5 techniques to speak any language | Sid Efromovich | TEDxUpperEastSide
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Sid is our resident hyperpolyglot. He grew up in Brazil and after some journeying around the world, he now lives an exciting life in New York where he works as a Sugar Trader.
Teaching has always been one of his passions and he has led groups of young leaders since 2006. He has given workshops, talks and classes in 3 different continents and is currently a Master Teacher in Skillshare where he teaches classes on nurturing happiness and learning foreign languages.
Sid is also the founder of I Embrace You (formerly called Hug Don't Hate), based in Boston. After presiding over the organization and leading over 100 volunteers annually, he was recognized with the top leadership award in his graduating class at Boston University. He also holds an MBA from Purdue University and from Leibniz Universität. guywiththesmile.com
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He's eaten the smily emoticon
This made me laugh out loud. Hope you enjoyed the talk! 😀 - I had to...
Sid Efromovich Haha yes, nice talk of course!
+Sid Efromovich: you brought me a funny talk show. I really enjoy it.
nah he's just GAY
It's in his facial database
He's so happy I wanna hug him
Its actually the sad people you should be hugging.
Chucky Bananaz that’s true
@@RaneBane do you need a hug
@@coffeebase9657 I don't need one but I've never turned one down lol
Did you notice that his domain address on one slide read "guywithasmile"? Perfect description.
I tried the shower technique... Long story short, we got into a fight.. we're not speaking to each other anymore 😒
lmao
But do you still shower? 😆
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Are you moldovian or gagauz turk
Thanks for giving me my first laugh of the day.
Man, I just wanna be as happy as this guy.
Weed.
I thought I little bit effusive
Yes, I want too!
learn new language
Period..
I feel like this guy would be a great preschool teacher, he's so happy :)
Veni Vidi Amavi heck I'd love to have him in my language classes and I'm in 8th grade
He's brazilian
ahahaha, you so damn right. Especially because what he has to say is so lame and basic. Techniques = tips, right? Actually very trivial tips...
how much language you can speak?
Yep! Wish he would teach me Chinese...
This dude seems like the nicest person in the world.
Hello sweet girl . I was wondering if you can stay in touch 😉🌷?
After me, you mean Ms.
the problem is that you don't remember some of words and expresions
This dude actually is
He's the inspiration behind the smiley emoticon lol
How to speak any language:
1) Learn the language
2) Speak
It had not occurred to me, You're a genius
I wanna be your friend so bad💯👌
Exactly😂
You made it damn short learn and speak 😂😂
Avallac'h how funny
Rules :
1. Relax and allow yourself to make mistakes
2. Scrap the foreign alphabet
3. Find a stickler - who doesn't let your mistakes slide but also encourages you
4. Do shower conversations
5. Find a conversation buddy using Buddy Formula- choose a person where the common language between you two is the -target language (otherwise you'll switch to the easier language )
Useless without timestamps
(Raised as a polyglot before age 18)
1:38. Relax and allow yourself to make mistakes - seek out the feeling of doing something ""wrong"" (i.e. not sounding like your native tongue).
4:37. Scrap the foreign alphabet (suggests using phonemes from your native language)
8:32. Find a stickler - who doesn't let your mistakes slide but also encourages you
9:21. Do shower conversations - actively talk to yourself in the new language.
11:18. Find a conversation buddy using Buddy Formula - choose a person where the common language between you two is the target language (otherwise you'll switch to the easier language )"
@@a1s2d3f4g5q1w2e3 you're awesome! 🤩☺
@@Suraj2561997 mmmm
preciate you i needed this for my homework
Wow. I'm from Brazil and when you spoke in portuguese I thought to myself: Are you sure you're not brazilian? You speak portuguese better than me. Perfect Accent! I studied English by myself and now I want to learn german and french.
Dgchytcjcjudcvjmdfr
***** I thought the same! His portuguese is excellent!
On the video description says he's Brazilian
*****
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Olavo Leal Fernandes Actually, he GREW up in Brazil. Its not the same, but certainly gives him an edge
5 Skills/ techniques
- deep breath, relax, make mistakes
- scrap the foreign alphabet
- find a stickler (feel comfortable)
- practice (shower conversations with yourself: both sides of conversation)
- use language: buddy formula
Resumiste todo, thanks...
Mange tak
Flora Knowledge tusen takk. Whare i find più informazioni thanks ciao
Thanks
Buddy Rich formula: Pink,pink pinq...(pingpong=table tennis)
Are we going to ignore his "What I'm most often asked other than for my phone number..."
thank you
My guy getting all the women
😂
so heres my phone number lol
Step 1
Change your games' language
Or your smartphone language. And also your keyboard.
This is how I learned English, games are almost never in my mother language (that plus cartoons when I was a kid). Now I speak 4 languages and am learning a 5th.
😄😄
Timcan_57 I just started my first
Yes! I play the sims in Japanese. I have learned a lot thanks to that technique.
