This answer is 100% context dependent! With the proper amount of focus and using effective language learning methods you **can** learn a language to conversational fluency in 6-12 months. But that assumes diligence and daily use of the language. If you are not actively immersing yourself and trying to learn it will take much longer. But for beginners, above all else, focusing on the wrong techniques is the biggest stumbling block.
Consistency is even more important than the amount of time dedicated to language learning. On the other hand, it depends on the languages you already know. I could get to B2 in Spanish in 5 months because I had already known Romanian. Still, in those 5 months I spent at least 500 hours with Spanish. But I am currently learning Russian (for about a year now) and I am only B1. Very honest video! I like you honesty and the hard work that you put into these languages. Keep it up!
chantelle r There’s sites like Italki or apps like HelloTalk if you want to talk to native speakers, if you are looking for someone to help correct your mistakes and give feedback. You can also take fluency tests for different languages too. Another idea is recording yourself speak week by week, and comparing the different videos to see how far you’ve come.
I don't count the number of hours, I count the number of books instead, since my main goal when studying languages is to develop my reading and listening skills, to increase vocabulary after all. I don't care much for writing and speaking... In Russian, for example, it took me around 25 books and countless articles to reach a good level of reading fluency. The 15 first ones I read intensively. But of course there are languages that I'd like to develop the 4 main skills, like English. Great content as always!
Awesome! I did have a friend who told me he wasn't very good at French until he read the entire Harry Potter series. Now, he's French sounds almost native-like
I calculated that over the past three months I've on average about 16 words per day in Italian. Of course, that's not fair to other people as I'm a native Spanish speaker. But that said, I lack in verb conjugations and grammar due to my heavy focus on vocabulary. I can't say that I have any regrets as I think the latter two will be a little easier to get a grip on with a large vocabulary.
for portuguese like 10 months non intensively to learn all the grammar and important vocab, but reaching fluency and speed took me like 2 months on voice calls with natives (years after the first part). So a year in total.
English, with a radio, a dictionary, and 1,5 hrs a week in school with focus on basic grammar and nothing else: about the entirety of middle school. So, three years? we didn't have the internet back then, so... XD
Marco McNamara fluência significa que você conseguiria entender vídeos e nativos sem problemas, o que nem de longe é possível em 5 meses, a não ser que sua língua materna seja espanhol.
I really enjoy the honesty. I'm sick and tired of these fake polyglots on youtube claiming that they learned (to a conversational level assumed) a language in a week or a month (from the comfort of their home at that). If we're talking about starting from scratch its simply impossible. My story is similar to yours except that I'm much older and when I moved to the USA I stopped speaking Spanish for many years and I lost a fair amount of it. The good thing is that speaking a language is like riding a bicycle and when you return to the language it starts coming back quickly (this is for fluent speakers of course - not beginners). For the last three months I've been learning Italian and I'm on the verge of becoming conversational (can't wait!). I know 1,500+ words in Italian and if I were to guess I've spent about 300 hours learning Italian. At this point I'm reading short stories and watching Netflix in Italian with Italian subtitles (so I can look up words that I don't know) to push me into fluency. If I were to guess I'm about a B1 level Italian speaker with verb conjugations and some grammar as my primary weaknesses. I feel that I could regain 90%+ of my Spanish if I were to submerge myself for 1-2 months. Again, my first language is Spanish and I still retain a good amount of it just not nearly as much as when I moved to the USA.
