I wish someone could tell me comparison when it comes to language learning I would be so jealous of them by learning languages slowly we also develop a good learning habit I'm already emotionally attached to it more sustainable way to learn take care of my French skill baby 皆さんおはようございます good morning guys here I come Pearly is here so today's video isn't what I was planning to do at all originally but what I'm going to talk about in this video today is really something that I wish someone could tell me in my language learning journey so I
would like to dedicate this video not only for you but also for myself so when I get frustrated about my own language learning progress this is the video that I would come back to watch let me first ask you a question have you ever wondered or googled how to learn languages fast have you I guess quite many of you did and actually so did I to be honest if you Google it up you will find many articles and videos showing and teaching you how to learn languages fast in like 3 months 1 month 7 days
or even 24 hours I think it's our human nature to want to achieve or get something fast in life for example how to earn money fast how to become successful sooner how to lose weight faster etc etc especially in this era where people seem to value productivity so much many people want to achieve something that they desire as fast as they can I'm not so sure about other things but I think language learning is not something that we can rush In other words I don't think one can really learn languages fast of course it really
depends on how you define "learned" and "fast" for the sake of this video I'll just define "fast" as under six months and "learned" as someone who have no problem communicating reading and understanding what people are saying in daily life so why do I think we can't really learn languages you know to become good to become fluent in languages fast because it depends on a lot of conditions to make it work first of all in order to learn languages fast you need to expose yourself to your target language many hours as you can a day I'm
saying four hours five hours or even six plus hours a day but can you commit yourself to language learning that much of time a day you probably couldn't and neither could I because I have many other things to do and I don't have that much of time secondly it also depends on whether you already know a language that is similar to your target language or not for example if you know Spanish you could probably pick up Portuguese in a relatively short time that being said you probably still need to spend a lot of time learning
it every day in order to pick it up fast however a lot of times we simply don't already know a language that is similar to our target language so it's going to make it harder to learn your target language fast also to learn a foreign language fast I think it also depends on whether you already have experiences learning other foreign languages and already found a method that works for you but I think it's still quite tricky because although I already have experiences learning three other foreign languages before learning Arabic I still struggle to find a
method that works for me so it still take me quite some time to try out different methods to see which one fits me better lastly if you want to be able to talk with people in your target language it also depends on whether you have someone to constantly practice with in your daily life and most of us don't have the privilege of living in a country where people speak the target language or having a boyfriend or girlfriend who is a native speaker of course it's still totally possible to improve your speaking skill without these privileges
but it's just going to take longer longer than 6 months to reach fluency in my opinion before moving on to talk about why I think it's actually good to learn languages slowly I want to briefly talk about comparison when it comes to language learning I think in our language learning journey one thing that many of us would be very much likely to do is to compare our learning progress with other language learners for example you are learning Japanese and you met someone who is also learning Japanese hi I'm learning Japanese! me tooooo!! どのくらい日本語を勉強していますか、私は一ヶ月間 (how long
have you been learning Japanese? I've been learning it for a month) sorry hmmmmもう一回？！ 私は一ヶ月前に日本語を勉強し始めて、パーリーさんは？ いつから日本語を勉強し始めたんですか (I started learning Japanese a month ago. When did you start learning Japanese?) 私も(me too)...same same 私も what I have been learning Japanese for more than six months already and he has only been learning one month and he can and he can already hold a conversation with someone I still couldn't understand most of what people are saying not to say to actually hold a conversation with someone oh how can I be so slow and so bad in language learning sometimes it
can be really hard not to compare our learning progress with others I'm also guilty of doing it from time to time when I notice someone who learn faster than me I would be so jealous of them and started feeling bad about myself thinking that oh I'm not as good as others in learning languages I must be you know just like stupid and not as smart as them etc however a lot of times I forgot to consider maybe I did not spend as much time learning that language every day as that person do or maybe that
person have someone to constantly practice with and I don't or maybe I just haven't found a method that works well for me yet so if another time you notice someone who learn faster than you and you're not improving as fast as them don't blame yourself it does not mean that you are bad in language learning or you are not as smart as them okay? now let me explain to you why I think it's actually good to learn languages slowly as it can be counterintuitive first of all we all know that language is not something that
once we learned it we could just leave it right there and never touch it again and we would still not forget about it we all know that we still need to constantly expose ourselves to this language even after we reach an advanced level otherwise we will forget about it pretty soon so I think by learning languages slowly instead of rushing to master it we could at the same time cultivate and develop a good learning habit or routine that will help us to keep improving and maintaining our proficiency even after we reach a certain level and
I think this routine this habit is super important to cultivate so it's nice you know learning languages slowly is like killing two birds with one stone because at the same time you also develop a good learning habit moreover I think learning languages slowly is a more sustainable way to learn imagine this if you try to cram too much knowledge into your brain in a short period of time you might ended up burning yourself out very quickly or even end up hating this language in my opinion if you are not enjoying language learning you probably treat
it too seriously lastly the longer the period of time you invested in learning your target language the more you will treasure your language skill you wouldn't just put it on your wall like a certificate and never touch it after learning it you will treat it more like your little baby for example I have started invested time in l'apprentissage de français you know learning French since 2014 though I learned it on and off it has been with me for such a long time and I have witnessed my French skill grown in the past years so now
it's more like my little baby I I'm already emotionally attached to it so I cannot bring myself to just leave it there and never take care of it I'll make sure to take care of my French skill baby every day by listening reading or speaking it so that's the end of today's video I hope you like it I hope you find it helpful and I'll see you again in in the next video bye-bye bye-bye bye-bye I need to come back to get my camera for sure
