How to learn any language- Language Learning 101

1. Welcome to the course!: Are you ready to learn a new language but not sure where to start? Look no further, this comprehensive class will equip you with essential language learning skills. You need to confidently learn any language. This class is perfect for beginners who are new to language learning or DOS who have tried before but struggled to make progress. No prior knowledge or experience is required. All you need is a desire to learn and an open mind. In this class, you will learn how to set language learning goals and create a study plan that works for you. The best resources and tools for effective language learning, strategies for building vocabulary, improving pronunciation, and mastering grammar techniques for practicing speaking, listening, reading, and writing, tips for staying motivated and overcoming language learning challenges. Not only will these skills help you become a more confident language learner, but they can also be applied in many different scenarios. What are you wanted to travel or connect with people from different cultures or enhance your career opportunities. Learning a new language can open up a world of possibilities. Enroll in this class today and take the first step towards mastering any language. Let's unlock your language learning potential together 2. Why should you learn a language? : Okay, so why should you learn a language? So firstly, job opportunities. English is not my mother tongue, but because of English, since I can speak English, I'm now able to make over six figures using my third language. The second reason is that connecting with other people, e.g. when you connect with other people using a different language, you can broaden your vision. E.g. my very close friends, easy and Matt, were coming from very different cultures, very different backgrounds. And if I didn't know English, I wasn't able to speak English properly. I would never be able to become friends with them in 2021, probably the best thing happened to me was signing to P CYA, which is a YouTube course from Ali Abdullah, a fellow, another YouTuber. And in that course, I met this amazing people. And this friendship genuinely changed the way I see the world and genuinely helped me with growing as a person. So when you learn a new language, you can connect with people you would never imagine in your day-to-day life. The third reason is that you get smarter when you learn a new language. By learning a language, you're permanently change structures in your brain. Bilingual brains are measurably different than monolingual brains because certain brain regions are more developed and recent studies shows that you don't need to be bilingual from birth to show the signs of bilingualism, you just need to learn a language and maintain it. The better you'll learn it. And the longer you maintain it, the more your brain will change with the time. The fourth reason is that beyond all the economic and mental benefits of language learning lies the greatest treasure of old language learning is good for your soul. It connects you to new people and a new culture in a way you could never imagine Italians are different one day speaking Italian and German poetry, ultimately beautiful, but only in German, you get to see different sides of people and cultures, sides which are hidden from the English-speaking world. You even get to see different sides of yourself. People are not one-sided. Framing yourself and limiting yourself by your beliefs is unnecessary. You can be whoever you want. And another reason that is really similar to this is dyed your personality changes between languages and you get the experience and learn that your personality is not something you can change the culture. The people truly affect how we think and how we act and react to get to know different sides of you. And you also get more confident with the time. You might not be friendly and lovely when you talk in German. But when you switch the Italian, you might get the experience that chill, relaxed and friendly personality of yours. It shows that you're capable of becoming whoever you want to be. And I think that's truly inspiring when it comes to learning languages 3. Which language should you learn?: When deciding which language to learn, take into consideration factors like employment opportunities, difficulty, availability of resources and number of speakers. But when it comes to down to it, pick a language that you genuinely enjoy. When picking a language, don't choose it just because it's easy for you to learn. Don't settle for easy when you can have fun, your language will be with you for a long time. So make sure you find one you like when you're enjoying yourself, you'll learn Foster, and you have many resources to help you out, even though you might not have the privilege to pick something for the sake of enjoyment, I highly recommend picking something that you can enjoy. And even if you can't enjoy the language in the beginning with the time, the more you get better at things, you will find it easier to actually loved activate. So final language that you enjoy 4. How to set a goal? : Welcome to the lesson three. In this lesson, we're going to learn how to set a goal in order to achieve your goals in any language, I highly recommend what setting goals based on the amount of common vocabulary. Because the fluency, confidence and your listening and speaking skills comes with a lot of practice and it's quite hard to measure. So if you would measure your progress with vocabularies, it will be easier for you to see the growth. So how many words should you learn? Begin with the top thousand words in your new language, you can find the most use top thousand words in frequency lists you can purchase or download online. By learning top thousand words, you will be able to understand nearly 85% of the words you hear and 75% of the words you read. If your goal is to have a casual conversation, that will be enough. But if you want to learn the language for Academy, cool purpose learning the second Townsend will give you a 5% boost your reading and to your listening comprehension. You'll understand 90% of what you hear and 80% of what you read. On the surface, those five per cent might seem like a relative small payoff for a 1,000 new words, but in practice they make actually a quite significant difference. At this point, you're doing pretty well, but you're not quite prepared for your Dr. yet e.g. with 2000 words, you're at like 80 per cent of comprehension, but you're missing many of the important bits to understand more, you can either learn a lot more words for, you can start to specialize. So every field speaks its own language. I kinda mixed use different words than politicians and musicians use different words than doctors. In our native language, we've learned 15,000 to 35,000 words to function in a variety of contexts. We can listen to political speeches, attending to worst you lectures, and get our hair caught without any trouble. Occasionally, we'll run into problems with an abstract art critique or baffling article on particle physics or for the most part, our native vocabulary serve us in any environment. You don't necessarily need this capability in a new language. You might never attend the Norse, the electrode in German. Or on the other hand, you might use your German primarily in an academy goal-setting. Not everyone needs to learn the same words and you can save a great deal of time by customizing your vocabulary to suit your needs. If you need to read academic texts, you could learn small collection of frequently use Academy cohort in your field. So in addition to the top 2000 words, you can learn 570 Academy courts, whether or not you're going into academia, you can take advantage of vocabulary customization to save you time. Start by learning to 1,000 to 2000 words to form a solid foundation. And then at keywords based upon your interests, where can you find these words? Get us the mythic vocabulary book. The publisher barren makes the best ones and check off any word you want. These books give you a list of words upon specific themes such as home, business, automotive, and so on. So in summary, learn vocabulary efficiently begin by learning the top 2000 words in your target language. And if you're aiming for high degree of fluency, than keep going until you know the top 1,500 to 2000 words. Once you're done building a foundation, choose additional words based upon your individual needs. You can find these words by skimming through automatic vocabulary book and finding keywords for every contexts you need can be traveled, music, business, and so on. So I hope this helped you 5. What is fluency?: So what is fluency? According to the British Council's website, fluency in the language means speaking easily, reasonably quickly and without having to stop and pause a lot. There are so many definitions for fluency, but I would describe fluency as being able to think in that language and not having to translate in your head, speaking freely and being confident when you're talking, you don't think whether it's grammatically correct or not, and you just let the words come out from your mouth. Basically, depending on your goal, your definition of fluency might change, but generally speaking, most people consider speaking without having unnecessary stops and speaking easily as fluency for me, the main reason is to be able to communicate. I don't care if I make grammar mistakes. And if we're able to communicate, then that's fine for me to be honest. When I'm learning a new language, I measure my fluency according to the level of my secondary linguistic personality. What do I mean by secondary linguistic personality? You have ever experienced changes in your personality? In my case, e.g. I think I'm more goofy and japanese more logical and distant and may be more formal in German, more sarcastic and friendly in Turkish, and more confident and business woman is she wipes in English, according to my really close friend. So if your personality changes when you switch between the languages, that is the real fluency, because you need to experience the culture, spend time with natives, learn the gestures they make and the way language affect your thinking. The aim is to achieve appointed when a foreigner and can communicate in another language without being taken for a foreigner, practice makes perfect, and it's not only about your accent vocabulary or intonation, about your body language, your manner of the leading conversation, asking questions and sharing views with the locals. This type of assimilation can take months or even years for a foreigner. Eventually the personalities you explore through to other languages become, will become habitual. So when we learn a new language and new way of expressing our thoughts, new way of looking at the word. We should also think about preserving our identity. So when you switch languages, does your personality change between the languages? If yes, That means that you reach to the fluency 6. There is no hard language: There is no hot language. Hot language doesn't exist. I'm a polyglot. I can speak Japanese, English, Turkish, and German fluently. And lot of people get confused when I say polyglot. Polyglot basically a word which is combined by two words, poly and gloss. Poly means multiple, nCloth means tongue. So people who can talk multiple languages fluently or polyglots. Anyways, today we'll talk about how long does it take for someone else to learn a language, or how long will it take for you to become fluent in any language? And as I said in the intro, there is no hot language. There are languages that are harder for you to learn. Language itself is not hot. It's just hard for you to learn. What do I mean by that? If language is self is hard, then D is native speakers wouldn't be able to speak their mother languages. What even the dumbest person I'm not talking about the health conditions can speak their model language. So the actual thing that makes language hard is making time for it. Actually really prioritizing that language. Scheduling a time for it and making a time for it. This is what makes a language hard for it, and also depends on your mother tongue language group and your target from belong which group and also there are lot of factors makes it hard for you to learn. Today we will look at a different datas and compare them and understand which languages are hard for you to learn and which languages are easy for you to learn. Let's get started. I personally think that language certificates doesn't necessarily express how fluent or how good you are in that language. Because when I got my DSD to German certificate in my high school, or which stands for c1, I guess a lot of people got this certificate even though they were really fluent in German. But however, when you read the guidelines of the ds2, you are expected to be very fluent in that language. However, there were a lot of people weren't fluids at all. There is a certain way to pass an exam. And if you know that way, you can pass actually most of the language certificates, not like CT or something, in my opinion. Anyway, I understand why longer certificates are important. Because when you are applying for university or like for a job interview or something, they cannot really test every single person's like language skills or something, so they just look at the certification. I do understand that. But for me personally, I don't learn a language to get a longer certificate. I learned that language because I need to talk or I need to express myself in that language. But anyways, I mean, if you want to take longer set of gates, It's totally up to you. But if you want to become fluent in that language, it doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a certain certificate. So yeah, How long does it take to learn a language? Let's talk about that, a bunch of guidelines showing how long it takes. But today I'm using the FSI guideline, which stands for the Foreign Service Institute as a god. And what is FSI? Let me read real quick. Fsi is the US government's Training Center for diplomats. Ambassadors, and they have been in the language business since 1947 and they have wide range of dates on language difficulties for English