Great video, as always! It's nice to see someone with an honest and realistic view on how long it takes to learn a language! Very impressed with your skills, especially Portuguese (as I'm a brand-new Portuguese learner) and you're clearly a very hard worker. Also, obrigado for the Aconteceu Mesmo recommendation - I looked them up and have found their channel great so far. As for me, I'm a fairly slow and casual learner - rather than putting in hours every day, I do an hour or so every now and then, whenever I feel like it. As a result, my progress has been limited, but I'm still fairly happy with it. I've been learning Welsh in this manner for close to three years and I can read novels relatively well and am a (weak!) B1 conversationally. I'm happy with my reading progress but I would like to start practicing my speaking more. I've recently started Portuguese, which I'm trying to put more effort into. Hoping to be at around the B1 mark by this time next year! Thank you for the video, and good luck with your future studies!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the video, and, by all means, go at your own pace. As long as you keep on learning the language through the years, you will learn the language eventually :)
I just started watching your channel this week, and I have been very captivated with your language abilities and your journey in each of your languages. I was a monolingual English speaker throughout my whole childhood and college years. I would dabble in my native Tagalog (Filipino) language every now and then, but I never fully committed. Four years ago, I discovered an interest in the Korean language and really dedicated myself to learning. After roughly three years, I became discouraged that I wasn’t really able to communicate in the language, so I lightened my study routine until I just completely stopped. This year, I switched my focus to Japanese and Vietnamese, with more emphasis on the latter. Seeing that you spent many more years learning some of your languages has really made me reflect on my language learning journey. I already spent three years on Korean. I just need to keep at it, be patient, and trust in the process. I’m not learning any of your languages, but I’m grateful to have found some inspiration from you. I guess it’s the natural camaraderie of being a language learner. Thank you! I look forward to watching more of your content!
This is very interesting! I'm currently trying to learn 4 languages of my own with differents levels: English (B2), Italian (A2), Russian (A1) and French (A1). I think that all of you say in this video it could be very useful for improving in learning one or more languages.
Love Your videos. Glad you give Catalan a chance. If you need any help, let me know. I am bilingual in Spanish and Catalan. English took me 10 years, French and Italian, 4. I am struggling with German in my 4th year and starting Portuguese now.
Awesome! I would love to take you up on the offer , and I could help you with whatever you need. If you'd like to chat send me a DM on instagram @karen.vmb and again, Thank you!
Can you make a video about your learning process in French with more details? (your specific strategy, the books you used, what kind of French media you watched/listened to). You should have more subscribers! Your content is great!
idk if in other latin countries it´s the same but the argentine slang is similar to the french slang, we took it from italian words due to a massive immigration time, basically what i meant to say is that we also change like the orden of syllables and small changes, we call it lunfardo. sorry for my english and if i said something wrong or forgot something feel free to spill it out :)
I always enjoy hearing from people about language learning so these videos be nice. I am right now learning french as a Spanish native speaker, I also have a C1/C2 level in English and I can communicate in German(very poorly though) so, learning French seems at the same time, easy, and kinda hard. Basically, because this damn language has so many shortenings that make it hard to understand when you hear any native speaking. On the other hand the structure seems so similar to Spanish that I barely give any thought to it and still works. So, parcerita, keep them videos coming, it helps me with the motivation to keep studying although this is mostly about discipline haha.
Yes, it was also complicated for me to understand how French people pronounced everything as well. Learning the lyrics to some songs actually helped me a lot in terms of understanding when to shorten words and when not to, so you might want to give that a go :)
Although about 60% of its vocabulary comes from French or Latin, English is taxonomically a germanic language, . It has a common origin with German; they both derive from an ancestral language called "Proto-Germanic". However, German is considered to be harder to learn for English speakers than other germanic languages such as Dutch because of the difficulty of mastering grammatical cases. The same happens with French among the Romance languages: as a Spanish speaker you will find it more different and more dificult to learn than Portuguese, Italian or even Romanian, but it's nevertheless a romance language because of the common origin.
I, as a German, am more or less fluent in English and Spanish. Let's say my level is in both languages B2, maybe my English is still a little bit better, although I didn't learn it for years. Hard to say how long it took to become fluent because I had English several years in school and my English was very bad at that time. Only afterwards at my time at the university it became better. Maybe two years after finishing I became fluent. En cambio, sé perfectamente cuándo empecé con el aprendizaje del español. Llevo aprendiendo español más o menos 4 años. Me he considerado fluido en español después 3 años. Puedo hablar con la gente en la calle aunque cometo todavía muchos errores. Hubo un instante en que creí que mi nivel fuera mejor que B2. Pero cuando me dio cuenta que bueno gente puede hablar español que alcanzó el nivel C1 o más alto sé que todavía necesito mucho trabajo para lograr este nivel.
Can you give me some comments? I am Cambodian, I have learned English since I was young. I am studying Bachelor of English at university. By the way I want to learn other languages such as Thai and Korean. I want to ask you that Is it good or not to learn 2 or three languages in the same time? Or we should wait until one language is influent so I can learn other languages?????
