Puis j’aller au salle de bain?

@@melanie_meanders Peux je aller au le toilette sil vous plait?

As a Spanish speaker, my favorite saying from non-Spanish speakers "Tengo un gato en mis pantalones" 🤣🤣

yo tengo los ojos cafes is all I remember from spanish class

@@minssosa3989 you should writing je peux aller aux toilettes (I’m french)

I achieved reading fluency in German in around a month and a half by making an anki deck of the 5000 most common words. I coded a webscrapper that takes the text from a website (mostly used wikipedia and newspapers), parses it, gets an example of use, and provides a route translation (just with Google's API). Went through a hundred new words a day (just for recognition, can easily just go from german to english), and was able to read novels within a month. Language learning can be really quick if you target what you want to do.

totally agree on this Sarah, after learning 4 languages I can resonate with that!

@Corpsefoot Gaming Personally, as I said, I just set up a web-scrapper and mined ~5 mil words of modern German. For mass amounts of written text, I would suggest checking news websites, wikipedia (you'll need to filter for the specific topics) or finding written literature (though, these can be quite old fashioned). If it's something that doesn't have as much as an online presence, you might have to turn to twitter, Reddit, or local forums (many cities have something that has a significant amount of text). People use modern vocab and if you filter well enough (age of account, native speaker, average length of posts), it's competently written. This does often mean you have to dig for APIs, or brute force the stuff, though. You can also use things like opensubtitles (film and movie scripts) or youtube for getting an idea of spoken language vocab use. Unfortunately, for listening comprehension, you kind of just have to jump into it. I started listening to some german podcasts after a few weeks (once I knew around 1-2k works), and made sure to pause after every sentence to ensure that I understood it (takes direct work).

Sounds like having a target of learning commonly used things in languages is best way to learn. But I never seems to continue doing any language, thus I learnt none.... 😓

@@frogstereighteeng5499 can you share the words you came up with for German? Would really appreciate it, if you could upload the list somewhere online so all of us could access it

Yeah but sentences like these help to remember the words. How often did I have to say (as a man) Sono una ragazza.

@@Skyscraper21 I know, it's just completely random sometimes but it makes the sentences funny so easier to remember :)

Hey are you learning italian? If yes I'm italian so tell me if you have any questions or need help! :)

100% hahaha

That sort of sentence is more about teaching you sentence structuring, which is very important and sometimes more useful than learning a handful of words. You could learn any animal and replace it and the sentence makes sense.

Absolutely. My mom knew 11 languages when she lived in Brazil (she was a translator for the United Nations) but then when she moved back to her home country in Bangladesh, she forgot all those languages within a year. To retain those languages, she had to keep conversing in said languages in order for her muscle memory to kick in. Though unfortunately, no one in Bangladesh spoke anything foreign back then so she didn’t have the chance.

definitely right

because they didn't learn sh... it's like memorizing your speech for a political debate in your classroom.

@@tonystark6585 translation is not knowing a language, they don't retain any information from what they translate.

This is so true. I knew fluent spanish when i was a kid, but now i can barely hold a conversation. However when vacating in spain it all of a sudden pops right back in, and im fluent. Then it decays uintill i can barely recall anything.

Dang

Damn.........

Oh my... 🤯

@@marolcasaroli 🙏🙏

Your name is very beatiful...

Lol 😂

motivation are hard to come by

You're not alone.

Watch productivity vid may procrastinate, but it gain your value, so it's still worth tho

@@Harley411 Motivation is a flaky friend. It's great when you get to hang out with them but they never seem to be around when you need them most.

Well done! I'll try to utilise this strategy as well, thanks for the tip!

@@jakubtvaruzek4097 definetely, I am now working on language 5th for the last 6 months + and 6th for the last month or so. I also work with tutors so it does help a lot.

circe can you explain a little more of your method?

@@circejanuary do you learn 100 words and then their construction and tense and then add another 100 and learn its tense construction too? Also i would like to know your method too!

@@LLastRose hi, yes an no when you lean the construction for English it would be subject +verb+object to make a basic sentence right? Then what can be a subject? Nouns, pronouns, nominal groups. You can find list with the most common nouns pronouns and adjectives. Then the second element is a verb, so you learn a few verbs from lists of most common words. Finally for our basic sentence we have objects which are usually the same components than for the subject. After that you can start learning how to conjugate in the present tense. How nouns and nominal group works. Then more components : adverbes, circumstancial complément. Négative and interrogative firm. Then more tenses (first past, then futur) At the same time spend time reading children books in the target language.

*Maledictus Bestia*

which gender of the word "the"? English speakers: "huh??" German/Spanish speakers: "lol"

このみんなはばかだね。。。。。

@@adriangjonca680 אני שמח קי אני יודע ללמוד מה אתה אמר.

