How to Learn a New Language Fast and Speak Fluently

1. Introduction: In the last four years, I went from being someone who just spoke his mother tongue to a trilingual speaking Turkish, English, and German. And in this glass I'm going to share personally everything that I learned over the four years about learning the language. And I'm gonna tell you every single one of the biggest mistakes that you should be avoiding. Yes, everything that I'm going to teach you in this class is completely usable for every language on the planet. Today we're going to cover one, the importance of speaking multiple languages to highlight personally became trilingual and learned two different languages at the same time. Three, the exact set of system that allowed me to become a native speaker in those languages really, really quickly for why you should be prioritizing speaking over everything. Five, Hawaii became fluent in those languages and how you can do the same sex, horrifying friends that speak that language that you want to learn. How to make learning languages. The process plant itself. Eight, why you needed the most used 500 words just to speak that language. Nine tricks to fasten your progress and ten crucial mistakes that you should be avoiding while learning languages. This class is packed with value, and I'm truly grateful that I'm gonna be able to surpass everything that I learned over the four years of just learning languages to you. This class is packed with value and I'm truly grateful that I get to share everything that I learned over the four years of learning two different languages to you. As a smart man learns from his mistakes, and even as smarter man learns from other people's mistakes, I cannot wait to see you on the other side. 2. Why Learning New Languages is Crucial: Okay, lesson number one, the importance of speaking multiple languages. But the thing is, if you're taking this class, I helped. If you're going to watch this entire class, you probably know that speaking a lot of multiple languages is already looking at a really important thing. It's going to have a lot of advantages in your life. So I don't really want to particularly talk about this topic too much. But first of all, I'd like to just tell a couple of things that actually helped me in my personal life. And the advantage that I've seen personally in my life through speaking multiple languages. You can learn information from different sources. You can get to know even more people that are not speaking your specific PER, like a mother tongue, you can live abroad and work abroad or which I have not done yet, but I'm going to be studying University in Germany, which is a language that I've learned over the last three years. I would say, like learning languages has a lot of different advantage in your life. And one of them being it would be like you can get to know more people who can visit more countries. Again, when you visit to this country is you can speak the native tongue in those countries. Especially like when it comes to English, I would say that would be a really cool thing. And one thing I want to mention before we get into the glass is speaking English was basically one of the pluses that you could get 20 years ago. Now, speaking English is not really a place that you can get. And not speaking English is like a minus now. So if you want to know from a country like not from US, UK, Australia, if English is not your main tongue, I feel like English should be Everyone should be speaking pretty much pretty good English, I would say that is a must in this day and age. So if you are watching this whole class out, I would definitely say to you that first of all use it all of the secrets and the strategies and the techniques that I'm going to teach you in this class. It's gonna be like one to two hours around. It bleeds like an hour. Definitely use these strategies on first of all, English and then you can use those tactics. I'm going to teach you on another language that you're trying to learn. Maybe it's Italian, Spanish, German, like me. Or what do people like speaking nowadays? What do people try to speak nowadays? Japanese, probably, maybe Chinese. Chinese would be hard to be honest. And one good thing that I wanna mention here is I feel like this is not really talking about on anywhere at that much. But when you're speaking multiple languages, there's this detected that people think that you're really cool. People think that you are really cool person and you're alive, that you're really knowledgeable person, which is in my personal opinion, ever really good rent, a really good part of it because most people aren't going to like based everyone from their first appearance, from their first looks. And if they know that you speak more than one language, you know that they beat you speak three languages. People are already going to have like a first, like at first outlook on you that is positive. So in my personal opinion, especially when it comes to dating life, this has been a huge plus, at least for me. Now let's jump into the story of how I personally became a trilingual speaking three languages. 3. My Story: How I Became A Trilingual: Lesson number two, how I personally became a trilingual. So I'm going to tell you my story of how I became a trailing goal. And the reason why I'm gonna do this is because of the fact that I want you to look at my story and maybe get a little motivated or inspired from it. Because the reason why I personally like wanted to learn a lot of languages was one because of the fact that I had to, because of my school at the same time, I just thought that speaking a lot of languages was cool and I saw that from other people. So maybe this a feeling of, Well, that's really cool, I wanna do that should get could happen to you from my life. So I would like to tell you first of all, my story. The thing is we're going to talk about today essentially languages, English and German, because those are the languages that I learned after my main Tong of Turkish. And unless it gets sorted with my English journey. And my English journey essentially has two different like breaking points. I would say. These two points completely changed the trajectory of me learning that language, English, and then we're going to talk about German. So when it comes to my two breaking points, first of all, let's get started with the first breaking buoyant. Well, pretty much all the language history that I have in my life starts from my high school. So when I got into high school at the age of like Fourteen, now I'm 18, So like let's say four years. I didn't speak English pretty much at all. Like pretty much at all. Maybe, you know, like basic things like an apple of visitors read the colors, the numbers you can count from 0 to ten. I'll let you know those things, but you don't really speak English at all. But when it comes to German, especially like I had literally 0 German, I didn't know how to say hello in German at all before I get into the high school that I'm in right now, which I'm gonna be graduating this year. When it comes to English, there are two breaking points that I had. The first one happened in an English class. Well, obviously it having an English class and how to determine the glass. It happened in an English class at the first year of high school. In the first year of high school, we were doing an exercise to practice our speaking and they exercise was basically like a picture description. So I had my friend that I was sitting next to you, whose name was Dennis and then it's still a good friend of mine in my class still. And we were doing like a picture description type of exercise. And hold works is basically, I'm sitting right here and that then is sitting right here. And the teacher opens like a picture and the smart board. And then like Dennis has to explain that picture to me, like Venice has to kind of describe that picture to me what's happening in that picture. And my back is turned to the smartboard So I cannot see the picture. However, there's just explain it to me. And after we do that for 23 minutes after days explains everything like to me, describes everything to me to be honest, that's a better way to say it. And then ministers his back and then new different like a picture comes in. And then I try to explain that. I tried to describe that picture to him. That's a fun little exercise that our teacher used to do. Mr. Finn used to do back in 2019. When I said back in 2018, I felt like back in 1997. So back in when I was 15, I would say then, like Dennis was, one of the biggest parts of the story is the fact that there is actually speaks really, really well English. I don't know how he learned the language that much like I don't know how he did it, but when he entered high school, is English was pretty much like perfect, maybe even better than our English teacher who was from us. So you get the understanding point. So Dennis completely described the picture perfectly to me and then it was my turn. I kinda did a terrible job at it. What I knew because my English was terrible. Like how could I do a really good job at my English was terrible. Then after the lesson, like he told me like, you know, Your English is not really that good, right? And then I was like, Yeah, I know, but this conversation happens in Turkish obviously. And then I asked him like, how do I get better? How do I build more like you? Or what are the things that you have done that I could do the same maybe to get to the point where you are right now speaking really, really, really high level English, more than a dentist. And what does more of the advanced? I don't know. He told me two things. One, speak more. That's it. Speak more. You're gonna get fluent and you're just going to get much better in that language. And to do everything you can embed language. At the time, I didn't really understand what that advice meant to be honest because I didn't really know what to do. Everything you do. I do my laundry in English like, I don't understand what that is. When you say do everything you can do in English when you're researching something, research in English when you're reading books, read English when you're journaling, journaling English when you're listening to something or when you're thinking about something, just think, try to think that in English or in the language that you're trying to learn. By the time I was for me English and most of all, that was the first like a breaking point for my English level. My English level was slightly getting higher, slightly getting better every single day. And then that breaking point helped me to get it higher, faster. So my, let's say my changing rate was 20% and it became like 40%. So I was getting much better, much quicker. Then, pretty much like 23 years passed. And then my second it by breaking point came. But I would say two years, I add the second breaking points. By the way, I got a cold a little bit, so I might let cough and be lessons, which I wish I didn't have that when I kinda do so unfortunately, I'm sorry. The second breaking point is me starting my YouTube channel. So the reason why my English went like to skyrocketing when I started my YouTube channel was because of the fact that beforehand, I wasn't really able to see that. Well, I will speak English. My English was not really that bad. I was just talking every single morning. I was practicing it, which I'm going to teach you exactly how to do in the next upcoming lessons. But I didn't know how good I was or I didn't know how that actually sound. When I say I didn't know how good I was, I didn't know even how bad I was like. I didn't know how well I was speaking English and at same time, I didn't know how that English sounded to other people. So when I started my YouTube channel, I made my first couple of videos in English, obviously much and was in English. And if those videos, of course, like when you're starting you on YouTube, like B, camera quality, editing quality, sound quality, those things are gonna be terrible. You're not going to know how to do them. However, at the same time, one also