As a mexican i'm really impressed by how much you know about indigenous languages and how you are interested in them. There's a lot of people here that discriminate people that speak other languages or worse, the native speakers are embarrassed of speaking an indigenous language. So thank you! Keep the good work.
As a native German speaker I am so glad that I never had to learn this language. Currently learning Italian and damn, that language is so much easier than German.
Ich bin Russe, und es erstaunt mich immer, wenn Leute sagen, Deutsch sei schwer. Im Vergleich zu Russisch ist es viel, viel einfacher und ich freue mich sehr, dass ich nie Russisch lernen musste.
The amount of dedication you put into learning a language is really inspiring, I hope I can find the structure and motivation to do the same. I'm always excited whenever you post a new vid regardless of the topic just because you have such an engaging personality in every language. As always, keep up the amazing content!
Back in 2018 I started learning German and Spanish simultaneously and I got overwhelmed. I don't know how you don't get overwhelmed by learning all these languages at once. Excellent job and well done!
I'm doing Spanish and french, which is easier (I guess) because I can learn French through Spanish, but I am focusing on building my French most days. My "blocking" is to do 8 hrs of zoom language exchange on the weekends in Spanish and French the rest of the week. It's about finding your groove, but it's also okay to have simultaneous learning be too much!
Austrian here, my goal is to get a lot better with brazilian portuguese! And also dabble into a programming language, probably python. I'm excited especially for your german and portuguese videos!
Ay! Soy mexicana y desde el año pasado estoy retomando el francés después de más de 10 años, y en enero empecé alemán! Deséame suerte! Jajajaja espero pronto aprender náhuatl también! Porfa comparte los recursos que encuentres 🤩🤩🤩
Istanbul is amazing! I went there three times and Antalya twice. My grandfather (iraqi) got married to a turkish woman (my grandmother) and so my mother knows Turkish. We visit often and my mother watches a lot of Turkish dramas. 😂 Beautiful language!
OMG!! So glad you are learning Turkish next. After living in Germany and reaching an advanced level in German, I turned to Turkish after being initially interested in the immigrant population and it has been quite a journey. While pronunciation was never a big problem since ü and ö exist in German, Turkish is extremely different in terms of its huge vocabulary (I would argue, bigger than German) and its different grammar. Cannot wait to see where you go with that language this year especially!
The fact that you're going into French again gives me joy, because 2020 has been the French year for me. There's so many cool French stuff on youtube. Once you start doing your listening practice, you should check "L'Effet Papillon" or "ARTE", these are great channels about society and politics. Besides, there are other good-quality yt channels about other topics, french internet is just rich.
@@c.b9566 there's those 2 that I told in the first comment plus another one called NotaBene, which is about History. You can also go for something you already watch in English. For example, if you like movies, you can just type the name of a highly anticipated movie plus the word "critique" that means review and find channels about Cinema.
As a Mexican I'm so excited for you to learn nahuatl, not that many people are interested in it. I can also relate to you when talking about French, I hated it so much while learning it. Anyways, so excited for all of your 2021 languages goals ☺️
I feel really inspired when I see people as Elysse, people who are passionate about learning languages. I'm Brazilian, I'm trying to improve my English and this year I started to study Italian. It's been really fun! Next year want to learn Spanish, but my biggest problem is that I feel like I can understand everything, and because of that I don't feel so motivated to study consistently. I need to find a way to fully convince myself that I don't know Spanish. I also want to learn LIBRAS, the Brazilan sign language. I started to study it a couple of years ago, but I lost the motivation, and now I wanna try again.
Don't give up! Try to separate your Portuguese from your Spanish as much as you can. Maybe try studying it through English, it looks like you have a great level! and yes go LIBRAS!!
You are such an inspiration! I'm living in Sweden for the first half of the year and hope to be fluent in Swedish. While I'm there I want to bring my German up to the C1 level so I can move to Germany in the summer. Best of luck with your goals!
Spanish native speaker here. I'm also learning Turkish through German and I must say it's been a great experience. My brain must really focus to come up with the right word in the right language. I'm using the book "Kolay-Gelsin" and I find it particularly interesting because at the end of each chapter it shows you a whole page (in German) about the Turkish culture in certain aspect. So you learn both the languages (German and Turkish) and also some culture. Viel Spaß 😉!!
@@elyssedavega Unfortunately not . I haven't used it. I remembered I bought Pons back when I started learning German but I ended up taking German classes instead so I did not really use it😕. If you decide to buy the Kolay gelsin A1-A2 I recommend you to buy also the Übungsbuch and Lösungsbuch at the same time because the book itself does not bring the answers. Viel Glück beim Türkischlernen!
Now I'm studying Arabic! Strange but awesome language, I love it! Meanwhile I'm learning kanji for Japanese, and I need to improve my English and my German... In the future I hope to try Farsi or Turkish... I love the counties but I'm not sure yet I like the languages...so no doubt I'll follow your turkish videos!
For those willing to improve their French I highly recommend *language city*. You can watch a sample video for advanced classes on UA-cam. The cost of a month long subscription is just 20$ which is totally worth it. I don't know if there is any other better option for French at this level. And I've been searching for it quite thoroughly haha.
I enjoyed hearing about your plans for language learning this year. And it gave me a little bit more balanced view on studying and relaxed me a bit. I’ve spent so long just learning Spanish, it’s my first second language and I’ve been feeling guilty about dropping time that I could be advancing my Spanish to learn other languages, but there really isn’t a huge rush at least that’s what I’m telling myself and how your video made me feel. I’m currently maintaining my Spanish while trying to improve vocabulary and more advanced grammar, but currently focusing on Italian because I need to take an Italian exam for citizenship, and finally a little bit of Arabic on the side for some excitement. I’ve struggled with finding a way to balance my study time, which is why I searched “studying multiple languages” and found your channel which I definitely just subscribed to. Thank you for sharing!
You've mentioned your interests in Turkish and Georgian before. Along with Nahuatl, that sounds like a really interesting an unique mix! I echo all your thoughts on Georgian, it's so cool! At first studying Turkish through German sounded like a weird idea, but I really see the relevance now that you've mentioned the large community there. I've found it is oh so different to English, as you mentioned, but maybe German is a better medium to study it through? So excited to see your journey in that. all the best! :D
i "shape-shift" a lot too in spanish depending on where the person who i'm talking to is from + i also skip over fundamental vocab and tend to get right into super deep topics like social issues lol thanks for putting my shortcomings into words! for 2021, i want to solidify my spanish and maybe towards the end of the year i'll dabble in french or portuguese. good luck with your language goals next year!
@Dyhiscence...Ironically, "super deep topics like social issues" tend to be international and therefore share a uniform international vocabulary, which makes them super easy to learn, whereas "fundamental vocab" is where the major differences between languages tend to lie.
Minha única meta esse ano é avançar ainda mais no meu espanhol e chegar em um nível bom de francês :) Seu português está praticamente perfeito!! E seu sotaque é totalmente brasileiro!! Isso de mudar o sotaque de acordo com quem você está falando é muito normal, eu sou do nordeste e tenho alguns amigos de São Paulo, e às vezes falo como eles sem querer kkkkk acontece 💙
I am enjoying your talk! I am working on French quite a lot this year. I think I will add Cambodian this year for a minority language. So this year it will be continue French and Chinese, and add Spanish and Cambodian.
i just love how you're relatable. I found your youtube channel because of german, now you're talking about Turkish, that I started to get interested in recently, and omg i can't describe my happiness when you mentioned Georgian!! I've been fascinated with this language for such a long time, there was even a time when I learned its writing system, guess i was 13 hahaha Anyways, i love following your journey with language learning, very inspiring! Unfortunately I can't relate on having the same dedication as you... Love from Brasil!!
seems we’re on the same wavelength! i’m glad there will be someone to tune into my learning adventures in the next year 😁 do you have twitter? let’s be friends!
I've definitely dabbled with all of these languages! Good luck with Georgian, the grammar is something.. Turkish is quite easy at the beginning, but it's a very difficult language to maintain, vocabulary wise since it doesn't resemble the languages you do know.
since your learning Turkish The Oxford Turkish Grammar should be a good help for all grammar concepts ranging from beginner to advance in terms of detailed structure of the language. if you want something for grammar comprehension or reading the Turkish tutor is also good
i’ve been learning spanish for about 4 years and i really just want to solidify my confidence in it and to be able to truly understand native speakers when they talk (they talk so damn fast that my pea brain can’t keep up). also, similar to you for portuguese, i want to develop my spanish accent because i literally just copy the accent of the person i’m talking to/tv characters/whichever accent was the last one i heard. also, i just started learning korean and i’d like to be able to have basic conversations and talk about myself and daily things by the end of the year (although if i can do more that would also be great). i’m also starting to study french this year. i’m not 100% sure if i’ll love it and i wasn’t planning on learning it (i actually wanted to start learning portuguese instead) but i recently had a long lost cousin that came into my life and his wife is from france and they have 2 young children that speak both french and English, but a lot of the time they’re more comfortable in french. i just want to be able to communicate better with them and i also figured that having a cousin who is a native speaker, and also teaches french, is an extremely beneficial resource. so i’m giving it a shot and hopefully i’ll learn to love it. so all in all, i’m hoping to keep deep diving into spanish, start building a foundation in korean, explore the basics of french and see how i feel about it, and MAYBE start portuguese if i have the time and energy
I am a native English speaker, but also speak American Sign Langauge and work as an ASL Interpreter. I have dabbled in many languages, but currently have been learning Dutch and currently love Dutch.
