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Vaughn Smith

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“They're still at this age where they can absorb language very quickly. But after that, I would speak to my friends who are the kids' parents and say, hey, this is a good way to go about it, do this. I've met customers that they speak German, but they only speak English to their kid. And I'd say, hey, teach your child your language. And oh, really? It's like, why is this carpet cleaner telling them? And I would tell them, look, it's important. Teach your child your language. Speak to her in only German. Don't worry. She will learn there's plenty of English all around. There will be no problem with her learning English. Some older people worry that if they teach their own language to their kids, it'll somehow replace English. They won't learn English at all. That's simply not realistic because we live in a country where English is spoken.”
2022-09-07 · Conversations with Tyler · Vaughn Smith on Life as a Hyperpolyglot · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Children that I've met that have special abilities, some of them being autistic, I would spend a few minutes each meeting, showing them something, quizzing them. Some of these kids were very inclined to like a math genius or they were good at science or good at physics. And I'd ask them about, okay, why is tungsten used as a filament in a bulb, for example? Most of the time it was like with scientific quizzing, and then I would go, okay, after that, I would test them with language. Like, can you memorize this word? What's this called? I'd start with English, of course. point out 10 different things what are these called and then i'd say do you know any spanish i'll test them in spanish or i'll test them something else sometimes a lot of these are children of my friends and my friends knowing me they would like their children to learn Spanish, Portuguese, whatever it is that they think is useful for their child to learn. So I would go and test them. And some of them actually, they do, they pick up very quickly on the words. And I think that the part of it is the fact that they're young.”
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“Yes. So I wouldn't give any linguistic advice. I would say probably ask them, what is it you want to do? I would concentrate on have that person maybe focus on very useful language. At least one. At least one very useful language that would give that person an advantage in academia. You know, for example, learn Russian, learn Spanish. One of these big language.”
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“They could be different, but as long as if someone's a polyglot, that means that that person came up with a system that was effective for himself or for that.”
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“Stick with it. I'm assuming that if this person's a polybot, he already has he or she already has developed a system for himself or herself as to the most effective way to learn. So I don't need to give this person a learning advice.”
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“Most of the speakers won't be. Oh, I suppose each variant of English word is spoken will sort of just kind of like what's going by the natural law of language. It'll change, but I don't see becoming a big mush just yet where it's all uniform. English used to be uniform, and it went into the direction where now there are many different variations of English different accents. So I don't see it coming back together as long as there are different areas where English is spoken. It'll keep evolving in its own natural direction.”
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“Yeah, they were saying stay ya instead of stay he gon' stay ya, you know, like really just sort of very altered speech, but I could tell the base words were English, or at least part of it was. The conversation that I heard on the bus, I could make out what they were saying, but not live. I listened to the whole sentence, put it together, and say, oh, that's what she said. To give an example with Scottish English, I know that how the islands, the land kind of breaks up the further north you go. It's my idea that the further north you go, the more distant the accent is and the more difficult it is to understand”
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“Yeah, I've met people from the Caribbean that I couldn't tell you they were speaking English or a very heavy accent in English, or it was like a Creole or a mix of sometimes.”
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“Central America, I would like to see. I've been to Belize already, but I would like to go back, of course. I would like to go to Guatemala.”
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“Yeah, I want to explore more of Chiapas. I want to meet up with my friend Juan, who is periodically teaches me, he gives me little lessons in Tozil and spend more time in San Cristoba de la Yeah, those are some places I would like to spend some more time in and see the north of Mexico as well.”
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“Yes, so when I'm talking about the Mexicans living in Oaxaca that are there, they just kind of look at these European languages and they think, okay, well, that's what a real language is. They still have this prejudicial sort of like a downplay on their own indigenous languages. The linguistic diversity in the state of Oaxaca is phenomenal. And the language is different one from the other, much more so than the Germanic languages amongst themselves, for example, or the Romance languages. That's very easily overlooked by the majority of the urban population of Mexico.”
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“Then the Mexicans themselves, they really see it happening. It's a live show. And number one and number two, the Mexicans in Oaxaca, they're in a place where they're surrounded by languages. And it's like in their face. It's like, okay, there are these many languages. There isn't just only French, German, Spanish.”
