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The best video ever on TH-cam that explains the distinctions between Learning and Acquisition of a language. Dr Jeff McQuillan is really a Myth breaker of language learning. As an adult struggling to learn foreign language I feel so inspired and empowered by him! GOOOD JOB!!!!

It takes a lot of time to learn a new language.

An excellent summary of my own approach.

This is awesome, I’ll try it. Ever heard of Immersive Translate?? It's a tool that supports real-time subtitles and generate them for videos in foreign languages. With the subtitles, you fully understand the video content and naturally learn a foreign language while watching.

I find it difficult to find a podcast at my level that isn't boring to me. Like, I don't care about listening to how Samantha decided to buy new shoes.

One might prompt an LLM like ChatGPT to generate text in the foreign language one is learning, on the level of difficulty one is at. But, on the other hand, with LLM, where did the very need to learn foreign languages go? It's Babel fish happening for real.

Thank you. English as my second language, sometimes it really hard, although I’m enrolled in college.

Still a bit confused what language acquisition is exactly. English is my second language and I learned the foundation through classics as l grammar and vocabulary textbooks. Plus practice with native speakers, reading and listening. Had 625 TOEFL score before I even moved to the UK. Now English is like my second nature and skin. French is my new language to learn and trying to see what’s new in the field. But I still can’t help but want to start with grammar ! 😊 I just can’t stand books and courses where they just teach you phrases without structure and rules. I still tend to think that good material grammar is a fundamental step 1

Hi! Great video! You posted this 10 months, have you started speaking yet? I’m curious to know how this approach leads on the speaking 😊

Es este es mi mano because mano is feminine.

What gibberish he delivers! How can you understand a foreign language without knowing a single word of it? But to learn a word you need to resort to learning. Hence his theory goes out of the window.

i love how his spanish was TERRIBLE

I am sorry but it needs to be said. This Maddy's dad the breakdancing dude.

I’ve been learning Hindi with Duolingo, but I’ve also been listening to a lot of Hindi podcasts and music, and can definitely say I’ve been picking up quite a bit from just listening, especially how cadence and flow should go.

I don’t like any person saying it is pointless to learn grammar just to make people feel good about learning a new language. This is so vague!

case and point might be Nigel Richards, who did the opposite: he is the champion of french scrabble, remembering all words appperently, while not apeaking the language

Good points, but I will say relying only on language acquisition is a really slow process. Think about it, it takes children YEAaaaaaaRS to learn a language. Learning is more information but less useful so the best is to combine the two.

There's only 500-1000 common words. Over and over again. I'm in an Arab country. I don't particularly accept or reject the language. But it's sinking in... Slowly.

Watch cartoons focused towards toddlers and or prek audiences in the language you’re learning…. You’re welcome. Yes it works.

I like how the emphasis is on "picking up" words, not "looking up" words

I’m really curious if this translates to learning a concept or subject with new vocabulary

With due respect, I beg to differ. There's a difference between a child's way of learning and an adult's way of learning. When we are children we have the time on our side to grow with the language.whereas the adults don't have this advantage so they should rather use their reasoning to control the learning process. Grammar per se is the infrastructure akin to the human skeleton. Now imagine all the human organs,muscles etc without the skeleton.so getting hold of the grammar and gradually growing vocabularies and expressions will be a better way for adults . Also soliloque is also an indispensable element, repeating mentally all the vocabularies and mentally trying to make sentences and speak them mentally. Acquiring thematic vocabularies is a good way of increasing vocabulary.

La mano mio??? jajajajaja

Thanks

Where to find comprehenseble input , A1- C2 level? That answer might be given in the next video😅

Isn't the best way of learning a language (at least quickly) through emersion?! If you live in a country that does not use your primary language you become emersed in the culture & therefore language of the people who live there. You become dependent on their language because your primary language doesn't work there.

How to learn a new language: live in that country. Fastest way.

Please trim that gross tuft of hair

I did learn a second language quickly as a child. My parents moved to Germany and neither one became fluent. My father became proficient at German through the military. I was sent to German preschool with no knowledge beyond the German numbers up through 20 and basic colors that my mother taught us. Within a year, no German believed I was American.

Anyone know about the Berlitz method used by the government and military to train people in the diplomatic corps on new languages?

Learn languages, Ever heard of Immersive Translate?? It's a tool that supports real-time subtitles and generate them for videos in foreign languages. With the subtitles, you fully understand the video content and naturally learn a foreign language while watching.

