Join the Canguro English newsletter: canguroenglish.com/newsletter I’m sorry I don’t have time to reply to all of your comments but I read them all and I am eternally grateful for your love and support.
Thank you so much for your lessons, I really appreciate you because l use them a lot to improve my English skills. I found that today and I try to listen every day. God bless you and your family.
You are my best friends even you don’t know me! 🖐🏻I am an admirer of you both! Bravo gentlemen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Thanks so much for enlightening me and thousand people around the world!! All the best! ( I’m a little bit worry about Canguro! Where are you and new episodes of the podcast? )
Speechless!!!! Just speechless. Thank youuuuuuu Christian you are the best in choosing such interesting, cultured person and at the same time so clear and pleasant to listen👍👍🤗😍
Thank you so much for this, this is an amazing interview. If I may, as a person that speaks several languages fluently and therefore had to learn them, leave you with some things that helped me help myself and hopefully helps you help others. It really helped me to watch movies, documentaries etc... with the original subtitles, because I realised that even though I knew the word I might not understand it because of a lack in pause between words, or the pronunciation due to a certain accent or dialect. This is specially helpful if the person learning the language does not live in the country the language is spoken. I found that these dialects change the phonetics of the vowels (Consonants are hard to change and are normally guided by rules like c in spanish depending of the following vowel can be an "s" or a "k"), and ones your brain identifies how these are pronounced you will understand the word. You can be prolific at english but not understand a Scottish person, even though he speaks english. Also reading simple texts like children books at the beginning will help, comics are a great way. When reading books whilst learning a language I also found, if I didn't know a word (and this still happens sometimes), but I don't need it to get the context, no to look it up. It's amazing how a certain word can kind of "not exist". Only once you really need it look it up and once you do it magically is everywhere. Your students will find out how to get the gist of things, how their brains will "fill in the gap" so to speak and therefore, at least in my case, I became more confident. I hope this helps you fulfill your purpose and the important work you are doing and change the world by creating better understanding between humans. I believe the more languages someone speaks, the better he understands other cultures and their people, which leaves to unity and understanding, rather then separation and assumption. I salute you🙏
I just started to read the book and was looking for the pronunciation. I know the word anarchy emanates from the word Archon. I also understand that the word virus originally meant poison. For years I have been writing down every new word I come across and have put them into my own lexicon. I then attempt to use them in conversations that way growing my vocabulary. As a bibliophile my favourites words are to do with books. I am a librocubicularist and a bibliotaph with a penchant to be a sesquipedalian.
It was a challenge to understand his accent. Teacher's accent and speed is a gift for us, but a real conversation like this make our listening skills to improve, doesn't it?
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I’m sorry I don’t have time to reply to all of your comments but I read them all and I am eternally grateful for your love and support.
Thank you so much for your lessons, I really appreciate you because l use them a lot to improve my English skills. I found that today and I try to listen every day. God bless you and your family.
I'm going to buy 'The Etymologicon,The Horologicon,and The Elements of Eloquence'.Such an outstanding interview!
You are my best friends even you don’t know me! 🖐🏻I am an admirer of you both! Bravo gentlemen 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Thanks so much for enlightening me and thousand people around the world!! All the best! ( I’m a little bit worry about Canguro! Where are you and new episodes of the podcast? )
Speechless!!!! Just speechless. Thank youuuuuuu Christian you are the best in choosing such interesting, cultured person and at the same time so clear and pleasant to listen👍👍🤗😍
Thank you so much for this, this is an amazing interview. If I may, as a person that speaks several languages fluently and therefore had to learn them, leave you with some things that helped me help myself and hopefully helps you help others.
It really helped me to watch movies, documentaries etc... with the original subtitles, because I realised that even though I knew the word I might not understand it because of a lack in pause between words, or the pronunciation due to a certain accent or dialect. This is specially helpful if the person learning the language does not live in the country the language is spoken.
I found that these dialects change the phonetics of the vowels (Consonants are hard to change and are normally guided by rules like c in spanish depending of the following vowel can be an "s" or a "k"), and ones your brain identifies how these are pronounced you will understand the word. You can be prolific at english but not understand a Scottish person, even though he speaks english.
Also reading simple texts like children books at the beginning will help, comics are a great way. When reading books whilst learning a language I also found, if I didn't know a word (and this still happens sometimes), but I don't need it to get the context, no to look it up. It's amazing how a certain word can kind of "not exist". Only once you really need it look it up and once you do it magically is everywhere. Your students will find out how to get the gist of things, how their brains will "fill in the gap" so to speak and therefore, at least in my case, I became more confident.
I hope this helps you fulfill your purpose and the important work you are doing and change the world by creating better understanding between humans. I believe the more languages someone speaks, the better he understands other cultures and their people, which leaves to unity and understanding, rather then separation and assumption.
I salute you🙏
Thanks for this interview. The voice of him has a sound which doesn’t let understand very well.
Having read most of his books and I can say this man is soooo fascinating😉😉
The “buffalo” sentence is also in his book “Etymologicon”，funny！
"You should definitely play with a language" - I like it! :-)
Fascinating stuff! I had no idea that all the different meanings of 'buff' come from the same origin 🤯
It was amazing!!!!! Thank you very much !!!!!
He is like a linguist professor from” My fair lady”. Handsome
I just started to read the book and was looking for the pronunciation. I know the word anarchy emanates from the word Archon. I also understand that the word virus originally meant poison.
For years I have been writing down every new word I come across and have put them into my own lexicon. I then attempt to use them in conversations that way growing my vocabulary. As a bibliophile my favourites words are to do with books. I am a librocubicularist and a bibliotaph with a penchant to be a sesquipedalian.
Mark seems to be the reluctant witness in this interview.
Thanks a lot to both of you.
Thanks dear teacher
A pity the sound quality of the call was poor, but it was very interesting nonetheless
Great teacher, great video!
Thank you very much 🌞
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Great interview, this guy should open a youtube channel, I'm sure it would be popular.
Thank you 🥰💕
Terrible sound, a lot of energy trying to understand what this person is saying. In my opinion this video needs subtitles
there are subtitles ... click CC and enjoy this content
@@tarekaidi981 Are new! yesterday I didn't see that. Thank you
@@porterosize you're welcome
It was a challenge to understand his accent. Teacher's accent and speed is a gift for us, but a real conversation like this make our listening skills to improve, doesn't it?
@@Loredamico He talks like the 97% of the native speakers use to do. Teachers usually have a clearer accent to be easily understood by learners.
Thanks.
Of course, Norman Lewis and Wilfred Funk wrote amazing books about etymology.
Thank you
Unfortunately. I can't understand what is this man talk about without subtitles.
There are subtitles now
Is there a podcast version of this?
Answered my own question. Yes, there is! All the links are in the description. 😄
First veiw first like first comment!!
I thought that origin of amateur is Amature ( opposite of mature, childlish, with A as a prefix denoting the opposite of the following syllable ).
though I struggled to understand him due to video quality x
Subtitles PLEASE!!!
The interviewee's audio is horrible, practically almost all of his interviewees have this flaw.
Insteresting theme but really was very very very hard to understand because of the an not accurate sound coming from the lecturer.
First to show up!
Me resulto bien complicado entender la explicación de este caballero SE LE olvido que estamos aprendiendo Inglés....
Tiene subtítulos.
Sorry, but I can't understand this guy. Is he speaking a different language from tou?
Well, here you've just got as many as 2 native speakers chatting
that Mark is super hot x