❇️ Free trial of Pimsleur: offers.pimsleur.com/free-trial-1407 ❇️ Free trial offer will be only be available for a limited time. By next week they might not have the free trial, so definitely don’t wait to sign up. I STRONGLY RECOMMEND Pimsleur. It’s my favorite program to use to start learning any language. I’ve used it with every language I’ve learned. Sign up for the free trial and see how you like it. I personally feel that it's the best way to start any language. - ....Without a method, and the right resources to follow...learning a language can be very unstructured and take quite long. However when you have them. It makes things go faster. Fluency Made Easy (My Book): fluencymadeeasy.com/ I created the book I wish I had seven years ago when I started to teach myself languages. The book is 80 pages, full of practical, immediately usable tips and techniques. You can read it in a day and gain years of language learning wisdom. It also further explains the method covered in the video. All the programs recommended can be found in the description. Thanks for watching and I hoped this help!

"Using Duolingo whenever you use the toilet is not going to help" This hit too close to home...

watched this at 2x speed. Gonna learn Spanish in 3 months

Bout to kidnap a japanese man and force him to talk to me 10+ hours a day

My brain when i want to learn japanese: の

The whole Duolingo thing was to accurate I feel attacked 😂😂

Me: Having finished 2 lections in Duolingo Me: *I'm fluent*

"Plants don't grow only one time a week; they grow every day." New mantra.

Why am I suddenly super motivated to go and learn a bunch of new languages even though I know I’m way to lazy to do so

even tho he is an english speaker, he knows so many languages that he's starting to get an accent THAT'S my goal here

When all the languages you’re interested in are in the “harder” category 😭

"That language is yours" Hearing that motivated me.

Him: listen to the lenguage you want with subtitles Me: ah yes, Putin conferences with subtitles

* Watch movies without subtitle * Change your phone language to the language you want to learn *Everyday, learn one new word of the language * Label physical objects

I literally got an ad of this guy in his own video

*Here is some rare tip:* If you're not familiar with the accent and finding it hard to understand (what is being talked on the TV/movies) even though you have practiced a language to the point where you can write good and speak good.. but the only problem you're having is you can't really keep up with the accent of the native speaker. Listen to the songs and memorize them with lyrics. As more as you can.. it'd take on an average 80 or more songs (of your target language) to make the accent very naturalised to your ears.

The problem with italki is talking to a stranger😂as an introvert, I would never be able to, the anxiety would kill me

I've watched anime for 3 or 4 years and I've learnt Baka- idiot

Me has been learning korean for a year and is still in intermediate level: cool lets start chinese

ideally I'd wanna learn spanish, french, korean, japanese, malay, tagalog, tamil, thai, and mandarin quite an unrealistic goal but i can dream lmao

Whenever he speaks Japanese My brain: PLAY THAT AGAIN Me: but wh- My brain: YOU HAVE TO

“And two, not being consistent. What are you doing?!” ATTACKED

I taught myself english at 11 yrs old bc i was so distraught my favorite comic wasnt fully out in spanish so i started reading it in english out of anger, now here i am trying to put the same motivation into russian lmao

As an Aussie with parents from 2 different European backgrounds, the biggest factor is who is willing to help and teach you. I have one side of my family, Lithuanian, who always encouraged and politely corrected when I was wrong, and then the Croatian side, which laughed and made fun of me and called me a try-hard for wanting to learn. Guess which language I can speak?

i’m learning japanese so i can change windows back to english

him: *learns to speak any language halfway fluently in 1 month* me: *took 3-4 years to speak english fluently*

Like if you’re a Duolingo Toilet student.

Is that Hisoka’s theme?

Then my goal in life is to have A kid and just feed him languages since he is a baby english,spanish,japanese arabic,chinese,french,german Portuguese,Italian,korean,dutch,polish Romanian all of them I will make something that is perfect.hahahahahahhHHAa

I learned English by accident when I stumbled upon youtube when I was in 6th grade, when I started I didn't understand 80% of what was happening but I enjoyed it. I would spend hours everyday watching (not to learn just for fun) and then I naturally learned the language without even speaking, now it's as strong as my native language because I spend all day watching videos or movies in English.

