Name: 【TEDx】5 techniques to speak any language | Sid Efromovich | TEDxUpperEastSide
Uploaded: 2014-10-22T00:35:53.000Z
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How did you go about learning all these different languages?"

Well, today I'm going to share with you some answers.

I could speak already four different languages.

It's about those 3 years that I want to talk about.

was very different from that of my peers,

strenuous, difficult, seemingly impossible tasks,

but rather something enjoyable, fun, exciting.

why, what was it that made it so special.

in that I did have these four languages that I spoke ahead of time.

that made the language learning process so much easier.

And the reason for this is because our entire lives,

From the moment we were born we're taught

what things we should do, things we shouldn't do,

Well, when it comes to language learning,

-- and for the purpose of this presentation --

all the sounds and structures that we know.

However, there is a whole family of sounds and structures

And for us to be able to embark on those and to be able to explore those,

that will tell us when we're getting the structures right,

nothing to tell us when that sound is precise.

Let's say we're going to explore this one specific sound.

When we say it, we could say it perfectly,

but in our minds, it will sound like a mistake.

So you know that queasy feeling, that we feel that insecure thing,

when we feel like we're making or doing something wrong?

That is the trigger that you need to look for.

Because that is the signal that tells you that you're going beyond your database

and that you're allowing yourself to explore the realm of the new language.

Let me show you how this works in practice.

So let's say, we're going to go and learn the word "door" in Spanish.

So, the word "door" in Spanish is "Puerta."

So, for "Puerta" we've got a few sounds that exist in English.

The rolled "r" does not exist in the English sound database.

to bridge through our database, and to really break through

is that we get the closest relative of it that is within the database,

makes something that sounds like "pue-er-rta,"

so that sounds like "Puerta" can come out.

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