I am portuguese native speaker that speaks spanish as a second language and english as a third language It is so unbelivable see that you put the articles "Lo and La" 100% CORRECTLY and your native language (chinese) does not have articles like english so it must be difficult to use portuguese or spanish articles correctly. It is so amazing. The only thing that make us realize that you are a foreigner is your pronunciation speed, usualy in portuguese and spanish we speak so fast. But your pronunciation is perfect so I gotta say you are very smart.
Whats truly awesome about this man is he changes voice tones when he switches language! Which not many foreign language teachers teach you. Great catch!
Hi Phoenix, thanks for sharing. A lot of useful information. I just want to point out one thing, the Belgium speaks Dutch and French, not German and French. The north part of Belgium was part of the Netherlands before, that is why they speak Dutch. But they may call it flamish. The differences between Netherlands Dutch and Belgium Dutch is bit like mainland Chinese vs Taiwanese Chinese.
It’s just unbelievable, that your American accent is so great! I am from indonesia speaking Indonesian as my native, English, Spanish, learning Portuguese now because my partner is Portuguese and thinking of mastering Arabic or Chinese language( I had a Chinese class when I was kid). I have to say, to some extent , it’s not easy to master a new language, I am pretty much skeptical with most of polyglot videos, especially on UA-cam. It took me at least 2- 5 years to master a new language, of course depending on certain aspects. However, I think your fluency on your videos is convincing and honest.
Yeah, I was going to say, he has only a faint accent in English. I'm not sure I would have picked up on it if I hadn't known that he was born in China and is a native speaker of Mandarin.
Ugh, you're so eloquent and thoughtful in your replies, it's evident that you're widely read. I feel you on the boring hobbies, whenever someone asks me I reply "I study Korean" and then there's the awkward silence of "That's it?" And I'm like "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH EFFORT IT REQUIRES TO LEARN A LANGUAGE?" (the greatest effort being that you're constantly tempted to buy alllll the books)
Awesome video! I find myself picking up Chinese words in context because I know some Korean and Japanese and recognize commonalities when coupled with English subtitles. Very motivating video, so I think I will study when I get home today!
I am a Tibetan, I've been a fan of your videos for a while. I love different cultures and languages, I see so much beauty in it. I speak Tibetan, Mandarin and English. I'm learning French atm, and would love to learn Spanish and Japanese in the future. I remembered you mentioned in another video that you're interested in Buddhism as well, any interests learning Tibetan - people say it's the language that opens the door to Buddha Darma wisdom. haha. So awesome you are learning Uyghur as well, keen to hear more of your learning experience! Scott Young has a theory of "Ultra Learning" a new language where you literally soak your brain in the target language for 3 months and you'll achieve daily communicational level, thought it might interests you as well. Cheers.
Thank you so much for all of your videos! I already speak 4 languages and I'm trying to improve them while learning my 5th language, and each time I feel stuck I just watch one of your videos and my motivation comes back to me. You're an inspiration ✨️
Tu español es excelente, me encanta como suena tu voz. Estoy tratando de aprender koreano por mi cuenta, también quiero aprender muchos idiomas. Me inspiras mucho
Ich bin aus Österreich und lerne gerade Spanisch, Chinesisch und Französisch gleichzeitig in der Schule. Zumindest versuche ich es. Französisch habe ich schon ein Jahr länger in der Schule. Rückblickend würd ich mir wünschen, dass ich die Sprachen hintereinander gelernt hätte (z.B. durch selbstständiges Lernen), weil es leicht frustrierend ist, oft nicht genug Zeit zu haben sich komplett in eine Sprache hinein zu fühlen. Andererseits ist es angenehm jetzt schon einen Grundstock aufzubauen, weil ich weiß, dass ich danach noch mein ganzes Leben lang Zeit habe zum Lernen. Gott sei Dank sind jetzt Sommerferien. Selbstständig lernen fühlt sich nämlich viel besser für mich an, als in der (und für die) Schule zu lernen. I'm from Austria and I'm currently trying to learn Spanish, Chinese and French in school at the same time. Emphasis on trying. I've been learning French for one year longer though. Looking back, I wish I wouldn't have taken that many language courses at once. Because it's kind of frustrating to not be able to immerse myself into the languages fully, more often than not. However, I am grateful for the opportunity to built a strong basis for language learning already. In the end I have my whole life to properly study languages. Additionally it's the holidays right now. It's the first time I am studying on my own and it actually turned out to be more comfortable for me than studying in and for school.
