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Is it time to learn a new language?
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- Опубліковано 14 сер 2024
- A little shift in this channel has been made - a new theme is being introduced here which is "languages". I will be discussing languages, specifically Swedish, as this is a language I am currently learning and hopefully get more people to learn new languages and encourage it.
Your support is very much appreciated and please share it with your fellow friends and philosophers!
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00:00 Announcement
01:32 Why Swedish is super easy
02:21 Trial and error phase
03:00 Why I chose Swedish
04:20 Dualism of man
06:10 Benefits of learning a language
07:13 People, wake up!
08:50 Forecast
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You make very good points!
Thank you very much!
Good vid! subscribed
Thank you very much!
This is an exciting new direction for your channel! Languages open up so many opportunities, and Swedish is such a beautiful choice. I'm looking forward to learning along with you. As a fellow creator focusing on travel and cultural experiences (@AmaiwanTraveler), I love seeing new content ideas like this. Keep up the great work!
Thank you for your feedback, appreciate it very much! I can only praise you back for creating interesting content on your channel and look forward to making further videos on this subject involving languages (as well as philosophy)!
I‘m so proud of you! 👏
Thank you very much, appreciate it!
Thanks for your experience in this video about learning languages. I appreciate this positive video which give us motivation. My name is Serge, I’m currently learning English and try to practice as much as possible, when I’m listening such videos in English. Please tell me, except motivation and listening, what other suggestions could help in order to achieve a good level of English speaking? Thank you for your answer. Excuse if I wrote this with mistakes, and I would be grateful if you could show me what I need to correct in my comment.
@@serghei_rromany Hey Serge, highly appreciate your feedback and super glad you enjoyed it! Based on your comment you wrote, your English is pretty solid and you seem to have a great foundation already in that language. I personally wouldn't worry too much about the tiniest of mistakes and being too focused on the little grammar nuances. That can be done at a later point in time when you solidify your skills in understanding, reading, and speaking. To increase your skills in English, I can highly recommend simply reading English literature, news, having your phone settings in English, trying to think everything in English, listening to endless podcasts and other English videos as you're doing now and lastly, speaking to people in English if possible (in your environment). I actually have a video where I discuss those little nuances in my channel you can find, feel free to watch that as well. If you have any further questions or concerns, always feel free to reach out to me!
Best regards,
Alex
After two years of wasting time on language gaming apps, I’m sticking almost entirely to audio courses. Unfortunately, the audio course I’m following - Rocket Languages - doesn’t have Swedish - but there’s always the more dated/more repetitive Pimsleur 🤖).
I’ve realised that key to speedy progress in language learning is understanding of the spoken form (those pesky linguists seem to have been right after all). My most successful method to date is basically comprehensible input with a huge emphasis on listening comprehension - hence the audio course.
With understanding, we can expose ourselves to more and more of the language, and acquire it phrase by phrase in the way nature intended, in a similar way to how kids acquire language.
I think linguists make a good point: The written form is a poor guide to pronunciation - partly due to the nature of the all important connected speech, as well as, of course, intonation.
The gaming language apps are not as immersive, with little authentic audio. They’re not much better than classroom learning where each grammar point is turned laboriously into nothing more than a math problem. That’s antithetical to how the brain processes language.
Understanding the new spoken language without much mathematical effort is also hugely motivating. I haven’t put the audio course down all year - and that’s even with the many repetitions.
It’s so motivating that the language I’m currently learning is one I never had any interest or intention of learning because of its pesky complexities, and you alluded to it in your vid:
F.R.E.N.C.H. 😱🇫🇷🥖
Now there’s a language we should hear before we see it written 😵💫
How about you? Which other languages do you speak, and which method(s) are you using to learn Swedish?
Firstly - tack så mycket - thank you so much for the well articulated comment, I fully appreciate it!
I personally had to study French in Switzerland, as this is one of the four official languages in our country and thus we spent 12 years learning it. I attained a B2 business French level, but haven't used it in about 2 years almost now. And even then at my "peak of speaking French" I was never fully fluent or confident in speaking it, even after 12 years. The main application or method that was used upon us was grammar, reading and lots of nonsense theory that was not helpful for us at all. It's like explaining how a guitar works but never actually being able to play it. That's why putting yourself in the corner where you are required to speak it is one of the best methods for me. Now granted, another challenge I have is that as someone who lives in Switzerland, I don't have the luxury of speaking Swedish to everyone, which means I have to create my own little hub at home or in my personal field. That means putting your phone and computer settings into Swedish, trying to think in Swedish, listening to loads and loads of podcasts in Swedish (as you mentioned it nicely) and so forth. This means that we aren't necessarily obliged to live in the country we are trying to learn the language of, but it certainly helps.
I'll be making some content on how I learn Swedish and some of the methodology as well, and partly to also just show you guys how I advance in that language authentically. 😄
Hej @@philosophiahelvetica !
So you have the same problem that Albert Einstein had. Didn’t he fail to get into the prestigious Zurich Institute of Technology because he flunked his French entrance exam? 👨🎨😅
Well there you have it. Clearly your struggles wiz zee Fronch laungage are a sign of high intellect 🧠😅
Olly Richards of StoryLearning fame asks if the juice is really worth the squeeze where teaching foreign languages in schools is concerned:
ua-cam.com/video/xCd8nfsoClo/v-deo.html
I will certainly check out your other vids. There seems to be some attraction among philosophers towards languages and linguistics. Why do you think that is?
For instance, Majestic Minds is another philosophy/language learning channel set in Denmark.
ua-cam.com/play/PLLmOUpOXk5JVZuVPPkYroM15m-BM4hk0e.html&si=kKZ5PpAaz0v_Fl9j
You could perhaps do a podcast with them one day. In fact, this is what the internets demand 😎
Hej@@philosophiahelvetica!
So you have the same problem that Albert Einstein had. Didn’t he fail to get into the prestigious Zurich Institute of Technology because he flunked his French entrance exam? 👨🎨😱
Well there you have it. Clearly your struggles with zee Fronch laungage are a sign of high intellect 🧠😅
Olly Richards of StoryLearning fame asks if the juice is really worth the squeeze where teaching foreign languages in schools is concerned:
ua-cam.com/video/xCd8nfsoClo/v-deo.html
I will certainly check out your other vids. There seems to be some attraction among philosophers towards languages and linguistics. Why do you think that is?
For instance, here’s another philosophy/language learning channel set in Denmark:
youtube.com/@mjstcminds
You could perhaps do a podcast with them one day. In fact, that is what internets demand 😎
Hej! I don't know if you can see my reply as it contained links to other YT videos, which seems to have broken some trap door of an internet law... I tried reposting with the links removed, but that hasn't appeared either :/