How To Start Learning A Language From The Beginning - How I'm Learning Swahili & How I Teach English
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- In this video, I walk you through how to learn a language from scratch. This is how I teach English and this is how I am learning Swahili. It helps a lot!
If you're interested in learning Spanish, check out my book on Amazon: www.amazon.com...
En este video, te explico cómo aprender un idioma desde cero. Así es como enseño inglés y así es como aprendo swahili. ¡Esto ayuda mucho!
Si está interesado en aprender español, consulte mi libro en Amazon: www.amazon.com... 8-1
And when the world needed him the most..... he vanished.
Good to see you on UA-cam again bro!
Thanks Wes!
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this is off topic of Swahili, but i just left a review of your Learning Spanish hardcover book that i bought on Amazon, and I included a photo as well. Amazon says it may take a day or two to be reviewed and posted. It is great having this book to try and move from A1-A2 up to a fully conversational speaker. I even talked a tutor who only accepts B1 and higher into accepting me for conversation practice on this coming Wednesday, even tho she knows I am an A1 level, so needless to say I'm scouring thru your book right now, which reminded me to do the Amazon review. thanks again buddy!!!!!
Wow this right here is why I wrote it, comments like this! Thank you for letting me know and I’m glad it’s helping! Que sigas aprendiendo!
Thank you for the review as well!
I honestly thought I was failing my beginner lessons on italki for speaking and asking questions in English thinking I was the only one until I watched this video wow. This helps my confidence so much!
I’m glad this helps
Definitely helpful Mike. I'm glad you didn't quit Swahili. Keep going bro never quit no matter what.
Thanks Javier 🙏🏾
I grew up with English and Arabic been learning Spanish for 2 years, I didn’t realize the similarities between Arabic and Swahili, kitab is book in Arabic also and when you said 37 sounded the same too
Very true, literally the name of the language "Swahili" comes from "Arabic" (the language of the coast = Swahili).
Thank you, Mike! Great advice.
I’m glad this helps!
My boy back on his UA-cam game 🔥
Si señor!
@@MikeBenWhat is the name of a book you recommend to learn spanish
Fellow ATLian here….. trying again to learn Spanish. You inspire me.💪
Que sigas aprendiendo!
@@MikeBen gracias! Voy a asegurarme de que lo hago!
Mike - Thanks for laying it out with the wisdom of hindsight. Someone just asked me what they should do to start learning Spanish. I sent them a link to this video.
Thanks and I’m glad this helps!
Another great video filled with brilliant advice. Thank you very much, Mr. Ben.
Gracias por todo!
Me alegra que te haya ayudado!
Thanks for this fam! I’ve been taking Spanish for a while and I want to quit all the time but I have so many reasons to continue on. I’m always looking for better strategies for getting better at listening and transferring that to being able to have conversations. My italki teacher said I just need to be patient. I want it so bad that I’m expecting more immediate results.
She has been fluent in English for 5 years and she messed up and said see Chance I’m fluent and I still mess up. It’s okay. She says no te preocupes! 🙏🏽
It definitely takes time. Que sigas aprendiendo!
Please review Chaos Theory...the theory if émergence. The sand cone is the physical example I relate to Best. As a grain of sand is placed or dropped on a sand pile no one knows when and which grain of sand will cause a sand pile to rush down AND flatten. Adding the words, gestures, a ways of acting when using a language is the same. No one knows how many elements of language it takes. When that key word, act, gesture comes into or from our brain no one knows. Write Mike when that world strikes.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structured_criticality
I recommend Destinos Introduction to Spanish. I've learned so much Spanish, and I am really enjoying the story. It's so good that I have to limit myself to one or two episodes a day! :)
I have a question for you all. First people always recomend a book. ¿So I ask how was Spanish codified?
