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I think in school we get taught wrong way. Listening and Speaking should be more important. Writing and Reading took civilization thousand years to develop.

I think a lot of problems arise when we see books like 'learn Japanese in a year' or videos titled 'I learnt Japanese in 6 months'. FOr me personally, I find this very demotivating as it makes me think that I'm not doing well or am not good enough because after one and a half years I'm not fluent yet. As you said in your video, we're all very different, have different amounts of time that we can spend studying and have different learning styles. I really think it's important to try not to compare yourself to other people when language learning. Just do your best, whatever that is :)

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Sounding like a native and have no foreigner accent is not a requirement to be called fluent...yet the accent has to be light at least..but not everyone has the ability to sound perfectly native

I think people throw around the word "fluent" way too much. I'd love to hear your thoughts on that.

I am on year 3 of learning Korean. I wish I had been more consistent in the beginning because I would have made a lot more progress. My new motivation is that I am returning to Korea in May so I want to speak confidently even if I still make mistakes.

This is SO true! It all depends on your motivation. This sounds so silly but, I watched this Chinese drama, and found out, halfway through and fully invested, there were no subs for the second half of the season. I wanted to finish it so badly I started intensely studying Chinese so I could at least understand the jist of what was going on. In six months of studying Chinese, I became 10x more fluent than I was in French (which I had studied for six years) and 2x more fluent than I was in Korean (which I had studied for a year and a half)! Your motivation, drive and effort determines how fast you can become "fluent" in a language; although you never really do stop learning! I also totally agree on pronunciation. I sounded more "native" in Korean than in French, despite studying French formally & for longer and Korean on my own, all because I specifically spent months practicing native-sounding pronunciation and accents, dialect, etc!! It makes all the difference.

I've been studying a language for about 3 months now. I'm trying to expose myself to the language as much as I can. I don't want to take 8 years to become an advanced speaker. I'd rather go all out and try to achieve it in 3 years.

Fluency in 3 months is just a gimmick to sell things! It's not possible or realistic. Great video!

Well, I think the problem is that some people see languages, or education in general, as something that need to have a clear finish line. Similar to a "graduation" either in school, college or university. Nonetheless, I'd say that all depends on your goals, and a time frame might help you to achieve them, if they are specific. In other words, SMART goals. Anyhow, I agree that there's no ending in the language learning journey, unless you want to! You'll always learn something new within a language and or culture. It took me a year to get "fluent" in English when I was 15 ( due to the fact I had a fallen in love with a girl who couldn't speak Portuguese - I'm Brazilian). But before that I had several years of English at school and my English was a disaster. Though it took longer to "sound native". French was a bit easier, because of my language background, and I actually spent 2 months in French after a year and half studying it. As far as Italian is concerned, it took me 8-9 months to be able to become quite conversational with native speakers without them have to slow de or be careful with the vocab choice, but I'm still something around a B1..

Sorry for the video quality, friends :( I was using a friend's camera for a while, and this is my own camera made out of a potato lol

It was interesting how you said that it's hard to get by with just English in Japan. People who don't want to study languages like to argue that most people learn English, so you wouldn't need to learn another language. It would be interesting to hear about your experiences with finding people who speak (or not) English in the different countries that you've been to

I think learning language takes forever.The more you get fluent the more you understand that there are more things you need to work at.You know it said: "I know that I know nothing".Lindie thank you for your videos.I really enjoy your videos and get motivated to learn language and be confident about it.

I want so badly to end all advertising of "learn language quick" apps and programs. Also "he who shall not be named" even mentions in his book that true fluency probably isn't possible in 3 months, however I find the book title and concept a bit misleading. People are also way too caught up on learning languages fast, like come on y'all, enjoy the journey and memories made from learning!

"Pronunciation makes you sound a lot more fluent than you may or may not be." Japanese people that hear me on the phone and all my classmates taking Japanese: "Wow, you're so good at Japanese!" Me: Knows 200 words and 3 grammar rules but has almost near native pronunciation "uhh..."

