HOLY MOLY! are those all dialects from Chinese!? :O I heard that out of the 1.3 billion people in China 1billion speak Mandarin as a first language is this true?
@songokukingdomhearts No not Chinese, these are the ancestral languages of the Pacfiic: Malay, Indonesian, Filipino, Malagasy (of Madagascar), Fiji, Tahiti, Hawaiian, Easter Island, Maori (New Zealand), etc. You can compare thank you in Hawaiian (mahalo) and in Saisiyat (ma'alo) and Paiwan (masalu), all very similar languages. The numbers of Hawaiian and Amis are almost exactly the same.
wow this is interesting stuff. great video :) theres language learning stuff on my channel check it out if you get the chance, i would really appreciate it :)
I write down many sentences for Japanese every day, and read them out loud, but I don't record myself. I have a terrible accent, and I worry that I might memorize wrong pronunciations, intonations, etc. if I were to record myself and listen to it over and over again. Will I actually be improving my listening and understanding in the language?
@Glossika So would I be correct in saying that you have previous experience with the languages? Are you proficient in them at all, and if yes, to what extent?
random question, would your method work on another language? lol damn I am moving to switzerland in less than a month and know like 2 words in french....
@Demonlock54 I moved to Chengdu (central China) without knowing a word of Chinese beyond Ni Hao. I got an internship there right after graduating university with a degree in International Relations. It just made sense for me to go abroad right after graduating. Now my Chinese is passable (taught myself to speak in the first year, just finished first semester at a Chinese univ. language program), and my characters are coming along. If you're young, take advantage of it and have an adventure.
very impressive and inspiring! I wish there are more people like you who really put in efforts in learning minority languages and dialects. Loss of a language or a dialect is a loss of a culture. Just wonder when you get all those language learning materials.
Awesome man. You're setting a great example for all the rest of us on top of helping to keep these 18 important languages and cultures alive. I encourage many more people to follow your lead and learn MINOR languages. The world will be a much quieter and less interesting place someday if they disappear.
Hey great videos ! very impressive! Most 7/11's in Taiwan have machines which you can print your documents from really easy.. I can't even read chinese and I just about managed! if you transfer your documents onto a usb stick and then put the stick into the machine. Fastest way, I searched high and low for a colour printer close to my house, then found it right next door in a seven eleven!
The plan sounds ingenious! Are you exclusively creating the sentences yourself to 'unlock' the structure of the target language, or gathering them from the books where the language has already been graded, or mining them (which would seem to take more time). Very curious to know what goes into sentence selection for you. Anyway, don't give up the fight, it's inspiring!
@TheLinguaHacks The only reason why this project is possible is because I "found" all my sentence mining. For without them, (for example, just vocabulary lists), this would not have been possible. I've already gathered data, I'm just arranging it all into books.
HOLY MOLY! are those all dialects from Chinese!? :O I heard that out of the 1.3 billion people in China 1billion speak Mandarin as a first language is this true?
songokukingdomhearts 3 days ago
@songokukingdomhearts No not Chinese, these are the ancestral languages of the Pacfiic: Malay, Indonesian, Filipino, Malagasy (of Madagascar), Fiji, Tahiti, Hawaiian, Easter Island, Maori (New Zealand), etc. You can compare thank you in Hawaiian (mahalo) and in Saisiyat (ma'alo) and Paiwan (masalu), all very similar languages. The numbers of Hawaiian and Amis are almost exactly the same.
Glossika 3 days ago
wow this is interesting stuff. great video :) theres language learning stuff on my channel check it out if you get the chance, i would really appreciate it :)
JustinHeenan 2 weeks ago
lol, you are like my friend. But he disappeared.
TheSushiandme 2 weeks ago
18 not widely spoken languages? What's that for?
Sanyadr 2 weeks ago
I write down many sentences for Japanese every day, and read them out loud, but I don't record myself. I have a terrible accent, and I worry that I might memorize wrong pronunciations, intonations, etc. if I were to record myself and listen to it over and over again. Will I actually be improving my listening and understanding in the language?
Grecia510 1 month ago
What happened to the facebook page? "Page Not Found" is the message I get when I try to click on it.
rawmark 1 month ago
Wow, thats amazzzzing! :) I just wanna learn 3... Mandarin, Italian, & Hakka (Moiyan) :)
CharmingPhoenix 2 months ago
Hey Mike how's it going on the path? I will be posting a Field Linguistics video soon--you will be interested, I think.
christopheclugston 2 months ago
Mandarin Chinese? Japanese? :D
Moshikashitenai 2 months ago
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paroxyzm21 2 months ago
Where do you get the recordings from? From a native-speaker?
goserve 2 months ago
Where did you get those books ? Where I can buy it? Would you recomend them? Are they good?
