How to learn any language easily | Matthew Youlden | TEDxClapham

His story completely useless.

What a great video! Thank you for sharing this info! Thank you so much!

ただいま50歳。今までの人生で日本語以外の言語（＝英語）習得できませんでした。この歳になりフランス語を習得したいと思っています。しかし成功体験ないので踏み出せない、自信がない‥
そんな時に「外国語を習得するとホテルの部屋がアップグレードされるかも」「自分に関係あるものだけを学ぶ（＝私の場合はグルメと買い物なので観光会話できればOK）」この２つの言葉で頑張ってみようと思えるようになりました。
あと、「助けてー」「道に迷いました」も習得しようと思います。

So unexpexted and pleasant: Скільки мов ти знаєш - стільки раз ти людина❤

It is typical survivorship bias! If I could learn foreign language for a something time, then other people will do it. I have been studying English for 15 years almost every day at least an hour! I learning with different teachers and myself, but I cannot write nothing without translator. For example, this message I can write only with Google translate. With great difficulty and with the help of a translator, I understood this video, thanks to the subtitles. I can understand small part of TED video, but I cannot understand something when I watch American movie. People think, that if they can, other people can too. But it is wrong! We all have different cognitive capabilities. And when people who have no problems learning a language say that the inability to learn a language is a myth, it causes anger. People just don't understand that not all people can do the same!

For example, in my country I am a highly paid IT developer with unique knowledge, I know programming languages and mathematics. But I absolutely cannot learn foreign languages. I don't want to offend anyone, but the advice in the video is very naive and has been given many times by many people.

I've been learning one word for almost a week. I look for it in context, in video, in text, in literature. But the next day I can't remember it. To remember just one phrase and context, I need a hundred repetitions and at least a week!!!
You just can't understand that not everyone remembers words or phrases and their context after one, two or ten repetitions. I need to see a word hundreds of times to remember it.

Do you think in 15 years I haven’t figured out language learning techniques? Or haven’t you watched about 100 Ted videos on how to learn a foreign language? It’s just that for many people this is a hundred times more difficult than for you. And you need to understand this, but you cannot understand it because of your selfish picture of the world. It seems to you that if I can do it, then everyone can do it. But everyone else is not you.

Где то я уже эту байку слышал про дядю и несколько турецких фраз в отеле

Forget trying to listen to this without headphones. And be aware the adverts will boom at you because you have to turn the volume up to max to even hear it. Passing planes high in the distant sky or birdsong drowns out the speaker.

Im not taking advice from a Brit who cant even speak English properly

Listen to books in the language on audible (or similar) as soon as you have the badics down. That way you get the pronunciation and the intonation.
No, you won't undetstand everything in the beginning but you're definitely making progress

I must learning english before watching this video.

This is spot on advice. Top shelf stuff.

Thank you so much. It was interesting and awesome. I apply three gold in my learning. I can not overcome from my mistakes. Sometimes I happy to learning grammar. Absolutely I hate grammar. I got it what you were saying the whole video.

It's really important to have fun when you learn language. If I do a lot of difficult and boring things that my motivation goes down, so have fun brooo!

I thought I was going deaf... 🙃

J'apprends le francais, et cest vraiment difficile. Tout de mon temp est consacre a ca.

ワァーオワンダフルookini

Currently, I am about to learn Russian being a German.

thank you for the lecture TED is enssential !!

How about nailing the accent?

– My native language is tuvian, but in childhood I was watching russian cartoons on TV all days, so I learned Russian. I know russian better than tuvian now.

His facts are wrong Muppet

Too bad. Couldn't hear a thing.

Step #1: Learn languages when you are young. After a certain age it is nearly an impossibility.

