So happy that our videos were helpful on your German learning journey. 😊Keep up the great work!

understanding all of the individual words in a sentence but not the whole sentence has got me lol

Good video! I'm so jealous that you're the one learning the language but that you're wife is already German... my 3 year old understands quite a lot of Swedish but it's an uphill battle with me being the only one who can speak to him in Swedish (and no one else understands that either so often I have to speak English for the benefit of others).

Outstanding consistency as seen in the heatmap. I loved the minimalistic approach to the video. Straight to the point, good references and helpful tips.

Thank you so much for the content. Much love from a muslim arab from egypt 🇪🇬 ☪️

Great video. I’m glad I found it. I’ve been self studying Russian for 4 years at home. You have some great advice in here that I will try to help me reach my goals this year. I probably know 2000-3000 words comfortably and hope to be a solid conversational A2 level. 👍🏾

I love this. I’ve had to grow out of beating myself up for not speaking “enough” or “soon enough.” I’ve learned that focusing on vocabulary and input (input input input) take care of a lot of what’s needed when speaking, and applying less pressure makes the whole thing more fun and ultimately sustainable.

I'm learning German as well, this helps A LOT. Thank you

Wow, deine Aussprache auf Deutsch ist wirklich sehr gut! Danke für das Video :)

My congratulations! Also, your German sounds really good. I think, most German speakers could still clearly tell, that you are an English speaker, but the accent isn’t something heavy, that gets in the way of understanding what you are saying. Und übrigens ist 5 Minuten Harry Podcast eine sehr gute Wahl :)

Reading really is underrated when it comes to the later part of learning a langues. Develops that Sprachgefühl(langues feeling of what feels right without knowing grammar rules). Unlike shows/movies a book can't show things so it uses allot of descriptive words from common to less common but rarely used in daily lives like 'disappointed' or 'zenith', reading is really where you'll pick these up. Your video encourages me to read more.

I really like the notecard bookmark idea.

Can you do an in depth video on how you use Anki for language learning (like settings etc...). Keep up the great work!!

i can see this channel becoming big in near future

Your German is really good. You're right, you have a good pronounciation. I learned English in school and later through American TV series and now I'm learning Swedish but really slow because of a lack of disciplin and consistency. I tried Anki but after a few days I'm missing too many days in a row and than the words you have to review are too intimidating therefor I'm missing even more days and so on. 😅

Awesome video!! Again, love all the data! My learning has been similar to yours -- only two differences I did not use the "Rosetta Stone" book approach and also have not used a program like Anki to focus on vocab learning. Takes me a little longer to learn vocab -- but my method is more organic -- so IMO no right or wrong answer but the Anki vocab method might be super useful when I try to go to C1. So might give it a try once I get to B2 and C1. On the Rosetta stone book method and maybe it's only that my Brazilian girlfriend had a bunch of kids comic books and kids books which she gave to me and she also bought around 10 used teen comic books (Homen-Arranha (spiderman), Demolidor (Daredevil), etc.) for me when she was in Brazil last year for like 50 cents each that I learned my initial reading and vocab in a more step-like manner. So yeah for $5 total!! I think your Rosetta stone approach is a good one -- but think if you can use children's material first (if possible) -- it won't be so much like hitting a brick wall initially. Used children's books in the target language (for some languages) in bulk (from eBay) can be extremely inexpensive -- like $30 dollars for 10-15 random kid's books and that's all you need. I also found a ton of old public domain comic books from the 1950s in Portuguese that I used as well. These were a nice stepping stone as those older free comic books were written more for 8-12 year olds, while modern comic books are more for 12+ year old readers. Modern comic books are not an easy read. 😂 Thought this dica (tip) would be useful to anyone reading this that watched the video. Very low cost kids books in bulk and free comic books in target language -- yeah -- and if you're also lucky enough to get a huge stash of kids' books like I did from a relative. Yeah, this method won't work if the language is not that common -- but for most of the common languages -- getting free and/or low-cost material is very easy.

