Johnny Harris
How video games helped me rethink language learning.
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It’s ridiculous how outdated and terrible the current education system is.
As a high school World Language teacher, I can appreciate the ideas in this video and those of many of the commenters. For many of you, K-12 methodologies have changed nearly as quickly as math methodologies; every generation seems to have new math. University methods haven't changed as much because one goes with the idea that only serious students go to college.
The ideas in the video are much closer to what we are doing in the classroom today and are far from the internet miracle for profit courses on line.
Imagine a stage with two people engaged in real life interpersonal communication standing on top of the stage. The four legs holding up the stage are listening (maybe youtube), reading in the target language (cookbooks, definitely Kindle Reader, and newspapers online), presentational writing (planning for situations by writing questions, answers, and things you might want to express, like feelings. The fourth leg is presentational speaking where the learner tries to express themselves.
Sure, there will be little mistakes, but you are correct in advocating interpersonal communication as the goal in each lesson.
studying french and not being able to speak it after is such an cliche privileged white people thing. totally fits harris
Disagree with speak early, prefer input over output in the beginning.
As an Italian i can say that the Italian skills you showed in this video are more then enough to be understood in Italy. Well done!
I learnt English using videogames
Why would you not correct your son in that hypothetical situation? That's how we learn language – getting guidance from others who know more. At least normally, not if we're learning a second language or beyond. (I learned multiple languages growing up, so I appreciated being corrected.)
Thanks for this
Six years of being surrounded by my father's relatives and tribesmates and I cannot speak his language. I can understand the gist of the statement though but not individual words which is annoying.
Another point you said is memorize words which I should have done but didn't…..regrets.
There is also speech. I refused coz I would always be teased about my terrible English influenced accent and I'm a bit shy. Yet I should have powered through.
Time to try again.
I agree with 99% of your video – however, pronounciation might not be set last, depending on how similar the pronounciation is to your own language. Pronouncing things wrong over a long time makes it harder to remember and get used to the correct pronounciation later in the process
Wow Niko teaching language learning. Of course it ll be good
I think this way is really good but after being able to communicate effectively learning basic grammer and syntax is also important as a sort of end game
I f*cking love maps and video games
Funny how you claim to want to do proper investigative journalism and check all of your sources yet you "hate JK Rowling." Because if you bothered to read her tweets, her essay, and the details of what happened in Maya Forstater's case (reading about the impact on LGB people rabid trans activism has had would also help), you'd see that there's no reason to hate her. You'd also see the vile, violent threats she's endured just for telling the truth. I encourage you to form your on opinion of JKR and not just blindly follow what manipulative headlines and societal echo chambers say.
I “love” it when monolingual English speakers simply ask “are you fluent” in language x, and I have no idea how to respond. Like, what does that even mean? What are you asking? And if I ever admit that I don’t know a word or a phrase, the response of “I thought you were fluent” is thrown back at me.
But I actually do love your analogy of “fluency” to a video game, and your goal of functional communication rather than “fluency” resonates with me. Great video!
Make more videos on Middle East and Pakistan aswell how it suffered after supporting America like blaming your own ally for your mistakes do some digging your audience will love this kinda video!!!
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There is another method: ”listen, listen, listen” at least one hour a day, just listen like the kids are doing. I think is the best method at all.
Start the video about 10:00 minutes in to get the point of what he is trying to communicate. The beginning is just fluff.
That add transition…well done
This is one of the most inspiring videos I've ever seen. I'm engaged to a girl from Czech Republic and for a while I've been a little hopeless about how long it might take to learn Czech. Then I watched this and immediately felt like I can start making active choices today.
I tried to teach myself Spanish once, knew a few people who spoke it to talk with, my Spanish was bad, but, I got very good at making puns in Spanish, could write a joke that only works in Spanish, but not speak or understand it
Nice perspective. Some of the natives speakers failed in their own native language subject exam.But that doesn't mean they cannot speak their native language, its just that they failed the exam oriented format that required perfect usage grammar, literature knowledge etc. But the actual conversation doesn't required perfect mastering in their language
I learned a new language 5 years ago, javascript.
This video is about 20 minutes of filler. Here are literally the only points:
1) Identify and memorize 1000 of the most common/useful words in the language
2) Try and communicate in the language often and don't be afraid of mistakes
3) Have fun with it, make a game of it
4) Only after you feel acquainted with the language, start studying the grammar and rules
You're welcome
3:20 any% speed runners getting pissed off
23:12 who knows when that's going to be.
I believe you are headed there now?
2021 is on 2.0x speed mode.
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grande Johnny….guardo i tuoi video da tempo, semplicemente perche " I like also maps" 😉
Subtitle :v
You wanna go super smash bro. (;
Ti posso capire molto bene! Direi che il tuo metodo funziona 🙂 io sto imparando il francese adesso. Seguiró la tua idea
I am from Como, living in Lugano and I understood everything on your Italian first sentences, congratulations! I saw your other video and it was so sweet, next time you come here I'll treat you guys for dinner, mean it for real!
A video bout Italian sponsored by wine? Wooow pretty racist dude literally smh my head rn
The thumbnail map look a lot like the world map from Doom and Destiny.
i hate long videos and i watched this whole thing. very entertaining and useful, nice job!
Curious to know if anyone has tried this method to learn German? And if so, did you learn the article with the word? It's certainly worth a shot!
I grew up speaking both Spanish and English (born & raised in Los Angeles here). I took Italian, and learned it and spoke it with decent fluency (i also did a study abroad at Florence). Your Italian is great, you have a nice Spanish accent too (like me!), better than sounding like the poser Americans that we are lol
This is how I see language learning as well. Great video.
You would really love the videogame crusaders kings 3.
Honestly people sometimes give things like duolingo a bad rep but you just need to see through with it and know where it's lacking . So you should find a native speaker to practice with and make a list of words that you need but duolingo is not teaching you.
thank u, this gave me motivation
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