speakers. Let's continue looking at FSI data's. This pod is only relevant if you're a native English speaker. Because if you are not native English speaker like me, this part is not probably relevant to you, but let's continue. So FSI calculated the time you need to learn a language by study hours. But these organizations only calculate the classroom hours, but we don't only learn language in a classroom, right? We do also study by ourselves. And I've read the book, fluent forever, which is an amazing book. If you want to learn any language, I would highly recommend you to read that book. And when we look at the data right here, the level one. So language is closely related to English, requires 575 to 600 class hours. And as we said, one classroom hour is to study hours. So if you want to learn these languages by your own self, you have to duplicate this number by two, which make up around like 10,000.200 thousand h to learn a language by d. So if you are a native English speaker, you need like 575 to 600 class hours to learn African cattle in Danish, Dutch, french, Italian, and these are the languages. And let's look at the level to which is languages would significant linguistic or cultural differences. Cultural differences really affect the difficulty of the language itself because language is something involved in culture, its changes with the culture. So we can ignore the culture itself when we want to learn a language. If you want to become fluent, if you want to become confident in that language, we have to make sure that we know the culture of the language itself. So let's look at the level two. And here you can see the level two for d as languages you need thousands and hundreds classroom hours, which makes 2,200 self-study hours. So here are the languages you can see I see Georjean, Hindi and Kurdish, and then like Persian, Mongolian, washing and tie. Oh, and Turkish is in this group as well. So the Turkish is a language with significant linguistic and cultural difference when you compare it to English. And now we have the data of the level of three languages which are exceptionally difficult for native English speakers. And D is or arabic, Cantonese, Japanese Korean men during Memnon and Wu Chinese. And these require 2,200 class hours, which makes 4,400 self study hours. I wasn't really surprised with that because for Japanese people it's really hard to learn English. And for native English speakers, it's really hard to learn English, not the flex, but I can speak both languages. Maybe Aflac think I'm trying to offend you, but I am telling that it's possible because like in this level three languages, like you need 2,200 h to learn Japanese if you're a native speaker and also if you are a native Japanese speaker, it's super, super hard for you to learn English. I think these datas are kind of true because when I look to my Japanese friends, they always say that it's super, super, super hard for them to learn English. And also it was hard for me to learn. I mean, I am a native Japanese speaker and I'm, I'm kinda fluent in English, not the flux. I just wanted to tell you that it is possible to learn language, even know what's in the light very hard group or something like Japanese and Turkish, both of my Modern Languages. And when you like competing English, it's pretty hard to learn English for a native service bigger and also for a native Japanese speaker. But even though these languages aren't hard group, I can speak both of the languages. So I just wanted to tell you that it's not impossible if you start in the right way and if you have the right mentality towards the language, you can learn whatever language you want to learn. It might take a bit of time compared to those like easy languages, but it's not impossible as you can see from me. So I think these datas are kind of true, but these datas are kind of misleading. Because when you look into this data, I need like 4,400 h to learn English as a native Japanese speaker. But I'd become pretty fluent in English by only watching YouTube videos. Everyone's welcome back to the channels they were talking about learning to become fluent in like maybe like ten months or so. I wasn't really fluent. I could understand English but I wasn't able to express myself. But in ten months or so by watching YouTube videos, I've become like pretty full went like I am right now. So if these datas are the misleading, then why, why, why I shared this guide? The reason that I shared this guy is that there is no heart language. Firstly, I want you to understand that there are harder languages for you to learn. And don't really like, don't really consider this always when you are trying to learn a language like when you look at Japanese as the English native, native English speaker and say, Okay, I need 4,400 h to learn a language or something. Don't just use the, our data or something. I shared this data for you to understand how hard the language for you to learn and how much time it will take approximately for you to learn that language odor you want you like. You're not improving herself because learning a language, it takes a time practice, and you have to prioritize it in order to learn it 7. 3 basic keys to language learning : So there are three basic keys to language learning. The first one is learn pronunciation. First, singers learned the pronunciation of languages first because they need to sing in these languages long before they have the time to learn them. In the course of mastering the sounds of a language, are ears becomes more attuned to those sounds, making vocabulary, accusation, listening, comprehension and speaking come much more quickly while we're edit, we pick up an accurate accent too. Don't translate it. Not translating is an essential step in learning how to think in a foreign language. We will discuss in detail about this in Lesson 12. But in long story short, it's the key component to develop your ability to think in a foreign language. When you stop translating, the process of understanding becomes much faster, which should result in false communication. If you keep translating the words, the process in your brains looks like this. Let's say you are learning japanese. Somebody talks to you in Japanese. You first translate that in your brain to English to understand you think about your response and English, then you translate it in Japanese and tell it to daughter person. But if you don't translate in your brain, process is quite simple. Was thinking japanese and respond doorsteps to two steps by throwing away English or whatever language your monitor tongue is, we can spend our time building fluency instead of decoding sentences word by word. The third, roll, use spaced repetition systems space learning as a training technique that involves short training or learning sessions with breaks between the sessions, college students often think they can get the grades they want by cramming for hours the night before test. This simply isn't the case. Unfortunately, I know the pain rather than focusing on a long periods of learning, we learn better when our brain cells are switched on, off or with short periods of learning and breaks in-between. The key to long-term memory formation is not the amount of time spent learning, but the amount of time between learning by switching your learners brain cells on during learning and off again during breaks. The learners unconscious has time to internalize the knowledge and the repetition of this process is what solidifies the information in long-term memory, researchers has also shown that the longer breaks between teaching sessions can result in longer lasting memories. So next time when you're studying a language or trying to learn something about cram, learn a little bit, give it a break. Learned again. And by repeating this process, even though it's going to split into a longer period of time, you will actually spend less time actually learning the thing. And you will be able to memorize it more easily in, in, in order to do this, we need to plan ahead. Of course. I know I know what cramming looks like, been there, done that, still doing it. But this is the way you'll learn 8. How to learn the pronunciation? : So lesson number seven, how to learn the pronunciation when practicing pronunciation, we have two main challenges. One is ear training and then the second one is mouth training. So let's learn why do we mispronounce in the first place? When we get older, our ability to hear the different sounds in a language declines. We only hear the sounds we use in our language. It's because as a child, you learn to ignore the difference. But back when you were a baby, you could hear all of them. As a baby, everyone around you spoke differently, which probably made things confusing. There were many different sounds like wobbles and consonants, and it was difficult to make sense of it all. But around six months to one year old, you start to understand the patterns in the sounds. Researchers have studied this process in both the American and Japanese babies using brain scans to see if they can recognize differences in sound. And American adult listening to your repetitive Rock, Rock, Rock, Rock, luck will have a sudden increase in brain activity when Locke breaks the pattern, but Japanese adult won't have any change. However, a Japanese baby has no trouble recognizing both sounds, which disappears 6-12 months old. What happens at this time, the baby's brain is gathering information. There is a line that connects the letter R and L. And a consonant can be anywhere on that line. In the American household, a typical baby hears hundreds of slightly different consonants that fall into two large groups along this line. Sounds that are most like our sounds are most like L. If you record a typical day in American babies life and count these words, you will see something like this. So like we usually think of R and L as two totally different sounds, but they're actually pretty similar. They're both like group of sounds that are kinda like, you know, we group them together based on the sound we hear around us as we grow up. Because we don't really hear a lot of sounds that are like halfway between R and L. We just assume that all grown-ups around us are using either R or L. But if a baby grow up in a Japanese family, they might hear a lot of sounds that are right in the middle of R and L. The group of all these sounds into continent that sounds like a mix between R and L. This continent called the Japanese, or doesn't quite sound like R or L. If you're a native English speaker, you might have trouble processing it. E.g. My name is duty in Japanese. But when I said with Japanese, are lot of people mistaken it in a duty like with D. Not a lot of people get that An are actually when you hear with someone with a thicket Japanese accent, notice that they're not intentionally saying r instead of L. They're actually saying it continent that is difficult to hear. So how we can fix it answer is training our ears if he can hear the difference and if it results to a mispronunciation, we can fix it by training our ears so that we can hear the difference which is causing the problem. So how to train your ears? There are a collection of studies performed at Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. They took a group of Japanese adults and made them listen to the words rock and lock. They were given two buttons, issue presenting rock. Luck. When they hear rock, they need to press the button rock and for the luck, vice-versa. At the beginning of the performance was horrible. But when an immediate feedback after each button press provided, they began to actually learn. After just three 20 min sessions, they rewire their brain and later brains can show that they aced the rock, rock, rock, luck tastes. How cool is that? In order to reteach your brain distinguished sound differences. Practicing pronunciation with feedback is an essential thing to do. You will able to find essential minimal pairs in your language at the beginning of, of many grammar books with CDS and throughout old pronunciation books, basically doing 10 min of ear training can actually drastically change your pronunciation skills. So doing them every day for 10 min and your pronunciation rules change. So how to train your mouth? The second part of improving your pronunciation is developing a good accent. It's hard to unlearn that pronunciation habits. And that's why we need to focus on our pronunciation first. Even before learning the language, improve your action by learning the raw ingredients, the tongue, Lip, and vocal chord positions. Every sound you need, you can find the information in the International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA. Every IPA letter is not only a sound, but also a set of instructions how to make that sound. You can find IPA guides on YouTube for free. It teaches you were to put your tongue with illustrations and also explain each sound in your target language. E.g. you can type on Google like Italian IPA, Spanish IPA. And there are tons of videos teaching Bu dat, coupled with your newly trained ears, you will have much easier time mimicking each new sound in your language. So let's do a quick summary how to apply what you have learned in this lesson to your own journey. There are two basic paths through pronunciation. These standard road, the off-road wrote. The standard route, involves using published materials like grammar book with a CD or a combo of book and CD. And that's all about pronunciation. If your grammar book comes with recordings, to skip all the boring stuff and go straight to the juicy pronunciation lessons. Listen to the recordings and repeat them until you've got it down. Then move on to the next lesson. Rinse and repeat it for a grammar book is all texts. Don't worry, just get yourself a pronunciation book with a CD or with, I don't know, WE DO instructions and work your way through it like a boss. The off-road is, which I recommend, is a bit more adventurous, but we like it. It involves using some cool tools we've found like taking minimal pair test to train your ears The Rock, Rock, Rock lock test and using the International Phonetic Alphabet, IPA to nail those mouth movements and a space repetition system. Anki or any sort of op you