@@AngelaNortonTyler Thanks I’ll check it out. I’ve been taking this for a while but I feel like everyone else that hits a plateau. I’ve already logged almost 100 hours and still can’t carry on a basic conversation except for the basic greetings and a few others. My goal was conversational by November 2023. Been consistent for 5 months everyday but I started my journey in 2021 and was infrequent besides 8 consecutive months on Duolingo which at the time was all I did. I really believed that only could get me fluent. Silly me. Lol
Thanks Mike for another great video! I love how you put so much effort into each video you put out. Also, thanks so much for adding the visuals from your study sessions. I find it to be super helpful along side the advice you gave. Keep up the amazing work and congrats on your new journey as an ESOL teacher.
Thanks Kaitlyn and I’m glad this helps!
I really want to learn Brazilian Portuguese, n this rlly helped. I was so lost on where to start off.. W video, obrigado!!
Happy to help!
I went back home to Brasil. The first reason I had to return was to buy books. There are few books in Brasileño homes in Brasil and almost none in Brasileño homes outside of Brasil. Electrónica Books are good but one must know Português to find them. If there is a hit song sweeping across Brasil we do not know it if we are outside Brasil. Next where are you going to get a grammar? How will you know which one is good. Who will you talk to? Português is almost impossível to learn online because one must learn how to place the organs of speech together to produce the sounds. Take Eu vou a voltar a casa pra comer pêche 🎣. Hearing that and saying that are not thé same thing. Then it is about 1000 Dollars to fly to Rio ou São Paulo. When you get there how do you get to the place where a person lives who can help you without Portugués? This is Mike's Channel and you asked the question of him. He will have to help you from this point on. If he permits it I will connect you with a Português speaker who will help you. But the person who helps you will know little if any English. Too me nothing stalls progress more than a multi lengual speaker. When we are stressed we toss the leason plan out and revert to a student language. I can stick my proud chest out and tell you all about Portugués but when you pass that lady at the air port in Brasil that will be the last English you will hear. If you must sink or swim there you need to start you backstroke and float where ever you are. In 30 years outside of Brasil I have no met one none native speaker who can communicate. I heard one Portugués teacher who was close but he was giving his leason in English. The only other option you have is to go to Boston. 2.3 million Mineros live there. Look up Band News. Look up Vagalume. Look up
dicionario.priberam.org/. Do not use an English to Português Dictionnaire yet. Do not use a Brasileña online dictionnaire yet. If I tell you to close the lock of the car door in Brasil I will tell you trova a porta. The first world is Italiano the a is Greek and porta is Latín. You are going to have to know Spanish, Italiano, French, Latín, AND Greek. You are going to have to be able to tolerate Chinese also. Lastly it takes 28 years to speak academia English. 40 years for Spanish on that level. Then 47 years to reach that level in Portuguese. The majorité of speakers in all of the languages I have mentioned never reach that level and nor have I. I sum up with this.Vou a banho posso chichi. I go to the bath room posso is pure Latin chichi Is Chinese. It means yes. But yes is sim so I am not going in there to say yes. Ask Mike if you need my help.
Happy to see you back active, Mike! I hope you're doing good.
Sam! Thanks and same to you! I see that your channel has grown a lot. Congrats hermano!
@@MikeBen Gracias hermano! Estoy haciendo mi mejor esfuerzo!
I definitely agree with everything you talked about in the video and I feel like the points you made in this video are still applicable to languages that have a different type of writing system (like Japanese)
I’d say (and this is from my personal experience) that learning the writing system first definitely helps speed up the process and also helps with pronunciation 🙌🏾
Also it’s good to hear that your back learning Swahili 👏🏾
Hope all is well with your language learning Jokobe and thanks for the insight as well
Yes, I speak/read conversational Chinese and Japanese and agree. I've also taught Japanese and would tell my students that learning the script not only helps in pronunciation, but also noticing words (especially ones with Kanji that you know). You're probably not going to see romanized Japanese words floating around, so refusing to learn the script handicaps you from the start and leaves a nightmare hanging over your head.
I am always starting over even with 20 some years of Spanish 😢. I gotta stick to a plan and not keep going over just the easy stuff! 😵💫. I started late in life is my excuse but really I just skipped some important parts and hoped it would just come by nature. Thanks Mike Ben… you’re alway motivating me!!
