Ahh thank you so much! I'm really glad you liked my video and seriously appreciate the encouragement 🥺 Thank you so much for being here and commenting and I hope you have a wonderful (rest of your) day!
This has got to be one of the most helpful videos on learning languages I've seen. And I've watched a lot of them. I definitely have low motivation and am easily distracted and it's not something that is really talked about much in language learning spaces. Having you say "hey it's okay to use multiple apps and study methods if you get bored" was something I really needed to hear. So thank you. I'm just starting out (for like the 8th time or something lol) and I plan to learn the kanji for Japanese, with the book Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig, and learn Esperanto at the same time. Once I've got a good chunk of kanji down I will probably start the Duolingo Japanese course over and use a couple other apps. Other languages I'd love to learn but probably never will (I'm a bit of a pessimist) are Russian and German as well as Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean. Spanish would probably be helpful where I live (southern US), but I am just not that interested in it. That could change but for now, eh. Since I've just stumbled upon you, what languages have you learned and/or are learning?
Oh my gosh hi!! I'm so glad my video was helpful to you 😭 I literally made it cause I struggle so much with this myself and it's just over the past few months that I've gotten past denying I have a problem (blaming myself thinking I'm just not trying hard enough) and actually started accepting that this is just part of how I am and trying to find techniques to support myself in my own language learning. As for the languages I speak/learn, I'm a native English speaker (from Australia!), and I also speak Mandarin and Spanish both pretty fluently (although not really native level), and have been studying them both on and off for 11 years (Mandarin) and 5 years (Spanish). I'm actually doing a Masters degree in Mandarin-English translation rn! Apart from that my next best language is probably Japanese--I majored in Japanese language for my Bachelors degree but it's been 2 years since I graduated and I haven't really been studying it much in the meantime. I've also studied Korean here and there and have somewhat of an upper-beginner level, and I can read Arabic/Urdu letters XD (but I cant say anything lol). Recently I've been studying Korean a bit again but who knows if that will continue for very long haha. I'd also love to learn a bunch of other languages (CANTONESE❤, German, Italian, Thai) and my partner's native language is Urdu so I really should learn that too, but like I said I kinda have a problem with motivation and getting distracted 😅 Anyway I'd like to wish you the best of luck with Japanese!! I've heard really good things about the book Remembering the Kanji but if you find yourself getting distracted from it you could check out a kanji learning website/app called WaniKani (sorry if you already know about it!). From what I've heard it uses a similar method to Remembering the Kanji, but it's probably a bit more engaging! I tried it many years ago and found it quite good but didn't end up using it long term as by the time I started learning Japanese I was already pretty fluent in Mandarin and therefore familiar with lots of kanji. Anyway good luck!! Thank you for stopping by and leaving me such a lovely in-depth comment!
@@speaking_of_languages I used to be able to sit and study with just one resource, but for the past few years I've had trouble with that kind of single minded focus. I think my ADHD is showing up more as distraction and boredom than hyperfocus right now. Good luck with your Masters! That sounds ambitious. How was learning tones in Mandarin for you? I know a lot of English speakers struggle with it. It's the thing that intimidates me with learning it. Thank you so much! I have heard of WaniKani, but that it's paid restricts me. I am very very poor lol. And I've had RtK for 10+ years, bought back when I could still work. Thank you and you're welcome!
I loved watching your video. Just some encouragement for you, keep going, this channel is going to blow up.
Ahh thank you so much! I'm really glad you liked my video and seriously appreciate the encouragement 🥺 Thank you so much for being here and commenting and I hope you have a wonderful (rest of your) day!
This has got to be one of the most helpful videos on learning languages I've seen. And I've watched a lot of them. I definitely have low motivation and am easily distracted and it's not something that is really talked about much in language learning spaces. Having you say "hey it's okay to use multiple apps and study methods if you get bored" was something I really needed to hear. So thank you.
I'm just starting out (for like the 8th time or something lol) and I plan to learn the kanji for Japanese, with the book Remembering the Kanji by James Heisig, and learn Esperanto at the same time. Once I've got a good chunk of kanji down I will probably start the Duolingo Japanese course over and use a couple other apps. Other languages I'd love to learn but probably never will (I'm a bit of a pessimist) are Russian and German as well as Chinese, Vietnamese, and Korean. Spanish would probably be helpful where I live (southern US), but I am just not that interested in it. That could change but for now, eh.
Since I've just stumbled upon you, what languages have you learned and/or are learning?
Oh my gosh hi!! I'm so glad my video was helpful to you 😭 I literally made it cause I struggle so much with this myself and it's just over the past few months that I've gotten past denying I have a problem (blaming myself thinking I'm just not trying hard enough) and actually started accepting that this is just part of how I am and trying to find techniques to support myself in my own language learning.
As for the languages I speak/learn, I'm a native English speaker (from Australia!), and I also speak Mandarin and Spanish both pretty fluently (although not really native level), and have been studying them both on and off for 11 years (Mandarin) and 5 years (Spanish). I'm actually doing a Masters degree in Mandarin-English translation rn! Apart from that my next best language is probably Japanese--I majored in Japanese language for my Bachelors degree but it's been 2 years since I graduated and I haven't really been studying it much in the meantime. I've also studied Korean here and there and have somewhat of an upper-beginner level, and I can read Arabic/Urdu letters XD (but I cant say anything lol). Recently I've been studying Korean a bit again but who knows if that will continue for very long haha. I'd also love to learn a bunch of other languages (CANTONESE❤, German, Italian, Thai) and my partner's native language is Urdu so I really should learn that too, but like I said I kinda have a problem with motivation and getting distracted 😅
Anyway I'd like to wish you the best of luck with Japanese!! I've heard really good things about the book Remembering the Kanji but if you find yourself getting distracted from it you could check out a kanji learning website/app called WaniKani (sorry if you already know about it!). From what I've heard it uses a similar method to Remembering the Kanji, but it's probably a bit more engaging! I tried it many years ago and found it quite good but didn't end up using it long term as by the time I started learning Japanese I was already pretty fluent in Mandarin and therefore familiar with lots of kanji.
Anyway good luck!! Thank you for stopping by and leaving me such a lovely in-depth comment!
@@speaking_of_languages I used to be able to sit and study with just one resource, but for the past few years I've had trouble with that kind of single minded focus. I think my ADHD is showing up more as distraction and boredom than hyperfocus right now.
Good luck with your Masters! That sounds ambitious. How was learning tones in Mandarin for you? I know a lot of English speakers struggle with it. It's the thing that intimidates me with learning it.
Thank you so much! I have heard of WaniKani, but that it's paid restricts me. I am very very poor lol. And I've had RtK for 10+ years, bought back when I could still work.
Thank you and you're welcome!