To be honest This is the best video Ive seen on languages Why did it take me so long to find it lol

Him: Find a language partner. My social anxiety: Maybe I DON'T need to learn another language

I did NOT watch the video, I ACQUIRED the video.

if you dont want to sit and watch this then heres my notes. i watched the whole thing -"story telling is *_THE MOST_* powerful way to acquire any language", "80% - 90% of your acquisition language program." he also talks about having someone with you to have so that they can ask simple questions in your target language about the story and such. same with magazines. --he says the most important part of language learning is children's stories and magazines. he says 80% should be child stories and 20% magazines. start with magazines. -students who read 100-150 pages in the language per week have best results -learning style's goal is to *_LEARN LIKE A BABY DOES_* -dont worry about grammar or writing. *_FOCUS ON LISTENING AND COMMUNICATING_* -- *dont learn grammar* until you are fluent (babies dont focus on grammar when they learn their first language) -with the person that is helping you learn your language (called your "language paren" ) which is a, teacher, friend, family etc. its important they speak *NO ENGLISH.* if you arent understanding something, they should to use gestures to help you comprehend. if that doesnt work, then have them draw it. whatever is needed but the point is avoid english at all costs. only use if very needed, at most, 5% of the time -also do dont have your language parent teach you grammar. do not have them correct you at all. *_"CORRECTION IS A WASTE OF TIME"_* unless its a very simple correction that will benefit you a lot -ask your language parent to give you lists of commands or actions. etc: eat, drink, jump, sleep, complain, turn around. try to get up to 50 to 100 actions a session. you dont have to actually do the action, or leave your seat, just use your hands -learning a language, start with simple colors and clothes with your language parent -record your learning sessions and relisten to them. *REPITITION IS IMPORTANT* -*hand gestures* from language parent while talking is important - *STUDY ABROAD* if possible -online apps like duolingo is not good because its mainly just memorization. memorization is not comprehensible input. you could learn an entire dictionary and still would not learn the language. - *PEOPLE SPENT TOO MUCH TIME WRITING THE LANGUAGE instead of the comprehensible input.- big mistake.* - *LANGUAGE EXCHANGE* (find people that are trying to learn your language, that speak the language you want to learn. kind of teaching each other. one example where you can do this online like craigslist, app "HelloTalk" and "Tandem" -he focuses on *COMPREHENSIBLE IMPUT* so again like listening and speaking. you should look up on youtube "comprehensible input spanish stories"" and such like that - recommend watching movies and videos in your target language 43:58 he starts showing his journey on learning arabic from scratch.

Sir....youve literally changed my life. I stumbled upon this video and im so glad i did. I studied German back in school and lived there for nearly 2 years and i still struggled with the language. I became so frustrated and resigned to probably neevr being proficient. But when i changed my studying from routine memorization and focused on comprehensible input via movies, tv shows, songs etc. my comprehension has doubled. Im starting to understand simpler interviews and even quickly spoken German. When im finally fluent, im gonna come back here. I feel so confident and happy that ill finally after all these years

Yes. By watching Star Wars, learned English I did. A problem, it was not.

so is everybody just finding this video in 2021

I can well remember 89'. I was in London for a two week conference. As a Croatian speaker I learned at school English words and grammar, but was unable to speak. I was literally crying in my room, and than I decided to forget rules and simply start to speak, no matter how many mistakes I would do. What a relief. I was born in Italy and speak Italian, but if you ask me the grammar of Italian language I wont be able to explain, since I acquired this language as a child - no rules, no words. Thanks professor.

I came back to this video , to thank everbody who made this video after watching this video in 2021 i aquired Spanish and French thanks to u guys , i didn't find natives to teach me so , i did this the different way , i search on youtube ( in 2021) spanish comprensible input and i watched all 567 videos, 3 hours a day, until i was able to understand natives, movies and interviews , after 1500 hours of input i can speak spanish so i did the same with french ( in 2022 december) i spent 1057 hours with French i can understand n speak without a problem, guys discipline is all u need ❤🎉 Am currently aquiring portugués ❤

Step 1: Be patient and enthusiastic enough to click on a 57 min video

randomly everyone was recommended this, time to acquire Japanese.

Critique: 1. Finding language parent is difficult / expensive / not possible; 2. Reading magazines / children books as an adult is extreamely boring.