I talk to my cats in Swedish to practice it,, it works pretty well
katter är de bästa lärarna 😁
Turtle CaldPikls that's my way to practice Japanese
Turtle CaldPikls I created an internet roleplay character to which I apply all new information. by using reality to illustrate my imagination,my imaginary becomes real. voila one world.
A God I don't understand, can you link me to the char or something?
Senpai OC www.virtualtourist.com/chicogringodegundo
I know seven languages too...C, C++, Python, SQL, Javascript, HTML, and what did I miss? Oh yes, English!
C is kinda old, come on, do not lie to us, you don't use it anymore. :P
yall dummies actin like html & n css a real language 💀
Esther Jesintha
Well, you know C, C++, Python, SQL, Javascript, and HTML but languages but can you speak them?
hey man could teach me english?
C,C++,python, and java are almost identical...
Omg I’m not the only one who talks to themselves in a different language in a shower. That’s how I learned I have a pronunciation problem 😅
Yes. Movie dialogs and interviews 😂😂😂
me too , in my spare time I'm talking to myself in english or with my parents and they don't understand me
😂😂😂😂I laughed too hard at this
@@huamanyevelyn5d582 in my case I talk to my dog in English
I've done car practice to learn to pronounce. A few years ago, I literally spent over 3 weeks trying to practice/perfect the name of an Eritrean guy's name (because it was very different sounding and kind of fun). And now I'm better at rolling an "r." And he was happy/excited that I could pronounce his name correctly lol
I'm brazilian and first I was impressed with how an american could speak spanish and portuguese so well. Then I realized he grew up in Brazil and now I'm completely amazed of how he speaks english so perfectly.
Olá, @AmyMatz! Também me surpreendi com a perfeição do português dele! até ler que ele cresceu aqui, o que fez muito sentido. De qualquer forma, ainda assim, é impressionante ele conseguir falar sem sotaque mesmo depois de muitos anos fora do Brasil. Nunca tinha visto dicas tão incríveis pra aprender outros idiomas!
He speaks indeed English pretty well, but I'm also Brazilian and I could notice his Brazilian accent really quick in the first minutes of the video. Still, his accent is "better" than most Brazilians I've heard before (just to make it clear: there's nothing wrong about having an accent if you pronounce it good enough for people to understand you).
@@MrDusuke para de mentir kkkkk ele morou pouco no Brasil e tem um inglês PERFEITO
@@jdsjnsnjdmdns6253 não é mentira. Eu notei o sotaque de brasileiro dele em 5 segundos de vídeo. Eu consumo Inglês o dia inteiro, não assisto nada em português. Talvez isso ajude a perceber mais facilmente. Fica essa dica pra você, e com o tempo vc vai perceber tbm.
#1 make mistakes
#2 forget your languages rules
#3 find sticklers
#4 shower conversations in the language ur learning.(dosent have to be in shower.)
#5 coversation buddy
Adrenaline migraine Thank you!
He knows greek!!amazing!
i didn't get what sticklers are
Peter Müller That’s someone who you know and trust enough to tell you when you make a mistake. Someone who helps you get better, without the fear of hurting your feelings. Normaly we are far to polite to correct anyone when they make a mistake. A stickler will tell you, not to make you feel bad, but to help you in your path to master the language or any other study you’re doing.
I always look for these types of comments to save time thanks man.
i can't stop smiling while watching him
Me too, what a great warm personality he has.
smile
He is charming yes XD
Nargis Fakhri: He is so sexy and charming, no? Mmmm y es muy guapo! Mi tipo de hombre heheh
Adrian D ... El es no guapo, el es muy feo..
I'm Brazilian, his portuguese is perfect.
Claro pô, ele é brasileiro também kkmmmk
Of course it is haha he's brazilian as well
Really? Lol hahahahahah
Pensei que o cara era importado pô
Poxa fiquei chocada que ele falava Br perfeito, se é daqui então faz sentido. Bem q tinha cara de Br msm
As a Chinese speaker, his Chinese sounded great, and the accent is beautiful too
Is the same in spanish. I'm a Spanish speaker.
I'm German, and his german also sounded brilliant
Yeah, I'm Brazilian and his portuguese is just perfect, even though he's not born here, just grew up.
r u serious?
I will save you the time;
1) Make mistakes. 2) Scrap the foreign alphabet. 3) Find a stickler (helping buddy) 4) Shower conversations (like really, speak in the language and ask for directions) 5) Repeat number 3 😂😂😂
Just Messi thanks 😂
thanks dude
It's the natural first stage of acquiring and remembering the strange sound. 'who oh' allowed me to interpret pinyin huo. chun for example is not ch un; but chew won. So yes it's exactly what you need to aid pronunciation. Grammar is grammar a wholly different realm which you then acquire through practice and mistakes.
As for reading and writing - they are a different skillset, requiring painstaking work - generally less necessary to ones needs. There are plenty of illiterate Chinese.
Why crit an expert trying to help?
你说过了这是你的第一次方法；搜易为什么你想抱怨
I agree with Pablo Shalom
Thank you. I was looking for this comment
my steps are just:
1. learn the alphabet (except for mandarin and its dialects because mandarin is a rebel).