Laughs in English, oh wait

Somos 3

somos milhares

c'est vrai...

somos milhões

Hahaha sim

hahahahahah YES!

he kinda gets paid

then pay him

That doesn't sound very healthy

He is paid, by your data

Where to? If you need any help from a future German teacher let me know :)

@@Lynnithx i dooo

@@Lynnithx I need, but in English Speaking. Can u help? :)

@@jessicaferreira7520 não jessica

@@spncr777 Thanks a lot, Spencer. I already do that, with some people here in Brazil. But I didn't know these app/site that u recommended. I'll look for it. Thanks again.

So true, I love the comment section here. All the people are amazing here. Reading comments after watching Nathaniel's video act like supplements which boost my understanding and give decent food for thoughts. Love u guys💗💗

Navigating through London lockdown blues here, but pushing through :) hope you're holding up well too :)

Iam into you @niela

me too, I can wait longer, but I know the experience of watching an excellent video will be worth it.

:) there is not such a thing as being terribile at learning languages, there are only bad methods that are used - and this is what we should adjust to get the process of learning more effettive :) 💪💪💪

You only need one thing for language learning and it's a reason. If you find an important reason it will only be a matter of time that you learn that language.

@@barbara4142 there actually is such a thing. There are different kinds of language and learning disorders. Some may be truely bad at it, but many of them can indeed still learn it, allthough it will take them a significant longer time then others and that might be a good reason to not undertake it. Language learning takes already quite a good amount of time, but is still manageable for people without any dissability that really want to learn it. Someone with a dissability will have to work more and harder for often times lesser results , no matter how good the method is they use. (But offcourse for them it's even more helpfull to use the most efficient method and it would be sad that they wasted time and effort on the inadequate method most schools still use.... a method that even keep people without language-learning problems away from learning a language even if they would love to be able to speak a certain language.... sigh...)

@@Blueberryminty @Blueberrymint thank you for insightful response. I did not go so much in detail and didn't take any disabilities into account. Sorry. I was thinking about people who I know who are moaning and yawning about not being able to learn any foreign language but they only expect to be thought the language without any effort from their part and it doesn't work like this. The process of aquiring the language is long, sometimes tedious, with lots of ups and downs but we need to find our pleasure in it and enjoy the process however it is. I didn't want to offend anyone with my previous message it was just my thought that came across my mind while reading. But I still believe that with a good approach, good method that siuts us, no other people, literally everyday exposure to the language we are able to achieve results much more faster. This is happening to me. Have a good day ☺️

Hi Soo, Why did you decided to learn spanish? Which dialect of Spanish are you learning? (Country)

how's it going?

Dude same, I am self learning Spanish

I am learning Spanish too!

I tried to learn Spanish for decades. I chose the wrong parents

hahaha my dude!

You guys need to make a vid. together. PLEASE

@@nathanieldrew do you have a list or newsletter with the 1000 most commonly used Italian words?

sus

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Hey I'm French, have you made any progress? Do you watch videos or movies in French? Or listen to music? If you're used to reading but not hearing french I think the accent comes naturally when you hear it a lot and practice speaking. Do you want me to recommend you French youtubers in any topic you're interested in? If you have social media I can eventually help you with learning french

@@scarychek5492 I’ve been learning French just for a bit now, but I’m fully committed. Those youtubers and a little help/tip would be very helpful. Thanks!

@@scarychek5492 I am interested please

@@scarychek5492 I can make a good ass pronunciation. My problem is that I forget almost EVERYTHING. I can read and pronunciate good, but do not ask me what it means 😅

@@scarychek5492 Hello I am interested, could you please help me?

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Ya, its so beautifully done

Really creative

This guys videos are always amazing

I was trying to figure out how to skip because I thought it was an ad! 😂 Top notch quality IMHO

Literally i'm in love this is the first video i saw for him and i never subscribed that fast in my life

It's soo weird to me that Americans can't drive with stick. Here in Germany you make your driving license almost always in a car with stick (and I'm a teen still learning how to drive, and to be honest, every other car seems like an autoscooter in comparism, but I admire people attempting to learn it if they have never done that before)

@@_the_ its the same in the u.k iv seen 2 automatic cars in my life and they were both really recently because they were electric cars and I think that's how they are going to make them, but stick isn't hard anyway

I learned on stick and I'm here to tell you that there was a lot of crying. But now there's a lot of driving.

@@JackiJinx Thank you so much! It's really relieving to know that it's not just me. I just hope I figure out how to do it properly one day. Driving really isn't fun currently.

@@_the_ i really wanted to learn on a stick but i couldn’t find anyone who had one and would let me borrow it to learn lol they are so rare in the US

Same here

Hey Ihuoma, Which spanish dialect are you learning? Why did you decided to learn Spanish?

Bro, can I too get an idea from you that from where to start to begin with?

T'as posté ton commentaire il y a 1 an mais j'espère que le français t'intéresse toujours autant et bon courage ! ❤️

@@maudzilla1798 Je m'intéresse toujours à la langue française.. même si je dois admettre que je ne l'ai pas pratiquée...