Certainly! The text outlines several steps and strategies for language acquisition. Here's a breakdown: 1. **Magazine Descriptions:** - Acquiring vocabulary from a travel magazine by having a language friend describe pictures. - Engaging in simple yes or no questions about the images. - Asking basic questions like "What is this?" or "What's happening?" and emphasizing the importance of asking "why." 2. **Children's Stories:** - Using children's stories as the primary tool for language acquisition (about 80-90% of language learning). - Focusing on stories with big pictures and small text. - Avoiding translation; instead, the language partner retells the story in the target language. - Asking simple yes or no questions about the story. 3. **Three Important Rules for Language Sessions:** - **No English:** During language sessions, avoid speaking any English. - **No Grammar:** Don't teach or focus on grammar during the sessions. - **No Corrections:** Request not to be corrected during the learning process. 4. **Total Physical Response (TPR):** - Incorporating TPR, or commands, to learn language through movement. - Creating a list of verbs or actions and using gestures or drawings to understand and communicate. 5. **Reading:** - Encouraging reading, especially tailored to personal interests. - Highlighting the role of reading in putting together grammar concepts and providing context. 6. **I Plus One (I+1):** - Requesting I+1 from language partners, which means receiving just a bit more vocabulary or complexity than what's already known. 7. **Recording Sessions:** - Using a mobile phone to record language sessions. - Listening to recordings to reinforce comprehensible input and exposure to the language. 8. **Study Abroad:** - Planning to study abroad to intensify language learning. - Emphasizing language exchange through trades and building relationships with native speakers. 9. **Language Learning Plan:** - Setting a goal of 500 hours of comprehensible input in nine months and planning to study abroad for an additional 500 hours. - Incorporating language exchange, apps, and building relationships with native speakers. 10. **Closing Thoughts:** - Encouraging a mindset of speaking naturally without overthinking. - Promoting the idea that anyone can acquire a language within a year. Overall, the approach involves a strong focus on immersive, natural language exposure through various methods, emphasizing listening and comprehension over explicit grammar instruction.

Can we take a minute to appreciate that this is free? Information is sadly not free most of the time, so it's nice to know that you can get some good advice like this for free.

The secret is you have to love what u want to learn, he said "I am a lover of languages "

The hardest part of this method isn’t the language, but for an introvert it’s the requirement of meeting so many new people.

1. Не учим грамматику, как дети, которые не знают граммати, но могут говорить 2.Не исправлять ошибки, это будет потом, пока с ошибками, но говорим. 3.Занятие на 85-100 процентов на языке который учите, но при этом используя только те слова, которые уже освоили Т.е. нельзя давать информацию любую, нужно постепенно усложнять. 4.Чтение и создание историй. 5. 900 часов занятий в Год, если язык простой, схожий с вашим. 1100часов если сложный язык.

I'm a 16 years old native Arabic speaker from Algeria. I learnt English purely from KZfaq videos, movies and reading. In about 2 years I was capable of understanding almost anything. Tho I knew some basic grammar from school, and I believe knowing some grammar can be very helpful; it will clarify and simplify many things that you might find confusing in the beginning.

If you are impatient like me, here's a summary: 6:20 Forget the grammar, don't study grammar, it will hinder you. 8:35 Learning - what happens in a classroom; acquiring - the subconscious way babies pick up a language. 10:36 The natural method (no grammar, no corrections, 90% target language in the classroom) and TPRS (hearing a story and then reading it) are the closest to the way we naturally acquire a language. 21:35 Focus on comprehensible input, listening and speaking. If you learn a language that doesn't use Roman alphabet forget about reading or writing until you are fluent. So here's how you do it: 4. 23:03 Find a language partner (family, friends, trades, apps (HelloTalk), language exchange, craigslist) 5. 25: 44 Get yourself lots of magazines with lots of pictures and children's stories (any language). 6. 27:00 Your language partner will describe the pictures and will ask you simple yes or no questions about the pictures and you will ask simple questions too. The questions are: What is this? What's that? What is she doing? and the most important one: Why? 7. 29:32 Don't speak any English. Try to explain the thing with gestures or draw. If you get stuck just use the phrase "it's not important" and move on. 8. No grammar. 9. No corrections. It's a waste of time. 10. 31:54 TPR - ask your partner to give you commands or actions that you will act out. 11. 35:19 i+1 is input that you already know and +1 is going slightly beyond that level. So your partner will describe things with greater detail or using more sophisticated words. 12. 40:56 Record your sessions and listen back to them. It's important to repeatedly hear things. 13. 42:30 Study abroad and most importantly make friends through acquiring their language. The rest of the video is a lovely documentation of Jeff Brown learning Arabic.

