do this correct most of the time, so it does not really matter that much. Good Luck, hope I was not annoying

@@Mathias-bz2kr Tusind tak for din forklaring! Jeg altid elsker at modtag hjælp med min dansk, især når det kommer fra en rigtig dansker! 😀🇩🇰 Jeg tror et dansk har en meget negativt røg for at blive det sværeste sprog i verden…men jeg prøver ikke at led den putter mig ned. Engelsk er også en mærkeligt sprog, men næsten enver dansker jeg kender taler engelsk godt nok.. Jeg vil lære dansk, selvom hvis det slå mig i hjel!! 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰

@@spellandshield Wenn es nur der Unterricht wäre, der vom Alltagsfranzösisch abweicht, aber bestimmte Formen findet man praktisch nur in der Schriftsprache. (Gibt es im Japanischen ähnlich, da gibt es für bestimmte Wörter noch besonders vornehme Alternativen, Customer Support verwendet die, als Ausländer hat man dann verloren)

@@spellandshield Genau. Französisch sind eigentlich drei Sprachen: Die formelle geschriebene Sprache, die formelle gesprochene Sprache und die alltägliche, informell gesprochene Sprache.

Bub, 50 year olds out there start new languages from scratch and become fluent. It is never too late, until you're dead.

Bons estudos

⁠​⁠@@rustyshackleford1465Yep. When you’re dead that pretty much puts an end to the language journey. But before that it’s anything goes. I’m learning Danish and Spanish at 67 years old

@@ledaswan5990 that's awesome, hope that goes well for you!

Thank you! I hope it helps.

How do you divide your study time? Like one day one language? Could you give me some tips ?

@@oliviervp5588 I'm a Native Spanish speaker so for Italian I did an intensive course to build the grammar up and now I focus on consuming as much as possible, because speaking Spanish Italian is already very inteligible. But 80% of my time goes to danish

@@oliviervp5588​​⁠I wasn’t asked, but I’ll share my method. I am a native English speaker. I took 4 years of French, 3 years of Spanish, and 1 year of German in High School. That was 20 years ago with ZERO language study since. During Covid lockdowns, I started playing with Duolingo and enjoyed it. That lead to deciding to actually focus on language learning. I started watching a LOT of KZfaq videos on the subject. Downloaded a LOT of both free and paid language learning apps, and I have been pretty serious with it for 1 years now. I decided to focus on learning Spanish and Farsi. Spanish because I enjoy it, it is very useful, and I had a foundation already. Farsi was 100% new for me from scratch and MUCH harder. Both to learn and to find resources for. I'm learning Farsi because I have some relatives who speak it. They are also fluent in English, but I thought it would be nice to learn. I have spent about 1 hour per day studying these for over a year now and here's what I have learned and settled on. 1. Using One App: Using any one app isn't enough. You need more. If you are going to use only one app, make sure it is a VERY comprehensive app. I have tested and used 20+ language apps now. Only a few I would consider "comprehensive". Most are very basic or good as a supplement, but not good as a stand alone at all. 2. Using 2 or more apps. I think it is an EXCELLENT idea to use 2 different types of apps that complement each other well. It breaks up the learning experience and teaches you in more than one way. I found this VERY helpful. Then I thought if 2 is good, 3 is even better, and 4 even better than that. WRONG... using too many spreads you too thin. You don't really progress fast enough. Find 2 good apps (per language) and stick with those. You can play with others as a supplement, but find your 2 main ones and stick with those. 3. Time Breakdown: I spend a MINIMUM of 30 minutes on Spanish every day and 30 minutes on Farsi every day. The KEY is consistency over time. 30 minutes every day, times 7 days per week = 3.5 hours per week. That 3.5 hours per week is WAY more effective than 5 hours per week squeezed into one day. How I spend my 30 minutes? 15 minutes listening. 15 minutes vocab, grammar, review, etc. For Farsi I use: 1. Pimsleur = 15 min audio 2. Mondly = 15 min vocab + flash cards For Spanish: 1. Speakly = 15 min audio 2. Busuu = 15 min grammar, lessons, review, practice, etc. Speakly and Busuu don't offer Farsi. Neither goes Duolingo, Babbel, and most other apps. I recently got Rocket Languages for Spanish (as a gift) and I think that is an EXCELLENT program. Extremely well done and comprehensive. I will have to figure out how to incorporate that. It is MUCH better than Busuu or Speakly. So it may replace one of those. But, I have done my 15 minutes EVERY day for a year with those 4 apps as my bare minimum. I occasionally do more. I also do 10-15 minutes a day on Duolingo for Spanish, but just for fun. I don't consider that "learning" or even a good use of time. I just have a 500+ day streak I don't want to lose and it is fun competing with friends and family. I will also occasionally spend 30+ minutes per day in one or more of my 4 main apps. I have also bought some books to supplement. I occasionally listen to watch KZfaq videos in my target languages or teaching my target languages. ** So... my "system" is use one "Main" app and one "supplemental" app every day. Then supplement with KZfaq videos, podcasts, books, etc. Have a CORE bare minimum daily routine. Like brushing your teeth. > Main Apps Could Be: Pimsleur Rocket Languages Babbel Busuu Pimsleur and Rocket are both HEAVILY focused on audio based learning and are the BEST. I'd say Rocket is slightly better, but they only have 14 languages. Pimsleur has 51 languages available! I could honestly make an argument for either one being better, but they are both excellent. Pimsleur has monthly options that are cheaper, about $20/mo. Rocket ONLY has lifetime plans, but they are $180 for LIFE, so that is way better if you plan to study for more than 1 year. I expect to use either one for at least 3-5 years, so Rocket is a much better deal. Rocket says $450, but it is ALWAYS on sale for $180, or find a KZfaq channel with a promo code. Test Prep Insight always has good promo codes. Babbel and Busuu are VERY similar to each other. Both are good, but not as good as Rocket or Pimsleur. Babbel and Busuu are both very affordable. Only around $7/month. Both are FAR superior to something like Duolingo. Babbel does specials where you can get it for $90 for 2 years or $240 for lifetime. They have a Black Friday sale right now for $140 for LIFE. Busuu does sales too. I got it last year for $36/year for life. That was a great deal. Busuu isn't perfect, but it is excellent and has a GREAT community feature to practice with native speakers. Busuu also has a 100% free option that just plays an ad after every lesson. Babbel, Rocket, and Pimsleur do not have that option. Busuu is amazing to have that free offer. > Supplement Apps Could Be: Mondly Memrise Speakly (excellent) Beelinguapp (excellent) LingoPie (excellent) > Good Flash Card Apps: Anki Quizlet (I've heard, but haven't used) Clozemaster > Other Apps: *Mango Languages: This one seems like it could be good. I just found it ugly and boring, but might be good for learning. *Innovative Languages: These seem good, but very scattered. I spent some time with these, but found I liked my 4 apps better, but I occasionally watch their KZfaq videos. They are the "pod" series apps. SpanishPod101, PersianPod101, etc. *Duolingo: I am very thankful to Duolingo for opening my eyes to this language app world. I don't think it is great for learning a new language, but I think it can be good for fun practice as a supplement to other things. > Apps I Did Not Like: Rosetta Stone (shockingly bad) Drops (some like it, I didn't) I tried Tandem (a language exchange app to practice with native speakers). I think it is a great idea, but I didn't find any good people. Most were trying to use it as a dating app. I've heard great things about iTalki. I might try that next. I recently did a trial with LingoPie. That looks like a nice system. I wish they had Farsi. I hope that helps. Good luck. PS: This channel does excellent app reviews. So does Test Prep Insight. App reviews is all they do. Both for language learning apps and other academic apps.

