A lot of these (e.g.: "one weird trick", "shock you", etc) are pretty familiar and even common, to the point that I've long been actively _less_ likely to click on a video that uses them. Why did I click on "SECRET TRICKS EXPOSED"? Because I know that Dr. Jones has a good track record of interesting and worthwhile content, which is enough to overcome the aversion to the title.
Same here, honestly. I'm also less likely to click on headlines like "X SMASHES Y" or something; if I find a new creator anymore, I'm taking a calculated risk. I took one to get to this channel and I think it paid off; this is good content. But sometimes I just shake my head and move on.
In the same way I don't watch any commercials or promotions that come with the video content, I am not sure how advertising on RUclips is effective anyways, be ause like you pointed out we have learned to ignore something, although it is right in front of you.
I normally choose the "do not recommend channel" option whenever I see a "shocked face" thumbnail, but I figured you'd get meta about it and gave it a pass :)
@@beingandtreeingSomeone needs to publish "Helpful Hints to Avoid RUclips Nonsense." Choose "do not recommend channel"when * You see a shocked face * You see photoshopped googly wide eyes * Title says "shocking" or "secret" * Video is sponsored--uh oh, that applies to this channel! * Title warns about mistakes, errors, lost progress etc that you'll fall prey to if you don't watch * Title says "haul" * It's a top 10 list. Adult humans should have evolved beyond ranking stuff just to start arguments
I started with it when learning Spanish. I'd recommend it to anyone who has the wrong personality type for DuoLingo (me, very much me). The key is -- it ends. You get through all the courses and are then pushed out into the real world to go find a real tutor or something. DuoLingo will let you hide behind that stupid owl for 8 years without talking to anyone and that is a waste of time.
What always gets me is when they put in a joke or interesting fact in the form of a wall of text or an image that's flashed across the screen for just a moment. There have been times when it was so quick that after three or four attempts and still missing it I ended up having to play it back at a quarter speed in order to be able to pause it at just the right place.
I remember years ago thinking that all of these click bait things would get so annoying to the public that they'd eventually go away. Egg's on my face.
No. It's not. The eggs are on creators' faces. Just because something is common and used doesn't mean it's right. Take popups, for example. I HATE BEING INTERRUPTED WHEN I'M HAVING AN EXPERIENCE ON THE INTERNET, yet these poopups (going with it) are constant. A lot of times, i just back out. Cookies? Out. Legal agreements for reading about a dog. Out. The problem is, like with certain quizzes or surveys, they force the narrative and you can't give negative feedback--things aren't designed for that. (Example: i took an online quiz about politics, and needed to donate to Trump to submit my answers.... pass) No one knows about missed opportunities. they're not measured as well (you can dig into it if you care, but on the surface....). It's making me despise being online. I'm starting to read again...
It’s weird, they are so blatant. >>>>>> You won’t believe what happened next. Everyone gets this wrong. How to turbo charge your language learning. The secret to Yoruba pronunciation. You need to know this. This trick will change your life. Secret linguistic tricks exposed.
@@languagejones I usually wear a little cloth mask around my chin when recording on my phone - usually I'm wearing it anyway because it's cold or crowded outside, but it gives me more freedom in camera angle with my phone, because the low angles aren't as unflattering with some cute fabric breaking up the flesh. The takeaway? Anti-maskers have a knee-jerk response to watch the entire video, awaiting an explanation as to why I'm wearing a mask - and then when it doesn't come, they post about it in my comments. Often, other viewers will then argue with them about all sorts of whatevers "why do you even care" or "it's cold out". Free engagement.
You excluded Pimsleur ESL versions. The X Nationality speaker sits and speaks to an American woman. The Japanese Pimsleur has a Japanese man sitting and talking to a local woman (Chinese, Korean and French). Edit: Clarification, I am referring to the Japanese Pimsleur base, has a Japanese man talking to a Chinese, Korean or French local woman. Depending on what language he is learning of the three I wrote.
I've only ever done one and did find that very odd. Esp the part where the businessman kept asking her out, she kept saying "no", and he kept proposing different times and/or locations.
@@MTimWeaver Those are specifically the English base learning X language. Which would be like 90% of the Pimsleur programs out there. The ESL and Japanese base is not an American man.
I've always wondered how "Surgeons Hate This Knee Brace!" is supposed to indicate a good knee brace. It's worded as though "everyone knows" surgeons WANT people to get injured.
Actually I had so far skipped the last video despite the manipulative title, but now that you've described it as being about "resyllabification", I'm intrigued and will likely go watch!
The faces that Mr Beast is making in these thumbnails are 100% way to scare me away from content. "Normal" range of surprise or a smile - yes. Looking like someone on a large dose of improper yet entertaining substances - nope.
Mr beast’s face is so clearly manufactured that I believe it mostly works on children who are not fully matured to understand the facial expressions of real people
these "tricks" are making me more and more disgusted over time. I don't mean throughout this video, but over months. I've even unfollowed channels that overuse the"shock factor", or purposely avoided videos with title that says nothing ("this literally shocked me. You'll se why" and bs like that). The only reason I'm here is bc I've been watching this channel for some time, and I expected facts and valuable info (which was delivered :) )
I feel the need to see and mainly listen to all of your videos, even when the subject isn't what i'm looking for, because of the quality of your subtle jokes, sophisticated irony and deliberated bad video edition. I get myself laughing so much in every video that I come back constantly to make my day here (and always learn new interesting stuff, despite of the obvious deliberated catchy titles that annoy me, but I got your needs/tests as a great RUclipsr). I would like to thank you for all your hard and smart work. I will surely keep coming back, although in general I'm way too lazy to comment and be friendly to the algorithm (sorry for that). All the best, keep the great work, cheers from Brazil!
I clicked on the notification with the expectation to learn something... I didn't read what it said... I keep watching because I don't have anything else to do right now...
yeah honestly it's interesting to me how I usually have a STRONG aversion to clicking on titles like this, but it completely flips to an powerful *compulsion* if it comes from a familiar channel who I know will deliver a high-quality payoff its like I know that they're "in on the joke" or smth, and aren't just sloppily applying the technique to try and waste my time, but are doing it with a wink and nudge (and a bit of a *sigh* of begrudgement, lol)
RUclipsrs will often use "we" instead of "i" and self based language to make viewers feel a part of the story and parasocially become attached, part of a community etc. Once you notice it, its SUPER common but pretty subtle.
I might not have clicked on this video if I hadn't seen the channel name/logo. It definitely got my attention, but not in a way I generally associate with quality these days.
