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Actually most natives speak like 💩

@@mcmerry2846 omg really?

You're listening to a native speaker and you've posted a comment in almost perfect English, so if you really are in your first three months of learning, I'd say you're doing well lol

@@sk8_bort oh no, I’m not on my first three months but I still watched it because I wanna keep learning English and improving it, I’m barely English B1 (plus I’m interested on learning more languages than just English yk)

I happen to come upon your comments just reading through and see if i found anything helpful. I used to know both Hiragana and Katakana which are the two easiest of the three Japanese Alphabet. While i don't remember them as much as i had learned them over 20 years ago while i was in the U.S. Navy stationed in Yokosuka Japan. While i did take Japanese-speaking classes for 2 semesters on base back then I didn't learn much that way. But i did have a Japanese GF at the time who spoke also fluent English and was quite good. She ended up teaching me Japanese slowly, daily and it was how i learned to speak Japanese where i could get by going places or doing things. My GF taught me one at a time Hiragana and Katakana which aren't that extensive alphabetically just starting with writing out the characters as they can be easy to identify looking at words as they do not look like Kanji which looks complicated in all their strokes. What i then used to do everyday when i spent 2 hrs each time on the train going back and forth to Tokyo to visit my JN GF was to just try to practice reading signs and advertising on the train to help me remember seeing the alphabet over and over and trying to determine what the sign said with the few words characters i could identify. It was a lot of practice, but that helped me to learn both those alphabets and slowly get better at Japanese. Maybe my experience can help you gain some confidence in learning Hiragana and Katakana. I only wished i had continued to keep learning what i had learned back then. But it was in the 90s and before the internet became what it is today. Today, I'm slowly relearning Japanese and Spanish, both of which i have history having learned it in the past. I still remember many words in both languages, but some fun relearning and i do still have real-life Japanese friends for aid, just not close by. But you can and will make it learning if you keep at it. I would like to know though where and what books did you find as Japanese stories for kids for reading.

@@ardentdfender4116 www.youtube.com/@kidstube_ch www.youtube.com/@punapuchi_channel1107 The two links are my fav sources of Japanese stories for kinds ,and I do hope they are helpful for you! I write down the transcripts first , when I listen to the story, I imitate their pronounciation ,although I don't understand the content fully. This is how I learnt the Japanese alphabet!

I’ve been picking up French on my own often on for probably two years total. I never had any formal French classes. I never had any foreign language classes in high school. I found French to be extremely challenging, especially because I can only get it in dribs and drabs. But lately it’s starting to click a lot more, and that is rewarding. I’ve yet to have a single French conversation, this is all watching videos essentially. But I’m picking it up better and better.

@@NewCastleIndiana For French I would really recommend the CCube Academy short videos on youtube.

You are learning

Same here.

Same here, German is very daunting at first with so many unrecognizable words.

Marina, I once attended a polyglot conference in Bratislava. To prepare, I put a lot of effort into learning Slovak. At the conference there were some Ukrainians. I just couldn't remember any Ukrainian, although my Ukrainian was in fact much stronger than my Slovak. However, when I started reading and listening in Ukrainian again, the language came back stronger than ever. This is normal. Right now you have a greater need for Czech. Continue learning and using Czech and do the occasional lesson on LingQ in English. Do the mini-stories to reinforce the key verbs and patterns. When you go to speak English you will struggle at first but then it will come back stronger than ever. Trust me.

Thank you for answering me. I will try to. I will hope to.

by myself*

Czech*

I know this comes 8 months later but as a native speaker of English let me just say your English is amazing from what I see based off of this one comment. I almost don’t want to believe you. Lol

@@joseph3225 haha, I learned basic English at school about 20 years ago. And I began to learn English again from last year .

@@minilucky1886 Oh okay, lol. Good luck in your future studies of the English language and other languages if you are learning more.

