This is a place for all things language: insights from linguistics, language learning tips, and facts from linguistics that might flip what you thought you knew about language on its head. I draw on my background as a PhD in linguistics (sociolinguistics from the University of Pennsylvania, 2020, where William Labov - yes, that William Labov - and Robin Clark were my advisors). I'll discuss language learning, but also sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, linguistic ideologies and discrimination, and real-world applications of linguistics. This isn't necessarily Ling 101 -- it's a whole lot weirder.
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Duolingo is working great for me.. 🤷🏼♂️
My goals are to be able to go back to Austria (I've gone to it due to a family emergency) and be able to speak to locals without having to ask them to speak English as well as being able to make some new friends different from the people I know due to living in the U.S.A my whole life
I'll subscribe to your Patreon if you pronounce words "политический деятель" correctly.
I learned Japanese in college, but moved to the US at some point. My brain kept giving me Japanese words instead of English when I tried to remember them, and I was asking people around me things like "Where is the byoin?" (byoin means "hospital" in Japanese)
איר טועה, העברעאיש האט אויפגעהערט צו רעדן ביזן זמן חז"ל, אחוץ לימוד הרבנות.
25:27 you owe me lol
Fun fact: the Dutch word "jambe" (iamb) is a trochee ([ˈjɑmbə]), while "trochee" is an iamb ([tʀɔˈχej]). I guess that still makes it easier to learn though, just remember it's the wrong way round.
How is usage based theory different, and is it better supported by evidence?
My goal is to be able to communicate “off the cuff” with my husband and his friends from Kenya in Swahili.
You look like AI
Your FACE looks like AI 😂 I’m actually gonna make an AI channel soon
No the worst way to spell charcuterie is the eggcorn "shark coochie" which I've only seen one person actually write but once is enough
I've had a great deal of satisfaction with Italki, with teachers whom I look forward to sticking with for years, as - despite their skills - I have no doubts that it will take me that long to achieve easy ordinary conversation, my personal goal. I have not yet approached an Italki teacher for any language that I have not studied for some while on my own to get an understanding of its basics, I don't like the idea of paying a lot of money to have someone teach me their script slowly, or how to conjugate in the middle of a verbal system I'm completely lost in. But once you have a certain grounding, I don't know a better way to activate the theoretical skills than actually to use them, with someone incentivised to help you. Anyway, what I mainly came onto say is that while I think I've had a good strike rate in finding teachers I look forward to learning with, it's not been 100%; and what I've learnt is - definitely look at paying more for the professional teacher, who will hopefully have a technical understanding of their language, prepared materials and a method, rather than the Community Tutor, who might be on there thinking they can teach their own language because they speak it. Of course, there are exceptions. I'm trying it on with Tamil and my Community Tutor in that language is great.
The Hebrew tutor certainly enjoys his boardgames.
You're amazing thank youuuuuu
I would love someone who helps me improve my italian skills but talking to strange people even on the internet freaks me out. What in the world should we talk about? 😅
I come from an Arab background and I have been trying to learn Hebrew since October to get a clear picture of Israeli society. Joining the largest Telegram groups in Hebrew has helped me learn a lot of Hebrew phrases and words, and has left me feeling very sick and very disappointed at what I am seeing. I still think it's important to learn it to understand Israeli society today and even understand ancient semitic society, but it's been a very unpleasant and disturbing experience.
as someone who is fluent in both I would like to point out that telegram isnt the best place to look. Looking at arabic twitter for example I see many people straight up calling for genocide but that has not caused me to think that all arabic people are like that or even that the majority are like that. I would also like to remind you that the war was not instigated by israel in this case and followed a heavy movement within the country to grant Palestine its own independence along with peace talks with the UAE. Said groups have quited down from what i can tell on the hebrew speaking internet but I find it hard to blame them as in such a small country almost evveryone knows someone who has died. Israeli society is most frequently on whats app by the way in addition to things like instagram. I feel like you could do better and join the sane people in mourning that such a tragedy is occuring in general rather than contributing to it by continuing to spread hate
@@RomeDrori I stand against hate, but the fact remains that Hamas has only killed 40 people under the age of 18 while Israel has killed over 15,000 children in the same age range.. if you stand against hate and against genocide, you should be focused much more on Israeli hate than Palestinian or Arab hate. I have personally received death threats from Israelis on telegram in English and Hebrew and it's been horrific to see them bluntly say "I want a holocaust in Gaza". As a descendent of ancient Semitic peoples, it makes me very sick. I don't just want to mourn after the genocide happens, but do whatever it takes to stop it. You should also do better and tell your government to stop aiding in genocide.