You're basically saying to watch Anime to learn Japanese... I like that

I'm Russian I speak English almost fluently and I'm now in 10th grade. In 8th grade I decided to start learning English on my own (I had had English classes in School since 2nd grade, but they had been complete suck tbh, and I wasn't really good in English, though I had been getting only A marks (everybody else who had had smth lower than A, didn't and don't nowadays know anything)). So I had been watching youtube in English, reading some articles and learning TONS of new words. Then after, I guess, about 6 months I decided to close my gap in tenses knowledge (at that moment I knew only 8 and not perfect yet). So I had learnt all of them, and dug more into those that I had already known at that moment. I continued watching videos and reading articles, and started to practice my pronounciation. I've been following this routine up to now, and I'm almost fluent in English. I've made a huge progress and become better then had ever been before. Self learning is SICK (FIRE FIRE FIRE)

Ikenna: "not being consistent" Me: **nervous, guilty laughter**

the duolingo on the toilet made me laugh so harddddddd hahahhahahahah

No one: Me: *try to focus* My brain: "can't trust him. He is killmonger"

As a polyglot I can tell, you're very good in what you do! The main problem is to make people have the right mindset to learn

I’m Norwegian and I’m trying to learn Japanese. Wish me luck!

this lockdown i am determined to learn french

Me: **is learning japanese** Ikenna: you need to watch shows with subtitles in the language you are learning. Me: oh yes anime

He : how u can learn a language in 6 months Chinese: haha there are 80,000lettrs u can't even beat me in 1 year

"that language is yours" this is so what I needed to hear. I just started with italki last week and already I am seeing a huge jump in my progression. I wish I had not waited. I have been in beginners spanish since high school. Finally, about 20 years later, I am making breakthroughs. I just started learning hebrew and won't make the same mistake. Signed up for Italki and a hebrew tutor right away.

Did you just label finnish as a medium difficult language?

me: learning french for 5 years by now in school and all I know is how to introduce myself this dude: * *I can speak french after 6 month* *

Bombed Spanish in high school,..making a run at it again at age 48. Thanks for the boost brother 👍

This was the most helpful video i have ever seen on learning a language!!! Thank you sooo much!!! Im so mug more confident and excited to learn!

when you're learning Japanese and everyone assumes you're just a weeaboo, but you really just want to learn the language and mover there one day, it's really hard to try to self teach yourself because you don't have any support because they just laugh and ask, 'oh is it so you can watch anime? haha lol'

*is Filipino and Watches Dora* Me: *Yes I am Fluent in spanish*

One of the most helpful and inspiring language videos I've ever watched, great job!!

To all the weebs out there: Y‘all hear the background music? 👀⭐️💧

I change my phone's language to Japanese. Wish me luck

*Me, a Spanish student who is told by their teacher to use Duolingo.* “Que demonios-“

I've learned korean for like 3-4 years. I started learning it when I was 12 and now I'm 18, I wasn't really committed to it those times, I was never consistent until one day I thought of continuing it. Now I'm improving my vocabulary not really fluent but I can already understand the basics and watch videos without subtitles, can write and read and type fast enough. Some say I have a good korean handwriting tho haha I never knew my reason for studying it lol. Now I'm learning French, Russian, Japanese and Chinese because I was advised to make busy times because of some mental health issues. I thought one is not enough so I challenged myself with four haha.

Soooo many language learning video's on KZfaq. But THIS ONE my dude. This one is actually helpful! I just watched you talk for 8 minutes and not one moment I was distracted. The way you bring this information is just so talented. Thanks

“Watch shows in the language youre trying to learn with subtitles.” Dub watchers: **punching the air**

Everyone in the comments saying you can learn a language just by listening but that only works if you study the language

Time to watch Coco in Spanish a billion times until I can understand the songs...

I just bought the book last night and I’m excited!

Me listening this and thinking “but how can u learn just by listening and using subtitles- like that’s so random u’ll never learn the words because convos usually go fast” AND THEN REALIZING that I’ve basically learned most of my English (which is in no way similar to my native tongue) by watching KZfaq and following my fave ones on Instagram

