How U.S. Military Linguists Learn Languages Fast

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DLI isn't the only intensive 3-letter language school See how Mormon missionaries learn languages fast at the MTC 👉🏼 youtube/Ox6MdRTc0yE
Comment from : Olly Richards

I took Ancient Greek with the Ancient Language Institute, ALI I thought it was great
Comment from : jacqui lenhardt

European looking US military linguists should learn Mandarin and go to China
Comment from : francispaul65

It's a beautiful thing God bless the USA #Freedom #FreedomIsntFree #Bush #Cheney #Carter #Obama #Trump #Biden
Comment from : Charles Thomas Wallace Truscott

I tried DLI when I entered the school at Lackland AFB in 1983 I couldn’t keep up and learned enough Russian to make me have strange dreams for years!
Comment from : Hott Karl

This would have been my future had I not been born with a heart defect I had the Navy, Air Force, Army, and Marines trying to recruit me Wish I could have gone Life would have been incredible
Comment from : Toasty Volvo

The US military linguists are fast language learners who help the US military kill innocent people more efficiently Yeah, we get it
Comment from : عبد القادر المومني

I would hope these people would be working with people with positions of power since they are so smart It’s reassuring that these people are out there and we’re not just winging it
Comment from : The Truth

Fun fact! There are DLI offshoot schools on other bases It varies depending on the mission, and you might not get to the same level as a linguist, but you can still get to a passing level 😉
Comment from : Lady Talksalot

This is pretty randomn and not really related to the video, but as someone autistic with a really short attention span, the way you present and direct the video is highly appreciated, as it doesnt bore you out overtime, and straightforward enough but with humane elements
Comment from : Alpaca BI

Something not mentioned about qualifying to be a linguist: there is a minimum ASVAB score requirement to even be eligible to take the DLAB And if you qualify and pass the DLAB, your recruiter is definitely going to push you to be a linguist Be sure you wanna go down that path if you decide to take the DLAB! brbrWhile I was waiting to be sent to DLI, I met several people who were kicked from different DLI programs and were being reassigned to different jobs In most cases, I was shocked that someone who seemed so fluent in their target language fell behind enough to be removed from the program People who could have smooth conversations with native speakers with no issues Goes to show how difficult the programs are!
Comment from : Grilled Cheese Master

"Jack" is supposed to be incognito but I know where he is from His language gives him away Odd
Comment from : OCD Mom

Please correct Hindu to Hindi Hindu is a religion, and Hindi a language Really amusing that this is there in a language video !
Comment from : Jayashree S Mani

Any soldier who actually likes Korean music where the chorus is repeated 50 times a song (usually in bad English) is probably susceptible to brainwashing and should be taken off the line
Comment from : Michael Kennedy

Awesome video I would really enjoy a program like this, but would never pass basic training I love the idea of the DLAB I am a computer scientist and do a lot of of work with processing language, and have no idea why I didn't get a degree in linguistics
Comment from : Ryan Rosario

You speak far too quickly A verbal garble and if you want people to take it in , PLEASE SLOW down The other speakers were easy to listen to
Comment from : Penelope Mayson

More than five years and at least seven hours a day immersed in language learning?i don't think there is anything miraculous or exceptional about that
Comment from : Negin Moosavi

What this proves to me, is that all the computer programs - Babbel, Rosetta Stone, etc are full of it Olly, I haven't done your story method, but somewhere I saw that it will get you to intermediate level I myself have been tested on several websites to be at level B2 in Portuguese, which is more bullsh-- It means I can answer a lot of multiple choice questions on grammar correctly So what? The military school is teaching to "near native" level That's the only level that really means anything It reminds me of when I was studying Japanese (6 years, some at university level, some with a private tutor) During that time I checked out a book from the library I don't remember what it was called, but the author stated in the introduction that his publisher rejected what he really wanted to call his book As a dig at books (and you can add computer programs) with titles like "Japanese in 3 Easy Weeks", he wanted to call his book "Japanese in 25 Hard Years" But I guess you don't really need 25 hard years A really hard year and a few weeks should do the trick
Comment from : Robyn Rishe

“Jack” Is very full of himself There is a total of 0 classified info at out about DLI I went through the Russian course, and what you do after is most likely classified, but hiding his voice and face is just trying to be cool
Comment from : Jim Koch

Language is psychosis speak read write English
Comment from : Vaibhav

Asm
Comment from : Kemony Hunter

"English training center at THE Air Force base in Texas"? Which one?? There are seven of them
Comment from : Deep Purple

