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i wish i knew about this app years ago
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why don't they teach you like that in
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school
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like that's my question
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[Music]
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hello my name is emmy and i started a
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youtube channel because i wanted to
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document the process of learning spanish
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today i am here to bless you with some
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information
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you've probably heard about apps like
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duolingo memorized
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babble rosetta stone there are a million
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different language learning apps out
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there and some of them are good and some
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of them are bad and a lot of them are
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just kind of like
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and i do know a couple really good ones
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but today
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i wanted to talk about one that no one
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really talks about and i don't know why
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it deserves so much more recognition and
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that is why i'm making this video she
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deserves so much better
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and i'm talking about the language
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transfer
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so if you don't know about it and you
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want to learn a new language or you're
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currently learning one and you're
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still in kind of the beginner stage
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stick around because i'm going to be
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explaining why
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i think this app is so damn good so in
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this video i'm gonna walk you through
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what language transfer is how it works
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and why
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i think this is such a game-changing app
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and at the end just some cons
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to keep it honest here yeah okay so what
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is language
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transfer so language transfer is a free
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app that primarily focuses on grammar
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and it's not one of those free apps that
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you actually have to pay to get the
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premium version to get the whole package
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no no no it's actually free it relies
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completely on donations so
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unless you want to donate it is
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completely free what's crazy about it is
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that
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it was created by one guy
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it doesn't have a whole team behind it
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it was just this one dude who i think is
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greek and he was explaining that
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okay the language teaching is done
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notoriously badly and there has to be a
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better way and i'm gonna make that
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better way
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okay next how does it work okay first of
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all it is a classroom style so basically
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the greek guy he's the teacher and he
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always has a student a volunteer student
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and they're just doing a class together
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so it really feels like you're in a
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classroom the length of each lesson
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varies it's sometimes only five to six
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minutes
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or sometimes it goes up to 15 minutes
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but still the point is it's not very
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long
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another key feature is that there is no
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memorization he discourages
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memorizing and even note-taking which
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was bizarre to me at first because for
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me
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i used to think that language learning
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like such a huge proportion of it was
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just memorizing a lot of stuff like
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memorizing vocabulary memorizing grammar
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rules and that kind of stuff and i still
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think it's really important to use
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flashcards and stuff to expand your
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vocabulary however
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in language transfer it really focuses
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on teaching you how the language works
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it always makes you dissect the language
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to it's like its tiniest piece and then
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it makes you build the sentence from
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there
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so the lessons are always full of like
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mental exercises
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so your brain is like busy the entire
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time and kind of related to that point
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another key feature is that it takes a
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very linguistic approach
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you might be like oh my god linguistics
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that sounds way too difficult but
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actually
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i don't think so i think it makes it way
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easier to approach languages that way
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and the lesson the guys always kind of
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relating the words to each other
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looking where they came from
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categorizing them into groups
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constantly comparing it to different
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languages he explains why
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certain grammar rules exist it's always
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just like connecting the dots and that's
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fun that is very satisfying to me what
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used to seem like random ass rules that
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i just have to kind of memorize
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now makes sense to me it happened
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multiple times when i was like oh my god
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i see now why didn't they teach me like
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that in school
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so that's fun that kind of language
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learning is fun to me it just makes it
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so much more interesting so it's always
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about identifying
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words and roles that you can convert or
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transfer from one language to another
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and i think that's why this app is
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called language transfer because it's
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it's
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it's doing it all the time it's a
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constant theme what i love about this
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app
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is that it doesn't start with the basics
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and what i mean by that is that it
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doesn't start with a typical
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like hola como estas no he starts by
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saying
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you know what english and spanish are
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actually related and there's a bunch of
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words that we can convert
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from english to spanish so why don't we
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look at those first and that's how it
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starts
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for example there's this golden rule
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that i was like mind blown by
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and it goes like this words ending in io
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and such as like
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opinion passion preparation creation
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organization those type of words those
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you can all convert right into spanish
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just to say it in the spanish way
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opinion
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creation like that and it gets better
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out of those take the ones that end an
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asian for example like preparation
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creation
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organization complication take out the
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shin
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at the end and add an r and that gives
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you the verb form in spanish okay so
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this is how it works for example
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preparation if you read in the spanish
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way it goes
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preparation take out the shun and add an
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r at the end prepara
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that means to prepare another example
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generation we have the word generation
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in english if you read it the spanish
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way it goes generacion
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drop the shun stick an r at the end
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general that means to
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generate and it goes for other words as
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well like
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creation creation complication
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complication
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and the guy's like c you already know a
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thousand different spanish verbs
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this method is brilliant why don't they
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teach it like that in school
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like that's my question
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so that's why i think this app is
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amazing and that it's really special you
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take your time to dissect the language
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it takes you through the language
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in a way that really helps you
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understand the language it's
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constantly giving you all these mental
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exercises so you can really internalize
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it as well to me it almost feels like
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this whole course is just a love letter
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from one language nerd to another
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there's so many good things to say about
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this app in general but
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there's one crucial thing that is very
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multinai i don't know
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how do you say it in english there's one
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big con that is hard to ignore and that
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is that
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unfortunately there's not a lot of
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languages what do they have so they have
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spanish arabic turkish german
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greek italian swahili french and
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english for spanish speakers so they've
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got those nine languages
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and if your target language isn't that
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i'm sorry but they don't have korean or
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chinese or
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japanese i have a lot of friends
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especially who are studying korean
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because
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like kpop and kdramas are such a huge
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thing now but unfortunately they still
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don't have those courses but well let's
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just hope that
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other languages would be added in the
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future this isn't like really
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criticizing
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the app itself or anything but one thing
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i would say is that
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if you're just doing language transfer
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it's not gonna make you fluent
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no i think it's good to be using it with
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a combination of different sources
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definitely
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because it's really more focused on the
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grammar and the structure of the
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language and all that
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so the vocabulary you learn is very
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limited
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so you should definitely use it with
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another or multiple different sources
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and that is all i have to say about this
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app
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okay honestly i've only done about like
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20 something lessons so far
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out of 90. so i still got a long way to
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go but i really wanted to make this
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video like right now since it's a very
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new year's resolution season
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and i know a lot of people maybe want to
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pick up a new language in 2021
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so i thought it's like the perfect time
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to make this video and share with you
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guys
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so i'll definitely link their website
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down in the description
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so go check it out if you want i love
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this course
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can you tell can you tell it was it
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obvious
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you know me too well so this was a very
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different type of video but i hope you
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guys found it useful
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i hope you enjoyed it and it would make
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me so happy if you could subscribe
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and i'll see you guys again very soon
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bye
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[Music]
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they should honestly hire me as their
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sales and marketing person
