How I Learned 9 Languages (You Can Too!) | Polyglot’s Secrets for Fast Fluency! | Evolve Podcast

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Zusammenfassung

TLDREn aquest episodi, Will John, un poliglota i futbolista professional, comparteix la seva experiència en l'aprenentatge de diverses llengües. Explica que la clau per convertir-se en poliglota és la dedicació i la disciplina, així com l'exposició constant a l'idioma. Will recomana utilitzar recursos comprensibles i no tenir por de cometre errors. A més, destaca la importància de l'emoció en l'aprenentatge i com les tecnologies modernes poden ajudar en el procés. Finalment, anima a tothom a gaudir del viatge d'aprenentatge i a buscar connexions humanes a través de les llengües.

Mitbringsel

  • 🌍 Will John parla diverses llengües: espanyol, francès, italià, danès, suec, croat, rus, alemany i anglès.
  • 📚 La disciplina és clau per a l'aprenentatge d'idiomes.
  • 🗣️ No tinguis por de cometre errors; són part del procés d'aprenentatge.
  • 💻 Utilitza la tecnologia i recursos en línia per millorar les teves habilitats lingüístiques.
  • 🎧 L'exposició constant a l'idioma és essencial per a l'aprenentatge efectiu.
  • 💡 Busca entendre i ser entès en les converses.
  • 🕒 El matí és el millor moment per aprendre idiomes.
  • 🎉 Gaudeix del viatge d'aprenentatge i busca connexions humanes.
  • 📖 La lectura i l'escolta són fonamentals per adquirir vocabulari.
  • 🤖 No depenguis només d'aplicacions; combina-les amb altres mètodes d'aprenentatge.

Zeitleiste

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    L'entrevistador pregunta a Will John quantes llengües parla i com va aconseguir ser poliglota. Will menciona que parla diverses llengües i destaca la importància de la pràctica constant, com ara utilitzar aplicacions i parlar amb amics d'IA, tot i que adverteix que no s'ha de confondre l'aprenentatge seriós amb el simple joc.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    Will explica que hi ha una gran diferència entre voler ser poliglota i aprendre només una llengua. Recomana dedicar temps a l'aprenentatge i menciona Kato Lom, una traductora que creu que si no es pot dedicar almenys 12 hores a la setmana, potser no és el moment adequat per començar. També destaca la importància de l'input comprensible per aprendre.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:15:00

    Will parla sobre la importància de l'exposició constant a la llengua en contextos significatius. Comenta que la majoria de la gent vol resultats ràpids, però que l'aprenentatge de llengües requereix temps i repetició. Recomana evitar la sobrecàrrega d'informació i centrar-se en materials adequats per al nivell de l'aprenent.

  • 00:15:00 - 00:20:00

    Will destaca que per ser poliglota cal tenir paciència i dedicar temps a cada llengua. Recomana establir una estructura d'aprenentatge i no esperar resultats immediats. Parla de la importància de l'exposició a la llengua i de com la disciplina és clau per a l'aprenentatge.

  • 00:20:00 - 00:25:00

    Will afirma que és possible aprendre una llengua sense traslladar-se al país on es parla. Comenta que ara hi ha moltes eines disponibles, com diccionaris i tutors en línia, que faciliten l'aprenentatge. Destaca que no hi ha excuses per no aprendre.

  • 00:25:00 - 00:30:00

    Will parla sobre la importància de la disciplina en l'aprenentatge de llengües i com ha estat influenciat per valors culturals. Recomana establir una rutina d'aprenentatge i dedicar temps a l'estudi de la llengua, preferiblement al matí quan la ment està fresca.

  • 00:30:00 - 00:35:00

    Will explica que la rutina d'aprenentatge ha de ser part de la vida diària i no només un hobby. Parla de la importància de l'input comprensible i de com la immersió en la llengua ajuda a millorar les habilitats de comunicació.

  • 00:35:00 - 00:40:00

    Will destaca que l'aprenentatge passiu, com veure pel·lícules o escoltar música, pot ser útil, però que cal dedicar temps a l'aprenentatge actiu. Comenta que la repetició i la pràctica són essencials per a l'aprenentatge efectiu.

  • 00:40:00 - 00:48:54

    Will parla sobre la importància de fer errors i com aquests ajuden a consolidar l'aprenentatge. Comenta que és normal cometre errors i que cal acceptar-los com a part del procés d'aprenentatge. La clau és seguir practicant i no tenir por de parlar.

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Video-Fragen und Antworten

  • Quines llengües parles?

    Parlo espanyol, francès, italià, danès, suec, croat, rus, alemany i anglès.

  • Quins consells dónes per aprendre idiomes?

    Dedica temps a l'exposició a l'idioma, utilitza recursos comprensibles i no tinguis por de cometre errors.

  • És possible aprendre un idioma sense viure al país?

    Sí, és possible aprendre un idioma sense viure al país, gràcies a les tecnologies modernes i recursos en línia.

  • Quina és la importància de la disciplina en l'aprenentatge d'idiomes?

    La disciplina és clau per establir una rutina d'aprenentatge i per fer progressos constants.

  • Com es pot millorar l'accent en un nou idioma?

    Practicar la imitació de l'accent i la intonació, així com rebre retroalimentació d'altres.

  • Quin paper juguen les emocions en l'aprenentatge d'idiomes?

    Les emocions ajuden a recordar millor les paraules i les experiències d'aprenentatge.

  • Quin és el millor moment del dia per aprendre idiomes?

    El matí és el millor moment per aprendre, ja que la ment està més fresca.

  • Quina és la diferència entre aprendre un idioma i ser poliglota?

    Aprendre un idioma pot ser més senzill, mentre que ser poliglota requereix dedicació i temps per dominar diverses llengües.

  • Com es pot utilitzar la tecnologia per aprendre idiomes?

    Utilitzar aplicacions d'aprenentatge, tutors en línia i recursos d'IA per crear contingut comprensible.

  • Quin és el consell més important per a qui vol aprendre un nou idioma?

    Buscar entendre i ser entès, gaudir del procés d'aprenentatge.