I've been learning Japanese for years as a hobby, but 敬語 and ビジネス日本語 is something else. I want to be able to use my language skills in my career too, but not sure how to motivate myself to learn that stuff or read boring textbooks.. Ps. Your eloquence makes this video so useful for Chinese listening, I find myself rewatching it for the second time. So if you're not sure whether anyone would watch your Chinese videos, here I am.
It's fascinating how "familiar" Uyghur sounds to a German person, since Turkish is so prevalent here and both languages share an early common root. I just love that stuff, just like when my wife has a conversation in Korean, I can piece quite a few things together through Japanese (and thus sometimes Chinese) cognates like 가족/家族, 약속/約束, 소개/紹介. También estoy de acuerdo en que la elección del material de aprendizaje es muy personal. Me gustan mucho los dramas de crimen, por lo que las narconovelas como El Chapo o Patrón del Mal son perfectas para mí.
Could I ask you a question, teacher(I call you because you are teaching me, sorry!) I want to check my language level to start learning the other language. How can I check my language level? I've heard the advice that before starting to learn third language, you should be able to be intermediate in second language. Thank you so much! Xie xie lao shi!
Thank you for your video! It answers a lot of my questions. I want to ask you a few more though if that’s okay with you :D I’m an Indonesian and I’d say I’m pretty good with English language, however I’m trying to learn Chinese. In my environment unfortunately Chinese isn’t used, and I find difficulty trying to find people I can talk in daily basis in Chinese to practice. Also, I’m confused how to start learning Chinese as I’ve learnt it a little during middle school, bu I’ve forgotten some if not most of the vocabularies I’ve learnt. I did try to take private classes but it didn’t really improve my Chinese much, maybe because I’m a quite forgetful person. Do you have any advices for me? Thank you in advance
I would consider it necessary because you’d be significantly dwarfing your channels of input if you don’t learn to read or right. You wouldn’t be able to use tools like dictionaries to self correct, you wouldn’t be able to take notes. My guess is that you would be able to achieve some level of fluency if you have an infinite amount of time.
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I am portuguese native speaker that speaks spanish as a second language and english as a third language
It is so unbelivable see that you put the articles "Lo and La" 100% CORRECTLY and your native language (chinese) does not have articles like english so it must be difficult to use portuguese or spanish articles correctly. It is so amazing.
The only thing that make us realize that you are a foreigner is your pronunciation speed, usualy in portuguese and spanish we speak so fast. But your pronunciation is perfect so I gotta say you are very smart.
Whats truly awesome about this man is he changes voice tones when he switches language! Which not many foreign language teachers teach you. Great catch!
Hi Phoenix, thanks for sharing. A lot of useful information. I just want to point out one thing, the Belgium speaks Dutch and French, not German and French. The north part of Belgium was part of the Netherlands before, that is why they speak Dutch. But they may call it flamish. The differences between Netherlands Dutch and Belgium Dutch is bit like mainland Chinese vs Taiwanese Chinese.
It’s just unbelievable, that your American accent is so great! I am from indonesia speaking Indonesian as my native, English, Spanish, learning Portuguese now because my partner is Portuguese and thinking of mastering Arabic or Chinese language( I had a Chinese class when I was kid). I have to say, to some extent , it’s not easy to master a new language, I am pretty much skeptical with most of polyglot videos, especially on UA-cam. It took me at least 2- 5 years to master a new language, of course depending on certain aspects. However, I think your fluency on your videos is convincing and honest.
Yeah, I was going to say, he has only a faint accent in English. I'm not sure I would have picked up on it if I hadn't known that he was born in China and is a native speaker of Mandarin.
Ugh, you're so eloquent and thoughtful in your replies, it's evident that you're widely read.
I feel you on the boring hobbies, whenever someone asks me I reply "I study Korean" and then there's the awkward silence of "That's it?" And I'm like "DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH EFFORT IT REQUIRES TO LEARN A LANGUAGE?" (the greatest effort being that you're constantly tempted to buy alllll the books)
Awesome video! I find myself picking up Chinese words in context because I know some Korean and Japanese and recognize commonalities when coupled with English subtitles. Very motivating video, so I think I will study when I get home today!
