Natural Language Acquisition

This is a blog about my various language learning experiments. Currently I am only learning to speak Russian. My future bucket list includes: Ukrainian, Norwegian and Irish but I will wait until I'm at the B1 level in Russian ( The CEFR Levels ) before I seriously attempt those. I may dabble in Norwegian earlier since it's a Germanic language that won't cause confusion with my Russian and supposedly the easiest language for English speakers to learn. You can follow my progress on my other blog:  Acquiring Russian The Natural Way The idea of 'acquiring' a language vs 'learning' comes from people like Stephen Krashen, Steve Kaufmann, and Jeff Brown. And methods like All Japanese All The Time, the Mass Immersion Approach, Refold.la and Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling (TPRS). In  short my  approach is based comprehensible input, lots of  exposure, not worrying about output (speaking) or grammar  until  later in the process. The core resourc

When researching language learning I discovered a book that supposedly teaches you Latin, entirely in Latin:  Lingua Latina per se Illustrata Familia Romana . There is no other language present in the book. It starts with very short sentences and slowly introduces new vocabulary and grammatical concepts, relying on the reader's underlying understanding shared by Indo-European language speakers. Since I started my Russian acquisition journey in the summer of 2020 I've come across many people sharing their enthusiasm for languages. One of those is Luke Ranieri ( Lukeranieri.com ) who runs two YouTube channels  Polymathy  and  Scorpius Martianus  where he shares his interest in Latin amongst other things.  I've discovered that not only is the text of this book available on  Lingq.com  but it also has an accompanying narration by Luke (he also has a different set of recordings with a co-narrator on his YouTube Channel). I bought a bunch of the Lingua Latina books, including tho