2. learn phrases. don't just cram new words into your head.
3. break down the words and see how a sentence is structured. then make your own sentences.
EDIT: by sentence structure I mean like Subject, Verb, Object kind of thing.
Yup, currently learning japanese and i can understand 50% of what i hear in anime and know hiragana, katakana and 100 kanji lmao.
German is next it will be hella easy to get a decent job with 4 languages btw spanish and english already learned.
Dude same with the Japanese Esteban!
also spanish and english already learned and some german! but I dabbel in mandarin and korean and stuff
AnixiasPlays yeah mandarin is really scary written, i personally would learn conversation first with michael thomas audiobooks and then slowly grind the han characters, but i'm not really that interested in china as a culture at the moment even though i know it's a really super important language
lol
Daniela Nastuta lol xd
The smile is glued on his face. It’s good to see people who are very presentable looking.
"Take a deep breath...."
doesn't say to breathe out
*turns blue*
edit: I hate to be the person that does his but thx for the likes!
That might be a side effect but don't worry, it's normal.
HAHAHA im dead!!!
Instructions not clear, I suffocated
ULFA Yes, you would die if you don't breathe.
خوش منج بگذره زيتون جان
I think I spend too much time looking for the "perfect method" when I should just be practising it!
That's me all over! Hearing about different methods is interesting though, I guess.
Pssssssshhht.
Same problem here :(
I'm doing both haha.
Pirosbor same
Is this a permanent record of the happiest person in the world?
nope, that's Bob Ross, he is the second happiest lol
Shower conversations, yes! I always used to have deep talks with myself when I was learning English. Good to know that I wasn't alone, haha
YaY
Actually, you were alone xD
That I was not the only one*
I always used to talk to myself in my mother tongue. Came in handy when I started learning a new language :D
Actually when I get emotional I prefer English bcz I've connected them with strong feelings, unlike my mother tongue, in which I am more restraint (and no I m not from Eastern Asia)
why am I crying? It was beautiful watching him speaking all of these languages. Like they were all just one. Tem um olho na minha lágrima kkk. Emocionei.
I love smiley people, make you feel so warm and happy! good guy and good tips.
Thanks
+Daniel Thompson Right?! Made me happy just from watching!
+Daniel Thompson I love happy people too! It makes me feel more comfortable, and the message is easier to understand.
+Tisha Herrera message is easier to understand because of charisma, and smile is a part of charisma. Look at watch?v=iKHTawgyKWQ, amazing talk without a single smile ))
+Daniel Thompson brazilian charisma
+Jonathan N Textbook adolescent, always the contrarian, you'll grow out of it.
Most of these polyglots have grown up in multilingual families or neighbourhoods. It really seems to be an advantage to learn several languages as a child!
Exactly!
Perfect excuse.
As well as I understand, most of them have learned two or three languages in early childhood which has made learning new ones much easier. So I do not mean they have not had to do anything themselves! Give your children at least two languages from the beginning if at all possible and you give them a head start!
that's how i learned too. now, it is almost impossible to learn a new language when you have no one to talk to in that language
Scottico Who is making excuses? :O
If you have two (or more) languages in your family, PLEASE speak both of them to your children! Many speakers of minority languages, especially endangered ones, think their language is inferior and of no use to their children, so they speak only the majority language to them. But bilingualism is an advantage as such - if the child forgets one of the languages later (of course I hope not!), the brain has benefited anyway, because it seems early bilingualism moulds the brain permanently.
And it is great if some endangered languages are kept alive in the process!!! In my opinion linguistic diversity is as important for the human culture as biodiversity is for the nature. I admire people who keep their mother tongues alive, and people who want to learn small and endangered languages, in addition to bigger and more "useful" ones.
I am so happy when he is talking because he is always smiling
cutest most adorable personality ever ! we need this guy to teach our professors how to teach languages so that people could start learning some more
Ok... I'm alone here at my room watching this, and for some reason, I applauded in the end.
we all did
Lol
Same
Edulcoran
I am alone in my apartment and watching this 🤷♂️
Those conversations between you and yourself really expose the lalnguage gaps. They are really useful.
Absolutely
@Lana Joy oh that's an awesome idea, might do it as well
I can reccomend Duolingo and Memrise. Both have a wide database of languages, Doulingo even has some conlangs like High Valyrian and Klingon.
@@blankblank1284 I have duolingo but it sucks you can only select 1 language at a time
@@Laperdash
That is 100% false. I have Duolingo, and have around 8 courses currently active.
omg i love his smile
he's like radiant with positivity
I nearly teared up at the end when he demonstrated his various foreign language skills. I just love this topic so much and I'm so passionate about it. Currently learning French and Korean. Inspiring man!!
"Currently learning French"
1) Why do you inflict yourself that much pain
2) I'm french so if you need a stickler, I can help you
새해 복 많이 받으세요. Wish you an awesome year in 2023.
