Challenging myself to learn 100 WORDS EVERY DAY

CC subtitles available in multiple languages.

In my last video, I shared my goal of learning 20,000 words before my trip to Turkey in September. Today, I'm going to show you exactly how I'm making that happen!

⏲️ TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Introduction
0:27 Why am I setting these goals for myself?
4:40 Why do I care about the number of known words?
5:20 How do we remember new words?
8:18 What actually counts as a new word
9:00 My strategies for moving words to known
11:17 Does the goal depend on the language?
12:25 The importance of learning vocabulary

📺 WATCH NEXT:

🎙️ LISTEN TO MY PODCAST:

💡 LEARN MORE:

✅ FOLLOW ME:

[Thelinguist]

❓Would you try something similar? Let me know in the comments!

[cellospot]

I signed up for Lingq a couple weeks ago after delaying for a year with some level of skepticism, and I was proved wrong -- I absolutely love it! I can tell that it's helping me learn very quickly, and in a different way than when studying out of textbooks, where they teach you present or past tense initially, then they move into other tenses. Lingq throws everything at you all at once, but it feels like I can actually have a conversation pretty quickly, whereas previously I'd have to sit there and 1) think of my sentence in English; 2) conjugate my verbs; 3) translate the whole sentence in my head; 4) try to get my sentence out in my target language while trying not to forget the translation. Lingq is fantastic!

[squaretriangle]

It doesn't matter how old you are, you will always remember the thkngs your mother threw away, this is why I never threw away things without asking my child beforehand😂

[pm]

Steve, would you ever consider adding Gaeilge, Irish, to LingQ. I think there would be a market for it, it would definitely be a great help for myself and a few other people I know.👍

[IceDragonASLT]

Thank you Sir, I've recently started learning spanish on a whim. This morning (4 weeks into using lingq) I went back to review lessons 1-10 of the spanish mini stories and found only 2 or 3 brown lingq's per lesson, on otherwise white pages. I had a few well done brain moments. I had felt before reviewing that I had maybe rushed to quickly through all 60, but your video is a nice re-assurance that its okay.

[tahaismetsevgili]

Türkiye'ye gelmenize çok sevindim. İngilizce, biraz da Almanca biliyorum. Özellikle şuan Almanca'ya çalışıyorken şunu farkediyorum: Türkçe grammer kuralları gerçekten çok standart. İstisna bildiğim kadarıyla hiç yok. Başka dillerde bu kadar istisna olmasına gerçekten çok şaşırıyorum. İstisnalar hakkında siz ne düşünüyorsunuz?

[TirsoCarrizales-fp]

Nice Challenge, By the way, I learned English and French thanks to your app of languages, I hope you are well and greetings from México. (À bientôt!!)💯

[pterodactylman]

Hi Steve-

Is lingQ ever gonna do double language subtitles like lingopie. Instead of having to read the script then watch the show?

[nonecker]

One of the issues with lingq is that learning isolated words will create issues in some languages. For instance, in French one needs to learn the gender of nouns (le/la) and the different prepositions (avec, à, sur, de etc.) of verbs

[AdamGuyot]

This is exactly what I was waiting for. The vocab review section and how you use it is perfect. I can’t stand digital flash cards and the way you do it works for me.
Thanks so much!

[raphaeloliveira]

I'm currently doing around 100 words a week for learning Russian. I split them into 40 nouns, 40 verbs and the rest is for a mix of adjectives, adverbs or small expressions. Mnemonics is everything for remembering them. I split the word into 2 or 3 parts max, and try to think of a word in my native language (Portuguese) or a language that I'm fluent with (English), that rhymes with those pieces of the Russian word. Next time you're facing the challenge of trying to remember how to say X or Y word in your target language, you'll remember the rhyme words first, in that in turn, will help you bring that target language word. It's like creating a password for each word, and it's that same password that unlocks the container so you can access the new word

[Unlockablefrench]

I’m in Montréal right now and I don’t feel that my vocabulary is weak but that part of my “brain muscle “ where I automatically hear and understand and readiness to respond with the words I know. This seems like a different skill than just knowing words.

[ayslandev]

Hi Steve! It would be so nice to be able to hide/show the 'meaning' column in the vocabulary page!

[lasse]

Greetings from Germany,
I have an idea for the dev team.
How about a possible widget for your home screen? Would help me a lot to remember to practice daily if i had it more visible. Keep up the good work👍🏻
PS: if anybody has good courses for japanese beginners similar to the short storys hit me up

[oooohokay]

Hi Steve—

Two features that I would love to see implemented in lingq:

First, a way to trace an isolated word back to its context (or contexts). I.e. I see the word Разумеется in my work list and I can click through and see a list of material where I have previously found this word.

Secondly, for highly agglutinative languages like Turkish, or words with many conjugations, it would be great to be able to link the present word with a list of all of the conjugations. For example, авария context to аварии, аварийная and so on

[patriciacarrillo]

Claro es una ventaja visitar un país y permanecer unos meses y aprendes rápido el idioma, quien no. Pura vida.

[rafalkaminski]

About yellow words (to remember): i wonder if AI could automatically set up new stories with these words (stuffed within green words)

[shreddder]

There's a big difference between studying 100 words a day and actually learning/remembering 100 words a day.

[ozanozcanmusic]

You have great personality. You know to speak 20 languages and İt is interesting condition I have ever seen. I'm turkish and I've learned English for 1 year Also, I study at Yaşar Üniversity in İzmir.

[sanekabc]

How much time does it take you to learn 100 words?