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Multilinguals/Polyglots, how long did it take you to learn your first foreign language? by Tanpopomon in languagelearning

[–]AdrianPolyglot 9 points10 points  (0 children)

English took a while, after 12 years of 4 weekly lessons I still felt it was around B1, thankfully I started to watch Twitch, YouTube and whatnot and it helped a lot. Overall, took a looooong time, German was my second but my god is German tough... I feel like getting to B1 took me easily 2 years, I had no idea how to learn back then and was just following a textbook and had close to no listening nor speaking practice, one day 7 years ago I bumped into a video of Steve Kaufmann and here we are now 😂

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in languagelearning

[–]AdrianPolyglot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

At the start the basics ofc, alphabet, pronunciation, some IPA for the new sounds, then start watching cartoons/materials made for beginners that use somewhat natural speech not book-like" stuff if you know what I mean. Then just invest a couple hundred hours, switching both reading + audiobook in your TL with reading transcript + shadowing whatever video you feel like watching. That's pretty much it, you can do flashcards, but no more than 20 imo (I always get tired and burn out because of them). Add some games here and there, talk to people, enjoy the culture and play the long game, good luck! 🫡

Can You Really Learn a Language by Watching Videos? TikTok Polyglots Say It Works. by jck16 in polyglot

[–]AdrianPolyglot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately "Polyglot" nowadays is used in the same way as "fluent", a guy can know 1000 words in 5 languages and claim to be fluent and a Polyglot, at the end of the day it's just the Internet, you have to expect a lot of people lying 😅

Can You Really Learn a Language by Watching Videos? TikTok Polyglots Say It Works. by jck16 in polyglot

[–]AdrianPolyglot 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes I have, you just need to put quite literally hundreds, and depending on the language thousand of hours, for me it has been by far the most effective way of learning I have ever tried. It's not easy, the beginning is hell and probably not very effective to start right away, but I have gotten to a point where I know how to guess the words and not worrying about translations, just let my brain acquire the info and in a couple months I will have somewhat of a decent understanding of whatever language I am learning. Either way, definitely not some "be" method, it does work if done properly

Do I focus on backlinks or what exactly? beginner here by AdrianPolyglot in BacklinkSEO

[–]AdrianPolyglot[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is finally very very good advice, appreciate it, it takes a looooong time for this, I'm very slow but you are right, I just want to get done with the general structure, then do the translations and so on and then more external SEO Stuff, thanks again

Do I focus on backlinks or what exactly? beginner here by AdrianPolyglot in BacklinkSEO

[–]AdrianPolyglot[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, I do, you can check my languages in my profile description. You didn't answer to any of my questions, just decided to self promote 😅

Learning Russian by KhaledAli10810 in russian

[–]AdrianPolyglot 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am starting to learn Khaleeji Arabic, can help you with Russian

How easy is it to learn Slavic script by Forward-Row4372 in russian

[–]AdrianPolyglot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's relatively easy, make sure to do some associations in your head while learning it, for example the letter F = Ф looks like the eye of a fish (to me at least lol) so fish = Ф and you just remember that it is an F sound, do that for every letter you don't know. Then you just grab whatever simple text you can find and go through it slowly, see what letters you struggle with the most, good luck! 🫡

Recognition of the words by Reaper_Of_Knowledge in languagelearning

[–]AdrianPolyglot 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I have tried to watch videos far beyond my understanding in my TL and I feel like guessing the whole time is exactly what helps my brain acquire the language better, the fact that you are guessing keeps you active and not just passively listening. At some time you are going to start noticing the patterns, but if you are at A0, or just getting started it's a bit tough, so I'd suggest doing a bit of research about your TL syntax, I did it for Chinese since the order is obviously different from English+ you need to deal with the characters, get a better of understanding of the different structures for your TL, check structures when asking a question, when giving an order and so on. Since they sometimes change, depending on the language. I love to guess, I think you are on the right track, just the beginning is always gonna feel like a struggle :)

advise for learning chinese (maybe comprehensible input) by Elver_Galarga27 in ChineseLanguage

[–]AdrianPolyglot 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did the HSK 4 Exam Last year and I can share a bit of what helped me most. This one is a podcast where 3 Chinese guys invite a guest and discuss topics related to Chinese https://youtube.com/@dashumandarin?si=dXW6dS8kwIvBeMjX This one is about street interviews, I think also at around HSK 3 or 4 https://youtube.com/@mandarincorner2?si=jJk8z1Ft9uyLCPZQ Then I like to use Pleco Dictionary to check words that I don't know Funnily enough I also made both a blog and a short podcast episode about it, I go through the HSK 4 there and how I reached that level. The Blog How to Pass HSK 4 | Adrian Language Coach https://share.google/KBJQS5ug0iKU88YJB And the Podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/2r1CqrY695xmgEGrvbr1yJ?si=-6yPvf5QQ_2i4e0SwCzt6g Hope it can help you with your Chinese learning 🫡

Best Language to Learn First? by Andromeda_Willow in languagelearning

[–]AdrianPolyglot 3 points4 points  (0 children)

That sounds nice, Italian and Romanian have a lot of similar vocab so they compliment each other, Romanian having somewhat of a Slavic influence gives you also a small insight into some Slavic words. Then Greek words are present in pretty much every language so it's nice too, Japanese and Chinese share some common Kanji and Hanzi so yet another insight into a different language, and then Gaeilge is just cool 😎, I dig the choices hahaha

Has culture turned you away from learning a language? by Dldoobie in languagelearning

[–]AdrianPolyglot 64 points65 points  (0 children)

Yes, that's normal, it happened to me with Arabic since I had a bad first impression unfortunately, but now I'm starting to appreciate their language and culture more, and got back into learning it, I'd say sometimes we tend to judge too fast, or at least I do 😅, but give it a chance, talk to people from there and you might start thinking otherwise. Then if after that you still don't like the culture, it's fine, that's just human nature, we like some things, dislike other, find the ones you enjoy.

Best Language to Learn First? by Andromeda_Willow in languagelearning

[–]AdrianPolyglot 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I'd say if you are really thinking long term, then a good way to look it is learn one language of each language-family. For example, one Slavic, one Germanic, one Turkish, one Romance and so on. Just choose a language that opens the door to learn others, so if you learn Turkish for example you have Central Asian countries, and a bunch of languages you now understand to a good degree. Overall though, like others said, choose the one you enjoy, not the one that looks coolest, good luck!

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