I remember that moment where I had watched so much content in Korean an Chinese that when I was thinking about a certain word I wanted to use but hadn’t learned yet, I happened to just randomly recall a word that “felt” right. To my suprise, when I looked up the word it was exactly the one I wanted to use. Not because I had learned it, but I had heard it so many times in certain contexts that my mind just “knew” it was right. I think that was such a great moment in my language learning progress
In defense of flashcards - I got a really comprehensive deck of flashcards of for Irish (it had audio links in multple dialects, alternate definitions etc, it was really good) and the vocab was pitched right at my level and there was a decent quantity of cards. What this allowed me to do was chip away at this regularly, in small windows of time Ihad each day, without a massive commitment or effort to immerse myself. This was great when learning Irish wasn't a priority for me. The effet it had was that when I began looking at Irish texts after getting deep into the deck, I realised I knew a much greater quanitty of the vocabulary, so I could start to more easily read texts. I was able to start reading books like the Narnia series without too much help from a dictionary by the end of it. The thing is, if the only way to progress was full imerssion, I would just not have done it. I woudl never have gotten to the point where I could read a book like that without losing my pacience if I hadn't built up that vocabulary first. I do agree that it's not the most effective method, but it it's like diet and exercise - the most effective diet and exercise regime is brutal, maybe so much so you don't sitck to it and give up, so a less effective one that you stick with is actually better.
He is right, french has many words that change with context. Its a point of view he is sharing, can we just be respectful and listen.. Agreed to disagree perhaps
Reading books on a book reader (you can translate as you go) is very effective to get words. I tried using flash cards from books I was reading but stopped because I couldn't get through the story fast enough. When you read a book series, you will see words repeat over and over again. After a few books in the series, I noticed things stick. I use flash cards for certain expressions or phrases I don't hear or see a lot when I read, and things I don't know when I watch things with subtitles. Exposure IS better than memorizing because you organically memorize instead of force feeding your target language in your head which can burn you out.
Try that with Japanese…it DOESN’T WORK. For even an intermediate beginner, Japanese books are still incomprehensible, with there being kanji as well as NO comas and NO gaps between words.
@@JohnM... when you go through the series, things start becoming comprehensive. I am reading Harry Potter in Spanish right now. When I got to Book 3, I was looking up fewer and fewer words. Im on book 4 and my reading speed has increased. On book 1, I had to look up every other word and it took me like an hour just to read 6 pages. And that was with an ebook reader. When you are a beginner intermediate, you have to bridge the gap into intermediate level with harder content. When you are on the Intermediate level, common TV and movie content for teens and adults gets easier. You can watch them with the subs and actually follow the story with maybe a few words you will have to look up every once in a while. I know Japanese is not as easy as Spanish, but reading accelerates the process of getting better at the language...any language.
Interesting. Or I suppose one could read the same book three times over, and get a similar effect. I guess I say that just because I don't tend to like series, whether they're books or TV series.
@@js_guyman Book series make it easier because you see a large volume of the same words repeat, but if you're reading regularly you will notice the same words in a number of different books. Focus on daily reading. If you make reading a lifelong habit, you will start using words that even natives may not be familiar with. Think of bookworms who read in English who use a lot of uncommon words you may not be familiar with.
I enjoyed this video! I began my 10-year life in Japan in 1988 when all we had were textbooks, cassette tapes, and flashcards. I hated it. Learning words without context will be stored in your short-term memory and then forgotten in no time. This is truly the Golden Age of Language Learning! Great points and an excellent presentation!
@@user-rn2ks9ch9h have a lot of polyglots who said that it's possible, you can find people able to speak 10+ languages. Obviously, not at the same level.
Recently I read a 100 page children's picture book in Chinese. Each page only had a few phrases. I read through the book twice, then put all the unknown words into Anki, then read the book through a couple more times as I reviewed the flashcards. Whole process took about a week and was the most effective flashcard strategy I ever imployed. Each flashcard would remind me of a specific scene in the book
Guy at work been In Australia for 6 months to learn English. I asked him if he speaks with the people he lives with? Nope, Spanish. Do you watch TV or UA-cam in English? Nope, Spanish. I told him "you are surrounded by English, so watch it, listen to it, read it, ask me things. Start with learning some core stuff with where we work. He says, yes ok. Walks off listening to Spanish podcast on his phone. Facepalm.
😂 Give some people everything they need and they don't bother. They like the idea of learning an instrument, language or sport but won't do the work. Teachers at my school called those pupils wasters.
@@purplehaze779 That sounds like an excuse if ever I heard one. I would agree with "finding X is hard when you live in another country because your current country does not allow access to content from the other country". But when you live in Australia, finding Australian content is as easy as turning on the darn TV and radio, walking into a news agent and buying a newspaper, talking to English speakers at work (like me). Like one guy at work who says nothing more than good morning to me, asked these two girls how they could understand me and talk to me when they were learners like him and they told him, because we talk to him and ask him questions because we WANT to learn... and the key word here is WANT. The girls are motivated, the guys are not because they cannot even be bothered to experience English when they live in an English speaking country. When you are motivated you will find a way, when you are not you will find an excuse.
