The past couple of weeks I've been reading about language learning and I've come across some interesting sites.

There are many ways to learn a language and over the past week I've read about people with radically different approaches. Some take a pro-active approach whilst others believe in acquisation that's accompanied by a period of silence. Saying this, most do not believe in learning grammar and memorizing vocab lists.

Interesting Links

Keith's Voice on Extreme Language Learning. Keith is using the TV method to learn Chinese, though he has temporarily stop this as he needs to find a new job in Japan. Besides writing about the TV method, he also has articles on

ALG Thai programme - video of the director of the programme talking about the Thai language programme. This programme is radically different from other learning teaching programmes in that they recommend you do not speak for the first 800 hours. Very interesting.

http://natural-language-acquisition.blogspot.com/2009/07/alg-thai-interview-with-david-long.html

An interview with a Korean ployglot

http://natural-language-acquisition.blogspot.com/2009/06/hyunwoo-sun.html

Benny the Irish ployglot is learning Czech in three months

http://www.fluentin3months.com/

This guy is actually an English Teacher, to many 1,000s of people. His 7 tips are worth signing up for but here he commenting about the ALG Thai programme.

http://effortlessacquisition.blogspot.com/2004/11/comprehension-is-king.html

I haven't read much of this site. It's a mix of language points and NLP. When I have more time I'll go into his site more.

http://stujay.blogspot.com/

This is one I've come across today. It's a free sample. How anyone read the whole book?

http://www.learnthatlanguagenow.com/Learn%20That%20Language%20Now%20SAMPLE.pdf

Other articles by the same guy

http://www.artipot.com/authors/31647/robertson-b-kunz/


I've read many other things as well and hope to put out an article reviewing the sites in more detail. If you are interested in learning languages, these links are definitely worth following.

Leave a comment if you know of other learning sites that you have found interesting or more importantly useful.