Funny story: this interview happened because Krashen randomly replied to one of my old tweets! 😅 twitter.com/skrashen/status/1303011485367427072

@primeartonline-pianocovers1535

3 жыл бұрын

"I run a KZread channel where I talking about learning languages through input" Language 100

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

I had exactly the same thing from a film director the other day. He replied to my review of his one and only movie which he shot in his loungeroom, and it's one of my favourite movies. So I interviewed him a few days later... I was a bit starstruck haha.

@Jamesulchip

3 жыл бұрын

That's hilarious!

@baronmeduse

3 жыл бұрын

Mr Krashen surely?

@ceulina2353

3 жыл бұрын

This is cool 👏

"We've only been married 55 years so it's still kind of exciting". That the cutes thing I've heard in a while.

@tienglongmy

Жыл бұрын

I wonder if he visited the islands with old Noam..

Whenever he leans forward and rumbles his voice I can feel myself acquiring an ancient power.

@MuttFitness

3 жыл бұрын

Language acquisition powers level up!

@tuningtunetuningtuningfunny

3 жыл бұрын

Ok

@vielleicht70

3 жыл бұрын

HAHAHAHAAH

@cherryeren1370

3 жыл бұрын

*TM101 Language Acquisition*

@YuserAlhaj

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

THE MAN HIMSELF WITH THE MAN HIMSELF

@rimenahi

3 жыл бұрын

*The men.*

@realjayjobes1849

3 жыл бұрын

@@rimenahi themselves

@j.jehml.1446

3 жыл бұрын

omg i just made a comment with exactly the same joke and thought i was being funny and original :(

@archdukefranzferdinand567

3 жыл бұрын

He's talking to the C.E.O of immersion

@tomasbarria7431

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

"Keep getting input. Relax. Keep getting input. Relax. Read. Listen. Read. Listen. Make friends." This man makes me want to live! Thank you so much, Matt, for making this interview! It is not just entertaining for me (though it WAS extremely compelling). But every live interview with Stephan Krashen brings out those golden grains of knowledge that help moving on in investigating language acquisition strategies. Especially coming from you makes it so precious. Sincere virtual grateful hugs!

@pangajackterhor

3 жыл бұрын

It was a great interview. He really gave some fun and interesting stories :) so much that we can learn from.

@coconutpineapple2489

3 жыл бұрын

I'm input person. But I don't want to make friends to improve my English. If he/she has same interests with me, I'd like to try it. If the purpose is leaning language, I'd rather pay for it.

@OneTruth95

3 жыл бұрын

But we also need to translate right? We cant just listen and read the words we dont know the meaning

@ComprehensibleRussian

3 жыл бұрын

@@OneTruth95 Comprehensible input means that those parts of the input that you don't know are easy to guess the meaning. With the help of various hints like the context, illustrations, realia, gestures, occasional translation or any other hints. If you can not guess then it just means that the input is not comprehensible at all or not comprehensible enough for your level. Also very rarely some people are just closed to the ides that they need to guess. It makes them uncomfortable. They don't have experience of such mental work, they are not confident enough and they don't tolerate the ambiguity. This mindset can be an extra filter for comprehensibility.

@OneTruth95

3 жыл бұрын

@@ComprehensibleRussian oh ok, thanks for clarifying.

I love how Matt says "Oh I was watching these TV shows that really inspired me to learn japanese" and I'm here thinking like "Just say you're a weeb dude we get it." And then Steven just comes out with a "Yeah let's hope we get comprehensible anime soon" Great, HAH!

@matheusgomessoares6180

10 ай бұрын

😊m....😊😊n😊

@matheusgomessoares6180

10 ай бұрын

😊 4:07 😊me j😊bn😅😊😊😊

“Nobody cares” Man I can’t even express how much this one truth has helped with my output. Dropping the anxiety of making mistakes feels like when Lee dropped the weights fighting Gaara lmao

@frozenpunchstarxd5717

3 жыл бұрын

+An Takabi Yeah dude, look at Sofía Vergara, the Colombian actress, people love her English accent. Americans love Arnold Schwarzenegger's English, so cool. I think accents are cool.