I do agree with you . .. I have been learning Chinese for 10 years and my Chinese is average. I can understand daily conversation perfectly...But I watch news on TV or reading newspaper.... Suddenly blank wkwkkw alot of specific economic/medical/political vocabularies that we usually miss if we keep focusing on daily vocabulary

I mean, as language learners, let's not be hard on ourselves. We learn new things every day even in our native culture. I've been speaking English all of my life but when I write my short stories, I use a thesaurus and a dictionary to insert new words that aren't as commonly spoken. That's like with any other Language. You learn new words, the more you're expose to them. Nobody knows everything 😀🙂 加油

You seem like such a nice person. I’m 12 and love to learn languages , currently I’m learning German and all your videos have helped me a lot thank you😊

Even though I clicked on this and thought "Yeah, I wanna know what she thinks", I don't try to worry about this. One just keeps their head down and does the thing forever and always, and eventually, you know, you get good. It happens over time with effort, and worrying about it is just discouraging (to me, anyway).

How do you maintain all the languages you speak?

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I love this video! I have always felt like there is an awkwardness in relating time to skill level in languages or really, any discipline. Not only for the reasons you mentioned: the amount of actual time invested or immersion achieved over 10 years might be totally different for one person versus another, or one person in one language versus another, but also--you can take breaks! I feel awkward to say that I have been learning Chinese for 5 years, because while that's technically when I started and took a class, I took a 3 year break and basically started from scratch after that. I feel like my level is quite low for a 5 year learner but it's also inaccurate to say that I didn't start 5 years ago. All of that confusion or need for additional explanation could be avoided if it were more common to judge skills on something less arbitrary.

Yah, I started studying Japanese over 10 years ago but I never tell people this because then they don't understand why I'm not fluent yet... -_-" Meanwhile, I only study occasionally, have never been to Japan, don't know anyone Japanese and hardly watch anime anymore so my exposure is seriously limited...and always has been.

I believe that if you put effort in learn a language you can be fluent. For example, I'm a native Portuguese speaker, and I am learn English for, almost, 6 years. However, even that I've been studying English for so long, I wasn't able to speak until last year. But, as I've been putting more effort in learn the language, I became more fluent and confident. It's just a matter of how much effort do you put in learning. x

I discovered this channel today and I'm simply loving it. I'm learning english and it's so great to find places like this to improve my dream. Thanks!

Thank you for sharing your thoughts, Lindie. I completely agree. Trying to quantify language learning is so difficult, especially when trying to explain to someone who is monolingual. This video made me really happy:) You're so down to earth and your videos get to the point, which I really appreciate. Thank you!!

Came across your channel today. You're absolutely AMAZING!!! I'm also a fellow South African currently living in China and I'm grateful to have come across your awesome channel🤗🤗

Thank you so much for this video. This is the most realistic advice that has been given in a KZfaq video.

I find it really lovely how honest you are about it taking years to get to your level in languages. I sometimes feel like an idiot for how long i've been learning Spanish and not being fluent yet. This really helps, thank you!

You are astoundingly pleasant to listen to, and almost everything you say is just utterly relatable. Thanks for creating these videos!

Your videos seem like a real conversation. That's really good.

I like a lot all your videos! You’re great! Thank you for sharing your tips about languages 🎊😉

You always give me my motivation back to keep going. The way you explain stuff just makes me feel that I’m doing great and don’t need to rush the language.

You are amazing, agree with everything!

love the honesty!

Hi Lindie, great video, I completely agree on everything you said, you can learn A LOT in a short spam of time but fluency is a whole new story. Btw the way you styled your hair today looks completely gorgeous ^^

I love your shirt! 😍😍😍

Really cool to hear about your Experience. And true that if you really wanna know and understand someone, English will never be enough. I'm French and am currently living in Japan so I can totally relate to what you're saying. Thanks for sharing.

Thank you Lindie ❤❤❤

oh your videos are really helpful thank you !!

