How to acquire any language NOT learn it!

yeah people ask me that i'm  trying to learn another language   what is the most important sentence to learn first   it's not where's the bathroom it's not i'm lost  help me we have done extensive research on this   we have interviewed millions of people and  the winner easily is my friend will pay cervezas okay that's today's joke  let's go on my name is jeff brown   and i am a language lover i love languages i've decided to make this video because i'm going  to show you or i want to show you guys how to   learn or how to acquire the language of your  choice the language of your dreams in one year during this video what i'm going to be doing  is i'm going to be showing you step by step   exactly what you need to do to acquire or  to learn the language of your dreams and   check this out during this year during this video  i'm going to be acquiring a new language i'm going   to be learning a new language over the year  and i'm going to show you exactly step by step   what i do to acquire that language so during this  video i'm going to show you what you need to do   and i'm going to show you myself learning a  new language so i've decided to learn arabic i chose arabic because arabic from what i  understand from what i hear is an extremely   difficult language so let's talk about the name  of this video for a sec the name of this video is   called how to learn or acquire any language in one  year guaranteed now that's actually not true i'm   not going to teach you how to learn anything i'm  going to teach you how to acquire a language i'm   going to show you how to acquire a language much  like a baby acquires his or her first language   so let's take a minute and let's talk about the  difference between learning versus acquisition acquisition and learning i get the credit for both  of these terms but i didn't really invent them uh   acquisition and learning was kind of an informal  use wallace lambert of canada used it acquisition   means picking up a language subconsciously  absorbing the language having a feel for it   learning means what we did in school knowing the  rules being able to consciously remember what they   are talk about them etc and the big breakthrough  is that they're different and that acquisition is   much more powerful than learning which came  as a big shock to me because i love grammar so how do babies learn well we know for  a fact that babies don't learn language   they acquire language babies acquire language  naturally subconsciously spontaneously   without in thinking about it they acquire language  through what's called comprehensible input so comprehensible input is the input that you get  if you are a native speaker child growing up in   in any culture um the language that  adults and caregivers use with you   and other siblings and other children all  the other humans is comprehensible input   so that kind of input eventually creates  acquisition we acquire language from that kind   of input learning is the sort of super imposition  of a conscious grammar where we have a set of   grammar rules and so we consciously learn those we  haven't absorbed them like we did as a child or if   we learn a second language we can also acquire it  by simply living in the culture interacting with   people and absorbing those rules but learning  is what's traditionally been done in classrooms   where there's not a lot of acquisition  going on instead what's happening is   students are expected to memorize grammar rules  and then somehow apply those when they speak   in the reviews of the research i've looked at the  studies that claim grammar worked and you know in   their experiments kids had grammar did better in  every condition every study those conditions were   met they were students who liked grammar who were  advanced students who had studied lots of grammar   they were thinking about rules they had  studied the rules and they had lots of time   so this is what the monitor does if you're  saying something in another language   the sentence pops into your mind then before  you say it if you're thinking about this   you can inspect the sentence think of the  rules you learned and make corrections   but it's very hard to do it's mostly used when  we give people grammar tests on grammar tests   you can focus on form you can think  about correctness and you have time so how do babies learn grammar well we know for  a fact that babies don't learn grammar babies   acquire grammar they acquire grammar naturally  again through comprehensible input babies don't   learn anything so when do we learn grammar when  do we as adults learn grammar well we try to learn   grammar when we're around six or seven we have to  go to school and we usually take a language class   or an english class or a grammar class and in  that class what happens the teacher usually says   okay everybody i want you to underline the verb  once underline the noun once underline the verb   twice and the direct object three times and  that's when we first try to learn grammar   now i've got a secret don't tell anybody but i  never learned grammar ever you remember those   grammar classes the grammar class i just told you  about i never paid attention i didn't i didn't   like it so you know what i did i drew i daydreamed  and i drew most of the time in fact all of the   time so my point is i never learned grammar in  fact studies show studies show that we never learn   grammar the grammar we know comes from listening  