I've (do not recommend channel) to many a channels for using extreme titles and failing terribly to deliver anything close to what the title implied. You have survived my axe thus far 😄
Interestingly, it is possible to train yourself to resist these techniques without knowing what they are exactly. Although - as with many things, knowing them will make resisting them so much easier to teach yourself (if you want to).
It's so interesting to hear about other fields' experiences in grad school because while I don't necessarily get marked down for "correct academic-speak," it is being discouraged in my Library Science grad school classes unless it is actually necessary to get a point across correctly. And every once in a while the professor will specifically request that students avoid using it. And I see it in the field too because I get whiplash from the articles in my field going from a high academia dialect of English to plain English but with library jargon.
Attention! These secret tricks will positively change your life! I clicked on the video for two reasons. The title immediately grabbed my attention, just as you perfectly described. And I knew you would use all the secrets. The video didn’t feel like 16 minutes at all, and I was fully engaged the entire time. I really enjoyed it, and now I’m going to watch it a second time because it’s just that good.
Also, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Got to the end and wasn't given the payoff. This video was so ingajing! Had my thinking cap on the hole time!! Super loved it❤❤❤
15:35 a vast majority of the time, it's to lead you to a scam adult website and get your card information. not sure if there are other significant intents out there, please correct me if there are other purposes.
I actually used pimsleur as a way to kick myself into gear and get started with Japanese. While now I can look back and see the lesson structures were a bit strange, I'm thankful they gave me enough of a confidence boost to kick myself into gear and continue my learning journey. I'd be very interested in seeing you give a review of the methodologies they use and their efficacy!
Happy Hanukkah! Super interesting video, but please know I just click on everything you post because I enjoy your content regardless of what it is, lol.
I've intuitively started to notice this to the point that when RUclips offers checkmarked channels I've never heard of with some goofy overly-emotive face on them... I just tell RUclips not to recommend the channel.
And it's multi-layered, because RUclips-the-platform is doing things, and the RUclips video creators are doing things, and some of the things they're doing are to manipulate you, and some are to manipulate RUclips-the-platform, and some are to manipulate you into manipulating the platform ("Like and subscribe!") and some are to manipulate the platform into manipulating you, and so on. And that's not even including the advertisers, which includes both the separate-from-video ads and the in-video sponsorships.
@@BrooksMoses lmaooo yep, very well put also, both the horror and the fun multiply once you realise the exact same dynamics apply to society at large, it being the macrocosm to social media's microcosm...
@@BrooksMoses Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to be a RUclipsr :) As interesting, useful, and entertaining as RUclips can be, it will also leave you feeling really icky and used if you have even a slight awareness of how it works and what it's all trying to do.
Would love an "Is it worth it?" format video on pimsleur, and by extension an "is it worth your time?" for free alternatives like dreaming spanish and etc.
I second this. I find their courses mentally tiring in a productive way (saturation is real), but I feel as though I'm missing out because I'm not involving vision or writing in learning. I'd love Taylor's analysis of the field of language acquisition.
i think by now most paranoid people are all pretty much subconsciously aware of this to varying degrees... just last night i was sucked into hours long shorts binge (which up to a few days ago i always avoided, i.e i never clicked on shorts for that exact reason) however while there i did indeed find my self wondering "why am i being shown this... what is the algorithm trying to tell me or otherwise how is it making it impossible for me to stop" thankfully i was strong enough to avoid all the self help BS it tried to push onto me in my moment of debility (for example) it felt like pray animals looking for a weakness!!! As always thanks for following through and creating RELEVANT and USEFUL content! Happy Hanukkah!
Thank you! And shorts binges are even worse for me because I’m rationalizing it by saying I’m analyzing why I’m addicted so I can make better content 😬
I installed a browser extension so that shorts are displayed like normal videos because I hate the default way in which they are displayed. I hated it even before I had any idea what sorts of manipulative stuff it is designed to do.
- I'd love to hear more about Pimsleur...I got one of the programs as a gift (actual CDs), so I'm now curious. - As for the more-drivers-than-content thing...Yeah. The continued describing what they're going to talk about rather than talking about it gets me to about 1/3 to maybe 1/2 way through before I leave the video. - And the typo-drives-engagement routine is why I'm positive so many memes are misspelled. As a writer by trade, I cannot express how irksome that is. 🤣
So good! So many good points, most of them quite useful. Will have to watch again to catch them all. Your tricks worked on that score. :) (Keyboard Wariors: feel free to correct my spelling and writing style errors.)
5:42 and I'm already laughing at how many time deferrals there are. "Get to that later" and "at the end of the video". Don't even get me started on the title 😂❤
I remove thirst traps, click baits and computer generated videos on youtube, so my feed is pretty much what I enjoy with some random suggestions from time to time. Also I don't usually click on videos with "exposed", "secret" or "owned", but I made an exception this time.
I recently wrote a review and it got a lot of positive feedback with how clear it was. The one negative response was that I didn't have a Masters in Fine Art. It really is as if a bunch of academics *want* the academy to be incomprehensible so it remains an elite little club (or maybe they don't like the work it takes to understand their audience in order to communicate clearly, who knows).
5:52 I would love to get your insight on the Pimsleur system. I’m currently using that (amongst other things) to start my French learning endeavor. I like it but it was kind of the only audio course my library carried.
I think I’ll start making honest, linguistically informed reviews in the new year. Short answer is that it can be a useful tool in your arsenal, but not a standalone. Like so many other things too
Personally I have a love-hate relationship with Pimsleur because it's very hard for me to consistently use it due to its audio-only nature and me having auditory processing issues, but also it's the entire reason I can parse the phonology of Spanish and German at all for that exact reason.
My brain was constantly imploding seeing how I was having a delayed response to every item on the list. Very captivating video, I'm happily going to rewatch knowing I was manipulated into doing so :)
1: A Pimsleur review would be great, love your assessments of language resources. 2: Given that you've studied Yiddish and Modern Hebrew, and talked a little about Judaeo-Persian, a video about Jewish Languages would be really cool. Chag sameach, btw.
Language Jones: You're being manipulated. My brain: i don't know why, but I really like this video Me: Yeah, I'm enjoying it already *realised Me: oh, boy!!
