I found it difficult to get start speaking in Arabic and Persian so I started off reading with my tutor, and then having the tutor ask me questions from the LingQ mini-stories, questions and answers that I had heard and read many times before. This got me going. --- FREE Language Learning Resources 10 Secrets of Language Learning ⇢ www.thelinguist.com LingQ Grammar Guides ⇢ www.lingq.com/en/grammar-resource/ My blog ⇢ blog.thelinguist.com/ The LingQ blog ⇢ www.lingq.com/blog/ My Podcast ⇢ soundcloud.com/lingostevepodcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/learn-languages-with-steve-kaufmann/id1437851870 --- Social Media Instagram ⇢ instagram.com/lingosteve_/ TikTok ⇢ www.tiktok.com/@lingosteve Facebook ⇢ facebook.com/lingosteve Twitter ⇢ twitter.com/lingosteve LingQ Discord ⇢ discord.gg/ShPTjyhwTN

Forget the languages - Steve is 75 and looks 55! And he's sharp as a tack!

Now I'm learning chinese mandarim. When I start learning a new language , I always put on my head that I'm like a child who is listening word by word, so I never become stressed or angry. I think the most important things on learning languages process to me is patience and motivation.

1. Tutors and mini-stories 2. Reduce stress / Meaningful communication 3. Pick encouraging tutors 4. Break ice by wandering off the prepared lessons with the tutor 5. Don’t worry about what others think. Keep going 6. Find tutors that want to talk about the topics you are interested in 7. Have confidence that you will get better if you keep going. You have to speak a lot to speak well

Steve Kaufmann. You’re my hero.

You made us to see "speaking" like a piece of cake... Absolutely, reading is the first greatest step to learn a language!! Thanks to remember us that!

Thank you so much for this video! I've been so worried lately that I won't improve as quickly as I want to but after watching this, I feel a lot better. I have been learning Korean for 2 years so far, next I plan to learn Spanish and after that probably Mandarin.

8:45 Japanese tutor & Persian tutor

From the comment I saw someone saying you are almost 80 years old? 😮😮 oh gosh, it’s unbelievable! You are such a role model and inspiration to me

Thank you Steve for never letting me lose motivation, you're great

for this days my way to learning english is watching all your videos :)

Hey Steve, you are an inspiration!! I speak 5 laungages and I want to learnmore....Lot's of love and respect from India ❤️❤️❤️❤️

I appreciate so much that you’re so comforting and encouraging. It’s so easy to get discouraged. Thank you!

When I'm learning a new language, I wish I could go back to being a kindergartener. When you're already an adult, it's difficult not to be stressed when talking in a new language with a native speaker, because the other native speakers (adults) also have their lives and responsibilities. But if I could be in kindergarten again in that target language, then it seems so easy and fast to improve in that language! But oh well, we've all grown up, and can't be Peter Pan forever...

Happy New Year, Steve! Thank you so much for all your teachings! ❤

Thanks for this video!! I’m trying to stay inspired with learning new languages! ❤️

Уважаемый Стив! Как же здорово! Как всегда, вдохновляешь изучать иностранные языки! :)

Thank you Steve, I really appreciate the content

You’re a great motivation source! 🇧🇷

Don't you ever think that it's necessary to think in your target language, and say, and talk to yourself in it so as to order the language grammar rules to synchronise your thoughts, and your tongue to speak in your target language, but you've got to get used to your tongue to talk in it at once? I myself broke down the German language grammar rule in order to pick it up naturally in order to think, and say some phrases in German.

Good videos Steve, I'm 19, a spaniard, and looking for learning more languages! Thank you.

Hey steve. I'm Narges and from iran... I started studing japanese and germany and korean about five years ago and you were and are the great help for me.thank you for incouraging me to study languages even better. I'll be glad to help you in farsi if you need any help.💐

Thanks for this video Steve. I particularly like this quote "The brain likes success". Regarding stress, I found it harder to talk to people when I thought that they would reply in English...

Great tips, thank you so much!

Great video, Steve! Stephen Krashen and you are my inspirations! I've acquired a lot English by Comprehensible Input. I'm acquiring French and Spanish as well. However, I need to improve a lot my English yet, mainly in speaking and writing where I've found some shortcomings in. Well, great video! And greetings from Brazil!

thanks Steve - you always make so much sense! Brendan

GREAT! MANY THANKS. VERY USEFUL.

