I speak five languages, i found just reading extremely useful to learn a new language. That gives you automatically new vocabulary, expressions, except pronunciation. It also helps with syntax and spelling. Just read a little text every day
@@ttota9602 Language learning is a natural process, but yeah, we need to have a high linguistic-verbal IQ, a good memory and a good ability to elaborate sounds. (But there are polyglots without these qualities, sooo) I have learned English easily, after 2-3 months I was able to speak decently. I did it just by reading and listening sometimes, I didn't take it seriously. But the thing that has helped me the most was listening. Intensive listening. But I asked him/her because I wanna know other advices, my dream is speaking lots of languages, and speaking well. (Not badly) I'm still learning English; I started at August 2019, I am sooo fluent now, but I guess my pronunciation, writing, grammar isn't always on point. But yeah, I did not do any efforts, I took it like a game. These are my decent results. But I know that if I want to speak lots of languages I have to take it seriously. (Oh yeah, I am genetically good at learning languages. But I suck at math like OMG, different types of intelligence, I have a good verbal-linguistic intelligence and a good memory... but don't talk about math or geometry... I am learning math as a self-taught student, it is the worse subject, I've never made so many efforts for learning something, I absorb fastly, BUT NOT MATH, lol)
I have found that I actually retain best when studying 3-5 at once, myself, compared to focusing on only 1 or 2. It doesn't work for everyone, but I hope you find it suits your needs. :)
@@FMRebs , the most obvious difference is better retention-I pick things up faster and remember them longer when I study 3-5 at once vs. just 1 or 2. Combination also means I have more associations for defining phrases or remembering grammar. Like, there are some things in Greek that parallel Spanish better than English, so I remember that in Spanish. I also find that studying related phrases in multiple languages at once reduces that "translation" layer, even when I am only at an elementary level in a language. This can get disconcerting, when I find myself muttering something I don't yet consciously remember how to say on purpose. The trickiest part is how, even though it l am making more progress altogether when studying multiple, it's still significantly less progress in each one, so the learning curve can feel steeper. I acclimated myself to hopping between languages quickly, too, which is useful but will sometimes have a side effect of me, say, thinking I opened a French quiz but actually I opened Portuguese, and I actually do well on the quiz before I consciously realize "Hey, wait…"
@@carradee That's very interesting, and it sounds like how it is for a child growing up in a bilingual environment - in the early stages unable to distinguish which language they are hearing/using. The issue with translation makes a lot of sense and I'm only realizing it now as one of the biggest advantages to learning multiple at a time. May I ask what languages you are doing? I'm interested in knowing how similar they are. And do you ever get the problem of mixing up grammar rules and vocabulary?
@@FMRebs , my primaries are Spanish (where I am intermediate), Greek, and Mandarin (both elementary, though I am further in Greek comprehension and grammar). I don't have a mixing problem aside from sometimes only remembering how to say something in one language and not another. With those three, I also have been careful to have a bit of distance between grammar studies and such. I tend to juggle methods, though I have a preference for music and cloze exercises. However, I have also experimented with some study of Italian, French, and Portuguese, with the exact same methods on the same day, and I still don't have a mixing problem. That does seem to increase the incidence of me understanding something and having to pause and think it through before I identify which language it is. One thing I will never study in multiple languages at once is the writing system. I'm positive I am dyslexic (but I started school able to read and such, with coping mechanisms in place, so it only affected my grades when a teacher blocked my coping mechanisms, at which point I would then get in trouble for alleged laziness, so I don't have an official diagnosis).
Can you ask you a question? When you study 3 or 4 languages at the same time, do you start from scratch or you have an intermediate level? You can play being a translator. While you're learning a new language, you can learn that language with another language which is not your native language; nevertheless, you have a reasonable level. Let's say B2. Learning is not as tricky as maintain all of them at a high level. Let's say C1. My German and English are quite good; however, I can only understand french and Italian very well. If I have to speak these last two languages, I will struggle a lit bit. Input is essential, but the output is more important than studying the language. I don't know if you talk to yourself in that language. I have a method. My method is to learn several phrases by heart, and then try to formulate other sentences with the same structures. I am going to shed some light on this topic. My sister works from Monday to Friday. This is the sentence I learnt by heart. Now, I have to formulate other sentences with the same structure. My brother sleeps from 11pm to 7 am. My mother goes to school from Monday to Thursday. I play with words. This is just a silly example. My goal is to learn words in sentences rather than acquiring them individually from a list. I have a hard time to translate from one language to another language. It's not challenging to translate some sentences from the level A1 or A2, but what can be tough is to figure out how you formulate sentences with similar meanings. For example, in German Aber, Jedoch, allerdings, dennoch- in English means but, however. There are little words that mean the same, but they are not interchangeable. My native languages are Portuguese and Spanish. I have the feeling we have fewer words than English or German. There are even words you can't translate- You have to understand the meaning behind of the word- The origin of the word. Chi-coraçao- This word means a sincere cuddly. A heartfelt hug that you feel from the bottom of your heart. There is no such word in English. Jinx is a common English word you can't translate in other languages.
LingQ is by far the best language learning app. The word tracking element is motivating and somehow seeing words in yellow helps me to remember them. The mini stories are excellent and I believe it is entirely possible to learn a language from absolute beginner to fluency using the app. I’ve used it to learn German and Polish, I’m now using it to learn Chinese. Thank you Steve.