I really enjoyed this video, and it's like, wow this is so true and I just wanted to figure it out ❤️ love this as always

It gave me so much confidence. Thank you 💗

you're amazing and inspirational you're videos help a lot for me

I don't think perfectly knowing a language is possible we are always learning even our native language! Always finding something new. But exposure and immersion is critical imo to make a progress. I would like to add that having fun while learning helps a lot! The way you see your studies. For example if you are fascinated by a language and watch and listen things that are in this language and constantly are curious about how it is used you will make a better progress than if you feel that you have to learn it and you spend hours staring at a text book... Having fun with it really helps! I've learned more English by translating song lyrics at home and watching movies/TV shows in English than I've learned by studying in class! When we do something that really interest us it tends to stuck better in our heads! Last month I've started learning German Spanish Japanese and Korean... Will see how it goes XD but I try to see it as something I want to do not something I have to do because mental preassure is always slowing me down in my studies! I really like you videos, will be watching more 😁 thank you!!

Great point of view! I think motivation is key, as when I was in Korea, the first year I didn't have as much motivation and then my second year I had more people around me who were also learning it and being immersed in the language and culture helped to get used to hearing words I studied before and gaining greater understanding.

Your video gave me so much motivation! I'm Brazilian and I've been learning English for three years. I'm improving my skills every day and I'm very proud of my evolution. As you said, you took a few years to become confident speaking Korean and I understand you. The fear of saying something wrong is too much, but we have to keep trying to reach our goals.

Thank you so much for this video 😊

Thanks for the tips and experience. Hope I could apply those in my learning. I'm now on my intermediate level lesson

Your videos are interesting! I am an English and German private teacher. Your pieces of advice are always welcomed. I am focused on finding new teaching methods. I completely agree with you. It’s so difficult to quantify how much time we become fluent in a language. I experienced learning English, French and Spanish in Italy in more than ten years, between high school and university. On the contrary, I learnt German and Portuguese much further than my previous ones, because I used to live respectively in Germany for ten months in total (six in 2007 and four in 2013) and in Portugal for two years and a half. So, it really depends on our goals and on how much time we spend studying and having fun with our target languages. I’ve started with Japanese for three weeks just for fun and to challenge myself. 😊

Just saw a comments down below about not telling people about your language studies and its so true. I remember i was looking for a spanish book and found the website where one girl said she learned spanish nearly two years but still couldnot speak it. And i think its really okey not to be perfect in things like this, special people who called interpreters do this for us. And there is no necessary to be good enough because its you and only you decide whether to learn a language very fast or to know every part of the construction. As you can see my english could be better as ive been learning it for 7 years maybe and its still sad. But i think i will be able to do my best in the future. I started leaning korean and its my second year but i still cant speak it fast though. So its ok!

Fascinating and modest explanation why some languages take us more time than others and other learners.

Thank you! People always talk about learning a language to fluency in a few months and here I am still learning! The biggest game changer for me was just mustering up the confidence to speak, which I think is the biggest tip when it comes to language learning.

Interesting perspective, especially because you've had the opportunity to live in multiple countries and benefit from immersion, which is something that most language learners cannot benefit from. And what an opportunity by the way! I hope to one day get to use my Arabic in my everyday life! The question about "how long it takes to learn a language" is something that frustrates a lot of people. Language learning is about delayed gratification, and especially if you're new to language learning, you'll have a hard time keeping up steam and staying motivated when you just cannot see the light in the end of the tunnel. In reality, it depends on so many things. The mother tongue, past experiences with languages (or studying in general), motivation, the time put in, consistency, the level that you aim for... And then there's the difference that immersion makes, as you exemplified with your Korean VS your Japanese! I've tried looking at some of those different variables and making a tool that sort of adds up the different factors and spits out a number based on those variables. It's really extremely imprecise, and as you know, there are so many other factors that play a role. Add to that that that there doesn't exist a lot of data or research on the subject. Still, I was hoping you'd take a look at my "study time calculator". While it's imperfect in a lot of ways, it spits out a number that a language self-student can look at and judge for him/herself, which is at least a little more tangible than "it depends" or "anywhere form 6 months to 20 years"... Anyway - I was hoping to hear your opinion on the calculator. You can find it on my site autolingual.com/study-time-calculator Please let me know what you think, especially if you have any suggestions for improvement!

You are very inspiring! ♥️

Wow, you have a lot of subscribers! Great video. You taken on some tough languages in your life. Keep up the good work.

You look and sound so smart!

You already answered the question so now i will continue studying other language. Really helpful and makes you motivated.

