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Slavic languages is the grammar cheat code, since you can plausibly translate any sentence into russian and keep the same word order 90% of the time. Learn some coding or latin, and you'll get the idea

this guy really just put "stanford linguist" in the title and gave the most mediocre run of the mill advice that any slightly interested in language learning person has already heard a thousand times, like even luodingo starts you with phonetics what are you talking about, "you need to practice" wow no $hit tell me more professor

I agree with all you have said. Thanks so much for ditching the music. :) :) :)

I’m from the US. I started learning French from scratch after I retired at age 67. Two and a half years later, I am at a low B1 level. Not great, but certainly evidence that older people can learn a new language. I’ve gone to France for immersion school experiences several times. And I have a great online tutor. Despite having no one among family or friends who speak French, I have been learning. I put a lot of time into the learning process. It’s slow, it’s challenging, it’s frustrating, but incredibly rewarding. Everything you said in this video rings true to me.

Love your videos😅😊

What a fantastic video! I loved the concept of your native language as a “template” , so true ! I use my template (Spanish) and try to use it English and it doesn’t always work 😂! More videos like this please !

I love that this idea about learning as an adult is still possible is spreading more and more across RUclips. The way I see it, we've been bombarded with "polyglots" who were lucky enough to pick up many languages because they had the resources to be where those target languages are spoken. All of this while they were very young. Thanks for your encouraging take on this topic! 🙏

The point about language as a social system is very true and seldom mentioned.

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Hats off, your content is terribly fascinating . keep it up

Thanks for these great tips, bro!

i really don't agree about the second point, if i'm gonna use definitions to understand the meaning i would be constantly trying to guess it in my native language (or another one i speak well) despite myself, not to mention i would not understand all the words in the definition and it won't make sense to me, and how would i use imagery to connect a word to a concept if i don't know what the word means in the first place ?? it has been my expierience that the translation lag in speaking goes away with time and practice so instead of quitting translation all together i think it's better to just practice using the known word in multiple contexts...

The music is annoying.

Great tips! What you did with the sounds- the puff and the vibration and how it feels in the throat. Can you give more examples on how to identify different sounds?

I come from a different linguistic tradition. 😊 I would argue that we live in the same world and vastly different cultures have more in common than might think, which makes them translatable in the first place. For almost any strange Chinese custom, I can find a similar European custom that allows me to understand it. At the same time, our prescription of the world is constructed by the social groups we belong to that have their norms and conventions. As social animals, we need to understand them to make top down and top up predictions as to what the other person will say to understand them, and that's where the pragmatic categories come in (prototype semantics). In this framework, categories are not that clear cut at all. Yes, Russian speakers have two words for blue, but they still imagine them as closely related colors.

Your voice is greatly appreciated, you're following a very balanced approach. Also, it inspires trust that you've learned a language outside of your native language family. I've only recently noticed that the Mandarin L sound is harder than I thought after spending years with the language. Do you have any tips for remembering Chinese words that start with a sound not present in your native languages, like qi or ji? Mnemonics don't work in Mandarin as easily as in other languages.

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That feels right, I speak 2 languages and read (and rudimentary write) 4 others. And sometimes it's really hard to express an idea in one language while another has the perfect words to communicate it. I grew up with one language, but what if I grew up in another culture/language group would concepts that opened themselves up to me much later in live, showed themself a lot earlier?

What kind of ai shit is going on here

This makes perfect sense, as different languages have different ways of expressing ideas, and they more than likely have or do not have, words to express their ideas in kind. However, the opposite end of this is that a foreigner would not be able to understand their translations as they have no way of verbally communicating them. Does this make sense?

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Great video 📸

Very informative Thank buddy

Can you give an example???

These words are hard! Thank you for the video 🙏

Good luck! Keep it going!

What about "mind your own business". I wonder which of the two meanings to belongs to?

Spanish, German, and Russian are phonetic.

I think your terminology is confusing. The VOWEL SOUND 'I"has lots of spellings: ie and I. pie, i _ e as in like, , igh as in high, and y as in my. But, the LETTER "Ii" has mainly one ound when you see just an i on its own, as in the example you give. The are exceptions though: find, kind etc.

You missed y at then ends of words such a silly and puppy . I was a first grade teacher for years and this is what I used to teach my students, apart from the I before e stuff which was too advanced.

Fascinating. I am learning Spanish (well, that is what I have set out to do - I'm not sure it's actually working) and one of the things I come up against constantly is that ideas are just not expressed in the same way in Spanish as they are in English. Not only do the structures of the sentences differ (as you demonstrated) but some verbs do not translate exactly form one to the other or at least are not use in the same way. I struggle a lot with putting sentences together and keeping the direct and indirect object straight and in the correct place in the sentence with the correct pronouns. It does not feel intuitive to me at all and so I am interested in what you say about switching off our preconceived notions about things in the world that are similar and different. How on Earth of you do that? I spend a lot my of Spanish learning time making comparison between Spanish and English and vice versa. I even spend a lot of the time I have with my Spanish tutor talking about these things instead just speaking Spanish. I have this overwhelming need to analyse everything instead of just accepting things as they are in Spanish and much of this analysis stems from making comparisons. Recently though, I have had a strong sense that this actually gets in the way of learning Spanish. But, how do I stop? . Sometimes I put it down to me having more of math brain that a linguistics brain. A need for logic rather than linguistic expression. I understand what you are advising, but not really how to go about putting that into practice. Do you have any tips? Can you make another video about this idea that goes into more detail? Thanks for a very thought-provoking presentation!

