How Chinese philosophy can make you a better language learner

[@Thelinguist]

📲 The app I use to learn languages: tinyurl.com/49hprhev 🆓 My 10 FREE secrets to language learning: tinyurl.com/4m76vd37 ❓What is your language learning philosophy? Share in the comments!

[@ofilipedecastro]

Hey Steve, can you do a live with Professor Alexander Arguelles???

[@wenlingma-lx9kz]

sometimes I doubt myself , cuz I don't have a big improvment in my language learning. but your video gave me strength and motivation , let me not critisize myself . just need to persevere . Thanks a ton Steve. hope you have a good day.

[@DiegoUrbina-o5c]

es increible. Nunca pude interesarme en un video o podcast para aprender ingles como el suyo, es tan interesante que puede entenderle a pesar de no tener buen listening en ingles. Me interese tanto que las palabras que no entendia las buscaba porq tenia un interes genuino de saber que significaban y es genial porq me ayuda aprender ingles de forma divertida, quisiera encontrar mas videos asi de interesante saludos y mis respetos para usted

[@SaanaSharifimoghadam]

My language learning philosophies are to actively recall new information, immerse myself in foreign language media, and practice my target language.

[@robertgloverjr]

Steve Kaufman's videos give me inspiration and hope, which is very helpful. I have lately been becoming bored with watching Spanish vocabulary videos from a website in Peru that prepares Peruvian students for the rigorous Spanish language exams to enter the oldest university in Peru. I was getting discouraged because I've gone through all the good ones, which are teasers to entice Peruvian parents to pay money for their children to take Zoom classes for the study of Spanish grammar and other subjects necessary for the rigorous exams of that university. I am heartened by Steve Kaufman's advice to do whatever seems interesting and stop doing whatever seems boring. similarly, I'm on the ninth of the 10 Harry Potter books in Spanish, numbers 8, 9 and 10 being treatises respectively on fairytales, magical animals, and Quidditch. I've about had it with Harry Potter and I'm looking forward to next reading in Spanish the Foundation trilogy by Isaac Asimov

[@JBSpecialMusic]

Funny you should mention the Harry Potter Series. I'm 4/5ths the way through the first one in European Portuguese. I do a few pages a day. I cherish the click/whirr moments where my mind accurately deciphers complex, verbose sentences. I'm leaning toward following HP with the first Percy Jackson, Hunger Games, Narnia or anything else. I feel mixing it up will help keep my mind more engaged. Best of luck on your journey!

[@robertgloverjr]

@ the great advantage of the Spanish language kindle version of the Harry Potter series is that while reading it with my eyes I can listen to the Spanish Audible book version narrated by the great Carlos Ponce. Carlos Ponce uses a different voice for each character. I spent a lot of time researching what Spanish book to read after Harry Potter, using the advice from ChatGPT. HP has the advantage that each successive volume is written for an older reader and so the vocabulary keeps getting richer and the sentence structure more advanced. chatGPT did not recommend the hunger games because the vocabulary is the same in every volume. I concluded that Isaac Asimov's Foundation trilogy in Spanish is the best next choice for me. Note that I always choose Spanish kindle books that have an accompanying audible book because this allows me to acquire a correct accent with nothing to unlearn later regarding pronunciation

[@machoterico69]

​@@JBSpecialMusicGo on,go on, My mother tonge is Spanish and I know that my original Language isn't easy by you.Over all ,when you try to learning gramatical rules such as present simple ,past simple, present perfect past perfect tense, are boring. And if we add the Spanish conjugation verbs, I know, that is the worst 😭😭 In the same way, by us, it's really a nightmare, learning phrasal verbs, with their particular sounds and meaning that we don't use to apply them . I'm English teacher,in my country, Chile, and I'm fell ,sometimes, a bit confused with this kinda expressions. I'm , learning new words, and slangs, nowadays, and never end up!! To learn a new Language,is a knowledge that never end up. This is like to continue reaching new goals each day .By the way, Don't give up.😀😀 Blessing.

[@KarlSmith-p5r]

Brilliant and totally relevant! Thank you for the inspiration and encouragement!

[@nodarek]

That's exactly what I needed to hear, as I was about to give up the learning process. Thank you!

[@shaubai]

謝謝，非常有用的思考，很有趣、受教了。

[@HeyPrettyCurls]

I love your videos you always give good advice

[@anthonyrinna1305]

Can’t wait for your video about revisiting a language. I really want to take a break from Russian after 20 years but I’m afraid to stop. I know deep down there’s nothing to fear, but I guess I need some assurance from Lingo Steve!

[@EdLove]

Don't worry, you never forget any of that. It just gets put into background storage, ready to come back if/when you need it. Have fun, Russian is a blast!

[@erturtemirbaev5207]

Учите русский. Он вам понадобится

[@balumfull]

neat. thank you for the daily language learning motivation!

[@Poliglotovic]

While reading the Daoists, sometimes I realise that I am more Daoist than Christian; excellent video which makes me want to revisit Zhuangzi at some point (I have him at home in German and Mandarin). Many thanks for this video!

