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Interview with Antonio Graceffo: Linguist, Martial Artist and Prolific Author

Posted by jf in Experts & Thinkers, Featured Articles on May 6th, 2009 | 9 responses

About Antonio:

Antonio speaks numerous languages (French, German, Italian, Khmer, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish and Thai), and has used his language skills to good ends. He has devoted the past 10 years of his life to chronicling martial arts masters around the world in his web TV show Martial Arts Odyssey and has worked tirelessly to fight the atrocities being waged against ethnic minorities in Burma.

On top of all this, Antonio has written an impressive trail of articles and books, including The Monk From Brooklyn: An American At The Shaolin Temple, Adventures in Formosa and Rediscovering the Khmers. (If you’d like to purchase one of his books, click on the links above or one of the covers below. The proceeds go to his grad studies in Thailand; help a brother out!)

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The Interview:

In this exclusive interview with Antonio Graceffo, he “pulls no punches” (pun intended) when sharing his views on how to learn foreign languages and martial arts effectively. His wisdom stems from years spent living abroad coupled with sound theory.

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To learn more about Antonio, visit his site SpeakingAdventure.com or his blog Brooklyn Monk in Asia.

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9 Responses to “Interview with Antonio Graceffo: Linguist, Martial Artist and Prolific Author”

  1. Twitted by jfotheringham says:
    May 6, 2009 at 7:55 pm

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  2. Randy says:
    May 7, 2009 at 3:21 am

    Great ideas Antonio! i think you really are dead on.

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  3. Christophe Clugston says:
    May 8, 2009 at 1:33 pm

    Yeah, you got that spot on (as the Brits say) on the idiots who don't learn the language as that is going to be the ONLY skill you come back with from being the "lap dog" English teacher in the Orient.

    And yeah there are numerous studies to validate the forget curve–even a method called the forget and remember learning style. Pimsleur was famous for this sort of research.

    And yeah physical skills and langauges are the same: they are both PERFORMANCE SKILLS that are perishble.

    Rock on Anthony.

    REgards,

    Christophe Clugston

    http://www.webspawner.com/users/luchador

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