The Secret to Learning Lots of Languages - Make Mistakes and Learn!

In this video, I tell you how to make mistakes among the best tools to learn a new language.

We all hate being corrected but, in language learning, a slight change in attitude and the way you respond to mistakes will be a game changer.

By doing this, you will develop enough self-awareness to notice your own mistakes and their patterns much more than you did before.

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Editing by Pierluigi Siena

[LittleBlueDuchess]

I agree with all of this! I'm a perfectionist and I fear making mistakes, but I've learned to accept them. And if anyone shames me for my mistakes in French, I know that's their problem and not mine. Recently I've been much better at correcting myself on the fly, which is awesome! Thanks for your video, I think you made great points that people really need to take to heart. :)

[minhhuyenhoang]

After achieving some C1 certificates of languages, i still make mistakes and i‘m so grateful to be corrected. I do not care how many mistakes i’ve made, just how many corrections i‘ve got. They improve me a lot on my learning progress

[catlady]

I would rather someone correct when I make a mistake in Spanish b/c if no one tells me, I don't know it's incorrect and will keep making the same error.

[languagesenrose]

thanks for making videos! they are really fun to watch and informative.

[emiliaseremak]

I didn't know you learn Polish, it's difficult language. Anyway we say, ,na internecie'' or, ,w internecie'' when we spend time on the net, but for example when we make online transactions we say, ,przez internet''. However communication over perfection. Thanks for your great viedeo. Pozdrowienia z Polski ;)

[iloveejbgssnoopy]

I agree and I am learning Gaelic and not to rely on google translate too much

[ICanSpeakArabic]

thx alot for ur thoughts.

failure is the oppertunity, to work it better next time. thx ❤

[asadmohammed]

This is the first video i get since i subscribed to ur channel afew days ago .now i realized i will never regret pressing the job loca..ur my favorite polyglot

[whynot]

Let's make mistakes and learn something! The best advice! Thanks, it changes my attitude towards my bloody mistakes, yo!

[justfine]

I rather someone correct me, but they don't because many people think that's going to embarrass me, but is it actually for me one of the best way to remember the correct way of saying something.

[chadandrews]

Good to put a positive spin on mistakes. We do learn from correction, but sometimes I need to avoid teachers or language partners that seem to aggressive with correction. IMHO too much correction and too much grammar kills motivation.

[soledadearcoverde]

Thank you, Luca! You are a great motivation for me.

[coconutpineapple]

A half Japanese American TV star speaks both perfect Japanese and English. He lives in Japan 40 more years. But I realized he has some mistakes which native speakers never do. It's impossible to be perfect. Making mistakes is nomal.

But many YouTubers make a video like "don't afraid of making mistakes." They think making mistakes isn't nomal thing.

In my opinion, you don't need to think about mistakes. Just listen native speakers videos, and when you find difference between you and them, you correct on your own. Or learn new expressions from them. You don't need to think about mistakes. Just learn. When you speak your first language, I assume you are bored. Because you don't make mistakes. To find your own mistakes is fun.

[lawdylima]

You are awesome! Thank you so much for these words!

[LiborSupcik]

They wanna hurt you by correcting you .. this deserves some pondering .. only if you think so, they can

[patchy]

Tenerife,
Canary Islands,
Spain,
Africa.

Excellent points, as usual.
Keep up the great work!
(Oh, I wonder whose national day it is on the fifteenth of this month, just a couple of days before my own, and which language they speak, just in case some student of it would like to somehow celebrate it by showing how well he's doing with learning it.)

Best wishes,
Patchy.

[LiborSupcik]

The essense of neurolanguage coaching is this synapses-growth mindset leak

[wieauchimmer]

Laugh about your mistakes but learn from them. I once wrote in a test "... so he becomes more money" the mistake was based on the German words "kommen" and "bekommen" which lead me to "become" instead of "get". You can make mistakes, it is part of the process, but you have to learn from them and try to avoid them the next time

[MateusCSilva-ohsy]

Thank you man, your eng is definitely native level. I hope I'll attain this level, the prob is that I need to improve my accent at first. I can watch news in eng and catch around 90%/98% of the words.

[gastonalvarez]

Hola luca, soy gran admirador de tus videos e implemento constantemente tus consejos a la hora de aprender y perfeccionar idiomas. Tengo una pregunta para ti. Tengo un nivel de inglés intermedio-avanzado y diariamente intento perfeccionarlo utilizando tus consejos, a la vez estoy aprendiendo francés. Tu siempre recomiendas aprender un idioma a la vez. Que me recomiendas, perfeccionar mi inglés y una vez perfeccionado centrarme en francés? O puedo hacer ambas simultáneamente? Muchas gracias, un saludo.