http://l2mastery.com/blog/shownotes/interview-with-steve-kaufmann/ How to Learn Japanese the Fun Way with John Fotheringham Tue, 22 Aug 2017 17:59:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.1 http://l2mastery.com/blog/shownotes/interview-with-steve-kaufmann/#comment-7984 Thu, 23 Jul 2015 23:59:58 +0000 http://l2mastery.com/?p=141#comment-7984 […] Kaufmann, founder of LingQ.com, explains in this interview with John Forthingham of I2mastery.com, that he spent time in Hong Kong in the late 60s where […]

]]> http://l2mastery.com/blog/shownotes/interview-with-steve-kaufmann/#comment-7705 Sat, 13 Dec 2014 03:17:00 +0000 http://l2mastery.com/?p=141#comment-7705 Thank you, Roni. I have two new interviews coming up very soon, and many more planned for the future. Stay tuned!

]]> http://l2mastery.com/blog/shownotes/interview-with-steve-kaufmann/#comment-4604 Thu, 02 Jan 2014 07:50:00 +0000 http://l2mastery.com/?p=141#comment-4604 Thank you for your comment and glad you enjoyed the interview. Steve definitely knows his stuff and I’ve really enjoyed my conversations with him over the past few years. You are quite right that the Mandarin sounds xue, xie, zhi, chu, re, and ri can prove challenging for learners of the language, but I think Steve’s point was that (aside from those just mentioned) the language presents few new sounds for native speakers of English. Native speakers of Japanese, for example, have a far more formidable task when learning English or Mandarin considering how few sounds they have to draw on in their native tongue.

]]> http://l2mastery.com/blog/shownotes/interview-with-steve-kaufmann/#comment-4603 Wed, 01 Jan 2014 10:23:00 +0000 http://l2mastery.com/?p=141#comment-4603 Steve definitely makes a lot of sense. His emphasis on the importance of having interesting learning material is spot on as is his comment about the teacher’s job being to fire up the students so that they will go away and learn the material themselves. I am not sure about his comment that the sounds of Mandarin are easy. For example the sounds ” xue, xie, zhi,chu,re,ri” are seldom pronounced well by foreigners. Perhaps he means that a foreigner can approximate these sounds and that’s all that is required. Anyway a very good interview of a very accomplished linguist.

]]> http://l2mastery.com/blog/shownotes/interview-with-steve-kaufmann/#comment-1455 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:51:38 +0000 http://l2mastery.com/?p=141#comment-1455 Thank you, Roni. I have two new interviews coming up very soon, and many more planned for the future. Stay tuned!

]]> http://l2mastery.com/blog/shownotes/interview-with-steve-kaufmann/#comment-1454 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 15:29:24 +0000 http://l2mastery.com/?p=141#comment-1454 Great interview! Truly looking forward to more interviews in the future.

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