Love your motivation ,I'll need a littler bit of that for this year I'm improving my englesh and learning hebrew and may be traing some french and espanish ,anyways love your content!!!!
Great video can't wait to see your progress next year. I'm learning Korean and Japanese at the same time, while trying to improve my German and Spanish. I want to take on Turkish as well, but that's not a priority right now.
@@elyssedavega we actually have one more in common I want to learn French as well but like I said not a priority. I don't want to learn too many at once. And these days when learning a language one gets destracted by the cool music in other languages or tv shows. So the list keep growing 😂
Hi Elysse! Love your channel, you're helping me a lot with my journey through German, thank you so much! Sobre o português, super recomendo vídeos que os próprios brasileiros assistem, você provavelmente já faz isso, mas vale a pena reforçar a ideia. "Porta dos Fundos" é um canal aqui do youtube de esquetes de comédia que provavelmente vai te ajudar muito, eu sou mineiro e particularmente não percebo nenhum sotaque com eles (eles são cariocas). Algumas esquetes são polêmicas e por isso muita gente não gosta deles, mas eu mesmo adoro a maioria dos vídeos deles. Outra recomendação seria os "Barbixas", outro canal de comédia mas que é mais teatral. Espero que ajude!
elysse i'm so excited that you're starting to learn turkish! we've been working on german with you in 2020 and your tips helped me a lot, and now i'm really hyped that you're gonna be studying my native language :) general warning tho, it might be very different and complicated (it's more difficult than german, i believe) but you're so gonna rock it! good luck :)
I'm so excited that you're going to learn Turkish! I'm Dutch and also speak German, and I really consider Turkish to have added a lot to my life (: Personally I wasn't putting enough time into the grammar at first, can't stress that enough 🌿
I’m no polyglot but I’m trying my best to learn Irish in 2021 as I’ll be a Canadian in Dublin, hoping to take teacher training and Irish is a core subject in primary schools there. So I not only need to be able to speak it but also eventually write read and teach it!
@AlixWith An I...Impossible for you to reach that kind of standard. Go to another English-speaking country (Northern Ireland perhaps ? ) that doesn´t impose that type of condition/restriction. You know why it´s obligatory for Irish students to learn Irish ? Because the Irish government knows that nobody would bother to choose it if it were an elective subject, and the language would die out overnight. Instead the Government insists on playing a "let´s pretend" game that Irish is still a living language, in order to appease a few Irish language extremists who might be persuaded to vote for them in the next election. Why would you want to live in a country that possesses governments and citizens with that kind of "I´m in denial of reality and prefer to live in the past" mentality ? Let me quickly add that I´m not trying to rain on the parade of your ambitions and aspirations, but simply feel inclined to warn you that you should have a full understanding of what you´re jumping into beforehand.
@@Gerard_2024 that absolutely was entirely raining on my parade, and rather unhelpful advice. I happen to be incredibly passionate about Irish language revitalization and preservation. I’m already moving to Ireland for my husband’s work, and I’m well aware that it’s a struggling minority language that’s not widely spoken. Why did you think it was a valuable comment to try to dissuade someone from learning a language? What exactly would the consequence of me learning a small/minority/dying language have been to you? “Impossible to get to that level”...just watch me
My 2020 has been the year for Spanish, and as soon as I get to a B2 ish level I'll get back to Norwegian. Norwegian and I have got a bit of a complicated relationship coz it's kinda hard to find online resources for learning it, though, I've recently found a pretty cool website for it. I'm so itching to restart learning it. This time around, though, I promise myself I'll try and speak it from day one. Good luck with your languages xx
I just discovered your channel and I have to say I'm quite impressed. I was raised in Belgium with a foreign mother so I ended up speaking French Dutch English and Portuguese and I've always had multiple languages on the backburner but you're taking it a step further and it's amazing. Now I live in English speaking Canada so most of it is fading away. Wish you luck on doing French videos, idk how you manage to find discussion groups in all the languages you're practicing.
Hahaha same! I started learning Korean because I told myself I'd "just take a look at the writing system" ... I did NOT manage to stop at the writing system
Hi Elysse! I'm from Brazil and I got to your videos because I have finally started studying German, but I'm also studying French at the same time so I'm trying to dedicate myself to both of them. On French I'm actually taking a course, so I have a teacher to assist me, but German I'm doing it on my own. And I've never done that. Besides, I'm an English teacher, and I've been doing a lot of research on language learning to help my students on it. Unfortunately I don't have any resources on Portuguese but I hope to see your updates on it :)
Hello Anna! I'm glad you found me through German, those videos have really brought a lot of people around this year. I'm glad to hear you're pursuing it by yourself though, the bond will be so much stronger. And don't worry, of course there will be Portuguese updates!
Elysse! How great you are about to learn Náhuatl! I am also planning to learn it after I reach a higher level in other two languages I'm studying right now. I hope to get started by 2022. Thanks for inspiring me to discover it. Saludos desde Querétaro, México :D
NO WAY IM LEARNING GEORGIAN TOO!!! im surrounded by it so its easier in that aspect. i also reccomend you check out kazakh! its quite similar to turkish but it has a cryllic alphabet and russian mixed in with it, great culture too :))
I wish you luck with it! And that’s cool, I’ll check it out! I already know the Cyrillic alphabet because I studied Russian as a child, so that would be convenient!
Over winter break I plan to restart my language practices. I study German in school, but it’s pretty come and go with remembering vocab and such, so I have studied it outside of school, along with French and a little Spanish, and I’m hoping to start back up with all 3 and really get to language learning come 2021
Every time I watch these videos I feel motivated to learn and teach! I hope you achieve your 2021 goals and have Arabic on the list in 2022!! Much love and support ♥️
I'm mexican and I had never seen your channel, couldn't believe the first language you mentioned was Nahuatl, literally the language that would have never cross my mind would be the first. Congrats to you for learning that language, I don't speak it but I'm sure that if you know spanish and nahuatl you will have an amazing time in central Mexico exploring small indigenous villages if you ever visit this country (don't know if you already have). So happy a young foreigner like you decides to learn nahuatl, a very very distant language from anything. Hope you can visit Mexico someday
Thank you Josue! I've been to Mexico before (DF), but there's not that much openly spoken indigenous language there. I would love to go to Puebla and use any Nahuatl that I learn. Un saludo!!
I've never felt more seen that when Elysse talked about skipping over the basics and talking about more complex topics such as a refugee crisis. A toxic trait for me as well! I'm currently learning Mexican Spanish, but I am also tuning my ear for Caribbean Spanish as well. Japanese is my ball and chain, mostly because my connection or motivation has been affected by my personal relationship to Japanse people I know, aspects of the culture. Not to forget that my language travel plan for July 2020 crushed by the pandemic. Russian is always my back burner, "hey there sexy" language that gets very little air time. Hoping to keep absorbing little bits from my Russian speaking Central Asian friends in the upcoming year!
I'm also American, currently speak / study Russian, Esperanto, Norwegian and Thai. Next year I will begin studying Kyrgyz and Arabic. Georgian is awesome, I know the alphabet and can read it to a certain degree but I find the language itself very intimidating! The alphabet is super easy, you can learn it in a day easily. Good luck 🖖
@@salmalaks1996I'm a grown man, I have absolutely zero interest in that kinda thing, and frankly I find it annoying that it's constantly assumed that people who learn Norwegian are doing so because of that damn show or because they're into black metal, as if those are the only reasons anyone would want to learn such a beautiful language
@@colinsmith5879 looool i get it. Im norwegian myself and trust me, i had enough of hearing abt the show in my own country😂 i never saw ppl interested in norwegian until recently and as u say, most ppl i see online do it for that one reason. Its cool to see ur interested for the sake of the language itself! Hows the process going? Id love to hear how much norwegian u know now and how uve learnt it!
Hi Elysse, I have actually started learning Turkish through German (being a non-native of both) while studying in Berlin. It's not all that easy with the German grammar concepts, but definitely worth it! So I'd rather confirm you got a great idea :) As a ressource, I've tried out many many things and the 2 best I could find are: Kolay gelsin! (textbooks & exercise books in German from A1-B1 -pretty expensive but SOOO much better than any other!) and the (free) UA-cam videos of Yunus Emre Enstitüsü (all Turkish levels). Hope it can help you out :) All the best in your language learning, Turkish is such a great language & culture!
@@elyssedavega Kolay gelsin is in German & Turkish and Yunus Emre Enstitüsü's videos are entirely in Turkish but easy to understand from A1 (they teach a lot of grammar, vocabulary... in a simple way, also a nice way to train oral comprehension). Yunus Emre Enstüsü is the Turkish language institute of Turkey's government and I believe they currently offer free online group classes (at least the French and German sections did), you may check these out as well. Happy language learning! :)
Just subscribed. Look forward to your 2021 updates! Never followed anyone learning Georgian 🇬🇪, should be fun! I’m working on improving my Russian 🇷🇺 🤞🏾 Also there’s a great channel on UA-cam where she compares Portugal Portuguese with her friend’s Brazilian Portuguese. Could be super helpful for colloquial wording! Also also!! You should find yourself a Portuguese “parent”! Someone you hear online or wherever, whom you would love to sound like. That way you can focus on them and their accent for reference
Oh my God... I have just started learning Georgian 2 weeks ago for the exact same reason :O Even more strange is that I also considered taking up Turkish as well (in the end, I didn't do it, maybe that will be the next language that I will learn) There is an amazing book, called "Beginner's Georgian" which was written by Dodona Kiziria. It comes with 2 audio cd-s, which is of course crucial for such a hard-to-pronounce language.