너무 멋져요!! 린디씨가 배운 많은 언어들 중에 첫 언어가 한국어여서 왠지모르게 뿌듯하네요ㅎㅎ 화이팅!! Du bist toll, ich bin froh, dass es Koreanisch ist, dass du zuerst gelernt hast! ¡eres maravillosa! ¡Me alegro mucho de que hayas aprendido coreano primero! Tu es génial! Je suis content que ce soit coréen que tu as appris en premier!

I agree very much that immersion and time put into learning a language is very true! For my mom when she had first come into the United States she did not know a single BIT of English. But she learned by herself, listening, reading, etc mostly out of a survival need. Since she had no one to speak in her native language with, but eventually got to that English fluency that made others think she had studied _years_ to get that point. She admitted that no. It took her about a year because _she had to._ While I remember a classmate who had been in the same school as me for practically _10 years_ and she never learned English because she always had a translator and surrounded herself with those who spoke her language. SO. Moral of the story is that immersion can only go a long way if you don’t put your time into it, but immersion can be _so effective_ if you do. And if neither time or immersion is put into it then yeah, even living in the country of that spoken target language can never happen.

Languages I know English (A2) Bengali (A1) Hindi (A1) Assamese (B1) Korean (B2) Languages I wanna learn Chinese Spanish Fillipino

you are amazing! I looove your videos.

Hi Lindie, If you ever want to practice Spanish, I'm your girl (I'm from Chile, a really small country in South America :P). I started watching your vids because I'm learning Korean and I'm in love of your pronunciation, so you give me hope that with time and effort everything its possible! Keep fighting!

You are such a big inspiration. I am currently learning french but it's very hard even though i live in Switzerland where a quarter from the country speaks french. I still can't speak it but i don't give up.

I agree hundred percent with you about immersion. I was born in France and spoke french every day for 30 years. It has been 15 years since I moved in Quebec and I lost a lot of my native french since then. Also I am learning Japanese and you are very motivating. Thank You.

I had a similar experience as you did in my French studies, learning it for 9 years in high school as my first foreign language to an advanced level in reading, writing, listening and speaking skills. But then it became rusty again as I later didn’t have to use it as much as other languages at university or at work. But while it was difficult to output it fluently now I still could read and understand most materials which is a big advantage, and it took only about a year with maybe an hour a day of reviewing vocabulary and grammar or listening to native content to reactivate most of my dormant skills. So it wouldn’t take nearly the same amount of time and effort to get to some level of fluency as someone starting fresh, and by now I am also more aware of my preferred learning strategies than in high school. And of the fact that French isn’t really as difficult/exotic compared to languages from different families.

안녕하세요 린디님! 동영상 항상 재미있게 보고 있어요. 항상 다른 언어를 공부하시는 모습에 자극도 되고 동기부여도 된답니다. 가끔 반대로 영어공부를 위해 동영상을 보기도 해요. 유익한 동영상들 감사해요. 항상 응원합니다!

Hi Lindie! So nice to finally get a chance to say Hello! I did not know how to make comments. The section for comments is way below the video! I am learning Chinese and French. I have been studying them on and off for years. When I work a little every day, there is much more progress! I also noticed that the skill you work on the most gets better, such as pronunciation or comprehension. You can be a lot better at one skill than another within the same language. I really admire your interest in Asian languages!

I love that you leave in the times that you pronounce a word wrong. Makes me feel better about making mistakes in my target languages.

ive never been THIS early ooo. Anyway! This video made me feel motivated somehow, thank you as always💛✨

I guess you are the first person on youtube (I have watched) that seems really honest about the process of learning a new language. Motivation is the key to improve faster, however, there a many factors that influence the learning (e.g. mother language background) that is hard to estimate the 'time' it takes... and i believe learning a language is a lifelong journey.

can i just say, I love you so much! 😭 You're so inspiring! Right now, I'm studying intermediate Japanese and A1 in German. I also want to learn French and Spanish. I hope I'll be able to do it! 💪

You right Lindies about the familly of language, for instance English helps me a lot to learn Dutch and afterwards Dutch could do the same thing to learn German. Each language is a bridge to an other. Cheers from Belgium.