and reading to correct speech so why study grammar   so for this year as i acquire arabic i'm not going  to be learning arabic i'm going to be acquiring   arabic similar to the way a child acquires  arabic acquires his or her first language   i'm not going to be studying any grammar there's  a lot of you out there that love grammar i know   i've met some of you if you love grammar that's  fine and you want to study grammar that's fine   i suggest two things number one wait until you're  fluent wait until you speak the language fluently   or semi-fluently then study the grammar that's the  way children do it or what you could do is just   just browse grammar maybe one minute a day maybe  two minutes a day just look at it and that's it   so if you study grammar it actually hurts there's  a hypothesis called the monitor hypothesis   and what the monitor hypothesis says is this if  you study grammar you study study study grammar   when you go to speak the language you're going  to think of the grammar first and it's going to   get in the way it's going to hinder your natural  production of the language so once again for this   year forget about grammar do not study grammar  if you want to do grammar fine browse grammar   a minute a day two minutes a day etc 99 of your  focus should be on comprehensible input those are   things you hear or things you read not on things  you write and not on things you memorize so when i   speak french i don't generally worry about grammar  but there's a few things i like to show off like i   make the past participle agree with the pronoun  la chose que je pries you know and i can think   about it and monitor it and those little things  there but i've acquired a lot of french already   so it's easy to do we're making students monitor  everything and they've acquired very little okay so let's talk about teaching methods there  are probably a hundred different teaching methods   out there and is there a teaching method which  comes closest to the way a child or a baby   acquires his or her first language and the answer  is yes there are two the first one is called   the natural approach and the natural approach  was invented in the 1970s by doctors stephen   krashen and tracy terrell stephen crashes from  ufc and tracy trellis from uci which is uc irvine   so basically what happened in the 1970s  is doctors crash and terrell got together   and they said hey let's see if we can design a  teaching method for foreign language classrooms   where the students acquire the language  similar to most closest to the way a baby   acquires his or her first language  so the natural approach was born   in a nutshell basically in a natural  approach classroom this is what happens   students don't get any grammar instruction so  there's no explicit grammar instruction at all   there's no verb conjugation there's no fill in  the blanks there's no indirect object pronouns   predator subjunctive etcetera none of  that students acquire grammar naturally   similar or exactly the way a baby acquires his or  her first grammar secondly there's no correction   so in a natural approach classroom students are  never corrected and we'll talk about corrections   later and number three in a natural approach  classroom the language is entirely done in the   target language so there's very little if not any  english in the classroom i would say at least 90   target language 10 english only in emergencies  only when you really really have to the second   teaching method is called tprs and tprs is  used mainly in high schools and elementary   schools and middle schools and i love tprs so  tprs stands for teaching proficiency through   reading and storytelling oh i love tbrs  and so basically what tprs does is just   the way it sounds students acquire the language  through storytelling storytelling lots of stories   and then they augment that or they reinforce  that with reading so the class revolves around   storytelling and then after the story there's  reading to accompany the storytelling or they   read at home so a lot of stories in the  classroom a lot of reading at home etc okay so how do we know the natural approach  works so during the 1970s they did an experiment   and the experiment was done at uci or uc irvine  and what they did is they did it using german   courses so what they did is they took three or  four german courses and they taught half the   courses using traditional methods that's grammar  translation explicit grammar instruction etc   and then they took the other german courses and  they taught them using the natural approach and   then at the end of the semester or the end of the  year they tested the students and the results were   astounding the natural approach students scored  higher on almost every level the natural approach   students remembered more words and they were  able to speak for a longer period of time   now more recently another test was  done and it was done by an instructor   named dr beniko mason dr mason is a professor  of english in osaka japan and what dr mason does   is she teaches using story listening now story  listening is a wonderful form of comprehensible   input so the natural approach storytelling story  listening they all go together hand in hand so   once again dr mason she did this test she taught  half of her courses using traditional methods   and then she taught the other half of the courses  using story listening or comprehensible input   and then she tested them after five weeks to