If you talk to anyone or read any book or watch any UA-cam channel for natives it will be going beyond the easy stuff. I'm trying to learn Korean later in life too so I feel the struggle. The struggle is real lol.
I’m glad this helps! Que sigas aprendiendo
Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Roman d'Oscar Wilde is a work I love. Wilde wanted to live forever but Brad Pitt Joe Black ran him down. Days before he passed he laid on his death bed with a Greek Grammar open and in hand. A friend who held his other hand asked why he read the book at such a time. Wilde turned and said I will die but must I also lose my mind? If Spanish is how I live let it be how I die. Thé I will be Stripped of my flesh naked on a Himylayan Mountain side but the preists will wrap my heart in the pages of a grammar book and leave it on the rocks for birds to enrich themselve on the pages that became the very beats of my Heart.
Hello Mike, I have wanted to learn spanish most of my life. I took Spanish in college and it nothing for understanding conversations. I am 61 years old and I hope its not to late for me to start up again and stick to it. When I saw your video you motivated me so much that I may be able to do to it this time. Thank you for helping with how to start and avoid getting burnt out on unnecessary tasks. I look forward to watching the rest of your videos. Thank you so much. Your awesome at sharing your experiences. Many thanks.
Thank you so much and it is not too late, before the end of the year next year you can be at a decent level. Que sigas aprendiendo!
I agree that not quitting is key. My trick is to invest at least 18months then I keep telling myself that I don’t want to let all of that time gap to waste. It is a long process but a huge accomplishment once complete. Thanks for your videos. They really helped me to stay motivated in the beginning.
I'm glad this helps Rick and your point is very true, especially when you are seeing tangible growth and a space for you to apply the language. Wanting to quit is a natural feeling when we confront the daunting nature of learning a language.
Im proud of you Blackman! This motivates me to keep going!!! Thank you!
Asante Sana 🙏🏾
You make really dope videos, Mike. Cool to see how your journey has progressed over time. Videos like this one are a huge help for me in learning Spanish. Especially when those roadblocks pop up that have made me want to tap out. Respect bro. Stay blessed
Thanks hermano and I’m glad these help
I’m so glad you’re back! I was losing motivation 😂
Thanks lol
Love this video!! I especially like how you used your numbers when saying the tennis score. I'm playing tennis tonight and am so ready to try this (as well as other times when I need to count throughout the day). About Japanese, when you try to get into anime, I have a few recommendations: 1) Demon Slayer; 2) Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood (make sure it's "Brotherhood"); and 3) Spy X Family. Good luck on your Swahili learning journey!! I'm excited to follow it. 😃
Thank you for those recommendations and the support! I’m glad this helps!
DeepL is a great translator app!
I’ll have to check it out
Great tips Mike, thanks a million. 😎😎😎
I’m glad this helps!
Great video! I didn't realize we had so much in common and are about the same age. When I learn new words/phrases, I try to use them when speaking to myself. It's just kind of fun honestly. Just like you said with numbers and working out, when speaking English, I also randomly ask myself if I could say that in the languages I've learned. This makes me challenge myself and helps me remember words and allows me to notice words I've "forgotten".
Anyway, there's so much I could say after watching this video. But I just want to say, as someone who minored in Chinese & Japanese, self-studied Swahili for a couple of years, and is now intensively learning Spanish, I relate to you and this video so much and wish you the best of luck with Kiswahili and any language you learn in the future (Japanese). Buena Suerte / Bahati Njema!
Those are all great tips and I do the same, it’s very fun to accurately use a word that you just learned and it helps so much when it comes to recalling it in the future. We also do have a lot of similarities lol
love this video mike😀😀😀
Thanks 🙏
Mike I just wanna say you are amazing. Keep up the good work. Sigue pa lante y estoy orgulloso de ti
Gracias hermano
Damn good video my g
Gracias - Asante Sana
Very informative as always; thank you maestro
You are welcome
Inspirational
Thanks 🙏
Thank you so much for this video. I want to learn spanish. I am ALL over the place with my studies and getting NOWHERE. What was the mame of the audio repeat guy you mentioned in this video?
