It's all about Input! 

why didn't i find you 30 years ago!!

Now, THIS is an engaging teacher i'd like to listen talking for hours.

I believe your methods are absolutely the right ones from a linguistic standpoint. Your approach is honest and straightforward about what works. The only thing I can say about all your videos is your phonology always sounds marked, or, we might say it always "sounds non-native". The only issue with doing no output is you can't really learn phonemes without articulation, because you're not in someone else's body and you can't feel what their articulatory organs are doing. I like to teach phonetics first, because phonetics gets the language in the body (it is an integral part of total physical response). When a baby learns they start with social context and phonetics/phonology. They acquire prosody first, then phonemes in conversational context, and before long they are acquiring lexicon and grammar through comprehensible input. But the baby BABBLES first. People have to be able to "babble", as it were. They have to be able to test out their bodies in response to the new stimulus through mimicry. That's the difference between adult language acquisition and child language acquisition -- the child begins with the phonetic base, through mimicry and self-exploration. The adult skips this and so ends up with what is colloquially called "an accent" (which just means a type of phonology that indicates a social positioning of being a late acquirer, meaning an outsider to the core speaker group). Personally I will use your methods exactly, but I would add some phonetic practice every day.

this man changed my life

Thank you for editing the projector for us, it’s so nice to read :’)

This guy is the real deal. You feel it in your gut and you want to take a course that he teaches. He is a competent, professional teacher. The so called polyglots who also post here just want to sell you a book, or a CD, or an app and make money. When it comes to actually teaching, they don’t have a clue.

My mind is seriously exploding with these videos. It just makes so much sense. After years, literally years of using Anki to try to brute-force memorise individual words of Chinese, I want to try to learn more like this. Thank you for uploading these.

One day i hope this method of teaching will be the norm for adult classes. It's quite easy to find immersion classes/schools for children and teenagers but hardly anything for adults.

Hi guys, I've been an English language teacher for many years and it's been only a few months since I found out about Krashen and his hypothesis and I am totally excited about his research and now trying to implement all the new ways into my English classes. I've also started acquiring Spanish, Japanese and Ukrainian. There's no walls to acquire any language as we can see now.

This guy is such a lovable goofball, and it makes it even better that he’s a tried and true polyglot.

This is amazing!!!!! You are changing peoples lives with this information. I have tried to learn french for several years and am still at A1 because my classes just cause me cognitive overload and I disassociate. Now I know I can just find a tutor, show them this method and learn in the way that works best for me. I cant thank you enough!

This video made me both excited and somewhat depressed. Excited because it conveyed the speaker's excitement about the Natural Approach and its focus on comprehensible input, and depressed because it's what I wish my own language learning experience had been - six years of high school German, and I dropped my first college German class because I didn't understand what the professor was saying. I'm now studying Yiddish, and there's a problem finding comprehensible input. Not a lot of children's books, not a lot of podcasts or movies. And not a lot of fluent speakers who will just talk to you. But this video has me wanting to put more time into reading than into memorizing vocabulary and pouring over grammar rules (which I do enjoy doing!). Thanks for posting.

When you're conveying information, you want to make sure that message spoken is loud and clear. We call that comprehensible input. And make it as simple as possible 🙂 Great. I got it!

So helpful! I made many mistakes while learning French, and also Korean. I studied by myself and forced myself to learn Hangul first, which wasn't difficult, but then I could never actually learn the Korean language. I knew how to read the words, but I never knew the meaning so it's really pointless. I'll start from scratch using your method. Thanks a lot! 💜

I'm so glad I've found this channel. Five months into learning Spanish and I was just about to give up - I don't seem to be able to retain anything and couldn't string a sentence together without staring into space for a couple minutes! I've watched some of your TPRS videos and I'm amazed how much I understand. I'm quitting Duolingo today somehow getting to Diamond League hasn't made me a better Spanish speaker, I'm going to watch your hilarious videos instead. Thank you so much!!