@klirmio21

3 жыл бұрын

Can you please tell me the time code when he says that? I can’t find it . Nobody cares etc etc

@GORABELLS-de2wr

3 жыл бұрын

Eyo fellow person of culture

@maikeru1990

2 жыл бұрын

@@klirmio21 His comment about not worrying about mistakes in output is a story he shared from the 10:00 until 12:10 minute mark 👍🏼

@shiroyasha8129

2 жыл бұрын

That was a nice reference, i liked it :)

53:40 "I'm guessing you've probably heard of Anki?" Krashen: *knowing smile*... "No." I actually had to pause this to laugh.

@katyarom

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it was funny :))

@skullkssounds1938

3 жыл бұрын

Cool to see you here too. Love your channel by the way :)

@feliche2292

3 жыл бұрын

Is he against Anki?

@daysandwords

3 жыл бұрын

@@feliche2292 No, he just didn't immediately recognise what Matt was talking about. When Matt posed his theory on how Anki can work within Krashen's framework, he said "Yeah quite possibly."

@feliche2292

3 жыл бұрын

@@daysandwords oh, thanks bro

I respect how quick Krashen is to say, "I don't know." Even when he guesses, he bookends it making it clear that he doesn't know, his statement is conjecture, he isn't familiar with studies, etc. I appreciate that he comes from such a scientific background and holds true to the values of scientific studies. Thanks for doing this interview, Matt. I'm sure you were giddy as a schoolboy when he agreed. Who else would you be as excited to interview (or be interviewed by)?

@Musouka3

3 жыл бұрын

I was about to post the same. My respect for him shot upwards. He never interpreted, he separated his own opinion from peer-reviewed science and he wasn't afraid of saying "I don't know".

@AdoptMeIndia

3 жыл бұрын

Yes I really appreciate the honesty too. Saying I don't know shows a lot about a person's integrity in my opinion.

@jojox6145

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed!!

my life has led up to this moment

@maryjem02

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed.

@NamNguyen-dj2ou

Ай бұрын

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Guys, this. Just because of this video 2020 is not a total nightmare. The myth and the legend finally meet each other.

@albinaeshimbaeva6887

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

When you asked the question about pitch accent, krashen said something like, just keep listening and relax and it will come. I have an experience, just one incident, that makes me doubt that it comes without paying attention to it. What happened was this. I was a grocery store where I live in the Netherlands. A woman was doing groceries as well and said something to me in the Dutch language, just about 5 words. She had no discernable accent, but she pronounced the character 't' in a way that only Germans do. So I asked her: "are you German". She was flabbergasted and honestly a bit pissed. She told me she had been living here for over 30 years, had lost all of her German accent, she says 5 words, and I recognize her as German. She was really pissed off. I didn't have the guts to tell her it was only one character. My suspicion is that, having lived here for 30 years, she never noticed the difference between the Dutch way of saying the character 't' and the German way. And according to Steve Kaufmann, noticing is one of the seven rules of acquiring a language. So, I do think you are right. You can get very far with input alone, but you need extra, conscious input, to understand that you are still missing something. Like a native telling you when something sounds off. Had I told the lady what was wrong, she might have been able to correct it. Unfortunately, I chickened out. Well, end of rant, hope it helps.

@cravarc

3 жыл бұрын

You didn't chicken out. She did. If she had merely asked, "how did you know?", you might have felt comfortable enough sharing this little detail with her.

@Matheus_Braz

2 жыл бұрын

Could you tell us aksjakjs Edit: 3 mins in and I found this on wikipedia: Unlike English and German, in Dutch the voiceless stops are unaspirated in all positions: thus while English tip and German Tipp are both [tʰɪp], Dutch tip is [tɪp] with an unaspirated [t]. Is this what you meant?

@AJBonnema

2 жыл бұрын

@@Matheus_Braz Probably this is it. It feels for me as if German people often "spit out" some of their "t"'s when speaking Dutch. Of course that exaggerated.