Step 1: Acquire the language Don't learn it! Step 2: Don't learn grammar Acquire it Steo 3: Find the right class Step 4: Find the right instructor Step 5: which language and how long Step 6: find language parent Step 7: The magic: Magazines and Children story Step 8: TPR Total physical responde Step 9: Read, Read, Read Step 10: I+1 Step 11: Use mobile phone Step 12: Study abroad

Hello world, currently I am undertaking the marvelous journey of learning Magyar (Hungarian) by myself. I started off with the Fluent Forever method and it has been invaluable in helping me produce a much closer sounding native accent than most beginners. However, I am now at the 3 month step ( of knowing the 625 most common words ) and haven't been making as much progress in the speaking full sentences and understanding them too. Now having watched this video, I know where I need to go next. Thank you so much for this amazing and free video! I will update via edits to this comment after 3 months to see how I've progressed

So all this "one" hour of great advices wasn't for convincing people to buy or subscribe to a service !! Thank you professor I will start doing what you said

I remember, when I work in a sandwich shop owned by a Greek gentleman, one day he called out for someone to bring the cold roast meat from the refrigerator. I just called back, “I’ll get it”. But when I carried it into the kitchen, himself and the Greek ladies that worked for him, were just standing staring at me. When I asked what was wrong, they told me the boss had called out in Greek. I didn’t remember what he said or what it meant, but I must have ‘acquired’ that phrase at some point.

Executive summary of his ideas(vid was interesting too): -5 levels of language difficulty for OG ENG speakers based on similarity to English -Do plenty of listening and speaking to start off, esp. for the higher level ones -Move onto reading, then, do tons of that, and at the point of semifluency you can start writing the level 5 languages much easier -Early on, magazines(20%), then children’s books(80%) -Action out words -Comprehensible input, reading -Studies show long term memory is after ~40 repetitions -Language parent -visit a country of that language with the intention to socialize(🗿for us introverts) -English as last resort, body language is very telling, ideal seems ~95%-99% in target lang

I love grammar, but the fact is that the best english in my life I aquired when I didn't learn english at all (I listened to english songs, played video games, watched series though).

I'm studying english now, just 3 months I can understand this video and I'm learning in this way,acquire it.

I learned danish the same exact way years ago, and soon i will be graduating with a masters degree in a university program thaught fully in danish! Immersion is the key.. Like its said in this video you need to go out and finde some native speakers to talk to + i would add that you need to read and listen as much as possible in your targeted language.. it needs to become your passion and you really need to want it badly.. The only thing i do not agree on with this video is Duolingo.. it helps you learn basics in your targeted language and it gives a solid foundation to build on top of.. + it is addictive which helps because people often lack motivation in the begining

9:19 My friend and I spent a summer in Madrid before our senior year in high school. I was an excellent Spanish student and thought my Spanish was excellent; he was mediocre and I thought his Spanish sucked. But he always had an easier time conversing with Spaniards than I did. I always tried to say things correctly, whereas my friend just said things. I would cringe at his grammatical errors, but those errors made no difference from a communication standpoint - his interlocutors always understood him. So he would get words out more quickly than I did, and it made communicating easier for him. I think this was the Monitor Hypothesis in action.

In summary because it's a long video... 1) Skip learning grammar and writing at the start Also, correcting things like grammar doesn't work effectively until you're much more fluent 2) Focus on things you hear and things you read with pictures Spend 20% on magazines and 80% on stories like in kids books 3) Get a language partner / great teacher e.g. someone you know who speaks the language or HelloTalk app Try to study abroad or, if it's appropriate, get a romance with a native speaker (I did that, it's helpful!) 4) Learn up to 500 commands by acting them out (you can use your fingers to mime them) Verbs and actions like eat, sleep, run, sing, cry, laugh, stand up, sit down... 5) Increase on the vocabulary you already know by adding extra words/actions/stories that relate to them Car > car tyre > tyres puncture at high speed > this is a blow out etc Remember it's easy to extend quickly with cognates

I smell clickbait. Let's look at this. Edit: alright this is actually authentic

I think every old school language teachers should watch this video and make learning a new language waaay more easier and fun! Thank you for the great ideas and inspiration!

I never learn english but i inderstand every word and every sentence in this video! I don't know how it works, it's like a magic! Two years ago i didn't know english, and now i can understand a lot of english content. Thank you!

