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do you want to know how to learn a
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language as fast as possible are you
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interested in Saving so much time that
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you end up reaching fluency in months
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rather than years after 30 years of
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learning languages and 10 coaching
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others to do the same I believe I
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finally figured out and today I'm going
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to share it all with you I'm going to
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tell you how I would go about learning
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as much language as possible within 90
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days if that sounds interesting to you
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keep watching and don't forget to stay
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until the end if you do you'll get to
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hear the one piece of advice that will
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ensure you that you too can learn a
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language really really fast hi I'm Lucas
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I'm a Language Coach who speaks 14
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languages and on this channel I help
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people learn foreign languages more
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efficiently faster and in a fun way so
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how do you learn a language super fast
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let's find out not too long ago I spent
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a month visiting Budapest the capital
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city of Hungary while I was there I
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became friends with Jonathan a Belgian
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guy who happened to speak Hungarian I
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know a little Hungarian myself but as I
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went around the city with him I remember
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being in awe of the comfort and fluency
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with which he spoke the language curious
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I asked him how long he had been
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learning Hungarian for given his
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apparent skill I expected this answer to
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be anywhere in the range of 10 to 15
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years but no he hadn't been learning for
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15 years 10 years or anything in between
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in reality he had begun learning
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Hungarian only two years prior to my
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visit to years I've been learning
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Hungarian for seven years at that point
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and I was barely conversational so what
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gives what did this guy know about
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language learning that I somehow did not
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what essential piece of the puzzle was I
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missing that prevented me from learning
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Hungarian at that Breakneck speed now
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even more Curious I asked him to tell me
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as much as he could about his history
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with Hungarian I hope that the details
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of his story would reveal something that
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I could use to improve my own language
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during speed too the whole story is too
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long to recount here but here are the
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most pertinent details he began learning
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Hungarian in a school that followed an
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immersion learning model even from day
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one the students were not allowed to
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speak any other language but Hungarian
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shorty after that he moved in with his
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then Turkish girlfriend and they decided
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to use only Hungarian with each other
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after a few short months of a lifestyle
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in which both his home and school lives
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were all in Hungarian my friend was able
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to speak reasonably well and he had only
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gotten better since that time
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this was fascinating to me Hungarian is
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not an easy language to learn for nearly
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anyone it's not really related to any
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other languages in Europe with the
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exception maybe a Finnish and Estonian
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so most people learning the language
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would struggle to speak a well even
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after a few years myself included but as
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I've just described my Belgian friends
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circumstances were very special he was
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able to immerse himself in the language
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practically from his very first day of
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learning and that gave him some immense
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advantages over most Learners of
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Hungarian but what about those other
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Learners what about people like you and
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me who want to learn languages quickly
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but don't have the benefits of an
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immersion school and a Hungarian
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speaking significant other what can we
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do to learn a language and do it really
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fast like my friend did I think I have
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the answer but before I share it with
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you let's begin by defining exactly what
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it means to learn a language clarifying
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this definition will give us a much
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better understanding of our goal so that
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we know exactly what kind of Target
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we're aiming to hit by the end of our
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90-day period lots of people disagree on
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what it actually means to have have
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learned a language or become fluent for
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some people it means merely being able
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to communicate well for others it means
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having a solid Mastery of the language
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as an educated native speaker might
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personally I only consider a language
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learned when I've reached a very
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specific skill level that level in fact
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is one of the six levels described by
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the common European framework of
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reference for languages or cefr if
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you're not familiar the cefr is what we
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use in Europe to measure language
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proficiency the cefr has six levels A1
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A2 B1 B2 C1 and C2 in my opinion fluency
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begins at the second half of that range
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precisely at the B2 level according to
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the Council of Europe the organization
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in charge of the cefr someone at a B2
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level is able to understand most TV news
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and current affairs programs as well as
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the majority of films in standard
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dialect interact with the degree of
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fluency and spontaneity that makes
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regular interaction with native speakers
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quite possible present and clear detail
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descriptions on a wide range of subjects
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related to one's field of Interest
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in my experience a B2 level in a
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language is not something that it's
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generally possible for any learner to
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achieve in three months no matter the
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language there's quite simply too much
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to learn and too little time to do it if
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you're interested in learning more about
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why I feel this way please check out my
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video about the myth of reaching fluency
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in for months a link to which should be
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popping up now in the corner of your
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screen on the other hand I believe three
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months is entirely enough time to reach
