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Many thanks from Ukrainian teachers❤ it's a great video, and it's even better to know that our colleagues support us ❤❤

So glad I watched this!! Learning about Stephen’s research in my masters program and I was so excited to hear his opinions on dyslexia! I’m a mom to a teenager with dyslexia and now this summer I do believe we shall spend it at the library and the comic book store!!

Kiitos paljon!

I learn a great deal by listening to, not just reading, other languages. I suppose mr. Krashen would agree. Would he not? Having said this, I ask you all: Is there graded listening? It would be a good idea to make audiobook versions of those graded reading books.

That's rad 😁😎 How's Javier Milei doing, tho? 😂🎉😅

I graduated in 1986 from the Linguistic University in Minsk to be a teacher of Spanish and English. And this is the methodology we used to introduce primary school kids to a foreign language. For at least 2 months, there was no writing or reading. Just speaking by playing games.

I came to language learning late in life and am still in the very beginning stages. I am very excited about the learning process and have been absorbing as much as I can find. It really breaks my heart the this lecture turned political. I’m not criticizing your right to speak your mind. I am criticizing you venue. I promise you that if politics was mentioned in the title I wouldn’t have watched.

You still look young.

Noam Chomsky... Mr. Krashen, you are far better than him! He is just analysing grammatical rules in his office all day and you have helped humanity so much! Bless you

Awesome interview with interesting questions and answers on TEFL. Thanks for posting it!

Hi there. Could you please ask him what happened to his app. It just disappeared. I paid for it too. I mean it had issues like very low quality sound (no pun intended) but it was working.

Honestly I scored college level reading and writing from reading romance novels, when I was 17 so I love books. I also learned a large amount of spanish from reading genealogy records in spanish because it interested me. I agree with Dr. Krashen you learn more when its pleasurable.

Interested in second language acquisition, Slava Ukrajini🇺🇦 best greetings from Vienna For Europeans it is funny that English speakers are so monolingual but I also found that Ukrainians are rather monolingual in Ukrainian and/or Russian, the pleasure reading I always did instinctively😂 but only if the authors' implicit and explicit understanding of language is excellent

That's the spirit I want to find in my respected sir!

I’ve been studying Portuguese for 9 years now but I still can’t read or converse yet and I have to translate everything into English to understand. I study and practice every day with my girlfriend who only speaks Portuguese and we’ve been practicing for 6 years now but I still can’t understand her. I have classes, read books, use apps and watch movies and TH-cam videos. I need to find a way to learn without translating everything into English. I’ve visited Brasil 18 times too but I haven’t had a conversation yet. It’s been very frustrating.

I agree almost at every point when we are talking about children, but when I think about teaching adults, I have some doubts, especially when teaching a class.

And how many languages you speak Stephen 😂😂😂😂

stay out of politics

This confirmed my personal experience in learning English in high school through 2-3 years of free voluntary reading of mostly fiction, going from near zero English to 99 percentile on the SAT. Can't speak to others' experiences, but it certainly worked for me. It's a shame that governments around the world are not implementing policies to take advantage of this truth.

He's wise and a true educator

It's double 'p' in 'sapper', and 'a' is pronounced as in 'apple'. The role is usually referred to as 'mine picker' or 'deminer'. Great job, Olena! You inspire me to look for more ways to contribute to Ukraine's success!

I absolutely loved watching this interview and found it incredibly rich and insightful! Thank you!

I will try purely the input method with Russian....

Dr. Stephen Krashen is legend

if in future I need to particiapte. what is the procedure?

Pseudoscience. In order for Chinese to be comprehensible, I need to understand what the sentences mean. This will not come from trying to read Hanzi and just magically figuring it out. Chengyu are their own set phrases that will never be comprehensible outside of understanding the unspoken references made within them. You cannot just get the gist of them from guessing the context.

