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A few months ago, I put together a workshop at the University of Vienna on language learning. It was kind of a monster; we started at 9am on a Saturday and ended a bit after 7pm, with a 1 hour lunch break. 9 hours of teaching in a day. By the end, everyone was naturally a bit wiped out, but we had so much fun. I really like teaching in that format, and all the attendees really liked learning this stuff. The feedback forms were just overwhelmingly positive, and aside from a few suggestions to split the material into a 2-day workshop, it seems like we landed on a really good format for teaching my whole method in a weekend. So I want to do this a lot more often. Starting today, I’m planning two 2-Day workshops in Los Angeles for mid July, along with another 2-Day workshop in Vienna in November. I’m also interested in doing some East Coast workshops in August/September/October, though I don’t have quite the same network there as I do in Los Angeles/Vienna, so those are a little more tentative. But honestly, if I can drum up enough interest (let me know!), I’d happily flit around the world putting on workshops all the time. It’s fun to teach this stuff. Anyway, you’ll find all the details, along with a fancy video with clips from the Vienna workshop and comments from the feedback forms at the new Workshop section of the website. If you want to attend one, but I’m not offering one in your area, let me know. If I get enough interest in a certain region, I may set one up near you. A friend of mine, Lauri Goldenhersh, runs a wonderful website known as Laurislist. Basically, if you want a job as a classical singer in Los Angeles, you get a subscription to Laurislist, she sends out emails like “URGENT: Baritone needed for Christmas caroling job TOMORROW. $100 in Culver City,” you call, and poof, you have some work. Alternatively, if you have a Christmas caroling job tomorrow and you get laryngitis, you can send an email to Laurislist and someone will call you immediately and offer up his services. Back when I was living in LA, Laurislist was a pretty essential resource. When talking to Lauri about my workshops, she suggested I guest post for the Laurislist blog, Singerpreneur. Singers, after all, need to learn lots of languages, and a big group of Los Angeles singers would be great candidates for my Los Angeles workshops. I took her up on it. The article I wrote is geared towards singers, but it covers a theme that resurfaces all over the place in language learning: how we remember. Singers have particularly insane memorization needs; we have to memorize long foreign-language texts all the time. So I wrote out a method for memorizing texts that takes advantage of all the memory research I’ve done over the past year. From the fascinating history of the language to its ridiculously easy pronunciation (English: Economics –– Tagalog: Ekonomiks) to its fairly wacky system of in-fixes (like prefixes and suffixes, just in the middle of the word: graduate + um = grumaduate), it was a fun article to write and research, and it should be a fun article to read, even if you’ve never thought about learning the language. And…one last reason you may wish to peruse the Tagalog resource page, even if Tagalog’s not your thing: this is the first resource page that matches the content of my book. In most grammar classes and textbooks, you learn words ingroups. You might learn about animals on one day and fruits the next. This is comfortable, both for language teachers and students. Your teacher gets to have a clear lesson plan (today is about numbers), and you get to accomplish something (today, I learned the numbers!). But is this the most efficient way to learn vocabulary? If you look at the research on vocabulary acquisition, you’ll find a surprising result: weirdly enough, learning groups of similar words (apple, pear, banana) is significantlyharder to learn. You’ll be much better off if you either learn words in unrelated groups (apple, dog, red) or in groups that form stories (apple, sweet, to eat). To learn a language, you need to memorize a lot of vocabulary, and memorizing lots of vocabulary can be tricky. You’re faced with unfamiliar spellings and unfamiliar sounds, which makes foreign words significantly more difficult to remember than words in your native language. In this article, I’ll show you how to remember words more easily with the help of mnemonics. A few months ago, I realized that I had forgotten a great deal of my French. My book was taking up 40-50 hours of every week, so I didn’t have extra time to study, and I didn’t really want to study French, either. This year is my Hungarian year, and what little time I have, I like to spend on that language. Languages benefit from focus, and so I try to avoid studying two of them at once. I needed some way to bring back my French without actually having towork at it, and I found it in the form of television. Continue reading →