@@michellele855 sadly, just a decent amount of Mandarin, maybe b2 overall, and of course English. You? I only recently figured out the right way to go about it and casually screwed around for years lol
@@wrightjustin23 That's cool. Hope you will manage Chinese soon. 😊 Well, I speak English, Vietnamese and a little French. I'm still learning English as my major and French for a diploma. I still wanna be fluent in French tho
Michelle Le 4 languages! I’d love to be able to make that claim lol. Once I finish with mandarin, probably in the next year, I’ll move on to either Japanese or Spanish. do you have opportunities to chat with native speakers of English and French?
Good for you Steve. You look about my age. I'm chipping away at French. I started Japanese and Arabic a few years ago but it was too much, especially with work music study.
Hey Steve! I can completely relate to the not-so-perfect translations coming from youtube auto-captions. But the funny thing is, it actually helps me learn a bit better because it gets you 90% of the way there and you can kind of discern what they are saying in that bit of mistranslation. I find that in french ALL the time. :)
Appreciate Sir and jubilant to heard that your learning our languages. I am Persian and know some Arabic as well. My suggestion is that first of all focus on the join words because Turkish, Arabic and Farsi have many join words. For Arabic I think it had better to start with Iraqi accent which is closer to Farsi and many Arabs can understand that almost completely. If I can help, I will do with pleasure.
I have been doing it without stressing: Arabic, Portuguese, and Korean. I have found that the great differences between them hasn't been that great a hurdle. But I have been doing what you are doing.
I am going to apply this method as well. I have reached 2k words in French but have been wanting to really get into Spanish more (my girlfriend and 2 boys are from Mexico) and German ( I have family in Germany) so Im going to do this. But I'm going to use the mini stories and the first Harry Potter book which I am familiar with in French and obviously English. But I have only read it in French up to chapter 2. I'm gonna the repetitiveness and plow thru content and see how much more I learn thru massive exposure. Best of luck Steve!!!
Hi Steve, I am a new subscriber to LingQ since a few days. I decided to spend the money on LingQ after watching several of your videos. Today, I just found this 3 year old video of you. In fact I’m now also doing 3 languages simultaneously on LingQ: Polish (which I studied 40 years ago), Chinese (which I studied for 8 years, but already more than 15 years ago) and Spanish (I had class for two years prior to Covid). Now I want to spend time everyday to improve on these languages, as I have already forgotten a lot! Now my questions: - creating 100 LingQs per language every day seems a lot to me. Should I not start with much less and then gradually build up as I make progress? - this video is 3 years old. How did it go? Did it work out well for you? Is there a follow-up video on this? - I started LingQ using my mother tongue (Dutch) as the source/reference language. However, now I start to doubt if that’s the best to do! I assume there are many more English speaking subscribers. Therefor there are probably less translation errors in English, and also much more content available. Would it not be better if I change my source/reference language from Dutch to English? (English is no problem for me as I have used it all the time during my working years. Now I’m retired.) Hope you find some time to reply. Thanks a lot!
I'm about to turn 43 and still have a target of learning Portuguese and Spanish to at least intermediate level . I've been wondering how hard that's going to be. Fortunately I've come accros this channel which has given me a new hope.
I m turning 38 and honestly I wouldn t have thought I m gonna try my hand at learning new languages,either,but the truth is they really are fun and extremely helpful in keeping your brain sharp as you get older...I speak Italian and French at a beginner level and thought I would like to make it at least to intermediary if not advanced and maybe learn something new, another language like a nordic language maybe..
Excellents tips mister Steven. Today I am studing English, but I intend to study Spanish in future. I was thinking how I could to continue improve my English in the same with the Spanish studies. You tips help me a lot. Thanks.
I just do it without a strick framework, because of my circumstances and go with whichever 'sits in my heart' at the time. I am blessed to be in the UK so close to my languages' origins, so access is easy. That said if you have internet everyone is. I am learning French, Spanish and Italian currently using multiple supporting tools and services. It's the most fun and the biggest world I have ever had.
*This video brought to you by Philips*. Great video, especially after just watching Luca's video on the same subject, which is prescient as I find myself working on three languages regularly as well. I'm studying Norwegian (LingQ ministories?), Finnish, and Irish mainly, but I'm constantly having to fight off competing interests in other languages, especially Icelandic and Maltese. Also there are so many people around me that speak Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Vietnamese, and Polish, I keep getting the feeling I should try and learn those as well. That doesn't even count languages I've studied in the past that are decaying. I put a strict limit of three languages daily and its reassuring to see how you masters of language learning are doing something similar. Good luck on your endeavor.
LOL, itis amazing, I've been living in Finland for about 1.6 years, and I'm still learning this hard language together with Swedish (which is very close to Norwegian), and trying to improve my English witch is pretty rusty because I'm not using it, unfortunately.
For a few weeks now I started reading a Spanish article in the morning, read it again that night, and read it a final time the next morning along with a new article... So far I think it's helping, maybe it's not optimal, I dunno. I'm a big believer in repetition, trying to come up with a schedule... And then cartoons or telenovellas at night, I love me some telenovellas!
I thought about doing 5 days Russian and 2 days Spanish a week. Only I can't decide which days I will choose for each. 😂 I don't bother about English, because I do listen to many english videos/podcasts (like this) anyway if I'm done with study for that day, no need to study that further. (I'm German) I think beeing at a certain level already enables you to just consum everyday content in your target language und than it's easier to just maintain it and improve slowly while being more concentrated on another.
Hey, nice to see another brazilian who enjoys learning languages. Quick tip: you're grateful to someone for something. In this case, you're grateful to Steve for his content.