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    How many languages do you actually
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    speak? Spanish, French, Italian, Danish,
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    Swedish, Croatian, Russian, German, and
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    English. How did you actually become a
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    polyglo? 10 hours a day doing
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    Duallingingo, then talk to your AI
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    friend. Never listen to the language.
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    Guys, don't do that.
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    Welcome back to Evolve. Today we are
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    speaking with Will John, a polyglot and
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    professional footballer. Will, thank you
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    so much for coming on the podcast today.
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    Of course. Thanks for having me. It's
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    good to be here. Do you want to show off
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    a little bit of those? Maybe introduce
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    yourself uh if you've got enough time to
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    go through. I mean I mean Yeah. And what
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    uh I could start with the
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    east.
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    Okay. Okay.
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    Okay. Okay.
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    Yeah, that's right. The dance, man. The
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    dance. The Danes can understand the
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    Swedes. Okay. Swedes cannot understand
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    the Danes. Swedish is, you know,
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    we can feel the passion there. I've
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    clicked on this video. I want to be, you
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    know, a polyglot. What are the steps
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    that you would recommend to someone who
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    wants to follow in your footsteps? Wow.
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    So, there's a big difference between if
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    you want to be a polyglot or if you just
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    want to learn one other language because
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    they are very separate. Now, starting
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    off, if you just want to learn another
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    language, what I recommend is to spend
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    10 hours a day doing Duallingingo, then
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    talk to your AI friend for the next 20,
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    20 minutes. Never listen to the
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    language. No, of course, guys, don't do
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    that. Okay, apps are a new phenomenon on
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    Earth. Okay, people have been learning
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    languages for a very, very long time.
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    One of my favorite polyglotss is a is a
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    woman named Kato Lom. She's a Hungarian.
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    She was a translator, very, very
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    outspoken woman. She wrote a book. It's
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    called How I Learn Languages. She's one
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    of my favorite for a lot of reasons. Um
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    because she's kind of nonsense. She'll
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    tell people, and I agree with this, if
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    you don't have 12 hours a week to learn
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    a language, it may not be the the right
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    time for you to start. That's if you
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    want to speak, you know, if if you want
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    to dabble and play a little Duolingo and
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    learn I am an apple that eats a dragon,
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    go for it. That's fine. But understand
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    that you're just playing a game, you
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    know, that's what it is. Have fun with
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    it. And there's nothing wrong with that.
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    There's absolutely nothing wrong. Just
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    don't confuse the two. And I think
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    that's where the people have the
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    problem. So if you want to if you want
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    to learn a language, it's quite clear
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    that most people understand
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    comprehensible input. At least for the
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    people who don't know what it is. I know
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    people fans of you guys, you know,
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    channel and podcast probably understand,
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    but it's an important key element. Uh
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    the reason for this is not necessarily
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    because it mimics how we learned as
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    kids, but uh also because it gets you
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    more exposure to a language. So I want
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    to start with an overarching principle.
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    The more exposure you have to a language
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    in context, the easier it will be for
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    you to learn on the long game. I know
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    everyone if you've clicked on this video
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    for the how to learn a language in 7
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    days I'm sorry or in 3 months I'm sorry
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    that's while possible if you have
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    nothing else to do in life I think
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    that's possible you need to have as much
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    exposure to the language as you can at
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    the level that you're currently at right
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    so big mistakes are I've already
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    discussed the apps I won't go in on them
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    I probably will still talk talk trash on
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    them later but there's no need for you
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    to to watch the news on day one of
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    Spanish class all right let's leave that
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    leave that alone okay there are things
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    that are made for you right and and
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    Bring it back to Katalom. We have graded
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    readers now, right? So reading,
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    listening, and watching are some of the
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    main the main aspects. Writing less so
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    at the beginning in my opinion, you do
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    need to do some of this, but you need to
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    spend a a hell of a lot of time
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    listening, watching preferably of people
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    talking and doing things that you can
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    understand. Awa. Okay. Awa. Like it's
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    going to be hard for you not to
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    understand. The problem is we live in a
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    society where people want to be rushed.
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    Everything wants to be rushed. And if
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    you don't let this repeat because no one
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    likes to repeat anything. The reason the
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    apps and things are everyone if you're
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    familiar with the book called the
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    dopamine revolution we just want to go
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    to the next thing. Well you need to
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    repeat if I told you awa once maybe you
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    know if I take the aua and I smash you
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    on the head every day you know but not
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    even every day. I think the it's the
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    emotion it's the emotional aspect of
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    that your ability to tie emotion into
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    your learning will allow you to do it.
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    Right? If someone's beating you and
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    punching you in the face and they keep
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    saying this word that means stop, right,
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    in a language, the chances of you ever
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    forgetting that word are zero. You will
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    remember as he's pummeling you in the
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    face that that is the word for stop. All
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    right? And so you have to elicit emotion
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    and you have to have repetition. If you
