Language Learning & the Circling Method
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- čas přidán 4. 07. 2024
- I'm really enjoying short biographical monologues, followed by "circling questions", in Persian. I would love to see the same in Arabic, and in fact for all languages. If you want to help develop this kind of intermediate contents for other languages, please watch my video and contact me: steve@lingq.com.
Links I mention in the video:
comprehensibleclassroom.com/t...
fluencymatters.com/the-caveat...
Circling Questions Project Details:
docs.google.com/document/d/1U...
Learn a new language on LingQ: www.lingq.com
Get my 10 Secrets of Language Learning: www.thelinguist.com
I really like how you not only learn a language(s) but you also help other people learn which is the best part!
Linq has been great for helping me learn Italian. Thank you. Thanks for your continued motivation through these videos.
There is a little known (I think) website called Spanishlistening.com in which they have 400 little videos exactly as you are describing from every Spanish speaking country (to experience the different accents) with a transcript for each. It is free. It absolutely helped me when I needed that late-beginner/intermediate content (along with Lingq of course!!!). Cheers, Steve!
I appreciate your content and perspectives. You are a gift to humanity and the language learning community
I started using this technique less than a week ago and I already feel huge results!
Thanks Steve,
It is great advice.
I think once we understand that everything is about practice and good methods, things start moving smoothly.
Love that idea Steve 👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽
Hei Steve. Ville bare si tusen takk for inspirasjonen du gir oss. Lingq er ett fantastisk hjelpemiddel! Hilsen fra Norge :)
Tjenare! Ville bara säga hej, från någon som kan svenska!
I think it is such a good way to learn a new language
Very good idea!
I find that the repetition itself is pretty helpful - even if I don't try to answer the question
Once I learn my people's language, Kickapoo, I would like to partner with you Steve to make Kickapoo resources on Lingq.
Steve, a little suggestion if you care to hear it:
Just say you'll pay, not "pay or compensate" and not "it might be this it might be that". You'll get better results by being clear and definite. Perhaps prepare an application form that says something like "If your application is accepted we will pay you $X for 4 stories" or whatever. And then have specifications for the stories (length, material type, correct spelling in transcripts etc.) Personally if someone was asking for this in English, I wouldn't bother applying unless I knew what the trade was... Or it was free. It sounds weird but human psychology is such that people may do something pro-bono or paid completely and properly... But generally people don't like doing it somewhere in between.
Thanks and agreed. As this project evolves we need to define terms and conditions more clearly. I am doing so now.
Funny how Steve never thought of this and is just asking viewers or invite people the viewers know to put in all that effort without knowing exactly what they're getting in return. It's all a part of marketing and business, and just as you said, people may not want to go through all this trouble without incentives, especially if Lingq wants it for all languages and upcoming ones too. Same for me, even if they had Tagalog I wouldn't do this unless I knew the compensation was fair and well worth the effort. If I referred this to someone, they don't even know Steve and probably don't use Lingq. We can't trust or believe in something without clarity. If certain languages aren't getting enough content, it's easy to twist arms because Lingq needs that content, so speakers of those languages have the power and could get away with charging a bit higher and just be like "take it or leave it" than languages getting tons of content. If only one group of people supplies that kind of content for a certain language and no one else, Lingq may ask them to continue creating more content, giving them the power to decide whether to do it or not and negotiate a price
@@Thelinguist Cool, good job. Being lower intermediate and upper intermediate in my 2 languages, I'm a fan of the general idea.
You re a great man
Steve, I wish you could get in touch with people at a "Hippo" club...I imagine you are familiar with the work of Yo Sakakibara (Language is Our Music)...your sense that we will be naturally interested in learning about the persons we might meet through the videos you suggest is right in line with Sakakibara's thoughts about children's natural absorption of language through the actual persons in their lives who speak them...The teens in Hippo club families have done some amazing things together, such as a book about the physics of sound. It occurs to me that they might be a wonderful resource in putting together the videos/stories you want developed. There were no Hippo clubs in the U.S. last time I checked, so I have long dreamed of somehow being in a poly-lingual atmosphere...then found LingQ...thanks so much for all you've done!
I don’t know if anybody has heard of the English teaching method called the Callan method from the UK. It is very much based on the question/answer system.
Something awesome would be people discussing real important issues in their country/culture. Ive found lots of content where people are discussing weather, hobbies, travel and other kind of blah topics.