It's been more than one year they I am learning Chinese and it's been almost half a year that I am learning Korean ,I can speak English Urdu and Hindi and further more I have plans to learn Japanese and German.
hi steve, i'm gonna try the concept of just adding new lingqs vs. spending more time revisiting and trying to understand and remember in a more conscious manner. i will let the subconsciousness do the work. i like the feelibg of listening to a language and having a text translation also
Move onto other text and audio then return at a later date to review it again. Repeat with variances to how long you return to material. Eventually you can understand 70% + of each sentence. Then brush up on the rough edges by reviewing grammar and also word and their meanings and uses in different context.
I will create 100 LinQs a day in each language. (?) Sure, I can google that, since I know from the video description it's not spelled "links," but you could take a few seconds to explain what you're talking about. I will create 100 wombats a day in each language. *EDIT:* OK, LinQ is a language-learning app of which Steve Kaufman is a co-founder. (Perhaps 90% of the people watching this video already knew that.) You earn points, called LinQs, for various accomplishments as you're learning a language. I have no idea how hard it is to earn LinQs, but 100 a day in each of 3 languages sounds like a serious commitment.
I agree it's a little confusing. The usage of the word LingQs has kind of evolved. It's the name of the site and it's also the word we use to describe every term that we save to our database.
@@Thelinguist AND apparently LinQs can also be points the app awards you for various accomplishments. In this last sense LinQs are sort of like lingots earned on Duolingo, except that apparently you can actually get valuable rewards with LinQs, such as time with someone tutoring you in your target language, and the person offering the tutoring earns LinQs. Unlike Duolingo, LinQ is not free. This is arguably Duolingo's greatest virtue. Even if, by itself, it takes users only to an A2 level, by being free it gets more people started on the path to multilingualism. *THANKS FOR THE REPLY.*
Thanks for explaining about the links. I am studying 8 languages right now, but am not able to get them all every day. My goal is not just to study new words but to remember them. I think 50 is a good goal to set.
I speculated once or twice more, concerning the quantity of the daily norm - 100 per language. It seems to me, the number is too high. After only 3 month with Turkish, the main problem is, as I see it, not whole understanding sometimes what is said with already known words. It is better, for excample, for me to come across not more than one or two unknown words per sentence. Otherwise, it is difficult to get a hold on it. Having put every next sentence to Google-translator, I do experimens with them: I throw out some words, than return them back and throw out the others, search for the dictionary form of a word, swap the fields "original - translation", and back again. Thus I understand the language being learned more deeply. With such approach, it is too hard to process 100 words a day. But I agree totally, everybody is searching for the best way for oneself. Sorry for my poor English.
Wouldn't doing 300 words for ONE language and getting much higher retention rate (because of shorter intervals between studies) be much more efficient in the long run?
Which one? Steve doesn't need any of them for practical purposes. And he enjoys learning all the three of them equally. Besides, I gess, it's just an experiment from Steve's side. So to say, what will happen, if...? Maybe, I am wrong.
300 liens par jour dans des langues aussi éloignées ? C'est absolument monstrueux. Moi ça me prendrait 15H minimum sans interruption pour les digérer !
When are you coming to Slovakia Steve? I would really like to meet you. I am a polyglot but still an ordinary teacher. I really love learning languages but I don't have many opportunities to do that
What does it mean to you to know a word? "learning" ten thousand words through Linq in that time frame does not mean you can actually use those words freely in comversation. At best you could recognise them. I think it is important to say exactly what you mean by "learn" so people do not get false ideas.
Sage Fields I don’t think anyone is getting confused by it. If you understand the meaning when you encounter it in written and spoken form, you know. I don’t use all the words I know in English, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know them.
Steve : just as Paul McCartney can write a 3 minute masterpiece over breakfast so some people can learn several languages with competitive ease. I stress " some people " since it's apparent there is some kind of brain wiring involved that not everyone possesses . Similar to genius chess players / mathematicions . Yes , it's not fair if you don't have it. And, Yes, hard work and discipline are part of it but nevertheless there is definitely a pre - programmed element involved .
I'm trying to learn Arabic and French because I'm the most familiar with these languages after English (which is the only language I know). Is it normal to get bored of these? I'm thinking of choosing a completely different language to learn from scratch and going to it every time I feel bored, what do you think? My purpose for learning another language is to actually be able to speak it but also to exercise my brain.
Where are you from, Steve? I am from Ukraine. My native language is Russian, and I love to learning languages as well. I learn English and German. My goal is to speak Italian and Spanish as well.
Hello sir how are you is I can learn three languages in some time .i was one year when I learned english alone I can reading but I cant understand just little and i have diffeculte when I speak with people. Can you give me an advence please how I can learn english
Me too I'm studying tree languages. English, French and Spanish. And I find it hard sometimes to memorize the vocabulary or grammar of each one of them.
In the end I dropped the Turkish in order to focus on the Arabic script which is used in Arabic and Persian. All things considered I prefer learning one language at a time but I'm kind of stuck doing standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic and Persian, often and on, more or less simultaneously.
I can't focus on only one, multiple languages is too much funny and interesting... I even can't have 1 girlfriend, I need have many to keep me interested
Do you speak Irish Gaelic? I can’t find ANY decent learning resources for that language, but I really wanna learn it. There’s even better resources available for learning Hokkien & Cantonese, and that’s saying something
習禁評-小熊維尼Kyle Grammadach gan Stró for grammar. Then check out Instagram for Irish speaking accounts, there seems to be a mini language learning revolution going on there, giving modern themes, start with @muinteoirmeg. And then you can get children’s books from www.siopa.ie. The resources are scarce but they do exist I promise!
nia mc cool thanks, I’ll check that out! But honestly that type of stuff is what I mean by there only being “not decent” language learning resources for Irish Gaelic. Like to get to a high level of fluency in a language, you need much better listening and reading resources than that. Do you know of any UA-cam channels that are completely in Irish Gaelic?
