Surprising truths about language learning | English teaching masterclass

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Recently I gave a masterclass about teaching English as foreign language to a group of Spanish teachers.
I really wanted them to know the truth about language learning and how to get the best results in the classroom. I showed them the latest research from the fields of second language acquisition, cognitive science, non-native speakerism, psychology, and classroom techniques.
I hope you enjoy it!
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@folexangegeheim 4 года назад

Thank you for such a summary and here is my response: 6:20 - What is immersion? 8:45 - There is no evidence that children learn English better than adults 10:05 - Accent is to hard to eliminate 12:30 - You DON'T NEED native speakers to learn 15:15 - Mixing two languages to connect the ideas in one's head [on a cultural level] 17:20 - Non-native vs. Native English teachers 20:45 - Business English doesn't exist [Here is a business culture] / "Big words" aren't necessary 25:30 - What is the best way to learn a language? 35:05 - Our job is to teach students how to think

@fatehimanov7696 4 года назад

Oleksandr Manyukov thank you bro

@acousticmotorbike2118 4 года назад

Thankyou

@bluegtturbo 4 года назад

Immersion = eat , sleep , drink and shit in the new language.

@nonsensepoopypants7415 4 года назад

@@bluegtturbo They're not actually asking what immersion is, they're writing the title of each section from the slides.

@olgierdkonieczny5778 4 года назад

Thx.😎

@5904454 4 года назад

In reality, most of the methods are ineffective unless a student REALLY WANTS to learn a language.

@evenjohannesen2567 4 года назад

In reality, if you have that attitude,, you are putting illusory obsticles in your path as a teacher. There is almost always no such thing as a perfect class, where everyone is highly motivated.

@msilence2009 4 года назад

@@evenjohannesen2567 of course. But still his point is right, absence of motivation results in a lot less effectivity of learning process. And at some point it is not reasonable (it's just loss of time) to continue that process without serious work on motivation aspect.

@60-second-HACKS 4 года назад

You can't motivate people. You can only provide the environment within which they can motivate themselves.

@enle2002 4 года назад

@mymaster You are very right: A language cannot be "taught" it has to be LEARNED.

@Bronquignol1 4 года назад

@@60-second-HACKS Sure. So it's important to work on this environment, make it the most suitable possible. As a techer you need to give the best opportunities to your students, then it's up to them to take it or not.

@lauraserafinelli9958 4 года назад

I'm a non native English teacher and what you're saying in this video is very encouraging. Thank you for sharing it.

@sarathelwell6701 Месяц назад

For someone (native speaker) who’s been teaching English for 20 years, this was very interesting and informative. Love your work Christian. Thanks for sharing 🙏🏻❤️

@LearnThaiRapidMethod 4 года назад

Fascinating talk, I learned some valuable facts. But in my research, I’ve had quite different results in some cases. It doesn’t take 30 years to master a language, but yes we do need a good 15-20 years to master our mother tongue... depending on how much we READ... Many native speakers who don’t enjoy reading never get to communicate or articulate their thoughts clearly. As for a second language, adults learn much faster than children; but it depends on the learning strategies (will comment more on this later). An adult can become relatively fluent in a 2nd language in 3-5 years and can probably master it within 10 (again, depending on how much reading and listening is accomplished). Yes, the concept of “immersion” is important - one has to “do the time”, just like learning a musical instrument or becoming a good athlete. Secondly, accent is certainly something that is ingrained in our speaking habits. But this is more “plastic” than presented here. I am still researching this issue myself. People tend to modify their accent, depending who they are with. And I also discovered by accident that my son has acquired an American accent, even though nobody in our family or neighbourhood is from USA or Canada. It turns out he acquired his accent from the iPad apps! More to follow...

@loomit100 4 года назад

It’s also very common for British children to adopt American accents when playing with figures and dolls.

@MrCarnivore007 4 года назад

Yes, some folks just seem to have this natural ability to soak up languages. Other seem to just have to struggle with each step. Eventhen, simply speaking, or writing vs. understanding it can be quite different things.

