Stephen Krashen on Language Acquisition

[@TomTehIdiot]

my left ear can learn a new language now

[@elmosquitero2547]

Haha nobody could notice that if they aren't using earphones lol

[@dasilvaleandro21]

+Tom The Idiot At the middle of the video, just pause and change the sides of the headphones haha

[@alisonlee128]

+Leandro da Silva haha I thought something was wrong with my earphones at first...😭

[@emilianolujan507]

haha

[@mohamedshaalod7465]

Hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so do I I noticed it on the beginning and I thought that the problem is in my earhpones

[@javierortega3827]

He drew such a perfect circle. Damn.

[@HarashiKalou]

My math prof in college could do that... on a board.

[@brucerodgers3994]

I was thinking of the exact same thing and then your comment appeared - weird.

[@Turtletoots3]

He didn't learn it by doing. He acquired it by watching footage of circles being drawn on a blackboard for 67h.

[@dana102083]

@@Turtletoots3 ha ha ha ha!! :)

[@juancastillonb]

how do you know that he really was who drew it?

[@SoftBreadSoft]

"Actually I saw a movie." This dude lmao

[@judynguyen1579]

I'm really curious what movie he watched LOL

[@quintincastro7430]

that is prob a joke he gives to his college kids lol and i bet they always laugh.

[@sub2pewdeadpie]

Judy nguyen it is obvious

[@jerbear97]

@@quintincastro7430 i definitely would have if i wasn't at work

[@AbellaTeacher]

That movie has gotten REALLY popular since the 80s, lol.

[@manuellautarotorressalvado3703]

I'm a native Spanish speaker. And when he said "when the conversation gets so interesting, you temporarily forget that you're using another language" I realised that his speech was so interesting that I had forgotten I needed to pay attention to his English words and what they meant.

[@coletrain546]

Thats how I feel when I watch Spanish media

[@diariosdelextranjero]

You seems to speak English quite well.

[@cleidiomarcalebe6664]

this is the way! it happens when our brain to start to get a new language, awesome !

[@andrewpalim1978]

the Flow state maaan!

[@aeolian951]

Same, lol. My native language is Russian, and I'm so happy to be fluent in English. I'm currently learning Japanese, and I have a goal to achieve basic fluency (B1-B2 level according to the European system) in less than a year. Wish me the best.

[@SheaRoberts]

I teach at a Japanese kindergarten and the way he demonstrated the German lesson in lesson #2 is how I'm going to teach from now on. Superb! I have no clue of German but I understood his lesson well.

[@MarJan0509]

I'm also very interested in how your teaching method has evolved, and the results of it!

[@PentaPW]

how is your teaching now?

[@warker6186]

How is the results now? Nein? Ichni gud?

[@SheaRoberts]

Results: I work in sales now.

[@mikeyaboii8210]

@@SheaRoberts oh wow. Was teaching hard?

[@John-ev5mr]

4:55 Comprehensible input 5:59 Talking is not practicing 7:20 A story 11:37 Affective Filter Hypothesis Fator: Motivataion Self-esteem anxiety 15:05 Summarize

[@gokcek3124]

omg thank you i really needed this for my assignment

[@heliubenyang5036]

@@gokcek3124 lol

[@ashleighrose2332]

A brilliant talk. This was how I learnt German: comprehensible input in a low anxiety environment. Also this was a TED talk before there were TED talks haha

[@محمود-ب9غ2ت]

I didn't really understand the input ? +is podcast enough and with trans or It's normal, I hear without understanding

[@thiagoelav633]

@@محمود-ب9غ2ت The "comprehensible" part of the comprehensible input theory means that you need to understand what you are reading/listening, there are lots of way to understand a new word, visual clues, context, translation, start with easy content and slowly you are going to learn new words and learning the grammar

[@ancapcitorw5162]

I could barely understand half of this video one year ago and now I understand almost everything. Stephen Krashen's method really works for me learning English.

[@NikkoYM]

👏🏼👍🏼

[@NamNguyen-dj2ou]

Can you tell me how you did and your journey, I would love to hear from you.

[@ancapcitorw5162]

@@NamNguyen-dj2ou Yes, I consumed massive input in English for 2 years and at the end of those years I could pass the C1 Cambridge Exam. At the beginning I could barely understand the sample B1 exams of the web. But 2 years later I passed the real C1 exam and with 196/200 points, which means that I almost had a C2 level, which corresponds to >200. Then, I started to learn German from scratch the same way and now I understand 99.9 % of all of what I hear in German, just the same as with English. I am now preparing to pass the C1 Goethe Exam.

