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Hey guys
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This video is gonna be about eight YouTube channels that I watch on a regular basis and they all have to do with linguistics
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Languages language learning etc. And of course I watch other YouTube videos, but
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This video is gonna be specifically about my language learning channels that I watch all the time
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The first of which let me focus it in there on the laptop the first of which is called
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The Ling space and this is a YouTube channel
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That's all dedicated to linguistics and it's very interesting
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And it's not super academic. It's easy enough for anyone to understand. You don't have to have a background in linguistics
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It's run by a guy named Moti Lieberman. I don't know if you can really see there on the screen
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But he lives in Montreal. I think he studied at at McGill University and
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Majored in linguistics, and now he just makes videos about all kinds of different stuff related to linguistics
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So he has videos on
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semantics pragmatics
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pronouns
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morphology syntax phonetics phonology general linguistics historical linguistics socio linguistics
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Here I see. He has an interview with Steven Pinker, which I haven't seen this one yet. So
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Actually now I'm really excited to see that because Stevens pink Steven Pinker is a big name in the linguistics community
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And he's great. So if you've seen any of my videos on linguistics
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if
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You have any interest in linguistics if you have a basic knowledge and you want to learn more, this is great
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This channel is perfect for anyone who's just interested in the way languages work
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The next channel I want to point out is called French sounds and this is run by a lady named Carol, I believe
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or Cheryl, I think her name is Cheryl and
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She has a PhD in French linguistics or French phonology, I believe
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and that's exactly
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What her channel is.
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So if you're learning French and you want to learn how to pronounce things better in French
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this would be gonna be a great channel to
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Look up and watch for yourself if you're not
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Then hopefully you can find something similar in the language that you're learning, you know, if you're learning Spanish or German or something
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You know, go ahead and do a youtube search for youtubers that do German linguistics or Russian linguist Russian phonology
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Or whatever it is that you're learning
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she is super great because
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She uses the IPA and goes through each individual sound in French and then different combinations of sounds
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If you don't know the IPA, I have a few videos on that. I have a whole
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series that I'm doing on linguistics right now that has a video on
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Phonology and one on phonetics
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So she just does a really good job of
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breaking down the different sounds and teaching you how to pronounce them in a simple way because
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You know a lot of times
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When you're learning a new language
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you don't always know exactly how to pronounce the sound so you don't know what to do with your throat what to do with your
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Mouth well, you know how to move your tongue in your mouth
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She has a PhD in this so she was really good at explaining exactly what you have to do when you speak French
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Next channel that I want to point out is called the polyglot gathering now
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This is pretty well known
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It's a gathering that usually meets in Europe once a year in different cities. They had been in Berlin for a few years now
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I think they're in Slovakia or somewhere and there's just a lot of big-name polyglots, you know
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Richard Simcott, I think Steve Kaufman usually goes
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Benny Lewis
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Luca you know all the really famous polyglots that you've probably have seen their videos, you know
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They all show up and then for I don't know a week or so they have this conference
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and
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They just do different
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Workshops different events, and there's a lot of seminars and different topics that have to do with language learning
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And being a polyglot
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And it's just really interesting. You can actually watch all of the videos for free here on their Channel. So
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Let's see here we have one that's taught by Benny. It looks like that one's in Russian
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Can you learn language while sleeping, you know, they have a bunch of big-name polyglots. Here's Steve Kaufman talking about LingQ
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A lot of the really famous polyglots talking about different areas of language learning that they're experts in
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And these videos are all quite long.