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago Me faz muito feliz ver uma latina fazendo esse tipo de videos. Sto guardando tutti i tuoi videi perché sono molto interessanti. Saludos! Hahaha
Great content. I find your channel very interesting because you are transparent with your progress and, I can’t stress this enough, that’s something we need so bad in the polyglot community. Aside from that, I want to ask you... is there any UA-cam channel in Italian you recommend (not about learning Italian)? Gracias.
I was waiting for your video so much ! I'm very glad that I found your channel. It's crazy how much we share the same vision about languages. As a French native speaker, I was suprised that you know words such as "meuf" or "teubé" haha I'm looking forward to seeing your next video 😊
I just discovered your channel and I love it! I love languages. My native languages are Spanish and English, and I've been learning French for 4 years now. Now I'm focusing on Italian. Lmk if you'd ever like to practice any of these languages together, I could use a language buddy :)
do you think having the english skills under our belt makes at times sort of lazy regarding learning other languages? I am so guilty of it every so often I mean when you dont know how to say something in spanish, french or any other language and end up switching back to english by the way you and Lucca Lampariello encourage me to keep working hard, thanks
To do your maths correct, you have to introduce a "quality-factor", where 1 hour of passive class like your french is only 10% as effective as 1 hour watching a french drama series with french subs and french soundtrack for blind people on. Then you come to the result of 200 hours French in 10 Years, what shoud suit your French capability more. As you self mentioned, your French after 6 Years school classes was allmost non existent. More than that, count the hours of Not doing French in 10 years, which is round about 87.000 hours, in words eightyseven thousand hours of forgetting French. Consistency is important, dont get me wrong on this, but the ratio between Target Language and other things has a certain break-point. In my opinion.
AwesomeSepp sure. You can include many factors, but I wasn’t trying to show how many hours of input actually were active learning hours. Rather, I wanted to show that many, many hours of input aren’t necessarily effective until you start practicing often and consistently. As I said in the video, not an accurate number
That is an exceptionally good way to analyze study time and those off hours are likely to account for 95% of people who can't learn a second language. Thanks!
Hi, I really like your videos and always look foward to watch them. But unfortunetaly the music in the backround is so loud that it distract me so much that sometimes I stop the videos. I don't know if others feel the same but I would love just to listen to you ;-)
If you're a native speaker of a language and there's music in the background it's not a big deal but it can be a distraction for non-native speakers as they're simultaneously contending with both the music and unfamiliar vocab, grammar structures etc. Lowering the volume a bit may be the way to go.
Hi!! Which textbook did you use when studying German? Any recommendation? I'm starting to learn German by myself but I really need a physical book with practice like I used in English from Oxford (American English file) which helped me a lot with the audios and its online practice.
Hi ! LanguageGirl , What's up ? It took you 8 yrs to be fluent in English while living in the states ? Anyone can learn a language in a year or so ,if one is living in that same country . Only one thing is needed in order to learn a language and to be fluent in it , that's a very very strong passion . One has to be an eager beaver ..
I have no idea how much time I spent learning the languages I know. Also it depends how you count the time spent reading books, comic books, magazines, newspapers, watching movies and series, and how about real interactions ?
Yeah, obviously it was an approximation. The point is that it takes many, many hours. At least for me it did. I just want to get the message across that, whatever you do, it’s best to maintain consistency
I have questions about accent foregn, I'm 18 can I get foregn accent?and if there's opportunity what have I to do for getting rid of my mother languages accent?btw I'm from Indonesia, and now Im working on get American accents and this it thnks I hope u answers my question 🙏🏻
Hi, so definitely watch the video I linked on the other comment. Another thing you could do, would be to take a 5 minute clip of a video in English and follow along. This will have to be done very slowly and it is supposed to help you with mastering the pronunciation of your target hours
Instead of trying learning another language, learn language as a whole, then apply the language you want to learn to that chassis. AND STOP TRANSLATING!
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Fernando Calazans sorry, I changed the thumbnail. Here’s the link ua-cam.com/video/tZkFDjyqbVQ/v-deo.html
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago ooo thx hehe your videos made me sign in into netflix and spent 3-4 hours today learning español hahaha
@@fernandocalazans1553 Omg awesome!
