be honest with me how many of you guys at the start of the pandemic said
i have all this free time i'm gonna finally commit to learning french or
input whatever language you wanted to learn but fast forward a few months you
realize you only have learned a couple bits here and there maybe a few expressions
but in the grand scheme of things you know so little of the language and you inevitably
give up the truth is we cannot get results if we don't commit to putting in the effort and
that is why i'm partnering with lingoda's sprint challenge this week to help you guys to take the
step that you have been wanting to for so long so if you want to take daily language classes with
native speakers and potentially earn 100 of your money back if you just put in the work stay tuned
so a couple months ago i was in vienna with friends and when i got in the uber off of
the airport i naturally said to the guy guden tag and he obviously responded to me
and it was at that point with his response that was definitely more than the word guden tag
i realized i knew no german at all he didn't speak any english so that uber ride became 30
minutes of awkward silence with the guy naturally as a language student myself i realized i have to
learn german if i want to go to a german-speaking country and as much as you obviously don't need to
do that that is just a toxic of mine as a language student i really wanted to commit to this so in
this video i'm going to show you how for the past 30 days i have been learning german and
loving it and at the end i'm even going to speak german for a little bit to show you what 30 days
can sound like in the language learning process with the right platform and a bit of dedication
so why did i choose lingoda for these 30 days first of all i have had the most positive language
learning month of my life with these teachers because every single teacher just seems like they
want to be there and they want to be teaching their language and each teacher has a passion
for the language that they are teaching i swear i must have heard five different teachers say to me
you know lucy german is so difficult but that's what makes it so beautiful i have
learned languages via television via podcasts via the education system via classes in person
lingoda really shook up for me because i had the chance from anywhere in the world at any time of
day to take a class with a native speaker with no more than five people and to just
speak for an hour the main point of lingoda is to speak and that's what is so important
for me as a language student i want to be able to communicate speak with people when i travel
and why was i doing my mini language print and why should you guys do it too so by committing classes
every day or every other day you're gonna see real results in your language ability in such a short
amount of time when we are learning anything and this is particularly true with languages we have a
learning graph that looks like this as you can see if we don't practice what we learn it will drop
down slowly over time until it disappears and that is why everyone who tried to learn languages in
the locked down field realized they remember five percent of what they were learning back then and
so by doing classes consistently we're stopping the learning graph from dropping and instead
going up another reason why i really recommend you take the language sprint challenge to learn
a new language is because if you just do the work and you attend every class you can get up to 100
of your money back hello there is nothing from a student's point of view like financial gains and
learning that will make me become committed to something and so that's why lingoda has worked
really well for me you know there's money at the end of the rainbow and knowledge this can't be
true but it is so first of all you have to choose one of the following languages and then you can
decide whether you want to take 30 days of classes each month for two months and get 100 of your
money back if you just attend or you can do 15 classes a month for two months and get 50 of the
cashback and when you're at checkup you can use my voucher code which is lingo lucy or you can just
click my link in description and i will even give you 25 off of your deposit i mean you're welcome
it's the night before i start my first class and the reason i'm not just telling you
as i'm starting is because my class is at 7am i'm not a morning person to tell you the truth so my
alarm is set 10 minutes before class starts so i will be moving from my bed to the desk
to get set up and i'm so excited i don't know what to expect i really i know nada
in german i was trying to find the word for nothing in german i don't know anything
i'm just really excited to see what month can do because i guess now that i've learned
two other languages i kind of know how the process goes and i know what to expect and i know
how to learn quicker so i'm also interested to see how my techniques will play out anyway
go to nut my friends see you at you can't see that but it's 6am what's
three minutes seven but i'm not used to this time am i comfy to go god my first class was
so positive because even though it was a little bit early for me personally my teacher's energy
somehow gave me energy even though i hadn't finished drinking my coffee yet from the first
class i was already pronunciating words and even though i did a terrible job of them it definitely
put me right into the deep end of german and i was so excited to learn a new culture and language
okay time to talk about my experience now what it's been like how fluent i feel after 30 days
my method started by trying to learn the 1000 most common words and verbs because i have heard many
times with the grapevine that if you can speak one to three thousand words you can actually be very