biggest fault that I had was the fact that my English was bad. My English was actually really bad. And when I compare it to my videos to other people, I went to, for example, some of the channels that I really like to watch. And when I was watching those videos, I was like, oh, there's a big difference in our language, like those people are needing speakers and I'm obviously not at the same time. I was like, Yes, the filament quality, everything needs to get better but same time, I M to get my language level my game up as well. So when I realized that I started practicing English every single day for hours, I started practicing English like I was going to die the next day. Maybe that's an American metaphor it. So I started literally practicing my English every single day and after that. So as you know, like this is the first breaking point is here. The second ranking point is here. My English was going up and then the second breaking point, and then third breaking point, it went completely uphill because I will just practicing all the time. I was just doing a lot of things in English and I really enjoyed that because I can literally see the difference that I could have like a year ago, even a year ago speaking like this, a camera without any cuts. I just coughed a few minutes ago and I'm not going to be going to cut it out because it's normal now. It's natural now. White my button back then, it was so unnatural to me. So I would say that that was my second breaking point. And the second breaking point basically taught me that I put myself out there. Maybe you can do that on somewhere else. I'm going to teach you exactly how to do those things in the next couple of lessons when you can see your own progress. And we can realize that, oh, I need to get better. Not just I want to get better. I needed to get better. If I didn't get better, I wouldn't have made it on YouTube. I didn't have I still don't like I said, don't want to say like I made it, but I didn't I wouldn't I can't really come up with the words because I don't know exactly what I want to say a little what I'm supposed to say. So that's second breaking point was also a very important part of my English learning journey. Now let's jump onto my second language and my third language I would say German. And when it comes to German, I don't really have any breaking points when it comes to my German levels. Because in my school, like I mean a Turkish German combined high school, which means that I have a Turkish teachers and I have a German teachers, but mostly German teachers and lingual like for example, a lessons like math, biology, like those lessons are taught in German. And next year I'm gonna be going to the university and I'm probably going to be studying in Germany. Which means that that is probably going to be a breaking point for my German because I want I'm like living in Germany with my German friends that's probably wearing my language is gonna get really needed speaker level and it's just gonna get skyrocketed. However, when it comes to my German, I am much more on the formal side because of the fact that you take all of these exams. And when you take all of these exams, basically, you are supposed to write and they're really good formal German, not a German. You speak on the street. Just completely different company like if you know English, you know that the essay English and the, for example, in English you speak with people on the street is just completely, completely different and that's the same in every language, pretty much in the German, in Germany, like you are supposed to write much better in our school. So in order for me to get good grades, in order for me to get good grades. Like, obviously I needed to learn German really well, and that's what I did. And that is basically my story of going from a guy who just spoke his mother tongue and just a little bit English, maybe numbers, colors, animals, and maybe some fruits. To a guy who speaks now three languages at a really high level. I would say English and a drink. Turkish. I would say my mother tongue level, maybe even like English would be a native speaker level. Do we save that? I don't know what you can see that maybe my Germans at really high advanced level and that's basically my story. Now we're going to get to the third lesson, but the third lesson is the most important lesson by board. The third lesson musically, your exact study system, which we're gonna be jumping into now in a second. Just completely taught me everything I needed to know when it comes to helping my language to a next level. And that basically completely changed the game for me because for Mitchel, for someone to get to this level in English really quickly for in like a year or something, in a year-and-a-half, I would say you need to do something different than other people. And now I'm going to teach you exactly how to do that in the next lesson. So let's jump into the third lesson and I'm going to explain you how your exact so system should look. 4. Your Exact Study System: Okay, The lesson number three, which is your exact steady system. This is the most important lesson in this class and in every sculpture glass there's like this one lesson that is generally the main chord, the main lesson of that glass. And this lesson is at the core of this class. So if you have taken in your life any language like level tests, let's say you took the B1 test for example, in English, that means that they are going to taste test you on four different abilities for different components of that language. And those components are reading, Reading, speaking, listening, and writing. When I said reading, I was gonna go for reading, exercising mentation and journaling. Those are the four main header, so self-improvement. And when I say reading, I generally do like say those four. So in my mind was like, Oh, no, we're not going to save that. And we're gonna say a reading, speaking, listening, and writing. So if you've taken any of those tests, you know that you're going to be tested in those four essentially abilities. And these are the four things that we want to essentially hit in order to improve your language drastically. And what I like to do is like this finger is also here. So I want to add vocabulary to here, which in my personal opinion, vocabulary is like an important part of it. Some people say you should add grammar as well, but I don't really care about grammar that much because I don't think that's an important part of the specialty speaking, especially knowing that language. So we're gonna go for five components and those five components should be studied pretty much every single day in order for you to get a good result. Those are vocabulary, speaking, reading, writing, and listening. Yes, those five components. And let's think about this from a working out a gym analogy. You are going to train your full body every single day. For example, let's say you do a full body split. If you train your whole body every single day, like you're gonna go, you're gonna grow, you're going to get bigger muscles. You're going to do like all Veteran get leaner, shredded. So we don't want, for example, to working out our chest, shoulders, but not our arms. Like it shouldn't work like that. We should be hitting every single muscle if you want to grow. And that's the exact analogy, but we want to have when it comes to languages. So there are four components that we want to study. And our executive system is going to look something like this. Ten minutes a day for every single one of those components is gonna be like our base level, let's say ten minutes a day for all of those components. Ten minutes of exercise, terms of exercising, ten minutes of reading, ten minutes of listening, ten minutes of speaking, and ten minutes or writing. And then I want to add like a pipe minutes of vocabulary, but also fiber vocabulary is gonna be also those four categories components as well. So again, we would like to, let's say five minutes, but it can even be like No minutes because like you learn those vocabulary, the words in these four essentially components. And now you're like, Okay, we want to practice reading, speaking, and listening and writing, all those things like air for ten minutes a day. But how do we do that? How do we essentially a practice, for example, reading? So when it comes to reading, now I'm going to be explaining to you how you should be practicing those four components every single day exactly what you should be doing. But the thing is, this is not like a study session. This is not like a steady system. But when I say for example, the title of this is my exact study system. It's not like E study system, it's a practice system. When I say practice system, this is enjoyable. This is not a static system. This is not like, oh, three pages of like a grammar exercises that your teacher gave to you. That is completely stupid. Want to look at, for example, institutional language learning. Most of the things that your teacher generally wants you to do, those are generally not good if your teacher is not an exceptional person, I do think I might do, for example, now is an exceptional person, exceptional English teacher. That's why I was inspired to essentially get my English level, English level to a really high level now. So let's get started on how you can practice your reading. First of all, that is, let's say the component number one. By the way, these components don't really have an order like, let's say reading is the most important one. This is the second most important one. However, I generally like to say I truly believe that speaking should be the number one component out of all those 45 components. But we're going to talk about that in the next lessons. You didn't read anything you want for ten minutes a day. And that's gonna be like, for example, you can read a newspaper, you can read a news article. You can read an article for my same thing. So you can read a book and mostly we are going to be probably books. And then you can read it like a magazine or a comic. I don't know what you're going to read, but you can read forward, let say ten minutes a day. That's gonna be you're consistent. Reading. This study sessions should be like for example, in your daily routine. Like if you're if you have a morning routine at the end of your morning routine, you should be like for example, let's say I get 45 minutes. We're going to do things like satisfaction as of right now or before you go to sleep, maybe like, okay, now we're gonna do the English Saturday sessions and then we're going to go to sleep. That is our, for example, night-time routine. When it comes to reading, just reading for ten minutes a day. That's basically it. However, one really, really tricky thing here, and that is when it comes to reading, I really want you to read out loud. It's not like from inside reading. I don't really have a book right here. My books are there. So let's say you have a bug right here and then you're speaking, you're reading. And I don't want you to read it from like a normal book that was there. You were reading your main tongue. And the main reason why I don't want you to do that is because of the fact that when you're reading your main tongue, It's like you don't really care about the words that much. You're skimming through the words and you're like just getting the main idea of that. But when it comes to learning a language, we want you to focus on the words. We want you to read them out loud so that you can feel like. You are speaking, you can feel how that language is, how that linked essentially sounds. For example, if there's a sound in English, the sound of English, the sound of German, they're completely different things. So when you're reading, you're practically speaking and you can get better at memorizing those words is a wild, for example, a pronounced eating those words, you're just gonna get, your pronunciation is just going to get better when you are reading out loud. And that's like one of the tips that my old English teacher gave me a few years back then, he told me like yes and