Hi! I'm just learning German and I've been doing this for 2 moths now. Your tips are amazing and I hope to learn that language too as fast as I can. Greetings from Poland :)

Just wow! Your description of your journey learning German has resonated so much with me! Of all the methods I've heard of yours seems most compatible to my own way of thinking and learning. In particular: the Rosetta Stone book, how you used Anki, and how you used baby books. I don't have any babies any more but I'll apply as much of your method as Ii can to learning German. Thanks for making this video...and best wishes for your future language learning.

This really is the way. Not a single piece of bad advice in your video imo. I've tried anki too and it works, I just opted for a bit of a looser system. I always use chrome for my internet browsing, so there is the safari browser that is completely free for whatever. I found a really good dictionary website for my target language, Finnish. Any time I didn't understand a word, I'd open a new tab and search it. The tabs then automatically go from oldest to newest. Card review is then as simple as opening the browser and going through my tabs, closing the ones I feel confident in. The main reason I opted for this is because this dictionary would show me all the meanings the word could have, as well as multiple example sentences in both Finnish and English. So that way I could use comprehensible input with many different contexts on the same new word. The drawback though is that my wordlist can get "clogged" so I have to stop reading for new words and start going through my words for a few days so I can free up space. I usually hover around 100 tabs open at any given time.

Ich lerne Deutsch auch. Dein video gefaelt mir sehr und motiviert mich :) Danke schön.

I am learning Telugu my mother tongue and also Hebrew and Arabic on my own Made some progress But I really appreciate you because you did everything by yourself This really inspires me motivates me

This content has so much quality and your tips are also applicable to every language, so very useful information!! You should have much more recognition to be honest. Keep up like this!!

Such a great video. I like your diverse approach, and how everything comes together. The reading and listening for language acquisition and then anki to really anchor the words in your memory. I suspect a big key in your success is that you made your own cards, from words you learned somewhere else. You slowly built up the skills. Big inspiration!

Good on you. Your approach of dissecting that book sentence by sentence, and word by word sounds incredibly painful. However, it obviously worked for you! I learnt my target language over a four year period 2019 - 2022. I felt like that I hit the B2 fluency at about the the third year mark. I'm somewhere in between B2 and C1 now. I didn't dissect books quite like you did, but I did have two books of the same story in my target language and English. And I used the English book to help decode words, sentences or phrases that were giving me trouble. I started learning Spanish in July 2023. In terms of acquiring another language it's a case of wash, rinse, and repeat. LOL

Thank you so much for this authentic video man. I’m going to buy that book that became your Rosetta Stone! What a great find. The notecard anki strategy is also so simple and so genius. Thanks for sharing!

Glück auf, I'm a German trying to learn Chinese, Came here from the language learning subreddit. Ur German is insanely good. I tried to do the Rosetta stone, and failed on the first page. But failed on the first page catastrophic. At the moment I'm visiting a curse at my university, that somewhat keeps me in the mood. But I may take your advice on the yt thing, don't know why I haven't thought of that. Das Video war sehr hilfreich, ich wünsche dir noch einen schönen Tag. (PS: meine Schwester war ein großer Fan von Smaragdgrün & Co., irgendwie lustig😂)

I too have used anki to learn English (I'm a Portuguese speaker ) but i used full sentences instead of single words and i put audio(using a addon) in the sentence too.

I´m a native in german. I´m very thankfull for that, because I know that german is a difficult language. That´s why I´m always impressed when a non-native speaker is so gooda at it. Well done! Your video is really helpfull for learning my target language, thanks!

Your hard work & dedication are admirable! Thanks for sharing your journey

I just started my journey with German less than a month ago. I learned French in school but never got beyond A1 level due to lack of motivation. This video is very inspiring, so thank you for making it and sharing your story

I was curious about Anki and got all nostalgic for German instead. It was my foreign language of choice in my 20’s. I’m all about Japanese and Korean these days. I learned German without flash cards or rather I tried to use them and gave up. This was before Anki and I had no idea about spaced repetition. Now I’m obsessed with it but it hasn’t been this perfect tool like happened for you. I build a deck for a month or two and then burn out and start a new one or erase my progress maybe. Oh the frustration. Great video though.