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“I think it's a toss up. It's all of them. I see people that are very shocked. There's people that have just taken it in stride. If I'm in Mexico City, I think that's where I get the most surprise or if I am in any of the touristy areas where there are hostels. You know, I could go to Orisaba. I could go to the south, to the village and say, oh, I know all these languages. Oh, it's kind of like they get this wide-eyed sort of look on their face. And they would think, oh, wow, that's pretty impressive. But then that's the end of it. In contrast to that, I'll be in the city of Oaxaca, where you have visitors from all over the world come through and I'm at the hostel and I'm speaking Irish Gaelic. Funny enough, the most instances where I speak Irish Gaelic are in Oaxaca because you get a lot of people from Ireland. They'll go to Mexico instead of going to the US and a lot of them speak Gaelic. And so they'll hear me speak that language. I'll speak Russian. I'll turn around and speak Czech to someone. I've met people from Poland, from Serbia, from Croatia. And then when I'm switching from language to language.”
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“I think it's a very well put together story. It was a little bit different from what I expected because I thought that the story was going to concentrate on just me being a polyglot in language and such. But no, it was more just like an overall sort of like the way the story was told was very pleasant surprise, I would say. A very beautifully written piece. It was just a lot larger than I thought it would be and just kind of like a very nicely put together story, but I haven't seen other articles and other hyperpolyglots or polyglots that give me any sort of comparison.”
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“And that time would be, I'd say, the 1990s, where it's like, no, globalization is happening. There's more business, there's more incentive to learn another language. They're teaching foreign language in high school. They're starting to come up with immersion schools where the kids are taught bilingually, starting with even kindergarten or first grade. So I see that trend. That's already a very big difference there. Will it continue? Yes, I think it will continue more as you have more immigration, you have much more trade open markets between nations, and certainly there is the potential for the increase of interest in language learning, especially in the urban areas or like, you know, people looking for IT lawyers jobs such as these kind of employment or it's all white-collar work, then yeah. But as far as there's still always going to be that population that is not exposed to it, they'll just simply continue with English only. And that will continue as it is.”
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“Yes and no. I think that in places where it's a requirement to know a second language in order to get a job somewhere, of course, a lot of people are going to seek that out. I've noticed a difference between the generations, me being in my early 20s, mid-20s. I met people from Louisville, Kentucky, or from some other city in Indiana that are learning Russian. And that really was not so much the case when my father was in his twenties. People was like, no, there was an immigration people Italians would come to the house. They'd get a place. They'd just speak English. It's like, no, it's American. It's time to be American. We need to forget Italian. It's just English, English, English. And I see this sentiment repeated when I meet others. Like, I'll go to New York and I'll see Italians. And they're like a generation older than myself. And they'll say, no, when my parents came from Italy, they spoke only English because they wanted us to learn only English. There is already a big difference between the 1950s, 1940s, 1950s, and”
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“It's like you're starting to become this new miniature other person version of yourself. When you use that language, and it comes with the native speaker's sense of home, sense of belonging, sense of identity, language is identity for many people. And it's much more than just mimicking words, it's knowing what phrases to use, being sensitive to another language speaker's cultural needs. And you find out it's like you're going into a different world.”
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“Language is a key to someone's culture, to someone's world, even if you do not happen to be in that person's country at that time. It's very sacred and it's very private for some people. Not everyone will be very open to immediately speaking to you in their own language, but the majority of the people that I approach or I'll ask about, they have this very pleasant sort of reaction to it. And then when you get into learning the language, you start to think in a different way. You realize every language works differently.”
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“Promote language, talk more about language, give lessons in languages here and there, give some cultural advice along with it, have little snippets of conversations with other people and just giving example, hey, this can be done. This is something that's not impossible. If you want to visit this country, here are some important words and phrases to know. Things such as of this manner. And also, I'd like to focus on indigenous language as well. Nahuatl and other languages that are found throughout the North American continent.”
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“It's great. Paper books are in my car. We have 10 or so books in there. But open tabs on my browser, I think maybe I'd see like the YouTube. I'm trying to put more YouTube channels up. So it's something that I'm looking into.”
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“I have a lot of open tabs at the moment. Yes, that's a good example, but I don't really keep the open tabs in that manner. I'm more of an old-fashioned person. I carry books around with me. I read books. Yeah.”
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“That's just all up in my head. Tabs on my browser, would you, I guess, like the phone browser, just things that I've been looking up, you know?”
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“I think it's a combination of both. I do like science fiction as long as it's not too far fetched. And it's like, come on, this doesn't make sense. But certainly fathomable in what goes on in the thing. And I really like the creepy aspect of it, not knowing that someone's infected before that person's infected. That mystery is kind of like a surprise later. It's, oh, this person was one of them this whole time. And that's what really brings out that scary element.”
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“Think of the remake. The remake was they made a prequel to it. Is it not exactly a remake? No, actually there is an original the thing that's prior to the Kurt Rochester.”