I have a request that’s somewhat unrelated to the video. Could you create a video addressing the unrealistic expectation of achieving fluency in a new language within 30 days? I’ve been studying Spanish for three months-memorizing over 1,000 words and focusing on comprehensible input and grammar-but I’m still far from fluent and struggle to understand or speak the language. It would be helpful to raise awareness about how misleading this expectation can be for language learners. I imagine a video that showed us the reality of learning and what we can expect in 1month, 6mohths, 2 years could be invaluable
I've noticed this a lot in headlines and it's started to feel really cookie cutter and annoying. "We asked five (experts) their favorite (item) and they all said the same thing" (said item tends to be fairly predictable, too). Or "(Person) saw (kid/pet) (doing random thing) and couldn't cope" (something cute that happens to people daily but they happened to record it and go viral). It's been driving me bonkers.
For some of these techniques (particularly in titles and thumbnails) I have become so conditioned to associate them with slop that they end up having the opposite of the desired effect. Even for this video my gut reaction was to avoid it, and I had to consciously remind myself that this channel delivers before I could convince myself to click it.
yess right?? i JUST replied to another comment with this: "yeah honestly it's interesting to me how I usually have a STRONG aversion to clicking on titles like this, but it completely flips to an powerful *compulsion* if it comes from a familiar channel who I know will deliver a high-quality payoff its like I know that they're "in on the joke" or smth, and aren't just sloppily applying the technique to try and waste my time, but are doing it with a wink and nudge (and a bit of a *sigh* of begrudgement, lol)"
Any video title which says, essentially, “Person A DESTROYS Person B” I will _not_ click period. (I think I hate the word “schools” used as a verb even more.) It’s not _just_ that the title is manipulative and click-baity. It’s that it _doesn’t matter_ if Person A has scored some discursive victory over Person B. It’s meaningless in the scheme of things.
@@artugert For sure. In this case more so than providing new information (though it did) the value to me is that it organized and labelled concepts that I had previously understood disparately and intuitively.
Dr. Jones, to answer your question, you certainly have delivered on your clickbait promise. Your channel serves the noble purpose of educating the masses (at least, the masses who are interested in language), and you make me laugh while doing so. Thanks for keeping the good stuff coming.
To be honest, I didn't want to watch this video because of the clickbait-y title and thumbnail. I finally watched it only because it's you and your content is always information dense and interesting. I was not disappointed. I'll never say these tricks don't work on me - there will always be some as well as plenty that I just go "oh go on then show me what you want me to see, if you must" - but I certainly think that some people (maybe the cynical) are more repelled than attracted by such techniques. Maybe a minority? In any case I appreciate Andrew Morgan Watches who introduces his list videos with things like "the last one definitely comes after the penultimate one" and similar. I like subverting these things and that gets me to watch.
You’re correct - you belong in a very small minority. I’m in advertising and we test these headlines and banner ads endlessly. As much as we writers yearn to leave these tactics in the junkyard of advertising history, they simply will not stop outperforming other messaging attempts. And it’s not outperforming by a few percentage points, either. We’re talking about a 30% lift in most cases, sadly. Enough people like you and the other critical commenters here are so inundated with clickbait messaging at this point that you’ll grimace and click anyway, especially if it’s a trusted source.
Yes please to the Review of Pimsleur products. I started with Berlitz for Travelers which opened the door to "learning" Norwegian by at least priming my ear to the sound of the language and passive memorization after 45 days of listening to audio tracks while going to sleep. Then to Dutch at a Berlitz language school. The Foreign Service Icelandic course was a very esoteric resource for learning a then-esoteric language. Never got a chance to use The Pimsleur Method, though the Frenchie branding did make it seem intriguing. One of my strongest complaints of the Big pedagogical companies is their soulless cut-and-paste strategy of adding new languages: take multicultural pictures of ... apple juice, translate to new language, get AI/native speakers to record a spoken version and voilà "new" language course, completely devoid of cultural cues, localisation or building a curriculum around the needs of parts of grammar to being understood, which vary by language family. How does it work for The Pim?
this is why I'd be such a bad RUclipsr, way too much Lloyd Dobler in me, and simply i just don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold bought or processed… or repair anything sold bought or processed… ya know as a career i don’t wanna do that.
Thank you for compiling and succinctly explaining so many of these tactics, Dr. Jones. To your question about future Pimsleur content: Yes, please! I'd also personally be interested in a deep dive into the language learning platform Rocket Language (I bought a lifetime membership years ago and would love to know what its actual value is/where to focus my efforts). Happy Holidays, sir!
5:50 Yeah some Pimsleur coverage would be interesting. I've been complimented on my pronunciation after using them, but I never really felt like I was developing much conversational proficiency with it.
I’ve considered adding a red line to the bottom of my thumbnails just so people see it and go “wait I don’t remember watching that. Let’s see if I did…”
I am a nearly 19 year old American and I did sentence diagramming during elementary and middle school. It absolutely SUCKED but it’s proven to be useful now that I am learning languages
I find myself repelled by titles that say “ten things you didn’t know about…” and so on. I immediately feel like they’re trying to get me to view and then comment that I did, in fact, know all those things. And since this bothers me, I click “ignore” instead.
I almost never watch a video that has words CAPITALIZED in the title, because it always looks clickbait-y to me (unless it's something I really need to know, like for a car repair). Yours are among the few that I do, because you've earned my trust.
I'll say this about Pimsleur. I didn't come off my 2 completed Pimsleur programs thinking I truly could communicate in those languages (Japanese 1-3 and Russian 1-3) but I was able to jump into some conversations, and at least for a few months after I was done, I was told I had amazing pronunciation in both languages (except the difference between the sh sounds in Russian... I never got that one, and Pimsleur didn't help because I can't really hear it) Pimsleur was a much better jumping off point than other study methods.
Like many others, I've gotten wise to these tricks and actively avoid clicking on videos that use them. I CERTAINLY would never let myself get manipulated into leaving a comment.
Pimsleur video please! I’d love to hear your take on it. I’ve used it for Spanish, Italian, French, and Arabic to varying levels of success. Happy New Calendar!
I sometimes notice these tricks unconsciously and get irritated by them. I am only watching this video now, all the way through, because someone told me there is actual substance to it.
Interesting linguistic and second language acquisition stuff happening in pimsleor programs. It's definitely something I've used before, always find your deep Dives informative, including this one LOL happy holidays
Serious question though, why do most of these tricks immediately set off my warning radar and make me angry at being manipulated? To the point where when I see psycholinguistics at work (or at least the obvious bits) I am compelled to not watch a video and immediately think the content is less authoritative? Also I love the twisty Klein bottle this video has become
There’s a weird thing that Swedish tabloid news does when they put up their billboards, where they combine words in unusual ways to make the potential reader of the billboard think “that sounds weird, I have to find out what that means” and buy an issue. Example: “Will YOU be hit by the SNOW-PUNCH this weekend? Weather forecast on page 15!” The word “snow-punch” is used to mean “an unusually large amount of snow in a sudden event”, basically “wow, that’s a lot of snow all at once”. It’s such a strange way to phrase it though, and it gets you to think about the headline and what it could mean. It’s a similar kind of manipulation as clickbait.
