Comments on: How Do I Learn 500 Languages At Once?!

By: Leeroy

Leeroy — Thu, 06 Feb 2020 18:16:01 +0000

How did being a jack of all trades master of none work out for you?

By: Livonor

Livonor — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 15:00:55 +0000

MNNはげんきの同様だけど前者より面倒臭く中世っぽい

By: Tim McCoy

Tim McCoy — Sat, 26 Jan 2013 05:29:00 +0000

I study them all at once. The way you do it is make charts comparing all the alphabets, and then get and compile huge polyglot dictionaries while studying one text or conversation at a time in a given language. I have a lot of success, but have been at it now for 10 or so years. I skip from one language to the next every few days, and find ways to keep myself interested.

By: Livonor

Livonor — Sat, 05 Jan 2013 20:33:18 +0000

I disagree with this too, a prefer be able to play skyrim and understand +%90 in a L2, than be able to read a lot of children’s books in a L2,L3,L4,L5…

By: عزيز ابارو

عزيز ابارو — Sat, 04 Aug 2012 21:28:47 +0000

i love this statement
“Bilinguals are the human joints that span the world, not polyglots”
this the best sentence i read in a long time

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Sun, 04 Dec 2011 06:34:44 +0000

皆の日本語は下手糞なんだから

By: Romuś

Romuś — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 22:29:05 +0000

I didn’t mean to put L1 in the second example, I was writing in haste and so a mistake occured :/

Oh, and the third good thing it does is making you capable to find a more accurate translation in 3 other languages than in one. You can translate one, say Korean item to Japanese, another to Spanish (e.g. couse it gives a better ‘feeling’ of the word). Plus it urges you to focus (I guess), couse you don’t know what will be another card’s language.

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:25:18 +0000

“and L1->L2 sentences”

I meant L1->L1. Oops 😛

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 12:24:14 +0000

Except for the L1 Part. I do not think your L1 will expand after a certain age (Because you know most of it). Only way i think you can expand your L1 is to use L1->L1 dictionary and L1->L2 sentences. Though when you learn new words (atleast for me) a definition is fine and sentences are not necessary (L1->l1 Sentences)

By: Romuś

Romuś — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 10:50:19 +0000

Dunno if someone haven’t mentioned it already, but this just popped up in my brain:
using ALL foreing languages to learn a new one. Two good thigs it does – reinforcing former languages and widening available resources. So not L1=>L2=>L3=>Ln(Language now learning) but L1+L2+L3=>Ln

By: Tyler

Tyler — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 13:53:47 +0000

I completely agree. You’ll find Stu Jay Raj, speaker of up to 14 languages, and reader of up to 17, say something along the lines of: “The difference of each language work off of eachother.”

By: Le Canadien errant

Le Canadien errant — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 01:09:21 +0000

Learning to understand many languages (at the same time or not) is more realistic. If you don’t speak every language you’ve studied that doesn’t mean you wasted your time. Just being able to understand people can really help you in many situations. And why polyglots don’t get rich? It’s quite simple: they don’t have the time. Language learning is simply too much time consuming.

By: Jetty

Jetty — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 13:40:53 +0000

日本語で書ける人はAjattをもう読んでないみたい。もう上達したんだから:D

By: akira117

akira117 — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:22:49 +0000

“10 days from now, so I need your advice on how to get my skills up really fast”

Don’t tell him about the language brain implant that is in development at Roswell that is top secret stuff.

By: Russ Msr

Russ Msr — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:04:00 +0000

by the inch its a CINCH
by the yard its HARD
by the mile its a TRIAL

By: Davis

Davis — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:48:00 +0000

This is a rather strict filter…. my previously blanked out word was a rather common word that denotes male/female. It does have several crude meanings, but really? How can we talk about languages when there are MANY that conjugate at least verbs using maleness/femaleness

By: Davis

Davis — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 05:38:54 +0000

As someone who did learn two languages at once (French, Spanish) I have to say that time’s the only answer. Here in Canada, French Immersion is a class option where all your courses except English Language Arts are in French from Kindergarten through Grade 9, at which point courses are offered in French, yet you only need to take French Language Arts and one additional in French.At the same time, I was learning Spanish (yes, a very similar language) through our school classes and at home.

Note: French Immersion programs kinda suck, though, because the only French you hear except the teacher’s is a fellow intermediate/novice in the lower grades and you’re bound to have several misconceptions about a word’s meaning and grammar when you come out of one of them. One thing that most of my classes didn’t shake till grade 10ish was how you chose “ma/mon”; most of us would transfer our sex upon them!

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By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 09:17:10 +0000

Surely, if a child can be raised natively in three languages, it would be just as possible and in fact easier as an adult to do the same thing? Surely one could simultaneously learn, say, Japanese, Chinese and…I dunno, French? Why just one at a time?

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