like to keep everything in your head. These trainers will help you get familiar with the sound of your new language. Connect them with the spelling patterns in your own language, makes sure everything stays in your nagging thanks to your SRS. So to space repetition system, even though we can use a traditional method if you want to, I highly recommend the non-traditional method because it's much fun and you can also flex on people because you will probably learn faster than the average 9. How to learn new vocabulary?: Now let's talk about how to learn new vocabulary. When learning a new vocabulary, one thing you should keep in your mind is that not every word is created equally. We actually talked about this, but you don't need to learn every single new word you've encountered. There is no reason for you to learn a word that is almost never used by native speakers? Yes, you might, maybe flex on native speakers of showing how much you know what calories. But in practice, it's not going to really help you with the fluency. So there is no reason for you to spend that amount of time learning vocabulary that nobody cares. We are not learning of language to feed our ego, but instead we are learning to communicate start by learning the top thousand words in your target language. Can find them by typing frequency list on Google with only 1,000 words, you will recognize nearly 75% of what you read. With 2000, you will hit 80%. And after the first 2000, you can focus on the specific areas you're interested in. Learn to frequent words in that category such as medicine, music, or maybe literature. Each language has its own frequency list. You can purchase them online or simply Google them. You can create your own flashcards by using Anki and adding the image from Google Images. But the great news is there are already flashcards made by people on Quizlet website. You can type on the search bar the top thousand words in German, or maybe top thousand words in Spanish in Quizlet basically. And then you will find a flashcard that are provided by people. You can sign up to Quizlet and use other pupils flashcards for free or maybe for a monthly fee. And lazy way to learn a new vocabulary is that reading books in our language, we know a lot of words can be hard to count exactly how many, but if we would count a group of related words, then by the time we're 20 years old, usually now 15000-35 thousand of these groups. So how did we learn so many words? Most of us didn't spend our teenage years reading dictionaries and many of the words we know are hardly ever spoken out loud. When was the last time you said serendipity in your day-to-day life. So where do we learn all these words? It turns out that we'll learn the vast majority of our words by reading. We can do the same in a foreign language in a simple term, we automatically learn an unknown word about 10% of the tongue we come across it, we might understand in the first time we see it, or learning more gradually. For instance, if a character in the book drinks a single doubles of beer, we can assume that w is some sort of a tan or maybe a bottle. If he later crushes that doubles in his hands and travels into recycling bin, then that's probably not made of floss because it would hurt him. You can improve your vocabulary by reading as much as you can, as fast as you can. You can read whatever you want as long as you enjoy it for your first book, tried to fight something that you're already familiar with, like a thorough installation of a book or movie, obscene, then read it with an audio book. The audio book will help you read faster and you won't get stuck on any new words. Plus, you will get the rhythm of the language down the path. I think their rhythm of the language is really important because in the same language, in different regions, the same language can have different rhythms. And learning the correct rhythm will help you to sound more like a native. So I highly recommend listening to audio books while they're trying to read a book. You're new language because I think reading in your foreign language can become a nightmare because they're trying to pronounce that word. You don't know the meaning of the word. You suddenly, just like lose the connection from the book. If you would have an audio book, that wouldn't be the case. I wish I had that or maybe we actually had audio books when I was learning German, Maybe I just didn't know that. But anyway, since audio books are more popular right now, you can find whatever book you're into, probably on audible or maybe on other platforms. Use audio books and read a lot of books and use Quizlet, use people's flashcards. So that will save you so much time 10. How to build sentences?: Okay, so now let's talk about how to build sentences. Building sentences is an essential for communicating. In some cases, you might be able to communicate by randomly ordering the wars, like throwing out from your mouth. But that's not what we should, we should probably aim for, right? What we aim is having a smooth conversation rather than rumbling and hoping that the other person understands or maybe guesses even what you're trying to say. Even though I'm not a huge fan of grammar, we need to know the basics to have a meaningful conversation. Unfortunately, sorry, just held up. There are two sorts of grammar that we encounter in our lives. Spoken grammar we acquire as kids and they're written grammar we learn in school. In my experience, the way written grammar is pout, is the reason why most people fail at learning languages. And in the painting it, but it doesn't have to be this way to be honest. So comprehensive input in non-boring way to learn it is using comprehensive. Comprehensive input is a language exposure that is challenging enough to promote learning and growth, yet not so difficult that it becomes frustrating or incomprehensible. The idea is that when learners are exposed to language input, they can mostly understand, they can gradually acquire new vocabulary, grammar structures, and idiomatic expressions through contexts without the need for explicit instruction. But how can you understand something that you don't yet understand as a language learner, you have two useful tools at your disposal, translations and grammar rules. Translations help you understand the main idea of new sentences, even if they don't capture every nuance. Grammar rules, on the other hand, provide a framework to navigate sentence structures and patterns effectively. Your grammar book is an invaluable resource that combines both these tools. It offers well translated sentences that expose you to various sentence constructions. A loving, good grasp how the target language works. Additionally, understanding grammar rules accelerates your learning process while it's unnecessary to drill grammar excessively, having a solid foundation and it helps to this sect complex sentences and enhances your comprehension. But actively using your grammar book and focusing on both translation and grammar rules, you will develop a deeper understanding of the language. This approach will ultimately improve your ability, tackled complex sentences and lead more effective language learning. If you enjoy conjugation tables, go for it. If not, use your grammar book as a quick tour through the language, read explanations, learn a few examples and to skip the tedious drills. Examples will help you remember grammar rules and provide comprehensible input, letting your brain piece together the language's grammar, Italian plurals, e.g. you form them by changing the words last letter, like pizza. Pizza for grammar book will explain the roles and give examples and offer exercises. Feel free to skip those exercises. Just pick a couple of interesting examples like pits IT or gelato, gelato type of examples, make flashcards and you will memorize the rule. There's no necessary for you to do all of the exercises. So you can move on to the next section. So use your grammar book as a source of simple example sentences and dialogues. Pick and choose your favorite examples of each grammar rule. Then break those examples down into new words, word forms, and word orders. You will end up with a pile of effective, easy to learn a flashcards. This. Now, now let's talk about where to find example sentences and then talk about what to do with the sentences you have found. Step one, find your sentences, leverage your grammar book to simplify learning. It has easy to grasp pretty simple sentences, dialogues, explanations, and the clinician charts tackle one chapter at a time and focus on the basics like greetings and talking about your occupation. Pick a couple of favorite example from each section to remember the concepts though, stress about missing a rule or exception, you'll pick up more details as you progress and learn more sentences. So there's no need to worry about them except you break each sentences, breakdown down sentences to learn step-by-step. Let's do an example together. She's a Dr. they're eating breakfast. First step is going to be identifying new words. Assuming you're learning English, there are seven new words excluding the names basically. So step two is going to be that reminder which words can be represented with simple pictures, e.g. Dr. eating and breakfasts are suitable for this. So create flashcards for these words using Google Images, personal connections, and minimal if needed. And step three is now tackle the remaining work. She is a, they are for the word referred to the grammar books explanation of the indefinite article, in this case, eight fits into she is a Dr. for another grammar, words understand their grammatical roles. She and they are pronouns is an RR form of the verb to be indicating a state or condition. Reveal your grammar book to understand their usage and create examples to practice and remembered how to build your own sentences. Writing is a language learnings playground. Use words and grammar rules you've learned to create sentences about your life, interests or anything else. If you're unsure how to say something, use Google Translate as a starting point, then submit your sentence for corrections from native speakers. There's so many apps for it, e.g. hello talk, turn cork dust sentences into flashcards to reinforce learning. Enjoy playing with sentences and experimenting with grammar. Once you have explored few grammar book chapters, move on to discover more language learning tools. So right, submitted to a hello talk or whatever app you want to use, get the feedback, turn them into flashcards and write more, and do this cycle again and again and again. This is how you learn how to build sentences 11. 4 principles to never forget the language you’ve learned: Lesson number ten for principles to never forget the language you've learned. The principle one is going to be boost memory retention, hips low. It says that neurons that fire together, wire together, e.g. let's take my first memory of trying sushi. I went to a Japanese restaurant with my family and then they ordered a potter of sushi, observe the color for arrangement of fish and rice on the plate. I picked up a piece with chopsticks and dipped into soy sauce. As I tasted, experienced the flavors of fresh fish, rice, and my family told me that this dish was called sushi. In this experience, my neural network involved taste, smell, and audio components such as my family explaining that it was called sushi. This actuated various neurons in my brain, wiring them together and loving me to remember what sushi is when you're learning a new vocabulary and if you want to make it unforgettable, hit for processing because it, via all of the four processing, the world will be unforgettable. The first process is structure. You don't need to worry about this because your brain does it for you. When you see the word scrambled. When your brain can make worn out of it, it's because your brain is able to remember the structure of it alone. The two is sound. You need to know how it's pronounced. And when you hear the word, you'll learn how it's pronounced. The third component is going to be concept, learning the word alone. What really helped with the memorization. But if you would hear it in a sentence which will allow you to understand the concept of it. It will be much easier for you to understand. After you learn a couple of hundred words, you will be able to understand an unknown vocabulary meaning from a sentence because it gives you the concept or maybe contexts, you will realize that you have memorized the core, even though you've never studied about it, is because you've learned the concept of it. And the fourth one is personal connection. When we make flashcards, we won't add the translation in our mother tongue rather than translation at images, we have recall images much better than words. So the translated words, because we automatically think conceptually when we see an image imagery. Cool studies have repeatedly demonstrated that our visual memory is phenomenal. Since we need to learn words, not pictures, we will use combination of words and pictures. Such combinations were even better than pictures alone. So key points, your brain is a sophisticated filter which makes it relevant information forgettable and meaningful information. Memorable, born worst tend to fall into the forgettable category because they sound odd. They don't seem particularly meaningful and they don't have any connection to your own life experiences. So you can get around this filter and make Fern worst memorable by doing three things. Learn to sound system of your language, find those sounds to images and bind those images to your past experiences. So the principal tube is used. The forgetting curve for getting is actually a powerful tool. Hermann Ebbinghaus, a German psychologist, devoted years of studying for getting by memorizing lists of nonsensical syllables. This forgetting curve shows how philosophy forget what remains after we have forgotten, while the trace of learn information remains forever, we quickly lose most of the details to improve our memory, we often rely on rote repetition, like saying this person whose name was Judy, I should remember it already. Read, read, read. This can help us remember better in the short term, but it doesn't do much for a long-term