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So welcome back to this
second part of this two-part episode of the podcast episode number two of course
and it was so long we decided break it up into two parts so today you're gonna
get the second part of it you've missed the first part go back in the list
either you're watching this on youtube you can go into that playlist and find
the first part of this episode or if you're watching this on the podcast go
back to the previous episode of the podcast and you can the stuff first
before you listen to this second part as you can see I'm in Ukraine when I'm
doing my when we're doing the editing for this so I've actually already left
Brussels which is where this episode takes place but greetings from Park
Shevchenko Park Shevchenko in Odessa Ukraine and let's get into the second
part of this podcast. So that's what I got out of it I'd learned I'd actually
gone to Brazil on the same trip so I was really excited about Brazil I love the
country it's still my favorite country in the world Brazil and I was really
like curious I can kind of learned Portuguese after Spanish and I actually
came back to Europe to Brussels here and what happened in Brussels and why the
city as I said at the beginning of the of this video podcast is that here I
really started to figure out what kind of method am I using to learn the
language. Why is this different? Why is this effective? And
why was I like the worst student in high school and university but now I seem to
speak you know at this age I spoke like Italian Spanish French and obviously too
many things I speak four languages and really within my social group I don't
think I know anyone who speaks that many and here in Brussels I was working first
in a law firm because I was a lawyer and then I also worked at the European
Commission as well for a few years had a great time ... really great
colleagues and here in a city like this where people come from all over Europe
to work is that obviously you have a lot of different languages so I was a kid
like you know like a kid in a candy shop because there's like all these like
crazy languages for me like Slovak Romanian Lithuanian as well as German
French Italian and English and this was really really like a working with people
all the different countries especially at the European Commission because people
come from all of them and even the law firm it was quite diverse amongst
Europeans who of the different nationalities and here from Brussels is
really cheap really convenient to fly all over Europe or take the train to
like Amsterdam Antwerp Cologne London Paris all really really close you can
just hop on the train and within two hours on a high-speed train in those cities
and those languages were just around you right so I was like really
imbibed with this enthusiasm to learn languages and I started to delineate a
little bit okay I'm not I'm not studying all the grammar I do have a grammar book
I do wanna be that I do look for things in the internet grammar points I know
but I'm not really memorizing what covering I tried all that stuff and even
tried with some basic software for spaced repetition I was like you know
this is pretty boring right this doesn't really make me want to go and do it the
next day and so maybe I should just stop I stopped those practices and do something
a little bit more alternative so at the time I found some websites that were
putting you in contact with language teachers and you could actually take the
one-on-one tuition via Skype for a fraction of having an
actual teacher come normally in situ ... come to your
place or you go to theirs and it was like a fraction that I was like 20
percent of the price I was like I'm all for that so I used to start having these
language classes first in Spanish with a teacher in Guatemala over a platform
that's some Americans had set up I was like wow this
is really going really well I have two hours a week and I'm really are making progress
I can I can feel it and the time I was taking all these trips and going to Spain
a little bit I was getting practice and I then have started to dig a little bit
more on the internet and I started find these polyglots. I remember back I had
met this polyglot right this guy who spoke lots of languages in France and I'd
really been ... you know transformative for me because it changed
my view of people who learn languages and then suddenly there were people
starting to pop up on the internet on YouTube here if you're watching this on
YouTube and they made all these videos speaking of lots of language and they
were trying to motivate people and then they were making these very basic videos
at the time like that I would just be a basic webcam or some sort of basic
camera maybe on a phone camera and they were just talking into the camera and
explaining their experiences and speaking different languages and
explained how they went about learning them so I became really really hooked on
this right I mean I was watching hours and hours and hours of these
videos and I was thinking like all these people they seem to have a common
there's a common thread in it there are people who most of the time actually
struggled to learn languages at school but then they went on and they learned
lots of them like huge numbers some of them more than ten I was like well these
these guys and girls on the internet who are doing this they can show me
the proof they speak to because they're speaking to them they're speaking them
in the videos to these certain levels not everyone speaks um you know
amazingly well every single language but they're like impressive and so as a
proof that their methods work to a certain extent and all these teachers
are telling you you know learn this grammar in this rigid way and most of
teachers only at most speak two languages so who do I believe more? I
mean who who's more convincing it's clearly the people who speak all the languages
and they're not in general learning them in classrooms they're learning by
speaking lots of it not focusing on the grammar so much you know not memorizing
the vocab list or doing boring things they're encouraging to you know to get
how to meet local native speakers of the language and all these kind of it was
really encouraging so I was like really pumped on that and I was traveling around
Europe I had this goal at the time that because I worked at the European
Institutions I should at least one time have visited every single member state so
at the moment there are 28 member states I'm speaking in May 2018 to you but at the
time I think there is a little s there's probably 27 before Croatis joined and
UK has not left yet I've no Brexit has been voted on
so those 27 countries I made ... I set myself that goal because Brussels had
these cheap flights everywhere regular from the two airports that service the
city I went to all these countries I you know ticked off that goal like boom I