Best lecture I've ever had in my life

I love this! Thank you, Jeff.

Thanks Jeff for your wonderful video! I can listen to you talking for the whole day !!! I'm now learning Mandarin and luckily I found your video. Thanks buchesss!!!

You should all watch the way he acquired Arabic video , he is such an inspiration

Perfect video Sir ! Very useful!

How lucky they are having teacher like you

Thanks so much for posting this! I learned a lot and will add it to my teaching style.

Loved your way of teaching

This channel and the videos are helping me so much!

Oh teacher you opened my eyes.

I can't belive this is free! Amazing!

Highly disagree about the "too early for learning to read and write" concerning korean. It takes less than 5 hours to fully learn and take-in the korean writing system and understanding it will provide you with so much intuitive and conscious knowledge on what feels natural/real for the language and what doesn't. the hangeul writing system is the ENTRANCE DOOR to the korean language.

Thank you Jeff-san, it is very inspirational! Already applying your techniques in class!😊

02:51 min. mark. Excellent, Excellent Point!!! It would be a huge monkey taken off of a learner's back IF ONLY he or she understood this! "In the next hour I am simply going to think about learning 3.75 words, down pat. For, if I have them cold, I cannot help but learn 3,000 words by the time 800 hours is invested in my vocabulary drills!" My take is, knock yourself out if you want to. How has that been working for you? Worth more than a passing thought. Thanks for taking some pressure off this pressure-cooker world, Jeff Brown. Cheers!

I've been trying to learn Spanish for 5 years and not getting very far with fluency, but listening to your TPRS stories made something click and I feel much more confident. I love reading in Spanish too and saw rapid improvement with that. You are the best teacher! I'm so glad your stories are in Spanish!

Good to know!!! Thank you very much!

TPRS reminds me of stories spun around the campfire where a "talking stick" is passed around. The person with the stick gets a few minutes to add their spin to a story then the stick and the narration gets passed to the next person. Stories can get pretty fantastic.

Love this!

I like your presentation, dear teacher.

Amen. Been here 10 years and only a little ahead of where you are in 1

great info but more than that wonderful energy and joy and enthusiasm.. inspirational.. ;9)

Wish i had a teacher like you in high school, love this approach to learning languages

I spent my whole school years studying a foreign language and passing the exams only end up knowing nothing now

Haha learning korean level 5 is no joke fun fun.... Great content pure gems shared... Learn lots❤️👍😘

I am a fan of languages learning, and your videos are so interesting. Babies are not forced to output, we don't ask them for homework, or translate grammar, or vocabulary, or memorize and no matter what, they acquire language! The challenge for adults is to take the time and be disciplined, because babies have all their time to acquire language, adults not.

Hello! Your videos seem awesome and it really seems like your recommended methods work. I am starting on Japanese and I have hired a tutor, any ideas on what I should do at the beginning of a level 5 language? I am also basically fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese since I learned them when I was a child and of course English too. I have watched some of your videos but I still don't know exactly where to start. Thank you.

Incredible

I spent two months speaking (and repeating repeating repeating!) as much English as possible with my students (while trying to keep to the material they wanted me to teach) because of my experience in your class. I like to think they had more fun (and actually acquired a bit more vocab) than if I had gone the traditional route. Thanks!

I really like your teaching style!

I came across this channel after my attempt to learn German. I live in Germany since Jan 2019 and I can speak and understand just a little bit. I'm italian and I think I speak, read and write English and I understand almost everything...and I never really studied it. Any tips for German? I'll start using your method right now in the while, reading your free book at the moment. Thanks again for all the outstanding content your giving us for free. I can kill to have a teacher like you! :) P.S. one question: how to apply the same teaching method if you do not have access to a person talking to you and you're only option is to study by yourself?

Comprehensible input and natural exposure to the language is the way to go.

