Tried to learn Spainsh in high school and it was a giant failure. Tried to learn off and on in the years following. Finally was introduced to Krashen and Steve Kaufmann and learned HOW to learn a language. Currently working on my 4th language now. Its a pure shame how famously bad language teaching methods are in schools today
I’ve been following Dr. Krashen’s method for some years now, and it’s been working really well. Comprehensible input should become the mainstream and default idea in language learning.
We are native Chinese speakers and we live in Germany. My son acquires Mandarin, English and German as his first languages. I do the same thing too. My German is catching up.
Keep up the good work! I am raising my kid in US and my native language is also Chinese. I am confident that my kid will speak fluent English but I am a little worried about their Chinese. >_
@@jasonzhang2643 Pleasure reading is the best way for improving the second language. You have to find lots of interesting books written in Chinese, and you read to your child, so your child acquires listeningand reading simultaneously. Speaking and writing are the result of listening and reading. Watching Chinese-language cartoons or other interesting videos can also help a lot. Make sure to find a lot of resources so that your child has lots of options to read or watch. Listening to audio materials helps little because it is difficult for children to concentrate since the environment is English speaking.
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Through reading Manchu-Chinese bilingual documents, I also acquired Manchu into a high level of reading and translating. You can see samples in my channel. I also acquired Mongolian this way. Language acquisition has been proved correct in my practice. It just takes a lot of patience. When you feel difficult, do not give up. Just retreat a little, rest, reflect, improve, and then continue. Language acquisition is life changing and we get stronger in the process.
There are many Chinese story books online, with beautiful pictures. Just google them and read to your child, on a daily basis. Do it a little everyday, not a lot once a week.
I trust historical studies and I love his humor. how I could to read journals relating to acquisition of learning English. I started it from scratch. I was taught the way of natural acquisitions by language school called ILSC in Montreal. Yes. it worked tremendously well.
The anthropological study about the polyglot culture in the Vaupés River area that he discusses at 1:03:30 is called "Multilingualism in the Northwest Amazon", published by Arthur P. Sorensen Jr. in 1967. I just spent an hour looking for it online, so I thought I should share it here to save others the trouble of looking for it. According to the study, the average member of this culture speaks about 3 to 4 languages when he comes of age, and may acquire additional languages over the course of his life by learning some words from others and through passive listening.
Dr. Krashen, while your insights into language acquisition theory were intriguing, I found it difficult to engage fully in your lecture due to your early expression of bias against a political figure. As an enthusiast of your work, I believe maintaining political impartiality is essential when discussing academic topics. Why alienate 50% of the country just becuase you don't like orange man?
Unfortunately, the following this man has reflects very poorly on some people's critical faculties. He clearly has no experience in teaching languages and confuses a person's ability to understand a language with their ability to speak a language. Anybody who has taught a language will know that these two skills do not necessarily progress together. The younger generations who spend hours watching RU-vid videos and TV series understand extremely well but can find it impossible to string a sentence together. I find it very sad that his arguments are always so one-sided. He's also clearly bitter about how he's been treated by academics in his own field.
I agree, it's completely out of place, makes him look like an ass, especially now with the democrats pushing war and catastrophic economic and social situation.
A good grammar book is full of texts, examples and other language inputs. So why is it impossible to acquire a language just studying a good big grammar book? It's much more interesting than primitive adapted texts for beginners. And, by the way, I read about a person that learned a language by studying an instruction manual for an aeroplane.
Because it's not full immersion. As Stephen says, you should be learning / watching / reading from something where you forget about the language and you're just fully interested in the content! Some people may truly love grammar but it's very rare. Even linguists like steve kaufmann don't recommend learning from grammar books but rather studying history texts etc. And if you're really interested in operating that airplane manual, then you could learn a language from that!
@@megalingual3215 > And if you're really interested in operating that airplane manual, then you could learn a language from that! but on that note, if you're *really* interested in grammar, no reason why you can't pick up language by reading grammar books written in the target language. Right? Offtopic, but I remember reading the manuals for the 2005 Mazda 2 and some 90s Hyundai Lantra as part of my own FVR
What I believe he is saying is that the monitoring process encouraged by “learning” a language, interferes with the process of acquiring a language. Now, if the grammar book just happens to be material- it could have been anything, it just happened to be a grammar book- and that holds your interest, great! But the acquisition isn’t coming from the fact that it happens to be about grammar. The acquisition is coming from the process of comprehensible input- assuming it is comprehensible to you..!
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Why? Why the education authorities didn't listen to this old man. This is a world change matter but nothing was changed in the past 40 years in the second language school teaching.
I feel so much indebted to all my teachers for all their basic syllogism they introduced me to at the early years of my studies. Still, I feel I owe more to this kind hearted Prof who shares his knowledge so generously on You tube.
I have had more than 10 english teachers over the years. Not a single one of them taught me how to learn english. My english teachers were useless to me. I wish I had known Stephen Krashen when I was 14, hr probably would have changed my life.
54:47 I burst out laughing here. I remember reading a linguistics paper, incredibly confused as to why it was saying "n+1 level", feeling the entire time like the author was describing something in the most roundabout and obfuscated way possible. I guess I have some insight now.
Thanks! As for me, the only one reason why this method still doesn't used by schools and universities - this is a great tragedy and big commercial loss for all of that "edicational authority institutes". Great.Thanks again!
Because they intended to impeach him before he even took office. It was a done deal, no matter he did nothing wrong. How are you doing with your new fave Biden? Ready to give 450 thousand dollars to people here illegally? Like those gas prices? Ready to go to war over Taiwan? Ready for the IRS to look into your bank account on a regular basis? Enjoying those senseless mandates and loss of your constitutional rights?
@@giancolabird You're acting like a made some political statement, I just thought he predicted it by chance. Just because I don't care about them doesn't mean I cant comment on anything related them.
This video didn't age well politically... He dislikes Trump, which probably means he voted for Biden. Biden has dementia! I have a tip, Stephen.. stick to what you're good at. Language, not politics 😂 🤡
Talks all based on personal and professional anecdotes - there is hardly any hard evidence here. May be entertaining but when he dismisses grammar outright he is clearly trying to get his own back on somebody he believes he was wronged by decades ago. There is no other explanation for the hate he harbours for grammar. What need is there to refer to the grammar/non-grammar involvement in teaching debate as a '40-years' war'? Comprehensible input and skill building clearly go hand in hand. What is wrong with this man?
I can’t think of a single guest lecture at a college I’ve attended that isn’t almost entirely anecdotes. If you want the hard evidence, read the research.
Well people don’t learn languages by learning grammar. I guess he’s just trying to get people to understand that we were given grammar in school but nobody ever actually learned to speak a language that way yet schools keep doing it. It can be interesting but pointless if your goal is to learn to speak.