have visited all 27 I was learning German at the time. I was learning Portuguese
because I was really enthusiastic about Brazil and I was actually taking the
classes over Skype as well two hours a week really committed to it and a you
know had the Spanish class. I had the German classes I started I think to dabble in
Russian at the time yeah because I was about to go to Russia maybe or maybe it was a
little bit later so I started to learn these languages and to really be
alternative about it and not just learn grammar rules and really speak to people
and there was lots of opportunities here in Brussels so when people say that
there's no time to they don't have the time to learn lots of languages it's
really just about priorities everybody has the same 24 hours in a day right so
it's basically about how we decide to use that time and a lot what you're
gonna see is that people how down time or they have time the evenings and they
decide to do other things with that right they watch Netflix or they serve
to you know they browse through Facebook and they do it in their native tongue they
don't do it in another language they don't trying to use that time
constructively to integrate language learning into it and make it just
natural right so this is something that I really started to focus on because I
was learning all these language simultaneously it was a pretty crazy
right German French Italian Spanish like I was practicing them all on Skype with
private tutors because it was also pretty affordable compared to having the
you know language classes and I had language classes also at work both of the
law firm and then at the European Commission in several of the languages so
I was really really putting a lot of time in and really enthusiastic about
traveling using them all the time and then I took my first trip to Eastern
Europe I remember I went with my girlfriend at the time who was German and
we went to St. Petersburg and we took the train she had a fear of flying so we
had to go overland which was fine because we went to Warsaw and to Vilnius
and up to St. Petersburg and then back along the Curonian Spit to Kleipeda
and then to Nida then to Kaliningrad and then back down to Brussels here so
we you know I really traveled around and I was really you know get interested in
Russian and Russian culture and then the next year I went on my own to Ukraine
and I just thought you know it was it was just a watershed for me as an
experience and but I didn't speak Russian very well at the time
unfortunately I was probably not taking classes really studying it before I'd
had a little bit of university and then I realized I really need to like learn
Russian if I'm gonna travel this region people don't speak English and there's a
different alphabet which is not so hard but it just makes it that you know a
little bit more unfamiliar so I had been I'd moved to Germany just shortly
afterwards and I of course was in a German-speaking environment my German
was improving and I really as I said I've been watching lots of these
polyglots on YouTube and taking inspiration from them and tips and they
organized a polyglot conference and you know this was kind of a little bit of a
community that existed is just the internet among kind of like language learning
nerds which of course I confess to being one of them since I was geeking out all the
time on all this language learning material all these alternative methods
and so I went to the conference it was in Budapest in Hungary and I was there I
got this meet all these people who were making these videos in person and it was
really cool for me because they you know I'd been watching them on the internet
and then suddenly they're all beside me eating lunch it was really really cool
so I thought I have this background and story where I said where I was
originally really really the worst student at languages and didn't look like
I'd have any up you know possibility of speaking lots of them but at this stage
I spoke obviously English French German Spanish Italian and Portuguese pretty
well so I think we're up to like six there so I kind of fell while I have
something to contribute as a polyglot are so much just someone who speaks in
also languages enthusiastic about it so I decided to
set up this channel at the time I called it 'Language Tsar'. I chose that name
more because it's like an expert in something in English like an authority
on a particular subject and I took that name and I started making these very
simple videos where I try to encourage people and inspire them and give them
some tips about learning languages also review the language and products which
because most of them I didn't believe really offer people quality in terms of
you know achieving their goals so I started on this journey and I just kept
going like I was having so many hundreds if not thousands of hours of conversations
about language learning with people who speak like Richard Simcott who speaks like
thirty languages he was more than thirty probably and he actually organized his
polyglot conference and it's now five years of them at least and there's gonna
be a sixth this year so I just got in all these conversations just non-stop and
hundreds of hours discussing how the best ways to learn languages and that's
basically led me to starting to help other people not just with the videos
but also to coach them a little bit about how to learn languages how to set
up that structure and how you know how to use your time how to stay motivated
how to learn vocabulary really easily and naturally and how to get a good accent
even that's something that I've struggled with a lot I will confess and
how to deal with grammar and so basically how you can go about learning
languages just really about how you set up the structure so I started doing that
first for friends and also for private clients and then recently I've actually
just put made a video course so that everybody can access it 24 hours per day. That's
why I've created Language up your Life which I launched recently and if you've
got a link that obviously in the description as well you wanna go check
out there's some free preview videos there so you can go check that out even
if you don't join during the course I also have a Facebook group with like-minded
people on the same journey of joined and you get some access to me of course I
hop on there and make some content exclusively for the people in the
Facebook group and so that's basically what I've what I've done and I think
just like if someone like me who came from a who grew up in a country that's
not known for learning languages was the worst student basically in the class at
university and you know couldn't order a sandwich in the first day of their
language exchange program Erasmus year than anyone no matter how
you've been struggling whether it's with grammar pronunciation motivation