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The shortest is about half an hour and some of them are you know over an hour long, but it's kind of nice
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I like to just put one on and listen to it while I'm doing something else
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Maybe you know while I'm getting ready for bed or something and then you just you learn little tidbits about certain aspects of language learning
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From the experts. So this is a really great channel. I watch it quite often
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The next channel I want to point out is Ted en Español
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And this is essentially just TED talks but Spanish so there's an entire
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Channel dedicated to TED talks - it's like the TEDx Channel
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but only videos that are in Spanish and if you don't know what TEDx is it's essentially just
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Just short little
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seminars little messages
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I don't know you'd call them short videos where they get a lot of experts to come on and just do a short video on
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Random topics in their field, you know, they'll do one on
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psychology or biology
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Political science
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Doesn't even always have to be super academic. Sometimes it can just be something really fun
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you know, they have musicians come on and talk about something really quick and brief but in their field and
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You know a lot of times they're just really interesting short little mind opening videos
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And this channel doesn't actually really have to do with language learning but because it's in a Spanish
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It's it's in a language that I'm trying to maintain. It's just really nice to have that as a resource that I can just
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Sit back and just watch something and be entertained
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In the language that I'm learning that I'm trying to maintain
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obviously if you're
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gonna watch this video this channel then you need to have pretty solid basis in Spanish a lot of their
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Their videos do have subtitles so that makes it a little easier
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And if you're not learning Spanish, then I would recommend looking for something similar and the language that you're learning
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Next
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Channel, I want to point out is evildea. And if you don't know who this guy is you need to watch him
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He is an Esperantist. He does a lot of videos on
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Esperanto related subjects
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Usually in Esperanto, but with English subtitles and sometimes he does videos in English
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and
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So a lot of his videos are actually on Esperanto related subjects
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But he also does a lot of just daily life videos talking about his life
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You know talking about his travels what he's doing, but it's in Esperanto, which is a great way of kind of doing a passive
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Maintenance or you know maintaining your language passively
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Just by watching the vlogger. He's very entertaining. He's quite dorky actually
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And he just I don't know if you can see the different, let me see if I can
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He just he's just weird. I can't zoom in I was gonna try to show you his face right there
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He's just he's weird but it's fun. It's entertaining and I really enjoy watching him. So I
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recommend watching
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Evildea, even if you don't speak Esperanto, like I said, he usually does subtitles. So that's not a big issue
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Next channel I want to talk about is called Deva yoga
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Or I should say Diva yoga
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it's
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Not a language learning channel. This is a yoga channel, but I enjoy watching it because
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I'm learning French and specifically she is a French speaker from Canada
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which is the dialect of French that I am most interested in learning and there are a ton of of
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channels that are dedicated to
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yoga in French, but I like to watch her channel because
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She first of all because she speaks the dialect that I I wants to speak and also because she does
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Subtitles on some of her videos so it just makes it easier to comprehend what I'm able to read and hear what I'm reading
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Um, so I watch her videos quite often not always her videos, you know, sometimes I watch other ones as well
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I usually just search for
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You know
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"yoga avec sous titres"
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or "yoga with subtitles"
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and
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I'm you know, I do it a lot of times in the morning after waking up and it's just nice way to
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kind of wake up in the morning and
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Relax, and be rejuvenated and learn languages at the same time. This is something that I already
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want to do
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It's a great way of
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adding language learning to my daily routine, especially since yoga video is typically you can just
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Watch what they're doing in the video
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Without and so you're not missing anything even if you don't understand everything that they say you can follow along pretty well
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even if you can't understand 100% of what they're saying as a matter of fact
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if you're just interested in doing yoga, then you could
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For the most part you don't even need to speak the language in order to follow along and do what they're doing now
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You know, you're not gonna understand everything and there probably will be some things that you just misunderstand if you don't speak the language
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but it's a good way to get exposure and
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You know
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It doesn't hurt to do it in a foreign language because you can just watch what they're doing in the video and follow along
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Loashu I don't know if that's exactly how you pronounce it and it's actually his channel name is
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Loashu five hundred and five thousand five zero five zero zero zero
