Three Stages of Listening to Get to Fluency
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- Опубліковано 29 січ 2020
- We need to listen a lot in order to learn a language. My goal, when I learn a language, isn't to be able to speak a lot at an early or even intermediate stage, but rather to reach fluency. A three stage listening strategy is my preferred path to this goal.
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For me, it is these three stages:
1) Listening to actually hear the words and get used to the sounds of the language.
2) Listening to be able to translate/understand the words.
3) Listening to be able to understand the message and be able to fill in the blanks I did not hear well.
thanks for the summary
saved me 9min of my life
I think I get to 1.75 but if I get to 2 I can't hack the translation. Because I can't break through the translation to retranslation back to the language
every time I watch one of these videos I get the nagging feeling that I should be listening and reading in my target language instead...
hahaha, well said, I've got the same feeling
The problem is that even tough he does a few video in other languages there is only on steve in this world and must be watched in english ..! :)
me too. I feel guilty now when I watch videos in English
@@dailyfrench me too. I feel guilty now when I watch videos in English
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago What is your native language?
Listening is like 90% of my language learning because I find that it's one of the few things I can do frequently out of habit and enjoy.
you would probably enjoy pimsleur then
@Alibek Kuanyshbek sure thing man, the link can be found here: www.pimsleur.com
Pimsleur uses a listening and repeating system where you learn the grammar through instinct, and has also been very helpful with my pronunciation skills. However, to learn more vocabulary and to have a reference for grammar, I'd recommend you use busuu and a collins' dictionary alongside pimsleur. both busuu and collins' foreign language dictionaries should come up as the first search results when you type them into google. Good luck with whatever language you are learning!
I really needed this right now. it takes the pressure off of needing to speak soon forsure. Even when I was in tutoring sessions I always felt like I was doing it too soon and felt drained after. I’ll definitely use this frame of reference before I start speaking frequently again.
I was delighted to see how you speak Arabic. Very motivating and inspiring keep it coming 👍🏻
Thank you so much steve
Thank you, Steve
I do vocal recording sometimes. Those cheap moving blankets actually help. So does being close to the mic. That way the main signal is much louder than the reflected noise.
Congratulations!! I´m grateful for your work!
Listening is pretty easy for me. If it's in a different script like Hebrew, I often find my reading lags behind my listening skills. The main thing transcripts help with is being able to look up unknown words. One way of quickly improving listening comprehension is to repeat sentences over and over in a row. It doesn't feel like studying, but I'll notice that sentence will sound way clearer very quickly. Sometimes it will instantly sound clearer and sometimes it will take a few days or a week. This method is extra effective with natural sounding speech.
When you say repeat over and over again, do you mean read and repeat an individual sentence verbally or just listen to it on repeat?
@@jay_2433 Just listening.
I could read french a lot but i have a lot of trouble understanding it when listening. I think I made a terrible mistake because I ignored listening most of the time. Now i'm thinking of starting language acquisition by focusing on the hearing part.
I suffer with the same, I always focused on reading and denied listening. I can read a lot of French, but audios is a struggle. Same happened with English, I've been able to read and write for 5 years, but this year I started to develope my listening skills
@@easyandslowbrazilianportug8747 I am the same. Can read well but listening is difficult, it’s never got easier over time and practice. Has it for you ?
I had the same problem, but with english. In my high-school they gave us a really good base on grammar, my reading and writing skills were excellent, but we didn't have so much practice on listening and speaking. Recently I have been working a lot on my listening, as Steve said, and I'm surprised with the results. My listening and even my speaking skills, improved a lot!
I am kinda of the same in chinese. Right now my priority is watching Tv Shows. It's a lot more fun though.
It's really amazing tips. Thanks Master!
لمساعدة بعضنا البعض نرجو من المتمكنين ان يكتبوا ملخص للفديو في بضعة اسطر بالعربية و هكذا من فهم بعض الشياء بالخطا يتنبه و من لم يفهم يفهم و من فهم و كتب يزداد فهما او ربما يكتشف من بعض التعليقات انه و قع في خطا و هكذا نثري الموضوع
وشكرا للجميع مسبقا. و الله لا يضيع اجر المحسنين انفق من علمك يزكو و يزداد.
