Linguistic approaches to language learning: link roundup
I suppose it’s okay to admit after three years of linguistics blogging that I actually am one of those linguists who speaks quite a few languages, and I’ve studied even more at various levels. Here are some of my favourite posts about language learning:
Tips for learning another language
7 ways to fake-pronounce any foreign language
How to learn vocabulary in 12 steps (using science!)
Up-goer five, Taboo and language learning
How to learn a third language (while keeping your second one)
12 ways to stop freezing up when you try to speak a second language
Someone trying to switch into English on you is like them trying to pick up the cheque
How second language acquisition works
Why can’t adults learn languages like children? (video with Tom Scott)
Finding “lost” languages in the brain
Learning languages without conscious effort
How to teach old ears new tricks
Speaking to babies, pets, and language learners
How learning a new language improves tolerance
First lesson in modern versus classical languages
Learning languages linguistically (Lingthusiasm podcast episode)
Learning Indigenous languages
Should linguists or non-Aboriginal people learn Aboriginal languages?
Non-Indigenous people learning Australian Indigenous languages
Benefits of Indigenous language learning
Roadblocks to effective Indigenous language development
OLA - Oral Language Acquisition
CoLang and Breath of Life
Learning less popular and minority languages when resources are hard to find
How to teach when the teacher isn’t fluent
How to make learning materials for conversation and document at the same time
Sk̲wx̱wú7mesh language revitalization house
Europe has indigenous minority languages as well
Languages and linguistics
Why linguists get annoyed when you ask how many languages they speak
Will learning a second language help me learn linguistics?
Will learning linguistics help with learning a second language?
Using Gricean maxims to deflect the “how many languages do you know?” question in a way that leads to a better conversation
Bonus fun links: Now You’re Just A Language That I Used To Know (parody of that Gotye song) and Language Gothic.
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