I'm currently learning French in school, Japanese from a native speaker and self teaching myself Korean and, I've almost forgot what English sounds like 😟
Rather than a weekly schedule, I keep a log each half-month, and try to make sure I've studied or used each language at least once during that half-month, while at the same time focusing on one (or at most two) languages. However, I'm not opposed to setting some languages aside completely, if I believe they'll make it harder for me to learn others I'm learning. But then, I'm starting my ninth language (including both Asian and Indo-European languages). The famous polyglots on YT usually give up trying to maintain them all after the first few. If you've mastered a language's core skills, you can let yourself get rusty and come back to it later without having to relearn everything. For example, after 6 years of French in school, I avoided it for over 20 years--and then found, to my surprise, that I still remembered its grammar. So I relearned the language by reading a lot of graded readers.
That's a good point. Given I only have 5 languages currently, maintaining isn't super hard right now, but I can see how it can be counter-productive later. And wow, 9 languages sounds awesome. Thanks for watching!
As an Interpreter you have highly encouraged many viewers I can guess,including myself. The choice of a healthy lifestyle and setting up a schedule to learn as many languages is a wonderful prerequisite in keeping memory loss and early onset of dementia at bay. By constantly learning any language ,be a focused listener even with hearing aids. Never let anything get lost in or during interpreting or translating.
I already am perfect in English and Spanish, grew up with English while coming from a Mexican family and being born in Mexico. I was raised in California. I am now learning French, Swedish, German, Romanian and Czech. I am using these tips for me to learn my target languages, am using Mondly in addition to Memrise, Duolingo and Busuu. I am going to try Flash Academy.
I learned English trought internet,watching videos,and alway talking in English while playing videogames and currently,I am learning French and Swedish in the same time,while I am a Native german speaker.
I agree that incorporating the language you learn into you every day life is very important. My native language is Polish and when I was learning English as a teenager, the breakthrough point was when I decided that I want to take information about my passion (which was F1 at that time) directly from English sources and not counting on them being translated to my native language. I tried to read news in English and write on internet forums in English and it was really painful and required a lot of effort and a lot of dictionary using initially, but that effort has really paid off and I soon realised that I've become fairly fluent in both reading and writing, which made me also fluent in THINKING in English, which made me being able to speak fairly fluently too even without much practise! The progress was much quicker than it would have been if I was only learning with traditional methods. I'm not sure if I would recommend learning too many similar languages at once. I am now learning Dutch and I've found myself mixing up Dutch and German prununciation rules despite the fact I only learned German in my high school and never reached any kind of profficiency and didn't even had contact with this language since 2011. I am well aware of Dutch prununciation rules but I still end up unconsciously mixing them up sometimes. I imagine it would be much worse if I would actually try to learn German at the same time. That said, I've never really tried to learn multiple languages at the same time (I know only Polish, English and a bit of Dutch which I am learning recently) but I am going to start somewhere in the near future. It's a matter of weeks (release of Romanian course ond duolingo) when I will start to learn Romanian, because I fell in love with this language. ;) And I think it will not necessarily be the last language I will try to learn.
I agree with you when you say that it's always a good idea to avoid studying similar languages at the same time. I studied French + Spanish at the same time, and I would often mix them up. However, to be fair, I was already relatively fluent in both languages, and I wasn't studying grammar, vocab, etc. My studies were more around literature while I was in university. That being said, I still found to mix up the languages, haha. I can only imagine what it'd be like for someone who was a complete beginner in 2+ languages and learning them simultaneously. If I was mixing them up as an advanced learner, it must happen even more when you're a beginner studying multiple languages :S I do feel like that you can study multiple languages at the same time though, except I feel like you would just need a lot more time. For example, let's say it took an average of around 15 ish hours a week to learn 1 languages in a reasonable time frame, if you wanted to learn TWO languages in a reasonable time frame, you may need 30 or so hours a week if you want to accomplish it in the same amount of time. Anyway, that's my POV :)
To be fair, I didn't say it's ALWAYS a good idea to avoid studying similar languages at the same time. I don't have enough experience to make such a strong statement. Maybe there are people out there who will find this effective in some cases. My experience only says it doesn't always have to be a good idea to rush into too many similar languages. I'm not a native English speaker, so Dutch is pretty much a 3rd foreign West Germanic language I've ever learnt. ;) Keeping Dutch and English separate isn't a problem for me, but I was already fluent in English before I started with Dutch. And I would generally recommend the same approach. I think it's easier to keep languages apart if you are already fluent in one of them.
I totally agree. That's why I suggest getting a good base in one language before starting another. I waited until I had studied German for two years before touching Afrikaans because I worried they were too similar. When I started Afrikaans, though, I already had enough practice with German that Afrikaans didn't impact my German. If anything, it *helped* me because there are some cognates between German and Afrikaans. Anyways, I agree with you, though :) Thanks for watching!
I have a strong basis in spanish but not yet fluent(need to study vocabulary more) and im ready to start a basis in mandarin....after that i will try thai cantonese swahili french german japanese korean italian afrikaans dutch russian and arabic :)
Just downloaded FlashAcademy to work on my Spanish and to review my German. I've really been enjoying it the last few days and have been using it alongside my Duolingo and Memrize accounts, thank you for the suggestion!
This is an extremely helpful and encouraging video. I'm trying not to fall prey to laziness and use English whenever I'm not using my native language. Currently I should be maintaining my B2 level Dutch, get my B1 level German back to B2 again, and focusing more on expanding my Czech whenever I have time.
Thankfully my work schedule allows for fairly lengthy sequences of just waiting for something to handle, so in the meantime I've started reading the news in Dutch, especially from the Dutch railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) since I love trains! Also I had previously studied English for 15 years, and German for 3 years, experience with German can help you a lot because Dutch grammar is often like German grammar but simplified.
