This voice of Ms. Diane Neubauer is horrible. Its maybe because of her microphone but anyways its impossible to listen to her

1:19 I dunno why, but her "sure" sounds like a chinese person speaking heheh'

Србија !!!

Please a video explaining how to move out of the intermediate platoon/slamp

Talking about how ancient Greeks and Romans were so efficient at learning foreign languages we should not forget the mighty stick. Those were dark times and the learning process was shadowed by fear and pain. If you did not do your homework well enough you were expected to suffer under your teacher's stick and/or your father's fist. Thank God that those cruel times are long bygone. Nowadays we are civilized and we do not use force on our children nor do we permit anyone else to do so. Modern students are unable to learn how to use well their mother tongue let alone to master a foreign one but at least they excel at playing video games Nowadays at last the tables have turned and the teacher is afraid of his pupils. Alleluia.

I don't think i have read a book of 98 percent familiarity with my first language. lol

I think French and Americans have a lot in common in many ways. They are proud of their countries (usually) and proud of how influential their culture has been for the rest of the world. I wish people thought of that more often! We need to respect and support our allies. That doesn't mean we can't find other people annoying or tease other people, but remember everyone's different and different doesn't mean bad.

Speaking of modernity, many can't stand a tutor with vocal fries

I was taught french in a school that taught students who had mild learning difficulties (I have dyslexia and dyspraxia), so the level of knowledge wasnt much at all, as it only enough to graduate senior school (high school). I am now learning Latvian (my dad was from Riga, Latvia) French and Spanish. As i personally believe self study is important, if you have the interest or the inclination to learn.

If this is a podcast episode then why can't I find it on any podcast platforms? 😕

I took French for 8 yrs starting when I was 12. I never took French to learn the language, but rather I was lazy and I knew I had an advantage over my classmates. I was able to write & read but I didn’t feel comfortable speaking until I made French speaking friends.

Can we test for these differences and separate the students into different classes?

Wow very interesting it, language is very important when anybody learn more one language you open a world window in your life, you can communicate with many different person around the world. Bless, bendiciones!

On memory training, it's no uncommon to find religious people how knows their sacred text from heart. Also, babylonian mathematicians memorized their 60x60 times table (3600 results), as well as many other tables, like the pythagorean triples, and could do imense mental calculations like it was nothing. We don't realize even 10% our human potential.

Such a great video and no comment? Let's fix that

1st! Wow... A'nimo!

Oral tradition is an art of not learning per say but of manipulating words around like notes, and it requires an infused structure of that traadition in games, music, songs, movements, natural changes etc. everything fleeting that you can dance with.

Parisians hate tourists but french people hates Parisians 😆

Not me watching this when I just discovered Anki Deck for Mandarin

Maybe it has something to do with that in ancient times it was a honour and an incentive to attend a school not a duty.😁

I studied Spanish in high school, German in Junior College, and Latin along with my daughter when she was in middle school. Studying Spanish first made learning German far more difficult because all the vowels are long in Spanish. Conjugation of irregular verbs in Spanish is very difficult; in German it is easy. It was when I studied Latin, which is far enough back on the tree of Indo-European languages to have all the basic parts, that I discovered the change from short and long vowels in Latin to all long vowels in Spanish was what made conjugations so very difficult in Spanish. My German teacher [Herr Schneider] was a Sudeten German who attended university in Vienna, deserted from the Austro-Hungarian army and was active in the Chezecoslovak independence movement; his teaching method was very formal and old fashioned, but effective. I think that if I should be teleported to Germany this evening I would be able to get by even after all these years. (But if I had a couple minutes' warning I would definitely grab my old German textbooks!) Hearing this discussion makes me want to take a German class again, but I am not sure it is taught at the local junior college, and I can't drive as safely as I once could.

This is fucking fascinating.

Most literate illiterate society.

i'm French, and most french ppl i know love the us and would love to go there...they also know it's not a perfect country, but France isn't perfect either..

min 49:00 - He is probably referring to Ørberg

déjà le premier ça se voit il est bien parisien il a pas que ça à foutre (il a que ça à foutre mais il en a rien à foutre) foutre

Can I use their methods to learn and preserve indigenous languages?