I kept waiting for the sales pitch for a book or course, etc. And there was nothing, just excellent information that makes sense. Very impressive.

Part 1: Theory 1) 4:11 - Acquire the language, don't learn it 2) 8:48 - Don't study grammar. Acquire it. 3) 10:33 - Find the right class 4) 15:23 - Find the right instructor 5) 17:43 - Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to acquire that language 6) 23:03 - Find Language Parents (as many as you can) 7) 25:44 - The Magic 8) 31:54 - TPR 9) 33:51 - Read, read, read 10) 35:20 - i+1 37:33 - Why no corrections? 38:45 - What about Rosetta Stone and apps Part 2: Acquisition 1) 43:51 - The first day (week 1, 0 hours) 2) 44:38 - First trade (week 5, 24 hours) 3) 43:51 - A full-time Arabic tutor (week 6, 32 hours) 4) 45:10 - Meetups (week 11, 80 hours) 5) 45:35 - Actual visit to an ESL class + 4 trades (week 13, 96 hours) 6) 46:30 - Greetings, TPR, Magazines, Children's Stories, Repeat (week 18, 138 hours) Totaly 9 month, 300 hours Part 3: Study Abroad 49:56 - 500 hours of speaking in 12 weeks 54:19 - Results P.S. Hey, leave a comment below if I missed something, thank you in advance!

The nature of language is to communicate. When we speak and the other person understands, it has basically completed its task. Thank you, this video has motivated me a lot.

I come back to this video every so often. It's one of the best language learning videos on youtube.

"find language parents" Me, an introvert: oh no ..

"I don't want to think. I just want to speak it." Probably the best part of the video.

Wow!! My classmate sent this to me while studying abroad in Uruguay, trying to acquire spanish to make my mother proud! Im doing a lot of things right and can’t wait to continue! Awesome video

I completely agree with you, learning a language only produces stress, crispation, inhibition on the students and after years learning at school they aren’t able to build any sentence) above all they hadn’t any fun while those lessons. I heard so often people say :”I have no no talent, I am not gifted to speak a foreign langage!” But they actually almost never spoke it! And I always said to them that they were able to learn their mother language, why wouldn’t they be able to learn another one? There were though others like me, who instinctual heard the langage out of the school on TV, radio, Assimil … (at this time 1980 there weren’t applications which are specially made for this goal and that’ s what made the difference! ) Those more talented students tried very early to speak very actively. Teenagers are very lucky today with the applications! But for that, the best is to stay in the language’s country. Grammar cannot be learned intellectually but by hearing syntax and trying to repeat it. Thank for your work, it’s a very good idea to have crated this method!

For people who do not/cannot watch the whole thing, here is my brief summary of it: Essentially what he discussed was this: Learning VS Acquiring: Acquiring is subconscious, learning is not. Acquiring is better. What you need to acquire a language: To acquire a language, you need the following: -Language parents -Children's stories -Magazines -Mobile phone The method: Essentially, you have your language parents explain everything in the magazines and stories. You record the sessions so you can listen to the stories over and over again. Via repetition and careful explanation, you will *acquire* the language. Other things to know: -Keep your language parent sessions to 90% in the target language at least. English (or native language) is okay for help here and there, but you need to stay in the target language at least 90% of the time to get adequate comprehensible input. -Comprehensible input is messages that are made to be easily understandable. If someone is showing you a picture of a ball, and they keep saying "ball" when showing you the picture, you will understand that "ball" means what the picture is showing. -Draw and gesture at first if you cannot understand what's going on. When all fails, move on and says "it's not important" If I've made any major mistakes or something else should be added, feel free to let me know! Hope this helps!

1. 4:10 Acquire the language. Don't learn it. 2. 8:49 Don't study grammar. Acquire it. 3. 10:33 Find the right class 4. 15:24 Find the right instructor 5. 17:46 Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to acquire that language 21:33 The secret. No reading/writing. Comprehensible input (listening/speaking) 6. 23:04 Find language parents 7. 25:44 The Magic 29:22 The rules going through magazines and stories 8. 31:56 TPR - Total Physical Response (Commands) 9. 33:51 Read 10. 35:21 i+1 (input +1) 11. 40:57 Use your mobile phone PART 2 43:50 PATH TO ACQUISITION 46:49 6 MONTH UPDATE PART 3 49:41 STUDY ABROAD 54:24 THE RESULT

I learned Iraqi Arabic the same way, except I was in a War. You did such a great job showing people how to learn a language and also explained that you don’t have to have a language aptitude or whatever excuse people use. Great job you should get millions of views because you deserve it.

