5 MICRO HABITS that help me become FLUENT in any language

this video is brought to you by Squarespace  language learning doesn't have to be difficult  

with just a few simple habits you can simplify  your language learning experience and have time  

to practice the language even if that day you're  extremely busy hello everyone and welcome back to  

my YouTube channel here I talk about language  learning and share my journey learning English  

Spanish and ASL the first habit I benefited a lot  from is habit stacking habit stacking is a simple  

but powerful technique for building new habits by  adding them onto your existing ones the idea is  

that you use a habit you already do regularly as  a q to remind you to do a habit that you want to  

form imagine you have a habit of brushing your  teeth every single morning I hope you guys do  

have this habit you want to start learning a  new language but you often don't have enough  

time with habit stacking you can make language  learning part of your morning routine by doing  

it right after you brush your teeth so in this  case your stacked habit would be brushing teeth  

language app here are some other examples of  habit stacking your habit might be drinking  

coffee in the morning and your stacked habit is  listening to a language learning podcast while  

drinking coffee your habit might be taking a  shower in the evening and your stacked habit  

is reviewing flash cards or practicing vocabulary  in the shower let's say your habit is watching TV  

before bed your stack habit might be reading a  book in the language you're learning before or  

after watching TV and then finally your habit  is going for a walk during lunch break so your  

stack habit might be listening to an audio lesson  or practicing pronunciation while walking the way  

I personally practice habit stacking is every  single time I cook I listen to a podcast in  

the language that I want to practice right now  most often than not I do it in Spanish because  

I'm spending a lot of time to really improve my  Spanish right now so every time I cook dinner  

I turn on a podcast in Spanish or maybe a  YouTube video in Spanish and I cook and I  

listen to something in Spanish at the same time  so for me this way my habit is cooking dinner  

because I know that it's important for me and I  know that I already do it and my stag habit is  

watching a YouTube video in Spanish the second  habit that I implemented that has benefited me  

a lot in terms of of my language learning is  Googling everything in a foreign language I  

think it's a very powerful habit and it won't  take a lot of your time at all every time you  

want to find some information Google something  use your target language instead of your native  

language my native language is Russian so  of course it's a lot easier for me to just

Google instead of do it in English why are  whales so big or even better in Spanish

Grandes and voila I have this article from  National Geographic and a five minute Ted Talk  

I could check out and learn all the information  I was looking for anyway but do it in Spanish  

right instead of in English instead of in Russian  because I know that in these two languages I feel  

very comfortable like if I read an article on  why whales are so big in English I'm probably  

not going to memorize any new vocabulary but in  Spanish I definitely am and you guys can do the  

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number three that is extremely beneficial for  my language learning right now is writing down  

all the new words I encounter new words all the  time in every single language I'm learning even  

though I think my English is very good already  a few days ago I was reading a book and learn  

these two cool words to Short change someone and  to be frazzled and I was like oh these words are  

so cool I absolutely have to write them down so  what I do in these situations is I save all the  

words to my phone to my notion page because I use  notion for everything for my work for my studying  

so what I do is I have an ocean page I open it  and I just save all the words you know I don't  

think about it too much I learned a new word like  to be frazzled or to Short change someone type it  

save it done I have a lot of work every day so I  only have time to create good flash cards out of  

these words on the weekend and that's exactly what  I do this helps me memorize words and later use  

them in conversations so Monday through Friday  I'm just collecting all of this new vocabulary  

right and when it's Sunday or Saturday when I  have enough time I just transfer everything to  

Ay I create good quality flashh Cs and I memorize  all these words the next week the next habit that  

I have right now is kind kind of connected  to Habit stacking but basically I don't stand  

work before I review all of my ankey cards we  talked about habit stacking so this next habit  

is kind of like this before I finish X I won't  start doing y I work from Monday to Friday so  

I decided to tie my flash cards review to my  work because it's extremely easy to do I work  

five days a week and on the weekend I give  myself a little time off I always say that  

ankey and there space repetition and technology  has changed the way I approach language learning  

and I have already tested this system with such  different languages as Chinese English Spanish  

and ASL and it works perfectly with every single  language allowing me to memorize new vocabulary  

so I wake up I do all of my morning routine  things and then before I'm about to start  

working my computer is already open right so I  just click on anky I review my flash cards it  

takes I would say 5 to to 10 minutes it's not a  lot of time believe me and then I start working  

and the final habit that I absolutely love is I  learn grammar when necessary I only learn grammar  

when I feel like I need this specific Rule and  when I feel confident that I can use it myself  

I personally believe that asking yourself these  two questions is Paramount the first one is do you  

actually need the specific grammar rule because  there are a lot of complicated grammar rules out  

there and quite frankly we don't use a lot of  the grammar we learn and the second question is  

are you confident that you can use this grammar  yourself in conversations if the answer is not  

then maybe you need to practice more you need to  understand this grammar more and more or maybe  

you just don't need it the reason why I decided  to use this approach is because it's connected  

to the cognitive flow Theory CLT a little bit of  science for you guys right now imagine your brain  

brain is like a backpack cognitive load theory is  like understanding how much stuff you can put in  

your backpack before it gets too heavy and hard to  carry basically how many things you can stuff in  

your backpack when you're learning a new language  there are a lot of grammar rules to remember CLT  

helps us figure out how to manage all that stuff  without overwhelming our brains the way I apply  

cognitive flad theory to my language learning  is by breaking down my my learning into smaller  

manageable chunks instead of trying to learn  everything about this one grammar rule at once  

you know all the rules all the exceptions all the  verbs absolutely everything I just focus on this  

like one specific point you know of this grammar  rule that I absolutely need to understand right  

now I give myself a break when I need it just like  taking a rest when your back back gets too heavy  

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