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TEDx Talks
Published: 2016-07-29
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr_poW-KK1Q
learning a language kind feel a bit like rocket science something out of this world and how to reach to the vast majority of us this isn't a belief however just held by many Englishmen illegals on our island it's also shared by many of our linguistic cousins further afield say in the United States Australia let's be honest when it comes to learning languages are speaking them with
the kind of people that likes to think where fluent in a multitude of diverse languages such as jollity key we caught canais or what about Canadian now don't get me wrong I'm very very proud of my Mancunian heritage but I wouldn't suggest it's a separate language just yet after all we don't need subtitles when watching coronations although I can see you two thing I do yet
despite base a few words to cross the channel our savior feeling slightly more adventurous crossed the seven extreme to Wales that you would find that speaking another language of being bilingual is simply a reality yet data and further afield many are still convinced of the fact that this is a long challenging somewhat painful and there is a daunting task now in this room of one hundred
people I'd guess that at least fifteen other languages are spoken besides English in fact the last census of two thousand eleven revealed that a staggering twenty two percent of London is twenty percent wanting for most speak another language at home apart from English I myself even as a monkey speak approximately twenty languages and of those around half fluently and the question I get asked by people
the most days why well the answered for me at least is rather simple I'm convinced that learning languages any language per se actually he's and I want to show you as a linguist a public about an electric I know what it entails to learn and study a language one of the biggest obstacles were faced when learning %HESITATION maths and I genuinely believe that we have to
debunk them now they noticed him remember these more effectively I came up with the nice and friendly sounding acronym die which film enough if you write out not pronounced if you right out it's one of the width of a German may th number one learning a language is simply too difficult I will never be able to speak another language quite like the language I was born
with technically you're not bone with the language all of us Hey could have ended up with say Japanese this office language we're simply surrounded are immersed in the language generally from a very early age now that our people however out that many of them in fact that started to learn the language the second or maybe even a third much later on in life and guess what
they're now completely fluent in this language all these other languages even perhaps more so than in the so called mother tongue why is this because there is no cutoff date by which you have to have learned another language think about how many people you know they say all my kids sitting French's school I really want them to become fluent but icon no way it's impossible I
should if simply paid more attention school well studies reveal that Bach's children generally are much faster picking up in your language then people older than them is actually because readers breathed a sigh of relief it's always the adults that are more effective at letting them why is that because we have the experience of learning we know how to lead already myth number two languages are simply
irrelevant I don't need to learn another language Athol and as we have unfortunately had quite a lot I was gonna do it in a cockney accent but I won't do it at will sped myself the embarrassment to do an S. language is I once beat things anyway well besides the obvious benefits of speaking another language for example financial benefits and mental benefits I E. better pay
more job opportunities keeping those mentally fit and actually helping to stave off neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's there are real hidden gems that we can discover when we speak another language how about getting an upgrade on your hotel room as was recently the case of my uncle before going to take a holiday he asked me if I could send over a few phrases and greetings in
the language that he could try out in the hotel turns up caught it with his suitcase and throws out a few sentences in Turkish and bomb given an upgrade on his hotel room straight away now you might not always get an upgrade in your hotel room I can't promise you this however I can promise that you maybe just maybe through another language will meet the love
of your life we all remember Jamie from live actually learning Portuguese find out alea and in fact almost one in ten Brits is married to someone that was bought overseas Furthermore the guardian reported on research showing that people are able to speak to languages them all I'm more a better adopt a better equipped at dealing with problems that that better and multi tasking in prioritizing tufts
now this is definitely a much sought after scaling out a neat when all was appear to be glued to our phones I wonder how many people now watching this will be glued to their phones and how many are actually going to be bilingual myth number three you have to be experts and to be in a place where the language is constantly spoken even to just get
a grass of the language well there's no harm in simply packing up and moving to a village in the middle of nowhere but it's not really necessary now the great unknown my brother and I I'll leave you to decide who's here exactly my twin brother my brother and I was being based in Berlin Germany decided to undertake the challenge of learning Turkish in just seven days
we decided to undertake the challenge of learning Turkish in just seven days in order to show what you can do you by simply putting your mind to it now I'm not saying that we all need to be going out there and then in your language in a week no that is actually possible to lead absolutely everything there is in such a short space of time I
can assure you it isn't affection isn't the goal hair a goal however is to get as good as we possibly can in a particular language in the shortest time civil now this means to the dismay of school teachers all throughout the globe take chocolate the best thing about Michelle cook theories apply them to any language that we would like to learn and for the mall so
simple you might be laughing so let's take a look at these number one analyze similarities focus on similar elements speakers of English we already know so much about other languages given the fact that our language itself essentially is a Germanic language with the wealth of influences and vocabulary for a multitude of different languages as diverse eyes Lothian Hebrew all Hindi doing this will help develop patents