I agree with your process. I learned Lithuanian in a similar manner. Apps didn't exist back then so I had just sheets with my vocab lists on them. Lithuanian is easier so I only needed some 6-7000 words to reach fluency. A couple of comments. German grammar is fairly easy, so I would say the time you spent was about right but with a more complex grammar like Latin or Greek, reference sheets help considerably. Lithuanian grammar is on yet a higher level and you need to rewrite the grammar for fast reference. Something like Spanish requires even less time than German. My Rosetta stone was The Case of the Foot-Loose Doll by Erle Stanley Gardner. It has a lot of dialogue and a fast pace. I was hooked from the first page which took 45 minutes to read and a day to learn the vocab. Page 2 was longer but took only 30 minutes. I went a little faster than you at 250 words the first week, 150 thereafter, but studying took all my time. But I would recommend starting with a single author on a single topic like the two fiction series on your shelf as the author will reuse the same words and constructions. By two thirds through the book, I could read without looking up further words except on rare occasions. And that is a nice confidence boost. Your Rosetta stone could be a little discouraging because progress is harder to notice. But I'll try out Anki with German as my daughter probably needs to learn it and it would be easiest to just start talking to her in it. Being bilingual, she picks up new languages very easy.

Great video with lots of interesting tips! Thank you!

Helpful, comprehensive and concise video! Thanks for sharing 😊

no foamy, fancy tips&tricks or seeking view type of bait. 💯 it is very motivating. thanks for sharing your story!

I clicked on this video because I saw the Sefarim in the back in the thumbnail, which caught me so off guard. It's nice to see Yidden make videos based on their other passions! Much Hatzlacha

Amazing amazing video

Learning together with your kid is such a cool approach 💙💙💙 Not only you spend quality time with your kid and cultivate good habits in him, but also achieve your goals^^ The idea of using a book as a Rosetta Stone is cool, but I don't really think I would have enough patience to do this with a language I'm just starting😂 Though if I have some crazy motivation one day, I may try your method with some language 🥳

Inspiring! Congratulations on your accomplishment!

I struggled with Anki in the past, as it usually became frustrating -- however, on both attempts I was using bulk pre-made decks rather than creating one. I wonder if your approach works better because you already have a tangible context for each new card you make, rather than only ever seeing that word in Anki in a vacuum. Either way, this video has inspired me to try again! This time I'll just slowly build my own deck off the words I look up from my reading bookmarks (another thing I loved about your method!)

that anki deck is godsent, tks

Awesome video, congrats on your progress! That consistency is definitely worthy of praise, reading so much in a foreign language on top of the daily anki grind takes a lot more dedication than I'm able to give for my own TL. Best of luck for your future progression!

What a beautiful beard, and a beautiful video. Anki gives a structured way to engage in the language and memorize new words, but I wonder if there is a point when it’s overkill. Are you adding words you would have picked up fairly easily with some repetition through more reading? If you added cards once a week, maybe you could tell which vocab you’ve been seeing but haven’t acquired and only add those. Maybe an extra 30 minutes of reading/immersing would have better results

great video man! huge inspiration

Great video! You make it very interesting and fun to watch. I hope you keep documenting your German learning journey!

Klasse Leistung! Gratulation!

Amazing video, und sehr motivierend :) Ich lerne auch Deutsch and I'm stumbling upon a methodology similar to yours by just experimenting

I've become a big fan of your channel! You mentioned that you learned 13 new words per day, does that mean you reviewed 26 new *cards* (front & back counted separately) per day? I've been doing anki for hebrew for ~2 years now and I'm also approaching 10,000 cards, but at least the way my deck is set up, that's actually only ~5000 words. 26 cards per day is a lot!

