5 Easy Habits That Made Me a Successful Language Learner

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English with Veronika Mark


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are you tired of traditional language learning  methods that just don't work today I'm sharing  
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five unique habits that transformed my language  learning these habits aren't your typical study  
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more or practice speaking tips they're fresh  unique and have made a huge difference for  
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me Habit number one is language meditation I  know that a lot of you guys watching my videos  
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practice meditations and so you can do that  in your target language just by listening to  
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guided meditations in English and Spanish or  in any other language meditation in general  
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is my habit right now and for a very long time  I only listen to meditations in Russian or in  
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English and only quite recently I decided to  switch to Spanish and yes at the beginning it  
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was a little bit difficult because there were a  lot of phrases that I had to learn a lot of new  
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vocabulary but now I feel a lot more confident  when I listen to guided meditations in Spanish  
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I can relax more I can connect to myself more  and I can get all the benefits of meditation  
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while also getting all the benefits of  immersing myself into the language the  
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next habit is connected to going to the gym  for all the gym rats out there and it's about  
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tracking your gains in your target language the  app I use is heavy h v y and the only reason why  
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I recommend it is because it's so easy to switch  between languages and for people who will learn  
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a lot of different languages or even you know one  foreign language switching from your native Lang  
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language to this other language is very easy on  this app so I go to my profile I click here I go  
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down aoma I can do English done now the whole app  is in English if I want to change it back I can  
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do it very fast too as you can see everything  is in Spanish for me here and it's really nice  
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because I can make sure that I know how to say all  the body parts in Spanish like paness my legs P
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esposos Cor actually is a COR or core I need  to look into it I'm all for integrating your  
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language learning habits easily into your  everyday life and if you already go to the  
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gym and if you already use an app to track all of  your Gams Why not start doing that in a foreign  
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language instead it's a nice way to learn all the  body parts body movements in a more mindful way  
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instead of sitting in the boring class listening  to a boring presentation and be like okay my leg  
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I don't know my stomach my head you can be doing  that at the gym while exercising and tracking your  
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gains now speaking of tracking progress in your  fitness journey I want to recommend an amazing  
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tool the ultra human ring air I recently received  it as a gift and it's amazing for tracking your  
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health and fitness the ultrahuman ring air  monitors your metabolic Fitness sleep and daily  
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activity levels it offers detailed insights into  your health metrics which is perfect for someone  
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who likes data and wants to help their body feel  better every day once you get this ring you won't  
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have to purchase a subscription you will be able  to access all of the insights without spending  
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additional money one thing that I absolutely love  about this ring is the precise measuring kit it  
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comes with the company provides extensive sizes  to ensure a perfect fit and it's super easy to use  
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you can just follow all the simple instructions  in your kit and find your exact size I got this  
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ring as a gift from my boyfriend and he has  been enjoying it a lot he wears it every day  
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now because it's looks stylish but it also shows  him all the important data I think his favorite  
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part is definitely about his sleep just seeing  how much you sleep you're ready to score and  
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whether you need to change anything can motivate  you to make positive changes in your life I always  
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talk about the importance of sleep because it  impacts your cognitive abilities and focus better  
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sleep means better language retention which means  achieving fluency faster so for those of you who  
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Link in the description to support this Channel  and get the product habit number three is language  
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cooking nights what you can do is dedicate one  night per week to cooking a special dish in  
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your target language especially when this dish  comes from the country where people speak this  
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language let's say I'm learning Spanish right and  this Friday I decid to make tacos so I can find  
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find a specific recipe in Spanish follow all the  instructions maybe while making this recipe I can  
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also listen to some popular songs in Mexico some  traditional songs in Mexico to really create this  
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vibe to immerse myself into the culture into  the language even if you live in a completely  
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different country this will help you learn all  the culinary terms and also practice your reading  
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comprehension because you'll be reading all the  recipes it's a really nice Habit to learn more  
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V vocabulary and also feel more connected to  the culture because all of the dishes you'll  
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be making come from this specific country or an  area that you're very interested in habit number  
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four is using smart home devices I have Alexa in  my apartment so instead of talking to Alexa in  
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English I can do that in Spanish because Alexa  can speak in a lot of different languages some  
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of you guys might have Google home or Siri or some  other Home assistant so use them to your advantage  
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to learn a new language Alexa do you speak Spanish  would you like me to be able to speak both English  
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and Spanish yes okay I now speak English and  Spanish nice it was so easy okay let's test it out
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Alexa nice it works now Alexa is  speaking to me in Spanish Alexa is
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okay nice love it it's so easy see already I got  my Spanish speaking practice in so you can ask  
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about the weather you can ask Alexa to turn  off your lights or to turn on your lights in  
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your target language instead because I know that's  probably what people ask Alexa a lot please turn  
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on the lights please turn off the lights so do  that in your target language instead and finally  
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I want to recommend another nice tool which is  a browser extension and I think it can become  
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a part of your habit this Chrome extension  is called transy and I highly recommend it  
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to everyone who loves watching YouTube videos  so I have it downloaded right here I said that  
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I am learning Spanish and I want everything to  be translated to English so I found this video
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and as you can see once you download this  Chrome extension you will also get this  
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purple icon in all the YouTube videos you  watch so I'm just going to click on it and  
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here I have the subtitles in Spanish and I have  the subtitles in English and if I don't know a  
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specific word like Wess I can click on this word  and it says good I can save all of these words so  
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I really like this Chrome extension especially  if I'm watching something very complicated and  
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Spanish and I know that there are going to be  a lot of words and phrases that I'm not going  
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to know there are three different modes like  theor mode the one we have right now reading  
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mode it looks a little bit more like this if  you want to practice reading more and blend  
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mode I like it but I feel like my favorite  one is definitely the theater mode you can  
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also practice a lot of things with this  Chrome extension I mean I really like
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it so as you can see my mode here is filling  so I want to practice basically listening for  
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specific words and you can just do  this exercise you can also practice
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speaking so you just listen to a phrase from  the video and then you repeat it kind of like  
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practicing shadowing if you get interested in  this Chrome extension and is said to download  
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it let me know in the comments because you can  explore a lot of different things with the help  
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of this chromic ension and I really hope all  of the habits that I mentioned in this video  
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will help you in your language learning Journey  again language learning is building a habit and  
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so if you can help yourself by integrating all of  these easy quick and fun and creative habits into  
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your everyday life this will make your English  learning Spanish learning a lot more enjoyable if  
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you're interested in checking out the ultra human  ring air you can use my link in the description  
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