A recap I made for myself: Material needed: - magazines with lot of pictures (20% of acquiring) - children stories (80% of acquiring) - paper and pencil - props Rules: 1. speak in the target language only, other languages not allowed (5-10% tolerance) 2. no grammar explanations (5 seconds tolerance) 3. no corrections. You will eventually get it right after ~40 repetitions First learn how to say in the target language: - yes - no - what's this? - it's not important Begin your language exchange using magazine and talking about the pictures. If you don't understand something, try drawing, using gestures, props, pointing to things, etc. When you have enough understanding of the language, you can begin your exhanges with TPR: your partner will give you commands that you will try to accomplish, i.e.: write, read, study, yell, cry, swim, watch TV, explore the internet, touch the table, touch your nose, touch your eyebrows... When you acquire 500/1000 words you can move on to children stories. Final thoughts: if you make a wordlist, make drawings to explain the meanings and try to stay away from translations.

Great content, but I am a bit distracted by the music which is competing with your voice. Criticism with the best of intentions. Cheers.

this is a great video to send your prospective language exchange partners until you find the ones who react with "we should totally do that".

Can you please post as many full language exchanges as you can, it would help us all a lot.

This is fantastic. You sir are a genius.

This is inspirational! I downloaded Hello Talk and did a Language exchange on my phone yesterday. I posted an ad on Craigslist on Sunday. Next, I am going to try to find someone from an ESL class.

this is very important shift in language learning= the new era of LANGUAGE AQUISITION!! Luv this guy!!

I always thought language exchange doesn't work. I am in China and I feel that Chinese people always try to speak English with me, not giving me a chance to acquire Chinese. So I never did the language exchange thing. This video shows how to do it the right way. Amazing. Will definitely give it a try now! Thanks for the video!

Great follow up on your "How to Acquire Any Language." Just what I wanted. Thanks.

Jeff thank you for this enlightening information about acquiring a language instead of learning it. Prior to watching your videos I have been trying to learn French using a Linguaphone course which is just drill, drill and grammar, grammar. This has just about driven me up the wall. Your advice is a lifesaver to me as I was close to throwing in the towel.

I knew it was important to structure language exchanges so that one language doesn't dominate/so that you don't have the same conversation multiple times but I could never really imagine how. Thank you for the suggestions! (:

I had given up on ever learning another language. Your videos have given me a fresh motivation to do it!

I am soooooo happy that i found your videos!!! Soooo useful! Can’t wait for more!

This is so helpful! Can you please post more of your full length language exchanges, unedited? Especially for the beginner level - "your first language exchange" that sort of thing! thank you!

Thank you! I'm so glad I came across your videos. I've noticed that my 12mo grandson has started mimicking most of my Japanese phrases I use to talk to him when it's my turn to mind him for the day. So cute! *I Will Not Correct Him*, thanks to your video. We will enjoy and just have fun! Hopefully he will ACQUIRE Japanese, or maybe not! (I am going to try German with this method)

Today my mother told me that she is going to bring me down from my sister's house the children stories books she used to teach my nephew and niece during their Homeschooling years. I'm so happy!!.

Excellent demonstration of acquiring language, Prof. Brown. After watching your How to Acquire a Language video, I was wondering how I am going to explain this to my language partner, and how I am going to acquire language. This video demonstrated that in an amazing way. Thanks a lot Prof. Brown

This is fantastic! Would you please post a full session? I found your videos so inspiring, I'm full of enthusiasm to start learning Korean now Thank you !

OH MY GOODNESS, THIS IS SOOO EXCITING!!. And I don't have Korean in my language goals yet!. LOVE THIS!!!

You have given me a lot of hope. I am wanting to learn (old way of thinking) acquire a new language later in life and I was having doubts. This is a fabulous idea. Thanks. Gavin

The girl is loving, haha. I am Chinese and now I am acquiring English and French. Thanks for your videos, they are pretty awesome and make me believe I have the might.

Your videos have COMPLETELY opened my eyes to the possibilities of language learning!!!! I can't thank you enough for this :)) I am learning Korean but I don't want to just be able to pass a school test, I want to be able to effectively communicate in the language and this is exactly what I've been needing! I do have one question though: Is it effective, or even possible, to apply this method to a language I've been learning in school for a long time? I've been studying Spanish for about 5 years now and have a good understanding of grammar with a pretty big vocabulary, but because it's been in a classroom mostly focused on reading and grammar drills, I still struggle to speak with native speakers and to communicate naturally. I would love to improve my Spanish this way too! Any thoughts?

Amazing. Added to my favourites. I hope I will be able to come back to this video for reference for years to come. Stellar content, thank you for sharing!

Agree about pictures on Flash Cards, I've found myself starting to do that and you have reinforced it for me!

Thank you SO MUCH. This really confirms my ideas on acquiring a language. I am acquiring Tagalog and Cebuano here in the Philippines. Such a thrill!