[@benphillips6662]

Thanks steve very interesting comme d'habitude

[@asf.n]

Thank you for the language that exist and make more realistic about what happen.

[@EriKristianto-xl5yq]

From indonesia....Steve, I hope you are always healthy....thank you

[@gokcemusul757]

Hi Steve, I discovered you recently, and you are a great inspirator! I wonder, as a polyglot, how do you maintain the knowledge of languages that you learned previously while learning new languages?

[@Thelinguist]

I will talk about that in my next video.

[@gokcemusul757]

@ thank you 🙏

[@skylander84]

You are very wise. Loved this video.

[@LearnLanguagesDrAlex]

Great video on mindset 🎉

[@realdripmeister]

I started watching Jordan Peterson’s lectures years ago, I think his psychology lectures were absolutely amazing. But I haven’t kept up with his modern content much, so when people criticized him I was like “who the hell are they talking about? This isn’t the JP I know”

[@Headhunter_212]

You instantly lost me with JP anf Andreesen. One is a BS artist and the other is an amoral finance capitalist - the likes of which are de$troying any semblance of democracy. This is Very disappointing.

[@Thelinguist]

I don't disagree. Peterson is a charlatan and Andreessen is typical of the rich and powerful who don't want to share their wealth and power. Fact remains that the tyranny of the woke orthodoxy seeking to sacralize identity, ethnic, racial, gender, whatever, over our value as free individuals, and brooking no discussion, is a problem

[@markc6411]

@@Thelinguist Why is Peterson a charlatan? Did someone tell you that?

[@Neo23Matrix]

gostei muito das suas dicas e , o meu abraço aqui do Brasil.

[@lizzethmancilla5197]

Tysm❤❤

[@nextyist]

I am very much into language learning, currently learning Swedish. And I want to watch your videos with Swedish subtitles, if you add it, thanks

[@kotarashky5827]

Hello again.

[@Salah_-_Uddin]

I have a Mindset book.

[@chicoingles1]

Hi Steve. I know you did a general video covering the Romance languages a while ago. Could you do one covering either the Germanic or Slavic languages next?

[@Thelinguist]

Thanks for the suggestion. Will do

[@h1pbs964]

Could you do a video about how to find interesting content for the different stages of language ability? Content I am really interested in is almost always too difficult. So I end up stuck between basic stories that I can understand easily but arent interesting, and interesting content that takes me ages to understand as I have to check so many words.There is probably good stuff on LinQ but I struggle to find it. I'm learning Dutch for reference.

[@Thelinguist]

I suggest you write up the kind of subjects you are interested in, translate that into your target language on Google translate, add the words podcast if you want then search the internet.

[@nextyist]

Please please add the swedish transcription option. There are all the language subtitle options but Swedish

[@nextyist]

i hope you see this

[@laudermarauder]

Select English from the subtitle menu, and then open the subtitle menu again, select 'Auto-translate', and select Swedish from that menu. The auto-translation of subtitles from English to Swedish is pretty good.

[@maurizio6024]

Can you speak about Esperanto?Is It useful for learnig other languages?Do you think Is more difficult to learn Dutch or Swedish?😢)Tnank you🎉

[@hectorsantos9407]

Aquí un tema para un próximo video: el ejercicio de traducción de un texto o audio de la lengua materna a la lengua meta es efectivo?

[@alyssapowelltate4000]

Kaufman habla de eso en otros videos.

[@bhami]

3:20 "the Neanderthals were our cousins, and not our ancestors". Not so. Recent DNA research has famously shown that most Europeans have some Neanderthal ancestry. It might only be something like a 2% factor, but it's real. Also, a skeleton was found to be a Neanderthal-Denisovan hybrid. Bottom line, pretty much all the various Hominid varieties interbred. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pqKsiKail61pfq8 "The incredible discoveries of Neanderthal DNA impact"

[@Thelinguist]

I don't understand all of this very well. I am listening to an audio book version of Svante Pääby's book on the Neanderthals. www.amazon.com/Neanderthal-Man-Search-Lost-Genomes/dp/0465020836 Chat GPT says this about whether the Neanderthals are our ancestors. Neanderthals are not direct ancestors of modern humans, but they are closely related. Here's the breakdown: Common Ancestor: Both Neanderthals and modern humans (Homo sapiens) share a common ancestor, likely a population of Homo heidelbergensis that lived around 600,000-800,000 years ago. Separate Evolutionary Paths: Neanderthals evolved in Europe and western Asia, while modern humans evolved in Africa. These groups diverged hundreds of thousands of years ago. Interbreeding: When modern humans migrated out of Africa around 60,000 years ago, they encountered Neanderthals in Europe and Asia. Genetic evidence shows that there was interbreeding between the two species. As a result, most people of non-African descent today have about 1-2% Neanderthal DNA. Extinction: Neanderthals went extinct around 40,000 years ago, but their genetic legacy persists in modern humans due to this interbreeding. So, while Neanderthals are not our direct ancestors, they are more like evolutionary cousins with whom we share a bit of genetic history.

