-I am great thank you. -Today I'd like to ask you some questions

yeah I'm sure that they are interesting not only for me but for a lot of people who

are learning foreign languages

and I know that you can speak ten languages

-right? -Yes it's correct..more or less

-Do you have some special ability for this or you do something particular

what's your secret ? -Well

I would like to to say that ever when people tell me that they have a huge

talent for

learning so many languages I i think it's not necessarily true I think that

the main difference is that I know

how to our learn languages I have learned

how to pick up languages effectively

and that makes a huge difference because a lot of people make the

mistake

they think they can learn a language

they start learning a languagein the wrong way and then they give up I I don't give up because I've just found a

method that works not only

for me but I found out that it worked well

for a lot of people and so I

think basically I figured out how to learn a language

in a certain way in a effective way, to answer your question

there is a secret the secret is to understand how to

learn languages, once you know how to do that you can learn any language in the

world

And I know that you know all the languages

on your own and do you use a traditional method

or have you developed one on your own? -it depends on.. you know

what you mean by traditional method but my method surely is not traditional in

the sense I do things my own way and I have

this method that I call the "Luca's method"

I didn't invent it but I just found it to be the optimal solution

for my language learning process so

the answer is yes I have my own method to learn languages

and the good thing is that you know where you just apply a method

you're the only person who apply it and it works you might think that

it just applies to me just works for me but it's our found out that

it works for quite a few languages,so I think that

its its it's a good method and

I think that their most popular question is now how to learn languages

new words

what's your formula for it

you know learning new words

is extremely important when you try to learn a language

because it's basically

every language is words and sounds

and these are the two main problems for every language learner

I think that the problem in general is that people tend to think that they

learn words by heart it's the

solution so they come up with lists of words or sentences

which they embed these words

I learn words indirectly it means that I figured out that our brain works

in a certain way and I learn words

indirectly meaning that I use

a certain kind of techinque which is a bidirectional

technique, translation technique

I use my own native language to learn other

to learn words in another language

I think that your own native language is extremely important

and you should know how to use this translation technique especially at the

beginning

you not only figure out the structure

the network of the language but then words are going to fall into it

automatically so you start learning words automatically you build your net

it is going to be easier and easier to learn words

one main..a very important thing

is not learning words by heart this is what

I never did and I would never do and I think

everybody should avoid learning words by heart beacuse languages

just an amount of words its about

building your network made of emotions

and words..you know, words come with emotions

What are the first steps you take when you start learning a

language

As I said

the most important phase in my experience that beginning because you

find yourself

in front of a huge mountain and you have to know how to climb it

so the first thing is I tell myself are you can start

quite slowly because the path is very long

and I use this a by directional technique so I translate..I take

you know I use my own native tongue to figure out the structure of the

of the foreign language that I am learning

it is called the bidirectional technique now I cannot delve into the details of how

this works but I can assure you that it works quite well

if you know how to do it because it's also important to know

how to do things so first overall

I use a language series

it is very important to stress the fact that

what material you choose does matter but what really makes a difference is HOW you use languge learnig material

how to use language learning it here so

I use it in a certain way in order to absorb right the information

in that book and I apply, carry out this

bilingual translation and then I move on to other things

and what are the 3 most important things in a language?

As I said beofre attitude is very important, meaning that

the way your approach anything in life it is not just about

language learning a positive attitude is extremely

important for example once you have learned the basics of a language

once you can say certain thingsyou can

just try and use them without a problem

f you meet, if you stumble upon a native speaker

you might try to you speak to them in their language even if you know a

little bit

of the language itself and you can try to apply it in real life

people tend to use books a lot

but I think that human interaction is still key

in language learning, it is what really makes a difference so attitude is very important

attitude towards learning in general

and an attitude towards people because people are the "vectors" of a language

your chart

a language is alive

because of people, because of the people who speak it. And then obviously time

a lot of people complain about the fact that that they don't have time to learn a

language you don't have the time you have a family

you have other things that you have to attend to

but in general I think that everybody finds always find the time to do something

something they like

every day and I think that if you spend..imagine native speakers

when they are 18they have spent so much time learning their own native language

their own language and in order to learn a language well

you need a a huge amount of time but the advantage is..time is not our enemy

it is our friend

if you know how to manage time for example learning a little bit every day

30 minutes you don't you think about 30 minutes is nothing

then you will make a lot of progress

in..it is a matter of months

not years, and that's an amazing thing

and then as I said the third factor is

is possibilities in life

meaning that when you start learning a language and you speak it

at a certain level even if you have a very basic or intermediate

level what you have to do is look for possible ways in life

look for friends, look for people whom you can talk to

look for a movie or a TV series that you really like on which you can spend time

expose your yourself to the language and you will learn automatically, as an

automatic process

so it is not just about the amount of books that you use

its also the possibilites that you have in life, traveling living in a country

having a girlfriend or a boyfriend who speaks that language

watching something you really like, listening to some music

that makes a HUGE difference in the long run

thank you so much Luca it was really interesting

thank you Dina, thank you!

see you! See you next time

See you in Moscow again!

Thank you, bye bye