Vladimir Skultety Podcast Vladimir Skultety

Some thoughts on why I feel like learning Mandarin Chinese is difficult and why Brazilian Portuguese is easy and how it all connects to Tribal mentality.

Some thoughts in Italian I wanted to share.

My take on who can be described as a polyglot.

Consider the following scenario: You say a few sentences in a foreign language you just started learning with a heavy accent and native speakers seem to be very surprised and happy. You’ve been studying the same language intensively for several months or even years and native speakers don't seem to react to you in any particular way.

In the first case when they judge your language abilities, they might say something like: "That's amazing!". In the second case: "Not bad.".

This is a very interesting phenomenon called the Uncanny valley, which can be observed in several areas, in this case in language learning. In the podcast recording I talk about my experiences with it.

Many thanks for the music to:

@beatchild
Song: Beatchild – It-starts-with-the-bass-beat-tape-vol-2

Website: www.beatchild.com

Answering the following questions:

How to maintain several languages.
How to regain motivation after losing fluency in languages once spoken at a B2/C1 level.
Resources you recommend for learning Mandarin from scratch.
What happened to your podcast with 天一？
How old were you when you started learning Chinese?
Is it important to study grammar?
Learning two languages at the same time?

Many thanks for the music to:

https://soundcloud.com/beatchild
Song: https://soundcloud.com/beatchild/it-starts-with-the-bass-beat-tape-vol-2

Website: www.beatchild.com

Special thanks to Samuel for his help with editing.