Hey Steve, greetings from Brazil!!
You can also use Easy Languages here on CZcams!
They have lots of languages and are dialogs like that you mentioned with transcriptions...
Usei bastante em inglês
I was wondering when someone would bring up Easy Languages here. I love their channel!
To me, the Easy Languages in Japanese aren't too easy. It just goes to show you that spoken Japanese from real people is a lot different than Japanese from a textbook.
I 'd like to try it with a video in the style of the Français illustré 👍😃
Hi.Please send me an email steve@lingq.com
Greetings from Venezuela! I'll try to help with content.
Hi.Please send me an email steve@lingq.com
One way I think the mini-stories could be improved is to have more who, what, where, when, why questions. Based in my memory, the Chinese and Cantonese were nearly all yes/no questions.
I'm from Sudan
Can you help create a series in Arabic, "The Sudanese" If so please send me an email steve@lingq.com
Ótimo!
Hi Steve! I am a TPRS/CI English and Chinese teacher in Taipei, Taiwan.
I would be really happy to find some native speakers here in Taipei to record these recordings.
How should I contact you to do this?
Just sent you an email, Steve!
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I'm Brazilian and quite fluent in English. So i'd like to participate in exchange only for the same material in JAPANESE. I'd much like to help. How can I?
Hello from Finland! Mitä kuuluu? Your idea sounds very good and hope it see a day light in near future
Hyvä, kiitos. Hauska tutustua! Opiskelen suomea nyt. Trying to learn some Finnish here. Not sure if that's even right, but want to keep at it and visit Finland one day!
@@michaelrespicio5683 Moi! Mitä kuuluu? Kuinka kauan olet opiskellut suomen kieltä? I'll actually soon upload my first video of "easy Finnish" series. Sauna vocabulary etc 😀
I'm from Brazil.
We are everywhere 😁
@@manddex3/ Seriously, will you marry me? Hahaha' GEEZ! You're so breathtakingly beautiful that I couldn't stop myself from saying such a thing, I'm sorry. *-*
Don't worry, I'm just kidding. But if you want to, I'm here. 😂 🤣😆
Let's study, folks! 👍🏻
Me too
@@Gabriel-V-Silva That's some needy, cringy comment right there. Stop simping homie
Please add Tagalog in LingQ!
Because LingQ is very very useful for starting new language.
I want to learn Tagalog.
I’m looking forward to your reply!
Some people have indicated they will translate and record our mini-stories in Tagalog. If they follow through we will add Tagalog.
Thanks for your quick reply!
I’m looking forward to making Tagalog version !
I ve just found you after I saw mike still talked to you in arabic.. and i think. It was nice conversation..
by the way... are you able to speak Indonesian?
And I am from indonesia. happy to know your youtube channel 😊😊😊
I don't speak Indonesian but hope to learn. We have Indonesian at LingQ and hope to get more content going.
Kamu orang Indonesia? Senang bertemu dengan anda! Saya orang Filipina tapi aku tinggal di Canada sekarang. Tidak ada orang Indonesia banyak di sini, dan tidak bisa bicara bahasa Indonesia dengan siapa saja. Jawaban silahkan ^o^
@@michaelrespicio5683 ya. saya orang indonesia. Dan senang bertemu denganmu juga. 😊😊
apakah kamu bisa bahasa indonesia?
And as I know that philipine people speak tagalog.😊
apakah disana banyak juga orang philipine.?
By the way ,Saya tinggal di indonesia. Saya berharap i can go there😊😊😊
@@aprisriyadi3865 Terima kasih untuk jawaban ^o^
Aku belajar bahasa indonesia karena orang-orang mengatakan bahasa itu mudah, terutama untuk saya dan orang filipina lain karena ada kata-kata serupa banyak, contoh anak (bahasa) - anak (tagalog) = child
mahal (bahasa) - mahal (tagalog) = expensive
Ada beberapa kata dengan suara yang sama tapi penterjamahan beberda contoh bisa (bahasa) = can, able to... bisa (tagalog) = effectiveness
lupa (bahasa) = forget...lupa (tagalog) = land
Dan juga aku menonton acara di youtube. Kamu tahu Hitam Putih di Trans7? Aku menontonnya karena ada orang beberda dan mereka menggunakan kata beberda, so the variety of the words is good to practice listening ^^
Idol favorit saya dari indonesia adalah Iko Uwais dari The Raid ^-^
Apris Riyadi dan Michael Respicio, salam! Saya sedang belajar bahasa indonesia juga, dan bagi saya bagus bertemu orang-orang yang berbicara bahasa ini, karena saya bisa berlatih. Saya orang Brasil, dan di sini kami berbicara bahasa portugues yang sangat berbeda dari bahasa indonesia. Saya tertarik di budaya indonesia, kemudian saya memutuskan untuk mulai belajar bahasanya melalui Duolingo, di mana saya melewati berbagai pelajaran. Saya sangat suka, dan semoga saya bisa meningkatkan segera...
