Hey guys
This video is gonna be about eight YouTube channels that I watch on a regular basis and they all have to do with linguistics
Languages language learning etc. And of course I watch other YouTube videos, but
This video is gonna be specifically about my language learning channels that I watch all the time
The first of which let me focus it in there on the laptop the first of which is called
The Ling space and this is a YouTube channel
That's all dedicated to linguistics and it's very interesting
And it's not super academic. It's easy enough for anyone to understand. You don't have to have a background in linguistics
It's run by a guy named Moti Lieberman. I don't know if you can really see there on the screen
But he lives in Montreal. I think he studied at at McGill University and
Majored in linguistics, and now he just makes videos about all kinds of different stuff related to linguistics
So he has videos on
semantics pragmatics
pronouns
morphology syntax phonetics phonology general linguistics historical linguistics socio linguistics
Here I see. He has an interview with Steven Pinker, which I haven't seen this one yet. So
Actually now I'm really excited to see that because Stevens pink Steven Pinker is a big name in the linguistics community
And he's great. So if you've seen any of my videos on linguistics
if
You have any interest in linguistics if you have a basic knowledge and you want to learn more, this is great
This channel is perfect for anyone who's just interested in the way languages work
The next channel I want to point out is called French sounds and this is run by a lady named Carol, I believe
or Cheryl, I think her name is Cheryl and
She has a PhD in French linguistics or French phonology, I believe
and that's exactly
What her channel is.
So if you're learning French and you want to learn how to pronounce things better in French
this would be gonna be a great channel to
Look up and watch for yourself if you're not
Then hopefully you can find something similar in the language that you're learning, you know, if you're learning Spanish or German or something
You know, go ahead and do a youtube search for youtubers that do German linguistics or Russian linguist Russian phonology
Or whatever it is that you're learning
she is super great because
She uses the IPA and goes through each individual sound in French and then different combinations of sounds
If you don't know the IPA, I have a few videos on that. I have a whole
series that I'm doing on linguistics right now that has a video on
Phonology and one on phonetics
So she just does a really good job of
breaking down the different sounds and teaching you how to pronounce them in a simple way because
You know a lot of times
When you're learning a new language
you don't always know exactly how to pronounce the sound so you don't know what to do with your throat what to do with your
Mouth well, you know how to move your tongue in your mouth
She has a PhD in this so she was really good at explaining exactly what you have to do when you speak French
Next channel that I want to point out is called the polyglot gathering now
This is pretty well known
It's a gathering that usually meets in Europe once a year in different cities. They had been in Berlin for a few years now
I think they're in Slovakia or somewhere and there's just a lot of big-name polyglots, you know
Richard Simcott, I think Steve Kaufman usually goes
Benny Lewis
Luca you know all the really famous polyglots that you've probably have seen their videos, you know
They all show up and then for I don't know a week or so they have this conference
and
They just do different
Workshops different events, and there's a lot of seminars and different topics that have to do with language learning
And being a polyglot
And it's just really interesting. You can actually watch all of the videos for free here on their Channel. So
Let's see here we have one that's taught by Benny. It looks like that one's in Russian
Can you learn language while sleeping, you know, they have a bunch of big-name polyglots. Here's Steve Kaufman talking about LingQ
A lot of the really famous polyglots talking about different areas of language learning that they're experts in
And these videos are all quite long.
The shortest is about half an hour and some of them are you know over an hour long, but it's kind of nice
I like to just put one on and listen to it while I'm doing something else
Maybe you know while I'm getting ready for bed or something and then you just you learn little tidbits about certain aspects of language learning
From the experts. So this is a really great channel. I watch it quite often
The next channel I want to point out is Ted en Español
And this is essentially just TED talks but Spanish so there's an entire
Channel dedicated to TED talks - it's like the TEDx Channel
but only videos that are in Spanish and if you don't know what TEDx is it's essentially just
Just short little
seminars little messages
I don't know you'd call them short videos where they get a lot of experts to come on and just do a short video on
Random topics in their field, you know, they'll do one on
psychology or biology
Political science
Doesn't even always have to be super academic. Sometimes it can just be something really fun
you know, they have musicians come on and talk about something really quick and brief but in their field and
You know a lot of times they're just really interesting short little mind opening videos
And this channel doesn't actually really have to do with language learning but because it's in a Spanish
It's it's in a language that I'm trying to maintain. It's just really nice to have that as a resource that I can just
Sit back and just watch something and be entertained
In the language that I'm learning that I'm trying to maintain
obviously if you're
gonna watch this video this channel then you need to have pretty solid basis in Spanish a lot of their
Their videos do have subtitles so that makes it a little easier
And if you're not learning Spanish, then I would recommend looking for something similar and the language that you're learning
Next
Channel, I want to point out is evildea. And if you don't know who this guy is you need to watch him
He is an Esperantist. He does a lot of videos on
Esperanto related subjects
Usually in Esperanto, but with English subtitles and sometimes he does videos in English
and
So a lot of his videos are actually on Esperanto related subjects
But he also does a lot of just daily life videos talking about his life
You know talking about his travels what he's doing, but it's in Esperanto, which is a great way of kind of doing a passive
Maintenance or you know maintaining your language passively
Just by watching the vlogger. He's very entertaining. He's quite dorky actually
And he just I don't know if you can see the different, let me see if I can
He just he's just weird. I can't zoom in I was gonna try to show you his face right there
He's just he's weird but it's fun. It's entertaining and I really enjoy watching him. So I
recommend watching
Evildea, even if you don't speak Esperanto, like I said, he usually does subtitles. So that's not a big issue