@@choeyoonsun1 새해 복 많이 받으세요! ~ 건강하고 행복하세요 🧡
@@skrienasenka2881 Haha true, tis a beautiful language, though! And thank you, that's very kind 😊
This guy has amazing energy, damn. I wonder what makes him so happy.
Right? I want to be that happy too 😃
+Alan S He's high on life.
Weed can certainly help with that :)))
maybe he just loves what he is talking about :D ..really loves...that smile really is amazing xD glued on
Love. Languages were always a lot of fun, but they were just a means towards the more important end: human connection.
I grew up speaking
1. Azerbaijani (my mother tongue)
2. Russian (my old school was a Russian-speaking school)
When I moved, at school I learned
3. English (cause the school is an English-speaking school)
4. Norwegian (the school is in Norway)
At school, they also teach me
5. Spanish (I’m not quite fluent, but I’m pretty good)
Because of K-Pop (BTS), and K-Dramas, I am teaching myself
6. Korean (Hangeul, 한국어)(I know how to read and write, so I just need to work on expanding my vocabulary)
I’m 15 years old.
Edit: Woow I didn't expect 1.3K likes. THANK YOU
ouuu Russian is so difficult!! I applaud you, that's a lot of languages
You can also say i know Turkish, dont you
Aynur Açıkel Since Azerbaijani and Turkish are somewhat similar, you can say I can uderstand some Turkish, but I can't speak it, unfortunately.
Leyla Aliyeva yeah, i've same problem too :)
Knowing so many radically different languages is indeed more impressive than the performance of this guy in the video.
Basically, you deserve as much nice words as we see in the comments.
I learned a large number of languages... not to the level of being fluent but still speaking with the accent of the professional linguists who created the "learn x language in 30 days" or the "assimil" series of language lessons. Quite often, Chinese people started to talk to me at normal speed, convinced by my prononciation that i could understand everything.
I hope you keep learning even if you may encounter indifferent or even negative reaction.
i’m brazilian so i feel like i cheated when he asked me to say the portuguese words out loud
sim
I was asking my myself, why am I trying to say this word if I already know how to speak it, lol.
his smile is so contagious.. I was smiling the whole time
13:21 Recap
1:29 0.Take very deeeeeeeep breath (relax)
1:57 1.Make Mistakes
4:36 2.Scrap the Foreign Alphabet 8:00 8:11
8:26 3.Find a Stickler
9:20 4.Shower Conversations
11:07 5.Buddy Formula
14:31 哈~這翻譯真逗趣,連中文都翻...只是結尾翻糟了.~"現在你們都可以走“"了”XD.
Tq
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Why is he always smiling??? Omg I want to be like him!
because he is brazilian
@@TheWesleyfelipe kkkkkkkkk
I smile all the time too, because I believe that life is beautiful and I have to live the moments as they are😊
Borzah Yankey, search it up
@@tirzxh are you serious ?!
I really like this country and realy realy hope to visit it in the future ❤❤❤❤❤❤
5 techniques to learn ANY language
I paraphrase...
*1. EXPLORE THE LANGUAGE* - try new words don't worry about getting it wrong or right. *Immediately* the more words your exposed to the more experience you will gain.
*2. PHONETIC LANGUAGE* - scrap the foreign alphabet (you don't understand its sounds) in favour of a domestic alphabet (English that you do understand sounds). *Immediately* removes a layer of mis-information
*3. USE CORRECTIONS* - using honest accurate feedback to correct your speaking/spelling/understanding of a new language. *Immediately* enforce minimum standards so you don't waste time learning the wrong sounds/grammar/etc
*4. PRACTICE BY YOURSELF* - using imaginary scenarios have new conversations to stretch yourself beyond the class content. *Immediately* you practice the better you get, you also expand the potential experience envelope by considering new scenarios
*5. PRACTICE WITH OTHERS* - use a buddy for conversation. Use a buddy who only has the target language in common with you. *Immediately* you will be forced to speak in the target language forcing you to get better "if you are to be understood". Both will be motivated if you only have one language in common.
Makes sense...
I'm Brazilian and his Portuguese is perfect !
I'm from South Africa and I speak Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho, Afrikaans, French and I'm, learning Lingala and Swahili
Great dear..
Tu ne peux pas aussi parler anglais
Luthando Gushman You can teach me to learn English
contact me via sk trangpham-nb1 thanks very much .
Am from Ghana too and lived some years in South Africa but you see the truth Ian.. those languages are only spoken and used in the SAID belt .. and that’s it .. it like Turkish once you leave Turkish the language ends there
This guy spreads happiness with his smile!
Oh my god, this man is extremely wonderful, I wanna be like him in the confidence.
So happy to see someone passionate explaining something so fascinating that they've learnt. This was fascinating indeed
This guy is more fluent on my mother language than I am.
+Crazy Horst you do know what native language means right...
+Marcelo Moreira, I think you are brazillian, right? We have a great author about linguistics: Marcos Bagno. He writes in an easy way about language and maybe can help you to think it. Because we have this feeling of not being fluent on our language and this isn't true.
