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How to REALLY learn a language in 2024 (a linguist explains)
In this video I explain how to really learn a language in 2024.
Links to books mentioned:
Yufa! (mandarin grammar): https://amzn.to/3UKxB48
Grammar of Persian: https://amzn.to/4bK6Umg
Thackston’s Persian: https://amzn.to/42Jfs8G
Routledge Colloquial Persian: https://amzn.to/3uDB4qq
Farsi Shirin Ast: https://amzn.to/42J2cRA
Edited with Gling AI: https://bit.ly/46bGeYv
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by now you’ve had a month to try your New Year’s resolution of learning a language you’ve watched all the YouTube videos you’ve probably purchased an app or a course and you’ve had four weeks or five how’s it going now that the honeymoon’s worn off are you ready to learn how to really do it so here’s the deal maybe it’s your New Year’s resolution maybe it’s something you’ve always wanted to do maybe it’s something you’ve started on a whim and you’re getting serious about it whatever your reasons learning a language is a wonderful experience with tremendous benefits not just opening new cultures Cuisines ways of thinking and experiences but also providing benefits in terms of mental health and well-being and combating mental aging and decline but there’s an overwhelming and bewildering flood of choices for a new learner and it’s only gotten more overwhelming especially with the addition of AI powered apps what’s best textbooks teachers apps AI when should you study how often my goal in this video is to use my experience as an academic linguist and a recreational lingu file and language learner to demystify language learning if you’re just starting out this video is for you but it’s also for those of you who maybe have some study or even a few languages under your belt you can always refine your skills and get more efficient and effective this video might not make you fluent in three months but it will give you a better understanding of how to get to your goals in a realistic amount of time without spending your wheels and going in circles and making no progress I’m Dr Taylor Jones I’ve got a PhD in linguistics and I speak a handful of languages this is language Jones real quick this video is about how to think strategically about language learning and how to execute a straty to achieve your goals it’s not going to tell you which app on the market is best or why the answer is never an AI tutor whose ads feature grammatical errors in English in this video I’m going to discuss setting and managing achievable goals the subdomains of language learning learning science memory analyzing language and developing a program that meets your goals in a finite amount of time before you set new goals anyone should be able to communicate effectively in a target language especially the most common ones you are statistically likely to be interested in in about a year you should be able to shock natives with your amazing skills in a few months and a few years of study should put you at the level of an educated confident speaker but almost everyone you talk to will aim for fluency and everyone will Define fluency differently stick around to the end and I’ll discuss language learning for neurod Divergent folks too before I forget please take a moment to like And subscribe if you haven’t already a lot of us Dive Right In without any clear goals in mind and that’s fine but it’s worth recognizing that what we’re doing is aiming at nothing if you aim at nothing you’re certain to hit it dabbling just to get a feel for a language and see if you like it want to study it more seriously is totally fine it’s like skimming a book but let’s say you’ve decided you want to learn I don’t know Vietnamese an important question to ask yourself before you start is why is it just to enjoy music movies and other media to read books at home to go visit in country and successfully navigate booking a hotel or ordering a meal or planning tourist outings and so on to study in a university to teach in a university for those of you learning a language right now can you say what your goals are go ahead and leave me a comment and tell me what they are then at the end of this video maybe reflect on whether what you’re currently doing is aligned with them knowing what your goals are will allow you to tailor your study to how you intend to use the target language and get the most bang for your buck right up front you can re-evaluate and adjust later but if your goal is to listen to pop music and you choose a course that’s focused on teaching you how to make small talk in order in a restaurant you’re setting yourself up for a struggle once you know your goals just set a three or six-month goal and then revisit you can then determine what linguistic subdomains you need to focus on I’m planning a trip to a place where I can speak Persian I’ve dabbled in Persian off and on out of general interest but now I want to speak it notice I didn’t say I want to read it I didn’t say I want to write calligraphy or read poetry maybe I will later but right now I want to be able to speak politely to strangers order food and make small talk this means I need to focus on listening comprehension of spoken Persian how it’s actually spoken not formally I’ll link a video at the end about the difference and I need to focus on being able to actually generate my own sentences for Persian there’s an added layer since communicating directly is not communicating effectively and I will need to learn T politeness formulations that are largely routine often metaphorical and always