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“The Laplands, the northern climate, the lakes and the nature and that people say it mimics Minnesota, of course I'm familiar with Minnesota, and the Kumenarvikala. Just like hundreds of lakes all over the place. Being able to go north and see the northern lights, the reindeer, the flora and fauna of the country, and visiting friends.”
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“I hope I will. Just looking for other employment. Post COVID work got pretty slow and I started doing like five different jobs. I had five part-time jobs. And slowly I've been doing away with those because working a little bit busy, but I'm not in a financial scenario where I could do that very easily now.”
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“Super old style of speaking, a much deeper accent than what I would typically hear in the middle of West Virginia, for example.”
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“Last time I was in New Orleans was in two thousand seven, that was Post Katrina. 2006 and then 2007. And I think that was it for Louisiana, but I spent a good two weeks there with a Nealig family just outside of Chalmet, Shalmet, Louisiana. And as far as other places, my father used to have this pilgrimage where we would travel all across the US and go visit my grandparents who lived in Santa Rosa, California, in Sonoma County, about an hour north of the Bay Area. And on the way, we'd stop at different places, explore Lewis and Clark National Park, for example, in Montana, the Badlands in South Dakota, or we'd stop somewhere in Kentucky, and the accents, they changed from place to place some of the lot deeper than others. What especially stood out to me was the English spoken in rural Kentucky, the southern tips of Indiana, Illinois, and then going into Missouri, just those rural areas. It's very different. They're not big.”
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“I don't like a Scottish person. I suppose I met with someone who's talking about the color green. She was talking about the color green the whole time. I'm just kind of mimicking her accent. But yeah, I really like the way this Scottish English sounds as far as other dialects. I spend a lot of time on the bayou and the water to come to the house. That's all the people talk about is the water to come through the house. And yeah”
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“Mostly Brazilian Portuguese. I would not know how to specifically imitate the accent of Portugal Portuguese because I don't have enough exposure to it.”
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“Yeah, Netherlands connect Will Spraker, Ekatan Friend, outronigen has had a head Bramstall, and the Friend Vorden are Tre and Haftamet on Silver Spring former Havant.”
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“Vietnamese anointing Vietnam fire, just like a simple question Do you speak Vietnamese? But my Vietnamese is just, it's super elementary. It's really not enough to have a conversation.”
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“I'm always switching it out. I'm always going from book to book. So, no, certainly there's much more to learn, and even the languages that I speak more or less fluently, I'm still learning specific words. I don't know the words for makeup in a lot of those languages because it's never a subject that I had spoke about. Scientific terms, being able to speak about chemistry, physics, that's also kind of important. It's something I want to learn to do in areas that I can explore to improve languages that I know.”
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“Surprised. Yeah. It's all just dye. They might have changed the formula so it's not as permanent of a color. But colors, color dies, that sort of thing. Nearly impossible. The purpose of dye is to stain. That's what it was designed for. So if you've stained the carpet, the dye did its job, and there is no reversing it because it's that good of a dye.”
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“What I told him, La Vimia Fulham, Jamlin Anuus, at that time was like, I've been learning Irish for about 10 years. I'll say, would you like to come down and have a look at the carpet? Stuff like that. Little sentence here and there. Not much of a standard conversation and getting into details, but just some simple sentences.”
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“No, there's nothing rewarding about carpet cleaning that's conducive to learning languages at all. I think my most rewarding job was just the caretaker at the grounds of the Central East European Art Foundation because that's where I was speaking language all the time every day. That's why I learned to speak Czech fluently, where I learned to speak Slovak fluently. It's why I brushed up on my Bulgarian, Romanian and Serbian as well. I would speak those languages because I worked with people from those areas. As far as carpet cleaning, maybe I'll have a customer or I've had a customer speaks Latvian, a customer speaks Finnish. A Norwegian customer, I had a customer the same customer, I think, three times or so, a woman from Ireland speaks Irish Gaelic. And she was very surprised.”
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“Traveling in the US. They might have traveled somewhere in the U.S., but when I went, pretty much took them from DC to New York, Hartford, Connecticut, and all those shows. We'd stay with Gabby of Molotov Cocktail in Manhattan or stay some places in Hartford, Connecticut. We'd see Boiling Man and other shows and a lot of other bands would come and play together at the same shows.”
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“The Goons The Goons, yes, I drove the van. I was pretty much a designated driver for about a year. It was, I think it was 2000. Yes”
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“Not necessarily because I wasted time in doing other stupid things. So I think a better word would be stop doing the stupid stuff and focus on this.”