Thanks! Glad you like it
I am a Tibetan, I've been a fan of your videos for a while. I love different cultures and languages, I see so much beauty in it. I speak Tibetan, Mandarin and English. I'm learning French atm, and would love to learn Spanish and Japanese in the future. I remembered you mentioned in another video that you're interested in Buddhism as well, any interests learning Tibetan - people say it's the language that opens the door to Buddha Darma wisdom. haha. So awesome you are learning Uyghur as well, keen to hear more of your learning experience! Scott Young has a theory of "Ultra Learning" a new language where you literally soak your brain in the target language for 3 months and you'll achieve daily communicational level, thought it might interests you as well. Cheers.
your spanish accent is incredible! it's really nice to hear foreign speakers that have "el acento español" ;) keep it up!
Thank you so much for all of your videos! I already speak 4 languages and I'm trying to improve them while learning my 5th language, and each time I feel stuck I just watch one of your videos and my motivation comes back to me. You're an inspiration ✨️
Tu español es excelente, me encanta como suena tu voz. Estoy tratando de aprender koreano por mi cuenta, también quiero aprender muchos idiomas. Me inspiras mucho
Ich bin aus Österreich und lerne gerade Spanisch, Chinesisch und Französisch gleichzeitig in der Schule. Zumindest versuche ich es.
Französisch habe ich schon ein Jahr länger in der Schule.
Rückblickend würd ich mir wünschen, dass ich die Sprachen hintereinander gelernt hätte (z.B. durch selbstständiges Lernen), weil es leicht frustrierend ist, oft nicht genug Zeit zu haben sich komplett in eine Sprache hinein zu fühlen. Andererseits ist es angenehm jetzt schon einen Grundstock aufzubauen, weil ich weiß, dass ich danach noch mein ganzes Leben lang Zeit habe zum Lernen.
Gott sei Dank sind jetzt Sommerferien. Selbstständig lernen fühlt sich nämlich viel besser für mich an, als in der (und für die) Schule zu lernen.
I'm from Austria and I'm currently trying to learn Spanish, Chinese and French in school at the same time. Emphasis on trying.
I've been learning French for one year longer though.
Looking back, I wish I wouldn't have taken that many language courses at once. Because it's kind of frustrating to not be able to immerse myself into the languages fully, more often than not.
However, I am grateful for the opportunity to built a strong basis for language learning already. In the end I have my whole life to properly study languages.
Additionally it's the holidays right now. It's the first time I am studying on my own and it actually turned out to be more comfortable for me than studying in and for school.
I've been learning Japanese for years as a hobby, but 敬語 and ビジネス日本語 is something else. I want to be able to use my language skills in my career too, but not sure how to motivate myself to learn that stuff or read boring textbooks..
Ps. Your eloquence makes this video so useful for Chinese listening, I find myself rewatching it for the second time. So if you're not sure whether anyone would watch your Chinese videos, here I am.
Haha thanks! I’ll make some more Chinese videos then
@@phoenixhou4486 looking forward to it!
@@phoenixhou4486 you should its a very pleasing to hear language!
It's fascinating how "familiar" Uyghur sounds to a German person, since Turkish is so prevalent here and both languages share an early common root. I just love that stuff, just like when my wife has a conversation in Korean, I can piece quite a few things together through Japanese (and thus sometimes Chinese) cognates like 가족/家族, 약속/約束, 소개/紹介.
También estoy de acuerdo en que la elección del material de aprendizaje es muy personal. Me gustan mucho los dramas de crimen, por lo que las narconovelas como El Chapo o Patrón del Mal son perfectas para mí.
Never had the chance to watch El Chapo but I heard it’s pretty good. Thanks for the recommendation!
Never had the chance to watch El Chapo but I heard it’s pretty good. Thanks for the recommendation!
Indeed, I have been learning Turkish for some time now, and the Uyghur language sounds quite similar. I imagine it is even more similar to Kazakh.