@@salomez-finnegan7952 So far I haven't seen anything great on UA-cam. However maybe TG4 (the Irish language TV station) might have some videos? The last time I looked for Irish resources on UA-cam, I found only some American resources. That was a long time ago though! Instagram seems to have more natural Irish speaking accounts. Also check out www.ranganna.ie
If u want to learn arabic u have 20 accent are LOADING for u bb😂 recommending for you lebanese accent.. It is easy, beautiful, classy If u want iraqi that would be cool 🌚💘
@@Thelinguist Thanks for the reply! So is it better to have as much overlap of the words (words with the same meaning in 3 different languages) or have them be different meanings?
i am egyptian my first language is arabic i can understand about 90 percent of your video but i cant speak english i think a lot about what i should say 😔
You might learn from it if you're going a language school, a training or if you're at university, study for a year in the country where the targeted language is used daily. Same for work. If you go there just for tourism, you won't use it a lot, it's better to stay at home and chat with people or use the airplane+hotel money to find an online tutor with whom you can also talk hahaha!
I speak five languages, i found just reading extremely useful to learn a new language. That gives you automatically new vocabulary, expressions, except pronunciation. It also helps with syntax and spelling. Just read a little text every day
Also me I was in English low level through reading every day small paragraph my language become good.
for me as Arabs the Turkish language is easy to learn same culture and same words.
Duvido
I speak six languages and I do use them all nearly every day. It's a challenge, though... but a good fun as well!
Do you have some advices to learn new languages?
How???
That is mean you are genius because it is not easy to do that
@@ttota9602
Language learning is a natural process, but yeah, we need to have a high linguistic-verbal IQ, a good memory and a good ability to elaborate sounds. (But there are polyglots without these qualities, sooo)
I have learned English easily, after 2-3 months I was able to speak decently.
I did it just by reading and listening sometimes, I didn't take it seriously.
But the thing that has helped me the most was listening. Intensive listening.
But I asked him/her because I wanna know other advices, my dream is speaking lots of languages, and speaking well. (Not badly)
I'm still learning English; I started at August 2019, I am sooo fluent now, but I guess my pronunciation, writing, grammar isn't always on point.
But yeah, I did not do any efforts, I took it like a game.
These are my decent results. But I know that if I want to speak lots of languages I have to take it seriously.
(Oh yeah, I am genetically good at learning languages. But I suck at math like OMG, different types of intelligence, I have a good verbal-linguistic intelligence and a good memory... but don't talk about math or geometry... I am learning math as a self-taught student, it is the worse subject, I've never made so many efforts for learning something, I absorb fastly, BUT NOT MATH, lol)
Anyways, sorry for my bad English; as I said, I am still learning it)
I have found that I actually retain best when studying 3-5 at once, myself, compared to focusing on only 1 or 2. It doesn't work for everyone, but I hope you find it suits your needs. :)
what difference did you notice in studying multiple at a time vs one at a time?
@@FMRebs , the most obvious difference is better retention-I pick things up faster and remember them longer when I study 3-5 at once vs. just 1 or 2.
Combination also means I have more associations for defining phrases or remembering grammar. Like, there are some things in Greek that parallel Spanish better than English, so I remember that in Spanish.
I also find that studying related phrases in multiple languages at once reduces that "translation" layer, even when I am only at an elementary level in a language. This can get disconcerting, when I find myself muttering something I don't yet consciously remember how to say on purpose.
The trickiest part is how, even though it l am making more progress altogether when studying multiple, it's still significantly less progress in each one, so the learning curve can feel steeper.
I acclimated myself to hopping between languages quickly, too, which is useful but will sometimes have a side effect of me, say, thinking I opened a French quiz but actually I opened Portuguese, and I actually do well on the quiz before I consciously realize "Hey, wait…"
@@carradee That's very interesting, and it sounds like how it is for a child growing up in a bilingual environment - in the early stages unable to distinguish which language they are hearing/using.
The issue with translation makes a lot of sense and I'm only realizing it now as one of the biggest advantages to learning multiple at a time.
May I ask what languages you are doing? I'm interested in knowing how similar they are. And do you ever get the problem of mixing up grammar rules and vocabulary?
@@FMRebs , my primaries are Spanish (where I am intermediate), Greek, and Mandarin (both elementary, though I am further in Greek comprehension and grammar). I don't have a mixing problem aside from sometimes only remembering how to say something in one language and not another.
With those three, I also have been careful to have a bit of distance between grammar studies and such. I tend to juggle methods, though I have a preference for music and cloze exercises.
However, I have also experimented with some study of Italian, French, and Portuguese, with the exact same methods on the same day, and I still don't have a mixing problem. That does seem to increase the incidence of me understanding something and having to pause and think it through before I identify which language it is.
One thing I will never study in multiple languages at once is the writing system. I'm positive I am dyslexic (but I started school able to read and such, with coping mechanisms in place, so it only affected my grades when a teacher blocked my coping mechanisms, at which point I would then get in trouble for alleged laziness, so I don't have an official diagnosis).
Can you ask you a question?
When you study 3 or 4 languages at the same time, do you start from scratch or you have an intermediate level?
You can play being a translator. While you're learning a new language, you can learn that language with another language which is not your native language; nevertheless, you have a reasonable level.