I’m glad this helps, the name of those audio lessons is “1 minute Spanish by Kieran Ball” from what I remember
Great video bro. I bought your book a few months ago before I moved to Colombia. It's a great resource. Can you possibly share the link to the Spanish audio resource you mentioned in this video of the guy from England? This would help me a lot as I'm struggling to find decent audio material to help with my Spanish. Thanks in advance
I’m glad it helps! Those audio lessons were removed from UA-cam and put on Udemy.com from my understanding. Look up Kieran Ball - Spanish and you should find it
@@MikeBen Much appreciated brother!
You are right. I always ask this question when ever I have to deal with an intellectuel: "How does one hit a baseball?". Why that question? Because pitching and hitting with an object is what seperates the human brain from all others. Sounds simplistically stupid right? Now think about It. If you were in a fight would you like to uses teeth and claws of a lion or a pile of rocks and a stick? In Latin to read means to choose, to collect, to sellect. A man with a stick and a pile of rocks has to quickly select the best rock to throw. Physical sélection proceed all other human ablites. One has to read the leaves and the red fruit hanging on a bush or tree if one is to live. Choose the wrong red fruit and one dies. That is why reading always proceeds speaking. Babies are no exception. The reason I have gone on like this is because of thé beauté of thé métaphore. Truth most often is in plain view. So how does one hit a baseball? The same way one learns to speak. Not by hearing bat strike ball but by watching a batter select the pitch he can strike and watching the batter's swing. A babe born blind starts to speak , to sign is to speak also, later than a child who cannot hear. ua-cam.com/video/eMGYTLoo14Y/v-deo.html Sée scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=A++born+blind+starts+to+speak+later+than+a+child+who+cannot+hear.&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1690101212771&u=%23p%3DIsmZaYf3RRwJ. UA-cam had a hard time verifying my spéculation. Thanks for talking the time and as always thanks Google Scholar.
I appreciate this detailed response. I read those articles and they are filled with great info 🙏🏾
A graduate degree in ESL? That sounds intense. I wonder how it will affect your language learning. It sounds like something I would want to do except I would worry about paying off my student loans before I die lol. I've heard several times that people learn grammar concepts in a certain order be they native speakers or 2nd language speakers but they never say what that order is. It seems like something worth knowing. I bet they teach you that in your curriculum somewhere.
I think speaking is huge but at the same time it can be demotivating when you constantly struggle to say simple things and the only person you have to compare yourself to is the person you're talking to who is a native speaker. Early on I think group lessons or classes are so nice because you can compare yourself to other learners (they say not to but we're all going to do it anyway so might as well have some people who are maybe around your level/background and at least aren't native speakers). But try to find group lessons online. It's hard. I think the best option would be to find a study partner in real life and then sign up for small group classes together but I don't know anyone in real life who wants to learn Spanish never mind Korean.
Que Más Paul? I’ve actually learned about what you described in your first paragraph in one of my courses last semesters. Seeing that natural progression in all of my students confirms that it is true, at least anecdotally. I agree with your second point as well, it can be demotivating but we all start somewhere.
@@MikeBen Any books or online resources you recommend for layfolk like me interested in the topic?
@@MikeBen I saw a couple books referenced on the Order of Acquisition wiki and ordered them. I'm slightly bummed they don't just put the order in the wiki. They were cheap used so I ordered A First Language, the Early Stages and The Study of Second Language Acquisition.
You are saying to yourself I ask about order but it is a chicken and an egg question. Sir, a chicken must come first. Then the chicken under goes subdivisión. When what preys upon the chicken under subdivisión consumes both parts the few chicken who are left lay eggs and defend the eggs while the eggs are in a protective shell. The order of a thing tell us little. The forces that drive one to a select order is what counts. All Européen language were preserved and codified by priest writing by candle light alone in a cell. Order is thus forced upon us. If you hear a Mexicano yell águas! Move do not take the time to yell back no es aguas. Es cuidado.
Are you using language transfer app or UA-cam channel? They have swahili conversations aswell as others.