@moyga 4 года назад

It has been scientifically proven that people lose the ability to hear certain sounds not present in their native language after a certain age. For example, if I say the words 'raw, law' or 'road, load' back to back repeatedly to a Japanese adult, most of them will tell me they can hear no difference between the two words, where as a native English speaker can clearly hear the difference with no effort. They are essentially deaf to certain sounds. What you are talking about with accents changing is a completely different thing so maybe you misunderstood the point. An Australian picking up an American accent doesn't require learning new sounds.

@MrCarnivore007 4 года назад

@@moyga I deal with this with my ESl learners, and thus the reason why they choose a Native teacher versus a Spanish one.

@LearnThaiRapidMethod 4 года назад

@@moyga So far the research I'm doing focuses on Thai, Hebrew and Chinese - so I can't generalize much at this stage. I've read some studies about the "crystallization" of sounds that can be heard; but in my research I've discovered a somewhat different underlying mechanism. It seems to come from how we speak, which is essentially a *muscular* skill. Certain muscles used for speaking develop strength & dexterity (along with the parallel development of fine motor-control for these muscles somewhere in the brain I guess). Other muscles will not develop because they're not being used. It's a bit like becoming skilled at playing tennis and not being able to transfer these (same) skills to squash or ping pong. Some of the muscles and motor control are the same, but many are completely different. What seems to happen with language is that we only seem to be able to hear those sounds that we can physically produce ourselves. It's as though we have a kind of analog-to-digital converter in our heads that convert a sound signal in our ears to a *re-constructed* digital signal based on the sounds we are aware of and can anticipate. In fact, I've discovered that we barely listen to what another person says: we usually *fill in* as much as we can ourselves to minimize the amount of "signal processing" we are required to do. That means we don't hear new sounds at all at all. (At least we "hear" them physically as a vibration in our ears, but our "inner" or "third" ear plays back only the sounds that we are already familiar with.) This theory seems to hold true because when I train people how to physically produce the sounds that are otherwise alien to them, they are subsequently more able to hear these sounds when native speakers produce them. And, again, it's not that they actually "hear" these sounds. I think it's simply that they compose or construct the new sounds as they've learnt them. And in fact I've accidentally been able to prove this because I've inadvertently been training people to produce one particular sound incorrectly. Yet that - incorrect - sound is what is heard even though native people say something slightly different. I now have to go back to all the people I've trained and tell them to correct how they produce the sound in question - and no doubt they will then subsequently "hear" it correctly when spoken... :) (PS Could you provide a link to the study/studies that show that people their ability to hear non-native sounds after a while? Thanks.)

@klausklaus1150 4 года назад

This guy is correct in many things he says, and incorrect in a few key ideas too. Non native can be better teachers, because they’ve been through the process. And they can be conversations and improvise and invent the language, exactly because they are only partly knowledgeable of the native language culture. Also, personality and confidence of the teacher plays a major role in teaching effectiveness.

@bethllo6307 4 года назад

Klaus Klaus that’s not true. Because natives have been to the through the process of learning a se one language too. Knowledge is important. You can’t teach what you don’t know. To teach a language you have to be educated in the language. Native or close to it.

@garik64 4 года назад

What I like in a good language teacher's speech is that hearing it I feel like I know English well (which is far, very far from reality). :)

@gopalkrishnan4072 3 года назад

Excellent teacher. Your English pronounciation is great. We can follow up without any problem.

@Isilic 4 года назад

So, this is a summary of all you have been teaching us this time so far. Thanks for recording it, really. It is always a pleasure to keep in touch with this kind of information and don't forget why is important to excel ourselves in learning English, because at the end of the day, there is nothing better to feel you've done it all by yourself because you know you're capable of it and it's utterly worthwhile. As usually, well done Christian. I've learnt that it is always going to be fun to absorb any sort of data about this subject, because I truly enjoy it. And allow me to say there are inspirational people who are going to help you in that; you are one of them for sure. Cheers and keep up this magnificent work!