[@NamNguyen-dj2ou]

​@@ancapcitorw5162 What exactly did you do during those 2 years, did you hire an English speaker to talk to you or did you watch videos to make the input easy to understand, can you explain clearly in detail what you did? , how much time do you spend each day doing it, and how do you feel in 6 months, 1 year about your ability to understand, read, speak, and write. I look forward to receiving your answer

[@ancapcitorw5162]

@@NamNguyen-dj2ou No, I didn't hire anyone. I just consumed massive input. For example, I saw Doctor Who, Rick & Morty, etc.

[@philu3]

Holy shit!!!! When he spoke German by drawing and pointing to his body, it was easy to understand!!

[@vice-sama3015]

A german man taught me using this tecnique last week. I have now mastered the words for penis, shut up and butt rape.

[@daleysmith5221]

@@vice-sama3015 ???

[@Demureu]

@@vice-sama3015 loll

[@tromboneJTS]

The theory of "comprehensible input" is often forgotten by language teachers. So sad.

[@mustafanazari7858]

Thomas This view has been rejected.

[@arielgrushka]

@@mustafanazari7858 really? It's been proven wrong!? What works then? (I'm just genuinely interested lol)

[@laciruela7772]

@@arielgrushka The method still very much works.

[@jamesmccloud7535]

@@arielgrushka It works it just isn't as popular. It's really hard to replace traditional methods in school because of how long it's been used.

[@kinarast]

@@jamesmccloud7535 I hate school

[@xer.g]

Loved it! "We acquire language in one way, and only one way. When we get comprehensible input in a low anxiety environment."

[@lj_fin827]

This video explained in 15 minutes how I spent 9 years in school taking Japanese classes without learning any Japanese but a friend of mine could teach herself Japanese in 2 years without any formal training

[@headyshotta5777]

I have trouble believing you didn't learn Japanese after 9 years of classes

[@hugh_cork69]

@@headyshotta5777 I do not on the other hand, I took 9 years of Russian and I know barely anything, while I learned english in 1 year thru games

[@GG-mq6df]

@@headyshotta5777 I've learned english in school for like 12 years and couldn't construct a sentence untill a year ago

[@panadol2851]

@@headyshotta5777 I think it's comparable to people taking years of French in school and come out acquiring 'Les Croissants'

[@user-um7tw6kx4r6]

@@headyshotta5777 this happens all the time. People study languages at school for years and still can't speak the languages.

[@PriscillaCollings]

I wish he had a German learning program. I liked that lesson.

[@quintincastro7430]

@@sardorrakhimov1512 try watching foreign tv shows with the subtitles in the language you want to learn, this will help you connect the dots because they will use language in connection to the events of the episode right in front of your eyes and it is meant as entertainment so you won't get bored.

[@quintincastro7430]

@Char Char Binks ok

[@sheikhan1995]

@@quintincastro7430 if you want that to work the subtitles gotta be off. With the subtitles on, no progress will be made.

[@quintincastro7430]

@@sheikhan1995 i saw a study that said having them in the language can help with learning it but having them in your original language lets say English for example results in no progress

[@sheikhan1995]

@@quintincastro7430 that's interesting.

[@painlessenglish]

This is a life-changing concept and reality: we only learn languages unconsciously, when we understand messages. I use this approach with my English students and they make much faster progress than with traditional approaches.

[@bofbob1]

It's not reality though. Note that the implication of believing that it is is that the entire field of linguistics is somehow corrupt and has been resisting this "reality" for over 50 years now, for reasons that one can only surmise. What is life-changing about this model is that it moved teachers to start focusing more on meaning and communication instead of focusing so much on out-of-context grammar instruction and drills. But that's pretty much it.

[@robertt1743]

@@bofbob1 It still holds true. Everyone I know has tried to learn languages in schools using traditional methods with out-of-context grammar studying, endless vocabulary tests and forcing to speak the new language from day one. What Krashen talks about is the complete opposite in how we think about (acquiring) learning languages. So yeah, it is quite "life-changing".

[@theatheistbear3117]

@@robertt1743 Exactly. Dogs don’t learn commands by doing grammar lessons all day. You give them a command, and if they get it right they’re rewarded. Immediate comprehensible input that what they did was correct.

[@jantelakoman]

I've made a video series #opetp to help people experience this for themselves in the shortest possible time. Would you like to try it? I would love to interview you afterward. It's stories with pictures and gestures, but in a tiny conlang of 120 words. 20 minutes a day for a month is enough to experience subconscious acquisition.

[@inamib.9786]

@@bofbob1it’s not corruption, just misguided. Cognitive sciences and language acquisition are still very new fields. We don’t have all the answers yet

[@wenyichu3486]

wahh, I didn't know Dr. Krashen's lecture can be this fun to watch!

[@douniarenard415]

Same

[@Devananda-em9tb]

This man and also Steve Kaufmann have helped me more than any teacher to begin to actually acquire a language. Language acquisition through comprehensible input makes it enjoyable rather than a burden.