dramatic I hope your hand doesn’t hurt may your head if I spend my time analyzing the grammar of formal written Persian and focusing on reading the Persian script like with this book I will not reach my goal in the couple of months I’ve given myself even if I study Persian every day this is a great textbook it’s just not the right approach for me I’ll discuss selecting a course in just a few moments whatever you decide once you decide you still have to actually learn and there’s so much misinformation out there about learning my favorite genre is someone who’s neurod Divergent lecturing viewers about how their approach is the best when it works for them and only them bonus points if they describe it as dominating or crushing their target language sure dedicating 8 hours a day to a Fugue state of likely autistic hyperfocus will absolutely provide you with results just like someone else is clearly providing you with room and board but don’t recommend that to others like it’s a realistic approach and you just cracked the code on language learning a combination of neurod Divergent Sant hood and a life of leisure is not exactly an actionable recommend a for most people engaging though it is to watch so how do we actually learn it’s not by rereading and highlighting a textbook or mindlessly going over flashcards or doing a single two-minute lesson on Bird app once every 3 days if we remember to do so the learning part has two components language learning specific and general domain learning and I’ll address memorization as well there are arguments about how we actually learn languages since the 1970s or so the older grammar translation method has been on the outs but it’s still inarguably quite effective for some you’ll hear Arguments for shadowing which is just repeating out loud after native speaker as much as possible you’ll hear Arguments for just getting a high volume of comprehensible input where you can get the gist of what’s going on and there’s only one new thing you’ll hear Arguments for sitting down and dominating French for eight hours a day with targeted speaking practice followed by detailed self-criticism for every day for two months the truth is that the jury still out and different approaches work for different people what we do know is that there are certain things that definitely work it’s clear for instance that a large volume of of things you’re interested in in your target language help with passive memorization and confidence in the language it’s clear that hearing a lot of your target language helps with pronunciation even in the absence of targeted pronunciation practice but also if you want to produce the language Say by speaking then it’s also clear that the kind of learning that is active work rather than passive mindless activity really works this means not just looking at your word list over and over again I’m talking to me in college studying Mandarin but instead walking away back to a blank sheet of paper and writing down all the words then comparing seeing what you forgot or got wrong correcting and doing it again this means taking sentences you hear or learn and either adding to them or swapping out words in the same sentence frame this means attempting to generate sentences especially if your goal is involve speaking that use what you’ve learned or that identify gaps in your knowledge and then filling in those gaps and attempting to use the new words or structures as much as possible so for instance I try to describe the world around me or my thoughts or a story or whatever and my target language when I’m away from my study materials on a walk or on the subway that is attempting to actively generate your target language identifying your gaps and weaknesses and then filling those with targeted practice that enables successful memorization some people benefit from pneumonics I hate them and I hate that I benefit from them because they really do work they’re like deadlifting one thing that’s known to work is skipping the prefrontal cortex and activating your amydala and hippocampus you do this by tapping into Sensations like smell fear and more generally arousal sexual or otherwise sex violence fear and physicality help lock in new words and Concepts I’ve sometimes joked about naughty neonics on my live streams I remember words like nazq nearby tanho alone and shalvar trousers with obviously pureal associations is it dumb yes is it potentially offensive absolutely does it work 100% for those wondering the trousers thing is a strained pun relating to a character and Foundation whose No Nonsense attitude General capability and inventiveness ability to defend herself and Grace Joneses features make her a Sci-Fi Crush I’m talking Sor Harden and you can figure out the association on your own time paradoxically a lot of evidence also points toward language learning happening best when we’re not stressed self-critical or cognitively taxed this is the principle behind Michel Tomas whole shtick which is deeply ironic since he learned four languages while literally surviving the Holocaust breaking out of concentration camps and fighting in the French Resistance and later hunting Nazis so clearly not being stressed as a bonus but not a total deal breaker leave me a comment if you want me to talk a little bit more about Michel doma’s insane life story and how it affects his language learning method by the way lastly and I’ll recap in just a moment memory is a process of forgetting and being reminded so don’t beat yourself up for forgetting a word just savor it and make some connections whether sense emotional pneumonic or otherwise it’s better to review vocabulary after a day or two than to come back to it a bunch in the same sitting so I’ll learn vocab in one short sitting test myself on it later sometimes just mentally walking around like I said before revisit later in the day then go back and review it trying to generate everything I’ve learned first the next day I might hit the same vocab in 3 days after that 5 days after that you can Outsource this with spaced repetition software but the learning still needs to be active you make a flash card with a missing piece and you generate the missing piece on your own before you look at the back of the card you hear me before you look at the back of the card that’s also for college me some resources do this for you dualingo does if you’re doing at least a skill a day 5 to 10 a day is better but that could take up to to an hour one lesson within a skill per day you’re not seeing enough material or reviewing frequently enough to retain anything up to this point I haven’t said which program is best by the way that’s because you’ll need to figure out what meets your goals and your personal preferences for some doing an hour of dualingo a day is a breeze and the organization of the course and spacing of the material is taken care of for you for some that’s excruciating torture and they’d rather eat glass and for some dualingo doesn’t even have the language you’re interested in I’ve recommended dualingo tentatively Rosetta Stone I talkie and lingo pie in the past but the key is to find find something that you enjoy and can do a little of ideally 20 minutes minimum every day if that’s Asim Miller pimsler more power to you most of the Chinese I know in reverse order is from a specialist degree in East St in studies at the University of Toronto from doing Rosetta Stone while working at one of their kiosks and the overwhelming majority is from Reading grammars like EFA Link in the description and hanging out at pretty angel nail salon and spa shout out to n with that thick fanf accent one word at a time on YouTube recently crunched the numbers and demonstrated that you can get shocking far in 3 months of just watching a single easy German video a day on YouTube for 100 days if you’re learning German that is the keys to pick a course that meets your goals so for my Persian goals that’s the rootage colloquial Persian and an an deck of my own making with their audio and not the root fary shittin ass course and definitely not thaxton’s Grammar of Persian and probably not Rosetta Stone but I could make an argument for it especially if their format appeals to you and you want to speak more formally for Italian I’d probably just speedrun dual lingo and watch TV on lingo Pai for anything I want to speak I definitely use it talkie or some similar platform unless I had friends I could practice the language with in real life and who didn’t mind that but really take a moment to evaluate your options and consider whatever you learn while doing so part of getting a taste of the language the final thing to keep in mind is that languages are simultaneously huge and finite I recreationally read grammars of languages and they’re all a few hundred pages and cover everything you could possibly want to know about the grammar of a language literally any possible sentence structure you could ever imagine or ever be confronted with and it all F in one book get yourself the right vocabulary for your goals and a consistent study method that works for you and your golden lastly I promis I’d mention a few things for the neurod Divergent among us this is obviously not going to be a one-size fits all solution if you have a diagnosis or even a self- diagnosis play to your strengths don’t set yourself up for failure if you have ADHD don’t make impossible plans and imagine hyperfocus will get you there the process of actually memorizing things is tedious in a way that can be physically painful for ADHD folks so you have to build in a dopamine hit while you’re doing it and a consistent habit maybe it’s 4 p.m. study with coffee and a cookie and you ensure you get at least one new word in even if you’re just reviewing that day have a loved one drive the bus in terms of sitting you down to actually study just get that dopamine if you’re more on the autism side of things recognize that your hyperfocus will allow you to blast through memorizing a tremendous amount of language or in the case of academic linguists a lot of declarative knowledge about language but you’re going to need to put in more effort to really understand the unspoken social cues when someone says your Chinese is good paradoxically that means your Chinese is not good if it were they wouldn’t be commenting on it at all when a farsy speaker responds to a generic compliment with offering you their belongings it is not a real offer there’s a social script they’re following and expect you to follow too we sometimes forget that there’s more to language Than Just Words so to recap if you want to make fast progress here’s what I would do I’d set a realistic goal that won’t burn me out for a realistic time frame with breaks built in for instance I want to be able to know the basics in chaten Persian in two months as I mentioned this is doable for me because I’ve already studied some I already know how to read but I’m also working in transliteration to make it easier for myself I’m working through a 17 chapter textbook at the rate of two chapters per week I’m doing this by setting aside at least 20 minutes a day for study and review I’m interleaving old and new material