memory over-learning. So the act of repeating something excessively isn't effective for retaining information over long periods. Instead of working harder, we should aim to work smarter. Ebbinghaus conducted an extraordinary study in 18, 85 repeating nonsense syllables millions of times while enduring physical and mental exhaustion. His findings emphasize that rote repetition isn't the best approach for a long term memorization. The key takeaway is that rote repetition is dope and ineffective for long-term retention. So rather than cramming before an exam, we should split it for a longer period of time. Instead of cramming, we need to adopt a more efficient approach. Study a concept until you can recall it once without looking and then stop, give it a time and after a period of time studying the material once again, but how to find the perfect time to review it. Alright, so let's get started with some short practice lessons, two to four days. Each time you remember something, you will level up an increase in trivial like maybe to nine days, three weeks, to months, six months, etc, which will eventually get two years. Actually, this will keep things interesting and help you remember stuff in the long run. Now, if you forget a word, don't worry. Just started over with short intervals and worker back up to longer ones until it sticks. Actually, the app Anki does it for you, like when you remember the word really fast, it will make you recall the information. Let's say, let's say you created the card on Anki or you will study it that day and it will show you the next day. And if you get it correct, it will show three days later as you get it correct. Once again, it will probably show it in next week and then ten days and 15, 30 It goes like this, and if you get it wrong, it will make your repeat it once again in a shorter period of time. If you don't want to calculate this time by yourself, you can use app on key and it will do it for you. But you know, this way, you can focus on the words you have the most trouble with while also keeping your strongest memories and check and since, well remember wars eventually fade into future regularly practice will create a balance between old and new. Set aside a bit of time every day to learn new words. Remember the words from last week and maybe even say hi to some old friends from way back. By doing this, you will spend most of your time successfully recalling words you've almost forgotten and building foundation for new words at a steady pace. This method is also named as space repetition and Anki uses space repetition and active recall what we need to learn a language, okay, so principal three, stop rereading and highlighting instead. Do octave. Recall when you study by reading through a list multiple times you're practicing reading, not recalling. If you wanted to get better at recalling something, you should practice recalling it. This technique improves memory retention by strengthening the neural connections between neurons, creating a more robust network of memories. When you practice active recall, you force your brain to retain information from memory, which strengthens the neural pathways that make up the memory. In contrast, simply rereading or highlighting material does not engage the brain in the same way and is less effective for long-term retention. To maximize efficiency, spend most of our time recalling rather than removing, you will accomplish this goal by creating flashcards that tests your ability to recall a given word, pronounciation, or a grammatical construction, coupled with images and personal connections, these cards will form the foundation of a powerful memorization system. And if you don't want to worry about all these things, just use Anki. What you should do now is learning how to use Anki. Anki is a flashcard app that uses space repetition and active recall to help you learn new vocabulary effectively. Here's how to use it. The first step is going to be download Anki from the official website and install it into your device. And then second, open the app and create a new deck for the vocabulary you want to learn a new card to the deck by clicking on Add and filling in the front and back of the card with the word or phrase you want to learn the image and the explanation or customize your studying experienced by adjusting the settings for how often you want to see the cards and how many new ones you want add each day five, start studying on Q will show you a flashcard with the word of phrase on one side and its definition on the other attractor, recall the translation or maybe the definition before flipping the card to check your answer as you study and Q will track your progress and adjust the frequency with which you see each card based on how well you remember it by using unclear regularly, you can improve your vocabulary retention and speed up your language learning. To make most of Anki It's important to follow these tips. Don't add too many new cards are the ones. I think too many new cars can be overwhelming and make it difficult to remember everything because you need to learn the cars you did wrong to start with a small number of new cards each day and gradually increase as you get more comfortable, use images and example sentences. I didn't get an image or an example sentence to a Cards can make it easier to remember the meaning a word or phrase, and then review them regularly, set aside a specific time each day to your Anki flashcards consistency is key when it comes to language learning and for don't skip days, it's essential to review your flashcards every day, even if it's just for a few minutes, skipping days can make it harder to remember what you've learned. Use Anki for all aspects of language learning. In addition to a calorie, Anki can be also used for grammar, verb conjugation, and other aspects of language learning. By following these steps, you can use Anki to effectively learn new vocabularies and accelerate your language learning journey. There are tons of videos on YouTube how to use Anki to learn a new vocabulary. So if you get stuck, you can always ask Chad GBT, or basically searches on Google. I hope this will help you 12. How to remember/ refresh a language you’ve forgotten? : So now let's look about something that is really underrated and nobody talks in language community how to remember or refresh a language you've forgotten. If you're like me who grew up in a multicultural background or learned a lot of languages, I now know foreign languages for getting a language is actually quite common, even if it's your mother tongue, when you move to a different country, you can easily forget your monitor tongue. Now that I'm living in Italy and I do my business in English and also in Japanese. Started to forget a little bit Turkish, even though it's my first language, no matter what languages it is for you, it can be your monitor Tong second, third, or maybe for language, for getting that language is a real thing. If you want to get more comfortable listening than listen. And if you want to get more comfortable speaking than speak, if we're looking for a way to refresh and maintain a language with the least amount of effort than watch a lot of YouTube videos, netflix movies, series, et cetera. I'm currently doing this with German. Actually, I had forgotten quite a lot over the course of improving my English skills so that I can grow faster and YouTube. But since I put so much effort in it, I wanted to bring it back and watched two to 3 h of German YouTube movies series, podcasts every single day for three months. And by end of three months, I was once again able to speak German fluently. So watching things is actually extremely fun way to maintain a language, whatever effort you can steadily improve and advanced level language. The most efficient way to do this is by writing on Hello talk and speaking with tutors or maybe on, I took a turn. Every mistake you make and every new word you want to learn into flashcards, use a frequency list as a compensation slash essay folder. Find the words you don't know, discuss them with a tutor, or write about them, and make as many mistakes as you can until your tutor to catch them. If we're constantly speaking and writing, you're using your SRS. So Spaced Repetition System to learn from all of your mistakes, then you're going to improve at breakneck speed. If you're trying to refresh a language you've forgotten, writing is one of the best ways to react away those old memories, right as much as you possibly can and turn all of the corrections you receive into your flashcards. There's no better review for grammar and vocabulary. So in summary, wash a lot of YouTube videos, netflix shows whatever you can, then write a ton of fun things. Write your thoughts baby journal, post them on Hello talk, or maybe you get a tutor on I20 key and ask them to catch your mistakes, turn them into flashcards, right? More, watch more, speak more. Turn your, all of your mistakes into flashcards and you will be able to remember the language you are forgotten because you've already put so much effort learning in it and remembering it actually is not that hard, so I highly recommend doing it before you completely forget the language 13. Do this if you’re lazy: How to learn more vocabularies, improve your pronunciation and listening sk: Okay, So lesson 12th, do is if you're lazy, so how to learn more with capillaries? Improve your pronunciation and listening skills. Learning a language can be daunting task, but fortunately, quadriga vos vocabulary is not as hard as you might think. In fact, most of us learn vast majority of our native language. Worse, through reading. We can do for the same for a foreign language. It's important to note that we don't have to torture ourselves with hours of trudging through complicated literature and painfully searching for every other word in the dictionary. Instead, we can take advantage of our extraordinary ability to learn words from context alone without the aid of dictionary. As I mentioned before, we typically learn an unknown word about 10% of the time we encounter it. You might catch it right away or we might pick it up more gradually. Rating as much as you can as quickly as possible is the key to increasing your vocabulary with every novel length book you read. Whether it's a Tolstoy or maybe a twilight who will automatically increase your vocabulary by 300 to maybe 500 new words. Dump packets of grammar into your language machine. The best part is that you don't need to start with a hardcore literature can start by reading whatever smartphone for you. The Harry Potter series e.g. has been translated into almost 70 languages. And you can find trashy romance novels or detective stories in every language. Choose whatever you find most appealing for your very first book, tried to find a familiar story, such as a translation of something you've already read, or a book that has been turned into a movie you've seen 3D along with an audio book, which will help you read faster and pick up the rhythm of these spoken language audio books also provide an opportunity to focus on a story rather than the painstakingly decoding the precise meaning of every word in every sentence. It's not always important to know the precise meaning of every word you encounter. By reading books, you can learn to let go of the worst you don't understand and get herself swept up in the magic of a good story. Along the way, you will get a ton of comprehensible input and pick up a bunch of vocabulary and have fun in the process. So in summary, reading is one of the most effective ways to acquire a new language's vocabulary. It's a fun and easy way to immerse yourself in the language and learn new words in context. So grab a book in your target language to start reading and let the magic of storytelling do dressed so in summary, rating without the dictionary is the easiest and simplest way to increase your passive vocabulary. On average, single book will teach you 300 to 500 words from context alone. By reading just one book in your target language, you will find all future books and texts of any kind of much easier to read by reader in conjunction with an audio book, you will have a much easier time moving through a long texts and you will pick up invaluable exposure to the rhythm of your language in your action. This can improve your pronunciation, listening, comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar in short, it can provide a huge boost to every aspect of your language. So read books 14. How to stop translating and create a second brain in your target language : Okay, So one of the tips I can give you is that don't translate everything in the beginning, of course, and it's important to know the meaning of the vocabularies in your native language. Because otherwise, how can you know, right? And also translation and loves you to have a quicker understanding of that vocabulary. So in the beginning it will actually save you quite a lot of time to translate some words. Even if you want to translate in your head, don't abandon translating or using a translator altogether. It's all about how you use them and how much you use them. Because there's a beginner, it's one of the fastest ways to learn a language is to look up the translation and memorizing it. But as you progress, you will need to translate words less and less. So just trust the process so how we can decide what to translate and what's not to what I was doing when I was learning German and also English was the opposite of translating word by word. Firstly, try to guess the meaning of the vocabulary from the context of the sentence doesn't some situations when you read the whole sentence. I guess the meaning of the cavalry, but you might not be sure. And after guessing it, you can check on the translator whether it's true or not, you're getting a bit profitable in that language. Stop translating words in your native language and redder than that look their definition in your target language, children to translation might be much faster than looking to definition and trying to understand that the finishing, however, with the time you'll get better at guessing or understanding meaning of the vocabulary. And also by looking at the definition you will learn, you will