Thank you so much for some great tips....What you're saying - it all seems obvious but sometimes one gets confused and helpless if one wants to learn and/or keep the knowledge of many foreign languages fresh and up-to-date. But once again the ancient methods like a schedule, a regular and systematic approach, plus sincere enthusiasm seem the best recipe for linguistic success. Warm greetings from Poland, The Polyglot Files !
I couldn't agree more with the first point! Right now I speak English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese to at least a conversational level but I didn't start taking on a new language until I felt comfortable in the one I had been studying. Now I'm studying Korean (:
100% True. Probably the most honest video out there on this topic I have seen so far. First tip is really essential. And it can really take up as much as 1 year or 1 yaer and a half to get solid basics in a new language. But single task focus is essential. This is how I have managed to add to my Russian, English and French, Swedish , Spanish and Italian during studies. But taking one more at the time.If someone knows German Scandic langauges which dervie from Old Norwegian are great choice. I have seen German speakers progress in Swedish 3 times faster than people who didn't know any German. So I suppose You may wanna crack Swedish, Norwegian or Danish at some time in the future. And yes, Latn helps a lot. I hated it when it was obligoatory at my high school but later it has helped me a lot. Some people learn langauges becuse of "cool factor"- like "wow, it's so rare/difficult/unpopular, so let's laern it" but I would also add one advice "learn languages relevant to Your life- Your family life, hobbies, career". I have relatives in French speaking countries, so French is more useful to me than Chinese. Or I have some relatives from very exotic places- like husbands of my aunts. And English is modern day universal language, so in my family we all know and speak English. Even if maybe learning Icelandic would be more cool.
Oh, we have very different opinions on Flash Academy! Overall I'd call myself a fan of it, but we seemed to like different aspects. I wish I had gotten more time with the object translator before I dropped my phone in the bathtub.... >_> My favorite aspect was the conversation at the end of each lesson. I wish there was more of that. (I was told in an email that they're working on improving it actually! So that's good!) The most important tip you had here I think is making sure you have a solid basis in each language before learning multiple languages. I myself have tried starting multiple languages at once and it's HARD. While self studying it was a pain in the ass... While in classes it wasn't too bad (but the classes also moved a LOT slower than I do on my own. 3/5 into the semester and still on the alaphabet in Arabic? Really?) The schedule bit though too! People underestimate a good schedule. I started making weekly schedules to help with my anxiety and depression and it's REALLY helped me keep up with my language learning.
Thanks for the tips man...really appreciate it....love your videos as always very informative. I want to refresh my high school Spanish and learn two other languages that I am so interested. I already know the basics of Spanish already. The other languages I am interested in are Dutch, Norwegian and French. But French is giving me a warm time. I still find it hard to believe that it is the closes of all romance languages to English due to loan French words in English. Smh... As an English speaker...it is hard. I already signed up for Dutch classes in January. ell, keep up the good work man.
The Internet can also help you meet people from all over the world. Getting penpals and language exchange partners and such whose native language is the one that you are learning is also good; especially when you have got the basis of the language. Especially in case that person does not speak so much English you will have to try to use it no matter what. I did get Japanese people as online friends when I studied that (later I went to study in Japan as well). I am doing Russian now and I am using Russia-based social network VKontakte to get Russian-speaking friends. One Kazakh girl I am speaking to there doesn't know a word of English more or less so I have to look upp words and such to be able to understand what she writes and to be able to write back. You can thus learning new words as well as see what expressions natives are actually using. I am learning new stuff from that at least.
I am fluent in various languages and I would not recommend to study several languages at the same time. The first reason is that you need to acquire a high amount of vocabulary to reach a certain fluency. I agree that one needs to learn through various sources.
When I tripped acid, I noticed how my brain became Turkified.. kinda crazy, but it helped my brain compute information way fasted than normal.. I did it like 5 times in 2 months with microdosing and lots of cannabis and also MDMA and I found that it overall helped me significantly with language learning.. I reccomend this to anyone, but be careful, test your substances (if its synthetic) and also, be sure to learn languages in other ways, the psychedelics can help u, but they wont make u fluent, only u can do that, but they can certainly help the process go more smooth or even speed it up
1:11 SAME! I wanted to learn.. Urdu, Arabic, Russian, Persian/Farsi/Dari, Hindi, Indonesian/Malay, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Turkish, Swedish and Norwegian all at the same time.
What is your reason for wanting to learn all those particular languages? What made you choose each individual language? (Also my therapist is from Pakistan🇵🇰 and she speaks Urdu! 😊😊🙏❤💚💙💜💛)
The thing about studying similar languages makes sense, but like you said, I want to learn many languages, so I'd rather study some that are similar to English and some that have disparate grammar and phonemes from languages I've learned about before, since it would just be so interesting. It would be hard if I was intent on becoming fluent, but I also like learning about languages.
My goal is to get familiar and speak fluently with French and Japanese. I think my biggest struggle that I want to achieve for both of the languages is "communication". I think finding a person/people to speak with in different language would be very hard.
I am 36 years old I was not so good a things In high school, now I am brushing up on things I was not so good at in school, but I have been travelling abroad since I was 2 or quiet young I love listening to the different languages and learning different cultures, I want to move away from Scotland united kingdom for a lot of reasons, With my grades on borderline and me not having a paying job and me on the low rate disability allowance and having to change health benefits and stuff, well it is just a mild learning disability, I wonder how it is going to work for me, I love learning languages and I find German a lot easy so maybe I should learn Slavic languages like polish, I am a I picked up a few words from here there and everywhere, so now I am more mature I hope I can at least learn to talk 20 or more languages and move to another country before I die and have a better life there, somewhere I fit in, somewhere my talents to good use they look out for each other respect each other, never judge a book by its cover and never judge. where it is fun and good weather. That is where I would love to be, being half Irish and half aberdonian and a native English speaker, Lucky enough with my dads dad being Aberdonian I can talk really fast maybe that why I stutter because I was brought up in central Scotland united kingdom where people talk a lot slower and some people do not understand me even because I talk fast, I would say I am more Aberdonian then Central Scottish English, so I do not know why people say to me when I try to speak there language I will never speaker there language, no matter how hard I try this and that, why I want to speak multiple languages and move contry, some where where there is no earthquakes, volcano tornado and land slides.
Hey, thanks for the advice. It was a helpful vid. I did have a question though... I was curious, what was the "Basis" you were discussing in the beginning of the video? By "a strong basis" did you mean to understand basics as in "beginning level" or to an intermediate level? Could you expand a little? Which level would you suggest someone be at before starting a new language to an existing learning schedule?
I think "a strong basis" changes depending on the person or depending on the language, but I would generally say you should try to be at least at a B1 level in a given language before starting a new one according to the CEFR (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages). That means that you should have a good handle on speaking about everyday situations in your target language and be able to make it through simple texts and listening exercises. I think you should also have a good grip on at least beginner/pre-intermediate grammar and how it works in your target language (verb tenses, nouns, adjectives), but I also think the definition of "a good grip on grammar" also varies from language to language: grammar in a language like Afrikaans is vastly simpler than grammar in a language like German or Russian, so it might take you longer to get to that B1 level. Also, pay attention to the language's supposed "difficulty ranking" (www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty). There are guidelines that compare languages in relation to their difficulty for English speakers to learn. A category 1 language, in theory, is easier for English speakers to learn than a category 5 language. What that means is that it will take you longer to "learn the basics" in a category 5 language than it will for a category 1 language. TL;DR version: getting a good basis in a language is hard to do, but aim for that intermediate level (ie. when reading the language stops looking like word salad and more like coherent thoughts) :) I also kind of just go on a gut feeling whenever I think I have a "good basis" in a language. Anyway, thanks for watching, and happy language learning!
How do you study languages that aren’t as popular as like German or Spanish (Tagalog, Oromo, Bangla, etc) How would you find good learning programs that aren’t a million dollars??
i’m korean/american (passing white tho lmao) and i want to learn korean, mandarin, and japanese. i’m already learning korean, i just need to get started on the others!
I am 37 years old and studied French in high school I picked up basic words like bed, boy girl how to count in Spanish 1-3, in French I can count and say directions in French, now I can say the good morning good afternoon and goodnight in German, Spanish, Greek, I picked up a few words in German, if I can only get my head out of this sim 3 game might be better, my goal is to speak 50 language more or less before I die because I want to.
English, French, German, Spanish and Italian all have similarities anyway and I'm already a native english speaker, so... I want to learn Japanese as well though.
To me , studying multiple languages at the same time means studying Spanish and Japanese along with programming in Python or JavaScript . The languages of machine and the languages of humans, its boundary is disappearing ..real multilingual ability means you know both.
I'd make exactly the same recommendations to anyone. I'm native in Spanish and proficient in English as well as sufficient at different levels in French, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese and learning Hebrew and Italian. I just want to say that, although your content is useful and helpful, there is something in your tone and/or gestures that doesn't really help making it appealing or enough. I think if you find someone who can help you produce your content in a more professional manner you'd for sure each a broader audience! Cheers and no offense intended!
Would you be able to help me? I am a native English speaker, my second language is primarily Spanish. However, before this I studied French but when taking exams at school I ended up not having time to study it. I can translate French into both English and Spanish yet I struggle to produce French in my own writing or speech as I'm no longer accustomed to using it. I'm currently working out a program to reteach myself the language but as I already know so much it is irritating as I can't find a good starting point. Additional, due to my friendship group I'm picking up, naturally, some bits of Italian and I can understand the language through my knowledge of other romance languages. What should I do? Do I focus on setting up French foundations in speaking/writing and then move onto the Italian? As I can understand them all I have no clue what to make my objective or priority!
Hi im trying to learn korean (almost fluent),chinese,thai, japanese and spanish, i can speak filipino and englishKumusta, ako po si CasandraTa jai hao wo shi jiao CasandraWatashiwa Casandra de suHola, Me llamo CasandraHi, im Casandra
Thanks for the kind words! For me, that generally means that I have a good overview/understanding of the grammar (not a perfect understanding, but enough to use the language functionally). It also means that I can understand most of a given text (get the gist/important ideas of a native text) and express myself in various ways about my favourite topics. I would peg that as a B1 level, if we're using that system :)
I'm trying to learn Spanish, Mandarin, German, Korean and Arabic. So far I only have a decent foundation in Spanish but I'm trying hard to get a good start on the others as well Iv already got a schedule planned out but I suck at sticking to it:/
Dat Lit Wick woow. A lot of languages.I speak spanish and I'm trying to learn korean,french and russian but it's a little bit confusing. Don't give up friend!! We can do it.👌
I feel you, I'm never consistent with study. Chinese is one that needs constant attention though, the characters take literally years to master. I'd recommend Talk To Me In Korean or Go billy korean on youtube if you don't know about them already
What is a good age to start children? I started my 2.5 year old in french. I would love to get him in an immersion chinese madarin preschool age 3 to 5yrs ( which are few in the UK & expensive) But a chinese teacher advice me to start teaching him off the internet myself etc until he is 5 years old & will get it in school. I only speak 1 language but desire to open my son to french, mandarin & later down the line spanish. Your insight would be much appreciated too. Thank you
I think the earlier, the better :) An immersion preschool would be good, but also just using the internet is a good start. Maybe try changing the language on streaming services such as Netflix. You can change the language of children's shows to French (or maybe chinese), and have him watch. If you're up for a challenge, try learning French or Chinese yourself and then you both can speak it around the house. Good luck :D
Doesn't work that way. You have to master in one until intermediate then you can start another one otherwise you F44ked up all. For example if you learn spanish and portugese at the same time it's really a mess. You started mixing those two. I said this because for people who are not native in those two. But it will be easier if you master in one of those because some words are samiliar. Another reason is that if you learn Chinese and Dutch at the same time even if it''s very different but the grammar structure are pretty different. So my advice is learn one language till intermediate and then try another one. This is coming from a guy who speaks 7 languages fluently.
