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Thats possible, but some people do learn languages a lot faster than other. Kato Lomb for example. That guy is also a polygloth, so I'm sure he would learn fas

by merrua 13y ago

Thats possible, but some people do learn languages a lot faster than other. Kato Lomb for example. That guy is also a polygloth, so I'm sure he would learn faster than I would (or another random person).

aussie_mate 13y ago
it's true that some people learn faster then others and that some people can understand notions and ideas that no one else can (at last not as quickly) but there is no way in hell.....i repeat NO WAY IN HELL that one can have a conversation in polish after studying the language for 1 hour (regardless of how bad their pronunciation or choice of vocabulary is). take it from a polish native who is also a polyglot. i guess some people like to believe scams like these and would be quite happy to also accept the fact that you can become a millionaire in 3 months if you only follow my technique etc. or you can learn how to advance your stock market analysis skills if you only try hard enough/have a knack for it/follow me blindly etc. put it that way......if it's so easy, how come nearly every school in the world offers some sort of foreign language curriculum yet after years of studying the given language 99.9% of students will not remember anything past counting to 10 and 'how r u'-type phrases? seeing is believing but not in this case. good luck learning.....i suggest starting with polish :)
- petriw 13y ago
  Based on language classes I've taken very few students have decent study methods and the teaching methods are very archaic. The pace kept is glacial.
- bigd 13y ago
  If polish is going to be his 13th language and he has already strong bases in russian and eu languages, I don't see why it should be impossible. Keep in mind that is not true that is one hour. Is all his life learning other languages that is applied here. (there's a famous quote among artists about this that i cannot remember right now...) Anyway my point is, that you are able to pick up CoffeeScript in one hour if you are fluent in javascript and python, aren't you?
- Dewie 13y ago
  > if it's so easy, how come nearly every school in the world offers some sort of foreign language curriculum yet after years of studying the given language 99.9% of students will not remember anything past counting to 10 and 'how r u'-type phrases? seeing is believing but not in this case. How many of them really have the incentive to be efficient? Maybe as long as the students are learning something, that is enough. I can't imagine that a large swath of Germans are going to form a protest ten years after graduation and proclaim that "my subpar Italian ruined my life", or something like that. English has been very useful for me, but I feel like I've learned most of it from the Web, video games, movies, other pop culture ... it's hard to tell how important it was at this point, though. Most teaching is variations on "throw information at your senses until something sticks", and the input is reading, doing exercises, discussing. There's nothing about specific mnemonic techniques, just read it and hope that you recall it. In elementary school, they told us to remember 50 English words by trying to write them down and reading them, reading them and then trying to recall them, rinse and repeat. This technique is laughably inefficient compared to trying to associate the words with something, like associating things that the word sounds like or remind you of, perhaps in your own language.

by merrua 13y ago

aussie_mate 13y ago

it's true that some people learn faster then others and that some people can understand notions and ideas that no one else can (at last not as quickly) but there is no way in hell.....i repeat NO WAY IN HELL that one can have a conversation in polish after studying the language for 1 hour (regardless of how bad their pronunciation or choice of vocabulary is). take it from a polish native who is also a polyglot. i guess some people like to believe scams like these and would be quite happy to also accept the fact that you can become a millionaire in 3 months if you only follow my technique etc. or you can learn how to advance your stock market analysis skills if you only try hard enough/have a knack for it/follow me blindly etc. put it that way......if it's so easy, how come nearly every school in the world offers some sort of foreign language curriculum yet after years of studying the given language 99.9% of students will not remember anything past counting to 10 and 'how r u'-type phrases? seeing is believing but not in this case. good luck learning.....i suggest starting with polish :)

petriw 13y ago
Based on language classes I've taken very few students have decent study methods and the teaching methods are very archaic. The pace kept is glacial.
bigd 13y ago
If polish is going to be his 13th language and he has already strong bases in russian and eu languages, I don't see why it should be impossible. Keep in mind that is not true that is one hour. Is all his life learning other languages that is applied here. (there's a famous quote among artists about this that i cannot remember right now...) Anyway my point is, that you are able to pick up CoffeeScript in one hour if you are fluent in javascript and python, aren't you?
Dewie 13y ago
> if it's so easy, how come nearly every school in the world offers some sort of foreign language curriculum yet after years of studying the given language 99.9% of students will not remember anything past counting to 10 and 'how r u'-type phrases? seeing is believing but not in this case. How many of them really have the incentive to be efficient? Maybe as long as the students are learning something, that is enough. I can't imagine that a large swath of Germans are going to form a protest ten years after graduation and proclaim that "my subpar Italian ruined my life", or something like that. English has been very useful for me, but I feel like I've learned most of it from the Web, video games, movies, other pop culture ... it's hard to tell how important it was at this point, though. Most teaching is variations on "throw information at your senses until something sticks", and the input is reading, doing exercises, discussing. There's nothing about specific mnemonic techniques, just read it and hope that you recall it. In elementary school, they told us to remember 50 English words by trying to write them down and reading them, reading them and then trying to recall them, rinse and repeat. This technique is laughably inefficient compared to trying to associate the words with something, like associating things that the word sounds like or remind you of, perhaps in your own language.