How To Learn Languages by Immersion (ft. Matt vs Japan)

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@4orinrin 3 жыл бұрын

"You should continue to immerse in your target language" Me, watching this non-Japanese video: Y e s

@lursf9316 3 жыл бұрын

i tried out his suggestion with a german news video from dw which i just put on auto repeat while i did my cooking and cleaning. it was a 5 minute video and i let it run for 2 hours in the background. it's a very different feeling. i understood only 3 words in the first repetition because it was going by so fast and i'm only an A2 in germn. but i did understand about five or six sentences after 2 hours of passive listening. i wanted to look things up in google translate but i resisted the urge. at times i just felt worn out and overwhelmed. but it definitely does work and it does rewire you. so kudos to him for the suggestion.

@FingtamLanguages 3 жыл бұрын

So glad you were able to take something useful out of the interview! :)

@TheZenytram 2 жыл бұрын

But you dont need to hold the urge to look at translations of words.

@gamenailed9604 3 жыл бұрын

Great collaboration! I like Matt's channel and I'm happy to see him on here.

@FingtamLanguages 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he was really interesting to talk to!

@gamenailed9604 3 жыл бұрын

@@FingtamLanguages Not sure if you can make it happen, but I'd love to see you have a similar talk with Luca Lampariello sometime. That's another channel that I really like and I'm very impressed with his language abilities. I can't judge how well he speaks all of the languages that he knows, but I can definitely say that his Russian skills are on point. One of the top polyglots on KZfaq in my opinion. I think the two of you would have a fascinating conversation together!

@jeremygordonstudio 3 жыл бұрын

Really great interview; thanks for sharing!

@TrinaLena 3 жыл бұрын

I really liked this video. I specifically liked the question you asked at 18:20 because that is the same question I've had learning Norwegian! Thanks for the video!

@paulwalther5237 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting conversation. I feel bad for you guys learning Thai. I know I struggled learning Japanese due to the difficult script. At least Japanese has kanji to sort of tell you where words end and start. And good dictionary apps - lots of computer science nerds learning Japanese. My first foreign language was German, then Spanish. You can kind of dive right in with these languages and it's hard but doable. Because it is doable, and I think in part due to my pride, I looked down on dual language books and using English translations as a crutch that kept you from really immersing. But I don't anymore and I'm finding it helpful reading Korean web comics having the original Korean on one side and an English translation on the other side of the screen. It's a crutch that I don't intend to use forever but I can feel myself getting better at Korean which isn't something I can often say when I try an activity. I say give this a try if you haven't.

@Ryosuke1208 2 жыл бұрын

i guess you can't stop using translation when you understand at least 80%90%

@moonlitspud 3 жыл бұрын

Great video. I’ve watched a lot of Matt’s videos, and I’m also learning Thai so this is a great combination for me. I’m glad to hear that sentence mining from textbooks initially is a good approach (which is what I’ve been doing with the Becker books), but now a few months in I need to really start increasing my native material exposure.

@MrLangam 2 жыл бұрын

Best interview of Matt that I ever found. Thank you man!

@TheZenytram 2 жыл бұрын

That is exactly what i did to learn english 13 years ago, and i'd from time to time brag on my syster that I've learn it without learning any grammar, while she did 6 years of courses and still dont understand past basic stuffs.

@Mochijapa 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, what a great video! I'm a certified Japanese teacher and I agree what you were taking in the video !

@FingtamLanguages 3 жыл бұрын

That’s great! Thanks for sharing 😊

@yishihara55527 10 ай бұрын

認定ってさ　意味あるの？

@chadbailey7038 2 жыл бұрын

@Fingtam I’m at that EXACT same point of learning/understanding in Russian. I’m so glad you asked that question about finding appropriate content! Great interview 👍🏾

@chadbailey7038 2 жыл бұрын

Fingtam, I hope you’ve revisited and reviewed this video 1000 times. Bc this will undoubtedly get u to fluency in Thai. I come back here often for motions focus on learning my target language 👍🏾

@hogbenfan 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Aaron for this video .... I found it really informative and helpful

@FingtamLanguages 3 жыл бұрын

So glad to be helpful! 😊

@williambudd2850 2 жыл бұрын

I found that the language learning apps are a waste of time because they don’t really take you much beyond the beginner level.

@evaphillips2102 2 жыл бұрын

They’re definitely great for review when you have some time to kill

@myselfme767 8 ай бұрын

Matt is great. Such a smart guy and he's so nice. I'm impressed. ❤

@sunmeetssaturn7134 3 жыл бұрын

This is an amazing video

@eporeon 3 жыл бұрын

as someone who's currently learning japanese and a thai person who wants to learn thai in the future, this was a very helpful video

@SergeyFM_en 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you both for very insightful conversation!

