Toady I have watched some YouTube videos about language learning. I tried to avoid the 'You need to ... and You will rock' and '5 step to success' nonsense stuff. In the end I am too tired to do more today. Watching YouTube can be really hard if You go behind the funny stories and cats... Who thought that?
So today conclusions: there is a ton of language learning video on the YouTube and there are many decent ones. Some others are not so much... Very hard to avoid the click bait videos on a platform that built the whole system around the advertising through click bait videos... Like always: search for a good channel and watch the hell out of it before go to the next one.
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I definitely agree with the watching the hell out of one channel before going to the next approach :)
I agree, it's hard to find good content on YouTube sometimes. What are your favourite channels?
I like Easy Languages (they have Easy German and Easy English, but I'm not sure about Czech). They go out on the street and interview native speakers about a simple topic (for example, "what do the French like to eat for breakfast?") so you get to hear a bunch of different answers and accents.
It is really hard to avoid the clickbait. I've even listened to podcasts where creators will complain about how they have to play the sort of "Clickbait game" because otherwise YouTube doesn't recommend their content to users as much. I think this is sort of sad, since it sort of prioritizes different sorts of attitudes towards creating content for YouTube. On the bright side, sometimes you find a "diamond-in-the-rough" channel that you follow and then they become big over the years. ))