Hoe het jy Afrikaans geleer? Ek wil ook ander lande se tale leer maar ek vind dit baie moeilik. Vir my, is dit ongelooflik moeilik om 'n taal te leer sonder om met sprekers te praat. Ek wil Skotse Gaelic leer, maar ek weet nie hoe ek dit kan leer. Behoort ek 'n handboek te kry? Ek weet nie of ek daarmee vlot kan word. (Askies, sedert ek met skool klaar is, het my Afrikaans dag vir dag kakker geword) O hel hierdie was moeilik. hahaha
Ek het met 'n handboek Afrikaans geleer (Teach Yourself Afrikaans), maar ek het baie Afrikaanse vriende en ek praat met hulle. Nou oefen ek met Afrikaanse stories en boeke. Ek probeer om Afrikaanse radio te luister, maar dit is a bietjie moeilik vir my -- hulle praat baie vinnig. Vir jou stel ek dat jy 'n goeie handboek (met grammatika verduidelikings) kry en miskien Skotse mense ontmoet. Nadat jy jou handboek gedoen het kan jy maklike boeke lees en 'n bietjie radio luister. Dankie dat jy my video gekyk het :)
I want you to upload a Russian language video haha, I like the way you're documenting it, I started studing it a couple of months ago, so I can relate :D anyway, good video:)
It really annoys me when you say "English, which I presume is your native language"... Stop! Why are you making such a presumption? I am watching in English only because variety of Norwegian polyglot videos is not that great.
Why bother? "Learner of multiple languages at once, master of none". It seems that the term "speak a language" is so nebulous that it has become meaningless!
I have always had the problem of wanting to study way too many languages at once. This really helped.
Thanks for watching!
I'm currently learning French in school, Japanese from a native speaker and self teaching myself Korean and, I've almost forgot what English sounds like 😟
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I learn French, German and English at my school and learning Korean for myself 😋
In the future I’m planning on learning Japanese too!
Rather than a weekly schedule, I keep a log each half-month, and try to make sure I've studied or used each language at least once during that half-month, while at the same time focusing on one (or at most two) languages.
However, I'm not opposed to setting some languages aside completely, if I believe they'll make it harder for me to learn others I'm learning. But then, I'm starting my ninth language (including both Asian and Indo-European languages). The famous polyglots on YT usually give up trying to maintain them all after the first few.
If you've mastered a language's core skills, you can let yourself get rusty and come back to it later without having to relearn everything. For example, after 6 years of French in school, I avoided it for over 20 years--and then found, to my surprise, that I still remembered its grammar. So I relearned the language by reading a lot of graded readers.
That's a good point. Given I only have 5 languages currently, maintaining isn't super hard right now, but I can see how it can be counter-productive later. And wow, 9 languages sounds awesome. Thanks for watching!
good video. I'm employing some of these strategies already while learning Chinese and Vietnamese simultaneously. Thanks for the upload
That's awesome! Thanks for watching, and best of luck :)
thanks, I've subscribed and I'll be following your videos. Can't wait to see whats next
POLY-GLOT?! I always thought it was poly-got!
Sophia Sucks same!
Should'nt it be Poly-Gloss? As in glossa, from glossary, of the Greek work for tongue?
same
@@TheSapphireLeo in Greek we say poly-gloss-os (he who speaks many languages) you're kinda right
It's definitely polyglot. Lol. 😊💘
You got to visit Luxembourg! We have to learn at least 4 languages until we graduate from secondary school (Luxembourgish, French, German, English).
I think you are massively undersubscribed.
Thanks for the kind words!
As an Interpreter you have highly encouraged many viewers I can guess,including myself. The choice of a healthy lifestyle and setting up a schedule to learn as many languages is a wonderful prerequisite in keeping memory loss and early onset of dementia at bay. By constantly learning any language ,be a focused listener even with hearing aids. Never let anything get lost in or during interpreting or translating.
I already am perfect in English and Spanish, grew up with English while coming from a Mexican family and being born in Mexico. I was raised in California. I am now learning French, Swedish, German, Romanian and Czech. I am using these tips for me to learn my target languages, am using Mondly in addition to Memrise, Duolingo and Busuu. I am going to try Flash Academy.
I learned English trought internet,watching videos,and alway talking in English while playing videogames and currently,I am learning French and Swedish in the same time,while I am a Native german speaker.
I agree that incorporating the language you learn into you every day life is very important. My native language is Polish and when I was learning English as a teenager, the breakthrough point was when I decided that I want to take information about my passion (which was F1 at that time) directly from English sources and not counting on them being translated to my native language. I tried to read news in English and write on internet forums in English and it was really painful and required a lot of effort and a lot of dictionary using initially, but that effort has really paid off and I soon realised that I've become fairly fluent in both reading and writing, which made me also fluent in THINKING in English, which made me being able to speak fairly fluently too even without much practise! The progress was much quicker than it would have been if I was only learning with traditional methods.
I'm not sure if I would recommend learning too many similar languages at once. I am now learning Dutch and I've found myself mixing up Dutch and German prununciation rules despite the fact I only learned German in my high school and never reached any kind of profficiency and didn't even had contact with this language since 2011. I am well aware of Dutch prununciation rules but I still end up unconsciously mixing them up sometimes. I imagine it would be much worse if I would actually try to learn German at the same time.