read out loud, your pronunciation is just gonna get much, much better. So let's jump into the second part, which is listening. Listening is a little tricky because listening is something like sometimes you, you, for example, if your main tongue is not English, you might be watching this video and you're like listening to me now. But however, you're not really, just really pull, you're not really focused on what I'm saying. You want to get the idea. You're not sitting down and taking notes like you are listening to me but you're just listening to me. It's not like you are using your 100% of your thinking cap capabilities, capabilities because that wouldn't be really efficient for your energy. So what we want you to do is when you're listening, sit down and take a pen and paper with you. When you take your pen and paper, this is one of the tricks that I personally use. Let's say you are what you need. 10-minute YouTube video. Ten minute YouTube video about why you should be breaking your phone addiction. I'm just getting going on with the title. And when you're watching that ten-minute video for your listening part of your study sessions, sit down and take notes. Say that for example, Oh, you should break your phone addiction. Let's say bad video is from a guy called x, except that you should be breaking your phone addiction because of the reasons X, Y and Z, X, Y. And let's say you should be braking in front of her chin because this happens, this happens, this happens. You should be writing all those things like kinda like in your mind down and you can write it like x epsilon, okay, these are the things that I will need to give up. And when you take notes and then When you finished it, finished your listening. Essentially this session, we're going to jump onto our speaking session and are speaking session again ten minutes a day. But we have two different parts here. Really focus it. That's really important. In order for our listening sessions to be productive, we need our speaking sessions. That's important point. In order for our listening sessions to be productive, we need our speaking sessions. You watch, for example, that video, let's say from a guy called met, you pull yourself into met shoes for the first speaking session part of the day. And you basically practically like acts like Mac and while saying that while copying him like Okay. Now today we're going to talk about breaking your phone addiction. The reason why it should be breaking her phone addiction is because you waste your time, for example, you basically speak like Matt into a camera laryngeal voice, the corner that you have on your phone. And for five minutes, you basically take that information and give it like it's yours to compute to your voice recorder. That is gonna be the first five-minute part of her speaking session. This is like a trick that I personally used not to copy other people's videos just to essentially improve my language and be like I would just get a voice recorder and then I will just record myself. For example, I would just listen to a warrant Impact podcast or a Rob dials podcast. I like his podcasts as well. And that'll just listen to those podcasts. And I would just told you the most in order to myself. And then I would basically move like I'm robbed. I'll speak like I'm Rob Doyle. I'll just go over the same things that he has said. And then I would try to summarize that whole 20-minute podcasts into five-minutes. This is one of the best ways for you to essentially improve your language by fricking far. And the next, next speaking session is gonna be basically a little more free. You can turn on your voice recorder, which we're going to be talking about all those things in the future in the next couple of lessons as well. And then in the next second study. So second is speaking session. You should be just speaking freely. Let's say you are talking about the girl. Do you have a crush on? You are talking to you about how your day went. You are talking about what your mom cooked it that day. You are talking about your homeworks, you're complaining about your teachers. So whatever you do is speaking in that language for five minutes. Look important thing here is your level might be actually low, so you might not be able to speak like properly, but it doesn't matter. Speak, speak, speak. That's gonna be the only way for you to essentially improve your speaking skills, which are incredibly important. Then we go to the writing, which is the component number four. So when it comes to writing, what I've personally done is I essentially fill up my journals. When I was learning English from scratch, when I was learning from German, when I was learning German, I would literally just have a German journal, German journal. And then I will just fill in my journal. What happened that day? How I'm feeling, how I have a crush on this girl. Like I just talked about those things in that journal. For example, I actually have all my journals right here. I can show you some of them, maybe get them. Okay. Like I have my little my journals are here. These are the black ones. I have gray ones that have blue ones. These are actually a lot that a lot of journals, but these are mostly English. I probably have like gray ones should be German luxury or the gray ones as well. These are mostly German and these are mostly like English. As you can see, my English is much better than my German because the difference right here. So I would basically just right for ten minutes, ten minutes a day. That's not a lot, man. That's definitely not a lot. I'm just gonna put them right here. A 10-minute city. I would literally just get my journal and then I would journal about what happened, what happened that day. That's ten minutes a day. You can write about anything you'd like, but just write in that language then that you're trying to learn. Then at 40 minutes is pretty much done. That is your 10101010. Listening, reading, speaking, and writing for ten minutes for each, you're done. However, when it comes to vocabulary, we're going to talk about vocabulary as well. When it comes to vocabulary, I generally encourage people to learn ten words a day. And we're going to be talking about vocabulary much deeper in the upcoming lessons, over ten words a day or even Popper today if you don't want to go to ten hours a day, five words a day is already pretty good. These pipe words, it can come from your reading sessions. When you're reading, for example, you see a word, you don't know what that is. You want to let you feel like Okay, that's a good word that I can use in my day-to-day speaking. It shouldn't be like pineapple. I don't use pineapple when I'm speaking English that much. So I don't really have to know that Pi what the pineapple means in the language that I'm trying to learn. But when it comes to a word like because or a word like, what's another word? Hard, work, hard, or especially. These are the words that you use a lot in that language. So when you know the most important 500 words, which we're going to talk about now, which we're gonna be talking about in the lesson. I don't know. Let me check. Number eight. That's also important. Just learn 510 minutes, ten words a day. That is going to be a crucial thing when it comes to your own journey of really speaking really good in the future. So this is basically the study system that I personally kind of like. I don't want to say I came up with it, but I did this for a long time and I haven't really seen other people talk about this a lot. So I may have care came up with it. That's basically the study session as steady system that you should be using ten minutes for each of those components and then plus five-minutes board vocabulary. And that's basically it. That is going to skyrocket your language skills. So let's jump into the lesson number four. 5. Prioritize Speaking Over Everything: So lesson number four is gonna be a little controversial and I just want to be able to tell you what my opinion on this is. Lesson number four is titled to prioritize speaking over everything. You have your four main components of a language. Speaking, listening, reading, and writing. You have those four main components. And then you have here, this is vocabulary. So when you have for these components, most people institutional learning generally focuses on writing. Institutional learning also focused on reading a lot, but in my personal opinion, speaking is absolutely by far the most important one by four, because no one's going to ask you, can you write poems in this language? And they're not going to judge you by if you can write good palms in this language that you noted this language. And if you don't, if you're not able to write good poems in this language, you don't know this language. It's not gonna be like them. They can either I can ask you, can you speak or not. That's basically the question. So when it comes to, for example, the fact that I told you to read out loud. Reading out loud basically practically is speaking. Reading out loud practices you're speaking when it comes to speaking, I generally do think they'll influence speaking is fluent speaking should be your number one priority when it comes to learning languages. It shouldn't be like, Oh, am I able to understand everything like 100% when I'm listening, it shouldn't be like, Oh, can I, do I know 5 thousand words speak that language? I don't know. 5 thousand English words probably be portable English. I probably do. I don't know. 5 thousand seems a lot. But the main point is you should be prioritizing speaking over everything. The reason why wouldn't you that load, as I said before, to practice English, to practice speaking any language that you want to learn. Everything that I'm gonna be teaching in this lesson, in this whole class is basically just eligible for a usable for every single language out there. So now the question is, how do you become fluent in that language? The order that they're like any tactics, strategies, secrets that people don't talk about? Yes, there are, and now we're gonna be talking about them in the next lesson. Let's jump into the lesson number five on how to become essentially fluent in that language. 6. How to Become Fluent: Lesson number five, how to become fluent in the language that you are trying to learn. So one thing that I have against Institute, institutional language learning is they basically tell you to like it is so bad men, they basically tell it to, for example, do multiple choice tests. They basically, it's sometimes tell you that you should be watching these videos. They basically tell you to do a lot of grammar exercises. They give you like a word list with a thousand words on it. And they ask you a four or five words and you have to memorize all of them if you want to get a good grade. It's completely not a good idea. That is so bad men. And the reason why it's a terrible idea is not because of the fact that those things don't really get your English to the next level. It's just that they are not effective. On YouTube, for example, you can search proactive, neutral reason like everyone is talking about the end-to-end principle, they did. 20 principle basically tells you that you should be focusing on the 20% of the things that give you the 80 per cent of the value. So there's this hierarchy of things where if you do the most important things, you're pretty much going to get the same results even if you don't do the other rest of the things that are not really important when it comes to learning a language, the most important thing is becoming fluent. So how do you become fluent? There is no secrets right here. The secret is speaking. If you speak a tongue, if you took a ton of, if you speak like five hours a day in that language, you're gonna get really fluent really quickly. Of course you don't have five hours. Of course you don't speak for five hours a day. That's not how we could do it. As I just talked about in the study sessions, you to do like, for example, like ten minutes a day, there'll be a good start. However, holy speak like do you speak like a weirdo in the