@FingtamLanguages 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment!

@foreverlearningfrench 3 жыл бұрын

Salut Aaron ! Great video. Matt had a lot of great suggestions.

@FingtamLanguages 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah! He’s a very bright guy!

@yazhuakristos7393 3 жыл бұрын

Almost 24 hrs to watch this live

@comprehensibleGERMANi 3 жыл бұрын

I have been learning thai for a year now. And although I sometimes feel like I should have learned so much more during that time this Video showed that I'm doing just fine.

@FingtamLanguages 3 жыл бұрын

Glad to be of service! 😅 Hope your Thai keeps getting better :)

@MikeFeldmeierMD 3 жыл бұрын

Wow I didn't know Matt hasn't been to Japan in nearly a decade! I bet if he went back to Japan to live there and vlogged (even as an introvert) he would get to 1 million subs in no time. I'm learning Mandarin right now as well and treating the Hanzi like it's own task is key - hoping this will bridge the gap to native materials in under 1 year rather than 3-4 years.

@wanderingdoc5075 3 жыл бұрын

How many hours a day you're putting into Mandarin?

@MikeFeldmeierMD 3 жыл бұрын

@@wanderingdoc5075 2-3 hours, 5-6 days a week. About an hour working with RTH and characters. The rest of the time I work with a textbook or on Lingq for reading.

@wanderingdoc5075 3 жыл бұрын

@@MikeFeldmeierMD awesome. Very similar to me. I'm about to hit the one year mark learning mandarin. I'm discussing it on this channel as well. What a fascinating language. Great to see a fellow MD carving timeout to learn it.

@stevencarr4002 3 жыл бұрын

Pablo Roman, the creator of Dreaming Spanish, says it took 2000 hours of listening to Thai to master it.

@Ryosuke1208 3 жыл бұрын

It's not really that much time if you think about it.

@gregorhirschfeld6293 3 жыл бұрын

Actually he said that he felt comfortable starting speaking Thai after 2000 hours of input.

@curiocurioso1740 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video

@olivereckert2492 3 жыл бұрын

I'm learning Vietnamese with refold

@williambudd2850 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t pick up whether Matt advocates doing some total immersion where you don’t understand a lot or if he advocates looking un the unknown words so that you are immersed in comprehenible input. Please make that clear in you future videos. Thank you.

@polyglotpengyou 3 жыл бұрын

ah i am in thailand now... and i dont wanna learn thai lolll i want to learn Chinese (my parents are thai,but i am american and my thai is so-so. I will be here for 9 months. i hope that i will want to start learning thai soon lollllllllllll)

@user-fm1be9og9z 23 күн бұрын

Can you explain this to me because I have a fear that, for example, if I learn words in context by using them in sentences with Anki, I will just memorize them in this context, and if I encounter that word in a different context in a book, I won't understand what it means or can this not happen?

@jasonjames6870 Жыл бұрын

How is it immersion if you are constantly looking up or using Anki to learn the translation of the target word. How's it any different to just traditional translation based learning. Immersion to me would be learning without translation similar to how we learn our native language.

@phoenixsdg 3 ай бұрын

the difference is you have an actual context that youre pulling from and you can also hear authentic pronunciation rather than some ai saying it (contexts help with understanding specific nuances)

@jasonjames6870 3 ай бұрын

@@phoenixsdg I understand the process I just disagree with calling it immersion. I think it's become a buzzword to sell programmes that are essentially spaced repetition flashcards.

@FreeAtLastMinistry 3 жыл бұрын

The method sounds awesome, but how can a absolute beginner read Japanese books? Is there a step that I am missing?

@fabacarini 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, take a look at his channel and you’ll understand it much better. He has really good videos explaining that.😁

@100geemo78 3 жыл бұрын

"Might be something to look into" - talking to a blind person. WTF dude, ROFL !!

@frankjspencejr 2 жыл бұрын

5 yrs, ~7 hrs a day! So 12,775 hrs of all (Japanese) all the time to become fluent!? Since the average person has perhaps say at most 2 hrs a day (and that is VERY optimistic), it would take 17.5 yrs for the (above) average person to become fluent. Hmmm. Perhaps more realistic than most claims on KZfaq, but very discouraging.

@DengueBurger 3 жыл бұрын

smh this guy shoulda just done his research; so much of this is already in other interviews/collabs

@DengueBurger 3 жыл бұрын

Actually the part about how much time he spent per day is good stuff, Matt doesn’t mention that as often, he just says he did AJATT

@williambudd2850 4 ай бұрын

There are tons of posts on language learning on youtube. Most of it is crap designed to sell a product. The rest is advice that is not more than a guess or opinion that hasnot being tested so it is worthless!!! It sure would be nice if youtube would clean out this den of thieves.