Benny Lewis | 22 of your Language Learning Questions answered (timestamps in description) @irishpolyglot | Uploaded May 2017 | Updated October 2024, 1 day ago.
Here are the questions, so you can go directly to each one as needed. Come join me on https://beam.pro/polyglot this evening for more live videos (via gaming), and I'll be back here on YouTube tomorrow for another live stream, this time about the topic of pronunciation and accent reduction!
3:00 What’s your favourite part of Esperanto culture?
4:09 How do you choose which language to learn if you really want to learn two?
6:07 How long did it take to learn Esperanto?
6:49 Advice on making and promoting a language blog with tips, resources and material.
8:15 Do you think there are job opportunities for cake decorators in Latin America? (Also general job search tips in other countries)
10:09 Is the rest of South America as friendly as Brazil?
12:16 How many hours a day do you devote to languages during your 3-month challenges?
14:02 What are your thoughts about children’s language ability compared to adults’?
17:05 Should I use Pinyin or Chinese characters when starting to learn Chinese?
18:39 Which language is the easiest for you?
18:58 At what stage would you recommend learning idioms?
20:21 I’m thinking of taking the leaving cert exams (high school graduation exams) in multiple languages. How did you find your leaving cert exams?
22:06 Study tips for Russian, and using the principles in the Language Hacking French book for Russian.
23:48 Are you a polyglot?
24:12 I've found job that is based on a language I’ve learned and am confident in, but still it happens really often that I can't understand newly met people. Would you have any advice for me?
27:27 How do I avoid direct translation (translating directly word-for-word from my native language)?
27:57 What do you find tougher to learn - the technical side of the language or the cultural side? I find it very hard to start Arabic because it mixes with LGBT communities so poorly.
31:00 Do you know Tim Doner?
31:33 I’ve been learning Spanish for the better part of a year and a half. It’s my first time trying to learn a new language. I feel my own language gets in the way.
32:34 Are you familiar with REM method and garnering your own edited target language only audio files? I'm currently working on mandarin Chinese and Japanese at the same time.
33:56 Have you ever tried to learn Turkish?
34:40 How do you memorize all the words? You know a lot of languages, so it must be hard.
Here are the questions, so you can go directly to each one as needed. Come join me on https://beam.pro/polyglot this evening for more live videos (via gaming), and I'll be back here on YouTube tomorrow for another live stream, this time about the topic of pronunciation and accent reduction!
3:00 What’s your favourite part of Esperanto culture?
4:09 How do you choose which language to learn if you really want to learn two?
6:07 How long did it take to learn Esperanto?
6:49 Advice on making and promoting a language blog with tips, resources and material.
8:15 Do you think there are job opportunities for cake decorators in Latin America? (Also general job search tips in other countries)
10:09 Is the rest of South America as friendly as Brazil?
12:16 How many hours a day do you devote to languages during your 3-month challenges?
14:02 What are your thoughts about children’s language ability compared to adults’?
17:05 Should I use Pinyin or Chinese characters when starting to learn Chinese?
18:39 Which language is the easiest for you?
18:58 At what stage would you recommend learning idioms?
20:21 I’m thinking of taking the leaving cert exams (high school graduation exams) in multiple languages. How did you find your leaving cert exams?
22:06 Study tips for Russian, and using the principles in the Language Hacking French book for Russian.
23:48 Are you a polyglot?
24:12 I've found job that is based on a language I’ve learned and am confident in, but still it happens really often that I can't understand newly met people. Would you have any advice for me?
27:27 How do I avoid direct translation (translating directly word-for-word from my native language)?
27:57 What do you find tougher to learn - the technical side of the language or the cultural side? I find it very hard to start Arabic because it mixes with LGBT communities so poorly.
31:00 Do you know Tim Doner?
31:33 I’ve been learning Spanish for the better part of a year and a half. It’s my first time trying to learn a new language. I feel my own language gets in the way.
32:34 Are you familiar with REM method and garnering your own edited target language only audio files? I'm currently working on mandarin Chinese and Japanese at the same time.
33:56 Have you ever tried to learn Turkish?
34:40 How do you memorize all the words? You know a lot of languages, so it must be hard.
