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1 year

The video is OUT! While traveling in Osaka, I met up with @mattvsjapan and we delved into his unique approach to learning Japanese, his mindset, methodology... and he even shared with me some exclusive insights into his first few months in Japan😊

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Kévin Abroad | YouTube

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1 year

This is the most monolingual thing I've read today

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My best advice for language learning is to get used to not understanding everything as this is the norm until your reach high proficiency. It's very important to develop your ability to guess things from context or simply ask/look it up if the situation permits.

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Allow me to repost this.

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@classicably Also subtitles also exist

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1 year

Most people are shocked when I tell them I work 3 jobs, speak 10 languages fluently, have no accent in any of them, learn languages all day every day, maintain a healthy social life, have a YouTube channel... All on my own! I mean, anything is possible when you lie.

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Kévin Abroad | YouTube

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3 years

What was your biggest mistake in language learning?

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2 years

Linguists : We know quite a bit about how we learn languages but we're still figuring it out YouTube Polyglots : I KNOW THE SECRET TO LEARNING A LANGUAGE I WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING 😳😱🤯

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If you're able to correct someone's language, that means that you understood what they meant to say or write. So since that 'mistake' doesn't impede communication, consider whether correcting them is appropriate or not.

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1 year

The most American thing I've read today

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This is by far the cutest mistake French students make. 🇨🇵 Je suis avocat 🇬🇧 I am a lawyer 🇨🇵 Je suis un avocat 🇬🇧 I am an avocado

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2 months

Native speakers aren't very good at explaining their own language. They're pretty good at telling you what sounds natural or correct, though.

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5 years

For those who are above beginner level in Japanese, what is one resources that you've used which really helped you incredibly. Ideally something that most people might not think about? Thanks :D

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3 years

@franceinfo Les gens qui disent "Mais l'académie a dit que (...)." On s'en fout. Les académiciens ne sont pas des linguistes et n'ont aucune légitimité à se prononcer sur la langue. L'idéologie linguistique est hideuse. Il serait temps d'abolir cette académie en carton.

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2 years

Being a native speaker doesn't automatically make you a good teacher of that language. Native fluency isn't really a show of competence in and of itself.

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4 years

@mandyapologist @chainchompist That escalated quickly

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1 year

Is it me or linguistics is one of the only scientific fields where non-experts think they know more than actual experts? It doesn't seem as prevalent in fields like, say, physics or medicine

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2 years

Only polyglots have a waiting list of languages they will learn in the future

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2 years

I might be gay but at least I'm not monolingual

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1 year

I find the belief that 'language learning should be fun' to be toxic. It creates the expectation that as soon as it's not fun we should quit because something is wrong. Honing any skill requires hard work. The result IS fun. But the process can't always be.

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1 year

Rule number ONE of language learning: you will always understand more than you can produce.

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1 year

No, code-switching isactually a very complex way for bilinguals to communicate. It's just badly understood and highly stigmatised by people who don't know much about bilingualism. For example, many don't realise that with code-switching you can express yourself with more nuance.

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3 years

Less "I learnt a language in 1 month" and more "How I actually learnt a language in 5 years"

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1 year

I think it's fair. We need to stop expecting people in non-English speaking countries to speak English. Tourists should accommodate the countries they visit more.

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2 years

Why is it always non-native speakers that have bad accents and not native speakers who have poor listening skills?

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1 year

Dear linguists, What's a language take that's an instant giveaway that the person is NOT a linguist ?

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4 years

My SECRET language learning method is to sit down, stop procrastinating and do the freaking work.

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4 years

One day I'll create a language app which will teach you a language in 5 years. No one will buy it but at least it'll be realistic and free of false promises.

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3 years

Polyglots are NOT talented. We're hard-working.

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2 years

Can we stop pretending that speaking a language fluently is being able to introduce yourself and talk about your hobbies? That's literally A1 level. Beginner level.

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2 years

My secret to becoming fluent in a language is to change my definition of fluency

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3 months

Not all native speakers are at C2 level in their language. Many are at C1.

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10 months

@Theholisticpsyc THANK YOU. I was told I was too impulsive cause I always wanted to resolve conflict.

