@lingosteve Korea Language Plus. You can go to their website at lang p l dot com
The name in Korean is 랭기지플러스 and the author is Jeon Mi-son or 전미손. If I was to give it a difficulty rating maybe it would be on the Intermediate level, but what I like about it though is that it is just in Korean, so it forces you to study just in Korean and it comes with an audio CD for intonation and listening.
oh..on a note tho..you said you listen to BEPPE GRILLO as well? im double-impressed then! its not so usual for a foreigneer learning a language to dive as deep into modern culture of said town as to end up listening to such kinda public figures's speeches and discourses! (i said that cos,in Italy, Beppe Grillo is almost what Michael Moore and George Carlin is in USA,just as an example)) and this shows once more your seriously scary professionality and impressive love for the languages you study!
did i ever tell you (or actually did anybody ever tell you) your Italian Pronounciation is simply adorable? ( in NON-derogatory sense,i swear) its very straightforward and not muffled
I love Italian language two decades of my adult life. I can't wait to speak it fluently for the time hopefully by the end of this year. My only issue is that when you have been studying a language on and off for some many years like I have, you kind of lose enthusiasm for it. I've been to Italy twice in my life and I have no inspiration like food, fashion, men, art and such, because I've been there and done that with Italian culture already. I only just have the drive to want to speak.
I know this question is not related to this video but,did you use pimsleur for chinese. Because I find the mandarin to be different than mandarin in everyday speak. I wonder if you think the same.
@Videolistful Hello there :) . I'm PT, and I have to say the same: Spanish is easily understandable when written, but when spoken? Oh Diós, you guys generally speak so fast it's truly difficult to understand what you say XD
But I'd recommend you to surround yourself with the language: music, tv series, tv shows etc spoken in PT, with SP subtitles (with time, get rid of them). You'll make yourself more comfortable with the language and it'll make it easier to deal with. Solved my prob with SP :)
@Videolistful I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm "letting myself in the middle of a conversation that I have nothing with", but I thought I'd might help a little...
Also: what I said is just to get used to pronunciation, talking-speed and "common" expressions that don't come on the books. You might also try audiobooks :) , you read and listen and that usually makes wonders :) .
((@lingosteve: your videos are really interesting :) , thanks for posting!))
I could undersand just a few VERY basic things she was saying. My question is, does anyone who speaks portuguese find spanish easy to understand as its almost identical?
Also, do any spanish speakers find it easy to understand portuguese for the same reasons?
Strangely enough I can't understand portuguese that well.
@ElBurroSabeMasQueYo I'm Brazilian and I find Spanish really easy to understand, I never had Spanish lessons but I've always been able to understand lost people in my city.
@ElBurroSabeMasQueYo I´m a native Spanish speaker and it´s true what you experienced, Spanish is a lot more comprehensible for native Portuguese speakers than it is for Spanish speakers to understand spoken Portuguese, reading is almost bidirectional but spoken language is a different story. Spanish is very clear when spoken at an appropriate speed and Portuguese speakers are usually more interested in Spanish language than Spanish speakers do with Portuguese.
I have a question, I talk English and Spanish, I speak almost fluent spanish. I recently went to an interview on my way back home i caught the train, when I arrived the women at the kiosk asked me to help a brazilian lady to london as she was having trouble with language issues , I told her that I speak spanish so I could help. Anyway, I found the women on the platform and she spoke only portugues, she could understand me PERFECTLY in spanish, but I couldnt understand her at all. cont....
I'm interested in Portuguese and I live in the US. I hear so much about portuguese - like Brazilian @ Continental are very different. I don't know which l should learn or if I should learn both, if they are similar. Trimnell another polyglot said in his book to learn the contental, but I am more likely to meet a brazilian in the US. If I learn Brazilian portuguese would I be able to communicate with continental speakers, and africans in Africa countries that speak the language?
@614jgirl Yes, there are some different words, I mean, usage of words, but I can understand without problem any speaker of Portuguese. The mainly difference is the accent, It's like the difference between Received Pronunciation x "American pronunciation".