I've learned some Turkish but I need to study it more, because I started to learn it 4 years ago but only actively studied for around six months (I think it was a very small amount of time). Despite that, 2020 has somehow become my Turkish year, after having a linguistically inactive 2019 (even that's a lie, because I was picking up some Catalan during that time, as it was easier to me due to it being closer to Spanish, my native language, so I mostly only either read or watched stuff in Catalan, as I tried to avoid language books at all costs, mostly due to school schedules). It paid, as now I'm probably just near B1, I can understand long videos and texts in Catalan now, and I use the dictionary less often. I've been watching lots of Turkish videos, both educational and about varied topics, now I feel more comfortable with Turkish, though I wouldn't say I'm still at B1 :(
Misses Elysse, i have been studying russian for one year and a half, the most interesting in this part is the access to culture and history of the country easilly, for example, the balrussian and the ukrainian historical-cultures, an the you can see in general the context of lexical changes during these centuries. Good look in this long way walking towards vacations 👍🏻.
Before I found your channel, I was feeling really burned out on the languages I'd been studying this year. I wasn't even planning on making a list for 2021 because I was so overwhelmed, but this video re-inspired me. For 2020, I did Japanese, Dutch, and Mandarin with some sprinklings of Cantonese and Korean. I'm thinking for 2021, I'll do ASL, Dutch, and Cantonese. I feel fairly confident in my Japanese, and I'm absolutely burned out on Mandarin. I'm so glad UA-cam recommended this video for me! Thanks!
Maybe something that could help is doing quarters instead of planning for the whole year. Lindie Botes talked about this recently and I think it's a great idea, I'm doing it too. I'm glad to hear I could help, thank you so much for watching :')
German here, I found my passion for language learning when I started to learn Russian in April of 2019 (I already knew English and French beforehand, but Russian was the first one I've learnt on my own) and since then I've picked up Esperanto and more recently, Finnish (Yes, I'm into those weird languages no one speaks), while also dabbling into some other languages that I won't continue any time soon. In 2021 I'll try to get good-ish at Russian (currently on the intermediate plateau...) while also getting deeper into Finnish and Greek, my newest language which I'm studying together with a friend. Deinen Kanal habe ich glaube ich durch das Things I wish I knew before I started learning German-Video gefunden, das mir irgendwann vorgeschlagen wurde? Man merkt auf jeden Fall, wenn man sich so durch deine Videos klickt, wie dein deutsch immer besser geworden ist. Jetzt drücke ich dir die Daumen, dass du nächstes Jahr auch über deinen Alltag und Gabeln sprechen kannst!
That's some really mixed up language knowledge u got there. If you're now into Greek and the whole Greek Mythology stuff, I really recommend Percy Jackson. It's originally written in English and is so rich with Greek mythology while not being boring/"slow".
Hey Elysse, I love your videos very much!!! Thanks for the videos 😊☺️😊 This are my language learning goals for 2021-- 1. Reach German B1 level ( atleast) . And enrich my vocabulary. 2. Learn Russian to have a 10 to 15 mins conversation. ( I have already learnt personal pronouns,some words and the Cyrillic script) 3. Learn good amount of Italian (A1). 4. Also learn A1 spanish and try to reach till A2! Thanks!!!!
I feel the exact same way about French and Irish! I got really high grades in school but haven't looked at either of them since starting university. This year I'm focusing on getting back into French and Irish, learning some Spanish and I'm very tempted to pick up something completely different, with a different script!
Heey, so I'm brazilian and I'm trying to improve my English and French (which are kind of an intermediate level) and work on my spanish which is basically portuñol hahahha. I was also trying to learn mandarin chinese, but it just seems so hard and also I couldn't adapt it to my routine. So idk what I'm doing with it for the next year, but I'm definitely continuing the other languages. Btw, you're doing great on your portuguese, keep on girl!!
I'm a native greek speaker, I've been studying english for a big portion of my life and now I feel it's time to move on to something new.I've always wanted to learn french and italian.I have started learning french on my own, it's not that easy but it fills me with joy.Good luck to everyone on their language goals.
I'm from Georgia 🇬🇪 and you should know that if you will start learning Georgian it will be very hard because of grammar(especially verb) and sounds like წ, ჭ, ღ, ყ, ც, ძ those sounds aren't used in most of languages. We also have sounds like ტ, კ, ხ, პ which aren't in English but are in Russian. So you will have hard time learning it. Also love your videos❤️❤️
Dude! I understand your feeling with French so well!! I studied French for 8 years (middle school+high school) and even did a program in highschool that got me an actual french Baccalaureate (diploma). I was so done with French that I just completely left it behind and I now wish I hadn't, obviously! I really want to get back on it
i've been learning english since 2019 and now i decided to learn korean, spanish, japanese, and turkish. if you speak one of those languages, i'd appreciate your help a looot. my first language is portuguese. let me know if you wanna some help with it
Im currently learning korean as my third language and oh dear I feel like giving up, it is so hard and confusing. I've learned some of the grammar rules and I understand the explanations completely until I start making my own sentences in various contexts idk why but I feel so lost. Anyway I use Talk To Me in Korean's curriculum to learn grammar. They provide free grammar lessons on the website which is great.
@@plana4703 i feel the same way sometimes, but then i set my goals again and go back to work. you know, it'll always have that hard part, the one who makes you feel like you're not going to make it. have you tried eggbun and lingodeer? they're amazing apps to learn korean easily and well-explained.
Seeing you announcing French like that made me feel a bit more encouraged to learn ir for real. I've been watching your videos for a long time because I got amazed with your fluid Portuguese speaking skills, now if you bring us some French content it would be even nicer 🙃
I'm on and off with my language learning, but for 2021 I'd like to get back into Korean, and start/continue Mandarin, Finnish, Russian, and Hebrew. Being Canadian I'd also like to tackle first nations languages like Inuktitut and Ojibwe. I don't think I'll be super intensly studying all of these all year long but I hope the wave of new year goal making motivation I have atm will sets some what of a structure to help me staying motivated with my language learning 😝.
Yay for French! My hs French classes weren't that involved; even in fourth year french, we mostly spoke in english, so I ended up doing a lot on my own, and it became very special to me (graduating this spring with a french major haha). I hope you find lots of success with it in 2021! 🥰
Hiiii. Cómo nativa hablante de español y ahora estudiando lengua y literaturas hispánicas, estudio náhuatl y literatura Náhuatl, creo que de todo lo que he aprendido nada ha sido hablar sobre mi o ese tipo de cosas básicas que aprendes a decir en otros idiomas. Si te interesa el material en náhuatl yo te puedo ayudar, desde cosas básicas como pronombres hasta lecturas en náhuatl con su traducción en español. Náhuatl es realmente hermoso, pero son muy pocas hablantes de este idioma que vas a encontrar en Internet 💓 mucha suerte en náhuatl vas a aprender muchas cosas aparte del idioma
Me interesa saber lo que has aprendido en Nahuatl entonces! me puedes mandar un correo elyssespeaks@gmail.com o si tienes twitter mi @ es elyssedavega :)
Language goals for 2021: figure out what my language goals are 😂 Here are my ideas so far: - Reignite my Italian - Start dabbling in Norwegian - Start seriously learning Amharic (started a couple years ago, but haven't committed yet) - Continue practicing and improving my Portuguese and Spanish - Continue Danish (my Danish is your German - this year was a productive one when it comes to Danish) Honorable mentions: German, Turkish and Georgian are also on my bucket list. Georgian seems like such a cool language!
Owwwn I'm from Brazil and its my first time here! So, from the words you said in Portuguese, to me you sounded very Paulista. And that thing of shaping your accent to whomever you speak with, it's ok, I do that too! 1 week in Rio and I'm like Rahsrshsrs excited to see your progress in 2021 ^^
Ah French, THE ball and chain language ;) I'm so excited to see you go off of these goals! I don't see many people online studying Georgian or Nahautl so I'm REALLY excited to see you study those/try those out. Also I totally relate with the toxic trait of skipping basic stuff, I specifically ALWAYS skip colours/shapes/body parts because I'm like ehhhhh when will I use that. Then I need to describe anything I don't know and I'm like "uuhhhh it's the colour of the sky I don't know how to say that colour tho"
Heyy I want to start learning Italian too, I actaually already know a lot of things because of my relatives but I‘ve never really studied it and my grammar is really bad.. anyways I wanted to ask what you use to learn Italian and if you have any good resources or tips.. I‘m kinda lost haha
@@giuliaelena8572 Hi, for a getting a grip on the grammar, I suggest Duolingo. It's good for getting a good foundation on the grammar. Once you finish the Italian tree, you should also try a good grammar book to cement those grammar rules. As you work through the book, also try those Duolingo stories as well as reading easy news articles (they may be difficult at first but just note the difficult words and work through them, you will get a hang of it). All the best with your Italian studies :)
Elysse, I would love to see your progress in Turkish, since it'll be a completely new language for you; I think it'll be so interesting to see the methods you use to approach that!