That said, I've never really tried to learn multiple languages at the same time (I know only Polish, English and a bit of Dutch which I am learning recently) but I am going to start somewhere in the near future. It's a matter of weeks (release of Romanian course ond duolingo) when I will start to learn Romanian, because I fell in love with this language. ;) And I think it will not necessarily be the last language I will try to learn.
I agree with you when you say that it's always a good idea to avoid studying similar languages at the same time. I studied French + Spanish at the same time, and I would often mix them up. However, to be fair, I was already relatively fluent in both languages, and I wasn't studying grammar, vocab, etc. My studies were more around literature while I was in university. That being said, I still found to mix up the languages, haha.
I can only imagine what it'd be like for someone who was a complete beginner in 2+ languages and learning them simultaneously. If I was mixing them up as an advanced learner, it must happen even more when you're a beginner studying multiple languages :S
I do feel like that you can study multiple languages at the same time though, except I feel like you would just need a lot more time. For example, let's say it took an average of around 15 ish hours a week to learn 1 languages in a reasonable time frame, if you wanted to learn TWO languages in a reasonable time frame, you may need 30 or so hours a week if you want to accomplish it in the same amount of time.
Anyway, that's my POV :)
To be fair, I didn't say it's ALWAYS a good idea to avoid studying similar languages at the same time. I don't have enough experience to make such a strong statement. Maybe there are people out there who will find this effective in some cases. My experience only says it doesn't always have to be a good idea to rush into too many similar languages. I'm not a native English speaker, so Dutch is pretty much a 3rd foreign West Germanic language I've ever learnt. ;) Keeping Dutch and English separate isn't a problem for me, but I was already fluent in English before I started with Dutch. And I would generally recommend the same approach. I think it's easier to keep languages apart if you are already fluent in one of them.
I totally agree. That's why I suggest getting a good base in one language before starting another. I waited until I had studied German for two years before touching Afrikaans because I worried they were too similar. When I started Afrikaans, though, I already had enough practice with German that Afrikaans didn't impact my German. If anything, it *helped* me because there are some cognates between German and Afrikaans. Anyways, I agree with you, though :) Thanks for watching!
Excellent study information. Love the schedule you created. Awesome!!!
I have a strong basis in spanish but not yet fluent(need to study vocabulary more) and im ready to start a basis in mandarin....after that i will try thai cantonese swahili french german japanese korean italian afrikaans dutch russian and arabic :)
Good luck :D
Just 13?!?! Pfftt
One question..why?
Just downloaded FlashAcademy to work on my Spanish and to review my German. I've really been enjoying it the last few days and have been using it alongside my Duolingo and Memrize accounts, thank you for the suggestion!
Also the object translator has been super useful for Esperanto!
The object translator is pretty cool, right? :) Thanks for watching!
This is an extremely helpful and encouraging video. I'm trying not to fall prey to laziness and use English whenever I'm not using my native language. Currently I should be maintaining my B2 level Dutch, get my B1 level German back to B2 again, and focusing more on expanding my Czech whenever I have time.
How do you study dutch? My mother tongue is spanish..and its getting quite difficult
Thankfully my work schedule allows for fairly lengthy sequences of just waiting for something to handle, so in the meantime I've started reading the news in Dutch, especially from the Dutch railways (Nederlandse Spoorwegen) since I love trains!
Also I had previously studied English for 15 years, and German for 3 years, experience with German can help you a lot because Dutch grammar is often like German grammar but simplified.
Great! Ik praat Spaans een Frans maar.... Nederlandse taal is moeilijk.. :(
Thank you! Never heard of flash academy but now I'm super excited.
Thank you so much for some great tips....What you're saying - it all seems obvious but sometimes one gets confused and helpless if one wants to learn and/or keep the knowledge of many foreign languages fresh and up-to-date. But once again the ancient methods like a schedule, a regular and systematic approach, plus sincere enthusiasm seem the best recipe for linguistic success. Warm greetings from Poland, The Polyglot Files
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This was helpful, thank you
I couldn't agree more with the first point! Right now I speak English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese to at least a conversational level but I didn't start taking on a new language until I felt comfortable in the one I had been studying. Now I'm studying Korean (:
Huh! I needed just this. Thanks for the great tips!!!
Thanks for watching!
100% True. Probably the most honest video out there on this topic I have seen so far. First tip is really essential. And it can really take up as much as 1 year or 1 yaer and a half to get solid basics in a new language. But single task focus is essential. This is how I have managed to add to my Russian, English and French, Swedish , Spanish and Italian during studies. But taking one more at the time.If someone knows German Scandic langauges which dervie from Old Norwegian are great choice. I have seen German speakers progress in Swedish 3 times faster than people who didn't know any German. So I suppose You may wanna crack Swedish, Norwegian or Danish at some time in the future. And yes, Latn helps a lot. I hated it when it was obligoatory at my high school but later it has helped me a lot. Some people learn langauges becuse of "cool factor"- like "wow, it's so rare/difficult/unpopular, so let's laern it" but I would also add one advice "learn languages relevant to Your life- Your family life, hobbies, career". I have relatives in French speaking countries, so French is more useful to me than Chinese. Or I have some relatives from very exotic places- like husbands of my aunts. And English is modern day universal language, so in my family we all know and speak English. Even if maybe learning Icelandic would be more cool.
this was such a good and helpful video. Thank you!
I was expecting some wizard technique for studying multiple at once.
Uatemydoodle Hey! I have some experiences that can help you. Let me know you better. What is your mother language?
I'm learning English and I had understood your video! I appreciate your advices and Greetings ...
Thanks for all your videos!!! I like them a lot!!!