According to an estimate by Professor Stefan Possony, based on documents from the Israeli Yad Vashem Institute, some eleven thousand Ukrainians took part in various anti-Jewish actions (mass executions, deportations, etc.), who, in the service of the Germans and with the participation of German units, murdered 450,000 Jews in Volhynia and Eastern Lesser Poland alone." "A number of Ukrainians had collaborated with Nazi. According to German historian Dieter Pohl, around 100,000 Ukrainians joined police units that provided key assistance to the Nazis. Many others staffed the local bureaucracies or lent a helping hand mass shootings of Jews. Ukrainians,a such as the infamous Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka, were also among the guards who manned the German Nazi death camps."

Stop supporting Nazis!!

Frank Smith gives great examples of how we learn accents by being a member of the club. English aristocrats don’t speak like their nannies who raise them, but like their parents. Kids will speak like their teachers if they feel like they are part of that teacher’s “club”.

OMG. I can’t read a gift book to save my life! Thank you. 😂

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I am not joking, and I am wondering if the erotic fictions might be more fascinating and helpful in terms of language acquisition.

His word are treasures

Lol the political attacks agaist trump are so out of topic. Especially with an episode called "Together for ukraine" cause Biden immediatly went to war, destroyed the border, and the country is on the verge of bankruptcy...

Very interesting, and i can confirm than i only learned english once I started cosumming huge amount of tv series and movies I liked from bbc and american tv. I then started to read multiple books in english (Terry Pratchett, Joseh Conrad) and i became fluent while my friends didn't progress at all. But I had bases from school, how do you start with another language like turkish for example ? you need to learn thousands of boring vocab before you are able to listen...

Great interview, I totally agree with the importance of reading and a various selection of literature on different reading levels available in the classroom libraries. I have done this model of L2 teaching for years, with great effects. Thank you for this informative interview.

Love the work you have done Mr Stephen krashen. Greetings from India 🇮🇳

When I was like 5-6 years old, I learned reading mostly via comic books. I also liked playing Kingdom Hearts on my PS2, but I wasn't very good at it. A friend of mine couldn't read yet, but was far better at the game than I was. So I'd come to his place to play, where he would practically carry me, while I read the dialogue. We did this for some time, when one day while I was about to read him the dialogue on screen, he started reading it out loud, to my surprise. So yes, video games can definitely, in a way, help learn to read and acquire language.

HE'S MY HERO

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I am a prime example of first learning Tagalog was a total failure using the grammar method and now after 1,500 hours of stories being read to me over three years I have failed to say anything past hello and a few other short phrases. I have written about this failure over the years and I am sure a 300 page book would easily be filled with my posts and comments on language and failure. I keep pushing the Natural Method but I don't know why since it has failed me. I thought it would work after listening to many videos on it. It failed. I am no looking for therapy or medications to fix this problem. My life is one of near complete loneliness in the Philippines since I cannot understand people when with others. So I stopped going to any gathering. I sit at home all day. Of course this cannot continue much longer.

thanks .teacher .I got a question .should I read it loudly or silently .which one is better ?

How may I join you in your endeavor?

Talking about video games, there are some so called Text based video games, what about those?

It's interesting until the cringe about his politics and "empathy".

I remember enjoying watching The Magic School Bus; I would make at least the majority of my SCHOOL that way...hands-on, direct potential for acquisition...reading will accompany 'classes' that have 'higher competency'....FUN, EASY, COMPELLING, right...wholesome experiences, intuitive, instinctive, creative, childlike, adventurous,..etc...THAT's how I already do it in my online sessions, despite some "limits".

I can teach all Cambodians to speak basic English in 3 months time.

Read Grammar books by yourself not in classes.

Could you share the names of the books please?

In cornu tauri parva sedebat musca. "Si te nimis gravo," inquit, "statim avolabo." Taurus respondet: "Ubi es? Nihil sentio." The above is the story of Comprehensible Input, one of the most, perhaps, the most redundant, useless, lazy, boring courses in language teaching and learning. Congratulations to His Royal Highness, His Excellency, the Most Reverend, Professor Doctor, Sir Stephen Krashen for taking not just all the hard work but, indeed, all the work out of teaching and learning a language! Grammar? Haha! Forget about it! Vocabulary? Raspberries to that knowledge of meaning. Just absorb everything anybody says and you'll be inspired and able to speak like a native speaker in five minutes flat!