For your Turkish here is the list of few resources you may go through (not sure how do these fit into your whole German plan). To get started 1. Babble is by far the best structured course to get started with. Policed without any glitch. 2. Bussu is also good to get you started but it you nowhere near to Babble in degree of refinement. Further their reinforcement system is totally broken. For speaking 3. If you want to go into speaking language then Language transfer if the best resource. It is like pimsleur but free and average lesson is 5-10 minutes long. I really liked it. 4. Pimsleur course is also good but only 30 lessons. For listening- 5. Turkish classes 101 is good. There are 90 lessons at beginners level plus tons of cultural resources. 6. Turkish Tea Time is another good resource for listening. Podcasts are free but to access transcripts and other resources you have to pay 10 dollar per month. For reading practice 7. LingQ app, bit expensive for somebody living in India, but can be used for few months to improve reading. You can import your own lessons/dialogue/ subtitles and read them. 8. Readlang browser extension for translating words on clicking them. Free and good. You tube channels 9. Learn Turkish the easy way, new channel but lot of good content coming out every day. Suitable for beginners. 10. Learn Turkish with Ali Yilmaz, suitable for A2-B2 learners.Fully in Turkish. Live conversation, story videos, grammar videos. 11. Easy Turkish, colloquial Turkish. A2 to b2 level content. Ohh wait I forgot to mention SRS tool😆 Memrise is best in this regard. Regards
I'm already learning English and Hebrew this year, And i'm gonna add Esperanto to the list and learn it with the new year :D Happy new year everyone 🎄🎊
I'm also mostly studying 6 languages this year. Currently, those are: Finnish, Arabic, Tagalog, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indonesian. 1. Chinese is the one I'll likely be improving the most in, and it's the one I'm the most familiar with already. 2. Vietnamese and Indonesian I also made a lot of progress in last year, but I still want to keep them up and ensure I retain what I learn. Both have their simplicities and their complexities, but I really enjoy both of them. 3. Tagalog is because my significant other is Filipino. His family speaks Tagalog, and while they're all fluent in English, I want to connect more with his heritage and with his family on a more intimate level. At first, the initial hold-off was because I couldn't wrap my head around the various markers. But when I finally got the hang of them, the language immediately started making more sense to me. 4. Arabic is one I've studied in the past, but only to learn the writing system, haha. This has made getting back into it somewhat easier. I'm learning MSA, which is quite difficult, and my progress is quite slow, but it's honestly okay so far. 5. Finnish is the newest one and the one I'm least familiar with. I've studied agglutinative languages in the past, so most of the concepts are not new to me; additionally, its orthography is basically entirely phonetic and the pronunciation is pretty straightforward. I'm still early into it, but so far, it's not nearly as difficult as people love to purport it being.
I would like to hear about your experience about studying languages in a separated way vs studying them simultaneously. I'm trying to keep up with german, learning french and japanese a little bit everyday. But I'm thinking about studying each of them for a month like you said. Haha that with german happens me with english, i love academic english but my knowledge of daily expressions is very low :c
You inspired me to learn Mandarin Chinese (a language I never thought I would challenge myself with)! I recently started this months, so it will be my 4th language! :) Is there any advice you recommend or tips to learning mandarin?
Congrats! I'm glad I could help. I made a video about chinese resources I was using earlier in the year, around Feb-March. I also made an update video, so go check those out if you want some advice!
when u did a german language video i was so happy &enjoyed it so muchhhhhhh im actually studying it now .. so please can u do another "full day of speaking Deutsch!" i hope u do it cuz actually im arabic and im learning german through english 🥺
Yas girl! I'm learning Turkish too and it's soo fun I love it. I don't know about learning in German but I can recommend some English learning sources for Turkish: Languagetransfer.org (for absolute beginners) Elon.io (to practice grammatical structures) Tandem (language exchange app) And then italki of course! Bence Türkçe çok ilginç, çok seviyorum! Umarım bu yıl daha fazla Türkçe öğrenebilirim!
My goals for 2021 are mostly the same I had for 2020 😅 German is still my priority (I'm ending my A1 textbooks), French comes second (I'm between advance intermediate and advance... maybe) and English (in maintenance) and Italian (super beginner) share the third place. I'm super excited for 2021, I hope to find enough motivation to study at least for a few minutes every day 😄. BTW, Spanish is my native language, I'm from Argentina. Love your videos Elysse! And happy new year everybody, 2020 is finally ending!
Hey, I'm interested in reaching C2 in Spanish sometime. The little I know about "Castellano Rioplatense" comes from this series I watched "Sos mi vida". Was it popular in Argentina ?
I study Spanish mainly. I have dabbled a bit in Norwegian and I love it. I am very interested in learning Portuguese and French, as well as Guaraní. I have also been wondering about Turkish and Bulgarian - България.
That accent shifting problem is so real! I heard somewhere that we do it because we are auditory learners and memorize and mimick sounds. I do this in Portuguese (I'm learning and am a native Spanish speaker)now that I moved from California to Wisconsin I do it in English too!
As a mexican i'm really impressed by how much you know about indigenous languages and how you are interested in them. There's a lot of people here that discriminate people that speak other languages or worse, the native speakers are embarrassed of speaking an indigenous language. So thank you! Keep the good work.
i appreciate this comment! they’re just as beautiful as their corresponding colonial languages, i just wish they were easier to learn :/
As a native German speaker I am so glad that I never had to learn this language. Currently learning Italian and damn, that language is so much easier than German.
You really do have it easy 😭 molto bene!
* me studying german* :')
Ich bin Russe, und es erstaunt mich immer, wenn Leute sagen, Deutsch sei schwer. Im Vergleich zu Russisch ist es viel, viel einfacher und ich freue mich sehr, dass ich nie Russisch lernen musste.
@@maxtirdatov well ruski might be hard but serbo-croatian is a bit harder coz we have 7 grammatical cases.
German is kicking my ass
I don't see a lot of people learning Turkish but it is SUCH a beautiful language so I wish you all the best!!
thank you mamas
Yep beautiful language but with crazy words order🌝
That's gotta be insanely difficult. Good luck with it
Indeed Dwantafam. Hehe
What the... I just watched your latest video earlier. Fancy seeing you here. Parang may goal ka ata maging polyglot dwaine ah 😆
Oh wow didn't think I would see you here Dwaine haha
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The amount of dedication you put into learning a language is really inspiring, I hope I can find the structure and motivation to do the same. I'm always excited whenever you post a new vid regardless of the topic just because you have such an engaging personality in every language. As always, keep up the amazing content!
You're amazing, thank you for all the trust and appreciation! It all comes from my experience and if I can help other people i wanna ~
When you said "turkish" i couldn't believe it!!!! Yes Yes Yes!
yaaaaaas merhaba!! that’s all i know for now 😂
İ tried a lot i wrote under all videos and finally we did it
It was music to my ears, too! Learning Turkish will be a great journey!
Greetings from Cappadocia!
@@elyssedavega this phrase is arabic too
you can always ask the turkisk community for help we’re here :))
Back in 2018 I started learning German and Spanish simultaneously and I got overwhelmed. I don't know how you don't get overwhelmed by learning all these languages at once. Excellent job and well done!
I feel like blocking is the best approach so i don’t feel too overwhelmed. thank you!
I'm doing Spanish and french, which is easier (I guess) because I can learn French through Spanish, but I am focusing on building my French most days. My "blocking" is to do 8 hrs of zoom language exchange on the weekends in Spanish and French the rest of the week. It's about finding your groove, but it's also okay to have simultaneous learning be too much!
My native language is Spanish, I’m improving my English every day and I’m also learning Mandarin Chinese
period! sounds awesome :)
If you're learning Portuguese in 2021, you got a friend here.
all of y’all are my best friends!
@@elyssedavega hope you can come over to Brazil someday.
@@GabrielHernandez-uu2wn I think she would love to come here one day! You got a friend here as well :)
@@anaszstuff yeah, definitely! She's going to love it here.
Yep yep yep
From a portuguese girl: your portuguese accent is definitely a brazilian one, haha! keep going, you're doing great :))
Thank you! Will do! hahaha
sim, sou brasileira e posso confirmar
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Austrian here, my goal is to get a lot better with brazilian portuguese! And also dabble into a programming language, probably python.
I'm excited especially for your german and portuguese videos!
Hey hey, Brazilian here. I can help you if you want.
That's my instagram @conrado227
hii, i’m brazilian and studying german, would you like to exchange language knowledge??
Ay! Soy mexicana y desde el año pasado estoy retomando el francés después de más de 10 años, y en enero empecé alemán! Deséame suerte! Jajajaja espero pronto aprender náhuatl también! Porfa comparte los recursos que encuentres 🤩🤩🤩
omg turkish!!!!! we're here to help you 🥺♥️ from Istanbul with love!!!
My favourite Turkish phrase: harmanim baba nerdecasafim gordügün bu paketler benim dermanem. 😂😂😂😂
@Bloom lol. You get what I mean haha.