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    do those two things and you have to you
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    have to be able to understand the
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    context. That's the beginning, right? So
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    that's someone wants to learn. If you
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    want to be a polyglot, then you need to
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    have patience because you need to focus
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    on one language for a long enough period
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    of time to reach I don't really like the
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    standard things, but let's call it B1,
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    B2. If you can reach this B1, B2, you
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    have a less of a chance of forgetting
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    the language. You have more of a chance
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    of just going rusty, right? And so when
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    you pick it up, it'll come maybe one
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    day, two days, a week. And so you have
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    to lay out a structure for yourself. And
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    that's that's what I do. I mean, I'm
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    giving you guys both options just so
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    people have an understanding of what I
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    mean, if you want to go deeper into like
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    what what I would do on day one to month
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    one, etc. We can, but that's how you
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    would kind of need to look at things as
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    an overarching strategy. Do you think
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    it's possible to become a polygot
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    without moving to the country where they
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    speak the language? I'm literally proof
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    of that. Yes. There's no now in modern
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    times, you know, Katalom, it's
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    hilarious. In her book, she's going,
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    "Make sure you find a good dictionary.
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    We have every dictionary that's ever
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    been made in all this. We have now in
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    our in our phone. There's no excuse for
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    you to do that. You don't need to be
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    there. You have tutors. Excuse time is
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    over. If you're trying to learn a new
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    language, you don't have an excuse. What
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    is the exc what are you talking about?
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    Like, oh, I don't Okay, if you don't
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    have time, that's kind of on you. But
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    that can be, you know, that can be
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    managed. That's adaptable. But as far as
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    needing to move to France, those days
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    are done. Especially if we, you know,
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    it's a blessing being in somewhere like
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    the UK or the US. I mean, I got to
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    fluency level in French before doing my
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    year abroad in Reunion Island down to
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    that obsession of every time I met a
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    French
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    person, you know, like we're going to
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    speak we're going to speak in French. I
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    tell people I don't speak English, you
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    know, you're forced into that. I've
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    never spent more than a couple weeks, I
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    guess, in a Spanish-sp speakaking
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    country, but if there's someone who's
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    Spanish, you know, that's
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    it. We're going to speak because that's
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    how you improve. Mhm. So that's that's
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    the blessing again going back to living
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    in a diverse country. You
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    know the discipline aspect is tough for
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    everyone. At the one end you can say
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    that there are no excuses. At the other
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    end I know that our brains are being
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    attacked every single second. Every time
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    we pick up our phone you're under
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    attack. Something is calling for you to
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    do something else. And isn't that
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    amazing though? Like if you take a
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    second and believe you might have picked
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    up the phone to just check an email. You
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    were watching crazy knockout videos by
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    the you seen the soccer the guy went to
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    a moon like this and you put the phone
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    down and then you realize oh yeah I
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    didn't pick up didn't even check the
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    email what like what are we doing you
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    know it's that's a that's a massive
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    that's a massive problem so discipline
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    is needed you know you do need to have
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    some discipline the drive the more you
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    want it the easier it will it will be
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    but we teach our students about
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    eliminating if you can eliminate there's
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    so much noise there's so much
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    information so many things. If we can
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    just reduce the chatter, all right, and
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    just have okay, if I can just engage
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    with this content here today, put it
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    down and this is I have a plan for
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    tomorrow, then you are making forward
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    progress without having to second guess
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    to concern yourself to try and get the
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    next heart on the app to next do get the
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    points and your original goal is to
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    learn French. Why do you care about your
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    30-day streak? What do you that's not
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    the point. The point is for you after 30
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    days to be better at speaking, you know,
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    or reading or whatever your goal is to
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    read this book, to watch this movie. So
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    yeah, discipline plays a key role, but I
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    think everyone should be aware of kind
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    of eliminating the noise as much as they
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    can. I made some notes based on some of
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    your your videos of key areas that I
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    think stood out and discipline was one
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    of those. I wanted to ask how did you
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    build that discipline into your routine?
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    I know we'll probably mention that in
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    the video about your football career as
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    well, but I mean for me discipline was
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    instilled a lot with the West African
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    and Asian values. Did that come into
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    play at all as well with the kind of
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    Nigerian upbringing? 100% 100%. I mean
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    yes. Yeah, that discipline plays a huge
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    role. You understand that the right
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    thing to do would be to do your work
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    first and enjoy later. How does that
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    actually translate into a language
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    learning routine? Oh, if you want a
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    routine, then that's very simple. I
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    mean, obviously, like I said with kalom,
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    if you don't have 12 hours, then forget
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    it. I think that that can be reduced now
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    because of what we have with our tools
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    to something like 8 to 10, right? That
