How to Learn Your Dream Language Without Studying (Advice From a Polyglot)
Summary
TLDRBuster Moon, a polyglot teacher, shares his 'lazy' language learning routine in this engaging video. He speaks six languages, emphasizing the importance of consistency and enjoyment in language acquisition. Buster recommends using Duolingo for vocabulary and watching YouTube videos to infer meanings, while also highlighting the benefits of having a private tutor for listening practice. His approach challenges traditional methods, advocating for a more enjoyable and personalized learning experience.
Takeaways
- 🌟 The speaker, Buster Moon, is a Korean teacher who speaks six languages and emphasizes the importance of consistency in language learning.
- 👶 Setting realistic goals, such as speaking at the level of a five-year-old native, is suggested as a starting point for language learners.
- 🕵️♂️ Schools often teach traditional methods but may overlook the importance of enjoying the learning process for maintaining consistency.
- 💡 Enjoyment is key to consistency; if you don't enjoy the process, like with bodybuilding, you're likely to give up.
- 📝 Memorizing vocabulary is often tedious, and the speaker admits to not finding it fun, despite trying various methods.
- 🚀 Duolingo is recommended for vocabulary learning due to its engaging nature, which helps maintain consistency.
- 📚 Watching videos on platforms like YouTube can be an effective way to learn a language, especially when the content is slightly above your current level.
- 🎥 The speaker suggests not pausing to take notes while watching videos, as it can elongate study time and notes may not be revisited.
- 📱 Using apps like Duolingo daily can help with vocabulary retention and consistency in learning.
- 🗣️ Having a private tutor for listening practice, especially for languages where the speaker is at a beginner level, is beneficial.
- 🔄 The speaker is learning Spanish and Indonesian simultaneously, emphasizing the importance of prioritizing one language over the other.
Q & A
Who is Buster Moon and what is his profession?
-Buster Moon is a Korean teacher who speaks multiple languages and shares his language learning routines.
How many languages does Buster Moon speak?
-Buster Moon speaks six different languages including his mother tongue, Korean.
What is the first language that Buster Moon mentions in the script?
-The first language mentioned is Korean, which is his mother tongue.
What is the traditional teaching method for language learning that Buster Moon refers to?
-The traditional teaching method involves setting up goals, building plans, learning grammar patterns, and memorizing vocabulary.
What does Buster Moon believe is the most important aspect of language learning that schools often overlook?
-Buster Moon believes that consistency is the most important aspect that schools don't teach.
How does Buster Moon approach learning vocabulary using Duolingo?
-Buster Moon uses Duolingo daily for memorizing vocabulary because he finds it fun and it keeps him consistent in his learning.
What language is Buster Moon currently prioritizing in his language learning routine?
-Buster Moon is currently prioritizing Spanish over Indonesian.
How much time does Buster Moon spend on learning Spanish and Indonesian daily?
-He spends at least 1 hour on Spanish and between 15 to 20 minutes on Indonesian.
What does Buster Moon suggest for learning a language without taking notes while watching videos?
-He suggests watching videos to infer meanings instead of looking up words and phrases, and spending more time watching videos rather than stopping to take notes.
What is Buster Moon's opinion on the effectiveness of Duolingo for language learning?
-While acknowledging that some people believe Duolingo is insufficient for full language acquisition, Buster Moon finds it effective for memorizing vocabulary.
How does Buster Moon incorporate listening practice for Indonesian?
-Buster Moon meets with a private tutor at least once a week to practice listening to Indonesian spoken language.
Outlines
😀 The Joy of Learning Multiple Languages
Buster Moon, a language enthusiast and teacher, introduces himself and his ability to speak six languages, including Korean, English, Chinese, Italian, Spanish, and Indonesian. He emphasizes the importance of consistency in language learning, comparing it to the traditional school approach and highlighting the need to enjoy the learning process. Buster shares his belief that setting realistic goals, such as speaking at the level of a local 5-year-old, is crucial. He also discusses common pitfalls that can lead to extended learning times and eventual放弃, stressing the need for enjoyment to maintain consistency in language learning.
📚 Buster's Lazy Language Learning Routine
Buster details his daily language learning routine, which includes using Duolingo for vocabulary memorization and watching YouTube videos to improve listening and comprehension skills. He admits to being a 'lazy learner' by not taking notes while watching, preferring to infer meanings rather than looking up words. Buster also discusses the importance of prioritizing one language over another when learning multiple languages simultaneously, sharing his personal experience with learning Spanish and Indonesian. He suggests that spending more time consuming content is more effective than stopping to take notes, as he found his previous note-taking efforts to be largely unhelpful in the long run.
📈 Progress and Consistency with Duolingo and Private Tutoring
In this paragraph, Buster talks about his progress with Duolingo, showing his advancement through different sections and word count learned. He admits to not remembering all the words but believes he can recall a significant portion. Buster also mentions the importance of listening practice and how he addresses this by having a private tutor for Indonesian, who speaks only in the target language during their lessons. He underscores the value of being exposed to the language through conversation, even when it's initially difficult, as a means to get accustomed to it and improve listening skills.
