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in the classroom you want to focus you we're earlier talking about what do you what do you tell students when they first show up right yeah you want to focus on meaning not on language focus on what's happening not on words and phrases and pronunciation all right
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science tells us that kids learn better from one from zero from the birth to five years old they're the fastest they're the best at learning model them then just do what they do you can't get better than that
for - stats - natural language acquisition - 1 to 2 year old is age of fastest and best learning
comment - ALG philosophy - replicate the experiences that 1 to 2 year olds have
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show me any other program that that tries to teach you language for a one to two-year-old that's what we're doing it doesn't compare to teaching a language to a five-year-old we're not there yet
for - natural language acquisition - age - 2 year old is right age to aim to learn at
comment - 2 year old age is when an infant learns to hear and speak a spoken language first - reading and writing does not happen until about 5 years of age - When we are learning a new second language, it is therefore appropriate to aim for the same goal as a native 2 year old language user
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a wrong guess is a hundred times better than a right answer yeah that's just giving you the reason is a right answer closes your mind a wrong guess you're still open and that's the vital characteristic
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patience and tolerance for ambiguity
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that was the biggest challenge i think we had and still have within uh alg is teachers think they've got to explain the language and they're short cutting the process they're short circuiting the process and they're cheating the student out of a otherwise good experience
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adjacency - between - Socratic method - natural language acquisition - ALG - explanation - adjacency relationship - When the teacher explains the meaning to the student, - it actually robs the student of the active learning experience of guessing the right meaning - Infants learning their native language for the first time are necessarily in the "deep end" and face discomfort - They (we) are constantly forced to guess and actually actively construct meaning out of the universe of symbols we are being exposed to in a multitude of contexts
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that discomfort is a tough one that's the first part you gotta face that and if you're not facing it then you've learned to walk with crutches
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if i cannot adjust to guessing right about meaning i will never learn in this way very well at all
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for - natural language acquisition - Automatic Language Growth - ALG - youtube - interview - David Long - Automatic Language Growth - from - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies - https://hyp.is/Ls_IbCpbEfCEqEfjBlJ8hw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w
summary - The key takeaway is that even as adults, we have retained our innate language learning skill which requires simply treating a new language as a new, novel experience that we can apprehend naturally simply by experiencing it like the way we did when we were exposed to our first, native language - We didn't know what a "language" was theoretically when we were infants, but we simply fell into the experience and played with the experiences and our primary caretakers guided us - We didn't know grammar and rules of language, we just learned innately
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- ALG philosophy - replicate the experiences that 1 to 2 year olds have
- adjacency - Socratic method - ALG - natural language acquisition - explanation
- key insight - natural language acquisition - guessing
- natural language acquisition skills - patience - tolerance for ambiguity - constructing good guesses to meaning
- quote - natural language acquisition - wrong guess - right answer
- adjacency - natural language acquisition - open mind
- from - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies
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- adjacency - Socratic method - ALG - natural language acquisition - explanation - infants learning native language
- Automatic Language Growth
- youtube - interview - David Long - Automatic Language Growth
- ALG
- natural language acquisition - important role of discomfort
- natural language acquisition
- stats - natural language acquisition - 1 to 2 year old is age of fastest and best learning
- natural language acquisition - teaching - focus on meaning, not words
- question - comparison - human vs artificial intelligence - Can't an AI also consider things we sit on to then generalize their classifcation algorithm?
- natural language acquisition - age - 2 year old is right age to aim to learn at
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for - natural language acquisition - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies - to - book - From the Outside In - linguist - J. Marvin Brown - https://hyp.is/PjtjBipbEfCr4ieLB5y1Ew/files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED501257.pdf - quote - When I speak in Thai, I think in Thai - J. Marvin Brown
summary - This video summarizes the remarkable life of linguist J. Marvin Brown, who spent a lifetime trying to understand how to learn a second language and to use it the way a natural language user does - After a lifetime of research and trying out various teaching and learning methods, he finally realized that adults all have the abilitty to learn a new language in the same way any infant does, naturally through listening and watching - The key was to not bring in conscious thinking of an adult and immerse oneself in - This seems like a highly relevant clue to language creation and to linguistic BEing journeys - to - youtube - Interview with David Long - Automatic Language Growth - https://hyp.is/GRPUHipvEfCVEaMaLSU-BA/www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yhIM2Vt-Cc
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- natural language acquisition
- inguist - J. Marvin Brown
- to - youtube - Interview with David Long - Automatic Language Growth
- quote - When I speak in Thai, I think in Thai - J. Marvin Brown
- Deep Humanity linguistic BEing journey - natural language acquisition
- youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies
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for - natural language acquisition - author - J. Marvin Brown - book - From the Outside In - from - youtube - The Language School that Teaches Adults like Babies - https://hyp.is/Ls_IbCpbEfCEqEfjBlJ8hw/www.youtube.com/watch?v=984rkMbvp-w
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- Feb 2025
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Good discussion and outline of research about natural method of language acquisition over grammar-translation method of language acquisition.
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Dreamt of learning Latin? Here’s how you’ll finally do it by [[Thomas V. Mirus]]
A non-specialist look at his Latin language acquisition with lots of resources around Hans Ørberg's Lingua Latin text.
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Some might wonder why I recommend Lingua Latina instead of Fr. William Most’s Latin by the Natural Method series. Though Fr. Most was a friend of Catholic Culture and a brilliant theologian, after having used both books my opinion is that Most’s Latin style is significantly inferior to and less enjoyable than Ørberg’s. For example, Ørberg early on begins to acclimatize the student to the more flexible word order that makes Latin so different from English, exposure to which is essential for true reading fluency. Most’s Latin is, especially at the beginning, clunky and tedious in order to be didactic; the brilliance of Ørberg is that he manages to be didactic for the beginner while also being fluid and clever in his writing. Yet despite his greater didacticism, Fr. Most relies on English explanations of the Latin grammar, whereas Ørberg accomplishes his task entirely in Latin. Ørberg also has illustrations to teach the meaning of words without translation. Fr. Most does not include macrons to indicate vowel length, which is essential to learn correct pronunciation. He does include stress marks, which Ørberg does not, but the rules of stress are more easily learnt without stress marks than syllable length without macrons.
Thomas V. Mirus' comparison of Fr. William Most's Latin text with Hans Ørberg's.
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Luke Ranieri’s video “Latin by the Ranieri-Dowling Method”.
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