@@fernandocalazans1553 y como has estados con tu español todo este tiempo??? Q tanto sabes del español despues d haber pasado 2 meses? Salu2
This answer is 100% context dependent! With the proper amount of focus and using effective language learning methods you **can** learn a language to conversational fluency in 6-12 months. But that assumes diligence and daily use of the language. If you are not actively immersing yourself and trying to learn it will take much longer. But for beginners, above all else, focusing on the wrong techniques is the biggest stumbling block.
Yes, for sure. I think my biggest mistake was doing nothing outside of class. I could've learned so much more if I had done 2-3 extra hours a week
Yes, that was my mistake too while in school! I had assumed that the class itself was enough but boy was I wrong!
Consistency is even more important than the amount of time dedicated to language learning. On the other hand, it depends on the languages you already know. I could get to B2 in Spanish in 5 months because I had already known Romanian. Still, in those 5 months I spent at least 500 hours with Spanish. But I am currently learning Russian (for about a year now) and I am only B1. Very honest video! I like you honesty and the hard work that you put into these languages. Keep it up!
true words
Thank you! I appreciate the support :)
So true!
How do u test your language knowledge? Is it an exam result or is there a site i can use to test myself?
chantelle r There’s sites like Italki or apps like HelloTalk if you want to talk to native speakers, if you are looking for someone to help correct your mistakes and give feedback. You can also take fluency tests for different languages too. Another idea is recording yourself speak week by week, and comparing the different videos to see how far you’ve come.
I don't count the number of hours, I count the number of books instead, since my main goal when studying languages is to develop my reading and listening skills, to increase vocabulary after all. I don't care much for writing and speaking... In Russian, for example, it took me around 25 books and countless articles to reach a good level of reading fluency. The 15 first ones I read intensively. But of course there are languages that I'd like to develop the 4 main skills, like English. Great content as always!
Awesome! I did have a friend who told me he wasn't very good at French until he read the entire Harry Potter series. Now, he's French sounds almost native-like
Im over here learning 2 new English words and 5 new Dutch words and she’s out here memorizing 14 to 100 a day? I gotta step my game up.
I calculated that over the past three months I've on average about 16 words per day in Italian. Of course, that's not fair to other people as I'm a native Spanish speaker. But that said, I lack in verb conjugations and grammar due to my heavy focus on vocabulary. I can't say that I have any regrets as I think the latter two will be a little easier to get a grip on with a large vocabulary.
Hey guys, I am wondering how long it took you tl learn a language :)
for portuguese like 10 months non intensively to learn all the grammar and important vocab, but reaching fluency and speed took me like 2 months on voice calls with natives (years after the first part). So a year in total.
not to mention sotaques do nordeste do BR which are insane with the gírias kkkkkkkk
English, with a radio, a dictionary, and 1,5 hrs a week in school with focus on basic grammar and nothing else: about the entirety of middle school. So, three years? we didn't have the internet back then, so... XD
I have been lerning English since May 2017. I think I have B1. I am fond of learning it :)
Marco McNamara fluência significa que você conseguiria entender vídeos e nativos sem problemas, o que nem de longe é possível em 5 meses, a não ser que sua língua materna seja espanhol.
OMG my eyes are filled with joy now that you're back! I've not even watched half the vid but I like it already hahaha you have a soothing voice
So glad you enjoy the videos!
I really enjoy the honesty. I'm sick and tired of these fake polyglots on youtube claiming that they learned (to a conversational level assumed) a language in a week or a month (from the comfort of their home at that). If we're talking about starting from scratch its simply impossible. My story is similar to yours except that I'm much older and when I moved to the USA I stopped speaking Spanish for many years and I lost a fair amount of it. The good thing is that speaking a language is like riding a bicycle and when you return to the language it starts coming back quickly (this is for fluent speakers of course - not beginners). For the last three months I've been learning Italian and I'm on the verge of becoming conversational (can't wait!). I know 1,500+ words in Italian and if I were to guess I've spent about 300 hours learning Italian. At this point I'm reading short stories and watching Netflix in Italian with Italian subtitles (so I can look up words that I don't know) to push me into fluency. If I were to guess I'm about a B1 level Italian speaker with verb conjugations and some grammar as my primary weaknesses. I feel that I could regain 90%+ of my Spanish if I were to submerge myself for 1-2 months. Again, my first language is Spanish and I still retain a good amount of it just not nearly as much as when I moved to the USA.