[@wyverntheterrible]

Kaufman's just a salesman. His videos are infomercials for his company. He also employs shady practises like charging for subscriptions that have been cancelled.

[@mohsenvh3619]

@wyverntheterrible Kaufman is a real polyglot with methods that you can learn without paying a dime on youtube. He also is running a platform about language learning and advertises it on his channel. What is wrong about that? I never installed his app but learnt a lot from his methods. Stephan Krashen himself has met Kaufman and speaks highly of him in another presentation I saw.

[@wyverntheterrible]

@@mohsenvh3619 I use his site, it's good, but everything he will advocate is to influence you into buying into his 'input hypothesis' adjacent product. Which is a pretty good one, which I pay for. However you need to realise that's his primary goal with his videos etc. They're infomercials. I've also heard him speak russian and he's b1 at best, yet says it's one of his main languages. So id take his claims with a pinch of salt. He also will delete even the MILDEST critical comments from his channel. Again, it's a pitch.

[@utopianistic]

It gives me unalloyed pleasure to be the only Lecturer of English in Egypt who follows in Dr. Stephen Krashen's steps in minute scrutiny. I've almost read each and every word he has written on Second Language Acquisition. I have also come to believe that Krashen is probably one of the best language professors on earth! Whatever people say about Krashen and his theories, I will cleave, unceasingly, to them till death. M. Shahawy Egypt

[@kibetfelix174]

Your email sir?

[@misskarinasalazar283]

The most interesting thing I've Heard about language aquisition.

[@Williamottelucas]

Gives me goosebumps whenever I watch this.

[@fawziaelwafi2429]

William Lucas gproblem based learning

[@fawziaelwafi2429]

Problem based learning

[@porte-majestuoso]

Why???

[@BKayNeal]

I find my eyes tearing up!

[@NikkoYM]

@@porte-majestuoso Some people are selflessly dedicated to teaching, and teaching how to learn. It's an utterly selfless act. Ok, he may be being paid for teaching and this video, but it's bigger than that.

[@mobius7745]

That's literally how I learnt English but it was more of "self" input at the start, when playing a game and seeing it written down "Play", "Quit", "Options", I'd select "Play" and the game would start, selecting "Quit" would close the game and finally with "Options" it would bring up a menu with a bunch of stuff to tweak. After this "self input" period I started getting a lot of "normal" input which was hours and hours of YT and talking with random people, and now here I am. Never touched a single app or textbooks, never learnt any grammar (aside from looking up when to use "you're" or "your" for 5 minutes), never memorized any of those complicated grammar PDFs or anything like that.

[@iskiiwizz536]

thats me

[@Eterrath]

I'm from South Asia, specifically Bangladesh, a country very close to India. Our culture has been heavily influenced by India, specifically the modernism of Mumbai and Bengali traditionalism from Kolkata. As a kid, there was a huge craze for Indian drama which would air daily on the TV, and the womenfolk of our country were crazy about some of them. They would put all their work aside, sit down in front of the TV, and watch the new episode every night (they used to usually air at night) for 30 minutes, where there was ad for 10 minutes in between. Keep in mind that back then we didn't have any subtitles (they have English subtitles now), it was pure Hindi all the time. But it didn't matter. I saw my mom, my female cousins, my grandma - everyone irrespective of age sitting down in front of the TV and watching it every night and being able to perfectly describe what was going on in the show. We had no need for Hindi to be honest, I do admit that our Bengali language and Hindi have a lot of similar words, which definitely helped, but it was still fascinating to see these women understand everything from the modern day Hindi to adaptations of Hindu mythologies, which weren't in the modern Hindi language. My own case was similar. I used to be addicted to various Hindi dubbed cartoons which used to air. To this day, 15 years later, I cannot tell you a single thing about Hindi grammar, I can't even write Hindi, nor can my female relatives. But all of us can understand Hindi when someone is using it colloquially, even after knowing that the Hindi used in daily life is much more rough and faster than the one used in these drama serials. We've been to India 4 times, and despite never "talking" in Hindi beforehand, we could communicate efficiently with the local people when necessity took over. And it's not just about me and my female relatives. Every woman in our country no matter the residence, from my mother who has proper education to a random woman in the countryside who cannot even compare in educational qualifications, all understood Hindi, as proven by my visits to my native village by myself. And it's contagious let me tell you that. From just being near them, not even paying any attention, I, my dad and probably many other men from different parts of Bangladesh could understand Hindi more or less. That said, there are several variables like I mentioned, like how Hindi is actually pretty clear, more familiar to us and easy to understand, but still, it's a fascinating experience. Thanks for reading this far too

[@teresponchis]

Wow

[@YatinVadehra]

मैं इंडिया से हूं और मुझे आपकी बात बहुत दिलचस्प लगी (I am from India and the information you have conveyed here seemed very interesting to me!)

