Hi guys
If you want to learn a language without killing yourselves stay with me
This is actually a re-recording
of the webinar, because we had some technical issues, and
we made an even better recording, we will cover even more content here
So before we get started,
let me introduce myself shortly. My name is Stephan, I am an austrian-korean living in Vienna,
and working as a researcher PHD candidate at the department for East-asian studies at the university of Vienna
Exactly one year ago I founded the Uncon school and how to becomeaprofessor.com
in which I interview proven professors and experts on accelerated learning.
So much my person, but now it is time to introduce you
to our teacher and coach Luca Lampariello.
Luca is an italian polyglot from Rome who speaks 12 languages
and has become a well-known personality within the language community,
not only for his incredible language skills but also for his capacity of transmitting his knowledge and expertise
on how to learn a language more efficiently.
So, welcome Luca!
Hi Stephan, thanks for the lovely presentation!
Long time no see!
Allright,so this is the agenda for today's recording of the webinar,
during the first 30 minutes Luca is going to provide actionable content on following topics such as
how to learn a language in your limited spare time
Secondly, hope to stick to a painless and efficient learning routine
and thirdly learning a language from scratch.
After the 30 minutes, in the second half of the webinar, we will answer your questions that came up during the webinar
These are:
How to learn more than one language at the same time,
how to learn vocabulary,
how to learn asian languages, specifically
Chinese and Japanese,
and how to improve your confidence in speaking,
and lastly, how to use your textbooks and other
language learning resources in the most efficient manner.
At the end of this session - it is very important - we will make a special announcement,
it will be very interesting to you, so stay with us until the end, it is very well worth it.
Allright, Luca, are you ready?
Yeah, I am ready
Allright, ok. To warm you up a little bit, please share
your story, how you were able to
become functionally fluent in 12 languages?
Ehm, I started learning languages at the age of 10, when I was in middle school
I started learning English and French, but I have to say that
I didn't learn that much at school, because
as many other school systems, the italian school sysstem is not very efficient
as far as language learning is concerned,
so what happened is that at the age of 12 my parents decided to hire a private tutor,
she is american, and I started learning American English with her by taking private lessons.
At the same time I kept learning French at school, I was watching a lot of television.
But it was only at the age of 15 that I actually found the way, or "my way" to learn languages.
And when I tried to tackle German, at the beginning it was a little bit difficult.
You know, German is not an easy language, especially for us Italians grammar is pretty complicated etc.
So what I did, I got hold of a dusty old grammar book that my grandma had, and I tried to learn Grammar.
So I started with this grammar approach, but I very soon just figured it didn't work
so I started using a course that is called De Agostini
and I finally started to apply it to use it in a suitable way for me.
I started learning quickly, and I realized that learning
a language by yourself can actually be much faster than
learning a language in institutions and schools.
After that, I figured out a way to work with languages and to work on languages.
I learned Spanish the Dutch, Swedish, Russian, etc etc.
And I decided to learn one language every 2 years
because I think that when people talk about
learning languages, maintaining languages is also very important.
So in the course of time this turned out to be a very sound strategy,
to keep learning but at the same time maintaining the knowledge and the languages that I was accumulating and learning
in the course of time, and here i am