@614jgirl I'm only learning Portuguese, so don't treat what I say as authoritative. The two versions of Portuguese (I guess that applies to the African variants too, but have no real experience) are mutually understandable, especially in writing. The pronunciation is pretty different. In my opinion, Brazilian P is both easier to produce and easier to listen too. Also, BP uses a somewhat simplified grammar which is quite a bonus when you're learning the conjugations.
hi steve, enjoy your videos a lot. well i've learnt more than 5 languages and i could use all of them to communicate with locals, however i had this problem for long time---- i kinda use all the languages together sometimes, and i couldn't seperate them clearly when i speak,just speaking not reading writing. like having english words when speaking dutch or dutch words in german or chinese in japanese.How could you keep yourself away from mixing the languages that you've learnt? and THANKS again
Great video ,I love your videos, Although I started watching them yesterday ,it's been great to listen to you, since you have experience with several languages.
I have a question and I'd be glad if you could answer me .
So I've read somewhere online I can't remember the website ,but that website basically said that to fully learn another language you need 10.000 hours of study .. Do you agree with that ?
It's basically living 2 years in the country the language is spoken,Thank you for the videos
@TheWizardWeiss You don't need 10,000 hours, and you don't need to live in the country. How long you need depends on how similar the language is to one that you know. I think that a thousand hours, more or less, of listening and reading and then eventually speaking will take you a long way. Then you can go the country for a short while to make a breakthrough.
@lingosteve Oh , thank you for answering... my first language is portuguese , and I'm learning english , maybe in the future I will have the chance to visit other countries , that would be great to improve my speaking skills , since I live in a country where there aren't many people around who speak english , so you are one of those people that help me a lot. Thank you again
Hi steve, another great video :) I was just wondering if you could recommend any newspaper or radio websites that have both text and audio for italian. I do import articles from Corriere della Sera onto Linq. However, the audio on these texts is very poor and difficult to understand. Any help is much apprecitated :)
@sheliac I am aware of the site, and when I go back to Korean I will certainly be using it. I do, however, prefer content on history and politics. If you know of any such site please let me know.
@lingosteve The history of Korean is great. I love the way the writing system came about. You probably know it already, but read up on King Sejeong if you haven't :). Keep up the good work!
@Imyirtshashem I used to feel that way about Afrikaans and Dutch. Still do about Afrikaans, but Dutch is one language I can't wait to begin. I hope you kindle an interest in Italian some day!
@qzchris Yeah, I've already had the same thing happen with French. There were 2 languages which I was pretty cold towards. Now I'm studying French and enjoying it. Italian will be more challenging to bring out of that category...but it's a good thing that it's still there at the moment. Enough languages for now. :)
@Imyirtshashem I studied Korean after Japanese and Korean. I believe that if you start truly from scratch it is quite difficult. However, in language learning, interest trumps difficulty all the time.
@Imyirtshashem actually, I have almost 3 years studying Japanese, and have been studying Chinese here and there, and well Korean is not that bad..I would almost have to say that Korean and Japanese is almost like comparing Spanish and Italian. If you know Japanese and/or chinese, you will have an easy time. But I think Chinese is sort of like the latin of east asia, because most east asian languages come from chinese, and it will make it easier to learn other asian languages
@supermonk3y07 Yeah, I don't know either Japanese or any Chinese language. So, I'd be working from scratch. Either way, I'm not learning any of those yet. Mandarin in the next few years, though.
I'll just mention to you that 'most East Asian languages; do not come from Chinese. A lot of vocabulary does. In that sense, I agree, it is like the Latin of East Asia.
Oi! Eu quero falar muito bem portgués, pode ajudar-me? A radio que você fala sobre, qual é o nome dele? Muito Obrigado e Boa sorte com seus idiomas!
