A Language Learning Technique - Learn While You Sleep

[Patricia06ization]

I've also learned languages by playing non stop mp3 without using the book first. Somehow the phrases get stucked into your head before knowing what it means.... but I have to play it over and over non stop during the day, while doing other things.... it is like a music of syllables.... Once I know my tapes, I just used the book to know what it means....I am be able to understand people before talking.... and after few months, overnight, I'll start to speak fluently with no problem...

[RakeyRaker]

@codylangaugesblog hey man... a great language to learn if u havent already is arabic... seriously german orientalists have even said that if there is a language that could replace all others within 100+ years it will be arabic... i mean arabic from arabia not any other dialect... because they're not pure they have different languages mixed in :)

[MusicRhythmKristine]

I've been doing this with my Pimsleur Italian cd's! I let it play in my sleep and I really feel like it's helped so far. The voices have even gone into my dreams and I was speaking fluent Italian, it was pretty cool! Being awake and repeating the audio is definitely the most productive, but I believe listening to them in my sleep has also been a helping factor.

[TenTigersofChina]

I'm learning Chinese as well, using Chinese Pod, it's the best I've come across so far. I've been studying Chinese for 3 years and living in China. Props for sharing your experience.

[TenTigersofChina]

You the man, breaking stereotypes like that. Some of the most intelligent people you would never guess judging from appearance. I can tell you are quite into your studies and music.

This type of learning works because if you study the brain even more, the subconscious mind absorbs 11 million bits of information a second and have multiple streams of neuron activity. The conscious mind only absorbs 110 bits of information a second and can only focus on one specific thing.

[Robert11290]

Going to try this, I took a couple months on German in high school and enjoyed it greatly then I had to move to another High School, they didn't offer German. So what little I did learn went dormant, I found some audio books, by Pimsleur. I also plan to look into other resources.

[OHmySHIZZnit]

do the tapes you listen to only have chinese in them exclusively, or is it chinese and the the english equivalent?

[Edris177]

you thank

[TheDefendingIrish]

Thanks for sharing brother. Yea there are people, including me, who know of this. The thing is, haven't tried languages, which is a very good idea.

[bartolomeo111134]

Thank you .

[jay44571]

canadian dreads rock....lol

[ShelleyNicholasMusic]

I've been telling people about your sleep learning method. Fantastic stuff.

[mkelvin10]

Before watching to this video, I already used to do this. Every night I listened to podcasts while I was sleeping. The most amazing thing that happened was when I started dreaming in the language that I was learning (English, in this case. I'm brazilian). It was so fantastic. I woke up and I was like "Oh, my goodness!". And we start the day with the language in mind. This is awesome.

[anthraxmikeydoolin]

Are you from Minnesota?

[TenTigersofChina]

@anthraxmikeydoolin I am, MN is my home boy

[anthraxmikeydoolin]

@TenTigersofChina I thought so, cool. I love Minnesota. I used to live in Hibbing off and on years ago. I miss it there. Take care and best of luck with your language learning.

[anthraxmikeydoolin]

@TenTigersofChina LOL i thought you were the guy who uploaded this. What i said still goes though.

[TenTigersofChina]

@anthraxmikeydoolin Haha it's all good. I'm out in China now though. MN's nature is what I miss - too many buildings in Beijing. I miss the open fresh air.

[SERVICEOFHUMMANITY]

im the same pure silence and darkness lol, but im gonna give this a try :D

[jaronlp]

read Superlearning 2000 this method is in ther.

[sonatablue232]

loving the linkin park poster! 

[glinxz]

you sound like a b*tch gtfo and go speak it.

[TheNamedMush]

FAGGOT

[KingGigglez]

wow dude thank you your rely helpfull im trying to lern spanish and i have no one to talk to ether can enyone send my names of CDs and stuff i can use to lern? thank you

[Codylangaugesblog]

@KingGigglez Teach yoursef CDs are pretty good ;)

[steven198807]

I'm rather quite interested in sleep learning after falling a sleep while listening to nickelback, in the morning a few songs was stuck in my head though out the whole week.

I believe its fully possibility to learn when sleeping.

[falecomjorge]

Sorry, but wasn't u who discovered this technique. Maybe u didn't know about.

But this really works. My advice for u is the smartfm, where you can learn kanji, hiragana, katakana, sentences in japanese, chinese or any other lang.

Cheer up and don't give up, languages are a big key for good jobs and to meet new people, new cultures!

[Amosthespartan]

How long the memory can last with this method?

[Kingzlay]

@Amosthespartan Forever. If it's learnt, it's stuck in your sub conscious forever. Think about it... when you were a baby, you couldn't speak.. you didn't learn anything yourself by trying to learn it. That's because you weren't conscious when you were a baby. When you could speak, and you knew how to make sounds... the language came naturally.

[Vitance]

I've listened to all-Czech audiobooks while I've slept the past two nights. (I know perhaps 30 words in Czech.) I figure it's best to use my sleep time to build subconscious experience of the language's sounds, for developing good accent- and word-recognition, and my active study for vocabulary and grammar. Now Czech speech sounds a bit slower, and I can differentiate between words more easily. But I've always been averse to memorising translations. I like a more "French In Action" approach.

