I would love to see how I've learned french and Chinese because these languages for me are confusing

I’m currently just focusing on Mandarin French and Russian. Mandarin and French aren’t so knew to me so I’m very comfortable acquiring words because I’m already know the languages work. Russian is new to me and my first language that is super case based so it’s a bit of a challenge to learn those words. Since it’s case based I’m a little intimidated to know that I’ll be learning so many more words that way.

I keeeep learning from your videos! Thansk! WL Teacher here! 🙋🏻

Moi Steve! Mitä kuuluu? If you want learn Finnish then I can help you. We can talk sur Zoom Finnish and English :)

Steve, can you do a review of the app Lingopie for learning through movies and TV shows

i KNOWW

With Steve it is more about enjoying the process than the end goal. But I think he said it took him 3 years to learn Russian.

Agreed 10000%

Well it's probably in essence "I used lingQ" but I guess there's "Steve Kaufmann: My Method for Learning Languages from Scratch" video.

If you've watched his videos, you'll have heard him say that there's no one way to learning languages but he usually isay and what he did to get a hold of any language he's interested in . in whatever you're doing, just make the process an enjoyable one for you.

the main thing is lots of exposure to the language. I'm sure this works. People should do what they enjoy doing and what they have time for.

Hold up, 2 25 minute sessions of reading and you can get 8,000 words? Assuming I’m understanding that correctly, that sounds doubtful

@@Herp234 yes you can. It depends on the speed of the person talking and if you’re at intermediate to advanced levels you can even increase the speed.

When you "do it again", do you read/listen to the same thing again?

@@BryanAJParry no it’s just another 25 minutes reading something else.

I would. love to visit your country. So much history, I can get by in Farsi and can read Cyrillic so it should be a wonderful experience.

@@Thelinguist Once you're here just lemme know, we'll share everything!

Viel Erfolg - und vor allem Spaß dabei! 😊👍

Good

hi there Felipe, i hope you have had a good time, please i want to ask you how is the procces for learn severels languages in the same time, i am learning english but i wish to learn italian, but i am scare dont be focus and lost all the way that i have in the English, i want to ask you, to learn severels languages dont make that your brain get confused

Hello fabian, nice to meet you, all depend on what is your native language in my case my native language is spanish to me learning english was very hard at the begining but through the process l got used to it, however with italian l been feeling more confortable in just 2 months, because italian and spanish are two lenguages very similar, otherwise german have been more difficult to me to get used to due to german is a language distant from spanish, all that l do to mantain my languages learning is to practice a little of each one every day.

That sounds great. How do you keep your progress visible? Do you use any sort of app that keeps track of your progress?

Yes, I agree we should learn phrases as building blocks which we can use.

Congrats! If you keep practising you'll speak and write like a native soon. If you don't mind I'll write some mistakes you've made. Teneré ---> Tendré ( Spanish irregular verb in future tense ) su vídeos ---> sus vídeos( 'vídeos' is plural so 'sus' must be plural too ) el idioma de español muy rápida ---> español muy rápido. The word "español" also means "the spanish language". In addition, if you use an adjective, this adjective must have the same gender and 'number'(singular/plural) of the name that it is refering to. The word "español" is masculine and singular so if you use an adjective this one should be also masculine and singular like "rápido". There are some extra mistakes but you are doing well. Keep it going!

@@luis90alex Edited the comment! Thank you! Extra mistakes probably resulted from me shying away from por and para, (That stuff is a absolute mess for people learning Spanish, assuming you're a native Spanish speaker) making the sentence a bit weirder

Me da mucho gusto ver a alguien intentar aprender español 😊 mucha suerte y sigue así. I feel so content when I see someone trying to learn Spanish 😊good luck and keep going. (I hope “content” makes sense, I didn’t know how else to translate my first sentence. “Me da gusto” is to feel something like happiness but also like being glad)

@@zamooti4505 Gracias! "Content" = un poco feliz, pero es más neutral. "Happy"= Feliz! ¡"Happy" es una mejor palabra! En contexto: "I am so *happy* right now!!!" "Life can be difficult, but I am *content."*

@@concentrateddarkmatter7991 I see! Thank you for teaching me :)

Sure. You can send me an email at steve at lingq dot com and we can set something up.

Hi Ruby!! I’m also acquiring German vocabulary, I have a random house German/English English/German dictionary and I love it!! My goal is to learn all the German words from my dictionary! I can do this!! And you can too! We got this girl!! 😊😊🙌🙌🙌

@@kikithedisneyfan5607 That's so awesome!!! Yes, we can! We got this! Let me know how things go 😊

@@RubyDuran I sure will!! :) is it okay for us to talk here??

