Days and Words | Learning a Language isn't like Learning Anything Else @daysandwords | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 23 hours ago.
There is a reason that learning a language isn't like learning anything else. The better we understand how language learning works, the better we can learn languages ourselves.
You know what you're trying to do when you learn anything else. You start off with some way of assessing what you're doing. If you start trying to speak a foreign language straight away, it is like trying to play the piano before you've ever heard the piano.
View the series of 3 videos:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgV-XQEW93i2dt_B42nJ-fHdLzKlkX8aY
All of the things listed below can be of benefit to you as well as helping me make better language learning videos. You're awesome, thank you.
PATREON: Get extra videos which explain my thoughts on specific things (you ask the questions), articles and interviews with successful language learners:
patreon.com/user?u=38320669&fan_landing=true
One of my favourite language learning apps is called SPEAKLY. Get 40% off any premium membership and help me make better videos by using the appropriate code (6 months or more include all languages no matter which you choose, though you still need to use the appropriate code to the language you click on):
ENGLISH: FNS1
SPANISH: FNS2
FRENCH: FNS3
GERMAN: FNS4
ITALIAN: FNS5
RUSSIAN: FNS6
ESTONIAN: FNS7
FINNISH: FNS8
Find Speakly for ANDROID here:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.owlab.speakly&hl=en_US&gl=US
Speakly for APPLE here:
apps.apple.com/ee/app/speakly-learn-languages/id1255478968
Another one of my favourite apps is called Drops. It won't teach you a language but it will definitely add some interesting vocabulary to your repertoire.
Use this link to get 50% OFF DROPS! (It also helps me keep making my amazingly good videos... jokes. But it does.)
languagedrops.com/affiliates/days-of-language
The native speaker tutoring shown in my videos is through iTalki. You can get $10 credit applied to your account when you make your first purchase, or you can just check it out for free using this link, which also helps me out by allowing me to take more language lessons:
italki.com/i/CHfEEb?hl=en-us
Music from Soundstripe. (All of it, including the recordings of Beethoven and Chopin).
At the time of recording, you can get 40% off Soundstripe for unlimited access to a TONNE of awesome music by using this code which also helps out the channel:
soundstripe.com/join?id=donVrVoO
Code: qa28-SP8UHJGBQI3JLKSE
Code: qa28-XAW80JBJA5LY5YAH
Code: qa28-CXYMMNW1B6VWUCMP
Code: qa28-EMCHDNBJVLRIGZ2M
Code: qa28-GOBFZTK8JNMWZOX4
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction to Part 2
00:25 What acquiring a language DOESN'T mean
03:11 What Skillbuilding Is
06:11 Acquisition is Like Learning to Walk
09:06 Language is not like any other Skill
14:11 Skillbuilding Going Wrong
15:31 Does Input work for Minority Languages?
18:44 Is the Input Hypothesis "Generous"?
21:16 Hard work and Deliberate Practice
Do you like foreign language TV shows and movies? Check out the channel on which I review ONLY those shows:
youtube.com/channel/UCQNDd8k9rnbJDPaleJ-fHBw?sub_confirmation=1
Subscribe for more awesome language learning content: youtube.com/channel/UC3_iSRqqZ7DTVlBNd9lv8jA?sub_confirmation=1
Language learning videos, tips and techniques!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgV-XQEW93i0GexfCFSw_mRzPFzYs0Cyg
OK if you've reached the end of the description then you obviously need something to do.
There were two recognised pieces of classical music used in this video. One was Beethoven's Sonata no. 14, op. 27 in C sharp minor (known as the Moonlight Sonata, but that was not Beethoven's name for it).
What was the other recognised piece?
There is a reason that learning a language isn't like learning anything else. The better we understand how language learning works, the better we can learn languages ourselves.
You know what you're trying to do when you learn anything else. You start off with some way of assessing what you're doing. If you start trying to speak a foreign language straight away, it is like trying to play the piano before you've ever heard the piano.
View the series of 3 videos:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgV-XQEW93i2dt_B42nJ-fHdLzKlkX8aY
All of the things listed below can be of benefit to you as well as helping me make better language learning videos. You're awesome, thank you.
PATREON: Get extra videos which explain my thoughts on specific things (you ask the questions), articles and interviews with successful language learners:
patreon.com/user?u=38320669&fan_landing=true
One of my favourite language learning apps is called SPEAKLY. Get 40% off any premium membership and help me make better videos by using the appropriate code (6 months or more include all languages no matter which you choose, though you still need to use the appropriate code to the language you click on):
ENGLISH: FNS1
SPANISH: FNS2
FRENCH: FNS3
GERMAN: FNS4
ITALIAN: FNS5
RUSSIAN: FNS6
ESTONIAN: FNS7
FINNISH: FNS8
Find Speakly for ANDROID here:
play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.owlab.speakly&hl=en_US&gl=US
Speakly for APPLE here:
apps.apple.com/ee/app/speakly-learn-languages/id1255478968
Another one of my favourite apps is called Drops. It won't teach you a language but it will definitely add some interesting vocabulary to your repertoire.
Use this link to get 50% OFF DROPS! (It also helps me keep making my amazingly good videos... jokes. But it does.)
languagedrops.com/affiliates/days-of-language
The native speaker tutoring shown in my videos is through iTalki. You can get $10 credit applied to your account when you make your first purchase, or you can just check it out for free using this link, which also helps me out by allowing me to take more language lessons:
italki.com/i/CHfEEb?hl=en-us
Music from Soundstripe. (All of it, including the recordings of Beethoven and Chopin).
At the time of recording, you can get 40% off Soundstripe for unlimited access to a TONNE of awesome music by using this code which also helps out the channel:
soundstripe.com/join?id=donVrVoO
Code: qa28-SP8UHJGBQI3JLKSE
Code: qa28-XAW80JBJA5LY5YAH
Code: qa28-CXYMMNW1B6VWUCMP
Code: qa28-EMCHDNBJVLRIGZ2M
Code: qa28-GOBFZTK8JNMWZOX4
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction to Part 2
00:25 What acquiring a language DOESN'T mean
03:11 What Skillbuilding Is
06:11 Acquisition is Like Learning to Walk
09:06 Language is not like any other Skill
14:11 Skillbuilding Going Wrong
15:31 Does Input work for Minority Languages?
18:44 Is the Input Hypothesis "Generous"?
21:16 Hard work and Deliberate Practice
Do you like foreign language TV shows and movies? Check out the channel on which I review ONLY those shows:
youtube.com/channel/UCQNDd8k9rnbJDPaleJ-fHBw?sub_confirmation=1
Subscribe for more awesome language learning content: youtube.com/channel/UC3_iSRqqZ7DTVlBNd9lv8jA?sub_confirmation=1
Language learning videos, tips and techniques!
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLgV-XQEW93i0GexfCFSw_mRzPFzYs0Cyg
OK if you've reached the end of the description then you obviously need something to do.
There were two recognised pieces of classical music used in this video. One was Beethoven's Sonata no. 14, op. 27 in C sharp minor (known as the Moonlight Sonata, but that was not Beethoven's name for it).
What was the other recognised piece?
