languages, specifically how I learned seven languages if you know me then you might be well aware of the fact that I speak seven

languages. Some languages better than the others, but I never mentioned how in the world I ended up knowing

so many languages

So I decided to do it today and on the way

I will also share some language study tips. The languages you guys want to study or are studying might be different

but these study rules the methods are pretty much the same, so in this video

you will know why I'm only 20 years old and able to speak

seven languages and how to tackle a language study in order to succeed

As a kid I already was bilingual because I grew up speaking

two languages namely German and Swiss German. This is Switzerland

238 is the number of times you could fit Switzerland inside of the United States. In this tiny country four

different languages are spoken German, French, Italian, and Romansh

now the thing is that the German in Switzerland is actually a little bit

different from the German that everybody knows, it's called Swiss German

it's a dialect, but it's pretty much like it's like so different from actual German

I think a lot of people agree that it's like a

completely different language. In Switzerland in everyday life people talk with each other in Swiss German

however, at school basically anything like official or written, magazines are in the normal German which is

spoken in

Germany or Austria

in school you have lessons in German you learn the normal German language

you write essays in German but outside of the classroom and even the teacher when it's not class everybody talks Swiss

German so that is how I grew up bilingual speaking two languages, German and Swiss German

Third language: English, actually I didn't have any English lessons until

high school when I was 12 or 13

that's when we were first taught basic grammar, that's when we were first taught basic English grammar at school

I think that only with the lessons at high school

I wouldn't have been, I think that only with the lessons at high school I wouldn't have been able to

speak English like I'm speaking right now, aside from studying these material from the English lessons at school

I also spent time

reading novels that I wanted to read, but I couldn't get them in any other language and aside from studying

I remember young me watched like a lot of those american reality T.V shows

like Date My Mom, Pimp My Ride,

Flavor of Love, and Made on Like MTV. Actually now

I can't imagine myself watching these shows and enjoy them, I was young and I needed entertainment. Hey!

I ended up picking up lots of English, but what really gave my english a kick was creating

this YouTube channel, first I just uploaded videos of me dancing, but everyone also wanted to create

makeup tutorials. Now because I wanted to reach a large audience

I made my voice-overs in English and they sound something like this:

I use powder from (?) it is very good, but don't take too much powder

heavy make up makes you look old. You have already eaten (???)

she is such a

lame alpaca baa

wait that's a sheep

but fast forward a couple of years later

I sounded like this: Do you guys actually know that if I jump out of this video

I can crawl behind the comment section, guess you didn't know that. I'm watching you guys

because you know I really wanted to make the voice-overs in English so I just, uh I just had no other choice

but to use my minimal English knowledge and lack of

pronunciation to create voice-overs, so I just was forced to

think really hard, look up stuff that I didn't know, words that I didn't know how to say. Because I spent so many years creating

voice-overs and trying to talk English in my videos

I-I finally got to a point where it came more naturally to me after trying for a long time

so thank you, you too

I don't speak Spanish as good as English or Japanese

but I guess I can communicate or talk with people or if I would ever go to Spain I wouldn't like have

trouble finding my way around, but there reason why actually I ended up speaking some Spanish in the first place is because

when I was like 11 years old we moved to

Teneriffa which is a Spanish island next to Africa, so obviously because I was 11 years old

I had to go to primary school in Spain, which means that the lessons are all in Spanish!

I was 11 I couldn't speak Spanish at all and suddenly all you know, you know everything was in Spanish

you know as if the actual

studying material, you know, the stuff at school, you know, it's not hard enough

I had to study it all in a different language, so first figure out the language and then figure out

what is taught, and frank-frankly it was quite tough, so for obvious reasons

I didn't want to fail and repeat the last grade of primary school. So like math is easy obviously

It's just uh you don't need to know another language to understand math

but obviously subjects like history or sociology you have to somehow study, so I just spent hours memorizing

textbooks, so I just memorized everything, every-everything word by word

what is written in the textbook, you know, which topics would come up in the test, I didn't really completely understand the material

So whenever there was a test I actually had to memorize

five to eight pages full of text, now I actually don't retain any information of what I've

memorized

years ago

in Spanish I was able to pass the class which is memorization, but it's not a good long-term solution

Now I started to study Japanese as a hobby like six years ago when I was still living in Spain. Currently

I speak Japanese on an advanced level, but of course

I'm still studying. The reason why I decided to start learning Japanese when I was 14 is

because to me

Japanese language just not only sounded very beautiful

but I really love the way words and ideas are

conveyed to the language, and ever since I was a little kid

I had this huge interest in Japanese culture, so I just wanted to be able to

understand all these Japanese TV shows that have no

subtitles, or if I would ever go to Japan

I'll be able to talk with the people, or read signs and just not get lost. Due to the complex grammar

