Steve Kaufmann – lingosteve
For all the languages that I have learned, I only attended school twice. However, in every case it was becoming an independent language learner that brought me success.
0:00 – The one thing you need to be a successful language learner.
1:14 – The three keys to language learning.
2:10 – How LingQ helps Steve to be an independent language learner.
2:46 – How to get started in a language you don’t know at all.
6:24 – How to be an independent learner in a classroom environment.
7:24 – Moving past the beginner stage.
8:58 – How to combat the loneliness and frustration of language learning.
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Become an Independent Learner – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ff0v1mkUON4
Learn Languages for your Own Reasons – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4wmTrNYGZtU
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Language learning is an activity we do on our own and our success depends on our willingness to be independent. This is true whether we are at school or not.
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It’s r helpful for new language leaners thanks Steve
Oh my God! Im here enjoying the way you talk.🥰
I love English language💗 I'm taking YouTube classes and practicing the best I can. I can understand everything English native people say, but when it's my turn; my mind goes blank!😱 and I end up saying..yes,no, I now!
Thats all.😣
Oh my God! I hate myself for not being able to do it right.😡
It's impossible to learn a language on your own. Because a language is communication. And communication isn't possible in isolation. You don't understand how a language is learnt and you give terrible advice. It will help people achieve nothing. They'll be stuck at their desk, while learning rules and vocabulary that no one uses. In the end, they'll be people who reply to 'hey, what's up?' by telling everything about their day. Probably because a language is not just a collection of grammar and vocabulary. But maybe, because a language is also the reflection of society and history. Which surprise, surprise are formed by the society.
If you want to advise people how to learn a language, get yourself a MA in TESOL at least. People don't become doctors without education. The same way EFL and ESL teachers are professionals in their field.
Sounds very interesting, in Jesus Christ's name I hope to study it
Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I want to say you how to make english listening, speaking,reading and writing skills improve.
Ingles muito dificil…gostaria tanto De aprender.
Thank you
I try to hear you speak . Thank s
Thank you Steve for your wisdom and guidance aiding those on a solo language acquisition! You’ve been so inspiring to me!
Thank you sir! I am learning French and Japanese language. I'm enjoying the progress. Greetings from Abuja, Nigeria.
I don't want to learn a language . I already have one that I can rely on. 👊🏻This one. It is me.
This is the most greatest advises that i have heard ever , grateful to you
Am learning German A2 level currently. I have had countless moments of doubt and feeling like am making zero progress especially because I don't practise the "sprechen" much but this video reminds me am still on the right track. Thanks.
love from pakistan
Thank you Steve!
❤️🇵🇬
Guys, is anyone here who wants learn Portuguese? I have a speak (english) training group that needs help (I totally included 🙂 ) so, let's just make some exchange of knowlegde? U can find me at jesferreira@live.com Thanks!!
Actually that's what I'm doing , to be Independent in learning .
and also I love to study without stress , so I agree with you Mr Steve
Thank you so much , that was a useful lesson
I don't know what your say sur ?
We are making neet to law and
Presidend but i don't know presidend USA ?
Good Advice
Thought I'd say – if you do ever want to learn Dutch, look at the Delftse Methode books (the first one being "het groene boek" honestly made it so easy for me to immerse myself in the language and start speaking right away!
Ur brain is specially good for languages, so you learned 10 from 60yrs. End of story
Steve has great insight, but his videos can be a little bit tough to watch for me because he plugs for LingQ way way way too often.
Literally EVERY SINGLE WORD OUT OF YOUR MOUTH IS ENGLISH!
So if I am English speaking and I want to learn a new language…
I'm screwed.
Let's face it…I'm WRITING..in English.
What's weird is that every word you speak CPULD BE A DIFFERENT LANGUAGE and it would be referencing the VERY SAME THING…
But a kid in Russia or wherever…they just naturally do it.
So BYPASS the fluff.
One question for Steve:
From your experience, is it true that the more different languages you have mastered, the easier it results to learn a new one??
when I was a kid I thought I could not gonna learned English. but now I would challenge myself to learn it.
I take 5 min just to write this sentence LOL.
It's good having teachers for a language, but you usually only see them 1-3 times a week, for 1-2 hours a day with the teacher. The rest of the time, is up to you how you learn, weather your reading, listening, or talking. It's hard and very time consuming. I just started learning Spanish, I take 1-2 days of a.break, then I go back to listening to Spanish music and then back to terms and words and phrases. Or watching shows and movies I'm Spanish. It is hard but not impossible. I'm living in Mexico now, so my ears adjusted fast to hearing the language. You have to keep trying and trying. I'm not giving myself a time period of when I'm supposed to learn and master the language. To me, it's a lifelong investment . Sadly, people keep saying by, 6 months to 2 years you should be able to talk and understand the language. When for me, that just puts a lot of pressure on myself. Also, when your living in the country that's speaking the language you want to learn, yes people will help you, but you need to do a lot of it on your own. You have to talk!!! Speak the language, even if you make a mistake, keep talking. Keep trying new things with learning the language.