Oh, we have very different opinions on Flash Academy! Overall I'd call myself a fan of it, but we seemed to like different aspects. I wish I had gotten more time with the object translator before I dropped my phone in the bathtub.... >_> My favorite aspect was the conversation at the end of each lesson. I wish there was more of that. (I was told in an email that they're working on improving it actually! So that's good!)
The most important tip you had here I think is making sure you have a solid basis in each language before learning multiple languages. I myself have tried starting multiple languages at once and it's HARD. While self studying it was a pain in the ass... While in classes it wasn't too bad (but the classes also moved a LOT slower than I do on my own. 3/5 into the semester and still on the alaphabet in Arabic? Really?)
The schedule bit though too! People underestimate a good schedule. I started making weekly schedules to help with my anxiety and depression and it's REALLY helped me keep up with my language learning.
Right? I'm so type A that sometimes I take a schedule a bit too far, but I do think they're extremely important. Thanks for watching!
Muito bom! Parabéns pelo trabalho!
Very nice. You do a great job!
The more different they are, the easier it is to learn them simultaneously :)
Thanks for the tips man...really appreciate it....love your videos as always very informative. I want to refresh my high school Spanish and learn two other languages that I am so interested. I already know the basics of Spanish already. The other languages I am interested in are Dutch, Norwegian and French. But French is giving me a warm time. I still find it hard to believe that it is the closes of all romance languages to English due to loan French words in English. Smh...
As an English speaker...it is hard. I already signed up for Dutch classes in January. ell, keep up the good work man.
Thanks for the kind words and thanks for watching. I agree: French can be hard. But it's so worth it! Good luck :)
The Internet can also help you meet people from all over the world. Getting penpals and language exchange partners and such whose native language is the one that you are learning is also good; especially when you have got the basis of the language. Especially in case that person does not speak so much English you will have to try to use it no matter what. I did get Japanese people as online friends when I studied that (later I went to study in Japan as well). I am doing Russian now and I am using Russia-based social network VKontakte to get Russian-speaking friends. One Kazakh girl I am speaking to there doesn't know a word of English more or less so I have to look upp words and such to be able to understand what she writes and to be able to write back. You can thus learning new words as well as see what expressions natives are actually using. I am learning new stuff from that at least.
That is very true. Thanks for the tip!
I am fluent in various languages and I would not recommend to study several languages at the same time. The first reason is that you need to acquire a high amount of vocabulary to reach a certain fluency. I agree that one needs to learn through various sources.
Thank you, this video was very useful!
When I tripped acid, I noticed how my brain became Turkified.. kinda crazy, but it helped my brain compute information way fasted than normal.. I did it like 5 times in 2 months with microdosing and lots of cannabis and also MDMA and I found that it overall helped me significantly with language learning.. I reccomend this to anyone, but be careful, test your substances (if its synthetic) and also, be sure to learn languages in other ways, the psychedelics can help u, but they wont make u fluent, only u can do that, but they can certainly help the process go more smooth or even speed it up
I didn’t even know there was a word for learning multiple languages at once. I’m learning Japanese, Spanish, Esperanto, and ASL. I’m a polyglot! Cool!
man, you looks like a young Louis Litt!
and this a good video.
Awesome videos!!
Thanks :)
Im 17 right now and I recently started committing to learning new languages. My goal is to eventually learn all the romance languages plus german.
1:11 SAME! I wanted to learn.. Urdu, Arabic, Russian, Persian/Farsi/Dari, Hindi, Indonesian/Malay, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Turkish, Swedish and Norwegian all at the same time.
What is your reason for wanting to learn all those particular languages? What made you choose each individual language? (Also my therapist is from Pakistan🇵🇰 and she speaks Urdu! 😊😊🙏❤💚💙💜💛)
Where in Canada are you from? I'm also from Canada :D
I'm from the Greater Toronto Area :)
The Polyglot Files Nice, that's awesome :)
What about you?
The Polyglot Files I'm on the west side in AB :) Calgary specifically
Calgary is awesome! I always love travelling out that way.
A very good video you've made. I will probably make a schedule, when I've got time. (:
3:10 i felt so proud :)
I highly recommend DuoLingo. I mean, you need more to understand the language you're trying to learn, but it helps.
The thing about studying similar languages makes sense, but like you said, I want to learn many languages, so I'd rather study some that are similar to English and some that have disparate grammar and phonemes from languages I've learned about before, since it would just be so interesting. It would be hard if I was intent on becoming fluent, but I also like learning about languages.
My goal is to get familiar and speak fluently with French and Japanese.
I think my biggest struggle that I want to achieve for both of the languages is "communication". I think finding a person/people to speak with in different language would be very hard.
Thanks for the video, I am going to learn the japanese language. I'm already speaking dutch, german, english and spanish
Im intermediate in spanish, and semi advanced in Turkish, with some familiarity with Japanese
Nice video. Thank you.
I am 36 years old I was not so good a things In high school, now I am brushing up on things I was not so good at in school, but I have been travelling abroad since I was 2 or quiet young I love listening to the different languages and learning different cultures, I want to move away from Scotland united kingdom for a lot of reasons, With my grades on borderline and me not having a paying job and me on the low rate disability allowance and having to change health benefits and stuff, well it is just a mild learning disability, I wonder how it is going to work for me, I love learning languages and I find German a lot easy so maybe I should learn Slavic languages like polish, I am a I picked up a few words from here there and everywhere, so now I am more mature I hope I can at least learn to talk 20 or more languages and move to another country before I die and have a better life there, somewhere I fit in, somewhere my talents to good use they look out for each other respect each other, never judge a book by its cover and never judge. where it is fun and good weather. That is where I would love to be, being half Irish and half aberdonian and a native English speaker, Lucky enough with my dads dad being Aberdonian I can talk really fast maybe that why I stutter because I was brought up in central Scotland united kingdom where people talk a lot slower and some people do not understand me even because I talk fast, I would say I am more Aberdonian then Central Scottish English, so I do not know why people say to me when I try to speak there language I will never speaker there language, no matter how hard I try this and that, why I want to speak multiple languages and move contry, some where where there is no earthquakes, volcano tornado and land slides.