@Matheus_Braz

2 жыл бұрын

@@AJBonnema thx bro

@joelthomastr

Жыл бұрын

It's interesting that Krashen says that he doesn't know about acquiring from one's own output. In his writings he hints at it here and there. J. Marvin Brown who came up with the ALG method by basically taking Krashen's hypotheses even further than Krashen himself was adamant that an extended silent period is vital to achieving native-like results. I put it all together and I think what happens is that early on we kid ourselves that we've mastered things that we haven't and this gives us a double whammy of acquiring the mistakes in our own output while simultaneously closing our minds to those elements in the input that we get

Comprehensible Input is still underrated. _Let's change this!_ 💪😃

@Aditya-te7oo

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Output is NOT something which is forced, it's a natural result of enough comprehensible input. People REALLY need to know natural output is the result of enough comprehensible input.

@bobjohnson1717

3 жыл бұрын

This is wrong lol. Infinite esl students around me input 5 yrs and still cant talk property even though they seem to understand. Output to output. You don't get better at speaking by never speaking just like doingeverything else in this world.

@omerciftci4673

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobjohnson1717 True. Although I think comprehensible input is underrated, I also agree that each skill needs to be practiced separately and in a balanced way. Yes, input might carry my level of comprehension to an advanced level, but it won't be of much help to my production (maybe in writing it will, but in fluent and accurate speech, no). Especially when you are no longer an infant, it is kind of wishful thinking to expect this. We cannot acquire a new language like babies. We are already capable of thinking/speaking/writing in a complex way in at least one other language.

@EasyFinnish

3 жыл бұрын

True!

@brendon2462

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobjohnson1717 It's not wrong you do aquire through input. Even if you can't reproduce it yet it's in your brain. You've aquired it now obviously you just have to get it out through speaking. He means you can't reproduce a language. Without first squiring it. The only way to do so is massive input. Then eventually you begin to speak it. If they can't speak well after five years. There's many other reasons why. Not consistent, not inputting everyday, not speaking often enough, the quality of input, your concentration, exc. This guy can speak great japanese after five years. The proof is in the pudding so to speak.

The madlad finally made it. I can't believe it's already been almost 3 years since you started picking up traction this is crazy.

@TheRealSlimShady509

3 жыл бұрын

Since he made that 3 hour vid lol. At first i was really discouraged after watching it, but then i got motivated even more.

Excellent lighting on Matt's face.

@mattvsjapan

3 жыл бұрын

It's been a long time coming

@hhattonaom9729

3 жыл бұрын

@@mattvsjapan lmao

Great video Matt! Curious how Dr. Krashen sees the ALG method relating to comprehensible input and whether he's a fan or not.

@Justin-dl7hb

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@mattvsjapan

3 жыл бұрын

From what I've seen, ALG is perfectly in life with the input hypothesis, so I imagine he would be a fan.... I've been meaning to look more into ALG myself!

@jem7316

3 жыл бұрын

Check out the channel Dreaming Spanish. The videos teach Spanish using the ALG method from beginner to advanced level.

@guerererererererererererer2806

3 жыл бұрын

@@jem7316 I love dreaming Spanish! Hopefully we get a dreaming japanese, and other "dreaming channels" soon

@jem7316

3 жыл бұрын

@@guerererererererererererer2806 Absolutely!

This conversation of two language acquirers just reminded me that what I was doing is actually right and good. There are several bullet points that I can recall from it: 1)Motivation , self-esteem and anxiety are three major factors in one's language learning success. 2) Not practice but do for pleasure either listening or reading. 3) There are still some hidden stones hidden underwater of language acquisition and even those two guys cannot explain everything. 4) Comprehensible input is a good methodology to learn a language but lack of materials for beginners is a stumbling rock.

Haha no wayy, somehow I feel like all the other interviews were just stepping ladders to get to this one. He's truly made it lads

@xXJ4FARGAMERXx

3 жыл бұрын

I love the fact that you say _Stepping ladders_ rather than _Stepping stones_ , it just shows how HIGH up in value this interview is, it's not on a hill, it's on a MOUNTAIN.

