Want to change the world? Learn another language

Dr. Sarah Eaton talks about great leaders who learned other languages and changed the world. This video is a companion to Dr. Sarah's free ebook: Want to Change the World? Learn another Language available from http://drsaraheaton.wordpress.com

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[livejaime]

You're totally off, ma'am! Better correct yourself cuz Quechua is by no means Guatemalan or Manchu's first language.

[DrSarahElaineEaton]

@livejaime Thanks for your comment. I understand that Quechua is one of a number of amazing and beautiful indigenous languages of Latin America and is not specific to Guatemala.

As for it not being Manchu's first language, I wonder what insights you have? The Nobel Peace Prize organization backs me up on that claim. Check out her biography at: nobelprize. org/ nobel_prizes/peace/ laureates/1992/ tum-bio. html (You need to delete the spaces if you copy and paste that link into your browser.)

[bridge2english]

I agree with you. However, it is a fact that the conventional methods are inefficient: they consider language as an information to be learned not as a skill to be trained. ESL learners are digital learners with new objectives and characteristics: they want to learn fast using modern multi-media technologies that will help them in learning a foreign language at a subconscious level. We need ESL learning technology that would be faster and cheaper to open up a market of one billion ESL learners.

[DrSarahElaineEaton]

@bridge2english Thanks for the comment. No one’s denying your claim that traditional methods are outdated in today’s technology driven world. Technology is an important theme that I, and others, have identified in the research. You may want to look at couple of blog posts: “Global Trends in Language Learning in the 21st Century” or “Trends in Language Learning: What’s hot, what’s not” to see that others agree with your point that technology is important in education in the 21st century.

[nethackpro]

I think its more that americans are lazy when it comes to languages because white people like to believe they already have the best of everything. So why would most of them bother to learn another language? In other countries however, I think you'll find its a lot more common for people to know 2 or more languages.

[livejaime]

@DrSarahElaineEaton Thanks for taking the time to answer, ma'am; that shows how enthused you are to connecting to other peoples and cultures and of course languages. I'd rather not use the term indigenous, however, I really don't have any clue on its etymology, nevertheless as for your doubt on Rigoberta's language I can assure you it's Mayan, S. Mexico and C. America are basically Mayan whereas S. America, from S. Colombia to N. Chile and Argentina is Quechua, Aymara, etc...

[Linguist1967]

Thank you, Dr. Eaton. I have asperger's syndrome and as a way of overcoming my social difficulties, I have decided to study other languages. Indeed, I have become a language ethusiast and I now teach english as a second language at my church. Your video here lifts my spirits.