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  • Got a question for you.

  • Do you live in the country that speaks the language you're trying to learn?

  • And if not, do you think it's hindering you from learning that language?

  • It's Saturday again and I wanted to share some of my personal language learning experiences

  • with you guys that has to do with living in the country and learning the language in that

  • country versus learning the language here in the United States.

  • A lot of people have told me that in order to learn a language have to move to that country

  • where they speak the language, and you have to be immersed in the language and then you're

  • just gonna learn it, and it's just gonna come to you and supposedly that's the only way

  • to learn this language.

  • Well I'm here to tell you guys today that this is not true.

  • You can learn a language no matter what country you live in, and moving to the country that

  • speaks that language is definitely not a guarantee for learning that language.

  • And I'm telling you guys this from personal experience because in the year 2012 I lived

  • in country called Djibouti which is a very tiny country in Africa that speaks Arabic

  • and French.

  • Back then I was younger and I was stupid and I just didn't have any interest in learning

  • languages.

  • I sort of had a little bit of an interest in learning Spanish when I was in high school,

  • and I had taken a few classes and didn't really try that hard and didn't really learn a lot

  • but as far as learning French or Arabic I had no interest in it, and I just thought

  • it was useless I thought "When am I ever going to use this skill?"

  • It's not worth my time.

  • It's not worth my investment so I put no effort into learning French while I was in the country

  • that spoke French.

  • I lived there for six months.

  • I could've learned a lot during that time but I didn't.

  • I didn't learn anything.

  • I hung out with American friends.

  • I basically avoided contact with the natives that lived in the area that didn't speak English

  • and the majority of the signs and everything that were in the country were in French and

  • English so I basically have no motivation for learning French.

  • I just sluffed it off and it wasn't something that I was interested in.

  • And after spending six months in the country that speaks French, I left the country without

  • knowing a single word in French.

  • I had been surrounded by French speakers every day I had seen signs and all kinds of stuff

  • they were in French and I had every opportunity to be exposed to language and I learned nothing.

  • I learned no French.

  • Fast forward a few years from there, I am now back in the United States in the state

  • of Wisconsin and this was during the summer and I just decided out of the blue that I

  • was in the start learning French.

  • I guess I was a little smarter and wiser and I just realized that learning languages is

  • a valuable life skill and so I decided I was gonna do it.

  • And I didn't take any classes.

  • I didn't move to a French speaking country.

  • I stayed right here in Wisconsin and I used Duolingo.

  • I used online resources.

  • Several apps and stuff, and I found friends online that speak French.

  • I know maybe two people here in the United States that are fluent in French and I didn't

  • talk to them hardly at all.

  • I found people online that are living in France, living in Canada, living in Haiti, people

  • in Belgium.

  • I started speaking with them and I just made friends online.

  • I found on Interpals, on shared lingo and Duolingo.

  • I made friends on Facebook, and on Instagram, and I started chatting with these people in

  • French.

  • I barely knew anything, like I said, I didn't learn anything in the six months that I lived

  • in Djibouti.

  • But then when I started learning and I got motivated for my own personal benefit to start

  • learning French, that's when it all started to sink in.

  • And I surrounded myself.

  • I immersed myself in the French language here in the United States.

  • So I made a rule for myself that I was never gonna listen to English music.

  • When I was in the car it was always French music.

  • It wasn't Spanish music, it wasn't Esperanto, it was French.

  • So every time I'm in the car I'm immersing myself in French and I'm getting exposure

  • to the French language and whenever I would watch movies, preferably I would watch the

  • movies with the French dub or if I was watching with other people I would just ask, can we

  • at least put the French subtitles on so I'm getting exposure to French language through

  • that.

  • I changed my Facebook to French I changed the language of my computer to French, I changed

  • my phone to French, I wrote notes to myself on my calendar in French, I got a bunch of

  • little sticky note and put them all around my house and I wrote French words on the objects

  • that I was sticking them to so that way I can learn the French words in context when

  • I'm using those objects and I would pronounce them when I was using those objects that would

  • give me a little bit of a pronunciation practice too.

  • So here I was in the United States, learning French by myself, immersed in the French language

  • because I had built this French bubble all around me and everything that I was doing

  • all day long was French.

  • And even though I was in the United States and no longer in the country that actually

  • spoke French I learned way more here in the United States in my own little French immersion

  • program that I had created for myself here than I ever did in the country that spoke

  • French when I was surrounded by native French speakers and signs in French and all kinds

  • of french things in that country, but I didn't put any effort into learning it, so all that

  • was useless to me.

  • Now, I'm not gonna make the claim that moving to the country is useless for your language

  • learning.

  • I mean obviously that makes it really easy to submit yourself submerge yourself and immerse

  • yourself in the language if that's what you're gonna do, and if you're motivated and dedicated

  • enough to do it.

  • But if you're not, if you're like me, and you don't put in the effort to learning the

  • language then it's gonna do you no good whatsoever.

  • And if you stay in the country that you grew up in, it's still not possible to create yourself

  • and immersion environment in that country because it all comes down to motivation and

  • dedication and consistency.

  • Are you willing to put in the time effort and energy to learn that language?

  • Are you willing to make sacrifices like giving up all your English music or changing your

  • phone and your Facebook to friends or to whatever language you're learning?

  • If you're willing to make these kind of sacrifices, then you have an immersion environment and

  • you're gonna be learning that language a lot faster than if you're just in the other country

  • when you're surrounded by French speakers, but you're not actually speaking to any of

  • them because you're too addicted to your native language and you're too scared to speak up.

  • And maybe you say, "Well Aaron, I've been learning French in school," or "I've been

  • learning Spanish or German or whatever in school for four years and I can still barely

  • speak any of it."

  • Yeah, how's your motivation?

  • Are you just learning the language because you want to get a good grade?

  • Because that's not gonna cut it.

  • You gotta start meeting people.

  • speak the language into start talking to them in that language and if you're too scared

  • to speak up then you're not gonna learn anything.

  • So I encourage you, go on interpals.com, download the hellotalk app, try to find people that

  • speak that language on Facebook or twitter or tumbler or Instagram or whatever social

  • media that you use, and start speaking in French.

  • Start commenting on their stuff in the language that you're learning, and then this language

  • is gonna come alive to you and it's gonna start making sense because you're actually

  • using in context.

  • You're not just memorizing charts, and you're not just memorizing verb conjugations, and

  • noun declensions and all these things you're actually putting this into use and you actually

  • have a reason to learn that language.

  • So all in all, my reason for creating this video is because I don't want you to be discouraged

  • that you can't learn the language because you can't move to the country.

  • That's not true.

  • You can learn this language to fluency from your house and you can create an immersion

  • environment for yourself in your home country.

  • So I hope this video has been encouraging to you and has given you some ideas for how

  • you can make an immersion environment for yourself in your home country.

  • If you're learning a language then I encourage you to subscribe to my channel because you're

  • gonna be getting videos every week that are gonna help you learn how to learn your language.

  • You're not only gonna be learning your language, you're gonna be learning HOW to learn that

  • language.

  • And we're gonna make language learning fun, fast, and easy.

  • You can also follow me on Twitter at @FingtamLangs So feel free to talk to me on Twitter.

  • Talk to me on the comments below here on YouTube.

  • So until then, thanks for watching my video, and we'll see you guys next time.

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如何變得流利。你需要搬到其他國家去嗎? (How to become fluent: Do you need to move to another country?)

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