Ahhh I'm glad multi-language-learning people like me are finding my videos! Which languages are you learning/do you have on your list?? Also in relation to the time thing, I actually don't have a great track of balancing my time super well... XD That being said, very recently I've discovered a few things that have really started to help me be a lot more consistent and balance my time a lot better so I can totally make a video about those if you'd like!

@@speaking_of_languages I am studying Spanish, Mandarin and German currently, (I am not as advanced as you are, but that’s the dream!) but also hope some day to spend time with Russian, Arabic and others. I know that I would enjoy, learn from and get motivated from any experiences you can share.

@@raf.570 Wow oh my gosh we have so much overlap with our languages!! I also get motivated to learn languages more through the process of making videos about them so I'll do my best to make as many videos as possible so we can all be motivated! 😇 See you around~

Oh my gosh thats really interesting! I've never heard that before. It just goes to show, though, the amount of information transmitted through things other than dialogue in shows like these--which is why they're so good for learning languages!

Sounds like you just need to keep doing exactly what you are currently doing and give it a bit more time! It also might help you to do some more targeted practice by listening to things once at normal speed, then once again at a bit of a slower speed (you can slow videos down within the KZfaq player) where you also stop and look up a few words if you need to, then rewatching it for a third time at full speed to see how your comprehension has improve! This is a technique used all throughout the Innovative Language podcasts which I have used quite extensively to study multiple languages and I find it really useful, but you can do it by yourself just with KZfaq videos as well! It's definitely more of a targeted study practice though, not just casual immersion, so it really depends on how much time you have and how you prefer to learn. But I hope it can help you if you'd like to try it! Good luck with your language learning, and thank you for watching my video!

Hi, nice to meet you! Yeah it doesn't surprise me at all that a native Korean speaker would be able to learn Japanese just from consuming Japanese media given how close the languages are, although my one curiosity would be if she had learned any Kanji at all or if she was going purely for spoken fluency. I also do think you can do it without using a dictionary or flashcards or anything no matter what your native and target languages are, but I've also found that it just speeds up the process so much that it doesn't make a lot of sense not to add those things on top, especially given how little extra effort they take! I also totally agree that KZfaq is really good for immersing. K-dramas are great because they usually follow a pretty similar plot, especially if they're the same genre, which makes it easy to guess what will happen, but this same thing is also a downside because being super predictable means that they can end up boring you. KZfaq also has another advantage over K-dramas which is that a lot of KZfaq content is unscripted, meaning it's generally closer to how people actually talk in real life, you get to hear a lot more filler words, and people tend to repeat themselves a little bit more which gives you a better chance of understanding. Can I ask which KZfaqrs you are mainly watching at the moment?

Thank you so much for watching! Good luck with English and I will try my best to make good videos so that you will enjoy them! 😇

I followed your Instagram😊

@@love4pink9 Yay!! I followed you back as well~ I don't post on instagram often but I check it all the time! You can always message me if you ever want to talk or have any questions!

I'm so happy you like my video! I can use Google to auto-translate the comments so you are perfectly welcome to comment in Italian on any of my videos; maybe you will also help someone else who is learning Italian and can practice by reading them! Having fun learning languages is so important--we actually learning better when we are relaxed and comfortable. This is why I am super passionate about finding ways to learn languages that allow us to have fun and don't induce stress. Anyway, thank you so much for your comment. I will try hard to post more videos and make them as good as I can, I hope you will enjoy them! Good luck continuing your English learning journey~

Hi! Wow, sounds like we are super similar! My language journey has also been, and still is, all over the place (as you can probably tell from this video) but I am just enjoying the process so much, which is the most important thing, right? Also yes I can totally make a video talking about my story with Chinese! I'll start working on it right now XD

Warning: Don't let automatically translate this comment! Try to read it in English first! Wow! Good job for being here and immersing yourself in native-level content! When I get time, I will try to add English subtitles to my videos to help if you are using them to immerse. Don't forget you can also slow videos down on KZfaq if you need to! Also, I totally agree with you about the details! I am currently watching Korean dramas to learn Korean, and while I only understand about 15% of the dialogue, I understand around to 60% of what is happening in the drama. This is because I don't focus on the details of what they're saying, I just take what I can understand along with the video and try to get an idea of the bigger picture. If I was worried about the details, watching it wouldn't be fun for me and I wouldn't be able to immerse the way I am. So you're right! The details will come with time, at this stage the best thing you can do is just do your best to understand and try to have fun! Good luck with your English studies, and I hope to see you again on my channel! (Try to comment in English next time if you want! It's ok if it's wrong--this is a safe space! You can always put the Portuguese underneath it if you are worried I won't understand).

@@speaking_of_languages Sorry, I forgot to translate. I've been studying almost every day. Nowadays I understand about 40% of everything. I really liked your video. I managed to understand almost everything. I will always be following your channel.

@@coelhoazul6493 That’s ok! I speak Spanish and have dabbled in a bit of Portuguese so I more or less understood your comment anyway 😅 I’m so glad you liked my video and tysm for following my channel, I’ll do my best to make great content so it will be worth your while!

Hi! I'm so excited you found my channel too, and it's so cool that you are interested in so many languages like me! Do you yourself getting confused learning Spanish and Portuguese at the same time? I've never learned two languages as similar as that at the same time before because I really feel I'd get super confused D: What's your experience?