[@MaliYojez]

If we have 1 - 2% Neanderthal DNA, that does mean Neanderthals are our direct biological ancestors because we got the DNA directly from them. Be wary of ChatGPT. It makes mistakes, it ‘hallucinates’, it doesn’t actually know what it is saying.

[@MaliYojez]

Exactly. Even if you’ve only kept 0.5% of a great great great great great great great grandfather’s DNA, it still means that you’re linked directly to him as his biological descendant.

[@j2shoes288]

The jump in quality in auto subtitles has increased, on KZbin. In Arabic anyway.

[@gabriellawrence6598]

Peterson used to be an interesting guy to listen to, nowadays he's just as ideologized as the people he opposes, what's more, he's extremely vague in his discourse, more often than not delving into mumbo-jumbo territory.

[@theo7049]

Peterson is absolutely insufferable nowadays and has been so for quite a while. I can’t fathom how people can still listen to the guy.

[@Behold-the-Florist]

Wow, it's like this was taken directly from my brain! 😂 I agree completely!

[@user-nm3ug3zq1y]

Since he joined the DW (latest point), he's been insufferable.

[@machoterico69]

Sorry but I don't understand what talking about. I recently found this page . Could you tell more about this guy? I'd like insert in their class systen in German Language but I'm confused . Thanks in advance.

[@j2shoes288]

He's far worse. He's an embarrassment. A total idiot. A junkie who talks bs. But, you're right,

[@ولددبي]

Hello, what are the best English books for level B1?

[@PedroMachadoPT]

I get the point, but would it hurt to reread the text after going through it and getting the definitions before forgetting them? To decode a text is not the same as being able to read it.

[@sua.9847]

For the psychologist’s name Jung, it’s pronounced ’Yoongian’ and not “Jungian.”

[@highchamp1]

English The most diverse international language. That might say something about English speakers the world and other languages and cultures.

[@IncredibleStan]

Whenever someone talks about something being "woke", I automatically dismiss them as a charlatan. I place Peterson in that box

[@Thelinguist]

Peterson is a charlatan. The tyranny of woke orthodoxy is real, however.

[@Behold-the-Florist]

​@Thelinguist Everything is labelled woke these days. The word in it's derogatory usage used to have meaning but these days it's just casually thrown around by those who are afraid of change and genuine progress. Too bad because there is a problem but it's on both sides. Tribalism everywhere.

[@user-nm3ug3zq1y]

​@@Behold-the-Florist, in that case, we can just clarify in which sense of the word we are using the word woke.

[@ВасилийБорисенков-и3х]

Old man still has a lot of steam😂

[@gringuss]

is this the first time i’ve been first?

[@HondaGang111]

better luck next time

[@Ph34rNoB33r]

Reloading multiple times, KZbin itself isn't consistent in whether this is the first one (after Steve's own). So... No idea.

[@gringuss]

@@Ph34rNoB33r Oh but living in blissful ignorance sounds good

[@markc6411]

Jung and Dostoevsky are not English language authors.

[@j2shoes288]

JP talks BS. How he defends western imperialism is laughable.

[@Dirkkkkk]

A bit Ironic don’t you think . Considering how the ancient and current Persians are so known for “morality”… 👀 I don’t want to put on a costume to learn a language. This is like Cicero and Seneca lecturing on ethics.

[@Lantern_of_Knowledge]

3:30 those are your cousins Steve not Brown ppl 😅

[@ericaloveskorea]

Christianity isn’t a Western religion and thought. You don’t understand what Peterson is saying when he (and philosophers) says if there’s no God, then there’s no morality. I’m shocked to hear you miss such a simple and well thought argument and making a point that misses the main point. Maybe just comment on language learning 😂😂

[@alyssapowelltate4000]

What do you think Peterson is saying when he says that?

[@RHIMYM]

Thats your opinion

[@zachsmith8916]

@@alyssapowelltate4000 The original comment is correct about Christianity not being Western. The historical context in which the Bible was written and which Christianity developed was the ancient eastern Mediterranean and Mesopotamia. While Christianity has definitely influenced the west it ultimately cannot be separated from its Middle Eastern roots. I can’t speak for the original comment but I would say that Peterson is likely referring to the moral argument for the existence of God. The argument doesn’t try to say that people who don’t believe in God can’t have morals but rather that it is philosophically inconsistent to have morals apart from a belief in God. Again not knowing exactly what clip of Peterson he listened to it’s hard to say for sure, however given that Peterson has observably become gradually more Christian in the past decade it seems somewhat plausible that that’s the argument he was making.

[@tiagoalfreddo]

He talks about the West because the West in been attacked and demoralized at every moment possible, He is trying to save us, westerners, if you don't like it you can move to another regions. But please do not come to destroy our values. The best values, by the way.

[@RHIMYM]

Best by the way... how can I say...?

[@OldBrainPlasticity]

Bahahhahaha. Oh, thanks, I needed a good laugh before bed

[@fadeinfadeout8456]

That is surely 100% NOT what he is saying. 😅

[@Carol61347]

Thank you Steve you always encourage me to keep trying, I loved todays video and right on target for where I am at 🙏🏼🫶🤩