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Kévin Abroad | YouTube

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5 months

Profesional linguists don't fully know how language learning fully works yet but YouTube polyglots have it all figured out!

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11 months

Pahahaha

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4 years

If you feel insecure about calling yourself bilingual/polyglot simply because you have a foreign accent or make some mistakes, stop. You're bilingual. "Perfect bilingualism" is the exception, not the norm. Don't judge your bilingualism against monolingual standards.

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1 year

For me it's whenever a person says a language is dying because it borrows words from English. Or when they call out a linguist for making a spelling/grammar mistake (typo or not)

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3 years

Don't fall into the trap of judging someone's proficiency in a language based off their accent

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2 years

You don't need to sound like a native speaker.

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2 years

I never know how to say 'croissant' in English. Do I pronounce it in my native French or do I pronounce the T and betray my country

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3 years

But why though?

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2 months

SIR💀💀💀💀

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Kévin Abroad | YouTube

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2 years

@UjuAnya It's so strange to be this woman. If you think band aids that match darker skin tones are weird/stupid/whatever, isn't the normal thing to do to just ignore it and move on?

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3 years

Being fluent in a language is awesome but being able to use 2+ languages in conversation with someone else is just the best.

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2 years

@Theholisticpsyc I'm just bookmarking all your tweets for future reference at this point lol

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1 year

@davidlearnslang It's so overly extreme haha. And she thought she might be in the right. Otherwise she wouldn't have posted this

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3 years

Polyglots claiming they learn languages in a few weeks or months. I learnt English in like 15 years, what you gonna do

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3 years

The idea that learning more than one language at a time is bad for linguistic development is a myth and a lie. Learn as many languages at a time as you wish. That's all.

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@KevinAbroadYT

2 years

Instead of learning languages 'like a native', let's be realistic and learn like a non-native.

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7 months

Those "French words English ppl pronounce wrong" type videos are pretty annoying. Those words might have come from French but they're no longer French words. They have been fully adapted into the English language. Therefore they're governed by different pronunciation rules.

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3 years

Explain why you love learning languages but explain it very poorly.

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3 years

Less "Learn a language in 2 weeks". More "Realistic expectations of what language learning actually is like"

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3 years

As a gay man, being accused of using my polyglot skills to lure women is just amazing

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2 years

I was at a party, I ran into a guy who did a PhD in linguistics and spent the rest of the night talking about grammar.

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3 years

Sometimes language learning can be disheartening but remember that any new word you learn, any grammar concept you master, any book you finish reading, any film you watch IS progress. Good luck! ✌️

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2 months

One of the comments: Do English speakers really call Ciudad de México “Mexico City”?

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@KevinAbroadYT

4 years

Language learner: you don't need to study grammar so much when you're learning a language Me, an obsessive grammar lover: but then... what's the point of learning a language? lol

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@KevinAbroadYT

11 months

*cries in linguistics*

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Kévin Abroad | YouTube

@KevinAbroadYT

3 years

The more I see people/companies promoting "speaking like a native speaker" the more it sounds wrong to me to do so. Why can't we just sound foreign in another language since that's what we are?

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9 months

How true is this? Hahaha

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Kévin Abroad | YouTube

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9 months

So, fun little thread to illustrate that sometimes, us native speakers have no idea of what words are commonly used or not in our own language. The starting point is this post on The Language Nerds page on Facebook. 1/

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3 years

@franceinfo Académie qui nous coûte cher, d'ailleurs. Tout ça pour avoir des pseudo-intellectuels élitistes nous dire comment parler.

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3 years

Knowing and accepting that you won't always understand everything is key to becoming a confident language learner. Or adult.

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3 years

Understanding rap songs in a foreign language has to be the highest level of listening proficiency skill

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@KevinAbroadYT

4 years

People: Where are you from? Me: I'm French People, always: Voulez-vous couchez avec moi ?

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3 years

Typical clickbait video: How I learnt French in one month!! 😍😱😳 Honest title: How I kinda sorta reached A1 level in French in a month

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2 years

People often confuse "native prononciation/sounding native" with high fluency/proficiency. They're not really related. You can have both but you can also definitely have one without the other.

