Learn ANY Language in 6 months using this LAZY method

in today's video I'm going to show you how to learn any language in six months using a lazy way of learning languages and so all of the methods and all of the activities included in this program are based on my own experience as well as scientific research and second language acquisition and look like the truth is some of you guys probably don't think that learning a language in 6 months is possible but the truth is it is possible all right you're not going to reach a native level that's for sure but you can definitely reach

a conversationally fluent level in 6 months now in the past I have learned multiple languages like English I'm speaking English to you right now and I'm a French speaker I've never lived in an english- speaking country I've also learned Japanese as matter of fact as a software developer I have even developed an app for lazy language Learners called fluent Falcon I'm going to talk about this later but you don't need to get it if you want to do this program so I'm going to divide my advice into four categories because these are the four things

the four categories of activities that you need to focus on if you want to be fluent in the language in six months in a lazy way the first category of activities is input and then we're going to talk about output then the liberate learning and then fluency development and each category needs 25% of your attention if you're spending you know 4 hours a week studying for example one hour has to be input another hour has to be output the other one has to be deliberate learning and the last hour has to be fluency development by

the way you're going to hear some birds at some point in the video sorry about that so the first thing I want to talk about is input so let me just start with listening and then we're going to go on with reading but at the very early stage when you're starting to learn a language even if you don't know a lot about the language and you don't understand when people talk to you it's actually useful to watch stuff on Netflix or movies even with subtitles in English and this is really going to help you get

a feel for the language and maybe you're not going to understand anything but you're going to get the Rhythm and just get a feel for the language and this is proven to actually help you when you start speaking the language now as your language skills develop as you become better in the language you can actually start watching things on Netflix YouTube Whatever video platform that you like with English subtitles at first and then rewatch or just relisten to the same movie or TV show without subtitles really paying attention to how things are said and really

paying close attention to listening comprehension so the first time that you actually watch the movie or the TV show with the subtitles really the goal is to get you to understand the movie or what is going on and so by doing this repetitive listening where you actually listen and watch that thing once and understand the context and then relist or reatch it multiple times you're actually training your listening comprehension on a movie that you actually you understand what is going on you understand the context and this is highly beneficial and again this is a guide

for lazy Learners so most of the activities in this program are going to be adapted for people who don't want to put a lot of effort in which is why I'm including a lot of movies and TV shows and so on another activity which is highly effective is reading while listening so let's say that you're watching a movie right and you're trying to learn say Spanish so you're watching the movie in Spanish and you put the subtitles on in Spanish and by reading the subtitles in Spanish at the same time that you're actually listening to

what's happening you're actually going to gain higher vocabulary knowledge your comprehension is also going to improve more than just by listening alone all right so here's other activity which is simply called transcription so take something on Netflix and it shouldn't be too long let's say about one or 2 minutes and so what you should do is actually play this movie or this video clip and try to write down everything that you hear and now you can actually relisten to the same clip multiple times as many times as needed for you to actually get a complete

version of the written script when you listen to the clip it's actually okay to pause on some parts of the clip to really make sure that you've understood what is being said so this activity here transcription is actually a very useful activity when it comes to improving your listening comprehension it gives you some very useful feedback as far as how well can you recognize words how well can you recognize phrases all right so we're still talking about input but now I want to talk about reading now reading is actually very useful because it's going to

help you get repetition of the same words the same word groups the same grammatical constructs and as I said a very good way to learn a language is actually to read the subtitles while you're watching a movie but I think there's a bit of a problem when it comes to to just reading because there are a lot of words that you read but they only come up once or they only come up a few times you don't have enough opportunities to meet them multiple times and really remember them in the long term so this is

why I recommend that you use a flashcard application now there are plenty of free flashcard apps like ay for example I personally recommend my own application which is called fluent Falcon I'm going to put a link to that in the description but obviously you know you don't need to get FL Falcon you can always get ankey which is 100% free now as I said use subtitles in movies to actually get a lot of reading now ideally the movies should be at the right level for you meaning that it shouldn't be too hard and it shouldn't

