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1. How This Class Can Help You: How would you like to order a croissant in French? Maybe go out with someone you've been meaning to and charm them in Italian. What about get a raise, and use your Spanish skills to prove that you're the best candidate for the job. These days, we live in an era of international communication and globalization, and every language you speak puts you at an advantage. But languages are hard or take too long? Actually, I disagree. Hi, bonjour, salaam, salve, hola. My name is Kat and I'm a polyglot, meaning I speak five languages fluently and seven not fluently. In my day-to-day life, I speak English, French, Spanish, Italian, and Farsi. Just for fun, every once in a while I throw some German and some Portuguese in there too. I love languages and over the course of my year studying them and teaching them to students of all ages and backgrounds, I've developed an intuitive method that I'd like to share with you throughout this Skillshare class. It is a method that breaks learning down into a simple understandable process so that it doesn't feel scary, so that it makes sense, every step builds on each other, so that you can move forward in the world, improving whatever language skills you have. Meaning if you don't speak a language at all, these steps can be used to build the fundamentals and if you speak a language, these steps can be used to improve your language learning ability. The four steps in my intuitive process are one, training your heart, meaning that I find often my students have trouble believing that they can learn a language more than anything else, and so we're going to talk a little bit about that. Two, is training your ear. You have to know what a language is supposed to sound like in order to sound like it. This way we avoid speaking what I call je'mapelle French or yo hablo Espanol, this should help with that. Third is, we're going to talk about training your mind because grammar is essential to learning any language, but it doesn't have to be as painful as we often think it does. Last but not least is actually speaking it. I think doing things in this order is what leads to success. Whatever comes out of your mouth is actually accumulation of knowledge, of courage, of rules and things that we have to take in before we have the ability to actually express ourselves. That's it. You don't need anything to start besides an open mind, and I really hope to see all of you in class. Whether it's Spanish, Italian, Farsi, French, Mandarin, Cantonese, I hope that this technique helps you move forward in life and learn whatever you want to learn. In this class, we're going to be using French as an example to demonstrate all the steps in practice. Hopefully by the end of class, you should be able to do basic essential things in French such as count or introduce yourself to someone new, even just order a croissant or get a coffee in French. I hope that all of you enjoy this class. I hope that you learn something and if anything, I hope that you take away the fact that no matter what it is that you want to learn, you can do it. You just have to know the way.
2. Class Project: An Energetic Intro!: Bonjour. Je m'appelle Catharine, je suis de Toronto, et j'adore la photographie. Hi, guys. This class's project is an introduction where I want to meet all of you. It's easy to learn a language and to only practice it at home by yourself with your pet. But languages are meant to be shared and were met to engage in them together. It's easy to get shy in real life and not to use your new language. but I invite all of you to create a very, very quick class project where all you do is you state a greeting you learn in class: a hello, a goodbye. You tell us where you're from, your name, and something you love to do. The reason for this is because it's not easy to put yourself out there, but it's a good skill to start practicing yourself. I think that's actually the main thing that gets in the way of people when they want to learn a new language is that they feel that by putting themselves out there, they're making themselves look bad, and then they never progressed, they never get better. So besides doubting yourself, this project also aims to get you to hear yourself and to see what you sound like. When you record yourself, pay attention, is your pronunciation okay? Does it sound like the examples in class? Are the words in the grammar that you're using correct? Make sure to double-check that stuff because that's this thing that sets you apart when speaking a language to someone else. There's really nothing quite as impressive as someone who speaks a language that isn't their native language so well that it baffles a native speaker. By taking this project on, you're taking the first step to making something out of this class and to using it in your life. I look forward to meeting all of you. If you have any questions, definitely feel free to post them in the discussion group to share who you are with all of us here.
3. Where to Begin: Believing YOU Can: Welcome. Step 1 is training your heart. Treating your heart means knowing why you're doing what you're doing and believing fully that you can do it. It sounds simplistic, but if we don't address this, you might not even realize what is your motivation? Why are you learning another language? Do you want to impress your friends? Is that as a good reason as maybe moving to your dream city? Do you want to travel, see the world? Get pictures of the places that you want to go up on your computer and really visualize what that would feel like. Making your dreams real to yourself before you get started, will give you the motivation when things get hard. If you want to talk to your partner's family, begin to think about what those conversations and what that relationship could turn into. If you want a job, think about all the things that getting a new job could offer you. Get clear on your why. Most importantly, believe you can. A lot of students, when they initially come to me, have the issue of not believing that they are able to accomplish this task. I find that most of my job is not grammar. It's actually teaching people that they can do it. They can do it if they just believe in themselves and listen. Learning a language is not hard. People always tell me that. Learning a language is not easy, that they don't have time, that other people can do it, but not them. The truth is that you can do it. The only thing is that you need to know why you're doing it, and you need to believe that you can. Our brain loves to stay comfortable. Unfortunately, that's not very good for learning. You can't learn new things if you're happy with everything you know already. That's my first task to you. Examine yourself. What are your motivations? What are your limiting beliefs? How can you move forward confidently knowing that this is something that you can do too?