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    if you don't have 8 to 10 hours a week,
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    which is barely above an hour a day, all
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    right? Then you shouldn't do it. In the
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    morning is when I suggest to everyone
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    that they should be at least starting to
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    learn a language. You have you can check
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    all the studies right some people can
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    learn at night after they've done most
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    people are expending energy throughout
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    the day and then potentially trying to
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    fit in language learning when they can
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    after this unfocused. If you want to
  • 00:09:34
    understand a proper routine you need to
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    understand and this is what we do for
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    people in our artificial immersion
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    course. We make them understand the
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    rules of deep work. Deep work by Cal
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    Newport. It's a book. The phone has to
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    go out of the room. You have to be
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    uninterrupted. And this is a skill cuz
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    what you're training with your phone is
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    to be distracted. And what you're
  • 00:09:49
    training without it is concentration.
  • 00:09:50
    Yeah. 30 minutes to an hour in the
  • 00:09:52
    morning, generally speaking, I like to
  • 00:09:54
    make sure that that's your
  • 00:09:55
    comprehensible input that you're you're
  • 00:09:56
    taking something in. Later in the day,
  • 00:09:58
    it's definitely fine in in the evening,
  • 00:10:01
    etc. to be watching something on Netflix
  • 00:10:02
    that you don't care about or stuff like
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    that. But the bulk of your learning has
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    to happen for me before your energy has
  • 00:10:08
    been expended. And so that's the
  • 00:10:09
    problem. People are trying to fit
  • 00:10:10
    language learning in rather than making
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    it part of their lives. The routine is
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    to change your life, not to make it a
  • 00:10:16
    hobby. Make it part of your life.
  • 00:10:18
    There's no other way to do it. You
  • 00:10:19
    forced yourself to in these
  • 00:10:21
    conversations. I only speak,
  • 00:10:24
    okay? You know, but yeah, that's the
  • 00:10:26
    point of the routine. It's got to
  • 00:10:27
    change. You have to change. All right?
  • 00:10:28
    You know, it's not a no wishy-washy
  • 00:10:30
    stuff, you know. It'll just take it'll
  • 00:10:32
    make you take long. You might get there.
  • 00:10:33
    You'll get there, but who wants to learn
  • 00:10:34
    a language over 15 years? But I really
  • 00:10:36
    appreciate that even the for example,
  • 00:10:38
    you what was the term you use for like
  • 00:10:39
    the Netflix um when you're it's not the
  • 00:10:41
    comprehensible input. It's just uh is
  • 00:10:43
    that passive learning? What do you refer
  • 00:10:44
    to that as? Yeah, pass. Yeah, it's
  • 00:10:45
    passive learning. It's passive for me.
  • 00:10:47
    Like I was a a big gamer in the past. I
  • 00:10:50
    replayed Pokémon in French and Spanish.
  • 00:10:53
    But then that was part of the routine.
  • 00:10:55
    So even though it sounds strange that
  • 00:10:56
    Pokémon was a routine part of my
  • 00:10:59
    language learning, if at every night you
  • 00:11:01
    did whether it was like watched the news
  • 00:11:02
    or did something routinely, you're going
  • 00:11:04
    to see the gains. Whereas if it's like,
  • 00:11:06
    oh, I watched the movie once in French,
  • 00:11:09
    you're not going to get that. And for me
  • 00:11:11
    it was actually the news. When I was
  • 00:11:13
    doing uh French at university, we had a
  • 00:11:15
    course called advanced oral competency.
  • 00:11:18
    We had to listen to the news and then
  • 00:11:19
    provide a summary of that. And at the
  • 00:11:21
    start that was so difficult. So I gave
  • 00:11:23
    myself the challenge of every day. You
  • 00:11:25
    know, this wasn't just a once in a while
  • 00:11:26
    thing. This every day when I got home,
  • 00:11:28
    news goes on in French. Yeah. And then
  • 00:11:30
    at the start it was really really
  • 00:11:31
    difficult. But after I guess two
  • 00:11:33
    semesters of doing that, I could just
  • 00:11:35
    understand 90%. Um but that was there
  • 00:11:37
    was a discipline in that passive
  • 00:11:39
    learning skills. Definitely. Definitely.
  • 00:11:40
    Yeah. And that's the thing is that
  • 00:11:41
    people don't give that a chance, right?
  • 00:11:42
    You said two semesters, that's roughly a
  • 00:11:44
    year, right? And people to have the
  • 00:11:46
    discipline to do that, it's almost
  • 00:11:47
    effortless after you've done it, right?
  • 00:11:50
    Yes. The initial charge of you having to
  • 00:11:52
    sit and watch the news and you know your
  • 00:11:54
    comprehension may be between 60, maybe
  • 00:11:55
    it's 70%, maybe it's 80%, who knows? But
  • 00:11:57
    as you do that, it's the repetition of
  • 00:11:59
    also the same types of material. They're
  • 00:12:02
    the news, they're going to say some of
  • 00:12:04
    the same things. They're going to
  • 00:12:05
    introduce themselves the same. you're
  • 00:12:06
    going to be introduced to that those
  • 00:12:07
    words, those key elements over and over
  • 00:12:09
    again. And if you do that, you do
  • 00:12:11
    eventually it does come out of you.
  • 00:12:13
    That's one of the crazy things about
  • 00:12:14
    using it. And we haven't touched on the
  • 00:12:16
    big no grammar versus grammar debate,
  • 00:12:18
    you know, and at least where I stand is
  • 00:12:21
    at the beginning, ease up on the
  • 00:12:22
    grammar, obviously, if you want to have
  • 00:12:24
    a superficial glance, which is what we
  • 00:12:25
    teach students, by all means, you know,
  • 00:12:28
    but don't do the thing that you would do
  • 00:12:30
    with your phone and get on the the
  • 00:12:31
    articles. Where is this specific? And
  • 00:12:34
    then you're now you're just studying
  • 00:12:35
    grammar. You're not learning the
  • 00:12:36
    language. You're studying rules, right?
  • 00:12:38
    And you would never do that if you was
  • 00:12:39
    going to teach someone football. I'm not
  • 00:12:40
    going to take 20 minutes to explain what
  • 00:12:41
    offsides. And another controversial area
  • 00:12:43
    is vocab. You know, studying vocab. This
  • 00:12:46
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    Hello video. And also, you know, working
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    with a lot of Asians, there's I guess
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    you got to respect the discipline of
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    people for hours every day memorizing
  • 00:15:33
    vocab. But where do you stand on this
  • 00:15:35
    debate of V? I mean, I know I've seen
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    you probably have an idea, but yeah, the
  • 00:15:39
    thing is is that brute force works. It
  • 00:15:41
    does work. You know, that's the thing.
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    It It's true. the majority of people,
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    especially the American culture
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    specifically which we're teaching and I
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    will keep referring to Katom, but she
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    makes fun of Americans because they want
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    things easy and and she goes they're
  • 00:15:54
    lazy in this. She said not lazy as
  • 00:15:55
    people like yes clearly they're
  • 00:15:56
    hardworking American people but the way
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    that things are promoted America can
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    take some blame for the how to learn a
  • 00:16:02
    language in 3 days, 5 days, etc. That's
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    American marketing is almost second to
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    none on earth, right? They push their
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    ideas out to, you know, there's kids in
  • 00:16:12
    the middle of nowhere. they barely know
  • 00:16:13
    anything. They're going to recognize
  • 00:16:14
    some American star based on the
  • 00:16:16
    marketing, based on the push. And so
  • 00:16:18
    vocab for me, brute force works, but
  • 00:16:20
    it's not the best way to go about it. If
  • 00:16:21
    you want to go about language learning,
  • 00:16:23
    you need flow. And the way we teach
  • 00:16:24
    people is that we give them an
  • 00:16:25
    understanding of, let's take reading,
  • 00:16:27
    right? A lot of your gains on your vocab
  • 00:16:29
    come from reading. Most people don't
  • 00:16:30
    understand this. Particularly, the
  • 00:16:32
    amount of exposure you have to words in
  • 00:16:34
    a movie compared to what you have in a
  • 00:16:36
    book is night and day. All right? It's
  • 00:16:37
    night and day. If you can just count
  • 00:16:39
    them, count them. Watch all the watch
  • 00:16:41
    one minute of a of a movie. You'll see
  • 00:16:43
    that the music plays and the person
  • 00:16:44
    walked and all this stuff and right and
  • 00:16:46
    then they might talk and then they have
  • 00:16:48
    some silence and then you're not hitting
  • 00:16:50
    all of the vocab that you could be. A
  • 00:16:51
    lot of gains come from reading and this
  • 00:16:53
    is even in your mother tongue. There
  • 00:16:54
    have been studies as well to see that
  • 00:16:56
    when kids let's say go to college that
  • 00:16:58
    reading that they have to do and all
  • 00:16:59
    that stuff you have words that you've
  • 00:17:00
    never taken a flash card and I go hard
  • 00:17:02
    on flash cards because it's like yeah
  • 00:17:04
    well you didn't do that in your mother
  • 00:17:05
    tongue. It's really important I think
  • 00:17:07
    that people don't count words at the
  • 00:17:09
    beginning. However, that they have an
  • 00:17:11
    understanding that there are
  • 00:17:12
    highfrequency words if that makes sense.
  • 00:17:14
    So like there are words that are more
  • 00:17:15
    important that you should pay attention
  • 00:17:16
    to. You should try to know but I don't
  • 00:17:18
    want you to become obsessed with that.
  • 00:17:20
    You don't use all the words in a
  • 00:17:21
    language. You have a core and then you
  • 00:17:23
    have a particular you like football, he
  • 00:17:24
    likes basketball, he likes baseball,
  • 00:17:26
    your vocab is better in in that and this
  • 00:17:28
    and that and that and then you need to
  • 00:17:29
    run down that and they're high frequency
  • 00:17:30
    words for the things that you care
  • 00:17:32
    about. And so the vocab thing is with
  • 00:17:34