I’m actively trying to generate language whether by answering exercises or attempting to come up with my own with the exception of my live streams I’m not studying for more than 20 minutes at a time but if I can squeeze in a few 20- minute chunks at different times in the day I will I’ll be adding ey talkie lessons once I have a foundation and I’ll explicitly tell my tutor my goals what resources I’m using and what is giving me difficulty I’ve also given myself a challenge speak in toneles and I have accountability a weekly live stream in a community that knows my goal and is supporting me to meet it if I feel like trying out a different approach listening to Chai and conversation for instance listening to Persian music playing farsy language podcasts in the background these are in addition to my main course of study and I do not count them as anything other than icing on the cake so to speak I’m going to see this textbook through completely before moving on but that’s because I’ve determined it’s a great resource for me and my needs and my personality in this moment and if I totally fail at communicating in two months I’ve still learned a ton of the language and that challenge will let me know where to refocus my energy if I want to continue if you have the time and the energy you can set outrageous goals Lord knows I know that I’ve been doing it on my channel but whatever you do don’t make your goal I want to be fluent in French and go to France someday make it I want to reach B2 and go to Paris next summer so I can visit the Eiffel Tower and get a croissant at the specific buong I saw on Instagram thank 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At the end, did you say “reach B2” is an example of a goal? What does this mean? Lingvist and Learncraft Spanish seem like great resources for Spanish learning, btw
So what you are telling me is that I need to start watching porn in my target language… hmmm…
I'm of the opinion, as an applied linguist that has been teaching ESL/EFL for 27 years, that the first main ingredient in the mix that taps into our language acquisition as a child is either urgency to stay alive or interest that pushes forward. It can ba instrumental interest or integral learning for the sake of learning.
Survival instinct turns a completey illiterate guy that knows nothing about Japanese into someone completely fluent in Japanese in speaking and listening. I've seen many workers going to Japan for work without knowing even one word and they got back home fluent in Japanese. of course, they can't write or read since Kanji is a so hard for foreigners, being a logogram-based language. LAD works best when under pressure of survival instinct which is not to say it doesn't work with other motivations, but it piques when your life is at risk.
My origin idiom is spanish, I want to learn this language beacause I will look for job in speak english country
you a jew?
thank you so much for the neurodivergent tips 🙏 lord knows i forget them too often
دستتون درد نکنه 😅
I am learning Welsh; I started it on a whim because I liked how the SaySomethingInWelsh introductory video went about teaching me one sentence. So, my immediate goal was to get more time and material for a process of learning that I liked (I love learning new things, especially in good company.) I'm a complete introvert, so the SSIW format works very, very well for me: I don't have to deal with real people face to face, but being human I like the human voice, and I especially like the infinite patience of recorded audio that I can pause and rewind as many times as I like; or skip; or whatever.
Four years in, here's my goals that keep me going:
— learning new words at a satisfying rate; ditto phrase forms
— retrieving semi learned words soon enough
— enjoying the relief from rumination (I'm a terrible ruminator, and recent events…. gaaah)
— participating in a community that doesn't ask more than I have to give
— walking, hiking and driving companionship tolerable to this confirmed introvert
Other goals are: finding cool idiomatic phrases and learning them; getting to use and explore the fine online Welsh dictionaries; getting the pronunciations down better and better as I relisten to older recordings of me saying things in Welsh.
I'm very interested to hear that I could actually be a lot more fluent already than I am, according to what you're saying at about 2:50 in the video; but my inner reaction is kind of like, "oh NO if I were fluent I might actually be looking for people to talk to, that's scary. Really scary." So I'll probably incorporate some of your recommendations, but more for the sake of learning more of the language than for the sake of being able to talk with people. That's a bit peculiar of me, but then, I often find myself off at the thin end of normal curves anyways, it's a familiar place for me.
The community that I've gotten hooked into is the group of volunteers running Cymdeithas Madog, the Welsh Studies Institute of North America. In 2023, I went to their residential week, held on a university campus. I'm a serious introvert, so I half expected to be done with the too much people by about mid-week, and had cleared with my "how much money am I spending on this" frugal inner critic that I was allowed to just go home midweek if I hated it. Instead, I stayed for the full week, as it was a group of wordnerds a lot like me, and even volunteered to fill the Secretary position on their Board, as I have had experience doing that for another group that suits my introvert nature (which does need a bit of intermittent human connection…).