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This guy is super interesting
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and
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He is a polyglot who speaks like I don't even know how many languages guy speaks. It has to be more than 30
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Not well though he speaks
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maybe three or four languages well, and he speaks a ton of languages that he sucks at but
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The point of his channel is not to be really good at
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Speaking grammatically, correct the point of his channel is that he's brave
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He is a bold language learner who goes out and practice his practices his languages on the street
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And he learns he calls it levelling up whenever he goes out and speaks with someone in their native language
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He's a very interesting person and I have to say he's not
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What I would consider to be a great youtuber a great language learner
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he
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his
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His videos, you know, they're not edited very well and he doesn't put a whole... he doesn't seem like he's a great
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Videographer, but
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The insights that you get from watching him are just very valuable
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It's very motivating to watch someone go out and just a lot of times just struggle through a language
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But you see the reactions of the people that he's speaking to and it's just motivating
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It makes me want to go out and do the same thing
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Usually what he does. Is he has like a hidden camera somewhere
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I think he he has a hat with a hidden camera or something and he goes out and he just videotapes himself speaking
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To native speakers. He'll go to you know, Asian restaurants or or you know
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Indian grocery stores Mexican places a lot of times
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He just goes to the mall and I'll just look for someone to speak his languages with and since he speaks like a billion
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He's constantly running into people to speak with now a lot of times he only knows how to say like hello
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How are you?
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You know, I'm learning Turkish, you know and you watch him struggle and there's usually subtitles so you can follow along with what he's saying
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But it's just very interesting very motivating now
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I haven't actually been following him recently because I watched a lot of his videos and he was putting out a ton of live streams
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And it's basically after a while it is all the same thing
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He's just going into different restaurants different stores and then just struggling to speak
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So I stopped following him for a while because it just got to be all the same thing
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but that that's not to discount his channel because I think he's great and I love his technique and I love his passion and
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his boldness
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So I highly recommend checking him out. It's Loashu five zero five zero zero zero
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And the last channel that I want to bring up is called Lang focus
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And this is run by a guy named Paul who also seems to be very nerdy
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about languages because he's just very
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Intelligent and he knows a whole lot
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His channel is extremely informative if he does languages every I don't know how often he does them every week or so
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Let me see you might say up here somewhere
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This is I'm not sure how often he does videos to be quite honest, but it's quite often
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I see I get little updates from him and last one was two hours ago two weeks ago three weeks ago
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yeah, so it looks like he just does about
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One video a week but very informative videos
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and usually about a certain language or a
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Family of languages or something and it's just amazing how much he knows.
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I think he must have a team of researchers or something to
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Put out these videos because he just knows a ton and like I said, his videos are extremely informative
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He gives you all kinds of little details and interesting facts about languages and he's able to cram a whole ton into
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His videos are usually what 10 15 minutes long at most
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And so, you know here he has a language on toki pona he has a language on he has a video on Korean
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how similar are Quebec French and
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metropolitan French
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Oh what a few weeks ago, well a few months ago when I was in Spain and I was learning Portuguese
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I started watching his videos on how similar are Spanish and Portuguese
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He also had one... how similar are... let's see
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Where is his other one? How similar are Brazilian Portuguese and Portuguese Portuguese?
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Ton of
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Videos that are just very interesting very informative and you're gonna learn a lot about different languages by watching his channel
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So I highly recommend this if you're interested in languages, so that's it
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I have like I said, I was gonna tell you about eight channels that I watch a lot
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They had to do with language learning, of course
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Obviously I didn't get everyone I didn't get all the language channels that I could have mentioned
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So with that said if you feel like there's some obvious
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Language learner channel that I left out. Please leave man comments down below
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I want to hear what your recommendations are for language learning channels because a lot of times
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You guys will leave me recommendations and you'll leave me little comments and I'll actually learn something for myself
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So there's a good chance that you'll leave me language learning channels in the comments below of people that I am
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Unaware of but I will benefit greatly if you let me know who they are
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So that's it. That's all I have to say in this video. Thanks for watching and we'll see you guys in the next one