An Interview in 3 Languages with Polyglot Chris Lonsdale:What is Brain-Soaking 两文三语采访语言专家：到底如何学好一门语言

很有用 谢谢

Your Cantonese is pretty decent actually. It's a lot better than many other Mandarin native speakers for sure.

天哪，服了真是

Excellent

Hi there, don’t know if you still read the comments. Like to know if you live in Shenzhen, I’m desperately looking for polyglots to meet and do some exchange. 虽然我不会像你这么多语言，但是希望能像你学习一些。

This is so great! Thanks

“我是一个地球人，四海为家”
好羡慕这种生活方式

This channel is the most helpful channel ever. I am so happy to be able to know your researches and education. Thank you for sharing these things with us 🖤

both are impressive!

This is a game changer brow thank you so much um abraço do Brazil meu irmão Força no estudo do português, para você que gosta de história pesquisa sobre a participação brasileira na segunda Guerra mundial tem várias histórias emocionantes, e escuta a música do sabaton Somoking snakes você vai amar obrigado

Hi, I always wonder how can I stay in the country for a long time just for traveling, learning the language when the visa due date is the problem?

你太厉害了，我只会德英两门外语，感觉精力已经不够了

不愧是语言学家

A more precise translation to his view of learning Cantonese: Learning Cantonese is not difficult AT ALL after grasping Manderin Chinese, where it just has A LITTLE BIT difference in tones and some words picking in specific phrasing. I typed this is to say Cantonese is just a regular dialect; unlike some shallow claim in the internet, it's NOT another language.

龙飞虎的广东话更接近普通话：) 我闭着眼可以听懂。

This is good Mandarin, but not 'native level' as he claims. Some of his tones in some parts are flattish, and some parts are spoken perfectly, which makes me think he rehearsed likely questions.

I want to know more about the direct connect theory... but thank for this vid

yeah i agreed with Mr.Lonsdale, I had English listening test back then, I thought that the recording of the audio was bad lol. Until i changed the way i think, because when I listen to Mandarin radio or tv , even the audio is bad I can still get the meaning and know the words. It was me that is bad

i had a lot inputs but I never speak in English because I always i think I cant. But this video really help after listening to him!

Amazing!

Those are very useful techniques! Thank you for sharing!

May i know where we can purchase Chris's book??

Why he had to say hes from earth isnt that obvious

You look like Gabe from Life is Strange True Colors

Mandarin, very hard to learn

Chris Longdale is a kiwi, from Palmerston North of all places!

Great content. Thanks!

Honestly I am so grateful to have found this video because I've been doing that sort of brain soak thing for years and championing its use as a good language learning tool, and seeing literally no one else til now talking about it made me wonder if I was just trying to get people to do something that only worked for me. Nice to know it's an actual thing that someone way more skilled than me at languages has tested and found through study is generally effective.

能分享下你自学西班牙语的经验吗？我要开始自学西语

Can't believe this doesn't have more views. What an amazing resource for language learners, especially those for disparate languages such as English and Mandarin.

This is such an amazing channel for language learners.

太感谢了，我终于明白了，什么时候才能开口说外语！

Language is a labeling system that allows humans to label their experiences and share their experiences with others via these labels. 第一次听说，但是很有道理。

称自己为某某家就不恰当，这是错误用法

Your English is remarkable. You speak more eloquently than many native speakers. Greetings from the United States. Thank you for sharing! :)

龍飛虎名字好帥！

OMGGGGGGGGGGGG

龙飞虎先生最后说的那个方法，是我妈妈年轻时学上海话的方法，也是我自己在用的。我的brain soaking是每天在去学校和回家的路上听BBC news。不管听得懂听不懂，反正就一直听着。然后我去读小朋友的图画书（虽然我那个时候已经是中学生），那些英文句子看多了，自己就会copy说和写。现在我学荷兰文同样道理，我觉得每次能很地道得说一句话后，比如je heb herlijk 会很有motivation继续学。

你们两位的中文名都很有武侠风呀😂

hi phoenix! i'm very curious about你的正式工作是什么!? PLEEEASE I'M DYING TO KNOW

It is so obvious in just a 21 minute interview that this man is extremely intelligent.

Very interesting video to watch. His philosophy to learning languages is so spot on.

You are a Bit Similar to Namjoon of BTS

我现在就在可以听懂很多，但不会说的阶段。最后一段太有帮助了！马上练起来！谢谢❤！

❤

his laugh tone is english hahaha

He claims to speak native level Chinese. Any real Chinese can confirm/deny this?