4. Training Your Ear 101: Once we've decided that we're going to learn this language, once we've prioritized it and we believe that with our whole hearts that we can do it, the next step is to actually start picking it up. To switch to another language, if I know you'll be using another language a lot, I'll just listen to it a lot and a lot so that I'm already thinking in it by the time I speak it. If you're just learning how another language works, I encourage you to implement more listening into your life. Our brains learn from a young age what sounds we need for survival and what sounds we don't. Although you're able to pick up any language, your brain for the sake of conserving energy is going to around age two and two-and-a-half cut down the sounds that it doesn't need for survival. If you're a baby, for example, born into a home like I was, I might hear the sounds associated with Punjabi or Hindi every once in a while. But because my parents don't speak to me in Punjabi or in Hindi, they speak to me in Spanish, then I might lose those around the age of two and two-and-a-half because my brain says, well, I don't need Hindi for survival, I need Spanish. What we're doing by planting more sounds into your ear is we're letting your brain know that this is important. That you need this for the rest of your life perhaps. You are giving yourself not just a repertoire of sounds, but you're reinforcing the idea that these sounds are important. When we're training our ears, we want to be consistent and we want to be relentless. You want to put it in your ear and keep it there over and over again to strengthen those neural networks. While you're cleaning your house, listen to the alphabet. While you're watching TV, watch it in French. They are actually really good French shows that might even entertain you. Your brain is an absorbing tool but it's lazy. It's up to us to teach it what can this learn and it can be fun. Watch TV shows, watch movies, listen to podcasts. You might learn something along the way. Another thing that I find critical about putting in lots of sound or training your ear is what's called segmentation. When you first listen to a language that you don't know, you can't segment it. Now what does that mean? It means you can't break it up. For example, if we take Hindi example from before and I listen to someone speaking Hindi, I don't know where a sentence starts and a sentence stops. I just hear a big Hindi word because I can't break it up. I can't segment it. I don't know where one word starts and stops and where one sentence starts and stops and I'm not familiar with the rhythm of that language. Rhythm is huge in a language because languages are music, they're the music of a culture. Until you tune your ear, like a singer, like a guitarist, you won't know how to play the notes of that song. You won't know how to speak in a way that is natural to that language, how to pick up on other speakers, you need to train your ear to do that. Segmentation is key to learning this is where the verb goes, this is where the end of the sentence goes, etc. It's one of the main things that you need to sound natural and to be fluent in any language. Listening, even if you understand nothing. I cannot emphasize this enough, listen to it. Even if you're going to sleep and you're not even paying attention to what you're listening to, put on a podcast and go to sleep, let your brain absorb this information, train yourself to segment a language, to hear it's rhythms, to hear it's words actually spoken by major speakers and move yourself in the direction of fluency by strengthening those neural networks.
5. Vocal Exercise: The Alphabet (in French): The first vocal exercise we have is the alphabet. Now, whatever language you speak has building blocks to every word and those are the letters. I would encourage you to study the alphabet out loud, write it out and say every letter that is in that alphabet. In the case of certain languages that are iconographic, so they're on icons, for example, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, you may not obviously be able to learn every single pictogram that goes with that language, but there are certain fundamental building blocks that you should identify. Search them up online, and say them out loud to yourself as you're writing them down to memorize them. Another thing I really encourage all my students to do is to literally write them out, not type them up. I know it's tempting because typing is faster, but when you write things down with your hand, they're easier to remember. You recall them better because you literally took the time to look at it and you have to focus on it. Whereas with typing, it's easy to copy, paste, or to make some notes that we never review. I would encourage you to read the alphabet in that language, write it out with your hand and read it out to yourself as you're writing it out. There are many ways that we can incorporate language learning into our life and it doesn't have to be that complicated.