1st step in learning a new language!!!??? Turn up the volume!!!!!🤦🏽🤦🏽

The audio was awful on this video

I'm a student. I have been leaning English for 3 years ago. I try my best with it. Thank you for this video

Видео она вода, вообще ни о чем

thankyou, sir 🙏

70% of English vocabulary comes from old French, not Latin.
But since French comes from Latin, English dictionaries "forget" to mention the language that came in between, so most Anglo-Saxons don't know that 70% of the words they use are... old French, not Latin.
The author of this TedEx presentation says that English language come from German origins (rather "saxon"), and he hides (or don't know) the major origin of his own language, the old French. He "innocently forgets" the history of his own country, the conquest of William the Conqueror, who imposed French in legal texts over Great Britain and nobility, so that French became more or less a mandatory for intellectual classes.
But above all he forgets the intellectual debates that existed in England on which language they will adopt, because if Saxon was the language of some people, it didn't satisfy all the people who lived there but were not from the tribe "Angles". Great Britain, like France, has been a melting pot of invasions.
Because of so many time of wars and "love/hate" between France and England, the historians of English language totally ignore or forget the French part of the history of the builting of own language.
If you're English, and start learning French, you'll be amazed at how many French words you already know - provided your teacher know the few rules that made Old French evolve into modern French, and how much closer English vocabulary is to Old French than to Latin.
If I love learning the English language, it's very often to discover old Saxon words, but also to rediscover old French words that have kept their original meaning, while in France same words have evolved in other directions, so that learning English is also for me sometime a surprise to learn the old meaning of old French word.

Define 'get by'. Very vague.

When he said he speaks 10 languages fluently I don't believe him. I wish a Polish speaker had jumped up and asked him a tough question in Polish.

The guy needs more work on his hand language, those clasped hands bouncing up and down did my head in. Hands in pockets dude.

Very motivating

The sound of the video is very low , it’s hard to here

much of this is not true. specially the timing.

Yes it's true that one must be easy & lenient on oneself while he begins to learn another language,and moreover it's okay not to understand everything under the galaxy & you are not born with the language so you just constantly need to remind yourself that you gonna be fluent very soon just keep grinding soon you would be seen coming with flying colors ⭐

I wish I might have watched this video before it's really priceless 🙂

1似ている部分を探してそこに注目する
2シンプルに徹する
最初は学習中の外国語と自分の言語との間には共通点が少ないように感じるかもしれない。しかし、容易な部分に注目すれば習得が早くなる。全ての言語には易しい要素があるから。
3自分の関係のあるものだけ学ぶ
特に学習を始めたばかりの頃は必ず自分の関わりのある内容にするべき。現在自分が置かれた状況のなかで意義のあるものに集中する。

言語を習得するにあたって極めて重要な要素は「時間」だ。定期的に短時間の学習を繰り返すことで言語に対する抵抗感がなくなる上、より効率的に習得できる。

それは英語圏で使える方法であって日本のような言葉では通用しないやり方です。英語の血が全く入ってないんだから。

I leran turkish in uk too.

Why is “T” lowering its audio-video standards?

Thank you so much for sharing with us these wonderful information about language learning.
I'm from Syria and I love learning languages, currently I'm trying to learn German through English.. in order to use and improve my English as well as my German.. though it's not an easy decision but that's a win win, isn't it?
Also thinking outside the box by learning while having fun in a serious way makes all the difference.
I wish you everybody good luck.

i don't speak English sorry

Everyone says learn these way that way. Only thing that’s helping me, is getting a bilingual bible, and reading,listening,speaking, writing and understanding with vocabulary look up 1-2 times for a word in a verse I’m learning, So far it’s been helping me, bc the bible has a lot of repetitive words or verses, so don’t have to drill a word into mind. Because chances are you will come across it again and again. I can’t do listening only, many people say just listen watch tv,music etc. I have to have visuals as I’m learning and speaking and writing out what I’m learning to understand. I wish there was a app that let you write out everything you read or listen to when using app. A lot of apps have multiple choices or not enough handwriting or spelling out the words.

Why is this so long winded and boring .

How are the sounds of his mouth just as loud as the words coming out?