Future Multilingual

16/12/2022

I have neglected to post recent videos but I am back with a bang. We are going to have an unbelievable interview on Future Multilingual Kelly Elizabeth Wright (She/Her/Dr) will be talking about Linguist racialization in sport.

13/11/2022

Deconstructing the phenomenon of the Youtube polyglot.

Here we are going to talk about the identity of the Youtube Polyglot. There seems to be an archetype and they seem to be very successful. But is this financi...

08/11/2022

It is not ok to deliberately waste people's time for financial benefit. Not in shopping centres and not on Youtube.

It seems to be generally accepted that language learners need to be posstive. This posstive attititude should hold up even when it is quite clear that some p...

07/11/2022

So someone on Youtube decides to tell 40 K people that reading doesn't lead to language acquisition. James rides in to put the record straight

There seems to be a common belief among many that speaking alone develops the type of language you need to be able to speak. This would be the reverse of L1 ...

07/11/2022

Here we are with the myth of the double negative

We frequentl here the advice that Ronnie gives. A negative plus a negative equals a positive and this perscriptivist approach to language justifies telling a...

07/11/2022

Here is the latest from Future Multilingual on Vocabulary development.

This video looks at vocabulary acquisition and looks at how certain pieces of advice have been said so many times, quite frequently unthinkingly, that they h...

25/10/2022

This is a fascinating concept the visual novel as a way of immersing yourself in a new language. Egnaging with input. This is how our cognitions have evolved to learn language. Just a wonderful idea.

To acquire a language you need input. The input must be comprehensible and this means being contextualised. prefereably you are completed immersed in the lan...

21/10/2022

Hot off the press. Is the way we learn languages determined by evolution? James says yes. What do you say

First thing to say is SORRY. NOT ALL LANGUAGES ARE VOCAL. THERE ARE SIGN LANGUAGES.Am I just going round in circles talking about input and evolution? I thin...

21/10/2022

Good evening all. Here is the post we've been waiting for. Why are we more fluent when we drink. That's right. It's here

A commonly noticed phenomenon among language learners is that you speak more fluently after a drink. I did once read some research n this. Here I speculate a...

17/10/2022

Here we go with today's video. The grammar myth. It breaks my heart when I hear about people spending their hard earned money with someone who wants to teach them grammar,. This person clearly doesn't know that we need to acquire implicit knowledge rather than study explicit grammatical rules. So sad, so very sad.

It is sometimes hard to reflect on our own language learning and decide what works at what doesn't. Here I use the example of the second and third conditiona...

14/10/2022

This video has two threads 1. The idea of intelligence itself is wrong and 2. Even if it did exist it would have nothing to do with language acquisition.

One thing that adds to people's stress as they make progress in a language is the idea that language learning is linked to intelligence. James argues that in...