in the language and also will help post to guess the meaning information of words and things that we don't yet know as you see in this life for example we can see how closely related in wishes to fellow of the Germanic languages and even some languages that are in this case for months languages with which despite the fact that English is a Germanic language essentially and
chocolate nubity keep it simple at first sight you might think that you're learning a language is that have that much in common with our world but by focusing on easy elements we will be able to lend much quickly because every language house easy elements to it some languages only have two or three tenses so for example you end up saying I hot and this one followed
by Hyde I. how fight and I high tide and my arm is also can be I will be and I would be in other cases if you look at for example German we have a case of advanced recovery there it is derived from miss a few simple words offense in this case you have the bed suppression speak which is now going on in lent itself to
become best crashing to discuss and discretion to correspond FASB writing an option I can and so on and so on Shakur number three the pit relevant especially at the beginning of a process we need to make sure that it's relevant to us not everyone is learning German in order to discuss business with colleagues in Berlin think about this I speakers of English we don't know every
single word in the Oxford English Dictionary so why should we fret about remembering every single word we encounter in then you language I simply have to make it relevant to our own specific situation right now now when it comes to learning a language perhaps the most crucial element is time and by time I don't mean years upon years of endless learning as some people still like
to think how long does it take to learn a language how about if I were to tell you that thirty minutes per day are a great and effective stopped now thirty minutes these minutes that we all have beat ten in the morning ten in the afternoon ten in the evening of thirty minutes and simply one call on the way to work to university school outs in
the evening meeting friends was on the train our box we all have these minutes that we can commit to learn Furthermore by letting fat small of patriots and at regular intervals we won't feel so overwhelmed by the language and even better learning for regular periods means that it's more effective because chances are that if you're learning fall once a week or once a fortnight by the
time the next come to learn you already have forgotten what you initially let a goal that for if it language learning into our daily routines and not the other way around and by doing this there's no reason why I have to simply one month contact by in you and you language now these active forms of learning we need to compliment them with what I like to
refer to eyes passive forms of learning having breakfast well switched the radio on and listen to a station in the language come acquainted with the music of the language the music will not only help you get use to the sounds of intonation and to the rhythm but the words that you will hate will also help you associate them because you know the songs and you'll be
able to associate them those expanding off a computer how the holiday treat yourself to a TV series or film in the language impulsive titles on in English and then others can join in much with you as well and we all know how everyone seems to be going crazy about the Scandinavian TV crime series of them all some of which have been dubbed into English keep it
original now by doing this this will get you off to a great start to go on and to watch me master your language there are three rules I like to refer to them as the golden rules of language learning that each and everyone of us should be doing when going about learning the language first rule is way for the first rule is live the language speak
it reader writes a to remain at singing even sing to yourself my brother and I when we started learning Greek we decided to write songs in the language don't worry I know about him vice my brother and I said he will sing for you all this money that said in order to master the language you have to make it yours owned the language so why not
put your phone or computer in the language you are learning number two make mistakes yes you heard me correctly make as many as you want why because we learn by making mistakes it's actually the only way we can get things that's right children were even expected to me but as adults were apprehensive because they make us feel vulnerable admitting for the beginning that we don't know
absolutely everything there is to know about this new language will not prevent us from learning it Furthermore it will actually give us the freedom to go on and to muster so go forth and make as many mistakes as you like now the last ruling this is the most important one and this is essential make it fun grammar rules and all ways for I mean I love
drama but I understand that not everyone so enthusiastic not sure why but remember whatever you can do ending this you can do in any other language so make it fun try not to be by making it fun by making the process entertaining you're helping yourself stay motivated animal motivated you are the better your chances are succeeding so go out and let your creative juices well the
best thing is well it's why not try and get people other people involved say colleagues friends and turn into a small friendly competition actually study showed that if you get it from the competition going that your chances of succeeding a much better on a hunch of performance languages are often perceive to be the great unknown we like to think of them as something unfamiliar and yet
we know so much about them because all human languages have their own peculiar yet beautiful ways of expressing ideas concepts and reality even if we're not aware of it steadfast by now delving into the unknown and realizing the familia we will be able to muster one of the most fulfilling rewarding and efficient skills we possess as you human communication and who could resist wanting to learn
the language with these linguistic pearls first one would be as we say in French really don't know which is be ambitious it literally means however have long teeth my not that long and I'd like to wish you all the Italian ebook colorful which is good luck but literally means into the mouth of the wolf and finally as we say in Ukrainian %HESITATION Plymouth is nice you
