pickThis book has given me some new ideas about how to learn additional languages. I feel like it would be so easy for schools to implement this type of program and actually make school foreign language departments useful. This book helped me feel better about how utterly useless Duolingo has been in my efforts to relearn German and French, and learn Irish (even having used the app for nearly a decade). 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
GingerAntics I think starting with the sounds of the language before moving on to vocabulary building is the most logical way to learn a language. It‘s how the brain naturally learns languages. I‘ve often wondered through my years of language learning in school why the sounds of the language are the absolute last thing taught, when they‘re the first thing native speakers learn. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y
GingerAntics My only concern with this book is that some of the ideas don‘t work for all languages, mainly endangered languages. For languages like Irish, Navaho, Maori and other indigenous languages that need to be preserved for culture‘s sake, there aren‘t always accessible recordings of native speakers or books/newspapers to read in those languages. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y
GingerAntics I get that as a vocalist, endangered languages aren‘t important to the author, but they are important to people, and his readers. He did a survey to see what pronunciation guides his readers wanted most. Irish tied for the number 1 spot. He‘s since made pronunciation guides for the entire top 10 languages apart from Irish. I‘m actually a little disappointed by that. It‘s been years. Clearly it‘s not going to be made. 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 3y
GingerAntics Overall, a solid book, but needs tweaking for some (arguably the most important) languages. #GabrielWyner #FluentForever (edited) 3y
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