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DLI Language Courses.avi ProfASAr 624 views 1 day ago Alexander Arguelles presents a series of video reviews and demonstrations of those foreign language learning series that he has found most useful in his own studies. For fu...
On the Difficulty of Learning Foreign Languages.avi ProfASAr 3,320 views 3 weeks ago Alexander Arguelles discusses some root causes that explain why most normal foreign language learners experience the task as difficult while polyglots experience it as plea...
The Study of Polyglottery.avi ProfASAr 6,745 views 2 months ago Alexander Arguelles discusses the study of polyglottery in light of Michael Erard's book: Babel No More - The Search for the World's Most Extraordinary Language Learners.
Moving from Intermediate Toward Advanced.avi ProfASAr 16,098 views 6 months ago Alexander Arguelles presents discusses steps and techniques for moving past the intermediate stage of foreign language learning toward higher levels of mastery.
Selecting Appropriate Texts for Expanding Vocabulary Range Through Extensive Reading ProfASAr 6,171 views 7 months ago Alexander Arguelles presents the 2nd part of a 2-part lecture on the practice of extensive reading as a means of acquiring an extensive vocabulary of the range of low-frequ...
Extensive Reading and Vocabulary Range ProfASAr 7,058 views 7 months ago Alexander Arguelles presents the 1st part of a 2-part lecture on the practice of extensive reading as a means of acquiring an extensive vocabulary of the range of low-frequ...
Alexander Arguelles Rainforest Interview ProfASAr 8,566 views 8 months ago An informal interview conducted on a bench in the rainforest section of the Singapore Botanical Gardens. The first third consists of general questions about language learn...
Time Management ProfASAr 19,420 views 1 year ago Alexander Arguelles presents a series of "Lectures on Language Learning." For more information about foreign language study, please refer to http://foreignlanguageexperti...
Motivation & Self Discipline ProfASAr 17,160 views 1 year ago Alexander Arguelles presents a series of "Lectures on Language Learning." For more information about foreign language study, please refer to http://foreignlanguageexperti...
Success in Foreign Language Learning.avi ProfASAr 15,132 views 1 year ago Alexander Arguelles presents a series of "Lectures on Language Learning." For more information about foreign language study, please refer to http://foreignlanguageexperti...

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http://foreignlanguageexpertise.com/

foreignlanguageexpertise.com

by ProfASAr

Latest Activity

Apr 9, 2012

Date Joined

Mar 9, 2008

About this user

The purpose of this channel is to share my love of learning languages with others because I want to inspire and encourage them to study foreign languages. I also seek to share my knowledge and experience in studying so as to facilitate their task.

Over the course of my life I have studied scores of languages to various degrees of depth and proficiency. I was taught a portion of them in classes while receiving my own education, but I have learned the bulk of them by studying on my own.

I have taught languages, language learning, linguistics, and literature as a university professor in five different areas of the globe over the past fifteen years, and in my current position I am responsible for training teacher-trainers in effective language teaching strategies and methods.

My overall experience has been that it is extraordinarily difficult to integrate efficient language learning into the structure of most existing educational programs.

Thus, my long-term goal is to develop a new kind of intensive institute for foreign language study, an institute where the main focus would not be on teaching languages to students, but rather on teaching students how to teach themselves languages.

My own primary motivation for learning languages is to develop the ability to read classic texts in their original tongue of composition, and I ultimately aspire to found the interdisciplinary academic discipline of poly-literacy, which, simply put, is comparative philology wedded to great books education.

If you would like to read more about my ideas, please visit my website: foreignlanguageexpertise.com

I truly appreciate the interest that is shown when people write me letters, but please understand that I receive so many requests for advice about language learning that I cannot possibly answer them all.

Country

United States

Occupation

Professor, Language Specialist

Companies

SEAMEO RELC

Schools

Columbia University, The University of Chicago, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Handong University - Korea, American University of Science & Technology - Lebanon, New College of California, Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Regional Language Centre - Singapore

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