+Crazy Horst I have a cousin that grew in that situation. His mother is brazilian, his father german, they speak with each other in spanish, and they lived in Finland. Now he has only 7 years old and already speak this four languages.
Marcelo Moreira
ele fala portugays melhor que "nois"
When I'm feeling negative and down, I want him to just talk to me.
Love the passion and happiness of this guy. Bet he could teach anyone another language
5 techniques to speak any language:
1. Make mistakes and just relax.
2. Scrap a foreign alphabet.
3. Find a sticklers (teacher, friend, stranger from internet...) - some one who will correct you, but in the same time will encourage you to get things wrong.
4. Do shower conversations. Visualize situations where you will use your new language and try to use it for find gap in your knowledge.
5. Your target language should be your best language in common. Find a friend to practice your language.
Hello fellow language learners! There is a great app out there: HelloTalk that links you with native speakers of the language you want to learn. For instance: you want to learn Dutch and you are a native German. You get in contact with a native Dutch speaker (from Holland or some parts of Belgium) that corrects your messages, in return you correct some of his messages and sentences that he wrote in German. It's definitely worth trying. Myself I'm learning Spanish and 'teaching' Dutch in return.
Mucha suerte! Good luck!
Thank you!
Thank you
Yes I can absolutely vouch for you here. This app is AMAZING!
I did not know that. Anyway, do not make the mistake of learning Spanish the wrong way, the traditional and non natural way..
I agree it's a great app
This was so great! He was so enthusiastic and present, had humour and a smile on his lip and in his voice was happiness! Truly a great speaker, even though my attention span sometimes fall on the short side, he caught it perfectly!
I came across your TEDx talk in my process of preparing one, and found it fascinatingly similar to the ideas I have with the Chinese language, fundamental principles, including 1) visualization, 2) contextualization, 3) meaningful repetition, 4) mental association.
I love how the next two comments in the row are just how people either want to punch or hug him because he's so happy
I AM Brazilian. He speaks Portuguese incredibly well. Congratulations!
How could I know?
Sid is our resident hyperpolyglot. He grew up in Brazil and after some journeying around the world,
Tá escrito na descrição do vídeo que ele cresceu no Brasil.
Just read the description box.
+Dayane Oliveira I AM Ecuadorian, and He speaks Spanish incredibly well. Congratulations!!
Portuguese from Portugal and Spanish from Spain are not the most common languages speaking around the world.
Yesterday I watched this video with subtitles, today I look back I can understand better.Thanks for your interesting talk :)
Myung hak 명학 thanks! It is also interesting to me, good times for you :)
Nice too meet you Thu. My name's Truong and i'm come from Hai phong, Viet Nam. I would like make a friend with you., it's all right?
truong pham yeah .. Sure , we can be good friends. Glad to see you, my new friend :))
truong pham Ok my friend. Teach me some Viet-Namese Truong and I will do my best to answer any westen type questions you have. Be comforted and ask me anything you wish. and we will be fast friends.Welcome!
Hi Truong & Thu. I'm Alex & it's really nice to see how kind & polite you both are. It makes me happy that Duolingo is working on the Vietnamese (from English) course already. I can't wait to learn it! :)
Have a good one.
He is so sunny and positive that I can't stop smiling!
Que motivação desse cara, Sid, Estou estudando Inglês e caí aqui nesse vídeo, show de bola. Great!
He is so smiley :D
I'm Brazilian, and holy fucking shit, his Portuguese is SO EXTREMELY native-like that I got really scared of this man's skills. Much to my relief I found out from the video description that he grew up in Brazil. Phew!
***** E inglês evidentemente não é a sua, pois foi isso que eu falei no final...
Omg he needs to make a channel on RUclips he’s so charming i would saw his videos hours and hours
HE IS BRAZILIAN. I'M SO PROUD OF HIM! ❤🇧🇷
Guy makes sense off the bat and makes more sense as he goes! he is correct all the way...a good ted talks worth watching when young to click in early...give this ted talks to even little kids!
This dude reminds me of Carl, the manager who took over the krusty krab in the "selling out" episode.
Jordan Tulsa LMFAO TRUE 😂😂😂
haha
SKSKSKSSKSS 😂😂😂
Nah he looks like Alvin and the Chipmunks villain in movie 1
THANK YOU I KNEW HE REMINDED ME OF SOMEBODY
Amazing! He is so open, pleasant and kind person) His smile and speech were incredible!
something that's always cool to do is to watch a movie in a foreign language with subtitles so you know what's going on, and then when you rewatch it, forego the subtitles. Then since you already understand what's happening, you can focus on the language. If you're fairly new to the language, you can focus on picking out separate words and sentences and structure, and if you have a basic knowledge of the language, you can pick out phrases you know and use context, along with what you know from seeing it with subtitles, and use that to piece together the gaps in your knowledge to understand the language as they speak it. I've done this a couple times for Spanish, and it was actually pretty helpful for me. I highly recommend the movie La Misma Luna if you're doing this for Spanish, because both English and Spanish are spoken in different parts of the movie.