@DavidM.R. 4 года назад

Hi Christian!! Could you give us the references of the papers showed in your masterclass?? Thank you very much!!

@anetepaulaperova3755 4 года назад

Fazio, L. K., Brashier, N. M., Payne, B. K., & Marsh, E. J. (2015). Knowledge does not protect against illusory truth. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 144(5), 993-1002.

@attilaszabo8605 4 года назад

@@anetepaulaperova3755 and Faez, F., Karas, M., & Uchihara, T. (2019). Connecting language proficiency to teaching ability: A meta-analysis. Language Teaching Research, (24)5, DOI: 10.1177/1362168819868667

@DavidM.R. 4 года назад

@@anetepaulaperova3755 Thank you very much Anete!!

@DavidM.R. 4 года назад

@@attilaszabo8605 Thank you so much Attila!!

@yelenachebotova3346 4 года назад

@@attilaszabo8605 Thank you so much:)

@misscameroon8062 4 года назад

Just a reminder,if you wish to to speak another language with some ease and a degree of fluency an immersion in the sound environment of this target language is absolutely fundamental prerequisite ;people brought up on printed material tend to forget that language,a speech is like music,it is a sound world ,because the spoken word is the transporter ,"a packet" of the meaning on wishes to convey at the conversation!

@Teo-yl7oo 4 года назад

Morning! Thanks for this illuminating presentation that blew my mind! As learner of English as foreign language, I experienced most of the stuff you talked about. When I was in high school (and even in middle school) teachers didn't help learn the language, they just taught the language and the difference is huge. Their approach was based on few speaking sessions (10-20 minutes per month!) and on intensive sessions of grammar without even a context sorrounding it. I figured out some years later that this approach was totally inefficient for me and from then on I started improving my skills in a completely different way and I started getting results. Thanks and congrats for your work here on RU-vid. Cheers!

@luanchau35 4 года назад

You could become my professor. The way you explained complex ideas in those papers is amazing

@ThePinkus 4 года назад

A very interesting lecture, for the specific topic and application (learning English), and for its ramifications. The strength of repetition vs. knowledge is something to be aware as a person and a citizen, because of course one of its negative applications is its intentional and manipulative use. I think about its use in political debates, e.g. present a narration and stick to it, if necessary, irrespective of contrary evidence or rational counter-arguments. This is even stronger if the narrative is directed to Your political base, since this base is less likely to pay attention to opposing opinions. I think this is one of the big issues: exploitation of a democracy lacking an educated basis, and the reason why democracy requires serious civic education to properly function (that, and solid institutions). The manipulation tends to radicalize opinions, since its effectiveness is stronger within the faction, and discourages critical debates and open-minded thinking, since this erodes, again, its effectiveness. Of course its application is wider than in just the political debate, but negative in general. On language learning, I'd really like to see the application of these ideas not just to contemporary languages, but also to the so called "dead" languages. And I am thinking in particular to my experience in receiving Latin teachings in Italian schools. To surmise my opinion on that experience, I conclude that the only reason Latin "is dead" is because it is taught like that. That approach is wrong: just as our mind doesn't "know", or rather "care", if we are in England or in Italy when listening to someone speaking English, it also doesn't "care" that a language is "dead". Thus there is no reason to teach Latin, to name one example, differently from current English: read, listen, speak, write it, even sing it!, immerse Yourself in it. What creates a missed opportunity, is starting form the idea that it is a "dead" language, and then build the teaching method on that.

@michelamarcellino4029 4 года назад

You're so encouraging and motivating! Thank you Christian👍

@oussamaboukhelkhal8711 4 года назад

Awesome presentation! THANK YOU!!

@slavikslavko6059 4 года назад

Main thing in learning English is understanible pronounce of speaker especially of teacher. In one world: our lever of learning depends on your level of teaching.