You are incredible man, I learned a lot of things about learn languages . Thank for your amazing videos. ❤
Thanks, I will take you up on your advice.
Arabic Mike has brought me here. Great channel!
Thank you Herr Kaufmann. The sound quality is excellent.
Herr Kaufmann haha do you know if he is German or has German decent?
@Dário III He is of Swedish decent? I would've never imagined that
You are amazing buddy.
Technology
Language learning technology is really very simple.
A LingQ (and similar systems) friendly internet.
In the past four years of learning languages I tried all sorts of things.
All this effort (Memory Methods / Courses etc...) and what's really needed is to have video, audio and text in a format that (Language Learners) can easily use.
UA-cam, Kindle, Whispersync, Audible etc...
highchamp1 yeah that’s the best, learning language is all about learning words
Thank you so much
Now, I feel guilty now when I watch videos in English
Steve. I like the way you divided the phases in the way to fluency. This is way more interesting than the European framework a1,b1... Unless you really need the language to work and improve your career there is no need to put so much pressure in learning a foreign language. Everything changes when you see it as a hobby and have fun.
The European frame doesn't have the same goal as Steve does. It is aimed to help both students and tutors and gives them a path to progress through the language. It is aimed at regular courses, not at immersion and comprehensible input. So in that sense you are right.
I suspect that when you reach phase 3, the language tests that you have should not be too hard to prepare for. I know for Finland you need 2 out of 4 sufficient to pass the test (it is called the YKI-test). In my own country unfortunately, you need all part sufficient to pass. Still, once you reach phase 3, it should not be too hard.
I just saw you wrote this 8 months ago: did you choose to learn a language using lingq? Or using immersion in general?
Inspired. Thank you.
I'm in the second stage learning French.
9 months of daily learning.
Interesting that speaking comes AFTER the 3rd stage.
One of the main frustrations of language learning is the high speed people talk. I am starting to write words down when I listen to videos on YOutube. I am going to see how that helps.
Wit all respect to You Sir,
students should be more given some feeling of accomplishment even after stage on, then two and three of course. Fruthermore, in my humble expereiences , as a non-native speaker of English, an introductotry course in listening is to be preceeded by at least a crash-course in pronounciation and wiritning elementary parts of speach, mostly using shorter words or phrases.
Even with focus on comprehension one cannot neglect the fact that gradually more complex ideas make it necessary to learn and be aware of more complex structures, e.g. conditional sentences or newspaper language using unusual forms or words to make their statement more interesting or worth-remebering.
All the best. Paul, 67, retired teacher
Thank you Steve :)
thanks
What has helped me a lot is AUDITING classes. It's free, and I am in college. So if anyone has this opportunity, I thoroughly recommend it
I still don't understand why they make people pay full price for auditing courses.
@@jeanp.5929 Oh they don't. it's free. Even if you are not a student at the college you can audit language classes for 0 dollars
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago what do you mean ?? im fro m Australia and everything here you gotta pay , im learning free thanks to Duolingo
@@miamor5929 well, in the US is free to audit language classes in my college
hi
Like your videos. Thank you for sharing the information
Thanks for moving to a lower echo room. The fish prints are fine, you probably could add some more sound damping.
My problem is when I'm listening doing activities like exercise for instance I can't pay attention too much to what I listen I don't know if is because I'm listening something random that I don't like. But what I really enjoy is wacth tv shows I think is the most I like.
I found the ministories a bit too long to be helpful in an early stage, because my internal monologue starts going or I repeat a sound from the last sentence in my mind and lose my place.
I found a good set of 2000 sentences where I can learn sentence by sentence with audio from many different native speakers, and I really enjoy it. Day one I have to listen a few times usually to get it, but everyday there after I can listen once and get it. They're only 2 seconds long, so reviewing a sentence I already know is a matter of 10 minutes for 100 sentences (including 10 new ones for that day, and some I listen to twice because I was still thinking).
