Giovanni Smith

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Here you will find videos about language learning. Having studied Spanish since 2017 and Mandarin since 2018, I use my knowledge and experiences to provide a...

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When to begin comprehensible Mandarin input - Q&A 2

5 year YouTube anniversary - Ask Me Anything!

6 year Anki streak - the do's and don'ts

Oh so you're a native speaker Then define this word.

Imagine Khan Academy... but it's in Mandarin

Spanish current level and daily routine (2025)

Why you never have the time for language learning

Mandarin current level and daily routine (2025)

Don't reinvent the wheel when outputting

5 year Anki streak

Comprehensible input is just training data for humans

I've been stagnating for too long... and so has this channel

Why I've decided to return to Anki for language learning

My strategy for outputting in Spanish and Mandarin

How have I never thought of this before

Stop looking up so many new words!

How I'm mastering domains in Spanish

After 4 years, I'm done using Anki for language learning

I completed a 5-week Korean course in 11 days

It's time to learn a new language - Korean

State of the Channel (2023)

Why I suspended all my Mandarin vocabulary cards... again

1400 day Anki streak - when will I stop

Chinese daily routine and current level (2023)

Spanish daily routine and current level (2023)

I lacked motivation learning languages... until now

How I created my sentence mining scripts

The illusion of passive listening

How to go from C1 to C2 and beyond

I wrote a sentence mining script that works on any website