    extensive reading, what I wanted to say
  • 00:17:35
    about that at least is extensive reading
  • 00:17:36
    when you read just to read, it's great
  • 00:17:38
    and you're just taking it in. Intensive
  • 00:17:39
    reading, when you go to read something
  • 00:17:41
    that's hard and then have to translate
  • 00:17:42
    and go back and look is also very
  • 00:17:44
    useful. It's just you should spend more
  • 00:17:46
    time doing the extensive reading. If
  • 00:17:47
    you're a new language learner to build
  • 00:17:48
    on what you said, it can be quite
  • 00:17:50
    demotivating to know that I've just
  • 00:17:52
    spent 10 hours this week studying a
  • 00:17:54
    bunch of words and now suddenly I meet
  • 00:17:56
    whatever person in front of me. I can't
  • 00:17:58
    string a sentence or like a useful
  • 00:17:59
    sentence together.
  • 00:18:08
    rewarding have you eaten in English
  • 00:18:11
    isn't as I guess common a question
  • 00:18:13
    compared to the Asian languages whereas
  • 00:18:15
    if you meet a Chinese
  • 00:18:17
    person in Korean
  • 00:18:20
    orang in Thai those are common questions
  • 00:18:22
    you ask as soon as you meet someone and
  • 00:18:24
    you're going to get a really positive
  • 00:18:26
    reaction from them that would motivate a
  • 00:18:28
    new learner I think in my opinion far
  • 00:18:30
    more than table, microphone, whatever,
  • 00:18:32
    which you you will need at some point.
  • 00:18:34
    But I feel like once you're in that
  • 00:18:36
    practical situation, whereas if you're
  • 00:18:38
    filming a podcast and we're speaking in
  • 00:18:39
    French, again, eventually you're just
  • 00:18:41
    going to learn that's Miko because you
  • 00:18:43
    will hear it every day. Whereas if you
  • 00:18:45
    work in, I don't know, as a footballer
  • 00:18:46
    on your day-to-day thing, you're going
  • 00:18:48
    to learn o before you learn Miko
  • 00:18:50
    probably, you know. So the practicality,
  • 00:18:52
    the context you're wanting to use that
  • 00:18:54
    language in again is essential as well.
  • 00:18:56
    you're you're touching on uh the key
  • 00:18:57
    element of our the artificial immersion
  • 00:18:59
    method, which is to tie it into you.
  • 00:19:01
    Like, how is it not? That's my problem.
  • 00:19:03
    I will continue to go in hard on these
  • 00:19:04
    apps, but they don't know you. They
  • 00:19:06
    don't they've never met you. They met a
  • 00:19:08
    they met a composite of humans and they
  • 00:19:11
    decided this should this would be all
  • 00:19:12
    right. Do you really want that? Is that
  • 00:19:13
    what you is that what you want? Or do
  • 00:19:14
    you want it to be about you? Like you
  • 00:19:16
    just said, you're in the podcast. You
  • 00:19:17
    understand? I think that if you take
  • 00:19:18
    things like that and you touch on
  • 00:19:19
    another thing is the fact that in the
  • 00:19:21
    early days before I had a structural
  • 00:19:22
    method phrases were important for me to
  • 00:19:25
    learn but not any phrase phrases that I
  • 00:19:27
    knew I would need immediately and so I
  • 00:19:29
    still recommend for some people because
  • 00:19:31
    it gives them that win like you talked
  • 00:19:32
    about how many people have tried to
  • 00:19:34
    learn a language and failed right you
  • 00:19:36
    need a couple wins at least a few
  • 00:19:38
    interactions that feel like oh my god I
  • 00:19:40
    did something instead of you study table
  • 00:19:42
    and then phone and microphone and bottle
  • 00:19:44
    and then you just like have these words
  • 00:19:46
    there. What is that conversation? Hey,
  • 00:19:48
    how you doing? Bottle bottle
  • 00:19:51
    phone. Do you need a call or like what
  • 00:19:53
    is up, you know? And so it's like, yeah,
  • 00:19:55
    dude, there's got to be it's got to be
  • 00:19:57
    attached to real to the real world. I
  • 00:19:59
    think that links I mean there's a funny
  • 00:20:00
    side of this. But again, another key
  • 00:20:02
    point I saw you highlight in your other
  • 00:20:04
    videos was about looking stupid and
  • 00:20:06
    making mistakes. And I mean, for me, you
  • 00:20:08
    can't master a language or anything in
  • 00:20:10
    life without making mistakes and
  • 00:20:12
    stumbling and and whatever, making a
  • 00:20:13
    fool of yourself at some point as well.
  • 00:20:15
    But to link it to what you said about
  • 00:20:16
    emotion, you probably have memories of
  • 00:20:19
    where you made a mistake in the language
  • 00:20:20
    and said the wrong word, but now you're
  • 00:20:22
    never going to forget that. That's like
  • 00:20:24
    one of the best ways to solidify ah I
  • 00:20:26
    said that that was offensive actually it
  • 00:20:27
    should have been this word. So could you
  • 00:20:28
    tell us about that? I can tell you
  • 00:20:30
    what's even more interesting because
  • 00:20:31
    yeah I constantly make I don't have a
  • 00:20:33
    problem with that and I live a very my
  • 00:20:35
    professional life let's say outside of
  • 00:20:37
    football says I've a lot of professions
  • 00:20:39
    it's very public. I'm speaking in front
  • 00:20:41
    of people, right, in other languages
  • 00:20:43
    that are not my mother tongue. Mistakes
  • 00:20:45
    are going to happen no matter how much
  • 00:20:46
    I've spent time there. Most of the time
  • 00:20:48
    they're small and so small that I'm
  • 00:20:50
    never going to say, you know, uh, that
  • 00:20:52
    this is a bottle, right? That's stuff
  • 00:20:54
    like that doesn't happen. But the stakes
  • 00:20:56
    are much higher for me than they would
  • 00:20:57
    be for someone who's just learning a
  • 00:20:58
    language. So, you don't have to worry
  • 00:20:59
    about this. Like, I actually don't care
  • 00:21:01
    because it just turns into something.
  • 00:21:02
    But to give you an example, I was in
  • 00:21:04
    Milan a couple years ago. This video is
  • 00:21:06
    on online and I'm just talking to
  • 00:21:08
    Italian people about Italian-Americans
  • 00:21:10
    and the the most beautiful cities in
  • 00:21:12
    Italy. Like those are the two questions
  • 00:21:14
    basically. I was telling a couple people
  • 00:21:16
    I think it's several times that it
  • 00:21:20
    was I
  • 00:21:23
    said I think I saidim and the word is
  • 00:21:27
    for seventh and the word isimo. Okay.
  • 00:21:29
    Okay. I said that in the video, right?
  • 00:21:31
    Yeah. Yeah. Barrage of comments. What is
  • 00:21:34
    this? you don't know that it's this.
  • 00:21:36
    Come on. Like, and then you have other
  • 00:21:38
    people being like, "Dude, do you realize
  • 00:21:39
    that this guy who's never he's saying
  • 00:21:41
    that it's his seventh day in the country
  • 00:21:43
    you guys are harping on him on this?"
  • 00:21:45
    So, like, there's always going to be
  • 00:21:46
    both sides. I've been a professional
  • 00:21:47
    athlete since I was 19. You know, you
  • 00:21:49
    miss a pass in front of like I've played
  • 00:21:51
    in front of I don't even know how many
  • 00:21:53
    like massive stadiums. It's like you
  • 00:21:55
    miss some stuff, people are going to
  • 00:21:56
    scream, "Get off the field. You suck. I
  • 00:21:59
    hate you." Like, what? Like, you know,
  • 00:22:02
    like all this stuff. So for me it's I
  • 00:22:04
    understand but I do understand the other
  • 00:22:06
    the other people like they don't want to
  • 00:22:07
    make any mistakes but you just have to
  • 00:22:09
    be okay with that and you know number
  • 00:22:11
    one people forget it. They forget this
  • 00:22:13
    and you will forget it too. And if you
  • 00:22:14
    if once you make the mistake you
  • 00:22:16
    remember I I know that and I even knew
  • 00:22:18
    in that time but it's just you're moving
  • 00:22:20
    fast and stuff like that. So mistakes
  • 00:22:21
    happen. It's crucial to it because even
  • 00:22:23
    in Korea with Clem, I remember we went
  • 00:22:25
    to a restaurant, the owner came up to us
  • 00:22:26
    and asked how the food was and I said to
  • 00:22:30
    him and like
  • 00:22:33
    got to be formal, you know, just use the
  • 00:22:35
    formal word because I've got that vivid
  • 00:22:38
    memory of him telling me off. I can
  • 00:22:40
    never forget that, you know. So there
  • 00:22:41
    you go. Yeah. Yeah. Cuz you were about
  • 00:22:43
    to get kicked out.
  • 00:22:45
    But there is often a leniency, you know,
  • 00:22:47
    to obviously you're not, you know, you
  • 00:22:49
    tell them you're from America. One of
  • 00:22:51
    the most frustrating things for me in uh
  • 00:22:53
    French and Spanish is the
  • 00:22:54
    learn like I remember the word I know
  • 00:22:58
    that that's you know but is it is it if
  • 00:23:02
    I have the paralysis to analysis of just
  • 00:23:05
    I'm not going to speak because I don't
  • 00:23:06
    know if
  • 00:23:07
    it's like it's yeah you're never going
  • 00:23:10
    to get anywhere really. No one the
  • 00:23:11
    themes on day one of our stuff seek to
  • 00:23:14
    understand and seek to be understood. If
  • 00:23:16
    you stay within this rule in
  • 00:23:18
    communicating, I really don't care. Like
  • 00:23:19
    if you have a problem with me and the
  • 00:23:21
    fact that I missed that an article here
  • 00:23:24
    or this that and the other, I don't what
  • 00:23:25
    are we doing exactly? This is not I
  • 00:23:27
    wanted to convey to you that I was
  • 00:23:28
    thirsty and that I wanted the bottle.
  • 00:23:30
    That's all. Right. And so the people
  • 00:23:32
    that are the grammar police and the
  • 00:23:34
    those that I understand and it can
  • 00:23:37
    happen online. I have a tendency to
  • 00:23:38
    believe that it might be some of them
  • 00:23:39
    are kids more the comments. Yeah. I
  • 00:23:41
    think most of the time adults are just
  • 00:23:43
    like I understand. Oh, that's cool.
  • 00:23:44
    That's great job. Yeah, when it comes to
  • 00:23:46
    practice, as you said, nowadays you
  • 00:23:48
    don't need to move to the country to
  • 00:23:50
    become a polygot, and you're proof of
  • 00:23:52
    that. So, what what would be your advice
  • 00:23:54
    when it comes to practicing for someone,
  • 00:23:57
    let's let's say, who doesn't live in a
  • 00:23:58
    city like London where you get to meet
  • 00:24:00
    people from different countries? What do
  • 00:24:02
    you think would be online? Tutors are
  • 00:24:04
    the best thing ever. The first thing for
  • 00:24:06
    you to do is to find quality,
  • 00:24:07
    comprehensible input. Meaning that
  • 00:24:09
    something that you can understand at the
  • 00:24:11
    level that you're at. That's the very
  • 00:24:12
    first thing you have to do. We already
  • 00:24:15
    talked about having an understanding of
  • 00:24:16
    high frequency words. You can use
  • 00:24:17
    chatbt. You can use Google. Find them.
  • 00:24:19
    And one of the things that we do within
  • 00:24:21
    our course, we we show people how they
  • 00:24:22
    can utilize AI in a way because AI sucks
  • 00:24:24
    right now. It sucks. It's not good. It
  • 00:24:27
    will be good and there are aspects of it
  • 00:24:29
    that are helpful. But if I was leaving
  • 00:24:31
    my language learning capabilities up to
  • 00:24:33
    AI to be like, teach me how to do. It's
  • 00:24:35
    a disaster. All right. You can take
  • 00:24:37
    those high frequency words, you can
  • 00:24:38
    create stories, you can create your own
  • 00:24:39
    comprehensible input. You said you like
  • 00:24:41
    uh basketball, he likes soccer. Well,
  • 00:24:44
    okay, great. Go in there and create that
  • 00:24:45
    story on this utilizing your high
  • 00:24:47
    frequency words. And that's one way for
  • 00:24:49