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Keywords
💡Language learning
💡Consistency
💡Duolingo
💡Vocabulary
💡YouTube
💡Easy Spanish
💡Inference
💡Note-taking
💡Private tutor
💡Indonesian
💡Spanish
Highlights
Buster Moon, a Korean teacher, shares his lazy routines for learning six languages including his mother tongue, Korean.
He emphasizes the importance of consistency in language learning, comparing it to the long-term commitment needed in activities like bodybuilding.
Traditional language learning methods are acknowledged, but schools often overlook teaching the necessity of consistency.
Setting realistic goals based on the language proficiency of a local 5-year-old is suggested as a starting point.
The pitfalls of falling into traps that prolong language learning and lead to giving up are discussed.
Enjoying the learning process is highlighted as crucial for maintaining consistency in language studies.
Memorizing vocabulary is described as a tedious task, and traditional methods like using Anki have not been effective for the speaker.
Duolingo is recommended for vocabulary memorization due to its engaging and fun approach that promotes daily usage.
The speaker uses Duolingo daily and invites viewers to add him as a friend for motivation.
Learning two languages simultaneously is the speaker's current practice, with Spanish and Indonesian as his focus.
Prioritizing one language over another is essential due to limited daily study hours.
YouTube is recommended as a rich resource for language learning with content tailored to various interests.
The speaker advises finding videos slightly above one's level to challenge and improve language skills.
Inferencing meanings from context instead of constantly looking up words is encouraged for effective learning.
The speaker shares his experience of taking notes while watching videos, which he later found ineffective due to not revisiting them.
Watching videos without stopping to take notes is suggested as a more efficient method for language learning.
The speaker's routine of watching Chinese variety shows and movies on YouTube has significantly improved his language skills.
Learning a language early in the morning ensures that study time is not compromised later in the day.
For Indonesian, the speaker uses Duolingo and has a private tutor to improve listening skills, emphasizing the importance of consistent exposure.
The speaker's progress in Duolingo is shared, noting the effectiveness of the app in vocabulary acquisition.
The video concludes with the speaker's intention to share more useful tips in the future.
Transcripts
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hi I'm Buster Moon and I'm a Korean
teacher today I'm going to show you my
lazy routines of language learning just
so you know I speak about six different
languages and the first one is Korean
which is my mother tongue and the second
is English as you can see and the third
one is Chinese and I speak pretty FL in
Chinese and it's Mandarin Chinese and I
also speak some Italian Spanish and
Indonesian obviously I don't speak all
these languages on the same level for
some I'm on the advanced level some I'm
a beginner but language learning never
ends right once you start learning a
language you learn the language until
pretty much you die so I I guess I can
say I'm learning six different languages
right now including my mother tongue
Korean so as someone who teaches a
language fulltime and learns six
different languages at the same time I
would like to talk about language
learning and how I have come to speak
these multiple different
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languages you know when it comes to
language learning what they taught us at
school is to set up a goal build your
plan and then start learning different
grammar patterns and memorizing
vocabulary and stuff like that right
very traditional teaching method and
they're all very important and they help
you learn a language but I believe the
most important thing that schools don't
teach us is how to be
consistent let's say you're learning
Korean if you think about 5-year-old
Korean kid talking to their parents and
Friends how they speak is definitely not
highlevel Korean right but if you were
to imagine yourself speaking the same
type of Korean the same level then you'd
be really satisfied to speak that level
of career
right so your target language at the
level of a 5-year-old local kid is a
realistic goal but at the same time if
you think about it it took 5 years for
that kid to speak that level of language
obviously we're growing up we know how
to study things so there are some
benefits of that right but then we tend
to fall into some traps that make us
take much longer time to get to that
level often more than 5 years and end up
just giving up so we do understand it
takes a long time at least a couple of
years and could be even five or 10 years
it takes a really really long time to
learn a foreign language and this leads
us to the most important thing when it
comes to learning a foreign language
which is consistency like I said and if
you want to be consistent in anything
you do you have to enjoy the process you
have to to enjoy yourself doing it
otherwise it'll never work just like
bodybuilding right building muscles
going to the gym you have to enjoy it
otherwise you're going to get your pass
and then not go anymore after like a
month so first I'm going to go to gym
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one of the most boring things you can do
when learning a language is memorizing
vocabulary and I've never really had
much fun with it I've tried using unkey
which is probably the most sophisticated
and uh popular software when it comes to
U memorizing vocabulary and I've tried
writing the words down and uh the
meanings and covering up the meanings
and see if I can recall the meanings of
the words but nothing really seemed to
work and what I mean by that is I never
really succeeded in doing it for a long
period of time like I would do it for 3
Days 4 days or a week and then I would
stop and I would never really look back
at what I've done and what I do right
now to learn these words in my target
languages is surprisingly du lingo and I
see a lot of people saying du lingo
doesn't doesn't work you're never able
to learn a language with du lingo and to