@@speaking_of_languages I just recently started Portuguese, and so far I’m only doing input stuff, so not yet but I’m sure I will! I waited until I was pretty advanced in Spanish to start to hopefully minimize it but we shall see lol

@@joreneelanguages Ahh ok that makes sense. Most videos Ive watched on the topic of learning two similar languages at once seem to say a similar thing-wait until you’re at least intermediate in one before starting the other. I’m glad it’s working for you (so far!) and good luck with Portuguese!

Hi! Thank you for watching~!

Thanks for watching~

Hi, thank you for your advice! I'm already doing SEO optimization as best I can and am in the process of improving my skills. Hopefully I'll see some good results soon! Have a good day~

@@speaking_of_languages it's my pleasure to connect with you my dear. If you need any help, tell me. I am with you. By the way what is your name?

@@KZfaqSEOProvider My name is Annie! I say it at the beginning of all my videos :D

@@speaking_of_languages I know your name very well. Then why are you telling me your name again?

@@KZfaqSEOProvider You literally just asked me what my name was in your previous comment?

Ahh thank you so much! I'm really glad you liked my video and seriously appreciate the encouragement 🥺 Thank you so much for being here and commenting and I hope you have a wonderful (rest of your) day!

Oh my gosh hi!! I'm so glad my video was helpful to you 😭 I literally made it cause I struggle so much with this myself and it's just over the past few months that I've gotten past denying I have a problem (blaming myself thinking I'm just not trying hard enough) and actually started accepting that this is just part of how I am and trying to find techniques to support myself in my own language learning. As for the languages I speak/learn, I'm a native English speaker (from Australia!), and I also speak Mandarin and Spanish both pretty fluently (although not really native level), and have been studying them both on and off for 11 years (Mandarin) and 5 years (Spanish). I'm actually doing a Masters degree in Mandarin-English translation rn! Apart from that my next best language is probably Japanese--I majored in Japanese language for my Bachelors degree but it's been 2 years since I graduated and I haven't really been studying it much in the meantime. I've also studied Korean here and there and have somewhat of an upper-beginner level, and I can read Arabic/Urdu letters XD (but I cant say anything lol). Recently I've been studying Korean a bit again but who knows if that will continue for very long haha. I'd also love to learn a bunch of other languages (CANTONESE❤, German, Italian, Thai) and my partner's native language is Urdu so I really should learn that too, but like I said I kinda have a problem with motivation and getting distracted 😅 Anyway I'd like to wish you the best of luck with Japanese!! I've heard really good things about the book Remembering the Kanji but if you find yourself getting distracted from it you could check out a kanji learning website/app called WaniKani (sorry if you already know about it!). From what I've heard it uses a similar method to Remembering the Kanji, but it's probably a bit more engaging! I tried it many years ago and found it quite good but didn't end up using it long term as by the time I started learning Japanese I was already pretty fluent in Mandarin and therefore familiar with lots of kanji. Anyway good luck!! Thank you for stopping by and leaving me such a lovely in-depth comment!

@@speaking_of_languages I used to be able to sit and study with just one resource, but for the past few years I've had trouble with that kind of single minded focus. I think my ADHD is showing up more as distraction and boredom than hyperfocus right now. Good luck with your Masters! That sounds ambitious. How was learning tones in Mandarin for you? I know a lot of English speakers struggle with it. It's the thing that intimidates me with learning it. Thank you so much! I have heard of WaniKani, but that it's paid restricts me. I am very very poor lol. And I've had RtK for 10+ years, bought back when I could still work. Thank you and you're welcome!

Oooh! And the thingy in Chinese is similar to soy persona y estoy aqui!!!! Qué guay!! (O qué genial para ti, jajaja)

Hahaha omggg thank you so much XD I'm glad you like it and also IKR I just love the similarities between languages it makes me so excited asdfghjkl

I'm majoring in Japanese but I also take Spanish classes! I also used to take Mandarin classes last year but stopped this year because I ran out of space (I am still self-studying Mandarin though!). Thank you for asking 😊

@@speaking_of_languages Wow that's interesting. Why did you decide to major in Japanese? Do you wanna live in Japan?

@@AfroLinguo Yes! Well, to be more specific, I would like to live in northeast Asia. Still not sure if that will be Mainland China, Taiwan, Japan, or South Korea, but my general goal is to learn all three of Mandarin, Japanese, and Korean, so that I can live in and travel freely around the region, making friends and without the struggles of the language barrier!

@@speaking_of_languages Nice. I also wanna learn Korean and Japanese as well. So in total, you can speak Mandarin, Japanese and English right?

Ahhh thank you!🤗 It literally curls up differently every single day lol but I like to think it ends up looking nice no matter how it ends up 😂

@@speaking_of_languages it actually does. haha

Thank you so much for your comment! Oh my gosh it's so nice to hear from someone who completely understands! I've had the exact same experience that you described in language classes, which is exactly why I wanted to make this video. I get what you mean about translating/interpreting too. I'm not a translator or interpreter (yet!) but I've been in my fair share of situations where I've had to interpret for people and it can be really frustrating when they just don't understand, like you said, that it's a transfer of meaning, and not just about finding equivalent words and putting them together in the correct order. Another problem I notice in people who don't understand this is that they'll be more likely to make judgements about your actual ability in a given language based on how well you translate/interpret into/from it, without understanding that the skills of translation and interpretation are separate from the skill of the actual language itself. Anyway, thank you so much again for your comment and keep up the awesome work as a translator! It's people like you who help the world communicate, acting as a bridge for people from different cultural and linguistic backgrounds to understand each other, which I think is amazing and super important work 🤗🤗

I love how you said it is the transfer of meaning (context) and not transfer of words for example.