[@johnysins69696]

i am from india dude that was very good story

[@TT-or5ki]

Thank you to share your story

[@shempai1166]

Him: you need motivation to learn a language Me: crap Him: you need self esteem Me: shit Him: you can't have anxiety Me: HOW DID I EVER LEARN ENGLISH IN THE FIRST PLACE

[@fratferocious80]

It is about second language. 🤣

[@Beery1962]

Easy: you learned English before you lost the motivation or the self esteem and before you gained the anxiety.

[@ranaqa8278]

The motivation, self esteem, and anxiety were there when you were a baby trying to communicate and to be understood by others.

[@JoaoGabriel-gw9bc]

The anxiety about the second language, not about something else.

[@PaNowak]

You were a child. That's how. ;)

[@lka8735]

This is such a compelling topic. Can’t believe that i haven’t found out this for 8 years learning English at school more or less. The lessons i got from this speech are keeping anxiety at bay, relishing challenges and learning from conversations that allow me to learn from other’s responses. I am challenging myself to leave my comments on every video i watch on youtube. This comment is my first step .

[@jasmijnooms2242]

such a nice man, i like listening to him.

[@robertw426]

Nice, quick overview of Krashen's basic principles back in the 80s. Thanks for posting this.

[@cassiewellford1]

Drawing is a universal language!

[@mazelu5669]

Dear professor Krashen, when you started to write the 3 important rules to learn and get more easy the LANGUAGE ACQUISITION (minute 12, Second 20) I unfortunately recognise myself in the 3 rules but most of all, in the third one: “… the lower the anxiety, the better language acquisition”. While I was studying, and in my entire lifetime, I have had anxiety, low self-steem and depression. Even though, at the age of 48 I go my Bachelor´s Degree in English Studies, though again, because of those 3 factors are still within me, my pronunciation is very good and my level of English is B2, unfortunately, I still haven´t been able to even start studying in order to get the C1Cambridge Level. I feel very frustrated about it as my personal circumstances are still very difficult. Anyhow, I truly thank you Mr. Krashen for bringing about these hugely important factors when it comes to learn almost anything in life.

[@carriehenderson6252]

This is great!!! Thank you! I will be a 1st year elementary school teacher soon. As an Adult Third Culture Kid (ATCK), my heart goes out to English Language Learners, whether they were born in the U.S. or not, as well as their parents and other family members. I spent 2 months working as an Assistant English Teacher in Japan. It was an amazing experience, and I wish I could have stayed longer. However, culture shock is real, and it takes time & practice to learn culture, language:spoken & written. I want to be patient with all my students, ELLs, in SPED, GT... like people have been patient and helpful to me! Being genuinely caring in the way you interact with people goes a long way. Best practices based on proven research is another important piece. I"m also learning that kids coming from poverty need more supports to help them succeed with academic language...experiences going to the library, to the zoo, parents who are well educated and have time to spend with kids, not just work 2-3 jobs to pay the bills...

[@Dorotheen]

Guess this is the most insightful video about language learning I've ever seen. Thanks :)

[@MargoIsPlaying]

I want to tell a story. My mother tongue is Bahasa Indonesia. Both of my parents' mother tongue is Batak, a tribe language. I was raised speaking Bahasa Indonesia, but I understand Batak language and can speak decently. Surprise: MY PARENTS NEVER TAUGHT ME!!! I learned it by picking up words & phrases every time my parents talked to each other in Batak language. (they spoke Bahasa to me but mostly spoke in Batak to each other). Not joking, they never taught me any words. NEVER. But you can ask me any word in Batak and I probably understand it. The power of our brain is really unbelievable.

[@rubenmorenog7223]

Watching this video in 2019 with a big smile on my face... Tons of dope, knowledge, lived truth in a single video. I'm leaning German this year and I get impressed with the way I could understand German 😮🤐🤐

[@Jamie-js3qw]

dope?

[@gabrielbarbosa4091]

He is brilliant. The way he’s speak even in his mother tongue is so clear and objective. I could listening to him for hours.

[@NhatNguyen-js7nq]

I love the way this presenter concluded his speech, one concise statement which says it all about his presentation. Very easy and helpful for the audience's memory. Thank you for sharing the precious video.

[@mjalove1]

I thought this video was interesting... I thought it was going to be boring but as I continued watching I found him charming and interesting... I honestly find his German lesson cool... I was surprised how much of a difference it made to watch him draw the picture. M. Guerrero

[@inglestherightway]

I love this man. He illuminated my whole teaching practice and made clear to me why some students come to turn into fluent speakers and some don't. Heck, why I became a speaker and a teacher having never really been "taught"!

[@diaz5525]

"when the conversation gets so interesting, you temporarily forget that you're using another language". Cat demit, that does absolutely everything makes sense. I'm a native Spanish speaker, and when i watch or listen music in portuguese i doesn't feel it's another language, and the same with English, when i listen Rap or watch baseball or chess i don't give anything ande never think it's another language. I've listened about Input Comprehensible before, but now watching Mr Krasehn explainning it, it's made all my doubts about it dissapear. Thank you very much.

