Learning English
30May
30 May 2019
Common English Mistakes: -ed and -ing Words
Common English Mistakes: -ed and -ing Words was uploaded onto Steve’s YouTube channel on May 6, 2019 The 90-Day Challenge is over. But, today I want to talk about English and I’m going to do a number of videos about English. I thought of maybe doing them in Spanish or Japanese or some other language […]
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28 May 2019
3 Stages of Language Acquisition: How Long Does It Take?
3 Stages of Language Acquisition was uploaded onto Steve’s YouTube channel on May 13, 2019 Hi there, Steve Kaufmann. Today I want to talk about something that I think is very important, a question that I get all the time, and that is how long does it take to learn a language. I want to […]
Read more 3 Stages of Language Acquisition: How Long Does It Take?23May
23 May 2019
How to Start Learning a New Language: The First Lesson
How to Start Learning a New Language was uploaded onto Steve’s YouTube channel on December 23, 2012 Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here. It’s the 23rd of December. My wife has been baking cookies and preparing for our Christmas dinner tomorrow night. All day long I’ve been wrapping presents, but I want to talk about something […]
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2 May 2019
How to Learn Words
How to Learn Words has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. The original video was published on November 20, 2012 Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here. Today I want to talk primarily about how I learn words because that was a request I had from one of the people who follows me here at […]
Read more How to Learn Words25Apr
25 Apr 2019
Language Learning, Talent or Attitude
Language Learning, Talent or Attitude has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. The original video was published on May 6, 2012 My TV show came and went. I’m going to post a link here in that first opening box underneath my video. I can’t remember what they called it, but it was a program […]
Read more Language Learning, Talent or Attitude16Apr
16 Apr 2019
Polyglottery and Speaking More than One Language
Polyglottery and Speaking More than One Language has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. The original video was published on April 30, 2012 Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here. Today I’m going to talk about polyglottery and multilingualism. Polyglottery is a term that I became aware of only fairly recently. It’s a term coined, I […]
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9 Apr 2019
Grammar: How Best to Study it
Today I want to talk about grammar. Now, often here at my channel there has been discussion of the importance of input and the need to deemphasize grammar instruction when it comes to language learning. This very often causes a great debate between those people who love grammar and those people who are averse to […]
Read more Grammar: How Best to Study it02Apr
2 Apr 2019
The Mind, the Brain and Language Learning
The Mind, the Brain and Language Learning has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. The Original video was published on April 9, 2013 Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here. I recently did a video where I talked about how our emotions get in the way of our language learning, even though we would like to pronounce […]
Read more The Mind, the Brain and Language Learning28Mar
28 Mar 2019
Put the Language Dictionary Down
Put the Language Dictionary Down has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. Original video was published on August 6, 2018 Hi there, Steve Kaufmann here to talk about languages and today I want to talk about dictionaries. Basically, the reason I want to talk about dictionaries is because I was thinking about this person […]
Read more Put the Language Dictionary Down19Mar
19 Mar 2019
How to Maintain What We’ve Learned
Language and Memory: How to Maintain What We’ve Learned has been transcribed from Steve’s YouTube channel. Original video was published on July 13, 2013 Hi there, Steve Kaufmann. First of all, I apologize. I’m not going to do this video in Portuguese; although, I had said that I would. That leads me to the […]
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