I think Japanese is more difficult than

English, but I certainly had lots of lots of motivation and passion to study the language

when I was 17 my family moved to the Netherlands where they speak dutch

And I had to go to a new school again. I was able to get my dutch to

intermediate in just two three months

Thanks to Dutch being so similar to German

But I didn't have any reason to continue my Dutch studies any more when my family decided to go to South Korea

So there I attended a language school to study Korean

Umm... I

personally

didn't like study Korean because I wanted it, but because

we like moved there and

so I just did it, well while studying Korean I sure noticed that there are some similarities

in both grammar and how the words sound to Japanese language

but your Japanese really has to be on an intermediate or advanced level to kind of spot these similarities between

Korean and Japanese language

but this experience also taught me if you want to learn a language as fast as possible going to the

country where the language is spoken in

living there, and going to a language school, taking the intensive course, this will, this will really work

It's the fastest way to

study a language, but you really have to put your work in it.

and this was my story on how I ended up knowing seven languages. As promised

I'm going to show you some tips and tricks that apply to any language you want to study

So from all those languages that I've studied I've noticed that there is one thing that all those languages have in common

and that is that no matter how much rote memorization you do

you're liable to forget some of the stuff, and that can be really frustrating

the reason for that is is because you actually have

to use this stuff that you learned and not just store it in your mind for it to become all dusty

that's why so many people say that living in a country where the language you're studying is actually

spoken is so beneficial for your studies

but obviously you just can't teletransport

yourself into another country to study the language

and I guess this is just one of the language study obstacles people have a hard time to overcome

so if you're currently finding yourself in this position that you're studying a language

but you have nobody to actually talk to

well, I can recommend you this application on my phone

The application is called hellotalk so basically you make an account, this one

here is my account and on your profile you can add a picture and write a self introduction

also, you can set the language you're currently studying and the language you can teach to other people so in my case

it's German because it's my native language and English because I speak it on an advanced level

this language settings means that if I go over here to search

the Japanese speakers who want to learn English or German will appear here on the search

section, you can go and look at other people's profiles and

tap message to start communicating in the language you want to study, and once you're waiting for the answer an

automatic message will pop up with this person's interests and

countries they have traveled to

well, I already got an answer yay, and if you go here to moments you can see it

looks a lot like, you know, your usual social media. People post cute cat pictures and really you can write

whatever you want or you're feeling right now, and I think that this is really a great way to practice your language

I know that when I wrote a diary in

Japanese

it helped me tremendously. This is really one of the functions I love

but if something pops up that you don't understand or you can't read you simply

you see is the tiny little wrench here you tap on that and

then you can

so see thanks to the speak option you will actually be able to read what you couldn't read before

instead of speak you can also use

transliteration to easily find out the spelling and

in case you can't read something at all you just use translation and voila

or just bump bump

quickly double tap to translate the future translation is in German, but yeah

you can really switch it to any language in the world and in case you noticed that

someone made a mistake you can

correct them and

just like you can correct other people's sentences so can other people correct your sentences

basically it's like social media except is actually productive you can have fun while getting closer to your goal, and

even helping others learning a new language

so that's why I really really recommend you guys to download the app you can find the link in the description below I

really really recommend it if you guys are studying a language hellotalk is

360 degree free

and you don't have to pay anything at all if you want to learn more than one language well first of all congrats you

must be really smart um

well, then you will have to get over VIP subscription which costs money

but overall it's absolutely free

to download HelloTalk click the link in the description below and hey if you make an account you can actually even message me at hello underscore

Venus Angelic, so do it now on to more tricks that will help you study a new language

Find a good study book, now what a good study book

is really depends on the person and

country where you live in because not, you know, not every country

sells the exact same study things for the same language, however not every study book is suitable for you

so that's why it's absolutely okay to, you know

buy a couple of books and just learn which one is the right one for you to trial and error

however one type of book

I absolutely cannot recommend are the sentence books, which I mentioned before the ones, you know, that are sell

in the language study section and they seem kind of touristy, they have used example sentences with the

translation of the language you want to study in, the problem with this type of books is that they-they may teach you some

vocabulary but you won't learn any grammar

and you actually can't just memorize all these sentences because you're not a robot who you know installs

sentences and then just blurts them out, you're human you have to be able to communicate with all your thoughts and feelings

get a dictionary luckily now you can easily find a

dictionary online so you don't have to carry around a huge book, but then you basically just think of a topic and

words related to that topic for example kitchen, fry pan, egg

spoon

and you write a long list of all words that are related to kitchen and then you write them on

then you write them- then you write them on flashcards and go to the flashcards until you've memorized them all

then you try to write sentences with these words and, you know, or if you have smartphone use the memo function so you can note down

vocabulary, grammar, and sentence structures whenever you encounter one that you don't understand

outside of your study session, really recommend this one, same thing for hellotalk app, you'll talk with someone in the language

you're currently studying and your sentence, you know, your grammar gets corrected

then you can, you know, note down what you did wrong, and then revise and you won't make this mistake again

To really reach your language goal

you need to find motivation