FRENCH TRANSFORMATION: 2 YEARS 9/7/20 Week 1: (An edit from further down the line) can't remember what it was like. Week 2: (Another edit from further down the line) can't remember what this was like either. 2 weeks into learning french, Will keep u updated weekly. (Original first post) Week 3: one more week of pimsleur and then moving on to assimil finally. Starting to pick up more words from watching loads of series and films etc... Week 4: Final week of pimsleur so hyped to get onto Assimil for a change of things. Week 5: Found some cool music, movies/series seem to have become clearer as I am comprehending much more of what I hear. Week 6: Found an intermediate podcast that i can understand the gist of. Gave me a huge boost in confidence as i continue to progress through assimil. (InnerFrench is the name of the podcast) Week 7: Still going, motivation kinda going up and down. Still consistent tho. 2 month (roughly) milestone coming up. Week 8: had a conversation with a tutor online to get my speaking going a bit. 2 months (roughly) in to the 6-7 months journey. Week 9: Yes. Still going. Week 10: (1 day early) Closing in on the end of Assimil (2 more weeks to go). Week 11: (un jour plutot encore) The usual... Week 12: Really found this week hard. Really losing motivation, not really learning vocabulary and generally slacking. However I’m still getting at least an hour of french in a day, whether it be a film podcast or work. Hopefully I will find the courage to tighten up on my work, review the past lessons and learn the past vocabulary next week. I knew this stage would come, however, and I’m prepared to get out of it. Basically life’s getting in the way. Week 12.5 Goal reached. Assimil finished. Glossika and vocab grinding next. Next goal is to have spent 6 months learning. Week 13: Glossika started. Week 14: Continuing to feel like I'm getting nowhere. Week 15: The weeks really are going fast now. I've started to notice some things that people call "early signs of fluency". Things like dreaming in french (I have had three in the past two weeks) and when speaking in english saying random french words by accident. Also watching more TV now as i realized i needed to immerse myself as much as I could. Week 16: Had a tough phase of feeling like I'm making no progress. I have now moved on from glossika as I found it pretty useless. Now, taking sources from more native content, using (for the first half-hour of the day) a book in french and then adding it to Anki, and then (second half-hour of the day) taking vocab from a film in french and adding it to Anki. Not forgetting to do the weekly meeting on Italki and an hour of TV watching (not adding to Anki) every day. This feels better as I'm spending at least two hours of French contact every day (compared to one and a half hours). Week 17: Need to watch more TV. For some reason, I find it harder than doing the work for the day. Week 18: rien comme d'habitude Week 19: I am now doing an hour and a half of work every day and trying to watch more TV. Motivation fluctuating. Not seeing progress at all. Week 19.5: Joyeux Noel tout le monde!! Week 20: downloaded HelloTalk which is a massive help for my spelling (my big issue) Week 20.5: Bonne annee tout le monde!!! Week 21: Il faut que je retrouve mon routine encore car recement j'ai fait tout mon francais le soir. Week 22: Ive been dropping to half an hour of day for vocab and grammaire and watching much more content instead. Week 23: I've watched wayyyy more tv which feels good as I feel more immersed. Trying to get back into my routine of 1 hr a day. Thanks for all the likes eveeryone 👍 3 weeks until 6 month landmark. Week 24: Two weeks away from 6 months. I've been slacking and not doing enough . I am going to try and maintain a routine through the next two weeks and then I will write a short essay so you can see my progress and the end of 6 months etc etc Week 25: Awful. haven't done any review this week. I'm gonna try and push to do half an hour a day this last week and then I have to start revising for the DELF B1. 6 months in 1 week. Week 26: See below - 6 MONTHS - Lets goooooooo! I guess this is the end of the initially proposed time to learn the language, and let's just say I did. I'll write a bit in French now so you can see what 6 months has done to me starting from A1 Level of French and turning it into a middle B1 Level. ( I am going to continue with half an hour of french a day and input of course, however I won't update anymore ) ( If you google translate it and swap it round a few times it will give you different results, this is how you know that this whole thing is legit ) Finalement c'est le fin de ce longue voyage d'apprentissage du francais, je veux dire tout simplement que c'est bien passe et je me suis beaucoup ameliore. Pour chaque un/une d'entre vous qui apprendre accun langue, je vais maintnent vous donner des conseils a mon avis. Surtout quittez pas. C'est la chose que je te recommend a faire. C'est vachement dur au debut mais si vous essayez bien, vous allez reussir sans doubt. Faites confiance en vous, c'est pas impossible mais honetmment, pout avoir commence, c'etait la partie la plus dur. Vous connaissez que ca va etre dur, mais vous inquietez pas, Vous serez pas parfait jusqu'au vous l'avez fait depuis les annees. Chui pas de tout parfait. Du coup, j'espere que vous croyez tous que vous pouvez tous le faire. Ceci va etre la dernier fois que je vous tiendrai informer mais je vais partager avec vous quand j'atteinds le niveau de DELF B1 ( je vais prendre l'epreuve). Bonne chance a tout le monde, et quel plaisir a partager cette experience avec vous. Au revoir. Fin. - 12 MONTHS - I haven't done any French for 6 months now, however i have managed to retain the ability to speak and listen and read to the level I did before, if not better. I did the DELF B1 exam and passed. This is just letting you know once the language clicks, you really dont forget it (until many years have passed). I even think in French subconsciously sometimes which is maybe why I've managed to retain most of the knowledge. Sure there are some words that can't be revisited frequently enough as they aren't used in conversation. Anyway, ill give future updates in the months to come. - 2 YEARS - Ca fait longetemps depuis j'ai fait du francais parce que je l'ai arrete pour un peu de temps, mais ca ne veut pas dire que je l'ai oublie. Il y a deux ans j'ai commencer, j'ai pris du temps pour apprendre quelque chose qui m'a interesse, et ca valait la peine. Ce que j'ai apris ces derniers deux annees, c'etait que c'est bien facile de mantenir une langue quand tu l'a appris, alors si vous l'apprenez, ne quitte pas! Je veux bien croire que je me suis un peu ameliorer parce que si non c'est un peu inquietant, mais pour l'avenir pour vous tous, je vous souhaite bonne chance. - 3 YEARS - Je vais peut-etre aller a l'université a Paris, une reve dont j'ai eu depuis le moment out j'ai commence d'en apprendre, y a trois ans. Je sais pas pourquoi je continue a commenter ici surtout quand personne ne le lit pas, mais je le ferai quand meme mdr. Bonnce chance a tout le monde!!

