As someone with some experience learning different languages, and who is quite familiar with their own language learning process, I tend to find that I find things quite a bit easier compared to classmates who are trying to learn a foreign language for the first time. One of the things that makes it easier, I realised, is the understanding that the words used to express a concept in one language may not be the direct equivalents (in terms of their literal meaning) to the words used to express the same concept in another language. Hence, I wanted to make a video explaining this for people, so language learning can be easier for all of us! There's just another example of this that I thought of after recording this video that may be helpful:
EXAMPLE
In English, we say "to take a class". In Chinese, the word for "to take" is "拿" (ná) and the word for "class" is "课" (kè), but if you said "拿课" (ná kè) it wouldn't make much sense at all. To express this concept, a Chinese person would say "上课" (shàng kè), which literally translates to "on top of class". But of course, the literal meaning "on top of class" doesn't make a whole lot of sense in English.
Remember, aim to express something using the words a NATIVE would use to express it in your target language, not the words that are a direct translation of how it is said in your native language.
The Spanish Dude's video on this topic:
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