room to speaking to himself or herself? Like how do you do that? The way I like to do that as generally through making a video. When I say making a video and not like making a video and publishing it on social media. What I'm saying, making a video with your phone and I don't have my phone right here because I don't want it to distract me to be honest. I was on my phone. Is there I'm just going to take me up on let's say and then it's speaking to my phone. Like, no one's going to watch that video. No one's going to see that video. We're just going to speak to your phone and like anything you'd like to talk about. Maybe it's the strategy that I just taught you, which could be like, maybe it can be the five-minutes, five-minute tactic you are, you are pretending to be like this podcast are in this YouTuber where you would like talking like that guy. You're putting yourself and make his or her shoes. Or you just speak about something like you're just talking about something really freely, completely freely. This can be also a really good way to increase your speaking levels. But there is only one thing that you should be doing when it comes to improving your language speaking levels. And that is speaking. When it comes to like this, practice, practice, practice, there's literally no other way for you to do that around them. There is no other way around it. You just practice all the time and you get better. And also there is one issue that I'm going to talk about in a completely new, in a new essentially lesson, which is going to the next lesson. But if you can find a friend, this can be your friend. This can be or someone on the internet to practice this language together. That is going to be probably one of the best things you can do to try to essentially increase your fluency really quickly. Because of course, doing this alone yourself still works for a long time. I just did it myself. Like I didn't really have a language friend. I also have like accountability partners, YouTubers like business owners in my life that I was really close with and we're doing Zoom calls every single week. I was practicing my languages there as well. However, mostly I was just doing this all by myself alone. It's still works. But definitely if you can find a brand that is going to go with you, there's gonna move to move the needle with you. That is going to be my personal opinion and really skyrocketing effect a game changer for you? Definitely. Now in the lesson number seven, I'm going to talk about Viewers ways of becoming fluent, which is like there's this sitcom, sitcom way of speaking. We're going to talk about all of those things in the lesson number seven, which is gonna be all about how you can make this process of learning languages Python itself, which is also really, really important because if you don't make it fun, they're just going to quit and you're not gonna be able to get the, You're not gonna be able to enjoy the fruits of your labor. I would say when it comes to fluency, you should be talking all the time. I was going to say all the time or forest region me talking all the time. The thing is, you should be practicing whenever you have the time and the best and the most effective way to practice a language is just speaking. This can be speaking to your phone at your voice recorder. Should be your voice recorder, like I would say, I'm going to talk about also how you can keep track of your speaking sessions at the same time, how we can see how well you're progressing in upcoming lessons. Whoever just speak to your voice recorder and every single label ten minutes, you are going to see that you're just gonna get better every single day. Maybe not every single day, but you're gonna see, you're gonna be able to see that every single week you're just going to be a little better, a little better. And that's the progress we want to see. Let's jump into the lesson number six on how you can find friends at that, speak that language that you're trying to learn so that you can grow together as people. Let's go. 7. How to Find Friends to Speak That Language Together: Lesson number six, how we can find friends that speak that language. First of all, this is a really tricky topic because it's like if you can find a really good partner that you can go with, it can be language partners. You can practice that language together. Your skills are just gonna go skyrocketing. It's just gonna be really, really good because of two different reasons. And the reason number one is you're just gonna be a little more competitive. As you know, I talked about the solo time when musculature course as well. Like people thrive when there's a competition. When there's a competition, you do much better because it's just like a survival thing, I would say, I guess it's like that because they eat my personal opinion, like I had this too, like Windows a competition when there's like if you've win or lose, when there's that situation, you do much better. If you have a friend that you can practice this together, then it's just gonna be much better because you will be able to be much more competitive. You will be more ambitious. You want to speak better than that guy. You want to be able to know more worse than that guy that you are language partners with and not in a bad way, you're going to push each other to be essentially better. And the second way, Hawaii, this is going to be really good is because of the fact that you are going to enjoy your speaking sessions much more. Sometimes it didn't really happen in my keys, but sometimes my friends said that. Okay. You told me to like talking to my voice recorder for ten minutes a day, but sometimes it gets, it gets boring. However, like my life is exciting, so I think it doesn't get boring, but maybe in some people's gazes like it does get boring. So in those cases, I would say that definitely finding a brand is gonna be a really, really good. So however, unfortunately, I'm not really the guy who can teach you about this exactly because I personally did not have a lot of friends to practice this language width. I had a lot of like YouTuber friends. I had some business owner friends that were either I were accountability partners with and every single week we would just check up on each other on how we were doing. Not from a language standpoint, more like a businessy YouTube type of standpoint. How is your podcasts doing? How's your business doing hallways, the sales doing like all those things. How's your online coaching doing and stuff? Whatever. I didn't really have a friend that I was just talking to you because the fact that I wanted to improve my language with him or her. So I asked a couple of a couple of my friends who also speak like really good English and German as well as Turkish, who are also trailing wolves. How could you maybe find friends that you can just improve that language with? The number one thing that we kinda like came together on was the fact that you can find maybe a friend in your friends circle, linear maybe school that is going to be able to do this with you. Maybe, you know, guy in your glass or a girl in your class that speaks English like you, you're not really that good. Both are not really that good, but you want to get really better because you know that speaking English fluently is a really important part of your life. It's gonna be a really good thing if you've done your job opportunities in the future and stuff. So you ask that guy or gal, say that for example, I want to do this like I just checked out Ahmed Khan scores on Skillshare and he teaches on how we can skyrocket your English, how we can skyrocket, for example, your language that you're trying to learn. I probably use like skyrocket, the word skyrocket, like 1010 thousand times in this whole course. And maybe you can get a friend or from your friends circle that you already know that it's gonna be probably the safest and the best way to do that. However, there are also ways online you can do this. For example, a lot of YouTubers have discord groups that you can join. And I know I have, I'm going to have one soon. Hms has got Hamza has one called Hastings as well. Like nice people have groups where thousands of young people or they're just talking about like things on how we can get better life, how we can do more, fitness, how we can just get better and self-improvement and those things. And you can definitely find friends that you can talk to in that group where you are basically probably have like you probably had similar like talking points because you are both probably into, I'm like speaking more languages. You are both probably into self-improvement a little. And those things might be also another way to do that. Because I think this chord, like especially my friends told me that this code could be a really great way for you to check out. I'll find some friends to do that. Especially like even comments section is on some YouTubers that you really, really like. For example, you know that this guy, let's say me, like, let's not talk about me. Listen, there's going to be weird. Let's say there's this guy who was like YouTube subscribers are really nice. You can maybe find a person there to be handled. It partners with, and you can speak that language together. But as you know, we definitely now going online might not be the best idea for that, but definitely the definitely it's an option. I even had a friend told me that he used. What was the what was the name of that? Omega. Omega. Omega, I guess. Like you get swipe on people and like you talk to other people. And he said that I practice my English. They're like I just learned English there. That was basically it. There were like a thousand like awkward conversations, awkward like just looking at people in speaking. However, he said that it was a really good way for him to increase his knowledge on English. Maybe that's gonna be a good way for you as well. Maybe it's not going to be I don't know, To be honest. I've never tried that out. Maybe I should. I don't know. But those are the things that I personally hey, Kate came up with when it comes to finding your friend, did that you can speak the same language width, but definitely if you can find a friend, you can practice the same language with. I would say that's a plus, that's a really good thing because of two reasons. One, that's going to, that's going to create competition and people thriving competition and to your speaking session is just gonna be much more enjoyable, I would say because that's, I think a really good way to go. Now, if I know, for example, if I started out on my language learning journey again four years ago with the knowledge that I have right now. Well, not the knowledge that I know on languages, but knowledge that I know how to learn languages, I would definitely just find a friend like this in my class. Find probably one of the best students in my class, and then be language partners with him or her. And then I'll just speak with her. Like if let's say half an hour a day on that language with Germany, let's say in German, and then it will just improve our English, german together really fast. I would say that would be a really nice way to go. So now let's get to the lesson number seven, how to make learning languages at unprocessed itself. Because in my personal opinion, that's a really big part of succeeding in learning languages. 