I loved your nail polish 💙🌸

Thank you so much for making this vedio 🙏🏻

you inspire me so much to try to learn different languages

everyday i listen to the target languages i am learning. I can understand them and my pronunciation sounds quite good. But to speak confidently abt a variety of topics is still difficult. Sometimes i am so lazy to speak alone.

Ahhh I'm binging your videos again and I'm just now realizing how much I love your clothes! Where did you get your colorful shirt? 😍

Speaking and Listening is really important, thankfully where I'm learning Korean they test our speaking, listening, writing and reading.

I'm fluent in Croatian🇭🇷, German🇩🇪 and English🇺🇸 I was learning Japanese from 08th December 2018 to 01.01.2020 on DUOLINGO. BIG MISTAKE I haven't learned ish (Only basic grammar and particles)😂 Then on 01.01.2020 I have purchased myself a notebook and I started writing down important things, learn grammar, vocabularies etc. And in 6 months I have reached B2 in Japanese which is great I think🤩. Pronounciation in Japanese was pretty easy for me because Croatian and Japanese have kinda the same way of pronouncing things. Particles were easy to me. Everything is great with Japanese. And I started learning Korean on 03.05.2020 and I have learned things like particles, sentence structure. But now I'm kinda lost idk what to learn. Because the app busuu helped me with Japanese but Korean doesn't exist on Busuu.😂 I guess I'll start learning Korean from Articles and etc. Feel free to comment if you have any recommendations.🥺

I’m Japanese and I’m trying to learn new languages. So I love watching your videos. Thank you! Also, I was so glad that you like Japanese so much! I hope I can meet you some day! Love you!

Immersion really plays a big role in language learning. I started learning French in September 2016 and took B1 in November 2018. Even I passed, I didn't have the courage to speak the language until I came here to France in January 2019. Ill stay until June 2019 and hope I will be in level B2 by the time I leave this country.

I agree with everything that’s said in this video. Even someone who grew up in America, would never know every piece of vocab, and know every piece of grammar (though I think grammar is way more doable? 🤷🏼‍♂️) so in a kind of sense we’re never done with any language, now matter how long you’ve been studying/speaking said language

Yup! It definitely depends on the person and sometimes the language. I have been learning American Sign Language for 3 years, and im still not fluent but that’s okay! Learning a language is a process, not a race.(great video btw~)

Hello all! I love learning languages and I’m working to become a hyper-polyglot so that I can interpret all six official languages of the UN. Right now, I’m sticking with the Romance language family. I understand Portuguese, Spanish and Italian rather well but Romanian...not so much. I’m bilingual between French and English and the reason my Romanian isn’t where it needs to be is that all those others have more cognates to English and similar grammatical structures to English. Another thing that is important would be THE AMOUNT OF RESOURCES AND FLUENT SPEAKERS AVAILABLE in your area! Here in central Illinois there are quite a few Spanish/French/Portuguese speakers but almost no Romanians. All my Romanian resources come from Știrile ProTv or similar news sources with video/online text and I understand most of what is said but I’m not confident. Never let lack of resources/people stop you from pushing through because you’ll get there eventually! 😊

So motivational 😍💕

Great video. I am learning Korean right now but I have learned Japanese for years so the similarities in grammar do make it easier. The fact that Korean is easy to read is a big plus point. As others have said, the whole concept of ‘fluent’ is subjective. Obviously it is way easier to get to a good level once you are immersed in the target language and culture. However, the proximity of the language to your own is a really big factor too. My second language is Dutch which is very similar to English but my wife’s language is Polish and all of the inflections mean that speaking it accurately is a task that would require far more effort than I am willing to put in. On the other hand, I have been learning Slovenië lately and having a foundation in a Slavonic language makes it far easier to learn than if I were a monoglot English speaker. You have the same thing if you know Irish (which I took for 14 years at school) and then you look at Scots Gaelic or, more distantly, Welsh. Anyway, I think that a final ‘key’ to fluency is being attracted to the culture(s) linked to the language. Without the passion linked to attraction it all becomes an academic exercise. When I was younger I learned all kinds of languages in a haphazard way but I only found out what it meant to really make a language my own when I had a deeper motivation.

