Please summarise: 00:00:00	hi there Steve here uh to talk about languages and uh of course if you enjoy these videos please subscribe to my Channel today I want to talk a little bit more about our mini story project you'll remember last time I talked about these mini stories that we're creating not we I've actually commissioned a writer to write them very interesting little vignettes of everyday life that incorporate the basic patterns and structures of English and I said let get some interest in translating these into other languages whether it be languages

00:00:35	we have at link or other languages farsy Indonesian whatever might be um and we've had a good response from people offering to translate these stories into a variety of languages and so we're coordinating this and we're going to be contacting every one of you to try and uh you know divide the workout so that one person doesn't have to do all of the stories uh I'm working on the Greek part of it because I'm learning Greek and pavos in Greece is recording these stories on his iPhone and I must say the

00:01:08	audio quality is very good so we want to go forward but today I'm thinking that okay it's one thing to translate these stories into other languages and by and large it works because it's been my conviction for the longest time that because I've learned I'm now on my 17th language that the basic concept conepts and structures and things that we want to say in a language are by and large the same in all languages the issues are the same obviously we're dealing with you know people and things like nouns we're

00:01:43	dealing with descript descriptions like adverbs and adjectives of different kinds and where they go in the sentence we're dealing with basically past present future there's variations on these tenses but essentially something that happened in the past that's happening now or that will happen in the future we deal with uh maybe probability might or have to should ought to uh or why because or in order to or therefore uh we deal with you know in by on with in other words prepositions or in case in some languages the nouns or

00:02:23	adjectives change depending on whether it's by in at from uh but the fundamental concepts and the things we want to say in my opinion from my point of view on the other hand all of these things we end up having to say them in all these different languages so to the key is to get interesting stories uh then uh they can be translated and they still work for learning other languages the advantage then there is that we have translations the structure of the stories also I think is key to make making it a good learning experience but

00:03:02	what I want to get to today is what I want to get some feedback on is we will continue with our English stories and use them as the core from which we translate into other languages but obviously these are written and they will have an English language cultural bias now when we translate them we try to localize them we change the names from you know George to George you know or or Pedro but uh and other minor changes however it would really be fun to have stories written originally in other languages by people who can create

00:03:43	interesting little vignettes okay so typically the format is 10 or 12 uh not too long sentences uh describing someone doing something out of everyday life and then the same story from another point of view which might be tense which might be um person you know rather than he or she it's I and Then followed by questions and one of the things as I said that pter did so well in his questions is that the answer is contained in the question so you don't have to try to remember what was in the story what this does is it

00:04:25	creates a tremendous amount of repetition uh and it gives you a chance if you want to to try an answer to try and say something in response to what you're listening to however everything is in the target language unlike some systems like pimsler where you're being prompted in your language which in my view is not as good other people may disagree it's not as good as having everything in the language you are learning so what I'm asking today is are there people who are interested in writing some original stories of

00:04:59	everyday life little vignettes on the same basic uh format but in fary or Vietnamese or Keta or whatever it might be so that we grow this project so it's not just translating uh from English into these other languages which is still key and I want to do that and I want to get through that part of the project but on an ongoing basis we can make this a project where people are creating stor stories translating stories so that if we get a story in you know Slovakian that someone can translate that into English and always we want the

00:05:41	translations done by native speakers so native speakers write the stories and native speakers translate these into their own language and we just get this tremendous mushrooming of these stories the other advantage of having stories written in other languages rather other than English is that while the fundamental concepts in any language the you know whatever it might be past present future uh you know comparative super like big bigger biggest or all these things are similar in all languages languages deal

00:06:18	with them somewhat differently so the translation to a large extent Works however there are specific issues to specific languages you know particles in Japanese and not whatever uh you know and so and and some languages you know cases in Slavic languages whatever it might be there are are verbs of motion which are a bigger issue in Slavic languages so to some extent someone writing a story in another language other than English May develop stories that focus on these issues a little more and uh so that when we translate them

00:06:57	they're still good for learning say English if we translate them back into English but they're really powerful for learning those languages where where those specific issues are what cause problems now it is not difficult to Google and find out what are the major problems uh you know Learners of a particular language have I was able to Google what are the major issues for Learners of English so that we can identify what these so if I'm a native speaker of Russian and I'm going to create some stories in Russian then it's

00:07:31	not difficult to find out that most foreigners have trouble with verbs Mo motion they have trouble with you know the the aspect of verbs and so forth so that if I'm a Russian speaker native speaker then I would create some stories hopefully interesting stories that would focus on those issues so there you have it it's again on the subject of these many stories but I I would be interested in your reaction to actually creating Original Stories in other languages which other people would then translate

00:08:02	back into their native language as part of this call it mini story language promotion language learning uh project that we're developing here so I look forward to your feedback and thank you for [Music] listening [Music]