Thanks for showing this method to people. I always learned languages that way as a child - that is the intuitive and most effective way, as you've explained, too. A few years ago I worked on a project discussing language learning, among others. What I found backed up what I always felt about languages. Thinking you have to perfect grammar first, before even being frequently exposed to the target language is so backwards, tidious and uninspiring... That's how schools do it. I was going nowhere whenever I started learning a new language in school. Only when I made my own effort of watching and listening to mostly entertainment, leading up to debates or speeches with more advanced narration, I actually made significant progress, both in grades AND passion for the language.

There's one series named Coffee Break French, it actually helped me a lot in my French learning. J'ai écouté le podcast pour un longtemps, et il m'aide beaucoup. ❤️

THE PART WITH “this means dog , now give me 10$ “ GOT ME ON THE FLOOR

But what if you go to the toilet A LOT?

Great job dude. Both Language and video. Congrats man. 💎💪⚡🔥

Hey, this litteraly helped me, thanks

1:22 harder languages will at least takes 12 months Me: cries in Chinese when learning Korean

This comment is for anyone who is learning a language and is lacking motivation: You 👏 can 👏 do 👏 it 👏 It may seem impossible, but you're getting there step by step. I've been learning Spanish for 2 years and I'm not even conversationally fluent, but after taking Ikenna's advice and immersing myself, I'm slowly getting better. Keep going guys. I wish you luck.

Omg, your background lofi Howl's Castle is just amazing

I already learned how to say few things in 2 days, which are: I, You, She, He, It, eat, house, there is and well a few basics

For most if not all people: Learn a language. Not only will it boost your ability of memory it is also something you can do to relieve stress. I've been learning languages lately, not only that but the culture i want to speak. You will feel so fascinated with the world around you. You feel like you can see in the eyes of a different person. I've been struggling in life but teaching myself these things makes me a lot happier. I feel like I'm seeing my home as a person who's never seen it. What they would think of our cities, houses, and overall what our world is like. In a new light. Then again this could just be me. I think you should give it a shot and see what you think about it. I think you'll enjoy it.

can you do a timelapse of you learning Korean (if you do choose to learn it)

Thank you! That's literally what I came up with myself during self learning of English. But I didn't know about Pimsleur or Glossilka. I Will surely try that out when I start learning Spanish. P. S. Added few words to my vocabulary from this vid

Really enjoy your video! Thanks

3:56 And Frozen is dubbed into 50+ languages, I watched it in different language all the time and that helped me to learn some vocabs

I'm so frustrated that i'm starting to lose my motivation

Thanks you such for showing me these apps I just finished my first lesson in Japanese and I never knew it wasn't too difficult to learn! They explain everything so well! Nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu!