The biggest piece of advice on this front I've ever gotten I got from a video by John Green: "Pay attention to what you pay attention to." So many people, I find, especially young people, don't pay attention to what they're paying attention to. They aren't asking the questions that you asked at the end of the video. And this isn't me being a judgy older millennial telling these kids to get off my internet, because we aren't born knowing how to be media literate. We need to be trained, just like we need to be trained how to read. In fact, media literacy is very similar to reading and learning it is very similar to learning how to read. We just need to teach it. A trick I sometimes use is to ask myself what I expect out of a video, and to establish what I want to learn. For instance, if the cover image has tornadoes on it and the text says "1974 Super Outbreak," then I go in expecting to learn about the super outbreak in 1974. I may not learn all of it, but I expect to learn something. If the text says "Secret linguistic tricks influencers use" then I go in expecting to learn about the secret tricks. If I don't, then I don't bother with that creator anymore. And if I don't know what to expect from the thumbnail, then I avoid the content entirely. I'm very judicious about my time, because I am willing to spend upwards of an hour watching a video to get a handle on a topic. I hate shorts with a burning passion; give me long form content, since that's the only way you can really learn anything of value. And while some of these techniques I did know about - back in the halcyon days of Facebook Clickbait in the 2010s, I wrote content for several of the blogs - I didn't know them all. This could functionally be a short-form introduction to media literacy, which is desperately needed these days.
I really like the way you communicate in your videos which is why i watch you - I’m not only Gen X but also an early adopter of the internet. This all SUX. Don’t like any of it and when people do it, I don’t watch their videos. Don’t like shorts, ads, fake cons, etc etc you dig?
My most memorable “professor was telling a random story” incident in a class called the Roman achievement that was the history of Rome beyond just the battles. Like we read miles gloriosus and menarche I and then watched a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. And my professor with his slight German accent got *really* into discussing the battle off Teutoburg forest. So it didn’t start off too off track when he was telling this whole story about the issue of the sons of wealthy roman families being kidnapped and this poet who had someone take credit for his work and how it felt like his own child had been kidnapped and so he used to term for that… and that’s where the word plagiarism comes from. It was his anti plagiarism speech and he assigned us a paper at the end of it.
I'm sure you didn't intend this has a "how to" but as someone who works in (science) communication this was really interesting. I guess it's similar for RUclipsrs; if all the people competing for your audience's attention are using these attention-grabbing tricks, you need to think about using at least some of them too or your message just gets drowned in the noise. Some of them are kinda crappy, like a tiny blink-and-you-missed-it item in a video so you have to watch repeatedly. But some seem like a reasonable way of capturing notice as long as the content then delivers (as this channel very much does)
I meant to post this on your gentle parenting video, but could you do a video about raise your kid speaking multiple languages? I'd like my kids to end up knowing 3, but I've also seen videos about how even being raised with just 2 can be a very difficult and embarrassing experience for the kid and wanna know a better way to handle it.
A lot of these (e.g.: "one weird trick", "shock you", etc) are pretty familiar and even common, to the point that I've long been actively _less_ likely to click on a video that uses them.
Why did I click on "SECRET TRICKS EXPOSED"? Because I know that Dr. Jones has a good track record of interesting and worthwhile content, which is enough to overcome the aversion to the title.
That was definitely a calculated risk given my existing audience vs. growing the channel!
Same here, honestly. I'm also less likely to click on headlines like "X SMASHES Y" or something; if I find a new creator anymore, I'm taking a calculated risk. I took one to get to this channel and I think it paid off; this is good content. But sometimes I just shake my head and move on.
@@TheWipeout32 Exactly. Supernormal stimuli have just become associated with empty calories, literally and figuratively.
I agree with you all!
In the same way I don't watch any commercials or promotions that come with the video content, I am not sure how advertising on RUclips is effective anyways, be ause like you pointed out we have learned to ignore something, although it is right in front of you.
me reading the title of the video: GASP
me realizing five seconds into the video that I've been manipulated into clicking it: GASP
It’s just a slow burn of wait, he did it again? Wait he’s doing it right now?!
@@languagejones me entering a state of disarray as that the man, the myth, the legend spoke to me: GASP
(I'm making it weird now, aren't I)
I’ll be looking forward with breathless anticipation to that future video by languagejones that specifically is titled “resyllabification” now.
“Resyllabification: deal with it”
@@languagejonesThanks for keeping me engaged with the channel.
Sounds a lot like _Slabification_ , maybe "slobber-fication" or even "slobber vacation".
Resyllabification: deal wi thit
Resyllabification [REAL] (not clickbait)
I normally choose the "do not recommend channel" option whenever I see a "shocked face" thumbnail, but I figured you'd get meta about it and gave it a pass :)
yeah something told me there was more than meets the eye but I don't know what it was
Haha, I have a mental list of "thumbnail poses that go on my 'do not recommend list'" too. :D
@@beingandtreeingSomeone needs to publish "Helpful Hints to Avoid RUclips Nonsense." Choose "do not recommend channel"when
* You see a shocked face
* You see photoshopped googly wide eyes
* Title says "shocking" or "secret"
* Video is sponsored--uh oh, that applies to this channel!
* Title warns about mistakes, errors, lost progress etc that you'll fall prey to if you don't watch
* Title says "haul"
* It's a top 10 list. Adult humans should have evolved beyond ranking stuff just to start arguments
Jokes on you, I watch all of your videos because they're interesting and you have educated me on things I had no idea about, take THAT language jones!
I’d love a Pimseleur breakdown! I’ve been so interested in that since I saw an infomercial for it on the internet when I was like 12
I started with it when learning Spanish. I'd recommend it to anyone who has the wrong personality type for DuoLingo (me, very much me). The key is -- it ends. You get through all the courses and are then pushed out into the real world to go find a real tutor or something. DuoLingo will let you hide behind that stupid owl for 8 years without talking to anyone and that is a waste of time.
What always gets me is when they put in a joke or interesting fact in the form of a wall of text or an image that's flashed across the screen for just a moment. There have been times when it was so quick that after three or four attempts and still missing it I ended up having to play it back at a quarter speed in order to be able to pause it at just the right place.
