How to learn a completely unfamiliar language: my first steps in Punjabi

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  Hi there.

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  Today I want to talk again about starting from scratch.

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  A couple of weeks ago, I spoke a bit about the theory of starting a language from scratch,

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  the importance of creating a base of things that we can use as reference to infer how the language performs to make it easier for us to understand,

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  to learn.

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  But today I'm not going to do theory.

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  I'm going to show you practically how I start a new language.

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  Language learning is a process of moving from the unfamiliar to the familiar.

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  Now, if you are learning a somewhat related language,

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  related to a language you already know, things are already a little familiar.

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  If I go from one Slavic language to another, or one Romance language to another,

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  or one Asian language that I know to another, there's an element of things there that are familiar.

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  But today I'm going to talk about Punjabi.

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  I'm going to talk about a language that is extremely unfamiliar to me.

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  The writing system is unfamiliar.

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  There are some loan words from Persian, some words that relate to other Indo-European languages.

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  For example, in so far as Persian is concerned, Punj, Punjabi, Punj is five, five rivers, Punj.

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  So that relates to Punjabi or to relates Persian to Punjabi, but predominantly it's unfamiliar.

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  So what do we do?

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  Stephen Krashen has put forward his theory of language acquisition, which I basically agree with.

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