Here's hoping that that this information becomes much more mainstream and people stop agonising over langauge so much ✊

38:30 - my second ever video on language learning was 2 years ago now, and it was a terrible video... but it's me just doing a French accent for 17 minutes, basically saying how it's actually helpful to pretend to be a French person, that is to actually completely imitate them down to the smallest things like the sort of mistakes they would make in English (if you are still speaking English). I have also found this beneficial when pretending to be a Swede... it's like a warm up. My hypothesis is that if you pretend to be a Swedish person speaking English for like 30 minutes, you get into that frame of mind before needing to worry about the actual difficulty of outputting... And then when you go to output you are more "ready" than you would have been because you feel Swedish, rather than just regular Aussie Lamont speaking Swedish.

omg its the ULTIMATE anime crossover... the man himself talking to the man himself....

I can relate to this idea of passively learning a language through listening. I started learning English in 8th grade because my family moved to a country where all my textbooks were in English even though most subjects were taught in Spanish. No one ever taught me any grammar because my peers were already reading pretty advanced stuff, like Macbeth and Beowulf, and so I was forced to translate everything word by word to survive through middle school and high school. I was too afraid to speak and make mistakes, but when I finally got the courage five years later during a trip to the UK, people asked me where in the States I come from. The only thing I did was read and listen for five years, with a well-worn dictionary at hand.

@sapohptaelqlolea3740

6 ай бұрын

Bro, I admire you 😮❤❤

"all these things are a RESULT of comprehensible input" - and just like that it all made sense to me. How can you be corrected if you can't already comprehend some of the language? How can you output if you don't already comprehend what you want to output? How can you do anything if you don't comprehend what it is you want to do?? You can't.

Stephen Krashen saying "I don't know" is a big lesson of humility and scientific attitude. Just found this channel, great video. Thanks for doing this. Greetings from Colombia.

I never realized the importance of being comfortable in your language, and feeling like you belong in the language. My mom when she speaks Norwegian (Her native langauge is Cebuano, mine is Norwegian) she comes of as more natural, but the moment she speaks with a stranger you can feel the uncertainty in what she's saying, her accent gets stronger, her words are more simple, and my mom is a very extroverted person so it's not like this is because of nervousness. I wonder if there is any good way to sound native in every environment, because true native people will always sound native no matter the situation (with very minor hiccups here and there of course). Also Steven Krashens excitement for reading as a general tool to improve so many aspects of ones life was really interesting to listen too, I whole hardheartedly agree with all of it. Legendary interview Matt!

@Pedro-er6ps

3 жыл бұрын

I stutter in my native language when talking to strangers.

@user-yj5cm1jz7h

2 жыл бұрын

Certified Bisayang Dako

@kuge5694

Жыл бұрын

@@Pedro-er6ps but you stutter in a native manner

Felt amazing listening to this talks

Wow, i never expected this to happen but Congrats on having an interview with Stephen Krashen

@justsomeguywithoutamask9602

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the 5 hours I'm sincerely happy that you could have the honor to talk with stephen krashen and that we could get all the knowledge that you carry with you

@fitnessabdul6811

3 жыл бұрын

@@justsomeguywithoutamask9602 Ok.

@joeschmoe4034

3 жыл бұрын

congrats on removing the mask

I 100% second that. I'm German and learned English in school for 3 years (--> couple of hours a week + home work). After holidays/vacations in English speaking countries I kept to "English only" (Netflix/KZread anyone :) ) as far as possible for a couple of weeks, until in 2011 when I stuck to it forever since. This immersion made all the difference! At a certain point I noticed, that I did not "translate" what I've heard back to German anymore, but simply "understood" what I hear/read - this was the moment everything changed. I for sure still make mistakes with speaking/writing - but in terms of understanding there is no difference between English and my mother tongue anymore.Great feeling, but what is more - I look at languages very different now.

Holy shit dude. I can't even imagine how you must've felt while doing this. I'm really happy for you, man.

Love Dr. Krashen, I'm on my 10th graded reader in Italian. Verdict.... it works! I've been studying on and off for years. My story: Added over 4,200 most commonly used words in Italian on Anki (from a book referred to me by professor Arguelles), studied abroad in Milano for 8 months in college, practiced on and off speaking with native Italian speakers on apps, memorized all verb tenses, and watched (wasted) for 30 mins every day for 2 years of Italian (too advanced and thought it would just 'click' - never did because it was mainly incomprehensible). Been reading graded readers for 2.5 months or so and feel like I've learned and am more 'fluent speaking' from those 2.5 months than my 15 years of on and off learning. Professor Krashen gave me the confidence to not quit, even though I was pretty much done and thought I could not learn a foreign language. My only gripe, not able to find enough graded readers. If anyone has a source, please let me know. My end goal? Is to speak Italian at a C1 level - ce la faro'!