    you to also create because now not only
  • 00:24:51
    is it going to spit out a story for you
  • 00:24:52
    and there's several different, you know,
  • 00:24:54
    places you can do this, the voices are
  • 00:24:55
    starting to sound better. It's not a
  • 00:24:57
    robot voice that it it's not bad now. So
  • 00:25:00
    now you have audio, you have audio
  • 00:25:01
    within the stuff that you have. And so
  • 00:25:02
    that's you can generate some of your
  • 00:25:03
    comprehensive. That's what we do. And we
  • 00:25:05
    also help people. It's ideal if you can
  • 00:25:07
    see that all the elements are there. And
  • 00:25:09
    it's even better if it's tactile like
  • 00:25:11
    that. you can do it in person that you
  • 00:25:13
    have someone a proper tutor is necessary
  • 00:25:14
    if you're saying like how do I do this
  • 00:25:16
    when I'm not you got to have a proper
  • 00:25:17
    tutor but more comprehensible input than
  • 00:25:19
    speaking at the beginning I would say
  • 00:25:20
    you do have to speak at some point some
  • 00:25:22
    people are going to be different than
  • 00:25:23
    others that's the thing like there's no
  • 00:25:25
    one way there's no one you have to learn
  • 00:25:27
    yourself and we preach this a lot
  • 00:25:29
    because I can't hand you and you who've
  • 00:25:32
    grown up in different places with
  • 00:25:33
    different circumstances with different
  • 00:25:34
    skills the way to do I can just give you
  • 00:25:36
    guys a guide I can and help you
  • 00:25:38
    understand you the more you understand
  • 00:25:40
    yourself the better it will be, you
  • 00:25:42
    know, and based on personality types as
  • 00:25:44
    well is that I never had a problem
  • 00:25:45
    speaking. Whereas, imagine for someone
  • 00:25:47
    watching this who's more introverted and
  • 00:25:48
    shy, they're going to see that and just
  • 00:25:50
    feel like, well, we were just in
  • 00:25:51
    different places. During my like teenage
  • 00:25:53
    years, I got to the point where I could
  • 00:25:55
    just say what I wanted in French and
  • 00:25:56
    Spanish, but when they would reply, I
  • 00:25:58
    couldn't understand them. And I'm sure
  • 00:25:59
    there are a lot of people watching this
  • 00:26:00
    who can actually understand because
  • 00:26:02
    they've been watching Korean dramas or
  • 00:26:04
    what do they call t nollas all the time.
  • 00:26:06
    They can understand it, but then they
  • 00:26:07
    don't know what to say.
  • 00:26:16
    approach. You have to kind of program
  • 00:26:18
    the tutor, but that's the one way I'm
  • 00:26:20
    thinking about AI. You got to instruct
  • 00:26:22
    the tutor. Tell them your goals. For me,
  • 00:26:24
    I actually want to improve my listening.
  • 00:26:26
    So, I need to hear you as a tutor
  • 00:26:28
    speaking a lot or I want to I want to
  • 00:26:30
    speak more. So, then could you just ask
  • 00:26:32
    me open-ended questions and encourage
  • 00:26:33
    me? You know, there you go. That's it.
  • 00:26:35
    You're not far off from saying
  • 00:26:36
    programming because we like to, once
  • 00:26:38
    again, like I said, we like things
  • 00:26:39
    handed to us and we just kind of like to
  • 00:26:40
    like me, you know, and it's easier.
  • 00:26:42
    Thinking is hard. Thinking about
  • 00:26:44
    yourself is even harder. Reflecting on
  • 00:26:46
    yourself is very hard because we have
  • 00:26:47
    blind spots and egos that try to trick
  • 00:26:49
    us into thinking like you're fine. No,
  • 00:26:51
    you're wrong. You're good until you get
  • 00:26:52
    the real world shakes you up. And so,
  • 00:26:55
    yeah, we have a whole day dedicated to
  • 00:26:57
    tutors. Like that's all I have a whole
  • 00:26:59
    day that's just there to tell you what
  • 00:27:00
    you need to do, how you need to
  • 00:27:02
    structure this out because some people
  • 00:27:03
    just go into the tutor thing and they
  • 00:27:05
    think they'll teach me the language. I
  • 00:27:06
    paid some money here like make it happen
  • 00:27:09
    and they put the responsibility on them
  • 00:27:11
    and we say no you have it goes
  • 00:27:12
    responsibility stays on you forever in
  • 00:27:14
    all things not just in language learning
  • 00:27:16
    and uh we show you that you have to with
  • 00:27:18
    the tutors especially some of them have
  • 00:27:20
    their own ways their own egos their own
  • 00:27:22
    ways and that's not going to fit for you
  • 00:27:24
    so you got to change that and it's a
  • 00:27:26
    lottery as well the chances are that you
  • 00:27:28
    just find a tutor and they perfectly
  • 00:27:29
    align with all of your goals that could
  • 00:27:31
    happen but the chances are very very
  • 00:27:33
    small so very could happen I know a big
  • 00:27:36
    thing for you is the flow state. So, how
  • 00:27:38
    does the flow state link into language
  • 00:27:40
    learning? Most of the time, we're trying
  • 00:27:42
    to get people to understand that the
  • 00:27:44
    longer periods of uninterrupted study
  • 00:27:46
    for your passive. I'm not talking about
  • 00:27:48
    when you're speaking to someone, but
  • 00:27:49
    even then, you want it to be locked in.
  • 00:27:51
    You don't want to be looking at
  • 00:27:52
    something else. And if you do that, you
  • 00:27:54
    will watch the flow state. First, it'll
  • 00:27:55
    be subtle, and then it'll start
  • 00:27:57
    happening to you where you'll notice
  • 00:27:59
    times going by and you're just locked
  • 00:28:00
    in, right? And we've forgotten so much
  • 00:28:02
    about that. When I was growing up, you
  • 00:28:03
    had flow state all the time. There was
  • 00:28:05
    nothing to distract you from what you
  • 00:28:06
    were doing, the present moment. And then
  • 00:28:08
    at university having the routine of even
  • 00:28:09
    speaking classes, I remember 11:00 a.m.
  • 00:28:11
    we would sit in a room and there would
  • 00:28:13
    be just three or four other students and
  • 00:28:14
    the teacher and they would say right now
  • 00:28:16
    uninterrupted debate. Half of the room
  • 00:28:18
    agrees that whatever should be illegal.
  • 00:28:20
    Half of the room believes that it should
  • 00:28:21
    be legal fight debate. And in that
  • 00:28:24
    moment there were no phones. You weren't
  • 00:28:26
    really allowed to make notes because
  • 00:28:27
    that was the speaking class. every um
  • 00:28:29
    every week doing those classes forces
  • 00:28:32
    you into flow because I think once you
  • 00:28:34
    distract your brain away from okay I'm
  • 00:28:36
    speaking in French and you get to know
  • 00:28:37
    I'm just passionate I want to win this
  • 00:28:39
    debate you know like like same in in
  • 00:28:41
    football as well you're like you're
  • 00:28:42
    using those words in a sport of uh like
  • 00:28:44
    I I did Muay Thai so then you're you're
  • 00:28:46
    training with the trainer and he's
  • 00:28:47
    saying to me like which means 20 punches
  • 00:28:49
    whatever I'm not thinking oh I'm
  • 00:28:51
    practicing tie right now I'm in the
  • 00:28:53
    moment I'm in the flow state but then
  • 00:28:54
    actually you're using those words and
  • 00:28:55
    they start getting integrated into it
  • 00:28:57
    and you actually forget you're studying
  • 00:28:59
    because it's that's the fun element if
  • 00:29:00
    you're speaking about something you're
  • 00:29:02
    passionate about extra win extra double
  • 00:29:04
    bonus you know totally yeah you turn off
  • 00:29:05
    your brain though I mean because you had
  • 00:29:07
    a goal which was to just either be in
  • 00:29:09
    flow and just study or just do do the
  • 00:29:12
    actions that you're doing right and so
  • 00:29:14
    any words that it's just a conveying of
  • 00:29:16
    a message once again seek to understand
  • 00:29:18
    and seek to be understood someone's
  • 00:29:19
    conveying a message to me this is what I
  • 00:29:20
    want to do I'm arguing about this debate
  • 00:29:23
    I just want to tell them this thing
  • 00:29:25
    sucks you know and your thing is wrong
  • 00:29:27
    and I'm Right? And once it becomes about
  • 00:29:28
    that, you turn off the analysis
  • 00:29:30
    paralysis. You stop thinking about
  • 00:29:32
    whether it's this article or that
  • 00:29:34
    article. You try to get what you're
  • 00:29:35
    saying to be understood. Try to convey a
  • 00:29:37
    message. And that is the stage at the
  • 00:29:39
    beginning. That's that it could be that
  • 00:29:40
    first month to 3 months. It could be 6
  • 00:29:43
    months. It could be a year, right?
  • 00:29:44
    Before you then have to then go, okay,
  • 00:29:46
    they keep the, you know, in Croatian and
  • 00:29:49
    Russian, they have these pad. They're
  • 00:29:51
    these things at the the end. So things
  • 00:29:53
    change the accusative case the genative
  • 00:29:56
    K all these things endings change it's a
  • 00:29:58
    nightmare trying to study it as like
  • 00:30:00
    like if you were trying to stud no it
  • 00:30:01
    has to be a later thing you have to
  • 00:30:02
    first learn some general basis before
  • 00:30:05
    they go okay by the way the ending
  • 00:30:06
    changes here you're being understood but
  • 00:30:08
    like hey this is what changing and this
  • 00:30:11
    is why so you can start to notice that
  • 00:30:12
    and then you stick one thing I do
  • 00:30:14
    definitely recommend for people that
  • 00:30:15
    like to some people love to study
  • 00:30:17
    grammar and they can it's just the
  • 00:30:18
    turnaround is going to be different than
  • 00:30:20
    somebody who's doing the comprehensible
  • 00:30:21
    input way meaning that you may not speak
  • 00:30:24
    don't expect to speak immediately but
  • 00:30:26
    then when it does and I made that
  • 00:30:27
    mistake when I was doing German I
  • 00:30:29
    studied a lot of grammar because I heard
  • 00:30:30
    that the grammar was hard in German
  • 00:30:31
    which it it is difficult you know so I
  • 00:30:33
    spent a lot of time there and less time
  • 00:30:35
    speaking and engaging with the language
  • 00:30:36
    but when I went back started doing it I
  • 00:30:39
    can still remember you know some of
  • 00:30:41
    these weird rules right and so it
  • 00:30:43
    happens and people know crashen's work
  • 00:30:46
    people I know that people bash him also
  • 00:30:48
    for certain other other things but one
  • 00:30:49
    thing he definitely got right is when
  • 00:30:51
    you're writing you have the time to go
  • 00:30:56
    okay then I can okay that's that's
  • 00:30:59
    that's this when you're speaking you do
  • 00:31:01
    not have that time you cannot expect to
  • 00:31:03
    have that same level but they're
  • 00:31:05
    different approaches you just have to
  • 00:31:06
    know when the right time for grammar is
  • 00:31:07
    for you and you have to stay on one
  • 00:31:09
    grammar point for a small period of time
  • 00:31:11
    I'm not saying a year studying the dat
  • 00:31:14
    case this week and this time in my
  • 00:31:17
    attention is on this now next week I'll
  • 00:31:20
    do the accusative but Now it's justice.
  • 00:31:22
    I still remember those moments of like
  • 00:31:24
    memorizing in Spanish
  • 00:31:29
    there like if I were this it would be
  • 00:31:33
    and subjective I think yeah there is
  • 00:31:35
    going to be some use for it but if you
  • 00:31:36
    only memorize those without the rest
  • 00:31:38
    it's tough but I think another huge
  • 00:31:40
    elephant in the room and I guess a thing
  • 00:31:42
    not always spoken about is that it
  • 00:31:44
    doesn't matter how good to some people
  • 00:31:46
    let's say the street interviews and
  • 00:31:47
    those kind of like win moments we've had
  • 00:31:49
    doesn't matter how good even your