@@MisterGames i agree with you on this. I believe learning the native language in a country is also a sign of respect. Finding resources in your target language is actually easy. Just get a VPN or google translate from Native Language to Target Language of a topic you like and put it into UA-cam. It literally does not even take a minute.
this is so true...I am learning Welsh, I have tried making Anki flashcards with new words that I come across in an attempt to memorise them, I didn't get very far with it, I just couldn't remember the words on their own and I found that I spent more time making the cards than actually reviewing them...fortunately I live in a very Welsh-speaking part of Wales so I have plenty of opportunities to speak Welsh, I find there is a sort of natural process that happens of words embedding themselves in my long term memory the more often I come across them, and the more I use the language and the more I am exposed to it, the more I encounter the words repetitively. Great video, thank you!
Im learning my fourth language, memorizing and working on Grammars arent that essential in learning new languages, i speak Farsi, English and Greek and learning German but non of them are in the same level, Farsi is my mother language, i started learning english since i was 13 about 22 years ago and Greek about 7 years ago, now im learning German but the best way to learn the languages is to immerse yourself in the environment where respective language is spoken, comprehensive input is the name of this method
I agree with what you’re saying. I worked as a kid in a Mexican Restaurant, then Spanish classes in college, the. Summer jobs in Mexico, and I’m damn near native fluent. NOW, Where the Hell do I find a German group in north Mississippi?
Another killer technique I could not use in my youth but that I use now is a looping and slowing app like Chordify. I use it to slow down guitar solos like those old ones from Clapton in order to really get the finer nuances. Killer for languages as well, especially for verbal stuff like Pimsleur. When you slow things down AND chop you learning units to fit your brain you encode many many times faster. We have been trained to make our brains FIT the damn crappy teaching. Gotta do the reverse. Eagles don't a 2 feet snakes to their chicks hours after they hatch. They probable shred the snake to pieces even if they regurgitate some of it. To come back to Clapton, I don't care about beats of measures when I absorb. I have done enough that when I slow down and loop, I know right away if I am chewing too much. The old Clapton stuff is very messy so I need short bites as the amount of parameters involved is very high. However. a cleaner player like Knopfler in Sultans of Swing is way cleaner so I can take bigger bite. Years ago I decided to learn to sing a Sanskrit mantra for fun. It is a famous one for hindus called the Gayatri mantra. I know like 2 or 3 words in Indian otherwise like Masala so this was a 100% musical experience as I still don't have a clue about the grammar involved and the meaning of each word individually. I still remember it years later. Good job. Love the fact your are an out-of-the-box guy. That's how we learn.
I find flashcards very useful both for building vocab and short sentences. Of course they are just part of the process but one I find invaluable, especially in the beginning. You have to start somewhere.
as a Colombian citizen, when I was teenager leant English by myself without even having to go to the country... luckily I had internet connection, I began to engage with music and topics creating an Artificial world in which I spent lot of time after school. I haven't been yet in the USA or the UK but I can easily communicate and comprehend a native speaker.... I did the same about French and Italian.
the peppa pig one is so real..thats how i learned english WITHOUT EVEN WANTING TO LEARNING. i wasnt trying to learn it but bcz i watch peppa pig im literally native fluent now
I’m Brazilian and live a long journey to would become fluently in English. I tried most things that were explained at this video: Flashcards, anki, learn the 1000-words most frequently used in English and all this bullshit. For me, the most useful hack that I have been use it’s just a simple Google chrome extension. Basically appears at the same time 2 subtitles (English - Portuguese). Learning with context without memorized
Well done man! There is not enough awareness about this topic (and about language learning in general). Most of my students, at the beginning of my courses, ask me for grammar tables and list of words. And 50% of my job, during the first few classes, is to convince them that they don't need them! As soon as they understand it, the process of learning really kicks in!
This is exactly it my man! Don't study grammar and don't memorise! I dedicate everything to Acquisition meaning in context and understand the message. You are on point mate 👌🏼 I talk a lot about home immersion too as well👍🏻
You MUST memorize random words, you cannot just invent them in the middle of a conversation. Obviously no one can speak a language knowing just words and zero grammar or sentence structure, but you won’t be able to make those work if you lack vocabulary. So yeah, absolutely DO memorize vocabulary, just don’t limit yourself at that.
我早就放弃了记单词和记短语，因为我没有和这些东西进行任何连接，基本上过几个月就会忘记我所学过的单词，现在我天天看英语视频，不知不觉记住了很多很多单词。所以我非常同意你的观点 I gave up on memorizing individual words and phrases a long time ago because I didn't feel connected to them. Basically, after a few months, I would forget most of what I learned. Now I watch English videos every day, and without realizing it, I've remembered a lot of words. So I totally agree with your point.。
The problem ain’t Flashcards per se, it’s that most Flashcards are one-to-one words, where as in reality a Flashcard has to be supplemented with a ton of info relating to word inflexion and usage in context
@@vme1111 A challenge for you, try to watch my first A1 video (the most watched video on my channel) and try NOT to understand what I am saying. I bet you'll still understand 70+% of what I say even though I am using only French. So immersion for beginners is possible. I am not saying it's the only way, but it is very useful!