see  how many words they would remember and again the   results were astounding the traditional approach  students remembered 36 percent of the words   and the story listening students or  the comprehensible input students   remembered 75 of the words that's huge that's  a hundred percent difference so you know   over the years many tests have been done the  natural approach versus traditional approach   tpr storytelling story listening etc versus  traditional methods and the natural approach   storytelling story listening has one has  beat to traditional methods in every case school of milwaukee children one you should have the illusion that the class  is entirely in the target language but using   english here and there for help etc is perfectly  fine you do too much of it you're not getting   any comprehensible input but and you're going to  wind up easily doing 90 percent easily doing 95   you probably wind up doing 98 if it's going to be  90 it can't just be above the student's level and   you know i used to give workshops and instructors  would come up to me and they'd say well i tried   speaking spanish to my students but they didn't  understand me and i'm like well yeah your kid   won't understand you either if you're talking  about inflation to a two-year-old you know you   have to talk about their brand new shoes you know  and the toy truck they're holding or you know or   you know the cute bow they have in their hair and  you have to bring it down to their levels and um   it's a lot of work it's way way easier to  just give them a bunch of grammar exercises   this is way more work it's easier to stop  and explain a grammatical structure but it   doesn't help the student acquire the language so  it's an easier process and if you fool yourself   into believing that this easier process actually  achieves the same results you're going to try   to do that process the state department of the  united states has come up with a list of languages   and their corresponding difficulty levels now  this is a list for native english speakers like   me i'm a native english speaker so in level one  you'll find the easiest languages for english   speakers to acquire and in level one you'll  have spanish italian french portuguese romanian   dutch swedish and africans now the reason these  languages are so easy for english speakers is   these languages have tons and tons of cognates  a cognate is a word that sounds exactly like or   similar to the english equivalent so spanish has  tons and tons of cognates for example bisicleta   moto cicleta caro automobile gorilla etc so  same thing with portuguese romanian french   italian they have tons and tons of english  cognates so according to the state department   of the united states it should take you 575  to 600 hours to acquire one of these languages   and if you think about that that's nothing  that's absolutely nothing 575 to 600 hours   you can easily do that in one year in fact that  comes out to 11 hours a week 11 hours a week is   nothing that's absolutely nothing now think about  it if you're taking a five unit five hour language   course at your college university high school etc  that's only an extra six hours a week outside of   class that's less than an hour a day that is so  easy okay level two so level two is german and   according to the state department of the united  states it should take 750 hours to acquire german   and from what i hear german is a little more  difficult the grammar the german grammar is   a little more difficult than say romanian grammar  or portuguese grammar or spanish grammar et cetera   okay level three in level three you have three  languages you have malaysian indonesian and   swahili oh how cool would it be to acquire swahili  and according to the state department of united   states it should take you 900 hours to acquire one  of these languages and once again that's nothing   900 hours in one year is nothing so over one year  900 hours that comes out to 17 hours a week that's   nothing and once again if you're taking a language  course a five hour five unit language course that   should take you 12 hours a week outside of class  okay level four now level four are the majority   of languages on earth this is a huge list this  includes languages like vietnamese thai tagalog   hmong cambodian etc and according to the united  states the state department of the united states   it should take you 1100 hours to acquire one of  these languages and that's not bad that comes out   to 21 hours a week over a one year period and once  again if you're taking a five hour language course   outside of class that's only going to take  you 16 hours a week over a year to acquire   one of these languages that's a little over two  hours a day that's that's very little time okay   level five the most difficult languages  on earth for an english speaker to acquire   according to the state department  of the united states and those are   four languages those are japanese chinese korean  and arabic and according to the state department   of the united states it should take you 2  200 hours to acquire one of these languages   so i've got sort of a secret and i'm going  to share the secret with you this is what   i'm going to be doing this year to acquire arabic  i'm not going to be doing any reading or writing   i'm only going to focus on comprehensible input  listening and speaking exactly what babies do so   as you know babies around the world don't read or  write anything if i