Shadowing: A Technique to Learn Any Language

How did I miss this upload? Found out about it from your latest Herculaneum scrolls video! Watching, now.

Thank God for those Irish monks in their scriptoria at the dawn of the Middle Ages.

i feel blessed to have found this video...thank you so much for this amazing summary!

I think this technique will help to improve pronunciation not to fluency. Fluency will be improved when you produce your thoughts with the words you know. Even if sentences you made had mistakes, you should keep doing it, overtime it will be incredible as you wanted whenever.

How do you manage with the "looking at translation text" part when sentences are sometimes formed in different order e.g. German and English?

I understand. Of course the best way is to learn through oral, audio, first, who asked a baby to first read letters when he had to listen and speak to his parents? The western school language learning method is a SHAM (I speak for the one I know). While listening to a video in German, I overpassed my level of German in 3 days than what I had all learn during many years at school. I know that learning a language at school is just for mark purposes , they don't care if you genuinely learn the language or not.

How did you get Alexander Argüelles’ mugshot?

Really thanks a lot for the idea, new to me ❤

Can someone put it simple what he says in the video but with fewer words? I have adhd my attention span can't handle a 38 min video

Great I knew this worked! Now I can listen to Mozart in one ear, a Chinese man reciting the Bible in Mandarin in another, while I walk in nature reading about the history of the Plenary Councils of Baltimore in Russian at 2x the speed, while doing linear algebra in my head for my upcoming seminar to my wife's boyfriend about the importance of commitment to your work and family.

How long do you spend on each step?

HI Luke. I don't think Lingopie has a mobile app. Is that a PWA?

내가 한국이지만 ,거기서나오는한국어는 너무 전문적표현이라서 이해하지못한다.

I'm late to the party on this video, but Kurzgesagt is a great resource for this. They have the same video in multiple languages, each with a narrator that is more fluent than most native speakers of each language. Of course, you can't use this technique for dead languages like Latin and Sanskrit, since Kurzgesagt doesn't operate in those languages at the moment, but it's a great resource nevertheless.

any tips on where to learns Serbian (website, app etc.)

I should do this. I want to know how to read of course, but my main goal is listening and speaking. I want to watch my dramas and be able to travel 😅

Trying this with John C. Traupman's book "Conversational Latin For Oral Proficiency," using your audio for it! It is perfect because of the dual language/parallel text format it has which is advocated in this video. I am also doing it for "Familia Rōmāna," of course, and hope to start doing it for "Athēnāze" and eventually for "Ancient Greek Alive."

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Sure. This is exactly what babies do before they can talk. If you listen to baby babble in different languages, you can readily understand the concept. Brilliant.

So do this listening you read Lingua Latina, got it.

I do this when I listen to music, never realized it’s a technique

Sorry, I’m not buying this. I am studying Chinese as an English speaker. I won’t dismiss the man’s work based on your video, but I would guarantee that if I observed you learn Latin in my Time Machine, I would see that you put upon hours and hours of detailed study across a number of domains and that through sheer repetition over a long period of time, your brain became accustomed to the patterns. I also bet that your biggest gain in Latin came when you began teaching and making videos in the language. There is no fast way to learn languages or anything for that matter other than through comprehensible input and applied practice in an immersion situation.

It's so weird not to hear him speak in Latin 😂😂

Salvē Lūcī, grātiās tibi prō pelliculīs tuīs, ūtilēs attractīvaeque sunt. Possīsne dē postclassicā prōnūntiātiōne linguæ latīnæ, quam Cōnstantīnus sīve Theodosius locūtī sint, pelliculam facere ? Quia nōn sciō num ut lingua prōto-rōmānica aut ut lingua latīna classica, aut ut aliquis aliud prōnūntiāta est. Grātiās tibi iterum agō, valē !🏛🫒🏺🌿

As someone with speech stimming since my childhood, due to my "asperger" autism spectrum, whilst fascinated by languages and linguistics, I realize now that I've done shadowing all my life!I will use your lingua latina courses right on as a stepping stone! Thanks again for such amazing content Luke, cheers from Terra Brasilis!!

you will have to keep repeating, and repeating it for a long time for you to start getting anything. What's the point of that?

Thank you for the tip on how it's possible to learn a foreign language if you're over 9 years old!

i did this with German when i first came here. the way i explained it was starting by making my body speak German... once I got the hang of pronunciation I would also read out German texts for hours even when i couldn't understand what it was! There were literally 20 words per page I didnt know... but I could pronounce them... so i built endurance in the German space ahead of understanding. Turns out I wasn't crazy!

Sounds very interesting and l will give it a try but your Korean doesn’t sound Korean at all it sounds very much like Japanese or Chinese, but for the first try it was impressive. Maybe with headphones you will hear it much clearer.
I find that l am hesitant to speak out loud what l already know, this may get me over that hump.

ja im waiting for the language implants! coming soon, i heard...

No way, Luke Smith is now teaching me how to learn languages!

I found myself doing something like this during Divine Liturgy at a Ukrainian Church.

What media would you recommend for me to do this with Greek?

This makes sense to me.

I’m out of breath watching this…

As always, a fantastic lesson from an outstanding teacher! Will try this technique with languages I'm stagnating on as well as the latest one I've decided to try. Thanks also for crediting and cueing viewers in to the work of Alexander Arguelles. I'll definitely subscribe to his content.

There's no need to learn how to write in the target language. That problem has already been solved. Train your brain to recognize audio, and talk a bit. That's enough for most of the tasks you will meet

Congrats, you really studied Dr. Argüelles' techinique. About "editing the audio" there is a very quick way of doing it, I don't think I ever commented there on Dr. Argüelles' channel about this: In Audacity you can go to "Effect > Special > Truncate Silence" and just press okay, with the default option there :)
If the audio is too fast you can change it "Effect > Change Pitch and Tempo > Change Tempo" and chose a good speed, maybe -5, -7, the Hugo Publisher or Fluent French Audio is very fast...
Obviously this is for a beginner, you should get used to the fast speed in the future...

Thank you very much! Great explanation! Well articulated.

入場が熱かった。
歌はもっと熱かった。
Japanese Soul Manの呼び名は伊達じゃないね。

It ain't gonna work. Language learning is combining sound and meaning.

Co motywuje ciebie do nauki języka polskiego?

Regarding step 2, you said it's best to remove the pauses so that you've already seen the whole course? What other reason is there to remove the pauses?

What kind of audio do you recommend for latin? I know you have a few latin videos, are there any other audio based courses to practice spoken latin?

I wish there could be a larger push to teach languages using mostly the natural. As instead of showing text (even phonetic aids) or grammar, there would be audio recording of the word or sentence with a video of what's being said or portrayed. And then broken down to bits. And if there's instruction involved it'd only simple gestures and utterances in the target language. Or better to just have the video composed so that instruction is unnecessary. In short to learn as a kid. The reading and writing can always wait a bit until a foundations of phonetics and phonemes is firm.

Well, I am not sure if shadowing is what I did when I started learning English in my 30's. I had never studied English before. It was just a flash in my mind. I downloaded both the PDF and the audibook 1984 of J. Orwell. Very difficult book at that time. I was able to go through the whole book with my headphone in the background, reading and repeting simultaniusly. I was so paticence that every time I couldn't understand the meaning of a word, I used to open a translator and see the meaning of it. When I completed the book my pronunciation and my understanding of English was just great. Is was crazily helpful. It is like a matrix. ps: I never heard about Alexander Arguelles' metod in past!