Name: Interview With Vanessa Van Edwards - 5 Secrets of Successful TED Talks by dinkylune in ted talks
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Description: An interview for My Year of TED blog with Vanessa Van Edwards about her research into what makes a successful TED Talk

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An interview for My Year of TED blog with Vanessa Van Edwards about her research into what makes a successful TED Talk

Interview With Vanessa Van Edwards - 5 Secrets of Successful TED Talks

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Gerwin asks: "What would be your tips for learning a new language?
How should I approach it? What are your recommendations?"

http://first20hours.com 

RESOURCES:
http://livemocha.com
http://duolingo.com
http://vis-ed.com
http://memrise.com
http://ankisrs.net
http://smartr.be
http://supermemo.com
http://fluentin3months.com
http://towerofbabelfish.com
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SpeakerText Transcript of the Track:
Gerwin asks, "What would be your tips for learning a new language? How should I approach it? What are your recommendations?" Good question, Gerwin. This is actually one of the most common questions that I've been getting, so hopefully this answer will help a lot of people. Learning a language, you can learn a language using the same core method that I teach in the first 20 Hours. 

So the core ideas of defining what you want, breaking it down into smaller parts, doing a bit of research, practicing the most important things first, removing barriers to practice and committing to twenty hours totally works for languages. One of the reasons, and this is a common question I get about the case studies in the book. 

I did not learn a new language for the 20 hours, and the reason for that was very simple. At this point in my life, based on what is important to me right now, learning a new language really wasn't a pressing sort of thing. So, totally could have done it but for me it would have been a very academic sort of exercise and one of the things that's really important to understand is is that you learn best what you are interested in most. 

So if learning a new language has you really jazzed right now, and there's some specific thing you want to do with the language now is a really great time to learn it. If it is something that is it's more of a curiosity or you don't intend to do anything with it you're probably going to have some difficulties. 

Because learning a language is a very complicated complex, complicated skill. So that being said, if you're really jazzed about learning languages, there are a couple of things that I highly recommend. The first thing that you absolutely need to do is define your target performance level. What does it look like for you, for example, to learn Chinese or learn German or learn Spanish or learn English or, you know, learn whatever language you want to learn. That statement, learning a language, is very unspecific. It doesn't really help you do anything. You need to make sure you understand what specifically do you want to be able to do? Do you want to go to a country and be able to speak with the locals? 

Do you want to read a book in a particular language, or read papers or studies? I know a lot of people who learn languages for academic reasons. If research papers are published in another language, you have a major advantage if can understand that research in it's original context. So what specifically do you want to be able to do when you're done? The more specific you're able to make that, the easier learning a language is going to be. The second is, and part of that target performance is learning a language, speaking that language and conversing with somebody who is able to, or conversing with somebody or communicating with somebody in that language verbally, or do you want to learn how to read and write? 

They're very different things. But usually when we talk about learning a language, we automatically assume both. In the case of learning something from scratch, it's way better to deconstruct learning a language into learning to speak and understand and learning to write and read. They're very different things. 

You practice them in different ways. Now if you want to learn how to speak a language. There are a bunch of really valuable resources now that can help you do that in a very efficient way. If you want to learn how to speak and converse you need to practice speaking and conversing with a real person. 

Sounds like common sense, but a lot of people, when they want to learn how to speak a language, they pick up a book on grammar. No, don't do that. You need to start speaking and trying to converse with a real person as quickly as possible. There are a bunch of websites that help you do this. One of the ones that caught my eye is a website called livemocha.com. 

 It hooks you up with other people who actually can speak that language and it's basically one-on-one conversation style tutoring. I'm looking at the website right now, and they have 38 different languages. So, you can go to Livemocha, you check out all of the languages that they offer and participated in live, instructor led classes or one on one conversations really, really excellent tool if you want to speak. If you want to write, there's similarly a very interesting website called duolingo.com. Duolingo, does the same thing for writing. Helps you learn the language in the context in which you want to use it, which is reading and writing and doing translation. 

So two really great websites there a couple of other additional tools. One of the interesting things about languages is just like everything else, you use a very small percentage of the total words in a language the vast majority of time. That's a great example of the 80-20 principle or Praetor's [sp] law or the critical few, however you prefer to refer to that idea. 

So for example in English, the top 25 words in English account for somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of actual usage. So if you want to speak and write in English you should probably learn those words first and every language follows the general pattern. So it's helpful to be able to deconstruct the language and learn the most important words and phrases first. 

And there's actually a really excellent set of language flash cards. If you go to vis-ed.com, that's vis-ed.com,you can see these decks of flash cards that this company vis-ed has put together. And they've done the frequency analysis for you. And so you can pick up, so, for example, if you want to learn how to speak a right Arabic, you can pick up a set of Arabic vocabulary words that contain the most common words and phrases that you need to know. They've done the analysis for you. They're very reasonably priced. It's a great tool to make the learning process much much easier. So there are lots of tools, livemocha, duolingo, viz-ed flashcards. There is a website called Memrise. 

That's m-e-m-r-i-s-e.com. Wonderful tool to help you use space repetition and reinforcement to learn common words and phrases very quickly. Similar space repetition tools like Anki or Super Memo or Smarter can help you practice if there's a certain amount of memorization that you need to do. So that can help you do that in a very efficient way. 

So basically how that works is you're going through flashcards. If something is easy, you tell the program easy and it doesn't show it to you very often. If something is difficult, you'll see it way more often. As a result, you'll practice the things that you have the most difficulty with most. It's a really efficient way to practice. 

So that is a general method of deconstructing and making sure you know what you're trying to do and you practice the things that are going to help you most effectively. Now, this is not my particular area of expertise, so I want to direct you to two people who are really, really good at this. The first gentleman I want to introduce you to is Benny Lewis, who runs a website called fluentin3months.com. 

And Benny, he's a fascinating guy. He travels all over the world and he has come up with a method to train himself how to speak and write a language fluently in three months. That's going from knowing absolutely nothing to being able to converse with people and actually pass fluency sorts of tests extremely quickly. 

So fluentin3months.com, there's a lot of free information about how Benny recommends you learn how to speak a language. Now, one of the things that I'm not super thrilled about in terms of Benny's method is it's a little too immersive intensive for me. It relies on you really making language the focus of what you do for an extended period of time. 

So if you have three months to spare, you can totally go through the fluentin3months program and get a lot out of it. In terms of other methods there's a gentleman by the name of Gabriel Whiner, and he runs a website called towerofbabelfish.com. And Gabriel is actually an opera singer and so one of the reasons that he wanted to learn languages is he uses them for his work. 

He needs to be able to sing in Italian and French and German. And so he came up with a way, a method of using space repetition and using specific study techniques to be able to speak a language as quickly as possible. And, you know, some of his tricks has a really good tutorial of how to do this on towerbabelfish.com. 

But you know starting with pronunciation and starting with pictures, so not translating things per say but coding the mental images into words and then using space repetition to build vocabulary over time ends up being a very efficient way to learn a language quickly. So I would recommend check out Benny's stuff, check out Gabriel's stuff and they will give you a ton of information that will help you pick up a new language as quickly as possible. 

Hope it helps. 


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