Why I make a terrible language teacher? - Lýdia Machová | PG 2018

At Polyglot Gathering 2016, Lýdia presented her revolutionary experiment of leading university students of languages to actively work on improving their language skills outside of their lessons, simply by not waiting to be taught, but start learning by themselves (   • Language Mentoring: Don't teach me, m...   ). Since then, she’s been applying her methods to hundreds of other people, this time not only students of languages, but basically anyone who wants to get fluent in a language they’ve been learning for some years without success. And the method seems to be working very well. Her way of learning languages requires no talent, no special skills, just a bit of polyglots’ know-how and a good system in one’s learning. Lýdia believes that in this way, almost anyone can turn into a successful autodidact. People who had been struggling with a language even for 20 years, find a way to fall for that language again, spend as much as 10:00 hours a week with the language, and achieve a visible improvement in a few weeks – merely by taking over the responsibility for their own learning. In the talk, she will share how this works in practice.

This is Lydia's talk from Polyglot Gathering 2018. Due to technical issues, the video is released two years later. This means that some of the numbers and data that Lydia presents in the second half of the talk were relevant in 2018. For more info about Lydia's methods, visit https://bit.ly/34SEoyr.


Lýdia Machová is a polyglot and language mentor whose mission in life is to help people learn languages in fun and effective ways. She has learned 9 languages so far, usually adding a new language every two years, and she keeps 7 of them at a fluent level. She believes that everyone can learn a language if they find the right combination of methods and so she created her own profession – that of a language mentor – to help people find their best methods and truly enjoy the language learning journey. Lýdia is a former main organiser of Polyglot Gathering 2017 and 2018, and she has spoken at several other language conferences. Her 10-minute long TED talk has been viewed by more than 7.5 million people.

Do you like Lýdia Machová's way of learning languages? Then you're going to love her webinar that you can watch for free here https://bit.ly/34SEoyr Find out how to learn to speak a foreign language - once and for all!
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This video was recorded at the Polyglot Gathering in Bratislava 2018 ( https://www.polyglotgathering.com/ ).