🗒️ Summary: Lessons from a teenage polyglot | Tim Doner | TEDxTeen

Source: Lessons from a teenage polyglot | Tim Doner | TEDxTeen
By Luis Francisco Montero Hernández @luisframontero

• At the age of 16, Tim Doner was labeled the world’s youngest polyglot in the world by the Huffington Post.

• Tim Doner was a teenager fluent in more than 6 languages.

• Tim now is a graduated from Hardvard and Cambridge.

• A multilingual education is more than just vocabulary, it is a vessel to better connect and understand broader histories and cultures.

• Its about passion for learning foregin languages.

• The hobby of learning language can put you in contact with people all around the world.

• Is not only learn a language, but learn about a new culture.

• It is about just learn a language for the fun of it learning.

• It is about learning how to communicate with people, learning about foreign cultures.

• The trick is learning a foreign language as funniest as possible, even interactive with native speakers.

• It is easier and funnier learn a foreign language when you do it in a community that gives you support.

• If you experiment with mnemonic techniques for learning new languages made the experience more interactive, funnier and easer.

• It is more about playing to learn a new language than simple learn a new language.

• There is a lot of connection between language and culture and language and thought.

• Theres no language that will make you a math genius, there’s no language that’ll make logic problems impossible to understand but is a real tie between language and culture there’s so much language can tell you about culture’s mindset.

• Language in essence represents a cultural world view.

• You can translate words easy, but you can’t translate meaning.