It's a really worth watching Q&A, I feel your passion. I'm also from North East China, in Germany now
老乡好🤝
muchas gracias por compartir mi pregunta. ❤
我也有一些问题想问博主。看到博主能把这么多门语言学得这么好，说得这么好，真的很佩服。我也很喜欢学习外语，目前大四，从中学英语就不错，然后大学有认真学英语除了专业学习，但大概也就B2的水平，感觉自己没有什么环境说，除了自己跟别人联系过的场景或者写东西写过的东西能够经常被调用起来，其他很多时候感觉词汇的长期积累是最困难的，然后我就觉得现在提高的方法就只能慢慢积累但又很慢。同样我也大二开始学习了法语，现在学习到了大概B1水平，但和英语同样的问题，感觉虽然掌握语法不太难，但是总需要很久很久来积累提高。总感觉自己学不到很高级的水平也没有很多环境。但是自己也很想把英语和法语都能学到一个较好的水平。所以想问博主在这样不确定什么时候才能有一个质的提高的情况下，应该遵循什么方向去继续努力，有效地慢慢提高自己英法的综合的语言能力和水平。感谢博主！感谢🙏
如果已經達到B2了其實是很高的水平了。這時候需要大量的聽讀。量的積累會帶來質的飛躍。
I’m learning some Korean and Chinese and the chinese language is beautiful and korean good job
謝謝大哥用心回答及精辟見解。自問語言天份低，當正被韓語入門文法弄至頭昏腦脹之時，這視頻來得正好！給了鼓勵及意見，我決定還是先認真學習多一點韓語單字😊🙏🏼
韓語語法細枝末節的東西極多，可以以後慢慢攻克。先把各個時態（했다, 한다, 하다, 하겠다, 할 것이다)等等學習紮實就好。
@Phoenix Hou 謝謝🙏🏼
等了好久的Q&A哈哈 被侯大哥的知识面震惊到🤯 之前提的问题没有被选中有点伤心🥲 jk lol 但还是想顶一下，特别希望可以出现在下次Q&A里！（在quarantine那一期, from Eli Wang
嘿嘿好滴！我去找找！！
我选要学的一门语言的标准只有一个：读原著。
you have a good spanish!!
Thank you!
明朝的书推荐当年明月的《明朝那点事》非常有趣哈哈哈😆
太太太酷了！！！！！！！像你学习！！！！！我最近也发现功利性的做某件成功率很低的事情对我来说成功率就是零，但是如果是从兴趣角度来做这件很难的事情，也许就能以轻松、享受的心态做好它，且可能会成功。。。。我也是对各个国家语言文化都很感兴趣的人，像你学习，把这些兴趣捡起来。另外你高中就看论语了，一看就是学霸呀，我现在快四十了才看论语，呵呵看的很开心，感觉活到老学到老，什么时候都不晚
一起加油！
Ελπίζω να αγαπήσεις την Ελληνική γλώσσα επίσης!
Could I ask you a question, teacher(I call you because you are teaching me, sorry!)
I want to check my language level to start learning the other language. How can I check my language level?
I've heard the advice that before starting to learn third language, you should be able to be intermediate in second language.
Thank you so much! Xie xie lao shi!
Thank you for your video! It answers a lot of my questions. I want to ask you a few more though if that’s okay with you :D
I’m an Indonesian and I’d say I’m pretty good with English language, however I’m trying to learn Chinese. In my environment unfortunately Chinese isn’t used, and I find difficulty trying to find people I can talk in daily basis in Chinese to practice. Also, I’m confused how to start learning Chinese as I’ve learnt it a little during middle school, bu I’ve forgotten some if not most of the vocabularies I’ve learnt. I did try to take private classes but it didn’t really improve my Chinese much, maybe because I’m a quite forgetful person. Do you have any advices for me?
Thank you in advance
意大利语是我认为最简单发言的语言，和法语有点像，如果学单词的话可能需要花上点时间
老师好，我特别喜欢英语，自己也有点基础，但是总觉得自己一桶水不满的感觉。求指导啊
Another great video! Why is it that you don’t speak with an English accent? Is it because you spent some time in the us ?
My accents are all over the place. But somehow this is what I naturally sound like most of the time.
I am just wondering. Do we need to learn to read and write if the goal is just to speak the language?