I am not into mind castling, big performing arts performance. I quite like the input idea and getting small but regular input in the learning language. This I will try. Not too much as i am a beginner and my head will hurt then i will quit. Though idea from this video is good for me to adjust to my preference in learning style.

I love TPRS, and so do my students. I've had bad principals that blocked my progress. It's a shame that someone who doesn't understand acquisition is charged with evaluating us. Folks, if you have a crappy principal, don't give them more than two years.

great presentation! Your grammar jail joke cracked me up 😂

Could you give us tips on how to read? You get your students to read for ten mins at the end/beginning and end, do you read the same thing multiple times on multiple days or do you read new things every day? What is the frequency of reviewing?

nice video and methodology.Applying your method, how much time does it take to learn speaking english?

As Salaamu Alaikum! How does one gage the number of words in their targeted language? Arabic (MSA) is my target language. I can read & write it fairly well, but I don't always comprehend what I've read. I want to try the children's books & mags. However, I'm not sure if I have enough vocabulary yet. Lastly, where can I purchase such books & mags?

This is amazing. I wanted to ask what do you do with noisy students because I think this emphasis on input is great but what if students find it difficult to listen and want to chat - I'm thinking specifically about elementary school students here?

What do you think about bilingual books with target language easy text on the left and literal translation on the right? Thank you very much for this video!

¡Sí señor! 😊🙌☀️👏👏👏

Where can i find an example of day 1 class for Arabic for example.

Very interesting

HI, I have a question, I need to learn vocabulary? what i mean is if i don't know a word do i have to look for it and see its definition in english and other? or don't i have to look for it? and learn it without using a dictionary, etc.

Wow now I know what it would be like to be in Jeff Browns class. 😁

this is so valuable, thank you

I am conversational in Finnish, but I don't understand still when they talk fast and also I still have to think before I speak 80% of the time. Could the acquisition process help one get more fluid with speaking and understanding? Kiitos!

I love you! I found you this week. Could you give us any tips to learn language through tandem? How could we set our calls? I’m almost b1 in English after almost 13 years. Now I decided to learn it before March 2021. Please help me find the right way 😀

Can your input be anything like watching a movie you enjoy or a youtube video in your target language or does it have be very specific and easy in order to acquire the language?

Thank you for your great video, Mr. Brown. However, I have a question. In the video of learning Arabic, you said that it was not neccessary to learn reading and writing if someone wasn't fluent enough in the language. But in this video, you said that reading is an important input. So, which way should I follow? I am teaching Vietnamese. Vietnamese has a latin alphabet. It's easy to learn in a short time. Should I teach the alphabet, pronunciation, and reading skills in the beginning of the class? Then, my students can read Vietnamese and have more input. Hope to hear from you soon.

Tiene tiene tiene!

I feel like when it comes to the number of hours per session or week, I should balance between having fun (not really watching the time unless I have to) and keeping them within an hour or so (also depending on how many language parents or partners I get)...??

Nice!!!

The Automatic Language Growth people believe that around 800 hours of input is required - give or take. 800 hours being the equivalent to the amount of input a 22 month year old child gets. And for people like you following this approach, (you seem faster than others) something of this sort in the 500+ hour range seems true. However, in simultaneous bilingualism, kids learn two languages at once, so in the same 800 hours, a bilingual 22 month old child learned two languages. this brings me to the question I have for you: do you think it is actually the amount of time you spend listening to comprehensible input in the language or the year that it takes to listen to that input that provides acquisition? For example, would 500 hours in two months provide the same acquisition as 500 hours over a year? In your acquisition of languages using ALG type of exchanges, have you found that hours have been more of a predictor of acquisition or length of time studied to be?

Do you TPR the sweet-16 verbs? How do you TPR more abstract verbs like "need" and "want" when TPR is basically just commands? I've been wondering for awhile now, it keeps me up at night.