calories and also maybe a different way to use the same vocabulary in the beginning, it will take a lot of time because instead of translating, you're looking to the definition every single time. It might be a really boring and tiring process. But don't forget learning language is its long journey. We're not rushing here, given if you're rushing, it is a journey. So take it seriously. Okay, So we stopped translating in your native language and we are reading the definitions in your target language. After learning a certain amount of vocabularies, better to move on to sentences rather than focusing word by word. So in the previous stage, we were trying to understand the meaning of the vocabulary and the viewer guessing it, and then we were searching up, but now we will focus on the meaning of the sentence rather than the vocabulary itself. The important of this step is sometimes you can translate a sentence word by word. Even if you translate, it, doesn't really make sense in your own language because the way you tell it might be different. Therefore, it's important to focus on sentences rather than the vocabularies. After a certain amount of time where you build a bit of base for calories in your target language. When translating sentences, start with simple sentences, are trying to learn from a more complicated sentences than make them simpler. So let me give you an example. Let's translate this sentence into Turkish. I don't want to have kids because they cost a lot of money. Let's make this sentence firstly, simpler. First sentence, I don't want to have kids. Second sentence, they cost a lot of money. So we made the sentence is simpler and less. Translate these sentences. I don't want to have kids just stimulate them. They cost a lot of money, truck per dollar. Now combine these two simple sentences with a simple conjuction, choo-choo. So because in Turkish, Chunqiu truck per IMR Loyola, I don't want to have kids because they cost a lot of money when translating sentences, the key is to make the sentence simple as possible. What really communication is. It's not really about the sophistication of your message or how difficult what calories you use, but the ability to transfer the message you would like to give, right? So talking in simple sentences and simple vocabulary is totally fine if the other side is understanding you and if we're able to communicate, and that's fine. So when you're speaking and if you feel like you need to translate in your head, stop for a moment and break down the sentences in your head in the most simple structure as possible. Save them separately and later on if you need to add some details, you can always add them later on. A lot of you guys might have been thinking, when will I reach to this level? It will take you quite a long time to reach to the level where you stop translating in your head and thinking in your target language, you need to do a massive input in your target language. You need to be exposed to that language so much in order to be able to think in that language just like a native speaker in that language tried to expose yourself as much as possible into that language, e.g. reading books or watching YouTube videos or listening to podcasts, following newspapers, reading online articles, signing up to newsletters or something. There's so many ways to do inputs these days. The more you integrate these in your lifestyle in a daily part of yours, you will be more likely to think in that language. When I was learning English, I was watching YouTube videos six or 7 h in a day. So I was doing a massive input in English. And with the time, it took quite a long time, like a year, a urine health. But after a bit of time, I slowly started to be able to think in English. And now when I'm trying to say something, I don't think in Japanese or Turkish. I just say it directly in English while I'm talking, I think in English, but it's due to the massive input that I've done and also that I have been doing. You can learn in languages just like having a lot of conversation. But in order to be able to think in that language, you need to be more strategical. So the conclusion will be if you're a beginner to that language, translating the vocabularies word by word to your native language is completely normal and it will allow you to progress faster since you build the vocabulary bank in your target language, you will require translation less and less, because from the sentence contexts, you will be able to understand the meaning of the vocabulary or guessed it, meaning of the vocabulary worth the time. And from translating word by word, it will move on to the sentences which will allow the process to be much faster. Doing a massive input is important to be able to reach to the level where you think in your target language. But at the same time, if you only do inputs, you'll be able to understand maybe, but you might not be able to speak, do massive inputs in the beginning, and then gradually start to do outputs and then imbalanced them together so that you will be able to understand thinking that language and also speak and write in that language 15. Why you can understand the language but can’t speak? : We all learn English in school, but even know if you can understand English, most of us cannot really talk fluently, even in public schools, most of the people from different countries get English education for years and years. But we can't talk fluently. Don't you think there is a huge problem? At the beginning of my English journey, I was able to understand English when the conversation is very simple, but I wasn't really able to express myself and talk fluently. The first problem that we have in our English or language education system is that the education itself is input based. So there are so many researchers have proven that input based learning is not really effective. We should focus more on output based learning. But before talking about those in discussing about those, let's firstly learn about what input learning is. So when we compare the input based learning and output based learning, we can compare two different types of learning styles. Input based learning styles can be listening and reading. An output based learning will be talking and writing. In most of the language schools, learning is input base. We always do like readings and listenings, but we don't do enough talking and writing. In my opinion, in one of my all time favorite book from a Japanese riders less psychiatric cassava. She'll the book called input those eyes and alphabetizing. So basically input and output and co-pay Dia, he has like two different books. I would highly recommend them, but they're in Japanese anyways. He says that the golden ratio for input and output is three to seven, but most of us do the opposite. So we do like seven input, three output, but wishing you 3-input in seven out. But because no matter how much you dude him put, the important thing is output. If you don't output the things that you learned, you actually don't learn them. So now let's talk about how you can do more output based learning than infant based learning. But if you don't know, I learned English by watching multiple hours of YouTube videos and English quickly, I realized that I was doing too much input because all the time I was listening, YouTubers talking, but I wasn't really practicing by myself and I had no one to practice with me. So the thing that I did is that after watching every single video, summarizing them in my own words, and I was explaining it to you in the imaginary friend. I know it sounds creepy, I know that, but it worked for me. But the problem with this method is that because you're talking to your imaginary friend, like I did in the past, there is no one to correct your grammar and vocabulary mistakes in pronunciation mistakes. So e.g. for me, when it comes to my English, I still do grammar mistakes and I still do pronunciation mistakes. If you watched my previous videos, you probably not the said. I always pronounced the world pronunciation as pronounciation and also the word foreigner as for Rainer and these like little mistakes, but I was doing them pretty often. So in Dr. Kabbalah book, he recommends a very unique way to do an output. And it is opening Instagram account just for your output. And basically after you watch, read, or hear anything from your target language, you basically take a picture of it and you pass it on Instagram and you write something about it. So you are doing output. And if you make them an aesthetic way, you can probably make money as well. Of course, the main focus is not making money, but it can make money while you're outputting. So the second problem that we have is that the luck, of course. So if you're not fluent in English or in any language, you may be scared about the possibility that others can make fun of you. Yes, people actually will make fun of you. People make fun of me as well. I get like every single day comments like your pronouns, this world, blah, blah, wrong. You set this blob or wrong. It's not like that. How can you say that you're a polyglot? Blah, blah, blah. And also the pupil would like, make fun of your accent. They will tell that it's so bad, they cannot listen. It is so annoying and all that stuff people will tell you actually, I'm sorry, but that's the reality. Any language there are no, probably no doubt Non-Native Speakers can make mistakes while talking. They're non native language because it's not their native language. But the important thing is that what you think about yourself if you love your accent and if you think that you can improve it, or if you accepted in that way, it's totally fine. It's don't care about what other says. It's easier said than done. I know that, but by the time more you put effort into your language skills, you will be more confident and you will start to not care about them because at the end of the day, they can speak only one language or so. And why would you even care about them? Also, it's not good or moderate hunk. Of course you're going to make mistakes, and that's totally okay. There is no need to be perfectionists at all. More you become a perfectionist more it takes you to actually take action and do something. We're not perfect. Rule will never be perfect. So never, ever be a perfectionist. 16. How I learned English by myself: After a year-and-a-half, I realized some of the mistakes that I did in the beginning. It also, if you compare my English skills now, horse's back then, I think I improved quite a lot. I feel like I can express myself, my thoughts and my feelings more accurately. But before starting, I want to give a disclaimer relying only on this method in the very, very beginning of your language journey might not be the best choice. Therefore, if you want to give this a try, I would recommend to reach at least a two level of fluency in your target language. But basically, reaching a two level is not that hard and you can get there about in a month or two. You can, of course, use this method from the beginning, but I personally would not recommend it. There are some scientific data proving this method. Some people commented it, but I don't know it. So this method works for me but might not refer, you just take it as a grain of salt. You can use this method for any under languages. But since I use this method in order to learn English, let's talk about my English background. I took English classes as my main foreign language till high school. In high school I took German, so I wasn't really getting English lessons in school and I didn't get any special education when it comes to English. And also I didn't attend to and English international school. Most of my friends who are fluent in English went to English international schools. So they were taught every lesson in English, but that wasn't the case for me. I just basically went to regular schools that were really good teaching English in majority of the countries. I'm English is a mandatory choice, but not everyone can speak English fluently. Actually have a video where I explain the details about it. Basically, we do too much input. The education system relies on too much input and we cannot do much output in lessons, e.g. we always listen and read things, but not every school really approaches more talking, more writing and expressing yourself type of activities, which I understand because there are a lot of people in one class. And if everybody would, if everybody had a chance to talk and express themselves and do more output, it probably cannot be fit into a regular school time schedule. So I do understand it. However, if you want to learn a language on your own, wish, you'd look back to the methods that didn't work for us and then improve those methods and become better at them. So therefore, my method relies more on output rather than input, according to my favorite books author, couple of seconds. Xiang Yu has two books called infant dictionary and output dictionary, where he explains how to do effective inputs and outputs, explains that the golden ratio of input and output is three-sevenths, a 30% input and 70% output. I do relate on that quite a lot. However, in the very early stages of learning a language, input is more important than doing. In order to do quality output, you need to do enough amount of input in the beginning, all these things might not make sense right now, but I'm going to explain in detail cell Let's again. So now let's talk about how to become fluent faster. And let's talk about the cons of this method learning a language. It can be really hard if you do all these things on your own, especially this method is really relies on yourself. So you need to be really disciplined and you need to really do all these things. Best way to improve much faster is giving a solid feedback to yourself each time. But if you do it yourself, you might not be able to give solid feedback each time because it'd be really objective, it will be more subjective. Cons of this method is that when you learn something wrongly, you're much likely to do that mistake over and over and over again. I was mispronouncing the same words repeatedly, like foreigner, I was saying for Rainer and purpose, our sink proposed or something. And I only realized that because of you guys. You