How to ACQUIRE any Language NOT Learn it! | Interview with Jeff Brown ( With Subtitles )

Hey Guys! Today, our guest is Jeff Brown @poly-glot-a-lot6457 . Jeff is a full-time tenured professor of Spanish language at Orange coast college in California and is also a natural language acquisition specialist. Jeff speaks English, Spanish, French, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Arabic. In fact, Jeff created a video called “How to Acquire any language NOT learn it” which is watched by over 1.3 million people with around 60,000 likes. In that video, Jeff clearly explains how to acquire any language with ease like a baby and also shows how he acquired level 5 language Arabic using this approach.

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T I M E S T A M P S :

0:00 Jeff Brown
1:10 Connect with Jeff
1:28 How Jeff acquired Spanish w/o learning it
4:20 Why many struggle to learn a language
5:53 What is TPR?
7:56 What is TPRS? (Interesting)
14:30 Jeff's opinion on grammar
18:04 Why correction doesn't work
20:49 When to start reading and writing in the target language
23:15 Flashcards - do they work?
24:37 What about Anki?
26:14 What are Sweet 16 verbs? Why you need them
28:44 What is Pop-up grammar
30:08 Why you need to learn a language like a baby
32:07 When to speak in your target language?
33:58 Why Duolingo sucks!
36:20 Is online language acquisition possible?
39:29 I am not intelligent. Can I acquire a language?
41:28 WHen to start reading?
42:07 7-Day Challenge

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Time Stamps :
0:00 Jeff Brown
1:10 Connect with Jeff
1:28 How Jeff acquired Spanish w/o learning it
4:20 Why many to learn a language
5:53 What is TPR?
7:56 What is TPRS? (Interesting)
14:30 Jeff's opinion on grammar
18:04 Why correction doesn't work
20:49 When to start reading and writing in the target language
23:15 Flashcards - do they work?
24:37 What about Anki?
26:14 What are Sweet 16 verbs? Why you need them
28:44 What is Pop-up grammar
30:08 Why you need to learn a language like a baby
32:07 When to speak in your target language?
33:58 Why Duolingo sucks!
36:20 Is online language acquisition possible?
39:29 I am not intelligent. Can I acquire a language?
41:28 WHen to start reading?
42:07 7-Day Challenge

[tullochgorum]

I don't understand his claim that you can't practise pronunciation. You absolutely can - but you have to do it systematically the way accent coaches train actors. I know a guy who was struggling to learn a difficult sound in Czech. He hired a speech therapist for a few hours and mastered it with a systematic series of exercises. I have another friend who learned near-native Mandarin with extensive accent coaching. Whether you want to invest the time is another question, provided natives can understand you. But it's certainly doable.

[ninoedig]

What I like about this podcast/interview is that the host lets the guest speaks and share his ideas and insights about the topic. To me that's good.

[idrissamorehouse]

Love this guy! He soooo gets the human brain language wiring !!

[BaebiDoll]

most importantly, have fun and feel motivated while learning <3

[ezecebim]

One of the best motherfuc**** videos i've ever seen about learning languages. This guy knows a lot.

[mic]

fluency (automaticity) stems from knowing the how, when and why of any language (its lexicon, grammar, nuances, culture, etc), and that's the long-term memory (brains stem) which is intuitive and instinctive...gaining proficiency is what we've all been conditioned to do, which is just the what (anyone can remember or recall a fact or information, but knowing how, why and when to use it is more complex - ergo why it's optimal to ACQUIRE language naturally --- at its root is communication ~ 80-sth% of communication is body language...this is why acquisition [i.e. meaning-making rather than just definition-finding] is doable)

[johntetreault]

I love TPRS books they are great once you have 300 - 500 words acquired, start with the most basic and work your way up to more advanced ones. Great stories very entertaining, lots of the vocabulary you need in the most common structures and you can get audio versions of the most popular books, great resource.

[grahamboswell]

Jeff is so quirked up and hokey in a beautiful way. I love how earnest he is especially given that he's a genuine polyglot.

[alanguages]

I like this video. I do think for vocabulary a person should attempt to acquire the most frequent words. Once they start with that, they will hear those words over and over during conversation, whether in media or regular speech live. Similar to the idea of acquiring the sweet sixteen verbs.
Yes and No are likely the first two words.

[FOXMAN]

I like J Brown. I think his final 7 day challenge might be the best tip of all because so little of us get past flashcards and dumb apps focusing on single words and sentences. But I would say reading + reading/listening at the same time of ANY CONTENT I WANT has been the biggest game changer for me. Not just watching ABC songs, or listening to the cow jumped over the moon stories. Why? Because it's really difficult to find that 90% comprehensible input that he mentions. And dont worry if the reading isn't 90% comprehensible. Go through something short, translate all words you don't know. Read it again and guess what? It's 90-100% comprehensible the second time you read it. Rinse and repeat until you can read longer texts. But ya it really is best if you can do this paired with listening. But 100% listening for long term during alone time just sucks because as a VERY beginner you can't understand anything and it feels like a waste of time or the content is meant for babies and it's very boring. So, look for something of your interest and that is short. And you will make it 90% comprehensible yourself and then read/listen/watch to it again.

[Limonada_RC]

wow I rrecently watched "How to acquired the language" and Immediately caught my interest!

[futurez]

I feel like this guy was kinda contradicting himself. He says grammar study doesn't work, but then says he drills common verbs, which is essentially drilling grammar. He says input is key but then says he speaks from day one. He says corrections don't work, but if he drills students in that way, surely he also corrects them in class, since the whole idea of 'drilling' is to get it right? Also, immersion is about naturally acquiring the whole language, rather than drilling narrow parts of the language, isn't it? Maybe I'm being a little harsh, but some things didn't really add up for me.

[andresbuitragoleal]

Amazing interview. I'm learning English and I really loved every single question that you made, definitely helped me a lot.

[kejaritomeneticuantepe]

I must to accept that this is the great interview about to acquire a language, thank you.

[bhanug]

@20:00 liked it i faced the same thing, and i'm happy now i got it

[krishnaduttapachauri]

At one point he said "we don't do reading" and at another he said "we should start reading asap". What's that?

[r.s.]

If I had experienced Jeff's approach in high school, I suspect the outcome would have been different. Think of all the students who "failed" at learning another language because of the structured but misguided approach. Thanks for this interview.

[pompasduris]

I like how he always responds with Great Question.

[trevino]

i really like his methods and approach but I also think that his reference points are based on his preference in learning, which will not work for all. I alsp think he misunderderstood the question about repetition and he answered thinking repetition was in referencient to learning how to pronounce words. However, repetiiion is quite important as he already refered to in being exposed to a word 40 or 50 times to aquire it naturally.

I just wised that may language teachers had his knowledge of learning, even if they used different methods. Unfortuntely, too many teachers out there charging a price and having no real method in teaching any language, . Lots of language teacher simply try to have conversation with no real objective in what is being learned, let alone using assessments to measure student growth.

Ask any language teacher "How many students have you guided to learn a language from A1 to B1? Most will be zero or they will evade from answering the question.