How to Learn a Language From Scratch: The Process I Used to Acquire 10 Languages
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- Starting to learn a language can be really confusing, especially if you've never done it before. So in this video, I will go over several pro tips to ensure that you progress quickly and effectively in your target language while, at the same time, enjoying the process. Enjoy!
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If you have any ideas for a video, let me know!
First Omegle video coming out later this week hopefully :))
you probably dont give a shit but does any of you know a method to log back into an Instagram account?
I somehow forgot the password. I love any tricks you can give me.
this is the most underrated channel ever thank you for your service
Wow thank you so much! These kinds of comments always make my day :)
This channel deserves to explode (in a good way!) great tips
Wow, thank you! We've been experiencing some really good growth lately so hopefully it continues!
These are some great tips! It took me a year to figure out the vowel thing about Irish. My pronunciation improved in only a few days. I love that your philosophy on language learning falls right in line with everything I learned while getting my TESOL. 👏
Nice tips man! Making the language a part of your day is definitely a huge key! I find the theme of what motivates you really interesting, because I still cant find any big reason for my Spanish learning other than I just enjoy it haha!
Thanks Shane! I was quite fortunate to have met a bunch of spanish speakers to keep me motivated but as long as you enjoy it that's all that matters!!
ColeLangs. I recently discovered your channel. You are now one of my favorite polyglots. You are definately the most wholesome! Keep going man!
The best guy i've ever discovered. Keep up bro, you're an inspiration for many people.
Wow thank you so much!!!
amazing tips :) keep the video coming! very motivational and wholesome
Thanks so much!!
Useful advice, will definitely take into consideration
Glad to hear it!
Hey Cole! New around here. Your tips are valuable dude. Keep up the great job!
Thank you man and welcome!
Great tips. I like the way you put that.
Thank you!
@@ColeLangs my pleasure
I am dutch and wanted to learn spanish for a long time outside of school. This helped me a lot!
Awesome I'm so glad that it helped!
You look like you could be related to paul from langfocus lol. Really liking your channel. Honestly expected you to have a few hundred thousand subs when I subscribed.
Thanks so much man that means so much to me to hear you say that! Hopefully we'll be able to get there one day
Awesome tips!
Thank you!
Inspired me too learn French :) thanks for awesome content!
You're welcome I'm so glad that it helped!
Thanks for the tips
No problem!
I have followed this channel for quite some time. Just seeing this video today.
Cole: Learn the vowels there are only a few vowels in a language
Me: *laughs in southeast asian*
Me: Remembering the year I decided to learn Laotian back in grade school. 28 vowels but only 27 sounds lol.
You should have way more subs. Fake polyglots everywhere and you're the real deal
When I started this channel I wasn't aware of these "fake polyglots" and how people felt about them. All I'm trying to do is share my passion and hopefully inspire some people. Thank you so much for the amazing comment!
love the channel, better than most polyglot clickbait youtubers
Thank you! I try to be as transparent as possible. It's not a competition after all
I think HelloTalk deserves a mention. Its a language app that you can use to literally communicate with native speakers or anybody who is fluent in the language you want to learn providing they have the app.
I've heard of it but I've personally never used it. Maybe I'll have to try it out now!
5:15 "In any given language, there are only a few vowels to work with"
🇻🇳Vietnamese: 🤣🤣
Cole can you do a video about language family tree I'm starting to get curious about languages
I’ve been learning japanese for like 3 months now... It’s quite hard. I enjoy it tho. My biggest obstacle at the moment is listening. I struggle so much at understanding the language ahhh :’)... but it’s ok, i’ll follow your advice! Hopefully by the end of the year, my listening skills will improve (as well as writing, reading and speaking lol)
I think understanding other people at full speed is by far the hardest part but with enough time and practice we can all get there!
Can you read and write?
dostoevsky! nice dude
What are your thoughts on Assimil? For French and Italian
seriously a helpful video
Thank you!
Would it be a good idea to focus entirely on one element intensely for lets say, 3 months? For instance main skills in a language are writing, listening, reading, and speaking, so if I just focus on listening every single day for the three month period, nothing else, and then next three months swap it out with another one of them? Or train all of them on a daily basis?