[elvein1]

Hey im 14 years old and am learning German. Is there any special advice you can give me specifically for German and my situation which means that all I have to learn is an iPod translator and some German songs.

[Codylangaugesblog]

@elvein1 If I was you, I'd try to save up and get cheap books to learn German, and I'd utilize the Internet as much as you can for free lessons and whatnot. Also don't forget to check the libraries around where you live.

[skullfucking]

I'm gonna try this.

[rizvani2009]

when studying Russian at DLI for the air force I would fall asleep listening to our Russian lessons on our Ipods and that really helped. Also I would play Russian movies and watch them with out subtitles. It was constant. Always in the background and when I slept. Glad you found this too! I am not the only one!

[hannibalkerry]

yes man your using your sub-conscious mind x.x 

[PaulSLambeth]

I tried this last night (I would've earlier but I keep forgetting by the time night-time rolls around). I kept my headphones on and started dreaming where a news reporter watching people sleep on a beach (yes, weird) started conversing with a male friend in fairly broken Icelandic. I've woken up and started hearing phrases, as you said. I might rip out all the English from my audio and make a complete playlist now.

Anyway, thanks for suggesting this! As bizarre as it sounds it sort of works.

[themisterone]

I use to work as a sales person for a big language learning company, and we would play the languages in the background, we hated because it was a corny demo version, but what Cody is saying is legit...of course, it works best when combined with normal learning, not as a stand along method....

[kmckinneyjr]

fucking stoner.. shove it

[Codylangaugesblog]

@kmckinneyjr what...? I don't do drugs.

[RakeyRaker]

@Codylangaugesblog ignore him mate... :)

[TheCrazyStudent]

By the way, I've got a question about this learning-while-sleeping technique...

Has it ever affected your sleep in a negative way, making you feeling tired or less energic than usual the next day after having listened to CDs during sleep? Just curious.

[Codylangaugesblog]

@TheCrazyStudent No, I make sure its not loud, just loud enough where I can make out what is being said...I usually do it on the weekends or days I don't have to get up too early.

[TheCrazyStudent]

@Codylangaugesblog

Ok, great. Will try it myself someday soon when I don't have to get up early the next day, just to be on the safe side. :)

If you find any other cool techniques, especially that other people hasn't talked that much about, please let us know in your future videos. Thanks.

[TheCrazyStudent]

Setting a CD on repeat and listening while you're sleeping... You're the first person I've ever come across that introduces this technique. It sounds really interesting. I will consider trying it out, at least once. I guess I haven't got much to lose, except for one nights good sleep. :)

Thanks for the video.

[Codylangaugesblog]

@TheCrazyStudent I don't know if it works for everybody, but it helps me.

[meyiyiyi55]

i do the same thing.i fall asleep to viet tv.things stick in for some reason.

[yihan1127]

Sehr interessant!  Ich werde diese Methode ab heute Nacht versuchen. :-)

[19fas88]

this is an absolutely wonderful technique. audiobooks are probably the best; especially if it's material that you are studying. Steve Kaufman has talked about this too. if you are studying japanese, go to torrentz [dot] com and look for harry potter audiobook, i posted the second book and someone else posted the 1st book.

[AkaoKiyotsu]

When you get to a certain fluency you could try skype and sharedtalk for voice chat if you ever want to practice your speaking and listening with a native speaker.

[Codylangaugesblog]

@AkaoKiyotsu I have to save up for a webcam so I can get skype and whatnot.

[AkaoKiyotsu]

@Codylangaugesblog Actually, if you don't have a webcam but you have a microphone you can still use skype to voice chat. I've been doing that with a friend from Chile for a while and it is very fun to do so, the sound is nice as well.

[Codylangaugesblog]

@AkaoKiyotsu I'll consider it, but I would rather get a webcam too.

[AkaoKiyotsu]

@Codylangaugesblog Alright, but if you're feeling ambitious just remember that :D

[AndreR241]

Another good method is to listen to the stuff or learn some vocabulary from a book and then sleep about twenty minutes long. But make sure, you wake up again after this time, because otherwise you'll feel absolutely whacked if you wake up again. That method works for me.

[rraassll]

Definitly it is possible, I agree

[pamination]

I think there is a point to that. When I was living in Belgium I would just be in the shower or something and some random word or phrase in french would be stuck in my head because I had subconsciously heard it during the day somehow and I'd have to go look it up in the dictionary to find out what it meant. I think music helps the same way b/c your brain just naturally absorbs things it hears but I think it may be useless unless your gonna discover what the things mean and study them like you do

[smartwarlord]

I'm the same in regards to sleeping.

Excellent video.

[zocurtis]

I do that alot but I don't think it works in a practical way. Maybe it does, I don't know. At work, I sit there with my headphones on all day just doing my normal work and not paying attention to the iPod playing. It may work for some people though. Thanks for bringing it up though. Linkin Park!!!