Now i have the same experience with Korean and Japanese as you, because i am currently learning both at a university, and Korean helped me a lot (unlike my teachers..). And i am a hungarian native, so if you may want to practice, i could help you out, because i should practice english, korean and japanese more to get a scholarship.. :)

Your a so sympathize person and I hope you will produce more youtube videos

nice video! im learning japanese this year because i'll be living in japan soon (for a year) and my goal is to become as fluent as i possibly can, goal: i can make conversation and read *most* of what will be around me (i know i'll struggle with kanji but that's for future me to worry about LOL), understand movies, music, things like that - in about 1.5 to 2 years, but like you said, i'll be living in japan and everything around me will be in japanese and i'll be determined! interestingly, my parents have been living in the US for some 20+ years and their english is still very, not bad, but not exactly fluent. like my mom is better at reading and comprehension than speaking it but my dad is better at speaking it esp in relation to his job im also trying to study korean but that's like my hobby language so in the last two weeks i've already learned some vocab and phrases and grammar points in japanese but still have trouble learning all of the korean sounds, esp the vowels ^^;;;; will be checking out more of your content!

I have been learning english since middle school. It's almost 20 years. I am still learning. I can enjoy my journey. Thank you for your video

Thanks for sharing your experience with us. In my case I never be so constant at the moment to learn a language, because always appeared something that make hardest keep going. However, since June of this year I have been studying english constantly for a requirement of my university to pass it. At the point to pay for universities courses in english while I learning the language even though my level is not a C1 and a difficult B2.

初めまして！私は英語の勉強をしている日本人です！ 韓国語を学びたくて、第3言語の学習時期についての動画を探していたら、このチャンネルを見つけました！ 最後に言語習得の期間について"I don't know, couse I'm still learning"的なフレーズがとてもしっくりきました☺️💖

I am so impressed the way you learn the language and it give me motivation. Actually, I am stuck in the middle of learning Japanese and could you please share that how much do you spend the study Japanese per a day? ( 2 hours a day or more than that?)

I've been learning English for about 6 to 7 years. I'm exposing myself to the language every single day and I watch more videos in English than I do in German, my mother language. I'm now learning Spanish and Korean, one for scool and the other one because I really want to. I'm at a point where I don't remember how I got so fluent in English, I'm starting at point zero even though I aready learned a whole language. I think it's so interesting that I'm better at Korean than I am at Spanish, just because I prefer one language over the other. I spend more time studying and I have way more fun doing so. I think it's really important to be interested in the language you are learning

Great Video as always :>

You really nailed it. I tried to learn Japanese and because I wasn't so concentrated, I failed and left it. Now you've motivated me to start over with it. I've been thinking about starting this next year. But now I'm focusing on German because I still haven't reached to the level I'd like to be. Besides, I'm also improving other languages, so, I think that's the reason I failed. Now I understand why and why some people can learn a language better. Good video!

I've been learning Korean for 2 years by myself and about month ago I was listeting to music and I thought : Wait, I understand everything in Korean 🤔🤔🤔 But I'm kinda bad at speaking because I don't have a possibility to talk to native speakers. But English is my second language and I'm sure that I speak fluently :)

I have been learning English since elementary school (I am German) but I never focused on it that much. I had to use it a lot; when I traveled to other European countries or on social media And like suddenly, after about 2 years of being connected to the world through the Internet, I realised later on that I could actually understand all these song lyrics on the radio. Since a lot of KZfaq videos or subtitles for other languages are in English I improve mine everyday. It's Incredible! I think the best thing about language learning is learning your favourite language without wanting to be fluent as soon as possible. As a kid I adored the French language (I loved its sound). Because of that I started learning it at school and I was usually very interested and motivated in every lesson although I never studied at home or did more than I had to for my language learning. 4 years later, when I went to France I was so shook because I could understand the people I was talking to and they could understand me, too. I suddenly felt so proud of myself! My French friend there taught me the last important steps to achieve the perfect pronounciation in a way a teacher couldn't. Now I sound fluent and I understand a lot and I can talk about a lot of subjects in French, it's really cool and useful and there's still so much to learn :D And that's why I'm motivated to learn Mandarin step by step, it's not about the fluency, it's about having fun learning new words, pronouncing them and understanding the Grammar *-*

Omg I love your hair ^0^