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lingosteve 1 week ago
Adesso anch'io parlo un po' l'italiano e capisco quasi tutto. Mi piace moltissimo. Saluti di Al3 di lingQ!!!
enle2002 1 week ago
@enle2002 Salve
lingosteve 1 week ago
Actually I have a book that is content rich in Korean: 문화 한국어 . It comes with audio too.
needmanshini 2 weeks ago
@needmanshini Can you give me the name of the publisher? That would be great.
lingosteve 2 weeks ago
@lingosteve Korea Language Plus. You can go to their website at lang p l dot com
The name in Korean is 랭기지플러스 and the author is Jeon Mi-son or 전미손. If I was to give it a difficulty rating maybe it would be on the Intermediate level, but what I like about it though is that it is just in Korean, so it forces you to study just in Korean and it comes with an audio CD for intonation and listening.
needmanshini 2 weeks ago
@needmanshini Sorry about the run-on sentence.
needmanshini 2 weeks ago
@needmanshini Thank you.
lingosteve 1 week ago
oh..on a note tho..you said you listen to BEPPE GRILLO as well? im double-impressed then! its not so usual for a foreigneer learning a language to dive as deep into modern culture of said town as to end up listening to such kinda public figures's speeches and discourses! (i said that cos,in Italy, Beppe Grillo is almost what Michael Moore and George Carlin is in USA,just as an example)) and this shows once more your seriously scary professionality and impressive love for the languages you study!
awfulguitarplucker 2 weeks ago
did i ever tell you (or actually did anybody ever tell you) your Italian Pronounciation is simply adorable? ( in NON-derogatory sense,i swear) its very straightforward and not muffled
awfulguitarplucker 2 weeks ago
@awfulguitarplucker No , but I'll gladly accept the comment with humility.
lingosteve 1 week ago
What is website for the audio books you mentioned?
mefunny 3 weeks ago
@mefunny il narratore
lingosteve 3 weeks ago
I love Italian language two decades of my adult life. I can't wait to speak it fluently for the time hopefully by the end of this year. My only issue is that when you have been studying a language on and off for some many years like I have, you kind of lose enthusiasm for it. I've been to Italy twice in my life and I have no inspiration like food, fashion, men, art and such, because I've been there and done that with Italian culture already. I only just have the drive to want to speak.
TheSeductiveArts 3 weeks ago
I know this question is not related to this video but,did you use pimsleur for chinese. Because I find the mandarin to be different than mandarin in everyday speak. I wonder if you think the same.
houlmouth 3 weeks ago
@houlmouth I have not used Pimsleur for Chinese.
lingosteve 1 week ago
As a spanish speaker i would say that Portuguese is not that easy for me.
I can read in Portuguese, but when I listen to someone speaking, it sounds so strange and almost impossible to understand. Can anyone help me?
Videolistful 3 weeks ago
@Videolistful How often have you listened to Portuguese? How about a few hundred hours for starters.
lingosteve 3 weeks ago
@lingosteve I spend almost 3 hours per day.
Videolistful 3 weeks ago
@Videolistful Do you listen to content that you also read?
lingosteve 3 weeks ago
@lingosteve Yes
Videolistful 1 week ago
@Videolistful You live in Brazil, and you don't know Portuguese... wow you're stupid.
iLuvAniime 2 weeks ago
@iLuvAniime I'm Spanish, not brazilian.
Videolistful 1 week ago
@Videolistful Hello there :) . I'm PT, and I have to say the same: Spanish is easily understandable when written, but when spoken? Oh Diós, you guys generally speak so fast it's truly difficult to understand what you say XD
But I'd recommend you to surround yourself with the language: music, tv series, tv shows etc spoken in PT, with SP subtitles (with time, get rid of them). You'll make yourself more comfortable with the language and it'll make it easier to deal with. Solved my prob with SP :)
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@Videolistful I'm sorry if this sounds like I'm "letting myself in the middle of a conversation that I have nothing with", but I thought I'd might help a little...
Also: what I said is just to get used to pronunciation, talking-speed and "common" expressions that don't come on the books. You might also try audiobooks :) , you read and listen and that usually makes wonders :) .
((@lingosteve: your videos are really interesting :) , thanks for posting!))
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I speak portuguese, and if you need, i can help.
Abraço.
MerumMinus88 3 weeks ago
I could undersand just a few VERY basic things she was saying. My question is, does anyone who speaks portuguese find spanish easy to understand as its almost identical?
Also, do any spanish speakers find it easy to understand portuguese for the same reasons?
Strangely enough I can't understand portuguese that well.