6. Train Your Mind for Language Learning!: Hey there and congratulations on making it to step 3. One of the most exciting part of learning a language is step 3, which is training your mind. Now we're learning what the language thinks like, we're learning grammar. Now before you run for the hills and close this window, wait. Grammar is actually exciting. I know. What I mean by that is that grammar is the way to get to know a culture, it's how that language is structured, it's how they choose to name things and operate, and so by embracing grammar or choosing to say yes to that culture and to get closer to it. I invite you to reframe your attitude around grammar and to choose to make it a more positive and open one where we see it as a way of a culture sharing how it thinks and embracing a new way of thought when you're learning and studying another language. The reason we brought grammar third after the first two steps is because now we've primed ourselves, we're passionate about our goal, and we also know what the language is supposed to sound like, and based on those two foundations, now we can start thinking about the rules. To see like as the person who speaks that language fluently or natively does. So in this section, we're going to cover some fundamentals of grammar. We've got SVO order or subject-verb-object order, which we'll talk about, we've got number, we've got gender, we've got types of words, which is something I like to cover with all my students because although this is something we learn in grade school, a lot of people never listened in grade school or have forgot this information, so I'd like to bring it back. Also as a native speaker of a language, we don't frequently think about what we're using or the terms in our vocabulary grammatically, and so this is a little refresher on the rules because that way when you approach a new language where you have to use grammatical terms, you'll know what they are. After we've done all the fundamental building blocks of grammar and you've completed these exercises, you'll be well on your way to speaking, at least at a basic level, the language that you want. By presenting these general categories to you, you'll be able to identify in whatever language you desire, the things that you need to know, to at least speak at a fundamental level, and to teach yourself the basics of your preferred language. You don't need in this day and age to count on anybody to teach you what you want to know, you have all the tools at your disposal, and so I hope that you take this as an opportunity to learn what the checklist is of grammatical categories so that you can take them and grow with them. So let's do it. Let's tackle the first category of grammar, SVO order.
7. Syntax & Why It Matters: SVO order, or subject-verb-object order, is the order that sentences are said in that language. Sentences are not said in the same order in every language. In some languages like English, we have SVO order, so the subject is stated first, John, the verb is stated second, eats, and the object is stated last, an apple. The sentence is said like, John eats an apple. French happens to share that order. Subject Jean, verb, [inaudible], and object [inaudible]. Jean [inaudible]. That is pretty self-explanatory. You don't have to stress too much when you're learning French because the same order applies, thankfully. In some cultures, in some languages, that's not true. German, for example, or Farsi, sometimes place the verb at the very end, which is an interesting facet of grammar. For example, in Farsi and in German, it's very hard to interrupt somebody because you have to wait until the very end of the sentence to find out what happened. I love stuff like that about grammar because it makes you realize that in some cultures they think of things differently. That's something to take with you today, is subject verb object order is how they express themselves in French and in many languages around the world, but it's not the only way.
8. Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Oh My!: Another facet we have to consider is word categories. Word categories are the different types of words that we include in a sentence when we want to express our meaning. There's all kinds. As native speakers of English, we often don't consider what the word categories we're using are. We just use them. It's not like when I'd seen an adjective, I'm like, ooh, I will place a nice adjective here. Now, however, getting to know what an adjective is, when it's used, what it goes with really helps when you're learning another language. Because then you get to use that language better. Eventually, you won't think of it. But you have to do it in the beginning. When you first learn a language, knowing the grammatical terms for things will help to get you further ahead. What are the word categories? First, we have nouns; which are a person, a place or thing, so John, or a place like Toronto or my house or a thing like my book or my camera. We've also got verbs, which are actions. They can be external actions like eating or running, or jumping or shopping, or they can be internal actions like thinking or feeling or expressing or considering. There's also adjectives. Adjectives are words that describe a person, place or thing, or noun. These can be colors, they can be textures, they can be size, they can be descriptions of appearance, or of quality, or of weight. For example, if I say the small red apple, both small and red are adjectives and apple is the noun. It's an object, the thing. We've got adverbs, which adverbs are adjectives, but for verbs. They describe how an action is being performed, or how something is being done. In English, they often end in -ly. For example, you could say I ran quickly. The description of how I ran is quickly, and that's the adverb. Or you could say I've thought slowly or I ate frantically. Frantically or slowly, these are adverbs because