This is a video about how incompetent they are at teaching a language, SMH
Comment from : Abby Love

Your are saying as it was horrible way of learning They have all the resources at hand and they pay them for that? loool i was writring while watching and the guy just said ( 33:06 ) "you get paid!" 😂 hillarios
Comment from : Jakub Mintal

5:37 easier french 😂 more difficult russian 😂😂😂
Comment from : Jakub Mintal

Hmmm interesting
Comment from : Gramsci St Cyr

Imagine Everyone everywhere being taught multiple languages from a very young age Maybe there'd be less conflict and more understanding Just a thought
Comment from : cr0yd3

less "swoosh" and "bloops" - distracting
Comment from : Ariana Rosen

This SSgt James Calls sounds like he never heard Russian and he's a Russian tutor?
Comment from : psvpl

As a graduate of DLI, I think it's awesome that you're making this video
Comment from : DJMU

I don't think I could pass but the trsining scenario looks like a lot of fun to me, hard but fun
Comment from : andy Dragtstra

Where do they teach English?brIn basic many of the Puerto Ricans already had many weeks of English school before basic started
Comment from : madog

I'm from western Pennsylvania and us pittsburgers have a distinct accentbrWe are yinzers
Comment from : John Romansky

By killing their enemies and eating their tongues
Comment from : TedBoyRomarino

yet people only get how much below 100 of what they're told the first time?!bryeah, no thanks! I'll rosetta stone it, thanks!
Comment from : TENNSUMITSUMA

The simple secret:brWhen you focus all resources into a single task German:war machine US war machine brbrMilitary training? Lock them up, focus on learning material that is it brbrMonks does the same thing at monastery Look into the forest monastery They train harder than military
Comment from : PKVeteran

Just came across your channel, and loved this video I've been using the Foreign Service Institute method methods to learn languages, at a pretty amateur level How would you say the approaches of this and the Mormons compare? Whole sentences and structured repetition/substitution seems comparable
Comment from : fuzzydon

As a former LDS missionary and US military veteran that studied at DLI, I can attest that the language courses are intense and effective if you apply yourself and have some skills
Comment from : Luke Nielsen

Korean is designed to be the easiest language to learn Is it in Cat 4 because racism?
Comment from : River Chrysanthemum

We love WAR👍🏼
Comment from : Ophelia Elesse

Yet a lot of native languages are dying in the US 🤔
Comment from : Zhenlong Kizazu

I took the DLAB many years ago As I recall, the test takers in the room with me were people who were considering joining the military but had not yet done so That was certainly true of me It was a difficult test Several people got up and walked out of the test Many more people didn’t return from the lunch break A friend who took the test with me only returned after lunch because I did so and we had driven there together
Comment from : AJ DeBellis

They are craftier than we thought
Comment from : vladimir obama

Scream and scribble? bThe military:/b “how can we incorporate yelling into this?”
Comment from : Artifact

Steve Collins - GREAT guy! I served with him in Bosnia Probably THE most unflappable officer I ever served with Good to see where he landed Steve, if you see this, hit me up brbrThe DLAB that I took was actually a made up language It was developed during Vietnam so that people could talk "in the red" or non encrypted and not be understood Akin to the Navaho Code Talkers of WWII Problem was, the language was compromised just before the first Special Forces team graduated Not sure they still use this, but it's kinda like, "this means this except on the third Tuesday of leap year when it means that" You BETTER know English grammar before taking this test, and indeed during the training brbrGlad you mentioned the LDS church There is a great deal of cross-fertilization here The training in either is indeed like drinking from a fire hose For DLI, 6 hours a day in the class, 2-3 hours of homework (that includes transcribing and translating from audio), and PT, and, and, and Figure 60+ words a day, plus a dialog that has to be memorized Of those 60+ words at least half will be verbs - and ALL the conjugations brbrDLI Grad here I spoke German, went there for Spanish (two VERY different languages lol) I was all messed up for about 3 weeks
Comment from : Old Top

Why is something like this only available for the army, i gotta risk my life to learn a different language
Comment from : KingKira45

Just give me the course books ill study by myself 😂
Comment from : KingKira45

Everything abt it was tough but i loved learning language
Comment from : Amber Zec

I went there! Lol didn't make it long but it was the military end of it, not the languagerussian lol took the dlab at 17 😂
Comment from : Amber Zec