I learn whole sentences saying them aloud. 5 days - 300 repetitions per day at least. Later I don't need to translate. I know the meaning of words straight away like in my native language. And also I remember the meaning longer than by learning separate words. This method is called: chunking. It was a real game changer in my learning process and communication skills in English and other languages.😊

I "learned" (acquired) Portuguese in less than a year after watching this video. I had never even been to Portugal but by the time of my first trip I was able to communicate with people on the street. Before that I was learning via apps and Grammar exercises which left me frustrated with little progress. I have shared it with probably 50 people who are either language teachers or learning themselves, because this is the best approach to learning anything, really (learning by doing).

I moved to China in 2003 with NOTHING. Everyone has asked me how I learned Chinese so well (Chinese cannot hear my accent on the phone). Call it gut intuition, but all of this video is what I did. I'm not a genius nor bragging. Just affirming truth! I immediately bought children's books and watched TV for HOURS and just spent time interacting (who cares if you mess up? It's FUN). I definitely read up on grammar, but I did not make it my focus. USE CHAT APPS LIKE WHATSAPP AND FB MESSENGER! I used MSN and IRC (back then) to learn how "people talked" but I could copy/paste vocab and study the patterns. It was acquisition with a pause button. True, talent (like in sports) plays a part, but anyone can go to the gym and get in shape if they follow a good plan! SO GLAD this video is out there! I wish I had it then!

So inspiring. I've decided to ditch the books and just speak. Your Arabic blew me away. I'm so intrigued by it I would love to learn it. So many Arabic words we use in Spanish. Thank you .

I spent a month in sweden recently and after about 3 weeks I was understanding what they were saying and was responding in english. All my friends and family were astonished as I was not even remotely trying to learn the language.

Geniuses are able to *learn* as many languages as they want. The average person is able to *acquire* as many languages as he/she wants. I think this will stay with me for the rest of my life. Thank you.

STEP BY STEP STEP 1 (4:10) - ACQUIRE THE LANGUAGE. DON'T LEARN IT! STEP 2 (8:48) - DON'T STUDY GRAMMAR. ACQUIRE IT! STEP 3 (10:34) - FIND THE RIGHT CLASS STEP 4 (15:23) - FIND THE RIGHT INSTRUCTOR STEP 5 (17:44) - DECIDE WICH LANGUAGE YOU WANT TO ACQUIRE AND HOW LONG IT WILL TAKE TO ACQUIRE THAT LANGUAGE STEP 6 (23:05) - FIND LANGUAGE PARENTS (AS MANY YOU CAN) STEP 7 (25:45) - THE MAGIC STEP 8 (31:55) - TPR STEP 9 (33:51) - READ, READ, READ STEP 10 (35:19) - I + 1 STEP 11 (40:54) - USE YOUR MOBILE PHONE STEP 12 (42:33) - STUDY ABROAD! (IF YOU CAN) ENJOY IT.

I watched a cut of this video on tiktok about 4 months ago, it's very helpful to me until now. And right now i found the full of it 🎉

Thank you so much for generously sharing all these tips with us. Learned so much!

