How I learn languages FAST by listening? (what no one talks about)

In this video, I will give you the exact plan how you can learn languages fast by listening. Science shows that people who listen learn languages faster than everyone else, and I can say it's true. My name is Anna. I've learned German from zero to C1 in 10 months, and let me share how you can also learn languages fast. The first method is my favorite, and it's perfect for people who are busy or who don't like sitting with grammar books. All you have to do is turn on a video or a podcast and listen as much as you can while doing something else. It is called brain soaking, and I saw it in Chris Lonsdale's TED Talk. The idea is you have to listen as much as possible while also learning new words from class. This way you get exposed to a lot of different words, and once you connect them with the words you learn in class, you get a full picture and you understand almost everything. Here's how you can think of it. When you first listen, you hear a lot of random sounds that are not really connected to each other. They are super far, but then when you learn new words also in class, you connect them all together, and so you get a big circle of all of the things you know, and this helps you understand most of the things that you hear. And if you learn new words just in class, your first circle is really small, and it's hard to make it bigger. So that's why if you start listening from the very beginning, you're already making a big circle from day one. Now here are three steps you need to take to make this work. First one, you have to pick materials that are interesting to you, because let's be honest, if you find a beginner's podcast that is talking about months, weeks, or weather, you're gonna close it, and you're not gonna come back to that. I know for myself, if I'm not interested, I'm not gonna come back to that podcast. So what I would recommend is find videos or podcasts that are interesting to you, so connected to your hobbies or your work, because if you think that something is useful to you, you will try to understand as much as possible. Step number two, don't try to understand everything in the beginning. The first couple of weeks or even months, you will only understand a few words or a few sentences. For example, with German for me, the first two weeks I was listening, I didn't understand any words, and I think it took me about six months to start understanding the full picture. But I promise you, if you listen every day and also learn in class, you're going to be surprised how much you can understand in just a few months. And if you want to know more about the language learning formula that I use, I will link the video in the description where I talked about this. And step number three is listen while doing something else. The best part about this method is that you don't really have to sit and study. You can work out, do the dishes, cook or even clean. An important thing that you have to keep in mind though is that you have to be relaxed while you listen, because if you're stressed and you have a lot of thoughts in your mind, you will think about all of your problems and you will not actually listen to the recording. So your brain will block any sounds and the method becomes ineffective. So listen only when you're relaxed. Now the second method is for people who don't want to wait and want to understand everything from the beginning. I use it with Chinese a lot. What I do is I try to find a video with subtitles or a podcast with a transcript, so the text, and then I listen and read at the same time. Then I try to highlight the words that will help me understand the meaning, and I write the meaning above them. Now it's super important that you don't highlight the whole text, because if your whole text is yellow or any other color, you're not going to learn any of those words. I know for myself, if I have way too many words that I have to learn, I'm just going to ignore all of them. So I try to pick three to ten words without which I can't understand the meaning, and sometimes these words are repeated three, five or even more times. And then I open my notes app on my phone and make a list. And I'll make another video on how I learn new words, so make sure to subscribe so you don't miss that. You can watch the video and listen to the podcast a few times if you want. I just don't have the patience for that, but I think that would be very useful as well. And the last method is something that I created for the people I was helping with languages. I just asked them to pick a video between five and seven minutes long, and then we watched it together. And I asked them to try to understand the idea of the video. And then I asked them simple questions, like what was the video about? Did you learn anything interesting or anything new? And because most of the time you can see what is going on in the video from the picture, it is pretty easy to answer these questions. So even if you're a beginner in a language, this exercise will make you feel like you can actually understand something and will make you comfortable. Then take a pause for a day, two, or maybe even three, and watch the video again. And this time try to pick up more details. I also asked the people to pick three to five words that will help them understand the meaning better. And then I asked them a bit more specific questions. Now why do you have to make a pause? Why can't you look for details from the first time? Because if you have not heard the language much before, it is going to be difficult for you to understand what is going on. Because people might speak a little too fast and use a lot of words that you don't know. But if you try to understand the whole idea at first, it will make you comfortable and you'll feel good about yourself that you can understand something. And then the next time you watch the video, instead of thinking, oh that is too difficult, I can't understand anything, you'll think, oh what else can I learn from there? So the idea is try to focus on what you can understand and not on all of the things that you don't know. This way you will be interested rather than scared. Okay, but how do I keep track of all of these videos? How do I not forget which videos I watched? I am working on an app that is going to help you organize all of the videos you watch and ask you the questions that I ask. So make sure to subscribe so you don't miss that. And if you would like to know how you can understand languages fast, even if you're a beginner, I made another video on that so it's going to be in the description. These are my three methods that I personally use and that I recommend other people. If you have used any other methods, let me know in the comments and I'd be happy to read them. Thank you so much for watching and I'll see you next time. Bye-bye!