guys commented that my pronunciation is wrong, then have a YouTube channel. If I didn't have native speaker friends, I don't think I would be able to realize my mistakes. So it is always important to get feedback from other people. The biggest con of this method is not getting a solid feedback. You give yourself a feedback. You might not know your mistakes. Doing mistakes is not a problem, but when you learn something wrongly in the beginning, it can be really hard to fix it afterwards for starting to learn a new language, I think it is important to specify your goals because according to your goal, the method that you will use will really change my goal. My only goal to learn English was back then, I was following a YouTuber called Jim Charles. My sisters and my sister. I used to be a huge fan of him and I wanted to understand his videos. And that was the only reason why I wanted to learn English. For me, for talking or grammar was not that important to be honest, because I wasn't planning to use this for any professional occasion because I had a clear goal of learning English. It really helped me through the journey because when you don't have a goal, you cannot test herself very much know if you have a goal point, you can compare your current level and then see what you need to do in order to reach this level. If you don't have a clear vision, you cannot really practical process and then give yourself a great feedback. And also methods that you will use will change, therefore, for starting to learn a new language might not be English at all. It is important to think what store actual goal is. And pupil might want to learn a language for school or education purposes or maybe business purposes. And some people only want to learn a language for font. And them are amazing reasons and just need to know you want to do. The step one will be choose what to watch. If you don't know, I learned English, watching from YouTube videos that I said, input in the beginning is crucial. Sound natural, and sound more Lincoln native. I'm not saying that I sound like a needle whatsoever. But by watching YouTube videos, you will most likely hear more daily conversations, especially in blogs where people talk daily lives. Like lifestyle creators, I will recommend watching their videos, especially English native speaker. I've styled like YouTubers because they talk about their day is what they're going to do, how they're feeling these days that I was supposed to be my rest day but feeling a little sore. So I just wanted to do a little bit of light workouts and they update you about their life. And I feel like in DOS type of videos, you can catch up so many phrases that native speakers use in their daily life. If you don't enjoy less tile type of creators, you might also check Netflix or maybe other TV series or movies or songs, whatever you enjoy. But the important thing is to enjoy the process. Main goal of my method is to enjoy the process so that in, so that it won't be studying. You're just going to watch YouTube videos, but with a better mindset. I don t think that it's pretty studying, to be honest. Step two is watch videos at normal speed with subs. I don't understand what they're saying. Instead of only watching, you are watching a video. Truly concentrate on that video and try to read subtitles and try to understand what they're talking about everyday, at least an hour to make it a habit and make it a part of your day. You need to make the new language part of your day and you need to practice every day and day by day, you will realize that you all understand more and more and more. And with the time, you will not need subtitles at all. Zoom media only in your target language. It might not be really possible for you to do if you're especially how schoolwork to do, at least tried to consume more media in your target language can be Japanese, can be green. It can be, I don't know, like a rabbit or something, and trying to consume as much as possible media in your target language. Even if you don't understand it, you're able to understand what they're saying in a video or a podcast or movie. A subtitles. Move on to the next third step will be watched videos without subtitles, at least for an hour every day. So we did enough input in order to understand videos without subtitles. Now, it's time to do more output. After watching every single video or a movie or a podcast episode, tried to explain it to yourself, tried to summarize yourself when doing all of these. Tried to summarize them in your own words is crucial. Do not use any translator as you will actively try to recall some of the worlds and some of the words and some of the meanings. And this is a crucial step, becoming fluent and sounding natural in your target language. It's really convenient to translate immediately, but need to give yourself a bit of time to think about the words that you know or you don't know, need to come up with them. But if you cannot really find word after like maybe thinking a couple of minutes, you can of course, look it up. And then you can maybe create a notion page and add your vocabulary list or something. Talk to yourself in your daily life, it might sound crazy, but I was always talking to myself. I was trying to explain different circumstances to myself. Like I was acting like I had a friend who I talk in English and I was trying to do some daily conversations with myself, which is crazy. But in my previous videos I talked about it and a lot of people were doing this method two, so I'm not the only crazy one, but you can do it. Tried to talk to yourself. Like I remember looking into the mirror. I was doing my makeup and I have is acting like I'm a beauty guru and i'm, I was explaining to hold makeup steps in English itself. That was alone in my room. That that's how I learned English and it works. I recommend time when you say something out loud, Try to think, how can I say this in my target language? And if you don't know, look it up because that's the sentence that you've said in your daily life and will probably be necessary in your target language too. So it is actually great way of studying. Just like mimicking yourself, like how you talk in your main language and then trying to save in your target language. When it comes to translators, I think there are the evil or anything. It's always depends how you use them, but it's really convenient to look and search it up on translator immediately. But most of the time growth doesn't come from a place comfortable. Oh, it sounds cheesy, but I think it's true. When you're able to understand videos without subs. And you are crazy enough to talk to yourself every day and made it a habit, move on to the next step. Fourth step will be read in your target language. If you don't read, Excuse me, What are you doing with your life? Please. Start reading immediately. Place even reading is not your habit maybe, which is a shame anyway. And just getting you can read whatever you would like to. It doesn't have to be a very complicated stuff. Even in the beginning, if you're not able to really understand, you can even read like kids book so many nice and good kids books, actually, that it can renew our target language. And it's actually really fun to understand the book language that is not your mother tongue. One thing great about reading is that oftentimes in books they use more complicated sentence structures that are not really used in daily life. So it will really help you to improve your vocabulary and also maybe your grammar. And it will also teach you to help to express yourself better in your target language. In daily life, I feel like people use the same words again and again again. But if you want to really improve, I think reading books crucial and I think I should read more books in German and also in English to improve my language skills even more. And after a reading every chapter, of course, after doing inputs, we always need to do outputs. Therefore, to summarize the chapter or anything in your own words while reading some books or newspapers or online news, whatever to watch an hour of videos without subs everyday. Phi will be speeding up the videos to 1.25 to 1.5. And the important thing about this step is that oftentimes native speakers talk really fast, like they don't, they don't talk slowly. Therefore, if you get used to pass through version and videos, you easily understand native speakers and take a bit of time to get used to it. And then some people do not enjoy it at all. But I personally love and watching videos at triple SPs or so because I get bored easily. So speeding up things really helps and do this method at least for a year, for entire year, every day six will be continue more than a year, you might think a year it's going to take me a year, excuse me. It take you multiple years in school and you couldn't learn it. And now I'm introducing you a method where you can learn in about a year maybe or two, of course, we cannot learn and become super fluent in language in the next couple of weeks or so. If you do everything, you might be able to become fluent in a couple of months. I don't know. There's some people that can do it in my life, learning a language is not the main focus of my life. A part of my life, main goal of this method is enjoying the process. And when you enjoy the process, actually Time flies. Obviously in a year, you want sound like native. I think. I don't sound like native. And now it's been how many years? I don't know, 23 or so. But when you compare to the beginning, I think I improved and I'm improving more and more day-by-day. Thinking about this method, I feel like if I didn't have a YouTube channel and if I didn't, if we didn't have a weekly podcast which is milliseconds apart, where actually we don't do it weekly. We've been lacking consistency these days. However, if I dump native speaker friends like mats and easy in phi, looking to them every week, doing Zoom calls every week and hour or so. And I don't think I could improve this much. I'm, I'm pretty comfortable when it comes to English. I read quite a lot of English books. I have a lot of meetings. I need to write a lot of males. And also my unit is also in English. Now, learning English gave me so many opportunities like it gave me a job, got into uni, and I made a lot of friends, even like some relationships. And not only English, any other language can give you so many opportunities. You can meet a bunch of pupil. And it has that everybody knows English these days, you don't need to learn any other languages now, if you want to truly communicate with a person, poke them in their mother tongue, they would really appreciate it and you can connect with them deeply. Even though my only goal was to understand James Charles. I am really glad that I did that. And I spent a lot of time consuming English media and trying to talk myself. And I'm really proud of myself for doing that. And I'm in a place where I couldn't imagine a couple of years ago off I'm going to cry 17. Which sources to should use?: Now let's talk about which sources you need to use or you should use. The first one is going to be language books feeling a bit lost when it comes to language learning. No need to worry. Books can be amazing resource. You can get access to months or even years of research and effort in the palm of your hand for a small price on the floor and forever website, they provide a book recommendations for almost every language where you can check out from this list. And the great thing is they're constantly trying to add more language recommendations for everyone who needs them. So I'm quite sure that you can find the language wants to learn on fluent forever website. Also, fluent forever is an amazing book for anyone interested in language learning in this course is highly inspired by it. It really transformed the way I learned languages. And then the second thing you need is probably a good grammar book, a wonderful glamour book can guide you through the grammar of your language in a methodical and organized way. Along the way, it can introduce you to 1,000 or so words give you a good examples and practice activities and provide you with a healthful answer key. You don't need to do every practice activity in the book. In fact, you will probably skip majority of the exercises in the books, but having them available will save you a lot of time when you start learning grammar. And then the third thing is a phrase book. Phrase book is actually an amazing reference since it can teach you phrases you won't find in other language books, in the book Flow and forever, they are recommending phrase book from the Lonely Planet company. So they're cheap and come with a tiny practical dictionary, which you can use in this phrase books, e.g. you can ask about maybe the directions or maybe you get in trouble when you miss the bus or when you're trying to stay one night longer in a hotel, maybe you won't find these examples in the dictionary, but you will find them in a phrase book. And then the other thing you probably need is frequency dictionary. It usually contains the most important 5,000 words of your target language arranged according to their fluency. This book is quite handy because most of the free sources out there teaching unnecessary words you probably never ever use when you're speaking. So the frequency list will save you tons of time and it will help you study smart, not hard. Other source is, of course, YouTube. You can watch native speakers talking about various topics. So fine YouTubers that you like that are in native speakers in that language and just watch their videos. And some of the free language learning apps that I like or that blue suit I Tolkien, which emoji for Japanese, hello talk. And there are tons of them. So you can try out. Another great app is actually Pinterest. There's so many good grammar and vocabulary boards and also really good flashcards actually on Pinterest so you can search it for your target language. The one that most people forget is actually Google translation, although the pronunciation in it is not the perfect. If you're learning a very niche language, you might not be able to find a pronunciation guide on online. You can listen to the Google Translate button. You can also google writing maybe Spanish