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Welcome to Language Acquisition Blog News
I'm Keith and this is KanjiKeith's YouTube channel.
Let's take a look at some of the blog posts from around the world on Language Learning.
At thelinguist.blogs.com
Steve Kaufmann posted a YouTube video to his blog.
He talks about when speaking should begin in a language
you are studying and contrasts his view with
Benny the Irish Polyglot.
Next, we go to Spanish-Only.com, where Ramses tells us to
Stop Learning Spanish, Acquire It.
He advises language learners to absorb languages and Ramses mentions
how students at ALG do not study, rather they let the language grow inside.
At Fluent in 3 Months, Benny the Irish Polyglot has a post on Learning the Irish Language.
At Science Daily, there was an article entitled,
First Direct Evidence of Neuroplastic Changes Following Brainwave Training
The first line of the article reads,
Significant changes in brain plasticity have been observed following alpha brainwave training.
And then it happened!
Benny the Irish Polyglot and Steve The Linguist Squared off!
Posted in 2 parts, this 40 minute conversation could have continued on and on.
Let's listen to an extract of this bout!
Of course, only the exciting parts!
Let's get ready to rumble!
[Steve] Hi Benny!
[Benny] I've been lookin' forward to this for a while.
[Steve] Yeah, uh, I don't find that. That's not been my experience.
OK, but there you are making assumptions!
And I don't agree with that because a lot of that content is simply too boring!
[Benny] True, but I still have to disagree, that that's actually the core of what you need.
It's not just about distinguishing the other words, you, when you're speaking a language it's not just your store of
vocabulary. ... confidence to make the mistakes [Steve] hold it, but hold it though, hold it, I
[Steve] I have the choice. I don't find that a pleasurable experience. It's not because I'm timid
I'm not timid at all. If I run into a Russian on the street, you know, I hit him with my (Russian).
[Benny] (reading) literature and watching movies [Steve] no, but it doesn't matter, you don't have to listen to literature.
[Steve] People have that sense of communicating, they're learning about other people and how they live in Brazil or Japan
[Benny] It's a SENSE of communicating but it's not actually normal communication in terms of..
[Steve] Oh, but it is. I completely disagree with you. I completely disagree with you.
[Benny] It's like, uh... Well I'd actually disagree with that.
[Benny] It's helping me [Steve] But is that really so though? You said...
[Steve] 'cause I don't think it's... I wouldn't agree that, uh...what you call it?
the input method is somehow less human or less communication
[Steve] I fundamentally disagree with you there. I fundamentally disagree.. [Benny] OK.. [laughs]
[Steve] That's simply not true in my case.
[Benny] And I tell people, "This is just not true."
[Steve] I simply don't agree.
[Keith] And there you have it.
1 minute and 20 seconds of disagreement.
The rest of conversation was quite agreeable.
You can go to Steve's blog, The Linguist on Language to hear the entire conversation.
Oh, and one more excerpt from that conversation.
There was a reply to the statement by Steve
where he said:
[Steve] I don't believe in the EXTREME silent period people.
Apparently there's a guy in Thailand that FORBIDS his students from speaking.
I mean that's just not practical. If you're in that country you're going to want to speak.
[Keith] Well, that guy in Thailand was listening!
And here is his reply on the blog,
The AUA Thai Blog.
Next, The Word Collector
posted a short article on how
Learning a Language is Like Moving to a New City
Then Doviende at Language Fixation
tells us about the once-over method
and workbooks.
Then it's back to Steve's blog where he continues to post conversations on language learning.
This time with Megan in English
and Akiko in Japanese.
Steve Kaufmann is fluent in Japanese.
And finally, back to Language Fixation
where Doviende asks
how much input do you need?
A post inspired by Antimoon.
That's all for the LAST edition of Language Acquisition Blog News.
Thank you for watching Kanji Keith's YouTube channel.
It was a pleasure serving you all.
Keep up the language learning!