Video Summary: *Step 1:* Acquire the language. Don't learn it! *Step 2:* Don't study grammar. Acquire it. *Step 3:* Find the right class. The Natural Approach by Steven Krashen and Tracy Terrell. - No grammar - No corrections - Class is conducted in the target language Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS) by Blaine Ray. An offshoot of the Natural Approach. - Storytelling augmented with reading. - Story Listening, used by Beniko Mason, an English instructor in Japan. *Step 4:* Find the right instructor. *Step 5:* Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take you to acquire that language. State Department of the United States guidelines: Level 1: 575-600 hours. Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Dutch, Swedish, Afrikaans. Level 2: 750 hours. German. Level 3: 900 hours (17 hours a week in one year). Malaysian, Indonesian, Swahili. Level 4: 1100 hours (21 hours a week in one year). Huge list, the majority of languages on Earth. Level 5: 2200 hours. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Arabic. In the beginning, don't focus on reading or writing. Just focus on speaking and listening. *Step 6:* Find Language Parents (as many as you can). Ask/beg each of your language parent(s) to help you 2 hours per week. - Family, friends, coworkers. - Trades or language exchange. English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom. - Craigslist ad - Phone apps: Tandem and Hellotalk *Step 7:* The Magic *How to language exchange:* With an exchange partner, use 20% magazines and 80% children's stories. Start with magazines. It doesn't matter what the language of the magazine is in, it just matters that the magazine has lots of pictures. Ask the language partner to lovingly explain the pictures in the target language. Both of you will ask simple questions to each other about the pictures. Language partner will ask simple yes/no questions. Language learner will ask simple "what is this, what is that, what's he doing, what's she doing and why" questions. "Why" is the most important question in any language. Storytelling is the most powerful way to acquire a language. Children's stories should have very big pictures and very small words. It doesn't matter what language the children's book is in. Language partner will not translate the story. Ask the same simple yes/no and "what's this, what's that" etc. questions as for magazines. You don't have to retell the story. Rules for language exchange: 1. No English. Use gestures or acting. Draw if you still don't understand. Bring paper and pencil. If you're still stuck, say "it's not important" in the target language. 2. No grammar rules. 3. No corrections. Corrections have been demonstrated by studies to not work. They are a waste of time. *Step 8:* TPR Total Physical Response (TPR): acquiring language through movement. Acting out commands. Eat, drink, jump, sleep, dance, turn around, sit down, look, watch tv, cry, laugh. Up to 500 commands. Start with 50 or 100 per session. Can use fingers to act out the action. *Step 9:* Read, read, read Aim to read 100-150 pages per week. Tailor the topic to your interest. This helps with grammar acquisition. *Step 10:* i+1: Input + 1. i is everything you already know, and + 1 is a little bit extra. When using magazines in language exchange, the language partner will introduce more complex words in addition to simple words in the description when describing the pictures. *Step 11:* Use your mobile phone. Record all of your interactions, especially the children's stories section. Listen to the recordings daily as well as to review later. Greetings, TPR, Magazines, Children's Stories, repeat.

4:09 Step 1: Aquire the language, don’t learn it 8:49 Step 2: Don’t study grammar, aquire it 10:32 Step 3: Find the right class 15:23 Step 4: Find the right instructor 17:43 Step 5: Decide which language you want to aquire and how long it will take 23:02 Step 6: Find language parents 25:45 Step 7: The magic 31:54 Step 8: TPR 33:52 Step 9: Read read read 35:19 Step 10: i+1 40:55 Step 11: Use your mobile phone 42:32 Step 12: Study abroad 43:45 PART 2 Language Acquisition

Great video and a great book! How to get words into your long term memory is the key. Languages are acquired naturally by listening, storytelling and reading. Vocabulary "learned" by forced memorization is soon forgotten. Small children acquire languages without studying grammar. Wonderful insight!

I’m English teacher greetings from Ecuador I find your video super interesting. Natural approach is magic I’m going to apply it during my classes

I learned korean and chinese on my own. Honestly all you need to have is motivation.

This guy: Level 1: "That's noooothiiing!!" Level 2: "That's noooothiiing!!" Level 3: "That's noooothiiing!!" Level 4: "That's noooothiiing!!" Level 5: 😐

What an amazing journey! I'm truly inspired. Thank you so much for sharing. I'm so excited about my Spanish-speaking journey.

So grateful for you taking the time to make this, Professor. Like so many, I've wanted to acquire new languages for years but have never found a way into them. This was so insightful and inspiring.

4:10 Step 1: Acquire the language. Don't learn it! 8:50 Step 2: Don't study grammar. Acquire it! 10:33 Step 3: Find the right class. A) The Natural Approach a) No grammar b) No corrections c ) Only the target language (or close to) B) TPRS (Teaching proficiency through reading & storytelling) 13:18 How do we know it works? 15:22 Step 4: Find the right instructor. 17:44 Step 5: Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to do so. 21:33 Why you shouldn't necessarily worry about reading & writing at first 23:04 Step 6: Find language parents 25:45 Step 7: The magic 31:55 Step 8: TPR 33:52 Step 9: Read, read, read 35:20 Step 10: i + 1 40:55 Step 11: Use your mobile phone (to record & replay conversions) 42:33 Step 12: Study abroad (if you can) 43:45 Mr. Brown's acquisition journey! 54:18 Results 😏

