[Vision2020] Natural Languages: Multilingualism, Polyglottery, and Polylingualism
Kenneth Marcy
kmmos1 at frontier.com
Sat Jul 21 07:06:01 PDT 2012
Sue Hovey wondered why this material was presented under another
subject, and I responded to that question separately. However, if for no
other reason than being able to more easily find these ideas as a
responses to a future search, I have replaced the prior subject line
with another one, out of the original context, which reflects the
content of this material.
I have added at the end a third link to a video by Professor Alexander
Arguelles within which he issues a language learning challenge and
offers suggestions concerning how the challenge might be well-met.
> Language learning can be done at any age. It's true that younger
> people may have more facile learning abilities because of
> less-developed language centers in their brains and more energy to do
> everything, language learning included. But that does not imply that
> adults can not, especially via well-developed methods, learn languages
> to as effective and as satisfactory levels of communicative ability as
> are desired.
>
> Methods used may vary somewhat depending on personal preferences, but
> generally a method that follows natural language acquisition patterns
> will work best if followed consistently. The natural method consists
> of listening to hear all of the sounds used within a language, whether
> or not those sounds have been previously learned for another or native
> tongue, and then reproducing those sounds through speaking words,
> phrases, sentences, and conversations with those sounds as a part of
> the speech. After a learner can reproduce all of a language's sounds,
> and can converse at a elementary level with a modest vocabulary, then
> vocabulary building can be emphasized through readings and more
> advanced conversations. After some reasonable level of oral and verbal
> fluency has been achieved, then the student can start learning more
> about the language by beginning and practicing writing in that language.
>
> There is an active, and growing, natural language learning community
> on the Internet, especially YouTube, comprised of individuals who are
> actively pursuing multilingual capabilities for themselves. By way of
> introduction, I will mention just a couple of web sites for people
> interested in learning languages, multilingualism, polyglottery, and
> polyliteracy:
>
> The How to Learn Any Language site, including various language forums:
>
> http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/e/index.html
>
> The Foreign Language Expertise site, created and maintained by Dr.
> Alexander Arguelles:
>
> http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/
Spanish French Italian German
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbVdrw43QZU
Ken
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