I’ve had trouble keeping up an Anki habit because of shabbos. It might seem trivial, but getting out of my flow every week has really thrown me. Wondering if you have anything to share about how you worked it into your Anki life?

The index card as a bookmark is legitimately genius

Mazel Tov! 🙏🏻

I'm on my way to learning my third language, I think that Deutsch is a wonderful and riveting language to give an attempt

Sie sollen einmal ein Video auf Deutsch machen, das würde super. Selbst lerne ich Deutsch seit acht Monaten aber ich finde Karteikarten langweilig, und persönlich denke ich mich, dass es leichter ist, nur Videos anzuschauen und Büchern zu lesen. Denken Sie, dass das funktioniert könnte? Ich brauchte keinen Übersetzer, dieses Kommentar zu schreiben, aber ich hab noch ne lange Weg, fließend zu werden. Dankeschön für das Video, es war motivierend.

Superb video.

Such an underrated language learning KZfaqr, subscribed.

Something that suprised me when i started to learn german myself, is that there were a lot of german features that didn't have any translation in english, like the kein and nicht disctinction, that appear in my other language, Czech. Obviously structure and syntax-wise, knowing English helped me a lot, but for a lot of grocery store vocab, and things like doch and the gramatical case system, knowing Czech has sped the process along lol.

My Rosetta stone was a Vampire Diaries ff(. I "learnt" english in school w/ little success). One day I just had enough to translate ,,I am"... etc. and read that ff. The first new word was smirk.., then I saw it again "What was it again... ááá". This is how I learnt english and this is how I plan learning German, but I have a big cheat... I'm here for a while, so I interact w/ it daily. I also "learnt" german in school... German was one of my subject in my highschool diploma exam..., but I forgot EveRyThIng!!!! 😅 Wish me endurance, please luck won't help. (My new problem, because I don't speak enough Deutsch to be understandable I mix it with English even though I don't do that intentionally, I just hope this way they can understand me a little bit more.)

the 'explain it to me like i'm 5' book is a genius idea

So great!

Ich habe eine Frage: you studied 10k words in Anki. Are those 10k words? Or are they 10k cards? The reason I ask is because you mentioned you did DE>EN and EN>DE, so that counts as one word, but two cards. Do you have 20k cards or maybe more in your Anki deck? (^_^) And congrats on your journey, it is great to see how German is part of your life now.

Thank you, thank you so much ! Soon enough, I'll reach the niveau B2. I learned german a year with french, and many others... Now my french is B1 while my german is still A1, because I'm more focused on french. The ressources that you put is really helpful for beginners, like me. I love learnin languages! Keep up the wonderful work!

I have an aunt that is from Germany, eventually I plan to learn it to impress her but I'm on Spanish for now.

Good stuff!

Epic video bro!

I found flashcards to be almost useless. Literally the only way I managed to learn German was simply by input without translation.

Hi! I’m subscriber number 160 🙋🏾‍♀️😜.

I wish I had watched this sooner. I've been studying German for less than 2 years now.

Thanks for sharing this. Very inspiring. I am learning German too and use Easy German - I enjoy their sense of humour. Thanks for pointing out Erklärs mir, als wäre ich 5. I am going to check out the aptly named Kinderfragen.

Thanks for this informative video and more so for sharing your word list! BTW, why didn't you note down the plural form of nouns in your word list? I mean how would one know their plural form without explicitly memorizing it?

I just bought 6 books in english to try an broaden my knowledge base in history and western culture, but then I got into german so haven't had time or the interest to read them lol. Then I started thinking maybe I should have gotten them all in german haha. I'm trying to memorise Rammstein lyrics, I've written them down in german then the english translation. I'm terrible at remembering lyrics in english let alone german, so it's a memorisation exercise, but I've already learned a few words from doing it. A bit like memorising short stories. So, i haven't really thought about it before, but is it possible to raise a child to learn two languages at the same time? Do they get confused whilst speaking and speak in two languages at once, or are they able to distinguish between them whilst speaking? Do you have a special method for your child to learn both or is it not needed?

