Too Many Passions Getting in the Way of Language Learning? From Cricket to Comedy, a chat w/ Lamont

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In this video I'm talking to Lamont from Days of French 'n' Swedish about his language learning story, the joys and struggles associated with aiming at (and eventually reaching) a high level of fluency in a foreign language, the reasons for possibly letting go of a language, and much more!
Check out the other half of our conversation here: • Italian Guy Speaks a B...
Lamont's channel: / @daysandwords
0:00 - 1.50 Introduction and greetings
1:51 - 6.40 Lamont's story with Swedish
6:41 - 10:18 Other passions getting in the way of language learning?
10:19 - 14:28 Why learn Nordic languages? Joys associated with fluency
14:29 - 19:50 Accessing content in a foreign language: stand-up comedy, language and culture.
19:51 - 23:48 Love for the learning process or for the language itself?
23:49 - 29:07 Lamont's story with French. Is it ok to let go of a language?
29:08 - 33:52 What's next, after Swedish? Language learning as a phase of life
33:53 - 36:47 Closing comments: should one try to be a polyglot no matter what?
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@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Hey everybody! Remeber that Lamont interviewed me on his channel as well, enjoy our conversation there and check out his fantastic content! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/n7-Iicir0piceJc.html

@daysandwords 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for having me on Stefano! It was great to talk to someone as experienced in language learning as yourself!

@zbdua 3 жыл бұрын

Lamont, your French is way better than the average English speaker learning it. I think If you could relax a bit with this idea of having the "level you want" in Swedish and spend even 15 minutes from time to time (as Stefano has advised in some interviews) in French you'd be surprised at how far you can get and how fast you can progress. I doubt it'll interference with your Sweedish, Stefano's success in reaching a high level in so many languages proofs it.

@stefanodigaetano1627 3 жыл бұрын

You had a good point...you can live in Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Norway without speaking the local language... however if you're going to live longer or permanently move to these countries, then learn the local language 😉 I know plenty of foreigners who had live in Finland for decades and don't speak a word of Finnish...and the difference between me and them (15 years in Finland and I speak fluently) is that I'm 100% more " deeply connected" into Finnish colture. Language is culture 😉

@mitchbernard1751 3 жыл бұрын

Very refreshing! A down-to-earth Aussie going deep into one and only one thing, his study of Swedish. And framing language learning in the larger more profound context of what sort of things should we be doing and why. This is the antithesis of the usual 'how many languages can one learn' accumulation-oriented polyglot interview!

@daysandwords 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mitch!

@Flauschbally 3 жыл бұрын

Just want to leave a "hello" here too. Great video and both of my favorite language learners. Keep going guys. You are so natural and amazing. 🤩

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Danke Yvi for your continued support! It's always a big encouragement to keep going and keep sharing :)

@stefanodigaetano1627 3 жыл бұрын

About jokes in other languages...for those studying Finnish, if you want to test your level of understanding...try to read FINGERPORI sarjakuvat...if you can understand the jokes...then your Finnish is already really good!

@stephanpeterthree 3 жыл бұрын

Nice! Was waiting for part 2 .)

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Stephan, thanks for stopping by! :)

@kevinjoseph2650 3 жыл бұрын

my motivation goes down sometimes when i learn french because i have no one to practice it with consistantly this was a great interview

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and leaving a comment, and best of luck with your French project!

@jenstravel9107 3 жыл бұрын

very interesting questions! Great video😊

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks man, 'preciate it!

@izabelamichalska6106 3 жыл бұрын

Grazie per avermi raccomandato un comico fantastico - Ismo. La comprensione di umorismo nella lingua, che impariamo significa, per me, che sapiamo davvero la lingua - è un livello avanzato. Fare gli errori (o meglio - non fare errori) non è un segno, che parliamo bene la lingua, perché gli errori sono parte integrale nel’apprendimento della lingua. La conoscenza della cultura, la gioa dalla lingua è la cosa più importante.

