[Vision2020] Natural Languages: Multilingualism, Polyglottery, and Polylingualism

[Kenneth Marcy]

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/ 

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbVdrw43QZU


Ken

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