HOW TO LEARN LANGUAGES EFFECTIVELY | Matyáš Pilin | TEDxYouth@ECP
Matyáš Pilin is going to speak about one of his biggest passions: languages. He has travelled through Estonia and Finland as well as hiked alone in the French mountains in order to immerse himself in the local culture and has attempted to learn many of the world’s most challenging languages such as Mandarin and Estonian. He's not only an excellent student but also a talented orator, which has led him to participate in an international debate at Yale university last year. Today, he wants to offer some insight on how to learn languages quickly and effectively and help us understand how polyglots manage to find the time and energy to learn so many languages in one lifetime.
Matyáš Pilin is going to speak about one of his biggest passions: languages. He has travelled through Estonia and Finland as well as hiked alone in the French mountains in order to immerse himself in the local culture and has attempted to learn many of the world’s most challenging languages such as Mandarin and Estonian. He's not only an excellent student but also a talented orator, which has led him to participate in an international debate at Yale university last year. Today, he wants to offer some insight on how to learn languages quickly and effectively and help us understand how polyglots manage to find the time and energy to learn so many languages in one lifetime. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
I learn English by watching videos in English about how to learn a new language. haha
Me too!
Me too
Me too!
😂😂
Me too
“Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.” - Flora Lewis As a Spanish teacher with German and English proficiency, I totally agree with this.
You are absolutely right . And it even happemd with me when i was preparing for my ielts exam i started to translate my owne word into other language and a miracle was happening 😂😂
DecodingSpanish Want you help from you in Spanish, practice my language.
When we learn a different language, we learn to see the world in different perspectives, it's not words but culture and another world whole part.
I'm an English speaker looking for a Parent Speaker in Spanish
As a random high school student who already figured this out for myself, I can say I agree with this
My Summary 1. Message: understand the sentence structure 2. Importance: enjoy the studying 3. Observation: pay attention to observe people are doing how they speak 4. Comprehension: action, using own existing words
Thank you for saving my precious time
Thanks for easy hints.
Thanks
thank you
Tq 🙏
Don't be scared to make mistakes, make them. they are gonna be corrected by people and you gonna learn from that.
Thank you for this message. It is so valuable for me
For me, being not lazy is the whole key!🤣
Gg
Exactly!!!!
Agreed
so true, "babies babies!"
Absolutely
For my English fluency, I watch videos in English and English movie. And Boom! I got English fluency within 4-5 month.
If you want to improve your English faster, you need to take some daily dictations. Just watch any video you like and type down as many phrases as you can on your computer or write them down on your notebook without stopping the video. One of the most common issues English learners struggle with are pronounciation and grammar mistakes. By listening and writing at the same time every day, you'll be able to relate sounds with words, so your brain will catch every single sound and grammar structure as well. At first it is going to be a little bit hard but don't worry, you will get used to it sooner than expected.
Would you mind telling me how did you do so? Since I'm doing the very thing these days listening to ted talk vedios, english prodcast... Mainly I'm listening to english speaker.. for they speak very fast and i wasn't able get any thing out of theirs convo... but now Words are being grasped by my mind to some extent. So the point what I'm trying to make here is that tell me if there is somthing more I can do in my expedition?
@@user-ki3eo9qu4r Well... When I watch an English video, I try to catch every single word and I sometimes imitate the speaker to get a grip on that accent. I think in English and whatever I see in English videos, I catch it all in English. I often talk in English with myself and friends in different accents such as American and British. I take special care of not committing any kind of Grammer and vocabulary mistake while writing, texting and speaking. This helped me a lot and it is super easy. You just have to imitate the native speaker and try by yourself and also taking care of "not committing any kind of Grammer and vocabulary mistakes." Alright?
Mohit Jangir Well as far as I'm concerned beign feeble in speaking and having no friends to speak and practice with..is far more difficult than having one. Bro It's being 1 month since I've started to work on my listening skill.. I'm imitating too bro. Tell me one thing bro how much grammar knowledge should I have to speak good english by not indulging myself into grammatical mistakes? and plz let me know if you found some mistake in my writing.
