Lydia Machová: Becoming an Independent Learner

Lydia Machová is a language learner, polyglot and language learning mentor. Here we talk about how anyone, not just those who are passionate about languages, can become motivated and enjoy the process of learning a new language.

[Thiago-gmsf]

I was one of those people who don't like to learn languages I thought it was too difficult and I wasn't never be able to learn any other language, but now I've been learning English by myself for about 6 months and I consider myself an independent learner. Nowadays, I can say that I've developed passion for language learning and I'm going to learn as much as I can so that I can teach people how to learn languages by themselves especially here in Brazil where people are like I was, they struggle too much and don't know that they are able to learn languages. This is my mission, show people that they do can learn languages by themselves.

[vincentnikonchuk]

"The brain can't help but learn." Great quote.

[romanstaszak]

Lydia is an amazing person with a lot of practical experiences:-)) Lydia, keep doing the good work:-))) Greetings from Cheltenham, UK :-)))

[patriciahe]

Me encantó esta charla, sumamente inspiradora. Fue un placer conocer a Lydia Machová. Mil gracias Steve por compartir estas conversaciones tan agradables :) Loved it

[nadajabbar]

What great teachers both of YOU. Thank you indeed to your channels and efforts

[Tehui]

I've revisited this interview at 6:20 many times, whenever I felt like wasn't succeeding in my second language. I'm glad I stuck at it.

[Epguy]

Loved her lecture at the Polyglot Conference.

[shamimmir]

Steve is greatest language trainer..i really admire him bcse steve i learn this English language very smoothly but i still workout my daily habits of listening and reading lots of books

[HiHello-xfok]

When I am struggling to speak a language I keep on reminding myself of when people say "kids are going through the terrible 2s". I guess during that time, kids have enough input but the output is not matching and hence the frustration and saying "no" all the time. They eventually improve and that gives me comfort, knowing I would improve too.

[pabloduran]

Wonderful insights! "The brain cannot help but learn" そうだね、ありがとうございます💆🏻

[DanielRamos-ufui]

I'm a fan of both of you. From Brazil.

[cxapelo]

Ŝi estas unu el miaj plej ŝatataj poliglotoj. Ŝia entuziasmo por lerni novajn lingvojn estas admirinda afero.

She is one of my favorite polyglots. Her enthusiasm to learn new languages ​​is an admirable thing.

[ismailabdelfatah]

I do really love this woman ♥️❤️ love you so much, Lydia 😍

[Fabricio]

That's interesting!! Because I've spent 20 years of my entire life or so hating english I don't know why but I didn't like it at all and because of I've learnt spanish before english, however, now I like so much learn english. I can't spend one day without learning it and improve more a little bit each day. It's became fun for me and a few days ago I started to learn French and it's so fun as english is right now. I guess I didn't like english because of the way of the elementary school taught to us. Learning language is like climbing mountain each day you improve a little bit to get closer the fluency.

[juanpabloreaza]

I'm an independent learner in mandarin. greetings from Mexico!

[dennisgeorgemorenaviera]

Hi there! I'm Dennis from Brazil, and I live in São Paulo. I think the same. If we really want to learn a language or something, we need to do orselfs, because only we know our passion for learn and improve our knowledge. I can speak Spanish and English. I learn by myself, I'm not totally fluent yet, however I'm studying everyday. At this moment I'm learning German Franch and Italian too.

[juanenriques]

I have been watching a lot of videos about how she had learned a lot of languages by herself. Since I watched a video of her on Ted talks.

[vanessacolz]

I hope u can have a conference here in Philippines. I will surely attend. I've been studying foreign languages on my own for almost ten years. But I just can't focus my studies due to some reasons. I hope we can meet someday Ms. Lydia. 😇🙏

[tonysroomchat]

Eu ainda quero muito ver Lydia falando em português falado no brasil!

[davidzirg]

A few years ago, my girlfriend and I were in Crete, with her little son, waiting at the Central bus station. I went over, to ask the clerk about the bus number and when he will arrive. In that very moment, her son throw my can of beer on the floor, and brought me out of concept. I wasn´t able to speak english, just switching to czech, because he and she were from Czech Republic. Even my mothers tongue vanished, I´m Austrian. That was a shocking experience, because english I´ve learned many, many years ago in school, but czech just about a year before...