Channel: Benny Lewis

Category: Education

Tags: polyglot tipssubtitleslanguage learningways to learn a languagetimestampsclickablepolyglotlanguagehow to learn a languagetools

Description: What are the pressing questions in your language learning project? People joined me live to ask and I did my best to get to as many as I could. I got to the following questions, so click the timestamps to go straight to that point in the video! 02:22 Do you ever get "brain fog" while studying?" Similar to "writer's block", where you want to be productive, but just can't complete anything. 5:05 Can you update us on your Mandarin mission? 7:13 What activities do you like to do now IN another language? (not study) 10:42 Have you ever felt really close to giving up on a language? How did you manage to turn those feelings around to keep going? 14:06 What resources do you recommend for Dutch and Korean? 15:51 What's the most efficient way to get better at speaking English, especially pronunciation? 20:10 I teach beginners, so do you think speaking is the most important thing at that level? 24:01 How do you manage your language learning time with other projects if you're a full-time student? Specifically for learning a completely new language. 26:43 Do you feel that you became less nationalist/patriotic after a learning other languages and communicating with other cultures in their mother tongue? 29:51 How long do you think it would take to learn German from A1 to B2 or C1 35:03 I can speak very fluently and understand almost everything, but when I try to read something, I realize that I need a lot of vocabulary. How do I fix this? 38:38 How do you decide "okay, I'm not going to learn any more languages. I'm instead going to focus on what I've already taken on." When do you decide enough is enough? 41:20 How do you keep from feeling guilty when you give up a language because it isn't a good fit? You can't get back those hours. 45:03 Once you feel pretty comfortable with your level in a language, how do you go about learning some of the local slang? Especially if you don't live in the target country. 48:49 Tips for practising listening and speaking and applications and platforms to improve these skills? 49:37 I have been using memory tricks for learning words like you did for la gare and Garfield in the train station :). I find that it works well for nouns and adjectives, but I'm having trouble applying that to verbs and the conjugations. Any tips to help? 51:10 I'm currently living in Paris while learning French. However every time I try to speak French, people hear my accent and switch to English. How do you deal with this? 52:04 What do you think of Second Life for speaking practice? 53:32 Are you thinking to make a WhatsApp language group? 54:42 If I know very little Spanish, and want to learn more in a nursing world, would your new hacking Spanish book help me speak to my patients at the clinic I work at? ​58:00 Any suggestions for cheap-free language learning for a time pressed grad student? Focusing on Italian, Spanish and French. 59:35 When language programs such as Teach Yourself or Assimil say you'll get to B2 level on completion, do you believe this is the case or an exaggeration? 1:01:19 How do you decide when to start learning another language? I like to do specific themes in my livestreams, so once in a while I'll do a "free for all" on language learning issues, in a stream like this one, where you can ask anything related to language learning. By letting you guys get it out of your system, this helps us stay on topic in other streams :D Make sure you've clicked the 🔔 bell icon next to the subscribe button, so you get notified when I go live in future videos, and you can join in! Thanks for watching :)