How to become fluent forever in any language

I'm pretty sure in your language learning you've  asked yourself this question multiple times: how  

can it become fluent fast? And believe it or not,  there is an answer. Hello, guys and welcome back to  

my YouTube channel. I feel extremely excited today  filming this video for you because recently I have  

read a book that has changed the way I approach  language learning. The book is called Fluent  

Forever and it was written by Gabriel Wyner, a  polyglot who discovered the key to rapid language  

learning. From what I remember now Gabriel can  speak German, Hungarian, Russian, French, and Japanese  

fluently that's crazy a lot of languages and  in this book he shares all his secrets the book  

is truly a treasure trove of useful information  of how every single one of you guys can learn a  

language successfully it unlocks the secrets of  how to get the most out of your memory so that  

you can study languages fast and become how fluent  fast I started implementing all the tips from this  

book immediately like the first few pages I was  like okay I'm gonna start doing it now when I'm  

learning Spanish and I can tell you guys that now  when I speak Spanish or when I try to memorize new  

vocabulary I do it a lot faster and when I speak  Spanish I feel a lot more confident and I use the  

same tips for English to improve my maybe academic  vocabulary to read more complex books and the book  

is helping me so much the key message from the  fluent Forever book is you can become fluent in  

any language very fast if you use these following  techniques number one listening carefully for  

rhythm and sounds number two using a space  repetition system number three connecting words  

to images and number four learning the language  the way it gets to a big part of becoming fluent  

in English is knowing how to write correctly and  confidently and I use quill bot for that it has  

a website and a Chrome extension that improves my  writing skills on the go thanks to the support I  

can continue breeding you guys amazing videos each  week so show them some love and make sure to check  

them out later so what is quill bot quill bot is  a platform that is perfect for non-native English  

speakers who want to start writing in English and  study English effectively you can choose between  

the four English language versions available  on their website it's American English Canadian  

English British English and Australian English  and here are the three tools that I love using  

on quill bot the first rule is their paraphraser  so it can help explain my ideas in a more simple  

way I love reading non-fiction books and sometimes  all of this research is kind of hard to explain to  

a friend of mine for example or to my parents  because I love talking about books so here's  

the text that just typed in on quill bot and here  is the pair surprised version as you can see guys  

now it's a lot easier for you to understand this  complex concept the second tool that I love and  

use all the time is their grammar checker it can  help you improve your English grammar spelling  

and punctuation so let's see how it corrects this  sentence if you knows how to approach The Language  

game you can beat it obviously it should be if  you know and as you can see wellbot corrected  

it successfully and finally translator it can help  you translate text to over 30 different languages  

for example I'm learning Spanish now Aura estoy  aprindiendo espanol so coolbot is a great tool for  

students content creators and professionals if you  want to give it a try make sure to use the link in  

my description and now let's go back to the fluent  Forever book at the very beginning of this video  

we established that there are four techniques you  should use to become fluent in a foreign language  

faster so let's begin with the first one the first  thing you should do is listen carefully for rhythm  

and sounds to be honest before reading this book  I always thought that you know having a strong  

accent in a foreign language is not a big deal you  know it's fine but now I think I might be changing  

my opinion based on what I learned absolutely  beautifully said I love that Gabrielle thinks  

that accents is like a gesture of empathy if you  learn an accent if you master an accent every time  

you speak to a person and you sound pretty good  obviously they're going to be extremely excited  

they're going to be curious about your journey  like how did you manage to study this language to  

such a good level so the first thing that you guys  can do is you can start with sound every single  

language has a set of sounds and sometimes these  sounds are different from your native language and  

that's why it's absolutely important to start  doing it from the very beginning for example  

on YouTube there are lot of videos of people  teaching you the alphabet of English or any  

other language you're learning and then teaching  you all the different sounds for example how to  

pronounce the English R correctly how to say water  instead of water in American English if you try to  

focus on American English and that's also why I  always tell you guys it's important to pick the  

accent early on especially if you're very serious  about your language learning for example I live  

