Foreign language learning without a method

@bavwill ... tribes that practise exogamy ... Exogamy is the custom of marrying outside a community, clan, or tribe.

@FadoDeo4444 This! I did this with Korean. I listened to Korean music for years. Then I finally started learning the language in a scholarly fashion and I was absolutely ASTOUNDED by what I already knew!

are female polyglots rare? why ?

@bavwill He said "exogamy" which is when someone from a tribe or sect marries someone from a different tribe, usually because it is required by custom or law. He's saying that tribes with very different languages may practice this and in essence each individual ends up learning the language of the other and/or creating a mixed language throughout generations.

sounds like agent smith

@Iceland1944 I always lamented the fact there was no way to learn Latin in school in my area. Or German. Or French. Or anything at all but Spanish. Never took Spanish.Never liked the sound of it. >.< Almost regret that now, knowing how important it is these days.

again the framing is terrible: a vertical line (shelf) and a vert line (shelf) going straight through your head. This is step one in how not to frame a video; plus we don' want to see a talking head, even for <10 min. Step away from your book shelf, get into a better environment, respect your watchers who have a learning style author than solely auditory: use some props, use a blackboard; and try to vary your voice and intonation more and put more umph into your speech to avoid boring watchers

saying that something gets turned off at around puberty is actually incorrect. The current picture of what happens in the brain is more like something being switched on that blocks the ability we had as children.

@Lamnont Just wondering was your friend a US citizen???

@Lamnont Was your friend an American citizen???

@Iceland1944 you've noticed that as well? i had always thought that av my fello klassmates, but hav met 2 or 3 that hav basik interest ^^ ich kenne viele Leute, die Spanisch koennen, und Sie nemen Spanisch weil es fuer Sie wirklich einfach ist ^^ tut mir leid aber mein Deutsch ist nicht wirklich gut

my high school (american, private) only offered Spanish and German. I didn't like Spanish after taking it in middle school, so I was really happy to take German, except the teacher ended up completely ruining it for me and I struggled a bit. In college I switched to Chinese, and for some reason, I picked up the lessons pretty quick! (until the classes ended and I forgot a lot...)

I do this with Turkish wikipedia pages.

Спасибо, профессор. Это ваши книги? Похоже на библиотеку :)

my friends grandpa learned 11 languages in a concentration camp during the second world war

@fanofcorrs Perhaps you find it boring because you are not interested. I can watch this channel for hours. This is a lecture, not a stupid high school class. .

You sound an look like Christoph Waltze (when he's speaking in English of course)

can you recommend some songs or artists for learning Portuguese??

I find that during those 'extra' moments I will use the BYKI free flashcard app on my phone, set it on auto and learn vocabulary.

I read about you in the book Babel No More and I was fascinated, so glad I found your channel!

I cannot find this man of which you speak, at the end of the video.

I like Marisa Monte. :) There are many different styles. Marisa is slow, while someone like Ivete Sangalo is faster. There is also a LOT of gospel music. Which is pretty even if you aren't that religious. (Aline Barros,Fernanda Brum) Tim Maia too. Or if you are into "Ai se eu te pego" then I think you would like someone like Luan Santana maybe? Good Luck! :D

I would recommend like Rita Lee, Mutantes, Raul Seixas... they are all seventies' old-guard soft-rockers and not my favorite musicians, but their lyrics are usually quite witty, and I think it would be really, really cool to learn brazilian portuguese through them. Boa sorte!

But my teachers were really happy and a pretty surprised I was so interested in their language and actually putting effort to speak to them in that instead of English, even after class, and they and my classmates were also surprised at the fact that I even took 3 languages at the same time, classmates would say "why would you do that?! that's crazy just stick to one and get the requirement over with easily" LOL

I took Spanish(2 years), Latin(3 years), and french (1 year) and excelled , but i think that was because i was genuinely interested and conversed with my teachers in the target languages ( except latin i could never speak it correctly but understood my teacher completely). so we students exist but i could not find another with my zeal in my school.

Sounds like you need to get with the program a little as far as the English language goes.

I am about to embark on learning the Thai language using the "automatic language growth" ALG method in Bangkok. Basically, you watch 2 native speakers of Thai act out scenarios with various props. I was told NOT to use any other study methods as it would actually hamper my progress. Is there any documented basis for that statement? I would like to start in on learning the Thai script by myself and concurrent with the ALG method.

English is like a zombie. It wants to devour everyone, but if it does, it won't have anything to cannibalize and will starve to death.

Professor Arguelles is talking about Stuart Jay Raj (this took me a little while to figure out, too).

Looking at the whole continent, I'd say Spanish is most used - by population.

That's how I learned a large amount of Latin vocabulary.

Thanks l will try learning English through music. nice idea it's will be very enjoyable Thanks again

I disagree about loving the music. While I love Japanese, and a good deal of its music, most of it isn't all too great. I assume it's better when you can understand it, but that's just me.

Good idea. I've been doing that a little for Spanish.

indeed

should you translate the lyrics by each word or by sentences? please answer. honest question, i am currently learning french, thank you. im sure this question will help others.

good ideas in here! haha

well reading something that means something to the learner is important i guess ... which is why i always read science articles in lithuanian, very horrid and difficult language

i shall read asimov's short stories in any language i try to learn, i can remember what the stories were about so it should help a lot

Thanks Alexander, great video! You raised some really interesting, useful points that struck a chord with me. Cheers.

Where is stew j stew j's channel?

"Why not" part scared me

I see Russian books behind you :-)

i don't know how i learned english, i'm trying to learn swedish now and i don't know how to. i lack motivation and i don't know how to study a language. and my memory isn't that good. i'm fucked:D

Could you please write out, what the mentioned Steward J Rodgers channel is? Was not able to find it.

I doubt i can do the same with Mandarin ;)

I'm an atheist, but quite like the missionary idea and had thought of doing it recently. There are very cheap trilingual bibles even on kindle (English, Esperanto, and then various third languages), so it seems like a great idea. The New Testament is sufficiently story-based, conversational, and human, that much can be gained from it whether one believes or not.

I'm gonna start using the Mazzofonti/Missionary method of using the Bible to learn different languages.

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I don't have photographic memory but I agree with Mark Labett (The Beast from the Chase) that review is pointless. Basically if the initial impression is strong enough galvanized with interest, it stays.

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