@@FrenchComprehensibleInput I wouldn’t be a fair trial since I already know Spanish and am low intermediate in Portuguese. So I will definitely pick up on some French. Show me a video in Mandarin and I guarantee I’ll know nothing cause I’m not familiar with the words.
Right? I don’t get it. We need to have a rich vocabulary to be able to speak a language. I even try to learn random new words in my native language from time to time. I speak 4 languages fluently, I most very definitely had to learn lists of separate random words. Obviously in order to not forget them we must use them while practicing the language afterwards, but that doesn’t change the fact that those words need to be learned at some point anyway.
5:10 the guy said INCLUDE flash card, did you even finish the vid? The point he said at thumbnail is for views and the intro is for audience interaction and emphasizes his point flash card is good but not the best. But seem he overdone it.
I use a combined method of doing some high frequency word flashcards in a language for exposure to words I know I'll be seeing a lot of, and then reading (and listening) to content in that language, making flashcards of words I end up seeing over and over in literature when I'm reading. But the last part is crucial - I don't feel like the words have really been cemented until I've read them a lot of times and used it a few times, too.
This guy is describing how Pimsleur basically teaches. You're put in situations and are asked how you say stuff within that context, situation or topic
Awesome video bro 🔥🔥 working on Spanish & another at the moment and meanwhile I see vocabulary and etc a try to focus on what draws me to remembering the words and language itself and watch videos of people talking more often vs flash cards or vocab
Anki you can save phrases. And the way Anki lets you tell it how well you remembered that card. Anki will now repeat your weak answers more frequently. Timed repetition is Anki's best feature
I came up with this by myself. I watch some movies in german and I have changed languages of my devices to German too. I figured out it works becuase I never ever learned english traditional way like they teach in school and all I did was watching youtube videos a lot of times in english as a kid. This language just sinked in to my brain.
I didnt find my spanish flash-cards to really be of help till I took them and taped them all around the house to specific things, so when ever I would see these specific things under day to day navigating threw the house can read off these itiems by thier spanish names, and for spanish sentences around the words.
ありがとうございました. (arigatou gozaimashita) great advice. i hate using anki to learn Japanese. ive learned a lot from アニメ (anime) and 日本人 (Nihonjin [Japanese]) streamers. comprehensible input is the best and really the only way to acquire any language. and you are correct about Peppa Pig. Bluey works as well
What?! 😱😱 Now I understand why my students are getting better results with conversational courses compared to when I used to focus on teaching grammar. thanks
Learning a bunch of grammar before you learn sentences will just create insecure speakers because they get scared of using the wrong grammar. I expose myself to a bunch of natural sentences and when I wonder about a grammar I look it up to understand it and with previous input the grammar makes sense in their explanation, and after looking it up you'll get reminded every time you encounter it in the near future as the repetition.
Read my mind before consuming your video. Been watching the Extra series for my French learning. It works. I am picking it up more and more each day. Now I am going to try Peppa The Pig. Anything to learn the basics. One additional thing I do is just learn basic words via UA-cam to pick up on what the conversations are about. I even talk to co-workers who speak it to get myself ready to converse when I relocate. Thank you for your valuable info.
I recently began using flashcards in my language-learning journey towards Russian. They´re certainly not the holy grail when obtaining individual new words, as you so adamantly express in the video. However, flashcards still have their use in improving the overall comprehension of a language. When used in a specific context in which single unknown words are, the comprehensibility will improve after seeing them multiple times in that particular context which, in the long run, will enhance your overall understanding.
I am using applications that are structured in communicative situations but even so I cannot memorize the sentences to use them later without consulting them.I'm referring to Mango Language and Pimsleur.
That’s what worked for me for English, French, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew and Dutch. Alas, for Mandarin Chinese, I eventually had to switch to learning vocabulary because the words are so hard to memorize-I saw no other way to make progress.
@@DimaKris I dabbled with it years ago and learned the Cyrillic alphabet. Alas, I never got very far and forgot a lot: Thus, I understand your question but can’t answer in Russian anymore. 😀 In hindsight, words were relatively easy to remember (compared to Chinese). You clearly see how connected Europe (incl. Russia) has always been - e.g.: the Russian word for “to work” is related to “robot” (which comes from Czech, IIRC), ресторан, цирк, фото, автомобиль, компьютер, etc. People say Russian is difficult but it didn’t feel that way to me - unless your goal is to always get the grammar 100% right.
Hey brother. Always appreciate your content. As a Russian learner myself, any suggestion of an equivalent Series in Russian like “Dix Pour Cent”? Would it just be «Кухня»? That seems to be everyone’s recommendation. Спасибо за совет!
Yes bro! Exactly...I haven't searched for any Кухня literature but some must exist. It's a great series for anyone that's reached the intermediate or Upper intermediate stage in Russian. Highly recommend it.
I'm a fan of a couple of novellas...should I watch them with the subtitles (which distract me 'cause they're on the bottom and I feel like I'm missing the action) or just go without them and mudfle thru the episodes?
