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| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5782 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 9 of 15 21 July 2011 at 3:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good God, nway! What a brilliant post! I wish I could give it more than one vote.
@ Cainntear, very interesting points, do you think the internet might help with that too, though? It gives you a little more freedom to do your thing without being too reflective. I think nway said above that a lot of youtube course writers just "wing it", for instance. Edited by Random review on 21 July 2011 at 3:29pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6918 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 10 of 15 21 July 2011 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Check out the subscription list on my channel for some more great teachers
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6010 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 11 of 15 22 July 2011 at 9:25am | IP Logged | ||
Unfortunately it may have gone too far -- not only does it let you "wing it", it lets you wing it without ever having taught. Most good teachers learn their craft in the classroom over years, and on YouTube, anyone with a webcam can become a teacher at a moment's notice.... The other thing that YouTube and the internet in general do is steal the beginners. I hear more and more people talking about learning stuff from the internet for free, damaging the market for professional materials. Dagnabbit, I want to specialise in beginners, and I want to earn some money!!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5261 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 12 of 15 22 July 2011 at 1:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Excellent thread, I am enjoying following this.
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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6150 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 13 of 15 22 July 2011 at 4:05pm | IP Logged | ||
In the French course, he also does the same thing with venir (to come) where he likens it to the wood veneer. It would've been better if he linked it to the English via the past participle, venu, and then revenu for returned. This would lead him to the origin of the English word, revenue, for the concept of returns. However, it may have been a bit of a stretch to link the English word fact,"that is done", to the past participle of the Latin verb facere, to do, and then to faire. It does make remembering the word for fact easy in both languages as they're both the past participle, fait (Fr) and hecho (Sp). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DavidW Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6525 days ago 318 posts - 458 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Italian, Persian, Malay Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Portuguese, German, Urdu | Message 14 of 15 23 July 2011 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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The other day I had to lay some paving stones. I did a quick youtube search, and 15
minutes later I was an expert. Video is superior to the written word for teaching many things. It can communicate much more information. In principle, I would sooner buy 25hrs of recorded material with a PDF review guide (for $25), even if the production quality was average, than a Teach Yourself manual, so long as the teaching methods were sound. It might also be cheaper to produce than a book, which needs very careful wording, editing, graphic design and layout, otherwise it appears amateurish. A video can be a little more 'off-the-cuff,' but still needs planning, obviously. The youtube partner program is making video 'rentals' very easy to set up, and would be ideal for such projects. I'm going to Minsk next month, and I'll put the idea to the staff of the Minsk State Linguistic University, who has some of the best teachers I've ever seen. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5534 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 15 of 15 24 July 2011 at 2:39am | IP Logged | ||
My first thought when I saw this segment of your post was to wonder why I hadn't heard of this teacher before...then I clicked the link and YouTube informed me that I was already subscribed to that channel (I had just never gotten around to actually watching any of his videos). Thanks for the reminder and the brief review. :) 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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