I think if you listen enough times it starts to have immediate meaning, but you can't binge, you have to sleep on it a few times before it gets in your head.
I find the easiest ones to understand are the ones that sound natural and have some feeling to them. The hardest are the really stiff ones where it's obvious someone is reading from a page. I would love to find a collection of sentences from Tv shows or radio dramas from real actors or from interviews of interesting people. subs2srs exists but it looked really fiddley and you have to have something with well timed subtitles. Which by the way is probably some of the solution to the linkq issue.
If you find that material on UA-cam you can import into Lingq along with its transcription coming from the closed captioning
TQVM
Thank you, sir! :D
Steve, your videos are truly inspirational. The lack of pressure to understand everything, especially, is really refreshing.
I have just bought a 12 month membership of your app, and it had totally revolutionised my language learning. I love it.
I would like to ask: I have a daughter who is eight and I would love her to be able to use Lingq for her own language learning. She has begun German with Duolingo, but I feel that application is very limited compared. Even the Lingq short stories are too complex for her, the children's stories included too. Do you know of any material on Lingq which is both accessible and fun for children of her age? I'm convinced the app can work very well for children, I'm just not sure how. Thank you again for your inspiration and your excellent app.
Obrigado pelo seu trabalho,abraços do Brasil.
Qual famoso o carinha é no Brasil?, Eu já tinha visto um cara recomendar um canal dele, e agora, você.
@@chilael6892 ele é um poliglota famoso no mundo todo e fala português muito bem tbm,no Brasil muita gente conhece ele,a plataforma de estudos dele é formidável abrange vários idiomas
@@ThiagoSilva-xk6li A, entendi, porque na minha experiência, é raro ver algum br recomendando conteúdo em Inglês.
The book is on the table
yes, thanks so much Steve!
very nice
Sounds fine
egg cartons make for a terrific sound dampening when on the wall and sprayed with that foam from the hardware store.
Hi Steve, I love your presentations on languages! I was wondering if you ever had the chance to look at Irish at all? It's VSO like ancient Hebrew and is quite a unique language. Lots of Americans are looking to learn the language because of Irish heritage..👍
It is not high on my list right now. I can't learn every language.
@@Thelinguist Too true..
Where do you get the resources such as mini-stories from? You seem to have learnt some relatively uncommon languages and I'm trying to learn (Southern) Vietnamese but there aren't really any resources for learning it.
Hey Steve! Cool that you're learning Farsi. I'll be glad to help you any way I can. If you have any questions feel free to ask.
I am always looking for more people to share things with us in Farsi, literally anything with audio and transcript. It can be just talking about oneself, talking with others, discussion of some aspect of Iran, history, culture, current events, anything. As long as it is natural, reasonable audio quality (smart hone for example) and transcribed. We share these with our learners at LingQ. Let me know if this might be possible. Check this out. www.lingq.com/en/learn/fa/web/library
I'd love to see something like Amazon's Whispersync, the ability to highlight text automatically as the audio moves along. Bilinguapp does this. It's great.
Is this done with natural voice or txt to speech?
@@Thelinguist Both. I have some audible books and the accompanying text and when I hit play the words highlight in sync. I believe there are some open source JavaScript libraries that can do this.
This would be super helpful for non-native scripts, like Russian.
Sounds good boss !
pro tip, make sure that the volume of the music at the end of the video is lower then your voice.
Thank's, that what I needed for a long time. Especially if it's from you :)
Great
Sempre algo a ser aprendido com o mestre Steve !!!
Siii
Steve main thing you need to do to improve your audio quality is get your mic closer to your mouth. 6 to 8 inches. Love your channel. I am your deciple.