100 percent Correct. If you are not an English Speaker and used a flash car to learn the word On with zero context, you are doing yourself a disservice. I was ON the call. He turned ON the lights. She was ON to him. He turned ON his friend . The word ON is now in context.
I've been acquiring English fluency for a minute now and have tried almost every methodologies recommended by different individuals online and the only thing that really and actually works is when I started listening to the things I find interesting like on a daily basis. And yes all from podcasts. It took me 2 years to get comfortable in a verbal communication tho I ain't entirely fluent yet but man listening really is the way 100percent guaranteed
For me, I still want to hear everyday words, like grass, sky, bird, boy, girl, cloud, sun, sky, walking, run, and various prepositions - like I’m 2 years old.
Your video tells the truth because the short clip you added that is what i been watching in Spanish and german too. Movies and shows really tell you the slangs used as well to sound more native
But in order to understand those you have to understand the words they’re using, you can’t just guess them all. Memorizing is extremely important when it comes to learning a language, especially if it’s not a language you can practice every single day with the people around you. I truly hate these "don’t do this" videos, because usually it’s stuff people 100% should do, as it’s part of a whole process and without it the process is incomplete.
@@mandarina4157 Factual. Memorizing is really important too. I use it as well and other methods and it works for me so i really don't care what a person says because have to do what works for each.
14 years in Metro Manila is a total disaster with no help from friends. A few methods at a fortune led to total disaster. 10 years ago I stopped attending gatherings with Tagalog talk since severely depressed of being alone.
How would you go about studying without any flash cards? It seems like you’re more likely to misuse them than use them correctly so why not try going without?
If your target language is way too different from your native one, you have no choice but to memorize small bits of the language over a longer period of time. There are no magical shortcuts. No fucking acquiring, either.
So if I point at a table and SAY the word for table in Mandarin for the next 24 hours...Are you saying you won't be able to acquire that word without someone drawing you the Mandarin character and then you using rote memory to memorize it?
For whatever reason, you're using words 'flashcards' and 'words' interchangeably. Flashcards can be phrases, sentences, or even grammar rules. But you start with words, and there is nothing wrong with that.
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I remember that moment where I had watched so much content in Korean an Chinese that when I was thinking about a certain word I wanted to use but hadn’t learned yet, I happened to just randomly recall a word that “felt” right. To my suprise, when I looked up the word it was exactly the one I wanted to use. Not because I had learned it, but I had heard it so many times in certain contexts that my mind just “knew” it was right. I think that was such a great moment in my language learning progress
In defense of flashcards - I got a really comprehensive deck of flashcards of for Irish (it had audio links in multple dialects, alternate definitions etc, it was really good) and the vocab was pitched right at my level and there was a decent quantity of cards. What this allowed me to do was chip away at this regularly, in small windows of time Ihad each day, without a massive commitment or effort to immerse myself. This was great when learning Irish wasn't a priority for me. The effet it had was that when I began looking at Irish texts after getting deep into the deck, I realised I knew a much greater quanitty of the vocabulary, so I could start to more easily read texts. I was able to start reading books like the Narnia series without too much help from a dictionary by the end of it. The thing is, if the only way to progress was full imerssion, I would just not have done it. I woudl never have gotten to the point where I could read a book like that without losing my pacience if I hadn't built up that vocabulary first. I do agree that it's not the most effective method, but it it's like diet and exercise - the most effective diet and exercise regime is brutal, maybe so much so you don't sitck to it and give up, so a less effective one that you stick with is actually better.
Link to the deck?
This guy has trauma with flash cards.
I agreed It!
He is right, french has many words that change with context. Its a point of view he is sharing, can we just be respectful and listen.. Agreed to disagree perhaps
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Yes! Thank you! Memorizing phrases, not single words - this is what I ask my students to do!
Reading books on a book reader (you can translate as you go) is very effective to get words. I tried using flash cards from books I was reading but stopped because I couldn't get through the story fast enough. When you read a book series, you will see words repeat over and over again. After a few books in the series, I noticed things stick.
I use flash cards for certain expressions or phrases I don't hear or see a lot when I read, and things I don't know when I watch things with subtitles.
Exposure IS better than memorizing because you organically memorize instead of force feeding your target language in your head which can burn you out.
Try that with Japanese…it DOESN’T WORK. For even an intermediate beginner, Japanese books are still incomprehensible, with there being kanji as well as NO comas and NO gaps between words.
@@JohnM... when you go through the series, things start becoming comprehensive. I am reading Harry Potter in Spanish right now. When I got to Book 3, I was looking up fewer and fewer words. Im on book 4 and my reading speed has increased. On book 1, I had to look up every other word and it took me like an hour just to read 6 pages. And that was with an ebook reader. When you are a beginner intermediate, you have to bridge the gap into intermediate level with harder content. When you are on the Intermediate level, common TV and movie content for teens and adults gets easier. You can watch them with the subs and actually follow the story with maybe a few words you will have to look up every once in a while.
I know Japanese is not as easy as Spanish, but reading accelerates the process of getting better at the language...any language.
Interesting. Or I suppose one could read the same book three times over, and get a similar effect.
