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Thank you for sharing with us such useful information ❤

Thank you

Great tips! Thank you for explaining how to use a book in the target language along with a book in our native language or language we understand well.

Could you please activate the option of the translation of the videos to much more languages specially Arabic language

Thank you Lydia. You are very important person and help us so much learn english.

It's so complex, not so easy. Flashcards are the best option

Hi! I am researching about your suggest...I have studied a long time, but I don't speak very well...When I was a child, I hate english but was important studed to school. I imagine that was SPY to study. Now Iam 54 years old...I don't hate, but I have difficult to learn...I don't have problems to learn. Just I need speak english. Tks for sharing ideas.

Very interesting lesson! In the opportunity, I wish that Jesus, the Name above all names (Phillipians 2), bless you, and may you feed from His Word and Salvation! Greetings from Vitória da Conquista, Bahia State, Brazil.

correction:how time goes by

Hello Lydia. My name is Leandro. I am 55 years old. I have been interested in foreign languages since 1981. Despite this I only speak six languages. I have a degree in translation from French and English into Spanish. It is amazing for me to see how times go by. From 1996 to 2000 I was a penpal of a Czech girl. She sent to me some music from the Czech republic and Slovakia.I used to listen 1984 song Stuzkova by slovak band Elan.I also had some booklets from your your university: Comenius University. My best wishes for you.

great way of teaching

Superb

I was inspired and motivated to learn English after seeing your Ted Talks video. It took me two years of trying, but I finally got decent skills in English. Currently living in Italy, I am hoping to re-energize myself with your inspirational videos and continue learning the beautiful Italian language. Your supportive remarks mean a lot to people like me, and I hope you are aware of how much of a difference you are making. I really do appreciate you.

I learned this method from your Language Mentoring course and it turned everything around for me with Polish cases. There are too many rules to learn and to figure out from input in a reasonable amount of time. The exercise approach in your video is the perfect combination of context, input, and output.

How can I find a native speaker to learn english for free

You have got accent Brazilian when speak Spanish. It’s very cool

Hi ! Very interesting. Thanks ! I listen to a guided meditation in my target language when I wake up and I remove the nap by a body scan in english or whatever I learn. So I combine relaxation for health and memorization of vocabulary effortlessly 😊. I listen podcasts And or videos when I take my breakfast. And at night I read. My brain can work during my sleep. I speak in different languages to my pets too and I speak and think in my target language every day ❤🎉🙏

I’ve always admired Olly but I was disappointed after watching his interview in Spanish….he was constantly searching for words…it was painful to watch….

yes ! I do ! Thanks ! You're awesome. 🙏

Excellent MaM

Thank your for sharing, I must admit I am very skeptical but I will try it 🤓

Olly does not have my target language in his library 😢

thanks a lot

School helps us to be stuck.

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Assimil is indeed marvelous, thanks to this method I can speak German and Arabic.

very useful for me! Thanks🥰

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Long time no see you, You were my motivation to start learning English, now I'm a teacher, God bless you and thanks a bunch❤❤

Almost everybody has probably done this intuitively before, to write lists of things you plan to learn and remove things you have already learned. I don’t know why this is considered a method of study when it clearly isn’t one. If you practice and study language between sessions of writing, of course you will remember some of it, because you have actually studied. It’s great if you remember some of the contents of the list, but there’s nothing revolutionary about that.

I recent started learning SWAHILI. I am glad I understood majority of the words😂😂😂❤

8 hours a day for 3 months is insane!

I watched Cast Away because of your advice in another podcast. Great movie.

The best way to find new words is watching travel-vloggers because, firstly, the travel-vlogger and the person he is speaking to use the vocab that is used on the regular basis. There are lots of such words as parole, for instance, that are used daily. I think it's better to memorize those words then try to explain them. At B2 people, certainly, can explain them, however, I expressed my opinion. Secondly, as Metatron's Academy said: it is hard to understand natives, but the even harder task is understanding conversations between natives. Watching Peter Santenello (I take English into account, you can pick any vlogger in any language) will not only improve your vocab and knowing idioms and stuff, but also will it put you in a sort of simulation of the real life because of noises on the background.

What happens to the "D" words? Do they go into the next book as a new "headlist?

Are you still active as a language mentor? No answer to the email sent to you.

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Could this actually work with languages with other scritps? Like Japanese or Chinese?

Do you put the complete Assimil dialogs into Anki or just selected words and phrases?

Fully agree with Lydia. Don't stop learning until you get to a solid B2, kids. (That said, I don't think you can read novels in your target language at B2. Which confronts you with a serious dilemma: Do you stop studying after 2 years having reached B2, or do you push on to C1, knowing it'll take another 2 to 3 years of hard study? Personally that's the predicament I find myself in with Russian, and have decided to make the long and arduous trek to C1. If you love literature (as I do), and you want to read it in the original language, your destiny is C1. If you love chatting with folks, B2 might be your solution.)

I use assimil. The best method!

For the Russian language learners out there looking to read an easy novel, I strongly recommend 50 SHADES OF GREY in Russian translation. (You can find the PDF translation online fairly easily.) Yes, it's a stupid, trashy novel. But for intermediate learners it's excellent: 1. Short sentences. 2. Told in first person. 3. Lots of basic dialogue. And a certain erotic appeal. (And I say this as someone whose ultimate goal is to read Tolstoy, Dostoevksy, Gogol and Chekhov in the original language.) We all have to make the B2 to C1 gigantic leap somewhere, and 50 SHADES fits the bill for me. First I tried reading Camus' THE STRANGER as well as HARRY POTTER in Russian, and was doing okay, but those books are a little too hard at the moment. 50 SHADES is perfect for my level. Am guessing my suggestion would be appropriate for other languages too, e.g. French, German, etc. etc. Excellent video, by the way. I agree that after tackling 50 pages or so, your brain adjusts to the target language, so long as you start out understanding 90%-95% of the words. (Ideally you want to be at 98% according to Professor Krashen.)

Thank you, I was really divided in what I should do, and I have found myself a bit demotivated in learning the language, as started trying to learn another one. I just dont have enough time to do 50/50, so will carry on with my 1st 2nd language and dip into the other when I can

Interesting 🤔

It is very funny I went through many of the olly’s UA-cam playlists where he stressed mainly on reading and listening and here I found the same person is focusing more on speaking 😮

Thank you very much

Congrats, your Spanish is great, thank you

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Hi, thank you for your video! 😂😅😂 I agree with you, but in my case the most difficult part of learning language is to memorise a lot of vocabulary for me it is quite difficult right now while I am learning Dutch (my 3rd foreign language).

it's a bit tricky, but the idea is: Step 1: on the 1st page, create 2 columns (A and B), in A column add 20 phrases you want to learn and in B column add these translated in your mother language. Step 2: After 2 weeks, restart the method from 1st page, repeat it only the 70% phrases you dont remember, use the next page to do this translation as you mentioned. Step 3 and Step4: Repeat step 2, until the % of phrases are less and less. is it right?