they describe how the action is being taken. Conjunction it's a little word like and or, but, that actually links two parts of the sentence together. I went to Tony's house and he bought me a car. Great friendly guy, so and connects two parts of the sentence. I went to Tony's house and he bought me a car. Prepositions are words that describe a sentence's additional details; so at, on, or they state location, they state time; at sunset, on the beach. At and on are prepositions. These are other ways that we have of describing what's happening in the sentence. Besides adjectives and besides adverbs. Pronouns are words we use to replace a noun in the story when we don't want to keep using the same noun over and over again. For example, if I'm telling you a story about my cat, Herbert, I don't want to say Herbert ate breakfast and then Herbert ate lunch, and then Herbert jumped on the couch and then Herbert ran on the sofa, and then Herbert went through the kitchen and then Herbert. Because you get tired of hearing Herbert's name all the time. Herbert can be replaced with a pronoun which is he or it if you don't like Herbert. Pronouns are what we use like I, you, he, she, we, they, you guys, you. These are words that we use to replace noun when we don't want to completely repeat the nouns over and over again. Remember to use your pronouns in French, which are je, I; tu, you; il, elle; he, she, nous, we; vous, you guys, or you; il, elle, il or elle, they, masculine or they women. These will be super useful to you in your verb conjugations and will be very useful to you as you learn how to write sentences or express even just for your own thoughts about yourself. For example, when presenting yourself, you always want to use je. If you want to say, my name is, in French, you say [inaudible] your name. Je mappelle Catherine. If you want to introduce your name another way you can also say. [inaudible] These are different ways of introducing yourself that I've included in the intro project worksheet. I've also included links to pronunciations so that you guys can hear real French speakers say these things so that you can be assured when you repeat them over and over and as you train your ear that you're saying it correctly. If you have any doubts though, don't be scared to reach out. Record yourself and send it to him, or share it with the class so that we can help you in honing that to be yours. Once we learn to perceive every word category as something that gives us a deep dive into understanding more, then it doesn't become something that we need to learn, but rather something that we want to learn. I hope that this has inspired you to not see this as a chore, but rather see this as a fun way into exploring more.
9. Gender and Number: Next we have number. Every language has some way of describing the quantity of things, whether something is singular or plural. Every language has some way of indicating this. I invite you if you want to learn another language to simply Google how to show number in that language or how to indicate singular or plural in that language. There will be articles, blog posts, and YouTube videos about it. In French, for example, to say something is singular, you state the masculine or feminine version of that noun and then to make them plural, you usually just like English add an s. If I say [inaudible], so [inaudible] is a camera. Then that would be singular, [inaudible]. If I say [inaudible] or two cameras, then the s at the end of [inaudible] is silent but it's there. If I say something with an eau at the end, or an au at the end, or an ou at the end, then the plural is not with an s, but with an x. I might say something like [inaudible], a piece of jewelry, or [inaudible], which are many pieces of jewelry. [inaudible] or singular means one. You have one of something. [inaudible] or plural means you have lots of something. Usually if something is [inaudible], we say le, la, un, or une. You can check out the worksheets for more details on what these mean. As well when something is plural, we say [inaudible], and that specifies that we're talking about more than one thing. [inaudible] is more than one, [inaudible] is just one. In every language, gender is expressed differently. In English, gender is only for inanimate objects, that is people. You don't give a gender to a computer, you don't give a gender to a camera, you don't give a gender to anything that isn't alive. In French, everything has gender, masculine, feminine, the two genders apply. Either things are boys or things are girls. I like to tell my of our students. It's very random. In French, cameras are girls, books are boys, tables are girls, milk is boyish. It doesn't make sense, and that can often drive some students crazy. However, I assure you that if you can master gender, you will move very far ahead in French, as well as in other languages. For example, German has three genders, masculine, feminine, and neutral. What does neutral mean? I don't know, but they felt the need to create that category, which is so interesting to me. I even read online that some African languages or tribal languages have up to 23 genders. What are 23 genders? I don't know, but something to consider because it says a lot about how that culture thinks. English is practical, it's to the point. Why put a gender on a camera? It doesn't make sense. French is less practical and less to the point and more descriptive, more about the way things are said than what is being said. That description, that added detail adds flavor, adds life. Certain Latin languages like Spanish, Italian, French, they like adding extra detail. They like making things more interesting, and so they add gender. It's something to love and to appreciate about the language and the culture that you're learning. See the differences instead of annoyances as things to appreciate and to love and you'll enjoy your grammatical journey much more in that way.