I have been trying to learn French and is not that easy 😢

I believe that the French teachers are ‘precious’. They appear to want to teach a language but fail to teach communication. Is it so important that my table is female (unless it identifies as a different gender 😂)? If a French person said to me The table she is laid I doubt it would concern me.

www.conversationexchange.com is great to chatting to natives btw- I have just started chatting to people from around South America to improve my Spanish as even after 7 years I am not confident with speaking Spanish on holiday. It’s great that u have continued learning and I think during COVID it’s a way to connect with the outside world. Nathaniel helps to haha

@@emmaridley_youtube thanks! I will give it a try ;)

Same honestly. I’ve learnt more myself in 5 months than 6 years of school. It’s crazy!

What language are you learn, Dr. Faisal Jamshaid?

You will be thankful to your past you in the future. Congrats bro, keep going :)

I’m from Telangana too, and I’ve just started learning Spanish too. 😌

@@shreyabahirat I'm from Spain so let me give you a tip. If you want to move to Spain to learn Spanish, consider moving to Catalonia or Madrid (they have a clear accent and it's easy to understand). Avoid the south of Spain and remote towns (I don't understand them and I've been born in Barcelona and lived here my entire life)

well done Steven! Keep it up! From another language fan!

That's awesome kid. Good luck

Ya, its beautiful

I thought the same!

Hey shane why do you feel you struggled and what did you struggle with?

I want to learn French these days but I'm afraid to do it because I never continued and learnt any of the languages I started

Really? I don’t recognise it. Can you give an example?

Yes and no. For example you can manage English pretty well without using both 'the' and 'a'. It won't be correct English but most people will understand you and you will understand most people. This is one of the most common mistakes made by for example Slavs. And in case of most common 100 words - most of them are functional words. They make sense only when you understand grammar. Learning that 了 means 'finish' is useless as it is mostly used as a functional particle, not a word.

May I ask how you go started with language learning? Is there any tips you could give? I really want to start learn a new language but it feels so overwhelming.

@@crisannebraham1241 once you start with your 1st new language, the excitement will make you want to learn more. Nowadays we have many options to learn languages. Online on our own, in person school/class, through friends/social activities, etc. In order to get excited & encouraged to continue, I would suggest trying out the different free language apps depending on what languages you want to learn. I learned Italian & Spanish through apps & youtube lessons. I speak english & french because I live in a bilingual city so we learn them in school by default. This year I started learning Mandarin & Korean through apps & dramas/movies ... I find the more you expose yourself to a language the better your learning, word recgnition & pronounciation will become. Listen to podcasts in a language of choice while you cook/do dishes. Even if you don't understand a word, your brain will register those words & sentences, and when you come across them through a lesson, you will understand & remember them a lot easier. Some people like to write to learn. I'm visual and verbal. So I prefer to see, hear & repeat. You have to find out what works best for you. You have to make it fun, not a chore. If it becomes something you enjoy, you will not see it as an overwhelming task, but rather a hobby, a me-time activity that you will look forward to in your day. I actually schedule my language learning as part of my daily activity like eating & sleeping. It's a must for me. Select a time that you can stick to, and make it a part of your daily schedule. Start with 10-15 minutes per day & do it when you're relaxed. Like first thing when you wake up, or last thing before bed. Hope this helps. Let me know if you need more tricks 😊

@@EvaMariposa omg thank you so much for the in-depth advice!! I’m extremely thankful, I only have on more question to ask. The language I’m trying to learn is French because I live in a bilingual country and the part I struggle the most in is speaking in French because I find it very difficult to form sentences off the top of my head. Do you have any tips on how to improve on that skill or overcome the fear of speaking?

@@crisannebraham1241 certainly! I find the best way to get comfortable in a language is by practice. I learned french as a 2nd language so I can tell you from experience, the best way to master french is to immerse yourself in the language as much as possible. Since you live in a bilingual country, it'll be easy to expose yourself to many situations where you can practice. Watch french tv/news/shows. If you have any children (even if you don't), children's educational shows/books are the fastest & easiest way to get basic vocabulary in. Once you are comfortable with simple sentence structures, you can move up to adolescent/adult shows & books. What helped me a lot is repeating what i hear. So let's say when you are watching a french movie/tv show, put the subtitles in french when possible & listen & read at the same time. Your brain will register the sounds, words, structures & intonations in a practical way. Then I would repeat what I hear sometimes outloud, sometimes in my head, and make sure I sound as close as possible to what I hear. I actually do this with all my languages. I try to repeat what I hear so that it registers better & words are used correctly in the right context. Learning French for an english speaking person is difficult if you try to compare the sentence structure & match the equivalent. I would suggest not to compare english & french & just learn French like you would teach a new born child. They have no point of reference. They point at objects, memorize the word. Then make short sentences. Then more complex at they grow. Same thing works for us adults. Start with simple conversation & work your way up. And the more you Practice, the more comfortable you will be. Don't hesitate if you have more questions 😊

@@EvaMariposa again, thank you so much! You’ve helped me so much already and thank you for taking the time out of your day for the detailed response😊. The ONLY other thing I’ll ask you is how long did it take you to be fully fluent (C1/C2 level) in French ?

I learned French in immersion from grade 1 all the way to 12. I am fluent now, but it was very slow and annoying. I am glad you're watching this video, the kids will love this way of learning French! :)