remembering vocabulary if I can do it then you can also speak another language
and you don't need to go and learn like I speak I've learned more than 10 at
this stage I can speak in to certain degrees and you don't need to aspire to do
that you can have that you know goal of just learning one language whether it's
Spanish German Swahili Wolof whatever it happens to be but you can do
it because I'm living proof of that I'm not a genius in terms of learning
languages I'm not I wasn't born with a gene like Benny Lewis who has Fluent in
three months he always uses that example the language learning gene it doesn't
exist no matter what anyone tells you anyone to learn it because if I could do it I
remember Benny saying exactly the same thing he also grew up in Ireland and
didn't speak languages when he was younger he learned them all afterwards
so if we can do it then that's inspiration and that you should take
that it's just about being motivated identifying and I'll take you through
this in the course of you if you decide to sign up and I think I even have some of it
in the preview videos for you for free that you need to decide like why you
learn this language identifies it's the right language for you set up the
structure that's going to allow you to learn as much as possible use your time
as much as possible stay motivated and just like over time you will get there
you will get there in any language that you have the motivation to learn and
curiosity and that would just open up so many doors for you in your life I mean I
cannot even quantify the amount of job opportunities travel opportunities
romantic opportunities it has opened up for me all because there are lots of
languages and I'm also gonna have as a next podcast and in this talk I think my
call is Talk Tuesday actually if we're gonna publish them on Tuesdays because I
have Tip Thursday already for the travel language and dating tips so this can be
Talk Tuesday this longer format on the podcast I'm gonna have an interview with
Jan Van Der Aa. He's been with me on this journey since I started on YouTube
because he's also gonna company helps people learn languages and
it's also now a polyglot himself he speaks the language that wasn't the case
we're gonna go a lot into this right how you can start off and just not be good
at languages and then become like really an amazing language learner anyone can do it
so that's kind of what I want to leave you at the end of this podcast and Jan
has also been with me we're gonna discuss this as well the interview along
part of the journey we actually traveled a little bit together he saw how we took
this first trip to Romania Moldova and Odessa in Ukraine and we spoke so many
languages on that on the trip and they weren't all like Russian Romanian we
should have ... which is the main languages in the region or Ukrainian if
in Ukraine which I speak a little bit of now but not at the time we're also
speaking Spanish Italian and French and building these connections people also
learned these languages and I don't think we really spoke English in the entire
trip is pretty crazy so that was also something that just opened up so many
opportunities and doors and helped me to make connections with different people I
just would never have happened if I'd stayed in one monolingual because
learning languages also makes you curious about the cultures of the people
who speak them and when you're traveling that's just such an extra dimension
Steve Kaufmann who has a channel LingoSteve we spoke about this in the video
that I also made another from a YouTube channel in from Lviv in Ukraine really
beautiful city in western Ukraine he calls language the fourth dimension
of travel I think this is a nice way to put it just adds this extra dimension to
everything when you're traveling just having the language and you just get a
very different experience and I think it'd be more enriching experience so
we'll leave you today from this conversation that we're having be sure
to comment below in the comment section let me know what your language journey
has gone whether you've taken inspiration for this video whether you have been
learning languages struggling with them and you know maybe in this
conversation someone else can help you out or I can help you out with your own
language learning journey of course go check out my course Language up your Life
because we also have the Facebook group there as well when you become a member
and you could ... you will get to discuss it with me and also with the other
like-minded people on the same kind of journeys as you are
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Europe I'm aware of that and also Baltics are like debatably more northern
European than Eastern European but those are the kind of countries I'll be
vlogging from showing you what it's like to travel there and you know meet lots
of local people and get the real sense and vibe of the country and also how to
use the local languages which I use if I can because I do speak Russian as some
Ukrainian Romanian and soon I'm actually just about to go to Belarus I'm
gonna learn a little bit of Belarusian it's also the second language it's also
one of the two official languages in the country even though more everybody
normally speaks in Russian - you definitely the cities I've been to but
I'm going a little bit of Belarusian just to just learn a bit of language and just
get a little bit of insight into the culture there so you can come with me on
those journeys in the next few few weeks and months over the summer. This summer
promises to be a really big one I'm really excited about I'm gonna leave here
Brussels in the morning and head to Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine I mean the
first thing I've been back in Kharkiv for over a year I'm really
excited about that so yeah come with me on that journey I
trust you've got some inspiration from this let me know in the comment section
yeah about everything about your travel as well how you feel and learnt language
to travel with is opened up you know more opportunities for you in love and
friendship be it in in employment and just your own personal
satisfaction maybe you just like to learn literature or something like that
let me know all that good stuff in the community in the comment section and I
will see you guys very soon in the next video in the next video won't be from
here in Brussels it will be from Eastern Europe as I said so have great rest to
your day and I will see you all soon it's gonna be 'au revoir' and 'tot ziens' which
is goodbye in French and Dutch and I will see you guys soon from eastern
Ukraine so до побачення and до свидания which are goodbye in Ukrainian and
Russian see all your smiling faces really soon excited to be talking to you
from Eastern Europe in the next videos okay peace out!
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