8. How to Make Learning Languages FUN: Lesson number seven. Lesson number seven is about how to make learning languages a fun process. And in my personal opinion, with the lesson number three, the study stem itself and this lesson, these are probably the two most important lessons in this whole class. And the reason being is everyone wants to like do all lot of things in their lives. Everyone wants to get jacked. Everyone should want a lot of languages. Everyone wants to succeed, Everyone wants to make a lot of money. However, they, most people don't essentially come up to that end results. Most people cannot really get that outcome. So this lesson is going to teach you basically how we can get that outcome in your life. So let's talk about setting goals for a second a little bit because I think understanding how to set goals and understanding how to make the process Fun is gonna be the first beginning of this journey. So I like to generally talk about on a gym analogy because I feel like that's something that is relatively understandable by people. And let's just go with that. Let's say you want to build an aesthetic visit. You want to build a really jacked body, and that's the outcome you want to get. However, when you go to the gym, you realize that it's going to take like maybe even 57 years of work to get to the dream body that you want. Five to seven years of really hard work. And you don't really like the gym. You don't really like to push yourself to the limits. You don't really like to, for example, go onto a really hard set. You don't like to lift heavy or if you don't like to go on to a nice protein-based diet. So what's going to happen? Because of the fact that you don't really enjoy the process. You're not gonna be able to go to the gym for a long time. And when you don't go to the gym, you're not going to get the results. So what happens is people know that they want to get to let people know that they want to get to that end result. People know that they want to get that outcome. However, because it's fact that they don't enjoy the process, they get started with motivation. They think that it's going to read it really quickly. They're going to get jacked really quickly. But that not that does not happen. And then what happens is they just quit. That's it. They quit. So when it comes to learning languages, we don't want you to feel discouraged while learning. Because if you get discouraged while learning, if you realize that in order for me to be fluent, I need like months of work at same time. I don't want to lose my progress. I shouldn't be still like doing at least like 1020 minutes of work every single day just not to lose my progress fingers, you're gonna be a little discouraged because if you don't enjoy the process itself, you're not gonna get to that outcome. But let's say you are a guy who goes to the gym and you love working out. You love dieting, you love eating chicken breast, rice and broccoli. You loved it. So what happens is you aren't gonna get to that outcome no matter what, because it doesn't matter what happens. It doesn't matter if you get injured, if you get sick, you didn't go back to the gym after your injuries over after your sicknesses over, he's gonna go to the gym again. Because, why? Because you love that? Because you want to do that. It doesn't matter about the outcome. You don't care about the outcome. Of course you do care about the outcome, but you want to get that end result. You'll load the process, so you're gonna do that. So I have four strategies that plan, that I planned for you. And this is a really important lesson I would say. But strategy number one is one strategy that I used for a long time to make my process much, much more enjoyable, much more like fun. And that strategy is the sitcom strategy. When I was learning English, when I was practicing my English to get to that advanced level. So what is it, the sitcom strategy? The sitcoms strategy is basically, there are a lot of sitcoms in English that people like to watch. The first three of them that I watched. The only three of them I watched is R, How I Met Your Mother and then friends and the Big Bang theory. These are really popular shows in us. And the thing is, when you check out these shows, these shows generally are like ten episodes, ten seasons with like 20 episodes that are 2025 minutes long. And that is perfect. Why the system basically, you're, you're watching a sitcom series and practicing English. Basically it should be like this. You get to a friend's, let's say episode that is, let's say 2022 minutes long. You basically watch for four minutes and then you stop and then you explain what happened in those four minutes. You go, oh, Ross was wearing this. Ross told Rachel, Rachel, Rachel told this and that and then this joke. And then Monica was thinking about this, like you go like that. You speak for a couple of minutes explaining what happened in those four minutes, and then you continue to watch. We watched for five more minutes. And then you stop again and you say, Oh, Emily did this. They were going to get married but they didn't. And then Chandler made this joke. Luxury was upset about this. You speak with. 9. Vocabulary: You Only Need 500 Words: Okay, let's go into the lesson number eight, which is, which is titled vocabulary. You only need 500 words to speak. So there are two different studies that I'm gonna be talking about that I'm going to base this lesson around those two studies aren't this? It is told that women speak 20 thousand words per day and men speak 12 thousand words per day. Well, this, this study might be a little like sexist, maybe you can't argue with that. However, like this is a legitimate study that was done in us. Then another word, another study that was done in us as well. This people only use a three to 600 words per day on average, really a lot. And then the other words like other at 20 thousand words like let's say Yeah, that women speak like generally through to 600 words are used all the time. You don't really use like other, a lot of different looks, sophisticated words when you're speaking, you're using the same same words over and over again. So this means that, let's think about it. This means that if you know only the most used a pipe hundred, six hundred words in that language, you can probably speak really, really well because you only have to know what a pineapple at blueberries, which I'm gonna be telling you my story about blueberry just in a second. A really funny story, not a really funny story. Well, it's a good story that explains, that showcases, that highlights like you don't use these words all the time. You say explains. That. Said basically, if you know the first six hundred five hundred, six hundred words, most used five hundred, six hundred words in that language. You're pretty much good to go. Now I want to tell you my story of blueberry chocolate. And when I was in Germany. So when I went to Germany for the first time, after my first year of high school. I didn't speak German and really well, I spoke like a good Okay. German but not really well. Like I didn't know what a blueberry was in German. So I wasn't a school cafeteria in Germany with a good friend of mine. And I was like, I'm just going to buy some chocolates. I told him I'm going to buy some chocolates. Then he told me like, I can't buy them for you, like give me the money. I'll buy them for you if you don't want to speak a lot of German because he knew that I wasn't really completely comfortable with speaking German with strangers. Then I told them, we're like I'm here in Germany to practice my German. I'm not here for you to give to you and give you the money and like get them for me. So I went to the counter at the school cafeteria and this lady was working. And then I saw those blueberry strawberry chocolates like back-to-back. They are like an old one checklist like Germany is also really popular with chocolates. So I had like a lot of different ones. And I wanted to get the strawberry and the blueberry ones because they look really cool. I probably didn't really had a lot of like blueberry chocolate because like blueberry yogurt doesn't really miss that. Well, maybe, I don't know. It doesn't really sound like something that people eat every day. Like you heard about, like the caramel chocolate. Like you eat that all the time but you don't have, you don't know the pineapple checklist. Like for example, these guys like had different types, like really weird type of chocolate. And then I was like, yeah, Can I get the this one and can I get that one? I'm basically to like kinda get the purple one. And I told a can I get the red one? Can I get the purple and the red one? And then the lady was on the counter like just turned her back and said these ones, do you want these ones? I was like, yeah, just those ones. So I didn't know at all what a blueberry meant was strawberry mint. But I was like, can I get the ones that are red and purple? I was like just getting getting those ones. And then she was like, Yeah, cool. Well, for sure. Like she was like, Okay then no problem. I paid and I got back to my friend. And I was like, I didn't know what a strawberry meant. I didn't know what a blueberry I still don't know what those means. Probably what they mean was it splits a blueberry in German. I have no idea to be honest, I don't know, but I speak German. So what I'm trying to get to is you don't need the first ten thousand words. Speak that language. I when I researched it, I guess there's like, I don't know how many words there are in the German English language or in German language. However, that even though there are so many words you don't need to know, a lot of them speak. You just need to know the basics. You just need to know how we can form sentences. I didn't know what a blueberry meant. What I knew was I knew how to send how to structure my sentence. I basically said Can I get the red ones and the blue ones known the purple ones behind you. If you can form that sentence, you don't need to know every single word and that's basically a good thing. The reason why it's a good thing is because if you learn like ten words a day, in the next 50 days, you're gonna be able to learn 500 words. And if you can use those 500 words in properly with a really nice structure, you're gonna be basically just speaking really well. Maybe not really well in today's, but you're just gonna be able to speak, which is, which is light, light, which is crazy, That's good. Speaking a new language in 30 days. Of course not going to be like this level because like I put in like two years of work, let's say three years of work. You're not going to be, for example, a guy who has been studying German his whole life. I'm not gonna be him, but you're gonna get to a good level where you can build structures, sentences, which is really, really good. So the moral of the story, if you want to learn Japanese, check out the first most used 500 words. For example, let's say you want to learn Italian. You go to Google. You go, you take your freaking laptop and you go to Google and you basically search the most used 500 words in Italian. Because of the fact that there are a lot of people who are trying to learn languages. There are a lot of websites that give you this, especially when it comes to English. Like, there are probably thousands of websites that you can search that are going to give you the most used 500 words there. And from that list, again, download that list and just learn ten words a day and 50 days. You're going to get to a nice level. So you can use flashcards, learning them. You can use different strategies. You can check out videos about this on other platforms. And like the thing is, you should be learning these ten words a day and period infinities are gonna be a good level of bets, essentially the moral of the story. So let's jump into the lesson number nine, which is a trickster, fasten your progress to becoming fluent and becoming successful in this language learning process. 