in Mexico and I'm learning Spanish right now so  obviously it's important for me to speak Spanish  

the way people do here because I could be saying  Atul like which means blue in Spanish and Spain  

this is the accent they have there but I also  could say azul obviously I'm gonna stick to Azul  

because this is the way people here in Mexico City  pronounce this word if you struggle with difficult  

combinations of sound I have a tip for you you  again from this book the tip is try this technique  

called back chaining when I learned about this  technique from this book I was like this is  

incredible I'm gonna give it a try myself because  sometimes I struggle with you know pronouncing  

long words in Spanish because there are a lot of  extremely long words like the word unfortunately  

I feel like right now I won't be able to say  this word without some preparation this is

just so hard so what I usually do is I start  from the very end for example I say Mente okay  

it's pretty easy for me to say Mente then  I add damente let's continue doing that is

see now it's a lot easier for me to say this  word because I started from the very the end  

and it's extremely easy to do with Spanish words  I feel like in English it's a little bit harder  

to do because English is a different language  like the way we pronounce words in English is  

different but it still works so you can give it  a try another advantage of learning a language  

of sounds first is that it will help you learn  grammar a lot faster so in this book Gabrielle  

used an amazing example with this little bird  let me show you guys so there was this like  

scientific research thing where the scientists  they were asking kids to kind of talk about this  

little bird and this bird is called a wug it's  an imaginary word it doesn't exist and they were  

trying to say you know right now here we have one  work now there are two and all the kids said lugs  

even though they have never seen this word before  this word doesn't even exist based in the English  

language but the thing is because kids know how  sounds work in English they could understand that  

probably it's going to be Wags it's not going  to be waxes or wax because they are already  

familiar with the English language in English  when we say one rug but two rugs that's exactly  

what we do I honestly enjoyed reading this part  about this little bird so much because it taught  

me so many useful things number two try using a  space repetition system or SRS I feel like this  

is something that every single language learner  struggles with we feel like our memory is not  

good enough right because we try to memorize all  of these new words but then we wake up the next  

morning and we forget all of them and we just beat  ourselves about it we think our long-term memory  

is not great but the key here is the timing in  this book Gabrielle said that it's very important  

to get the time mean right but unfortunately  many people think that extra repetition and  

over learning is something that is going to help  them get the timing right but it's not cramming  

is never the best option what is the best option  is using a space repetition system because that is  

the system that's designed to help you get the  timing right just when you're about to forget  

a word you see it again if you're using the right  system and the reason why SRS works is because of  

the act of recalling when you recall you retrieve  information from the past you actively retrieve  

this information and this tells your brain that  something is very important to remember for  

example this word in English and so if you want to  get better off speaking English because sometimes  

people struggle with you know remembering words  when they speak like remembering words on the go  

and that's recalling so if you want to get better  at recalling you have to practice active recall  

you can just be looking at lists of random words  and trying to memorize all of them because this is  

not recalling and so the space repetition system  uses this active recall to help you remember all  

the words more successfully and obviously here I'm  gonna talk about this amazing app that I love so  

much Anki guys I have used this app now for like  I don't know how many years five six seven and I  

love this app so much when I was in college my  major was the Chinese language it was very hard  

but I used Anki and Anki helped me to memorize  all the complicated vocabulary I had to learn  

because I was not just learning you know general  or everyday Chinese I was learning Chinese that  

was connected to politics and economics because  that was my major so I had to learn like GDP and  

like National economy and like numbers and it was  very hard but Anki helped me so much because again  

this app uses this spaced repetition system and  one new thing that I learned from this book is  

that I can use Anki to learn grammatical Concepts  because guys let's be honest we all struggle with  

grammar I struggle with grammar in Spanish so much  but Anki is helping me here as well because I can  

input all of this complicated grammar things into  my Anki cards make it simple memorable create nice  

sentences and that's it I'm gonna memorize this  grammar structure in just a few weeks number three  

try to connect words to images I always tell  you guys that making connections is Central to  

