Will I ever learn Chinese
av Jeanette Sakel
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How a linguist would learn a new language
How a linguist would learn a new language
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Is it even possibly to learn Chinese? Linguistics professor Jeanette Sakel tried it out, telling us about her successes and failures along the way.
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- How a linguist would learn a new language · 16 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 30Send a text In this final episode of ‘Will I ever learn Chinese’ I discuss how I would approach learning a new language in future, outlining the techniques, materials and…
- Language learning methods and approaches · 20 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 29Send a text We’re coming to the end of the first series of ‘Will I ever learn Chinese’. In these last two episodes, I am looking at language learning techniques and summarise my…
- Language learning and linguistic fieldwork: the excitement of the puzzle · 19 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 28Send a text I love puzzles, be it crossword puzzles, jigsaw puzzles or the puzzle that is learning or analysing another language. My PhD thesis, for example, is a grammatical…
- Linguistic relativity: thinking differently in Chinese · 14 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 27Send a text I’m always amazed by how similar the languages of the world are when I’m learning a new language. Languages are able to express the same concepts, often in strikingly…
- Speaking Chinese in China: the real deal! · 18 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 26Send a text In this episode I’m talking about traveling to China for the first time and using my newly acquired language in the real world. Wherever I travel, I like to be able…
- Researching Chinese · 22 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 25Send a text Learning Chinese gave me a new understanding of language acquisition, and a new direction for my research. By going through the process myself, I experienced the…
- Language immersion and conforming in another language · 26 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 24Send a text In this episode I reflect on my immersive learning approach, surrounding myself by the language and using the language in a lot of different environments. Immersion…
- Language attrition: the other side of the coin · 17 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 23Send a text When looking at language acquisition and learning, we rarely consider the other side of the coin: language attrition. This means a language is disappearing, the…
- How much Chinese did I learn in a year? · 16 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 22Send a text During the first few months of learning Chinese, I wanted to turn my learning into an experiment: how much Chinese would I be able to learn in a year? This motivated…
- Artificial intelligence for language learners · 13 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 21Send a text A hot topic in second language learning and teaching circles, artificial intelligence proved to be a game-changer for my learning of Chinese. I suddenly had that…
- Accent and dialect · 19 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 20Send a text In this episode I’m looking at accent and dialect. Many learners have a distinct foreign accent. Is that inevitable, or are their ways to work on your accent (and if…
- Free-styling it · 12 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 19Send a text My spoken Chinese was getting more and more ‘fluent’, in that I could have uninterrupted conversations in real life, using my online conversation lessons with…
- Working with Chinese teachers · 16 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 18Send a text This episode is about me, finally, finding teachers to Chinese. At first I was learning in a vacuum at home, building confidence in understanding the language, but…
- Finding Chinese speakers · 17 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 17Send a text In this episode I’m finally taking the plunge, looking for more speakers of Chinese to talk to. I’m considering tandem language exchange programmes and finding…
- What does 'fluent' mean? · 14 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 16Send a text Would I ever be able to speak Chinese fluently, and what would that mean? I had reached a stage where I was starting to speak more coherently, but on some days it…
- Revision time and starting to speak 'for real' · 25 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 15Send a text In this episode I explain how I initially learnt and revised vocabulary, and how I prepared for the next stage of my learning journey: speaking for real. Well, I had…
- Intermediate Chinese: all those wonderful tools! · 38 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 14Send a text In this episode I explore how I honed my different Chinese language skills: understanding, speaking, reading and writing. I look at all those wonderful tools, most of…
- HSK: to test or not? · 23 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 13Send a text In this episode I'm looking at language tests and certificates. Would that be a goal for me, and which test should I aim for? Would preparing for a test really…
- How do you write a text message in Chinese? · 21 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 12Send a text How do you even write Chinese text messages when you don't have a keyboard with 5000 or more characters? In this episode I look at ways in which Chinese is used…
- The Chinese writing system · 14 min · Säsong 1 Avsnitt 11Send a text In this episode I'm looking at the history of the Chinese writing system and why it is so successful that it is still used today. In my own learning, once I knew…
