The Language Learner's Manifesto

The Language Learner's Manifesto

This is a new version of the Manifesto, edited to make it more universal. I have also recorded it again here.

This new version is applicable to all languages. In the next few posts I will attach links to different language versions of this text, in French, German, Spanish and Russian. These have been created by our learners at LingQ.

Any of you out there interested in doing this in your language?

I would like to get versions of this text in many languages, for language learners who speak different languages or want to learn different languages. We will feature these texts and recordings here at my blog. We will put the best ones up in The Linguist for anyone who is interested and in LingQ for our learners.

If you are interested, please submit a text file and a voice file in your own language. If you need technical help, please let me know.

Leap into a new language! If you are familiar with the Manifesto in English, try listening to it in another language. At first you can read along in English while listening in a language you do not know so well. Then you can listen again while reading in the new language. Then you can go to LingQ to really learn the new words you need. Maybe this might jump-start you into learning a new language.