be too easy now a lot of times especially when you're a beginner it's almost impossible to watch movies in your target language and have a movie that is fairly easy or at the right level very often it's going to be pretty hard so what you can do in this case when you're watching stuff that is just too hard for you is actually watch TV shows with multiple episodes or multiple Seasons because that way you watch multiple episodes you watch multiple seasons and it's always going to be the same vocabulary the same words the same word

groups the same grammatical constructs that are going to come up and so as you read the subtitles this is going to replicate what is called narrow reading narrow reading is really when you want to learn a language and you take a bunch of texts that are about the same type topic and you just read that and because you're reading about the same subject because it's always the same context you're really building knowledge of the language on that particular topic and it's going to become easier for you so this is something that is called narrow reading

and it's actually very very useful now if you're at a more advanced level for a language like if you're above say C1 for example so above 6,000 words I think it's more useful in this case to actually watch a wider variety of things because then you get exposed to more vocabulary that you actually do not know all right so let's talk about the second category of activities here which is output and about 25% of your time should be spent doing output related activities and so output is divided into two separate sections you have speaking and

you have writing so for speaking I'm only going to give you one activity because I think that this is actually a huge hack this is actually Inc incredibly effective and this is something that you should absolutely be doing and this activity is deliberate memorization of phrases or entire dialogues if you really want to have phrases readily available for you to actually say then memorizing common sentences is actually one of the most helpful things that you can do this makes you speak pretty quickly this makes for longlasting and readily available phrases that you can use and

I know this sounds completely stupid but this is based on research and it absolutely works so for example if you're learning Spanish then you're going to take some phrases that you think may come up and memorize them just by heart for memorizing I'm going to suggest Anki here which is a free app link to that in the description and so deliberate memorization is by far the best activity in terms of learning how to speak it's not hard and you're going to get some quick results all right now let me talk about writing unfortunately for writing

I feel like it's very much the case that there's no lazy way to practice writing so my advice is when I learn languages my main concern the main thing I want to do is have conversations with people I'm not really concerned about training my writing to write emails or write reports because for me it's just a hobby so I would highly encourage you to think about this is it really necessary for you to actually train your writing I think it's okay to do a little bit of it but if you don't think that you're going

to be writing a lot in the language it's okay to spend less time on it than with speaking and with listening so as far as training for writing there are two types of activities that you can do the first activity is writing that is focused on accuracy so the goal here is that you take a topic and ideally something that you've read a lot about and you write an essay about it and you take as much time as you want and you can actually use things like Google translate a dictionary you can get help from

any anything online the goal here is really to write accurately and really build up your writing skills and now the second type of activity for writing and I'm going to talk about this later is writing for fluency so it's essentially you need to train yourself to actually write fairly fast I'm going to talk about that a little bit later but in the meantime I want to talk about the third category of activities which is deliberate learning now deliberate learning or deliberate study is what most people think is language learning where talking about things like you

know flashcards or textbooks or you know actual studying I know that this video is about how to learn a language in a lazy way so we're going to try to limit as much as possible the deliberate learning because it's not fun it's pretty hard but truth of the matter is deliberate learning is extremely effective and extremely efficient so if you're not doing any deliberate study you're really missing out this is a guide for lazy language Learners so I'm going to give you the number one most important activity that you should be doing as a language

learner as far as deliberate study goes and this is you guessed it vocabulary flashcards to be honest I don't want to talk about this in every video I make I just sound like a broken record but working with word cards or sentence cards is by far the most effective and the most efficient deliberate learning activity what I mean by this is that you should be using some sort of flash card app like Anki for example so a very simple example here let's say I'm learning French what I'm going to do as that I'm going to

take the front of the flash card I'm going to write hello in English and the back of the card I'm going to write bonjour which is hello in French and so every time that I see this card I'm going to see okay hello well how do I say this in French and then I think to myself okay what is it uh bonjour all right I think about the answer I look at the back of the card and if this is good then great I've actually remembered it and this actually strengthens my memory of this word