[@luscao8444]

Hey, Diaz. I think the same! I would really appreciate talking to you because I aim to become fluent in Spanish right now! I'm brazilian and also speak English so things would be very easy I guess.

[@diaz5525]

@@luscao8444 Seria incrível cara. Tu tem Discord?

[@luscao8444]

@@diaz5525Opa, tenho sim. Só não sou muito acostumado a usar, mas meu nome lá é "lusca". Só com isso dá pra achar será?

[@diaz5525]

@@luscao8444 no seu perfil, embaixo do seu nome, tem um código, pode me passar isso? Com isso eu contigo te mandar uma mensagem

[@luscao8444]

@@diaz5525 lusca#8008 Esse aí, mano. Foi mal a demora rs

[@pcbingemaster]

when I was a teen I studied english because it relaxed me, made me leave behind all the anxiety I couldn't help to drop it.

[@robertkincaid1728]

I learned French this way through a TV series completely in French called "French in action"

[@musical_lolu4811]

_Destinos_ for my Spanish. One episode a week for an entire year.

[@NamNguyen-dj2ou]

And how are your results now?

[@krishnakumariupadhayaya449]

That was such a wonderful input for my brain. Thankful to Dr. Stephen Krashen.

[@Blueaspen391]

if talking were required to improve our speaking skills, children would never "take off", they would never get to produce a single sentence. Evidently all children make progress (it is a fact) not because they speak but because they all come up with ears and they start listening from the day they are born (and even before that) and they keep hearing language every day for many hours year after year.

[@HenriZava]

Yes, but more importantly, audio input is usually accompanied by meaning, someone points to a dog and says "hey, look the dog", enough times and in enough contexts that the children knows that the dog part means the animal being pointed at. Meaning is important in language acquisition.

[@bofbob1]

That's not a fact at all. In fact, the best predictor of a child's linguistic ability is not how much his parents talk to him, but how many turns he has in a conversation.

[@hannofranz7973]

What Krashen is explaining here goes far beyond language acquisition. The correlation between motivation, self-esteem and negative effect of anxiety works the same way whatever you are exposed to learning or acquiring.

[@utopianistic]

In my opinion Dr. Stephen Krashen does genuinely embody everything I utterly admire in a professor, activist, linguist and--on top of that--man!

[@anilu2730]

Dr. Krashen: I enjoyed this presentation ! Thank you for your clear explanation.

[@Linalinouch]

and here I got a comprehensible input thnx a lot

[@RayTsuen]

I spent hours watching Dr. Krashen's speeches all because it's not only comprehensive but also VERY INTERESTING

[@hrmIwonder]

9:26 - "I kick your ass" that kid is awesome, just going around saying the only phrase he knew.

[@colleenkrause4033]

Who knew that a grammarian could be so hilarious? I enjoy his presentations enormously- so insightful!

[@asif42224]

Learning a hypothesis from the person who propounded it is pure bliss.

[@riadussalehin--]

Just amazing!! If he lectured this way in German, unlike in my boring classes I'd eagerly listen for long periods and maybe, start speaking like Itomi within 6 months....

[@olgavoltrova504]

That was just brilliant! I'm so happy that I've found this video!

[@davronbekrazzokov2259]

it's the best advice you can ever take when it comes to learning languages

[@kdpunshon3073]

This is really great. I wish I found this idea years ago. Thank you Stephen and Mark.

[@coperfield9188]

Yas dr krashen discourse has not change. If you see one of his last interviews the same points are made. He is the best

[@guynarcomey4205]

Thanks for posting this, this is excellent, very good video and informative. Thank you for postiing this

[@CheckMate657879]

Thank you mrounds5 -so-oooooo much -for posting this video. In the past two days I have read hundreds of words by other people attempting to explain "comprehensible input." I still didn't know exactly what it was. The examples were always in the i + 1 form, which meant zilch to me. And, here within the first 3 minutes of this video, I've got it. We need to understand "messages;" we need to understand "what" is said. So simple out of the horse's mouth. Thanks again.