@@user-ki3eo9qu4r You should watch "English with Lucy", "Go natural English" and "mmmEnglish" channels on KZhead to learn English. For Grammer, you have to learn everything. You should check these channels. I still learn English from these channels. These channels are super awesome. These channels are British, American and Australian respectively.
The key principles: 1. Message: Try to understand the information by the context, you learn for real when you build the meaning of the words. That's exactly what we do when we are learning our mother tongue. 2. Importance: Make the target language important. The best way to do that is choosing the target language to do some important daily activities inspite of using your native language. 3. Observation: Listen more and more and more, as much as you can in order to perceive the vocabulary and the way the natives speak the language. 4. Comprehension: The more you comprehend, the more you learn. Don't worry about acumulating words, but comprehending them.
Thank you
To my knowledge listening as an input is the most significant item while learning how to use the language as a means of communication in real life situations
Thanks
That's a really good conclusion.
Thank you brother god bless u🥰😘
I am a native English speaker, and I am trying to learn German. It has been tough and the grammar, word genders, and pronunciation sometimes make me want to give up but these Inspirational TedTalks always inspire me to keep trying. Maybe one day I will be able to speak German.
You will definitely get there buddy!
Viel Erfolg 🤗 Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland ❤️
I learn german too, which apps/websites/youtube channels do you use?
@@sensus7692 I was born in Germany which makes me a native speaker😅 What is your mother tongue and where are you from?
@@corad.2535 Turkish, i'm from Turkey
And I am learning English language from ted talks😊
Kajalpreet Kaur me to 🙌
I'm American I need to learn English :P
Me either!
Hyy kajalpreet do u wanna practice with me i am learning english language too and i want a girl partner with whom i can practice speaking english language
Me either. I'm Indonesian and this youtube channel are really helpful for me to familiarize in listening
Never don't afraid mistakes Speak courageously Now I am learning English.And I am interested Germany and France.I am from Turkey.I believe I will do what I want.❤️💓
Keep practicing everyday !
I don't know why people adore destructive criticisms!! He did a good job . As a polyglot, I admire your courage and your ability to explain these aspects of learning languages
He explained some aspects of learning tongues yet the message was more like anyone can make a show if you dare, one should dare, push and dare. It is a great and valuable message. Not for linguists though...
He stole his entire presentation, every single slide from Chris Lonsdale TedTalk presentation back in 2013. Literally 95% of his presentation is from Chris. Go look for yourself. This dudes a fraud.
You nailed it. So far, some people just forget this : everything in the universe is relative, we move we live in an ocean of motion, better abstain from any fixed categorical vision, it leads nowhere
He took so long to say so little
*PRIMARY SECRET to MASTERING FOREIGN LANGUAGE or ANYTHING:* *_humility_*
nailed it !
Could you expand on this?
So just to clarify: The secret is humility?
That's the comment I've been looking for. Also friendliness and openness are very helpful, but most people who want to learn languages already have it.
@@gabrieltomas9914 *"Humility" is teachable, willing to acknowledge one's own mistakes & be readjusted by others, recognizing growth comes with discomfort & learning from the discomfort calmly.*
*4* *Key* *Principles* : 3:10 1. Message 2. _Importance_ 3. Observation 4. Comprehension
fundamental principles, including 1) visualization, 2) contextualization, 3) meaningful repetition, 4) mental association.
I speak Arabic, English and French fluently. I know how to read and write in Spanish and Italian. I understand Turkish, Russian and Greek. Now I am willing to learn Swedich, German and Chinese. I was born in Tunisia and I can tell that what helped me learn these languages at only 23, is the fact that I live with languages and do like if they were my native ones. So I never mind watching a film in Turkish, seeing a cooking show in Italian, listening to Russian songs, reading articles for my researches in Spanich, asking for a greek sandwich in Greek and helping my French friends learn Arabic, my actual native language, so that they do the same.