I'm bopping along with the SSIW level 4, which I have turned into an auto-didact's adventure, in which I'm generating my own extra audio supplementing the "sgwrsia naturiel yn Cymraeg" that is my favorite part of Level 4, which works for me because of the list of goals put down above. Part of my project of supplemental audio means I'm recording myself saying Welsh, which really gives me a sense of how close I'm coming to the native speakers saying things on the audio from SSIW. I'm getting a very colloquial view of Welsh, which is lots of fun.
I really enjoy watching the slow development of my comfort at making up my own inner conversations in Welsh. That enjoyment is the most important goal.
My goal is to learn Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, then German! I am starting with Norwegian because its sounds pretty and because I have a few friends who speak it and would love to be able to surprise them by speaking their language. My end goal, is to learn as many languages as possible so that I can communicate with people around the world without having to use a translator. I want to leave a mark on people and be a nice memory for them!
What book do you recommend for reviewing the sentence gammar of Spanish? I currently typically use a tri-fold quick study laminated guide by bar charts for Spanish grammar, as well as various on-line dictionaries for verb conjugation. This is useful as a quick reference, but it isn't really conducive for seeing the whole. I could see how a book with multiple example sentences coupled with a sentence diagram and a bit of instructive commentary could be very useful. My problem is I am not using my Spanish often enough to keep all the grammar rules in my head.
It would also be useful to know what reference book is the Spanish equivalent of the Chicago Manual of Style.
For context, my focus with Spanish is to be sufficiently fluent to be able to deliver corporate training, as well as management consulting services in Spanish. My Spanish is currently just barely good enough to sanity check machine translated written materials, and sufficient to read written Spanish with only occasional use of machine translation. My speaking skills are intermediate level aided by having spent 40 hours a week for three months using BaseLang, yet has faded some from lack of daily use. (My LeSS course in Spanish can be found here: https://agilecarpentry.com/clp/sp_global/)
As a child, I often only fully learned how to properly pronounce English words as I learned to read. Sentence diagramming always came naturally to me in school. In studying Spanish with BaseLang I was reminded how important reading is for me as an individual learner. Speaking and listening practice remains critical, and I'm sure more active writing with the guidance of a teacher would be helpful.
I am not currently prioritizing moving my Spanish forward as much as I could, but that could quickly change with the right client engagement.
00:20 Watching this video ahead of New Years makes me either 11 months late or 1 month early. tips forehead
Thanks a lot, FREE palestine
Back when I was really into independent study, I would write things in pen (like vocab, sentences, matching — all things that would be on a school quiz) and I would “test” myself with pencil. That way I could check my answers over time and see which parts I needed more focus on. Then erase the answers and come back a week later and see! It was pretty effective
Since you said to make this comment, might as well
I want to learn Japanese in order to consume Manga, Anime and the like. It is my high priority language I am trying to learn, and I am currently going towards that goal by using Chat GPT to break down each individual sentence in a game I am playing.
I have a desire to learn many languages, like Spanish, Chinese, Korean, anything that I feel I encounter at all, and develop habits and skills to get general ideas about new languages.
My current method is a bit long and a tad draining, but I feel that using what I am interested in (Paper Mario, the Thousand year door) to keep myself dedicated to my goal even as I come across new words, phrases and dialects.
My hope is to use the sentences the game provides as a replacement for flash cards, picking up on the patterns that I see because they are being commonly used, rather than learning words, phrases and ideas in isolation.
Anyone who wants to join language learning groups where everyone can find different different partners for each other ( i haven't made it right now, coz this idea just pop in my head right now so if u anyone is interested just comment here and i can give insta I'd and u just have to type me )😁
I want to learn Spanish. I am using dualingo, and Pimsleur. I am getting vocab and some grammar from dualingo, and I am speaking and listening with Pimsleur. Pimsleur is a drag, honestly, but I think it is necessary. I can spend hours on dualingo without much effort. I also plan on singing up for a college class starting this summer. I also plan on watching and listening to hours of cartoons once I feel I have a good enough base to benefit from them. What is your opinion of my approach?
My frustration is I have an idea of what would work best for me, but no one offers that approach. I want to learn like I did in elementary. Learn the alphabet, the sounds, how to put those sounds together, and then how to form sentences. I want to learn like I'm a kid. But I swear to god, I can only find stuff that just teaches casual sentences. Just saying a sentence and knowing what it means isn't enough, I need to know why it goes there and why it's structured that way.