Istanbul is amazing! I went there three times and Antalya twice. My grandfather (iraqi) got married to a turkish woman (my grandmother) and so my mother knows Turkish. We visit often and my mother watches a lot of Turkish dramas. 😂 Beautiful language!
OMG!! So glad you are learning Turkish next. After living in Germany and reaching an advanced level in German, I turned to Turkish after being initially interested in the immigrant population and it has been quite a journey. While pronunciation was never a big problem since ü and ö exist in German, Turkish is extremely different in terms of its huge vocabulary (I would argue, bigger than German) and its different grammar. Cannot wait to see where you go with that language this year especially!
The fact that you're going into French again gives me joy, because 2020 has been the French year for me. There's so many cool French stuff on youtube. Once you start doing your listening practice, you should check "L'Effet Papillon" or "ARTE", these are great channels about society and politics. Besides, there are other good-quality yt channels about other topics, french internet is just rich.
Could you give me some good youtube french channels? I'm like B1-B2 and want to improve my listening but I have no idea how to find good channels...
@@c.b9566 look for InnerFrench, Français Authentique and Piece of French. These are good B1 channels about the language itself.
@@gabriel-xc8hp Thank you very much. Do you also have channels for higher levels for the time when I reach these?
@@c.b9566 there's those 2 that I told in the first comment plus another one called NotaBene, which is about History. You can also go for something you already watch in English. For example, if you like movies, you can just type the name of a highly anticipated movie plus the word "critique" that means review and find channels about Cinema.
hey, how did you start learning French? I want to learn it in 2021 but I don't know how to begin yet.
As a Mexican I'm so excited for you to learn nahuatl, not that many people are interested in it. I can also relate to you when talking about French, I hated it so much while learning it. Anyways, so excited for all of your 2021 languages goals ☺️
I feel really inspired when I see people as Elysse, people who are passionate about learning languages. I'm Brazilian, I'm trying to improve my English and this year I started to study Italian. It's been really fun!
Next year want to learn Spanish, but my biggest problem is that I feel like I can understand everything, and because of that I don't feel so motivated to study consistently. I need to find a way to fully convince myself that I don't know Spanish.
I also want to learn LIBRAS, the Brazilan sign language. I started to study it a couple of years ago, but I lost the motivation, and now I wanna try again.
Don't give up! Try to separate your Portuguese from your Spanish as much as you can. Maybe try studying it through English, it looks like you have a great level! and yes go LIBRAS!!
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You are such an inspiration! I'm living in Sweden for the first half of the year and hope to be fluent in Swedish. While I'm there I want to bring my German up to the C1 level so I can move to Germany in the summer. Best of luck with your goals!
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Spanish native speaker here. I'm also learning Turkish through German and I must say it's been a great experience. My brain must really focus to come up with the right word in the right language. I'm using the book "Kolay-Gelsin" and I find it particularly interesting because at the end of each chapter it shows you a whole page (in German) about the Turkish culture in certain aspect. So you learn both the languages (German and Turkish) and also some culture. Viel Spaß 😉!!
Awesome!! Have you tried PONS Turkish fur Anfanger? i’m curious about the different books
@@elyssedavega Unfortunately not . I haven't used it. I remembered I bought Pons back when I started learning German but I ended up taking German classes instead so I did not really use it😕.
If you decide to buy the Kolay gelsin A1-A2 I recommend you to buy also the Übungsbuch and Lösungsbuch at the same time because the book itself does not bring the answers. Viel Glück beim Türkischlernen!
Now I'm studying Arabic! Strange but awesome language, I love it! Meanwhile I'm learning kanji for Japanese, and I need to improve my English and my German... In the future I hope to try Farsi or Turkish... I love the counties but I'm not sure yet I like the languages...so no doubt I'll follow your turkish videos!
Egyptian here, don't be shy to ask me about anything in Arabic buddy :)
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I'll be more than happy to helo you 💖
@@malakahmed5084 rbna m3ah lma yshoof l dialects
hii ,I'm French Algerian, so i speak Arabic as a native language ,i just wanted to tell u ,good luck ✊🌸💐🌟😊!!
شكرا جزيلا اصدقائي !
Rock on, Elysse! Best of luck with your 2021 goals
Thank you! Right back at you, whatever your goals may be :)
For those willing to improve their French I highly recommend *language city*. You can watch a sample video for advanced classes on UA-cam. The cost of a month long subscription is just 20$ which is totally worth it. I don't know if there is any other better option for French at this level. And I've been searching for it quite thoroughly haha.
I enjoyed hearing about your plans for language learning this year. And it gave me a little bit more balanced view on studying and relaxed me a bit. I’ve spent so long just learning Spanish, it’s my first second language and I’ve been feeling guilty about dropping time that I could be advancing my Spanish to learn other languages, but there really isn’t a huge rush at least that’s what I’m telling myself and how your video made me feel. I’m currently maintaining my Spanish while trying to improve vocabulary and more advanced grammar, but currently focusing on Italian because I need to take an Italian exam for citizenship, and finally a little bit of Arabic on the side for some excitement. I’ve struggled with finding a way to balance my study time, which is why I searched “studying multiple languages” and found your channel which I definitely just subscribed to. Thank you for sharing!
Have you appeared or considered appearing for the DELE exams? The effort you need to put to do well on these exams really improves your level.
You've mentioned your interests in Turkish and Georgian before. Along with Nahuatl, that sounds like a really interesting an unique mix! I echo all your thoughts on Georgian, it's so cool!
At first studying Turkish through German sounded like a weird idea, but I really see the relevance now that you've mentioned the large community there. I've found it is oh so different to English, as you mentioned, but maybe German is a better medium to study it through? So excited to see your journey in that. all the best! :D
I've also heard random Turkish words while listening to German artists sometimes so it really comes mixed sometimes. It's cool!
@@elyssedavega that's awesome, sounds like you've kind of got your own niche even within Turkish :D
i "shape-shift" a lot too in spanish depending on where the person who i'm talking to is from + i also skip over fundamental vocab and tend to get right into super deep topics like social issues lol thanks for putting my shortcomings into words! for 2021, i want to solidify my spanish and maybe towards the end of the year i'll dabble in french or portuguese. good luck with your language goals next year!
@Dyhiscence...Ironically, "super deep topics like social issues" tend to be international and therefore share a uniform international vocabulary, which makes them super easy to learn, whereas "fundamental vocab" is where the major differences between languages tend to lie.
Minha única meta esse ano é avançar ainda mais no meu espanhol e chegar em um nível bom de francês :)
Seu português está praticamente perfeito!! E seu sotaque é totalmente brasileiro!! Isso de mudar o sotaque de acordo com quem você está falando é muito normal, eu sou do nordeste e tenho alguns amigos de São Paulo, e às vezes falo como eles sem querer kkkkk acontece 💙
I am enjoying your talk! I am working on French quite a lot this year. I think I will add Cambodian this year for a minority language. So this year it will be continue French and Chinese, and add Spanish and Cambodian.
Oh how cool you're learning Turkish! So will I next year, along with Tibetan and Mandarin. I'll also be maintaining French and Italian.
i just love how you're relatable. I found your youtube channel because of german, now you're talking about Turkish, that I started to get interested in recently, and omg i can't describe my happiness when you mentioned Georgian!! I've been fascinated with this language for such a long time, there was even a time when I learned its writing system, guess i was 13 hahaha Anyways, i love following your journey with language learning, very inspiring! Unfortunately I can't relate on having the same dedication as you...
Love from Brasil!!
seems we’re on the same wavelength! i’m glad there will be someone to tune into my learning adventures in the next year 😁 do you have twitter? let’s be friends!
@@elyssedavega yesss i do! I follow you there! Search for @iriscstd and you'll find me 😁
I've definitely dabbled with all of these languages! Good luck with Georgian, the grammar is something.. Turkish is quite easy at the beginning, but it's a very difficult language to maintain, vocabulary wise since it doesn't resemble the languages you do know.
hmmm we'll see... thanks for the well wishes!
since your learning Turkish The Oxford Turkish Grammar should be a good help for all grammar concepts ranging from beginner to advance in terms of detailed structure of the language. if you want something for grammar comprehension or reading the Turkish tutor is also good
i’ve been learning spanish for about 4 years and i really just want to solidify my confidence in it and to be able to truly understand native speakers when they talk (they talk so damn fast that my pea brain can’t keep up). also, similar to you for portuguese, i want to develop my spanish accent because i literally just copy the accent of the person i’m talking to/tv characters/whichever accent was the last one i heard. also, i just started learning korean and i’d like to be able to have basic conversations and talk about myself and daily things by the end of the year (although if i can do more that would also be great). i’m also starting to study french this year. i’m not 100% sure if i’ll love it and i wasn’t planning on learning it (i actually wanted to start learning portuguese instead) but i recently had a long lost cousin that came into my life and his wife is from france and they have 2 young children that speak both french and English, but a lot of the time they’re more comfortable in french. i just want to be able to communicate better with them and i also figured that having a cousin who is a native speaker, and also teaches french, is an extremely beneficial resource. so i’m giving it a shot and hopefully i’ll learn to love it. so all in all, i’m hoping to keep deep diving into spanish, start building a foundation in korean, explore the basics of french and see how i feel about it, and MAYBE start portuguese if i have the time and energy
Portuguese is addictive! don't start it until you're ready to be obsessed with it hahaha. I wish you luck Abby
I am a native English speaker, but also speak American Sign Langauge and work as an ASL Interpreter. I have dabbled in many languages, but currently have been learning Dutch and currently love Dutch.