Hi, Steve! Thanks for your videos! What do you do to find the content in not popular languages like Czech? Where do you find that?
you can find a fair amount of content, available for free download, at LingQ. I recommend the mini-stories, especially if you are a speaker of Slavic languages. Same for other languages. You will find them quite easy. Beyond that when I was learning Czech I relied on material from Cesky Rozhlas, like Toulky Ceskou minulosti or Jak to vidi. please excuse my lack of diacritics on this keyboard.
Could a voice recognition system be used on lingq to help know what words you speak? just me thinking. I don't know.
Hi steve , what do you mean by goofy when you talk about fish.? What is another word for goofy?
Goofy = silly
Also goofy is like foolish.
this video is very intriguing, do you advise a learner listening to the target language from his/her field of speciality? many thanks
It's a bit difficult to start there but eventually yes.
Please discuss the difference between the language learning process for children vs. adults. Adults, whose brains have lateralized, have certain advantages and disadvantages compared to children, and these differences may affect the kinds of programs that will be effective.
I might just do that. First I'll do some research.
@@Thelinguist Please consider it. I looked into this as it relates to learning to play a musical instrument, which shares characteristics with learning a language. There are profound differences in learning before and after the age of 10, when the brain lateralizes. Adults and children may learn the same way (e.g., via input) but must be taught differently. Children are pretty much a blank slate and simply absorb their surroundings without judgement. Adults develop a progressively hardened set of heuristics for negotiating life. They tend to relate new information to an internal set of rules they've either been taught or learned from experience. You have to hang new information onto old information within the context of their belief systems. You also have to validate the information presented in a way you'd never have to do it with a child. There are tons of other examples.
To me, listening without a doubt is the most frustrating experience in language learning. Reading being the most pleasant.
6:00 "I'm not getting worse, you know?!" 🤣 ❤
Are you familiar with the novel Bonjour Tristesse? A 17 year old wrote it and its been recommended to me a few times so I’ve just got it. I also bought the audio book narrated by Catherine Deneuve as per your advice.... find things and voices that interest and inspire you... so here we are. Excited to start this reading, listening simultaneously alongside this YA novel. Would you recommend re listening to each chapter as I finish it? Or reading that chapter in English too?
I try to get the ebook to import into LingQ so that after hearing a chapter from the audio book, I then have a chance to learn the words.
Can you learn Irish on LinkQ?
Any plans to include the Thai language to LingQ? Thanks!
I think we have some mini-stories in the works. Stay tuned
Im intermediate student should I listen to everything I like or just choose one thing for example I like news should I listen to this only o or should I listen to everything I like?
I KNOW 13 LANGUAGES 6 OF THEM ARE ADVANCED LEVEL. I hope towards to age of 70 I would achieve the number of 20 languages ) Yes, listening is the most crucial key to the fluency
FLEXING
wow, that is incredible. How did you learn so many languages?
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago to be honest, for the last 15 years I did not end up any language. if I would have continued to learn, then now I already would have been there (20 languages) I use just my own methods depends upon situation and languages. I started little by little to post my videos. Except English. I have started learning English 2,5 years ago from scratch as usual on my own with NO PRACTİCE at all. I wanted to test new method and here is the result in my channel.
@Language and Programming Channel cool, but quality is important. I saw lots of people who consider that they know Russian and Arabic but indeed they not. İt is really hard to learn them. I know both like native speaker and, Russian language I know very deeply, even better then alot of Russian native speaker. İt is not how many languages you know, it is how deep you know those languages?.
@@linguamus awesome! I am doing something similar, but with other languages
Thanks Steve. Pleaseeeeeee add Tagalog to LinQ. It's the fourth most spoken language in the U.S. besides English, Spanish and Chinese! It also uses spaces and engkish letters so it shouldn't be too difficult to implement. Please add it at least as a beta!
What kind of language is this? Never heard of it
@@Gotinha123 the language spoken in the Philippines
Any language can be added to LingQ - as long as someone is willing to make mini stories and submit to LingQ.
@@Eric-le3uu linq helped me improve my language so much. I love that Steve is so passionate about languages because it makes me passionate about making videos.