Good morning Sensei, I'm from Brazil 🇧🇷 Well, it sounds very interesting, but I'm still learning English. But I intend to take your course as soon as I improve a little more my English... When I feel confident I will take your wonderful course

I am going to start learning Japanese from tomorrow. I’ll be back in a year!

Challenge: Finish Primsler learning before the free trial is up.

Its so nice to have a sincere person sharing their experiences

Bueno, ante todo, muchas gracias por compartir tu método de estudio, empezaré a estudiar jaja. Gracias ikenna, un sub más para tu canal OwO

Your french is improving so rapidly i like it

Me: 14 yr old freshman with no money You: says app that cost money Me:😭 (Edit/update )I am now a 15 year old sophomore who is interested in Other languages such as Korean , Japanese, Chinese and Hebrew 🤗😪😫 My attention span on one thing sucks ..... welp On to new things ....😬

Thank you so much!! I’m trying to learn Spanish because everyone thinks I’m Hispanic and I live in an area with high Latin population so instead of saying I don’t speak Spanish I’m going to learn it XD

You are smart, goodlooking, helpful and I love your necklace. Thank you!

"plants don't grow every single day,maybe sometimes they are lazy so most of the days" cracked me 😂😂 you really seem to understand plants

Well I have 5 months off of school so I’m going to learn french, and I’ll be back when I’m done just to prove that I can do it

Thank you so much man, this is Hella helpful

Glad that I found your channel, the video was really helpful. I am going to learn Spanish. Thank you bro

Me: learning Italian Also me: downloads every language learning app that's not even about learning Italian

"Do you not remember Spanish class in high school??" OOF I FELT THAT

I followed your FME method, and it worked like a charm. I can't believe I have a good grasp of French🇨🇵 after only 1 year. Thanks for motivating me to learn a language Ikenna 🙌 gonna brush up 1 more year before I move on to Arabic! 💪

Thank you Ikenna!

STEP 1: watch TV shows or KZfaq videos in that language Me: *watches Anime almost everyday* YOSH STEP ONE COMPLETE

I am polyglot and It's the first time I hear a true advice "All begin by listening and listening and listening". Without noticing, you begin to apprehend some words here and there that when you grasp the whole meaning and after that you are being curious like "Oh that was used here and there why ?" and you look for an answer one by one. To the level where two native are speaking beside you and you are like "holy s* did I really understand their discussions !" - that was my case lol And it's really effortless and fun but the key is being passionate about the language you want to learn The funny thing is when you read the subtitle and you're like "Oh this not really what they are trying to convey" Great video Greeting From France

Great video. Thanks.

Thanks a lot, it was awesome ❤

I've been learning French for almost 4 months now....the inspiration was this woman in a band that I loved. This woman was Canadian with roots from Haiti and fluent French. I loved her...she was amazing. So one night, I downloaded (duolingo, because it was the only option I knew) and I started...it's been 111 days and I've started to understand partial french...and it's thanks to a crush I had in middle school......WOW.

Lol I don’t understand why Korean is grouped with the hard languages. I have experience studying 21 languages and coming from an English native background, I wouldn’t rate Korean any harder than European languages like Spanish or French. First, it has a very easy alphabet. Second, to understand sentence structure you just have to think like Yoda. Not difficult to get used to. Third, you don’t have to learn an accent. And yes, it’s based off of Chinese, but you don’t need any knowledge of Chinese to learn Korean. Verb conjugations aren’t any harder than with other languages.. in fact, I think learning French, German, or even English (as a second language) would be harder than Korean as far as conjugations. Korean is super simple to pick up on. The only hard part is the number system, and that’s strictly memorization and practice, just like anything else. To me, the middle languages that I’ve tried (Greek, Hebrew, Polish, Russian, Turkish, Vietnamese, Hindi) are much harder than Korean ever gets. (Honestly Russian isn’t that hard though.) so yeah, I would rate Korean as a easy language if anything, and move Hebrew to the hard languages, based off of the fact that you’re literally reading and writing backwards which is soooo hard to get used to. Not just word order, letter order too. Sounding stuff out backwards. And tbh maybe Polish should be rated as hard too, since their words and the way the words were pronounced literally I swear have no connection rofl (I’m joking but seriously who thought that was ok)

Thanks for this video ! I've tried using duolingo many times, with dedication and committment and I found it far too complicated and I felt like I wasnt actually learning or understanding the material, just memorizing. Hearing about this method makes me excited to learn, thanks !!