From the very first sentence I knew you're from Tunisia haha, cause yeah ich bin auch , Tunisian people are used to live with these 3 languages in their daily lives , but Spanish, Italian, Turkish , Russian , Greek , that's amazing . For example: You know Vraiment yaatik essaha je savais pas elli fama chkoun men Tunis w y'jangel" belloughat hethi lkol haha nice . anyways lol salutations from yo'homie TN
tryna not cringing here
Great 😊😊💕💕
can you teach me english and spanish too?
I've been learning english since I was a kid. Playing videogames, listen to music, etc... I consider that my learning process has been slow, but I'm still learning and that's important. My dream is to travel, and be able to speak with native speakers some day. Thanks for all this motivation!
One day you will achieve your Dream Good Luck, Love from India!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That's one of my dreams as well, be able to speak with native speakers in some day!! Hope you are doing well, greeting from Malaysiaa.
You’ll do it! Keep going. All the best from Manchester.
Language learning is easy if you're dedicated. I learned Arabic just by listening to it every day for 4 years straight. I'm now fluent in it and English is my first language. Anything is possible.
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Ow 👏
Amazing…..how long did it take you?
Nice! Listening to it every day... which medium? Movies? Teaching tapes? Educational TV? Subtitles?
The most important things in any activity are patience, persistence and perseverance.
TRUE 🥰🥰👍👍
Watching movies and listening to music in the foreign language is really a great alternative to being inmersed in the culture when you can't travel!
For me, put your emotion into learning is the key to learn deeper, faster.
ikr but there are so many words. I kinda remember the words right after google it but a few days then I will completely forget, I know the only method is practicing everyday but how do I remember words better?
I'm asking you because you're Vietnamese lol :) I'm even scared to ask a foreign :))
@@hihaileyo try to visualize it while u close ur eyes and try associate with anything that is familiar with you. Other than that, giving emotions is really useful too. I recommend to use sharp feelings. As a non-native English speaker I use these techniques
@@chillmechanic11 thank you so much for your sharing, i'll deffo try it. do you mind if i ask you where are u from?
Exactly! That’s why I was able to learn English by myself. Always watching movies in English and listening to music
As he said at the beginning. This way works for him and probably for him only... And by the way... Passion and the desire to learn something is key. He discovered warm water... Wow...
So true message. There’s no shortcut to it but if your love for a language big enough to get yourself feel like immersing with other language-related things, journey to fluency will be very soon to happen.
Matyáš thank you for sharing your brilliant approach to hearing, speaking, comprehending a foreign language! I have a bachelors in Spanish which isn’t saying much considering it took me three years to master phonetics, dialects, sentence structure, verb conjugation, along with the potential 13 different ways you can conjugate a specific verb. I think it is the simplest language for me to learn because it possesses what I call pure vowels. I am a classically trained vocalist and yet I was trained primarily in my native tongue, English. Whatever choir I was in we always had a 3 to 5 minute vocal warm-up. We would sing five specific vowel sounds at a specific pitch. Naturally these vowel sounds are the American phonetic spellings: eh, ee, ah, oh, oo. Those are the same vowel Sounds that are found in Spanish and Latin. As time went on I became very attracted to singing popular radio songs in Spanish and Latin. But I never mastered speaking and responding quickly until I was placed in a foreign country; Costa Rica. And at the end of my bachelors I lived and studied Costa Rica for 11 straight weeks, four hours a day. The professor told us she would send us home if she caught us speaking in English after a third warning. My Costa Rican host family, thank God, spoke no English whatsoever. So nearly 6 hours to 8 hours a day I was never around anyone to speak English to. Had I not done this Full immersion, my bachelor degree in Spanish would’ve been worthless.
I have never heard from any native yet that nice sentence”there are thousands they can speak better than me” you are very young but you have wide thoughts and really nice personality . I wish you a very bright future
I’m actually learning English. I love the way that he talks. I have understood everything and I am so proud of this. His presentation is very good and clear. I did progress since I really want to improve my English skills. I know that I need to improve a lot yet, but thanks to his speech I swear that I will do everything for that. Thanks you bro
How did u improve ur speaking skills? Give ur method of improving those skills.