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a level of B1 which is the level just
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below B2 on the cefr scale let's take a
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look now at what that entails according
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to the cefr Learners at a B1 level can
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understand the main points of clear
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standard input on familiar matters
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regularly encountered in work school
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Leisure Etc deal with most situations
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likely to arise while traveling in an
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area where the language is spoken can
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produce simple connected text on topics
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which are familiar or of personal
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interest describe experiences and events
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dreams hopes and and Ambitions and
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briefly give reasons and explanations
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for opinions and plans to me those
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capabilities mesh well with what I think
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of when I consider a language learned
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and together they are things that a
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dedicated language learner can
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accomplish within 90 days okay now that
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we've decided to only call a language
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learned when our skills reach the
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criteria for a B1 level let's define
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another term fast
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when we say we want to learn a language
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fast how fast do we actually mean this
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is pretty subjective since three days
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three weeks or even three months can all
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be considered pretty quick from a
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learning perspective however for the
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purposes of this video we'll stick with
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three months or 90 days this might not
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be fast by some people's standards but
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it's definitely a short period of time
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compared to the three or four years it
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likely took us all to become fluent in
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our mother tongues or right with our key
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definitions out of the way you're now
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ready to learn exactly how I would go
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about learning a language fast or in
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other words how I would reach a B1 level
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in three months let's Dive Right In
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before I share this plan let me explain
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a few things first I'll share this plan
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as a series of steps that you can follow
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in order to learn a language fast second
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our end goal of B1 in three months is
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only realistic if your target language
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is similar to your native language if
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you're a native English speaker learning
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say Japanese the time period to reach
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fluency needs to be adjusted to six or
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nine months instead of three and last in
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terms of General structure I'll be
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explaining the steps month by month and
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describing what you should do in each
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month in terms of three things what you
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should do how you should do it and when
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you should do it
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so let's begin with month one month one
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what
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to begin your quest for fluency you need
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a good beginner language course to
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follow the best in my opinion are the
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with E series of course books provided
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by Asimo you can find them online by
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searching for Spanish with ease French
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with ease Hungarian with these and so on
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and so forth asimos courses are
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particularly handy because of their
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excellent content and structure
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typically they consist of small portable
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course books that contain around 100
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authentic and interesting target
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language dialogues each dialogue comes
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with audio a translation into English or
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some other language you know well and
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short but helpful grammar notes
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typically assimil is the only resource I
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recommend for the beginner stages of
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learning but since we want to go fast
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I'll recommend another resource to use
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at the same time Innovative languages
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pod 101 or class one-on-one language
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courses these courses all of which have
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names like Greek pod 101 or Korean class
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101 are essentially massive collections
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of audio and video lessons each
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dedicated to a specific language they
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often contain tons of and take useful
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language content that is delivered
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alongside English translations grammar
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notes and all sorts of other useful
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information access to these courses is
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subscription based but there are a bunch
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of different pricing options to choose
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from so you can usually obtain a lot of
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high quality language content at very
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little expense and there's even a free
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trial best of all pod 101 courses are
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not just limited to beginner content
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I've learned several languages using
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these courses and they've served me well
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from the beginner level all the way to
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Advanced proficiency so that's how I
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would start after choosing my target
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language say Dutch I would pick up Asimo
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Dutch with ease and then the appropriate
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Innovative language course Dutch pod 101
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how now that we have our resources we
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need to know how to use them if we
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wanted to go at a normal Pace I would
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say pick either Asimo or pod 101 and do
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one lesson a day but our pace of course
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is anything but normal we want to go
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fast so we need to do more each day a
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lot more specifically I recommend
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covering 3 three lessons of acetamol and
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three lessons of pod 101 every single
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day but how exactly should we go about
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doing these lessons well I recommend the
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following first read the content and
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listen to the accompanying audio at the
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same time next read the text in your
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target language and try to focus on the
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meaning
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after that just listen to the audio by
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itself and focus on the sounds of the
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language
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once you're comfortable with the sounds
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try to read the text out loud to
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yourself in an effort to build your
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pronunciation skills listen to the audio
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again and repeat what you hear as soon
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as you hear it
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this is a technique called shadowing it
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will help you really improve your
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articulation when you're done with all
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that review the grammar notes that come
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with a lesson to help clarify any doubts