  • 00:31:50
    language anguage skills and competency,
  • 00:31:52
    proficiency of the language are if your
  • 00:31:55
    accent's not that good. I found that
  • 00:31:57
    just from in
  • 00:32:01
    Korean, I don't actually speak much of
  • 00:32:04
    those languages. But the accent is what
  • 00:32:06
    I feel like provides a lot of warmth to
  • 00:32:09
    to people. You I've seen on the street
  • 00:32:12
    interviews have that ability. Where did
  • 00:32:14
    that come from? Because I feel like no
  • 00:32:15
    matter how much we study those things,
  • 00:32:17
    if you can't mirror that pronunciation
  • 00:32:19
    and not not just pronunciation, if you
  • 00:32:20
    can't mirror the accent and the
  • 00:32:21
    intonation, you don't always get that
  • 00:32:23
    same um kind of reinforcement. Yeah. The
  • 00:32:25
    love is there. There is a there is a
  • 00:32:27
    you're lucky. People tend to love the
  • 00:32:29
    French accent or where it leaves its
  • 00:32:31
    traces on other languages. There are
  • 00:32:33
    some languages that feel okay, but yes,
  • 00:32:36
    it's really bad when you hear ablo
  • 00:32:38
    espanol, soy americano, soy de Kansas
  • 00:32:41
    city. It's like, oh god, it sounds like
  • 00:32:44
    Honestly, for me, this doesn't sound
  • 00:32:46
    good at all. I don't understand why we
  • 00:32:50
    still though we think in England it's
  • 00:32:51
    romantic, you know. He's French though.
  • 00:32:55
    Romantic about it.
  • 00:32:58
    Yeah. I I mean, it's You're right.
  • 00:33:00
    You're right. There's some cool things
  • 00:33:01
    that I've been I've actually really been
  • 00:33:03
    kind of looking at how I've done that
  • 00:33:05
    and what I what else I do cuz I don't
  • 00:33:08
    like it when I am am hearing. I'm okay
  • 00:33:10
    with it and I'm I'm I'm okay never
  • 00:33:12
    having a 100% perfect accent in any
  • 00:33:14
    language, whatever. I don't care. But
  • 00:33:16
    sometimes it's hard for you to see how
  • 00:33:18
    that person is making that word because,
  • 00:33:20
    you know, there's some interesting
  • 00:33:21
    things that happen when we grow up
  • 00:33:22
    learning a language. The studies show
  • 00:33:24
    that we have the potential as babies to
  • 00:33:27
    speak anything. You know, if I take you
  • 00:33:29
    to France, you're going to, you know,
  • 00:33:30
    you're going to pick that up. If I take
  • 00:33:31
    you to whatever, you know, to Pakistan,
  • 00:33:33
    we'll do, right? But what happens as we
  • 00:33:35
    focus as we specialize in that we start
  • 00:33:37
    to lose the ability to make the some
  • 00:33:39
    people can't go some people cannot do
  • 00:33:42
    you know I have friends they can't do it
  • 00:33:44
    you know and so they can't roll their
  • 00:33:46
    ars and so what will help you is also
  • 00:33:48
    not just hearing where are you putting
  • 00:33:50
    your tongue when you go you probably
  • 00:33:52
    never thought about it if you can do it
  • 00:33:53
    but if you want to learn sometimes
  • 00:33:54
    sometimes you'll see that their tongue
  • 00:33:56
    is here that their mouth is here you
  • 00:33:59
    know
  • 00:34:02
    France
  • 00:34:04
    Right? It's the mouth doesn't open as
  • 00:34:07
    much. Right. It's funny. I have French
  • 00:34:08
    friends as well and they said that in
  • 00:34:10
    their American class they were like,
  • 00:34:11
    "You need to open your mouth if you
  • 00:34:13
    don't speak like an American." We blah
  • 00:34:15
    cuz we're used to complaining. That's
  • 00:34:16
    why we Yeah.
  • 00:34:20
    So yeah, for the for the accent stuff
  • 00:34:21
    like that, you have to mimic also. Mhm.
  • 00:34:23
    Whatever. You can choose accents,
  • 00:34:24
    places, this, that, and the other. you
  • 00:34:26
    know, my Spanish if I'm with my friends
  • 00:34:28
    in America, a lot of Mexican accents
  • 00:34:31
    like this, watching Argentinian series.
  • 00:34:34
    You watch that stuff, you mimic, you do
  • 00:34:36
    this. There's another interesting guy,
  • 00:34:37
    Alexander Arguas. You know, there's a
  • 00:34:38
    big issue in the uh in the linguist,
  • 00:34:41
    let's say, world. Cuz he studied, he got
  • 00:34:43
    his PhD and all of his colleagues, he
  • 00:34:44
    was like, "You guys all study languages?
  • 00:34:46
    None of you speak. You guys are all
  • 00:34:48
    doing studies and writing papers about
  • 00:34:50
    how people should do that. None of you
  • 00:34:51
    speak." And so he got his PhD, you know,
  • 00:34:54
    in order because it was important and
  • 00:34:56
    you know that whole the whole thing he
  • 00:34:57
    did it but like he couldn't wait till he
  • 00:34:59
    was done so he could do the thing and
  • 00:35:01
    not live in theory. That's a huge part
  • 00:35:03
    of like so if you are trying to fix your
  • 00:35:05
    your accent mimic right watch listen say
  • 00:35:08
    it back see what they're doing. If you
  • 00:35:09
    can't say it properly look at how
  • 00:35:11
    they're ask them what is going on with
  • 00:35:12
    your tongue. What's going watch I
  • 00:35:14
    guarantee you with a little bit a few
  • 00:35:16
    days of care for that you will change.
  • 00:35:17
    It seems like you can't but you can. You
  • 00:35:20
    just are not focusing on it. you have
  • 00:35:21
    too much to worry about. The the
  • 00:35:23
    article, the this, the that, what word
  • 00:35:24
    is it? You can change your accent. It
  • 00:35:26
    can be changed. There's really no
  • 00:35:27
    reason. It might not be perfect, but
  • 00:35:28
    it's possible. I think you got to just
  • 00:35:31
    really take that critical approach to
  • 00:35:33
    yourself in terms of feedback. And
  • 00:35:34
    that's what helped me really is having
  • 00:35:36
    someone, as we say, savage your accent.
  • 00:35:39
    And it took me a long time, even after
  • 00:35:41
    studying French and Spanish, suddenly I
  • 00:35:43
    was in Thailand. And they have tones.
  • 00:35:45
    That took me I guess a year or two
  • 00:35:47
    before I could actually start
  • 00:35:49
    comfortably mimicking it. You know there
  • 00:35:51
    was a lot of cup mai mai no mai mai mai
  • 00:35:55
    mai. It's like I would get so
  • 00:35:57
    frustrated. I'm saying the same thing
  • 00:35:59
    you know but then again over and over
  • 00:36:01
    again one day I could just do it for a
  • 00:36:03
    long time. I couldn't I didn't like plan
  • 00:36:05
    that day was the day I could do it. But
  • 00:36:08
    it came after so much agony, let's say,
  • 00:36:11
    of going through that constant
  • 00:36:13
    correction process. And that's it. You
  • 00:36:15
    can be an academic, but if you're not
  • 00:36:17
    practicing, I I encourage people to sing
  • 00:36:19
    in the language because you've got
  • 00:36:21
    intonation. And I often find that when I
  • 00:36:23
    coach people who love karaoke or have a
  • 00:36:26
    musical background, their ability to
  • 00:36:28
    adapt their intonation is a lot better
  • 00:36:30
    than the average person just because
  • 00:36:31
    they're already conscious about it. So,
  • 00:36:33
    you got to dedicate separate time if you
  • 00:36:36
    do want to improve your accent. There's
  • 00:36:37
    nothing wrong with having a different
  • 00:36:38
    accent, of course. But if you do want to
  • 00:36:40
    mimic an accent better, I often say make
  • 00:36:42
    time for that as well because you don't
  • 00:36:44
    ever get successful at something often
  • 00:36:45
    by accident. It's got to be like, okay,
  • 00:36:47
    in the shower in the street, I've got my
  • 00:36:48
    headphones in. I'm going to sing this
  • 00:36:50
    Spanish song. I might look like a fool
  • 00:36:51
    walking down or Korean, whatever song it
  • 00:36:53
    is. For me, it's been the only way of
  • 00:36:55
    like constant obsession with the accent
  • 00:36:57
    as well, not only just on the other
  • 00:36:59
    aspects. That's another huge point
  • 00:37:00
    though, the fact that you number one you
  • 00:37:02
    you have the key of may look stupid but
  • 00:37:04
    uh I would I still do this but less so
  • 00:37:07
    because I have headphones now but back
  • 00:37:08
    in the day uh I would take a cell phone
  • 00:37:10
    and I would talk another language to
  • 00:37:12
    myself mainly because I'm an introvert
  • 00:37:14
    and people assume that I'm extremely
  • 00:37:16
    extroverted because they see me in
  • 00:37:17
    several different places and in media
  • 00:37:19
    but I love to read I want to study. I
  • 00:37:21
    like to meditate I prefer to be alone
  • 00:37:23
    but yeah you're not kidding like you can
  • 00:37:24
    walk down the street or talk you know
  • 00:37:26
    and repeat stuff to yourself. I mean
  • 00:37:28
    nowadays people have earpods. Like if
  • 00:37:29
    you see someone talking to themselves on
  • 00:37:31
    the street 20 years ago they would be
  • 00:37:32
    crazy. Now it's just you can't see their
  • 00:37:33
    AirPods, right? And so it's like not
  • 00:37:36
    that big of a deal. You have all these
  • 00:37:37
    places like I said before, no excuses,
  • 00:37:39
    you know? Like you should just be just
  • 00:37:41
    like it's so crazy what you can do if
  • 00:37:43
    you sit down and you're not so worried
  • 00:37:44
    about the end goal. Like you said,
  • 00:37:46
    dedicate a little time to it and just
  • 00:37:47
    what happened and one day comes out of
  • 00:37:49
    you and you're just like how did I do
  • 00:37:50
    that? Well, you just moved towards it.
  • 00:37:53
    You know, that's it. People see it's
  • 00:37:54
    like the what they call it the iceberg
  • 00:37:56
    um analogy where like in that one moment
  • 00:37:58
    it seemed instant but people don't see
  • 00:38:00
    the hundreds if not thousands of hours
  • 00:38:02
    before that I guess scoring a goal as
  • 00:38:04
    well right same how does how long does
  • 00:38:05
    it take to you kick the ball it's in the
  • 00:38:07
    net like one second countless countless
  • 00:38:10
    countless hours well all the training as
  • 00:38:12
    well that's the other thing I mean now
  • 00:38:13
    we have an obsession of seeing the
  • 00:38:14
    journey which I'm kind of against
  • 00:38:16
    obviously on our football channel where
  • 00:38:17
    we're teaching kids you know what what
  • 00:38:19
    it's like to actually be a pro you know
  • 00:38:20
    what what you need to do how you need to
  • 00:38:22
    train you've got kids nowadays wanting
  • 00:38:24
    to start record their day one and I
  • 00:38:26
    understand uh I'm not ignorant to the
  • 00:38:28
    idea there record day one and they want
  • 00:38:29
    to you know show their journey on that
  • 00:38:31
    what ends up happening just like the
  • 00:38:33
    phone analogy they get obsessed about
  • 00:38:34
    the content and how it looks and they're
  • 00:38:36
    at training trying to see what their
  • 00:38:37
    angle is and you're all this and before
  • 00:38:39
    you know it you're making content
  • 00:38:41
    instead of training you're more
  • 00:38:42
    concerned about how that is and in my
  • 00:38:44
    time there was no obviously there was no
  • 00:38:45
    phones at training when I was 14 13
  • 00:38:47
    whatever there was just nothing that you
  • 00:38:48
    go to training and that's it you're
  • 00:38:50
    you're there if someone misses it I
  • 00:38:52
    think the amount of goals and things. I
  • 00:38:53
    don't know how many Instagram followers
  • 00:38:54
    I would have had at 14 with some of the
  • 00:38:56
    goals I scored on against kids who can't
  • 00:38:58
    really play. You know, it just that's
  • 00:39:00
    there's a big difference between that
  • 00:39:01
    and that I think is translates over to
  • 00:39:03
