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Published: 2017-09-07
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yysunP4mPVw
languages are one there's did you know that are there are over six thousand languages spoken in the world today there are over forty thousand dialects it's with their own characteristics sound structure and we'll cabinet that we use language to communicate communicate feelings communicate ideas and not much languages can also be a barrier I all you between us because if you go to and a different country
there many foreigners here you go to a different country where you don't speak the language you may feel like you are that new totally disabled this is a serious disability if you are fleeing from a situation think about the Syrian Dr that is fleeing from Syria and go into Germany her knowledge her doctor the green is no different when see my grades two German and what
does that mean to her and her family can she offered to learn a new language that takes many many years tool to to come home this language barrier can create a gap between people culture I create misunderstanding Belize the conflicts and even water some of us learn a new language out of hopping Italian for example is a very popular language some people dream of going to
Italy and being able to order custom with truffles Tyler some of us none out of necessity and some of us learn because it will bring more opportunities to their business I'm an engineer I came to Japan fourteen years ago to do my PhD and artificial intelligence a I Icelandic as my first language then this is my second English is my third German is by force and
so I have done my share of language learning before I came to Japan I took on Japanese it turned out to be quite a talents and I say classes taught here at the university Pat where I was learning Japanese as well they did not work real about private classes that I took they were a little bit better but they were expensive now so studying is part
this throw me absolutely crazy and I started getting into problem language I was in great position just to show through my scientific research here at this fine university where I stand today I was mainly concerned with two questions first how are my quickest talk today I didn't think of all kinds of different methods but all the possible books that I could find in the bookstore trying
to college podcasts Rosetta stone paster methods self studying off course immersed learning and so forth second question that I was interested in how does the human mind were but we are learning language so I read all the possible research that I could find on this topic as well right actually quite a lot of it on myself and some of my peers what a phone to coat
is that there's a huge gap between how languages applaud today and how the brain functions so once I completed my PhD in artificial intelligence and speech recognition in two thousand nine I could not stop thinking about this for scientists there's nothing more exciting then on unresolved problem grand pushes this is why instead of getting a real job like my father booklet and have a job Google
of Goldman Sachs I decided to focus all my time on this unresolved problem of language I made it my own full time job I have no money and I have no profits so for the next eighteen months I expect in a park cooked Yoyogi beautiful park here in Tokyo veremos alone in nature and really really far out of my comfort so and my father was kind
enough to pay my bills and I accepted that because I knew I was on something very very pick something that could possibly revolutionize language learning for good for everyone else so this guy what is this guy creating the brain and how languages talked the way language is a taught today is by giving up exercises they're made to build one on top the other problem is that
the teacher cannot know if the student is ready for the next exercise because the picture does not know how much it's really not a third often one preceding it Alice necessary base so who's who becomes confusing for the students and is inefficient then reducing being for captain Carter it's not taking into account in order to pitch languages successfully we need to know not only how to
bring learn sh also take into account how would forget before dumping Carter was discovered in eighteen eighty five over a hundred years ago and is the key to this how does the program it is perhaps best understood by giving an example I met the person here in the matter deception ten minutes ago and I already forgot his name I many have remembered this person's name for
thirty seconds and then it was gone pleaded gone out of my how pander if I move it recall but name within those thirty seconds magical happens happiness is that the memory for the name transfers from being thirty seconds and to two minutes and if I do that again so I will try to recall that name within those two minutes especially at the end then I would
remember it for ten minutes if I repeat that it becomes two hours two hours become fifteen minutes fifteen hours fifteen hours become I pay baby comes three days three days becomes a week we've become some money and so forth this is called spaced repetition and it uses the protecting court so problem is that when learning a language independent distant way it is very hard for the
picture or Mr Clinton's to remind us what to learn how and when but if we are client artificial intelligence to schedule the learning process we changed the game because it can remind there's not just in the end of words since learning versus just pretending of language acquisition but instead managing all the other elements and optimize it for each and every stat systematically activating listening reading writing
speaking skills I all through certain exercises that are all connected together then we can and delete British base cap after eight months in the park solution a magical moment where I connected all the time all the puzzles came into one Pete microphone third that struck through my hat the moment when I finally sold the riddle I knew the next pack most of create a mobile app
so that a person could have artificial intelligence in her pocket all the time eating with the London it would be valuing and activating stilts in the brain one by one when a bird level and making sure that skill kept pressing memory and move on to more complex deals very moment when the easier still Hoppin messed it all through this I could not do on my own
so founded the company I got investors to join us I created a team of great specialists create this new learning concept we spent the next five years on developing the absolution you're saying what have become clear to me through deep understanding of how human works how would associates memory to listening reading writing speaking after creating the map or the model that connects the learning process all
that was needed was to pick the right material put that through the learning model material that is not general tailor made for each user his and her needs in order to make the best use students past prove the concept we spent quite awhile opinion during our learning methods this advanced delivery system two a well known language proficiency test cold topic but millions of people take every
year throughout the book there's a large study that was done here in Japan shows that it takes about two hundred twenty five Albers to improve hundred points on public for people who are around five hundred to a club this study included over thousand company employees and the teacher was a native English teacher we did a similar test I got employees forum big Japanese companies go through
our online program and it turned out that our methods five times more efficient then the basement five times more efficient than the native English teacher pipes we have done it found a way to revolutionize language learning imagine instead of going to a one hour class all you need to do I spent five minutes India or it used to spend one hour and a half you done
five times more your mind starts to racing when I resolve this pic Tampa created by team of twelve people what can be done to revolutionize education in the future by applying a high change the delivery system and make it fit better with our brain not just for languages for everything today we are up and running Japanese large Japanese company that are using our system there managers
directors if you want and we're preparing bring in hunters of thousands of people from this company through a problem so we have a lot of work ahead of us because I won't rest until we have taunt millions perhaps billions of people communicate better pitch the Syrian Syrian after German you might say that I'm a primer but I'm not the only one said John Lennon when he
