Conversations with Tyler / episode intelligence
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17 published records
01 / belief
“Then, 20 years ago, I learned Nahuatl with a friend of mine who lives near Awilizapan (Orizaba) in a village called Rafael Delgado or San Juan del Rio.”
02 / recommendation
“” I’m just mimicking her accent. I really like the way the Scottish English sounds.”
03 / belief
“Tutoring, for someone who cannot go to the country or cannot be immersed, I think will be a very valuable tool, certainly.”
04 / belief
“I agree with that second possibility. There are people that have the capacity, but they just don’t live in a place where they’re exposed to other languages, and they might not participate in active language learning to the degree that I have or that other hyperpolyglots have.”
05 / belief
“In Oaxaca, I think there are — yes, I think that’s about right. Fifteen, yes. When I’m talking about the Mexicans living in Oaxaca that are there — they look at these European languages and they think, “Okay, well, that’s what a real language is.”
06 / belief
“The hardest stain to get out of a carpet, I would say, wood stain, Kool-Aid, dyes.”
07 / belief
“I think a combination of those — memory, the dedication, and the love of language.”
08 / prediction
“There are fewer and fewer speakers every year because the youngsters are not willing, or they’re just — for some reason — sticking to Spanish instead of their own indigenous language, or they’re learning English instead.”
09 / prediction
“If I listened to the songs, if I knew about 50 percent of the vocabulary of a sentence, I could figure out the rest of it.”
10 / preference
“Recently, I was dreaming in Czech. I think I had some Latvian words sprinkled in there.”
11 / commitment
“I would not know how to specifically imitate the accent of Portugal Portuguese because I don’t have enough exposure to it.”
12 / evaluation
“They won’t learn English at all. That’s simply not realistic because we live in a country where English is spoken.”
13 / evaluation
“The Russian friends that I learned from are also very witty, and they enjoy telling jokes all the time.”
14 / preference
“I focus on learning languages, and periodically, I’ll delve into the history of linguistics. One of my favorite books is one that was sent to me by Nijolė Skripskaitė.”
15 / preference
“I do like science fiction as long as it’s not too far-fetched and it’s like, “Come on, this doesn’t make sense,” but certainly fathomable in what goes on in The Thing. And I really like the creepy aspect of it, not knowing that someone’s infected before the person’s infected, that mystery that is like a surprise later.”
16 / evaluation
“I thought that the story was going to concentrate on just me being a polyglot and languages and such. But no, the way the story was told — it was a very pleasant surprise, I would say.”
17 / recommendation
“Not necessarily, because I wasted time in doing other stupid things. I think better words would be, “Stop doing the stupid stuff and focus on this.”