Genuinely curious as to why Korean is up there with Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese for the length of the program I thought Korean was amongst the easier languages to learn? I know the other 3 are incredibly difficult to learn So those make sense that they need the extra time
Comment from : Sukeforth

For whatever reason, I have always loved languagesbrHow impossible it is to make any comment brief on this subjectbrTo truly 'learn' any language is far and away more than simple book study Because any natural citizen just listening to you would immediately know that you're a foreigner Every single nuance must be mastered And man let me tell you, it can be the hardest thing you've ever done in you're entire life I think that's why it's so helpful to have something about your target language that you love or that fascinates youbrNever become discouraged to the point that you are like, - " OH the hell with this bullshit "brThe longer you stay with it - the easier it will all become
Comment from : Jack Reynolds

This is all a lie to promote a very specific school for a very specific situation They aren't fluent
Comment from : Peter C

Don’t come to THE PHILIPPINES It is sad to know that some countries allow EXPLOITATION of their citizen’s privacy Manipulation and monitoring are as easy as 1,2,3 Indeed a decaying society There is no sense of respect for LIFE whatsoever Human rights are ignored here THE PHILIPPINES is leading in those countries No wonder this country is living in an exponentially humongous national debt and is still proud of it As hideous, atrocious and nasty a country it sounds, that is what’s deemed as normal So much for it being called a “democratic republic” Welp
Comment from : Therese Kimberly Leteral

I trained in Taekwondo with a man entering the Navy Possibly the worst at speaking the Korean we used in class (Korean instructor) He came back 12 months later after linguistics training and my instructor was BLOWN away He said he sounded just like a native speaker from North Korea He was shocked It was very impressive
Comment from : Betty

It depends when I was 17, I tried to learn a bit of Hungarian, as well as English Hungarian I never managed, but English, of course The vast amount of films and TV shows in English helped me a lot Most of all, books in English helped even more I like Sci-Fi stories and the majority of that genre is never translated to my language, so I learned a lot from books
Comment from : Someone Else

I went to DLI for Arabic It's way more intense than this guy describes 63 weeks just for the basic course, 12-16 hours a day
Comment from : AvrgGuy

The DLI does NOT train 350,000 students each year The base is TINY, between all 4 of the services there are fewer than 4,000 people stationed there, including permanent instructors and support personnel Of these, only about 3,000 are students at any one time
Comment from : Stephen Cooper

Am I the only one who finds that three years of college level language in 64 weeks of real intensive course isn't that impressive?
Comment from : Josef Schneider

How do you get to age 19 without learning a foreign language in school? I was required throughout middle school and high school
Comment from : Poemi

Our government runs the schools, our government runs the military, but our government isn't able to teach American schoolchildren how to speak other languages? Or they just don't care?!
Comment from : goatitisful

The aptitude test proves that people are different in learning languages
Comment from : BEN JIANG

Fun pseudo-fact The DLAB is completely useless at determining a student's success at language acquisition It has been commonly observed that students that barely get a "passing" score to qualify for a language often do better - with less effort - than students who received a much higher DLAB scorebrbrI obtained an rarely seen high score of 142 on the DLAB and bstruggled/b in my Chinese classes Despite receiving tutoring from several servicemembers in advanced language classes and basically studying around the clock at all waking hours of the day, I struggled to keep up with the pace of vocabulary acquisition necessary for my course and was barely passingbrbrBy contrast, a soldier in my class who scored a 110 on her DLAB - the exact minimum score necessary to qualify for Chinese - was basically acing every test and she didn't spend more than two hours per day studying My teachers told me they observed this to be a common phenomenon over their many years of teaching at DLI This was bincredibly/b discouragingbrbrOn the other hand - I was very generally much more advanced in my pronunciation and grammar skills than my peers - skills that are useless if you don't have the vocabulary to fill them out! I believe this is basically what the DLAB is testing for, so, while it may seem to be accurate at predicting someone's aptitude at those specific skills, overall language learning requires the ability to MEMORIZE VOCABULARY, and that is something I have learned over the years is not really an aptitude, but a true skill that takes time and practice to developbrbrI hope that in the 20 years since I was a student at DLI they have found ways to incorporate teaching better vocabulary memorization techniques to students so that soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines who enter the school with a high aptitude and high hopes don't find themselves running face first into a brick wall that requires them to utilize a skill they simply haven't learned yet
Comment from : Zachariah Wiedeman