I struggle to learn with Anki. I can go a week, and never remember which words I've learned. (leech). Did you customize your Anki deck/program? If so, could you tell me how/what you did to the deck?

I'll try following your path. Let's see what happens.

Bro looks like dekinai Dogen

Do you plan to immerse yourself in German poetry and literature one day? For me, that's the real reason why someone should learn German - the indescribable joy of reading Rainer Maria Rilke or Thomas Mann ...

I am a native German speaker and I don't know what a Zirkelschluss should be. Also Verwerfung... come on, when do you ever need this word? What the heck did you add to your Anki decks :D

When you were watching your youtube videos, did you have subtitles on ? What about podcasts - did you have the transcript? I wonder how you improved ur listening skills

I want to reach a B2 but in English this year :')

How do you get Anki to display the response first? E.g. show the English first.

Your story is so motivating, thank you! Can you please share how do you make Anki show the recall card only the next day? If I make a double sided card, Anki shows me all sides the same day. Thanks!

Question: You would put the words on Google sheets then transfer the words to Anki (with photos)?

such an inspiration! Thank you for sharing! Btw if anyone is looking for some advanced German content I can only recommend getting into Walter Moers works. I really enjoyed listening to his zamonia audio books ^-^

Hi, interesting video. I was puzzled about a couple of items of your approach. 4:23 I was wondering why you chose to learn your vocabulary in both directions (German to English and then English to German) when just learning receptively only (German to English) would have been sufficient for reading and saved you 50% of the effort? It seems a waste of time to learn vocabulary productively (English to German) unless you are going to write a lot. Speaking uses only a fraction of 10,000 words. 6:47 The other thing I was surprised at is that you looked up words individually with Google Translate when you can just photograph the page (or screen shot a page from a Kindle book) and GT will translate the page in its entirety. That way the context of the translation will be superior (but maybe not perfect). Also, GT keeps a history of translations that you could paste into Anki etc. as a separate workflow. Anyway, can't fault you on your work rate and tenacity. Great stuff.

Thanks enjoyed your video, I’ll try and find a book explain for a 5 year old

Great video, you are really so consistent, 2 years too much time , you did keep continue to do it becasue of feeling this describe here right? 7:36

I use Anki and love it for learning Mandarin, but how do you make it work so you get German to English one day and then English to German the next day?

would you be willing to share your Anki vocabulary list with us?

I made a bet of learning German in one month till. My friends didn't believe me, so i managed to win a equipment for my monthly salary on my vacation, but itwas the worst vacation ever, because i was studying German up to 12 hours a day

What about the grammar part, how did you learn grammar?

Awesome video! You have motivated me to learn even more! (mandarin in this case) btw you have C1 level for sure. Not B2 😊

When you read those books did you do it in your mind or out loud?

I’m a bit surprised that you are doing 800 reviews per day. The general formula for daily reviews is meant to be cards added per day times 7, so I would expect you to be doing around 13 * 2 * 7 = 182. Have you changed the scheduling algorithm? 800 per day seems quite onerous!

I see your reviews averaged nearly 800 per day, were you studying multiple decks or just your German one. That seems disproportionate to just learning 13 new cards a day.

The vocabulary of a language can't help you actually understand the language because the language's dictionary -defined meanings are extremely limited There is no other way to learn and master any human language of your interest than learning it's grammar system, including the parts of speech, sentences structures and phonetics Similarly, there is no other way to learn and master any programming language than learning and master its syntax The most important thing of all which can determines whether you will succeed in doing anything is your purpose of learning or doing it

Gibt es etwas das auf deutsch nicht schwer ist?

Sooooo Beautiful......

Can u send me your anki list please

Let’s resolve to put an end to the scourge of KZfaqrs holding their mic on camera in 2024.

Is that the Talmud behind you? Wonderful video!

Oberaffentittengeil!🤪

Interesting, but sorry, learning words out of context does not make any sense. It's best to learn by forming phrases, so even with a limited vocabulary, you can express everything.