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Richard DeLong - The Quantified Polyglot [RU] - PG 2017

4,363 views · Published 5 December 2017 · 44:24 · Indexed 26 September 2026

Channel: Polyglot Gathering · 2017 · Education

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Your language tutor is probably overloading you. You likely experience a chronic deficit of speaking practice. There aren’t enough native speakers to go around. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages is missing the lowest and highest levels. Achieving and maintaining fluency in language X requires major lifestyle changes. Adding language Z to your arsenal may require giving up language Y. The world is anglifying at a dizzying pace, making it progressively more difficult to learn other languages. These are a few of the hard realizations that come from a numbers-based analysis of the different facets of language learning. But the dark cloud has a silver lining. Quantification also give us clues as to how to maximize our limited resources of time, willpower, brainpower, and access to native speakers. Get ready for plenty of numbers, graphs, and speculation from a seasoned polyglot who decided to “switch” native languages at the age of 19 and has been fighting uphill battles ever since.

This video was recorded at the Polyglot Gathering in Bratislava 2017 (www.polyglotbratislava.com).

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