That would be awesome Margo!
May I get the English written version to be able to translate the text in French? And may I use WireTap Studio to record it and send it back to LingQ? Do I have a deadline? I don’t want to be stressed working on it! Don’t forget Steve, I am still on sabbatical.
I will get you the script and there is no deadline. Thanks again.
How can you answer so fast? Are not you traveling?? Are you back home? I’m astounded!
I am back Margo and I get an email every time someone posts on the Forums that I follow.
Margo,
Here is the script for the video. Sorry for the delay. If you manage to do a version please put it in my Youtube group.
http://www.youtube.com/group/LingQplaza
For most of history, people have learned each others languages without going to school.
When people from different tribes met, they listened and imitated each other. Our brains are good at figuring out patterns and meaning. That’s how we learn languages.
That’s how we learned our native language as an infant.
Things started to change when writing was invented. Writing made it possible to record what was said. That meant people could now learn languages by reading, as well as listening.
Of course, most people still couldn’t read until governments decided that everyone should go to school, sit in class and read text books. This was a good thing but had one big problem.
Language learning, which used to be a natural, pleasant task, became a boring chore.
Grammar explanations, exercises, drills and tests replaced listening to real, meaningful conversation
Since then we’ve seen courses on tape, cd and cdrom which were more fun than being in class but still taught us the same old way.
Simple drills, grammar explanations, boring dialogues - covering a very small part of the language we want to learn.
The result was that many of us began to dislike learning languages, or became convinced we couldn’t succeed. That’s because our brains haven’t changed. Basically, we still need to listen to a language and imitate it in order to learn it.
Fortunately things are changing fast. We’re headed back to our roots on a global scale.The iPod, the Internet, social networking, mobile computing - these things are exploding how we communicate, and how we learn languages.
We can learn on our own or with friends around the world. We can all be learners and teachers. That’s what you’ll find at LingQ. Give it a try. Your brain will thank you.