[@excitedaboutlearning1639]

Most language teaching focuses on remembering. It begins by teaching you all the pronouns. For example, in my old Spanish book, they taught the word for, I, you, he, she, it and so on all at once. Then they list all the verb forms at one estoy, estás estamos and so on. You get an endless list of rules, and items. The book also has exercises that are missing a single word per sentence. Then you have to add that word. At first, you're given two options to choose from, for example, hablas or hablo. Then a similar exercise where you need to add the missing word, but you don't get any options. However, you can always go back and look the word up on a previous page. You'll have vocabulary tests, irregular verb tests and so on. But the one thing you'll never learn is to PRODUCE a COMPLETE sentence from the beginning till the end. You'll keep filling in those missing items, but you'll rarely ever produce a sentence from start to finish. So, you never develop the mental abd procedural skill to do so. Years later, you realize that you've learn a couple of words, but you can't speak the language, but you don't know why. It's because you never learn to put even the simplest sentence together by yourself. In a typical classroom, the teach will be the only one SPEAKING the language while the students have the role of filling in the missing words. Language Transfer is a non-profit organization that addresses the most important factor missing in normal classrooms, the sentences producing part. For example, in the free 15-hour-long Spanish course, you'll produce close to a thousand sentences. While doing so, you won't be presented with all the words (I, you, he, she) etc. at once. Rather, you'll only be presented with the words you need in order to produce a given sentence. Language Transfer has a website and a KZbin channel. I found out about Language Transfer in 2015 when I was trying to learn Spanish more effectively than what my teacher taught me.

[@suyl2272]

Very helpful and interesting! Waiting for more Krashen lectures, thank youuuuuu

[@tangierina]

Don’t forget you’ll that for the comprehensible input to be effective, it must accompany with motivation, self-estimate, and 0 level of anxiety.

[@Coolwater83]

That’s probably why they say you learn way more watching a movie or tv show that you’re actually interested in instead of watching anything just for the sake of learning. The joy of watching the show kills off the anxiety and allows you to just receive comprehensible input

[@dailydoseofhiphopvideos]

yes

[@Q2neptune13]

This is interesting. My mom told me I didnt start speaking until 4 or 5 years old and when I did, I spoke in full sentences. For the forst years of my life, they thought I was mute and took me to doctors. Later they thought maybe I was just shy. Turns out, I was unknowingly doing language acquisition 😂

[@HelloAnitaStar]

I have to watch this for homework. Who else is with me on this? lol

[@laiocam]

Anita Star me too

[@mauriciocoelhoescritor]

me 2

[@chanellcolsden6306]

Me too!

[@ouzaamout]

hhhhhhhhh indeed

[@wtranslate969]

Meee🙋

[@michaelmcphillimy1]

Dreaming spanish is where to go for spanish acquisition. Uses this technique exactly. Amazing channel

[@jamesmccloud7535]

Got any tips? Cause I am learning Spanish right now.

[@michaelmcphillimy1]

@@jamesmccloud7535 yeah sure. ‘dreaming spanish’ KZbin page. Super beginner through to advanced videos are available, enough content to become fluent. If you can do 1-2 hours a day of listening, in 6 months you should be at a high intermediate to advanced level. It works, just need to trust the method. Good luck mate :) great fun once you get into it

[@jamesmccloud7535]

@@michaelmcphillimy1 His channel seems to be really good thanks!

[@abdallahrhim520]

Such a brilliant talk , i saw someone challenging himself to leave a comment in every yt video to reduce anxiety and i think that's a good idea ( I'm an Arabic native speaker and my english level it's under average )

[@pritommazumder9897]

"We acquire language in one way and only one way when we get comprehensible input in low anxiety environment ".

[@crystalmartinez5675]

This is probably the only lecture I have actually enjoyed listening to.

[@arkins1908]

No matter how many times I read his Hypothesis, I felt confused, but the moment the man himself explained his ideas, my brain was like "Yup. I got it."

[@caller145]

In my english class we had to read a bit from the chapter out loud and then translate it. We would go through each student like this in order. Soooo instead of listening while others were reading I calculated the part I would have to translate and make sure I got it. Needless to say that I didn't learn much that way. I only started to learn when I got my ipad and therefore a steady access to the internet. I started with memes. Within a year I went from not having any clue on what's going on to top grades.

[@leo3.14]

Learning mathematics, like other subjects such as physics, chemistry, and biology, has often been approached incorrectly. After I graduated, I accidentally discovered my passion for life through a single video, which ignited my curiosity about the world and the universe. This led me to explore cosmology, atomic and subatomic particles, nature, and planets. I realized that processes like digestion happen the same way for everyone, no matter where they are. There is a common thread in all sciences that we must acquire. This insight is reflected throughout the history of science and mathematics. Every scientific branch is interconnected. It doesn't rely on language; rather, it embodies the language of mathematics. We can see math in art, music, human society, nature, the body, and engineering-it's everywhere. really like this way . i see that in learning language too. wow .. And I'm truly fascinated by this.

[@amgxpat]

12:50 that's why drinking in bars traveling abroad in my 20s helped my skills!! liquid anxiety reduction.

[@franciscofuentes8916]

I learned English as an adult (I'm 32 now but I learned it in my nmid 20s) and it's amazing how I cannot avoid understanding what he says. And yet learning a third language seems impossible but it'd be the same way.