were teaching a language that   did not use the roman alphabet i would not do  any reading and writing for a really long time   i think it's i think it's so easy to do after  you have a 5 000 word vocabulary so once your   vocabulary in arabic hits 5000 words it won't  be so hard to learn to read and write arabic so one of the problems i see is a lot of students  who are studying level five languages for example   japanese chinese korean arabic they spend a  lot of hours reading and writing the language   specifically writing the language i've seen tons  of students memorize writing reading memorization   they spend tons and tons of hours writing the  language memorizing characters etc and they spend   very little time comprehensible input listening  to the language reading the language speaking the   language so that's a huge mistake that i see a lot  of level five students doing so if you're studying   a level five language i'm gonna suggest forget  about reading and writing until you're fluent   in the language or semi-fluent in language just  like a baby acquires his or her first language you need a language parent  somebody who's going to help you   acquire the language somebody who speaks  the language that you want to acquire and   help you acquire that language and  the best place to find these people   number one place is family there might be someone  in your family who speaks the language that you   want to acquire number two are friends you might  have a friend who speaks the language that you   want to acquire chances are you do and number  three co-workers chances are you probably have   a co-worker or two or three who speak the  language that you want to acquire in fact   all of your co-workers might speak the language  you want to acquire which would be awesome so   those are the number one places to find people who  could be or are going to be your language parents   now what if you can't find enough people to be  your language parents through your family your   friends your co-workers etc another great resource  is trades now what are trades trades are basically   language exchanges that means you're going to need  to find people or you're going to find people who   speak the language that you want to acquire and  you're going to trade them for the language that   you already speak in most cases if you live in the  united states it's probably going to be english so   if you speak english you're going to trade with  someone who wants to acquire english for whatever   language you want to acquire so these are language  exchanges and i've done this thousands of times   language exchanges are awesome now where are you  going to find these people there's two or three   places to find these people the best place to find  people to exchange languages with if you speak   english the best place is that an esl classroom  and english has a second language classroom   at your school your college your university or  an english language center in your community so   another great place to find trades is craigslist  and i just put an ad in craigslist saying i'm   acquiring this language would you like to trade  english or spanish or one of my other languages   for whatever language i'm acquiring and  it works awesome i've done it for chinese   i've done it for italian i've done it for i  think french so it works really really well   it's a great resource another good resource  are apps and there's a couple apps out there   and they're called tandem and hellotalk and  these are apps which are designed for people   who want to trade language so i've used both  these apps that work really well and basically   you go into the app you put you type in the  language you speak you type in the language you   want to acquire and boom it gives you a list of  people in your area who want to exchange with you   so what are you going to do once you sit down  with your language parent your language partner   your trade etc so right now i'm going to show  you the magic this is the most important part   of the entire language acquisition program so  you need two things number one you're going   to need magazines you need to get as many  magazines as you can find and number two   you need children stories again you need to get  as many children stories as you can find so let   me talk first about magazines so it doesn't matter  what language the magazines are in and it doesn't   matter what language the children's story is in  the important thing is that the magazines have   tons and tons of pictures now this magazine  is sunset magazine i love sunset magazine for   language acquisition and the reason i love santa  magazine is it has tons of great pictures sunset   magazine is a travel magazine which means  it's gonna have pictures related to travel   food clothing accessories ads etc this magazine  probably has around 200 to 300 great words that   i want to acquire so when you sit down with your  language friend you're going to ask him or her   to lovingly describe all of the pictures in  the magazine and while he or she's doing that   of course you're going to want to participate and  the way you participate is this he or she's going   to ask you simple yes or no questions about the  pictures in the magazine and then you are going   to ask some super simple questions too and the  most simple questions are what is this what's that   what's he doing what's she doing and why why is  the most important question in any language so let   me talk about children's