10. My Secrets to Make Faster Progress: Okay, lesson number nine and tricks to pass in your progress to becoming fluent and becoming successful in learning a language quickly, Not really, really quickly, just quickly. So the strategy number one here is basically keeping it been the reason why I have been able to practice my German and English really quickly and really class to get to a level where I speak really good in a short period of time, in a short period of time, in a short period of time that takes much less than average people. I would say that's a good way to put it because I just liked doing it. I liked chicken yard like videos in English and German. And I'm like making videos and juror in English became my job as well. But the thing is, if you want to achieve a goal, then you have all the process, the process itself. If the process itself is something that is fun to you, if you have intrinsic motivation to do that thing, you are gonna be successful no matter what, you're gonna be successful no matter what, because you just enjoy the process. Thinking about a guy. Like if you love studying, if you really love studying, you're going to be successful students. No questions asked because you love studying, loved doing that. If you love reading, if you really love going to the gym, if you love going to the gym, you're gonna be jacked because it's not like you're just working for a goal. You love it. So keeping it fun probably is one of the most important tips that you should be given while learning a language. That's the number one thing. The second thing that I already talked about, a ton is do this with other people. Doing this with other people is going to pass in your progress so much. I tell you this, I had around like 2025 lessons of a German in my first year of high school. Arbitrary lesson to learn German, just to learn German. And if I just had those lessons alone, alone, just me like just watching them on YouTube. I wouldn't speak German like at all at the end of the first year because of the fact that I saw people just getting better and I was like, I'm gonna get better competition. I want to beat them. And that's like, that's the blood in me, I guess. But if you can do this with other people, I would say that'll be just a legendary life. Legendary. Number three, just a quick thing, but you can do that, could give you like ten per cent of more like games, maybe I would say that is using your phone and using your laptop. My photos like there, I can't religion now, I can show you that. But using your phone in the language that you're trying to learn. For example, if you're trying to learn Italian, use your phone in Italian. And when you're using your phone IntelliJ and you're just going to be able to just come up with a lot of different words. Like you'll learn what maps in Italian means. I don't know what that means in Italian, but because it's not going to use like Google Maps all the time, you're going to see No, you didn't. You know what that means is like you, it's there. Or for example, you're gonna know what settings mean in that language. You're gonna get a lot, a lot of words that you can use with their phone in the language, which is less because your brain is not going to switch off from the learning mode. Because when you take a phone, it's still a learning mode because you don't know those words, but you want to learn them. So that's like a good, like, I guess, quick tip that you can do. The fourth one, the fourth trick to fasten your progress is not really a trick, it's a really, really important one. And that is tracking your progress. Tracking your progress and seeing how well you're progressing, how well you're doing is in my personal opinion, one of the most important ways to achieve any goal. Because as Tony Robins says, the best motivator is basically progress. I guess the quote was, there's no better motivator than them progress. But I kinda like just killed it a little. It is what it is sometimes. So in the next lesson, I'm going to teach you exactly how you should be tracking your progress when it comes to speaking. Because speaking, yes, as I said in my personal opinion, the most important thing when it comes to basically the whole language learning system, because I like reading, reading, listening, writing, important, of course, vocabulary. But it's not gonna be like, oh, yes, I can not speak, but I can, I know 10 thousand words like, why did I, did I like Indian accent? That was really like racist. So basically, speaking is the most important thing here. And now I'm going to teach you exactly how you should be keeping the progress and how we should be tracking your progress when it comes to the progress, you're going to make. The speaking section. 11. How to Track Your Own Progress: Lesson number ten. This is also, I guess like the third really important lesson of this whole class. And that is how you can track your own progress when it comes to your language like success. So I have a systematic way, plenty YouTube here because I think this is a really important thing right here. So what comes to this? First of all, I need to talk about this. As I said before speaking, is really important and you should be doing at least like for ten minutes a day. And if you don't even know the language really well, if you can just form like five sentences, ten sentences, just to see those ten sentences for the next ten minutes like that. That can be even your study session and your speaking style section, because speaking is really, really important and here's exactly how you track your progress. So as I said before, every single day you should be sitting down and speaking and recording that into your voice recorder in your phone. It that is really important to record yourself into your voice recorder and you're voting every single day. Just know that no one's going to elect, check out those voice recordings and see how bad you speak English, how bad you speak Italian, Obanya speak Spanish. No one is going to do that just for example, or just recording yourself as in your voice memos every single day. And after a month, you're basically going to have a library of different voice recordings that you have had, like 30 voice recordings that you had in the last one month. And the good thing is, there's also just a one thing I wanted to mention here is when you're recording yourself after you save that, save that with the date you have, for example, when you're saving that, the name of that recording doesn't have to be what's happened today because two weeks from now, exactly what happened today, he's going to be what happened to 14 days ago. So you should be basically like saving it, for example, let's say 1st of May in 2027 method. What you're going to do is just save that with the date. And after that, after one month, you're going to basically have a library of different voice recordings that you can check out. And if you do this long enough, you're going to have like, like let's say six months of voice recordings and voice recordings that don't really have like they don't really take up a lot of space. So you don't have to worry about them too much. Those are not like videos. Of course you can take videos which would be better because you'll be able to see how their mouth is moving and how your mouth is moving is a really big part of how you're speaking. How you pronounce eating, like pronoun your pronunciation, like how you're speaking with those words. You can also watch like a lot of videos and see like how are these people like pronouncing, pronounce hardly your pronunciation so good. How are needed people go to art like speaking. So that's an important thing they can do. However, when you have all those recordings, where you can do is every single Sunday, this is exactly what I recommend you to do. Every single Sunday, sit down after you're, for example, English or German, or Spanish, or Italian or your Japanese study session. We'll listen to the voice recording that you had a week ago, Sunday to Sunday, seven days apart. And they're going to listen to those two voice recordings and see how well you progressed. But the thing is that progression, that progress is probably not going to happen at ton in seven days. You should be able to see like little experienced, slight difference. But when it comes to a month, you should be able to see a nice, good difference between how you're speaking and this is like if you are seeing a slight difference every single week, that's good. You shouldn't be seeing you shouldn't be seeing huge differences every single week. Obviously that's not going to happen. But every single month you should be seeing like obviously a difference. You should be like, okay, this month there was this and this one. It was like that. If you can listen those both ones, you should be able to understand. Okay. This is the old one because I'm not speaking about well in this one. But for example, I look at my life. I have videos that I made in 2020 in English. And those videos suck. Those videos are terrible, I would say when I watch those videos like they're not anywhere, they're not on social media. They're just in my computer and I just went back a few weeks ago and I just watched all of it, every single one of those videos that I had in 2022 years ago. And I crunched the whole day. I was watching those videos and I was like, oh my god, like thank God, these videos are never going to come out onto any platform because I know for a fact that I will get a roast so bad because I'm speaking so bad English to quality everything is so terrible. At same time, I'm not speaking English, my English sucks and those videos, and I crunched so bad that that feeling of Crunch is actually exactly what we need. Because if you're not cringing to your old voice recordings, then that means that you're not making progress. Because if we're not crunching to them, that means you are at the same place. What we want is we want you to be here, and then the next week we want you to be here. And then next week we want you to be here. And slowly but surely you're going to be progressing. And that's the most important thing that we have to focus on. Progress over everything. Progress means happiness, progress over everything, progress over perfection. That's what we talked about. When you can reach to a point where you say, Oh my God, that is terrible. My English was my Spanish was terribly year ago. Then. That means that you made a really good job at that year. That's basically it personally. Now I can look back my older videos, older my older voice recordings. I already found like a voice recording that I had in 2019. I just read a book about from a YouTuber, Thomas Frank, I guess, seven lessons to how to get better grades or something. And I literally had like a, this was my study session for them forever by ten, I was just like giving feedback to that video. Good bet with feedback to that book. I was like, Okay, The lesson number three is this. I was like talking like that. And when I watched that video, oh my God, that was terrible. That was so bad. I create so bad. The fact that I agree so bad, it means that I made incredible progress and that's exactly what you should be doing as well. Incredible progress means you're gonna be cringing to your old pictures, all photos, all voice recordings. And that's good. That's what we want. So that's exactly how you can track your progress, is to record yourself. And when you're recording yourself, like recording yourself is my personal opinion a really underrated like record your life in the future. We can just you're just going to look back and see how well you progressed. And that's the beauty of life. I guess. Let's jump into the 11th lesson, which is a crucial mistake, but you should be avoiding well learning languages. 