hi guys it's me judy i'm a first-year
medical student in turkey and today
we're gonna be talking about
how to start to learning a new language
a lot of people want to learn
a new language but most of us don't know
where to start what to do
so i hope this video will helpful to you
guys
i will timestamp every single thing down
in the description below
so that you can skip to the part that
you're interested in so let's get
started
like before the video i just want to
rumble a bit
yesterday i did a collab with muscle
watching
he's a popular exercise youtuber
and the exercise we did in his channel
was so
freaking hard at my ah i have like
muscle
pain everywhere and i'm like so tired
today so
i don't wear any makeup i'm just like
looking very tired but it's just like
because of that workout
but i'm good you guys so yeah anyways
let's get started
okay so let's start with the first one
which is
choosing your language obviously in
order to start to learn a language
you need to choose a language that you
want to learn if you just
like want to learn a new language but
don't know which one to learn
then choose a language based upon
employment
opportunities difficulty availability of
resources
number of speakers but most importantly
the language that you will enjoy and
that you want to learn
the culture language people etc but the
most
most most important factor is the
language that you want to learn
and that you will enjoy don't forget
that okay so when you choose what
language to learn we're moving to the
next step
which is finding a language book that
you will use
through your journey so i will recommend
different stuff for the beginners and
for the intermediates
so let's start with the beginners i will
put a link down in the description below
about like the language books that you
can choose for various languages
this recommendation was taken from the
book
fluent forever which i read for the sake
of this video which is a bitter long
book
but it explains with the scientific
background
so i thought it might helpful to you
guys and in that book
the author was recommending like
language books for various languages
so i thought it would be helpful to you
guys so i will link that down in the
description below so that you can find
the language that you want to learn
and so that you can find the book that
you want
so after clicking that link and finding
the book for your language
now we need a good grammar book so you
can maybe ask to your tutors
or maybe your friends etc but you need a
good grammar book
you don't need to start from the
beginning and do every single exercises
whatsoever
but a good grammar book will help you
throughout the journey
and like maybe you don't understand some
part you can look up to the book and do
the exercises
just do the exercises that you need so
that you don't lose time
so third one is phrase book phrase book
definition is a small book containing
helpful groups of sentences and
words in a particular foreign language
so it really helps when it comes to
learning a new language because when you
usually look up to the google translate
or other translation
platforms sentence itself is not wrong
from the grammar perspective
but a native speaker would never say
that sentence right so
a phrase book will help you throughout
these things
so i think facebook is very important
and for more
native like expressions you can also
watch
youtube videos in the target language so
that you can
know how to make a sentence in
target language okay so next one is
frequency dictionary
i wish i knew there is like frequency
dictionary existed
because it really helps when you want to
learn new words
you know which words are important so
you can start with
those words and and learn other words
afterwards okay so the next one is a as
a pronunciation guide you can use online
dictionaries
i wouldn't recommend google translation
that much because like you know google
translation
sounds a bit weird so maybe look up to
the online dictionaries that are other
than google translate
then the other book that we need for
beginners is thematic vocabulary book
so you don't need like 100 percent that
but i find it quite helpful for example
when it comes about medicine or about
music about sports about vegetables
and fruits etc it's like the book itself
is very well categorized i think
words about something specialized
wouldn't come that
often so having a thematic vocabulary
book really helps
about learning vocabularies about the
topics that you're interested in so i
would recommend that um but you can also
look up to the pinterest
they have quite a lot of like thematic
vocabulary um galleries
which i was using when i was a beginner
learning german
so you can use that as well but having
like a book is you know easy because
you need to like have a time to search
on pinterest so i would recommend that
and the last one for the beginners is
dictionary app
which i said you can use online
dictionaries but it's much more easier
when you have
a app on your phone i would recommend
installing a dictionary app
okay so let's move to the intermediates
so unlike beginners intermediates don't
need that much
thing because if you're intermediate you
have some sort of a base in that
language right
so so but still you need a grammar book
if you have a grammar book already
make sure that you love it and that you
enjoy it and that you
actually want to follow that grammar
book like there are tons of grammar
books
and some of them sucks some of them are
like very good and very well structured
so make sure that you love your grammar
book if you don't love
find a new one and by it i think it's
totally worth it
because if you don't like the grammar
book that you have
you will get so easily bored of
learning language and you'll like give
up so
find a language book find a grammar book
that you love that's very important
no don't be lazy you're gonna find it
all right and another one
that we need for intermediates is
phrasebook if you don't
want to be like a google translate you
need that book
i mean you don't like 100 necessarily
need that book
but it's good to have you know have that
buy that book
facebook don't forget it as well as
beginners i think it's also great for
intermediates to have a frequent
dictionary
because it really helps with the daily
conversation
and sometimes you realize that actually
you don't know the meaning of where you
like frequently
used vocabulary so i think it really
helps
um if you say that okay i know the most
frequent thousand words i don't need
that then don't buy it though
you don't know like the thousand
freaking words i think it's good to have
and also if you're like trying to learn
a vocabulary
you can like look in that dictionary and
see how frequent people
use that so that maybe you can decide
should i really really like try to learn
that vocabulary or
i can learn it maybe the next time this
vocabulary will come up to me
you can decide in that way because there
are so many words to learn and so many
like things to do
so you don't want to like lose your time
for
not really frequently coming vocabulary
if you want to improve
your language skills pretty fast and
lasting
for intermediates is online dictionary
for
pronunciation as i said pronunciation is
very very important for me personally i
think pronunciation is
much more important than grammar but
we're gonna talk about that in another
video
but for now you know use online apps
online dictionaries for your
pronunciation
or youtube netflix whatever because
pronunciation is very important
even though like you're not really good
at talking your grammar sucks
if your pronunciation is good everybody
will think that you're good in that
language so
yeah okay so let's talk about the tutors
and programs online apps
services whatever find the tutors
programs online apps online services
for your target language i will make
another
whole dedicated video about this so
today i'm not gonna
talk about this much but i will upload
that video in couple
days or a week or so so stay tuned
but there are like tons and tons of apps
online sites that you can use from and
choose from
i don't think that you'll have that much
difficulty finding
the one for you but if you want from me
a suggestion then wait for the upcoming
video
so let's talk about the language classes
which is the last one because of the
current situation
around the whole world it's really hard
to go
to any offline language classes um you
can of course use online classes
for improving your language skills
that's for sure
but i personally love really going to
language classes
and making friends and having like a
proper conversation with the teacher but
i think offline language classes are not
the must
it really depends on your personality
when it comes to language classes
if you are a person who raise their hand
and say their opinion
and actively actually go to the classes
then i think language classes are 100
worth it if you're a bit shy about like
raising your hands
and seeing your opinions and maybe not
really talking during the classes
then maybe it's better for you to take
online classes like you know
one two one but i am not shy at
all so i like to raise my hand discuss
with the people do exercise with other
people so
i think offline language classes are
better for me but it really depends on
you and decide what you like and what
your personality is like
and then choose one so before finishing
the video let's summarize the video
so we have four steps first step is
choosing your language
second one is choosing your books third
one
is finding tutors programs online apps
online services whatever
and fourth one is finding language
classes if you want
don't forget to check the description
down below because i will link
some very very important like stuff so
don't forget to check it out and find a
language book i think it will 100
help you and i will also link the book
that i've read for this video
fluent forever down in the description
below so you can also read if you're
interested in
i would highly highly recommend the book
it shows a lot of scientific
based data about language learning so
i would recommend that and yeah i guess
that was it i hope you enjoyed this
video
and see you in my next video bye