Now that I know so many languages it's easier than ever to pick up new languages
How many languages are you fluent in?
Tell us the languages you are fluent in?
Great video, as always! It's nice to see someone with an honest and realistic view on how long it takes to learn a language! Very impressed with your skills, especially Portuguese (as I'm a brand-new Portuguese learner) and you're clearly a very hard worker. Also, obrigado for the Aconteceu Mesmo recommendation - I looked them up and have found their channel great so far.
As for me, I'm a fairly slow and casual learner - rather than putting in hours every day, I do an hour or so every now and then, whenever I feel like it. As a result, my progress has been limited, but I'm still fairly happy with it. I've been learning Welsh in this manner for close to three years and I can read novels relatively well and am a (weak!) B1 conversationally. I'm happy with my reading progress but I would like to start practicing my speaking more. I've recently started Portuguese, which I'm trying to put more effort into. Hoping to be at around the B1 mark by this time next year!
Thank you for the video, and good luck with your future studies!
Thank you! I'm glad you liked the video, and, by all means, go at your own pace. As long as you keep on learning the language through the years, you will learn the language eventually :)
Nice job! At this rate your should be C1 level fluent by the time you start collecting social security.
I just started watching your channel this week, and I have been very captivated with your language abilities and your journey in each of your languages. I was a monolingual English speaker throughout my whole childhood and college years. I would dabble in my native Tagalog (Filipino) language every now and then, but I never fully committed.
Four years ago, I discovered an interest in the Korean language and really dedicated myself to learning. After roughly three years, I became discouraged that I wasn’t really able to communicate in the language, so I lightened my study routine until I just completely stopped. This year, I switched my focus to Japanese and Vietnamese, with more emphasis on the latter.
Seeing that you spent many more years learning some of your languages has really made me reflect on my language learning journey. I already spent three years on Korean. I just need to keep at it, be patient, and trust in the process.
I’m not learning any of your languages, but I’m grateful to have found some inspiration from you. I guess it’s the natural camaraderie of being a language learner. Thank you! I look forward to watching more of your content!
This is very interesting! I'm currently trying to learn 4 languages of my own with differents levels: English (B2), Italian (A2), Russian (A1) and French (A1).
I think that all of you say in this video it could be very useful for improving in learning one or more languages.
Well done! Interesting video. Great tips. You make me feel better over my level of Italian after one year.
Glad you liked the video
Love Your videos. Glad you give Catalan a chance. If you need any help, let me know. I am bilingual in Spanish and Catalan. English took me 10 years, French and Italian, 4. I am struggling with German in my 4th year and starting Portuguese now.
Awesome! I would love to take you up on the offer , and I could help you with whatever you need. If you'd like to chat send me a DM on instagram @karen.vmb
and again,
Thank you!
Great! Keep going
Can you make a video about your learning process in French with more details? (your specific strategy, the books you used, what kind of French media you watched/listened to). You should have more subscribers! Your content is great!
Thanks for the idea, and I'm glad you like the channel!
Her resumé is ✨asthetic✨
Thanks for learning Catalan! :)
idk if in other latin countries it´s the same but the argentine slang is similar to the french slang, we took it from italian words due to a massive immigration time, basically what i meant to say is that we also change like the orden of syllables and small changes, we call it lunfardo. sorry for my english and if i said something wrong or forgot something feel free to spill it out :)
Que es Colombiana dice, ahora entiendo por qué me cae tan bienn ptm, fan de tu contenido
Love this video very thorough and welll explained
I always enjoy hearing from people about language learning so these videos be nice. I am right now learning french as a Spanish native speaker, I also have a C1/C2 level in English and I can communicate in German(very poorly though) so, learning French seems at the same time, easy, and kinda hard. Basically, because this damn language has so many shortenings that make it hard to understand when you hear any native speaking. On the other hand the structure seems so similar to Spanish that I barely give any thought to it and still works.
So, parcerita, keep them videos coming, it helps me with the motivation to keep studying although this is mostly about discipline haha.
Yes, it was also complicated for me to understand how French people pronounced everything as well. Learning the lyrics to some songs actually helped me a lot in terms of understanding when to shorten words and when not to, so you might want to give that a go :)
Awesome! You are a great motivation for me!