@RobBCactive 4 года назад

Funny Jason's reputation with me is high, it's only because I am studying Norwegian that I thought "hang on" thinking I spotted a funny error about Oslo. Once I saw one clear error it caused a re-examination of every other falsehood and amusement. To me this shows the switch between passive listener and critically thinking for myself, but I needed some real knowledge and confidence to collapse the acceptance of authority state.

@dmitrychemankov3309 4 года назад

Thank you Christian! It eas a real eyes opening presemtation!

@AldoAnestsur 4 года назад

This one of the greatest class that I saw in the last year and I saw a lot of RU-vidrs this year. Great job Christian keep doing these amazing videos.

@juliangonzalez5433 4 года назад

I've been listening to the Canguro English videos for a pair of months, and i have to say that my listening skill has improved, what i make me happy. I thank to Christian and Canguro english.

@robertoknudsen 4 года назад

Brilliant...!!!

@haranpandi 4 года назад

Thanks christian.you are the best teacher and your class was outstanding the way you taught about english learning with scientific proofs have stolen the show.

@lucaspmoresco 4 года назад

Amazing content Christian, thanks for sharing with us.

@lucasferreira-jornadadaflu6914 4 года назад

Amazing class, thanks for posting!

@tuinglessinmiedo4732 4 года назад

Brilliant speech! Love it ! Unfortunately, marketers use all these myths to get more costumers, misleading students.

@cristiano5415 4 года назад

You’re an amazing teacher. Your instructions and cientific datas contributes a lot in my study. Regards

@edgardo9967 4 года назад

Amazing lesson!!! It was amazing!!! Thank you so much from Argentina!!!

@Tony32 4 года назад

Thank you Christian for making this available to us. What a coincidence, "Today I found Out" just released a video about the myth of children being better than adults at learning languages, basically you guys agree on almost everything, except on the idea that children should start learning a second language as early as possible (you talked about this on the "6 common grammar myths" video) he says the Barcelona Age Factor Project found that children learn better when they start later in life.

@mfuttersack 4 года назад

Thank you. Very interesting and your pronunciation is SO GOOD, I can understand all what you say !!

@salehbinsalmanNCH 4 года назад

Thank you, sir. it is really nice lesson. I hope to hear more from you ...

@soledadearcoverde3223 4 года назад

Christian, you are wonderful. I Thank you for the great contribution. My English is improving.

@davidhealy7171 4 года назад

This was highly useful. Thank you for sharing this. It has given me a new perspective on teaching English.

@kacper2963 4 года назад

I checked out the information about "Chart Of NSM Semantic Language" and I discovered that scientists from my country invented it :) It's a really wonderful how much I can learn about my country from your videos, Christian :) Greetings!

@tveasy5172 4 года назад

Brilliant explanaton! Muchas gracias!

@asefagebremeskel2540 4 года назад

Thanks Christian for sharing your knowledge. Account is very difficult to hear someone his first language but I can hear you your accent still

@backtoemocovers 4 года назад

I learned so much with this video, thank you! greetings from Puerto Rico.

@ju_santos 4 года назад

Those truths open wide good strategies for teaching and learning English. My favorite refers to focus primarily on speaking and improvise.

@injujuan8993 4 года назад

Christian, thank you BIG for the video! So very true and tremendously helpful. Thank you 👍🖖💖❤💛💚❤🧡💖

@peterbradley4916 4 года назад

brilliant! Excellent teacher. Subscribed!

@wonderfulday4660 4 года назад

Thank you this was really good!

@benjaminestrada1670 4 года назад

THANKYOU so much greetings from México

@firstlast1357 4 года назад

I grew up with 4 languages. In the street and at homes people spoke German, Romanian, Russian and Ukrainian. By the time I started learning English I had a library of sounds that helped me to hear the right sounds, however my accent Is a mixture of all these languages, ... i have an accent in each of them .

@moulmour 4 года назад

Illusory truth = recieved idea ! great masterclass teacher. Thanks.