Let's say B2. Learning is not as tricky as maintain all of them at a high level. Let's say C1.
My German and English are quite good; however, I can only understand french and Italian very well. If I have to speak these last two languages, I will struggle a lit bit. Input is essential, but the output is more important than studying the language.
I don't know if you talk to yourself in that language.
I have a method. My method is to learn several phrases by heart, and then try to formulate other sentences with the same structures. I am going to shed some light on this topic.
My sister works from Monday to Friday. This is the sentence I learnt by heart. Now, I have to formulate other sentences with the same structure.
My brother sleeps from 11pm to 7 am. My mother goes to school from Monday to Thursday.
I play with words. This is just a silly example.
My goal is to learn words in sentences rather than acquiring them individually from a list.
I have a hard time to translate from one language to another language. It's not challenging to translate some sentences from the level A1 or A2, but what can be tough is to figure out how you formulate sentences with similar meanings.
For example, in German Aber, Jedoch, allerdings, dennoch- in English means but, however.
There are little words that mean the same, but they are not interchangeable.
My native languages are Portuguese and Spanish. I have the feeling we have fewer words than English or German.
There are even words you can't translate- You have to understand the meaning behind of the word- The origin of the word.
Chi-coraçao- This word means a sincere cuddly. A heartfelt hug that you feel from the bottom of your heart.
There is no such word in English. Jinx is a common English word you can't translate in other languages.
LingQ is by far the best language learning app. The word tracking element is motivating and somehow seeing words in yellow helps me to remember them. The mini stories are excellent and I believe it is entirely possible to learn a language from absolute beginner to fluency using the app. I’ve used it to learn German and Polish, I’m now using it to learn Chinese. Thank you Steve.
Do you speak Chinese now?
I jak ci idzie z polskim? :)
Thanks for everything you’ve taught me over the last year I’ve followed you! If I’d encountered you years ago I’d be fluent in 5 languages by now 😢
How many languages do u speak?
@@michellele855 sadly, just a decent amount of Mandarin, maybe b2 overall, and of course English. You? I only recently figured out the right way to go about it and casually screwed around for years lol
@@wrightjustin23 That's cool. Hope you will manage Chinese soon. 😊
Well, I speak English, Vietnamese and a little French. I'm still learning English as my major and French for a diploma. I still wanna be fluent in French tho
Michelle Le 4 languages! I’d love to be able to make that claim lol. Once I finish with mandarin, probably in the next year, I’ll move on to either Japanese or Spanish. do you have opportunities to chat with native speakers of English and French?
@@wrightjustin23 Yes I do have opportunities to chat with native speakers but only short and easy conversations
You are SO right about spending less time trying to re-learn the words I can't seem to retain. Thank you!
LingQ is great! I'm currently learning Italian and French. Thanks for the help.
Good for you Steve. You look about my age. I'm chipping away at French. I started Japanese and Arabic a few years ago but it was too much, especially with work music study.
Hey Steve! I can completely relate to the not-so-perfect translations coming from youtube auto-captions. But the funny thing is, it actually helps me learn a bit better because it gets you 90% of the way there and you can kind of discern what they are saying in that bit of mistranslation. I find that in french ALL the time. :)
Hey
Can we practice French together?
Steve great job on applying Krashen's theory to a practical commercial application. Simply brilliant
Appreciate Sir and jubilant to heard that your learning our languages.
I am Persian and know some Arabic as well. My suggestion is that first of all focus on the join words because Turkish, Arabic and Farsi have many join words. For Arabic I think it had better to start with Iraqi accent which is closer to Farsi and many Arabs can understand that almost completely.
If I can help, I will do with pleasure.
I myself am balancing three languages at the moment: Latin, Greek (Demotic and Hellenistic Koine) and colloquial Arabic (Egyptian and Levantine).
I have been doing it without stressing: Arabic, Portuguese, and Korean. I have found that the great differences between them hasn't been that great a hurdle. But I have been doing what you are doing.
I'm not sure I understand Steve's shirt.
David Edgar I know 3 language and 4 some little because of English suck silent suck
tried to wear two shirts at the same time
It's not for us to understand...
I am going to apply this method as well. I have reached 2k words in French but have been wanting to really get into Spanish more (my girlfriend and 2 boys are from Mexico) and German ( I have family in Germany) so Im going to do this. But I'm going to use the mini stories and the first Harry Potter book which I am familiar with in French and obviously English. But I have only read it in French up to chapter 2. I'm gonna the repetitiveness and plow thru content and see how much more I learn thru massive exposure. Best of luck Steve!!!
Bonne chance avec le français, l'allemand, et l'espagnol !
Hi Steve,
I am a new subscriber to LingQ since a few days. I decided to spend the money on LingQ after watching several of your videos.
Today, I just found this 3 year old video of you. In fact I’m now also doing 3 languages simultaneously on LingQ: Polish (which I studied 40 years ago), Chinese (which I studied for 8 years, but already more than 15 years ago) and Spanish (I had class for two years prior to Covid). Now I want to spend time everyday to improve on these languages, as I have already forgotten a lot!
Now my questions:
- creating 100 LingQs per language every day seems a lot to me. Should I not start with much less and then gradually build up as I make progress?
- this video is 3 years old. How did it go? Did it work out well for you? Is there a follow-up video on this?
- I started LingQ using my mother tongue (Dutch) as the source/reference language. However, now I start to doubt if that’s the best to do! I assume there are many more English speaking subscribers. Therefor there are probably less translation errors in English, and also much more content available. Would it not be better if I change my source/reference language from Dutch to English? (English is no problem for me as I have used it all the time during my working years. Now I’m retired.)