Really? If you love Dutch then I'd really recommend Afrikaans, it's almost the same language! 😊
Boa sorte com o aprendizado!!! Beijos de Recife. My language goal in 2021 is to get on a intermediate level in Hebrew.
Love your motivation ,I'll need a littler bit of that for this year I'm improving my englesh and learning hebrew and may be traing some french and espanish ,anyways love your content!!!!
I'm brazilian by the way
Great video can't wait to see your progress next year. I'm learning Korean and Japanese at the same time, while trying to improve my German and Spanish. I want to take on Turkish as well, but that's not a priority right now.
wow you sure do have a variety! cool that we have 3 in common :) thank you for watching by the way ~
@@elyssedavega we actually have one more in common I want to learn French as well but like I said not a priority. I don't want to learn too many at once. And these days when learning a language one gets destracted by the cool music in other languages or tv shows. So the list keep growing 😂
Hi Elysse! Love your channel, you're helping me a lot with my journey through German, thank you so much!
Sobre o português, super recomendo vídeos que os próprios brasileiros assistem, você provavelmente já faz isso, mas vale a pena reforçar a ideia. "Porta dos Fundos" é um canal aqui do youtube de esquetes de comédia que provavelmente vai te ajudar muito, eu sou mineiro e particularmente não percebo nenhum sotaque com eles (eles são cariocas). Algumas esquetes são polêmicas e por isso muita gente não gosta deles, mas eu mesmo adoro a maioria dos vídeos deles.
Outra recomendação seria os "Barbixas", outro canal de comédia mas que é mais teatral. Espero que ajude!
elysse i'm so excited that you're starting to learn turkish! we've been working on german with you in 2020 and your tips helped me a lot, and now i'm really hyped that you're gonna be studying my native language :) general warning tho, it might be very different and complicated (it's more difficult than german, i believe) but you're so gonna rock it! good luck :)
your excitement excites me even more!
Yaay! Nahuatl sounds so interesting . Good luck!! E boa sorte em descobri teu sotaque em português hahaha (venha pro lado do Rio
I got so excited when you said Turkish
I'm so excited that you're going to learn Turkish! I'm Dutch and also speak German, and I really consider Turkish to have added a lot to my life (: Personally I wasn't putting enough time into the grammar at first, can't stress that enough 🌿
I’m no polyglot but I’m trying my best to learn Irish in 2021 as I’ll be a Canadian in Dublin, hoping to take teacher training and Irish is a core subject in primary schools there. So I not only need to be able to speak it but also eventually write read and teach it!
Wow, that's great! Irish is such difficult
@AlixWith An I...Impossible for you to reach that kind of standard. Go to another English-speaking country (Northern Ireland perhaps ? ) that doesn´t impose that type of condition/restriction. You know why it´s obligatory for Irish students to learn Irish ? Because the Irish government knows that nobody would bother to choose it if it were an elective subject, and the language would die out overnight. Instead the Government insists on playing a "let´s pretend" game that Irish is still a living language, in order to appease a few Irish language extremists who might be persuaded to vote for them in the next election. Why would you want to live in a country that possesses governments and citizens with that kind of "I´m in denial of reality and prefer to live in the past" mentality ? Let me quickly add that I´m not trying to rain on the parade of your ambitions and aspirations, but simply feel inclined to warn you that you should have a full understanding of what you´re jumping into beforehand.
Good luck with that man, seems like a good adventure
@@Gerard_2024 that absolutely was entirely raining on my parade, and rather unhelpful advice. I happen to be incredibly passionate about Irish language revitalization and preservation. I’m already moving to Ireland for my husband’s work, and I’m well aware that it’s a struggling minority language that’s not widely spoken. Why did you think it was a valuable comment to try to dissuade someone from learning a language? What exactly would the consequence of me learning a small/minority/dying language have been to you?
“Impossible to get to that level”...just watch me
@@justo9564 thank you! I’m excited to give it a shot!
My 2020 has been the year for Spanish, and as soon as I get to a B2 ish level I'll get back to Norwegian. Norwegian and I have got a bit of a complicated relationship coz it's kinda hard to find online resources for learning it, though, I've recently found a pretty cool website for it. I'm so itching to restart learning it. This time around, though, I promise myself I'll try and speak it from day one. Good luck with your languages xx
Hi! Could you share the website? I am interested in learning Norwegian but I never find any good material to work with
@@carolinareis9627 laernorsknaa.com/language-resources/ Here you go :)
I just discovered your channel and I have to say I'm quite impressed. I was raised in Belgium with a foreign mother so I ended up speaking French Dutch English and Portuguese and I've always had multiple languages on the backburner but you're taking it a step further and it's amazing. Now I live in English speaking Canada so most of it is fading away. Wish you luck on doing French videos, idk how you manage to find discussion groups in all the languages you're practicing.
How do you maintain all these languages ?
Omg, you're gonna learn Turkish!! Sooo excited for you
I'm addicted to writing systems, unfortunately.
hey man if that's your jush then run with it
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Hahaha same! I started learning Korean because I told myself I'd "just take a look at the writing system" ... I did NOT manage to stop at the writing system
@@katkat4223 OMG SAME at first I just learned hangul for fun. Now learning korean full time :')
Hi Elysse! I'm from Brazil and I got to your videos because I have finally started studying German, but I'm also studying French at the same time so I'm trying to dedicate myself to both of them. On French I'm actually taking a course, so I have a teacher to assist me, but German I'm doing it on my own. And I've never done that. Besides, I'm an English teacher, and I've been doing a lot of research on language learning to help my students on it. Unfortunately I don't have any resources on Portuguese but I hope to see your updates on it :)
Hello Anna! I'm glad you found me through German, those videos have really brought a lot of people around this year. I'm glad to hear you're pursuing it by yourself though, the bond will be so much stronger. And don't worry, of course there will be Portuguese updates!
Elysse! How great you are about to learn Náhuatl! I am also planning to learn it after I reach a higher level in other two languages I'm studying right now. I hope to get started by 2022. Thanks for inspiring me to discover it. Saludos desde Querétaro, México :D
Have fun! i can't wait to explore my first indigenous language heheh
NO WAY IM LEARNING GEORGIAN TOO!!! im surrounded by it so its easier in that aspect.
i also reccomend you check out kazakh! its quite similar to turkish but it has a cryllic alphabet and russian mixed in with it, great culture too :))
I wish you luck with it! And that’s cool, I’ll check it out! I already know the Cyrillic alphabet because I studied Russian as a child, so that would be convenient!
Over winter break I plan to restart my language practices. I study German in school, but it’s pretty come and go with remembering vocab and such, so I have studied it outside of school, along with French and a little Spanish, and I’m hoping to start back up with all 3 and really get to language learning come 2021
Every time I watch these videos I feel motivated to learn and teach! I hope you achieve your 2021 goals and have Arabic on the list in 2022!! Much love and support ♥️
I'm mexican and I had never seen your channel, couldn't believe the first language you mentioned was Nahuatl, literally the language that would have never cross my mind would be the first. Congrats to you for learning that language, I don't speak it but I'm sure that if you know spanish and nahuatl you will have an amazing time in central Mexico exploring small indigenous villages if you ever visit this country (don't know if you already have). So happy a young foreigner like you decides to learn nahuatl, a very very distant language from anything. Hope you can visit Mexico someday
Thank you Josue! I've been to Mexico before (DF), but there's not that much openly spoken indigenous language there. I would love to go to Puebla and use any Nahuatl that I learn. Un saludo!!
I've never felt more seen that when Elysse talked about skipping over the basics and talking about more complex topics such as a refugee crisis. A toxic trait for me as well!
I'm currently learning Mexican Spanish, but I am also tuning my ear for Caribbean Spanish as well. Japanese is my ball and chain, mostly because my connection or motivation has been affected by my personal relationship to Japanse people I know, aspects of the culture. Not to forget that my language travel plan for July 2020 crushed by the pandemic. Russian is always my back burner, "hey there sexy" language that gets very little air time. Hoping to keep absorbing little bits from my Russian speaking Central Asian friends in the upcoming year!
I'm also American, currently speak / study Russian, Esperanto, Norwegian and Thai. Next year I will begin studying Kyrgyz and Arabic. Georgian is awesome, I know the alphabet and can read it to a certain degree but I find the language itself very intimidating! The alphabet is super easy, you can learn it in a day easily. Good luck 🖖
Uve watched SKAM?
@@salmalaks1996I'm a grown man, I have absolutely zero interest in that kinda thing, and frankly I find it annoying that it's constantly assumed that people who learn Norwegian are doing so because of that damn show or because they're into black metal, as if those are the only reasons anyone would want to learn such a beautiful language
@@colinsmith5879 looool i get it. Im norwegian myself and trust me, i had enough of hearing abt the show in my own country😂 i never saw ppl interested in norwegian until recently and as u say, most ppl i see online do it for that one reason. Its cool to see ur interested for the sake of the language itself! Hows the process going? Id love to hear how much norwegian u know now and how uve learnt it!
