Best Way How to Learn a Foreign Language - 7 Quick Tips

The best ways to learn a foreign language. From working with native speakers to reading newspapers you can learn Spanish, German, Chinese, Portuguese, English and any other language with a few easy steps. Learn languages fast and easy.
Filmed in Vienna, Austria
Copyright Mark Wolters 2014

[sayroto]

find bands from the country whose language your are learning, music is a great way to learn because it gets stuck in your head! when i learn new vocab i can recall songs i heard it in which allows me to recall the sentance and helps me understand how to use that word better

[safiamaria]

another best way to learn a foreign language is by listening and singing songs. as you sing-along, you tend to remember or memorize some of the lyrics and you get to understand the grammar and structure of the sentence. try one song at a time. english is actually my second language and people do ask me how i become well converse in english i always tell them to read books/ magazine, listen to musics, watch movies or tv programmes and have a freind or family member to speak that foreign language with you. also, do encourage your children to learn a second language since they are a little kid. younger children have better memory and can pick up foreign language easily compared to adults.

[KevJYT]

Thanks for the reading newspapers and reading out loud tips.

[kdot]

I'm learning German now, it's so much fun

[ooYUxKIoo]

Thank you for your great video! I'm learning English, your advices was most helpful out of all youtube videos! I'll try your tips^^

[nerokaleenov]

Thanks Woltersworld. Your video gives motivation to those people who are losing their hopes in studying foreign language.

[JohnnyTsc]

I'm learning English with your channel =) a hug from Brazil, hue

[dylanreysings]

It's all about commitment and the right resources. It's absolutely necessary to have a grammar book. Phrase books will not help you. TV in the foreign languages are also good. The Key to being at a high level though IS having someone. I'm 16 and I speak English, French, German, Italian, Russian, Greek, and Hebrew. Took YEARS, but it's worth it.

[ManfredAckermann]

I totally agree, a great video with great tipps. I had 2 times a 30 hours class in spanish before leaving to spain but the best thing was to learn in the foreign. A local class where I had to speak because there was no fallback to my native language. Don't care about failiures, that's natural. Try to communicate and not to be perfect then you'll come in contact and you can practice and envolve. And never forget: People are king, just try! If you show your willing to learn and to integrate then they are helpful. You just have to be open minded. Me helped and helps still hearing spanish radio. Just pick on with your type of music and on the news and comercials have an ear on the melody of the language. Helped me speaming more fluently.

[skysworld]

All really good advice, although the method you mentioned for watching TV doesn't really work for languages without a phonetic alphabet (eg. Chinese) but I have found marginal success with watching Mandarin TV shows and sticking on the English subtitles, it's also been recommended to me to watch English movies I love a lot and know a ton of dialogue for in Chinese. It's just a slightly different approach.

[TheAviator]

Another tip I find not many people do is if your a fan of movies. Find a film you have seen in English many times where you almost know half of the dialogue such as Star Wars etc, and then watch it in the language you are learning with the subtitles. You'll comprehend the words twice as well than a new film because you are familiar with the script. Same can be applied to a book you have read in English or a video game, etc.

[libaahaar]

Well i will try my best i was searching for motivation, to learn german thanks.

[MarcinVoyager]

I've just come back from Vienna. We have been there at the same time. Grettings. :)

[taami]

So true! I learned a little bit of finish only listening to music and watching interviews. Of course it's not easy because it's so different from spanish but it helped me to at least understand a few words. Now I'm looking foward to study french next year, but your video helped me a lot when I was in Paris last july (eau, bonjour, bonsoir, toilette, sortie, je ne parle pas françois and things like that hahaha) thanks Walt!

[MichaelRMcDonald]

Excellent advice as always Mark. Thank you. I visited France in September of last year & loved it so much that when I return I would love to be able to speak a little French. I have on the television as I type this a French movie with English subtitles on.   

[arjunmarwah]

Thank you so much. This will help me with my spanish. Thanks a billion. Your a great you tuber. I love your video and they help me every time we travel. :)

[NYKgjl]

Very useful video...Thanks a beginning to learn French and hopefully in the future, I can go visit Paris or even Quebec City =)

[Parmesana]

when I was in Genoa Italy, I took a long walk.. and of course got a bit lost. I found 3 teenagers seated playing a guitar. I know that most Europeans know some English in primary school..so took a chance. They were delighted to practice English as I was in practicing my Italian.

[philippuhrig]

I totally agree with the theory behind the grammerbook point you make.. and I think it is most certainly more important to have a grammar book than a phrasebook.. but here is a thing you can take the phrasebook and learn some sentences which is quite motivating but more importantly try to get the idea when you read something in a phrasebook and then think yourself.. what i nean by this is that you see that the topic is gor example asking for the way or ordering food.. you can then just imagine what typicall outcomes of such conversations are and which words and phrases you zhink are important too and then look these ones up and add them to your voc. list..so summary would be ..use phrasebook as inspiration ;)
great video with good tips.. when you guys start learning a language.. what do you start with? pronounciation rules ? conjugating verbs?
keep the study up its worth it.. whenever im on vacation and in a country where i can communicate it is such a great experince ;)

[aldorivas]

amazing video, I'm going to translate an entire book, but at the end of every sentence, I'm going to write grammar notes to see how the rules are applied. I don't like those short sentences we find in books.