/lang/ - Languages

>>164

Fucking love this guy, been watching his level up vids for a couple of months now

I just copy most of my previous post.

I like laoshu a lot. He is very funny and inspiring.

I've probably watched all of his level-up videos whenever I felt discouraged.

But I have to admit that a lot of his videos are the same but I also watch them for the reactions which motivate me. He only has real conversations in Chinese, Somali and the few other languages he's fluent in.

Most of the time it's just:

-my nickname is laoshu

-I speak 50 languages

-I learn at home

-my wife is Taiwanese

-I have twins

-I'm a language teacher

-I have been to Taiwan

etc.

He also comes off a bit unprofessional at times but it seems like it's pretty hard to record videos with three crying kids in the house. The whole marketing for his learning method suffers a bit from Bennyism.

Well, I don't mind he's three kids and has to make a living somehow despite his very time-consuming passion. Compared to other polyglots he actually learns languages that are extremely difficult for native speakers of indo-European tongues which is impressive for a person who grew up in the projects and just left his home city for travelling a few times after learning the languages.

I also like Alexander Arguelles a lot. He's done some interesting videos on strategies and motivation concerning language learning.

But I'm not sure if his dream of becoming the Mr. Xavier of polyglotism wilm be reality one day.

Maybe he should relocate and try to get involved in initiatives of the EU that are supporting multilingualism…

>>1096

Yeah I think part of his method is learning specific introduction phrases (and this words as well), then he studies anticipated results he'd get, like "how'd you learn this?" so he basically has memorized a few different possible conversations in x language but even doing this teaches you how words and grammar rules. It's not a bad idea but it can be a bit limited

>>1097

Yeah, these key words/phrases are part of his method.

>It's not a bad idea but it can be a bit limited

That's true but he's also proven by being fluent in several languages that he can turn this limited conversational ability into full fluency by his own effort instead of being stuck on that level.

>Steve Kaufmann

I like him too. He really stresses how important immersion and reading/listening is, I find it much more entertaining to struggle through a movie or book than read grammar textbooks.

>>1112

He could limit advertising his website every two sentences, though.

Is Richard Simcott an alien?

>>1135

He surely is out of this world.

>>1124

>not enjoying the constant shilling