Working on your own NLP?
This channel does that on every video, including this one. Not a wall of text, though, just a few words.
I remember years ago thinking that all of these click bait things would get so annoying to the public that they'd eventually go away.
Egg's on my face.
Welcome to the youtube meta! Everything is about making money now
I think people are beginning to see click bait, not as effective as it used to be
One Thing She Hoped Would Happen, The Outcome Might Surprise You!
No. It's not. The eggs are on creators' faces.
Just because something is common and used doesn't mean it's right.
Take popups, for example.
I HATE BEING INTERRUPTED WHEN I'M HAVING AN EXPERIENCE ON THE INTERNET, yet these poopups (going with it) are constant. A lot of times, i just back out.
Cookies? Out.
Legal agreements for reading about a dog. Out.
The problem is, like with certain quizzes or surveys, they force the narrative and you can't give negative feedback--things aren't designed for that. (Example: i took an online quiz about politics, and needed to donate to Trump to submit my answers.... pass)
No one knows about missed opportunities. they're not measured as well (you can dig into it if you care, but on the surface....).
It's making me despise being online. I'm starting to read again...
It’s weird, they are so blatant. >>>>>> You won’t believe what happened next. Everyone gets this wrong. How to turbo charge your language learning. The secret to Yoruba pronunciation. You need to know this. This trick will change your life. Secret linguistic tricks exposed.
He was almost swept away by the linguist's devious tricks and techniques, but this thing distracted him!
The stray hair in the linguist's beard.
I almost added an overlay pointing to it and asking if it was an engagement driver!!! I thought that would have been overkill
@@languagejones I usually wear a little cloth mask around my chin when recording on my phone - usually I'm wearing it anyway because it's cold or crowded outside, but it gives me more freedom in camera angle with my phone, because the low angles aren't as unflattering with some cute fabric breaking up the flesh.
The takeaway? Anti-maskers have a knee-jerk response to watch the entire video, awaiting an explanation as to why I'm wearing a mask - and then when it doesn't come, they post about it in my comments. Often, other viewers will then argue with them about all sorts of whatevers "why do you even care" or "it's cold out".
Free engagement.
Aah, Pimsleur. Where every new language journey starts with An American Business Man Sitting Next To A Local Woman.
You excluded Pimsleur ESL versions.
The X Nationality speaker sits and speaks to an American woman.
The Japanese Pimsleur has a Japanese man sitting and talking to a local woman (Chinese, Korean and French).
Edit: Clarification, I am referring to the Japanese Pimsleur base, has a Japanese man talking to a Chinese, Korean or French local woman. Depending on what language he is learning of the three I wrote.
I've only ever done one and did find that very odd. Esp the part where the businessman kept asking her out, she kept saying "no", and he kept proposing different times and/or locations.
@@MTimWeaver Those are specifically the English base learning X language. Which would be like 90% of the Pimsleur programs out there. The ESL and Japanese base is not an American man.
Hahaha!
I've always wondered how "Surgeons Hate This Knee Brace!" is supposed to indicate a good knee brace. It's worded as though "everyone knows" surgeons WANT people to get injured.
Actually I had so far skipped the last video despite the manipulative title, but now that you've described it as being about "resyllabification", I'm intrigued and will likely go watch!
That was a strange video. He definitely speaks French, which employs resyllabification right, left and center. That should not surprise him.
The faces that Mr Beast is making in these thumbnails are 100% way to scare me away from content. "Normal" range of surprise or a smile - yes. Looking like someone on a large dose of improper yet entertaining substances - nope.
Mr beast’s face is so clearly manufactured that I believe it mostly works on children who are not fully matured to understand the facial expressions of real people
He actually acknowledged this as of recent, and has toned down on it. He’s nefariously good at what he does.
these "tricks" are making me more and more disgusted over time. I don't mean throughout this video, but over months. I've even unfollowed channels that overuse the"shock factor", or purposely avoided videos with title that says nothing ("this literally shocked me. You'll se why" and bs like that). The only reason I'm here is bc I've been watching this channel for some time, and I expected facts and valuable info (which was delivered :) )
I feel the need to see and mainly listen to all of your videos, even when the subject isn't what i'm looking for, because of the quality of your subtle jokes, sophisticated irony and deliberated bad video edition. I get myself laughing so much in every video that I come back constantly to make my day here (and always learn new interesting stuff, despite of the obvious deliberated catchy titles that annoy me, but I got your needs/tests as a great RUclipsr). I would like to thank you for all your hard and smart work. I will surely keep coming back, although in general I'm way too lazy to comment and be friendly to the algorithm (sorry for that). All the best, keep the great work, cheers from Brazil!
You're a treasure for the language learning community, Mr. Language. Happy Hannukah!
Banger of a video, and that matrix joke was absolutely S tier.
I clicked on the notification with the expectation to learn something... I didn't read what it said... I keep watching because I don't have anything else to do right now...
You hooked me with "Language Jones" and "two hours ago"
yeah honestly it's interesting to me how I usually have a STRONG aversion to clicking on titles like this, but it completely flips to an powerful *compulsion* if it comes from a familiar channel who I know will deliver a high-quality payoff
its like I know that they're "in on the joke" or smth, and aren't just sloppily applying the technique to try and waste my time, but are doing it with a wink and nudge (and a bit of a *sigh* of begrudgement, lol)
Totally agree! Loved this video - a reminder of a lot of the stuff I see online - and a really clever way to both educate us and manipulate us😄😍
RUclipsrs will often use "we" instead of "i" and self based language to make viewers feel a part of the story and parasocially become attached, part of a community etc. Once you notice it, its SUPER common but pretty subtle.
And it's the one weird case where the "don't do anything like an academic paper!" advice is actually wrong!
@@BrooksMoses old dilemma - should papers by single author use "we" or "I"?
I might not have clicked on this video if I hadn't seen the channel name/logo. It definitely got my attention, but not in a way I generally associate with quality these days.
Thanks! Love that you offer critical thinking and examination of how language is used and how it can be improved.
I've (do not recommend channel) to many a channels for using extreme titles and failing terribly to deliver anything close to what the title implied. You have survived my axe thus far 😄
Interestingly, it is possible to train yourself to resist these techniques without knowing what they are exactly. Although - as with many things, knowing them will make resisting them so much easier to teach yourself (if you want to).
etymologynerd also talks about the social media "accent" and jump cuts between sentences
It's so interesting to hear about other fields' experiences in grad school because while I don't necessarily get marked down for "correct academic-speak," it is being discouraged in my Library Science grad school classes unless it is actually necessary to get a point across correctly. And every once in a while the professor will specifically request that students avoid using it. And I see it in the field too because I get whiplash from the articles in my field going from a high academia dialect of English to plain English but with library jargon.