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you might have that sounds like a lot
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and it is but we're not quite done yet
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in addition to covering six new lessons
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each day three Aston Mill and three pod
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101 you should also review the six
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lessons you learned the previous day
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either by re-reading or re-listening to
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their content
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that's a lot to manage I know but this
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kind of intensity is essential if you
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want to attempt a B1 in three months by
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the way if you're curious how to do all
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this at a more reasonable speed check
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the link in the description box to learn
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about my bi-directional translation
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method course which teaches a lighter
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version of this approach for people who
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want to Simply reach the intermediate
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level an A2 or B1 in three months let's
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talk about the when we've got our
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resources and we know what activities we
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need to do but for our first month when
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should we actually do these things first
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off you'll have to do this every single
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day if you skip any days it becomes much
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less like you you will learn your target
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language within the three month period
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next you must keep in mind that I'm
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recommending that you cover 12 language
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lessons each day six new lessons and six
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old lessons as review for most people
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that will take up to three hours each
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day try not to exceed three hours though
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since that might lead to burnout which
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is the opposite of what we want do your
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best to schedule these three hours of
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learning when you have the most energy
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that will give your brain the best
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chance of absorbing the new material
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take breaks here and there as you need
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but always try to make sure you're
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learning when you're most focused and
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engaged in the tasks at hand on to month
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two month two what at the end of the
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first month you likely will have
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completed all of your assimil course
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book and most if not all of the beginner
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content from pod 101. from here you can
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continue on with pod 101 if you'd like
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however I recommend trying a couple of
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new resources as well link you and lingo
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pie these resources are useful at this
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stage because they're usable with a wide
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variety of authentic language materials
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specifically linkq is great for learning
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from podcasts and lingo pie is great for
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learning from videos more specifically
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linkq is a language learning platform
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that helps users learn and practice new
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Languages by providing access to a wide
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range of lessons and activities as well
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as tools for tracking progress and
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monitoring comprehension
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linkq offers a variety of features
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including a dictionary and flashcards
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and allows users to import content from
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various sources such as websites books
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and podcasts in order to create
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personalized language lessons the
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platform also provides a community of
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language Learners where users can
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interact and support each other in their
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language learning journey I used it
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extensively for a number of languages
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and in particular I had a real blast
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using it to improve Mandarin Chinese
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lingo pie is a platform that provides a
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vast library of high quality content in
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the form of video it has a stunning
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design and it is fun to use it has
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excellent and VAST TV content in many
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popular languages such as Spanish French
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Italian German Russian and Portuguese
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and it is great for Learners in that it
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has a number of features such as double
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subtitles that make the whole learning
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experience Pleasant and rewarding in
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short both of these resources are
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repositories of language content that is
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made comprehensible for Learners thanks
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to a variety of tools that each service
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offers if you'd like to check them out
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for yourself look for my affiliate link
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links down in the description box
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both of these platforms have tons of
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great content to choose from and Link
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you even has the option for you to
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upload your own authentic text so you
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can technically make a podcast out of
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any text you want
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when using linkq and lingo Pi you should
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follow two key guidelines first only
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learn with content you find interesting
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if you don't find something interesting
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you'll be much less likely to actually
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learn from it so when choosing content
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remember to always follow the fun second
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try to learn with content that you
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mostly understand but do not completely
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understand this kind of content is what
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I like to call both comprehensible and
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Rich
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so try to learn rich and comprehensible
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content every day you've already been
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doing this with assimil and pod 101 but
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using linkq and lingo Pi will open you
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up to a lot more challenging content
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that covers a wider range of content
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that your beginner materials could not
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in the second half of month two you
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might even want to hire a tutor which
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you can do relatively cheaply using
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services like italki and pre-ply the
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goal here is to speak but you want to
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follow the same theme of learning and
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discussing content and topics that
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heavily interest you do not focus so
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much on speaking perfectly just speak
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and listen as much as you can and your
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accuracy will steadily and gradually
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improve now let's talk about the win as
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with month one I recommend that you
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continue learning for at least three
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hours a day during month two if you can
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however try to push for four hours a day
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you should be more accustomed to intense
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learning at this point so learning for
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this long should not burn you out like
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it would in the previous month adding
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another learning hour to your day will