stories and storytelling  in general storytelling is the most powerful way   to acquire any language i cannot say enough  good about storytelling for language acquisition   now storytelling children's stories this  is going to be the bulk of your language   acquisition program i would say about 80 to 90  you're going to be working on children's stories   now just like magazines and like i said it doesn't  matter what language the children's stories are in   the important thing about children's stories is  that the pictures are very big and the text is   very small now your language partner your language  friend here she's not going to translate the   story in fact i don't recommend he translate the  sword he or she won't need to translate the story   because the pictures are very big it's very easy  to follow it's a children's story so just like   magazines he or she is going to lovingly retell  you the story and the target language and here   she's going to ask you simple yes or no questions  and then just like magazines you're going to want   to participate so you're going to ask what's this  what's that what's he doing what's she doing and   why now let me tell you something you don't have  to do you don't have to retell the story in fact   you never have to retell the story in fact  retelling the story is probably going to be   extremely difficult remember language acquisition  is all about listening and not speaking so when he   or she is retelling the story you're acquiring the  language through listening and not speaking so you   do not need to retell the story ever children's  stories storytelling in general are the way to go   once you sit down with your language parent your  language partner et cetera you need to tell them   that you have three or four very important rules  so rule number one is no english you need to tell   that person you know what during our our language  session during the hour or two we're together   please don't speak any english at all now if you  don't understand and i don't understand you have   two or three options my favorite option is just to  gesture you're going to act it out you're going to   try to get the person to understand what you're  trying to say and the way you do that is through   gestures or acting and that works a lot of times  that's my favorite thing to do number two if you   don't understand and i don't understand you're  going to draw i always bring pencil and papers   to all of my language sessions and i love to draw  drawing is so so important because remember i want   to stay away from english at all costs i want to  stay in the target language about 99 of the time   now if you want to do five percent english that's  perfectly fine i'm going to do about 99 target   language and i'm only going to speak english about  one percent and that's just during emergencies so   no english you're gonna gesture or you're going  to draw now if at any time you don't understand   and i don't understand and we're stuck we're going  to use the term it's not important so we're going   to say that in the target language we're going to  say you know what it's not important let's move on   let's go to the next topic let's turn the page etc  so in the target language it's not important and   we just move on that's rule number one no english  rule number two is no grammar so i'm gonna ask   my friend i'm gonna say you know what during this  two hours or hour or thirty minutes whatever it is   please don't teach me any grammar don't say  because it's a girl we say it this way because   it's a boy we say it this way if there's a group  of people we say this way no remember i'm going   to be acquiring grammar naturally like a child  acquires his or her his or her first grammar   so once again rule number one no english rule  number two no grammar and rule number three no   corrections so i'm gonna ask my friend and you're  gonna need to ask your friend please don't correct   me at any time and the reason is correction  does not work it's basically a waste of time tpr stands for total physical response and you  know that's just a fancy name for commands so dpr   stands for total physical response and  it's learning a language through movement   uh acquiring a language through movement  um and it is really considered and it is   experience shows and science shows that it's  one of the most powerful teaching techniques   that we can use in a classroom it is we  use dpr every time we present language   meaningfully with movement every foreign  language acquisition program should include   lots of tpr or lots of commands so let me tell you  how it works so basically what you're going to do   is when you get with your language parent or your  language partner your trade whatever you're with   ask that person to give you a list of commands  or verbs or actions so basically you're going   to have your friend tell you just a list of  commands so eat drink jump sleep dance sing   complain talk turn around jump run anything like  that you want to get up to about a hundred 200 300   see if you can do up to 500 commands eventually  i like to do about 50 maybe 100 on one session   so you don't even need to leave your seat to do  commands i like to use my fingers so what i do   is i go like this i go jump walk run turn around  sit down stand up dance talk uh yell ah complain   uh look watch tv turn the tv on turn the tv  off cry laugh you can do upwards of a thousand   different commands without even leaving your  