I would say you know just the same way that you learned the first time except you're just gonna go way faster
So, you know like because I've I've learned languages and then I get rusty and then you got to go back
Learning it the second time is way faster
So, you know you same thing Duolingo Rosetta Stone Pimsleur and this time you'll just crank through it like super fast
It'll come back
So, I mean my advice
Honestly, I don't you can't really like sheet
I mean I when you put effort into a language you're going to get you're going to reap what you sell to some degree
But I do find that you kind of can do yourself a disservice if you don't
Maintain a certain level of momentum if you kind of like pick it up and put it down pick it up kind of sometimes
You're treading water. I've noticed that if you really are serious, you just want to get like
Dedicates time and just do it every day and even if it's just finally you find yourself struggling to do your hour
Okay, just do five minutes
But to do something like every day and then just motivate yourself to talk some language every time you get an opportunity
Store or whatever and just force yourself even if you have the exact same conversation
Because sometimes you'll you'll have gains in your in a language that you didn't realize you had
Use what you know if you know three sentences
Use those three sentences all the time and
And and the thing is the best way to learn a language is by actually talking to people in that language
Like that's the bet, you know
But but you have to go do the study on your own too and like he said like oh five minutes a day
Here's think five minutes a day to keep you rolling is good to at least do something
But you will never learn a foreign language in five minutes a day. I don't care what the advertisement says. Oh five minutes a day
It's total baloney to learn a foreign language takes literally a couple thousand hours
So do the math. Okay, that means if you spend an hour every day
It's gonna take you like three years to learn a foreign language an hour every single day
Okay, that's 1000 hours and that's that's to get you to first base. That's first base
so if you're not willing to put in that kind of effort then
You know, you're not gonna get you're not gonna get the destination now he I mean you learn Spanish pretty fast
Yeah
But how much but you I'm sure you did hour-long sessions and two hour-long sessions. No, maybe I'm just slow
You know
Me learning Spanish was like me being like a toddler as much as I possibly could
I mean that when I first started going to preach the gospel
I couldn't even do it
But I just did as best I could yeah harder to help me along the way and in that like pressured situation you kind of
Are forced to learn but if you already went to school, I mean I took three years of Spanish in high school
I would every once in a while study things. He knew the grammar and stuff first
Oh, yeah, but if you just spend, you know, 30 minutes to an hour a day over six months
You're gonna make a decent amount of progress now for me
You know stage one of language learning for me was giving the gospel and whenever I would that before I could give the gospel
I couldn't really have like
Very many meaningful
Conversations with someone in Spanish. Yeah, I was still able to get them saved
I'm still able to understand them well enough to know if they get what the gospel is teaching
and so you just start there and then over time you start realizing I'm pronouncing that word wrong and do you add the word to your
vocabulary and communications you can have because
To me like if I wasn't going to study a language
I'm not necessarily super interested in all the vocabulary that's associated with computers and business and sports or whatever
I want my vocabulary focused on the Bible and the gospel and getting people saved because
You you can have cover you can have a conversation in a foreign language and only one subject
But I agree with you
But let me just say though that you know look up the most
500 the 500 most common words in that language you need all those words
Even if they're not about the Bible because they're gonna come up but like he you know
You don't need the specialized vocabulary of politics sports computers
But I I do think there's a danger sometimes where people just think oh
I'm just gonna learn the plan of salvation you do have to and see
You had that well-rounded background from school because you took Spanish 1 2 & 3 you do have to learn basic
Conversational Spanish so that you're not just memorizing a gospel plan and rattling it off, and you should know at least
No matter what the most 500 popular words or thousand popular words even if they have nothing to do with the Bible you better know
the first
500 or thousand words of the language just to at least have the basics
You know to get going
When I completed the entire tree it says I know about 3,000 words
Yeah, I made a vocabulary list of about
2,000 the most common words in Spanish and would just literally I would just read like 50 of them
And then I would hide it one column of Excel, and then I would try to write
The Spanish word next to the English word yeah
And then I would test myself every single day
And I would just see and I could get about you know 50 words done in the day if I spend 20 30 minutes looking
At them or whatever well. That's incredible
Always like that's my
Over time
Yeah a lot of them are yeah
I think like a
800,000 words or could even be more that are like almost the exact same. Oh, yeah all day long
So there's a lot of things you can gain
Japanese is a little harder
That's
Gonna take a lot more effort
You're not gonna have anybody to practice with most likely and so it's Spanish is the lowest hanging fruit for sure yeah
Yeah, and and and I'll just to give you an idea when I did that going back to the Greek documentary, okay?
I had already studied Greek a lot for years, but leading up to that trip
I spent five hours a day
Religiously
Studying Greek five hours a day for five months
So it's 750 hours, and I still was stammering and stuttering because it just it just takes that long
It's just a lot of effort. You know so you got to put in the time. He's he's
actually
Probably more talented at learning foreign languages than me because you know he learned Spanish pretty fast
And so you know it's just a lot of work though in any way slice it you know