12. The Biggest Mistake You Should be Avoiding: Okay, now in this lesson I'm going to tell you a crucial mistake that you should be avoiding while learning languages. And this is a really big mistake that a lot of people are making. Pretty much everyone is making. And you should be avoiding this if you want to keep your English, if you keep your language level at the point that you want it to be. So if there's a word in Turkish called non-cash and Nanker basically means like ungrateful. It translates into ungrateful, I would say ungrateful. But that means that learning a language is like non-chord. It's like ungrateful, which means that you can learn a language for six months. You can make six months worth of really nice progress. And then if you don't practice them language for two months, we've got to lose half of their progress. In two months, you're gonna lose like four months worth of progress. Of course, there's something called muscle memory that's like the term that people use in the gym. However, when you come back after two months of not practicing anything, you're still going to be able to nail, just speak a little bit of that language. And you're still going to be able to learn most of things really quickly back, however, you lost a ton of progress. So languages can get rusty really, really quickly. But now I'm not really asking you to continue, like studying for an hour every single day for the next 20 years if you don't want to forget the language, but that's the important point of it. In order for you to keep the Your level where it is, you probably need like 15 minutes of practice every single day. If you can do just 15 minutes of practice every single day, then your language is not going to go back. And that was, at least in my personal life experience that I had with learning languages. And unfortunately, my first chaos basically happened when I was in COVID-19, the first time of COVID-19, That was when I was starting my YouTube channel, when I was starting to make a lot of videos. And I felt like that was a really enjoyable things. I was making a lot of videos, even though my English was skyrocketing because I was making a lot of videos. My journey was going down without me realizing that it was going down because I wasn't doing anything in German. I pretty much like forgot that Germany existed in my life. I was just doing English and Turkish. English and Turkish structure. Mother taught English, making videos and driven like didn't exist in my life for like three months. And after those three months, I realized that school is starting in two weeks. And when school starts, I need to be able to speak a good amount of German if you don't want to get good grades. So what I did was I went back for two weeks and like practice Jordan for five hours a day. Literally five hours a day for two weeks. And even though I did like two weeks worth of like a ton of practice a ton of practice for the next two weeks. I couldn't get back everything. I lost like 40% in total of my language capabilities because I just gave like a three-month break. Three-month break is a big deal. So languages can get rusty real quick. Languages are ungrateful, languages are non curve. If you're interested in watching this course, they're probably gonna like rolling, laughing out loud. So language can get Ross it real quick. But the thing is, as I said before, you do not have to continue with your whole language learning system to be able to keep up with that level, you just need 15 minutes of active practice. So that's the real thing right here. What is active practice and how do you do it? When it comes to practice, listening is not active. So when you're listening, you can listen for an hour, a day language and still get worse if you're not doing anything, if you're not doing is speaking or guessing and you're just gonna get worse. If you are doing a lot of reading, like 30 minutes of reading a day, you're still gonna get worse. If you're not speaking, you're gonna get worse because reading, listening, writing the writing might be also a little active, but except listening. Listening, listening and reading, those are not really active things. So when I say to you, do 15 minutes of active recall active like actually remembering everything speaking. That is the active practice that we want. It's not reading. Is that listening? If you watch like a five-minute YouTube video a day for the next three months, you're going to lose a ton of gains. Losing a ton of like speaking, a ton of like language gains. So what I want you to do is 15 minutes of active, active basically practice and active practice mainly means for me speaking, speaking with a friend, speaking with yourself, talking to you. The worst score which we have been talking about for the last half an hour, do that. And when you do that, your language level is basically going to stay the same. If you go for, for example, doing that for 30 minutes a day, like watching a sitcom series while doing beds. Also always recording, you're gonna get better. But if you just do, for example, a few minutes of recordings, you are going to stay where you are, which is not band like staying where you are is good. For example, you may go on a sprint of learning for three months for the summer break. And then when you come back to your work, your school, if you are working, you might not have like three muscles break obviously. Then you will be able to have, for example, 15 minutes just per day and that's gonna be a good way to go. So that has been my experience when it comes to learning a language. The best-case scenario is of course, the fact that you can have a friend, you can talk to him or her every single day like for 1520 minutes. And that's gonna be that's gonna be a way for you to not forget language like at all. However, in my personal opinion, do not make this crucial mistake either. Do languages are not pure. Languages are ungrateful. That means that they're gonna get rusty real fast. So that is the lesson number 11. Thanks so much for watching. 13. BONUS: Exclusive Interview with My Own English Teacher: Okay, here we are back in the 12th lesson where I'm going to be interweaving the myth, the legend itself. My own English teacher. Maybe you like to give a quick explanation of what's going on here. Well, you asked me to come in here and share my experience with people. And as well, I had to learn English and I am constantly struggling with learning Turkish. Don't touch before I would consider myself to have some expertise on the field, in the field of language acquisition and teaching yourself a new language. As one of the things that we actually joke about in the class is actually that you are learning through so fast that it is actually faster than our process of learning German in the particular case, which is actually enjoy going on in the class as well. So I want to start with a Turkish dilemma. There is an better stoma is basically only room. I understand, but I can't speak when I look at our class as well. Like there are students. Most students, for example, ordering a listening comprehension. They understand pretty much everything that's going on. But when it comes to speaking, for example, there's a big gap between me and them. So how can people become actually a really potent? So this dilemma, I think if not one that is original port Turkish people. I think it is a dilemma that you have with most languages. I myself found that very, very striking when I learned Dutch, which is very, very similar to German. And there are a lot of words that have a similar meaning. But out of all of the German words that potentially could lend that meeting, it has to be one. And so basically understanding the Dutch word and making the proper connection to the German word is much easier than out of all the German word finding the ones that actually corresponds with the, with the target language word. And so basically, I think the best way to get fluent is by speaking, speaking and speaking and admitting to yourself. He's admitting to yourself that you are not perfect. No one expects perfect and that it's totally okay to make mistakes. Because if both persons services language, theory break rice. I don't know if you've covered that in your class. That successful communication works because both people have the aim to understand each other. Even though I might make slots mistakes of in English, you will still tries, makes understanding. And basically we can have a successful communication. Even though my English, my grammar is far off, I might do the wrong words as I just yes. You've got the joke, yes, but basically, you don't need to be perfect for successful communication. And usually we hold ourselves to much higher standards than anyone else. So you'd say, oh, Mr. who? You're Turkish is so great. Yeah. Well, I feel like my Turkish is lousy. I mean, I'm I'm big and I am confident and so I don't mind really is people laugh about my, my Turkish, but that is something that I think is unique for myself and other people might have more self-doubts and ask them settle if I speak and make a mistake where people laugh about me, what will they think of me? Well, usually they will think, wow, what a great attempt, what exactly, yes. So basically you overcome the problem of self-doubt for successful communication because basically you'd think you'd probably notice this thing where you write a word with all of the correct letters in the wrong order. And your mind will still make finds the meaning of the word. If you make a sentence that is grammatically completely wrong and it contains all of the right words. Your mind and the other person's mind will still get exactly the content. And by doing that, you'll give your brain more input and more chance to get better. And I think this is a way of becoming more fluent by speaking, well aware and knowing and telling yourself constantly that all of your self belts are unnecessary because everyone knows other languages worse than yourself. I see this awesome. Actually that's the same. Not the same, but that's also something that I talked about in the lesson number five or three or five. Because like people, in order for you to get better, you just have to speak. For you to speak. You're gonna make mistakes. That's obvious. So I want to get to the second question, which is a little like a controversial one. So my hypothesis is that you just need 500 to 600 words to speak a language fluently. And there were two researchers that I kinda like based this hypothesis upon. First we start, the research says that women on average speak 20 thousand words per day and men on average speak 5 thousand words. However, the second router says that so like these, two thousand, twenty thousand words are not completely different as you know, like there are three hundred, four hundred words that we use all the time. And then these three hundred, four hundred words essentially make up the bulk of those 20 thousand words. And my hypothesis is that if you know five hundred, six hundred most used words in the language, you would have probably be bind to speak. And the story that I told there was when I was first in Germany and I was in the school cafeteria with my German friend. And I was going to buy something like blueberry, strawberry chocolates, chocolates. And I asked him, Look, I'm gonna do this. And then he said. Like Gillick competence speaking in German because that was the end of the preparatory class. And I was like, I'm here to learn German. So I was like men to the counter and I didn't know what blueberry and strawberry mint. And then those chocolates actually look really cool. I want to get them. And then I actually told the cashier like, can I get the purple and the red ones behind you? And then she said These ones, Yeah. I didn't know what blueberry meant. I didn't know what sort of events, but I knew that if I just told fluidly and I just said like these ones, it's going to work. So do you think this type of hypothesis, you just need it for five hundred, six hundred words and a lot of practice of speaking, you're gonna be fine. I would also say that your brain and your language capacity automatically gets larger the more you use it because the more you understand your brain kind of does it automatically, you don't really have to have to force it from a certain point. So basically if I can use an analogy, it is like first you have to roll the ball up the hill, which is learning the first five hundred, six hundred important words and phrases, like roll it up. And afterwards it will start rolling down itself by just like a snowball, By getting bigger and bigger with time. And you have to kind of keep the momentum going and then it will get better. And I would totally agree that for everyday situations, it is true that 500 to 600 words probably suffice for most situations. I especially like in Turkey, get into a situation where I have five hundred, six hundred words, I get the lungs to everyday quite well. I feel very accomplished when I look at my compressor of my water system wasn't working and I actually called the repair guy and make an appointment and he came and fixed it and everything worked. And