I guess I say that just because I don't tend to like series, whether they're books or TV series.
@@js_guyman Book series make it easier because you see a large volume of the same words repeat, but if you're reading regularly you will notice the same words in a number of different books.
Focus on daily reading. If you make reading a lifelong habit, you will start using words that even natives may not be familiar with. Think of bookworms who read in English who use a lot of uncommon words you may not be familiar with.
@@JohnM... there are a lot of graded readers and simple books for Japanese learners. Look up the Crystal Hunters manga
I enjoyed this video! I began my 10-year life in Japan in 1988 when all we had were textbooks, cassette tapes, and flashcards. I hated it. Learning words without context will be stored in your short-term memory and then forgotten in no time. This is truly the Golden Age of Language Learning! Great points and an excellent presentation!
I speak 6 languages and what you are saying here is very true, and it is similar to what I have been advocating for decades
Oh wow, what did you do to learn 6 languages? Did you have a schedule?
@@nicohunter6982 raised with three and learned three through pretty much the same way you point out in the video, so the method is solid…
How do you maintain 6 languages in your mind? I mean, how you don't forget? Do you use all of them?
@@kauanerik-k3yNobody can speak 6 different languages at a very high level :)
@@user-rn2ks9ch9h have a lot of polyglots who said that it's possible, you can find people able to speak 10+ languages. Obviously, not at the same level.
Recently I read a 100 page children's picture book in Chinese. Each page only had a few phrases. I read through the book twice, then put all the unknown words into Anki, then read the book through a couple more times as I reviewed the flashcards. Whole process took about a week and was the most effective flashcard strategy I ever imployed. Each flashcard would remind me of a specific scene in the book
Guy at work been In Australia for 6 months to learn English. I asked him if he speaks with the people he lives with? Nope, Spanish. Do you watch TV or UA-cam in English? Nope, Spanish. I told him "you are surrounded by English, so watch it, listen to it, read it, ask me things. Start with learning some core stuff with where we work. He says, yes ok. Walks off listening to Spanish podcast on his phone. Facepalm.
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😂 Give some people everything they need and they don't bother. They like the idea of learning an instrument, language or sport but won't do the work. Teachers at my school called those pupils wasters.
You don't know the mental taxation of full immersion and finding podcast/videos that u like in other language is hard
@@purplehaze779 That sounds like an excuse if ever I heard one. I would agree with "finding X is hard when you live in another country because your current country does not allow access to content from the other country". But when you live in Australia, finding Australian content is as easy as turning on the darn TV and radio, walking into a news agent and buying a newspaper, talking to English speakers at work (like me). Like one guy at work who says nothing more than good morning to me, asked these two girls how they could understand me and talk to me when they were learners like him and they told him, because we talk to him and ask him questions because we WANT to learn... and the key word here is WANT. The girls are motivated, the guys are not because they cannot even be bothered to experience English when they live in an English speaking country. When you are motivated you will find a way, when you are not you will find an excuse.
@@MisterGames i agree with you on this. I believe learning the native language in a country is also a sign of respect. Finding resources in your target language is actually easy. Just get a VPN or google translate from Native Language to Target Language of a topic you like and put it into UA-cam. It literally does not even take a minute.
this is so true...I am learning Welsh, I have tried making Anki flashcards with new words that I come across in an attempt to memorise them, I didn't get very far with it, I just couldn't remember the words on their own and I found that I spent more time making the cards than actually reviewing them...fortunately I live in a very Welsh-speaking part of Wales so I have plenty of opportunities to speak Welsh, I find there is a sort of natural process that happens of words embedding themselves in my long term memory the more often I come across them, and the more I use the language and the more I am exposed to it, the more I encounter the words repetitively. Great video, thank you!
This dude is the Dave Goggins of language
Im learning my fourth language, memorizing and working on Grammars arent that essential in learning new languages, i speak Farsi, English and Greek and learning German but non of them are in the same level, Farsi is my mother language, i started learning english since i was 13 about 22 years ago and Greek about 7 years ago, now im learning German but the best way to learn the languages is to immerse yourself in the environment where respective language is spoken, comprehensive input is the name of this method
I agree with what you’re saying. I worked as a kid in a Mexican Restaurant, then Spanish classes in college, the. Summer jobs in Mexico, and I’m damn near native fluent. NOW, Where the Hell do I find a German group in north Mississippi?
Another killer technique I could not use in my youth but that I use now is a looping and slowing app like Chordify. I use it to slow down guitar solos like those old ones from Clapton in order to really get the finer nuances. Killer for languages as well, especially for verbal stuff like Pimsleur. When you slow things down AND chop you learning units to fit your brain you encode many many times faster. We have been trained to make our brains FIT the damn crappy teaching. Gotta do the reverse. Eagles don't a 2 feet snakes to their chicks hours after they hatch. They probable shred the snake to pieces even if they regurgitate some of it. To come back to Clapton, I don't care about beats of measures when I absorb. I have done enough that when I slow down and loop, I know right away if I am chewing too much. The old Clapton stuff is very messy so I need short bites as the amount of parameters involved is very high. However. a cleaner player like Knopfler in Sultans of Swing is way cleaner so I can take bigger bite. Years ago I decided to learn to sing a Sanskrit mantra for fun. It is a famous one for hindus called the Gayatri mantra. I know like 2 or 3 words in Indian otherwise like Masala so this was a 100% musical experience as I still don't have a clue about the grammar involved and the meaning of each word individually. I still remember it years later. Good job. Love the fact your are an out-of-the-box guy. That's how we learn.