Thank you for your tips
I have a basis in Spanish and I'm trying to learn Italian right now.
my first language is portuguese, now i'm trying to learn french, german and arabic at once (my brain goes crazy though it's so cool!)
Hey, thanks for the advice. It was a helpful vid.
I did have a question though... I was curious, what was the "Basis" you were discussing in the beginning of the video? By "a strong basis" did you mean to understand basics as in "beginning level" or to an intermediate level? Could you expand a little? Which level would you suggest someone be at before starting a new language to an existing learning schedule?
I think "a strong basis" changes depending on the person or depending on the language, but I would generally say you should try to be at least at a B1 level in a given language before starting a new one according to the CEFR (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_European_Framework_of_Reference_for_Languages). That means that you should have a good handle on speaking about everyday situations in your target language and be able to make it through simple texts and listening exercises.
I think you should also have a good grip on at least beginner/pre-intermediate grammar and how it works in your target language (verb tenses, nouns, adjectives), but I also think the definition of "a good grip on grammar" also varies from language to language: grammar in a language like Afrikaans is vastly simpler than grammar in a language like German or Russian, so it might take you longer to get to that B1 level.
Also, pay attention to the language's supposed "difficulty ranking" (www.effectivelanguagelearning.com/language-guide/language-difficulty). There are guidelines that compare languages in relation to their difficulty for English speakers to learn. A category 1 language, in theory, is easier for English speakers to learn than a category 5 language. What that means is that it will take you longer to "learn the basics" in a category 5 language than it will for a category 1 language.
TL;DR version: getting a good basis in a language is hard to do, but aim for that intermediate level (ie. when reading the language stops looking like word salad and more like coherent thoughts) :) I also kind of just go on a gut feeling whenever I think I have a "good basis" in a language. Anyway, thanks for watching, and happy language learning!
really thanks a lot , you are an amazing perosn and your thoughts are quite nice . thanks
Polyglot files! Polyglot files!
Wooo! Thanks for watching :)
would be nice if flash academy had japanese or mandarin
Maybe in the future? Thanks for watching!
I read that they're working on Mandarin (and I THINK ESL?) somewhere while doing research on them! So hopefully that comes out soon.
Oliver Carter haha, and I'm actually learning both of them :'(
I love this channel
How do you study languages that aren’t as popular as like German or Spanish (Tagalog, Oromo, Bangla, etc) How would you find good learning programs that aren’t a million dollars??
Elizabeth Arellano italki
i’m korean/american (passing white tho lmao) and i want to learn korean, mandarin, and japanese. i’m already learning korean, i just need to get started on the others!
Learning 4 new languages and mastering my own language at the same moment
I am 37 years old and studied French in high school I picked up basic words like bed, boy girl how to count in Spanish 1-3, in French I can count and say directions in French, now I can say the good morning good afternoon and goodnight in German, Spanish, Greek, I picked up a few words in German, if I can only get my head out of this sim 3 game might be better, my goal is to speak 50 language more or less before I die because I want to.
4:18 *Drops mic*
Im a native English speaker and right now I'm pretty good in Spanish. I just starting to learn Danish. Whew, so much weird pronunciation.
English, French, German, Spanish and Italian all have similarities anyway and I'm already a native english speaker, so...
I want to learn Japanese as well though.
I have tried to learn around 12 languages, but I'm only good at 4
Watching youtube made me understand english,when there was i word i didnt know i listened to it multipule times. Now im the Best in my class 👌🏻
I speak welsh, breton, cornish and english fluently.
How do i speak them without mixing them up?
Dylan Jones Cornish? That's impressive, I live in Cornwall and it's rarely spoken, it's pretty dead but I wish more people spoke it!
To me , studying multiple languages at the same time means studying Spanish and Japanese along with programming in Python or JavaScript . The languages of machine and the languages of humans, its boundary is disappearing ..real multilingual ability means you know both.
I'd make exactly the same recommendations to anyone. I'm native in Spanish and proficient in English as well as sufficient at different levels in French, Portuguese, Russian and Chinese and learning Hebrew and Italian. I just want to say that, although your content is useful and helpful, there is something in your tone and/or gestures that doesn't really help making it appealing or enough. I think if you find someone who can help you produce your content in a more professional manner you'd for sure each a broader audience! Cheers and no offense intended!
Would you be able to help me? I am a native English speaker, my second language is primarily Spanish. However, before this I studied French but when taking exams at school I ended up not having time to study it. I can translate French into both English and Spanish yet I struggle to produce French in my own writing or speech as I'm no longer accustomed to using it. I'm currently working out a program to reteach myself the language but as I already know so much it is irritating as I can't find a good starting point. Additional, due to my friendship group I'm picking up, naturally, some bits of Italian and I can understand the language through my knowledge of other romance languages. What should I do? Do I focus on setting up French foundations in speaking/writing and then move onto the Italian? As I can understand them all I have no clue what to make my objective or priority!
Hi im trying to learn korean (almost fluent),chinese,thai, japanese and spanish, i can speak filipino and englishKumusta, ako po si CasandraTa jai hao wo shi jiao CasandraWatashiwa Casandra de suHola, Me llamo CasandraHi, im Casandra
Jia*
안녕하셔 죻는 카슨뒈라 임니다
Keep up the good work, and thanks for watching! :)
Hi! I love your videos. What do you mean when you say "build a strong basis"? To reach the level a1? A2? B2? Something else? Tks
Thanks for the kind words! For me, that generally means that I have a good overview/understanding of the grammar (not a perfect understanding, but enough to use the language functionally). It also means that I can understand most of a given text (get the gist/important ideas of a native text) and express myself in various ways about my favourite topics. I would peg that as a B1 level, if we're using that system :)
Actually there is a short cut to learning languages .. its called.. lysergic acid ..