Hey, are u interested in language exchange rus-eng?
@@LediLea sure! Send me a message and I'll give you contact info
I'm planning on tackling Scottish Gaelic!
Me too! I recommend MangoLanguages if you're not using it already! It's free! :)
Hey both of you, how’s your learning going? I would love to learn and it’d be great to hear what resources you’re using etc. Thanks!
Hi Elysse, I have actually started learning Turkish through German (being a non-native of both) while studying in Berlin. It's not all that easy with the German grammar concepts, but definitely worth it! So I'd rather confirm you got a great idea :) As a ressource, I've tried out many many things and the 2 best I could find are: Kolay gelsin! (textbooks & exercise books in German from A1-B1 -pretty expensive but SOOO much better than any other!) and the (free) UA-cam videos of Yunus Emre Enstitüsü (all Turkish levels). Hope it can help you out :) All the best in your language learning, Turkish is such a great language & culture!
Yunus Emre Enstitusu, I haven't heard that! A lot of Turkish resource recommendations I got were English ones. I'll bookmark this now!
@@elyssedavega Kolay gelsin is in German & Turkish and Yunus Emre Enstitüsü's videos are entirely in Turkish but easy to understand from A1 (they teach a lot of grammar, vocabulary... in a simple way, also a nice way to train oral comprehension). Yunus Emre Enstüsü is the Turkish language institute of Turkey's government and I believe they currently offer free online group classes (at least the French and German sections did), you may check these out as well. Happy language learning! :)
so good to see someone else so excited about learning languages!
Just subscribed. Look forward to your 2021 updates! Never followed anyone learning Georgian 🇬🇪, should be fun! I’m working on improving my Russian 🇷🇺 🤞🏾
Also there’s a great channel on UA-cam where she compares Portugal Portuguese with her friend’s Brazilian Portuguese. Could be super helpful for colloquial wording!
Also also!! You should find yourself a Portuguese “parent”! Someone you hear online or wherever, whom you would love to sound like. That way you can focus on them and their accent for reference
you are my inspiration,have a good year
Oh my God...
I have just started learning Georgian 2 weeks ago for the exact same reason :O
Even more strange is that I also considered taking up Turkish as well (in the end, I didn't do it, maybe that will be the next language that I will learn)
There is an amazing book, called "Beginner's Georgian" which was written by Dodona Kiziria. It comes with 2 audio cd-s, which is of course crucial for such a hard-to-pronounce language.
i was thinking of getting that book! i have to now
I've learned some Turkish but I need to study it more, because I started to learn it 4 years ago but only actively studied for around six months (I think it was a very small amount of time).
Despite that, 2020 has somehow become my Turkish year, after having a linguistically inactive 2019 (even that's a lie, because I was picking up some Catalan during that time, as it was easier to me due to it being closer to Spanish, my native language, so I mostly only either read or watched stuff in Catalan, as I tried to avoid language books at all costs, mostly due to school schedules). It paid, as now I'm probably just near B1, I can understand long videos and texts in Catalan now, and I use the dictionary less often.
I've been watching lots of Turkish videos, both educational and about varied topics, now I feel more comfortable with Turkish, though I wouldn't say I'm still at B1 :(
Misses Elysse, i have been studying russian for one year and a half, the most interesting in this part is the access to culture and history of the country easilly, for example, the balrussian and the ukrainian historical-cultures, an the you can see in general the context of lexical changes during these centuries. Good look in this long way walking towards vacations 👍🏻.
Before I found your channel, I was feeling really burned out on the languages I'd been studying this year. I wasn't even planning on making a list for 2021 because I was so overwhelmed, but this video re-inspired me. For 2020, I did Japanese, Dutch, and Mandarin with some sprinklings of Cantonese and Korean. I'm thinking for 2021, I'll do ASL, Dutch, and Cantonese. I feel fairly confident in my Japanese, and I'm absolutely burned out on Mandarin. I'm so glad UA-cam recommended this video for me! Thanks!
Maybe something that could help is doing quarters instead of planning for the whole year. Lindie Botes talked about this recently and I think it's a great idea, I'm doing it too. I'm glad to hear I could help, thank you so much for watching :')
@@elyssedavega honestly, that’s a really good idea! I’ll try that!
German here, I found my passion for language learning when I started to learn Russian in April of 2019 (I already knew English and French beforehand, but Russian was the first one I've learnt on my own) and since then I've picked up Esperanto and more recently, Finnish (Yes, I'm into those weird languages no one speaks), while also dabbling into some other languages that I won't continue any time soon. In 2021 I'll try to get good-ish at Russian (currently on the intermediate plateau...) while also getting deeper into Finnish and Greek, my newest language which I'm studying together with a friend.
Deinen Kanal habe ich glaube ich durch das Things I wish I knew before I started learning German-Video gefunden, das mir irgendwann vorgeschlagen wurde? Man merkt auf jeden Fall, wenn man sich so durch deine Videos klickt, wie dein deutsch immer besser geworden ist. Jetzt drücke ich dir die Daumen, dass du nächstes Jahr auch über deinen Alltag und Gabeln sprechen kannst!
As an English speaking German that language change startled me for a bit. But good luck and have fun with your Greek studies^^
That's some really mixed up language knowledge u got there. If you're now into Greek and the whole Greek Mythology stuff, I really recommend Percy Jackson. It's originally written in English and is so rich with Greek mythology while not being boring/"slow".
Hey Elysse, I love your videos very much!!! Thanks for the videos 😊☺️😊
This are my language learning goals for 2021--
1. Reach German B1 level ( atleast) . And enrich my vocabulary.
2. Learn Russian to have a 10 to 15 mins conversation. ( I have already learnt personal pronouns,some words and the Cyrillic script)
3. Learn good amount of Italian (A1).
4. Also learn A1 spanish and try to reach till A2!
Thanks!!!!
Native speak : French
English ( B2 level )
Spanish (A2 level )
Japanese - beginner - started in january 2019
I feel the exact same way about French and Irish! I got really high grades in school but haven't looked at either of them since starting university. This year I'm focusing on getting back into French and Irish, learning some Spanish and I'm very tempted to pick up something completely different, with a different script!
Heey, so I'm brazilian and I'm trying to improve my English and French (which are kind of an intermediate level) and work on my spanish which is basically portuñol hahahha. I was also trying to learn mandarin chinese, but it just seems so hard and also I couldn't adapt it to my routine. So idk what I'm doing with it for the next year, but I'm definitely continuing the other languages. Btw, you're doing great on your portuguese, keep on girl!!
I'm a native greek speaker, I've been studying english for a big portion of my life and now I feel it's time to move on to something new.I've always wanted to learn french and italian.I have started learning french on my own, it's not that easy but it fills me with joy.Good luck to everyone on their language goals.
it’s definitely time for something new if you feel confident in english!
I'm from Georgia 🇬🇪 and you should know that if you will start learning Georgian it will be very hard because of grammar(especially verb) and sounds like წ, ჭ, ღ, ყ, ც, ძ those sounds aren't used in most of languages. We also have sounds like ტ, კ, ხ, პ which aren't in English but are in Russian. So you will have hard time learning it. Also love your videos❤️❤️
Dude! I understand your feeling with French so well!! I studied French for 8 years (middle school+high school) and even did a program in highschool that got me an actual french Baccalaureate (diploma). I was so done with French that I just completely left it behind and I now wish I hadn't, obviously! I really want to get back on it
IB really scarred us didn't it..
i've been learning english since 2019 and now i decided to learn korean, spanish, japanese, and turkish. if you speak one of those languages, i'd appreciate your help a looot.
my first language is portuguese. let me know if you wanna some help with it
Im currently learning korean as my third language and oh dear I feel like giving up, it is so hard and confusing. I've learned some of the grammar rules and I understand the explanations completely until I start making my own sentences in various contexts idk why but I feel so lost. Anyway I use Talk To Me in Korean's curriculum to learn grammar. They provide free grammar lessons on the website which is great.
@@plana4703 i feel the same way sometimes, but then i set my goals again and go back to work. you know, it'll always have that hard part, the one who makes you feel like you're not going to make it.
have you tried eggbun and lingodeer? they're amazing apps to learn korean easily and well-explained.
@@winnajojo I haven't tried neither of these maybe I should try using it, thank you so much 💜
dude i can't believe i JUST found your channel I love it!!!
Yaaaaas hi bestie !!
Would love to see a video of you studying turkish to see what recources you use 🤩
Thanks for the idea! noted ~
Seeing you announcing French like that made me feel a bit more encouraged to learn ir for real. I've been watching your videos for a long time because I got amazed with your fluid Portuguese speaking skills, now if you bring us some French content it would be even nicer 🙃
hell yeah! i hope to keep my learning with french real honest and transparent cause i'm expecting some bumpy roads.
I'm on and off with my language learning, but for 2021 I'd like to get back into Korean, and start/continue Mandarin, Finnish, Russian, and Hebrew. Being Canadian I'd also like to tackle first nations languages like Inuktitut and Ojibwe. I don't think I'll be super intensly studying all of these all year long but I hope the wave of new year goal making motivation I have atm will sets some what of a structure to help me staying motivated with my language learning 😝.
omg ELYSE hi almost-name-twin.. those sound marvelous, good luck to you!!