Glad you think so!
Although about 60% of its vocabulary comes from French or Latin, English is taxonomically a germanic language, . It has a common origin with German; they both derive from an ancestral language called "Proto-Germanic". However, German is considered to be harder to learn for English speakers than other germanic languages such as Dutch because of the difficulty of mastering grammatical cases. The same happens with French among the Romance languages: as a Spanish speaker you will find it more different and more dificult to learn than Portuguese, Italian or even Romanian, but it's nevertheless a romance language because of the common origin.
I, as a German, am more or less fluent in English and Spanish. Let's say my level is in both languages B2, maybe my English is still a little bit better, although I didn't learn it for years. Hard to say how long it took to become fluent because I had English several years in school and my English was very bad at that time. Only afterwards at my time at the university it became better. Maybe two years after finishing I became fluent.
En cambio, sé perfectamente cuándo empecé con el aprendizaje del español. Llevo aprendiendo español más o menos 4 años. Me he considerado fluido en español después 3 años. Puedo hablar con la gente en la calle aunque cometo todavía muchos errores. Hubo un instante en que creí que mi nivel fuera mejor que B2. Pero cuando me dio cuenta que bueno gente puede hablar español que alcanzó el nivel C1 o más alto sé que todavía necesito mucho trabajo para lograr este nivel.
Si, creo que el paso entre el B2 y el C1 es el más arduo y el que lleva más tiempo. Con tiempo lo lograras. Muy interesante tu historia
Can you give me some comments? I am Cambodian, I have learned English since I was young. I am studying Bachelor of English at university. By the way I want to learn other languages such as Thai and Korean. I want to ask you that Is it good or not to learn 2 or three languages in the same time? Or we should wait until one language is influent so I can learn other languages?????
Love the content!! Super inspiring! Thanks!!!
glad you enjoyed!
Nice video . fantastic job
Thank you!
Awesome video Karen. OMG!!! You went to boarding school?? Me too!!! How did you like Boarding school? How have you been doing lately?
I did enjoy it. It was fun living with 800 other teenagers lol. A little hectic I'd have to say. How did you like it?
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago It was really good, and it set the base for me to live alone far away from my parents.
Thank you so much for these videos.
Glad you liked them!
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago Me faz muito feliz ver uma latina fazendo esse tipo de videos. Sto guardando tutti i tuoi videi perché sono molto interessanti. Saludos! Hahaha
So greatfull for your content🙏 keep do it😘
Glad you liked it!
Great content. I find your channel very interesting because you are transparent with your progress and, I can’t stress this enough, that’s something we need so bad in the polyglot community. Aside from that, I want to ask you... is there any UA-cam channel in Italian you recommend (not about learning Italian)? Gracias.
Thank you for including the hours you spent learning each language. I have been learning French for almost 2 years.
Awesome! Glad you found the video helpful :)
Actually, there are quite a lot of similar words to English in German and English use to be more germanic once upon time.
I was waiting for your video so much ! I'm very glad that I found your channel. It's crazy how much we share the same vision about languages.
As a French native speaker, I was suprised that you know words such as "meuf" or "teubé" haha
I'm looking forward to seeing your next video 😊
So glad you enjoy the videos!
I just discovered your channel and I love it! I love languages. My native languages are Spanish and English, and I've been learning French for 4 years now. Now I'm focusing on Italian. Lmk if you'd ever like to practice any of these languages together, I could use a language buddy :)
do you think having the english skills under our belt makes at times sort of lazy regarding learning other languages? I am so guilty of it every so often I mean when you dont know how to say something in spanish, french or any other language and end up switching back to english by the way you and Lucca Lampariello encourage me to keep working hard, thanks
To do your maths correct, you have to introduce a "quality-factor", where 1 hour of passive class like your french is only 10% as effective as 1 hour watching a french drama series with french subs and french soundtrack for blind people on. Then you come to the result of 200 hours French in 10 Years, what shoud suit your French capability more. As you self mentioned, your French after 6 Years school classes was allmost non existent.
More than that, count the hours of Not doing French in 10 years, which is round about 87.000 hours, in words eightyseven thousand hours of forgetting French. Consistency is important, dont get me wrong on this, but the ratio between Target Language and other things has a certain break-point.