@snehalquest 4 года назад

It's a superb way of delivering what we used to believe. Amazing!

@transcendencestein 4 года назад

Christian, you are an AMAZING man! You provided so many profound ideas! Thank you so much, man!!! I love you!

@filolinguista5576 4 года назад

Amazing! I enjoyed watching this video from the beginning to the end. I speak English, because I learned it in Canada when I was student there, but I teach now here in Mexico a Native Mexican Language (I'm not even a native speaker of this language, so I'm a second language speaker of Tzotzil), I became a Tzotzil teacher and I found these tools very useful to improve my classes. I knew some of them intuitively because I've always been trying to be practical in order to get my students able to communicate rather than to analyse structures grammatically. Thaks for sharing! Greetings from Chiapas, Mexico!

@cesarramos3569 4 года назад

Excellent video, thank you for your approach

@GlynWilliams1950 3 года назад

That is some great information. Thank you

@rmatveev 4 года назад

What a great job have you done! You have not only explain how and why learn foreign language but you looked over so many studies. That is really impressive. And I just enjoed to watch your lection from the start to the very end.

@SpanishAcademyTV 4 года назад

Thank you Christian!

@denishatolier8930 3 года назад

Thanks Christian for all sharing ,👍

@malinkywoos 4 года назад

Thank you so much for sharing your views and openning up the assumptions in teaching English, especially business English. Good on ya, mate.

@jninlove 4 года назад

Thanks for the video. It's very helping.

@dusandragovic09srb 4 года назад

Absolutely. Talk the simplest way possible, that dawned on me when I started learning programming. FOUNDATIONS, anyone can do it relatively fast, to be literate for almost any code/language. Great video!

@osquigene 4 года назад

I lived in Italy for a year, I can confirm that it can be very easy to avoid immersion. My case is a bit unusual but I wouldn't say rare, I worked in a computer science lab. in Turin (near the french border). It was easy to ignore Italian as almost everyone I encountered during my stay could either speak french or english (and sometime both). The only places I needed to use Italian was at groceries/restaurants/bars, but that's not the places where you actually learn the language. I regret I had this false idea that "immersion would suffice to learn". Or rather that I had the wrong definition of "immersion" in mind. I didn't anticipated this and I should have taken Italian courses from the very beginning.

@patrykpatryk3261 4 года назад

Christian, you're better than the majority of English academics; your knowledge is huge and the way you demonstrate it is also awesome!

@benchapple1583 4 года назад

There is really great teachers who speak English! Seriously!

@marcosviniciusgoncalves6081 4 года назад

Hi Christian! I do appreciate this video. It was amazing and congratulations! Thanks a million!

@freevpnproxy1669 4 года назад

ITS AMAZING INDEED

@diogodallorto1 4 года назад

one of the things you told in this video is about the important influence of good teacher is you happiness. Is so much clear you do that always happy! Thanks Christian and I see you in class

@msmabaar 4 года назад

I really enjoyed your talk. I learnt a lot of new things and gave theroretical basis to some impressions obtained in over 30 years of teaching English. Congratulations.

@andrestherock1 4 года назад

I like this video the information very clear, and very clear.

@salvadorfernandez1349 3 года назад

Gracias por tus vídeos. Tienen muy buen rollo.

@paulhogan2930 4 года назад

Great.

@GrantCareerCoaching 4 года назад

Your point about 'illusory truth' is really interesting man. I totally agree. When we hear something enough times it starts to seem/become true in our minds.

@EXANIX 4 года назад

Yes, it does. I heard many times on TV or "experts" on the different youtube channels that US ruined USSR and I thought that is true. and now many news channels tell about how Putin made illigal ellection in US, and people figure that is truth, although he made only facke ellection in Russia.