pronunciation guide. And then I'm sure there will be a website for Nancy, every word in a very correct way. So these recommendations for people who just started learning languages, but what if you already spend some time to learn the language? So if you already have a grammar book, make sure that you actually like your grammar book if not, get a new one, because your grammar book is actually quite important, even though we're going to, we're not going to use majority of it. If you don't have a phrase book, consider getting it. It's great for learning phrases about day-to-day situations. So it might actually help you out with your frequency quite a lot. And if you don't have a frequency, dictionary, get one, this is necessary. Or you can Google basically get a free one on the website. You can get a frequency dictionary are right now, there are also like PDF versions on web. Maybe purchase the VIP version. So what about language classes, tutors, and online courses? If you can hire and tutor using a service like maybe I told Qi Bu Su or any other platform, it will speed up the process so much. But if you can, it's also fine, but consider attending to intensive immersion programs if you have time and money and also the freedom, you don't have to necessarily go to a language class in order to learn e.g. I. Learned English by myself. But if you'll enjoy learning with other people, why not actually investing in it and spending time money into it will speed up the process. But you do not necessarily need to do so. But if you had the chance to do it, e.g. in your summer break or whatever break you have, I highly recommend to do so. And also there are some apps or services that provides like seven-day Sprint, 14 day sprint. So you might be able to do them too, but I learned English by myself. So there's no excuse for you to make it. There's so many sources out there and listing all of them so there's no reason to not use them and think, oh, I don't have a tutor. That's why I I can't learn a language. No, that's not the truth. It's 2023. So you have all of the resources online, all of the free things you online, you can use them and learn whatever language you want to learn. 18. The key to succeed no matter how busy you’re : So what is the key to succeed no matter how busy your, let's talk about it. Whether you are a student or full-time employee or just juggling multiple responsibilities. These tips will help you carve out the time you need to effectively learn a new language. So first thing first, know your learning profile. First and foremost, it's crucial to understand your personal learner profile. This means identifying your preferred learning styles when you have the most energy during the day, e.g. or maybe the ideal duration of your study sessions by tailoring our language learning to your unique preferences, you will maximize productivity and enjoyment. And then secondly, schedule and protect your study time to make the most of your busy schedule, evaluate your daily routine and block out dedicated time for language learning via realistic about how much time you can allocate and make a conscious effect to protect it plan you're vegan Adventist scheduled tutoring sessions and ensure that you prioritize your language goals. Three, multitask and stack habits find opportunities to multitask and stagger had language learning on top of existing habits, e.g. you can listen to podcasts or practice flashcards during your commute time or play a language lesson in the background while you get ready in the morning. This will help you make the most of that time during your day for create a game plan. Having a game plan for what you will study during your language learning session is crucial for maximizing efficiency plan to content in advance, ensuring you have a balanced focused on different language skills such as speaking, reading, writing, and listening. This approach will reduce mental friction and make it easier to dive into your study sessions. Five, prioritize study efficiency. Lastly, focused on study efficiency by employing effective techniques like space repetition software, podcasts, speaking sessions, and extensive reading books like flu and forever by Gabrielle Weiner offer a valuable advice on optimizing your language learning process. So the conclusion is by following these steps, you will be well on your way to making time for your language learning, no matter how busy your life might be. Remember, causes they see and dedication are key to achieving our language goals for any sort of coal you have, if you have any other tips or tricks for making time in a busy schedule, please let me know, send me an email and I might add them to my course. So thanks for watching and good luck on your language learning journey. 19. How to create an effective study plan (step by step): So today we're going to learn how to create an effective study plan. As you probably noticed, the format is different from the other videos because I'm going to add a bunch of bonus listens to our cloth. This is the first one. I'm going to be adding ten to 15 additional videos. So hopefully you will check them out. Oftentimes when people plan for the language learning the right, the date, the topic, and how much they want to study. So this is a very common way of creating study plants. This method worked for me for awhile, but also lifetime get in their way. When you're planning your study plan. You also want to have a flexibility. If you have ADHD or maybe ADHD tendencies, it might be better for you to have flexibility because ADHD brains performs better when they have flexibility, but it also has to be structured. That is the problem. So today we're going to solve that problem. In order to use this scheduling method, you do not necessarily have to have ADHD. It can work for everyone. Also having options, trying out, seeing what works, what doesn't work for you is the best way to go. So I have already actually made the study scheduled template. So if you don't want to learn a lot older details, you can just simply go there and duplicate it for free. I will add it in the resources section of the video. If you're watching on Skillshare and if you're not watching on Skillshare, I will add on the comments on the teachable section. Our step one is going to be creating a general study plan. If you're working at a nine to five job, this they can be your maybe Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, where you can take about 30 min to an hour to plan what you want to learn and understand where you currently are. Whenever we're making plans, it's important to understand our current situation. We can create a plan according also when creating a plan, It's important to identify your goal. Because what you're going to study, how much you're gonna study and the way you're going to approach your language learning is going to differ depending on your goal. You might be learning a language for business purposes. So your approach is going to be very different than someone else who's learning for economical purposes. No matter what your goal is, the very basic important rule is to learn to frequent words. So the most used words in that language, you don't need to know every single word in that exist in language. E.g. apricots, just because you don't know the meaning of apricots. So I'm going to cause you a lot of problems, right? You're probably will get it with the time, with the contexts. It's not that important to have an effective study plan. You need to always focus on your highest priority words and then learn the accessory works. If you've watched the other videos, you probably know that you need to learn to top thousand words in your target language. The tricky thing is, top thousand words in English is really different than from top thousand words in Japanese or maybe in Arabic. Because what people use frequently differs depending on the culture. But you don't need to worry about it, because now you can find them by typing frequency words lists in Spanish, in German, in this and that for free on Google. If you'll learn top thousand words, you will nearly understand 85% of the words you hear and 75% of the words you read. If you're aiming for high degree of fluency, learn additional 500 to 10,000 words. You can also find them on Google if you don't want to aim for high degree of fluency, you can skip and learn 675 goals, specific vocabularies. If you have a very specific goal for learning language, e.g. you only want to learn a language just because you're interested in music. And if you do not necessarily have to be very fluent, you can learn only to 675 goals, specific vocabularies. You might think why I'm going to find DCs under 75 specific vocabularies. You can again Google them, 675 frequent words about music in Italian, in Japanese, in everything. Can basically type this and Google will give it out for free. Or maybe you need to purchase it depending on the language, of course. But in summary, begin by learning top thousand words in your language. And then if you're aiming for high fluency, top 1,500 to two top 2000 words. Once you're done building foundation, choose additional words based upon your individual needs. You can find these words by skimming through a thematic vocabulary book and finding keywords for every contexts you need, like travel, music, business, and so on. Or you can basically type them on Google. And probably one source will come up, even if you're not a beginner. So if you spend some amount of time learning a certain language, It's always beneficial to check the top thousand and then initially top 2000 words. Because even though I'm quite fluent in German, I realized that there are some words that I don't know in frequent words list when creating a general plan, what we need to know is we need to cover multiple areas. I'm in. This actually depends on your goal, e.g. if you only want to understand monument and if it's the only reason you want to learn Japanese, you don't necessarily need to practice writing or reading Right? Because candies are really difficult and it's going to take a lot of time. And if you're only trying to understand anemia, you'll probably need to focus on listening on grammar and vocabulary and a little bit of speaking probably. But I'm going to show you the general way because most of the time people want to learn every single area. In order to have a balanced structure, you can allocate 10 min for each section and use App Services, books, or websites to complete each group. So if you want to see good amount of results, I will recommend you starting from 10 min each, but we're all busy. So understand it. But if you have more time, adding more time will speed up your process. But a great rule of thumb is if you're busy, start with 10 min each day. And since life can get in the way, I would recommend you to take only six days of studying, 10 min each. If you're a total beginner, I highly recommend from starting here, because oftentimes we set ourselves a very high expectation and most people don't live up to that expectation. And they get this appointment on themselves and they eventually quit. So why not start from a very low point and then gradually increase it and then achieve it. And you can set your base 0.2, 60 min. If you were able to study. A mean is 90 min, maybe a couple of hours and that we'd been celebrated. But the baseline I would recommend is to set 60 min per week where to know what you need to study for vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, and reading and writing skills. If you want to book recommendations for each language, I'm going to add a blog post from the writer of the fluent forever, which is an amazing book. You can check this website. They listed almost every single language and they also have resources there, which is amazing. If you're planning to learn new vocabulary, which you probably should. I highly recommend using Anki. Anki is a flashcard app which incorporate active recall and space repetition, which are two most effective study methods automatically. So you don't need to really worry about. I would recommend you to pick one day to create all of your flashcards you want to learn in that weekend bulk, create flashcards in 30 min. The reason why I'm giving a time limit is that oftentimes people create lot of flashcards more than they could ever study in a week. So setting a time limit for yourself is a great way to prevent over making flashcards. When we are creating our study schedule, I wanted to combine a scheduling method called retrospective timetable and also a regular timetable. What does retrospective? Retrospective means? Basically looking back. So a classical calendars will look like this. You will have the day, you will have what you have done that day. But fresh perspective timetables will look like this, e.g. this is an example table. I'm going to give you a notion template for free. You will find it down there. The great thing about this retrospective timetable is that you can look to the topics you've studied and you can see the last time you study and how was your understanding. So next time you're going to plan your week on whatever day you picked. You're not going to overly, right? Or calories because you're already good at them. But you're going to more focus on speaking practice or writing practices and your frequency list. This way, you will prioritize things correctly and it's really nice. And you can also use the calendar view. When you're doing your general plan, you're going to first start planning your week from here. I wouldn't recommend you to write all the things you want to learn first on Monday. Now you can move them around and plan your week accordingly. E.g. on Monday, you wanna do most common 20 words. You can do on Wednesday, listening chapter one. Basically you get the point. You can write what you want to learn and when you click on this, you can pick today, we're going to study. This way. You're going to have a general idea of what you want to do each week. So let's say on Monday, I see that the most common 20 words I need to study this. Then I study the most common 20 words. Monday. On Tuesday when I sit on my desk, come to my retrospective timetable and then I rate my understanding. Was I good at understanding the most common 20 words or was I not that good? And then on Tuesday you study 20 new words. So you look at it. Should I study this or should I study a new topic? Since it's like zero to 15%, you study the same material. Once again, you don't add any new cart. And in that they may be your understanding got better. So it's also, there's a filter, so it moves things around now around 50 to 70%. So on Wednesday when you're studying reading chapter one, okay, you've finished the reading and you realized that you were pretty good about it. And then on Thursday, chapter one, listening, I did my listening. And then I add my day and I give myself a feedback. Was I good at it, was a bad at it. The topics doesn't have to be this broad. You can maybe add like about music. Top hundred. We can branch them out and you can create subgroups. Basically. One tip I can give for vocabularies is that use your spare time, especially if you're busy whenever you're commuting, whenever you have a free time, maybe you're waiting for your boss, maybe you're on a toilet. Rather than watching YouTube videos, I would recommend going to your Anki and practicing flashcards. Don't underestimate five, 3 min here and there you find these three and five-minutes with the time adds up a lot. So in order to do these during your commute time, I would recommend using Anki flashcard apps for vocabularies and various language apps for listening, reading, speaking practices. In our next lesson, I'm going to teach you how to create Anki flashcards. So stay tuned for that video. 