Hope you find some time to reply. Thanks a lot!
I'm about to turn 43 and still have a target of learning Portuguese and Spanish to at least intermediate level . I've been wondering how hard that's going to be. Fortunately I've come accros this channel which has given me a new hope.
I m turning 38 and honestly I wouldn t have thought I m gonna try my hand at learning new languages,either,but the truth is they really are fun and extremely helpful in keeping your brain sharp as you get older...I speak Italian and French at a beginner level and thought I would like to make it at least to intermediary if not advanced and maybe learn something new, another language like a nordic language maybe..
One year later - how is your Spanish going?
Excellents tips mister Steven. Today I am studing English, but I intend to study Spanish in future. I was thinking how I could to continue improve my English in the same with the Spanish studies. You tips help me a lot. Thanks.
Love the pose in the thumbnail! Lookin sharp Steve, stay awesome 🙏💕
I just do it without a strick framework, because of my circumstances and go with whichever 'sits in my heart' at the time. I am blessed to be in the UK so close to my languages' origins, so access is easy. That said if you have internet everyone is.
I am learning French, Spanish and Italian currently using multiple supporting tools and services. It's the most fun and the biggest world I have ever had.
*This video brought to you by Philips*.
Great video, especially after just watching Luca's video on the same subject, which is prescient as I find myself working on three languages regularly as well. I'm studying Norwegian (LingQ ministories?), Finnish, and Irish mainly, but I'm constantly having to fight off competing interests in other languages, especially Icelandic and Maltese. Also there are so many people around me that speak Chinese, Hindi, Persian, Vietnamese, and Polish, I keep getting the feeling I should try and learn those as well. That doesn't even count languages I've studied in the past that are decaying.
I put a strict limit of three languages daily and its reassuring to see how you masters of language learning are doing something similar.
Good luck on your endeavor.
LOL, itis amazing, I've been living in Finland for about 1.6 years, and I'm still learning this hard language together with Swedish (which is very close to Norwegian), and trying to improve my English witch is pretty rusty because I'm not using it, unfortunately.
For a few weeks now I started reading a Spanish article in the morning, read it again that night, and read it a final time the next morning along with a new article... So far I think it's helping, maybe it's not optimal, I dunno. I'm a big believer in repetition, trying to come up with a schedule... And then cartoons or telenovellas at night, I love me some telenovellas!
I thought about doing 5 days Russian and 2 days Spanish a week. Only I can't decide which days I will choose for each. 😂 I don't bother about English, because I do listen to many english videos/podcasts (like this) anyway if I'm done with study for that day, no need to study that further. (I'm German) I think beeing at a certain level already enables you to just consum everyday content in your target language und than it's easier to just maintain it and improve slowly while being more concentrated on another.
Hello Steve ! Brazilian speaking, thanks for your advices I'm so grateful to your content 🇧🇷
Hey, nice to see another brazilian who enjoys learning languages. Quick tip: you're grateful to someone for something. In this case, you're grateful to Steve for his content.
It's been one year I am learning Chinese and Korean
It's been more than one year they I am learning Chinese and it's been almost half a year that I am learning Korean ,I can speak English Urdu and Hindi and further more I have plans to learn Japanese and German.
Thank you very much. And my focus right now is German, French and Italian. I really need your advice
Best of luck with German, French, and Italian!
@@commoncola thanks a lot!!!
i’m taking German, French, and Spanish! which has come to you the easiest so far?
I’m taking German, French an Yoruba! I need advice too
Ce que vous faites est juste merveilleux o-o I don't understand how you can do that ;-; It's just amazing !
hi steve,
i'm gonna try the concept of just adding new lingqs vs. spending more time revisiting and trying to understand and remember in a more conscious manner.
i will let the subconsciousness do the work.
i like the feelibg of listening to a language and having a text translation also
I'll keep you posted on how it works through this channel.
If I read a text with a lot of unknown words, I understand almost nothing when I try to listen to it later. How do you handle that problem?
Move onto other text and audio then return at a later date to review it again. Repeat with variances to how long you return to material. Eventually you can understand 70% + of each sentence. Then brush up on the rough edges by reviewing grammar and also word and their meanings and uses in different context.
I must comment that the thumbnail is- for i can't phrase it more politely- absolutely adorable!!!
Three a day! Wow! quelle démonstration de force. I'm too lazy and disratcable, but I am curious to see how you do. Good luck!
Hello, everybody I’m here because I would like to make an exchange: spanish-French or spanish-English. I’m a spanish speaker(Mexican)
Great ideas, hope you include Finnish in your languages in the future as well :)
WE have Finnish at LingQ but I don't know when I will get around to learning it.
Hello, sir you are great I watched your video and I want to learn English.
Cool! I was also debating doing 3 too! Although I thinking about maintaining Mandarin and French and taking on Cantonese.
Sticking to one language at a time is more logical
Best of luck learning Cantonese and maintaining French and Mandarin!
I think It will work well.. It would be really good if you keep posting the process..
I will create 100 LinQs a day in each language. (?) Sure, I can google that, since I know from the video description it's not spelled "links," but you could take a few seconds to explain what you're talking about.
I will create 100 wombats a day in each language. *EDIT:* OK, LinQ is a language-learning app of which Steve Kaufman is a co-founder. (Perhaps 90% of the people watching this video already knew that.) You earn points, called LinQs, for various accomplishments as you're learning a language. I have no idea how hard it is to earn LinQs, but 100 a day in each of 3 languages sounds like a serious commitment.