[@leangmengpong2501]

the way he explained is the example of comprehensible input

[@sseulberry]

this is the first time I’ve found my study resources interesting and didn’t watch it on double speed lol

[@RayTsuen]

A legendary talk that change all my views in language learning

[@Podolskills]

MAIN ISSUE with this is video : Talking is not practicing. Wrong, false, absolutely not true. Talking to yourself, inventing scenarios in your head and improvising in a foreign language by saying it out loud is an incredible exercise for your brain during language acquisition. Also, for being a polyglot myself, it's simply non-sense to infer that you have to limit yourself to what is "comprehensible"... The huge amount of exposition to unknown words, sentences structures, expressions, sounds, etc. that I intentionally exposed my brain to while learning a new language is clearly a major part of the success I had in order to acquire it. When you think you actually don't understand a thing of what you hear, your subconscious mind picks up and interpret some of the notions that will eventually give you the keys to understanding new material.

[@Shoudori]

Talking is practicing at a level equivalent to your current proficiency. It solidifies your current subconscious understanding of grammatical structures and the like, through practice and a steady increase in confidence. The primary problem with this is that you will likely try to speak WAY too early, solidifying grammatically unnatural sentences and structures. Native speakers will rarely correct you for small errors as well (and for big errors sometimes, depending on the culture), causing you to be limited by the habits you formed through speaking.

[@bofbob1]

@@Shoudori Not really. While "learning vs acquisition" have no underlying physical reality in the brain, "comprehension vs speech production" very much do. The connections between those two systems are complex, and go far beyond "when you speak you solidify your understanding of grammatical structures and the like".

[@Shoudori]

@@bofbob1 "It goes far beyond" but with no explanation how. Krashen has outlined the fact that speech only reinforces your current problematic speech patterns time and time again.

[@bofbob1]

​@@Shoudori I'm sure he has, but that doesn't make it true. I'm not sure with what degree of detail to answer your question because I don't know how familiar you are with the field. For serious inquiries in the connection between comprehension and speech production systems, I'd suggest Pickering & Garrod (2007, 2013) or McDonald (2012) and his "PDC" theory. And if you're unfamiliar with any of this and are just listening to Krashen as a lay person, then a very basic primer, cutting through as much of the complexity as I can: The main language functions are located in the left hemisphere of the brain. You have Broca's area, correlated with speech production, and Wernicke's area, correlated with comprehension, and the two are connected via an association fiber tract (axons). While distinct areas, both of them call on many of the same underlying cognitive functions to do their job. Anything from monitoring, representational, etc. come into play in both. Essentially you can think of it as one area does encoding, the other does decoding, but both use a huge overlap of underlying processes, which are engaged whether you're listening or speaking. The connections are complicated, so much so that if you're relying on neurolinguistics alone, honestly there's just not any overarching narrative to extract from it, something that you could use as a language learner to say "oh, I should be doing this instead of that". There's just not that kind of clarity. And there's certainly not enough clarity to make claims like "we learn language in one way and only one way" as Krashen does. Those who want that kind of clarity for their own purposes (language learners, teachers, etc.) usually either ignore the cognitive science, or they pick and chose what they want to use. That's often what Krashen does. Put it this way: it's one thing to say that the data proves your hypothesis, or supports it, and it's quite another to say that the data is just consistent with your hypothesis. Krashen takes a lot of data that is only consistent with his hypothesis, and presents it as if it actually supported or proved his hypothesis. And it gives a very skewed representation of what's going on for people who aren't linguists. It's a real problem. In the meantime, moving away from the cognitive science for a second, it remains the case that the best predictor we have today of a child's linguistic development is not how long his parents speak to him, but how many turns he has in conversations. That's consensus, and strongly suggests that output has an important role in language acquisition, but I doubt you'd ever heard about it from Krashen's picking-and-choosing.

[@Shoudori]

@@bofbob1 I stand corrected. How does cognitive science explain the development of linguistic skills in children then? Is input not the driving force? I can only imagine that output is effective in children if they are constantly corrected by their parents and if they are basing it off known input

[@PrateekJain-pi9jc]

My goodness I understood every single word in the second example

[@wordsme]

haha nobody lauged at his joke at 2:00, poor guy :)

[@joepiekl]

I did.

[@gavinpanda]

TV audience, not a live audience

[@Poszlakowaneopinie]

I enjoy his sense of humour; a bit like Kaufman

[@christosofwichita]

I thought it was hilarious, and I thought it was even funnier when I thought he had a live audience that wouldn't laugh

[@coreygraham860]

They didn't comprehend it.

[@molli97]

Kudos to how well this circle was drawn as well! Great speech!

[@lynnguzzi]

Wow! In a 15-minute video, he summed up the problem with how we are teaching second (etc.) languages and quite clearly showed how to correct it! Genial!

[@johndavidson4369]

I'm glad it wasn't just me!!! I was so irritated that only the left speaker was working......