Nice, very nice. Ever heard of Immersive Translate?? It's a tool that supports real-time subtitles and generate them for videos in foreign languages. With the subtitles, you fully understand the video content and naturally learn a foreign language while watching.

Impressive. Ever heard of Immersive Translate?? It's a tool that supports real-time subtitles and generate them for videos in foreign languages. With the subtitles, you fully understand the video content and naturally learn a foreign language while watching.

Learn languages effortlessly, Ever heard of Immersive Translate?? It's a tool that supports real-time subtitles and generate them for videos in foreign languages. With the subtitles, you fully understand the video content and naturally learn a foreign language while watching.

This is a nice video. Ever heard of Immersive Translate?? It's a tool that supports real-time subtitles and generate them for videos in foreign languages. With the subtitles, you fully understand the video content and naturally learn a foreign language while watching.

Simple habits to learn languages. Ever heard of Immersive Translate?? It's a tool that supports real-time subtitles and generate them for videos in foreign languages. With the subtitles, you fully understand the video content and naturally learn a foreign language while watching.

Do Italki teachers use these acquisition techniques. I really need a synchronous course or one on one tutor? Sorry can’t do the asynchronous video learning thing.

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I am a linguist and I love grammar (I read grammatical descriptions of languages I'm not learning for fun) but this is still decent advice.

I have been trying to learn Swedish for 5 years. I used Babbel, but found it silly for its geared toward tourists. I tried Duo-Lingo. The learning segments had me lost. I’ve searched for a class in Swedish in Massachusetts in vain. I learned Spanish in my junior high school and knew “I got it”as i was dreaming in Spanish ( high Spanish, not Mexican Spanish.) But I had also spoken French( Kanuk- not “ proper” French) when I was 3 yrs old. During late 70s I was attempting to learn Cantonese & Mandarin through the Berlitz schooling method. Also a failure, although I can count to 10 in 8 languages, ( big deal) when it comes to learning a language at my age,66, I’m convinced I will only learn if I go to Sweden and stay for a month or so. It’s incredibly frustrating because no one around can converse with me. I studied on my own, and started with to be, att vara, but connecting words (på, om, till, och, med,etc) & syntax elude me. Does anyone else believe one must be immersed within the culture to really learn?

read MANGAS, COMICS, BANDE DESSINÉE in the language you learn. I learned english, japanese and Russian with that method

I have heard this multiple times, but I still don't know what to do with it. While I think I understood him to say something like 5 + 5 = 10 or something like that. One, I could be mistaken about what the context actually is. He could have said a hand has five fingers and he has two hands with five fingers. Two, I couldn't repeat a single thing he said if you put a gun to my head, so I haven't actually acquired anything except maybe becoming slightly better at understanding the gentlemen's miming style. I have, for example, watched many many cartoons and other simple videos in my target language, Serbian, and while I sorta know what's going on from the visual context, that's the extent of it. The only times that I have been able to successfully place words to things or actions is from words that I have memorized. Meaning, I can pick out a word or two, I can understand the context, but I can't pick out words from the context. I'd be willing to give it a go, but he didn't offer a program that actually does this.

i'm currently learning Korean Language. as a beginner, my biggest problem that i see is finding material for my level. finding books that i can read or audio i can listen to where i know 98% of the meaning.....this is what i struggle with.

Learning is usually knowledge developed consciously by instruction or study. Acquisition is developing a skill, habit, or quality using the subconscious part of the mind. Learn language with Comprehensible Input. Got it!

the best way to learn is to talk with a bilingual person online who knows your native language and target language. you'll never learn with books or grammar exercises.

his pointer is a spatula?????

One of the hardest challenges is to find those comprehensible content to learn from. I'm studying japanese, and despite many years of study, even the most basic books made for children are way beyond my comprehension level. And that is so demoralizing.

This is a good talk. I am trying to learn Polish - and this helps me 😀

Brilliant advice.

This is great but it makes me wonder-- then when having a sort of vocabulary deficiency, should I just start looking in different place sto acquire it? I've been learning my TL for a long time now, but I noticed that my vocabulary is behind. Studying flashcards clearly isn't doing a lot for me. My issue lies in also not being on a level where I can understand more than what's basic? I'm stuck in that mid-upper beginner plateau. How do I approach that?