seat it's like osmosis so reading is fantastic   the other great thing about reading is that  you can so tailor it to the students interests   it's one of the first things that i recommend to  students right from the beginning if you can start   reading little things in spanish particularly  things that you're passionate about anyways if you   love baseball and you've just watched a game  and you already know what the results are   now go to go online to a spanish language  newspaper and read a little bit about the game   in spanish you won't understand most of the words  that's okay you already know what the results were   so you start getting comfortable you have this  whole context behind it what reading does is   it puts everything together in fact it takes all  that grammar that you've been wondering about   thinking about thinking about and what it does  is little by little it just puts it all together   it's almost like you have this puzzle and it just  makes those it makes the pieces and the puzzles   just really smooth it smooths out the pieces in  the puzzle so you can put that puzzle together   easily and they're like oh okay i get  it i get it i get it because remember   a lot of our grammar the grammar i've acquired has  come from reading so reading is hugely important i plus one simply means input plus one input  is everything i know and then the one is   that means just a little bit extra i plus  one is i is input that students already know   is a vocabulary and the grammatical structures  that students already possess and plus one is   going slightly beyond that level so when you're  with your language partner or your language friend   when i talk about i plus one you're going to need  to tell them you're going to say you know what   can you give me some i plus 1 and they're going to  be like uh sure what's i plus 1. so i plus one is   super simple and what it means is they're gonna  give you vocabulary but they're gonna they're   just gonna ramp it up a little bit they're just  gonna be giving you a little bit extra than they   normally would for example this is a camping scene  and this is a trailer and there's a beach and   these are rocks and this is a spare tire they've  got a spare tire spare tire is very important you   could have a blowout and then the spare tire you  need to use this trailer looks vintage looks like   a vintage trailer it looks really expensive i wish  i had a trailer like that so that's an example of   i plus one you never just want to jump in and say  trailer beach grass sun water no you want your   partner to give you this loving explanation again  like you're the baby and he or she is mom or dad one of the things though that is definitely  lacking in the online environments that i   looked at is the group interaction so much  of language is not just the words that we're   saying to each other we communicate through  our tone we communicate through our gestures   we communicate through the space that we occupy  and the way we occupy it and when you have a group   of students working together in person there's  communication that is facilitated by those other factors ineffective how's that and i recommend the  work of a guy named john truscott t-r-u-s-c-o-t-t   his articles a lot of them are available online  just look at john truscott he's a professor of   english in taiwan whenever i go there i like to  see what he's doing he has reviewed the literature   on correction more thoroughly than i have i've  done my best but john has done a better job over   and over again it is not effective you make a  mistake someone corrects you you're supposed   to change your idea of what the rule is so  i could say j'ali and the person says no no   i said oh yeah yeah that's right the verb to go  takes you know this auxiliary and not the other   one it's supposed to do that uh in reality it  only works when the rule is very very simple and   you've studied it you have time to think about  it and you're focused on form so it's the same   constraints as grammar and when correction does  work and when formal instruction does work the   effect doesn't last very long it fades away  after a few months most of the gain is gone   so every year students ask me what i think about  rosetta stone and apps and when i say apps i mean   duolingo to be specific so let me talk about  rosetta stone first with rosetta stone i've   got some good news and some bad news and i'm  going to start off with the bad news first   the bad news is first off rosetta stone is  super boring it is so so absolutely boring   i cannot use rosetta stone for more than five  minutes because i am so absolutely bored rosetta   stone secondly rosetta stone is missing one thing  rosetta stone is missing the people there are no   people i need people i need conversation i need  interaction i need non-verbal communication i need   laughter i need all of that and rosetta stone has  none of that rosetta stone is basically a digital   um flash card game where they go here's a dog  here's a cat here's two dogs here's two cats   and you have to guess using the pictures now  here's the good news regarding rosetta stone   rosetta stone is better than nothing it's anything  is better than nothing so if you're taking a five   hour class a five unit five hour class  every week and you're supplementing   that with say five hours of rosetta stone  it's better than nothing but compared to   actual conversation actual comprehensible input  it doesn't come close so now