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     Interview with Steve Kaufmann IN 8 LANGUAGES | @Thelinguist

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     How to become fluent in English - Interview with Steve Kaufmann from LingQ

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     813. Language Learning is a Voyage of Discovery / Steve Kaufmann Interview

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     • Steve Kaufmann speaks English, French, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Persian. English is his first language as he mostly grew up in Canada, attending English-speaking schools and his parents only spoke English to him.
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   Which languages does Steve Kaufmann speak?

   • Steve Kaufmann speaks English, French, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic, and Persian. English is his first language as he mostly grew up in Canada and attended English-speaking schools. His parents only spoke English to him.

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   Does Steve Kaufmann speak English?

   • Steve Kaufmann speaks English. Although his parents spoke Czech, German, & Swedish, he himself only spoke English until the age of 17. He has ‘no recollection of having spoken any language other than English as a child’ although he knows that he spoke Swedish first.

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   How does Steve Kaufmann learn a language?

   • Steve Kaufmann uses an immersion technique to learn languages. He spends most of his study time reading texts and listening to recordings in his target language. He doesn't focus on learning new words actively but instead believes that he will gradually acquire them as he comes across them again.

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   Does Steve Kaufmann speak Italian?

   • Steve Kaufmann is able to speak Italian at a conversational level. He found Italian fairly easy due to his prior familiarity with French and Spanish. He has spoken Italian in videos, as shown below in the German video: Kaufmann has said that he spent significant time listening to tapes and reading books in Italian to achieve this level of proficiency.

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   Does Steve Kaufmann make comparisons when learning new languages?

   • Steve Kaufmann isn't into making comparisons when learning new languages. He sees it as a personal challenge. “I'm not comparing myself to others. Some people are going faster; some people are going to pronounce better; some people are going to learn faster, slower, whatever. It doesn't matter. I'm learning it for myself, so I'm not competing.”

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   Why did Steve Kaufmann have a pivotal language learning experience?

   • Because yes, like many polyglots, such as Luca Lampariello, Steve Kaufmann had some pivotal language learning experiences. But these lessons weren't crucial because he had them when he was young. They were pivotal because they gave Steve confidence. As he says:

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4. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Steve_KaufmannSteve Kaufmann - Wikipedia

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   Kaufmann started learning Russian, his ninth language, when he was 60. [8] As of 2024, he has an understanding of 20 languages, though his ability to speak and write in them to a highly proficient level varies considerably.

5. www.lingalot.com › what-languages-does-steveWhat Languages Does Steve Kaufmann Speak? (With Videos)

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   • What Languages Does Steve Kaufmann Speak?
   • Steve Kaufmann Languages – His Journey
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   • How Long Does It Take Steve Kaufmann to Learn A Language?

   Steve Kaufmannspeaks 20languages to varying levels. Steve Kaufmannspeaks English, French, Mandarin, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Swedish, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Ukrainian, Czech, Polish, Romanian, Greek, Turkish, Arabic and Persian. English is his first language as he mostly grew up in Canada, attending English-speaking scho...

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   Kaufmann was born in Sweden in 1945 to Jewish parents who were originally from the Czech Republic. At the age of 5 in 1951, the family moved to Montreal, Canada and Kaufmann spent his childhood growing up there in the English-speaking area of the city. Even though his parents spoke Czech, German & Swedish, Kaufmann himself has said that up until th...

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   Steve Kaufmann doesn’t follow a traditional approach to learning languages. Kaufmann’s key principle to language learning is that it should be done in real situations rather than spending hours doing exercises, drills and reading textbooks. Kaufmann learns languages using an immersion technique. He spends most of his study time reading texts and li...

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   Kaufmann has been able to learn languages in a very short amount of time. Whilst studying Mandarin full-time in Hong Kong, he was able to become fairly fluent within a year. For easier languages that he has had prior exposure to, like German, he was able to become fluent in a matter of months. Kaufmann doesn’t think that age is an impediment to lea...

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6. www.youtube.com › watchInterview with Steve Kaufmann IN 8 LANGUAGES | @Thelinguist

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   hey guys!!! in this video i interviewed @Thelinguist in all the languages i know: turkish, english, arabic, french, italian, spanish, german and russian. we ...

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7. www.youtube.com › watchInterview with Steve Kaufmann in 7 Languages - YouTube

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   Sep 23, 2022 · This time, I interviewed @Thelinguist in 7 languages, which are Japanese, English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic. We had a brief conversa...

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8. storylearning.com › blog › steve-kaufmannHow Steve Kaufmann Learned 20 Languages - StoryLearning

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   Steve speaks 20 languages — and he learned most of them after turning 60. Steve believes anyone can learn to speak a new language at any age. And I agree! So, let's hit that “I'm too old to learn a language,” excuse right out of the park and investigate Steve's method. Pro Tip.

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9. media.thelinguist.com › media › pdfA Personal Guide to Language Learning By Steve Kaufmann

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   Growing up in the English-speaking area of Montreal, a predominantly French-speaking city, I remember that until the age of seventeen, I only spoke English. I was not interested in learning another language, although I had been taught French at school from the second grade and was surrounded by the French language.

10. www.thelinguist.com › aboutLearn languages online from The Linguist, Steve Kaufmann

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    My name is Steve Kaufmann. I grew up in the English-speaking area of Montreal, Canada. I am a graduate of L’Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, France (1966), and a former Canadian Diplomat. Currently I am President of KP Wood Ltd, a company involved in the international wood products trade.