some extent I definitely agree with it
but when it comes to memorizing vocab I
think it works and I use dual lingo
every single day to improve my
vocabulary and the reason why it's
working for me at least is because I'm
having fun with the app like I enjoy
doing the lessons on Dual lingo and it
keeps me coming back to the app every
single day and here again the most
important thing is consistency and du is
the only thing that made me consistent
add me as your friend on dualingo if
you're using it every
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day so right now I'm learning two
languages one is Spanish and the other
one is
Indonesian I don't know if learning two
languages at the same time is good but
that's what I'm doing anyway I guess it
depends on your situation what kind of
languages you're learning trying to
learn at the same time but uh it's been
working fine for me but more importantly
you have to prioritize one language over
the other you can't really spend the
same amount of time for each language
because there's only so many hours you
have in a day so I usually spend
somewhere between 1 hour and 1 and 1/2
hours uh for these two languages and my
priority is Spanish right now so I would
spend at least 1 hour hour for Spanish
and then somewhere between 15 and 20
minutes for my indonation so the main
thing about my lazy language learning
routine is that I watch videos and where
do I watch these videos YouTube so
what's great about YouTube is there's a
ton of content and everyone's got a
different interest and you can find
whatever interest you have and find
great content and there's going to be a
lot of content for you so these days I'm
watching easy Spanish and I think there
is same type of channel for Italian and
French so if you're learning those
languages you can look up and watch
their content they upload videos every
week so you're never going to run out of
content so the videos I watch from easy
Spanish Channel they're not so difficult
to understand and still sowh challenging
and that's really important here you
have to find content or videos that are
slightly above your level so you're
still learning things you're still
hearing things that you don't understand
but you understand parts that come
before and after and you can actually
infer the meanings of the part that you
don't understand and be able to kind of
guess and it's okay if you don't guess
it right what's important is you have to
keep training yourself to infer meanings
instead of looking up words and you know
phrases is online or in your dictionary
and something I would like to add is
that when I watch the videos I don't
really do anything I just watch like I
don't have my notebook and Pen ready in
front of me and you know write down
words and phrases whenever I don't
understand things right I don't do that
and that's why I'm calling myself a lazy
learner um it's not like I've never used
to write things down actually let me
show you
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so here it is if you look at this I have
a lot of notes uh these are the notes
that I took when I was watching Chinese
content and like I do actually like
taking notes because it's it's fun for
me so I used to really like doing this
but then after some time I don't look at
the notes I took and when I try and read
this right now I don't really remember
anything so that's why I'm not doing
this anymore and you know when you watch
videos and take notes you're going to
pause and write down whatever words or
phrases and then continue watching again
and then stop again and do this over and
over again and then it's going to
actually elongate the study time much
longer when you compared to just watch
the whole thing all at once without
stopping right so what I think is better
is that spend more time watching more
videos instead of like making stops and
writing things down because you're not
going to go back to your notes if you go
back to your notes very frequently I
guess you could do it but for me I never
really go back to my notes so uh didn't
work for me so I just spent a lot of
time on YouTube watching Chinese variety
shows uh movies and things like that and
then now I can speak very good Chinese
so that's what I do for my Spanish I do
that every morning as soon as I wake up
um and that's another thing if you do
language learning early in the morning
you don't have to find the time to do it
later in the day and let me show you how
I learn my indonation so because my
indonation is not good like I'm still at
biger level I don't go to YouTube and
try and find videos to watch because
they're mostly really difficult for me
to understand so what I do at this stage
is dual lingo so let me show you my dual
lingo page so if you take a look there's
Section 1 Section 2 and section 3 and I
am 27 out of 40 so I'm getting close to
the end of section two and I believe
section two is the biggest section out
of all three so I'm making a good
progress and if I show you my word count
I have 1148 words obviously I don't
remember all 1148 words but I should be
able to
recall I don't know maybe 7 800 words
out of that and that's quite a bit of
words that's quite a bit of vocabulary
I've learned in the past few months like
it's been really effective like I can
recall a big chunk of that word count so
I suggest you try and focus on du lingo
for your
vocabulary so although I'm learning a
lot of words from du lingo I am not
listening to the language as much as I
should so what I'm doing for that part
is I have a private tutor that I meet at
least once a week and I listen to her
speaking Indonesian for an hour every
time and this is also very important if
you're learning your target language
with a tutor tell your tutor to speak in
your target language the whole time and
that's what my Indonesian teacher does
like she talks to me in Indonesian
although at first it was really
difficult because I didn't know any
words right but then I've gotten used to
it and you know during lesson your
teacher is going to repeat certain words
over and over and you're going to get
used to it okay so that's it for today
uh I hope you found what I just shared
useful and I'll come back with more
useful tips do it ASAP as steady as
possible see you guys
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