I think in academic journals it is the goal to be dry and factual, because science is all about fighting human biases to find the truth.
I love your content man, keep it up 🎉
Attention! These secret tricks will positively change your life! I clicked on the video for two reasons. The title immediately grabbed my attention, just as you perfectly described. And I knew you would use all the secrets. The video didn’t feel like 16 minutes at all, and I was fully engaged the entire time. I really enjoyed it, and now I’m going to watch it a second time because it’s just that good.
You absolutely delivered with this video AND to get me to comment for further engagement
Will have to watch the rest of this in the morning. Looking forward to a Pimsleur deep dive.
Also, HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Got to the end and wasn't given the payoff.
This video was so ingajing! Had my thinking cap on the hole time!! Super loved it❤❤❤
Very good video, Jones!
15:35 a vast majority of the time, it's to lead you to a scam adult website and get your card information. not sure if there are other significant intents out there, please correct me if there are other purposes.
I actually used pimsleur as a way to kick myself into gear and get started with Japanese. While now I can look back and see the lesson structures were a bit strange, I'm thankful they gave me enough of a confidence boost to kick myself into gear and continue my learning journey.
I'd be very interested in seeing you give a review of the methodologies they use and their efficacy!
Happy Hanukkah! Super interesting video, but please know I just click on everything you post because I enjoy your content regardless of what it is, lol.
That’s so kind of you to say! Unfortunately, not everybody is like you
incredible work as always mr jones 👏👏👏
here is ur comment for engagement!
cant wait for the follow-along !!
I've intuitively started to notice this to the point that when RUclips offers checkmarked channels I've never heard of with some goofy overly-emotive face on them... I just tell RUclips not to recommend the channel.
A big part of the fun/horror of RUclips is observing how it manipulates you and how it's all ultimately about buying and selling.
And it's multi-layered, because RUclips-the-platform is doing things, and the RUclips video creators are doing things, and some of the things they're doing are to manipulate you, and some are to manipulate RUclips-the-platform, and some are to manipulate you into manipulating the platform ("Like and subscribe!") and some are to manipulate the platform into manipulating you, and so on. And that's not even including the advertisers, which includes both the separate-from-video ads and the in-video sponsorships.
@@BrooksMoses lmaooo yep, very well put
also, both the horror and the fun multiply once you realise the exact same dynamics apply to society at large, it being the macrocosm to social media's microcosm...
@@BrooksMoses Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to be a RUclipsr :) As interesting, useful, and entertaining as RUclips can be, it will also leave you feeling really icky and used if you have even a slight awareness of how it works and what it's all trying to do.
Would love an "Is it worth it?" format video on pimsleur, and by extension an "is it worth your time?" for free alternatives like dreaming spanish and etc.
I second this. I find their courses mentally tiring in a productive way (saturation is real), but I feel as though I'm missing out because I'm not involving vision or writing in learning. I'd love Taylor's analysis of the field of language acquisition.
I think that’s a great idea for a series. I’ll do keyword optimization and A/B testing on the exact phrasing though 😂
@@languagejones Jerk. 🤣😂
i think by now most paranoid people are all pretty much subconsciously aware of this to varying degrees... just last night i was sucked into hours long shorts binge (which up to a few days ago i always avoided, i.e i never clicked on shorts for that exact reason) however while there i did indeed find my self wondering "why am i being shown this... what is the algorithm trying to tell me or otherwise how is it making it impossible for me to stop" thankfully i was strong enough to avoid all the self help BS it tried to push onto me in my moment of debility (for example) it felt like pray animals looking for a weakness!!!
As always thanks for following through and creating RELEVANT and USEFUL content! Happy Hanukkah!
Thank you! And shorts binges are even worse for me because I’m rationalizing it by saying I’m analyzing why I’m addicted so I can make better content 😬
I installed a browser extension so that shorts are displayed like normal videos because I hate the default way in which they are displayed. I hated it even before I had any idea what sorts of manipulative stuff it is designed to do.
- I'd love to hear more about Pimsleur...I got one of the programs as a gift (actual CDs), so I'm now curious.
- As for the more-drivers-than-content thing...Yeah. The continued describing what they're going to talk about rather than talking about it gets me to about 1/3 to maybe 1/2 way through before I leave the video.
- And the typo-drives-engagement routine is why I'm positive so many memes are misspelled. As a writer by trade, I cannot express how irksome that is. 🤣
Another super interesting knowledge drop. Love this channel!
You definitely delivered. I already know about a lot of this, but you make good videos so I'm here lol
I do want a review of Pimsleur. I finished one of their language courses. I liked that I could do it while I was driving.
So good! So many good points, most of them quite useful. Will have to watch again to catch them all. Your tricks worked on that score. :) (Keyboard Wariors: feel free to correct my spelling and writing style errors.)
5:42 and I'm already laughing at how many time deferrals there are. "Get to that later" and "at the end of the video".
Don't even get me started on the title 😂❤
When I write scripts, I realize nobody is going to get to the cool thing (to me) 10 minutes in if I don’t tease it earlier
I remove thirst traps, click baits and computer generated videos on youtube, so my feed is pretty much what I enjoy with some random suggestions from time to time. Also I don't usually click on videos with "exposed", "secret" or "owned", but I made an exception this time.
I recently wrote a review and it got a lot of positive feedback with how clear it was. The one negative response was that I didn't have a Masters in Fine Art. It really is as if a bunch of academics *want* the academy to be incomprehensible so it remains an elite little club (or maybe they don't like the work it takes to understand their audience in order to communicate clearly, who knows).
Happy Hanukkah 🕎
Thank you! You too! Chag sameach!
Merry Christmas 2024
5:52 I would love to get your insight on the Pimsleur system. I’m currently using that (amongst other things) to start my French learning endeavor. I like it but it was kind of the only audio course my library carried.
I think I’ll start making honest, linguistically informed reviews in the new year. Short answer is that it can be a useful tool in your arsenal, but not a standalone. Like so many other things too
Personally I have a love-hate relationship with Pimsleur because it's very hard for me to consistently use it due to its audio-only nature and me having auditory processing issues, but also it's the entire reason I can parse the phonology of Spanish and German at all for that exact reason.