Great stuff! I am living in Thailand and struggling to learn Thai. He has given me some good pointers to continue my dream of speaking Thai. Thumbs up!
Wow, good for you! Keep it up & as Thai & English have little in common, do expect it to take some time than say Spanish or French learning. Good luck!
***** I have to disagree. Even for someone who is at a very beginning level in Thai, learning the alphabet will put you on the fast track to replicating the sounds correctly and more importantly, the tones for each word. Speaking from experience, once you learn to read and write in Thai, conversation comes so much faster. The transliteration just doesn't cut it with this language... learning to read and write side by side with learning conversation and speaking will greatly reduce the confusion with tones and sounds. It's worth the extra effort!
When he started to speak I thought to myself "he must be brazilian, I feel like he has a brazilian accent while speaking english" and then when he started to show portuguese words like "mão, cocô" etc I was like I KNEW IT!!!!!! I'm not saying he's brazilian, because I don't know that, but he does have a brazilian accent! and yeah i'm proud of myself because i noticed it hahaha
I also could tell right away he is a Brazilian Portuguese native speaker, regardless his amazing English.
According the description of the video, he grew up in Brazil
I had the feeling that he was brazilian too haha... and I don't know why eu to respondendo em inglês sendo q somos brasileiros
@@kauann4096 kkkkkkkkkkkkkk
I’m from Brazil 🇧🇷
He is full of energy and enthusiasm!!!
It motivates others.
Eu tenho que agradecer esse cara, desde que eu assisti o video dele eu melhorei muito meu inglês e também o espanhol, claro que não seria possível se eu não colocasse em pratica!!! Muito obrigado Sid!!!!
It was a really nice video and give some good motivation to start to learn a language. Thank you for sharing... and it is true that we can do some miracles when it comes to learning a new language quite fast.
I study French ever day as one person said you should be consistent. I do need to be open to making more mistakes. I just hate making mistakes for some reasons, but I guess you have to make mistakes to fine tune your skills.
I love your channel Vincent.
Your videos for learning french are the best!
how much language you can speak?
Hi I welcome u Tanzania
I'm German so obviously German is my mother tongue... but I've watched all my TV series in English and always spoke to myself in English... and I got to the point where I'm really confident in my English (even though I might have a little bit of an accent). Now I started to learn Korean. I've watched korean TV shows and listened to korean music for the past 4 years so I already know the basics. And now that I really started to focus on learning the language I made such a great step in just a few days. I followed your tips and used Korean to speak to myself and I was actually able to have a casual conversation in just 1 week. Also since I've always been very interested in korean culture it's actually really fun for me to learn the language. ^^
I wanted to speak english... and now I'm listening all these conference without subtitles without noticing
Martin Carra
I too
I tried shower conversation for 3 years, finally I am able to speak in 3 languages. thank you so much.
안 녕 하 세 요.
저 는 마 수 메 입 니 다. 저는 이 란 사 람 입 니다.
Hello.
Did I write it correct??
I'm Masume from Iran and I want to learn your language.
Can you help me?
@@masumehansari8036 you got the spelling right but there shouldn't be gaps between syllables of the same word, so when written as one the words would be 안녕하세요..저는 마수메입니다. 저는 이란 사람입니다. I hope that helps
@@aimen5295 of course it helps me. Thanks for the correction. 😇
@@masumehansari8036 no problem! :)
@@aimen5295 I was surprised to have a message after about seven month!!
watched all in 1.25 speed. Speech becomes normal )
BlackSmith thank you
Perfeito. Não é atoa que foi uma dica do Chuck Norris
Eu não tenho uma habilidade de learning tão boa, prefiro deixar no normal e acompanhar a fala do modo em que está :/
I watched 2x ,
Love this talk!!
My best tips are
1) get a boy-/girlfriend who is a native speaker of w the language you wanna learn😂😂
Haha but there are other ways as well😁 what I did was
- switch language on my fb (and my phone eventually), admit it, you know where those buttons are anyways haha
- follow people, newspapers etc on social media posting in that language
- talk to myself, mostly did it while driving the scooter to school haha
- Have a book or document ready so that whenever I learned a new word I could write it down and double check the translation(s)/meaning(s). In the beginning I mostly chose words I recognised were used often, later on I would write every new word as they got fewer:)
So basically make that language a part of your everyday life. Randomly bumping into the languages on my facebook helped a lot really! And my English pronounciation got 100x better after I started watching youtubers:) I also think it's super interesting to look at the emythology of words and see how languages are connected.
My native language is Norwegian, 2nd I learned is English, 3rd is German:)
Good tips Siri! That's what my sister did too.
Is he brazilian???? Because his portuguese is so perfect! I'm brazilian and that sounds like a native speaker to me. Amazing!