conversational in a language so that was important to me to see what were the most common words that
we used i actually had first heard about this on one of the final drew's videos i think in this
case i wanna like go for them and when there's a word i don't know i'm going to stop i'm learning
another method which i have learned specifically from
my main foreign languages french and spanish you have to say it out loud by reading a word in
your head you it's not gonna click you have to be going around your kitchen counting to 20 in
you germany to be picking up things and saying this is a book
in the language you're going to learn salsa in dust glass
telephone out loud so you can practice how your mouth moves in the language because i
don't know if you guys noticed this but when we speak different languages our mouth and our
tongues move in different ways and just by having the voice in your head it's just not going to help
and another thing is anytime you see something that you know you can say in that language you use
that opportunity to put in the repetition and say it it's fancy my teacher always told me to smile
it's fancy it's a really great and easy way to repeat and also to show how quickly you're
improving because you'll notice there's a lot of objects in the room around you that you
can actually say of course the last and the main thing that is my method is i am attending one hour
lingoda classes for a month which is definitely where i've learned the most it's been so necessary
for me personally to have a language platform to help me not just doing it on my own like a
lot of people pretend it's so easy to do because i needed i need teachers to tell me whether my
pronunciation is good or bad i need objectives for the week like for example my first week i learned
how to introduce myself and how to survive in a german classroom i know that if i didn't have a
platform to help me out i probably would not be here right now with the language level i'm at
another tip which sounds counter productive is make mistakes you are going to have to make so
many mistakes in order to learn a language this is imperative actually to learning a language
for example i was in a class a couple weeks ago and i don't know what it was about the word our
in german but i kept saying it french you hr to my head just wanted to say
and so the teacher said to me lucy what time is it we spit east s and i just kept saying
i couldn't get i couldn't get it i was just vomiting out of my mouth at this point
and he says to me lucy this class is about telling the time if you can say
the word hour in german we are gonna have a problem missy so repeat after me it's
and so this was like 7 a.m in the morning i was actually traveling and i was in london
and i was in someone else's house and i was just sitting on my laptop like
and hey as much as i made the mistake 50 times in that class and it was a little embarrassing i
don't pronounce it anymore i pronounce it another tip is that you really gotta learn a bit of
culture when you're learning the language because so much of languages and particularly german is
idioms it's expressions that don't translate word for word and so you need to just know what they
mean with lingoda the end of every class you actually have an expression and i found them
so funny and so interesting because it's allowed me to kind of delve into the german culture a lot
for example one that shook me was erste abeit dandas virg nugen sorry i struggled with that word
and it basically means work first pleasure second and i remember asking my teacher do
you think this is actually true in german society like nowadays and he told me yeah we are hustlers
we are grinders in germany and we love to complain about how hard we work but we love
the work we do and so that was so interesting to learn about another one which actually i'd heard
this expression for the grapevine before and it was really interesting to learn more about it
i'm so sorry i know i'm bittering the pronunciation but it means i only understand
the train station and what this really means is i don't understand a single thing you've said
the english equivalent would be in one ear out the other because as my teacher described to me
trains going to the train station i in my hand and then go straight out my thoughts
after one month where do i think i am in the language i really think that i have improved
tenfold over what i thought i could and for some reason i don't know i'm guessing it's down to the
way i learned the language i found it so much more fun because i've been with native speakers
who have been passionate about the language and it's made me just want to be part of their team
i think a lot of people scare away from learning german because it is notoriously very difficult
and the word order still makes no sense to me but god i just love a struggle huh maybe
that's what this is all about i love the struggle of learning german so i am fully
putting off doing this minute because i'm waiting for all you guys in the comments to
grill me for my pronunciation but let's do some german speaking:
*German*
okay i could go on for longer but that for today because i just wanted to show three good examples
of things that i can now say in german and how useful the language i've learned over the past
month will be in the future when i next travel to germany god i need to travel to germany now
to prove this okay thank you very much for watching this video i hope you enjoyed thanks
again to lingoda remember you can use my code lingo lucy to get 25 off of your deposit and hey
let's remind you guys it's a free course if you do the work if you do the daily
work and so why wouldn't you sign up okay if you enjoyed this video here are two more
videos i think you would like and if not that's okay i hope you have a lovely day and bye bye