[@jmar5964]

This 2021 I studied a Specialization Course to teach ESL and for the first time I knew about Stephen Krashen, and right until this day I finally know who he is

[@saidfarid6382]

Hello professor Thank you so much for your help and advice. I really appreciate your job. I wish you peace and happiness under the sky of prosperity. All the best. Take care and have a good time. Your follower from Algeria not Nigeria.

[@PrateekJain-pi9jc]

So basically Rosetta stone works, if you use it correctly. Coz what he described as comprehensible input is exactly what it does

[@javieruriel]

where can i get that kind of material?

[@bearchildofdeath]

watch videos in foreign languages where the things that people are talking about can be seen on screen! and don't use subtitles

[@jamesmccloud7535]

@Language and Programming Channel It's more natural if you did it as bob mentioned. The main problem I have with using english subtitles when watching spanish films is the tendency of my brain to focus more on the subtitles rather than the actual words being said. To achieve fluency you must turn off that translator in your head and speak the language by simply speaking it and not taking time to translate each sentence you think of. Of course you must find something suitable to your level of comprehension.

[@anarmammadovn]

what was a brilliant meeting.

[@MrApplewine]

Is there a directory of language teachers, programs, classes whatever by location that uses these methods and students that have come out of them with success?

[@joseluisbuenopina786]

Stephen Krashen's KZbin channel: kzbin.info/door/Z5H68buFbR9lVMAmPkA6Jg

[@paulmcmc4005]

This is excellent! Thanks for uploading👍

[@queensenglish123]

Comprehensive input is vital. However, neglecting the spoken side of the process is not going to get you far. Both aspects should go hand in hand. Comprehensible input is not a mystery.

[@bartoszbarejko1585]

Comprehensive input is everything , You will sing a song by only listing to it.....

[@High_Priest_Jonko]

If you want to get good at speaking a foreign language, like most of us do, then you need to practice speaking a lot. Just don't get confused and think you're acquiring language by speaking. Only if you can provoke input from the other person.

[@Odysseus_Outis]

*_We acquire language in one way, and only one way,_* *_when we get comprehensible input in a low anxiety environment._* ● "What counts in speaking is not what you say, but what the other person says to you." ● "Affective Filters" that relate to success in Language Acquisition. (Blocks) factors : - Motivation, - Self-Esteem, - (Low) Anxiety

[@saadiahbintiabdulmanaphali5011]

Ich liebe Herr Krashen!! Ich mag Deutsch... Deutsch lernen ist interassant!!

[@Heavenlyfloofs]

This is absolutely the best video ive ever watched on how to teach any language 😍

[@najwaalhwaiti3437]

I watched this cause I didn't understand the course but now I feel the one who put the course he lied to us about Krashen's theories, it's not the same in the book 😭💔

[@Jamie-js3qw]

yeah there's no way to get his theory unless u listen to him and him alone. I read loads about it, it sounded boring until now

[@zibranzibu3545]

I have seen you today. Your theory is troubling me a lot. You are great.

[@nospectro0896]

I really love things like this, I'm here from Mr. Salas and Refold, I'm learning English!

[@FrancisCWolfe]

He has a weird accent in German, because he keeps adding a rhotic sound to the oe sound.

[@slmUSA]

Did you understand? ;)

[@nootnoot877]

hello I am German and I just vant to say zat ze German of Krasher vas not correct, zere were a lot of mistakes

[@SouthPark333Gaming]

Yeah, his German was Ok. But he made a few grammar errors, and his accent is strange.

[@JapanischErfahren]

His German is more than good enough, his accent is perfectly understandable.

[@محمدالنور-ق2ض]

@@SouthPark333Gaming of course his accent is going to sound weird. Its not his naive language! My naive language is Haitian Creole and I still make mistakes when speaking it! stop telling to bring people self esteem down!. We're all here to help each other!

[@RoseMaplemoth]

Truly an expert Eng is my second language, and I feel every word he says

[@Daveir]

Stephen Krashen: 'Comprehensinal Input' Korean Linguists: GRAMMAR

[@rebeccathorne4350]

I learned more German from this lecture than I ever did in school.

[@Iron-Bridge]

This concept began to make sense to me when one day recently I could pick out the mall security guy complaining to another guy about having to help out a friend of his pay off a debt. And the conversation was all in Mandarin Chinese. I remember passing them both and immediately responding in my head in English, " Aww, that's too bad, man" I had to stop myself a minute later. Surprised that I grasped most of it effortlessly. And I have no formal language training. Just periods on and off where I would binge watch films or KZbin videos in Chinese or listen to people speaking it.

[@waters8853]

qué interesante

[@shogan8460]

I was fortunate to go to a training with Professor Krashen in Seattle.

[@Ceminon]

Thanks for uploading this, mate.