    language learning as well, which is just
  • 00:39:06
    guys like you're going to the end goal
  • 00:39:08
    is is a beautiful thing and it and it's
  • 00:39:10
    and it's wonderful. Don't worry about
  • 00:39:11
    this journey, this stuff. Enjoy. Just
  • 00:39:14
    enjoy enjoy every single aspect of this
  • 00:39:16
    journey part. you'll get to the part
  • 00:39:18
    where you your words will come out as
  • 00:39:20
    long as you're focusing on the correct
  • 00:39:22
    things. You know, you can go off. I
  • 00:39:24
    don't want people to think that there
  • 00:39:25
    aren't bad things and ways to waste
  • 00:39:27
    time. I have a friend Stefan Syron who
  • 00:39:29
    is he learned Swedish. He's an American
  • 00:39:31
    guy. He spent four or five hours every
  • 00:39:33
    day doing Duolingo before he moved to
  • 00:39:35
    Sweden. When he got to Sweden, he was a
  • 00:39:36
    teacher and he was like, "Oh my god, I
  • 00:39:38
    don't speak Swedish." After all that
  • 00:39:40
    time, he was like, "Oh my god." But it
  • 00:39:42
    was great because he was with kids. they
  • 00:39:43
    don't have as much of an interaction or
  • 00:39:45
    they don't have high level vocab, right?
  • 00:39:47
    And so it was there that he actually
  • 00:39:48
    picked up a lot of his Swedish. We've
  • 00:39:50
    done some cool videos together like
  • 00:39:51
    where he speaks Swedish and I speak
  • 00:39:53
    Danish or then my Swedish after I was
  • 00:39:55
    there for a little bit of time and he
  • 00:39:57
    was the same. Now he's a Swedish
  • 00:39:58
    citizen, you know, and he just kind of
  • 00:39:59
    enjoyed the journey. Poof. You know,
  • 00:40:01
    it's just you have to you do have to
  • 00:40:03
    have discipline. You do have to stay you
  • 00:40:04
    have to show up every day. That's one
  • 00:40:05
    thing I don't think we've touched on.
  • 00:40:07
    You could spend an hour a day. That
  • 00:40:08
    would be great. Even on those days that
  • 00:40:10
    you can't, don't just throw the whole
  • 00:40:11
    thing away. M take the 15 minutes. It's
  • 00:40:14
    not lost. It'd be like just you working
  • 00:40:15
    out. Like really, like if you could do
  • 00:40:17
    100 push-ups in 5 minutes, should you
  • 00:40:19
    still do it or should you be like, I
  • 00:40:20
    can't go to the gym today, so I'm not
  • 00:40:21
    going to do anything. Really, you know,
  • 00:40:23
    you could you can do something. And so
  • 00:40:25
    that's the same for language learning
  • 00:40:26
    every day. The consistency is what
  • 00:40:28
    matters. I mean, there's a key point you
  • 00:40:31
    mentioned about sometimes the stronger
  • 00:40:32
    you affirm yourself, the more you've got
  • 00:40:34
    to defend. And I've told everyone, I'm
  • 00:40:36
    going to do this. I'm going to be the
  • 00:40:38
    best. You know, my French is going to be
  • 00:40:39
    amazing. My Spanish is going to be
  • 00:40:40
    amazing. Watch me. the time you spend
  • 00:40:42
    speaking about it and that links to
  • 00:40:44
    social media, right? If I told everyone,
  • 00:40:46
    I'm going to build a podcast, watch this
  • 00:40:47
    podcast, I'm going to be whatever,
  • 00:40:49
    whatever it is, that energy itself is
  • 00:40:51
    not really motivating as well because it
  • 00:40:52
    it feels competitive. Whereas this is
  • 00:40:55
    something beautiful that should be your
  • 00:40:56
    own personal journey. Yeah, you can
  • 00:40:57
    share it and encourage people, but I
  • 00:40:59
    find with social media, it's a
  • 00:41:00
    double-edged sword because it can become
  • 00:41:02
    a career. You can make money from it,
  • 00:41:03
    but that takes a lot of time as well.
  • 00:41:06
    building all of that time put the reason
  • 00:41:08
    you probably became pro is that at 14
  • 00:41:10
    you weren't spending 20 hours a week on
  • 00:41:12
    the point that's the point guys yeah I
  • 00:41:14
    didn't do any of that after you've made
  • 00:41:16
    it then you can share those gains with
  • 00:41:18
    people so I think it's a great message
  • 00:41:21
    yeah yeah yeah and the other thing with
  • 00:41:22
    telling people about it it's good when
  • 00:41:23
    you have some sort of social pressure I
  • 00:41:25
    mean there's some great studies to
  • 00:41:26
    understand that if you tell maybe one
  • 00:41:27
    person who you trust and respect hey I'm
  • 00:41:29
    going to learn Spanish that friend after
  • 00:41:30
    two months and be like dude you haven't
  • 00:41:32
    even bought a book like what are you
  • 00:41:33
    that's great but the social media aspect
  • 00:41:36
    of it is you're looking for that reward
  • 00:41:37
    without having done something. That's
  • 00:41:39
    what the kid is actually looking for.
  • 00:41:41
    He's looking for you to cheer me on and
  • 00:41:43
    get all the respect of having done
  • 00:41:45
    something without actually doing it. And
  • 00:41:47
    that's the problem. So that's why I
  • 00:41:49
    don't recommend be work in silence.
  • 00:41:51
    We'll all cheer you on once you've done
  • 00:41:52
    it. You know, it's going to be great.
  • 00:41:54
    The whole social media, everyone's going
  • 00:41:55
    to love how you can juggle the ball and
  • 00:41:57
    speak the language when you do it. You
  • 00:41:59
    know, if you don't need to tell everyone
  • 00:42:02
    necessarily that because you're getting
  • 00:42:04
    the reward. It's it's not good. It's
  • 00:42:06
    really not good for your your ego. Yeah.
  • 00:42:08
    I think much better to find a Spanish
  • 00:42:09
    speaking friend and just get obsessed.
  • 00:42:11
    There you go. With them, take those wins
  • 00:42:13
    and they're going to be proud of you
  • 00:42:14
    when you go out into the real world and
  • 00:42:16
    do what you can do. So, yeah. Could we
  • 00:42:18
    know some of the highlights of your
  • 00:42:19
    language learning experiences? I mean,
  • 00:42:22
    there's too many. I mean, some of the
  • 00:42:24
    things that are cool is when you really
  • 00:42:26
    need it. Now, what I do, I I run around,
  • 00:42:28
    I do interviews for, you know, some of
  • 00:42:30
    these these major uh football and sports
  • 00:42:33
    companies, Nike, Adidas, and etc. And
  • 00:42:35
    so, we're interviewing stars, you know,
  • 00:42:37
    for former legends like I just did uh
  • 00:42:39
    Raul Gonzalez, you know, Raul. Yeah. I
  • 00:42:41
    don't think that video is out. Probably
  • 00:42:42
    it may be out soon here in a second. He
  • 00:42:44
    feels more comfortable in Spanish,
  • 00:42:45
    obviously. And there's several, you
  • 00:42:47
    know, I did Sergio Ramos, just Sergio
  • 00:42:49
    Ramos, he'd rather speak Spanish. And
  • 00:42:51
    there's several times like that where
  • 00:42:53
    the player feels more comfortable. And
  • 00:42:55
    so normally what they'll do is have a
  • 00:42:57
    translator. Well, that's that's a boring
  • 00:42:58
    interview. Like imagine if you guys had
  • 00:43:00
    to have someone I talk and then we wait
  • 00:43:01
    for this guy over here to just tell you
  • 00:43:03
    what I said. It's like come on. You
  • 00:43:05
    know, those are boring subtitles or
  • 00:43:06
    whatever. And so a lot of times they'll
  • 00:43:09
    just say, "Okay, just do it. Just do it
  • 00:43:10
    in that language." You know, the real
  • 00:43:12
    challenge will be when I try and do it
  • 00:43:13
    in a language I don't really speak like
  • 00:43:15
    Portuguese. Like I can we can get by,
  • 00:43:17
    right? You know some Spanish, you know
  • 00:43:19
    Italian, you can get by. But if they ask
  • 00:43:20
    me to give an interview, I would do it
  • 00:43:22
    just for the challenge, you know? But
  • 00:43:24
    stuff like that's going to come up. I
  • 00:43:25
    have no doubt. Portunol, is that what
  • 00:43:27
    they call it? When you mix Spanish and
  • 00:43:29
    Portuguese, I mean they're cousins. I
  • 00:43:32
    always say Latin based languages,
  • 00:43:34
    Italian, French, Spanish. If you say
  • 00:43:35
    enough words over and over again, you're
  • 00:43:37
    probably going to understand something.
  • 00:43:39
    Yeah. Yeah, totally. Will, it's been an
  • 00:43:42
    amazing opportunity to hear all of these
  • 00:43:44
    different insights into why people
  • 00:43:46
    should learn a language, how they can
  • 00:43:48
    learn a language, and the passion behind
  • 00:43:50
    that in your case. Do you have any final
  • 00:43:52
    messages for anyone watching this video?
  • 00:43:55
    Man, you know, I it's always funny when
  • 00:43:56
    I get these at the end there's so much I
  • 00:43:58
    want to tell people, but at the end of
  • 00:44:00
    the day, I want to bring it back to seek
  • 00:44:02
    to understand and seek to be understood
  • 00:44:03
    as a motto for how you go about your
  • 00:44:05
    language learning. Because if you can do
  • 00:44:07
    that, that has layers, right? It's not
  • 00:44:10
    just in the language learning, but
  • 00:44:11
    that's also people to people, right? If
  • 00:44:13
    I try to understand you and your
  • 00:44:14
    language and your culture and your
  • 00:44:15
    stuff, like I told you, you're going to
  • 00:44:16
    go on the street, you're going to see
  • 00:44:17
    this guy's from Japan, you're going to
  • 00:44:19
    say something to him. He's going to be
  • 00:44:20
    like, "What is going on?" You have this
  • 00:44:21
    general human connection and
  • 00:44:23
    understanding. So, just enjoy every
  • 00:44:25
    aspect of your language learning and
  • 00:44:26
    forget forget all the rest. It's not
  • 00:44:29
    important. Your inner goal matters. Your
  • 00:44:32
    inner world, your inner state, that's
  • 00:44:33
    what matters in your language learning
  • 00:44:34
    ability and your journey. And that's it.
  • 00:44:36
    So, that's all I would say. Thank you so
  • 00:44:38
    much. Thank you very much.
  • 00:44:54
    Wow, that's really
  • 00:45:03
    [Music]
  • 00:45:05
    cool. Okay.
  • 00:45:20
    You have
  • 00:45:42
    So I lived on Reunion Island, right? So
  • 00:45:45
    they're French. It's an overseas
  • 00:45:46
    territory. But like how there's Jamaican
  • 00:45:49
    PWA or pigeon
  • 00:45:51
    English, you know, they're kind of
  • 00:45:54
    Nigerian English, the Crayos, they they
  • 00:45:56
    have their own language and identity. So
  • 00:45:58
    maybe we can teach you a couple phrases.
  • 00:46:01
    There you go. So to if you meet someone
  • 00:46:03
    from Reunion Island, they will say to
  • 00:46:05
    you instead of like they say
  • 00:46:10
    okay. And so
  • 00:46:12
    the
  • 00:46:15
    response that's cool,
  • 00:46:21
    oh instead of like
  • 00:46:24
    it also means like how are you? They
  • 00:46:27
    say like
  • 00:46:30
    wow. So
  • 00:46:42
    it's what do you want to eat? You say
  • 00:46:51
    so change a lot. Instead of like to say
  • 00:46:55
    like V, they say that's cool. That's
  • 00:46:59
    cool. Becomes
  • 00:47:04
    okay. One of my favorites to end on is
  • 00:47:06
    in Maician Crayo. It's an island right
  • 00:47:08
    next to next to Reunion Island. Yeah.
  • 00:47:10
    They have a word for maybe you can guess
  • 00:47:13
    the animal. Ka Ka.
  • 00:47:17
    So what animal doesn't run?
  • 00:47:21
    Oh, that's a good that's a good guess.
  • 00:47:23
    That's a great guess. But
  • 00:47:32
    exactly because it doesn't run. Okay.
  • 00:47:35
    So, but um well, again, thank you so
  • 00:47:38
    much.
  • 00:47:47
    How in Croatian do you say FA.
  • 00:47:51
    It's spelled H V A L A
  • 00:47:55
    Yeah. Great. Great. Great.
  • 00:47:58
    Graci Talk in both of the the Swedish
  • 00:48:01
    languages. Yeah. Yeah, that's it. No
  • 00:48:04
    problem. No worries. So, make sure you
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