Steve Kaufmann - Language Learning in the Age of the iPad - Part 1 of 6

[MrLuisc7]

Funny story Steve; I learned Portuguese by listening to and translating Fado. no joke; and I'm now at fluent level.

[davidcruzing]

For the last ten years he has been working on four languages. So after 10 years of learning these languages, what does he have to show for it? He's barely above a beginner's level.

His method of learning languages must really suck!

[Neuroneos]

@davidcruzing You obviously don't know anything about language learning.

[cellerpower]

Is lingq.com planning to add Dutch to its available languages to learn? I love the lingq.com site and would love to learn Dutch that way! Please add Dutch!

[arzy2008]

PS Do You believe in Evolution? Ohh man...)

[arzy2008]

Steve, you speak too quickly for my understanding English language :)

[YuhSung]

thanks steve for this wonderful lecture

[alkantre]

Roman students with their primitive technology all became fluent in Greek. Americans with all their great technology can't even learn Spanish and French. Progress is obviously a myth. Let's go back to ancient Rome.

[KansaiJesse]

@alkantre, That is pretty ignorant when you stop and think about what you just wrote. It isn't that Americans "can't" learn Spanish or French, the problem lies that there is not the opportunity to learn multiple languages. There is an issue with isolation, where Spanish and French have multiple dialects being separated from "traditional or textbook" dialects. You cannot converse using Mexican-Spanish in Spain just as you cannot use the French in Quebec in France.

[alkantre]

@KansaiJesse I can understand just about any kind of Spanish, just by exposure through tecnology. But of course I am a linguistic ubermensch.

[africaRBG]

@KansaiJesse there are very few differences in the quebec french with that of france and with the mexican spanish with that of spain,,,,the people can still understand eachother,,,they jsut ahve to listen through the other persons accent,,,,jsut like myself from canada can still understand someone from the carribbean speaking english,,,even with their extremely thick accents and variety of different words used.

[MrLuisc7]

@KansaiJesse If I can speak Spanish and have an Italian understand me most of the time; than I can speak Mexican and speak it in Spain; I live in Russia and I don't change my Spanish and even Russians learning Iberian Spanish understand me. And I can speak American English in Britain without any problem and I'm understood without a problem.

[11DerPilz]

lovely!.......

[11DerPilz]

lovely!

[BMTH0084]

Where was this?

[lingosteve]

@BMTH0084 In the West Vancouver Public LIbrary.

[LearningFrenchNow]

Steve, I like your presentation. I know that you use the iPad symbolically (and literally) to represent the future of communication. I don't have an iPad yet because I'm not sure how I would use it. I have two iPods and several laptops, and I like the portability of the iPod for audio. Laptops are convenient for portable computing. I have seen that the iPad boots faster than a laptop and is lighter, but what are the main advantages of an iPad versus a laptop for language learning?

[lingosteve]

@LearningFrenchNow Wait a few days and I think that the new lesson page at LingQ in combination with our iPad app will be quite convenient. Basically the iPad offers comfort, convenience, and mobility, for limited input activities.

[OscarP282]

Thanks Steve! Looking forward the other parts! :-)

[jondesousa]

I thoroughly enjoyed this, Steve. I also am looking forward to the other arts.

[Theta910]

Thank you Steve for this! Can't wait to see the other 5 parts!