remembering it's absolutely important to connect  all the new words you learn to something memorable  

in your life but obviously not all connections  are created equal connecting a word to a personal  

experience is more effective because it activates  numerous areas in your brain let's say you're  

learning Spanish and you have to memorize the word  Casa which means house so how do you go about it  

obviously you can just type in Google Casa and  find just a picture of some random house and  

that's it but okay this way it's already better  than just having Casa house you know having a  

picture is always better than having no pictures  however it's not strong enough what you can do  

instead is find a picture of your childhood home  for example maybe in this picture there's gonna be  

you and your family like maybe standing in front  of your house this will really help you remember  

this word this will build stronger connections  and every time you see the sword you'll be like  

well that's a casa for sure okay but sometimes  you might tell me okay Veronica but I just  

can't find a connection like I can't so I can't  memorize this word what should I do sometimes  

what helps me and also what Gabrielle mentioned  in his book is sometimes the connection can be  

I just can't memorize this word I can't so that's  the connection and all those personal connections  

are actually one of the reason that's why I  never share my Anki cards with anyone because  

I always tell you guys or my friends that guys my  Anki cards are not going to be effective for you  

they're just not gonna work because they're all  built around my connections the connections that  

I created for them for example a few days ago I  was reading a book about Walmart and I came across  

the sport a retail Colossus and immediately I  wanted to save this expression into my Anki cards  

because the word Colossus was new to me but then  I was thinking okay which picture should I use of  

course I can use the picture of Walmart because  I was reading a book about Walmart but then I was  

like it's not enough I need something more I need  something that's going to remind me of the correct  

pronunciation for example and I decided to Google  the word coolest which is a Russian word for wheat  

because I feel like coales stands very similar  to Colossus obviously not the same but in my mind  

right it is extremely important that for me I  have created this connection so I just saved the  

picture of Walmart and the picture of wheat Yep  this is how I remember this expression and finally  

you should learn languages the way kids do I feel  like the problem is most of the grammar books  

we have nowadays do not follow this pattern and  most of the teachers who teach you guys English  

they never even think about it they're just like  okay now we're learning present simple present  

continuous present perfect past simple blah blah  but in reality that's not the natural order and  

language students or kids you know native speaking  children they also follow all of these patterns we  

all follow similar patterns no matter if it's our  native language our second language third fourth  

Etc in the book Gabrielle used the example of  English tenses kids start saying keep running  

a lot faster than they start saying he is running  so for that and this like present continuous with  

ing happens a lot faster but unfortunately when  we're learning English first we're learning I  

am he is she is we are and sometimes it's very  boring and when we start to bombard our brains  

with too much information or information that  is too difficult to process our natural language  

machine breaks and guys we can all learn languages  because you somehow learned your native language  

so please don't say that oh I suck at language  learning well you speak at least one language  

don't you so the best way to learn grammar is to  rely on comprehensible input meaning grammar that  

is easy to understand the way I usually do it is  when I'm doing things around my house for example  

I'm cooking I try to create this sentence and  say I am cooking because it's very easy for me  

to understand this grammar structure because I'm  also doing this motion of cooking maybe cutting  

up some vegetables it's a lot easier for me  to understand that something so complex you  

can also use your grammar book for that and just  copy and paste simple sentences into your Anki  

deck for example something extremely simple don't  try to copy and paste every single example for  

every single grammar Rule now only find something  that you truly understand you really understand  

this concept you feel like you're ready to use it  you're ready to implement this then go for it save  

it to your Anki cards if you look right now it's  a little bit too early for you you're not sure it  

doesn't mean you're stupid it doesn't mean you're  dumb it just means that it's not time yet so I  

think it's going to be it for this video I really  hope you enjoyed it and I really hope that now you  

know how to become fluent in any language fast  don't forget to use the link in the description  

and give quill bot a try to improve your writing  skills in English and I want to finish finish this  

video with one of my favorite quotes by Gabrielle  weiner if you want to learn a language if

then you need to give that language life