what I wish I knew before learning 7+ languages (pt 2)

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[TheTeachingCouple]

Learning language is the best gift we can give to our brain, to ourselves and our life experiences 😊❤

[Patricio_Marcel]

So happy that in a few instances when you jumped from language to language I didn’t require subtitles. Small things in life that make me smile! Great video by the way! First point really hit home!

[TheSpacedOutGuardie]

That is so true. I started learning Chinese, then started learning Spanish 3 months later. Whenever my brain could not think of the word in the language I was speaking, it substituted with the other. They are not even close to the same, so I think I learned too fast with not enough depth, but it was interesting how things connect in our brains.

[pheonixiagal]

Hi Jo! I'm a 19-year-old American and have only ever spoken English, but recently I visited Italy with my family and it was honestly like a whole new world opening up to me. I'm a huge people person so it was kind of frustrating only being able to say things like 'ciao' and 'io parlo inglese' to communicate with non-English speakers. I'm starting to seriously learn Italian now for the day I go back and reconnect with some of the sweet people that I met during my visit, and I just wanted to say that your content is very inspiring for me and makes me excited to enter into this new opportunity and journey, despite all the frustrations that I know will come with it. So grazie!

[jacobaeden]

i think that ppl are so hung up on grammar being right when speaking it after learning but we have to remember that native speakers often get grammar wrong and its no big deal

[drafty_]

I’m studying Spanish and Korean. I’m excited to learn languages but there’s down sides to it, for me it’s the fact that I can’t have a tutor because I still live with my parents and my parents won’t allow me to have a tutor so it’s hard to learn alone sometimes. But I’m excited to see the end result of my learning😁😁

[SoundOfNature-dx]

j'apprends français depuis dix ans a mon école primaire et puis maintenant mon lycée. j'ai étudié espagnol a mon école secondaire aussi, mais j'ai choisi continuer avec français. J'adore français et les langues en general. après avoir fini mon terminale, j'espère que je pourrais parler en Francais couramment! merci beaucoup pour tout les choses, Jo x

[RavenDots]

The construction analogy is so real lol it really does feel like a work in progress that needs hyper focus and “building another highway” or learning another language while you are still working on a previous one feels messy. I have a hard time doing that. So far, I am only able to focus on one at a time. At least until I’m over the beginning level, then I feel ok learning about another one.

[Domi_Know]

저는 한국어를 배우고 있어요!
I'm so thankful for having learned English as my second language because now I can access to all this content, information and people with the best advice out there. Thank you, Jo! You're really cool and I love your stories about you're experience as a language learner. I'm learning Korean as of now and have been journaling in the language for 1 month now. Let's not give up!

[StefanosVasileiou]

Όλες οι συμβουλές είναι πάρα πολύ χρήσιμες και πρακτικές, ευχαριστούμε πολύ, Τζο!

[StefanosVasileiou]

It's the algorithm analogy for So accurate, haha. Great tips and another amazing video!

[twanmiaka]

What an informative video! I kept shouting, “literally!” throughout. 😅 It’s nice hearing about the stuff that isn’t spoken about much with language learning cos we get to know it’s not just us, and we don’t have to beat ourselves up when we keep replacing vocabulary with a language we’re currently learning etc.
Btw, I think you’ll be able to hear Afrikaans too since you’re getting real good in Dutch. 😁

[DavidGivinsnhe]

It's great learning another language as I'm working on two other languages Mandarin and Russian besides English going on 4 and 2 years! Speak neither fluently yet getting a lot from the journey! I've touched on a few other languages and my goal is 5-6 languages in the next 3 years! Congratulations!😊

[jazzyjay]

I took Spanish in university but struggled with the mix in my brain between French (been speaking since Kindergarten) and Spanish. I've been trying to pick it back up post-grad & so glad to hear you talk on the mix-up in the brain. Great video Jo!

[moldar]

Learning Dutch is much more difficult than the other languages I learned - French, Greek, English, and my mother language Arabic.

[micazev]

gosh i totally relate: the italian-spanish highways in my brain are always crossing each other.
i'm not super disciplined learning languages, but what i noticed with time is that understanding becomes easier (a conversation, a movie without subtitles...), but talking doesn't get necessarily easier - the effort to drill the verbs and all is ... the same, maybe.

[vjunaperoh]

Hey, language learning lover here.
So far, I speak/learning 6 languages
- Arabic (native)
- English (c 2)
- french (b1)
- German (b 2)
- Russian (a 2)
- Brazilian (a 1)

[kiairamontalvo]

You are such an inspiration Jo! Just got your book in the mail yesterday(: so excited!

[indiahawkins]

I'm loving these truths so that I can have a good heads up of what I may experience

[greenytaddict]

I feel like short stories in my target languages has boosted my comprehension.