Next channel I want to talk about is called Deva yoga
Or I should say Diva yoga
it's
Not a language learning channel. This is a yoga channel, but I enjoy watching it because
I'm learning French and specifically she is a French speaker from Canada
which is the dialect of French that I am most interested in learning and there are a ton of of
channels that are dedicated to
yoga in French, but I like to watch her channel because
She first of all because she speaks the dialect that I I wants to speak and also because she does
Subtitles on some of her videos so it just makes it easier to comprehend what I'm able to read and hear what I'm reading
Um, so I watch her videos quite often not always her videos, you know, sometimes I watch other ones as well
I usually just search for
You know
"yoga avec sous titres"
or "yoga with subtitles"
and
I'm you know, I do it a lot of times in the morning after waking up and it's just nice way to
kind of wake up in the morning and
Relax, and be rejuvenated and learn languages at the same time. This is something that I already
want to do
It's a great way of
adding language learning to my daily routine, especially since yoga video is typically you can just
Watch what they're doing in the video
Without and so you're not missing anything even if you don't understand everything that they say you can follow along pretty well
even if you can't understand 100% of what they're saying as a matter of fact
if you're just interested in doing yoga, then you could
For the most part you don't even need to speak the language in order to follow along and do what they're doing now
You know, you're not gonna understand everything and there probably will be some things that you just misunderstand if you don't speak the language
but it's a good way to get exposure and
You know
It doesn't hurt to do it in a foreign language because you can just watch what they're doing in the video and follow along
Loashu I don't know if that's exactly how you pronounce it and it's actually his channel name is
Loashu five hundred and five thousand five zero five zero zero zero
This guy is super interesting
and
He is a polyglot who speaks like I don't even know how many languages guy speaks. It has to be more than 30
Not well though he speaks
maybe three or four languages well, and he speaks a ton of languages that he sucks at but
The point of his channel is not to be really good at
Speaking grammatically, correct the point of his channel is that he's brave
He is a bold language learner who goes out and practice his practices his languages on the street
And he learns he calls it levelling up whenever he goes out and speaks with someone in their native language
He's a very interesting person and I have to say he's not
What I would consider to be a great youtuber a great language learner
he
his
His videos, you know, they're not edited very well and he doesn't put a whole... he doesn't seem like he's a great
Videographer, but
The insights that you get from watching him are just very valuable
It's very motivating to watch someone go out and just a lot of times just struggle through a language
But you see the reactions of the people that he's speaking to and it's just motivating
It makes me want to go out and do the same thing
Usually what he does. Is he has like a hidden camera somewhere
I think he he has a hat with a hidden camera or something and he goes out and he just videotapes himself speaking
To native speakers. He'll go to you know, Asian restaurants or or you know
Indian grocery stores Mexican places a lot of times
He just goes to the mall and I'll just look for someone to speak his languages with and since he speaks like a billion
He's constantly running into people to speak with now a lot of times he only knows how to say like hello
How are you?
You know, I'm learning Turkish, you know and you watch him struggle and there's usually subtitles so you can follow along with what he's saying
But it's just very interesting very motivating now
I haven't actually been following him recently because I watched a lot of his videos and he was putting out a ton of live streams
And it's basically after a while it is all the same thing
He's just going into different restaurants different stores and then just struggling to speak
So I stopped following him for a while because it just got to be all the same thing
but that that's not to discount his channel because I think he's great and I love his technique and I love his passion and
his boldness
So I highly recommend checking him out. It's Loashu five zero five zero zero zero
And the last channel that I want to bring up is called Lang focus
And this is run by a guy named Paul who also seems to be very nerdy
about languages because he's just very
Intelligent and he knows a whole lot
His channel is extremely informative if he does languages every I don't know how often he does them every week or so
Let me see you might say up here somewhere
This is I'm not sure how often he does videos to be quite honest, but it's quite often
I see I get little updates from him and last one was two hours ago two weeks ago three weeks ago
yeah, so it looks like he just does about
One video a week but very informative videos
and usually about a certain language or a
Family of languages or something and it's just amazing how much he knows.
I think he must have a team of researchers or something to
Put out these videos because he just knows a ton and like I said, his videos are extremely informative
He gives you all kinds of little details and interesting facts about languages and he's able to cram a whole ton into
His videos are usually what 10 15 minutes long at most
And so, you know here he has a language on toki pona he has a language on he has a video on Korean
how similar are Quebec French and
metropolitan French
Oh what a few weeks ago, well a few months ago when I was in Spain and I was learning Portuguese
I started watching his videos on how similar are Spanish and Portuguese
He also had one... how similar are... let's see
Where is his other one? How similar are Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese Portuguese?
Ton of
Videos that are just very interesting very informative and you're gonna learn a lot about different languages by watching his channel
So I highly recommend this if you're interested in languages, so that's it
I have like I said, I was gonna tell you about eight channels that I watch a lot
They had to do with language learning, of course
Obviously I didn't get everyone I didn't get all the language channels that I could have mentioned
So with that said if you feel like there's some obvious
Language learner channel that I left out. Please leave man comments down below
I want to hear what your recommendations are for language learning channels because a lot of times
You guys will leave me recommendations and you'll leave me little comments and I'll actually learn something for myself
So there's a good chance that you'll leave me language learning channels in the comments below of people that I am
Unaware of but I will benefit greatly if you let me know who they are
So that's it. That's all I have to say in this video. Thanks for watching and we'll see you guys in the next one