I am an independent learner for 40 years. I never had a one on one lesson or a lesson in a group. My target language is French, and today I can speak almost 100% fluency in certain subjects, but I still don't know every word. My native language is English, and I don't know every single word in that language either. So in French, I am always learning some new.
I love this channel
Love from Iraq
اتمنى ان نشاهدك في يوم من الايام وانت تتحدث العربية الفصحة بلسان طليق لا تشوبه أي شائبة
فانت أنسان طيب وتستحق كل خير
تحياتي لك من العراق _ الموصل
Needed this video today. Ive been studying Vietnamese for around three months now and Found myself feeling very disheartened after a bad lesson. Glad to have come across this video.
Can i really remember and speak fluently another language if i don't speak it on a daily basis, even if i read and listen daily? I have been told over and over again that if you don't speak it daily you won't master it or retain it. i don't want to waste time trying to learn a language just to find i have not retained anything when I need it.
That "fog" image is…me with Korean 😂
I bought two beginner course books on my visit to a country. I never got round to the reading and speaking exercises but I listened to the recordings of the whole book on loop while I was driving to college (7 hours if the car didn't break down) and while I slept even though I didn't understand a word: it helps to be single or at least sleep in a separate bedroom! Sometimes I would listen the audio while trying to follow the script.
One of the books had a section the sounds with IPA symbols (one page of the text in IPA, the following page in the script) and with example words, including some words with similar sounds to highlight the difference. I listened to that section the most; it was the only thing I tried to copy. For me it was the most helpful part: it had taken me almost 3 months to hear a difference between two similar vowels of the alphabet! Hearing the single sounds in isolation was helpful: if you can't hear it, you can't repeat it…
When I moved to the country and started to speak a few words in the market, I got a lots of compliments for my clear pronunciation. For the most part. There's one unfortunately common and important word I have given up on trying to say.
-Make the decision that you are an individual learner, and it doesn't matter wether you are learning with a class or on your own.
-3 things Matters in Language learning Theory
*Your Attitude
*The time you spent into learning the language
*Your acknowledge
-Content//books
Try to go for a one where they give a quick review of the Grammer Essentials,preferably a short one with no exercises/tests/quizzes. Just the grammer essential that you can flip through.
-then Start by listening and letting language wash over you at first. Dont fight with the language. Just get used to how it sounds with podcasts or short relatively less authentic stories
-Then move on to listening things where you are more interested into, more authentic listens.
I really feel happy, because I've been developing my own way to learn and acquire languages without any translations, I'm really really blissful!!
Спасибо Вам большое!
I know all these things BUT! So nice to hear it all packaged within a few minutes. I'll have to return and listen to this again in the future. Thank you
I learn advance english from A.J Hoge and his approach of learning language is based on science which is make sense to me. I used the same approach to learn Korean.
Thank you for the video Mr. Steve.
I'm at the stage where I can understand about 80% of what I hear on the radio, TV and read. However, whenever I listen to conversations between native speakers, that drops to about 50%.
interesting….
I'm learning Serbian but I see you guys don't have it yet in LingQ. 😢
Do you know if Serbian will be in LingQ someday? 🙌🏼🥳
قال تعالى:(و علّم آدم الأسماء كلّها)
أول شيء يجب على من يريد تعلم اللغة أن يتعلمه هو الأسماء، لأنها تعطي سرعة في تعلم اللغة.
The first thing that the biginner learner have to do is to learn VOCABULARY.
More Vocabulary = fast process to learn a language.
Anyone tryna learn Korean like me???😂
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Having studied German in school and on my own for many years, I do think when starting out from scratch, taking a beginning class would be more efficient. To me a beginning language class provides a foundation in pronunciation, basic grammar, answers to a lot of questions when starting off and importantly, avoiding early frustrations. From there the language learner can continue on with comprehensible input, etc.
I tired learning english even this comment has alot of mistaks some one help me please
What empire strikes back in said language, welcome
Don't wasta single cent to learn a language. You would find a lot of wonderful teachers on YouTube totally for free. And you can help yourself with the translator of Google. If the machine understand you it's okay. Don't waste your money. The important thing is to understand and be understood while speaking.