I would consider it necessary because you’d be significantly dwarfing your channels of input if you don’t learn to read or right. You wouldn’t be able to use tools like dictionaries to self correct, you wouldn’t be able to take notes. My guess is that you would be able to achieve some level of fluency if you have an infinite amount of time.
Great Q&A Video. I wonder if you've ever interested in German in some time of your life?
Yes definitely
@@phoenixhou4486 es wäre schön zu sehen, Sie auf Deutsch redet
對你的書單很感興趣阿 ! 英文中文都可以，不過我更想看中文的 !
好喔 前段時間有上傳一個中文書單的！🤓
@@phoenixhou4486 已經看完了😁👍
@@rae4469 嘿嘿謝謝支持！
请问候哥，关于你在视频中说到背单词的重要性。有无推荐的英文单词书？谢谢！
如果不是为了准备考试不建议用单词书，自己看喜欢的材料积累单词就好。
@@phoenixhou4486 好的哈谢谢
等很久了
好認真的問答
嘿嘿
我想問下你通常會係同一個時期只Focus 係學習一種語言？或多種語言？ 另外想問下你， 東北話同京片子有沒有好明顯的唔同？ 同埋仲想問下你是大概怎麼年歲搬去US., bec you sound like a native to me, so just curious
東北話和北京話還是有很大不同的，大抵相當於南寧白話與廣州話。我英語的口音每天都不太一樣哈哈，不過大體都是美國口音。
平時我每天會學習兩至三門語言的
我很想知道你读的中文书
好滴！
what age did you start learning languages?
In high school?
你好， 我是一个意大利人学生。我在大学学习了英语和汉语。我很爱中国以及中文。你可以表示你的汉语书吗。 谢谢你
好的！谢谢支持！
请问一下您的外语资料一般是全外的native,还是一半外语一半中文？谢谢！
就是母语者看的东西一般
@@phoenixhou4486 我会一直支持您，十分喜欢你的视频，很真实，很实在！
Rome is calling you... ITALIANO
老弟你好👋，我是一个双语母语者，什么时候挑战一下泰语^_^
有机会去泰国旅游之前想学学，对上座部佛教很感兴趣！
請問你學一門語言大概花多久時間？你會同時學習多門語言，還是一門學完再換下一個？對於學習時記憶力下降或不專注的狀態有甚麼建議呢？謝謝
我現在同時在學習複習幾門語言，但是如果同時學習太多精力可能會不支🤔其中一門語言大概要至少四五年才能實現某種程度的流利
没说怎么学外语效率最好，说说您日常学习需要的步骤，为什么我感觉自己怎么学都学不会呢？
可以參考我的其他視頻喔
我觉得你可以做一期ome tv的视频。那上面很多外国人，你会说这么多外语，一定会震惊到很多人的。
Cual accento en esp?
Lo español
@@phoenixhou4486 tienes un poco de una lisp? Con sus eSes. -Quizas aprendias del Caribbean o sudamerica?-
Lo siento, su accento de la España? Entiendo
@@phoenixhou4486 tambien, feliz Cinco de Mayo, amigo
give us your Chinese books immediately
lol it would be like the Chinese equivalents of “histories” or “germania”
@@phoenixhou4486 reading 明朝那些事儿 right now as a foreigner, just chasing more ideas 👍
天才
之前在uw学什么？
金融
@@phoenixhou4486 原来是foster的高材生！
5:05 :D
为什么会想学维吾尔语
因为很好奇！也想通过自己多保存一些维吾尔语
@@phoenixhou4486 因为我自己是哈萨克语母语者 所以能听懂维吾尔语 毕竟是特别相似 所以好奇为什么会学这种小语种
@@simona.2774 相似？我觉得还是吉尔吉斯语更近一点
在领英搜到过你
学阿拉伯语吗 多拉一人受折磨哈哈哈🤣
想学哈哈
你写的是什么dialect呢？
@@tonychen4589 啊? 普通话啊
@@yinggeng282 敲错了，我问你学阿拉伯语的什么dialect?
你在被封城中么？ 你都好吗？
嗯嗯對還不能出門，但是我這裡還好！多謝關心！
@@phoenixhou4486 那就好。 我也看很多中国历史。看得越多越对中国的未来担忧，感觉中国人好像没有什么变化！