That makes complete sense because English makes no sense sometimes.

Arabic with different dialect means nowadays of speaking Arabic language. But modern Arabic that in books on tv news only

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interesting, would have perhaps been a little more so if you gave some examples of these "fossils" in the short too!

We just ignore ours , because what they say is "proper" sounds awful, and no one has ever used anything like it😅

I started learning arabic 4 months ago ,and i reached elementary level so far

🤯 great video! as a native Spanish speaker, my mind was blown when I learned that the Spanish d was not the same as the English one!

Top-notch video! Many thanks to the author of the channel for the recommendations! The problem with many people is that they want to take a "magic pill" or get "secret knowledge" and immediately have skills and abilities. However, the truth of life is that knowledge, skills, and abilities do not come by themselves. You can't learn a foreign language without doing anything, without wasting your time and effort, just like you can't learn to ride a bike lying on a comfy couch, listening to lectures and watching videos about "modern methods of learning" on a bike. To really learn something, you have to really practice every day. You're going to fall down while you're learning, and you're going to get bumps - that's normal! The ups and downs of learning are an integral part of our lives. Motivation from success and depression from failure will always be your study companions. However, every student has problems in his or her studies that he or she lacks the knowledge to solve. It can be: poor memorization of words; no progress in language learning; the student can speak, but does not understand speech by ear; misunderstanding of grammar; incorrect pronunciation, etc. Agree that a problem you don't know how to solve is very demotivating. In order to find the answer to our question we have to spend a lot of time to read videos, articles and books by polyglots. In today's world, we have to solve problems as quickly as possible. I don't have time to study and analyze a huge amount of information. My goal is to master the basic knowledge of a foreign language as quickly as possible and already start earning money effectively in the international arena. I settled on the practical guide by Yuriy Ivantsiv " Polyglot Notes: practical tips for learning foreign language". This book is always in my bag. If I have a problem while learning a language, I quickly find the answer in this book. There are many different techniques and tips for learning a foreign language in Polyglot Notes. I have made my own individual schedule and plan for language learning. Now I know what I am going to study, how I am going to study, when I am going to study and what results I am going to achieve. No problem could stop me! With an effective language learning plan my professional skills are more and more in demand internationally every day. Friends, don't stop there! Everyone has talents that millions of people around the world need! Learn the language and make your ideas and dreams come true! Thanks to the author of the channel for the informative and useful video! Your videos motivate me.

There is actually a correspondence in Mandarin between characters and pronunciation. Many complex characters have pronunciation components. It's not as straightforward as in alphabetical systems, but it's still there. Look it up, it's quite interesting and as a linguist you should know that.

Great Video Tony!!! I got my Ph.D in Material Science (it was a personal goal), I speak 3 languages already (An indigenous language from Mexico, Spanish and English) and getting better in French, I started with my own business 3 years ago now and so far I am working on my RUclips channel (Travel and Languages).... I am happy and I will be okay 😊 Thanks Tony

Hey bro, hope you had a wonderful weekend. I don't mean any disrespect. But how come yet another linguist on RUclips comes to the same conclusions about language learning as Lindie Botes? In your video there was nothing related to language acquisition. Languages aren't just detached sounds you have to drill. Languages are way more complicated than that. What you said sounded just like behaviourism. Language acquisition isn't anywhere near like going to the gym. We acquire languages through well-delivered messages from the people we're listening to and hinted meanings. Language acquisition is an incremental subconscious process. We acquire languages through compelling comprehensible input. You can make stuff more comprehensible through several methods. Like through lookups, through translation, through drawings, through gestures, through universal symbols etc.. Please, consider reading Stephen Krashen's research and please challenge your biases. I don't mean to offend you or anything. I'm trying to be as polite as possible. Have a beautiful week!! 😉 I know it was well-meant. Yours sincerely, Joaquim. :))))

who finally standardized English though?

Yes definitely the gentleman is correct whenever you're studying Spanish it's pretty cool because Spanish sounds like it looks on paper. So if you master the alphabet then you have a head start on the language. For example la Cena sounds differently whenever you say it pronouncing it like a person who speaks English. So many people get educated on the language but they forget to focus on the alphabet. I'm in year three now with Spanish and I'm focusing more on the alphabet once more, just as a way to sharpen the Spanish sword.

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I pronounce "beard" with a TENSE high front vowel [biə̯ɻd], though a lax realization is not very surprising given the general variation in how the NEAR diaphoneme is realized, as well as the mirror-clearer merger.

I always see these videos and find it's the same old advice recycled over and over again, but to my surprise, this is actually refreshingly different. The focus on practice is something you very rarely hear from the RUclips language "experts". Thank you, this was really appreciated and 100% spot on! 👏👏👏

I would very much like to learn one of the Slavic languages and I wonder if you have any thoughts on which one to start with. Since this will once again take me outside my familiar Latin language family, I'd like to start with one that has broad applicability to learning more: broad phonetic compatibility, heavily borrowed from by other Slavic languages (cognates), and broad grammatical compatibility. In essence, a language that "unlocks" the others by permitting me to learn the deltas by ear. Any thoughts? I'm stuck in "analysis paralysis" at the moment because I hesitate to invest my 50 year old brain's more limited language learning capacity in what may turn out to be a linguistic "edge case." 🙂