@@Gotinha123 It's widely spoken in the US (especially California) and across Canada. If you're from either country and never heard it then dapat mo kumain ng tae kasi mokong kayo, and that's kinda sad
Hey Steve (and other viewers), would you employ the same strategy to get from B1 to B2? I started LingQ back in June and I would say I was B1 and now I feel like I'm more like B1.5 but can't seem to push through this kind of plateau I find myself on. I use LingQ and review my cards as well as watch UA-cam videos and Netflix series in my target language (Spanish) and feel my comprehension is pretty good but my output feels like it's lagging in comparison
Joseph Vanni From my experience studying B1 and B2 in language school this year, the bulk of it has to do with formal vocabulary. I spent a lot of time learning casual vocab through UA-cam and Netflix and felt behind compared to my classmates, but I realized I just needed to study more articles. A national newspaper, philosophy books, etc all have the right connector words and vocab you’ll be looking for.
Keep going with your input activities and speak whenever you have the chance. Just keep speaking. You will only get better.
Only way out is brute force.
All it takes is the will to continue every day, 15 minutes to 15 hours. It doesn't matter. Just do it every day
What do you mean by mini stories? Where do you find these?? Can you give examples? Thanks!
What does it mean to "speak a lot" ? How many hours a week would that be?
Listen listen listen is the key said AJ like a baby learn his own language.
Can I start learning another language even though I have not yet mastered the first foreign language?
Steve, if you were to design, based on your experiences of learning very many different languages, a course similar to the mini stories but aimed specifically at those advanced beginners, then what would you change?
What I would do is ask people to write some easy to answer questions about intermediate content, and record the questions and answers, the way we do in the mini-stories, just to create some immediate repetition.
@@Thelinguist You mean you would keep only the third part? (sentence-question-answer). I think it's a great idea. Advanced mini-stories could be less focused on teaching grammar (past-present-future/my point of view etc.), but rather on pure vocabulary. I've been learning Greek for two months now and my most unread difficult mini story has like 50 blue and 30 yellow words, while a chapter from a real book has like 400 blue and 150 yellow
The problem I seem to have is how variable it is. Often I get everything, there's a lot I can listen to comfortably, but sometimes with other native speakers I miss a lot and it could almost be a different language. It doesn't always seem to have a direct relation to familiarity, either. I have no idea how I could understand Ontarian, which I hadn't listened to, but not some French-from-France accents and voices -especially 'raspier' male ones-, when French-from-France is more my target so what I listen to all the time.
the story of my life as well, its agonzing to partially understand
Thank you so much sir,
I’ve a lot of questions: firstly is it possible to study two languages in the same time like english and french?
I understand you but i cannot understand the movie and audiobooks, it’s so difficult i tried but i cannot concentrate with it and everyday i listen a lot of programs with a native speaker like bbc 4, london , world service, voa and others but don’t achieve my goals i want to understand everyone, i’m just concentrate with a listening because i cannot read books i don’t have, i’m blind person and i depending with listening
When i speak i make a lot mistake and i forget the exact word
I have big problem with vocabulary , because there are a lot of meanings with the same word and that confusing me what’s the specific meaning i chose? It’s very difficult for me , and always pick up all the meanings of the word and that took me time to search synonym , antonym , examples of each one, noun adverb adjective , sometime idiom and i use a lot dictionaries and when i don’t do that or chose just one meaning, i feel that is not enough
I so tired about that 🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿🇩🇿
You seem to be doing more than fine, just relax and enjoy the process instead of worrying to much.
To answer just one of your points: Yes, you can learn two language at the same time.
However, I would recommend not STARTING to learn two languages at the same time. It is still possible to do even that, but you have to invest a bit more time and energy into it than you would if you learned the one language for a year or so, and then started to next one (and still keep learning the first one).
If the two (or more) languages you're learning are on significantly different levels, it's not only possible, but also not even ineffective.
it is of course possible to study two languages at the same time. However I have found that it is better to focus on one at a time, or at least to place 80% of your effort on one and 20% on the other.
I can read in my target language _WAY_ better than I can listen. When I watch a show, they talk too fast and I only understand like 1% of the words. It's very difficult for me and I don't feel like I get a lot out of it. I'm a month into my target language so maybe I'm not fluent enough yet to even benefit from listening.
That's most intermediate language learners' predicament, and where/why they end up plateauing in said target language.
I have that same problem. I am not going to quit though.
Does the app sink to the web version? I've been using the app and went to the web site put in my password and it didn't show any of my lessons, not a big deal, I use the app 99% of the time anyway. Thanks
Yes it does, are you a premium member?
Yes, but maybe I was still on the free trial, I'll check when I get home. Vielen Dank
Hi Steve I have. Here heavy t stome distruct the internet.till Tuesday
I don't plan to get linq so is there any other way
Hey Steve! For some reason I can easily understand your speech, but it's really difficult to understand most of the others. Why is that so? Is your English specialin some way? Do you speak slowly or do you use only simple words? What makes you so comprehensible?
Might be my Canadian accent.
I have a problem now I can hear you and any youtuber but when it comes to songs or movies i can not hear alot can any one solve this problem.
I can hardly understand English lyrics in English songs and I'm native English speaker. Heck, I listened to a Spanish song with subtitles in Spanish and couldn't match any lyrics to the song it was so slurry. I figure it'll come right after time. But try slowing it down and see if you can decipher it then once you have listen at faster speed again.
@@MisterGames okay thanks alot
Listening to the same content is boring for me. But I listen to alot of audiobooks
Steve can you boost your audio a bit? Maybe 6 db
Are the ministories at LingQ written by native speakers?
logico que é
Yes.
No they were written in English and then translated into 30 odd languages. That means that there is always a translation available in your language if you need it. We would love to have some more written in other languages, which we could then translate and record in other languages.
Do you have any funny stories of forgetting words in English but remembering them in a foreign one? Plus, perhaps a video on the role of iq in determining language learning success.
Hey Steve, Can I suggest looking into the camera lense when speaking, It always feels like you're talking to someone next to me
Lens, not “lense”.
@@TokyoXtreme Extreme, not "Xtreme"
@@hippolightproductions978 "Tokyo Xtreme Racer, known as Shutokō Battle (首都高バトル) in Japan and Tokyo Highway Challenge in Europe, is a racing video game for the Sega Dreamcast."
Anyone have the timestamp when he starts shilling his website?
I have difficulty understanding the people who criticize me for mentioning LingQ. My homepage here at UA-cam features LingQ & encourages people to sign up to LingQ. My videos have the word LingQ on them most of the time. I mention LingQ sometimes but not always. My UA-cam channel is very much connected to LingQ. No mystery. Some who are offended by this probably stop watching. Others may still get value from my videos. Some of my viewers are already members of LingQ. Other viewers simply ignore these references to LingQ. For whatever reason, the number of subscribers continues to grow. This encourages me to believe that people find value in what I have to say.
Could you add Irish to link
Do you think that learning foreign languages with LLN （Learning Language with Netflix）works like using LingQ ???
It is different because you have to basically control the video on the computer. To work like link you have to import the transcript and integrate it with your LingQ Learning. The two can work together.
when is vietnamese coming to lingq
After we launch v5.0. We're getting closer!
@@shelbysmith4909 when is the launch
@@olivereckert2492 Near future. No set date yet.
4th stage: To hear Steve Kaufmann.
"Five-second repeat" - how do I engage that feature on LingQ?
I think he means in the app or on the browser. He's clicked play (while in the lesson itself). Up pops a status bar with how far along he is in the audio, as well as a 5 sec "repeat" (click it and it goes back 5 sec in the audio), a speed setting (1x, .5x, 2x, etc), and a loop button (replay when done). Hopefully that explains.
I see. I thought he meant there was some feature that automatically played a five-second section over and over, but if you want that you just have to keep pressing the 5-sec button. Thank you.