@lucavitale973

3 жыл бұрын

Italian here, you should try comics. Italy has amazing comic artists/writers, a couple of favorites are Gipi and Hugo Pratt. Check out Pratt`s "La ballata del mare salato" and Gipi`s "La mia vita disegnata male", "Appunti per una soria di guerra" or S." (anything by Gipi is great). These are graphic novels meant for adults (in the sense that they are really just literature with drawings), so they might feel a bit complex at first but the drawings may help when things become confusing and the beautiful narrative should be motivating enough to keep reading. My two cents anyway.

@GiovanniCapannori

3 жыл бұрын

@@lucavitale973 Grazie assai, Luca! Gettero' un'occhiata ai questi fumetti.

this is going to be one of the most brilliant video in the youtube history

@Aditya-te7oo

3 жыл бұрын

Norman BT'S That's for sure.

That was a fun interview. I'm glad MVJapan was able to ask some of his most pressing questions to Stephen Krashen

This has to be hands down the best interviewing of anyone I’ve ever seen. You did a great job at questioning him, following up, and asking him to clarify. I’ve never seen an interviewer be so curious and so persistent and so polite. You’d researched his ideas on CI, considered them, and then asked him to fill in the gaps. I watched a whole lot of interviews with Krashen before yours and you asked questions that really helped me see his ideas and the current limits of some of them more clearly. You even presented theories that expanded on his ideas. I’ve never seen someone do an interview this well. Amazing job.

Legendary interview about to happen, badass job for getting this far, Matt.

The subconscious self-restraint when interacting with someone from a different "club" than you also works the opposite way when you're a native speaker of a language a foreigner is speaking to you in. I'm an Englishman who doesn't come from the central southern area, so I have a very strong regional dialect, and the difference between speaking to other British people and the non-British is huge. Not even just non-native English speakers; if I'm speaking to an American or what have you, I'll revert to the Queen's English and I'll actually mess up pronunciation because suddenly I'll get a somewhat American twang or overcompensate on pronunciation because my accent leaks in. AND YET, none of these changes occur if there is at least ONE other British person with me. And then the foreigner always comments on my accent. Reasonable self-consciousness I'd say.

YES !!! YESS The ultimate crossover Watched the video. I do believe we have an output filter. I’ve experienced this

@BlueFrog531

3 жыл бұрын

This crossover is so anime

I can’t believe if watched this for free. Acquiring this information at home in my bathrobe free of charge would have been unheard of a decade ago. BTW, Dr. Krashen, you should totally change the battery in your smoke detector. Thank you so much!!!

This is one of the best interviews you have ever made, thanks so much Matt!

I did not expect to find out that Stephen Krashen is actually really cute XD I mean, that famous video of him explaining comprehensible input is a lot of fun and he's really nice about the "beef" he throws around about teaching methods, but here he seems like a loveable grandpa ready to tell you stories about his life and share his knowledge. I'll be revisiting this interview! Amazing job, thank you so much!

Ma boi Matt finally did it! Can't wait to listen to this :')

Overall I liked the conversation, although it wasn't what I expected. What I didn't like was that a lot of times when Matt tried to place his theories under Krashen's knowledge and experience so that Krashen would somehow judge them based on that, Kashen would act too pragmatically, too strictly scientific. He a lot of times rather repeats his tenets, that he has already tried than ventures to use his knowledge and truly elucidate Matt's scenarios. Moral of the story: I think Matt has really stumbled upon some really novel problems that are outside the scope of Krashen's largely empirical knowledge. But the thing Krashen says about 'club membership' really gives me a lot to think about. I think that's the nugget of this video XD

@curtisjackson5793

Жыл бұрын

Think about how many years Krashen has spent chasing alternative theories and comparing their results against his methods. It's like trying to teach someone a new way of mentally multiplying numbers: if they already have a working method for them, they're right in knowing alternative methods may exist, but may also be not as effective, so they're naturally skeptical or resistant to novelty. It's not simply that they're "stuck" on their concepts frameworks, but that they legitimately "know better" from their experience.

