18 LANGUAGES 4 MONTHS

This project has become the 18 languages in 4 months project, where I try to master: SaiSiyat, Atayal, Sakizaya, Pazeh, Seediq, Truku, Thao, Bunun, Amis, Kavalan, Tsou, Kanakanavu, Saaroa, Mantauran, Rukai, Puyuma, Paiwan, and Taw. I will then take the government standardized tests in reading/speaking/listening/writing for all these languages in November. I will continue to film more videos on the progress and my methodology.

I have posted most of my progress on the Facebook "Glossika Language Training" page:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Glossika-Language-Training/140589180198

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Glossika
• polyglot
• learn
• study
• aborigine
• languages
• SaiSiyat
• 賽夏
• Atayal
• 泰雅
• Sakizaya
• 撒奇萊雅
• Pazeh
• 巴澤海
• Seediq
• 賽德克
• Truku
• 太魯閣
• Thao
• 邵
• Bunun
• 布農
• Amis
• 阿美
• Kavalan
• 噶瑪蘭
• Tsou
• 鄒
• Kanakanavu
• 卡那卡那富
• Saaroa
• 沙阿魯阿
• Mantauran
• 萬山
• Rukai
• 魯凱
• Puyuma
• 卑南
• Paiwan
• 排灣
• Taw
• 達悟

[philopolymath]

wa ki chu Taiwan

My Hakka is sooo rusty

[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

[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]

"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.

[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 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 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.