Summary 1. Learn the most common 1000 words 2. Learn basic grammar structure 3. Focus more on input. Listen to compréhensible content. Use target language subtitles. 4. Read alot to learn new vocabulary in context plus understand grammar. Start with simple stories and progress with time. 5. It is okay if you don’t understand everything, learning a language takes time so be patient with yourself. 6. Speaking comes easy if you’re having enough input(listening and reading) so immerse first!

Two smart, intelligent, personable guys having a great, elucidating conversation with each other. Refreshing.

The same thing happened to me. The "language lightning" hit me with Spanish and Portuguese. I was 17 with Spanish and my late 20's with Portuguese. I am fluent in both, never having been in a country that speaks either. GREAT VIDEO!!!

In my experience I found Russian language to be super easy to learn to a high level. There are so many intermediate and high intermediate full Russian KZfaq channels teaching Russian, and the amount of movies, free resources and podcasts are superior. Certain languages are so easy to learn because of the amount of content.... I am in Croatia learning Croatian after escaping Ukraine. I lived in Ukraine for 7 years. I speak good Russian. But Croatian is hard. Why? No intermediate content! Only beginner stuff or advanced native stuff.

Most online resources out there don't have material past the intermediate or high intermediate levels. I sometimes read at the advanced level in a language and gradually look up sentences or words, grammar patterns, etc. That has helped me tremendously.

I love ur channel ! Cheers from france ! C'est tellement positif comme chaine en ce moment, Merci Beaucoup !!!

This just awesome ❤ so cool ! I speak only 2 languages but I’m so impressed with these guys

Great video!

In my opinion, as a brazilian portuguese native speaker, japanese is waaay easier than mandarin or thai when we're talking about the pronunciation but the grammar is way more difficult than korean for example, especially because of the alphabet characters When I try learning these languages, the easier one in my opinion was korean

Vine aquí por Matt 😃 pero ¡ahora también me gusta este canal! Gracias por hacer está entrevista 😊🌈

Love you guys!

I’ve only studied Japanese for a short amount of time in high school and and an extremely short amount of time in college. Just by watching a lot of anime and listening to Japanese music every now and then, I happen to know quite a lot of phrases and words. Immersion is truly amazing. Imagine if I immersed 3x as much as well as studying? I’d probably be fluent by now

Here for another collab with Matt

Best explanation ever, totally got it !!

Now I’m all motivated 🤓

The hard part of Japanese is it has 3 levels of courtesy... so there are 3x the adjectives adverbs etc.

Laoshu 2.0, i hope you also make Language Level Ups videos like him

This is gold

so interesting!

There is no effortless way to study a foreign language. Persistence, patience and a lot of time is what is necessary.

Akira poster is amazing!

An interesting thing about Japanese is that in complex sentences verbs attach into other verbs onto another verb up to the noun every single time, in a way English does not do. In English verbs can sandwich between a noun but in Japanese that's never the case.

Him: Our moms didn’t give us Flashcards or anything like that 🤔😬me: thinking back to my son as a baby and me showing him Flashcards

From a young age i wanted to learn other languages but unfortunately there were no mentors or language buddies, and worse than that my interests changed every 3 or 4 years so i went from German to Russian, Japanese, Chinese, took French in middle school, Latin in high school, then decided to focus on Spanish because its the most useful in the USA. I also had interest in Swahili and Indonesian. Anyway, i didn't make extraordinary progress in Spanish until I went to Mexico with a friend for 3 weeks. So i did teach myself conversational Spanish within 2 years when i went back. Along the way i did absorb a lot about linguistics and language in general. My Chinese isn't conversational (i can read and write a little) but i wouldn't starve to death if i woke up in China, France, or Brazil. I could write a book on how NOT to learn a language. Lol

In Estonian, Russian and Swedish you also say "big red dog". Different word order would sound unnatural. Seems like an universal rule. But in Italian you would of course say "grosso cane rosso".

Great interview! Pozdrav iz Hrvatske ;)

Anyone over 30 starting a new language journey?

Please do more Swedish videos

I don’t think Matt’s seriously watched some cartoons or kids shows in a while. They’re generally pretty fun. Stuff like Pokémon, the grim adventures of Billy and Mandy, courage the cowardly dog, looney tunes, all great shows.

Website only talks about football where’s the language information

Oh wow, Matts actual still releasing content?😅 I thought he'd quite after the whole refold situation

at 22:39 I think he meant Chinese and it's because the grammar is really simple

Matt vs Japan thinks he’s fooling us with that toupee lol. I like Matt vs Japan and have watched him for a while so I know the truth

Ух ты, я тоже кухню смотрел

So cool you're from KC

Croatia never was Soviet Union country!!!!))))))

Why do I feel like I've watched this before? But it says uploaded 3 hrs ago

i want to like it but its at 69 likes so i cant