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@KevinAbroadYT

1 year

When you're multilingual, the only natural way to speak is by mixing up languages.

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1 year

No language is too difficult to learn, just remember, practice makes progress 💪

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3 years

Bilingualism is ALWAYS knowing that word but in the wrong language 😭

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2 years

In my opinion if you believe learning a language is always gonna be fun, you're creating unrealistic expectations for yourself

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3 years

Isn't it crazy though how when you learn a new word, you start seeing it EVERYWHERE?

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3 years

lmao

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3 months

A common misconsception in language learning is that books/media made for kids are necessarily appropriate for beginners. Children's materials do offer simpler language but young native speakers have a deeper language comprehension than beginners.

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1 year

French needs a language reform. So many aspects of it are overly complex for absolutely ZERO reason.

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3 years

My 2022 language learning goal is to not have language learning goals

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3 years

When you start learning a language, the first few months/years are quite overwhelming. You always feel like you don't know enough or aren't good enough and still have SO MUCH to learn. It can get quite frustrating. But eventually wih time, everything falls into place! :)

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8 months

Language learning tip : quit your job.

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3 years

Once, instead of saying "She was in my face", I said "she was on my face". English is not easy 😕.

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4 years

Got a comment which said "You learned 5 languages which are similar. Not impressive". Well guess what? I didn't become a polyglot to impress anyone.

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2 years

I still remember the time someone told me 'once you can understand a language, it's impossible to consciously not understand it anymore'. It blew my mind.

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3 years

The first step of learning a language isn't to master the grammar and have perfect accuracy. It's to make sense. Your grammar and vocabulary don't necessarily need to be spot on!

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1 year

It blows my mind how so many French people think French is that superior godsent language. Calm down guys. French is as good as any other language in the world. It's not superior. It's not better. It's just a language. Our culture isn't superior to any other either.

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2 years

Just a reminder that English is NOT an easy language to learn. Stop lying.

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2 years

What's an interesting language fact you'd like to share with the rest of us?

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3 years

My Twitter isn't an airport, you don't have to announce your departure ✈️

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3 years

When a non-native speaker makes a mistake, I find it so interesting to try and work out why they made that mistake in the first place. Like, what it says about the grammar, syntax, spelling, structure, etc. of their native language(s)

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1 year

I think this is a very English centered take. I know that in France, native speakers do know grammar. Maybe not to the level of a French teacher but we are all taught grammar for years in school because French can't be spelled without conscious knowledge of grammar.

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@mattvsjapan No one, not even native speakers, understand grammar rules.

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1 year

@UjuAnya @tonysaint1234 Uju, I honestly just live for your savage comebacks 😂😂😂

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3 years

What's your most embarrassing language mistake? Once at the restaurant I wanted to ask if I could eat something with my fingers and I said "Can I finger it?"

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1 year

English doesn't have future tense.

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2 years

It's crazy how the stronger someone's foreign accent is in a language the less we assume they're fluent. Conversely, we consider someone more fluent if they have a near native accent

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4 years

To all L2 speakers of English: I know most people don't really acknowledge our efforts to learn English and it's taken for granted. Well, I just want to say WELL DONE. You're so badass. English is hard to learn but you didn't give up!! 💪💪

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3 years

People criticising the mistakes I make in English in my videos and I'm over here like 'yeah English is my fourth language, I ain't gonna apologise for that'

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2 years

I love my multilingual life

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3 years

I really get irritated when people use someone's spelling/grammar mistakes to humiliate them, instead of focusing and what they have to say. You're not smart when you do that. You're a complete loser. Here, I said it.

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2 years

@Theholisticpsyc Honestly, I'm constantly saving all yours tweets. They're so inspiring. Thank you.

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3 years

Tired of monolinguals trying to define my bilingualism.

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4 years

"Took me 3-4 years of constant effort to barely reach A1 level. Couldn't pronounce half of the words. People talked to me like I was an idiot. I was always confused. 1 star out of 5. Don't recommend". Me, if I were to review how I learnt my native languages.

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1 year

Dear linguists, Do you have resources that debunk views like 'correct vs. incorrect' English, people's belief that some people speak bad English when they simply use a different dialect, and such? If you work is around this topic, feel free to plug your research :D

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