You’re right, lessons always focus on reading and writing, and on grammar before vocab. I use songs to get a feel for a language, I may be wrong but it seems like people exagerate the different sounds when they sing, making it easier to imitate?
I used to talk to myself in some of my tongues to keep myself from getting a bit rusty with ‘em..People could have thought I was crazy! Don’t do anymore, I just try to practice my languages whenever I can..go check my video “Luca speaks 8 languages”..Ciao!
(1) I agree with you that listening is an important first step. I have found that combining listening and singing help tremendously with pronunciation. I have had trouble pronouncing tagalog words and my fiance is always getting a laugh from my attempts. I started listening and singing along to the song “Ikaw na nga” by Willie Revallime. I learned the words and pronunciation and sang the song to her. She was shocked and pleased with my pronunciation, and gave me a 10 in pronunciation!
(2) I got the idea to try the singing method to learning pronunciation after watching some vids of TEFL teachers teaching English to Chinese kids by having them sing songs in English in class.
I am really excited about learning tagalog now! At first it felt like a insurmountable mountain I was going to have to climb and struggle with. Now, it is fun!
Your vids also are a real help to me, as well. Thank you!
Hi i live in Brazil and speak a little bit of english but sometimes i have difuculty to understand what americans or somebody else are speaking because they speak too fast.I think i have to listening over and over again.
answer to fonsecafh :
People who learn English in schools know mainly formal language. Americans use much more informal language than people from Great Bitain.
Especially when they use slang, you won’t understand them. However, watching a lot of english videos make me used to guess meaning of new words. Although I’ve been learning english for 13 years and i know all the grammar rules (and also my vocabulary is rather advanced) i still don’t unterstand american rap songs.
I want to learn portuguese, mandarin and japanese. I now dominate english and spanish. Some one told me portuguese is similar to spanish. What advice to learn this languages? My purpose is to improve my record when getting a job. Maybe in the future, I will like to dominate that language to work in that foreign country.
The problem is that the language spoken in rap music is nor informal. Is describe as “jerga language” in spanish. Is a group words created by a certain commuity who share the same thoughts about it.
Hello, funny music intro… but nice vid, very useful.
I was wondering if you could help me with this… I want to get a tattoo that says:
am I dreaming?
But i want to try it in different languages… so if you could please translate it for me in the languages you know i would appreciate it a lot.
Thanks!
You know I totally agree with what you had said in this video. I am Lithuanian, but I like English more than everything All started with some interesting English cartoons. After few years of watching them I began to understand what was said. Now, because of the childhood in front of TV I have actually no problems during English classes. Everything seems fine, I’m just chilling out and having fun ;D
I’m learning languages so that I could understand other people and would be able to communicate This is the first one. The secondary might be that I want to live abroad If I learn a few languages and if i’ll like their culture maybe i’ll be able to move there
Thanks so much for that. I’m language lover too. Listening to the language primarily is really good advice.
Some people study while they are waiting… but you even teach while waiting *g*
thanks a lot, I already took a look at some of your videos and you helped me a lot
keep on the great work!
thank you very good..
You’re right, lessons always focus on reading and writing, and on grammar before vocab. I use songs to get a feel for a language, I may be wrong but it seems like people exagerate the different sounds when they sing, making it easier to imitate?
I used to talk to myself in some of my tongues to keep myself from getting a bit rusty with ‘em..People could have thought I was crazy! Don’t do anymore, I just try to practice my languages whenever I can..go check my video “Luca speaks 8 languages”..Ciao!
Very insightful, thank you
i’ve just started spanish and that helped a lot, thank you.
(1) I agree with you that listening is an important first step. I have found that combining listening and singing help tremendously with pronunciation. I have had trouble pronouncing tagalog words and my fiance is always getting a laugh from my attempts. I started listening and singing along to the song “Ikaw na nga” by Willie Revallime. I learned the words and pronunciation and sang the song to her. She was shocked and pleased with my pronunciation, and gave me a 10 in pronunciation!
(2) I got the idea to try the singing method to learning pronunciation after watching some vids of TEFL teachers teaching English to Chinese kids by having them sing songs in English in class.
I am really excited about learning tagalog now! At first it felt like a insurmountable mountain I was going to have to climb and struggle with. Now, it is fun!
Your vids also are a real help to me, as well. Thank you!
Fantastic! Thanks for sharing.
Hi i live in Brazil and speak a little bit of english but sometimes i have difuculty to understand what americans or somebody else are speaking because they speak too fast.I think i have to listening over and over again.
this video on learning a foreign language really helps since I’m trying to keep up with portugese
Thanks for your comments.
answer to fonsecafh :
People who learn English in schools know mainly formal language. Americans use much more informal language than people from Great Bitain.
Especially when they use slang, you won’t understand them. However, watching a lot of english videos make me used to guess meaning of new words. Although I’ve been learning english for 13 years and i know all the grammar rules (and also my vocabulary is rather advanced) i still don’t unterstand american rap songs.
I want to learn portuguese, mandarin and japanese. I now dominate english and spanish. Some one told me portuguese is similar to spanish. What advice to learn this languages? My purpose is to improve my record when getting a job. Maybe in the future, I will like to dominate that language to work in that foreign country.
The problem is that the language spoken in rap music is nor informal. Is describe as “jerga language” in spanish. Is a group words created by a certain commuity who share the same thoughts about it.
You’re no alone. Because I am of a different generation, I don’t really understand rap music either.
I want to learn ”ESPERANTO” , is so hard , but in the right time , i will speak it.
Hello, funny music intro… but nice vid, very useful.
I was wondering if you could help me with this… I want to get a tattoo that says:
am I dreaming?
But i want to try it in different languages… so if you could please translate it for me in the languages you know i would appreciate it a lot.
Thanks!
Thanks alot .. worth watching
Did you tried learning Tamil
No, but I think Tamil is a very interesting language to learn. Is that your language?
You know
I totally agree with what you had said in this video. I am Lithuanian, but I like English more than everything 
All started with some interesting English cartoons. After few years of watching them I began to understand what was said. Now, because of the childhood in front of TV I have actually no problems during English classes. Everything seems fine, I’m just chilling out and having fun ;D
I’m learning languages so that I could understand other people and would be able to communicate
This is the first one. The secondary might be that I want to live abroad 
If I learn a few languages and if i’ll like their culture maybe i’ll be able to move there 
@MicroDispersion Good for you!
@MagicMaximo I’m thirteen. I don’t understand it either.