Reduce stress, read mini-stories, and improve gradually. Speak and read a lot! Thanks, Steve! :)

great advices I have to say. I tried seeking random people online to practice with but it never proved useful , sometimes it was awkward , on the contrary with a tutor who dedicates time and effort to me .

thank you Steve for your advice.

Great advice as always! I’m lucky my German tutor is all those things you described a good tutor is. :) we have been meeting for over a year now

Thanks for this video Steve 🇧🇷

Thanks for great information like this.

My way of getting to good fluency has been by linguistic immersion living for ten months in Scotland. I just has to get over the really bad moments when my mouth was stiff and the words didn't come out right. I finally reached the point of calming down and , all of a sudden, It was as if the words and right pronunciation were sort of flying into my brain. It has so much to do with slowing down, thinking in blocks of ideas, using fillers like "well", "em", modulating your voice, playing with speech. It's a bit like steering a car. You steer the car. The car doesn't steer you.

Thank you, Steve. I found your channel two weeks ago and it's simply amazing. Related to this video, I believe that Cambly platform is a great idea to practice my speaking. (I speak Brazilian Portuguese and my second language is English :))

Ba mhaith liom mo chuid Gaeilge 🇮🇪 a feabhsú leis an aip seo. Ar aghaidh libh!! 😊

Thank you for this great video! Excellent content, as always! Why don't you make videos showing these classes and the story that is being used as input for the conversation in that class? That would be great! 😊❤

To speak well you have to speak a lot❤

Greetings from Goiânia, Goiás, Brazil 🇧🇷

Gracias

Hi Steve, I enjoy your videos and have learned a lot. Just a little creative idea for you in case you need to mix things up: it would be so interesting to see you speak directly to the people whose language you know in an everyday setting, like ordering a meal from a French restaurant, or speaking to a Chinese business owner. Not a Skype or Zoom call. Something in person and real. It doesn't have to be long conversations, just a way to show off your language naturally, even if it is only small interactions. Anyways, best of luck with your channel.

Blessings! Now i fell into this helpful video, although i was watching lots of your previous ones, love them a lot! Hearing you, i'm so happy to know you're learning arabic too since i'm from Lebanon in the middle-east ❤️ Thank you for sharing all your learning new languages experiences .So inspiring ✨ I know english pretty well, i even write poems with it but i feel shy speaking especially there are no one around from abroad that i can talk to in my country. I just chat with friends all over the world on Facebook by writing but never spoke to them live.

I love your speaking

Hi professor Kaufman You are really doing great job helping people to learn English and then achieve their goals. Regarding my case, I have to say that I have been studying English for decades, but I am struggling in my English speaking. My pronunciation is terrible and I usually cannot find my words while speaking.My big goal is simply to be able to speak English using the vocabulary I have already acquired. Can you help me with your advice? Thanks a lot on advance.

From argentina. Thanks

The language learning process has been very hectic for me I'm going to tell you the methods I tried, Please tell me which ones should i modify or stop doing and some extra tips also 1. Reading I read short stories in my target language first I skim read and record myself while I'm at it, then I mark new vocab/sentences and study them 2. Speaking I don't have anyone to talk to in my target language So I pick up simple topics from the internet and try to talk about it. (but, I always translate in English & think too much of sentence structure and false grammar) 3.watching tv shows I watch Netflix shows in my target language with both subtitles (English + target language) The chrome extension "Language reactor" helps me with this This extension automatically pauses the video on one scene which in turn helps me to read & listen to my target language But this is a very slow process. It took me two weeks to finish 1episode 4. pictures I try not to use English instead I use pictures ex: for cat -> I would use a picture of a cat but for words like so, also, but.... -> how will i find pictures for that 5. grammar I just mug it up I have a grammar book which is both in my target language and in English I don't wanna learn a language by translating or thinking in English. I want it to be natural. thank you for your tips and suggestions xxx

For most of the time whenever I encounter some words that I don’t know, either through reading or listening, I just ignore them. For most parts, this way does not affect my overall comprehension. However I will look up for the words that I’m really curious about or I really want to know what that word means in that sentence, then I will look up, only occasionally. If I look up words all the time, I think I will easily give up because it’s so tiresome. Therefore Interests and intellectual curiosity is always the main driver in learning a language.