@@kikithedisneyfan5607 yes, of course! feel free to also comment on my page! Always love hearing how others are doing on their journey 😄

@@RubyDuran thank you!! 😊😊

Keep watching your favourite series with subtitles, after finishing off, give it a break. Get back to watch it from the very beginning without subtitles, keep doing so and you'll be more comfortable watching them. Just saying, a simple and humble opinion.

Watch and read everything in English You'll get there eventually it's just a matter of time mate

i can not give any advice just the way it works for me. i watch a movie the first time with subs in my native language or english. then i let some time pass and watch again. now wth subtitles in the target language, so i can listen and read. after some weeks i will watch again. now without any subtitles.......you will be surprised how much you understand in the third round🙂

We are in the same boat brother

Could be that the action in the movie is fast, so they're talking fast. (Some people on both YT and podcasts speak quite slowly; I listen to everything on YT at 1.5 speed.) If you have Netflix (or on YT), you can slow the speed down to .75. Try that and see if it's easier to understand.

Not yet, but we have Hungarian at LingQ so I may try one day.

Just start anywhere. It’s all the same in the end!

Start with learning hangeul, then learn to read syllables, then pronouncing ending Consonants known as batchim. I am currently learning simple verb conjugations and using the various types of particles. Started in February. There are lots of great resources available here on KZfaq. Goodluck!

Start it off with alphabet or whatever that system of writing is called

Hello. What is your native language?

@@rebeccamcfarlin8199 arabic

I usually buy a beginner book which provides and overview of some of the aspects of the grammar. Mostly I listen and read to get more experience with the language, start noticing some things, and the go back to the grammar when I'm curious. I don't worry about making mistakes.

Sure

He has done videos on this. Check them out.

LingQ emphasizes learning long lists of words without having any real specific purpose in mind other than creating a means of effortless, passive acquisition. It's Learning French for Dummies. I quickly grew tired of it when from 3 to 5 months in I showed little to no progress in the acquisition of the French language itself. Still, I wasn't entirely sure if my instincts were correct. Steve's comment that it took him ten years to get past reading French in elementary thru high school to learning how to speak and converse in French was the first wake up call. Then when I heard him speaking in French I was dumbstruck by his lack in mastering fluency. He knew the language, but he often hesitated in retrieving the right words, and he didn't have the prosody down. That's when light dawned on Marblehead. I went back, started over and here's what I know now. Much had been intuited before, and I think we all can grasp whatever we have learned from those lessons we learned in the school of hard knocks. I went thru high school and never needed to crack a book in any of the mathematical disciplines. I was the class clown who got straight A's, until I hit college and flunked Integral and differential calculus and analytical geometry. Number one, we do have to make a concerted effort in order to get past the first level of learning any new language, and for me calculus was a very different language, but what I couldn't see was the work my aunts had put in teaching me how to count, add and subtract, multiply and divide, and then how to apply it all to playing cards like poker, gin rummy and canasta, and how to make change from our Saturday night winnings. I went into 1st grade with a 5th grade education. When I got to college everyone was smart and most all the kids had already learned calculus and could even write their own equations. I was the only dumb one. I hadn't learned how to apply myself to learning just for the sake of learning or in being a part of something bigger than myself. I was correct to assume it's far more important to learn how to speak the language first before we learn how to write it or read it. That is the modern way it is taught today in pre-grade school in many countries. They begin with the phonetics of the alphabet, then progress to the orthographies of sounds made with vowels and consonants commonly located adjacent to each other in words, and how and why the sounds of vowels change. Learning the proper pronunciations of words accelerates in recognizing and learning the meanings of words, which in turn accelerates our ability to self-learn by reading sentences and long paragraphs. That also greatly increases our understanding of sophisticated concepts beyond the meanings of mere words and phrases.

You need to listen more. Simple as that

I believe there are monitors you can buy that are the same idea as the ones on a kindle (looks like paper). I'm not sure if I just made that up or if it's real but you'd have to look into that

Completed means you have gone through it once.

A known word can be a learned word, in other words a word that you once looked up and which gradually became know. But most known words are words that you never needed to look up. They naturally became known.

Could I ask you to email support@lingq.com

LingQ has Hungarian

Segue qual método? Já tem um listening e reading avançado?

@@di048 método vergara, me considerado fluente

@@omestredetodaaslendas que dahora eu faço o método comecei a fase de mar e mineração esse ano Vc faz o curso ou por conta própria? É já tá estudando quanto tempo com o método??

@@di048 faço desde o ano passado

Sem curso

Steve might be from the older generation, but his technical accessories are all modern and really,really cool lol

What specifically would you like me to talk about.

@@Thelinguist memorizing words with similar roots