@@antoniolewis1016bold of you to assume that the government has not already been told that. Israel is moving towards a dictatorship and it's well understood inside the country that the govt is evil. I do think that pointing out that Hamas has attacked first and is now playing the victim when an admittedly not even response was levied back. I could see your point as is but you still seem to overlook the facts that once again the middle east is fighting proxy wars over oil
Id also like to add that this Israeli organized hate you claim has manifested doesn't seem to exist outside of Israel itself(a country mind you currently at war in the same way that Arab hate has manifested itself,
@@RomeDrori So you agree with the whole world that Israel's democratically elected government is evil. You neglect polling data in Israel that the vast majority of Israelis WANT the genocidal war to continue, just under different, more competent political and military leadership. I am confused when you say that Hamas is playing the victim - how exactly are they playing the victim while boasting about roasting merkavas and IOF soldiers every day? If anything, it is Israel that's playing the victim, crying "October 7th!!" using it as an excuse to commit a genocide against children. Also, as an American I am happy that we no longer need the oil in the middle east because we produce more oil than we consume now. The whole place is a beehive and a money sink that should be avoided by America at all costs as we "pivot to Asia".
Maybe feeling old but clearly looking good 😅
Not sure if this counts for your prompt, but when I was in a taxi on the way to the hospital in Taipei, I didn't know the word for anything related to vomit. So i said "food was in, will be out. Food in then out!!!" I don't remember how to say this now lol, but it got my point across!
My main goal is to conduct business & have professional conversations in French & Spanish to enable me to develop professional relationships with suppliers, stakeholders & customers who are native French & Spanish speakers. Long way to go lol
Mnemonics biggest hangup in my experience was that you can remember the mnemonic and still forget the target word. There is no bigger frustration than forgetting a phrase you practiced in say Japanese and your brain going "Well if it helps here's a dumb catchphrase in english you remembered so this wouldn't happen"
dude of course you play guitar. not even a shock. every word nerd I know is affected heavily by music. linguist = the pointiest hat in word world.
Estás mi macizo para servrabino😊
Missed another livestream :( This time because it was already ערב חג over here
1:08:18 Unfortunately I don't think we have an equivalent phrase for 加油 in Hebrew. Maybe you can say תמשיך ככה Tamshikh kakha
linsoa is to go (by vehicle), so אני נוסע באוטובוס, באוטו
for אחר כך, say it as one word. akharkákh, final stress is formal akhárkakh, penultimate stress is colloquial
You misapplied your efforts on these three Japanese words. Your universal vocabulary for navigating Japan is すみません, おいしい, 大丈夫
Sing->sang Ring->rang Gling->glang
Be fluent in order to speak to people and live in the culture
Of course not pronounced with a profound American accent, bus Kosher with an o is originally from Yiddish.
For a universal use I want to eventually learn French, Spanish, Italian and German. And for personal reasons, Dutch because of a girl. Japanese because I play baseball and I'm involved with a lot of Japanese. And lastly Maori to better connect with our noisy neighbours here in Aussie
You look like Dr. House if he got into crack instead of vicodin
And that’s a lie.
I’ve tried apps n vids, been trying daily for months, still can’t even say a phrase n basically forget everything daily. My brain just doesn’t work that way.
People do use האם on occasion but you are correct in that its not the most often used.
Ono i missed it!! Is it always sunday when you stream
yea, Sundays at 4pm at his time. in my time it's 10:30 pm haha
About the motion verbs: one interesting thing is that הולך can be used as a near-future, like אני הולך לאכול משהו I'm going to eat something and about טייל: it does mean a trip, and IMO it doesn't really convey any goal to go from point A to point B. You were correct about לטייל: The way you use לטייל is usually, I travelled *in* some place, and not *to* some place. For example: טיילתי באמריקה is "I had a trip in america" and if you do want to convey wanting to go to some place as part of your trip, one way to do so is to use it with a different verb: הלכתי לטייל באמריקה is literally "I went to travel in america"
I would definitely say אתה צריך *את* אוטובוס מספר שלוש instead of just אתה צריך אוטובוס מספר שלוש. because it's definite. I don't know how to explain it. It feels verb-like. Actually, I was surprised to learn that it wasn't actually a verb, because in my head it definitely felt like a verb. and present tense verbs can act as nouns and adjectives anyways.
I second that, צריך is not a verb technically on its own, but it could be thought of as part of the construction "להיות צריך", which is a verbal construction. for example הוא היה צריך את המפתח he needed the key now because the verb להיות doesn't have a present tense form or you could say its present tense form is [null], להיות צריך surfaces as only צריך in the present, but it's still a verbal construction that requires את for definite subjects, so we get הוא צריך את המפתח and אני חושבת שאתה צריך את אוטובוס מספר 3
When I heard the Whitest man in America, Anderson Cooper, say "they be like" the world went off its axis there for a minute and it will never be the same again. As a Black person, this just tickles me to the core!
