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.
Revised and updated with more links!