I find flashcards very useful both for building vocab and short sentences. Of course they are just part of the process but one I find invaluable, especially in the beginning. You have to start somewhere.
as a Colombian citizen, when I was teenager leant English by myself without even having to go to the country... luckily I had internet connection, I began to engage with music and topics creating an Artificial world in which I spent lot of time after school. I haven't been yet in the USA or the UK but I can easily communicate and comprehend a native speaker.... I did the same about French and Italian.
the peppa pig one is so real..thats how i learned english WITHOUT EVEN WANTING TO LEARNING. i wasnt trying to learn it but bcz i watch peppa pig im literally native fluent now
I’m Brazilian and live a long journey to would become fluently in English. I tried most things that were explained at this video: Flashcards, anki, learn the 1000-words most frequently used in English and all this bullshit. For me, the most useful hack that I have been use it’s just a simple Google chrome extension. Basically appears at the same time 2 subtitles (English - Portuguese). Learning with context without memorized
extension name?
Same for me but I’m American and am learning Portuguese 😅
Qual nome da extensão?
@@HulaCanFly Hello, I am from Brazil and I can help you learn Portuguese.
Well done man! There is not enough awareness about this topic (and about language learning in general). Most of my students, at the beginning of my courses, ask me for grammar tables and list of words. And 50% of my job, during the first few classes, is to convince them that they don't need them! As soon as they understand it, the process of learning really kicks in!
This is exactly it my man! Don't study grammar and don't memorise! I dedicate everything to Acquisition meaning in context and understand the message. You are on point mate 👌🏼 I talk a lot about home immersion too as well👍🏻
You MUST memorize random words, you cannot just invent them in the middle of a conversation. Obviously no one can speak a language knowing just words and zero grammar or sentence structure, but you won’t be able to make those work if you lack vocabulary. So yeah, absolutely DO memorize vocabulary, just don’t limit yourself at that.
I like it! Create an artifical immersion experience. Bring the immersion to you.
i suggest the cartoons ariol and calliou(canadian french version) for early french learners. and the netflix series mortel for more advanced
Ikindly explain better, i am in my french B1 and still battling with listening and knowing my vocabularie
我早就放弃了记单词和记短语，因为我没有和这些东西进行任何连接，基本上过几个月就会忘记我所学过的单词，现在我天天看英语视频，不知不觉记住了很多很多单词。所以我非常同意你的观点
I gave up on memorizing individual words and phrases a long time ago because I didn't feel connected to them. Basically, after a few months, I would forget most of what I learned. Now I watch English videos every day, and without realizing it, I've remembered a lot of words. So I totally agree with your point.。
The problem ain’t Flashcards per se, it’s that most Flashcards are one-to-one words, where as in reality a Flashcard has to be supplemented with a ton of info relating to word inflexion and usage in context
per se xD jajajaj you sound more formal thn a doctor. xD
Well you cant really get much comprehensible input if you don't know any vocab at all you gotta start somewhere
I beg to differ 😊
Exactly. You can’t just dive into this without first knowing what the words are and how they sound. Otherwise it’ll be nothing but a lot of noise
@@vme1111 A challenge for you, try to watch my first A1 video (the most watched video on my channel) and try NOT to understand what I am saying. I bet you'll still understand 70+% of what I say even though I am using only French. So immersion for beginners is possible. I am not saying it's the only way, but it is very useful!
@@FrenchComprehensibleInput I wouldn’t be a fair trial since I already know Spanish and am low intermediate in Portuguese. So I will definitely pick up on some French. Show me a video in Mandarin and I guarantee I’ll know nothing cause I’m not familiar with the words.
@@vme1111 ua-cam.com/video/_CMzfhsCYrA/v-deo.htmlsi=bDFbz06OK0Q5iL7o
It doesn't hurt to learn 20 or so words a day. Not sure what the fuss is about.
Right? I don’t get it. We need to have a rich vocabulary to be able to speak a language. I even try to learn random new words in my native language from time to time. I speak 4 languages fluently, I most very definitely had to learn lists of separate random words. Obviously in order to not forget them we must use them while practicing the language afterwards, but that doesn’t change the fact that those words need to be learned at some point anyway.
5:10 the guy said INCLUDE flash card, did you even finish the vid? The point he said at thumbnail is for views and the intro is for audience interaction and emphasizes his point flash card is good but not the best. But seem he overdone it.
Somebody was busy with the impact sfx on this video 😆great advice though!
I use a combined method of doing some high frequency word flashcards in a language for exposure to words I know I'll be seeing a lot of, and then reading (and listening) to content in that language, making flashcards of words I end up seeing over and over in literature when I'm reading. But the last part is crucial - I don't feel like the words have really been cemented until I've read them a lot of times and used it a few times, too.