in my brain and so this sort of you know what is called spaced retrieval with flash cards is by far the most efficient activity that you can do and there is tons of scientific research on this now obviously the problem here is that doing flash cards is not fun like I've burnt out multiple times using Ani because I was doing too much so there are two possible answers here the first one is just do less flash cards so flash cards are incredibly effective but you need to learn to just do a few flash cards a

day don't do too much and the second Sol solution here is I've actually built again an app for lazy language Learners so if you don't want to do your flashcards I have built an app called flu Falcon and this allows you to create audio flashcards where instead of learning and reviewing your flashcards on a computer or on a smartphone you can just listen to the flashcards I do this myself on a daily basis to learn Japanese and I'm getting some great results so I'm going to put a link to flun Falcon in the description but

you don't need necessarily to use flun Falcon you can always use traditional flashcards like Anki now there are other ways of learning vocabulary this is like more advanced strategies for learning vocabulary uh put a comment down in the comment section uh below if you want me to make more videos on Advanced Techniques and methods for learning vocabulary all right now the fourth category of activities I want to talk about is fluency development activities what I really mean by fluency development is that you need to develop the ability to best use what you already know so

the goal here is that you don't you're not going to learn new vocabulary you're not going to learn new grammar construct but you're going to get really fluent with the stuff that you already know so think about this for example I'm sure if you've learned a new language you've had this problem right where like you learn the numbers in Spanish and you know them but you go to Mexico or whatever and then at the register the cashier actually tells you a number and they say it so fast that you don't know what it is and

this is because you lack fluency in listening so what I really mean by fluency here is there's like a speed component meaning that you need to have a certain speed in your listening comprehension you need to be fluent in speaking and the same thing goes for writing and reading now I think it's much more important to develop fluency in listening and speaking especially if you're like me just trying to have conversations with people so I'm going to give you some activities to develop your fluency first I'm going to start with listening fluency so the thing

that you can do here is you can watch stuff on Netflix or even on YouTube in your target language and you can actually play with the playback speed so you can watch stuff using slow speed at first to make sure that you understand everything and over several days you just increase the speed at which you watch the same stuff until you reach normal speed and you can understand everything all right now to train your speaking fluency there's a well-known activity called for 32 which is you prepare some sort of dialogue some sort of topic that

you're going to talk about for four minutes and then you talk about the exact same stuff a second time and you need to cover everything you need to talk about the same thing but only 3 minutes and then you do the exact same thing but only 2 minutes so you're trying to talk about the same thing use the same sentences but do it faster and faster 4 minutes 3 minutes and then 2 minutes and this is how you train speaking fluence uency now for reading fluency there is something that is very similar and the goal

here is really to reach about 250 words per minute in reading speed with good comprehension obviously so what you can do here is that you take a piece of text and you read it but three times and every time that you read it you actually use a timer app and you try to read the same piece of text but each time it has to be faster and with the same level of comprehension and last I want to talk about writing fluency and so what you can do is actually set aside 10 minutes and in 10

minutes you need to write about something that you like and don't worry too much about being accurate in terms of vocabulary in terms of grammar in terms of spelling it's okay just write as much as possible in 10 minutes and once you're done with the 10 minutes with an actual timer you take a look and you count the number of words that you have written you do this two or three times a week and every time the goal is actually to increase the number of words that you're writing again you're not focusing on spelling you're

not focusing on vocabulary you're not focusing on grammar you don't want to worry about mistakes because it's going to slow you down the goal really here is to write as fast as possible all right so that's it for this video I've given you a lot of activities that you can do to become fluent in language in six months in a pretty lazy way now as I said in the video I actually made an app called fluent Falcon which is a flash card application you can make audio flashcard saying this is perfect for language Learners who

are looking to learn a language in a lazy way I'm going to put a link to the video here on how to use flu Falcon to become fluent in the language and so click on it if you're interested and I'll see you in the next video thank you bye-bye