Sir, What is circle method?
And whats the best method to learn and teach grammer ??
And whats the best method to learn and teach grammer ??
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The best methode to learn something is to teach that something to someone.
Even "grammer" becomes "grammar" gradually when we teach it.
Terry Waltz did a pretty detailed video about circling a few years ago. The video is somewhat specific to tprs practitioners, but not overly so czcams.com/video/IXwD9jdcRlI/video.html
I am interested in adding my content ...but i dont have specific email to send to ...
I'm from the south of France.
If you can help us create a series called "Les Gens du Midi de la France" that would be great. If you can Please send me an email steve@lingq.com
Did you give up on Greek?
No, but on the back burner. It was more urgent when I was preparing to visit Greece.
I'm Brazilian and I'd to help with content
No céu tem pão?
Hello. I am intersted in helping create this kind of content. I emailed you about it so I hope you can reply
Thank you for your email I. replied, and look forward to hearing more!
Hey Steve, check out the 听故事学中文 podcast for an excellent application of this topic for the purposes of Mandarin acquisition.
You mean his CZcams channel or he has a podcast? I loved his videos with TPRS but he stopped publishing them.
Strahinja Maćešić, I use the podcast on Overwatch. But I know they have a website and are available on other platforms.
@@sethfellows5237 oh cool, I bet there is more material there. I will definitely check it out. Xiexie :)
@@sethfellows5237 Sorry, can you give me the exact name of the podcast? Is it ting gushi xue zhongwen?
Strahinja Maćešić, yes the name is 听故事学中文 (ting gushi xue zhongwen). 不用谢!
Just go straight to native content, be comfortable with a period of ambiguity and forget the stupid mini stories that are so boring even Steve can't handle them unless he does 3 languages a day.
I didn't find the 60 mini stories boring and it really helped me build my vocabulary.
Because each mini story repeats the same vocabulary over and over again, it helps remembering the words. With native content, I see so many unknown words that I may not see again before days or weeks maybe.
I like to fight on two fronts when I'm learning a language, or two difficulty levels, if you will. My current level, that is, something that's as close to an i+1 as it gets. And native material, which is ALWAYS something that I'm interested in. I like to read what I'm interested in, but the further it is from my level, the quicker it drains my motivation. That's when current level content shines. It's just a welcome break that gives me time to regain my willpower. With time, the gap between these levels gets narrower and narrower. Until eventually I just migrate to native content fulltime.
@@annieevie9607 interesting
How about stop waiting for volunteers to come to you and actually try to find some native speakers yourself? Join the search! Waiting is how you lose in business, Steve, you of all people should know that, being co-founder and all...so quit being lazy about it, get out there and start networking, instead of asking the public to do all the work of what should be your task, while you just sit there learning Arabic and Persian. Why is it so hard for you and the people at Lingq to network and be socially proactive? If you want to get more people to sign up to Lingq, get new languages there faster! That can't happen unless you find as many native speakers as possible to prepare content. The more people working on it, the earlier you'll get them. Surely there are especially lots of SE Asians in your area to get those languages up. What's the point of language learning if you can't even be proactive enough to network with new people? Don't tell me you'll only approach people unless you speak even a bit of their language. You don't, because they're not on Lingq and had no way to learn it, so swallow your pride and just do it.
Also getting paid is only fair and should be the universal compensation unless someone outright asks (though unlikely) for some kind of discount at Lingq if such a thing even exists. Why would somebody put in all that time and effort to supply what you described to fulfill your demand just to get a discount? In that case, instead of getting paid, they have to pay a one-time reduced price for...whatever they're getting for their money's worth. That, instead of pocketing the money for something else