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Cara Delevingne, the face of Dior Joaillerie, briefly assumes the role of educator as she declines the French verb 'aimer' to reveal the play on words behind the naming of 'Gem Dior' on.dior.com/gemdior, the collection of organic and asymmetrical jewelry and watches designed by Victoire de Castellane that references mineral strata and Monsieur Dior's colorful fabric swatches.
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How long does it take to reach C1 (advanced) in a language you're learning? 💭
🤔Someone asked this on Twitter today and it got me thinking. I wonder why questions like these are so common. It's good to have a broad understanding of how long it might take, but there are way too many factors at play, making it impossible to have a single answer to this question.
📚If you're fluent in Dutch and learning Afrikaans, it might take you a few months or years, depending on the time you put in to learn and practice, to become fluent. The two languages are that similar.
🤠But if you're a native French speaker learning Korean, for instance, the two languages are very different in terms of grammar, pronunciation, sentence structure and even writing system. It would require hours and hours more effort than the above example.
🗻In another instance, 2 native English speakers could both start learning Japanese. Person A spends hours weekly studying, getting speaking practice in, listening and getting immersion down, and works hard. They could reach N3 (intermediate) level in a year and a half if they put in a ton of effort and if Japanese is all they focus on. Person B might even live in Japan, but if they don't put in the work and just rely on some weekly classes and barely do their homework, they might never even reach N5 (beginner) despite living in Japan. 🤔
As you can see, it's really impossible to ask these questions and have a cookie-cutter answer for each person and each language. Let's rather put time in to be immersed in languages rather than get stressed about how long the process might take. What do you all think? 💖🥳
When I first joined King Edward’s School (KES), I had to learn two new languages - French and Latin. These languages were compulsory for everyone. I’m a linguistics fanatic, so I’ve been enjoying learning both French and Latin for the past two years.
This academic year (my third year in KES), we have the choice to pick an additional language to learn aside from French and Latin. We had a choice between German, Spanish, and Ancient Greek. Being a lover of anything to do with languages, I was torn between which one to choose. If it was up to me, I would have taken all of them! But my French teacher told me that since I was already learning French, modern languages like Spanish and German would be a bit too easy for me, and advised that I challenged myself.
So here I am, taking Ancient Greek! As expected, only a small percentage opted for Ancient Greek, and the rest picked modern languages. Not many chose Ancient Greek because learning it means having to get to grips with a whole new alphabet, plus a difficult grammar. But I’m glad to be part of that small percentage who have the opportunity to learn such a challenging language.
We’ve had a few lessons, and we’ve been mostly focussing on how the Greek alphabet works. But, I’ve already fallen in love with the language, and these first few lessons have been enough to tell me that I’ll enjoy it!
"Hypiaine",
Omar Mukhtar
#thepawsomelion
#LinguisticsFanatic
p/s: That’s Ancient Greek for "Goodbye"!
My brother and I try to answer questions from the Sibling Tag in Afrikaans, French and English. (And some words from our own made up language!)
You might remember my brother from the Guess the Language challenge video we did here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wE-x5TjHz-k
Timestamps:
0:00 Meet my brother
00:21 Who is the oldest? (Afrikaans)
00:43 Likes and dislikes about each other (English)
01:37 What do we have in common? (French)
02:33 Funniest memories (Afrikaans)
03:34 He embarrassed me in Japan
04:42 Fighting over bananas (English)
05:25 Mastermind - our favorite game (French)
06:44 He hurt my feelings :(
07:25 Dating each other's friends... (Afrikaans)
08:08 Made-up words & nicknames for each other
09:38 Embarrassing photos? (French)
10:37 Our hideous Boomer Selfie
[Filmed in February before travel restrictions]
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Welcome to my channel! My name is Lindie and I share my love for languages through my polyglot progress and language learning tips here. South African by birth, I spent most of my life in France, Pakistan, the UAE and Japan. Now I work as a UI/UX designer in Singapore. I'm a Christian and strive to shine God’s light in all I do. May this channel inspire you to reach your language goals!
New here? Best videos → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRCVN94KILKXGx45JKaVBSpPkrpXhrhRe
FAQ → https://lindiebotes.com/faq/
?BOOKS I USE
Practical Chinese Grammar → https://geni.us/PracticalChineseGram
Japanese for Busy People on Amazon → https://geni.us/JapaneseForBusy1
Advanced Japanese for Busy People → https://geni.us/JapaneseForBusy3
Korean Grammar in Use Intermediate → https://geni.us/KoreanGrammarUse
Korean TOPIK exam prep → https://geni.us/TOPIK2prep
Short Stories in Spanish → https://geni.us/spanishshortstories
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One of my goals for 2020 is to improve my French and I’m so grateful I have my friend Ally who is helping me progress. In this video we talk about the three ways I learn French curretly (without textbooks). The methods are for upper intermediate/advanced learners, so they might not work if you are a beginner.