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“I think the tutoring, you know, for someone who cannot go to the country, you cannot be immersed, I think that would be a very valuable tool, certainly.”
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“It'll always be He loves your rewarding. Up on the street, I'll be at the grocery store. People are speaking those things Lithuanian, or like they're looking for something in Russian, they don't know where to find it. I'll point it out. Oh, okay, cool. And so I just help somebody. Maybe there are some people that don't speak English very well, so I'm always there to lend a hand. And that's always rewarding.”
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“The one that is made in Odisaba is the mixture of the chocolate base and all the nuts and oil and the various kinds of pepper and seeds. When they say mole, they only mean that one thing. It said brown sauce. And it's usually served with turkey. It's really good. So I like it, and that's very rural that and the barbacoa. As far as other things, like they'll probably just like roast a chicken, but that's not especially a rural thing that could be done anywhere. But I just happen to enjoy a rural barbecue here and there.”
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“That's really not for me to say. People, they move for economic reasons or something they need to find a job here or there or they just need work. No, I think that there is an importance to the rural way of life that's for every place, even in the United States, a lot so in Mexico too. And I think that it's just more resources, a better economic stance. Just an economic foundation for rural areas. People need to stay where they are. They move away from the rural areas in the rural areas are missing something already.”
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“If I could change it. Well, certain setup schools prioritize the language and make it so that rural people see themselves the way city people or urbans see themselves and they live. That same amount of pride, that value, that self-worth needs to be brought up.”
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“Rural Mexico Rural Mexico struggles economically absolutely that much there. So many different ideas how to put it all together. Their land is sort of being taken away and used for commercial reasons, they're being exploited. They're laughed at when they come to the city and they get a lot of discrimination, especially from the young kids. They'll go to school and they'll be made fun of because they're indigenous. That would be like Indigenous people from rural areas all over Mexico. Yeah, I think when I see the people, they seem very happy and they're smiling and they're going about their business, but I think there's an underlying sort of melancholy and the sort of like this feeling of being second class. They don't say it directly, but I can sense it.”
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“I think that when the kids saw that an outsider, even though I'm half Mexican, to them, I'm an outsider. I look like an American. I don't speak 100% native, Spanish, like a typical everyday Mexican there because I don't live there all the time. So for them to see an outsider someone coming from the United States, even though I spent my childhood in Mexico, I'm looked at as pretty much a gringo. And here is this American coming and he wants to learn a language. Well, wow, that's all of a sudden they realized, okay, well, our language has value. And I see that when it's kind of like I'll take interest in a language that's not spoken by very many people. And when I do, and I'll have sometimes my niece will be with me, and she'll want to learn some words too. And we have this really friendly approach. Hey, I'd like to learn some of these words. What does this mean? Just really just kind of gives them a sort of reminder, it's an uplift, this language that we know is spoken of very few people in this culture of ours is very valuable. People see it and they appreciate it.”
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“Yes, absolutely. There are different methods I see. For example, I'm in Odisaba, Mexico. The professor, two of them. There are two professors, Armando, Alonso, Miguel Torre. They're both related. One is uncle and one is nephew. The two pretty much the fluent go to people of the town. They know all the vocabulary the words for every plant and animal pretty much as far as memory can go. And they are actively thinking of ways, efforts that they can continue to teach the language. They teach at bilingual schools. So the kids go to the school they're learning Spanish. They're learning Nawat at the same time. And he speaks to them in Nawatl as much as he can. So looking at these methods, you know, when I started to learn it, the Nawat language about 25 years ago, I arrived at Armando's house with a pen and a book to start writing things down. And then I realized when I went into his house that about six other kids had come also with pens of books to do the same thing.”
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“Dying out as far as the state of Indigenous languages in Mexico, it's pretty much the same. It's like, okay, well, there's few and fewer speakers every year because youngsters are not willing or they're just for some reason sticking to Spanish instead of their own indigenous language or they're learning English instead. As far as actual numbers, I'm not exactly certain, but I know that many Indigenous communities are putting efforts into preserving their languages.”
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“Of me because that is spoken also in the state of Veracruz. I've had some contact with some Otomi speakers, but never really sat down with them to learn anything. But I have literature and music that is written in Otomi. It looks very beautiful.”
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“How to teach language to other people better. Don't cram so much vocabulary into one little session. Mix it up some writing, some reading, but a lot of listening. People learn by listening. Humans grow up listening, doing nothing but listening, and that's how they acquire language. That should be reflected in teaching methods.”
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