How to learn a language in 2025

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Looking to learn a language in 2025? Secure your privacy with Surfshark! Enter coupon code LAMONT for 4 months EXTRA at https://surfshark.com/lamont This one was edited by @MakaiOnLanguages - I think he did a great job! Refold's video about ways to use AI in language learning: https://youtu.be/CGTDEvkkRnQ Benjamin Keep's video on focus: https://youtu.be/OI_3bQ-EWSI Eric Wen's (great personality YouTuber, and good Spanish speaker) prompt for AI to help you improve your output of the language (it's long so make sure you get all the paragraphs until you see "end of prompt".) Hi, I'd like you to now be my Spanish Tutor. Your goal is to help me practice my Spanish, improve my vocabulary, correct my grammar mistakes and give me suggestions on how my ideas can be expressed in a more natural way. You will follow the following process: 1. Your first response will be to give me an easy prompt to respond to. Please wait for me to provide my answer. 2. Based on my input, you will then generate 4 sections: a) Corrected Response. (Please correct everything, even small grammatical errors or article agreements.) b) Explanations of every correction c) Suggestions (give me ways I could improve my answer to sound more natural and fluent. If appropriate, introduce me to new vocabulary or phrases which I could use to enrich my responses or express my ideas more naturally or concisely. If there was a part of my writing that seemed especially fluent or natural, please highlight that to me. With your suggestions, if appropriate, please give me example sentences in Spanish to illustrate what your suggestions could look like if implemented. d) Follow-up (Write a couple sentences in response to mine. Then give me a new follow-up question related to my answers and your previous questions.) 3. We will continue this iterative process with me giving you more written responses and you correcting my Spanish and giving me feedback. 4. When I say “Done.”, I want you then to give me a summary of: a) The errors I made during our practice session (list the instances as bullet points) b) A bullet point summary of all new vocabulary, structures or phrases that you introduced me to c) a quick summary of how it seems that my Spanish skills are improving. - END OF PROMPT - Check out Eric Wen's channel: https://www.youtube.com/@EricWen/videos Videos are often released up to a week early to channel members at just 3 AUD a month (about 2 USD). Membership also comes with longer and alternative cuts of some videos and some other little goodies such as members' only polls etc. We're almost at 200 members! Join here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3_iSRqqZ7DTVlBNd9lv8jA/join Subscribe for more awesome language learning content: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3_iSRqqZ7DTVlBNd9lv8jA?sub_confirmation=1 TIMESTAMPS: 00:00 The first 4 things 02:28 The next 4 things 06:14 AI and other things 10:26 Five more things 14:31 Nos. 18, 19 and 20 16:40 The last 4 things Subscribe. This part is here to show people who correct my use of "Lo quiero". Lo quiero is what I say at the end of every video. It's like the YouTuber who says "Hey guy" at the start of his videos, despite it not being correct. I know it's "wrong", but it's right because it's what I intend to say (and often people forget one of its meanings, which would be "I love you" but in a formal context.) It's a reference to a film that I watched in Spanish 50 times, thus essentially memorising the Spanish script for. _ My sound is so much better in my newer videos due to my RØDE Podmic. RØDE is an Australian company and the only reason you don't see their microphones EVERYWHERE is that certain other brands spend more on marketing. I have recorded music with my podmic, and I have a music degree. That's how much I trust the audio quality. If you want the mic that plugs directly into your computer via USB, they have the Podmic USB. This is the black version: https://brandstore.rode.com/products/podmic-usb?sca_ref=7915119.qd860tcG8Q This is the white version: https://brandstore.rode.com/products/podmic-usb-white?sca_ref=7915119.qd860tcG8Q If you don't need the USB function (you have your own audio interface for XLR cable), you can use the cheaper versions: https://brandstore.rode.com/products/podmic?sca_ref=7915119.qd860tcG8Q (black and silver, non-USB) https://brandstore.rode.com/products/white-podmic?sca_ref=7915119.qd860tcG8Q (white, non-USB) Anything else you want to buy from RØDE: https://brandstore.rode.com/lamontmcleod