I agree it's a little confusing. The usage of the word LingQs has kind of evolved. It's the name of the site and it's also the word we use to describe every term that we save to our database.
@@Thelinguist AND apparently LinQs can also be points the app awards you for various accomplishments. In this last sense LinQs are sort of like lingots earned on Duolingo, except that apparently you can actually get valuable rewards with LinQs, such as time with someone tutoring you in your target language, and the person offering the tutoring earns LinQs. Unlike Duolingo, LinQ is not free. This is arguably Duolingo's greatest virtue. Even if, by itself, it takes users only to an A2 level, by being free it gets more people started on the path to multilingualism. *THANKS FOR THE REPLY.*
Great video. This was an experiment in 2020. It’s now 2024.
How did this plan work!?
Thanks
New Subscriber and LingQ member, James
One at a time is better.
@@Thelinguist Thank you for your speedy reply. Advice taken. ✊
I can speak English, Hindi, Urdu and Nepali. Nowadays I am learning 3 languages Chinese, Spanish and Bengali
Thanks for explaining about the links. I am studying 8 languages right now, but am not able to get them all every day. My goal is not just to study new words but to remember them. I think 50 is a good goal to set.
And you handle well 8 languages at the same time?
8? Damn dude
What about learning Hungarian, Georgian and Polish at the same time, would anyone resist such an explosive combination????
Hello and thank you very much for your videos. Can you please do a video were you recomend and review language textbooks. Again thank you.
Liked and subscribed before even watching just because he asked 😁✨
English, Deutsch, Español and Nihongo👍
Man, I believe even I had all the time in the world I wouldn't have the patience to creat 300 LingQs a day.
Was there any follow-up to this?
I speculated once or twice more, concerning the quantity of the daily norm - 100 per language.
It seems to me, the number is too high.
After only 3 month with Turkish, the main problem is, as I see it, not whole understanding sometimes what is said with already known words.
It is better, for excample, for me to come across not more than one or two unknown words per sentence.
Otherwise, it is difficult to get a hold on it.
Having put every next sentence to Google-translator, I do experimens with them: I throw out some words, than return them back and throw out the others, search for the dictionary form of a word, swap the fields "original - translation", and back again. Thus I understand the language being learned more deeply.
With such approach, it is too hard to process 100 words a day.
But I agree totally, everybody is searching for the best way for oneself.
Sorry for my poor English.
Thanks for the comment. I will be talking about these and other issues in the following videos. I look forward to more feedback. Cheers.
Hey Steve I can speak Persian and Turkish too
If you need some help i can help you
Steve, you know so many languages. How can you practise every one and how often? Thank you.
I'm learning German and Swedish. And improving my Arabic. Switching between them during the week or day suits my ADHD brain.
موفق باشی در یادگیری زبان فارسی 🤓🌺 من در حال یادگیری زبان کره ای هستم!
الله يعطيك العافية
Hey Steve, can we get an update on your progress with Turkish, Arabic and Farsi?
İ know English , Turkish , Russian and İ am learning Arabic , Farsk and French at the same time. But arabic and farsi at the same time is sooo hard
Best of luck on learning Farsi and French!
I'm Iranian, ask me if you have questions in persian!
Ótimo! Great!
Who would like to practice Arabic( the language of ancient knowledge) ? I can help u with my pleasure!
Did you do a follow up video on this approach?
Wouldn't doing 300 words for ONE language and getting much higher retention rate (because of shorter intervals between studies) be much more efficient in the long run?
Which one? Steve doesn't need any of them for practical purposes. And he enjoys learning all the three of them equally.
Besides, I gess, it's just an experiment from Steve's side. So to say, what will happen, if...?
Maybe, I am wrong.
I'll cover that in future videos as I track my progress.
Inspirational. ...truly. ....👍👍👍
300 liens par jour dans des langues aussi éloignées ? C'est absolument monstrueux. Moi ça me prendrait 15H minimum sans interruption pour les digérer !
How much time is 300 new linqs per day?
Complimenti Steve - grande come sempre
When are you coming to Slovakia Steve?
I would really like to meet you. I am a polyglot but still an ordinary teacher. I really love learning languages but I don't have many opportunities to do that
I loved my last visit and hope to get there soon but have no plans at this time. Cheers.
Let me know through your videos. I watch all of them. Hopely I' ll be lucky to see you performing lively 😊
What does it mean to you to know a word? "learning" ten thousand words through Linq in that time frame does not mean you can actually use those words freely in comversation. At best you could recognise them. I think it is important to say exactly what you mean by "learn" so people do not get false ideas.
Sage Fields I don’t think anyone is getting confused by it. If you understand the meaning when you encounter it in written and spoken form, you know. I don’t use all the words I know in English, but that doesn’t mean I don’t know them.
Steve : just as Paul McCartney can write a 3 minute masterpiece over
breakfast so some people can learn several languages with competitive ease.
I stress " some people " since it's apparent there is some kind of brain wiring
involved that not everyone possesses . Similar to genius chess players / mathematicions . Yes , it's not fair if you don't have it. And, Yes, hard work and
discipline are part of it but nevertheless there is definitely a pre - programmed
element involved .
Steeeeeeve! My fellow Canadian. You are my inspiration 😀 🇨🇦 thank you
I wanna Lean english and be fluent.