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Ciao Izabela, grazie a te per il commento e per il pensiero profondo! Siamo d'accordo, la comicità appartiene a un livello particolarmente avanzato che è davvero una gioia avere... La strada per arrivare in fondo è molto lunga e difficile, ma sono fortunato perché anche il semplice percorrerla è una gioia per me :)

@Gummi1984 3 жыл бұрын

A fun interview that reveals just how different reasons and motivations people have for learning a language / Skemmtilegt viðtal sem afhjúpar einmitt hversu ólíkar ástæður og hvatningu fólk hefur fyrir því að læra tungumál 🙂

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Takk kærlega fyrir að horfa og fyrir skilaboð, Gummi!

@vascoguerreiro6632 3 жыл бұрын

Nice video!

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Olá Vasco, thank you so much for always stopping by! :)

@paivipaulin7359 3 жыл бұрын

Hi, great, you both have seen Ismo, he's so hilarious 😊 without saying a word

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Kiitos Päivi, Ismo on kyl paras! :)

@ICanSpeakArabic 3 жыл бұрын

谢谢分享 👍

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

谢谢观看!

@AK-cg7vn 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Stefano! Thanks for keeping uploading very interesting videos! I started learning Finnish lately, but I wonder what have you done specifically for getting your Finnish so fluent?(I’m actually struggling that with my English, my Finnish is not that level yet😅) I think that answer will help a lot of the other language learners too! I’d love to hear it.😊

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Hey there, thank you for your encouraging words and support! I discussed my Finnish journey in one of my early videos: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/irJjf9aJu7HGh4k.html but apart from the very first steps, it's been exposure (listening and reading) and a lot of actual usage with natives, for months and years. There's no real trick, it's all about enjoying what you do so that you do it as much as you can :D I think you could get a couple of interesting take-aways from my interview on Lamont's channel as well, check it out if you're interested (link in the description) :)

@AK-cg7vn 3 жыл бұрын

@@linguaEpassione Thank you for your reply, Stefano! To be exposure with reading and listening a lot in that language....I’ll try that! Did you watch movies in Finnish a lot as well? I checked both of videos you mentioned, and also the video of interviews with Luca Lampariello was very interesting! I’ll keep learning everyday, even little by little! Thanks Stefano!

@ysajwg 3 жыл бұрын

Out of all of the languages you have been learning and studying, which one do you think is the most difficult of them? Perhaps mandarin, japanese or finnish?

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

I usually answer Japanese because of its incredible distance from Indo-European languages in terms of way of thinking and culture that reflect on the way the language is used, on top of all the rest.

@danielcowan87 3 жыл бұрын

I think you should check out my language Irish

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Daniel, Irish sounds amazing, I may look into it in the future - thanks for stopping by!

@danielcowan87 3 жыл бұрын

@@linguaEpassione awesome! I love your channel honestly

@bandoflix1837 3 жыл бұрын

Peccato che non fai più video in Italiano, perché io l'inglese non lo capisco

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Ciao e grazie del commento, mi dispiace sapere che non puoi fruire di questi contenuti, l'ideale sarebbe avere i sottotitoli anche in italiano, ma richiedono molto tempo ahimè... Comunque ti do un'anteprima: sto per intervistare il mitico Davide di Podcast Italiano, quindi ci sarà un'intera intervista/discussione in italiano a breve sul mio canale, spero che ti piaccia!

@deutschmitvale4997 3 жыл бұрын

Ciao a tutti! Sono d'accordissimo con te nel ritenere le lingue una vera e propria passione, stimolanti e sorprendenti, infatti sono nuova su KZfaq e ho aperto un canale in cui insegno il tedesco, se ti/vi incuriosisce passate, grazie!😃

@linguaEpassione 3 жыл бұрын

Grazie Vale e complimenti per il tuo nuovo canale - viel Spaß und Erfolg!