I was laughing out loud when you looked up the address from the text, that’s so something that I would do, and I didn’t think others were this weird!😂
It used to be possible to read the comments, even when watching the recording later. is that a setting that has been changed?
I was wondering the same thing?
I was able to just fine, but that problem has happened to me before. Maybe it's a bug? Or maybe just wait a day or two before watching?
Sure, let's hear your take on African American English. I'm intrigued. I'm a 71 year old Black woman who's heard her share of scholarly dissections of it. Should be interesting for me and a whole lot of enlightening for viewers of the majority culture. Thanks.
what if im trying to learn a language not commonly found? In my case im attempting to learn Karenni in a way that lets me hold a conversation properly and fluently. However im not able to find many resources and i was hoping you could help me.
Do you offer help to someone who has miniature books in different languages. If I sent you a pic of these books I have. Could you tell me what language it is and what it says. Maybe some of these books or all of these books you might not have never seen in your life or maybe you have seen but would like to see them again. Or direct me in the direction where I can get that help.
On a slightly different note - I have started seeing a lot of videos about 'using Chat GPT to go from zero to fluent in any language', and while they vary a little, it mainly seems to be using it to (1) generate a lesson plan; (2) generate a frequency list of words to put into Anki; (3) generate dialogues/other content in the target language; What are your thoughts on using ChatGPT in this way? My major concern is that I am not nearly so confident in the accuracy of what Chat GPT might produce (even in English) in the target language is correct, and that there would be little to no cultural education along the way...
So... I am currently studying French (B1), German and Swedish (A1), Latin and Greek (really to be able to read). With French, German, and Swedish, I have friends that are native speakers of those three languages, and I want to eventually be able to live in Europe with a solid (at least B2) ability in those three languages - including being able to read books and newspapers in those target languages, and read ancient sources in Latin and Greek (most sources are glossed with various critical apparatus, which makes reading them a different experience from 'regular' books. I am taking classes - through the Alliance Francaise de Portland, German American Society of Portland, American Swedish Institute (based in Minnesota, online), and I have a tutor for Latin and Greek that I meet with online every other week or so, though I do work every couple of days. I don't have a time-goal really, so I am content to keep at the rate classes are offered from where I am taking them. Although my wife and I are planning on staying in Europe for a year (or more) sometime 5-10 years hence, depending on when I can retire, so there will be a deadline at some point, but it is far enough in the future that I am pretty sure I will hit B2 in those targets by then. I was stationed in Belgium back in the 80s, learned a tiny amount of French and German (not past A2, maybe not even past A1), but was able to get around quite well on that (people are generally very friendly). I want to do better next time, and my (at the time) A2 French made our trip to France a couple of years ago noticeably easier for me. At some point, I would like to learn other languages too - but I am right at my limit now, I can just balance these and keep up, but if I added one more, I think it would all come crashing down (or if my French was not already at as high a level as it is, or if I was putting more effort into Latin and/or Greek). Aside from the classes, I do use Duolingo (I find it makes a decent vocabulary review/builder), Anki (though I am inconsistent in using it, I am getting _better_), and youtube videos in the target languages (there are a _lot_ of resources for all five of those languages). With French, I am comfortable listening to the news or a show, and can easily follow RFI's Journal en Francais Facile - giving me a few words each time to learn, but mostly comprehensible to me. Of course, I am nowhere near ready for that with the other languages (yet).
... (1:09) ... doctor ... 'who' ... ??? ...
Damn dude, that was seriously a four minute ad...
Trust me, it will NEVER happen again 😂 I’ve got time bars on all ad reads here on out so you can skip them too. I was still learning the ropes on KZread.
@@languagejones6784 nice thanks for the reply! Kinda surprised you didn't immediately go on the attack like most KZreadrs do when someone criticizes they're video. That shows a lot of humility and I appreciate it! Good luck with the channel! 😃👍
I have been using Duolingo for some time, mainly for French, but also for Spanish when I get bored with the French. I think that i have a maximum learning ability of an average of two new words a day. It is therefore pointless for me to do more than about 20 mins a day - I will just forget or mix up the rest. Of course at that rate it has taken me three years to reach about 2,000 words to give a basic knowledge, but I am carrying on. My policy is just to do the exercises and adsorb the information by osmosis without really sweating the details too much. Sometimes I will research a subject if it is giving me problems e.g. early on it is important to get to grips with the masculine / feminine / singular / plural endings in French. It is a pity that they have put restrictions on the free version now - I used to make notes of my mistakes and keep repeating until I got it right - now you only have five lives. Just a few of my observations.
Goal is to communicate with my family and community natively and write songs
Yes to the New York accent video!