Dr. Stephen Krashen, a Conversation About Language Acquisition

I'd like to ask each other about our early experiences.

Sure.

Okay.

Why don't you...

...in French?

What happened to me in French?

All right.

Okay.

That's a good start.

Okay.

I'd like to

... yeah, go ahead.

Hello?

Okay.

I think we're live.

So we have the two Steves here.

that's right.

We have the two Steves.

We have Dr.

Steven Krashen, who is to me, the person who has explained the world,

the sort of snake pit of Pandora's box of how you learn languages.

And he's reduced it to something that's very simple, which con...

basically confirms all of my experience in language learning.

Dr.

Krashen the language acquisition hypothesis, we're gonna get into that.

Very happy to have this opportunity to speak with you.

And I'm very happy to be here with my language consultant

and therapist, Steve Kaufmann.

Who's helped me in so many ways.

Let me tell you.

Well, that's very kind of you, you know, you were saying just before

we went live here, that it would be interesting to review our early

experiences in learning languages.

What, what did you have in mind?

Well, let me give you mine and then you'll respond appropriately.

Okay.

Um, I grew up middle class privileged in the, in Chicago and my, and I

heard Yiddish all around, but nobody expected me to understand any of it.

And I didn't now I can ... yiddish that comes later.