FIRST WEEK LEARNING A LANGUAGE? OF COURSE YOU CAN MAKE A VIDEO ENTIRELY IN THAT LANGUAGE!
Most videos I like to make are when I’m already comfortable in the language, which is pretty obvious when I’m talking live and unrehearsed with another person in Spanish and French (fluently), or Hungarian and Dutch (basic conversationally) etc. The majority of my videos are recorded because I am comfortable enough in the language to use it spontaneously without preparation specifically for the video.
However, on occasion I’ve made a video just after starting to learn to speak. I did this my first weekend really trying to speak in Thai, my first day learning ASL, and most recently, this week in Turkish. Each time I was honest about the preparation that went into making the video (saying that it wasn’t spontaneous, nor could it be considering how I had just started speaking in each case!)
But the results of making these videos have been incredible! Each time it has skyrocketed me to start to make dramatic progress thereafter (except with Thai since I waited until my last weekend in the project to make that video; a far-too-late mistake I’m trying to prevent any of you from making :) Since then I try to make my videos much sooner) and the script of the videos have been burned into me forever so I can produce them at a moment’s notice, which can be very useful when key vocabulary or phrases are included.
As well as this, I get incredible encouragement from people! It’s so important to get this emotional boost to set you in the right direction. People who watch the video will congratulate you (as long as you are clear about what you did in the video, and are not bragging), and offer helpful hints so your next one will be better.
So please do try to make a video. It will cost you nothing but a little time. These are the completely free steps I recommend taking to do it: