Alex Senoner

YouTube video by Alex Senoner How I learned Chinese abroad (and why so many people fail)

Studying abroad is not a magic trick to fluency.
You need to develop a certain approach to it to make the best of your stay abroad.

In my latest video I discuss how I did it.
👉 youtu.be/vuQ8TqFnD2s?...

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Get a taste for 🇹🇭 Thai
- learn the basics during my three week stay there

How? by taking one step every day 👣

2026 Plans 📅

Continue focus on 🇹🇼 Chinese
- watch several series 📺
- speak in Chinese to ChatGPT
- read a book 🤓

Boost my 🇪🇦 Spanish
- watch dubbed anime 📺
- read that book I have on my shelf 📕
- have weekly sessions with a tutor for at least 4 months 💬

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What language(s) are you planning to learn in 2026?

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謝謝

First day of Chinese class in Taipei

I plan to stay here until January.

#langsky #learnchinese

Why do Americans eat as if they had free health care?

Everybody has to start from zero.

After 35 videos and so many hours, today I reached my first big milestone on YouTube: 1000 subscribers!

I want to thank everyone who's subscribed for your support, it means a lot to me! 😃

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I had the pleasure of giving a presentation on the survival of minority languages at the @polyglot_confer in Taipei yesterday! 🙂

#langtwt

After having attended the Polyglot Gathering twice, today it's my first time at the Polyglot Conference!
This year it's in Taipei! 🙂

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I'm boarding for Taiwan 🇹🇼 and will stay there for 3 months!
Hopefully my Chinese will have improved by the time I return. 😁

How do you feel about people correcting your grammar while you're talking to them?

#LanguageLearning

Who's going to the Polyglot Conference in Taipei in 2 weeks?

I'll be there, so let's meet! 😃

#langsky #languagelearning

Das Standardwort für "zuhören" im südtiroler Dialekt ist "losen", verwandt u.a. mit Engl. "listen".

Laut Duden ist dieses Wort nur im süddeutschen Sprachraum verbreitet.
Für diejenigen aus Österreich/Schweiz/Bayern usw., wird es bei euch benutzt?

#deutsch #deutschesprache #deutschedialekte

Isn't this mindset exactly the problem in America?
Every legislation is more focused on undoing what the previous one did instead of building upon it.
So we're never moving forward, we're perpetually going back and forth.

I've often been asked: "Which of your many languages do you think in?"
And I could never answer it.
I thought there must be something wrong with me, I don't think in any particular language.

Do you think in a specific language? Do you actually think in full sentences?

#langsky #language

Ich werde immer wieder überrascht, wie viele deutsche Wörter mit denen ich aufgewachsen bin, in Deutschland nicht existieren.

Nach Beistrich ist das letzte solche Wort "Fallfehler".

Deutsche machen also keine Fallfehler? 😅

#grammatik #deutsch

Why can AI models never ask me for more information and instead make assumptions that are often wrong?

When I start learning a new language, these are the words I learn right away:
but, because, therefore

Why these? Because they are the basic building blocks for expressing things. Of course you need all the other words as well, but these three words connect everything.

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I'm so grateful and excited for the chance to give a presentation at the upcoming Polyglot Conference in Taipei! 😃

Having a bad study session > not studying at all

Learn languages every day

#langsky #study

The logic of traditional language education:

Can you understand a film? No
Can you read a book? No
Can you have a conversation with someone? No
So what are you gonna do? I’m gonna review the rules for using the conjunctive.

Thanks. I also found it invaluable once I had understood how it works and how to use it.

Have you ever learned IPA to help improve your pronunciation?
Do you find it helpful?

#languagelearning #langsky

Daily recap 🗓️
- watched 2 episodes of HxH in Chinese

LinguaMerse
- wrote 1 chapter of Russian course
- created 10 Russian articles

If you had to learn German again from zero, what would you skip entirely?

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If you could go back 10 years and give yourself some language learning advice, what would you say?

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What language are you currently learning?

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What is your reason for not learning any Indian languages?

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YouTube video by Alex Senoner German is EASIER than you think

I truly believe that learning German is easier than many people think.
Yes, mastering the grammar is difficult, but you can get by without that. German shares a lot of vocabulary with English and much more.
Check out my video to find out what! youtu.be/os7zCl9bQsc 🙂