How come I just discovered your channel despite having been a Japanese learner for years and years! I'm also an English teacher and constantly argue with colleagues on what's the best way to learn a language. Thanks a lot for the vid. Stephen Krashen had a big impact on my language education...making my life more difficult in class after I was convinced that classroom active learning wasn't very efficient to say the least :(

Didn't expect to sit myself through the whole thing in one go but wow, that was a great interview really really enjoyed it.

Graded Readers is so great. I've been reading these simple Japanese stories that I can comprehend and understand without many issues, learning new words and getting used to Kanji. The stories may be dull, but being able to read a language that was once so mystical to me, even if it's such basic language, is a great pleasure and source of motivation to keep going. So even tho I read about mundane stuff like John-San visiting another family over summer vacation and going to a festival with them becomes crazy exciting to me. There should be graded readers for every language, it makes things so much easier.

@laurapaglia8229

3 жыл бұрын

Hi!!! I'm desperately looking for graded reading material in beginner Japanese, I would be so very thankful if you could tell me where you find the stories you are reading. At the moment I'm reading these books tadoku.org/japanese/en/ Please help, pretty please ^_^

I want to say "Thank You" to you Matt, 'cause you're the one who introduced me to him and his "Comprehensible Input" theory, Japanese pitch accent, native-like pronunciation, these are all the things that I've known from you; so THANK YOU for all of these things.

I took several classes from Dr Krashen in grad school in the 80's... he only gets better with age. Matt, I think you are unique in your metacognition skills and reflection on your own learning, as contrasted with some hyper-monitor users who master difficult languages as adults. For example, in a way your study of tonality is like an advanced form of Input. You find it compelling to discover so it works.

I haven't heard from Stephen since 2021. I hope he's doing well.

@fmaylinch

7 ай бұрын

Oh, did you hear any news recently? I don't know him very well, but I got really interested in the Spanish book collection he mentions at 17:36. The entire interview is amazingly interesting.

Excited for this insightful talk!👍🏽‼️

Funnily enough, this video appeared in my feed while I was reading Krashen’s 1981 book on second language acquisition. Somehow the google gods knew what I was looking for. The truth is that I spent about twenty years of my teaching career resisting Krashen’s ideas; but resistance was futile ha ha. I loved grammar and had attributed my own language success with having studied it so fiercely. Now I realize that I was simply using all of the grammar reading as a type of comprehensible input. There was no way to aim all that grammar in spontaneous speech.

51:22 Your theory about visualising specific grammar aspects as a visual aid for acquisition is amazing. I had huge success doing this myself but I've never heard it explained like this before. Wow. Thanks for the excellent talk... all language learners need to see this!

@6Uncles

6 ай бұрын

I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Visualizing. Could you elaborate?

What a delight it is to listen to Dr.Krashen! And of course Matt with his fantastic interview questions.

Oh, wow! The joy in Matt's eyes during the introduction is so apparent. I'm excited to watch this.

What a great interview! I feel like I could listen to him talk for hours.

Wow, Matt. This is one of your best videos ever, and that's not a low bar. You did a great job as an interviewer with a legendary subject. Congratulations. I hope this video gets a million views.

What a phenomenal interview. I am a year late to this one, but enjoyed every second of this video. Much of me wishes the interview was longer but I still have much to chew on after this one. Cheers, Matt, and thank you to all of the wisdom from Krashen.

This is the best video on the internet, i’m watching for the 2nd time right now. Thank you for making this happen! I would say make a part 2, but i feel like the key points have been addressed.

I’m fan girling hard rn

Every second of this interview was so captivating, and perspective altering. Thanks so much Matt and Dr. Krashen!

This is really interesting. My first language was Spanish, but I was born and raised in the US with older siblings, so English had always been my strongest language. I never studied Spanish and rarely spoke it, but my whole life I was surrounded by Spanish because of my parents, family gatherings, church, etc. Now that I’m 26 and my job requires me to speak Spanish, I became fluent within a few months. Mind you I rarely used Spanish, I spoke here and there when I traveled to Spanish speaking countries and somehow I managed to speak okay. This past year I really focused on touching up my grammar but all in all this theory makes a lot of sense!

