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| nway Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Vic Joined 5346 days ago 574 posts - 1707 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean | Message 9 of 22 17 January 2012 at 3:21am | IP Logged | ||
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I've got a YouTube channel too, but it's all music—no languages. :P
(There would be polyglot material, if only I could sing...) As for your appearance, I think as long as you've got a positive and humble attitude, you'll do fine. Trolls are essentially desperate for attention, so they look for videos with thousands upon thousands of views. Starting out, the only viewers you'll attract are those who are genuinely interested in the content and couldn't have found your videos without actually exploring through layers of language-topic videos. That said, there's always the option to get creative with your presentation, and maybe show only content (no direct video footage of you) ala 'khanacademy' (whose videos are all blank blackboards that he writes on via a Tablet computer) or LiberalViewer (who, last time I checked, only shows text in his videos). Heck, perhaps you could just feature a stream of pictures of cute kittens while you discuss auxiliary verb usage in French grammar... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6606 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 10 of 22 17 January 2012 at 10:06am | IP Logged | ||
Thank you, Michael. It doesn't matter what you look like. I have seen insults or stupid comments against anyone. You can start with videos without showing your face, with a blackborard, power point or open impress to test the waters. Don't forget that those are free videos, social media... It is not a serious business... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5660 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 11 of 22 17 January 2012 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, guys.
The one thing that I'm missing is confidence. I think you need to be pretty confident to put yourself out there on YouTube. I'm on the fence about making videos, but I would like to do it because I think it would be helpful. I might ask Moses McCormick about it and see what his opinion is. Personally I was just thinking of ignoring comments unless I knew the commenter. I haven't made any videos yet, but I have 4 subscribers, and one is a Texan professor of Spanish named alkantre (Peter Browne). I would appreciate his feedback. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| SueK Groupie United States Joined 4682 days ago 77 posts - 133 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 12 of 22 17 January 2012 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Michael, I'm fat too. Sounds like you and I are in about the same ballpark. I really, really get where your coming from. I have a medical condition that causes obesity and I got sick of fighting it at some point. I hate when people see me like this for the first time, or worse, if they knew me skinny and are seeing me this way the first time.
That said, get out there and do your thing!!! Don't let a fear of small minded people stop you, they don't deserve to win and the rest of us shouldn't be deprived of you as a resource because of them. So what if they say you're fat? You know it, you know why. Yep, it would hurt, but not so much as to be worth the fear of it's happening to keep you from doing what you want. I mean really, if someone looks at you and I and the best they can come up with is a lame fat comment are they worth thinking two minutes about? Hey - did you ever see Steve Martin in Roxanne? When he does the jokes about his own nose??? I don't expect you to do anything like that, but think about the end impression of the guy who made the comment in the first place, what a loser! Right? If someone comments, remember, they're just a loser, trying to make themselves more by stepping on you. Delete the comment and move on, they aren't worth anything more than that and certainly aren't worth going out of your way to avoid. Best of luck! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5600 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 13 of 22 17 January 2012 at 4:29pm | IP Logged | ||
I have a youtube channel. I am an old guy, with a balding head, a double chin, and very geeky personality. Plus, I am not very sociable in general. Nor am I particularly brilliant at languages. Despite all this, I decided to make videos for two reasons: 1: It forces me to think things through in advance, so that I don't just ramble on. This benefits me, since it make my own thoughts clearer. Without the videos to force me to do this, I would probably be far more lazy. 2: There are some things that I don't see anybody else making videos about, but that I think are helpful to others. So, it is more "filling a gap" than saying "hey, look at me". So long are you are sure why you are making videos, then you can't get too upset about the occasional nasty comment: since few of them are "I disagree with that concept for the following reasons". Rather, they tend to be "Your accent sucks" or very occasionally "You are ugly". Now, both of those things may be true, but I keep reminding myself they are irrelevant to the video itself and so try to ignore them. My wife pointed out to me something that helped: if you were walking down the street and some skinhead shouted "You look like a freak" it wouldn't bother you so much. So why does some anonymous person on the internet sting more than that skinhead? I think back to that when I get a nasty comment and it takes the sting away a little. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5660 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 14 of 22 17 January 2012 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, SueK & Splog. And Splog, you're much too hard on yourself, I really enjoy your videos.
The one thing I'm going to do is compliment the other users on YouTube more. Even if it's just "thanks for making the video" or "I enjoyed it, keep making more" I think the other user would appreciate it, I know I would if someone said that on one of my videos. Like Ben Franklin said, we must hang together or surely we will hang separately. If you haven't guessed it by now, I'm timid & pretty sensitive to criticism. I know I shouldn't let some idiot on YouTube get me down just because they insulted me. Sometimes when I post on this forum I don't even read the responses because I think someone might be too critical of what I said, and this is a friendly, well-moderated forum. I sent a message to Moses. Since I don't have much privacy at home I'm thinking about reserving a room at the library where I could make videos. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5660 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 15 of 22 16 April 2012 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Moses McCormick made a video response:
Benefits of a YouTube Language channel He pretty much stated what everyone else said, but also talked about some of the ways he has personally benefited from starting his channel. And no, I'm not mad at him for just getting back to me now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| NewLanguageGuy Groupie France youtube.com/NewLangu Joined 4538 days ago 74 posts - 134 votes Speaks: English* | Message 16 of 22 16 April 2012 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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I created mine simple to practice speaking, and ask natives for advice on my accent.
It is also good fun! Trolling is only a problem if you let it be. These keyboard warriors exist in any internet community, and are best simply ignored. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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