It seems like all of these videos are just undercover adds for LingQ. I feel like grabbing a language book and Anki are good enough. You shouldn't have to pay a monthly premium to learn a language now a days.
Exactly. I don't use Lingq because they don't have the languages I want to learn so there's no value in it for me. I found free resources online for every language I want to learn. Even when there isn't much to work with, I've gotten creative on being resourceful. Also Lingq takes absurdly long to create content for new languages waiting to be launched. My language has many many speakers in California, Nevada, and across Canada, and somehow it's not there yet. I proposed a new strategy in another comment to get it up there faster and am surprised nobody else came up with it.
Why undercover?
The whole point of a good business is to satisfy customer demands. It's not that using Lingq has no value, but it's important to bear in mind that waiting is dangerous in the business world. And what I'm about to describe should be the Lingq team's task yet seems like a lazy and tacky business practice. If you want to charge a subscription fee, fine...fair enough. The thing is, if somebody wants a new language added, that person must either a) wait until it becomes available, or b) which is the smarter but counter-productive move, take the initiative to use up THEIR time to help search for native speakers willing to translate a bunch of mini stories just to get the new language up and running on YOUR platform. Bear in mind this person, no matter how many people they know personally, is already a paying customer and probably has a fairly busy life most of the time like everyone else. Proactivity is the name of the game in business. Canada is home to many people from different countries, so if I was in charge of Lingq and wanted to get new languages up asap to get ahead of competitors, I'd network with as many speakers of as many languages as possible, and ask the people I know to do the same, and ask those native speakers to translate the mini stories or whatever it is you need prepared before launching a new language and ask them do that on their free time, which everybody has at some point or another, but that's the point of asking as many people as possible; they can't all be busy at the same times and it takes the pressure off their shoulders so they know they're not the only one doing the work. I pointed out a problem and gave a simple solution, and am surprised nobody implemented this strategy. Why is it so hard for you and Lingq management staff to network or just put yourselves out there and start talking with people? Sure, maybe people around you may seem busy, but we all have a life. Use my strategy or not, nobody's problem if competitors overtake Lingq
Well it’s his page. 😂 lol
tipycal comment of someone who is more concerned about how much could lose rather than how much could earn with a tool.. i've used both and i must say that lingq is far way better and fun. and more effective.. you have to spend a lot of time making cards with anki and and is not even close with all the features and possibilities that lingq has.. and i dont.work for them, just a happy customer. i dont like to spend a lot time searching free material to save a couple of bucks if i can have access to a better tool paying a little more. that's means stupid saving for me.. and kind a little tired of people that can't stand if they get a commercial message. what's the problem of that? if someone offers a great product or service? why everything has to be free?
I have a hard time with context
Learning a new language is actually a bit of a no-brainer, if you do it every day you will eventually get good
Consistency sure is the key. May I know, how many languages have you learnt ?
@@diariosdelextranjero I'm learning my 5th
I'm learning my 8th@@SouthPark333Gaming
I would love to use your videos in my language class for my students but you need to self edit. Write a script before you record. I am a certified language teacher and a former journalist. You are insightful but you ramble.
you remind me of teachers I had in school.
He rambles on about etc stuff instead of getting to the point
wee bit of the ole' ....."clickbait" here ......does he ever actually get around to 'qualifying' the '3 stages of listening' ????? .....I don't know ........my head just began to spin round, and the whole talk seemed 'blah / blah / blah .........
Your English is very difficult to understand
From a native perspective, he is actually one of the easier people to listen to. He speaks slowly most of the time and doesn't use very abnormal words. And his accent is very clear and easy to understand compared to Many. For example.. in Michigan where I live we speak as lazy as possible so it would probably be harder to understand us 😂
@@gamingwithpurg3anarchy157 man it's unbelievable how much I improved in this one year gap. Now I can understand 100% of what he says. I just consumed as much content as I could that I can't understand why I said that 😂 and yes, his English is pretty good and easy to understand.
@@Matheus-mr4tl wonderful news. I hope I get like that with Portuguese. Right now my listening comprehension is almost 0 😭