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Prije nekoliko mjeseci, Sastavio sam Radionica na Sveučilištu u Beču na učenje jezika. To je bila neka vrsta čudovišta; smo započeli u 9 sati u subotu, a završio malo poslije 19:00, s 1 satni pauza za ručak. 9 sati nastave u jednom danu. Do kraja, svi su, naravno, malo izbrisala, ali smo imali toliko zabavno. Ja stvarno kao i nastavi u tom formatu, i svi sudionici stvarno volio učiti ove stvari. Povratne informacije oblici su samo izuzetno pozitivni, i osim nekoliko prijedloga kako podijeliti materijal u 2-dan radionice, čini se kao da smo sletjeli na jako dobrom formatu za podučavanje cijeli moj način na vikend. Dakle, želim to učiniti puno češće. Počevši od danas, Ja sam na planiranje dva 2-dan radionice u Los Angelesu za sredinom srpnja, zajedno s još 2-dnevna radionica u Beču u studenom. Ja sam također zainteresiran za radiš neke East Coast radionice u kolovozu / rujan / listopad, iako ja ne imati sasvim istu mrežu tamo što mi je činiti u Los Angelesu / Vienna, Dakle oni su malo više uvjetno. Ali iskreno, mogu li bubanj dovoljno interesa (javite mi!), Rado bih letjeti oko svijeta stavljanjem na radionicama cijelo vrijeme. To je zabava naučiti ove stvari. U svakom slučaju, da ćete pronaći sve detalje, zajedno sa fancy video s isječcima iz Bečke radionice i komentari iz poruci formira na novo Radionica se odjeljak stranice. Ako želite vidjeti neku, ali ja ne nudim jedan u vašem području, javite mi. Ako sam dobiti dovoljno interes za određenu regiju, Ja mogu postaviti jedan do blizu vas. Moj prijatelj, Lauri Goldenhersh, traje prekrasan website poznat kao Laurislist. U osnovi, ako želite raditi kao klasične pjevač u Los Angelesu, dobivate pretplatu na Laurislist, ona šalje e-mailove kao “HITNO: Bariton potrebna za Božić caroling posao sutra. $100 u Culver Cityju,” nazovete, i puf, imate neki posao. Alternativno, Ako imate posao Božić caroling sutra i da se upala grla, možete poslati e-mail Laurislist i netko će te nazvati odmah i ponuditi svoje usluge. Natrag kada sam živio u LA-u, Laurislist je prilično bitan resurs. Kad razgovarate o Lauri mojih radionica, je sugerirao sam gost post na blogu Laurislist, Singerpreneur. Pjevači, uostalom, Morate naučiti puno jezika, i velika skupina Los Angelesu pjevača će biti veliki kandidati za moje Los Angelesu radionica. Odveo sam se na njega. Članak sam napisao je usmjerena prema pjevačima, ali to pokriva teme koje obnavlja sve više mjesta u učenju jezika: Kako se sjećamo. Pjevači su osobito lud pamćenja potrebama; moramo pamtiti duge tekstove na stranim jezicima sve vrijeme. Tako sam napisao iz metodu za memoriranje tekstove koji iskorištava sve memorije istraživanja sam učinio u posljednjih godinu dana. Iz fascinantan povijesti jezika na svoje smiješno lako izgovor (Engleski: Ekonomija - Tagalog: Ekonomiks) na svojoj prilično otkačeno sustava u fiksiranja (kao prefiksa i sufiksa, samo u sredini riječi: diplomski + na = grnaaduate), bilo je zabavno pisati članak i istraživanje, i to bi trebao biti zabavno čitati članak, čak i ako nikada niste razmišljali o učenju jezika. I ... jedan zadnji razlog vam svibanj želite pregledati Tagalog resurs stranicu, čak i ako Tagalog nije tvoja stvar: ovo je prvi resurs stranica koja odgovara sadržaj moje knjige. U većini gramatika i udžbenika, učite riječi uskupina. Možda ćete naučiti o životinjama na jedan dan i voće sljedećih. To je udoban, i za jezične nastavnika i studenata. Vaš učitelj dobiva imati jasnu lekciju plan (Danas je oko brojevi), a vi se ostvariti nešto (danas, Naučio sam brojeve!). No, je li to najučinkovitiji način za naučiti vokabular? Ako pogledate istraživanja o usvajanja,, naći ćete iznenađujući rezultat: Čudno dovoljno, učenje skupine sličnih riječi (jabuka, kruška, banana) je značajnoteže učiti. Vi ćete biti puno bolje ako bilo učiti riječi u nepovezanim skupinama (jabuka, pas, crven) ili u skupinama koje čine priče (jabuka, sladak, jesti). Učiti jezik, morate zapamtiti puno vokabulara, i memoriranje puno vokabulara može biti lukav. Vi ste suočeni s nepoznatim pravopisa i nepoznatih zvukova, što čini stranih riječi znatno teže se sjetiti od riječi na vašem materinjem jeziku. U ovom članku, Ja ću vam pokazati kako se sjetiti riječi lakše uz pomoć mnemotehnika. Prije nekoliko mjeseci, Shvatio sam da sam zaboravila veliku moj francuski. Moja knjiga je uzimanje gore 40-50 sati svaki tjedan, tako da nisam imao više vremena za proučavanje, a ja zapravo nije željeti učiti francuski, ili. Ove godine je moj Mađarski godine, i ono malo vremena imam, Volim provesti na tom jeziku. Jezici koristi od fokusa, i tako sam pokušati izbjeći studiranje dvojicu odjednom. Trebao sam neki način vratiti moj francuski zapravo bez potrebe daraditi na tome, i našao sam je u obliku televizije. Nastaviti čitanje →