Yes someone recommended it to me and it’s helping a lot!
I have a couple of questions Mike…
What Spanish grammar book do you recommend?
What repeat audio again?
What is your favorite spanish podcast?
Thanks Mike!
I recommend Madrigal’s Magic Keys To Spanish and My Book “Mike Ben’s Guide to Learning Spanish”. You can’t go wrong with either. Repeating the same podcast episode to check your gradual increase in comprehension helps. Here are some podcasts:
No Hay Tos
How to Spanish
El Placer De Vivr
Español en 3000
Thank you for your reply and help.
What Spanish beginner/Children's shows do you recommend that are on UA-cam?
Peppa Pig, Dora en Español
Caso Cerrado is good also, not made for children though
guau perfecto
Gracias Frances, que todo te esté yendo bien con el gimnasio!
@@MikeBen gracias va muy bien .lo unico que hace mucho calor aqui🙃🥵
Great advice. Off topic, what kind of camera are you using to record your videos? Also, do you use an external mic?
Go pro hero 8, with the mic from the camera. No external mic.
Mike, when you just getting start in a new language. Do you change your phone settings to your target language in the beginning level or toward intermediate level?
I don’t think it helps that early. At an intermediate level it’s very helpful
Thanks so much for responding to my other comment and sending me here. This was super informative. And i think, I have a much better gameplan going forward. Last question (🤞🏿): I live in California and am learning Latin American Spanish, any recommendations for grammer books 1 - 10... also, I've been reading El Alqoumista ... it's a but conplex but I'm seeing a ton of what I've been learning. Should i take it down a notch?... oops, that's two 'last' questions.
I wouldn't start with the Alchemist. It's tough for a beginner. I would use the readers that I mentioned in my video titled "How I learned Spanish in Less Than a Year".
@MikeBen blessed... thanks so much! And man, you're inspiration. Not that it matters, but it's cool to see a brother from the south (I grew up in small town Troy, AL), so engaged in language learning. My goal is to tackle Spanish and move to Mandarin next.
you are the goat 🐐
Asante Sana, Mil gracias
Will you still be putting up Spanish lessons on Patreon Mike?
I got started and ran out of time. I’ll put a survey out and if more than 100 people want them then I will do them.
Love your vids! What translator is the best? if not google
Reverso Contexto and SpanishDict. These are for English and Spanish of course.
Hi Mike, What software were you using at minute 12 to learn Swahili? Thanks
A Canadian organization created it. It's called "Storybooks Canada"
For a good Spanish grammar book, would you recommend Madrigal's Key to Spanish or something else?
Madrigal’s Key to Spanish or Mike Ben’s Guide to Spanish would be the ones that I’d recommend. This one is also good:
Complete Spanish Step-by-Step, Premium Second Edition by Barbara Bregstein
@@MikeBen dang, maybe I do need to just get your guide to make it easier.
For the "Complete Spanish" book, I feel like I saw that come up on Amazon as a suggestion when I bought Madrigal's Key to Spanish.
@@jordanthomas5259 Yes all three are very good
Haven’t looked at your channel in a while what happened to Spanish?
Learned it and on to the next one
How can we use your services?
Language tutoring services? I don’t offer any at the moment but I’m planning to offer them in June
Which grammar book do you recommend for those wanting to learn Spanish.
Madrigal’s Magic Key to Spanish & Mike Ben’s Guide to Learning Spanish
@@MikeBen thank you
If you could learn spanish using netflix, what would you do mike?
I would watch shows with the Spanish subtitles and pick out words that I heard frequently and learn them. I wouldn’t only use Netflix though
@@MikeBen thank you. You would do the same with youtube aswell. What if subtitles is not available in the target language?
ohhh baby is that first comment?
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do you speak Japanese? I could not find any videos about Japanese? I ve just seen japan flag!
No but I’m considering learning it after I become “fluent” in Swahili
Mike quewtion What si your mother tongue ?
English
Are there many speaking that language in your area?
No but I don’t mind that, I plan on going to Kenya next year
Well thank you Mike for responding. God luck with your language learning and GOD bless.