Oh, wow, I was in luck! Korean exchange!!! She is a great teacher! I'm going to try to do this with my students this week on Zoom! It won't be the best setting but still its' better than nothing. Thank you!

I love the videos of Jeff Brown, his enthusiasm is communicative! I've been sharing the "How to acquire any language?" video with dozen of my students to introduce them to my teaching method & comprehensible input. This said, Quinny is an amazing language partner ;)

Aaaaabsolutely on point! Bravo, duuude!

Thank you so much for sharing this!!

It's geniously!!!! Thank you a lot for sharing that with us!!!!

Excellent video, thank you for the detailed information. Do you have perhaps a list of your favorite children books? That would be great.

I'm going to have one of my Chinese friends make a visit to the bookstore with me and pick up some books. Can't wait to do this with Chinese and Japanese. I'm no beginner in these languages so I think I'll really take off doing this regularly.

Please document your journey more!

Thank you sooo much for demonstrating the process! This was amazing!

Great info. outstanding.

Absolutely fascinating video! And you have some of my favorite children’s stories. 😂 We love The Berenstain Bears and PD Eastman. I’m so excited to implement this method! 😍

I'm korean she did a great job

Great videos for learning english

Woah this is totally amazing! I'm learning korean and I just bumped into this video hahaha I'm super grateful and really schocked! you have opened my mind. If there's someone here that speaks korean and would like to practise english and or spanish; talk to me!

Я в восхищении! Браво! Я преподаю немецкий беженцам,но традиционным методом, но нозчу попробовать преподавать с помощью compehensibel input. И я хочу выучить испанский с нуля с помощью этого метода. Спасибо. Могу обменяться языками: русский(родной), немецкий (С2) на испанский, итальянский, английский. Всем удачи!

Such a good video!! Thanks for posting the actual exchange with books and magazines. My 4-year-old daughter was watching with me and immediately noticed The Best Nest (bird book). One of our fav PD Eastman books.

Muchas Gracias Profesor Jeff . La mejor instrucción para poder aplicar el enfoque natural de adquisicion de Idiomas. Ya lo estoy aplicando con mis estudiantes de español en Italki. ! Nuevamente gracias Profesor Jeff !

Thank you so much for your videos. You have given me the confidence to go ahead and learn the language of my partner’s family, Dutch. I am so excited to learn in the same way children do👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Greeting from China, thanks profe

This dude is so sweet and the method is great! I love this video!

This is GOLD. Thank you sir

Superrrrrr!!! I love your method of teaching!!!! I am going to try that!!!! Best wishes to you in your work

Jeff thank you so much. This video where you break everything down is so helpful. You should have so much more subscribers compared to all those fake polyglots with their click bate title of how they became fluent in a week. You are the real deal. I hope you make more content in 2022! Thank you again!

Great video

Awesome video and great method!

this is sooo inspiring, Jeff! Thanks so much!

As someone who’s fluent in sign language gestures drive me nuts bc I want them to be the ASL signs lol. Wonderful video!

Hi , your videos are really interesting. I hadn’t come across this method before and I’d like to try it with my own language learning projects. It would be really useful if you could share your command list as I am sure that you have fine tuned it over time.

This was really helpful. Thank you! Couple questions, though. How do you typically set this up over skype/ online? Are the children's stories/ magazines in the target language (I couldn't see, sorry)? Also, this seems like it would help you get a strong grasp on the basics/ set up a foundation in the language. But, how do you acquire the ability to string together sentences more complex than, 'this is a plane', etc? Do you only do straight up comp input? How do you change your daily language study regiment as you progress? What exactly do you do from novice to 'fluent'?

Hi! I just found your channel and it's so great! Please make more videos! I would love to see more about your learning journey! I would also like to suggest you to not add background music while the conversation is happening as it interferes and it makes it difficult to focus. :D but anyways it was awesome.. i'm so looking forward to trying this method! Thank you for sharing!

She was REALLY good.

This is a great summary detailing the nuts and bolts of how to do language exchange. I think it's the only one I have seen detailing the process within a session. Agree with the others that the music is obtrusive but otherwise, an excellent video. Thanks for making it and sharing.

Thanks! Very useful! Going to try this out!

Hi Jeff, thanks for posting. Cheers scott.

That laugh track got me to laugh subconsciously after about 40 repetitions. xD Seriously though, this is a great walkthrough on the power of language exchange through immersive comprehensive input!

She did great!

In your Arabic video you said, "Always start with clothing and color." But in this one you started with a road and cars. How come? Also it is more effective to start with clothing and color what are the next more effective subjects? I.e. numbers, food, body parts, buildings, etc. Thanks, Dr. Learning a lot for my EFL students 😉

damn just looking at these recordings is a pretty awesome way to get comprehensible input. I'm a bit too shy to get an actual language exchange.

I love Korean. It's such a cute sounding language.

that was a great example. I just realized that Duolingo's grammar is learned similarly to the repetition that Queenie (spelling?) did for you, but the difference is that the sentences are translated to English as you move to the next phrase or sentence

Great stuff!