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give you more time to cover a greater
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range of language learning content as
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provide a link you with lingo Pi but it
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also gives you time to fit in the
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tutoring that I mentioned a few moments
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ago speaking of tutoring I recommend
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scheduling at least two lessons every
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week at a rate of one every three days
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or so this will help keep costs low and
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give you an opportunity to review
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between each lesson month three what
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for this month the answer to what you
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should be learning is simply more of the
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same you should be very comfortable with
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intermediate level podcasts and videos
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in your target language now so for this
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month you should try to broaden your
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content base and learn from content on
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an increasingly wide range of topics
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fortunately YouTube has a near endless
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amount of videos in a huge variety of
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languages so if you change your YouTube
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location to a country where your target
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language is spoken you can get a lot of
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material as you go through more content
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try to strike a balance between quantity
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watching as many videos as possible and
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quality watching videos which most
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closely suit your interests you can also
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increase your ability to learn from
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YouTube videos by using handy subtitling
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and translation tools like those
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provided by language reactor more about
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them in the description box month three
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you can also continue working with your
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tutor if you feel like it you can even
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look into hiring a psycho tutor just so
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that you can gain experience talking to
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different people let's talk about the
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how the how for month three is roughly
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the same as a month two just read and
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listen to as much content as you can in
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the same way as you've already been
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doing similarly you can keep having
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conversations with your tutor on a wide
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range of topics that interest you and
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now let's talk about the when so for the
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when of month three you will want to
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ramp things up even further assuming you
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took my advice from month two and are
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learning for four hours a day for this
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month you should push for a full five
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hours of learning every single day with
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the extra hour of learning you'll gain a
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lot of benefit for more frequent
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speaking practice so this is the right
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time to move up to three to four
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conversations per week rather than the
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original one or two per week this will
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help you inch even closer to
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conversational fluency by the end of the
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month at the end of month three you will
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probably want a way to determine if
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you've achieved your goal of fluency
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your target language a good way to do
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this is to see if you can manage a full
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30 minute conversation with a native
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speaker where you're speaking
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comfortably and confidently and with
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little difficulty
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if you can manage that I'd say you've
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definitely reached your goal
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this of course is not an objective
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measure of your skill compared to the B1
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level of the cefr that's only truly
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attainable for studying for an official
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cefr test which might take you longer
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than three months to do but if you're
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looking for that objective measure then
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that's something you should look towards
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doing next speaking of next that reminds
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me whether or not you're able to have a
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30 minute conversation in your target
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language or even pass a B1 exam you
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should plan on continuing to learn your
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target language there's no real Finish
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Line in language learning so you should
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always be open to learning more and
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improving your skills in new ways okay
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that was a long one but we're just about
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done before we go though let's do a
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quick recap of everything we've talked
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about here first it is possible to learn
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a language super fast but it's
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impossible to know what that really
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means until you define your terms in my
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book a language can be considered a
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learned when you reach a B1 level and
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doing that fast would mean getting it
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done in about three months and then if I
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wanted to reach a B1 level in three
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months I would follow this plan in month
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one I would grab two beginner resources
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asimil and pod 101 and cover 12 lessons
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a day six new and six old for three
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hours a day at most in month two I would
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use Link queue and lingo pi to expand my
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learning content to authentic podcasts
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and videos respectively I would also
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begin meeting with a tutor for
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conversational practice and fit all of
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these activities into at least four
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hours a day in month three I would do
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all of the same things I planned for
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month two but it would broaden the range
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of content I learned from and up the
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intensity of my learning plan this means
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learning for at least five hours a day
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and meeting with a tutor three or four
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times a week
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at the end of all that I would determine
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if I reached my goal by challenging
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myself to have a comfortable
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conversation with a native speaker for
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at least 30 minutes additionally if I
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had the time and inclination I might
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even sign up to take a B1 proficiency
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exam oh and by the way if you want a
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more in-depth look at the steps I take
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to learn any language from the very
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beginning check out my course become a
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master language learner level one the
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bi-directional translation method in the
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course I go into exhaustive detail on my
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most powerful language learning
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technique and show you exactly how you
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can put into practice yourself in your
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own life
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that's all for me for now thanks for
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watching and as always happy language
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learning