This exactly what AJ Hoge say in his effortless english

with this pandemic, what can i do at home to learn speaking english using comprehensible input? THANKS

Hi, your videos are very interesting. Do you supervise master or phd students? I have master’s in TESOL. I’m very interested in doing research in this field.

what tprs online webstie can i use to learn by myself

You have tprs for online students

what ur taught on imitation.jyst by imitation will i able to speak fluently

YOU ARE EPIC!!!

How do you evaluate your students using this program?

First, sorry for my English. I have never learn English for real, I'll start soon. So, when you are learning a language that way, How long it will take you to talk fluently(more or less)? By the way, I'm from Israel, I'm a Hebrew native and I'm speaking Portuguese fluently (more or less) and I'm gonna start teach Hebrew for Portuguese speakers. So I'm kind of investigating languages learning methods the last 4-5 months.

As a slow processing adult with high motivation trying to learn Chinese as my second language with one year of intensive Chinese college instruction, where my reading comprehension for level 1 is fine, but my listening comprehension is crap.... what do you think will provide the most advancement in the most efficient way? I have found one TPRS tutor on the internet (but we only do movie talk, which is good, but more limiting than being in a classroom). I also watch as much Chinese television as I can get my hands on.

I’m learning German through input it’s working well for me and definitely more fun, and I’m learning pretty fast. I’ll update you right now I’m in A1

I believe that you can help me out of the jail,thank you sir.

이걸 가지고 회사를 차리셔도 될듯합니다. 한국에서도 영어를 배우려고 천문학적인 돈을 씁니다. 전문적으로 튜더링할수있는 원어민을 가지고 장사하셔도 될듯 ex. 영어 6개월 과정 누구나 대화가 가능한.

What are the sweet 16 verbs?

Is RU-vid tpr video help me to learn English because I am not good in English and I want to speak in English but in my circle not have any people who help me to English practice so what I do to learn English by own self currently I am graduated student but so bad I feel that I can not sppek in English due to this problem I am unemployed and my financial condition is so bad please help me I am a Hindi speakers

Whoa that was a lot of info. Can I make a suggestion/request? Make more videos that focus on one part of what you covered in this video. And speak slower. I'd love to see another video about how long it takes to learn a word. It was very interesting to hear many words students can aquire in a semester vs.how many words are in a textbook. Another video could be about aquiring vs. the way school teaches. Definately keep the joke about being arrested for teaching a baby how school teaches. Ha ha!

You talk about commands in some of your videos. If I am correct you talked about having a list of about 150 commands you fall back on when you learn a new language. Is it possible to see that list? :)

How do I find someone in my area that teaches like you? What would I search for ?

What are the sweet 16 verbs please ? 🙏🏼

I think a language lover like u should try Swahili. It has the most simple and regular verb conjugations of any language I’ve ever come across

Got any tips for learning on your own? I'm trying to learn korean and I'm not sure there is anywhere close to me where I can learn it. Also with corona going on, how would someone learn a language on their own? Also watched your video about how to acquire any language :)

I've been reading books and other materials written in English for years. Yet, when it comes to using it, I mostly fail. I guess comprehensible input alone will not help that much. I wrote so much better ten years ago than now.

“if you taught your baby this way, you’d be in jail” American education- “Hahaha” Logic- 😳😢

Hi everyone .I am looking for comprehensible input data or books of English .I am in need .Thanks a lot .

QUESTION-I know you have to understand 90% of what you read but when you read is it ok to look up the definitions of the other 10%?? Thank you!

I would like someone can help me with the speaker. I have bad pronunciation and I haven't a good conversation.

For comprehensive input, like watching films or movies or videos on RU-vid in the chosen language, do you need to put subtitles on? Or just listen to the language and hope for the best...

This guy is genius!

Wow so hardwork

As a French beginner I am excited about acquiring French through comprehensive input. Jeff I’m interested that you are keen for all your students to read their target language. How will they understand what they are reading if the spoken word isn’t yet understood? Just saying.

Where can we find Language tutors who teach using this method?