18 LANGUAGES 4 MONTHS

[philopolymath]

wa ki chu Taiwan

My Hakka is sooo rusty

[3cloudsinthebluesky]

"I don't know where to start and finish reading all your comments and many of them seem repetitive"

- Ouch! I was afraid of that. Okay I will try to do it through Facebook. For this I need to open my account there (I don't have one yet).

[Glossika]

@3cloudsinthebluesky I don't know where to start and finish reading all your comments and many of them seem repetitive or I'm reading the same ones over and over, everything seems mixed up now, and the length of them is not suitable to YouTube. Why can't you write on Facebook with all the other discussions, as it would be so much easier to have a conversation with you there.

[3cloudsinthebluesky]

@Glossika (A-1) Strange. I opened an account on Facebook and wrote all these questions to you there. Later, when I read your question about Android applications I posted there a link to one website that answers all kinds of questions and provides a lot of help on developing Android applications - just in case you didn't know about that site, and then ... all my posts there were deleted :( Not only so, but now they request my phone number to

[3cloudsinthebluesky]

@Glossika (A-2) confirm my account, but I don't want to give them my phone number - I have my concerns there. So, I will remove all my recent questions here too (because they have created so much confusion), and will be posting them again one by one at lower speed. I mean, I will not ask any next question unless I receive an answer to the one that I have already asked. Hope it will reduce the burden on you. I promise I will be short and precise. Also, I have discovered that I was too

[Glossika]

@3cloudsinthebluesky After gaining qualification to work in these languages I start projects funded by myself or the government to establish a world literature and encyclopedia eventually leading to full-scale bilingual education. Most children do not get any literacy outside of daily conversation with family but the languages are rich with science especially biology. And we can extend that to modern innovations and other areas of science as well.

[Glossika]

@3cloudsinthebluesky They're not necessarily phrases, but your number is close: I work with a set of 100,000 sentences pre-prepared by native speakers. Most of these are converted into transformational drills. I have a translation for all the sentences before work begins to ensure full comprehension.

[Glossika]

@3cloudsinthebluesky 35 seconds is way too long for one sentence. Normally I do 500 sentences in a 25- to 35-minute sitting. 100,000 is for full fluency, to just pass the tests in these languages only about half that amount of work would be required.

[Glossika]

@3cloudsinthebluesky Why do you keep saying "memorizing" sentences? You don't need to do that. The goal is to build a network of neural connections in the brain that serve as being able to handle language, not memorizing sentences. There are only a small number to be memorized but after a large quantity of training, you don't need to try to remember them. Also, the WHEN you practice compared with your sleep routine is how you achieve long-term potentiation.

[Glossika]

@3cloudsinthebluesky Yes, we can measure results for all students. Most students only have a budget to complete about 5000 sentences during the training period. It is easily measurable that their ability has improved by 5%. Many students have done between 20,000 and 40,000 sentences. Then there are the few that have completed as many as 100,000 sentences or more.

[Glossika]

@3cloudsinthebluesky Oh I must have missed something you wrote. Why am I not broadcast all over Taiwan? What are you talking about? Not only am I frequently on the news, but also TV shows, even tabloids prying into my private life. People even call out and say hi to me when I'm walking down the street. I normally assume people don't know who I am and like me don't watch TV, but it usually surprises me how many people do actually know.

[Glossika]

@3cloudsinthebluesky We don't normally understand words in isolation if the accent impedes. Pronunciation of single words can be the biggest hindrance, until you get people being able to speak full sentences in one breath. When that happens full communication can happen in spite of persistent pronunciation problems. My accent reduction videos focus on glottal stops, aspiration, flaps, and although students may not be able to reproduce them accurately, they are communicating better because of it.

[Glossika]

@3cloudsinthebluesky All of the exams from previous years are posted on the Facebook page. I had to sit in front of a panel and answer questions such as the role of aborigines in mainstream society, how to improve standards in the tribes and other issues that minorities face and how my knowledge will help contribute, all of which i answered, bit I'm still waiting for the results.

[olie171]

I've seen a lot of your videos and I have to say it's pretty interesting.Then, after a while I realized that you must really love to show your arms because you wear a lot of tank tops in a lot of your videos.Lol!

[VictimOfBoredom]

Shit, I'm having tough enough of a time trying to balance Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish...

There's just not enough time in the human lifespan. -.-

[CyberLance26]

I have been studying Japanese for a couple years now and theres still a huge bunch of stuff i dont understand yet so learning 18 languages in 4 months sounds impossible.

[stareleades]

Hero.

[roxanneworld11]

Always amazing, wow!..You continue to inspire me to get fluent in just a few languages..but you?: 18!

Do you have a photographic memory or does this talent run in your family? A few things I like about this kind of studying: I found that it can help us learn about people & cultures & therefore it can help us learn about ourselves.

[Glossika]

@roxanneworld11 I don't have any kind of special memory, however I have a good system for filing information and it takes a lot if practice. This is the craziest and most challenging endeavor i've ever undertaken. It's like revolving and turning things over and over in your head. In my last month I have to practice between all the different languages.

[KenshinForever]

oh my god :O i wish i was as awesome as you XD

[SeanKimStyle]

I'm thinking about learning two languages at the same time, would I be able to do it without getting it all mixed? I currently speak Korean, English and Spanish fluently. I want to study Chinese and either Russian or Japanese. Please let me know what you think sir. And good luck on your mission.

[Glossika]

@SeanKimStyle Of course you can. Just make sure you have the time in your schedule to give each language at least 30-60 minutes every day. Otherwise go for all three. I'd recommend Chinese before Japanese, it makes it smoother sailing. Russian and Chinese are a good mix, what lacks for grammar in Chinese you'll have the time to do more of in Russian. Both languages are syntactically just like English, Japanese is a different story.

[boabysands123]

You mentioned on Facebook that the people in the university regard your plan as crazy. Sounds like they're right, but the intensity of your linguistic skills in this mission might be the kind of crazeeeeee to make the impossible a reality! Good Luck.

[Glossika]

@boabysands123 I would never attempt this without the experience I already have. 'nuf said.

[blue803801]

you can do it.

i am Bunun!

[Drahcir14]

I haven't heard of any of them :)

[polyronin]

Good luck and looking forward to your updates (I'm following your facebook page as well). Interesting to see how your use of mindmapping with sentence minding/drilling will work out for multiple language learning/acquisition.

[polyronin]

@polyronin 'sentence mining/drilling' that is....

[Glossika]

@polyronin Thx for checking out the FB page. I feels easier to update via text and pix than by video these days. Regarding sentence mining, I've sure found a treasure trove here, and that's the only reason why this whole project could be possible in the first place. Notice when I made this video I hadn't even found half of what IS making this possible.

[dicipline8888]

you can do it !!!!! 加油！！

Study hard !!!!!!　

[JusticeFi]

Good luck!

[shoemanbundy]

So much to take in in such a short amount of time, but if anyone was capable of doing it... :) Wish you the best of luck!

[DPBurn121]

i actually believe that you won't make it at all.but,you have a background on linguistics so you're supposed to know well your methods.Go forth!

[Glossika]

@DPBurn121 There is the possibility of failure of course, but I look at it in terms of % of total success. In the end I may only be able to pass a handful of them. I have no idea yet, but just stick to my schedule. It's exciting either way.