Gracias a todos que me contesten.
ElBurroSabeMasQueYo 3 weeks ago
@ElBurroSabeMasQueYo I'm Brazilian and I find Spanish really easy to understand, I never had Spanish lessons but I've always been able to understand lost people in my city.
gustavodemichei 3 weeks ago
@ElBurroSabeMasQueYo I´m a native Spanish speaker and it´s true what you experienced, Spanish is a lot more comprehensible for native Portuguese speakers than it is for Spanish speakers to understand spoken Portuguese, reading is almost bidirectional but spoken language is a different story. Spanish is very clear when spoken at an appropriate speed and Portuguese speakers are usually more interested in Spanish language than Spanish speakers do with Portuguese.
neohotch 2 weeks ago
I have a question, I talk English and Spanish, I speak almost fluent spanish. I recently went to an interview on my way back home i caught the train, when I arrived the women at the kiosk asked me to help a brazilian lady to london as she was having trouble with language issues , I told her that I speak spanish so I could help. Anyway, I found the women on the platform and she spoke only portugues, she could understand me PERFECTLY in spanish, but I couldnt understand her at all. cont....
ElBurroSabeMasQueYo 3 weeks ago
I'm interested in Portuguese and I live in the US. I hear so much about portuguese - like Brazilian @ Continental are very different. I don't know which l should learn or if I should learn both, if they are similar. Trimnell another polyglot said in his book to learn the contental, but I am more likely to meet a brazilian in the US. If I learn Brazilian portuguese would I be able to communicate with continental speakers, and africans in Africa countries that speak the language?
614jgirl 3 weeks ago
@614jgirl Yes, there are some different words, I mean, usage of words, but I can understand without problem any speaker of Portuguese. The mainly difference is the accent, It's like the difference between Received Pronunciation x "American pronunciation".
Chakaleffect 3 weeks ago
@614jgirl I'm only learning Portuguese, so don't treat what I say as authoritative. The two versions of Portuguese (I guess that applies to the African variants too, but have no real experience) are mutually understandable, especially in writing. The pronunciation is pretty different. In my opinion, Brazilian P is both easier to produce and easier to listen too. Also, BP uses a somewhat simplified grammar which is quite a bonus when you're learning the conjugations.
barsorrro 3 weeks ago
hi steve, enjoy your videos a lot. well i've learnt more than 5 languages and i could use all of them to communicate with locals, however i had this problem for long time---- i kinda use all the languages together sometimes, and i couldn't seperate them clearly when i speak,just speaking not reading writing. like having english words when speaking dutch or dutch words in german or chinese in japanese.How could you keep yourself away from mixing the languages that you've learnt? and THANKS again
MsBOZHI 3 weeks ago
@MsBOZHI I just don't mix them. My learning is based on massive input.
lingosteve 3 weeks ago
Great video ,I love your videos, Although I started watching them yesterday ,it's been great to listen to you, since you have experience with several languages.
I have a question and I'd be glad if you could answer me .
So I've read somewhere online I can't remember the website ,but that website basically said that to fully learn another language you need 10.000 hours of study .. Do you agree with that ?
It's basically living 2 years in the country the language is spoken,Thank you for the videos
TheWizardWeiss 3 weeks ago
@TheWizardWeiss You don't need 10,000 hours, and you don't need to live in the country. How long you need depends on how similar the language is to one that you know. I think that a thousand hours, more or less, of listening and reading and then eventually speaking will take you a long way. Then you can go the country for a short while to make a breakthrough.
lingosteve 3 weeks ago
@lingosteve Oh , thank you for answering... my first language is portuguese , and I'm learning english , maybe in the future I will have the chance to visit other countries , that would be great to improve my speaking skills , since I live in a country where there aren't many people around who speak english , so you are one of those people that help me a lot. Thank you again
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@TheWizardWeiss There is no way you may need 10.000 hours. 1.000 to 1.200 academic hours is a CEFR's valuation for C2.
eugrus 3 weeks ago
Hi steve, another great video :) I was just wondering if you could recommend any newspaper or radio websites that have both text and audio for italian. I do import articles from Corriere della Sera onto Linq. However, the audio on these texts is very poor and difficult to understand. Any help is much apprecitated :)
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@12345Philip12345 I have not found any. However, there is quite a variety of content in our library, including items on history and politics.
lingosteve 3 weeks ago
@12345Philip12345 Hey Phil!
