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| jackcleveland Newbie United States Joined 5832 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, German, French | Message 1 of 5 01 December 2008 at 12:03am | IP Logged |
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Does anyone have information on Ken Hale's methods for picking up languages? The only
reference that I can find about this amazing man's methods was mentioned briefly by the New York times here: He said he could never learn a language in a classroom, but only one on one with a person. He said he would start with parts of the body, common animals and objects, learn nouns, pick up sound systems and write it all down. ''If it's not a written language, like Nggoth, which is spoken in Australia,'' he said, ''I make up how to write it. I can learn that in one or two hours. ''Then I start making complex sentences because the complex sentences are more regular than the simple ones. Then pretty soon I can name anything in the world.'' Thanks in advance for any information one has on this humble but amazing guy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6515 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes  Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 5 01 December 2008 at 2:30am | IP Logged |
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The bulk of our knowledge about Kenneth Hale is found in this thread. Maybe there is more in the obituary written by collegues and students after his death, but I suspect that he didn't write or speak much about language acquisition because it was so easy for him and his methods were so informal.
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| jackcleveland Newbie United States Joined 5832 days ago 8 posts - 8 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, German, French | Message 3 of 5 01 December 2008 at 9:59am | IP Logged |
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Iversen,
Thank you very much. I thought as much. I have read the previous thread, but I appreciate your re-referencing of it. By the way, thanks for all of your posts on this site. I don't post often unless I have something to ask or something to say. Your posts have been in the top 2-3 for me. Because of the wealth of information from you and others at this site, I was able to go from zero to very reasonable levels of Spanish in about 6-7 months of work. I hate to use the word fluent because that sounds extremely arrogant. At any rate, thank you. I suspect there are many of us out here that you have influenced that you are not even aware of. Please keep it up. Edited by jackcleveland on 01 December 2008 at 10:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Olekander Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5695 days ago 122 posts - 136 votes Speaks: English*, French, Russian | Message 5 of 5 15 March 2009 at 3:14am | IP Logged |
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:) seems like a great bloke Edited by Olekander on 17 March 2009 at 10:51am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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