5:51 that's not how you say it in german...
I'm trying to learn Spanish, Mandarin, German, Korean and Arabic. So far I only have a decent foundation in Spanish but I'm trying hard to get a good start on the others as well Iv already got a schedule planned out but I suck at sticking to it:/
Dat Lit Wick woow. A lot of languages.I speak spanish and
I'm trying to learn korean,french and russian but it's a little bit confusing.
Don't give up friend!! We can do it.👌
I feel you, I'm never consistent with study. Chinese is one that needs constant attention though, the characters take literally years to master. I'd recommend Talk To Me In Korean or Go billy korean on youtube if you don't know about them already
What is a good age to start children?
I started my 2.5 year old in french. I would love to get him in an immersion chinese madarin preschool age 3 to 5yrs ( which are few in the UK & expensive) But a chinese teacher advice me to start teaching him off the internet myself etc until he is 5 years old & will get it in school.
I only speak 1 language but desire to open my son to french, mandarin & later down the line spanish.
Your insight would be much appreciated too.
Thank you
I think the earlier, the better :) An immersion preschool would be good, but also just using the internet is a good start. Maybe try changing the language on streaming services such as Netflix. You can change the language of children's shows to French (or maybe chinese), and have him watch. If you're up for a challenge, try learning French or Chinese yourself and then you both can speak it around the house. Good luck :D
Now im learning german, Mandarin, korean, English, france and Japan by myself hahahaha i want to be fluent on every language
Thanks for the advices i love learn languages and i think that babbel is amazing to
oh i just need to learn French but it's too hard :(
(French) Merci beaucoup!
(Esperanto) Mi estas scion ne multe de Esperanton kaj
(French) Français!
hEYYYY Im from south africa and im learning French and German. Im already fluent in Afrikaans :)
3:00 NO the majority of english speakers ARE L2 SPEAKERS NOT L1 SPEAKERS, STOP ASSUMING ENGLISH IS OUR NATIVE LANGUAGE SIMPLY BECAUSE WE SPEAK IT
That picture-taking, word-giving thing is terrifying.
Toilletenpapier weiß is wrong it is called weißes Toilletenpapier.
This App will I try out. 😀
Hello fellow language learners! 👋🏾 I was wondering if anyone has done an immersion program for Spanish and could recommend a program for me?
Tevin Fitzgerald I hope you found one.
Sí se puede...
Duolingo users should listen to this.
Am learning Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, French, korean etc😂😂😂
Lue Makal really!! Can you teach me? What is your native language
I'm 14 and I'm trilingual 😆, I want to learn korean and Japanese too
Aj odjebi me 2
My personal tip: speak to Siri! I’m super serious!! It help
jesus. two languages? im clearly not built different lol
Doesn't work that way. You have to master in one until intermediate then you can start another one otherwise you F44ked up all. For example if you learn spanish and portugese at the same time it's really a mess. You started mixing those two. I said this because for people who are not native in those two. But it will be easier if you master in one of those because some words are samiliar. Another reason is that if you learn Chinese and Dutch at the same time even if it''s very different but the grammar structure are pretty different. So my advice is learn one language till intermediate and then try another one. This is coming from a guy who speaks 7 languages fluently.
Where do you come from?
I'm from Canada :)
Hoe het jy Afrikaans geleer? Ek wil ook ander lande se tale leer maar ek vind dit baie moeilik. Vir my, is dit ongelooflik moeilik om 'n taal te leer sonder om met sprekers te praat. Ek wil Skotse Gaelic leer, maar ek weet nie hoe ek dit kan leer. Behoort ek 'n handboek te kry? Ek weet nie of ek daarmee vlot kan word. (Askies, sedert ek met skool klaar is, het my Afrikaans dag vir dag kakker geword) O hel hierdie was moeilik. hahaha
***** Ja
Funny how I can understand most of this post only with the very basic knowledge of Dutch and no Afrikaans knowledge. :)
Andrzej Macikowski Ja. It's the same for me with written Dutch, but if I hear speedily spoken Dutch, it's difficult to understand much.
Ek het met 'n handboek Afrikaans geleer (Teach Yourself Afrikaans), maar ek het baie Afrikaanse vriende en ek praat met hulle. Nou oefen ek met Afrikaanse stories en boeke. Ek probeer om Afrikaanse radio te luister, maar dit is a bietjie moeilik vir my -- hulle praat baie vinnig. Vir jou stel ek dat jy 'n goeie handboek (met grammatika verduidelikings) kry en miskien Skotse mense ontmoet. Nadat jy jou handboek gedoen het kan jy maklike boeke lees en 'n bietjie radio luister. Dankie dat jy my video gekyk het :)
I want you to upload a Russian language video haha, I like the way you're documenting it, I started studing it a couple of months ago, so I can relate :D anyway, good video:)
You may be in luck today :P Stay tuned!
My native language is English, i took 2 years of spanish but learned more Russian by myself. Я знаю русский язык 👌
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Your poes! 😂
Russians gonna be my first language and Arabic my second after Russian wish me luck
french and hungarian amirite bois
You are wrong. I am studying 10 languages at once and succeeding at getting a good basis in at least eight of them.
Jamison Gray seriously?
It really annoys me when you say "English, which I presume is your native language"... Stop! Why are you making such a presumption? I am watching in English only because variety of Norwegian polyglot videos is not that great.
Why bother? "Learner of multiple languages at once, master of none". It seems that the term "speak a language" is so nebulous that it has become meaningless!