How to learn any language in six months | Chris Lonsdale | TEDxLingnanUniversity
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- Published on Nov 20, 2013
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Chris Lonsdale is Managing Director of Chris Lonsdale & Associates, a company established to catalyse breakthrough performance for individuals and senior teams. In addition, he has also developed a unique and integrated approach to learning that gives people the means to acquire language or complex technical knowledge in short periods of time.
Jan-21-2014 Update. The video transcripts are now available via the following links:
English Only:
www.the-third-ear.com/files/TEDx-ChrisLonsdale-LearnAnyLanguage6Months.pdf
English + Chinese Translation:
www.kungfuenglish.com/files/TEDx-ChrisLonsdale-LearnAnyLanguage6Months-ENG-CHS.pdf
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how to even read Chinese?
i have been wanting to learn portuguese. im going to listen to more songs in portuguese, i realy like anitta, and i am going to watch vlogs spoken in portuguese. i have some online friends that speak it so this will help too. this helps a lot, hopefully i can understand this language by july 2020, that is my goal.
If you want fluency fast, get a long-haired dictionary. The rest is academic.
Wow! It'll take me at least 6 months to understand what this fella said.
Hi
he is right on all
i learned German in 3 months after 6 months i could keep a conversation
after 2 years i realized that the language is actually a bit hard because of the grammar, but i keep pushing harder to learn it and, now after 9 years i'm confident to speak it
How discouraging! I can't use my memory talent? And I have no access to all his requirements for learning.
I learn words from different languages by power of association. I use English and afrikaans and form pictures in my mind.
How many languages does this guy actually know?
@irongloves thank you, much appreciated
I followed him (Chris Lonsdale) years ago when he posted a video showing his Cantonese (Chinese) skills at a local market in Hong Kong. In the video he was asking to a local seller the price of some veggies etc. He was promoting his book (The Third Ear). Sadly the video has disappeared but I was amazed by his knowledge of Cantonese. Quite surely I know he speaks Cantonese and Mandarin, not sure if he speaks other languages, but that would not surprise me.
am I the only one noticing the map of China is in lack of Taiwan ?
You skipped Principle #4...Principle #3 is just a title
Be fun to agree to meet with someone on a regular basis and each of you can't speak the others language, and you have to figure it out along the way. And you're not allowed to learn outside of meeting that person
Kto ponial sto govorit etot lektor, oni angliskij viucili i za 30 minut...
There's a typo in principle 3
Thanks!
Six months? Impossible! To be really fluent you need a ten thousand words vocabulary. Too much words to learn, unless you have a photographic memory.
Maybe it’s possible when you’re doing nothing else but learning a language
Most people just don’t have time studying daily, however, reading books and learning new words every day can improve your language really fast
Wait, so squirrels fly now? I think glide is the word, not fly. I'm english is my second language. Enlighten me if I'm wrong about this.
You are correct that they glide. But they are called "flying squirrels" in ordinary speech. After all, they do travel by the principles of aerodynamics.
I know English n Spanish n learning french
Conversational abilities in 6 months? Very possible. Fluency? Only if your definition of fluency is generous.
แพนคิดถึงคุณมากๆพี่ย้ง
i agree with action #1 listening eventhough you dont understand the meaning of the words just sink it in you brain the rhythm, flow and the.intonation . but the on the others its just common sense
so now, teach me to draw like a pro
Gawd this guy just rambles on and not to the point!. Suffocating watching this dude.
I'm french and I'll be in China for 3.5months this year as developer trainee .Would I be able to learn Chinese in 3.5 months ? xD
I mean chinese is easy
This is my favorite topic and content to watch. ❤🤯🧐🌝🌞
The lecturer may have thought he was being helpful however i thought he was just being too aggressive. Way Way too aggressive
Immersion helps when you are really in immersion but if you keep speaking your native language in the new country you'll never learn anything
you don't begin work if you don't know how you will work.
easy! by a system!
This is the best TED talk I have never seen. Amazing conference! Il est excellent! Wow!
Six months, if not living in the native country?
How to record special effects in Pro Tools
The “language deaf” thing is so true! When I first moved to the states I had a hard time understanding my English speaking friends in noisy environments, probably because my Dutch ears were deaf to English sounds.
One of the things we are naturally "deaf" to in another language is the rhythm and word breaks. We write sentences with spaces between the words, but we don't speak them that way. Whatwereallydoisspeakalotmorelikethisandstringthesoundstogether. That's why speaking slowly and distinctly is so important when talking to a learner.
You had to learn the rhythm to distinguish the words. Background noise increases the difficulty.
Excellent,I've just learned english by watching this video.
Why are there some bad reputations on this video? What is the reasons?
people in the back can you hear me clearly? Keep it simple - Berg
great eloquence but big belly...
I can only speak english and my country language clearly
Let me start today with French
The China map in the first slide is wrong, pls change it with the right one. Thanks
It works! Now I speak my dogs language!!!
I'll apply this to learn Spanish lol anyone out there wanna be my language parent?😶🤣
@Zen Legacy Desde luego:)me encanta el español.Además,eres muy amable
@Muhammet Salih 🤣🤣 bien, que haces divertirte?
@Zen Legacy De nada,me gusta hablar contigo también y quiero hablar más!!!!Vamos
@Muhammet Salih Tengo el honor de hablar con usted amigo muchas gracias
@Zen Legacy necesito aprender también, lo mismo pienso.Puedo aprender contigo
2nd principle 3 is actually the 4th. So he has a mistake in his presentation.
Excuse me but where exactly can you buy a flying car?
Google translator is a must!
From a short experience, the easiest way is to be in the place where THAT LANGUAGE IS SPOKEN. As I live with the people in that place and listen to them talk while at the same time I struggle to talk in their LANGUAGE to communicate with them, I learned anyway.
I feel like he glossed over one important detail which is the fact that you should also have an interest in the language, not just making it relevant. If you don't find any enjoyment out of things like listening to the target language's music or tv shows, you wont have much that takes you to the next level.
Start at 5:50
Just what I needed 😁
if I watch 1k anime’s subbed, will I learn Japanese? hmm
Thank you sir
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I can speak 9 languages and i am amazed, i was using your technique for learning them...
Really nibba ..and what those languages are?
@L'effet balle de neige For sure :) I actually feel like I have a really good process for learning a new language now. I just haven't applied it or tested it... so I guess you can say I don't have a good process, haha.
He is great!
@Seth .Cartwright Thanks for sharing that.
I am a native english speaker, and have learned Spanish through four years of school, and Chinese from one year living in China. Two completely different methods of learning a language, and I nearly came up with this same process in this video. You need to think about words from the other culture's perspective, not your own meaning/translation, you need to master the accent to be expressive and show emotion, and you need to learn the most basic phrases to communicate. This is what I did to learn Chinese and I was very, very good at it within a year. I also had students teach me Chinese every week and did exactly what he said. We talked about the words I wanted to learn, the sentences I created, and I mixed up the words I knew to create more sentences and phrases and words. When you learn this way, you can even stop practicing the language for a while, and when you start practicing again, you will remember almost everything.
肝心な日本訳がない。
This guy reminds me of my asthmatic history teacher..but his speech is amazing
Use your face muscles in unique ways for the language you're learning.
Nice
can u be a super saiyan😂
Very helpful and importent video, I than you very very very much.
Excellent