4:12 1) Acquisition vs learning 8:48 2) Study vs acquire grammar 10:33 3) Find the right class 15:23 4) Find the right instructor 17:43 5) Time to acquire particular language for a native english speaker 23:04 6) Find a language partner 25:44 7) The magic (important) 31:56 8) TPR 33:52 9)Read, read, read 35:20 10) i+1 (input + 1) 40:55 11) Use your mobile phone 42:33 12) Study abroad 29:24 Rules with language partner 37:33 Corrections? 38:44 Apps and Online courses opinion 43:59 First class 46:05 Week 18 46:47 6 Month update 49:45 Study Abroad RESULT -> 54:18 55:09 Conclusion

Wow! I'm totally inspired by this video. Now I understand why learning languages has been so challenging. I need to acquire, not learn. Many thanks Mr.!

thank you a lot! this class is a gift, please everyone enjoy it

Plot Twist: Jeff Brown didn’t want to make this video and the producer punched him in the eye and yelled do as your told in 7 different languages.

Considering the fact that this video came out 1 year ago but all the comments are very new I guess we all had this in our recommendations...😂

Magnificent effort put into this video, hats off for you and people who contributed in this video Took more than 1 year to make this video, so much effort and so much people joined the journey

Why KZfaq push this? But I’m here for it. Thank you for the effort

My daughter learned English this method ( I guess) just by watching Netflix. The school told us our daughter spoke really good English. "Where did she learn"- they asked. We were like " saaay whaaat, does she ? We didn't know". She was 7 at the time.

Every single thing you just said is true. Now, I'm not a polyglot, neither am I a genius. But as a swede that never paid attention in school and missed all of my english classes, I speak english pretty darn well. And it's only thanks to music, TV, videogames, and social media. I recently started learning dutch since it's so closely related to both languages I know, and I'm using the same principles this time around. Just shower your brain in the new foreign language, absorb it, learn the words and the meaning, learn to tie them together, THEN perfect it. Learning a bunch of words will do absolutely nothing, and will more often than not just slip your mind whenever you actually want them in the future.

I APPRECIATE this video. Your attitude is incredible.

One of the most important videos I have ever watched. Inspirational. Thankyou for sharing

4:56 "I love gramm- *Ad plays*: "Grammarly does more than catch errors"

As a German I found out that the classic school lessons in learning English (here in Germany) is good for grammar and building sentences, but to understand English better and better I simply dicided watching English speaking KZfaq videos and the results are great!

This is a real treasure I'm stumbled upon! So well put together, thank you!

This is the best ever I've seen! Incredible and best results. Restudy English and Chinese, maybe starts a new one with this knowledges! Thank you so much! Im excited

When i first opened the video i was mentally prepared that he would speak English but I was shocked that he was speaking Arabic and more specifically Egyptian dialect and couldn't hold my muscles. it was sooo precious that he's using commonly used words in egypt that aren't necessarily structurally correct hahaha when said " ana mesh abkarino" I was like dude how did you know this. it's that word that you can't pick from a dictionary" Abkarino is derived from the word 3abkari ( abkari) which means intelligent and it's some sort of a nickname to the word. And that proved how he knows the features of our language and how we joke. Btw i haven't completed the vid but i really wanted to write that

wow to be honest, clicking on this video I thought it was a scam/would eventually try to sell me some kind of fix-all-your-problems- kind of product. but this turned out to be probably the best video on the topic and that they make this knowledge publicly available for free is awesome, thank you so much!

What an amazing story! I've loved everthing about it. I see now why it takes language students so many years to become fluent in any language. The practice of speaking was failing.

Thank you very much. This video is very useful. Thank for your sharing!!!

I love the fact that most of the comments are from hours or minutes ago or at least 2 days max, seems like we all got this recommended at the Same time

The way you acquired your languages is how I learned to play music. I didn’t focus on learning how to read/write sheet music, but I focused on playing what I heard.

This is the best video I've seen on learning a language.

Watched completely. That's such an insanely valuable video. Thank you :)

Like an introvert, I find socializing a really hard thing (incredibly hard years ago), but enjoyable, because I feel like I'm improving my life and surpassing myself when I do it

I learned English by listening ALOT, reading and focusing on sentence patterns then increasing my vocabulary.

Sincerely, this video was incredible. I could learn a lot here. I am from Brazil and i thank very much for such knowledge!

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing your amazing experience. I will change my strategies to acquire new languages.

