Blog 9

I like how easy this video talks about how your brain learns a new language. The man talking in the video basically talks about how an adult can learn a new language faster and easier through conversation. I like how he mentions this because in school you are taught not only how to read the words in the language that you want to learn, but how to pronounce them along with all the grammar that goes with that language. What this guy is saying is that its harder to learn a language when you are trying to read and write the language because you are trying to focus so much on accuracy and you still might not be sure about some of the vocabulary as well.

I can definitely agree with what he is saying. Even though I am not fluent in Spanish, I do understand a lot more when spoken than when I try to read or write anything in Spanish.


 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLAMS7OloEM-How your brain learns a new language

Blog 8

I picked this video because some of the things she saying about endangered languages.
I like how she mentioned that there was a Jewish boy that saved his life by speaking another language when the Germans.

This video doesn't give us much of statistics, but it encourages people to learn other languages including the languages that are dying.

One of the ways that she encourages learning these languages is something that can help you learn it and that is by a song that is in that language. By learning a song that is in the language you are wanting to learn, it will help you remember certain verbs along with learning the language a little bit faster.

Another thing she mentions is that when it is also important to learn the language through the songs because those songs are have a lot of history behind it and it helps to understand the dying language a little bit more.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUdCToPPK5A  -Saving Endangered Languages Through Music

Blog 7

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HLYe31MBrg    (Mapping How American's Talk)

So in this video it shows a map and in what parts of the United States what dialects are said for certain words. This was a survey that was through the phone across the country with the person asking questions. The map highlights the certain parts of the country where the responses were most common. 

It was really interesting to see what certain parts of the country and how the people say certain words. 

For example one of the questions were;  What do you call it when the rain falls while the sun is still shining?

 

For me personally I had no idea there was a certain word that describes the rain falling while the sun is still shining. It was interesting to see what parts of the country said certain things.