I am so intrigued by this topic. Thanks for introducing Dr. Krashen's work (I'm actually very tired, but I still listened to the entire conversation!). Thank you!

This is going to be amazing! The legend himself!

What an amazing conversation! Thanks, Matt!

Fantastic interview! I dont think I have encountered a more clear and concise explanation of Stephen Kraschens theories before. And hearing him theorize and repsond to some of the points you made from your own language acquisition journey was fascinating! Thank so you so much Matt. Hope you have a great evening.

Thanks for you setting this up. Brilliant of cause. Important notes about empathise, and academic publish too. Thanks two charming men.

Awesome questions! You can tell how much Matt respects Steven Krashen and that he really thought about what to ask. On the edge of my seat the whole hour 🙂

This is probably one of the most insightful things I've seen, glad you had the opportunity to do this interview! It's seriously motivating!

Every time I start to burn out on my Spanish input routine a video on this channel inspires me to re-evaluate, improve my methodology, and continue doing the work. Terrific interview, thank you.

I had stuff to do when I started watching this, but I couldn't turn away, very exciting! Very glad you got this opportunity!

"that's quite serendipitous" Nice flex...

Wow this is the first time I actually heard Stephen Krashen speak but he is such an awesome guy in person. So inspiring. Had a blast listening to this interview- thank you!

Your channel helped me reignite my love for academic research in the field of languages! Keep it up Matt, thanks for the hard work you put into your content.

Really enjoyed this one, Matt. I never tire of watching people who are much, much smarter than me, and Krashen is one of those people. Both of you have given me a lot to think about as I enter my third year of learning Japanese. Congrats on this interview.

You two are such an inspiration! My Japanese journey has been a long one, coming up 8 years living in Japan now. I would say I'm fluent but, I really love the idea of "joining the club" of the language. Being seen as part of the group is such an essential part of Japanese life and culture, the language is so wrapped up in culture in Japan too. I teach English, and it is so useful to know how we acquire language, and apply methods like ANKI and the things you two are talking about in my class. I would love to hear your opinions on trying to inspire students who don't want to learn a language. I have built up lots of techniques to make the language learning process more interesting for my students and it seems Dr. Krashen is very much on the side of keeping things fun too. Looking forward to your future videos Matt. Incredible work.

What an amazing person, best professor ever! As an aspiring researcher, I really loved his personality, and I hope more people get to know about him.

I loved the final, those last words were inspiring, for me, Krashen is a fundator and a very important figure in these places... thank you for making this amazing interview

I just cannot express how much I resonated with what being an avid reader means to one's personal development.

Stephen Krashen is so, so lovely... Thank you.

Amazing! Great interview man I love the attention to detail with all the questions

Both of you are extremely humble, honest, and intelligent. Thank you for sharing the interview. It's really inspiring!

Very inspiringvideo! I wasn't much motivated lately but this awesome interview made me recovering my energies and keep learning. It's so great watching content like that that make people see that the whole process of language acquisition is wonderful. Thanks guys!

Great great great discussion. Thanks so much 😊💕

What an incredibly enlightened and insightful human being. This interview has changed my life already. Great job Matt!

That was the best language learning discussion I have ever heard. 5 times in a row Matt raises such good beautifully expressed questions, and they go about making hypothesis around it and they just communicate so well and so clearly. I am absolutely stunned that was so inspirational

This was such a great interview with wonderful knowledge about language learning. Thanks Matt!

Amazing interview! Thank you very much for making this possible. It’s always interesting to listen to such an intelligent person. Mr Krashen is a fricking legend!

A truly amazing talk! Very inspiring, I will probably rewatch this whenever I get stuck with my motivation in learning. Thanks a lot for your perspective - and thanks to mr. Krashen for his really incredibly detailed and passionate explanations, examples and stories!