Hello Professor. This example of learning Korean is very helpful. Could we get more examples like this for learning Chinese please? And what should we do once you reach the level where you can converse in language? How should we learn grammar, and etc?

你讲的非常好，对我很有帮助，谢谢你!

Some excellent ideas for language exchange. Just a pity that when she starts speaking Korean the background music started. But I get the idea.

Going to try a language exchange with my partner using this method in a few hours. I'm super excited. I've done language exchange before but I always get stuck on 'What should I talk about since I don't know how to say anything?' Thanks so much for making this video!

I am learning Japanese at the moment. This is sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo helpful and soo effective Thank You!!

You are so great man I have to try this just don’t know where to start

Bol Şans! You are the best sir!

This method will be great for intermediate speakers.

Thanks from Egypt:)

After viewing this video and the other one about how to acquire a language, I signed up for a language exchange here in Dubai. I'm married to a native French speaker and we've been together for 13 years, but trying to learn from her is challenging. I do speak a few words and phrases, but usually don't understand anything people say in French. I've tried all the online courses, apps and videos, but it just doesn't stick. I'm hoping this will finally get me there. Thanks for the awesome inspiration. Any chance you could share a list of your favorite commands in English?

So helpful! Thanks a lot :)

I find very usefull, but at least for korean I think it’s a good thing to learn the basics of Hangul, because it’s very simple, you can learn it in less than an hour, and even for this method I find it very usefull because you can learn easily the pronunciation, ( maybe Chinese or Japanese doesn’t make sense, they have a lot of characters)

This man is my hero

I'm trying to learn English with your great method. I hope to learn this beautiful language and many languages.

Thank you for these fantastic videos! I'm studying to become an ESL teacher (already a volunteer) and I've noticed that drawing is so helpful for getting concepts across. It adds humor and spontaneity as well, while avoiding verbal translation. Would you 1) consider doing a video showing how you use drawing/sketching/cartooning or 2) can you suggest any other sources for this? I've searched without success, which surprises me, since becoming an agile cartoonist (nothing fancy, just quick) seems like a great skill to add to language teaching and learning. Any academic or non-academic sources to recommend?

again a great example how you show how to use TPRS. I have a question. How would one do this with an online teacher or language exchange partner such as on Italki? Should the student or teacher share their screen? And for children stories, could online comic books in the target language also be used?? When is approximately the right time to actually start having conversations?

This video is great because it shows you how. The internet and KZfaq are full of explanations about comprehensible input, but when you know 0.00% of your target language it's hard to figure out how to get it. Surely there might be other ways beyond this one in the video, but here this method is SHOWN and this gives something to hold on to when planning from that 0.00% starting point. Incredibly useful content (it still seems hard to acquire the language in this way, seen from the outside - but I guess this is how it goes). I'm just upset that I got to discover these approaches now in times of social distancing.

thank you so much... I started doing exchanges like you recommened and my first session went awesome..

Awesome! Чудово!

This is great! Is it possible for you to give us an example TPR lists?

Thx you Professor, you're awesome 👍🏻

It would be cool to have a video made for a particular language that explains the process and rules. If two people wanted to learn each other’s language, but don’t speak any of the language they want to acquire, if both people had the rules and understand the process, could they learn the language?

Thanks so much for sharing this content! You should get a lot of credit for not asking for anything in return, no hard sells on a course or something, just seems you want to help people. Do you have advice for people not starting from scratch to move to this approach? Sort of B1 level. There are probably a lot of people like me who have struggled for a long time on the old style and made some progress but do not feel close to fluent.

What an interesting method to learning a language. I'd love to try it and learn Japanese :D

thx a lot poly glot guy u help me a lot, you are a example to follow

Could you publish the list of verbs you usually use?

I'd like to see the result of the acquisition of the Korean language. Can you upload some videos of it, if possible?

Looks great! What kind of CEFR does this get you to? I'm wondering how you continue learning once you get to B1 or B2 level for example? And what is the level achievable with childrens stories and magazines?

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS 😍😍😍

this video is so helpful

Hi Jeff, thanks for such a great and informative video ☺️ I am currently acquiring Japanese language but due to COVID, I am doing this virtually. Do you have any tips on how I can maximise my learnings over Skype? My teacher doesn’t have any magazines or children’s books so should I just print my own pictures off and get my teacher to explain as I point? Thanks so much ☺️

Hi Jeff. Thank you for your videos. How can I use this technique to teach Chinese Students to take the speaking part of the ielts test?

So the “teacher ” makes up the story as they go? They’re describing the picture based on what ever comes to mind in the moment, not necessarily a narrative?

This is a really interesting approach to language learning which until now, have been very boring and tedious to me. At first I was confused on how we were supposed to understand what they're saying by just having them talk to a foreign language, but after seeing it in action I understand it more. Is this an example of Comprehensible input?