Thank you so much
انا اتكلم اللغة العربية و انا قرأت نحو وصرف
I'm trying to learn Arabic and French because I'm the most familiar with these languages after English (which is the only language I know). Is it normal to get bored of these? I'm thinking of choosing a completely different language to learn from scratch and going to it every time I feel bored, what do you think?
My purpose for learning another language is to actually be able to speak it but also to exercise my brain.
Follow your interests. It's normal to lose interest at times, but best not to give up.
It took me 6 minutes to realize that It is Lingq, no link. Sorry, I don't note ads.
Where are you from, Steve? I am from Ukraine. My native language is Russian, and I love to learning languages as well. I learn English and German. My goal is to speak Italian and Spanish as well.
Good luck to you on your language learning journey!
Sir what do you excactly mean by links?
Hope to see Hindi some day
Cheers 🥂
Shit , this man is my heroe❤️❤️❤️
Cany you share your arabic book?
Apropos: Sicher wissen Sie, dass Ihr Name "Kaufmann" ein deutsches Wort ist. Es bezeichnet einen Beruf und ist ein Familienname.
Will you add Hindi to LinQ? And any African languages like Setswana, Swahili etc...?
Hello sir how are you is I can learn three languages in some time .i was one year when I learned english alone I can reading but I cant understand just little and i have diffeculte when I speak with people. Can you give me an advence please how I can learn english
Do you have an update to this video - was it a success?
Me too I'm studying tree languages. English, French and Spanish. And I find it hard sometimes to memorize the vocabulary or grammar of each one of them.
Rahman Chokri I think these languages are too similar. Personally it’s difficult to learn languages that are so close, at the same time.
@@Rose-xs5fr Agreed. I'm learning Russian, Spanish, and Italian. Guess which two I keep getting mixed up!
Bonne chance avec l'anglais, le français, et l'espagnol !
@@smileychess Good luck learning Russian, Spanish, and Italian!
Steve, When you try to Kurdish language?😄
Hey Steve! I’m a little late here, but did we get an update on how this experiment went?
In the end I dropped the Turkish in order to focus on the Arabic script which is used in Arabic and Persian. All things considered I prefer learning one language at a time but I'm kind of stuck doing standard Arabic, Egyptian Arabic and Persian, often and on, more or less simultaneously.
Wow Persian 😁 good luck
While it may still be a good approach, surely its still not as effective as if you studied just one intensively, dont you agree?
I can't focus on only one, multiple languages is too much funny and interesting... I even can't have 1 girlfriend, I need have many to keep me interested
@@anonymously3552 fair enough...i like the analogy haha
@@slappywhite2084 it's not analogy... I really can't stand have 1 girlfriend
@@anonymously3552 even so its still an analogy... but yes i know what you mean hahahah
@@anonymously3552 t once you find the right girl you will only want one
Please Steve, We need Basque in Lingq ! Lingq is a great tool and would be an excellent way to help this little wonderful language.
We will add a language if we get enough content. The 60 mini-stories is a minimum. Any ideas?
I cannot learn that many words daily. I have to take a different approach to language learning, while still studying 3 languages a day.
Here learning japanese and korean meanwhile listening your video in English which is not my native language.
Do you speak Irish Gaelic? I can’t find ANY decent learning resources for that language, but I really wanna learn it. There’s even better resources available for learning Hokkien & Cantonese, and that’s saying something
習禁評-小熊維尼Kyle Grammadach gan Stró for grammar. Then check out Instagram for Irish speaking accounts, there seems to be a mini language learning revolution going on there, giving modern themes, start with @muinteoirmeg. And then you can get children’s books from www.siopa.ie. The resources are scarce but they do exist I promise!
Sorry
nia mc cool thanks, I’ll check that out! But honestly that type of stuff is what I mean by there only being “not decent” language learning resources for Irish Gaelic. Like to get to a high level of fluency in a language, you need much better listening and reading resources than that.
Do you know of any UA-cam channels that are completely in Irish Gaelic?
Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve that’s alright. Thanks anyway
@@salomez-finnegan7952 So far I haven't seen anything great on UA-cam. However maybe TG4 (the Irish language TV station) might have some videos? The last time I looked for Irish resources on UA-cam, I found only some American resources. That was a long time ago though! Instagram seems to have more natural Irish speaking accounts. Also check out www.ranganna.ie
If u want to learn arabic u have 20 accent are LOADING for u bb😂 recommending for you lebanese accent.. It is easy, beautiful, classy
If u want iraqi that would be cool 🌚💘
Idk why when you're saying like that my feeling say your out of the question even tho that fact sir😂
Bitte: Was meinen Sie mit "I Made links" zu jedem Wort? Ich verstehe das nicht.
Is 100 words a day in each of 3 languages even realistic?
It is so far. We will see.
@@Thelinguist Thanks for the reply! So is it better to have as much overlap of the words (words with the same meaning in 3 different languages) or have them be different meanings?
Can I learn English and Turkish at the same time, please answer and thank you
yes
i am egyptian my first language is arabic i can understand about 90 percent of your video but i cant speak english i think a lot about what i should say 😔
Best of luck improving your (already really good) English!
Super bro
بالتوفيق
I have a question. How important is traveling to language learning?
You might learn from it if you're going a language school, a training or if you're at university, study for a year in the country where the targeted language is used daily. Same for work.
If you go there just for tourism, you won't use it a lot, it's better to stay at home and chat with people or use the airplane+hotel money to find an online tutor with whom you can also talk hahaha!
How you find the time for 300 ling a day?
Not realistic. Do you mean linqs? You couldn't learn 300 languages in a lifetime. At one point I was doing 500-600 linqs a day but that was too much.