@DF-lk8cx 4 года назад

@mincermind you didn't get him. He meant the last election in the USA and troll factory (KremlinBots). Nevermind. If you really think that Putin has nothing to do with his unconstitutional seizure of power, I have bad news for you. Don't be myopic. Russia has a clear hierarchy where there's no person that controls everything but Putin. Putin has done everything to stay in power. Oh, yeah, Central Election Commission is not subject to Putin's control. What a joke.

@RobBCactive 4 года назад

There are very many commonly accepted beliefs, which are in reality myths; some of the ones that annoy me surround World War One. "Led by donkeys" for example, British Generals on the Somme, were being killed at such a high rate, that they had to be specifically ordered NOT to go forward as they were being lost at an unsustainable rate. Everyone through post-war literature knows that the generals were living it up in chateaus, totally detached from the men they led; it takes studying hundreds of pages of fact based historical events to see things in a deeper light. The thing is, we economise by not critically evaluating everything, when I noticed one funny error, Christian's fact list collapsed as I actually examined the statements.

@ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511 4 года назад

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@ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511 4 года назад

a lie often enough repeated becomes the truth

@user-oe2zz7vk1g 4 года назад

There is no knowledge that is not power. Thanks a lot, teacher!

@freevpnproxy1669 4 года назад

AMAZING TAHNKS

@paz10vida 4 года назад

You are a fantastic English professor!

@OLDCHEMIST1 4 года назад

Excellent lecture! Wish this had been around years ago when I 'seriously' started learning languages. Best wishes for Canguro English from Pomland, somewhere south of London!

@volhaivanova9265 4 года назад

Thank you so much!

@Manuel4Languages 3 года назад

Amazing talk, cheers

@IngleseAutodidatta 4 года назад

Great video!

@muhammadameen4674 4 года назад

It's so realistic way of teaching. And it is also brilliantly analysed and concluded the points you presented on the screen. So much helpful for me. I appreciate all your efforts.

@Alefenobrega 3 года назад

Thank you!!!

@jairogalan6050 4 года назад

Excellent! I really Enjoyed it

@truong62 4 года назад

Fantastique ideas !

@ajarnsingtoh2392 4 года назад

Hi Christian. Thanks for a wonderful, informative, and insightful video. Your insights confirmed several things that I have been thinking over the last ten years. I have been living in Thailand since 2004, went to school, and university, and worked very hard to become fluent in Thai. Along the way I developed my own theories for how best to learn a language. And spent the last 8 years writing my first book in Thai about problems that Thai people have with English pronunciation, which has just been published this year. What I have taken away from your video is confirmation of these points: -that one can forget about accent - focus on the right pronunciation is key -that children don't learn language better than adults -that you don't need native English speakers to teach English -that a teachers job is to be a assistant learning coach (my definition) Thanks for putting up your work. It's great. Ivan M. Paton

@signmeupruss 4 года назад

Christian, I am a native English speaker, but I have been helped along in my foreign language learning, German, by your videos. Many have called you a great teacher and I cannot agree more. Thank you for all you do. Russ from Lansing, Michigan in the USA(I include the country name, because most people outside the US develop blank stares when I say Michigan. I often wonder if they are thinking ... hmmm, is that somewhere in Africa?)

@a1a1luis 4 года назад

Really good work !!!!! Actually, There is no right or wrong. What could help in practical terms is : 1- set your goals( what do I need the language for in short term? How much money will I have to invest? How much time? )2- find the best way and sources to do so. The traditional way of learning ( going to school, sitting with 10, 20 people in the the same classroom, where everybody goes through the same evaluations) is most of the time ineffective. Schools deliver what is more convenient for them . They don't highlight the fact that each individual learns in a different way, at a different pace and have different goals. So, find a resourceful professional ( tutor) teacher who will help you identify which tools to use and will give you constant feedback. You will get the best results once you find your way to learn, weather translating, reading, speaking, writing, leaving abroad , etc. Get constantly and efficiantly tested so you can have more tangible results. And good luck.