He is awesome and the way he kept smiling at the audience made me really happy. I just could not stop smiling. Thank you so much for this video. I definitely want to learn more languages :)
1. Make mistakes
2. Scrap the foreign alphabet
3. Find a sticker
4. Shower conversations
5 Buddy former
thanks man god bless you
Unfortunately things are not that simple. Sid grew up with four languages. This means that from day one his brain got "wired" to live in four different worlds, so to speak. Once you speak four languages, any additional language will be *much* easier to learn than it would have been otherwise. Sid is no special talent; he was lucky to have been given the opportunity to grow up in a multilingual environment and he should thank his parents for this wonderful gift.
That's partially true, but the thing is he went beyond that. I'm Catalan and in Catalonia we have two native languages (Catalan and Spanish) and we start learning English when we are 4 more or less, but that doesn't mean we are all good or fluent in English when we grow up, you have to put some effort in that, same happens with other languages that came from Latin, it might be a bit easier since we already speak two languages that came from the same one BUT that doesn't mean learning Italian or French is easy. What I'm saying is that you have to work hard for it anyway.
Geogina: Neural and behavioral research studies show that exposure to more than one language in the first year of life influences the brain’s neural circuitry even before infants speak their first words. Learning a second language and speaking it regularly can also improve your cognitive skills and even delay the onset of dementia, according to researchers who compared bilingual individuals with people who spoke only one language. Yes, you definitely have to do some work too, but do you see what I mean? The brains of bilingual (trilingual ...) people are "wired" differently which makes it much easier for them to acquire additional languages, and the more languages they learn as babies, the easier it gets.
Anima Libera as I said that’s obvious, but only a part of it. Don’t take away all the credit from his work just because he was lucky to be born in a home with more than one lenguaje. I’m well aware of the studies regarding bilingualism, as a Catalan we have to keep defending our language from the Spanish government and that’s a really good thing to point out while defending our language. But at the same time, since I life in a bilingual reality I know how hard is it to some people to learn other languages even if you already know two lenguajes, so evidently there’s part of luck to have his ability to learn lenguajes, also the luck of being born in a bilingual home, but there’s ALWAYS work needed and I don’t think it’s right to take that away from him; or to discourage people with just one native language with your comment, that’s what I was trying to express.
Geogina: I'm not taking anything away from anyone. All I'm saying is that it's not the same thing to be born into a family with four languages or only one. Someone who grows up with just one language will have a pretty hard time learning seven more whereas when you already have four to start with it's fairly easy because those four you DIDN'T have to work for. There is no need to discuss this any further. I already said that I realize that there is work involved (I speak five languages, so trust me, I know what I'm talking about).
Billy Smith: The good news is that with the knowledge of Spanish that you acquired in school, learning Romanian is going to be much easier than if you had to start from scratch (the two languages are very similar). Even if you hated it back then, some of what you learned is still "buried" somewhere in your brain and it will come back up as your Romanian improves. We're all different so its difficult to give advice, however, the best way to learn a language, which probably works for everyone, is to live in the country or find a two-legged (long-haired) dictionary. Personally, I find that watching videos in the language I want to learn helps me more than reading books or even working with an instructor. Most of us remember lively video images better than textbook lessons or still pictures. Many RUclips videos have subtitles, which can be very helpful. If you can afford it, go to Romania as often as possible. The longer you stay, the more you learn.
Perfect a presentation, thanks Ms. Sid Efromovich
Thanks for your advice, I loved the quotes, especially the last one!
i feel like while you're studying the studying the language totally forget your mother tongue and only think in that language. Pretend as if your don't know anything and that language is the only way you can communicate:)
I agree!
Aja Chaney this would result in the elongation of the language learning process. It’s better to use what you already know as a base to build upon as theres more than likely commonalities that between your first and new language.
It's a very good lecture and i really appreciated his approach to whoever needs to learn a foreign language easier!
Never thought of it like that!
thts a great idea .. I sold try it # wanna learn more languages
If you are hardworking person ,you can learn everything.I think this most important rule.
I love how friendly this guy is, he reminds me of my best friend Alex.
Amazing techniques and methods. Thank you for sharing TEDx.
His Portuguese sounds perfect, really... I can't believe he is not a Brazilian...
Danilo Pacheco Martins he IS brazilian. born and raised XD smh
Kaitly Cassidy Oh yeah... I hadn't read the description of the video, hehehe... tks.
Real comment should read, "His English accent is so good I can't believe he's not American." xD
Isaiah Phillip But that flag is wrong, when he says he speaks portuguese but show the brasilian flag...
Snitzzz™ | ßØSTØΩ ßØRΩ DESIGN What are you talking about? Brazilian speak Portuguese...
Why many people are asking question about his happiness or smile??
I didn't understand... We also smile, While taking classes,during seminars, festivals, get-together.. while chitchating with friends... etc. Such a wonderful days it was..
That’s amazing video!!!! I just found out that now in 2019. I’m brazilian, with intermediate english, basic spanish and I started to learn french! I hope one day To achieve that fluency!!!
Omg I admired him sm !
his smile's so shining
So, in few words... the only crap that prevents a person learning a new language is FEAR?
That explains many things that happens at schools worldwide, if not actually ALL.