10x for U great message, U answer a lot of quetions running in my head
One day, I'll go to the stage of Tedxtalk and give speech that "how I learnt English from here" by watching videos alongwith taking much knowledge about what I wanted to. Thank you ☺️☮️
How about now? Did you make it?
The powerful word which describes the best method of learning another language is: HABIT!
That makes sense since we're creatures of habit.
I have been teaching languages for 11 years , i speak twelve languages fluently and confidently. I am from Rwanda and i've never been to any other countries . it takes a single month for my students to speak a certain language fluently . my system is the best in the world this sounds like i'm bragging but it is better than anything you have heard . i hope one day the world will know that
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Please chat with me in English in whatsapp 919747541891 I'm from India if you learned me in what's app pls help
You just made an amazing job👏 This message made my day and to tell you honestly I've been learning English and it was tough that I wanted to give up already but your words make me keep on moving I'm thankful that I've watched this video. Maybe I've been experiencing a lot of difficulties in learning English but I will not give up, I know someday this difficulty that I've been experiencing turns into a celebration 😇
Yes why no
What a simple and fantastic model presented by Matyáš Pilin! I couldn't agree more. It's interesting how the idea of finding the "parent speaker" as a source of meaningful input, provider of feedback and somebody allowing you to test your hypotheses about what might be correct (or not) is actually similar to the way children ACQUIRE (rather than LEARN) languages. I also believe that risk-taking while learning a new language is mostly productive (the accompanying anxiety is often of the facilitating type).
Your speech was so impressive. I got a lot of motivation to follow my dream to understand oneday a native speakers. I'm a person who tried to learn english at home without tutor. I just don't have a chance to do it. But your speech give me a hope. Probably I'll able to fulfil a dream. I'm grateful to you.
I have been seen mmm English videos and there the teacher told that one way to improve our English is watching TeDtalks and writing them, so I'm doing. I firmly agree with what you are exposing. Getting the message of what we're communicating is quite important for the development of our use of English. What, it is more another thing that I consider useful is that that actions are more important than words. I think that implique our body gestores on what we say makes our knowledge meaningful. Thanks for sharing 👏👏👏.
It's all about finding situations in which you can experience the language. Very nice talk. Thank you.
I am Indonesian, I always watch this video everyday to improve and to grow my English.
Thank you very much! It was really some pleasure to hear and watch this video. Amazing performance👏
Great advices, there are so many ways to learn a language. I think the most important step is to get started and continue to learn 5 minutes a day.
You help us a lot about lerning languages, thank you.
His great speech inspires me a lot. Thank you
I like the way he speaks, very clear and fast. And i think he is very smart boy
For me motivation is a key! Ever single day keep going!
Yes. Motivation is the most important.
I'm learning english actually by watching videos and his speech is very good. I love it! I am not good at speaking and listening, so as he said I won't afraid to make mistakes. It is very important. Also I think that it will help me to learn other languages effectively in the future
Interesting talk . Thank you, bless you. All your dreams come true .
This was amazing! Straight forward and easy to follow👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Definitely it makes sense. Speaking forien language, don't be afraid about! Mistake makes perfect!
Definitely makes sense. While speaking a foreign language, don't be afraid. Practice makes perfect. Just correctly you since I am assuming you are not a native language speaker.
@@Nazinsky Thank you dude
I always get too scared to forget words or make a mistake :(( even tho I’ll learn from it
@@camtheunicorpse2217 you won't learn lf you dont make mistakes .....
Un known yeah I mostly speak with my friend because she doesn’t laugh at me and tries her best to understand and help me understand
I live in Finland, and I have Vietnamese girlfriend and I am moving to live and work in Vietnam in the future, this is a great motivator to learn. Travelling there few times, connecting and spending time with local people helps a lot also. I use duolingo for this. It is structured very well and makes learning easy. I tried all kind of internet sites first, but most of them are pretty bad and lacks good structure and progression. In Duolingo they have managed to make very good progressing system, which actually works and you don't lose motivation easily, and I have made massive improvements during the last year. I have about 2 years before I move there and I am confident I can speak pretty fluent Vietnamese at that time.