@Ak-zm3ce 4 года назад

Great

@jesusdiaz1754 4 года назад

Thanks Teacher Christian this class is to interesting, your explaneation es to clearly from academic but you teach a lot way when you show different way to think and beleive, i have fallowed on youtube videos, they are too excellents

@EXANIX 4 года назад

I figure that homework it is great! Because every work hour of teacher will be paid. When I get homework I use to search information on youtube to watch and to listen it and I have got it free, many times as I want. And repetition it is right way to reach the stars, becase bonds of neurons grow very slowly and its very slowly produece "the sharp bodyies"(I don't know that in english named). When you got its sharp bodies then you can use ability to use the language constructions which you learned earlier.

@belinskayaanna 2 года назад

Awesome class!!!!!!!

@PavlenkoM 3 года назад

Thank you 🤝

@mokkrit1 4 года назад

Excellent

@alvaroromero2419 4 года назад

Very interesting and good grounded

@aldoperera6688 4 года назад

amazing. Science people!

@jollysharma9389 4 года назад

Hey, I am Jolly Sharma i am watching your videos from last one year, your Series of daily digest is really impressive and knowledgeable, pls upload that more and your videos more frequently pls, it is likely daily piece of knowledge listening to you great work pls continue

@robertorosati53 4 года назад

Very interesting

@abozeekoo2022 4 года назад

Hats off for you sir Accept my Kind regards from Sudan

@kazuyoshisakamoto4096 4 года назад

This is an intellectual video. I agree that simple words should be used as much as possible in business English. In my daily communication with foreign countries, I sometimes get very esoteric emails containing a lot of long words from a business partner in the UK.

@cristinapavia4309 4 года назад

Thank you! I'm a private teacher of small groups in Spain, my speciality is teenagers who the system has left behind and are now expected to pass a level much higher than they have. I agree with your presentation, I constantly ask myself how to help them learn, what is the brain doing , but my biggest question by far is how is it possible that after learning English at school for so many years, the level is so bad? In Spain it's awful considering they spend an average of 8 hours a week learning it ( school and extra lesson).

@legkodymov7027 4 года назад

Wow! I thought in Spain you have high level in most.

@cristinapavia4309 4 года назад

@@legkodymov7027 a high level is expected, but the truth is the ones that achieve it is only because they invest extra time and money, as far as I can tell, the school system makes it harder to learn the language properly.

@kentz2035 4 года назад

its really good.

@dilyaravalitova7779 4 года назад

Hi, thanks for information. It’s very important for learners just as for teachers. I’m learning my 5th language now and I find singing very helpful. What I mean is I can easier distinguish sounds in the new language. And I know quite a few people who were just like me singing in a school choir and now speak several languages. Of course I’m not as good as any native speaker, but the process of learning is not as hard as it could be. Perhaps, singing in a shower could be one of the exercises while learning a new language. 😅🍀

@MrCarnivore007 4 года назад

Pretty interesting. I really enjoyed your talk. In regards to learning and age, one must also take into account that the brain is completely formed, and the manners in which we tend to learn, is pretty much set in stone by age 25. This means, generally, the young, and children, tend to learn a language easier. I like the point you are making: teach folks the use their highest level of english in the most effective manner possible. I teach for this result. I've seen so many *cough* cambridge*cough* teach for the result of how much grammar do you know versus how well can you use the language.

@miguell6862 2 месяца назад

Hi Today its Monday...😂the best day of the week.

@vika76 4 года назад

I agree with most of it, specially with that about synonims... that is quite hard to learn together it is so confusing!

@EXANIX 4 года назад

Idiom is "To reach the stars" in russian language is the same. And it has a good meaning not as in chinese language.

@akhtargul6000 4 года назад

Same in Pashto

@bookindrizer8330 4 года назад

The inventor of the wireless radio is Alexander Stepanovich Popov. Who is Alexander Graham Bell?!

@hrmIwonder 4 года назад

Nice presentation. The FSI conclusion is basically the comprehension hypothesis.. In hindsight it's pretty obvious the old skill-building approach can't possibly work.