Can u speak and understand Danish?

@@ledaswan5990 Yeah sure in the same way I can speak Swedish, although Danish phonology is more unique, the 99% similar vocabulary makes up for it imo

Cheers.

It's true we don't use the word "reklama" (which is also the croatian word for advertisement) but "Reklame" although the word "Werbung" is more common.

Any good resources youd recomme dating for Cantonese? I'm also in a similar boat wanting to learn canto and also viet, as those are my heritage laguages

Yeah it's the first one (Despicable Me).

Mi hijo no está aquí!

Mr. Salas! (Mexico) Hmm, there is this woman who talks all about Spanish all the time, and I think she is from Spain and her videos are literally just ABOUT Spanish, not for learners, but for people interested in how the language got to be that way... but I can only find her through my other account so I'll come back to you.

Here we go: Linguriosa I guess it depends what sort of Spanish you want to learn (like, where from).

@@daysandwords hey, thanks a lot for the suggestions! My Salas looks interesting but I'll have to work up to that speed of talking. Linguriosa is perfect! She talks at a good pace, is funny, entertaining, etc. Awesome, cheers man

@@daysandwords for those who have the same question, I found a channel that's fantastic and the guys speaks very clear Spanish: Martin adquiere un idioma. Highly recommend!

Cheers for that!

I like the fact that you edited the comment so as to unkempt properly but didn't change the message to be correct... since, as you learned, unkempt ends in pt...

The same but with French and Mandarin Chinese

Thought about it too but I don't like the sound of my voice recorded

Um, you mean KZfaq Premium? You know that has nothing to do with sponsored videos, right? That's like paying for a car and then complaining that you still have to buy a bus ticket.

I don't know why here there's a lot of Portuguese learners, I'm also a Portuguese student but since the very first day of my life . I don't know your level, but I can help with some material to do input, If you want it just tell me what do you like

tempt ends in mpt not mt

Temt temt temt.....

You're like 2 weeks in the future my dude. I'll be Mexico for another week and THEN the Houston tournament.

@@daysandwords ok just keep us informed. My excitement.

Haha, I was actually kind of annoyed by that decision by Collins. Because they are legit matching dictionaries but just for no reason the Spanish one says Collins rather than Spanish.

@@daysandwords I know the struggle. I own a collection of Dostoevsky's works, all made by the same publisher and all following the same graphical design pattern. Until the last volume. They actually had the gall to change the font and color of the title on the spine on the last one they published.

Yeah. Another one I hate is those box sets of books, e.g. I have the Song of Ice and Fire ones (although it was like $5 from an op-shop so I can't complain) - but in theory, every book fits in there... but that's when they are brand new and vacuum sealed into the damn thing. Once you have so much as read the dedication on one book, the spine increases by about 1mm, and about 7mm by the time the book has any miles on the clock. So then if you plan on reading all 7 books, they all look the same, but suddenly you're 49mm over the capacity of the box they came in. EDIT: Although, it's always kind of moot on book series that aren't finished anyway. I read that Martin is saying that The Winds of Winter will end up being at least 50% longer than the longest book thus far, and he's worried that the publishers will want to make it two titles. (I'm not sure why they couldn't just make it 1 title in three volumes...)

Heaps of Australians use needn't - this guy was just an idiot.

Spanish.

Are you telling me it's a word? Because I'm well aware.

I would say no, not really but I guess technically, yes. Someone else proposed that too, and it's miles better than the dozens of people who have unironically written "unkempt". Like they wrote exactly that, spelled correctly.

Failed attempt. 😂