I am Vietnamese and I really admire you for your Vietnamese learning process. Vietnamese is one of the most difficult languages, so it is too complex to learn
Nothing hard is possible 💪
Im from Brazil 🇧🇷 and im learning english with your vídeos.really i love this Channel,i pratic my listening with this...
I'm learning english lisetening a lot and writing now i'm doing that. Regards people!
I challenge myself to study Korean., and I hope this language journey can help me inspire my students in the future in learning a new language.
How’s it going?
How did it go?
How can
Suddenly I'm listening the video and reading the comments in English at same time... it's a good listening exercise, trust me!
Awesome
It’s so difficult for me to do it simultaneous , but if trust you, I will just try to do it 😂
Thanks for great speech!!!
Yes, amazing presentation to maka a way to understand another language effectively !
excellent speech.not scared and speak it with courage, and try to find your parents language tutor it will help you a lot. Thank you!
I can understand what he says completely!
@jhames So I'm getting good at listening, cause I could understand everything he said, even though he's speaking fastly...
He is not speaking fast
Me too...I understand everything what he says ...I can read in english....my problem Is speaking english
I understand approximately 70% of his speech,
I understood 100% of the things he said. B-)
Learning english language is intertaining , thank you for the wonderful talk
Nice presentation. Don't be scared to push. Thankful.
I'm made a great progress of learning the English language. My motivation read about it programing language and then after 1 year. I'm not Fluent but I can read a lot and my understanding the English speakers was improved.
This is very impressive, sure there are flaws but very cool you learned so much
Diego, me too.
Awesome
Very good points esspecially the last one, in the beginning of language learning I wasted many hours cramming and studying vocabulary with no comprehension and meaning. It was a stressful and slow way to learn. On my third language now it's a lot smoother knowing how language works. Best way to learn is with lots of CONTEXT and OBSERVATION. Like babies 😇
👍
Worth it
💚🧬 I am on my fifth language, super excited. Joyous love to connect with other cultures. 🧬💚
This is a good advice for new people learning language. I think that a good way to progress in studying any language. I will remember to do that
Everyone has a different way to learn new language. Keep that way it will help you
Many times I cant understand completely all conversations. But, I continúe with effort and sacrifice every day until that I can speak englis like a native speaker
Keep going brother. Best luck. You'll definitely speak like native speakers one day.
Thank you very much. Great ideas! I totally agree with you.
Wicked!!! I love it
Super přednáška🙂
I loved to wacthing ted talk. I hope can improve my english
This speech gives me a bunch of motivation to keep on learning Spanish 😁
Thank you its clearly his speak.
Good speech ! I need to learn german
Although I am not a native English speaker, I l learned English, still having been keeping studying it, to be able to use English as a tool at last and get some progress by “PUSHING MYSELF”!!!!!!!
Maybe my channel & podcast can help you too!
Thank you for beautiful conversation, I am really enjoy with it. 💜💜✨👏👏👏👏🤟
I just came here to learn English and discover the minds of the people who are taking. ❤️🇮🇶
Many people tell me that it's need to hear a video first in my mother tongue, and after in english with subtitles in my mother tongue en them so after to watch in english. But I have no pacience, I just watch in english. I don't understand a lot of words but I've do this for two months and now my unsderstanding is much better. I just need to improve my writing and my speaking too. My goal for this year is to be fluent!
Maybe my channel & podcast can help you too.
What I do to practice English is watch videos that I am interested in. I try to learn something new beyond the English language. The more I learn the more interested I become in the language. It is not as easy as it sounds because we have many distractors and occupations, however, I still think a language is not all about phonetics and grammar but culture, friends, and fun. The World is too big to be static, let´s dream about getting to know the unknown.
Absolutely love this reply. A language is just a gateway to a whole new way of communicating, of speaking with people
Hello Santiago I'm agree with u the thing I most enjoy is speak in that language I want to learn.
Vaya mensaje y aprendizaje, para una persona que habla Español es complicado aprender el Ingles pero se hace el esfuerzo, se busca un padre para practicar el idioma ingles. saludos
Great speech ! Good steps to understand language ! I'm completly agreed with Matyas! Tell you like a English teacher ! Good luck ! Thank you very much !
