Tim Keeley - Strategies for learning Asian languages

Strategies for learning Asian languages - a personal journey through a dozen or so languages of Asia Polyglots interested in learning Asian languages often wonder about which language of a particular group of related Asian languages they should start with. My personal 38-year long journey through Asian languages will be the guide for the flow of the presentation. The journey begins with the 漢字圏 (Kanji-ken) or Sinosphere including various varieties of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese. Thereafter, we travel though the Tai-Kadai group focusing on Thai and Lao, and then head further south to taste the differences and similarities of Malay and Indonesian. A swing to the northeast takes us to visit the modern- day daughters of Sanskrit with the main comparison focusing on Hindi and Nepali. We end our journey at the rooftop of the world taking a look at Tibetan and her children with a particular focus on Tamang and Sherpa. The presentation seeks to give an overview of how knowledge of certain Asian languages assists in understanding and acquiring other related languages in a given group as well as reasons for learning the languages covered. kyusan-u.academia.edu/TimDeanKeeley Join us at: PolyglotConference.com fb.com/PolyglotConference fb.com/groups/PolyglotConference twitter.com/Polyglot_Confer instagram.com/PolyglotConference The Language Event Join us at: TheLanguageEvent.com fb.com/TheLanguageEvent fb.com/groups/TheLanguaageEventEdinburgh fb.com/groups/TheLanguageEventAuckland fb.com/groups/ThelanguageEventMelbourne twitter.com/PolyglotMeetup instagram.com/TheLanguageEvent Filming & Editing: Simos Batzakis