I have a group called Global english point, i practice my speaking ability there by use voice message. Fun + challenging as well guys. Always talk to my self in english everyday sir, your sentence hit me again. Mr. Steve: Keep calm Me: Okay sir😊

Nice t-shirt, Steve!

Hello Mr. Kaufmann. I am an English teacher in Japanese high school and I am currently studying TESOL in the graduate program in the U.S. I became a big fan of Stephen Krashen and you. I enjoy watching your movies. I agree with your opinion that people should read short stories and talk about it a lot in order to improve speaking in the target language. I would like to write a degree paper about it. Do you know whether if there is any previous research about it? I am asking you this because Stephen Krashen insists that people should not forced to speak up and wait until they naturally start to speak up in his theory. But I guess it is too extream so I am looking someone extending Krashen’s theory but I still can't find any. I really appreciate it if you know the information and tell me about it. Anyway, thank you very much for posting your videos. They are inspiring me a lot.

I have found that when a teacher uses visual material there is less tress about thinking about what i might want to say. No more scripts or pre-session anxiety

Today, on the drive home from work, a crow flew past with something in it's mouth, and ordinarily I would have said, 'huh' and thought no more of it. Instead, I said to myself, 'Fågeln har en objekt i munnen!' And my day was a little better. Thanks, crow!

I can't afford the tutor fee,I go to the ESL class,but it seems not to improve my English,I still just can say hello to others.

Steve te admiro!! Gostaria de ter essa habilidade em aprender tantas línguas mais facilmente ! J'apprends le français depuis 11 moins et le plus difficile c'est de faire la conversation . On a toujours peur de parler et faire des erreurs.

I recommend doing tons of writing.

Hello from Germany 🇩🇪

Steve it was 22 country speak Arabic .but every country speak in different accent . sometimes this accents so different ..I'm from Tunisia I have difficult to understand someone from marroco ..but all of Arabians understand the original arabe language "old Arabic" writing Arabic .so if you learn Arabic you can visited and speak with people from 22 countrys 😉

Thanks. very helpful. But one question. Would this approach doable for a person who is good at a language but wants to be perfect or over advance in that language too or just for a person who it’s not been a long time since they’ve started a new language?

Practice practice practice.

Steve é um paradigma sem paralelos no aprendizado de idiomas estrangeiros. Seus conselhos e dicas são sapienciais. Parabéns Steve por seu grande trabalho. Magistral!

Enjoying your videos. Not ready for LingQ yet, did try it but found it somewhat slow and repetitive, I'm going to see if I can optimize its use next time when I give it another try. I'm currently learning my 10th language (Russian), although only fluent in 6. All of them are Indo-European languages though, lol. Going to start on Japanese next year. Keep up the good work :)!

Brazil here haha 🇧🇷🙂

Hello there. I have always considered you a great advisor. Nevertheless, It is the first time I am trying to learn a different language apart from English. That happens to be German. There are a bunch of sounds that resulted quite difficult to repeat. Is there any piece of advice you could give me. The platform I am taking, is always rejecting my pronunciation, what makes me to dismay. Thanks a lot.

I steve I have a question for you! I re-started learning Japanese about 2 months ago and I'm getting really into it now. I try to talk to natives a few times per week as well as learn new kanji and vocab each day and I'm just wondering what your opinion is on grammar? I really enjoy learning new grammar and find it fun but I'm curious to know is it bad to study too much grammar too quickly? Say like a new grammar point each day then review it a few weeks later?

nice

Hallo Mr Kaufmann, do you consider learning any Native American languages? I am currently learning Navajo by myself using Duolingo as I do not live in Arizona so I can not speak it with the Natives, do you know of any resources I can use to further my current knowledge of the language? Thank you. - Truls-Magnus

Thank you Steve. Your tips are very valuable. A question pls: Sometimes I wonder: what's better: to be able to speak very very good four or five languages or to be able to speak seven, eight or more but not so - let's say "perfect"? I always ask myself when I have interest for a new language. You know, time is limited. What do you think about it? Interesting, isn't it?