@@joseph3225 thank you very much🤞

Hello, I’m Daisy( my English name). I’m from Việt Nam, am living in Japan and learning German. It’s was nice to see a VietNamese person here

@@duyentran5554 hello

祝你好运！

what do you write in the diary, vocabulary? grammar?

That’s been my problem, pushing to hard and thinking that in three months of learning I should be able to say sentences. I’m at the three month mark and frustrated I can’t speak sentences. This was good timing in hearing this. Thank you for your wisdom.

@@georgebender7519 There is actually another of his videos that focus on that aspect. If I remember correctly the title should be something about the impossibility to master the basics (or something similar). I don't know if you still need it, but anyway... Good luck with learnings languages

@@alessandrorocci1416 I do!

u can do both !

Yeah +1 to the starter book idea. In my case I started learning German because I watched a German dubbed anime episode as a joke and then shortly thereafter i began to learn German. I read through a book on basic German phrases and grammar and after I was done then I started rewatching the thing and realized that I could pick up words and even sentences, whereas before it was a complete gibberish that made 0 sense. I feel without getting a slight feel for the structure and basic vocabulary it makes it tough to get started.

@@derwalter866 exactly. It’s better to start inside parameters then expand those parameters as you go than to start with no real parameters and then try to figure out what they are.

Hello!! May I ask how you’re going ? I’m starting this week and kinda in the same exact position , I can barely understand what’s being said but i feel like im evolving

From my experience do it and don’t stop, it’s like speaking, u gotta drag it out of your brain

When you have conversation, you need to make sentences quickly, but when it comes to writing, you can look up unknown words and expressions, so I recommend it.

@@a.A.K___ words**

But you may crowl or run. ;)

@@putinisakiller8093 I refer you to my other rules.

@@andyharpist2938 I want to have learned before I die. 😊

Because some languages are relatives to each other while others are not. For example I can understand almost everything in some language though I didn't learn it at all. :) Both English and Spanish have many Latin and Greek words. :)

Find your own balance.

B1. You have finished the early climb from not understanding anything to being able to say a few things. Now the long road begins.

The principles are the same, lots of listening and reading. Depends on what is available for Old English.

@@Thelinguist Where can one get proper audios for rare or dead languages?

Sema sema! 😂

@@tttyuhbbb9823 sama sama

I remember him saying in one of his videos that he doesn't like the idea of learning a language with music because there is too much poetry.

@@pauld3327 👌🏻

The fact that the stories are the same is an advantage. When you learn something new, it is helpful to have as much familiar stuff around to help you. You can focus on the language. It works, believe me.

@@Thelinguist Thanks for the response Steve! I believe you :)

Hi, just in case you need someone to practice portuguese, I would be glad to help

It's just because the reading is unproper. Even a hundred words are enough to many mini stories.

What language do you study? There is a huge difference in pronunciation of languages. So some of them don't demand much listening though others do. If you can pronounce a word correctly you may not listen to it a lot.

The second languages I've learned to a good level have been: French, Spanish, German and Hungarian. The pronunciation of Hungarian is quite different than English... but I'm not sure what this has to do with the recommendation that one initially listen to the audio associated with a text straight through without stopping, even if one doesn't understand it fully, and only afterwards look things up. I always have the impulse to look up everything I don't understand the first time I go through a text/audio recording, in Hungarian as in my other languages. I find it frustrating and not enjoyable to initially listen to the audio without looking things up, and given that I don't really understand the point of it, I'm not motivated to force myself to do it.....but if I understood the reason for this extremely popular recommendation a bit better, maybe I'd try harder at it! @@putinisakiller8093

I now next to noting about Hungarian, unfortunately.

Well, if you see it again and you don't understand it then, mark it as unknown again. It's like a ping pong match.

Not yet

@@Thelinguist if you want to learn hindi i can teach you because i am a native speaker in this language 😊😊😊

Mini-stories

@@Thelinguist thanks a lot