My brain was constantly imploding seeing how I was having a delayed response to every item on the list. Very captivating video, I'm happily going to rewatch knowing I was manipulated into doing so :)
1: A Pimsleur review would be great, love your assessments of language resources.
2: Given that you've studied Yiddish and Modern Hebrew, and talked a little about Judaeo-Persian, a video about Jewish Languages would be really cool. Chag sameach, btw.
I'd love a pimsleur video. Maybe comparing it to other language learning methods.
I've been watching you since you had ~20k subscribers. You've grown so far!
Thank you! It’s definitely a learning curve
Language Jones: You're being manipulated.
My brain: i don't know why, but I really like this video
Me: Yeah, I'm enjoying it already
*realised
Me: oh, boy!!
I almost fell for the mistake one, even after you pointed it out as a suggestion of a thing to do right afterwards. Excellently done.
I have a request that’s somewhat unrelated to the video. Could you create a video addressing the unrealistic expectation of achieving fluency in a new language within 30 days? I’ve been studying Spanish for three months-memorizing over 1,000 words and focusing on comprehensible input and grammar-but I’m still far from fluent and struggle to understand or speak the language. It would be helpful to raise awareness about how misleading this expectation can be for language learners.
I imagine a video that showed us the reality of learning and what we can expect in 1month, 6mohths, 2 years could be invaluable
Yes, please! A breakdown of the Pimsleur approach would be very interesting
I've noticed this a lot in headlines and it's started to feel really cookie cutter and annoying. "We asked five (experts) their favorite (item) and they all said the same thing" (said item tends to be fairly predictable, too). Or "(Person) saw (kid/pet) (doing random thing) and couldn't cope" (something cute that happens to people daily but they happened to record it and go viral). It's been driving me bonkers.
"Everyone is losing their minds over..."
“I made this huge mistake in (topic) so you don’t have to”
Gotta come clean though. I used these “hooks” for my business page lol
You definitely delivered and earned a new subscriber.
Please enjoy this engagement. Happy holidays!
Thank you, and same to you!
For some of these techniques (particularly in titles and thumbnails) I have become so conditioned to associate them with slop that they end up having the opposite of the desired effect. Even for this video my gut reaction was to avoid it, and I had to consciously remind myself that this channel delivers before I could convince myself to click it.
yess right?? i JUST replied to another comment with this:
"yeah honestly it's interesting to me how I usually have a STRONG aversion to clicking on titles like this, but it completely flips to an powerful *compulsion* if it comes from a familiar channel who I know will deliver a high-quality payoff
its like I know that they're "in on the joke" or smth, and aren't just sloppily applying the technique to try and waste my time, but are doing it with a wink and nudge (and a bit of a *sigh* of begrudgement, lol)"
Any video title which says, essentially, “Person A DESTROYS Person B” I will _not_ click period. (I think I hate the word “schools” used as a verb even more.) It’s not _just_ that the title is manipulative and click-baity. It’s that it _doesn’t matter_ if Person A has scored some discursive victory over Person B. It’s meaningless in the scheme of things.
You think this video delivered? Was there some new information that you didn’t already know? Just curious.
@@artugert For sure. In this case more so than providing new information (though it did) the value to me is that it organized and labelled concepts that I had previously understood disparately and intuitively.
THEY don't want you to KNOW these TRICKS
Top 10 secrets EXPOSED!!!
The last one will surprise you!
The title is fantastic. I haven't even watched the video yet and I know it's gonna be good
Thank you! I’m having fun 😂
Dr. Jones, to answer your question, you certainly have delivered on your clickbait promise. Your channel serves the noble purpose of educating the masses (at least, the masses who are interested in language), and you make me laugh while doing so. Thanks for keeping the good stuff coming.
To be honest, I didn't want to watch this video because of the clickbait-y title and thumbnail.
I finally watched it only because it's you and your content is always information dense and interesting.
I was not disappointed.
I'll never say these tricks don't work on me - there will always be some as well as plenty that I just go "oh go on then show me what you want me to see, if you must" - but I certainly think that some people (maybe the cynical) are more repelled than attracted by such techniques. Maybe a minority?
In any case I appreciate Andrew Morgan Watches who introduces his list videos with things like "the last one definitely comes after the penultimate one" and similar.
I like subverting these things and that gets me to watch.
You’re correct - you belong in a very small minority. I’m in advertising and we test these headlines and banner ads endlessly. As much as we writers yearn to leave these tactics in the junkyard of advertising history, they simply will not stop outperforming other messaging attempts. And it’s not outperforming by a few percentage points, either. We’re talking about a 30% lift in most cases, sadly. Enough people like you and the other critical commenters here are so inundated with clickbait messaging at this point that you’ll grimace and click anyway, especially if it’s a trusted source.
@amyzinger4693 Jesus Christ!
Yes, tell us about Pimsleur. Especially pre and post internet use.
Re: the bonus tip, does misspelling “Schadenfreude” on T-shirts drive *the right kind* of engagement? Product returns can be expensive. 😬
I just took down the listing! Email me and I’ll personally reimburse you. thelangaugejones at gmail
The most shocking thing in this video, is that there still are people who pronounce it: "offen."
God bless you.
hello great video as always ! And yeah i'd love a video on pimsleur !
That last video was about resyllabification? Damn, I can't believe I skipped it.
I should make a video about sarcasm and ambiguity 😂
Yes please to the Review of Pimsleur products. I started with Berlitz for Travelers which opened the door to "learning" Norwegian by at least priming my ear to the sound of the language and passive memorization after 45 days of listening to audio tracks while going to sleep. Then to Dutch at a Berlitz language school. The Foreign Service Icelandic course was a very esoteric resource for learning a then-esoteric language. Never got a chance to use The Pimsleur Method, though the Frenchie branding did make it seem intriguing. One of my strongest complaints of the Big pedagogical companies is their soulless cut-and-paste strategy of adding new languages: take multicultural pictures of ... apple juice, translate to new language, get AI/native speakers to record a spoken version and voilà "new" language course, completely devoid of cultural cues, localisation or building a curriculum around the needs of parts of grammar to being understood, which vary by language family. How does it work for The Pim?
this is why I'd be such a bad RUclipsr, way too much Lloyd Dobler in me, and simply i just don't want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold bought or processed… or repair anything sold bought or processed… ya know as a career i don’t wanna do that.
Oo I feel it
What's your current job? Almost everyone is selling something at least in some sense.
Very much enjoyed this video. I hope in a future video you will talk more about audience design.
I watched because you're a good looking young man who is intelligent, articulate, and your voice is soothing.