Thanks brother for those good advices. I admire learning new language but I find some difficulty to memorize all what I learn in a day, and also I don't practice what I learn with native speaker ... Because I have a lot of things to do and I'm in the process of learning Spanish, English and improving my level in French(btw I'm Morocco, so I speak Arabic) . Nowadays languages are really important in any domain of our life. Take care of your selves my friends 💜
I recommend u use the expression pieces of advice because the latter has no plural form. Thanks for ur contributive comment
Great speech! I'll use this to try to improve my Spanish!
Hello we can practice if you want it im learning english im from mexico
@@DiegoMoreno-ro9er Hi, I'm from colombia.
Can we practice. I know Spanish but no one to speak in our area.
@@josemariaortizmanjarrez6930 hi jose maria ortiz podemos practicar solo dime como te busco en fb para comunicarnos
@@ManojKumar-id8gj i can speak spanish im a native how can i found you at fb letme. Know it
very perfect and clear speech, easy to understand. Thanks mate
Thank you for sharing this fantastic video 🥰🥰❤❤
Fantastic ! Good advice . Your public speak skills are perfect . keep on.
I'm Korean army and it's hard to find parent speaker😂 I want to communicate with you by chatting like this~
i can be my friend. so what is our plan to communication way ?
I want to be polyglot as well one day at any cost. If anyone has the same thinking Just like.
Can we have a conversation?
@@marjorieyadao3943 Why not? Which apps do you use tfor communicating??
@@bilalbey4837 I use kakao right now but I can use more! Which app do you prefer??
This is inspirational !!, thanks a lot ..
Thank for this speech
Thank you for your share. It really motivates me!!!!
I'm actually using my second language rn to watch this video and I'm about to start learning a new one, but Idk what's gonna be my next target langague.
thank u for this speech
It is an amazing speech thanks a lot. I gained a lot of knowledge and will be using. I appreciate it.
He speaks too fast but that was an amazing message, you have to push yourself if you want to learn
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@Burhan Diner what's your native language?
There r subtitles u can see them..
That will depend on the listener really. As a native English speaker I found the speed he talked to be fine but as someone that lives in a non English speaking country I understand the issue perfectly and struggle to understand native speakers when they speak fast sometimes. Also he was probably both working to a time limit for the talk so trying to make sure he finished in time plus likely had some nerves that made him talk faster.
@@PAnon2024 Totally with your point, I wish I could find a friend to practice english, I am complety sure everything you want to be can be reached through practicing
Im trying learn english by TED TALK, the most thing hard is i cant remember new words and the meant of words, i hope makes some friends who ready help me being better learning☺☺☺
Thank you very much! This is very informative information for me and my students. I definitely use it in my practice.🙏
Amazing! I think, don't be scare to push ma friend !!!
I learnt how to speak and understand hindi by myself when I was in class 2 only by watching cartoons like shinchan and Doraemon
I do think that I can only learn something well if I know it's really important for my work
I wanted to give up learning English, my goal is speak like a native, because my boyfriend speaks English so well and all their friends are international so I have to improve to keep a conversation with them. Thank you for this video, it’s really motivated me a lot to stay positive in my way learning💪🏼
Great tips i learned from this talk. Another joyful way to acquire a new language is from music. You may either listen or singing along. That is fun.
Thanks for your pices of advice . It was interesting and helpful. I'm watching your videos every day , because I want to learn english so much. And I really have success . Now I want to find a native speaker and to practice with him my english . Bye.
Maybe my channel & podcast can help you too!?!
And I'm learning English through his channel😍,I found it useful, and my purpose to become a good at English... what do you think guys!:))))
I have a channel too😀
I think that is very difficult to leave the prejudices behind, because a lot of us are expected about things that people say, but I have faith and I know I can, and someday i will speak and write English very well. I’m from Argentina🙌🏽
this video could be the most challenging video that I have used for shadowing. This gentle men speaks so rapidly and my tongue and lips were like they rejected my body and went out for a new life =)) but I've finally finished it..