+I Have Candies In My Van
Fear is one thing, but that's not all. We don't give us opportunities. We don't use foreign language if we can use ours : movies with subtitles or english versions are not helping, games, books, foreign friends. We are enjoying too much the comfort we have created ^^
+I Have Candies In My Van Hate can also prevent someone from learning. I was forced into extended french in school and that turned my dislike of the language into a hatred for it. Now I'm actually glad that I forgot it, and that it's been reduced to nothing but an ether from which I can draw to learn Spanish. Also, pick something that you truly desire to learn (I think this was mentioned in the video). Do not just pick a language for marketability, else you will come to hate (hah) the experience of learning it.
***** Maybe.
Too be honest, I love my comfort zone. It's made entirely with zebra motifs.
I do believe there is a kind of universal rule to any language. I mean, I do believe in what Chomsky said about that. People who has mastered a second language usually have no difficulty in learning a third, forth language, etc. But for some people learning a second language is something incredibly difficult. I was shocked because his Brazilian Portuguese was perfect. But then he grew up here...
But the only so called secret that I know when it comes to language is an extensive reading, listening, watching, speaking, writing and dictionary. And it takes a lot of time and dedication.
Fully learning a language is quite difficult for sure. I also believe once you get that second language out of the way, even if you aren't fluent, it will help a lot in learning others. I think you can get a pretty good understanding and learn enough to have a basic conversation or get around in the country much faster though. That's all you really need for a visit and can then begin improving.
I do not know about this "if you learn a second language, the third,etc will be easier." I can speak 2 languages since I was 6 and I was also learning French but I can't really speak it till now.
Anmar Safadi This is just what my friend tells me as he has learned many languages. He is fluent in at least 3 and can converse in more. He said it is easier to learn now because he knows the tricks that help him at this point. He can also better teach others because he understands the issues they may be having.
xex2kok I guess I have trouble learning a first new language, as the two languages I speak have been with me a since first grade or before.
Yeah it is much easier to learn when you are young. My friend is from Afghanistan so he grew up learning Pashto and some others. I forget when he moved to the US but he was still a kid and had to start learning English at that point. I think after English he had an easier time since it wasn't a native language he was taught.
Great mind, and as it seems, a very nice person. Bless him!
I feel so impressed about his domain the all these languages, wow me ha inspirado profundamente. Thanks for sharing.
Awesome this guy grew up in Brazil, I'm from Brazil...
Michael Ventura de Souza Do you consider yourself Afro-Brazilian? Você se considera afro-brasileira ?
JoninhoFIFA Eu, não....
interessante, você tem a pele marrom e cabelo preto, curto , encaracolado, nos Estados Unidos , você seria considerado negro. por que você não se considera negro?
JoninhoFIFA Os Estados Unidos tem um conceito diferente de "negro" do daqui Br. Lá existem resquícios de uma lei chamada "one drop rule" que caracterizava como negro qualquer pessoal que tivesse pelo menos um ancestral negro. Isso provavelmente era uma forma de desincentivar a missigenação. Aqui no Brasil e na américa espanhola, miscigenação era menos regrada, e desde o começo termos que diferenciavam miscigenados de não miscigenados surgiram, mostrando um certo entendimento diferente do que constitui um negro. Apesar de quase 100% da população brasileira ser afrodescendente, este termo é usado com uma conotação levemente diferente da do termo "african-american" nos EUA. Acho interessante estas diferenças culturais.
Sou muito consciente disso eu sou dos Estados Unidos e do americano africano , bem como metade nigeriano
I can speak a lot languages too 😁
1.Serbian
2.Croatian
3.Bosnian
4.Montenegrin
5.Russian
6.Spanish
7.English
Ben de Türkçe öğrenmek istiyorum 😎
Elit egitim diye bir set var, onunla türkce ögrenebilirsin. There is a tutorial thats called "Elit Egitim" which you can learn (Turkish). Turkish language comes from Ural-Altaic language family and turkish is from the Altaic part. the languages in this part are: turkish, japanese, mongolian, korean. If you would come from one these countries, you could learn easily and even if you would come from Ural part such as finnish, hungarian or estonien, you could also learn a bit easier. So it will bw tough for you but you can make it. My swiss wife is learning turkish and she is quite good and her level is around B1. I heard that many people learn turkish by watching turkish serial or TV.. Unfortunately turks do not publish so much video tutorial for learning turkish or podcast for foreigns.. I dont know why but it will be difficult for you to find some basic sources.. hope it helps..
Martin Boss Çok teşekkürler, :) I will watch that video,this summer I met some Turkish people and one girl and that inspired me to learn it also :) Also I want to come to Istanbul to visit .
Yabancilar icin türkce ögretmeni misin?
Ecem yürek İlgilenirim,how do you do it,online ?
lol mostly useless languages. Congrats)
That's an amazing video👍 I really admired his technique of learning languages. It would be cool if I had a friend like him☺️
The only two ways to speak the language fluently is: listening and speaking as much as you can. The End..