20. How to create effective Anki flashcards (Step by Step) : Welcome to order. Welcome back. Today we're going to learn how to create evidence-based Anki flashcards to remember vocabulary as quickly as we can and also retained on the information. Because it's learning consists of three parts. First, understanding to memorizing, and then three, remembering. If you don't remember the information we learned, then what's the point of learning, right? So in order to create evidence-based Anki flashcards, we need to make the memories more memorable. So in neurology, you will hear a lot of professors saying Neurons that fire together, wire together. The more you make connections, the more it will stay in your memory. And to fire as much as possible neurons, we need to process word deeply. And the level of processing models in the 1970s by psychologists called Craik and Lockhart explains how to depth of processing involved in memory effects retention. It suggests that memory is a byproduct of the depth of processing information. So deeper the level of processing, the easier the information is to recall. Information processing can be shallow or deep. In order to reach to the deeper level of processing, we need to hit old four levels of processing. So what are they? It's sound, structure, concept and then personal connection. If we hit all the four, then we hit a deeper level of processing that information and enlarge. In language learning, sound means pronunciation, right? The first processing is pronunciation. We need to know how the word is. If you would see a letters juggling up and if you don't know how it's pronounced, it's a little harder for you to remember that word. Then the second processing structure means knowing how to spell. For example, cat. The structure of this world is going to be c, a, t cat. This is the structure, so how you spell it. And then the third one. So concept means understanding meaning of the word. So if you would show this word to someone who doesn't speak English, they would be like, What is this? It doesn't mean anything to them. So in order to remember that word, you need to know the meaning of that. Cat means an animal. That majority of the people like. I'm a huge fan. This is a cat. Then the last but not least, a personal connection. Memory of yours will, will make the processing much deeper. And this will help you to remember the information more. If you have a personal connection with cats, maybe you've seen them, maybe have bad experiences with them. And this personal inclination makes it easier for you to retain that information just by knowing these nothing changes. We need to apply this into our flashcards. So how can we imply the four levels of processing into our flashcards? They're going to be four steps. When you've created a flashcard, you will see automatically how it's spelled in a flashcards. Which means that we already got the structure in front of us. And also we're going to add pronunciation guide to our Anki cards so that we can connect with the sound. Sound instructure already clear. And we will use the word in the sentence to provide contexts and include an image that help us understand the words meaning and concept. And whenever you're making flashcards, try to give an example which has a personal connection to you. Here. The flying these forceps, we will be able to create flashcards that are deeply processed in our brains. From now on, I'm going to teach you how to create them actually step-by-step. If you don't have it, download the Anki app from the web. It's free for loop version and also for the Android. But if you're using an iPhone and if you want to use Anki app on your iPhone, then you need to pay for it. The great thing about Anki is that you can sync between your devices. So let's say on the weekends, on Sunday, you can create your flashcards in bulk. And whenever you're commuting, whenever during your free time, during the week, you can use your phone, open donkey AB, and practice flashcards. And since it will sync together at the end of the week, you can reflect on the results that you have. So you can decide where you want to learn more words or focus on the current ones. After you download the Anki app and opened up, you should have, you should see something like this. And then you can create different, you can create different areas. And the area that I created is language learning on key area, we can create different decks. There's a default deck already. If you don't want to categorize the vocabularies, your learning, you can just put them in the default one. But let's say you're learning about specific vocabulary. Let's say food. In Italy for example. This tech is going to be specifically about food. You can create another deck, for example, travel, that is dedicated to travel. Now this tag is going to have flashcards That is dedicated and associated with traveling. What are your learning? Italian, German, Japanese, whatever the language you're learning in. Now you can categorize your flashcards into different groups. So in this lecture, I would like to create some food-related flashcards. So I'm clicking this and now I opened my space and I can add flush card to here. Remember, all of the flashcards that we're making is going to be about food in this deck. To create a flashcard, you simply create ad and you have the front and back of the card from the car type you can select and create whatever the car type you want to create. I would recommend using the basic and reverse cart type. And now you have the front and back of the card. And in the front, in the front you're gonna write the word you'd like to learn. Let's say I want to learn the meaning of watermelon in Italian and says that it's this word La Guardia, something like that. And then in the back of it, since we want to process this information deeper, I'm going to add a image. Obviously watermelon. Everybody knows what a watermelon is. But if you're trying to learn more difficult words, this will come really handy. You can copy the image and then simply pasted on your Anki. You can also change the size of the image like this. Now you have the image here. I'm also going to write the meaning of the word long Judea, which is water, watermelon. Since I don't know how to pronounce this one. Law, hungry, yeah, I'm going to add a pronunciation guide for adding pronunciation. I would recommend using forward.com since they have a bunch of pronunciation files recorded by native speakers. But you can go to the formal.com and then simply type of world. Take a language you're learning and then click on Search. And you will have a file that is recording my speaker. I'm Gloria. The great thing about the affordable.com is that you can grab the file and drop it basically. And you will have the pronunciation. Now here we have the pronunciation right here. Okay, so we added the structure, so spelling of it. We added an image, we added the voice of it. Now it's time to write an example that has a personal connection. Let's say as a personal connection. And as an example, I want to write, during summers, my favorite fruit for a snack is watermelon. Then I will copy the Italian sentence. I will add to my flashcard, and then I will also add the translation in, down below. And in this way, I will have the example of this theorem. And by doing this, you hit all the four levels of processing. Now, as you can see, we have a card. Now I'm studying it. You can hit the Space button and then it will show the image and the flashcard you created. And after you answered that question, I know that Longoria is a watermelon. I'm saying I did it good. And then the reverse version. So watermelon. Watermelon in Colleen, I'm thinking Longoria showed answer and we got it. So Gloria, watermelon, watermelon, hungry. And then you can give yourself a feedback and it will create a custom study schedule for you. So this is the way you create an effective Anki flashcard. If you have any questions, please let me know. I would go out the answer your questions. Stay tuned for the next lesson. See you soon. Bye 21. How to study Anki flashcards (step by step) edited: Welcome back to our lesson. Today we're going to learn how to study Anki flashcards effectively. In the previous lesson, we learn how to create effective Anki flashcards. And now we're going to learn how to study them. So ideally, when you're younger, Anki flashcards basically, you need to review them every day on gear has a processing system that shows your week cars more often to help you view them more frequently. The more you use it, the better the system becomes. Anki creates a space repetition system for you. So you don't need to worry about which card to review. It automatically creates a scheduled for you. So all you need to do is review your daily chords, which are the cards that are due that day. See here we have some new cards. These are the cards that I need to study today. If you can connect your view time to another regularly recurring events in your life, for example, maybe during your breakfast, maybe whenever you're having a breakfast or doing your daily commute time or before going to bed, you can allocate ten to 15 min every single day for learning new vocabulary. If you do that, you will have an easier time establishing a new habit. So one thing I recommend to the beginners or whatever level you are in, actually start with a small number of new cars per day, which is 15 to 30 cards. And you can always decide letter later whether you want to increase the number of flashcards. Oftentimes people start with a high number of flashcards, but after a couple of days, they fall back into their routine and it just piles up and up and up and it becomes harder to catch up on these cards, right? In doing that, start with small amount of numbers where you are comfortably almost all the time accomplishing your daily cards. And then you can think to yourself whether you want to increase it or decrease it. Even. Adding too many cars can quickly become overwhelming and lead to burnout, making it nearly impossible to finish your daily overview. And trust me, I've been there too. So also note that we're talking about learning 30 new cars per day, not 30 words. So let me show you how to do it. So to take to set daily limits for new cards in Anki flashcards, we need to follow these steps. So you open the Anki app, as you can see here, I have my Anki app. Whenever you're setting limits to the deck, you have. Let's say you created a couple of effects like we did in our previous lesson. You click this setting and then you go to the Options. And here you have the daily limits set and laps and everything on their new cards per day, you can select anything between 15, 30, which is something that I recommend. I went with 20 with this sample on key flashcard workspace that I created to explain in this course. So to set the limits, if you set your card 20 for new cards than the maximum reviews per day should be at least 200, as you can. As you can see from here, for 20 cars, I will be adding 200 cards and probably for 30 cars, you need to add 300 reviews. If you're going with ten cards, you can do maximum review days of hundred. So since I'm doing 20, I'll do 200 maximum reviews per day. Now scroll down and you will have this advanced section where you can select the easy bonus. It's basically an extra multiplier that is applied to review cards interval when you rate it easy, I would recommend setting it to something around like 130%. So 1.3. After setting these things, you can also look to you all my settings here. I'm scrolling slowly and click to save. Whenever you're doing changes on, on key, you need to always close the app and reopen it. Applies the changes to it. If you miss a day studying or Anki flashcards because life or getting away you will have something, you might even forget it and you will miss a day. It's not end of the world. And only thing is, it's going to be a little difficult the next day or maybe next couple of days because you need to catch up on these cards. When you get back on track, cut back on learning new cards and spent a few days working at your review until they're back to normal levels. As long as you do catch up, then there's no problem. Once you build the habit of reviewing your cards daily, you will almost never forget and you won't have all these problems. You will open your Anki flashcards almost like on autopilot and just do them. And then also doing Anki flashcards is quite fun. It doesn't matter whether you're a beginner intermediate, or an upper level student, when it comes to language learning, you always need to use a space repetition and active recall system, which anki does it automatically. Thank you for this lesson and we'll see, and I'll see you in the next lesson. Bye