The first rule about language fight club is we don’t talk about language fight club

Ive always wanted to be a polyglot. My family is monolingual and I am the first person to get a College degree in my family. I learned my second language at the age of 20 when i migrated to the US. a year later I was in College. I lived there for 11 years then moved back home. I am now 42 and 3 years ago I began to study portuguese and Italian. Now, I am quarantined and studying 3 hours a day. I am planing to speak 4 languages by the end f this year 2020. Then I m not sure what other language to study, maybe Esperanto, maybe French. I love Japanese culture, but I am a chicken when it comes to Japanese. But I can tell you this, it is never too late to learn a language. Also, each language is a lot easier than the previous one. Adults can learn language as well, it is way harder, but posible. I even dream in English. There is somethign on your brain that suddenly awakens one day and you just take it all in. I dont know what it is

Quite informative, methodical and engaging! To learn this way is a wonderful thing. Thank you for putting this video together. I have subscribed to your channel as I believe this content is GOLD.

Thank you, this is so helpful! Nice to see you all from OC/SoCal

I copy a cmt and leave it here to remind myself. Part 1: Theory 1) 4:11 - Acquire the language, don't learn it 2) 8:48 - Don't study grammar. Acquire it. 3) 10:33 - Find the right class 4) 15:23 - Find the right instructor 5) 17:43 - Decide which language you want to acquire and how long it will take to acquire that language 6) 23:03 - Find Language Parents (as many as you can) 7) 25:44 - The Magic 8) 31:54 - TPR 9) 33:51 - Read, read, read 10) 35:20 - i+1 37:33 - Why no corrections? 38:45 - What about Rosetta Stone and apps Part 2: Acquisition 1) 43:51 - The first day (week 1, 0 hours) 2) 44:38 - First trade (week 5, 24 hours) 3) 43:51 - A full-time Arabic tutor (week 6, 32 hours) 4) 45:10 - Meetups (week 11, 80 hours) 5) 45:35 - Actual visit to an ESL class + 4 trades (week 13, 96 hours) 6) 46:30 - Greetings, TPR, Magazines, Children's Stories, Repeat (week 18, 138 hours) Totaly 9 month, 300 hours Part 3: Study Abroad 49:56 - 500 hours of speaking in 12 weeks 54:19 - Results

As I was watching the video I was thinking “huh... why does this guy seem familiar?” Then I saw he’s a professor at my school 😂😂 I went to his language exchange club once at OCC and we did that “no english” exercise where you describe everything in the illustrations. It was such a cool club and I was looking forward to going every week. Unfortunately the first meeting was in March 2020 :(

Thanks for this video, Jeff Brown. I'm brazilian. Now I know how I can aquire any lenguage. And, in this moment I've using the topics with you showed in this video for lerneing my fist liguage ENGLISH. Thanks for this wanderfull work 🙌🙌

It's one of the best videos I have watched. I really enjoyed every minute in the video without feeling botring.

4:10 - Step 1 - Acquire don't learn 15:25 - Step 3 - Find the right instructor 17:46 - Step 5 - Decide which language and how long it will take to acquire 23:05 - Step 6 - Find language parents 25:45 - Step 7 - The Magic 31:53 - Step 8 - TPR (commands, physical gestures) 35:20 - i+1 starting with what you know and giving a LITTLE bit more 40:56 - Step 11 - Use mobile phone (record and relisten to previous interactions) 42:32 - Step 12 - Study abroad (if you can)

Others: (pay me x dollars and i will teach u how to learn a language) Jeff Brown: (nah, makes a youtube video helping tens of thousands of people) I'm super fortunate to be born into acquiring one of the hardest languages, Arabic, then I acquired English from my parents, learned French in school and with the help of my father, and now I'm learning Chinese and Russian, using very similar approaches, from watching movies with translations, and rewinding to hear the lines and repeating them as said, to reading or listening to simple stories, thanks for the video anyway

You have given me more confidence and motivation to keep going on to acquire English and japanese languages 🎉

Nice video! I gave you a thumb up even though I cannot believe, that this works for everyone! I think , the gifting und the age play a big, big role! I was living in an asian country for 4 years, and could not acquire the basic of that language! Just some words and a few sentences. I was already over 65 years old when arriving., but highly motivated. After Corona I came back to the country. I'm studying again the language. But this time I'm investing quite an effort in learning the script of the language and now I'm making slow progress! Through the script, I do remember the word better and what is even more important, I discover when I hear the pronunciation of the words wrong! there are sound in that language which NOT in English and not in my mother tongue! I only start to hear them, after having SEEN them in the script! So for the aquering method you need at least very good ears and friends, who do understand, that you will not understand what they are saying, when they just repeat their sentences louder!