how I LEARNED A LANGUAGE by myself WITHOUT STUDYING it | language tips from a POLYGLOT

thank you guys tulki for sponsoring this video it's been more than a year since i filmed my most viral video titled how i learned english by myself for free without studying it language learning tips from a polyglot after a year and a half i realized some of the mistakes that i did in the beginning and also if you compare my english skills now versus back then i think i improved quite a lot i feel like i can express myself my thoughts and my feelings more accurately so today i want to introduce better and updated origin

of the method that i showed how to learn a new language on your own so let's get started 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 a2 level of fluency in your target language but basically reaching a2 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's some scientific data proving this method some people commented it but i don't know it so this method worked for me but might not work for you just take it as a grain of salt you can use this method for any other 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 an 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 so i just basically went to regular schools that weren't really good teaching english in majority of the countries english is a mandatory choice but not everyone can speak english fluently i actually have a video where i explained details about it but basically we do too much input the education

system relies on too much input and we cannot do much output in lessons for example 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 you know fit into a regular school time schedule i think so i do understand it however if you want to learn a language on your own

we should look back to the methods that didn't work for us and then improve those methods and become better with them so therefore my method relies more doing on output rather than input according to my favorite books author kawasaki on he has two books called input dictionary and output dictionary where he explains how to do effective inputs and outputs he explains that the golden ratio of input and output is three to seven so thirty percent input and seventy percent 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 output 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 so let's begin so now let's talk about how to become fluent faster and let's talk about the cons of this method learning a language 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 would be really objective it would 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 foreign i was saying foreigner and like purpose i was saying propose or something and i only realized that because of

you guys you guys commented that my pronunciation is wrong i didn't 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 actually feedback from other people and 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 therefore i recommend today's sponsor italki

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youtuber called james charles hi sisters hi sisters hi 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 formal 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 yourself very much you 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 track your process and then give yourself a great feedback and also methods that we you will use will change therefore for starting to learn a linear language might not be english at all it is important to think what your actual goal is some people 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

fun and both of them are amazing reasons and just need to know what you want to do okay so the step one will be choose what to watch if you don't know i learn english watching from youtube videos i said input in the beginning is crucial sound natural and sound more like a native i'm not saying that i sound like a native whatsoever but by watching youtube videos you will most likely hear more daily conversations especially in vlogs where people talk about their daily lives like lifestyle creators i would recommend watching their videos especially english

native speaker lifestyle like youtubers because they talk about their days what they're gonna do how they're feeling these days today was supposed to be my rest day but feeling a little sore so i just wanted to do a little bit of like light workouts and they update you about their life and i feel like in those type of videos you can catch up so many phrases that native people speakers use in their daily life if you don't enjoy lifestyle type of creators you might also check netflix or maybe other tv series or movies or maybe

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 and so that it won't be studying you know you're just gonna watch youtube videos but with a better mindset and i don't think that it's really studying to be honest step two is watch videos at normal speed with subs try to understand what they're saying instead of only watching when you're watching a video truly concentrate on that video and try to read subtitles and try to understand what they're talking about which

every day at least an hour to make it a habit and make it a part of your day you need to make the new language a part of your day and you need to practice every day you know 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 assume media only in your target language it might not be really possible for you to do if you especially have school work to do but at least try to consume more media

in your target language it can be japanese it can be korean it can be i don't know like arabic or something and try to consume as much as possible media in your target language even if you don't understand it you are able to understand what they're saying in a video or podcast or movie subtitles move on to the next step third step will be watch videos without subtitles at least for an hour every day so we needed 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 try to explain it to yourself try to summarize yourself and when doing all these try to summarize them in your own words this is crucial do not use any translator because 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 you need to give yourself a bit of time to think about the words that you know

or you don't know you need to come up with them but if you cannot really find a word after like maybe thinking in a couple of minutes you can of course look it up and then you can maybe create a notion page and add your like 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 kind of acting like i have 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 too so i'm not the only crazy one but you can do it try to talk to yourself like i remember looking into mirror i was doing my makeup and i was acting like i'm a beauty guru and i'm i was explaining the whole makeup steps in english myself i was alone in my room that that's how i learn english and it works so 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 said in your daily life and will probably be necessary in your target language too so it is actually a great way of studying you know just like mimicking yourself like how you talk in your main language and then trying to say it in your target language when it comes to translators i think they're not evil or anything it 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 please even reading is not your habit maybe which is a shame anyway i'm just

kidding 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 books so many nice and good kids books actually that you can read your target language and me it's actually really fun to understand the book in a language that is not your modern tone so 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 how 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 are crucial and i think i should read more books in german and also in english to improve my language skills even more and after reading every chapter of course after doing inputs we always need to do outputs therefore to summarize a 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 every day the step 5 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 the faster version in videos you'll easily understand native speakers and take a bit of time to getting used to it and some people do not enjoy it at all but i personally love um watching videos

at triple speeds 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 gonna take me a year excuse me it took 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 you cannot learn and become super fluent in language in a couple of weeks or so if

you hear 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 like obviously in a year you won't sound like native i think i don't sound like native even now it's been how many years i don't know two three 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 had native speaker friends like matt and izzy and if i weren't talking to them every week you know doing zoom calls every week an 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 mails and also my uni 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 people it says that everybody knows english these days you don't need to learn any other languages no if

you want to truly communicate with a person talk 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 you know spent a lot of time consuming english media and trying to talk myself and i'm really proud of myself and for doing that and i'm in a place where i couldn't imagine a couple of years ago oh i'm gonna cry these days but anyway i'm so glad that i learned english

i hope you enjoy your language journey too and see you in my next video bye [Music] you