TS2985 3 months ago
@TS2985 I wrote them. Currently I have Amis, Atayal, Saysiyat, Seediq/Truku, Bunun, Thao, Kavalan, Tsou. You can order them from my Facebook page.
Glossika 3 months ago
@Glossika So would I be correct in saying that you have previous experience with the languages? Are you proficient in them at all, and if yes, to what extent?
Keep up the nice work,
Jonne
Jonnemanne 2 months ago
lo lat
MrDanbloom 3 months ago
im inspired! i want to do the same but with 9 languages :)
cdm0014 3 months ago 4
goodluck
sir34sky 4 months ago
cool, i also used colors and "zoom-into-situation" for my slavic languages.
However, I'm not that successfull with mandarin, yue, and canto yet...
btw. Respect
BringBackMy9Os 4 months ago
哇靠 你應該是全世界最強的人
djn3ck2 4 months ago
random question, would your method work on another language? lol damn I am moving to switzerland in less than a month and know like 2 words in french....
alias91919 4 months ago
@alias91919 of course if it works on indigenous languages it'll work on any.
Glossika 4 months ago
@alias91919 why would you "move" to a country where you don't speak a single word of their language
Demonlock54 4 months ago 4
@Demonlock54 I moved to Chengdu (central China) without knowing a word of Chinese beyond Ni Hao. I got an internship there right after graduating university with a degree in International Relations. It just made sense for me to go abroad right after graduating. Now my Chinese is passable (taught myself to speak in the first year, just finished first semester at a Chinese univ. language program), and my characters are coming along. If you're young, take advantage of it and have an adventure.
ramust 3 weeks ago
Nice job and good luck on ur project! I am inspired and have the motivation to work harder on my German lol
MusSonik 6 months ago
你很認真~~我很欣賞!!
anmelove 6 months ago
very impressive and inspiring! I wish there are more people like you who really put in efforts in learning minority languages and dialects. Loss of a language or a dialect is a loss of a culture. Just wonder when you get all those language learning materials.
arthuroma 6 months ago
Awesome man. You're setting a great example for all the rest of us on top of helping to keep these 18 important languages and cultures alive. I encourage many more people to follow your lead and learn MINOR languages. The world will be a much quieter and less interesting place someday if they disappear.
carlosspeck 6 months ago
I rooting for you man. I really hope you can achieve this goal!!!
jugglingotaku 6 months ago
Um man eine Sprache zu lernen damit, es scheint wie die Methode viele Disziplin braucht. Auf jeden Falls, viel Glück dazu!
translipcorsia 6 months ago
Sounds amazing. It will be great to see how it all ends up. Good luck! It's funny how one can do just about anything in Taiwan.
TheChaxiu 6 months ago
Hey great videos ! very impressive! Most 7/11's in Taiwan have machines which you can print your documents from really easy.. I can't even read chinese and I just about managed! if you transfer your documents onto a usb stick and then put the stick into the machine. Fastest way, I searched high and low for a colour printer close to my house, then found it right next door in a seven eleven!
oldschoolwaverider 6 months ago
The plan sounds ingenious! Are you exclusively creating the sentences yourself to 'unlock' the structure of the target language, or gathering them from the books where the language has already been graded, or mining them (which would seem to take more time). Very curious to know what goes into sentence selection for you. Anyway, don't give up the fight, it's inspiring!
TheLinguaHacks 6 months ago
@TheLinguaHacks The only reason why this project is possible is because I "found" all my sentence mining. For without them, (for example, just vocabulary lists), this would not have been possible. I've already gathered data, I'm just arranging it all into books.
Glossika 6 months ago
頑張って
sanjay7185 6 months ago
that Mozart Rondo was a little bit too loud!
citylida 6 months ago
@citylida This is actually the quietest place I can find in the whole city! If you come to Taiwan, your eardrums will burst, LOUD NOISE 24/7 haha
Glossika 6 months ago
@Glossika I am Taiwanese actually...
citylida 6 months ago
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
MagicMaximo 6 months ago
Are these books ones you compiled yourself? Are they available for download?
criskity 6 months ago 2
You are a beast my friend! Keep it up!
epsilon910 6 months ago
你真牛！
beensolongg 6 months ago
@beensolongg 4個月后， 你都能保證實用嗎？
beensolongg 6 months ago