It really depends on your goals. If I'm not in any particular hurry to speak a language for example then I'll do nothing but listening and reading and that usually works pretty well for me. If only practicing listening is fun for you, then go for it!
@@ColeLangs That makes sense man. I love listening and feel if I center my focus on it it will benefit me well. Thanks!
You are amazing I'm from India and i am learning Japanese
Thank you! Japanese is a tough cookie to crack so good luck with that!
저는 몇달부터 한국어 배우고있는데 이 조언이 도움이 될 것 같아요. 감사합니다 😆
and i recently bought a memrise subscription and i really like it!! to me it’s a lot better than duolingo lol
@@kasiagarczynska5492 anything is better than Duolingo Korean.
I started learning russian a few weeks ago... it's a little bit similar to german ( my native language ),but at the same time soooo different. But I'm really motivated and despite of being a little bit frustrated at the moment,i try to do a little bit of learning everyday. How long did it take for you to be able to speak a little bit in russian? Honestly,the pronunciation of the letter "e" drives me nuts 😂
Yeah russian is really challenging at first! It took me maybe a year and a half of daily practice before I felt comfortable enough to speak with someone and I'm still perfecting my grammar and prepositional usage after 3 years. I'd really encourage you to just keep going and celebrate all the small victories. It's very complicated, but I know that you can do it!
@@ColeLangs The goal i set myself before I started was to be able to speak after one year. So it's comforting to know that it's realistic. But also if it will take longer, that's absolutely ok for me. Thanks for your answer and keep making videos. They are really motivating for me and I think also for a lot of others too 😊
Hi, I was wondering on average how long it takes you to acquire a language?
depends on you
What was your favourite resource for learning Russian?
I made lots of experiments with Russian over the years and I came to the conclusion that 2 things really helped me: learn alphabets by practising the writing of loaned words and then watch lots of (slow) Russian videos with subtitles. There are hundreds of loaned words in Russian e.g. basketboll - баскетбол. Learn writing them in groups by filtering first those having only similar letters (кеаомт), then same sound but different character e.g. l - л and so on. After the character wall is down it's quite easy read Russian although you cannot understand it. Then I would watch videos of Real Russian Club. There are many videos with high quality. Newer videos have double subtitles in the video image track. Older ones have separate subtitles. For me it was helpful to see both Russian and English subtitles which is possible in Chrome with Two Captions for UA-cam & Netflix. I copied the videos to my own playlist to a comfortable order and remove the videos from the playlist after watching them. I also recommend watching videos of Easy Languages Russian but for an absolute beginner I think they are too fast. However, later it's good to practice with this kind of material, too.
If you read a language other than yours do you read your native language in your head or that language ur reading? I’ve always wondered this lol
I speak 3 languages (nothing compared to this guy but I’m on my way) and I just read and think in whatever it is I’m reading/speaking. I just got out of work where I primarily speak Spanish so my brain is in Spanish mode at the moment, but yeah, you think in the language you’re reading. It would be a hassle to read something in X language while simultaneously translating to your native
I always read it in the language that's on the page. The less that you can translate in your head, the better and closer you are to fluency. It's easier said than done, but anyone can do it with enough time and practice!
If I learn Polish would learning Russian and German be easier?
Russian probably but German is a maybe
Polish and Russian are Slavic and German is Germanic but I still think they have some correlation
what a quality my maaaaannn, tf, u need to be more recognised
Thank you!
Ask and you shall receive. Thanks man haha
You're welcome thank you for letting me steal your idea hehe
Start at the beginning, keep going until you get to the end, then stop.
No dislikes👍 very good
That's pretty rare on youtube hahaha
7 months later, still none. That is super rare!
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Trying to learn Croatian atm. Its difficult👌
Good luck with that! Croatia is an incredibly beautiful country
me being Italian and thinking I want to learn Italian…also me RUSSIAN CUZ IDK
@@highlife8038 (*clears throat*) Cyrillic Alphabet it's more specifically called but yes Russian uses it
@ColeLangs 1k subs
I know I truly can't believe it!
I'm learning Amharic. There are no modern resources for this language, even any premade sentence flashcard deck 🤦
good luck!
;)
400th like, xd.