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Title: Secret to hack a country and learn language for free | Claudio Santori & Muezz Vestin | TEDxVilnius
Published: 2015-04-24
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-Wdp8g6XCk
in Italy we study languages at the school about we don't to speak them very well %HESITATION what the Vose Sweden you you're not blonde the but they are from us we don't write yes in Sweden we speak friends German Inglis and we learn from a really really low aids and not everyone is blonde tough but you do have it if the Congress Swedish accent that I
don't think I have an accent eyes speak English very much with the oh yes you do have an accent all Italians have an accent if even speak English at all maybe we don't the speaker languages about we don't the need that we speak at their body language without what hands if we then that would look silly we simply keep the hands in the pockets the first
time we met a foreigner we all make assumptions about who they are unconscious assumptions based on what we believe once they're a types on their language skills and their accent for example Swedish are suppose to be blonde Italians that I speak English Chinese it's impossible to learn LeafGreen and drummers all my god well we found out is the languages are easy to learn all you have
to do you have to make a very good first impression languages are wonderful learning a language is a life changing experience are you learning a language the journey is so fascinating and the rewards at the end are incredible we're not talking about studying the grammar here when you speak a foreign language you get to know natives on a deeper level Mandela city clearly if you speak
to a man in a language he understands that goes to his head if you speak to him in his language that goes to his heart today's study languages it's easy and accessible their language courses everywhere and we can even study languages from our phones too often when we study languages we tend to isolate or self we're too shy for speaking so was there to making excuses
like anymore ground or any more rules any more words toothless we're just afraid of making mistakes so we hide behind starting just to avoid the pain and embarrassment of speaking another language we both speak together about ten different languages we've been living in foreign countries for many years we've been to traditional courses we use them if possible software out there and we managed to find our
ways to learn languages but it's been challenging it required a lot of time and effort and though when we met we met here Lithuania about one year ago we did not speak with wings and if you can imagine our knowledge on a graph we met we didn't speak and then all of a sudden two months ago it all exploded what's happened the floor we're starting the
traditional way you know with the grammar and so on or left wing in France kept speaking to us in English though trying to convince us that Lithuanian is too hard to learn but didn't we didn't want to give up so we kept standing and you believe in it you kept talking to us in English at some point we we just look at each other which is
let's wake up you know we can do we can talk plea for him in to each other so imagine this any Italian and it's sweet speaking broken broken only fit in and you will Love Me you will lobby in the office there were laughing on the three but we could not care less because we were finally using Lithuanian so what we were doing every day for
at least ten minutes instead of using English we were using the link for India without being afraid of making mistakes talking about live food work everything finally we were speaking Lithuania well at least to each other because unfortunately are left wing of friends kept speak to us in English and we told them we asked we complain we even blogged about it and they did not change
we realize we're doing a big mistake we were complaining in English so we started to complain in Lithuania and that day during our ten minutes of daily practice we took the phone we decide to record the conversation and more list look like this hi I'm was Swedish I'm cloudy on from Italy and we really want to speak Lithuanian so please talk to us in Lithuania but
here's the trick we didn't record the media in English we recorded it Italy fan in some was is Vegas chuckle out your issue down the US imass la bay in northern CA bit the little risque Paschall cut back at this moment slip due which can and that's it so we look at the video was like for the school who can speak liquidity let's break with our
community about this so we share to them Facebook and I were friends maybe in the audience you started to like this and then use that it to share with your friends and your friends this year to with their friends it went viral to majorly three in portals they posted on the homepage we were a Facebook hits in less than twenty four hours two hundred thousand people
they saw it elite you know that's a big number and and it's it's hard to believe what happened the next day because magically our friends they started to talk to us the only thread in they were strangers thumping out than the three ID like a typically do is cut the food there was gay we started to speak only thing all day long Jordan lays that wanted
to speak with us and that morning we gave an interview in the food in for two hours we look at each other like oh my god we have headache but we could not believe we could speak Lithuanian few days later them once the polity a bilious invited us we met with the mayor a radio show they wanted to interview out the now over there every Wednesday
and of course that it really is was interested and now we're here talking to you about our story we hot account three and now we're still be the speaker Willie Pena and learning the language for free that we don't have time to study language anymore at first we thought we were just lucky off course but %HESITATION learning a language it's a psychology game and it's important
set up the right environments to win this game the language learning trailer that's how we call it it works why first of all it shows that you really want to speak the language it shows that you care and it also shows the Jordy can speak maybe not perfectly but you can we make tons of mistakes in our video which was totally fine should make mistakes finally
it's souls it's fun you don't have to be insecure about your poor skills just relax confidence it takes about one hundred pictures to make a good selfie right you can make as many videos as you need to look confident for thirty seconds so this language learning trailer really works any change that will live but you know what they could work or support anybody here for any
language for any country all you need is a friend practice the language together when you're confident enough take the phone and make that video so what you can talk about complaint with the native and say please talk to us in your language but don't do that in English you need to do if you study French Spanish or Italian you need to make that be due in
French Spanish or Italian that's when DVD becomes really powerful hands on your hearts your Bible or your iPhone are you stuck with your language learning you complain that it's too hard to learn did they manage to convince you that this language is impossible this is our solution find a friend make a video and have fun speaking together in that other language so don't use English share
it on the internet now get ready everybody will speak to you in that other languages we should not forget why we're learning languages if you enjoy studying and it works for you please keep us starting but if you are stuck it's time for a change we all need to change I will believe that the language learning languages are easy to learn all we have to do