My amazing friend Ally has an inspirational study instagram account at @ari_noyume !
How I currently learn French:
Weekly French conversations
Dictations
Diary writing practice
Everyone’s way of learning is different but I know this was a requested video, so I hope it’s helpful to see how I do it at the moment.
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:24 My current French level
01:38 My French sucks & we are suffering
02:38 THE GOAL
04:18 Method 1 is Conversation
05:22 Method 2 is Dictation
06:22 Doing a dictation
07:18 Translating to English
08:23 Method 3 is Writing
09:37 Qualms with online tutors
11:04 End
11:29 BLOOPER REEL
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?ABOUT
Welcome to my channel! My name is Lindie and I share my love for languages through my polyglot progress and language learning tips here. South African by birth, I spent most of my life in France, Pakistan, the UAE and Japan. Now I work as a UI/UX designer in Singapore. I'm a Christian and strive to shine God’s light in all I do. May this channel inspire you to reach your language goals!
New here? Best videos → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRCVN94KILKXGx45JKaVBSpPkrpXhrhRe
FAQ → https://lindiebotes.com/faq/
?BOOKS I USE
Practical Chinese Grammar → https://geni.us/PracticalChineseGram
Japanese for Busy People on Amazon → https://geni.us/JapaneseForBusy1
Advanced Japanese for Busy People → https://geni.us/JapaneseForBusy3
Korean Grammar in Use Intermediate → https://geni.us/KoreanGrammarUse
Korean TOPIK exam prep → https://geni.us/TOPIK2prep
Short Stories in Spanish → https://geni.us/spanishshortstories
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Camera → https://geni.us/CanonPowerShotG7
Mic → https://geni.us/RodeSmartLavMicr
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Time for another check-in on how my multilingual goals are progressing! I am happy to say it's been going well with Hungarian and Vietnamese - I'm finally back with those! And yes, I'm aware I forgot to mention anything about Chinese, Malay, Indonesian and Tagalog, oops... I'll be sure to talk about them in my end-of-year update. In case you missed the mid-year check in, here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojHimXzuSWo&vl=en
? Sign up for the Lingoda Sprint before September 8 2020: https://bit.ly/SprintLindie
Don't forget to use code SCHOOL30 for 10 Euro discount on the deposit!
? Textbooks I mentioned in this video
Vietnamese Stories https://geni.us/VietStories
Easy Burmese https://geni.us/EasyBurmese
Elementary Hindi https://geni.us/ElementaryHindi
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:24 Language organisation & Korea
01:14 Vietnamese updates!
02:58 Ideal lesson time
03:24 French update
04:04 Dictations & Journals in French
05:12 The state of my Spanish
06:04 Podcasts in Spanish
06:51 More lessons on Lingoda
07:53 Lingoda Sprint is back!
09:05 Hungarian - Magyar!
10:39 Japanese, Hindi, Burmese, Arabic
12:17 End
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Ko-fi → https://ko-fi.com/lindiebotes#
✨GOODIES
$10 free italki credits (after first lesson) → https://go.italki.com/LindieBotes
10% off Du Chinese (my favorite app!) enter LINDIE10 at checkout → https://www.duchinese.net/
All discounts → http://lindiebotes.com/discounts
All language resources → https://lindiebotes.com/language-resources/
Merch → https://society6.com/lindiebotes
?ABOUT
Welcome to my channel! My name is Lindie and I share my love for languages through my polyglot progress and language learning tips here. South African by birth, I spent most of my life in France, Pakistan, the UAE and Japan. Now I work as a UI/UX designer in Singapore. I'm a Christian and strive to shine God’s light in all I do. May this channel inspire you to reach your language goals!
New here? Best videos → https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRCVN94KILKXGx45JKaVBSpPkrpXhrhRe
FAQ → https://lindiebotes.com/faq/
?BOOKS I USE
Practical Chinese Grammar → https://geni.us/PracticalChineseGram
Japanese for Busy People on Amazon → https://geni.us/JapaneseForBusy1
Advanced Japanese for Busy People → https://geni.us/JapaneseForBusy3
Korean Grammar in Use Intermediate → https://geni.us/KoreanGrammarUse
Korean TOPIK exam prep → https://geni.us/TOPIK2prep
Short Stories in Spanish → https://geni.us/spanishshortstories
?EQUIPMENT
Camera → https://geni.us/CanonPowerShotG7
Mic → https://geni.us/RodeSmartLavMicr
Tripod → https://geni.us/ManfrottoTravel
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Collabs & partnerships: hello@lindiebotes.com
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