In my opinion.
AwesomeSepp sure. You can include many factors, but I wasn’t trying to show how many hours of input actually were active learning hours. Rather, I wanted to show that many, many hours of input aren’t necessarily effective until you start practicing often and consistently. As I said in the video, not an accurate number
That is an exceptionally good way to analyze study time and those off hours are likely to account for 95% of people who can't learn a second language. Thanks!
what does one mean by....learn a language....to start functioning, maybe a week or even a few days, at a basic level...
Homeboi is the first to comment yo!!!!
Legal ver pessoas aprendendo Português.
speed up tip ! thanks !!
Hi, I really like your videos and always look foward to watch them. But unfortunetaly the music in the backround is so loud that it distract me so much that sometimes I stop the videos. I don't know if others feel the same but I would love just to listen to you ;-)
No worries. I am torn because some do like the music, but I will try to lower the volume next time. You are right. It's a little high :)
If you're a native speaker of a language and there's music in the background it's not a big deal but it can be a distraction for non-native speakers as they're simultaneously contending with both the music and unfamiliar vocab, grammar structures etc. Lowering the volume a bit may be the way to go.
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago that would be so nice :-) Thank you and thanks a lot for the videos!
The background music is so nice
Thank you. It's called silky smooth :)
Hi!! Which textbook did you use when studying German? Any recommendation? I'm starting to learn German by myself but I really need a physical book with practice like I used in English from Oxford (American English file) which helped me a lot with the audios and its online practice.
I used deutsch na klar. It is a very comprehensive, college level book. I thoroughly recommend it, plus it has some very interesting culture sections
I started to learning languages only a few years ago. QUESTION: When you watch a French movie, you understand everything?
Mostly everything. I’d say that the hardest thing is to understand slang, but yeah, I can understand most things :)
Dope video
thank you!
Is it just me or you guys could hear a similarity between the background music of the video and the Star Shopping's Lil Peep song?
Spanish and the "Romance Dialects are the same, they're just spelled differently.
You make good videos Karen
thanks!
Hi ! LanguageGirl , What's up ?
It took you 8 yrs to be fluent in English while living in the states ?
Anyone can learn a language in a year or so ,if one is living in that same country .
Only one thing is needed in order to learn a language and to be fluent in it , that's a very very strong passion . One has to be an eager beaver ..
Yeah, it did, mainly because I didn’t have that strong passion for English to begin with
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago : What another language are you learning these days ?
I like Spanish language .
I have no idea how much time I spent learning the languages I know. Also it depends how you count the time spent reading books, comic books, magazines, newspapers, watching movies and series, and how about real interactions ?
Yeah, obviously it was an approximation. The point is that it takes many, many hours. At least for me it did. I just want to get the message across that, whatever you do, it’s best to maintain consistency
And it depends on the complexity of the language
for sure! German was harder for me to learn than Italian :)
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago German is brutal honestly Italian being my family speaks it is very easy
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago you inspire me though
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago I'm happy you speak Italian too
Especially when learning Asain languages such as Japanese. I have been learning Japanese since March and it will take longer for me to learn Japanese.
I have questions about accent foregn, I'm 18 can I get foregn accent?and if there's opportunity what have I to do for getting rid of my mother languages accent?btw I'm from Indonesia, and now Im working on get American accents and this it thnks I hope u answers my question 🙏🏻
Hi, so definitely watch the video I linked on the other comment. Another thing you could do, would be to take a 5 minute clip of a video in English and follow along. This will have to be done very slowly and it is supposed to help you with mastering the pronunciation of your target hours
Le Verlan est un language urbain parler par les jeunes. Le mot Verlan lui même signifie "L'envers".
Colombia
Brutal truth....
Glad you enjoyed the video 😆
Hhhhh i want to know how you did the calculation of English hours.
it's in the description :)
What CEFR level do you think you are at in your languages?
Instead of trying learning another language, learn language as a whole, then apply the language you want to learn to that chassis. AND STOP TRANSLATING!
What is your level in german?
Are u Indian???
No, I am Colombian
@@KarenVanessaBuitrago u ve got btful eyes....
Catalan is not a language. It's a dialect.
these videos bore me....so....so long....