Thank you for compiling and succinctly explaining so many of these tactics, Dr. Jones. To your question about future Pimsleur content: Yes, please! I'd also personally be interested in a deep dive into the language learning platform Rocket Language (I bought a lifetime membership years ago and would love to know what its actual value is/where to focus my efforts). Happy Holidays, sir!
5:50 Yeah some Pimsleur coverage would be interesting. I've been complimented on my pronunciation after using them, but I never really felt like I was developing much conversational proficiency with it.
I’ve considered adding a red line to the bottom of my thumbnails just so people see it and go “wait I don’t remember watching that. Let’s see if I did…”
I am a nearly 19 year old American and I did sentence diagramming during elementary and middle school. It absolutely SUCKED but it’s proven to be useful now that I am learning languages
I find myself repelled by titles that say “ten things you didn’t know about…” and so on. I immediately feel like they’re trying to get me to view and then comment that I did, in fact, know all those things. And since this bothers me, I click “ignore” instead.
I almost never watch a video that has words CAPITALIZED in the title, because it always looks clickbait-y to me (unless it's something I really need to know, like for a car repair). Yours are among the few that I do, because you've earned my trust.
I'll say this about Pimsleur. I didn't come off my 2 completed Pimsleur programs thinking I truly could communicate in those languages (Japanese 1-3 and Russian 1-3) but I was able to jump into some conversations, and at least for a few months after I was done, I was told I had amazing pronunciation in both languages (except the difference between the sh sounds in Russian... I never got that one, and Pimsleur didn't help because I can't really hear it) Pimsleur was a much better jumping off point than other study methods.
Thanks! That is a useful exposition of these details for someone like me, for whom they are not intuitive.
That was one fine post. Thanks.
Thank you! You’re welcome.
Like many others, I've gotten wise to these tricks and actively avoid clicking on videos that use them. I CERTAINLY would never let myself get manipulated into leaving a comment.
Pimsleur video please! I’d love to hear your take on it. I’ve used it for Spanish, Italian, French, and Arabic to varying levels of success. Happy New Calendar!
I sometimes notice these tricks unconsciously and get irritated by them. I am only watching this video now, all the way through, because someone told me there is actual substance to it.
Interesting linguistic and second language acquisition stuff happening in pimsleor programs. It's definitely something I've used before, always find your deep Dives informative, including this one LOL happy holidays
Serious question though, why do most of these tricks immediately set off my warning radar and make me angry at being manipulated? To the point where when I see psycholinguistics at work (or at least the obvious bits) I am compelled to not watch a video and immediately think the content is less authoritative?
Also I love the twisty Klein bottle this video has become
1. I do like lists
2. You did a good job
There’s a weird thing that Swedish tabloid news does when they put up their billboards, where they combine words in unusual ways to make the potential reader of the billboard think “that sounds weird, I have to find out what that means” and buy an issue.
Example: “Will YOU be hit by the SNOW-PUNCH this weekend? Weather forecast on page 15!”
The word “snow-punch” is used to mean “an unusually large amount of snow in a sudden event”, basically “wow, that’s a lot of snow all at once”. It’s such a strange way to phrase it though, and it gets you to think about the headline and what it could mean. It’s a similar kind of manipulation as clickbait.
Happy Janice! 🕎
Thanks! Jag Sameaj!
The biggest piece of advice on this front I've ever gotten I got from a video by John Green: "Pay attention to what you pay attention to." So many people, I find, especially young people, don't pay attention to what they're paying attention to. They aren't asking the questions that you asked at the end of the video. And this isn't me being a judgy older millennial telling these kids to get off my internet, because we aren't born knowing how to be media literate. We need to be trained, just like we need to be trained how to read. In fact, media literacy is very similar to reading and learning it is very similar to learning how to read. We just need to teach it.
A trick I sometimes use is to ask myself what I expect out of a video, and to establish what I want to learn. For instance, if the cover image has tornadoes on it and the text says "1974 Super Outbreak," then I go in expecting to learn about the super outbreak in 1974. I may not learn all of it, but I expect to learn something. If the text says "Secret linguistic tricks influencers use" then I go in expecting to learn about the secret tricks. If I don't, then I don't bother with that creator anymore. And if I don't know what to expect from the thumbnail, then I avoid the content entirely. I'm very judicious about my time, because I am willing to spend upwards of an hour watching a video to get a handle on a topic. I hate shorts with a burning passion; give me long form content, since that's the only way you can really learn anything of value. And while some of these techniques I did know about - back in the halcyon days of Facebook Clickbait in the 2010s, I wrote content for several of the blogs - I didn't know them all. This could functionally be a short-form introduction to media literacy, which is desperately needed these days.
Useful advice, and thanks!
i clocked your game from the title and thumbnail, but i still clicked on it and watched, so!
I really like the way you communicate in your videos which is why i watch you - I’m not only Gen X but also an early adopter of the internet. This all SUX. Don’t like any of it and when people do it, I don’t watch their videos. Don’t like shorts, ads, fake cons, etc etc you dig?
Would love to hear more about Pimsleur if you do a video about that.
My most memorable “professor was telling a random story” incident in a class called the Roman achievement that was the history of Rome beyond just the battles. Like we read miles gloriosus and menarche I and then watched a funny thing happened on the way to the forum. And my professor with his slight German accent got *really* into discussing the battle off Teutoburg forest.
So it didn’t start off too off track when he was telling this whole story about the issue of the sons of wealthy roman families being kidnapped and this poet who had someone take credit for his work and how it felt like his own child had been kidnapped and so he used to term for that… and that’s where the word plagiarism comes from. It was his anti plagiarism speech and he assigned us a paper at the end of it.
I'm sure you didn't intend this has a "how to" but as someone who works in (science) communication this was really interesting. I guess it's similar for RUclipsrs; if all the people competing for your audience's attention are using these attention-grabbing tricks, you need to think about using at least some of them too or your message just gets drowned in the noise. Some of them are kinda crappy, like a tiny blink-and-you-missed-it item in a video so you have to watch repeatedly. But some seem like a reasonable way of capturing notice as long as the content then delivers (as this channel very much does)
I meant to post this on your gentle parenting video, but could you do a video about raise your kid speaking multiple languages? I'd like my kids to end up knowing 3, but I've also seen videos about how even being raised with just 2 can be a very difficult and embarrassing experience for the kid and wanna know a better way to handle it.
I should. I haven’t because I’m overwhelmed (what parent isn’t) and haven’t been doing it right, at least by the scientific recommendations.