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Comprehensible Chinese

How can you help yourself to learn better?

1/21/2015

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Chris Lonsdale explains in this short video some of the principles he has used to learn languages quickly and efficiently. Much of what he says lines up with Comprehensible Input methodology.

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Zippo the Clown

1/21/2015 12:50:12 pm

Fluent in 6 months. The guy is dreaming. Oh, and yes I speak Chinese, and basically learned to by myself living in Taiwan. After all these years and existing in a totally Chinese world with nobody to speak English to, I am not fluent. I bet my Chinese is better than his.

Liu Xun

1/22/2015 10:22:03 am

I quite agree with you, Zippo, that he is delusional about how quickly you can learn a language. What I like about his talk is his advice about how you can help yourself learn faster; most of his points sync up nicely with TCI philosophy.

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