Yay for French! My hs French classes weren't that involved; even in fourth year french, we mostly spoke in english, so I ended up doing a lot on my own, and it became very special to me (graduating this spring with a french major haha). I hope you find lots of success with it in 2021! 🥰
Hiiii. Cómo nativa hablante de español y ahora estudiando lengua y literaturas hispánicas, estudio náhuatl y literatura Náhuatl, creo que de todo lo que he aprendido nada ha sido hablar sobre mi o ese tipo de cosas básicas que aprendes a decir en otros idiomas. Si te interesa el material en náhuatl yo te puedo ayudar, desde cosas básicas como pronombres hasta lecturas en náhuatl con su traducción en español. Náhuatl es realmente hermoso, pero son muy pocas hablantes de este idioma que vas a encontrar en Internet 💓 mucha suerte en náhuatl vas a aprender muchas cosas aparte del idioma
Me interesa saber lo que has aprendido en Nahuatl entonces! me puedes mandar un correo elyssespeaks@gmail.com o si tienes twitter mi @ es elyssedavega :)
Language goals for 2021: figure out what my language goals are 😂
Here are my ideas so far:
- Reignite my Italian
- Start dabbling in Norwegian
- Start seriously learning Amharic (started a couple years ago, but haven't committed yet)
- Continue practicing and improving my Portuguese and Spanish
- Continue Danish (my Danish is your German - this year was a productive one when it comes to Danish)
Honorable mentions:
German, Turkish and Georgian are also on my bucket list. Georgian seems like such a cool language!
Owwwn I'm from Brazil and its my first time here! So, from the words you said in Portuguese, to me you sounded very Paulista. And that thing of shaping your accent to whomever you speak with, it's ok, I do that too! 1 week in Rio and I'm like Rahsrshsrs excited to see your progress in 2021 ^^
Ah French, THE ball and chain language ;)
I'm so excited to see you go off of these goals! I don't see many people online studying Georgian or Nahautl so I'm REALLY excited to see you study those/try those out. Also I totally relate with the toxic trait of skipping basic stuff, I specifically ALWAYS skip colours/shapes/body parts because I'm like ehhhhh when will I use that. Then I need to describe anything I don't know and I'm like "uuhhhh it's the colour of the sky I don't know how to say that colour tho"
f*** learning basics all my homies hate basics... anyways heck yeah i'm excited too!! i cant wait to see what you do next year >:)
*me on a language learning slump* keep up the good work you people, you are capable of achieving great stuff, you totally can do it 🥺✌🏼
i hope you get your mojo back soon!
Trying to improve my Italian and Greek - those are oldies. Also started Dutch and Sahidic Coptic so those are also on my list for 2021
Heyy I want to start learning Italian too, I actaually already know a lot of things because of my relatives but I‘ve never really studied it and my grammar is really bad.. anyways I wanted to ask what you use to learn Italian and if you have any good resources or tips.. I‘m kinda lost haha
@@giuliaelena8572 Hi, for a getting a grip on the grammar, I suggest Duolingo. It's good for getting a good foundation on the grammar. Once you finish the Italian tree, you should also try a good grammar book to cement those grammar rules. As you work through the book, also try those Duolingo stories as well as reading easy news articles (they may be difficult at first but just note the difficult words and work through them, you will get a hang of it). All the best with your Italian studies :)
@@MrHermes3331 thank you so much and also good luck :)
Elysse, I would love to see your progress in Turkish, since it'll be a completely new language for you; I think it'll be so interesting to see the methods you use to approach that!
i plan on updating as i go! :)
Your voice is so soothing. I'd listen to you the whole day.
separate ASMR channel coming soon
For your Turkish here is the list of few resources you may go through (not sure how do these fit into your whole German plan).
To get started
1. Babble is by far the best structured course to get started with. Policed without any glitch.
2. Bussu is also good to get you started but it you nowhere near to Babble in degree of refinement. Further their reinforcement system is totally broken.
For speaking
3. If you want to go into speaking language then Language transfer if the best resource. It is like pimsleur but free and average lesson is 5-10 minutes long. I really liked it.
4. Pimsleur course is also good but only 30 lessons.
For listening-
5. Turkish classes 101 is good. There are 90 lessons at beginners level plus tons of cultural resources.
6. Turkish Tea Time is another good resource for listening. Podcasts are free but to access transcripts and other resources you have to pay 10 dollar per month.
For reading practice
7. LingQ app, bit expensive for somebody living in India, but can be used for few months to improve reading. You can import your own lessons/dialogue/ subtitles and read them.
8. Readlang browser extension for translating words on clicking them. Free and good.
You tube channels
9. Learn Turkish the easy way, new channel but lot of good content coming out every day. Suitable for beginners.
10. Learn Turkish with Ali Yilmaz, suitable for A2-B2 learners.Fully in Turkish. Live conversation, story videos, grammar videos.
11. Easy Turkish, colloquial Turkish. A2 to b2 level content.
Ohh wait I forgot to mention SRS tool😆
Memrise is best in this regard.
Regards
wow, i can't thank you enough for this!! you're marvelous, i'll take note of this :)
I was so surprised when you said you wanted to learn Turkish ! I'd be glad to help you out. Turkish can be so difficult sometimes.
I'm already learning English and Hebrew this year,
And i'm gonna add Esperanto to the list and learn it with the new year :D
Happy new year everyone 🎄🎊
happy new year and good luck!
I'm also mostly studying 6 languages this year. Currently, those are: Finnish, Arabic, Tagalog, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Indonesian.
1. Chinese is the one I'll likely be improving the most in, and it's the one I'm the most familiar with already.
2. Vietnamese and Indonesian I also made a lot of progress in last year, but I still want to keep them up and ensure I retain what I learn. Both have their simplicities and their complexities, but I really enjoy both of them.
3. Tagalog is because my significant other is Filipino. His family speaks Tagalog, and while they're all fluent in English, I want to connect more with his heritage and with his family on a more intimate level. At first, the initial hold-off was because I couldn't wrap my head around the various markers. But when I finally got the hang of them, the language immediately started making more sense to me.
4. Arabic is one I've studied in the past, but only to learn the writing system, haha. This has made getting back into it somewhat easier. I'm learning MSA, which is quite difficult, and my progress is quite slow, but it's honestly okay so far.
5. Finnish is the newest one and the one I'm least familiar with. I've studied agglutinative languages in the past, so most of the concepts are not new to me; additionally, its orthography is basically entirely phonetic and the pronunciation is pretty straightforward. I'm still early into it, but so far, it's not nearly as difficult as people love to purport it being.
I would like to hear about your experience about studying languages in a separated way vs studying them simultaneously. I'm trying to keep up with german, learning french and japanese a little bit everyday. But I'm thinking about studying each of them for a month like you said.
Haha that with german happens me with english, i love academic english but my knowledge of daily expressions is very low :c
So excited for you studying French and German!!
You inspired me to learn Mandarin Chinese (a language I never thought I would challenge myself with)! I recently started this months, so it will be my 4th language! :) Is there any advice you recommend or tips to learning mandarin?
Congrats! I'm glad I could help. I made a video about chinese resources I was using earlier in the year, around Feb-March. I also made an update video, so go check those out if you want some advice!
when u did a german language video i was so happy &enjoyed it so muchhhhhhh im actually studying it now .. so please can u do another "full day of speaking Deutsch!" i hope u do it cuz actually im arabic and im learning german through english 🥺
Yas girl! I'm learning Turkish too and it's soo fun I love it.
I don't know about learning in German but I can recommend some English learning sources for Turkish:
Languagetransfer.org (for absolute beginners)
Elon.io (to practice grammatical structures)
Tandem (language exchange app)
And then italki of course!
Bence Türkçe çok ilginç, çok seviyorum! Umarım bu yıl daha fazla Türkçe öğrenebilirim!
My goals for 2021 are mostly the same I had for 2020 😅 German is still my priority (I'm ending my A1 textbooks), French comes second (I'm between advance intermediate and advance... maybe) and English (in maintenance) and Italian (super beginner) share the third place. I'm super excited for 2021, I hope to find enough motivation to study at least for a few minutes every day 😄. BTW, Spanish is my native language, I'm from Argentina. Love your videos Elysse! And happy new year everybody, 2020 is finally ending!
Hey, I'm interested in reaching C2 in Spanish sometime. The little I know about "Castellano Rioplatense" comes from this series I watched "Sos mi vida". Was it popular in Argentina ?
@@diariosdelextranjero Hi there! I believe so, yes. I didn't watch it but I think it was very popular at its time. What is your native language BTW?
I study Spanish mainly. I have dabbled a bit in Norwegian and I love it. I am very interested in learning Portuguese and French, as well as Guaraní. I have also been wondering about Turkish and Bulgarian - България.
Another great video from you🧡 I’m learning German through English (I’m from Ukraine btw) and I’m planning on learning French next year✌🏻 good luck
That's great! I'm glad english has opened that door with you
That accent shifting problem is so real! I heard somewhere that we do it because we are auditory learners and memorize and mimick sounds. I do this in Portuguese (I'm learning and am a native Spanish speaker)now that I moved from California to Wisconsin I do it in English too!
absolutely. at the end of the day we all just wanna belong huh