I was so proud of myself for, I don't think I want that in Germany made for making that happen yet. But I just like again, went with the flow. However, as soon as the compensation gets into a more specific area, I often find it problematic that then I don't know specific word because for those siphon with words like four to do, there might be ten other various variations and I can, I can speak understandably by using the 500s simple words. But as soon as someone starts talking to me in an elaborate educated way by using more sophisticated grammar and using more sophisticated vocabulary for to do, yeah, I start struggling. But then again, this is something that we'll get less over time. And so I would assume that the best way to learn a language is starting with 500 to 600 words, as he said. But I would like to add super important and super good is learning phrases, useful phrases in order to get a feeling for the, for the grammar as well. So don't learn the vocabulary like one word by one word, but to try to memorize phrases way through. That's what we want, what the words are part of. Yes, I remember now. Okay. Can I jump in with a quick question? Sure. So the third question is actually like, how can people find friends in like, how can people find language partners to speak that in practice that language with. So I personally had the chance to, for example, nobody is. I have like three to four calls a week with my friends from US, UK. They're mostly black business owners, YouTubers, like we talked about how our businesses doing, our YouTube channel is doing. And that tremendously helped me with fluency especially. And most people don't really have the chance because they don't do what I do. So how can normal and day-to-day person can find a language partner to practices language width or to do all these together. Yes. So basically, I had a tendon partner in Turkey who wants to improve her German and I wanted to improve my Turkish. And so during online time, we found time to do Zoom and in-between our lessons at school, I could have my own like tandem session. My son is improving his English by a gaming, so it's hard to say, well, you have to do a and then B, if you are like on the spectrum and have difficulty talking to people, there won't be a recipe to like, you have to do that. I mean, it has to come from you. Usually in your environment, there are people that you can approach or that you can reach out and thanks to the Internet, I mean, far distance calls and Zoom conferences are super affordable now and so I would strongly recommend you will see internet and find some more, especially that was the problem with my tendon partner. We didn't have that many shared interests. So I would strongly suggest you said yourself probably by accident, find someone you have a shared interest with, that you can actually have a conversation. So as soon as you have to force yourself to do that computation with the tendon partner again, who is not the same wavelength as you are. It won't work anymore because then your brain gets into Lazy mode. But you should try within your community, within your field of interests online to find someone, someone there. And usually there is always a person who wants to learn your language. And like a nice thing you can order. The last thing you can do is go to school, to go to universities, put something on paper thing where you actually pin some paper that is printed on a board. This still sometimes works and you have to, you have to be active and think of where are people who actually want to meet you and have the same problem and go guessing. I actually personally my cousin didn't speak English at all. And then I told him like, he loves Tesco is it says go, go edit addict. And I told him that his place, yes, go in English are risks with American people. Unless people, and he didn't like for three years. And he played like callosum hours per year. And his English is pretty much same as me, I guess. Yes. As you're famous mind. But just saying, Yeah, but that is a point. So if your cousin would play 1 thousand hours, anyways, you get a you get the asthma as a as an add-on. But if you add forced him to speak 1 thousand hours of English with the tendon partner talking about shopping or buildings in the city that was like from a Turkish app. That, but that was horrible. I mean, there was a word I remember at least were the ones that interested me lease and had these intersection with my own personal life. So why should I learn what a water hydrant or a fire station? I remembered that but but like I really had to force myself to learn it. Whereas as the things that I like, like proverbs and sayings, I just liked to learn. So you should find some, someone To talk to who you like about something that you like. I see, the next question is actually pretty similar to this topic. And in self-improvement, we talk about like that. You have ample, for example, you want to reach two, but at same time there's this process, the work that needs to be done. And the question when it comes to languages is like, I like to use as German alleged lifelike people like to get jacked. But in order for it to do that, you need to put in like thousands of hours in the gym. But if you don't like working out and then you're probably not going to get to that end goal because you don't have any internal interests in exactly how can people build that intrinsic motivation when it comes to learning, intrinsic motivation when it comes to learning languages, how can people make that learning language, the process itself like more fun. Yeah, So basically, if people get to you, they are already at a point where they admitted to themselves that they want to or need to learn a language and need sometimes can be a much better motivation, extrinsic motivation. So if you, if you know that you want to, but you don't really want to, but you know that you should vote. There was a way to get, there is extrinsic motivation. So again, you should find something that basically forces you to do it. And you could ask your partner or your parents or friends to basically check on your progress. I mean, it's basically the concept of Weight Watchers like when they started to get into a group and they would weigh each other and talk about it and compare it to, it was basically an extrinsic motivation to, to hang on and be motivated when you get weak to continue. And so again, finding someone else. It's very helpful. Or if you know that you have to, but you know that you're weak, find someone else to force you at the beginning. And the good thing about language is the more you know, the easier it gets it. It's kind of unfair because, because it's the same with, with workouts feature you get, the more fun it is, exactly the easier it is to put on, to put on more weight in the right places the other putting on weight, it's kind of easy as well if you started I know what I'm talking about, but basically, yeah, so find someone else to motivate you if you are not motivated intrinsically, yourself, but then everything else will fail. Okay, I see The last question is about tracking the progress. So for example, let's say someone, let's say there's someone, a student of yours. Let's say he's reading books in English. He is listening to podcasts. He's trying to speak like ten minutes, 15 minutes a day. How can he essentially tracks progress? How can we make sure that he is sailing forward? How can you make sure that he's actually improving? Yeah, that's, that's a tough one. So basically, I think there is this sit in biology, the thing about gradual change, which you don't notice. I recently saw that my son is now always almost I am. And I didn't really notice it on a day-to-day basis. But if we went to my parents and I would say I haven't seen them for months. They wouldn't be shocked how how tall he is and it's the same. When I've gained weight or lose weight. I mean, I don't I don't see that on a on a daily basis because the changes are gradual and too small. And so basically, it's very hard to track that for yourself. If you use like an e-book reader for reading, you could basically see how long it takes you to read as a factor. But again, I think that would be too small steps. So basically get in contact with others and, and see their reactions. So people tend to be much more happy about my Turkish and I can communicate much more in Turkish, but I always have to tell myself that I noticed that as I said before, I can do telephone calls and Turkish Now, I can do small talk in Turkish Now. I have to remind myself that half a year ago or a year ago that wasn't possible yet. So what you could do, for example, is to sound capsule yourself and looked back at the old eyes, It's exactly that would be an option. On the other hand, you basically have to go back to that time. But yeah, It's harder with something progressing language than with body weight. That's far easier to track it. Supposedly, you can, you can measure it, but you can't really measure language progress besides noticing how well you feel actually communicating in that language, or how easy it is to follow a film and how much you actually have to look at the subtitle, for example. But for example, my team was here. Essentially that's a, I tell people to speak like ten to 15 minutes a day at least and record yourself into a voice recorder. And then that means that you're going to have every single day like a library like this state, this state, this state. And then you can go back like one week, one month and see the progress you had from that point? I wouldn't agree with that. That might be good for some people. However, I also know people who tend to be very perfectionistic. They wouldn't want to listen to themselves failing. So it's kind of a thing with the situation. I said before, feeling embarrassed about your mistakes and not seeing all the good things. I mean, Germans are very great at that. For us, the glass has never ninety-nine percent full. It's always one per cent empty. And there are people who attributes, maybe you know, about that. So basically, there are two kinds of people and how they deal with success and failure. And generally two types. One is a attribute our success to external factors and all failures to themselves and their own deficits and the others attribute or deficits to the outside and all success to themselves. So I would consider myself to be the second. If something goes wrong, it's never my fault. It's always the others. Okay. You can live very comfortable with that. And if something works well, it's of course, because I'm such a genius, I say, however, other people were completely different and you have to, you have to understand that. And so basically if you attribute everything that goes wrong to being stupid and bed and not being capable of doing anything. You wouldn't want to listen to your 99 per cent perfect communication because you would always go for who? I'm so stupid. How could I do that mistake? How could you made everything else, right? Yes, but there is this mistake and Haven't you noticed, so let's say that that might actually hear it, but it's the people themselves. So it sounds like this, like a parent. But as I said, basically for those people, I think that would be very counterproductive and they should find someone to praise them. That was missing my whole interview. Thanks so much for it. You're welcome. You're welcome, man, the myth, the legend himself. Let's jump into. 14. Wrapping Up: Now you know pretty much everything that I learned over the years of learning languages. Four years of learning languages, I would say, let me know in the discussion step at which language you are going to learn in next to which language you are focusing on now and what are the main learning lessons that you got from this exact class? I really want to hear from you in the discussions tab. There is in this Skillshare class. So thanks so much for sticking with me until the end of the Skillshare class. I love you, I support you, keep crushing it. As always, I will see you in my next Skillshare class. Goodbye, and I say.