This guy is describing how Pimsleur basically teaches. You're put in situations and are asked how you say stuff within that context, situation or topic
Awesome video bro 🔥🔥 working on Spanish & another at the moment and meanwhile I see vocabulary and etc a try to focus on what draws me to remembering the words and language itself and watch videos of people talking more often vs flash cards or vocab
Anki you can save phrases. And the way Anki lets you tell it how well you remembered that card. Anki will now repeat your weak answers more frequently. Timed repetition is Anki's best feature
This was amazing advice and very engaging. Thank you!
I came up with this by myself. I watch some movies in german and I have changed languages of my devices to German too. I figured out it works becuase I never ever learned english traditional way like they teach in school and all I did was watching youtube videos a lot of times in english as a kid. This language just sinked in to my brain.
I didnt find my spanish flash-cards to really be of help till I took them and taped them all around the house to specific things, so when ever I would see these specific things under day to day navigating threw the house can read off these itiems by thier spanish names, and for spanish sentences around the words.
ありがとうございました. (arigatou gozaimashita)
great advice. i hate using anki to learn Japanese. ive learned a lot from アニメ (anime) and 日本人 (Nihonjin [Japanese]) streamers. comprehensible input is the best and really the only way to acquire any language.
and you are correct about Peppa Pig. Bluey works as well
What?! 😱😱 Now I understand why my students are getting better results with conversational courses compared to when I used to focus on teaching grammar. thanks
no shit
Learning a bunch of grammar before you learn sentences will just create insecure speakers because they get scared of using the wrong grammar. I expose myself to a bunch of natural sentences and when I wonder about a grammar I look it up to understand it and with previous input the grammar makes sense in their explanation, and after looking it up you'll get reminded every time you encounter it in the near future as the repetition.
@@AmbiCahira thanks.
You're right bro
Read my mind before consuming your video. Been watching the Extra series for my French learning. It works. I am picking it up more and more each day. Now I am going to try Peppa The Pig. Anything to learn the basics. One additional thing I do is just learn basic words via UA-cam to pick up on what the conversations are about. I even talk to co-workers who speak it to get myself ready to converse when I relocate. Thank you for your valuable info.
IT'S all on you and that's it guys!
Why is the editing so intense lol
Because the flashcard army is strong my brother...We have to fight back
I recently began using flashcards in my language-learning journey towards Russian. They´re certainly not the holy grail when obtaining individual new words, as you so adamantly express in the video. However, flashcards still have their use in improving the overall comprehension of a language. When used in a specific context in which single unknown words are, the comprehensibility will improve after seeing them multiple times in that particular context which, in the long run, will enhance your overall understanding.
Learning 30 words a day helped me and it didn't take that long.
I am using applications that are structured in communicative situations but even so I cannot memorize the sentences to use them later without consulting them.I'm referring to Mango Language and Pimsleur.
I liked how he cut all the BS and went straight to the point.
I Pre-ordered! I'm ready to lock in!
That’s what worked for me for English, French, Spanish, Russian, Hebrew and Dutch. Alas, for Mandarin Chinese, I eventually had to switch to learning vocabulary because the words are so hard to memorize-I saw no other way to make progress.
О! ты говоришь на русском?
@@DimaKris I dabbled with it years ago and learned the Cyrillic alphabet. Alas, I never got very far and forgot a lot: Thus, I understand your question but can’t answer in Russian anymore. 😀
In hindsight, words were relatively easy to remember (compared to Chinese). You clearly see how connected Europe (incl. Russia) has always been - e.g.: the Russian word for “to work” is related to “robot” (which comes from Czech, IIRC), ресторан, цирк, фото, автомобиль, компьютер, etc. People say Russian is difficult but it didn’t feel that way to me - unless your goal is to always get the grammar 100% right.
I agree with you. I have a ton of Spanish flash cards but they tend to go in one ear and out the other. A word or frase needs to be learnt in context.
Hey brother. Always appreciate your content. As a Russian learner myself, any suggestion of an equivalent Series in Russian like “Dix Pour Cent”? Would it just be «Кухня»? That seems to be everyone’s recommendation. Спасибо за совет!
Yes bro! Exactly...I haven't searched for any Кухня literature but some must exist. It's a great series for anyone that's reached the intermediate or Upper intermediate stage in Russian. Highly recommend it.
this is like sentence mining. sentence mining with proper tools may be the best way to use flashcards with anki.
Great content!
🙌 Thanks for watching
Learners of French, you know what to do!
I really like this concept: artificial immersion. I think you described it in a very well way.
Words are to be memorized when we want to take an exam.
I'm a fan of a couple of novellas...should I watch them with the subtitles (which distract me 'cause they're on the bottom and I feel like I'm missing the action) or just go without them and mudfle thru the episodes?
You are just pointing things wrong and at the same time,"I am not saying its wrong'. 🤣🤣
I wasn't a fan of "Dix Pour Cent", but I do wish there were a book for "Le Bureau".
I'd like to hear more about your use of "Dix Pour Cent" though.