let me talk about   duolingo a lot of students like to use duolingo  i have a huge problem with duolingo the biggest   problem with duolingo is it's memorization  it's 99.9 memorization all you're doing   is memorizing words and phrases etc memorization  is not comprehensible input in fact you could   memorize the entire dictionary you could memorize  the whole spanish dictionary french dictionary   arabic dictionary etc and you would still not  speak the language it just doesn't work that way something i'm going to be doing brand new this  year which is going to double my comprehensible   input given any during any given week or day etc  and it's called the mobile phone so what i'm going   to be doing is i'm going to be using the recording  device on my mobile phone all phones have some   kind of recording device and what i'm going to  be doing this is the first time i'm going to be   doing this i'm going to be i'm going to going to  be recording all of my my sessions my interactions   with my teachers my friends my language partners  my trades etc and then just during the week uh   you know maybe a half hour before i go to bed  or an hour day in my car i'm gonna listen to   those recordings over again and that is absolute  comprehensible input it doesn't matter that i've   heard it before in fact it's important that i  hear it again so i'm going to do that over and   over and over again i'm going to get at least  two three maybe even four extra hours a week   by listening to the recordings on my mobile phone  now more importantly i'm going to be recording the   children's story sessions because what i want is  i want a whole list of stories i want a hundred   different stories children's stories on my mobile  phone that i can listen to anytime you know what   the greatest thing is after this year i'm going  to still have these on my phone and i'm going   to use that just to warm up to keep current to  keep my fluency whatever my fluency level is and   i'm going to do that over and over and over again  and i'm going to do that for the rest of my life my plan is i'm going to study abroad so i'm  going to study abroad this summer in egypt for   three months why because i have three months  off and egypt is a wonderful country and it's   not that expensive so my plan is right now for  the nine months i'm gonna get around 500 hours   of comprehensible input in nine months and then  when i go to egypt i'm going to get another 500   hours of comprehensible input in three months so  here i'm going to do around 10 to 12 hours a week   and then in egypt i'm going to  do around 40 to 50 hours a week   easily now what am i going to do in egypt easy  i'm going to do trades if i live with the family   great if i don't live with a family great but  i'm going to be doing a lot of trades i'm going   to be trading english for arabic or spanish  for arabic or english and spanish for arabic   and i guarantee it's going to work i've done it  before i'm going to use the apps and in the end   i'm going to meet tons of wonderful people i'm  going to make lifelong relationships with people   and that's pretty much the most important part  of acquiring any language it's the relationships   you're going to make the lifelong friends  you're going to make by acquiring their language today's my first day i don't speak any arabic  you know that i know that i know to say hello while we're doing our lesson today you're going  to be doing 90 of the talking and you're going   to say yes or no so you're going to teach me  something and then you're going to say yes   or no you're going to say nam or la nam or  la okay so today's lesson is going to be on   clothing and colors just clothing and colors okay so ah so i know all father and words i don't  need to think comra nagafa lambda etc so i've got the words um um um hi jeff isaiak zayak dissolved foreign so in the quest me so how shane okay i just want to take a minute and i want to thank  you i want to thank you for sharing in this   experience i want to thank you for sharing in my  experience of acquiring another language and what   i want you to do is i want you to go away with two  things right now number one is this you know when   i speak another language whether it's english  spanish italian french vietnamese chinese or   arabic i don't think when i speak in fact i don't  want to think when i speak i just want to speak   naturally without thinking and you know a lot of  people they tell me oh you are so smart that's how   you're able to acquire so many languages and you  know what actually the opposite is true i'm not   that smart i'm just a normal person now if i was  super smart like a genius you know i would learn   the language i could learn languages but because  i'm not a genius and i'm not that smart i have   to acquire the languages because again i don't  want to think when i speak i just want to speak   naturally and number two i want you to know that  you can acquire any language the language of your   choice in one year if i can do it anybody can do  it so again i just want to say adios astrowego   bona fortuna bonsans forza saeed salamolecom  and zygen for society for society adios

Channel: Poly-glot-a-lot

Views: 4,140,709

Keywords: Language acquisition, the natural approach, stephen krashen, tracy terrell, arabic, foreign languages, japanese, spanish, italian, chinese, french, learning, acquisition, tprs, learn a language

Id: illApgaLgGA

Length: 57min 11sec (3431 seconds)

Published: Thu May 10 2018