10. Count to 20 With Ease: In French to count to 20, you would say: un, one; deux, two; trois, three; quatre, four; cinq, five; six, six; sept, seven; huit, eight; neuf, nine; dix, ten; onze, 11; douze, 12; treize, 13; quatorze, 14; quinze, 15; seize, 16; dix-sept, 17; dix-huit, 18; dix-neuf, 19; vingt, which is 20. Un, deux, trois, quatre, cinq, six, sept, huit, neuf, dix, onze, douze, treize, quatorze, quinze, seize, dix-sept, dix-huit, dix-neuf, vingt. Evidently, it's very useful to know how to count in another language. So I would highly recommend on top of learning the singular and plural forms of expressing yourself in that language, to learn how to count because it'll help you with all kinds of everyday situations, such as paying for things or stating your age, or counting whatever is in your life. Learn singular, learn plural, and learn how to count because these are all useful skills in learning grammatical number.
11. "L'accord" in French: In French, you have to be careful because the way that you make something plural or it's singular form versus its plural form depends on the gender. You have to know what the gender is of the noun that you're going to be talking about because that influences whether or not the spelling changes. In French, we call this l'accord. For l'accord is linking the gender and the number so that it's consistent throughout the sentence. L'accord is just like in math when you're doing a really long equation that has different steps. So if you're doing algebra, for example, you need to do different steps and the result you get at the end has a direct influence of the things that you did throughout. In French, it's the same. You need to know the gender and the number right from the start. Otherwise, things like the adjectives, things like the conjugations, things like the articles, all these things will not be correct and the whole sentence would fall apart if you don't know the gender and the number that you're working with. Make sure if you're working in French to know what is the gender and what is the number of the noun that you're using.
12. Navigating Accents: Every language has some sounds that other languages don't have. It's important for you as you're starting out your journey to learn what they are. For example, in French, we have [inaudible] we have [inaudible] we have [inaudible] and [inaudible] They're not as confusing as you think as well. Making them fun for yourself is a great way of remembering little grammatical rules. I made up this story about [inaudible] that I used to teach my younger students and that entertains them as well as helps them remember. It's the story of [inaudible] and his brother, [inaudible]. [inaudible] is very popular. Most words in French actually use [inaudible]. His popularity means he's there most of the time, he's around. On top of that, [inaudible] when he shows up because he's so well liked and popular, he says, [inaudible], like that. That's what [inaudible] sounds like. It says [inaudible]. [inaudible] is the sound of [inaudible] Examples of words with [inaudible] are [inaudible] These are all words with [inaudible] sound. [inaudible] is not the only one who sounds like that. His friends include [inaudible], so when you put the ER together in French, they actually sound just like [inaudible]. The ending of verbs like [inaudible]. These are all also the [inaudible] sound, and [inaudible] as well sounds like [inaudible], those sound also like [inaudible]. When studying a new language, figure out what are the accents, or what are the sounds that are found in that language, that are not found in your own native language. Realize that the language that you're learning doesn't have all the exact same sounds as the language that you know. Learning what the outliers are or what the special accents and sounds are, is getting your ear and your mind in line with each other so that when you see words, you won't be daunted and you'll know, oh, I know what the sound is. I studied it before. Besides [inaudible], we have [inaudible] which he's the other brother. He doesn't go to as many parties. He's aloof. He hasn't care, and so he's [inaudible], like that. [inaudible], that's what [inaudible] sounds like [inaudible] versus [inaudible] and there you go. [inaudible]. We've got other accents doing French. We've got accent [inaudible], which looks like a little hat. It's there for historical reasons. For example, some words that used to have an S, historically was changed over time and added an [inaudible] complex to show that they used to have an S. For example, the old word for hotel was [inaudible]. Because [inaudible] was changed to hotel, they took off the S and added an [inaudible]. We just have to remember that the word has an [inaudible] but you can't hear. The other accent we have is [inaudible]. [inaudible] is those two little dots called umlaut in German. [inaudible] is used to separate two vowels that are side-by-side. Oftentimes in French, we combine vowels together, we crush them together. For example, O and U together become [inaudible], or A and I together become [inaudible]. When we link to meld them together because it sounds more beautiful. However, if you see a [inaudible], separate the vowels. Don't say them the same as you would say them if the [inaudible] was not there. An example of an [inaudible] versus [inaudible] word is [inaudible]. [inaudible] means eagle, and it's a, i, g, l, e, [inaudible], but if you added a [inaudible], you would have to separate the a sound from the I sound, like in the word [inaudible]. [inaudible] is [inaudible], [inaudible]. It's not [inaudible]. When we see [inaudible], just say two vowels separately. Last but not least, we have [inaudible]. [inaudible] is that little comma that you see on the bottom of C's in French. [inaudible] turns hard sounds into soft sound in French, C and G are hard unless they're next to I or E, which means unless they're next to I or E, you're going to say a C like [inaudible], or like a K, and you're going to say a G like [inaudible], or like a strong G. If it's next to I or e though, we soften them. For example, in the word [inaudible], It's not [inaudible] because it's next to an I, so we say [inaudible]. If it's next to an E, for example, France, [inaudible] at the end, CE. We don't say [inaudible]. At least not anymore. That would be France because the C is next to an E. In French. When we want to turn on C sound that is next to not an I or E into a soft S, we use the [inaudible] to change that [inaudible] sound into [inaudible]. For example, in the word [inaudible], we change the hard [inaudible] into a [inaudible] by using a [inaudible]. [inaudible] is useful for that reason.
