Important Tips For Language Learning: #1 Attitude

[baycast]

Hi Cody, Thanks for the inspirational video. I had cooled down a bit with my Spanish but now i am back on course. Thanks so much. Irene.

[ilovetheniqab]

Cody, could you tell me what resources you are using for German? I am interested in starting but don't know where to start. How did you start?

[intellaricovision]

Amazing video. I love it. Favorited it. Maybe if I ask my grandma to watch this, she'll come to understand truths and actually give an effort to start learning Spanish. I try to teach her as I learn it but she puts off learning due to some of the excuses you mentioned in the video.

[OscarP282]

Great video! :-)

By the way, how can you upload a 26 min video on Youtube? Are you a VIP member or something like? ;-)

[HondaNsrFan]

@OscarP282 It depends on how many videos you have uploaded so far, if i remember rigth somewhere aroudn after 15 , you can upload videos as long as you wish

[OscarP282]

You said: "Like a parachute, the mind cannot function unless it is open.". That's a great way to describe the idea!!!

[kittycate444]

you really remind me of leonardo dicaprio!

In any case great vid! thanksss ^^

[jolandacaterina]

Hallo Cody!

Herzlichen Dank für diesen Beitrag!

Ich bin schon gespannt auf die Fortsetzung.

Bis bald jolanda

[alkantre]

Great talk!

A very silly argument I've heard for not studying Chinese is that Orientals have a special gene for tonal languages from so many generations of speaking that way. It's so much harder for a European descent person to learn the system, because among us the gene never appeared. People will tell me stuff like this with a straight face!

[AndreR241]

@alkantre ... especially because all "Oriental" languages are tonal, this argument must be true!

[alkantre]

@AndreR241 a bit of a problem though: Malay and related languages are not tonal...neither is Japanese, for that matter.

[Chezrocksall]

@Codylangaugesblog Well that's still great! ;)

[iiCHiiMAN]

That's basicly the same with drawing or anything else!

If you don't understand the things you draw you can't draw the picture right.

[Chezrocksall]

@Codylangaugesblog Could you tell me which languages? I really want to know the names. :)

[Codylangaugesblog]

@Chezrocksall Well, French, Russian, Japanese, Norwegian, Dutch, Spanish, Turkish, Indonesian/Malay, Mongolian, Pashto, Farsi, Portuguese, Hungarian, Georgian, Bosnian. But like I said ONLY words and phrases, like hello, goodbye, thanks, how are you?, that type of stuff.

[SkeenBot5000]

dude, you look like leonardo dicaprio :P

[gottsein234]

im learning german and was wondering like that snow i see 3 words for trash can in german and when i looked up google images only thing i could guess is the sizes the 3 words are

die mülltonne

der abfalleimer

der abfallbehälter

could you explain for me whats the deference is between the 3? danke

[Codylangaugesblog]

@gottsein234 Mülltonne is more like dustbin, der abfalleimer is more like bin, der abfallbehälter is like waste container. (according to my dictionary)

All three can I guess mean trash can. They are just different types of trashcans. Germans must care about the distinction.

[Jonnemanne]

@Codylangaugesblog Well, back when I was in 3rd grade, I struggled alot with English vocab! Think about it: Trash can, rubbish bin, litter bin, waste bin, waste container etc. So English has a lot of words too, just depends on where you're from I guess :)

[AndreR241]

@gottsein234 As a native German speaker I would say that the Mülltonne is something you have outside of your house. The Abfalleimer however is the trash can in your kitchen. If you add Behälter instead of Eimer it just means, that the shape of the trash can is unspecified.

And because all the words you listed are compounds, you can replace their components by synonyms which creates even more words. Therefore an Abfalleimer is the same as a Mülleimer.

And in Austria they say Mistkübel.

[F3rnando666]

is this your version of steve's secrets for language learning?? jaja so cool!!.. his secreets + your tips + the poliglot's project = Holly Grail for language learners!! :D

saludos desde venezuela!!

[Codylangaugesblog]

@F3rnando666 I had already planned on doing something like this eventually, his videos got me motivated!!

[Chezrocksall]

That is definitely right. By the way I am curious to know what other languages you have knowledge of besides knowing Chinese, Swahili, a little Arabic, and a little Russian?

[Codylangaugesblog]

@Chezrocksall I know words and phrases in various languages, probably like 10+ that I learned from omniglot, some books I have, etc.