If only I had discovered Krashen earlier in my language journey! Thank you so much for this Matt

While I agree with a lot, I find part of his core thesis hard to accept, or possibly I just misunderstand it. But having studied many languages myself, I find that learning grammar, at least to the point that it provides a structural scaffold for your subsequent input to "nest" in, is a massive booster to the speed at which you can get better at understanding and speaking a language. Of course random "if this do that" kinda grammar points are pretty useless. Further, I think speaking yourself, making mistakes, and observing the feedback you get from your partner (f.e. a question because something was not clear, a friendly laugh because you accidentally said something hilarious) is absolute KEY to advancing your skills and one of the fundamental processes through which you gain ability. So yeah, of course, without input you got nothing, so that is where it all starts. But to me, input is exactly that, it's just the input part - but the machinery of learning a language involves many more cogs and wheels, and some of them are theoretically optional for sure, but might just help you speed up the process. Just my 2 cents. Anyway, love your channel and great video as always. :)

@bofbob1

3 жыл бұрын

I think right now the consensus is that grammar instruction works, but not in isolation. Meaning that it works when it's done in response to a question that the learner has. Which intuitively would make sense. If you teach the grammar like that, the learner gets an "a-ha" moment. But if you teach grammar out of context, just with lists upfront on things the learner hasn't encountered yet, then he just won't see the relevance of that information, and will have a hard time incorporating it. The core of his thesis, the "learning vs acquisition" thing, hasn't stood up all that well to the test of time. And that's no diss on him. He came up with these ideas in the 60s/70s. But a lot has happened since then, and in particular in the last 2 or 3 decades where cognitive sciences have advanced in large strides. His idea was that grammar instruction helps, but only in the "monitoring" function, and it didn't help at all for the spontaneous production of speech. Namely it helps only for when you are consciously trying to be careful about how you phrase things. Brain imaging tells a different story, at least in the sense that neural systems related to speech production and neural systems related to executive functions are connected in a wide variety of ways. It's not all wrong, but it's just rather simplistic in light of current research. For instance, he says that the brain is good at acquiring language, but not so good at learning about language. That's true only in the sense that the brain is naturally geared to acquire language, but it is not naturally geared to learn explicit grammar rules. The problem is that he infers from that that anything we do that our brains aren't naturally geared to do, well, that will have less potency, less value in the learning/acquisition process. But here's the thing: our brains also aren't naturally geared to learn how to read either. There's nothing natural about that. It's a cultural invention, one that children can't learn without explicit instruction. In other words, literacy is "learned", not "acquired". This learned thing, literacy, completely rewires how the brain processes language. So, it's a bit disingenuous to then say that our brains aren't all that good at "learning" but to leave out just how powerful learning can be. Literacy is a prime example of something that you "learn", but that is so potent it completely changes how you "acquire". And tbh, I'm not entirely sure how Krashen promotes reading so much without having ever addressed that irony.

@OatmealTheCrazy

2 жыл бұрын

The thing is, the actual speaking in your examples is technically not what you're learning from, but rather they became a vehicle to getting input in the form of the other person's reaction. I think he means that just speaking the words to yourself in isolation is not a means of acquisition

This video was absolutely incredible. Thank you.

I'm so glad Krashen agreed to this interview!!! You were a great host, wonderful video, great discussion.

Awesome!❤❤❤ Sir Stephen Krashen, Thank you so much...❤❤❤

It is great listening to this professor, and it has been an honour having been in his mailing list...reading is the key to language acquisition and Doctor Stephen Krashen has been an important inspiration for me during my process of improving my understanding of language acquisition. He is a can-do person who has left his print for future generations of teachers and students as well.

Over the years I've watched a lot of interviews with Dr. Krashen. He's always has some interesting points. Glad I found this interview on your channel.

I remember learning about the different language acquisition theories back in the day when i was a college student, and Stephen krashens input theory is the one that i admired the most. Nothing but respect and admiration to you Mr.Stepehn and thanks for the host for interviewing such a gem

Wonderful discussion with Stephen...thank you. I even appreciate the aesthetic visual of the clock at 10:10 kicking off the interview; well timed!

I’ve been waiting for this for years!

Awesome conversation, many thanks for this!!

Anytime I watched Dr. Krashen, I feel heartwarming knowing he's getting older. I always wish he remains good in health... Ameeen

I love how Krashen's last point was the importance of Spiderman, what a legend.

Matt your interview skills are excellent. Well done sir!