I use flashcards solely for memorizing alphabets outside of that i dont use then for phrases or vocabulary,
100 percent Correct. If you are not an English Speaker and used a flash car to learn the word On with zero context, you are doing yourself a disservice. I was ON the call. He turned ON the lights. She was ON to him. He turned ON his friend . The word ON is now in context.
Spot on!! All of what you said in this video is what I've done so far. It pays off!
Legend. Finally a footballer that has a passion for languages too. U need to listen a lot.
Excellent hints to learn a foreign language. Thanks a lot. Tchüss.
Not me watching this when I just discovered Anki Deck for Mandarin
i wouldve said girl from big bang theory but blossoms ok too
I've been acquiring English fluency for a minute now and have tried almost every methodologies recommended by different individuals online and the only thing that really and actually works is when I started listening to the things I find interesting like on a daily basis.
And yes all from podcasts.
It took me 2 years to get comfortable in a verbal communication tho I ain't entirely fluent yet but man listening really is the way 100percent guaranteed
For me, I still want to hear everyday words, like grass, sky, bird, boy, girl, cloud, sun, sky, walking, run, and various prepositions - like I’m 2 years old.
Your video tells the truth because the short clip you added that is what i been watching in Spanish and german too. Movies and shows really tell you the slangs used as well to sound more native
But in order to understand those you have to understand the words they’re using, you can’t just guess them all. Memorizing is extremely important when it comes to learning a language, especially if it’s not a language you can practice every single day with the people around you. I truly hate these "don’t do this" videos, because usually it’s stuff people 100% should do, as it’s part of a whole process and without it the process is incomplete.
@@mandarina4157 Factual. Memorizing is really important too. I use it as well and other methods and it works for me so i really don't care what a person says because have to do what works for each.
@@mandarina4157 If we were to actually "don't do this" then we would be stuck at basics in each language.
this one's also great and is filled with truth. I love your method more than others
…now im trying to search Peppa Pig for each languages 😅❤ and luckily they all have 😉
But fucking words are my favorite! 😢
This is how I learned touch typing. I learned the hand position then just sat in front of the computer typing. Theory made me lose intrest.
I’m learning Arabic the struggle is REAL, I’ll give a try to some children show! Thanks from Paris France!
14 years in Metro Manila is a total disaster with no help from friends. A few methods at a fortune led to total disaster. 10 years ago I stopped attending gatherings with Tagalog talk since severely depressed of being alone.
Cartoons as well helps with language learning too
Yooooooo!!!!! Legit I actually use Peppa Pig for my German.
Great advice amd fantastic vid💪💪
Very very good video! And to think that I almost scrolled past because of the curse word on the thumbnail.. your content is great! Stop the swearing!
no
Here from Jamaica 🇯🇲
Hahaha this is the first time i have ever heard someone not promote flashcards! What a legend!!!! 🤣 I HATE flashcards more than the plague
I speak English, french and Portugal that is true bro.
How would you go about studying without any flash cards? It seems like you’re more likely to misuse them than use them correctly so why not try going without?
Input learning is my way to learn languages.
oh shit I think I learnt the correct way by Accident lol
i used the flash cards but i am telling you i can remember them and recall them but but they are not helpful in conversations.
If your target language is way too different from your native one, you have no choice but to memorize small bits of the language over a longer period of time. There are no magical shortcuts. No fucking acquiring, either.
So if I point at a table and SAY the word for table in Mandarin for the next 24 hours...Are you saying you won't be able to acquire that word without someone drawing you the Mandarin character and then you using rote memory to memorize it?
isnt this the guy who used to make or still makes soccer videos?
His right understand tagalog a good 20% I talk to pinay on the daily and i see words they use repeatedly ad I process It's more I needed to know 😅
Oh my gosh…. I didn’t realize that the blossom girl hosted jeopardy now. Weird
I watched all seasons of Peppa Pig at the age of 29 ;)
Honey! Where is my supersuit?
want 7 days series again.....!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you! If you can keep a secret...The second 7 days in the series is on it's way but it's at the beginning stages so hang tight!
I know that we need to keep the attention span of tiktok users, but maybe there was a bit too much editing in this vdieo lol
Do you think if I make a mirror OS on my device like my tablet that I use a lot to watch UA-cam, and make it's language the one I'm learning...???
Any suggestion to remember phrasal verbs
For what language?
@@douglassmalone-omeally1683
English
ı totally disagree,cuz flashcard means vocabulary and mnemonıc asecıatıons ,texttospeech, etc. understnd
For whatever reason, you're using words 'flashcards' and 'words' interchangeably. Flashcards can be phrases, sentences, or even grammar rules. But you start with words, and there is nothing wrong with that.
I totally agree with you. Bel video, dovrebbero guardarlo tutti quelli che stanno studiando una lingua straniera.
Saluti
Don’t memorize but memorize better? We have different definitions of memorize.
Thank you so much.Thats a great video😍Iam learning french can you/anyone suggest me some shows or anime/cartoon i would love yo watch.
I am in my B1 and i eam interested in the cartoons
Peppa pig is not for me 😢
Try Extra my bro. Link in description