Currently have a 2 year relationship with a danish girl and I would love to suprise her and to talk to her family and when we have kids to be able to have our kids to be bilingual
Trying to get a latina girlfriend …need spanish
Is that a Linux or Unix book on the shelf? Let me know (in a Nutshell)…
I wish I could tell you how I really felt about this video doctor Taylor Jones. I want to be very respectful. There's probably a more helpful way to help people like me that watch your video without feeling certain ways. If you allowed it I'd share with you in private. I do appreciate that you want people to learn languages and open up all the wonderful things that comes with it.
i wanted to learn Russian for like 2 years now , never started cause im afraid of failure. my goals or the reason why i want to learn is to listen to Russian movies , to talk to Russians and understand my fav video game series which is the Metro games. also to better understand russian and soviet history
Great video 🎉
subbed as soon as you popped off on all the bs language people on youtube that are either lying or extremely gifted lol
I don't have a diagnosis yet of autism and ADHD, but I can affirm I have traits of both conditions. The reality is that people while you are a beginner hype a lot, then, when things go better (and you have more knowledge of your weaknesses) you start to feel shitty bc you don't have the same privilege than before to make mistakes. If you have other neurodivergent friends they will probably tell you sincerely what you should improve
this video helped a lot, thank you greatly! I tried learning German when I was 12. last year, I took two semesters, and I've been continuing on my own. I would love to move there once I graduate – the food, work culture, nature, and sociopolitical environment are something I want to be a part of. I want to live an average, calm, stable life, and that's not very possible here in the USA for young people.
I've found that German, unlike many stereotypes, is a beautiful language when spoken, and I appreciate how literal it is (words are pronounced exactly as they look). it's a very concise and efficient language ("do you want to listen with me?" can simply be said as "willst mithören?") I'm around a B2 level right now but hope to become fluent within the next few years so that moving will be a little smoother!
Definitely want more on Michel Thomas!
Also, after hearing about Mr. Thomas, I suddenly have no excuse not to learn French, German, Dutch, and Portuguese while trying to move to Europe with 2 sick kids.
I love my Duolingo. Would love to know what a better app is for practicing speaking and listening. Will eventually afford iTalki or preply, but want to have enough under my belt AND know which language I need to learn before I commit that kind of money. (Moving to Europe, not sure which country yet.)
My ADD hack is a spreadsheet that tracks the units, levels, lessons, and words Duolingo says I learned. It’s all false milestones, but it helps with the dopamine hit.
Thank you for listing number 11 and giving some slack to the neurodivergent, both of which apply to me. I put learning Spanish on the back burner now since I need to focus on university studies. I knew for over a year that I would ditch Duolingo, but I wasn't ready for the intense "step up" that Lingoda invites. Keep up the great work!
I’m a second gen Bosnian immigrant in Australia and English is the only language I know fluently, my Bosnian skills are disappointing to say the least and a lot of my extended family don’t speak a lick of English. My goals are 100% to be fluent eventually, but to at least start being able to hold a decent conversation in Bosnian to connect better with my family and roots in general, and I’m literally just writing this as a reminder to myself lol.
3:30 kaliforniya flag is the most hilarious and genius thing I've seen in a while 😂
so when i try to learn spanish the actual raw info is somewhere between 20-10 minutes but i spend a lot of extra time up to 2 hours writing and reviewing what i learned and what ive done previously should i do more raw language input and review less or write less?
I am persian and i've moved abroad in Italy to study. i have a private teacher who lived in Italy for many years and he knows Italian. it's been a year that I am having classes with him but for the past 3 months I feel like there is no progress. it might be also my fault but I think his method is not working anymore. i am scared of speaking Italian, I understand most of the words, but still can go further than doing daily routine things with Italian, not actually having a conversation, I really don't know that should I push myself more, or should I change my teacher…
I just learning words for the beginning. 1000 portugese words in 3 weeks. Im aiming for about 3000 before starting to work more with grammar.
I really hate the English language. Especially being my first language. It's very difficult to learn and comprehend Latin languages. That Germanic influence isn't no help either.
Hmm. My comment was deleted.. this is why I don’t really like YouTube anymore, to much censorship.