13. Simple Verb Conjugation: Let's talk about conjugations for a little bit. In French, conjugations follow a very specific formula. What you do is you separate the body of the verb from the ending. The ending in ER verbs is ER. Most verbs in French are ER verbs called [inaudible]. ER verbs, to get conjugated, we remove the ER part, and we keep the rest of it. Then we add a different ending for each pronoun. In French, conjugations work a very specific and predictable way, at least with regular verbs. If I'm talking about me, if I'm talking about you, if I'm talking about he or she or they or them or we or you guys, each one of the pronouns gets its own ending. It's up to us to make sure we're adding the right one on based on gender and number as well. We have to do [inaudible]. If we take the verb manger, what I would do is I would take manger, M-A-N-G-E-R, and then take off the ending which is E-R and then would add the ending for Je which is an E. I would add an E at the end of that and customize it for Je. So, Je mange. If it's Tu, the ending that goes with it is ES. So Tu manges. It has an S at the end, we don't say it, but it's M-A-N-G-E-S. Je mange, Tu manges, Il/Elle, he or she, mange. He eats, she eats. We add an E at the end. We eat together, nous mangeons. Vous mangez, you guys are eating, and the ending is E-Z. Last but not least, they're eating, ils/elles mangent, so they M-A-N-G-E-N-T. Ils/elles mangent [inaudible]. The first three pronouns cover singular people that you could be talking about, either talking about me or I'm talking about you, or talking about he or she. Second section of pronouns, which are the last three, cover plural people that you could be talking about. Either you and I, you as a group that does not include me, but that's plural, or they, them, which is a group that does not include you or I, but that is still plural as well. In French, to conjugate properly, you really need to know what is the pronoun, what is the gender and what is the number.
14. The Final Step: Speaking! And Final Thoughts: Wow, congratulations, you made it to step 4. Guess what? Step 4 is to train, well, your mouths to actually speak the language. After we've done all the hard work of believing in ourselves, of listening to that language, to hear what it's supposed to sound like, of learning the grammar and learning the ropes, well, now you get to actually use it. It seems counter-intuitive that training your mouth, and speaking a language comes last, but it does. As any other endeavor in life, we put all the work in behind the scenes, and when it comes down to the moment, that's when all the hard work you've done will shine. When you study the language, when you've done your grammatical homework, when you've taken the hard steps day after day, when you wanted to quit, give up or stop believing in yourself and your dream, then when you speak, all the rewards of that will come out. How can I get speaking as soon as possible? All you need to do is find some more information online on each of the grammatical categories I've shared. By doing so, you'll slowly be building your vocabulary, and be building your speech so that you can train your mouth, and train your tongue to speak the language that you wish. You can speak any language you desire if you are committed. If you've made it this far in the journey, there's no telling how far you're going to go. Thank you so much for joining me, and if you're interested in learning more about languages, about travel, and about what polyglot life is like, feel free to follow me in the links below. You can follow my handle @itscatmansouri. I'm going to flash it on the screen. Please, if you have any questions about your journey, if you want to hear more pronunciation samples, if you want to hear or ask more questions about grammar, let me know. I would love to support you guys in making your dreams come true. Learning a language is no different from any other skill. Just like cooking or riding a bike. It's a series of steps that when repeated guarantee results. The effort that you put in is what you get out. I'm offering this intuitive way of learning languages to you, in the hopes that you'll take it, and run with it. Remember that you can do this too. Learning a language really just comes down to believing in yourself, training your ear, learning the grammar, and putting yourself out there and speaking out loud. I look forward to meeting all of you in these projects, and I really hope that whatever language that you choose to learn gives you great success and opens up your whole world. Thank you so much for joining me, and take care. See
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