The Roman Legion from every part of the Roman Empire had to learn basic Latin to communicate within the Roman Empire. Latin was the primary language of the Roman Legion. Ancient Latin was probably taught to new soldiers by several instructors for a period of at least 1 year (custom made learning). There were tutors who spent time with new soldiers to better understand how to speak and understand Latin. Modern Western learning is based to the assembly line method in order to save time and money. There was a time when schools were over populated by students with only a handful of teachers available. Today, it will cost more money to teach an individual student to learn a language. The growth of online language teachers and tutors is the result of individual learning for many students. Today, you can learn a foreign language online without going to a college. Individual learning online is the new method of making it easier for many people to learn a new language.

What's the TLDR? of this video?

I struggle so hard with learning any languages and cannot learn by ear at all. Immersion is pretty useless after having lived in Germany and now Romania. I find reading is somewhat easier than listening. Trying to speak another language is absolutely awful and stressful.

No nonsense vid. Love it.

5:12 Mi bone Di! Even here I see news about the Socialist Caste of my country.

I have a very important question for native English speaker here concerning vocabulary : I am a non native speaker of English , a translator , always think I have rich vocabulary but some days ago I tried a vocabulary testing site , I knew most of the vocabulary and got 23000 words result , but towards the end of the test I met very strange words like : ( gullible adamant avulse suture querulous fugacious salubrious mountebank masticate umpteenth ) , my question is : are these words also difficult for the average native speaker and needs a dictionary to look them up or not ? thanks !

As a French child, the emphasis was on grammar and the written word, and I cannot start to learn a language if I don't understand how it is stuctured. I am hopeless learning by eat to the point of crying in frustration, but I loved Latin for its heavy bias towards rigid grammatical structure. It took me many years to become fluent in English, and I still understand much better the written text in that language.

Koji ti je k.rac😂😂😂...dobar si🫡

Oh my goodness, I took German in college and had to drop out because I didn't and, at the time, simply wasn't able to understand cases. Fast forward 15ish years, and I'm immersed in a Greek-speaking community. Greek is fantastic for learning and understanding cases. I absolutely love Greek and the Greek culture. Anyway, learning Greek grammar was the key I needed to learn and understand cases in other languages that also are case-based. I'm sure if I were to go back and learn German now it'd be a piece of cake.

But is there any money in it? (Maybe the language of the place you live or family is good to know, but other than that.......?)

There is absolutely no way she read a Spanish article and thought it was Italian that is a blatant lie the most obvious of 1 million of giveaways would have been y instead of e

Yes! Thank you! Memorizing phrases, not single words - this is what I ask my students to do!

Thank you, it's amazing what you toks about antient school! Grouping topics, short lines, and bilingual! It's exactly the same way I've found most useful - to start memorising smallest phrases & sentences, but not single words. Especially for synthetic languages, as Latin, Lithuanian or any Slavic.

Interesting that she pronounces t like many Brits do.

It sounds a lot like ancient China.

I just simply could not learn languages at school. It slid off my brain, no matter what i did.

C'est n'importe quoi. Les Français n'aiment pas l'impérialisme américain des élites américaines, mais ils savent faire la différence entre les populations et leurs dirigeants.

A professor in the 2020s who has a legitimate specialty and then actually teaches it.

@metatron

Yesss❤❤❤

25:36 Yes, immersion can be extreme stress when you don't already have a very solid foundation. It can be so completely stressfull that it blocks you from learning. What works in stead: Using clever memorization methods for learng loads of vocabulary and short short sentences that you could use in real life, learning the grammar and other mechanics of the languages based on them, expanding them to become more complex and regular listening comprehension drills where you go into hypnotic trance before listening to boost concentration and processing speed in your brain.

Great Interview! Thank you to both of you!

Its great the instant level of respect you can get from people by speaking their native tongue