Learners Helping Learners Learn
How language learners can share their languages, their cultures, their interests, and their knowledge to empower a broad base of language learners and potential languages learners to acquire the gift of fluency in other languages, major and minor.
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Steve is an inspiration to us all!
It would be quite a thing to see several hundred language nerds descend on Cholula, Mexico speaking Nahuatl!
I loved this talk! It gave me some interesting perspectives. Thank you for the tips about podcasts, I’ll take that with me.
Such an interesting presentation, amazing points raised. Personally I would not consider myself a polyglot as I don’t speak that many languages and I was hesitant whether to attend this conference or not but then I felt like this is a forum people who love language learning and are passionate about it. I’m really glad that I get to listen to all the amazing presentations and learn new things. Thank you for the lovely presentation.
Yes, for me the word Polyglot was intimidating and I still feel imposter syndrome using it as a noun – as an adjective it’s okay 🙂
Gracias Steve!
Excellent presentation Steve! thank you so much for all the useful advice. I definitely think that people shouldn’t learn languages to impress other but to express and show them how doable and enriching it is to approach another culture through language learning.
Excellent talk Steve, I can’t wait to check those náhuatl short stories, thank you to make that happend! And of course to have you here in Cholula next year!
Here are some answers. I can’t figure out how to answer each question directly.
Yes the mini-stories are great, although they are designed to feature the most common verbs and connecting words in a language and are not traditional stories. Lots of repetition.
We have both Serbian and Croatian. including the mini-stories at LingQ,
Thanks to all for the encouraging comments.
OK Itziar muy bien, voy a hacer el mismo discurso en español. Hay que esperar unos dÃas. Saludos.
Can’t wait to try out the LingQ stories – my love of reading was one of the things that first got me into language learning 🙂
Thanks for the tips.
It was very interesting.
Hi Steve, many thanks, a fascinating talk. Any plans for including Serbian or Croatian in LingQ? The biggest struggle I have in learning these languages is indeed finding compelling content at the right level…
Steve,
You are spreading the word with vigor. Your enthusiasm is so infectious that I am here for my 1st PG. Thanks for what you do.
Hola, Steve. Una charla maravillosa y muy interesante, como siempre. Y ya que lo dices ¿PodrÃas hacer una versión en español? Estoy suscrita a tu canal y como no me quiero perder detalle suelo poner los subtÃtulos y la traducción automática, que no siempre es muy exacta y algunos detalles de como funciona Lingq se me escapan.
I love that “a language is a language”. It’s such a beautiful point, all languages have value no matter how many speak them or whether they are “dead” or “living”.
Thank you Steve! Very helpful resources. Always enjoying “seeing” you and learning from you.
Hola Steve! The god of languages! I’m Sebastian from Chile, i’m 21 years old and in the last months you became in one of the greatest inspiration of life, absolutely a legend! Thanks for your advices, keep doing, nos vemos!!!
Hello Steve, LingQ is great and keeps getting better. Thanks for sharing the resources Pocket Cast and Happy Scribe. Looking forward to checking them out.
Great presentation and information, Steve. As a long time multiple language learner, I strongly agree with you and Stephen Krashen on the importance of comprehensible input and the power of reading. I prefer the term language lover over polyglot, since I like to dabble in languages I may never become proficient in. I like that the Montreal conference is called LangFest. Living in a bilingual city on the Mexican border, I really enjoyed the atmosphere in Montreal in 2019. I’m currently leading a small weekly online study group in French and another in Japanese.
I’m also auditing an online University Russian class.
In 1990, I had the privilege to spend a week in a small village south of Mexico City where many of the older people were speaking Nahuatl and many of the traditional ways were still practiced. I look forward to the Nahuatl materials you talked about.
Thank you,
John Fahey
El Paso, Texas
Hi Steve! Michael from Poland here. Because of excellent work you have done on your YT channel I am so keen language learner now! Also a huge proponent of your approach based on input activities like listening and reading. Thank you for this big load of motivation!
Another great presentation here! For the last 3 years I have been listening to several different podcasts about variety of subjects. Now I am trying to convince my friends to your language learning approach.
Thank you for all and keep doing !
Thank you for your advice. I use LingQ and study Italian and Spanish. Also, I watch your YouTube in English and Japanese (I am Japanese, and I live in the U.S. currently.) You always give us the encouragement and motivation to keep learning the foreign languages.
Thank you, Steve for your advice. I agree with you. Also in language education at school, content must be comprehensible and compelling. Only recently I started encouraging students to listen to podcasts. I will do this more often thanks to your advice.