I've found an Italian news channel on YouTube if you're interested, which is called: Agrigento TV
It isn't the best quality, but it's still pretty good and most importantly, it's Italian!
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Great! do English next :)
SummerKingdom 3 weeks ago
Steve listen to Talk To Me In Korean Lessons very good. Also I'd say watch Korean Dramas or variety show VERY GOOD
xxfiloxx 3 weeks ago
Obrigado Steve, all 3 are languages I hope to learn...ya tengo espanol y 日本語、現在我在學中文...
otibed358 3 weeks ago
@otibed358 Hola! 你在学习中文啊？yo tambien! 哈哈 我们一起加油吧~~！
sheliac 3 weeks ago
@sheliac 加油!
otibed358 3 weeks ago
Hello, Steve! I'm from South Korea. I've been enjoying your video.
Anyway, I'd like to recommend a website to you that probably would help you to get your interest in Korean back,
it is "Talk To Me In Korean".
I think they have lots of interesting contents basically based on podcasts.
I hope you like it and also hope you keep trying to learn Korean. Good luck! :D 화이팅!
sheliac 3 weeks ago
@sheliac I am aware of the site, and when I go back to Korean I will certainly be using it. I do, however, prefer content on history and politics. If you know of any such site please let me know.
lingosteve 3 weeks ago
@lingosteve
Anything in particular that you prefer? European history? international politics? US politics?
pon00050 3 weeks ago
@pon00050 The history and culture of the language I am learning.
lingosteve 3 weeks ago
@lingosteve The history of Korean is great. I love the way the writing system came about. You probably know it already, but read up on King Sejeong if you haven't :). Keep up the good work!
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sheliac 3 weeks ago
Bella storia.
Efilzeo 3 weeks ago
Really, really sorry about this Steve...but...Italian is really the only language I'm not interested in. I hope you don't ban me now. hahaha :)
But, I appreciate your points. It's those reasons which will eventually get me studying it. Maybe I'll warm up to it then.
I must say, I want to get going with Korean one of these days. Although I won't let it stop me - I've heard it's fairly complex. What do you think?
Imyirtshashem 3 weeks ago
@Imyirtshashem I used to feel that way about Afrikaans and Dutch. Still do about Afrikaans, but Dutch is one language I can't wait to begin. I hope you kindle an interest in Italian some day!
qzchris 3 weeks ago
@qzchris Yeah, I've already had the same thing happen with French. There were 2 languages which I was pretty cold towards. Now I'm studying French and enjoying it. Italian will be more challenging to bring out of that category...but it's a good thing that it's still there at the moment. Enough languages for now. :)
Imyirtshashem 3 weeks ago
@Imyirtshashem I studied Korean after Japanese and Korean. I believe that if you start truly from scratch it is quite difficult. However, in language learning, interest trumps difficulty all the time.
lingosteve 3 weeks ago
@lingosteve Yeah, I've heard that Japanese and Korean are rather similar in their grammar (and Sinitic vocabulary probably has a bit of overlap too).
You're right about interest being important.
Imyirtshashem 3 weeks ago
@Imyirtshashem actually, I have almost 3 years studying Japanese, and have been studying Chinese here and there, and well Korean is not that bad..I would almost have to say that Korean and Japanese is almost like comparing Spanish and Italian. If you know Japanese and/or chinese, you will have an easy time. But I think Chinese is sort of like the latin of east asia, because most east asian languages come from chinese, and it will make it easier to learn other asian languages
supermonk3y07 3 weeks ago
@supermonk3y07 Yeah, I don't know either Japanese or any Chinese language. So, I'd be working from scratch. Either way, I'm not learning any of those yet. Mandarin in the next few years, though.
I'll just mention to you that 'most East Asian languages; do not come from Chinese. A lot of vocabulary does. In that sense, I agree, it is like the Latin of East Asia.
Imyirtshashem 3 weeks ago