The DLI in Texas you're referring to is at Goodfellow AFB in San Angelo Texas I'm a formally trained linguist from Kagoshima University in Kagoshima Japan I hold an MS in applied linguistics and did my research at the attached elementary school (Fuzoku) I was tapped by DLI and interviewed at Goodfellow AFB so DLI does work with civilian linguists I am a vet though and ultimately had to turn the position down I'd been in Japan twenty years and had come back to take care of aging family and DLI wanted to send me to NagasakibrbrAlso I think it's odd that linguistics is characterized as being able to speak another language I work as an interpreter and as a translator but those things are more a venn diagram that maybe overlaps with linguistics My work with the elementary school was more about how people learn language and writing reports for MEXT to help them make decisions of a national curriculum guidelines
Comment from : Bill Ralens

"Someday someone is going to rely on you to spread sodomy to the third world"
Comment from : Daniel Valle

Do they teach clingon too ?
Comment from : Nika Berzina

I served in the Marine Corps for four years Looking back, I kind of wish I went the linguist route I was stationed in Okinawa for a year I ended up learning Japanese anyway, but not to the proficiency that these servicemembers have Still, I look for ways to get immersion in the other languages I'm working on Right now, I'm self-teaching with Hans Orberg's Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata book series, written only in Latin Having a great time with it so farbrbrIf I would do my service over, I would definitely go linguist But I've already got Lao, Spanish, Japanese, and German under my belt, so I already have the skills to teach myselfbrbrThanks, Olly, for this look into the DLI And good luck to everyone on their language journeys!
Comment from : Entropie

Very cunning
Comment from : Randy Stanley

They give people a test where you hear a bunch of gibberish The people who are able to best identify patterns in the sounds are identified as possible students for foreign languages
Comment from : Richard Murray

So I get that it is difficult and in a shorter timespan than say 3 years of college However a semester is about 15 weeks so in college a year would be 30 weeks A third of this course is 21 weeks In college however you are learning several other subjects at the same time and spending 1 hour per day (probably 3 days a week), not immersed, and have holidays and such to forget what you learned In this program you get 6 hours of instruction a day Of course if you fall behind catching up would be a real challenge
Comment from : Kathy Manthey

I need to learn Polish as quick as possible because the Poles will invade west Ukraine soon and act against our will and by this (acting without our help) jeopardize Democracy ($) We have to stop them by using another nearby country like Romania to defend Democracy ($) so I probably have to learn both Polish and Romanian And I surely need to learn German because the Germans have to provide both Poland and Romania with weapons, so they can defend Democracy ($) Wait I made a mistake Who has to defend Democracy here? Please tell me, so I can choose the proper language I have to learn
Comment from : Gedankensprünge

omg nerd get on with it! soo much scrollin
Comment from : Will Dunn

the Foreign Service Institute as well That is where I learned Farsi
Comment from : JJTP

As someone currently learning Chinese, 64 weeks is just madness I assume people aren't being taught more than several hundred characters, and are definitely not required to hand-write them, because let me tell you, its a COMPLETELY seperate skill from character recognition
Comment from : StarlitSeafoam

Russian instructor doesn't impress me much
Comment from : Alexey Krasheninnikov

YesI think I knowbrYou just hire the right people for the job
Comment from : Petar Great

I think I missed my calling I would have loved to study a language in this hard-core of a environment
Comment from : MarshaEndeavor

So fascinating to hear about this language instruction I studied language both at the undergraduate and graduate levels, and in between I joined the Peace Corps where I was able to learn the indigenous language Guarani in Paraguay Part of the challenge was that we had a limited amount of formal training After that, I continued acquiring the language in my site learning as best I could through daily interactions and situations Although it was most certainly difficult, it was also greatly rewarding
Comment from : Bryan Whitford

Good to see Edward Snowden again
Comment from : The Friesens!

USA! USA! USA!
Comment from : Mynipplesmychoice

So good to know what your victim is screaming while you're torturing him before murdering him!
Comment from : Man of La Manta

It's not just after basic/boot camp that you can go through DLI to learn a language I'm retired, Navy, but when i had 10 years in I wanted to be considered for an Embassy position in Spain I took the DLAB test and was accepted for the DLI in DC I went through a 26 week immersion course, taught by Spanish speakers from several countries, but was required to attend weekly classes that pertained only to Spain It was stressful due to being so demanding, but paid off when I got to Spain Lol
Comment from : Tina Tomlinson