I'm using LingQ to learn Chinese. I've completed 30 lessons so far, and listened to each them at-least 20-30 times each. Do you think it's too soon to start talking with a tutor? Or do you think it would be best to finish the remaining 30 before hiring a tutor?

Please help me mr.Steve .i couldnt find anyone who can make conversations with me .

Hey Steve, please start teaching 5 foreign laungages...it would be greatest gift you can give to students and this world !!!

عالی هستی استیو

Hi Steve, please learn Punjabi language too, it will be fun to learn (Pakistan, India's sub language)

Hello Steve, Mark said that the new languages won't be coming out right away with 5.0. is there an ETA on those new languages? Do you need help releasing them? I really want to learn vietnamese with lingq but if it's gonna be like a year before it releases then that is a very long wait...

😎

Is there someone interested in talking in English with me? 😊 My English level is B2 I’m from Brazil 🇧🇷

How many input hours a day are ideal when learning a language not too gar from your own like Spanish?

I want to use LingQ to learn Japanese. A strange thing is that every Kanzi is sounding in Chinese.

It is very difficult for me right now to understand spoken Portuguese. They speak so fast.

Anweisungen nicht klar... habe spontan Deutsch gesprochen

How come I prefer the tutor who is correcting me all the time. maybe because I’m Chinese😂. Well joking. I think in that way I can improve more quickly. There’s a saying in Chinese 严师出高徒。 literally meaning strict teacher will give us high-skilled apprentice

Are there plans to redo LingQs UI?

Steve my dear Canuck brother, teach me How Do You Become Bad at Speaking in a New Language - I mean really suck at it. Then I would stop doing that. I am sure I am doing everything you would tell is the way to suck at learning languages. I cant say things to myself because the only thing I master is the swear words, then I would be swearing at myself a lot. no good!!

Steve if you wanna be fluent in arabic come to our country sudan,, you will be fluent in arabic and you will speak arabic better than many people speak arabic as a mother language,, arabic is important language to know more about the life after death

Do you need someone to speak Arabic with,? I can do that. Je peux vous aider.

Hi steve ,, how are you ,, i hope you fine ,, i wanna ask you are you take vaccine shot or not ,, i'm hesitating one day i say i will take it , other day i say no no i will not take it ,, i saw many videos told it,s not good , it created to secret agenda ,, i now you are very respectful men and i trust on you ,, tell me your openion ,, sorry if you foud any mistakes in my english , i'm still learning english....

I have been learning japanese for 5 years and speaking too little, almost nothing. Can you believe it? But, I have finally got the answer from Steve, the semigod. :-)

TL DR: Just speak

❤🇧🇷🫶

i am here to help you in arabic, don't hésitate to contacte me

So we should make our friends who stay with us for our money

Honestly it's better to push and challenge yourself. If talking with strangers counts as "high-stress", it shouldn't be. In that situation, you should push yourself to say something and talk with them; you never know when you'll get another chance. Once you get used to it, "low-pressure" situations are nothing. Perhaps the moments you have trouble with are when they talk about something you can't, which in my opinion, YOU need to work on rather than avoiding. Expand your vocab and interests so that you can talk about more, with more people. Otherwise why do the number of speakers matter to you so much when most of them will probably get bored of what to them sounds like lectures and a private meeting during office hours? No matter how well you know a language, some people may switch to English, at least where I'm from but so what? When you see them light up after using even a little of the language with them, that's what keeps me motivated (personally). Also I don't need tutors because I'm lucky enough to know natives in some of the languages I'm learning. At least with your friends, you don't need to pay them to converse. Speaking of which, this strategy of yours with the tutors may only get you so far. Based on what I heard here, it doesn't sound like adequate preparation for real life. The only reason tutors still help you out and practice is literally because you pay them for their time. Besides them, you don't pay people to talk. Let them decide whether they keep in touch with you or not. Also the whole deal with situations like "they want to talk about food, but since I can't, I'll talk about history" gives rise to the fact that no matter the language, if you can't hold your own in more common topics (which most people are in to and there are lots), and not letting the native change subjects and just making the conversation about your (limited) interests, most people will get bored real fast, not to mention it leaves a bad and selfish impression.

Suggestion: just get into the point, not wasting time talking too much when started your video. Tks.

Do the LingQ turors cost extra money? I don't think I can afford that.

Thank you Steve, I really appreciate the content

Gracias